No, no, no, no." The servant hastily replied.
"What else do you want?" In the past, when servants' meals were sent to the door, they would immediately leave. No one dared to speak another word, but today, this person … Yet, he had not left for a long time. Could it be that...
Chu Zhen felt that something was off, so he walked up and asked, "Who are you?"
The eunuch raised his head, two streams of clear tears appearing on his face. He cried, "This servant is a good person, I've received His Highness's favor in the past. Now that I've seen His Highness like this, I can't help but feel sorrowful."
Chu Zhe smiled bitterly and said, "I remember you coming. "For the past year or so, everyone has been adding insult to injury, yet you're still willing to express your sincerity. However, I don't have anything else to reward you with in this period of time."
"Your servant does not need a reward. Your servant is only unfair for the sake of Your Highness." Only then did Na Shun let out a deep sigh.
"There has only been success or failure in the palace, where did this injustice come from?" Chu Zhe said with a cold and bitter expression.
"But …"
Chu Zhen's gaze fell on the stuttering eunuch. Instinct told him that something unusual had happened tonight, so he asked, "Who sent you here? If you have something to say, say it."
"No one sent a servant, I was just sent to deliver the food. Seeing that His Highness is like this, it is not worth it." Back then, His Highness the Crown Prince and the Ninth Prince were both on the same boat. When His Highness was crippled, the Ninth Prince also suffered some consequences. But now, the ninth prince had received great favor from the emperor and received great support from the emperor. The imperial concubine had been promoted to imperial concubine, but the ninth prince had never plotted for the crown prince in front of the emperor. "It's really …"
Chu Zhen's heart skipped a beat as he asked, "You said that when a good concubine is promoted to imperial concubine, the Ninth Prince is favored by the Emperor."
"Yes, and I've also heard that the Emperor wishes to make the Ninth Prince the ruler. I'm worried that if the Ninth Prince becomes the ruler, the first person he will have to deal with will be the Crown Prince." Shuncheng said worriedly.
Chu Zhen frowned and said, "I got it, you can go now. Don't say any more nonsense."
"Yes." Na Shun then bowed and left the hall. Tears streamed down his face, and a cold expression appeared on his face. When they reached the corner, a guard blocked their way and asked:
"How is it?"
"This servant did as I was told, and told him about the Ninth Prince. Seeing that the crown prince's wife is touched, she will definitely be in front of the crown prince and blow the wind by his pillow." Just then, he said.
"Well done, this is the reward from the higher-ups." The guard put a silver ingot into his hand. Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly took the silver and left.
Chu Zhen sat on the ground for a long time, looking at the food and the pot of wine in front of him. A series of thoughts flashed across her pale face, then she suddenly stood up and quickly returned to the crown prince's side. She hastily opened the door, knelt in front of Feng Ming, picked up the bottle of wine in her hand and poured it over his head.
"Ah …" Feng Ming shouted loudly. He sat up straight and wiped away the wine in front of him. He looked at the princess in surprise and said angrily, "Chu Zhen! Why are you doing this? Now that my life is in ruins, even you want to bully me? "
Chu Zhen bent his knees, kneeled on the ground and said, "Your Highness, the reason Zhuo'er woke you up is to protect your life."
"What kind of nonsense are you spouting all of a sudden?" Feng Ming angrily said as he wiped the wine off his face.
"Does Your Highness know what is happening outside today?" Chu Zhen asked.
Feng Ming looked at the bleak scenery in front of him, then looked at the princess in plain clothes, then looked at his distressed appearance and said, "What does the situation outside have to do with me? I'm just a cripple, living for one day is one day."
The long dark days of living and the fact that he could turn against his father had already extinguished the fighting spirit of the former crown prince.
"Your Highness, Zhuo'er has already been pregnant for three months, and all three of our children have been demoted to civilians. I really can't bear for this child to be separated from me after he was born, and I can't bear for him to become a commoner as soon as he is born." Chu Zhen kneeled on the ground and cried.
"Are you pregnant again?" Feng Ming looked at her stomach and asked.
"Yes sir!" Chu Zhen nodded and said, "Your Highness, now that His Highness is favored by the royal family, I heard that His Majesty plans to make him your new Crown Prince. In the past, you're an ally, but today he hasn't come up with any plans for Your Highness. Chu Zhen was not an ordinary person, he was someone who knew how to plot and calculate.
Feng Ming's brows tightened as a hint of contemplation flashed through his eyes. "Yun Zheng's wealth has already been forgotten?"
"Your Highness!" The Ninth Prince is unreliable! " Chu Zhen kneeled on the ground and shouted.
"However, right now, I have been crippled. Other than waiting for a very long time, what else can I do." Feng Ming was helpless.
"Your Highness, do you dare?" Chu Zhen stood up and looked at his husband.
"Does Zel have a good plan?" Feng Ming asked.
"Your Highness, since we're not going to die from diligence in the future, we might as well give it our all. Today is the empress dowager's birthday, so we definitely won't kill anyone. Also, for the sake of the fetus in my womb, I presume the emperor will forgive us." Chu Zhen's eyes flickered with flames. She originally had great ambitions, so how could she be willing to stay here forever, counting the days one by one, waiting for death to descend?
"…" Feng Ming did not say anything. He stood up and walked out of the study, raising his head to look at the tall wutong tree in the courtyard. A full moon hung above the tree, and a lantern was rising in the sky.
Chu Zhen followed behind him, his fists clenched tightly in his sleeves. She was waiting, waiting for Feng Ming's awakening!
Suddenly, Feng Ming walked up to the tree, grabbed the tree trunk, and climbed up until he reached the trunk.
Seeing this, Chu Zhen's face revealed a smile, but there were hot tears in his eyes. She clenched her teeth, took out the hairpin, rolled up her sleeves and steeled her heart, causing three deep marks to appear on her arm. Fresh blood flowed out as she knelt on the ground and said to Feng Ming on the tree:
"Your Highness, Zhener and you are at the same point of life and death!"
The Royal Palace.
The dancers in the palace were currently dancing in a foreign dance. The emperor's gaze inadvertently fell upon the woman leading the dance, whose body was slender and had a face like a peach flower. When he met the emperor's gaze, he lowered his head and smiled sweetly.
When the empress saw this, her lips curved up in a cold smile as if she were accustomed to seeing this. She turned her head to the palace maid, Sherry, and said, "After the banquet, bring the dancing girls to Changchun Palace."
"Yes." Xue Li understood that the first thing the Empress did when the emperor took a fancy to was to send a woman to his tent to be taught by him. She carefully inspected the woman before sending her to his tent.
Lian Ruyue's gaze couldn't help but fall on that palace maid that served in front of the Ninth Prince's birth mother, Senior Concubine Liang. For some reason, this palace maid gave her a sense of familiarity, as if she had seen her somewhere before.