C225 The Emperor Was Betrothed This Morning

Qu Ling was startled, and said: "I will take good care of myself."

Although she couldn't help Xiao Jingyue in any way, she wouldn't take the initiative to create trouble for him.

Xiao Jingyue held her and softly sighed: "I'm afraid that it's difficult to defend against an arrow that is aimed at the spear."

Some people were much more terrifying in order to achieve their goals.

After pausing for a moment, Xiao Jingyue continued, "During the time that I was unconscious, I tried my best not to leave my house."

Not only the people in the imperial court, even those who were captured by the Caoital Officials and were hiding in the shadows had to be on guard.

Qu Ling replied softly.

The night passed in silence.

When Qu Ling woke up on the next day, he was no longer by his side.

After Qu Ling finished washing up and used breakfast, he left the courtyard and planned to take a look at Qu Ci's place.

As it so happened, Godly Doctor Gu was also there. He called out a bun, and when he saw Qu Ling coming over, he vaguely greeted him. "Good morning, girl."

Qu Ling raised his head and looked at the sky, and said: "It's almost the end, it's not early anymore."

Qu Ci glanced at them, then lowered his head and continued picking the herbs.

"Grandma, do you need any help?" Qu Ling walked in front of Qu Ci and peeked inside the medicine basket.

Qu Ci didn't even raise his head as he said, "Give way, you're right in front of me."

Qu Ling rubbed his nose in embarrassment and walked over to Godly Doctor Gu's side.

Godly Doctor Gu passed the oil paper bag in his hand to Qu Ling, "Steamed Bun, do you want one?"

Qu Ling shook his head, "I've finished my breakfast."

The Godly Doctor Gu retracted his hand and suddenly thought of something. Then he said, "Just now, this old man went to buy buns. I heard that the Emperor bestowed this morning's marriage to someone."

Qu Ling was startled for a moment, and then asked: "Who and who?"

"Eleventh Princess and Prince of the East Ocean Continent."

"…"

The marriage between the two kingdoms was a big matter, and it was even the only princess of the current dynasty. It wasn't strange for the rumors to spread so quickly.

Qu Ling muttered: "I'm afraid that Eleventh Princess will not agree to it."

The Eleventh Princess really did not want to, she was crying and making a fuss and hanging herself.

Although Yi Fei couldn't bear to have her daughter marry so far, she couldn't defy the imperial edict.

Therefore, she could only restrain the pain in her heart and urge, "Mufei, that Prince of the East Ocean Continent is not bad. He is also loved and doted upon by the Emperor of the East Ocean Continent. I don't think it will be hard to marry him."

Eleventh Princess shouted while crying, "How is that not bad? He does not have a main wife, but there are at least 30-40 women with him who are famous.

When she mentioned the concubines in the imperial harem, Yi Feifei's expression changed. She lowered her voice and said, "Which men aren't concubines? We can't stop them. The only thing we can do is work hard to climb up and maintain our positions."

Eleventh Princess shouted angrily: "Who said there's no more, General Xiao doesn't have three wives!"

This was also the main reason why she kept on pestering Xiao Jingyue.

Which woman doesn't want to be a couple for life?

In the entire Qi Jing city, which woman didn't envy Qu Ling?

Yi Fei sneered, "After seeing the human heart for so long, even though we have a good relationship now, it doesn't mean that it will be good in the future. When your royal father was a prince, his relationship with the empress was once known as pretty good. What do you think happened next? "

Although the Eleventh Princess was not convinced, he did not say anything else.

Because Xiao Jingyue's background had been exposed, the rumors about the Southern Guarding Prince's Concubine and her royal father's past were spread all over the place.

There were even some old maids who claimed that the empress had once carried a child with her when she was a prince's consort. She was on the verge of having a child, but because of the matter of her royal father and the Southern Guarding Prince's consort, she suffered a small loss of income and health, resulting in her giving birth to the Little Prince so many years later.

From the looks of it, for all these years, royal father had always respected the empress and it made sense that empress would treat royal father neither hot nor cold.

Seeing that her daughter did not say anything, Yi Fei continued, "If you marry into the East Ocean Sea and become your royal brother's assistant, then in the future, your royal brother will sit in that position. The prince of the East Ocean Continent will not dare to bully you. On the other hand, even if you don't marry this time, it might not be better next time. "You should know that the marriage of the royal family's children has always been involuntary."

Eleventh Princess knew her mother's words made sense, but she still didn't want to marry the prince of the East Ocean Continent. She asked in a low voice, "Mufei, is there no other way?"

Yi Fei slowly shook her head as she thought about what her son had told her about the princess not marrying Xiao Jingyue.

No matter what, she was weaker than Imperial Concubine Li, the and the crown prince were similar, if she were to continue, the only result would be watching as the crown prince ascended the throne, or seeing Xiao Jingyue standing out from the crowd due to the emperor's favor.

Compared to letting his daughter marry into the family of a senior official of the Qi Empire, marrying into another country was naturally not the best choice.

After all, distant relatives were not as close as close neighbors.

But the imperial edict had already been passed down.

Not long after Qu Ling left Qu Ci's courtyard, he was summoned into the palace by the empress's imperial decree.

This was the first time they had met since the birthday banquet.

Qu Ling looked at the empress who did not have the slightest change, as if she did not care about those things, and heaved a sigh of relief.

"Ah Ling, come here." The Queen waved her hand to Qu Ling.

Qu Ling walked to the empress's side and sat down, obediently nestling against her, as if he was nestling against his own mother.

The Queen caressed Qu Ling's back lovingly and asked gently, "I heard that the princess of the East Ocean Continent went to cause trouble for you a few days ago?"

Qu Ling shook her head lightly, "She won't be able to find trouble with me."

This was the truth. Even Eleventh Princess, the local tyrant, couldn't do anything to her, let alone the princess of the Eastern Ocean Continent.

The empress nodded her head lightly. "She went to ask your uncle for permission to marry her. Your uncle didn't agree."

In reality, the emperor wanted to, but due to Xiao Jingyue being an unobedient master and the pressure from the empress, he didn't dare to agree.

This was the reason why he married the Eleventh Princess to the Prince of East Ocean.

After all, it was an important matter for the emperor to have a good relationship with the East Ocean Continent.

Battling was too much of a waste of money. It would be great if they could form an alliance through marriage.

In the end, she was someone who had always been close to him. Qu Ling could not help but raise his head from the empress's embrace and ask, "Aunt, do you hate Southern Guarding Prince's Consort?"

The Queen was startled, as if she didn't expect Qu Ling to ask her this.

He lowered his head to look at his niece's clear eyes. After a long time, he finally whispered, "Hatred."

It was clearly a very calm word, and there wasn't even the slightest fluctuation in his tone, but it made Qu Ling's heart ache.

Aunt obviously didn't do anything, didn't participate in anything, but at most lost the one that was the most deeply entrapped in the past.

The world truly was never fair.

The empress looked at her niece's reddened eyes and caressed her face with her warm palm. She said softly, "Aunt hates her child too, but Aunt loves you more."

Before leaving the pavilion, she had been intimate with her elder brother. After she had married into the prince's mansion and lost her first child, all of it had been the Empress's most soft and fragile memories from deep within her heart.

In this way, the Empress devoted almost all of her feelings to this niece of hers who bore the same name as her dead daughter.

To her, this niece was even more important than the Little Prince that she was born into in October.

Qu Ling's eyes grew hot as he felt his vision become more and more blurry, and there was still scalding hot liquid flowing down his face.

Seeing that, the Queen's eyes also turned red, she looked at her niece quietly, and suddenly asked: "Does Ah Ling trust your aunt?"

Qu Ling's eyes were still tear-stained as he stared blankly at his aunt before nodding his head heavily.

The Queen gently hugged her, her lips moving as she whispered into her ear.

The palace was very quiet, and the empress's soft voice clearly entered Qu Ling's ears.

After Qu Ling heard this, his pupils suddenly shrank.