Chapter 99: Premeditation
After all, the emperor is not present when every child is born, especially when the mother is of low status.
As for concubines of high rank like Concubine Shu, when they gave birth, the emperor would just take a quick look and that was it.
The only ones that Emperor Jingwen really looked at carefully from beginning to end were the children who had died in infancy, as well as the surviving eldest prince, princess, and crown prince.
More than 20 years have passed, and the memory of the deceased child is now vague. Emperor Jingwen still remembers the eldest prince, the eldest princess, and the crown prince, but these three children were all quite upright when they were born.
No matter how ugly a newborn baby is, how can it be this ugly?
So when the crown prince arrived, Emperor Jingwen didn’t think much about it and just smiled and talked about this with him.
“Come and take a look at Xiaojiu’s painting skills.”
He thought the prince would definitely laugh with him, but when Emperor Jingwen turned his head, he met the prince’s slightly strange look.
The prince hesitated for a while, not knowing whether he should say it or not, but in the end, he still said it.