Chapter 483: 483
Chapter 483: The Third Generation
Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio
It was like the happy news in the Fan manor had grown wings and immediately flew out over the high garden walls of the various noble manors . It flew past the cautious gazes of the waiters in various teahouses and became something everyone knew . This was both the hot topic of conversation amongst the nobility and most cheerful thing after a meal for the common people .
Naturally, this news flew into the palace . It completely ignored the boundaries of the mighty palace walls and entered the ears of the Emperor and empress dowager . According to Eunuch Yao, who had quietly let it slip, in the instant that the Qing Emperor had heard this news, he had stoked his beard and looked very pleased . That night, he made another trip to the little tower . After the empress dowager heard about this news, she had rushed to the back of Hanguang Temple to worship . Her fingers moved endlessly over the prayer beads, and her face was full of smiles .
Speaking of which, it was strange . Including Fan Xian, the Qing Emperor had five royal sons . The Third Prince was still young, so he could be temporarily put aside . The Great Prince wasn't young and had been married for a long time, yet he still did not have issue . It was the same with the Second Prince and Crown Prince . Looking around, the child in Fan Xian's Sisi's belly was actually the first of the third generation of the royal family .
The nobles in the Palace were delighted . However, the empress dowager felt a slight regret . It would be better if the woman with child was Wan'er . Putting aside that she was a princess and Fan Xian's true wife, after all, she was her most favored granddaughter .
Given Fan Xian's current power and position, this joyful news brought countless gifts and well-wishers . In the following days, there was a stream of horses and carriages outside the main door of Fan manor . Endless officials from all places came to visit . Teng Zijing and his wife almost wore their legs out from running back and forth .
Other than some important figures, such as the people from King Jing's manor that Fan Xian came out personally to welcome, all other guests were single-handedly blocked by the Minister of Revenue, Fan Jian .
Fortunately, these guests were just giving generous gifts and didn't disturb them for long . In reality, the people in the court and palace all had their agendas . Although it was big news that Fan Xian was having a child, the person with child was his concubine . If, at this moment, they appeared overly warm, who knew what that princess in the manor would think?
To curry favor with one side but to offend another was not a good deal . Furthermore, these officials didn't know just how happy the Palace was .
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Three days later, the joy in the Palace was demonstrated in front of the officials and people of Qing Kingdom in two ways . First, there were flowered edged newspapers organized by the internal court that used a page printed in red to announce the good news to everyone in the world .
The internal court newspaper always joked about the competition between the officials, the funny things in history, and the story of Chen Pingping's first love . Although it was pointless and unamusing, it was good at attracting the eyes . However, ever since Fan Xian took over the Overwatch Council and rectified the Council to make to more transparent, he had ordered the Eight Bureau to stick up countless notices outside the First Bureau . It transformed the conflicts in officialdom into a detective novel—regardless of his previous life or this one, it was always easy to sell stories about domestic arguments . The internal court's newspaper only had domesticity and little arguments, so all of its popularity was stolen by the notices outside the First Bureau .
Fortunately, Fan Xian was having a child . The Emperor implicitly allowed the internal court's newspaper to make a big deal over this matter . They wrote in a great detail about Fan Xian's story from Danzhou to Jingdou into a lengthy fantastical story . It faintly mentioned the princess, the Northern Qi sage girl, his interactions with that young mother in Fan manor, the night of poetry in front of the palace, the interactions in Jiangnan…
This was a summary of Fan Xian's brief 20 years of life . It was very splendid . After the newspaper came out, it was a sensation . All the young ladies in various manors pleaded with the elders in their family to spend a large amount to purchase a copy to keep in their rooms as a souvenir . At the same time, they prayed that the temple would grant them a man like Sir Fan junior .
The internal court newspaper was finally able to use this opportunity to successfully once again conquer the Jingdou people stopped by the notices outside the First Bureau .
The second demonstration of the Palace's joy were wards .
No one knew whether it was the Emperor's idea or the empress dowager's, but the gifts from the Palace flowed like water into Fan manor . Although the one with child was Sisi, from Fan Jian to Lady Liu, even Lady Fan, who was far away in Northern Qi studying, received generous rewards . Fan Xian's proper wife, Lin Wan'er received the most generous gift of all .
Silk and satin fabrics, gold and jade wares, food and playthings, all were densely laid out in the manor . It drove the Teng wife absent-minded with business . She thought to herself that when the young master had rescued the Emperor, there wasn't even this much reward .
Sisi was granted a gift and given some kind of title . In any case, Fan Xian didn't understand this title . It was the unborn child who got ahead and received a title .
The newspaper and gifts announced the joy of the Palace to every inch of Jingdou . The officials who had given gifts earlier could finally relax .
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It was only Fan Xian who was not very happy . He looked at the list of gifts that Eunuch Yao had brought over and shook his head . A complicated emotion grew in his heart . He said to his father beside him, "What are the people in the Palace thinking? What does me having a child have to do with them?"
"You're speaking from pique," Fan Jian chuckled and said . "I had thought you were more mature now . Who knew you could still speak in a fit of pique . What does it have to do with them? What do you think? This is the first one in the third generation . The empress dowager has been anxious for years . Finally, she can hold her great-grandchild . Since she's happy, naturally, the gifts will surpass the rules . "
Fan Xian laughed coldly . "Hold her great-grandchild? Tomorrow, I'll send Sisi back to Danzhou and have the child born and raised in Danzhou . I'll let grandmother play with them . "
He was still speaking in anger . Sisi was pregnant . She couldn't travel thousands of li . Fan Jian laughed loudly and couldn't be bothered to scold him . Ever since four days ago, after he had learned the news of Sisi's pregnancy, this usually severe and orthodox Minister of Revenue could no longer hide his true personality . From his face to his bones, pride and happiness shone through .
In this world, there were very few people who could fight with the Emperor for a son and win . Furthermore, this son was about to give him a grandchild . Nothing could stop Fan Jian feeling comforted and strangely pleased .
"Don't forget to go back to the Palace give your thanks tomorrow . " Fan Jian drank a mouthful of tea and glanced at his son to discover that his son had clearly not heard his words .
"To speak of it, why does the Crown Prince still not have a main wife?" Fan Xian suddenly thought of something and furrowed his brows . "Even just looking at it in order, presently, the Great Prince and the Second Prince have all married . A year has passed . Is the Palace not anxious about the Crown Prince?"
He naturally and cleverly hid the probing intention of his words . It was clear that Fan Jian, in his happiness, did not notice his son was testing him . He furrowed his brows and said, "Three years ago, the empress dowager was already anxiously planning for the Crown Prince's wife . The empress chose people from various manors in Jingdou and had even reached our manor…"
Fan Xian shivered and thought that if his sister had indeed become the taizifei…that would have been terrible . Not for his sister, but for him . Would he not have had to immediately fall to the Crown Prince's side and properly plan with his brother, the Crown Prince, about fighting for the line of succession?
Fortunately, this did not happen .
Fan Jian continued, "But for some reason, the Crown Prince never agreed…this was a strange matter that year . You know the Crown Prince, when he was younger, was quite preposterous and liked to hang out in education houses and brothels . He is someone greatly interested in the matters between men and women . However, he refused to marry a wife . "
Fan Xian thought for a bit then said, "But for the marriage of the Crown Prince, it's not something he can delay just because he doesn't want it . "
"This is where the Crown Prince demonstrates his cleverness," Fan Jian smiled and said . "To convince the empress dowager and empress, the Crown Prince put a lot of thought into it . First, he said that the Great Prince and the Second Prince had both not yet married . As Qing Kingdom governed the world through filial piety and was particular about respect between brothers, as the younger brother, how could he marry before his two older brothers? At that time, the Great Prince was still in the West, warring with the Hu people . It was impossible to organize the marriage at that time . Thus, he delayed it until later . "
"Although he has sufficient excuses, they are not very persuasive . " Fan Xian smiled bitterly . "After all this, it turns out I'm a representative of an early marriage . To be the first to have kids, it could be considered natural . "
"The same logic, but as it involves the domestic matters of the royal family, it had to come from a persuasive person's mouth . " Fan Jian smiled . "The Crown Prince convinced the then-grand tutor to the Crown Prince, Shu the Scholar, who has a very stubborn personality and deeply believed that the Crown Prince's words were reasonable . Not only did he write to the Emperor to put the Crown Prince's marriage temporarily on hold, he even wrote to the Northern kingdom to ask Master Zhuang to speak . "
Fan Xian laughed . "So even Sir Zhuang Mohan has done such things before . "
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