Chapter 404

After the lunch break, the sun had spread all over the grass in the courtyard. Chu Changqing sat alone in the corridor. His eyes looked hollow into the distance. I don't know what's on my mind.

General Kur touched him on the shoulder with some curiosity. "Why are you sitting here with this expression? I haven't seen you lose your mind for a long time. I'm not thinking about Princess Gu?"

"When have you seen me think of another woman?" Chu Changqing sighed with a low eyebrow. "What is Gu Gu doing now? Why don't you see where she is."

"The princess is playing with the young lady of the Kang family. I couldn't talk to their girls, so I came out."

Chu Changqing frowned. "You tell her not to stay with the aristocratic family lady of the state of Qin all the time. I always think that Linglong is not right. I don't know what it is. You didn't know the death of the king of Jin that year. How could the emperor let his cousin into the palace, and he wasn't accepted as a concubine."

"Not all the women in the harem are concubines. You don't have to be so vigilant to everyone in the state of Qin. It's just a lady of an aristocratic family. There's no big deal. Besides, the queen asked her to come, and it's not the emperor." general Kur smiled faintly, "You don't have to be too nervous. The princess was unhappy in the palace a few days ago. It's not easy to find a playmate to play with. She looks very happy. We don't have to disturb them."

"I just don't like people from the state of Qin. I have identified myself as Xirong people in my heart," Chu Changqing lowered her eyes. "I still want to look at the princess. Now she should think about how to attract the emperor's idea. She can't always play in the garden. How can people who want to become queens be so indifferent in the future."

"The emperor is out of the palace now. It seems that he has gone to King Xiang's house. Let the princess play freely for a while," general Kur stretched out in the bright sun. "Anyway, it's not very urgent. It's still a long time."

"She was really spoiled by the emperor, so she became like this," Chu Changqing sighed deeply. "In fact, the problem lies with me. I am the one who really spoiled her."

"It's good that you understand. In fact, the emperor's love for the princess is not so serious, but you indulge and endure her," general Kur looked at him with deep meaning. "If you knew today, the emperor really shouldn't choose you to protect her around the princess."

Chu Changqing's eyes slowly darkened. "I asked the emperor to let me stay with the princess. The emperor simply couldn't see me. Later, I begged the emperor for a long time before he agreed, and then I followed the princess all the time."

"It seems that you still have some infatuation, but you like the princess so much, why are you still willing to send her to the state of Qin and watch her marry other men," general Kur's eyes became deeper and deeper. "Don't you ever want to stop this marriage?"

"In the face of national interests, I'm just doing what a Xirong should do. If I have a little selfishness, I can't accomplish anything," Chu Changqing sighed faintly, "How I wish the emperor had no interest in the princess. In that case, I can fly away with the princess, but the soldiers of Xirong are staring at it on the battlefield. I can't do anything."

General Kur stopped talking, but he patted him on the shoulder. "Then you should settle down. The emperor is like watching children to the princess. We have to continue our efforts. We have to let the emperor marry the princess back to the state of Qin no matter what he is doing."

The peach petals fell all over the ground, and Liu Yuan bent down to pick them up for a while. After all, it was the petals wrapped in a handkerchief, but there were still many red petals that were difficult to recover, so he had to bury them in the soil.

When the ancients hurt spring and autumn, the most favorite thing to do is to bury flowers, but Liu Yuan is not a scholar and poet. She wrapped the petals just to make sachets. Feihong felt a little pity and built a small flower grave next to the willow tree to bury the thin and broken petals.

Liu Yuan said with a smile, "you look like the queen. She must be so sentimental. When I went to the palace to see her doctor, I always felt that she was absent-minded. I looked at the sky outside the window and didn't know what I was thinking."

"The empress must be thinking about the emperor. After all, she hasn't seen each other for a long time," Feihong thought with his head askew. "The empress is usually not very sentimental. She just reads books in the study. She rarely goes in a daze. She should have a different mentality after she is pregnant."

"Reading is to think more and worry more. Let the queen read less books during pregnancy, otherwise it will be bad to give the dragon the root of worry," Liu Yuan smiled. "The queen is definitely the prince. Do you want to bet with me?"

Feihong was stunned and wondered, "the monk is just the opposite of what I think. How can I think it's a princess?"

"Just because you think differently, so you can bet," Liu Yuan turned his eyes. "If I guess right, how about you help me do something?"

"What should be done with a bet," Feihong became vigilant. "If the monk doesn't understand, how can I promise?"

"I haven't thought about what it is. Don't be nervous first. I'm sure I won't say anything difficult for you. You'd better rest assured," Liu Yuan smiled. "Do you want to bet with me?"

"Gambling is gambling. When I see the empress looking at flowers and trees every day, I think it should be a smart princess with ice and snow," Fei Hong pursed his lips. "If I win the bet, the lay will stay with the empress in the future and don't go out of the palace any more."

Liu Yuan looked at her in a daze and turned pale. "What's called playing a little temper? I'm free. Why do you want me to stay with the queen all the time? I'm different from you."

"I know that the lay is different from me. The lay is a free man, not a maidservant like me," Feihong said in a low voice, "I know that there is still some reluctance to the empress in the heart of the lay, but the empress has always been thinking about the lay. She often asks me how the lay is recently and whether it will be much better after leaving the palace. However, she has never mentioned that the lay should go to the Palace to guard her and told me not to listen to the king. The lay must not misunderstand."

Liu Yuan asked directly, "what did you misunderstand? What did you say?"

"It's about Xu Hanfei. The monk knew that Xu Hanfei was not a good man, but he still brought him into the palace. Was the empress really coerced or didn't want to make her feel better? Later, when his conscience found out, he told her," Feihong's eyes darkened, "Don't do this again. It won't do anyone any good. The monk should stand with his mother."

"Don't say any more, and I don't want to listen any more," Liu Yuan's eyes shifted to other places, and his voice made a slight shaking. "Xu Hanfei is useful to the emperor after all. Besides, as her maid, you should keep a distance from this matter."

Feihong was speechless for a moment, so he had to say faintly, "no matter what contradiction there is between the lay and the empress, the empress is always right about the lay. The lay should not do this again."

"I heard what you said," Liu Yuan lowered his eyes and bited his lips. "Stop talking."

Chu Zongge brought a bowl of tocolysis medicine, stirred the thick medicine soup, and asked with some worry, "is this medicine very bitter? I don't look very good. If you don't want to, let them change to something else."

"Even if it's bitter, you have to drink it. How can you change it into something else," Xue ronghua couldn't cry or laugh. "It's not a fruit dessert. There are thousands of things waiting for you to change."

Chu Zongge smiled, "that's what I said. I'm not familiar with this. Since you don't mind, drink it while it's hot. I'll get you red jujube cake. The monk said you should eat more of it."

"I know everything. I can remember it," Xue ronghua gulped down the medicine and wiped his lips with a handkerchief. "Why can't I see the king? There was no sound there early this morning."

"He went out early in the morning and said to leave some space for us," Chu Zongge smiled and looked at her eating jujube cake. "When he saw Xiyu making tea in the morning, it seemed that he suddenly returned to the Duanwang mansion. You and I, as well as the Xiangwang and the lay, were together and chatted with each other. How good it was."

"You miss me very much, but I don't think about it at all," Xue ronghua said with some disappointment, "At that time, I was frightened every night. I was always afraid of what trouble you would encounter in front of the emperor in the imperial palace. I was afraid that you would be the king for a lifetime, and I was afraid that you would not be able to sit steadily in the throne of the prince. Only when you became the emperor could this worry really be put down."

Chu Zongge lowered his head and kissed her forehead, "I really want to make up for you to worry about so many things."

"I'm already satisfied with what you've done for me. I don't need more things. This is the best," Xue ronghua said, holding his big belly in his arms, "I know that as an emperor, you want to marry into three palaces and six courtyards for the sake of national interests or the relationship between monarchs and ministers, but you have to deal with the interests of all parties for me to complete the harem. I am only one person. I am very moved in my heart."

"There's nothing to be moved about. After I fell in love with you, I decided not to touch other women," Chu Zongge put his finger into her long hair scattered on her shoulder. "You know what I mean."