Chapter 398

Xue ronghua smiled, nodded and said, "thank you very much. The emperor and I still can't live without you. If you weren't around to help us, I don't know what to do at this time."

Chu Chengxun's eyes darkened. She pursed her lips into a line. "The queen doesn't have to say that. It's the emperor's order. As a prince, I should accept it. I can't say no. otherwise, I will disobey the king's order."

Xue ronghua became a little unnatural after listening to his tone. Still stopped the words that wanted to come out in his mouth and said it faintly. "The Lord is loyal to the emperor. He will thank the Lord after the Dragon fetus comes out."

"I'm a prince. It's right to consider for the royal family's children." Chu Chengxun's eyes flashed a strange light. "It's just that there's no future for such things. I've been like a fool for years. It's time to stop."

A trace of consternation flashed in Xue ronghua's eyes. He kept a smile on his lips. "What the LORD said is. I don't dare to trouble the Lord in the future."

"How about the taste of this bone soup? This is the pig bone carefully selected by general Kur who took me to the imperial dining room. He made all the spices himself, and I'll follow him step by step. It won't go wrong again," Gu Sheng put a bowl of soup in front of him. He stirred it with a spoon. "Try it. If you can, I'll make bone soup for the emperor."

"Bone soup alone is not enough. When inviting the emperor to dinner, we always have to make two more soups," Chu Changqing looked at the light soup with a low eyebrow, scooped up a mouthful of soup and put it into the import, "this soup... How can it be so salty."

Gu Gu looked at his iron green face and remembered that he was the one who didn't like salty food. He quickly poured him a cup of green tea and drank his own soup to try his taste. "It's a little salty, but I've made a lot of progress compared with before."

Chu Changqing rinsed his mouth with green tea and couldn't help complaining: "compared with before, you've made progress, but you still can't go to the banquet. Your taste is too heavy. Naturally, you don't feel salty, but the emperor is different. He will definitely frown. Besides, general Kur wants to accompany you. Depending on how you use him as a cover, there will only be five days left."

"How come there are only five days left? I knew you said it would be half a year," Gu Gu said with a pout. "I can learn to cook several dishes in half a year."

"You still have half a year. You can marry him for that half a year. It's time for general Kur to go back," Chu Changqing sighed helplessly. "You'd better work harder. Why don't you make any progress in this."

"There are still some improvements, but they are not obvious," Gu Hua shook his head. "I saw a new lady living in the palace over the peach blossom forest a few days ago. Who is that?"

"It's the eldest lady of the Kang family. It has nothing to do with us to ask what to do. Just keep learning to cook," Chu Changqing looked at the bowl of clear soup with too much salt. "Remember to control the amount when you put spices in the future, otherwise the soup will be too salty if it's not too light."

Gu Gu blinked. "I see that Miss Kang is about the same age as me. I just want to know. I'm bored here alone. It's better to find a friend to talk to."

Chu Changqing lowered his eyes. "Don't worry. After all, it's from the state of Qin. You'd better not have too much contact with the people of the state of Qin."

"But I'll marry someone from the state of Qin," Gu Tao picked up his chopsticks, put a piece of diced chicken with pepper in his mouth and chewed it slowly. "This is well done. I feel good when I eat it. Have a try."

Chu Changqing took a skeptical bite and showed a satisfied expression. "This is OK. You can prepare to put it on the table. The emperor should like it, too. But why haven't I heard that general Kur can make diced chicken?"

"I learned it secretly from the people in the imperial dining room. I learned it after hiding by the window for five days."

Chu Changqing sighed, "if you could learn more dishes and have such perseverance, I wouldn't have to worry about the banquet in five days."

Gu Gu smiled wantonly and said, "don't worry. I'll study hard. No matter what, I'm also the first princess of Xirong. How can I lose our Xirong's face in front of other emperors."

"I wish you knew. It would have been better if you had been so clever before."

The first rain in spring came very early. It pattered down along the blue sky. The air was filled with the smell of grass and soil, and there was a faint fragrance of flowers.

"The light rain on Tianjie is as smooth as crisp, but the grass is not near," Liu Yuan's palm moved to the eaves and received several crystal raindrops. "This spring rain this year is a good omen. I think it's time for my willows and peach blossoms to grow new buds."

Feihong smiled and said, "I remember that many willows were planted in the imperial palace. Later, I don't know what happened. All those willows were cut down by the first emperor. There are only a few willows on the walls of the city."

"The idea of being the emperor is the most. Today and tomorrow are often different. People who send them out can pick them up again," Liu Yuan's eyes slowly darkened. "You see, I'm right. The king is still in the palace."

Feihong was stunned and hesitated: "how can the monk know what happened in the palace in guimeng temple? I didn't say a word to the monk."

"Although you haven't told me anything, I think you're not in guimeng temple for three or two days. I know you must have gone elsewhere. If the queen stays in the palace unharmed, there's absolutely no need for you to go. That's when she comes out of the palace. You're not at ease," Liu Yuan sighed faintly, "Besides, when I talk about the prime minister, I see that your expression is very strange. I know that the queen was borrowed by the prime minister."

Feihong sighed with a low eyebrow: "the emperor was worried about the Queen's body. When she was pregnant, plus the envoy Xirong and Princess Gu lived in the harem, the Emperor didn't want the queen to meet her and cause unnecessary trouble, so he asked the king to take her away."

"King Xiang is really the emperor's right-hand assistant. It's more useful than Liu Bingliang," Liu Yuan's eyes looked through the rain. "The queen is in King Xiang's house now. I'll see her one day. It's inconvenient for her to see when she's in the palace. If she comes out, she has to take care of it."

Feihong raised a smile on his lips. "When I went to King Xiang's house that day, King Xiang also mentioned to me that he was a lay scholar. After all, he was not a doctor and could not take good care of the Queen's Phoenix body, so he still wanted to invite the lay scholar to come over."

"It's my duty to take care of the queen. If I don't take care of the queen, how can I eat?" Liu Yuan nuzui said. "I'm sure I'll go to see the queen, but I'll never stay in King Xiang's house. You know, if I come back, I'll have to trouble you."

Feihong said with a smile, "it's the duty of the lay to take care of the queen, and it's my duty to protect the lay. No matter when you want to come back, I'll protect you. Besides, the gangsters within a radius of ten miles don't dare to come near us. It's also very light to come back from King Xiang's house in the future."

Liu Yuan looked at her a few times. "No wonder the queen wants to give you to me. You are really a powerful person. I'm afraid your Kung Fu is much better than ordinary men."

"I practiced Kung Fu with my senior brothers and sisters since I was a child. After that, I went to the imperial palace to protect the emperor at the order of my master. The emperor pointed me to the queen, and I accompanied her," said Feihong with a straight face. "The queen treated me very well, and I must protect her."

Xue ronghua listened to the crackling sound of the rain on the bricks and tiles, but her heart was undisturbed. She slowly closed her eyes and breathed the fragrant smell of peach stamens.

Xiyu's footsteps stopped on the corridor. He looked at the queen for a while and couldn't help but remind him: "empress, don't sit under the corridor. The rain is too urgent and will splash your clothes. You are a person with body. If you catch a cold, it's bad."

Xue ronghua half narrowed his eyes and casually moved back a few steps. "Your eaves are good. Such a heavy rain can't get me. Although I'm pregnant, I'm not so delicate."

As soon as the voice fell, a thin blanket fell on her. Chu Chengxun tightly pursed his lips and looked at her deeply, "empress, you'd better pay attention. You're pregnant with the emperor's first prince. If you delay, I can't explain."

"It's the prince anyway. It's like seeing my stomach clearly," Xue ronghua said with a smile. "The king suddenly called me queen. I'm really not used to it. I thought I could hear it only in the back palace. I didn't expect to be able to get out of the palace."

"This is the most basic etiquette for the people in the royal family. No matter what the relationship before, the appellation should be divided up and down," Chu Chengxun said with a gloomy look in his eyes. "If you don't want to listen, I'll call you by name."

Xue ronghua smiled. "Call whatever you like. I don't have any opinion."

Chu Chengxun sat down beside her. "How are you recently? Feihong came here several times. I mentioned Liu Yuan to her to see if she could come from guimeng temple to take care of you. After all, she is a doctor. I don't know anything."

"She shouldn't be in trouble. She told me that she was going to rest in guimeng temple for a few days. It's capricious for me to call her now," said Xue ronghua with a faint smile. "My body doesn't matter. It's spring now. I feel in a good mood. If I don't bother her, I won't bother."

"It's up to you to make your own decisions," said Chu Chengxun. "When the rain gets heavier, go back to the house. The moisture in spring is also very heavy. I'm afraid you're caught in the wind and cold. It's a headache. I remember when you first returned to the state of Qin, it was because of this discomfort."

"Well, well, I know. You are more wordy than the mammy in the palace," Xue ronghua said in a low voice with his eyes darkened. "You are the Lord now, and I am the queen now. If you can't say more about some things, you can't say more."

Chu Chengxun's smile on his lips stiffened, "it's still that sentence. It's up to you. If you ask me not to say it, I won't say it."

Xi Yu looked here in the corridor for a long time. Their voices became smaller and smaller. Later, he could hardly hear what they were saying. He looked at the last two silent people for a long time, sighed in his heart, and turned back to his room.