Chapter 299

Chu Chengxun lifted his eyes and drank a mouthful of tea. He asked carelessly, "is the princess to be getting better after drinking the medicine?"

The servant arched his hand and said, "I heard that the princess to be will get better soon after drinking the medicine. I heard that she can get out of bed and walk these days. She looks ruddy."

Chu Chengxun smiled. "Didn't the prospective Princess meet general Lin in the palace that day and shoot him down from his horse? How did she become so delicate after a winter? She was so cold that she couldn't walk."

"No matter how powerful the princess to be is, she is a woman after all. Women are always delicate. It is inevitable that she will not get up because of illness," the servant smiled. "Duan Wang was very happy and said that he brought some pots of good wine to Xiang Wang in the evening."

Chu Chengxun chuckled, "the best wine in Kyoto is this wine. Duanwang is also an alcoholic. He has taken me to taste all the good wines in Kyoto these days. Now I feel a mouthful of wine in my mouth."

"Didn't the prime minister mention business with Duan Wang these days?"

Chu Chengxun shook his head and said, "why, drinking is not a business?"

The servant smiled and said, "don't be careless with the king. The servant's identity to the king is not as simple as that of a servant."

Chu Chengxun narrowed his eyes and glanced at him, "your identity is to talk too much. But I'll wait for business."

The servant was stunned. "Who are you waiting for?"

"Prospective Princess Xue ronghua." Chu Chengxun's eyes flashed a strange, "the identity of prospective princess is not simple. She is as good to Duanwang as you are to me."

The servant looked at him in a daze, "the king means that the prospective princess is the counselor around the king. Isn't she the life woman? Why is she so advanced? She has such a great role."

"You don't have to know. I have a sense of propriety in my heart." Chu Chengxun drank all his tea and looked back at him. "You haven't had a good name with me for many years. You used to call at will. Now when you arrive in Kyoto, you want to live in the Imperial Palace, but you can't always call your name."

The servant turned his eyes, "what name is the king going to call the slave?"

Chu Chengxun nodded his fingers and said with a smile, "what name do you think is good? Do you have your own idea?"

The servant looked down and thought for a moment, "when I read ancient books, I liked Xiang Yu, the overlord of Western Chu, and there was a homonym in the title of King Xiang. Why don't you think of a word with feather for me?"

"You actually like Xiang Yu," Chu Chengxun looked at him unexpectedly. "Since you like Yu characters, how about combining Xirong with the Western characters in Western Chu and naming it Xiyu?"

"The name has the flavor of a young master," Xi Yu said with a smile, "but the king of the prime minister has his word. The slave depends on the king of the prime minister."

The emperor closed the last Memorial and asked in a deep voice, "have you sent someone to ask if the princess to be of Duan Wang is better? Why don't I send some more royal doctors to the palace?"

The old eunuch nodded and said, "I've asked. The princess to be is better and can get out of bed and walk."

The emperor nodded and asked, "did the prime minister go to Beijing? It snowed too much a few days ago. He should not be able to hurry. At this time, he should be fast entering Kyoto."

"The prime minister hasn't come yet. The emperor is still on the way. Don't worry. When the prime minister arrives in Kyoto, he has no other place to go. He has to go to the palace to meet the emperor."

The emperor's eyes darkened. "I haven't seen him since he was sent to Xirong when he was a child. I think it has been 20 years. He should grow from a little to the same king."

"Your Majesty, it's twenty-five years," the old eunuch whispered. "Xiang Wang is three years older than Duan Wang. He's already twenty-eight years old."

The emperor was silent for a long time and finally murmured, "the prince is twenty-five years old. I have several princes at his age, but he always procrastinates and doesn't get married. He listens to the arrangement of the prospective Princess and doesn't have his own meaning."

The old eunuch smiled and said, "Duan Wang has always had his own ideas. The emperor can rest assured. After the prospective Princess recovers from her illness, Duan Wang takes her to greet the emperor. It's time to get married."

The emperor bowed his head for a moment and asked, "in your opinion, is this prospective princess so good? The child was originally a concubine in the prime minister's house, and later became a legitimate eldest lady. You say how Duanwang liked her so much and went to the state of Qi for her. It's really up to her."

The old eunuch showed a shallow smile, "no matter how the prospective princess is, as long as it is the person Duanwang likes, it's the best."

The emperor flashed a strange light at the bottom of his eyes and closed his lips into a line. "I missed Mrs. Heyi before, so I don't want him to miss the woman he likes. However, the prospective Princess doesn't know whether she can become his only woman or fall into the trap of the palace like Mrs. Heyi."

"According to the current trend, Duan Wang is still worried about his position as a prince. However, it is difficult to choose between Jiangshan and beauty. If the prospective princess is not as fierce as Mrs. Heyi," the old woman paused and said with a slight smile, "how can it not be fierce? The woman Duan Wang likes has temperament."

The emperor smiled with a low eyebrow and said, "Mrs. Heyi is also unwilling to commit herself to a person who has three thousand beauties in the back palace, but I am greedy for beauty and rivers and mountains. I really refuse to give up one. All I can do is watch the beauty disappear."

"Don't think so, the emperor. It's just that Mrs. Heyi has no luck," the old eunuch sighed faintly. "Moreover, there's no way to do something like Mrs. Heyi. Even if he changes to Duanwang, he will give up the prospective princess for the sake of the country."

The emperor was stunned. "Will he give up the prospective princess for the sake of the country? Doesn't he love this woman very much?"

"For the Royal Prince, love and beauty naturally come second, mainly because the country matters," the old eunuch said with a smile. "If the prospective Princess doesn't care about these harem wives and concubines, it will be the most perfect."

The emperor's lips curved with a pondering arc, "how can we not care? If we don't care, Mrs. Heyi won't be so. The magnanimity we impose on others is just self deception."

Xue ronghua gently sniffed the fresh air in the garden, smiled brightly and said, "the air outside is better. I'm suffocating in the room every day. I'm not comfortable at all."

The pendant looked back, "the maid thought Duanwang would come out with the young lady."

"He's drinking with the king. I'm afraid he doesn't have time," Xue ronghua put his hair behind his ears. "That's why I asked you to come out with me."

Diaoer looked at her carefully, "Miss, there should be no contradiction between you and Duanwang?"

"Contradictions?" Xue ronghua sighed in his heart. He didn't want her to worry, so he smiled. "There's no contradiction. Just when he just came back from the state of Qi, he has to deal with so many things. It's inevitable that he's a little tired. It'll be fine in a while."

The pendant nodded reassuringly, "why did the young lady delay so long in the state of Qi? The maidservant was very worried in the state of Qin. He thought that Duanwang and miss lived in the state of Qi and would never come back."

"In fact, there's nothing else if something happens halfway," Xue ronghua said curving his lips. "It's mainly the delay of concubine Chen in the state of Qi, so you're worried about coming back so late."

Chuaier lowered her eyes and was silent for a moment. She said dumbly, "Miss, in fact, the maid wants to tell you something. Now Princess Zhao's sister is the former Princess Zhao. She died of dystocia. A little prince just came out of her stomach and went with her mother."

Xue ronghua was surprised, but she didn't think of it. "No wonder Princess Zhao left for no reason. Unexpectedly, she took away a prince. It's really a pity."

Pendant son gently shook his head, "but the maid heard that the dystocia of concubine Zhao had something to do with the current concubine Zhao. I don't know if it was the hand of the struggle in the palace. The maid also listened to the little maid in the palace when she entered the palace with adults."

"How could this princess Zhao be her sister? How could she kill her sister and the emperor's children?" Xue ronghua sighed faintly. "It should be just an accident. Their sisters take care of each other in the palace. There can't be such an inference."

"But Princess Zhao also had a princess later, but Princess Zhao was not good to the princess she gave birth to. She always complained that she was not a prince. No, she was pregnant with a dragon fetus again. She went to the Bodhisattva every day to pray for a prince. I don't know whether she could really give birth to a prince in a few months. It's better than the fuguifei to compete for the top."

"Whether she is a princess or a prince depends on heaven's will, and there is no need to be too deliberate. Princess Zhao may be afraid that the twins of Princess Fu will affect her position in the harem," Xue ronghua smiled. "That can only bless her to get what she wants."

Chui'er said with a smile, "when you are ready, you can go to the palace to see the imperial concubine Fu. She is looking forward to you coming. She has sent things to the palace several times."

Xue ronghua couldn't help feeling sweet in his heart. "Naturally, imperial concubine Fu wants to go over and greet her. Duan Wang and I have brought many things from the state of Qi. You can pick some precious things and wrap them up. When I'm well, take them to chenghuan hall for her."

Chu Chengxun and Chu Zongge drank for a long time, and their faces turned slightly crimson. They tilted their heads and asked, "why haven't you been married with the prospective princess for so long? Doesn't the emperor urge you?"

"The emperor won't urge us. He has said it several times, but I can't marry her until I come back safely from the state of Qi." Chu Zongge's drinking capacity is red, but he is also a little drunk. "Besides, the prospective Princess and I are not in a hurry to get married. We'll be together forever. It doesn't matter in time."

Chu Chengxun stared at him with a smile, "it turns out that it is. It seems that the prospective princess is indeed the woman chosen by Duan Wang to live forever, but those side concubines are not interested in Duan Wang?"

Chu Zongge smiled, waved his hand and said, "she's the only one in my heart. I'm not interested in the side imperial concubine, and she won't allow me to accept the side imperial concubine. I just have a fair princess."

Chu Chengxun smiled with a low eyebrow and the light flowed in his eyes. "I didn't expect my nephew to be a infatuated seed. It surprised me. What kind of excellence does the prospective princess have that makes you so fascinated."