Everyone in my harem is talented

Chapter 441 Mother

"Mother, did you design this disease?" The fifth princess Qin Jingshu sat down heavily beside the bed with a pouty mouth and a frown on her face after everyone had left, and said in a low voice.

"Yes." Shunpin Shi Qingzhang did not deny it.

"Why does my mother have to take such a risk? Is this salt poison a joke? What if something happens to you, what will my twelfth brother and I do in this palace?" Qin Jingshu raised her eyebrows and widened her eyes.

"If anything happens to your mother, there's still the Empress. Your mother won't ignore both of you." Shi Qingzhang gently held his daughter's clenched hand.

"How is this the same? Without my mother's meticulous care and painstaking planning, how could I grow up safely?" Qin Jingshu's eyes suddenly welled up with tears.

"Not only is my mother busy with many palace affairs, she also has three sons and two daughters, and now she is pregnant with twins. How can she have the energy to take care of me and my twelfth brother?

"It's completely different in the palace with or without your biological mother." The fifth princess Qin Jingshu was so angry that she couldn't stop crying and her face turned red. She turned away and raised her hand to wipe away her tears.

Shunpin Shi Qingzhang smiled and pinched the Fifth Princess Qin Jingshu's red cheeks: "Okay, it's okay now, have you really considered what it would be like to lose your mother?"

The fifth princess, Qin Jingshu, turned around with a groan and pouted, "Don't you need your son's help over there, twelfth brother?"

"No need, let's see how he performs."

After all, she is her own child. How could she not feel sorry for him? How could she not love him?

The eldest prince has grown up, and has been rejecting Twelve since she was born. For the sake of harmony between mother and son, and between brothers, she can only put her own child at a disadvantage.

She knew the eldest prince's feelings towards Twelve.

She was also aware of Twelve's disgust and dissatisfaction with the eldest prince, as well as Twelve's repression, but how could those palace servants and eunuchs bully Twelve?

She was the one who took care of all the palace servants and eunuchs who were secretly killed over the years.

Shunpin Shi Qingzhang closed her eyes to hide the melancholy in her eyes.

What if Twelve becomes even more outrageous after leaving the palace? How should she manage it?

Can the mother and he plot against the eldest prince to vent the resentment that has been suppressed for all these years?

She directed and acted in the poisoning case herself, with the purpose of killing two birds with one stone. It was a sincere and helpless act due to her dual identities as an adoptive mother and a biological mother.

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"My Lady Concubine, Concubine Miao Yi'an."

When they met face to face on the palace road, the eldest prince Qin Mingyu nodded slightly to the concubine Miao Yueji and the talented lady Miao Heqing, and was about to leave.

"His Highness, the Crown Prince, where are you going in such a hurry?"

Miao Cairen glanced nonchalantly at the concubine Miao Yueji who turned sideways to avoid suspicion.

Wouldn't it be great if my eldest niece's ex-fiancé could catch something against the two of them?

She is the aunt, so naturally she is the one who takes charge of everything between the two of them.

A hint of impatience flashed across the eyes of the eldest prince Qin Mingyu.

Miao Yueji's aunt Miao Cairen is a stupid person.

Her father had made great contributions to flood control, and she herself was selected into the palace through a formal selection process. Now that she is pregnant with the royal heir, she has been conferred the title of talented person. There is a reason for this.

"My father has something urgent to tell you, so please don't disturb Concubine Miao and Concubine Miao from enjoying the flowers." The eldest prince Qin Mingyu said this and ignored Concubine Miao, striding away.

"Who wants to appreciate the flowers? Who comes to Changchun Palace to appreciate the flowers at this time?" Miao Heqing raised his chin slightly and snorted.

"Aunt, he is an adult prince after all. We should avoid suspicion with him. Why did you go up to him and greet him?" Miao Yueji frowned and said dissatisfiedly.

"My stepmother is also my mother. I am the elder. What's wrong with exchanging a few words with the younger generation? There are palace servants and eunuchs surrounding me on both sides. What is there to be afraid of? But then again, Concubine Shun is sick. Why did Your Majesty summon the eldest prince in such a hurry?" Miao Heqing looked at the eldest prince and his entourage as they walked away in surprise.

"Maybe there is some important political matter." Miao Yueji lowered her eyes to hide the thoughts in her eyes.

Shi Qingzhang fell ill during the Concubine Yu case, and she wanted to see whether it was a real illness or a fake one.

Thinking back to the day when I ran into the twelfth prince Qin Mingfan with my aunt, he was just like the eldest prince Qin Mingyu whom I met today. After greeting him, he just left in a hurry, leaving behind his back.

It’s just that the two princes, Qin Mingyu and Qin Mingfan, one is full of vigor and enthusiasm, while the other is low-key, depressed and melancholy.

It is understandable that a mother treats her adopted son better than her biological son and that she treats her two sons differently.

If one is good to his adopted son but suppresses his biological son to the utmost, there will definitely be backlash. It is not certain who will backlash against whom, but generally speaking, it is likely that the twelfth prince will backlash against the extremely biased Shi Qingzhang, and hate the eldest prince by the way.

However, Shi Qingzhang, who had made his choice, might also become dissatisfied with the eldest prince, and find some way to "compensate" his own son and make up for his guilt.

"Niece, we really have to go visit Shunpin. What if she gets sick?" Miao Heqing kept muttering to herself but didn't stop.

"Maybe I can take this opportunity to make Shunpin forgive my aunt and me. It's better to resolve a feud than to create one."

"What does this have to do with me? It's all your fault. If you had entered the First Prince's Palace, none of this would have happened."

"Aunt, be careful with your words."