Chapter 316

"What's the matter with you today? Did you go into the palace to greet the queen, and what happened to the contradiction with Li xuse?" Chu Zongge raised his hand and touched her head. The smile on my lips is getting stronger. "Don't tell me how to enter the palace. If I go with you, maybe you won't be so angry."

Xue ronghua glanced at him angrily. "Do I look very angry?"

Chu Zongge nodded seriously. "Isn't it? Tell me. What's the matter with you?"

"It's nothing. I'm just surprised that she has become the queen. I didn't expect that the Royal Princess can also ascend the throne. The emperor won't really fall in love with her, or just because she gave birth to twins," Xue ronghua frowned. I didn't think for a moment and a half. "I have a bad feeling."

"The emperor is just old, and there is no one in the harem to help him, so he directly set up a queen to take charge of the harem. Although Li xuse is a princess, he is also the person who has accompanied him for the longest time and knows him best in the harem. So I don't think it's strange that she has become the queen." Chu Zongge smiled comfortingly at her, "You have a bad feeling in your heart. Isn't she the queen?"

"Don't you think the emperor's making her queen is actually paving the way for twins to enter the east palace." Xue ronghua's eyes flashed a different way, "it was also queen Chen who ascended the Phoenix throne. That's why the crown prince naturally entered the east palace to become a prince. Does the new queen Li also mean the weight of twins in the emperor's heart? Then your existence is in jeopardy."

Chu Zongge frowned, "in fact, I've always wanted to tell you something."

"What's the matter? You won't hide anything important from me?"

"I dare not hide you, but it's because I haven't had time to say it for a long time. I've been discussing with the king these days," Chu Zongge said with a smile on his lips. "The emperor has long ignored me. He doesn't want me to be a prince, let alone the emperor. All he thinks about is other princes."

Xue ronghua widened his eyes. "Is it the emperor who invited the prime minister back to the state of Qin from Xirong in order to suppress you?"

"You're right. The emperor wants the king to have some power, so as to suppress my power, let other princes become princes, so as to inherit his throne, so that I can only be a good prince to assist the king," Chu Zongge said with a long smile. "The emperor's dream is really beautiful, but how can he not understand who will let the cooked meat go to his mouth."

Xue ronghua wondered, "but how do you know the emperor's idea?"

"The king told me that he came to Duan palace in advance instead of entering the palace, just to stand on the same boat with me," Chu Zongge said with a cold light every word. "The king has betrayed the emperor since the moment he knew his task. He is going to be my friend and enemy, and let me be the emperor."

"The king should not help you without any conditions," Xue ronghua thought. "He must have conditions."

"The condition is just prosperity and wealth. I promised it at once," Chu Zongge said with a smile. "The king is strange. I thought he would give me some tricky problems. I didn't expect it to be fortune."

"The prime minister used to live in poverty in Xirong. It's no surprise that he would put forward such conditions," Xue ronghua said with a sigh of relief. "Now that the prime minister and the king have come to you, we will have a better heart."

"Yes," Chu Zongge looked at her strangely, "how do you know that the king's life was bad before?"

Xue ronghua gave him a white look. "When you were away, I was bored alone, so I talked to the prime minister without anything to do, and slowly learned about his life in Xirong."

Chu Zongge gave her a complicated look, "you'd better not talk to him. If you really have something to say, you'd better wait until I come back."

Li xuse glanced down very indifferently, and a cold smile came up on his lips, "why doesn't Princess Zhao greet the palace? The palace came all the way to Yongle Palace to see you. What's the matter with you without saying a word?"

Zhao Qingyao covered her stomach and knelt down to greet her. "Concubines greet the empress. May the empress be healthy and auspicious."

Li xuse didn't mean to let her get up. "How many months has the baby been, imperial concubine?"

"It's been four months," Zhao Qingyao pursed her lips and dared not attack. "Thank the empress for her concern."

"The Palace should care. What are you thankful for? After all, it's not the child of the palace, it's the child of the emperor," said Li shuse. "The imperial concubine remembers to take good care of her body and don't eat casually."

Zhao Qingyao felt her feet trembling. "Yes, concubines know."

Li xuse lengthened his voice again. "Does the imperial concubine think she will be a princess this time, or is she really the prince as you wish?"

Zhao Qingyao forced out a smile. "They are all the emperor's children. Concubines and concubines like them very much."

"They all like it very much. Why does the palace think that the imperial concubine only likes the prince and is not interested in the princess? No wonder the eldest princess is seriously ill. You don't even know that the imperial concubine. After seeing the eldest princess go, you don't have any sadness. You'd better accumulate some virtue for the child in your belly."

Butterfly shadow took a look at the pale Zhao Guifei and begged anxiously, "empress, it's time for your imperial concubine to get up."

Thin incense glared at her and raised a sneer, "what's your hurry? It's the Queen's business that the imperial concubine can't get up. What's your little maid's mouth? Do you have your share to talk here?"

Butterfly shadow was stunned, so she had to soften her voice and begged: "good sister, help my master talk to the queen. The empress is weak and pregnant. The emperor exempted her etiquette."

Li xuser's eyes were covered with frost. "Imperial concubine, do you think the emperor means it, so you don't even have to have etiquette?"

"Concubines don't dare," Zhao Qingyao bit her lower lip, "but concubines really don't feel well. Please raise your hand."

"Let the palace lift your hand and let you go?" Li xuse twisted his handkerchief and snorted coldly, "the palace doesn't want to embarrass you. Since you're unwell, get up quickly."

Zhao Qingyao didn't dare to talk. She staggered to her feet. Butterfly shadow helped her to sit on the seat.

Li xuse looked at her gloomy face with a low eyebrow and said with a smile, "the imperial concubine is pregnant for a while. I'm afraid it's inconvenient to see the bill. In the future, I'll put the bill in ward palace."

"Yes," Zhao Qingyao thought for a moment and added, "but the food and clothing expenses at Yongle Palace..."

"They are better than others," Li xuser looked at her coldly. "This palace knows that you have three children in a row. Naturally, you are different from the concubines in other palaces. The cost of food and clothing is the best in the palace. This palace will make good calculations in the future. I'm afraid you can't live a good life."

Zhao Qingyao broke his silver teeth. "Concubines know and will pay attention in the future. They don't dare to rely on pet and pride anymore."

"You know it very well. It's good to be spoiled and arrogant," Li shuse knocked his armor on the table. "After you have children, you should be more reserved. Don't always tie the emperor. You see, the emperor's face is getting worse day by day."

Zhao Qingyao gritted his teeth and endured, "concubines understand."

Chu Chengxun smelled the dense moisture in the air, which was also mixed with the fragrance of lotus. He took a comfortable breath and couldn't help smiling on his lips.

Xue ronghua looked at the man in white in front of her and felt that she would always meet him from time to time, enjoy flowers in the garden and pick lotus roots in the lotus pond. Chu Zongge's words were still ringing in her ears, but she didn't want to listen to him at all.

"The princess to be is in good spirits," Chu Chengxun smiled. "Few people come to the lotus pond in such hot weather."

"Although the weather is hot, it can't stand the lotus," Xue ronghua turned his umbrella handle. "Isn't the king also coming for the lotus?"

Chu Chengxun looked at her deeply, "we are all the same people. What color of lotus does the prospective Princess like?"

Xue ronghua glanced at the graceful lotus among the green lotus leaves, thought about it and said, "I like pink lotus. Where's the king?"

"I like them all."

Chu Chengxun suddenly bent down, rolled up his trouser legs and planned to enter the lotus pool. Xue ronghua was so frightened that he stopped him. If the seemingly weak scholar prince fell into the lotus pool, it would be difficult for her to catch him up.

Chu Chengxun escaped her hand and stepped into the pool. His white clothes were particularly conspicuous in the green and pink pool, like an egret falling into a pool of blue water. He looked left and touched right, folded a budding pink lotus, and slowly returned to her side.

"What does this one look like?" Chu Chengxun's eyes were shining in the sun. "The flowers can be folded and must be folded. Don't wait for the empty branches without flowers."

Xue ronghua's eyes were not on the bud, but only on his slightly red cheeks. She was silent for a while and handed him the umbrella. "Xiang Wang, why don't you take an umbrella out? Don't get yourself exposed to such a poisonous sun. It's bad in case of heatstroke."

Chu Chengxun frowned and smiled, "thank you for your umbrella, but girls still need to pay more attention to protecting their skin. You are more delicate. A man like me has nothing."

Xue ronghua stood under the umbrella with him. The fragrance on his body was in his breath. She turned her face and looked at his smile. It was a face completely different from Chu Zongge's appearance. He was more like a relic and independent hermit. How could he be the person in Chu Zongge's mouth who was only rich and noble.

"Why does the prospective princess always look at me," Chu Chengxun said with a faint smile, "did Duanwang tell you everything, and you know my things?"

"Didn't I know about you long ago," Xue ronghua said with a curved lip, "but I'm surprised why you want prosperity. I really can't see that you want wealth."

"If I had a beauty to accompany me, I wouldn't have to be rich and rich," said Chu Chengxun in his eyes. "But it's hard to find a confidant, and Duanwang can't help me find it. It's better to be alone and enjoy boundless wealth."

"Isn't the king afraid of sitting and enjoying boundless solitude," Xue ronghua said. For some reason, a trace of sadness came to his heart. "I think I'll do the same in the future. Instead of looking for true love, it's better to pursue wealth and glory."