==Chapter 99==

Chu Wangfu

It was late at night, but the study of the king of Chu was brightly lit.

The King of Chu's face was solemn, and his slender knuckles knocked and knocked on the bookcase, which was enough to prove that his mood was fluctuating at this time.

All his arrangements have been arranged, but he didn't expect that there would be □□ roadblock halfway, and this roadblock was none other than the supreme Great Qi Emperor, his father.

The King of Chu never expected that Emperor Chengyuan would have the idea of giving Xiao Jiuniang to the prince as a side concubine, and when the matter was reported, the King of Chu lost his temper on the spot.

What should I do about this?

The king of Chu has not forgotten that the qiē he has mastered at this time is all given by Emperor Chengyuan, and he has always known what Emperor Chengyuan has in mind. An obedient and capable son who is crippled and will not get in the way of big things, this role has always been played by King Chu very well. Is it against his father today for a woman?

The whole thing is rare not to prevent the prince from taking Xiao Jiuniang as a side concubine, but how to fulfill his promise to marry her as a concubine after preventing the prince from being a side concubine.

Emperor Chengyuan is not a fool, a little clue will attract countless suspicions from him, such a bright slap in the face, first of all, Emperor Chengyuan can't get by. And once the action continues, it will inevitably cause a series of adverse reactions, can the king of Chu bear this result?

Can it be afforded?

Perhaps, but the price is devastating.

King Chu clenched his fists on his knees, and his face was cloudy.

Chang Shun, who was standing on the side, only knew that since the incident was reported, His Royal Highness was in a bad mood, but he didn't know about the complicated thoughts of the King of Chu. But he also understands that the matter is important, the nine ladies are like His Royal Highness, and now he has given the nine ladies to the prince as a side concubine, presumably His Royal Highness is in a dilemma at this time.

Chang Shun had pity on Jiu Niang at this time.

According to what he thought, Jiu Niangzi must have admired His Highness, and if His Highness gave it up, he would not be able to accept this blow. It's just that compared with the great cause, the personal relationship of children is always more important, there are so many women in the world, but there is only one part of the great cause, and if it is a little worse, it can only be handed over.

Wrong, it's not as simple as giving it over, if it fails, you may not even have your life. No one knows better than Chang Shun how much effort the master has made for that. And Chang Shun has been waiting for the king of Chu for so long, and he understands the master's character of not bending his means, so he is not worried about the final result, it is just a matter of time.

The bright lights burned silently, and the occasional spark burst sounded.

The night was quiet.

The King of Chu half-closed his eyes and suddenly spoke: "Let the nails in the East Palace move, Wang Yan'er pretended to be stunned today, isn't it very good to pretend to be stunned today, since the Wang family doesn't want people to take the lead, they have to pay a price, how can they achieve the purpose of the Wang family just by pretending to be dizzy." ”

Chang Shun was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help but lose his voice: "Your Highness—"

Your Highness, this is going to face off against the crown prince?!

Although in Chang Shun's heart, the prince can't compare to his master's toes, but the shape is not up to others, although Chang Shun also feels aggrieved for his master, but ......

"Go down and do it now!" The King of Chu said beyond doubt.

"Yes."

*

East Palace

The crown princess Wang Yan'er was lying on the bed with a pale face, her eyes were dull, because she didn't know what she suddenly remembered, and a string of tears flowed down her already red and swollen eyes.

Compared with the plump and healthy Wang Yan'er when she was not married, Wang Yan'er was amazingly thin at this time, although it was not as thin as it could be described, but it was not much better, and she felt that a gust of wind could blow her away.

Qing'er, the palace man on the side, couldn't help but sobbed when she saw her like this.

"Mother, you should never be like this, nothing is more important than your body and bones. You are not embarrassed by yourself, after raising your body and bones, the little emperor and grandson will naturally come. ”

"There's no time, it's too late......"

Qing'er choked and cried, and persuaded: "How can it be too late? Eat well, drink your medicine well, and your body will get better soon. Your body and bones are fine, but it will be like this if you think too much, you don't think about a little mess, and the most important thing is to take care of your body. ”

"It's too late, Your Majesty is going to give the prince a side concubine......"

Wang Yan'er gasped sharply and couldn't help choking again.

If it weren't for that, why would she pretend to be stunned after she got the letter that day? The prince did come, and her father did not reprimand her, but the prince looked at her, but she couldn't help palpitating.

She knew that the two of them couldn't go back to the past, and they couldn't go back to the day when they just got married, and because she couldn't give birth, she couldn't give birth to it......

"Niangniang, don't cry, if you cry again, the slave wants to cry too......"

"Okay, okay, let you come to let you persuade some mothers, you're good, but you cry yourself. You go and see the mother's medicine, if it is boiled, bring it, and I will serve it here. ”

A palace man with a melon seed face walked by, pulled Qing'er up and pushed her away.

These two palace people were brought into the palace by Wang Yan'er from the Wang family, and they have always been close to Wang Yan'er, and this palace person who spoke a little sharply was called Hong'er. At this very moment, no one scolded Hong'er for talking like this, because everyone knew that although Hong'er was a little powerful, her heart for the princess was not discounted at all, and compared with Hong'er, Qing'er was inevitably weaker, so Hong'er was always the leader between the two.

After Qing'er went down, Hong'er first helped Wang Yan'er to sit up, and took a wet handkerchief to wipe her tears, and then sat down on the footrest in front of the bed.

She glanced at Wang Yan'er and sighed: "Niangniang, at this time, you put all your efforts on shedding tears, isn't it putting the cart before the horse?" I know you don't want Your Highness to take a concubine, and you don't want him to have other women, but you can't stop it. You have tossed it again and again, and the number of times it has increased, Your Highness will inevitably get bored, and it is estimated that Your Majesty will also have a lot of complaints about you. ”

After a pause, Hong'er said again: "This method can only treat the symptoms, not the root cause." ”

Hearing this, Wang Yan'er covered her face and sobbed.

How could she not know this qiē, but she couldn't help it. She couldn't give birth to a child, she was in a hurry, and the family was also in a hurry. She didn't want the prince to accept other people, and the Wang family didn't want the prince to accept people, so she had no other way but to use this clumsy method to protest and sue the prince for his own unwillingness.

But it's useless, she already feels the pressure from the saint's side, first to give away, and then to set up a side concubine, if there is really a side concubine, how should she live in the future, can she accept the prince's closeness to other women, can she accept other women giving birth to the prince's heir......

No, she can't, and neither can the Wang family.

"Alright, mother, don't cry either. Now is not the time to cry, and it is time to think about how to solve this qiē. Someone at home has ordered someone to deliver a letter, so that you can try to stop this, it can be delayed for a while, and it is useless for you to just cry! ”

"I don't know what to do......"

Hong'er sighed, stood up and wiped Wang Yan'er's tears with a handkerchief, then sat on the edge of the couch and whispered to Wang Yan'er: "Niangniang, you see what the slave and maid say, you can listen to it." ”

Wang Yan'er looked at Hong'er with red and swollen eyes.

Hong'er lowered her voice, "You see how we are, you all know, the saint is anxious to hold his grandson, but you can't conceive it for a while." Where can something like this come in a hurry, the slave maid listened to the slave maid and the maid said, the lady was also the eldest son who married into the door for two years, and you have only been married in for more than half a year, so I can't blame you for this matter. But you are married to the royal family, and you are the crown princess, you are more expensive, even if our family is not bad, but in front of the royal family in front of the saint, you can't make a lot of energy, you can only say what the saint is, and you can only hold back if you have any grievances, and the slave knows that you are wronged. ”

"Let's not talk about these things first, the saint's mind is not a day or two, otherwise he would not have sent those people over a while ago. In the end, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince still values you, so he didn't think much about those people. No, the saint saw that the method was useless, so he had a side thought, and then he had the idea of setting up a side concubine for His Royal Highness. As a daughter-in-law, you must not say anything to refuse, otherwise you will have committed the rule of seven outs, and this matter has to rely on Your Highness, and only Your Highness can change the mind of the saint. ”

Hong'er said this very well, that is, she told Wang Yan'er's grievances empathetically, and pointed out the inside of this matter.

Since Wang Yan'er married into the East Palace, she has been secretly witty, and she has to bear the pressure of giving birth to the emperor's heir, and on the other hand, the Wang family has also exerted frequent pressure. She is also a person, she also has grievances, but these grievances can't be spit out, they can only be swallowed into their stomachs, I thought that the Wang family, as a family, could understand her suffering, who knew that in their eyes, there was only a little emperor and grandson who didn't know where it was.

Hong'er's empathetic words suddenly touched Wang Yan'er's heart. For Hong'er and Qing'er, she has always been close to Qing'er, who has a gentle personality, but she doesn't pay so much attention to Hong'er, and this time she found that compared to Qing'er, Hong'er is more in line with her heart.

"Where is Your Highness? I really don't know what to say, Your Highness, these days I ......"

Wang Yan'er's face was full of embarrassment, mixed with a touch of shame, thinking about some of the small measures she had done recently, she had a feeling that she didn't dare to face the prince.

"You don't need to say, you just need to do."

"Do?"

Hong'er nodded, looking confident, "It's useless to say too much, it's better to make it, the family can let you delay for a while, and Niangniang has to think about it, take advantage of this time to try to conceive a little emperor grandson, and then you can be stable." With the little emperor's grandson, the matter of Shi Li's side concubine is naturally self-defeating, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is not in good health, if it is not for the emperor's heir, presumably the saint will not let the prince get too close to women. As for the time it takes to drag it out, how long it can be dragged out depends on how effective the mother is. ”

Wang Yan'er's heart trembled, "How to delay time, what should I do?" ”

Hong'er stepped forward and whispered in her ear for a while, during which Wang Yan'er's face was cloudy, shocked for a while, and shocked for a while.

"Does this really work?" Wang Yan'er said uneasily.

"Then it depends on you, Niangniang, in these extraordinary times, you can only use extraordinary means. It's just that the slave is just a slave, and this kind of thing has to be considered by the mother herself. ”

Wang Yan'er's face fluctuated, pondered for a long time, and then bit her lower lip and said, "Okay, that's it, now I can't care about anything else." ”

*

This qiē that happened in secret, even if it has a lot to do with Jiu Niang, she actually doesn't know it.

In the next time, a major event happened in the palace, and the crown princess Wang Yan'er was overhanged.

This matter is extremely secret, and not many people know about it, and the reason why Jiu Niang knows about it is because of the county lord of Chaoxia. After a long period of hard work, Jiu Niang also planted nails in Chongyue Pavilion, and the county lord of Chaoxia was too shocked to lose his words for a while after receiving the news, and the news naturally spread to Jiu Niang.

After that, Jiuniang went to An Rong Yuan to ask for peace, and seeing that Duchess An Guo had a solemn face, Jiu Niang thought that the people above the Xiao family also knew about it. Since the Xiao family can know about it, King Cheng, King Zhao, and King Chu probably also know about it. I don't know how much Wang Yan'er can't think about it, she actually hangs the beam, although she has no worries about her life in the end, Jiu Niang still can't understand her approach.

It seems that this matter is just Wang Yan'er's personal behavior, even if the person dies, it is only the Wang family who is sad, but Jiu Niang can also understand that there must be other opportunities in the secret, but this matter is too far away from her, and it can't involve her, so she naturally didn't take it to heart.

She didn't know that it had a lot to do with her.

Because of Wang Yan'er's hanging beam, the matter of accepting a concubine for the prince was naturally put on hold for the time being.

Although the prince was a little annoyed in his heart that Wang Yan'er made trouble again and again, she was his wife after all, and it was indeed because she cared too much about him that she couldn't think about it for a while, so she would find a short-term view, and where did she still have the heart to discuss with Emperor Chengyuan about accepting a side concubine.

Emperor Chengyuan is angry, needless to say, but the matter has already happened, even if he looks at the prince's face, the matter can only be put aside for the time being.

The Wang family just let Wang Yan'er delay it for a while, but they didn't expect Wang Yan'er to be so ruined. After receiving the news that day, the Wang family was heartbroken, and only later did they know that Wang Yan'er did it on purpose, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief. In any case, they have some more time, as long as they can let Wang Yan'er conceive the imperial heir during this time, everything will be fine.

*

Jiuniang didn't see the king of Chu for a few days, and on this day she dispersed and sent her to a private house.

When Jiu Niang saw Queen Chu, she always felt that there seemed to be something wrong with him. Obviously there is no difference from the past, but he always feels that he seems to be preoccupied.

Could it be related to Wang Yaner's hanging beam?

It seems that there has only been such a big event recently, and Jiu Niang can't help but think of it.

In the quiet afternoon, the warm sun is slanting.

It is rare that the king of Chu did not take out official business today, but half-leaned on the soft couch and watched with an idle book. Jiuniang sat on the open space in front of the soft couch, spread a layer of soft floor mats on the ground, and put two soft pillows for her to lean on, which was more comfortable than the couch.

A breeze blew in, carrying a fresh fragrance of plants and trees, mixed with the vague fragrance of the King of Chu, which made people feel extremely comfortable.

Jiuniang glanced at the King of Chu and asked as if unintentionally, "Cousin, I heard that the crown princess has found a short time?" ”

The King of Chu raised his head and glanced at her, still playing with a strand of black hair hanging down from the back of her head in his hand, and did not speak.

"I got the news from the county lord of Chaoxia, and I heard a little bit, but I don't know the specific situation." Jiuniang said with a smile, which can be regarded as explaining why she learned about such a secret thing.

"Why do you remember to ask this?"

"I'm a little curious why she can't think of it like that." Jiuniang replied truthfully, but she didn't hide it.

"This has nothing to do with you, don't be so curious." King Chu said lightly.

Jiuniang was a little angry, King Chu was really too domineering.

In his previous life, King Chu was not like this, and for some secrets in the court, he would more or less nudge her, after all, he would move her whole body, so as not to cause any trouble without her knowing.

In this life, I have changed my style, never tell her this, occasionally when she is not busy, take her to the private house, the two of them get along most of the time with him doing office affairs, reading official documents, she studies homework, and reads books. Otherwise, it would be like this time, the two of them read books idly and occasionally talked a few words.

And after that day, the king of Chu will rarely do anything wrong to her, that is-

Jiu Niang lowered her eyes and watched King Chu play with her hair, which was originally a wisp of emanation, but being played with by him like this, the bun on one side was all scattered, and Jiu Niang didn't have to think about it to know that she looked like a crazy woman at this time.

As if seeing the look of grievance in Jiu Niang's eyes, King Chu patted the vacant seat beside him, "Come up." ”

Don't go!

Of course, this is just a slander, but Jiuniang didn't dare to refuse, but she was a little reluctant. The King of Chu seemed to see her reluctance, and his narrow eyes narrowed.

Seeing this, Jiuniang hurriedly climbed onto the couch, and before she could sit down, she was pulled into the arms of King Chu.

"Cousin, you said ......" Jiu Niang said with difficulty.

"What did the king say?"

The king of Chu seemed to be leisurely fiddling with Jiu Niang's earlobe.

Well, he didn't say anything, but it wasn't right for them to do this, and it was too close.

Jiu Niang's face suddenly burned.

When King Chu saw that under her fair and pink skin, a little rosy flush spread, and the range became larger and larger, and even the tips of her ears turned red, so he couldn't help but feel a little unbearable, and bowed his head and kissed it.

Jiu Niang felt a tingling sensation rise from the end of the tail vertebrae, all the way up her back to the scalp, and then concentrated on the tips of her ears. It was soft, and slightly moistened, as if something was dotted on it, and Jiuniang couldn't help but let out a sigh.

She clenched her palms tightly and pushed the King of Chu, but unfortunately the King of Chu was completely immersed in it and ignored her at all.

After a long time, he stepped back unsteadily, and Jiu Niang was already sore, and he couldn't even sit steadily. She covered her ears and half-lay in the arms of the King of Chu, feeling that she had no face to see.

Why is this person like this, is he still the king of Chu who is indifferent and rejects people thousands of miles away? Could it be that the inside of the pot has changed people!

The king of Chu looked like he was dealing with Ruosu, one hand wrapped around Jiu Niang's waist, and the other hand picked up the book that was placed aside, and read it again.

"There are a lot of things involved in the East Palace, if there is nothing to do, you better not be involved. You can just say it in front of the king, but you have to know how to avoid it. ”

Jiuniang was stunned for a moment, and then she realized that the king of Chu was answering what she had just said about the crown princess's short-sightedness.

She naturally knows how to avoid it, and when she talks about this kind of thing, it's not that she is too angry, she didn't see that even the Duchess of Anguo looked secretive, she knew the powerful relationship.

"Cousin, I know."

The king of Chu nodded, and raised his eyes to see her delicately sitting in his arms, a small person, pink and lovable, a pair of delicate eyes, at this time moist as if to drip water, cheeks slightly red, cherry lips like open and non-open, its top is smooth and soft.

King Chu couldn't help but feel that his throat was a little dry, and he tightened his arm around her, and his face sank because of what he was about to say.

"My father wants to give you to the prince as a side concubine, Wang Yan'er is jealous, and the Wang family doesn't want people to come in, so Wang Yan'er is not looking for a short-term view, but just a trick."

Yes?

Emperor Chengyuan wants to give her to the crown prince as a side concubine?

Jiu Niang was so surprised that she couldn't describe it.

How could she possibly think that she would be promised to the prince as a side concubine, how could she make the father and son valued? And how did the king of Chu know this, could he have done something in it......

Jiu Niang's heart was in turmoil, and her expression couldn't help but bring out a little.

"Cousin......"

"Don't be afraid."

The King of Chu was very close, and the two even snorted, and he stretched out his hand to caress Jiu Niang's lips, with a sneering look on his face.

"Since the Wang family doesn't want to, this king will push the boat and push them along the river, this king said this, you just put it in your heart, don't think about anything else."

Jiuniang had to nod her head sneeringly, but her heart was very chaotic.