Replacement Month

CHAPTER 6

Queen's Residence

"Your majesty, what makes you look so grim?" gently the empress severed her husband's shoulder.

"I think of Xuan Ye, I don't like to see him together with Huang Ro. I want to find a girl who deserves to be the Crown Princess. If the child still persists with Huang Ro, let Huang Ro be his concubine, but not to be the Crown Princess."

The empress only sighed hearing that, then she continued gently

"Your Majesty, it's not that I don't respect your decision, but do you forget first that we will ever match her to the Princess prime minister. Look at what happened, Xuan Ye refused rawly the offer. Does your Majesty still have other plans?"

The emperor fell silent, then said, "I honestly feel that the prime minister's son is the right candidate, with Xuan Ye's current position coupled with the support of the prime minister then Xuan Ye's standing would be even stronger. Plus our dynasty has just been victorious, with great difficulty we can overthrow the Tang dynasty. Do not let the rebellion happen later. Empress do you have any idea to soften Xuan Ye up?"

After a moment of silence, the empress replied, "What if the noble one makes Shen Ling's order to enter the palace. Let him temporarily stay in the room closest to Xuan Ye's room, let them get to know each other. Then next year we can marry them."

The Emperor laughed happily, "Your Empress can always help me. Eunuch Yu, prepare the pen and paper I will make the emperor's edict, immediately you convey to the prime minister Shen's residence and don't forget I only gave 3 days to prepare to enter the palace. You have to do it yourself, and don't let this plan be known to the Queen mother, do you understand!"

Eunuch Yu immediately replied, "Okay noble"

A warrant was issued and immediately sent to Shen's residence. Meanwhile, the empress was a bit worried about this plan, however, the relationship that had been formed as a child would be very difficult to take off. But even hard stones can be destroyed if the water is dripped continuously, hopefully this plan runs smoothly.

"Sir, it's your turn to be grim. What's up?"

Doubtfully, the empress replied, "Your Majesty, I thought of the Queen Mother's reaction. What if the Queen Mother asked this, I'm sure once the news of Shen Ling staying in the palace will spread very quickly."

The Emperor let out a long sigh, "Mother Suri is too old, she should have left something like this to the younger generation. Let's see how this plan goes. It was easy - hopefully the Princess of the Shen family could get rid of Huang Ro from Xuan Ye's heart."

Although not sure, the queen hoped so. The Queen Mother was too pampering Huang Ro, sometimes her attitude became arbitrary itself had no restrictions at all. Many of the palace maids disliked her, but Xuan Ye's eyes were always closed and had never seen Huang Ro's true nature.

The Shen family residence

Eunuch Yu finally came to the Shen family residence, his arrival was welcomed by the entire Shen family.

Eunuch Yu read the emperor's words out loud

"Emperor's orders for Miss Shen Ling of the Shen family."

The whole family knelt down

"The eldest daughter of the Shen family, Shen Ling, was given three days to prepare to enter and stay in the palace. All necessities during the palace will be guaranteed directly by the noble empress.

Miss Shen Ling received the order."

Shen Ling was shocked to hear the order, she had absolutely no interest in entering the palace. If he lived in the palace it would be very difficult to play outside the palace. His father's sharp gaze broke his daydream, his,

"Shen Ling is grateful on the orders of His Majesty the Emperor, may he live a long life."

After receiving the decree, then Lady Shen asked Eunuch Yu

"If you may know, for what purpose will my son live in the palace?"

Eunuch Yu immediately said goodbye after reciting the Emperor's decree.

After Eunuch Yu left, Shen Ling's knees felt limp, "Dad what is this? why do I have to stay in the palace? I don't want to." whine Shen Ling.

The prime minister was astonished, but so far the Shen family had not made any mistakes, so he was very calm about this.

"You obey His Majesty's word, not accepting the word is the same as the death penalty of your family. You still have 3 days of preparation. In these two days I'm allowing you to play as much as you can in town. But remember bring a servant and a servant, and do not troublemak."

Perhaps on an ordinary day Shen Ling would be happy to hear his father's words. But in such a situation, it is like an executioner being given good food before the day of execution.

'Come on, I'm free to think too far. Just staying in the palace alone would be no problem. Tomorrow I will invite A Li to accompany me to play at the lantern festival."

The Palace Water Park

As usual, Huang Ro and the crown prince would meet at the edge of the lotus pond.

"Huang Ro, tomorrow night there will be a lantern festival in the city. Do you want to look - look with me?" hearing the words of the crown prince, Huang Ro's eyes sparkled, never once had he left the palace except to go to the temple with the Queen Mother.

"Of course you want to, but how do you get the Queen Mother's permission?"

"Calm down, I arranged it. Tomorrow afternoon we're going to the lantern festival."

Next day

"Miss slowly - slowly, here too crowded.excuse me.." waitress Shen Ling was determined according to her lady's wishes, all the crowded places were visited by her.

"Are you tired? If we're tired we just rest near the bridge over there."

Shen Ling pointed at the several stones stacked near the bridge.

As they passed the bridge, a small child was accidentally hit by a woman dressed in striking clothing, the child lost balance and fell into the river. Without a second thought, Shen Ling jumped into the river to save the child.

"My son, please.my son." The mother was crying hysterically, along with the servant Shen Ling

"Miss.lady..ooh."

Within seconds Shen Ling appeared holding the child.

Fortunately the child was quickly saved, the mother of the child approached them and immediately held her child and prostrated

"Thank you miss, thank you very much."

With a soaking wet body Shen Ling smiled, "Patch your son, change his clothes immediately and warm up near the furnace. If he has a fever later tonight immediately compress him with warm water and keep him asleep near the furnace while hugging."

The people there applauded, they guessed which lady from the family dared to help the unknown child and was also proficient in medicine.