Chapter 623 Enthronement Ceremony (2)
"Xiao Yuchen, do you still recognize your old age?" The eldest princess asked with a smile at Mo Xiaobao who was held in Mo Xiuyao's arms with a smile.
Mo Xiaobao blinked and nodded, "Hello, Grandma Huang."
"Oh..." The eldest princess responded happily, "Little Yuchen still remembers the emperor's grandma? Why don't he come to play with the emperor? Do you dislike the emperor's grandma because he is old?" Mo Xiaobao looked at the eldest princess and said seriously: "Yuchen wants to study, learn martial arts, and cannot go out to play. Grandma the emperor comes to our house to play, so that Yuchen will have time to play with Grandma."
"Little Man," the eldest princess cursed with a smile. She looked at Mo Xiaobao with regret, but it was a pity that the royal family did not have such a smart child.
"Grandma Huang, this is my Protestant friend. You call him Xiaodai." Mo Xiaobao introduced him very much, and he also carefully avoided Leng Junhan's surname. The eldest princess squinted her eyes and looked carefully, and smiled and said, "This child looks well-behaved." Ye Li smiled and said, "Xiaobao is not young anymore, and the prince and I just want to find him a playmate."
The eldest princess didn't ask about Leng Junhan's identity and nodded with a smile: "It's better to have someone to accompany her, but it's better to be alone. I think after the tenth prince ascends the throne, I will choose a few suitable children from the powerful and wealthy to be the companion for the emperor."
Ye Li smiled slightly and said nothing. The eldest princess's idea was naturally very good. If the tenth prince had the ability, these children would become his confidants in the future, and it would be not that easy. But since they came as guests, they naturally could not ask about many things. The eldest princess was just talking casually. She also participated in political affairs in her early years, not a woman in the deep palace who was ignorant of the world. She naturally understood her current behavior and difficulties.
"Xuyao, I heard that you are interested in protecting the Zhangde Palace?" The eldest princess looked at Mo Xiuyao and asked.
Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "Where did the emperor hear the rumors? What does these things have to do with our Ding Prince's Mansion? Since Xiuyao said that he would not interfere, he would do what he said."
The eldest princess also watched him grow up since she was a child, so naturally it was not so easy to fool him. She stared at him and said, "Tell me honestly, what's the point of keeping her? I don't believe you have any good feelings for her." Mo Xiuyao lowered his eyebrows and said lightly, "No matter how much the emperor's aunt is in contact with the new emperor, she lives outside the palace and is beyond the reach. The new emperor needs someone to protect her... Otherwise..."
"She? Can it?" the eldest princess frowned.
Mo Xiuyao smiled and said, "As long as she knows that only the new emperor is good, she will be good, it is natural. Although the Zhangde Palace is an amateur in politics, he has been in the deep palace all his life. She is afraid that she will be more capable than the emperor's aunt. She was able to protect the two brothers and grow up safely in that environment, but the emperor's aunt could not do this time."
As if he was convinced, the eldest princess nodded, "Even so... Why does Xiu Yao care about the new emperor so much?"
Mo Xiuyao smiled loudly, "I just don't like Mo Jingli. Their mother-son relationship has been left for a while. As long as the emperor's aunt gives her a bargaining chip, as long as she is still alive, Mo Jingli will always be King Li."
Upon hearing this, the eldest princess was thinking. She naturally knew that the relationship between the Queen Mother and King Li was tense, but she was not sure whether the Queen Mother could restrain King Li.
A few heavy drums recalled that the auspicious time for the throne ceremony had arrived. People who were originally bowing their heads and whispering each other sat upright and stared at the end of the huge red carpet with dragon patterns in front of them.
A child who was only six or seven years old was walking around surrounded by a large group of people. The empress dowager walked beside Mo Suyun in a gorgeous and graceful court uniform, holding the obviously timid child in one hand. From this moment on, she was no longer the empress dowager, but the empress dowager.
Seeing so many adults staring at him, Mo Suyun habitually wanted to retreat. However, one hand was firmly held in his hand by the empress dowager and could not move. The empress dowager looked down at him and whispered: "Don't be afraid, the emperor's grandmother will accompany you."
The little child was wearing a bright yellow dragon robe, but he looked pitiful as if he had been abandoned. However, he had made progress and did not cry on such occasions. The queen mother's eyes flashed slightly and she reminded her faintly: "Do you remember how the eldest princess taught you?"
"Remember..." Mo Suyun said in a low voice, looking at the emperor's grandmother in front of him with some fear. It seemed that he remembered the very amiable eldest princess, which gave him more courage. He nodded seriously. The queen mother said, "It's good to know, let's go. The eldest princess is also watching you from below."
Mo Suyun nodded and let the empress dowager lead the high dragon throne. Although he was still very scared, he was no longer thinking about escaping like he had just happened. When he passed by the eldest princess and Mo Xiuyao and Yeli table, Mo Suyun's eyes lit up and looked at the eldest princess who wanted to speak. The eldest princess smiled lovingly at her and shook her head. The child bit the corner of his lips with aggrieved grievance and walked forward with the queen mother.
"The tenth prince has changed a lot, and the emperor's aunt's teachings have not been in vain these days." Ye Li sighed in a low voice.
The eldest princess shook her head and said, "He is still far away." It is indeed better than when she saw her just now, but the child who wants to become the king of a country still has an extremely long way to go. On the way, he needs the teaching and support of a wise master, and no one can be born as a wise king. I just don't know...will those people give him this opportunity.
Mo Suyun was led by the empress dowager to the high stairs, and officials from the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Heavenly Prison conducted various cumbersome rituals. Even from a distance, Ye Li could see the child's small body tight and shaking. However, he did not cry and said anything, but instead supported him silently.
Ye Li glanced around and said with some confusion: "Why didn't Li come?" It's reasonable. Li is the biological mother of the new emperor. After the new emperor ascended the throne, she was the legitimate empress dowager. It is impossible for her to miss this kind of occasion.
The eldest princess shook her head and said, "In order to make the child obedient, the Regent asked someone to lock up Li." Speaking of this, the eldest princess' snow-white eyebrows also frowned, and she looked at Mo Jingli, who was sitting in the front in the distance, and she was full of disagreement in her eyes.
The new emperor ascended the throne and placed the empress dowager in a country under house arrest. Even if he was the regent, even if he was to succeed in the throne ceremony, he would have done too much.
Chapter completed!