Chapter 170: Awakening
Early the next morning, the news spread among the autumn hunting team. The content is nothing more than Chen Ruoliu sending Chu Jinrong back last night.
"But it's not just this, haven't you heard that the emperor intends to let Chen Ruoliu be the concubine." The crowd whispered and recited to each other and the news spread quickly.
At first, these news were only spread among the subordinates, but when the two maids were talking, they were known by the second princess who happened to pass by, and the latter was naturally worried when he heard the two maids mention the name of the princess, and ordered the two maids to tell everything they knew.
When he heard that Chu Junlan intended to accept Chen Ruoliu as a side concubine, he was even more anxious, and immediately went back to the room to find Li Qiuchi, who was trying to go out to breathe.
"The crown princess stays, it's not appropriate to go out now." The second princess said in a panic, she couldn't let Li Qiuchi know about the matter of taking a concubine for Chu Jinrong, the emperor's order would be difficult to disobey, lest she know that she would be sad.
After all, what married woman doesn't want her husband's eyes to stay on her?
Li Qiuchi here was very puzzled, she looked at the yellow calendar after she got up in the morning, and did not say that she couldn't go out today: "Why is this?" But what's going on out there? ”
The second princess was anxious, if she made up a reason now, she was afraid that she would show her feet in the future, so she had to shake her head and say firmly: "Please also ask the crown princess to believe me once, don't leave here before the convoy leaves, this is the emperor's will."
Li Qiuchi looked at the appearance of the second princess, and the more she thought about it, the more she felt that something was wrong, she stared at the person in front of her with a serious expression and said, "Then why didn't the person who delivered the will appear here?" What's going on out there? If you don't, then I'll see for myself. ”
After that, he made a gesture to go out.
The second princess hurriedly stopped her: "Don't do it, I'm just afraid that if I say it, it will make the princess sad."
"Where is this, I'm not that vulnerable, you just say it." Li Qiuchi said helplessly.
So the second princess told Li Qiuchi everything she had heard, and finally looked at Li Qiuchi and said, "Don't be too sad, princess, lest you become ill and hurt your body."
I thought that after saying this, Li Qiuchi would cry and make a fuss, or leave angrily to find Chu Jinrong to ask for an explanation, but I never thought that Li Qiuchi's face was extremely calm: "I know."
This time it was the turn of the second princess to be a little surprised: "Isn't the crown princess angry?"
Li Qiuchi shook his head, Chen Ruoliu She knows, it is the woman who made a good dish yesterday, if she is really accepted by Chu Jinrong as a side concubine, she has no opinion, wouldn't it be a good thing to have more side concubines with superb cooking skills?
However, since yesterday, he has never looked at Chen Ruoliu directly. Fortunately, after learning that she was not angry, the second princess was no longer in a hurry to stop herself. After Li Qiuchi learned about this, he went out with a little more heart, carefully observed Chen Ruoliu, and suddenly felt that Chen Ruoliu might really be the type that Chu Jinrong liked.
Just like Chen Ruoliu's name, the woman is as thin as a willow, as if she can fall down as soon as the wind blows, and it is also suitable to say that she is the concubine of Chu Jinrong.
"But these are the emperor's words." Li Qiuchi thought of the key point, and the whole person was not good, after all, it was the emperor who unilaterally named Chen Ruoliu and wanted to accept Chen Ruoliu as the prince's side concubine, and he didn't ask the meaning of the parties, that is to say, he had to make Chen Ruoliu willing to be this side concubine.
That's right, she just has the idea of matchmaking, she has always been very accurate in looking at people, saying that it is suitable, so no matter how you say it, you can't pinch people's marriage.
Chu Jinrong didn't know that the emperor had already taken matters into his own hands and planned to take a concubine for him, he sat up drunk, and the consequences of his hangover were revealed at this moment.
His head hurt so badly that he almost hit the edge of the bed when he got out of bed, and when he heard the movement in the house, he immediately opened the door and took a look, and hurriedly served him a sobering soup.
"This is the decanting soup that Miss Chen made for you herself, and I told you to drink it for His Highness." The little guy said as he watched Chu Jinrong take the bowl of decanting soup in his hand, but after just taking a sip, he spit out the mouthful in his mouth.
The little guy knelt down in horror, and heard Chu Jinrong say in a hoarse voice, "Change a bowl."
"The little one is guilty, this decanting soup should have been cold after being left out for a long time, so the little one will go down and change it for you." Xiao Wu took the bowl in Chu Jinrong's hand and said busily.
In fact, the decanting soup in his hand was just right for the temperature of the mouth, Chu Jinrong recalled the taste in his mouth, and always felt that it was a little worse: "Who did you just say?"
"It's Miss Chen who sent you back to your room last night." The little guy replied.
The hangover has not passed, the brain is still in a state of chaos, and I can't remember yesterday's events clearly, but it seems that I did meet Chen Ruoliu in my impression, Chu Jinrong squinted his eyes and recalled last night's events, and did not forget to tell the little servant: "No need to change it, no matter how you change it, it is not as delicious as Qiuchi's cooking."
"Whoa." The little guy withdrew with the bowl in his hand. Chu Jinrong got up with difficulty, he was going to find Li Qiuchi, for some reason, even if it was a sobering soup, he just wanted to drink what she made for herself.
But Chu Jinrong didn't find Li Qiuchi, but waited for the second prince.
Chu Jinfan looked at Chu Jinrong who was looking for him here and frowned: "Brother Huang, don't patronize looking for someone, I don't know if you have heard of yesterday's incident?"
"What's the matter?" Although Chu Jinrong couldn't remember what happened yesterday, he still had some bad premonitions in his heart.
"Well, if you knew, you wouldn't have appeared here," Chu Jinfan sighed, "Brother Huang doesn't know, my father has the idea of taking a concubine for you, and there is already a candidate, it is Chen Ruoliu, the young lady who has not yet left the cabinet of the imperial historian." ”
"I don't have a deep friendship with this person, how can my father do such a thing?" Chu Jinrong thought about it carefully, only to realize that Chen Ruoliu was the person he had only met a few times yesterday.
"Isn't the friendship deep? I heard that Chen Ruoliu sent the imperial brother back to the room last night, and the imperial brother can't even remember this, right? Chu Jinfan teased, but in the next second, he saw Chu Jinrong's face change, and exclaimed: "Father must have misunderstood something, no matter how many times I say this concubine, I will never agree."
"It's useless to say no here." Chu Jinfan kindly reminded, "Let's make it clear to my father first." ”
"Thank you for informing, if it weren't for you, I'm afraid I would have been kept in the dark by now." Chu Jinrong thanked Chu Jinfan and left in a hurry, no wonder he didn't see Li Qiuchi in the morning, probably because he was angry and hid when he heard that he was going to take a concubine.