Zhou Yanran was very stressed by Emperor Showa's sharp eyes, but she still held on to the innocence on her face, tilted her head and asked Emperor Showa: "As we all know, the queen mother regards His Royal Highness King Xuan as her own son, I don't know what does it mean that Niangniang is here and has mentioned His Royal Highness King Ling many times?" ”

After staring at Zhou Yanran for a while, Emperor Showa continued to hold her hand bones and said, "Concubine Ai is smart, she should already have a plan in her heart, you might as well say it to me." ”

Zhou Yanran glanced at Emperor Showa unexpectedly, when she said this, she wanted to get some tone out of Emperor Showa's mouth, after all, Zhao Ling was taken to heart by her, and she absolutely did not want to see others slander him in front of Emperor Showa.

It's just that she didn't expect that she hadn't come up with the news she wanted to know from Emperor Showa's mouth, but she was asked by Emperor Showa rhetorically, and for a while, she really didn't know how to answer Emperor Showa's question.

Emperor Showa glanced at Zhou Yanran lightly, and said as if reminding: "I like someone to tell the truth in front of me, besides, at the moment, it is our husband and wife who are laughing at will, and the concubine doesn't have to be pressured, she can say whatever she thinks, and it doesn't matter if she is wrong." ”

Does it really matter if it's wrong?

Zhou Yanran didn't believe Emperor Showa's words, but now that he was talking to this point, it seemed that she had to speak.

Zhou Yanran looked at Emperor Showa coquettishly, stretched out her hand to wrap her neck around Emperor Showa coquettishly, and said prettyly: "This is what the emperor said personally, and you want the concubines to talk about it casually; If the concubine really said the wrong thing, you can't be angry, Your Majesty; You are the Son of Heaven, you are a man of your word, and you can't talk without words. ”

Emperor Showa just likes to see beautiful beauties coquettish him, and now Zhou Yanran's behavior is exactly what he likes.

I saw him hugging the beauty's slender waist, raising his head and laughing heartwarmly, and then said, "Don't worry, I will never break my word; Ai Fei spoke freely. ”

Zhou Yanran calculated what she wanted to say in her mind, looked at Emperor Showa with a slightly expectant look, and said: "The concubine thinks that the queen mother is not here to send a decoction to the emperor, but for another purpose; That purpose can also be seen at a glance, it is aimed at His Royal Highness King Ling. ”

Emperor Showa looked at Zhou Yanran, who opened his mouth to say the key point of the matter, and nodded at her with satisfaction; As if encouraging her to continue, his eyes looked at her intently.

Zhou Yanran received the encouragement in Emperor Showa's eyes, and continued: "His Royal Highness King Xuan respectfully called the queen mother, and he was raised by the queen since he was a child, in other words, except that His Royal Highness King Xuan did not crawl out of the queen's belly, his current relationship with the queen is almost no different from his biological mother and son; Your Majesty, you have not yet established a prince, and everyone's eyes are on the crown prince, which naturally includes King Xuan and the queen's mother; However, among the emperor's princes, only His Royal Highness King Ling can compete with King Xuan, so it is reasonable for the queen to pay too much attention to King Ling's movements. ”

When Emperor Showa heard this, he gently pinched Zhou Yanran's cheek, and said to her with a playful smile: "I thought you were only interested in the things of your daughter's family, but I didn't expect that you even paid special attention to the affairs of the previous dynasty, and I really didn't see this point of yours before. ”

Zhou Yanran looked at Emperor Showa with a smile, but began to beat a drum in her heart.

No, Emperor Showa wouldn't think that she, a harem woman, wanted to meddle in the affairs of the previous dynasty, if he really thought so, then her words today would be really bad.

Zhou Yanran hurriedly tried to find a way to remedy it: "The emperor misunderstood the concubines, these things are quietly spread in the harem almost every day, and the concubines live in the Quewei Palace, and they will naturally remember it after listening to it for a long time; Learn those words to the emperor, and want the emperor to judge and judge, how much is right and how wrong. ”

Emperor Showa looked at Zhou Yanran, still smiling: "Are these words really just learned by you?" ”

Zhou Yanran nodded hurriedly, with a clear innocence in her beautiful eyes, she really couldn't help but want to believe her.

When Emperor Showa saw her like this, he didn't make much comments, but snorted lightly and said: "It seems that my harem is really lively, and many people are bold enough to even dare to talk about this kind of thing discussed in the court of the previous dynasty; Being so sloppy and unruly, I was disappointed in the harem managed by the Queen. ”

Zhou Yanran shook Emperor Zhaohe's shoulder coquettishly, dragged a delicate tail note, and said, "The emperor can't break his word, you just said, you won't be angry." ”

Emperor Showa turned his eyes to look at Zhou Yanran's pretty little face, pinched her little face again, and said, "Okay, I'm not angry; It was rare for someone to tell a few words of truth in front of me, and although I felt a little uncomfortable in my heart, I was relieved to hear such frank words. ”

"You just asked me how much of your words were right and how wrong, and now I can tell you that your words are all right and wrong."

Zhou Yanran was stunned for a moment and looked at Emperor Showa: "What does the emperor mean by this?" ”

Emperor Showa got up from the dragon chair, walked down the steps and walked through the hall, looking at the wisps of golden light shining in from outside the hall, and after admiring it for a long time, he slowly began to say, "It is true that I have nine sons, but I never thought of watching the two most outstanding sons compete for the throne, because in my heart, my crown prince has long been selected. ”

Zhou Yanran didn't expect to hear such a passage from Emperor Showa's mouth, and she was shocked on the spot, her eyes widened, and she looked at Emperor Showa in a daze, and she didn't react for a long time.

Seeing Zhou Yanran's appearance as if she was scared silly, Emperor Showa smiled and said, "So what I said is right and wrong." Aifei is my interpretation flower, if Aifei is interested and guesses, who will be the prince I fancie? ”

Zhou Yanran didn't dare to guess about this matter at will even if she relied on her favor, and immediately she knelt on the ground, lowered her eyebrows, and said: "The concubine doesn't dare to speculate about the future prince, if the emperor feels sorry for the concubine, don't embarrass the concubine." ”

Looking at Zhou Yanran's frightened appearance, Emperor Showa did not help her, but smiled faintly: "Look at what scares you, I said that these words to you are just a simple communication between husband and wife, so that you don't have such a big ideological baggage; You, sometimes you should really learn like the queen, learn a little bit of her audacity, at the very least, she dares to rush to me in front of me to find out my tone, look at what she means, as if she wants to give my third child something interesting. ”

Zhou Yanran has survived in the harem for two whole years, and she has long been trained in this kind of thing of being obedient and listening.

Suddenly hearing Emperor Showa say such a strange sentence, she figured it out in her heart and immediately understood.

At that moment, he forgot even the rules, stood up and trotted in front of Emperor Showa, and said with a nervous expression: "Is the queen mother going to do anything to His Royal Highness King Ling, who is in Jeju City for disaster relief?" Your Majesty, the prince is dedicated to the people, and he is far away from the capital, if he has an accident, what should he do? Please also ask the emperor to protect him more. ”

Emperor Showa looked at Zhou Yanran, who looked quite excited and nervous, in surprise, and his heavy eyes locked on her tightly, as if to examine why she was suddenly so excited.

Sensing her gaffe, Zhou Yanran hurriedly lowered her head, not daring to look at Emperor Showa's eyes that could see everything: "The concubines, the concubines just think that it is very inappropriate for the queen mother to do this, no matter what, His Royal Highness King Ling is also the emperor's prince, even if she wants to support His Royal Highness King Xuan, she should not do something foolish." ”

Looking at Zhou Yanran, who was so nervous that she was a little trembling, Emperor Showa stretched out his hand to pull her cold fingers, and there was a little smile in his warm voice: "Concubine Ai really broke her heart for me, and even you are particularly concerned about my prince; Rest assured, with me here, my sons will be fine. ”

Although Emperor Showa's tone was smiling, Zhou Yanran broke out in a cold sweat.

She always felt as if her secret had been discovered, and she was extremely uneasy in her heart, secretly regretting that she shouldn't have been so out of shape, and that she had exposed her true heart at this time.

……

Everyone's thoughts in the imperial city of the capital were like gray weather, depressed, unable to see the sun, and not daring to show themselves under the dazzling sun.

On the contrary, at this moment, Jeju City, which is hundreds of miles away, is quietly changing because of the arrival of Zhao Ling and the appearance of Chu Xingyue.

Chu Xingyue couldn't lie down after lying peacefully on the bed for three days, she was a member of the Tianding clan, and her recovery ability after injury should have been very amazing; It's just that this time she was a little too injured this time, and she was ordered by Zhao Ling not to run around, so Chu Xingyue would stay in the room obediently for three days.

But in just three days, the limit has been reached.

So today, when Zhao Ling had just left the Li Mansion with his front foot, Chu Xingyue turned out of bed despite Chunxing's persuasion and prevention, and still wore a rather comfortable moon-white men's brocade dress, dressed as a merry boy, shaking a folding fan in one hand and Chunxing on the other, and walked out of the room that had locked her up for three days.

Chun Xing knows her young lady's personality too well, but whatever she wants to do, even the prince may not be able to stop it.

Therefore, after Chu Xingyue stepped out of the room, she followed Chu Xingyue's side like a little tail, and kept chanting in her ear: "Miss, you promised the slave maid, but you just came out and walked around the courtyard and won't run around, your body is just right, if there is another accident at this moment, then the slave and maid will not live." ”

Chu Xingyue knew that Chunxing, the little girl, was caring about her, otherwise she wouldn't have listened to her constant thoughts in her ear.

It's just that she can't bear it anymore after being read for a long time.

Just as Chu Xingyue was about to turn around and knock Chunxing with the folding fan in her hand to shut her up, suddenly, a slender and slender woman figure appeared at the half-moon-shaped arch not far away.

The woman's posture was as weak as a thin willow, her eyebrows and eyes were like a bright moon, and when she saw Chu Xingyue who was laughing with Chunxing, a pair of beautiful apricot eyes suddenly widened, as if with grievances and resentment, and shouted loudly to Chu Xingyue: "Childe!" ”