Chapter 302

Chu song cut his lips lightly. "Flowers are naturally planted outside, absorbing the essence of the sun and the moon. If I planted a peach blossom in the garden, I'm afraid there is no 1/10 good-looking on the other side of the river."

Xue ronghua also thinks what he said is reasonable. He smiled softly and said, "it's OK to plant pear and apricot flowers. There will be pears and apricots to eat next year, but I've never seen peaches on the peach blossom tree. It can be seen that it's a disappointing tree."

"Who said it didn't win, but it was the most wronged. The peach grew early. It was picked by tourists as soon as it came out. No wonder it didn't win." Chu Zongge smiled with her for a while and said, "you and Xiang Wang have met?"

"Not just met. Even lunch is used together," sighed Xue ronghua. "He grew up in a different environment from me. He can't talk together. Sometimes he looks at each other with two eyes. It's also very embarrassing."

Chu Zongge smiled and touched her cheek. "If you don't feel comfortable with him, it's nothing. Let me come forward in the future. You can avoid him easily."

Xue ronghua shook his head and said with a bitter smile, "I think the king should get along more in the future. After all, you don't know what the emperor calls him back to Beijing. Such a prince can inherit the throne. You should be careful."

Chu Zongge gave a hearty laugh, "don't think about it. No matter how the emperor hates me, he won't pass the throne to his brother. What's the matter? He still puts his prince first."

"I wish I thought more, but isn't Meng Yuanzhen of Qi also holding this idea," Xue ronghua narrowed his eyes slightly. "He is an enemy or a friend. You and I still can't tell. He has lived in Xirong for a long time, but he is very familiar with Kyoto."

"I also see this. People in the imperial family are like this. No matter where they live, they are always irresistible to the attraction of power and glory. I can't speculate what the truth behind the prime minister is, but his hot evidence of the throne should not be what you said, otherwise he won't come to the house to find me."

Xue ronghua frowned and thought for a moment, "do you mean that the prime minister is more likely to want to help you ascend the throne?"

Chu Zongge nodded with a smile, "you react so fast, I think so too."

"It's impossible. The prime minister went back to the palace at the emperor's invitation. He just wanted to help you get the throne?" Xue ronghua was a little sad and laughing. "It's really hard to find such a divine assistant."

"The Emperor didn't ask him to help me. Anyway, the king seems to be far more interested in me than the throne," Chu Zongge raised a thought-provoking arc on his lips. "If it's an enemy, I can still make him a friend."

Xue ronghua smiled with a low eyebrow. "In that case, after we confirm that the king has no threat, we can start to enter the palace. The emperor has been silent for so long. I don't know if we have a problem with you. Princess Zhao is about to give birth. It's better to go into the palace and accompany the emperor. We can't let people seize the handle."

Chu Zongge agreed: "the prime minister has arrived in Kyoto, which is something the emperor doesn't know. If the emperor asks about the itinerary when entering the palace, it's better to help him cope with it."

Xue ronghua frowned. "We have to hide all the travel problems. The king has a different heart for the emperor."

I don't know what's going on. Princess Zhao's delivery date was suddenly advanced. The people in the imperial hospital panicked and ran to Yongle Palace for fear that something might happen to the empress.

Zhao Qingyao lay in the curtain and moaned with a sound. The whole bedroom was full of her painful and repressed voice. Her small face turned white because of the high tension. Her lips were almost bitten by her bleeding marks. Her hands stretched feebly into the air to catch something, but she couldn't catch anything.

"Mother, hurry up, or the child's head is stuck and can't get out," the midwife wiped the cold sweat on her forehead, "mother, you can use more strength, hurry up."

Zhao Qingyao snorted dully. Her eyes opened wider and wider and almost jumped out of her eyes. "Can you do it or not? Why can't our children be born after so long?"

The midwife said wrongfully, "madam, it's not the fault of the maidservant. Many maidens can't give birth to children, so the maidservant asked you to use more strength."

Zhao Qingyao's face was pale without a trace of blood. "The palace is already making efforts. Has the emperor come?"

Butterfly shadow carefully followed the basin, "the emperor hasn't come yet."

"Why hasn't the emperor come yet? The children in the palace are about to come out," Zhao Qingyao broke his silver teeth. "What are you still doing here? He hasn't invited the emperor. Has he forgotten that another concubine is pregnant with a dragon fetus?"

Butterfly shadow saluted and said in a trembling voice, "the emperor is in chenghuan hall. The maidservant has asked someone to invite him."

"Why are you in the chenghuan palace again," said Zhao Qingyao, gnashing her teeth. "Is it true that imperial concubine Fu deliberately showed it to the palace? Does she keep the emperor and forbid him to come to Yongle Palace to see the palace, does she?"

"No matter how much Fu Guifei doesn't like the empress, she dare not do such a thing," butterfly shadow looked under her and said in a panic. "Empress, you'd better take care of the moment. You forget the things of Princess Zhao before. It's still the prince's business."

"Yes, ma'am, wait until you get through this difficulty." the midwife's hands are full of blood. "Ma'am, use your strength. The child will come out soon. Ma'am, hold on."

Zhao Qingyao bit out blood beads on her lips. "The palace knows. Don't always shout. The children in the palace will be born safely. The Palace won't follow the old path of Princess Zhao."

A cry came from the curtain. All the busy Royal doctors breathed a sigh of relief. The midwife happily held the child in her arms. When she looked down, her smile was frozen on her lips and couldn't say anything.

"What's the matter," said Zhao Qingyao, frowning at the end of her life, "is it a freak born in this palace? Why don't you talk?"

Butterfly shadow looked at the child in the midwife's hand and slowly held her breath. She looked at each other and didn't know how to tell the truth.

Zhao Qingyao lay in bed for a long time. She couldn't hear their answer. She frowned more and more uncomfortable. "What's the matter? Why don't you talk to the palace? Are you all mute?"

Butterfly shadow trembled and held the child to her, "mother, it seems that she was born a princess."

Zhao Qingyao suddenly opened her eyes, sat up and grabbed the child in her hand. She muttered in her mouth: "it's impossible. How can this palace give birth to a princess? Shouldn't she be the prince?"

Butterfly shadow looked at her movement range more and more. She was afraid that she would hurt the newborn baby. She hurriedly held the baby to the midwife, suppressed her shaking hands, leaned close to her ear and said, "mother, it doesn't matter to have a princess. Where can everything be as you want?"

"It's impossible. When we prayed for God, we did our best and finally gave birth to a princess. It's clear that God played tricks on me." Zhao Qingyao rubbed her hair distraught and refused to accept the fact. "This palace clearly gave birth to a prince. How could it be a princess? Did you steal the prince of this palace?" she jumped up, Almost pinched the innocent baby and was forcibly intercepted by the butterfly shadow.

"Empress, the princess doesn't matter. Don't you think the eldest princess also attracts the emperor's love? In the past, the Poyang princess was much liked by the emperor, even more so than the prince," butterfly shadow advised patiently. "Empress must be calm. If the emperor comes and sees her like this, he will complain that empress doesn't care about the princess."

Zhao Qingyao gritted her teeth, "what's the use of the emperor liking the princess again, but it's just a woman who can't ascend the throne. In the future, we still have to watch Fu Guifei ascend the Empress Dowager's throne easily, and we can only be a princess."

"Don't worry, empress. How old are the twins of imperial concubine Fu? How can they ascend the throne? There is a covetous Duanwang behind. How can he tolerate others to occupy his seat," butterfly shadow slowly lowered his voice. "It's not the main problem that the empress doesn't have a prince. It's the most dangerous for imperial concubine Fu's prince to inherit the throne."

Zhao Qingyao closed her mouth and didn't hum. She also secretly measured the dangers and obstacles in her heart. Instead of giving birth to a prince and allowing her prince to fight with the other three princes to ascend the throne, she might as well be included in the camp of Duanwang, so that the prince of Fu Guifei can't be the emperor.

"The emperor arrived."

Hearing this sound, Zhao Qingyao was like being awakened by a basin of cold water. She immediately sat up straight with bright eyes. Seeing her like this, butterfly shadow should have figured out the powerful relationship and held the child in the hands of the midwife in her arms.

"Empress," butterfly shadow pressed her hand secretly, "you must let the emperor know that you are the princess who loves you most. Even the princess doesn't matter. The key is to win the emperor's love."

When Zhao Qingyao looked down at the child, a trace of imperceptible disgust flashed through her eyes. She shook her head impatiently. "The palace knows. As long as the emperor knows that the palace is a good mother, don't worry about other things."

The emperor had heard outside that he had won a princess. He walked into the curtain with a smile at the corners of his eyes and eyebrows, sat by the edge of the bed, raised his hand and touched her pale cheek. "It's hard for you, Princess Zhao, to give birth to another princess for me."

Zhao Qingyao lowered her eyebrows. "They are ministers and concubines. They don't have the ability to give birth to a prince for the emperor like the imperial concubine. They are just princesses."

"What's the matter with the princess? I like the princess best, especially your daughter. You see, I like the big princess," the emperor happily took the child from her hand, bowed his head and kissed her side face, "you see how much our little princess looks like you. In the future, it must be a little beauty."

Zhao Qingyao's eyes were all on him. "Emperor, when I gave birth to the little princess, I thought you wouldn't come over. I thought I was going to have a child. Without the emperor's company, I really didn't have any foundation in my heart."

The emperor held her in his arms with some guilt. "It's all my fault. I didn't take good care of you. I didn't know today was your delivery date, so I went to chenghuan hall for tea. But I came to see you immediately after I heard that you gave birth. Don't blame me."