The emperor chuckled lowly, "Yi'er, you dare to get involved with the first emperor in order to push a marriage?" ”

"Erchen didn't dare. Erchen is just greedy for life and afraid of death. Li Ke also lowered his head.

The emperor waved his hand, "Fu Wen, you go back first." ”

Fu Wen got up on her knees, and suddenly knelt down.

"Since the hexagram master said that the prince must marry a lowly wife, Wen'er petitioned to be demoted to a lowly status and break away from the Zhongyi Marquis Mansion!"

Li Ke was also stunned when he heard this, and the emperor said: "The Marquis of Zhongyi has a daughter like you, and he wants to be angry to death." ”

"The Emperor's ......"

"Go back, I'll think about it."

She finally retreated, and Li Ke also breathed a sigh of relief.

The emperor stared at him and snorted, "What did the hexagram master say, you thought I didn't know, you got the Meng clan back." ”

Li Ke also looked up, "Yes, Father." ”

"This woman has a big appetite, do you have to be the crown princess? It has been a blessing for several generations that she can enter the East Palace, and if I were you, I would give her a good position at most. ”

The Emperor never called him to his feet.

Li Ke also said respectfully: "It's not because of the Meng family, the son pampers the child and wants to give him the respect of his son-in-law." ”

"The first child is always spoiled, and if there are more children in the future, that's it."

After the Emperor finished speaking, he realized that something was wrong, and added: "You are my only concubine, and I care very much about the distinction between concubines and concubines, and you are not comparable to other heirs to me." ”

Li Ke also seemed to be very moved, "Father." ”

"Yi'er." The emperor said earnestly, "Look at my father, I have never lost in virtue, and I have no feelings for your mother, but I also gave birth to you with her, and I have respected you for 20 years." No matter how much I pamper the concubine, I will not let her threaten your mother's throne. ”

Li Ke also kowtowed, "Erchen understands." ”

-

It was nearly noon, the sky was gray, and light rain fell on the palace road.

The palace people didn't have time to get the umbrella, so they could only untie their coats and cover the prince.

Li Ke also looked at this long and old-fashioned palace road, and every step was very heavy.

"Shen Cheng, my father said that he has no relationship with his mother."

Shen Cheng heard an extremely embarrassing thing, and said with a wry smile: "He is the emperor, and the power confrontation between the emperor and the queen is complicated, and it is normal to have no feelings." ”

"But the queen mother cares about him."

Since marrying her father, her mother has been dressed up carefully every day, and she refuses to remove her makeup at night.

Until she confirmed that her father would not come, she would pick the pearl on her head.

In the end, she was just a tool, a tool for her father to prove to the world that his virtue was worthless.

The road from the Imperial Study to the East Palace is also very short, and it will be there quickly.

Li Ke also saw from afar that in the open hall, Ah Tang was teasing the child in the nurse's arms.

"I want to leave with Ah Tang, find a place with a wide sky, and spend the rest of my days well."

Shen Cheng said: "Your Highness, no, you think, Lord Baili went to Gusu, and Aunt Liu still has to kill his heirs." Even if His Highness is willing to abdicate the throne, how can the next prince sit back and relax? How will you let Your Highness go? His Royal Highness can only go up and hold the world in his palm, so that he can not respect the ancestral system of etiquette and protect the queen and Miss Meng. ”

Li Ke was also gloomy.

"How is the matter of the concubine arranged?"

"The several mages named by His Highness have all been completed, just waiting for the day of the Midyear Festival."

-

"That Miss Fu ran out of the imperial study crying, she was a noble girl, and she lost her manners in the palace."

"The discipline of the Marquis of Zhongyi is like this."

"I heard that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince took Miss Fu to the imperial study to meet the emperor and proposed to withdraw from the marriage. The crown princess is gone, can you not cry?

The maidservants chatted left and right, and Meng Qingtang interjected impatiently: "The matter is inconclusive, don't talk about it here." If the marriage is not annulled, how will Fu Wen clean you up when Fu Wen enters the palace. ”

Feng Yan said poorly: "What if she is the crown princess, this East Palace belongs to the prince, and it is noble to have the grace of the prince." ”

Meng Qingtang took a sip of tea and nodded, "What you said is to tell the queen." ”

Feng Yan quickly closed her mouth.

She didn't please the person in front of her with these words, but she offended the queen.

"Mother, let's go for a walk."

Meng Qingtang was helped up by Feng Yan, and let her go out as if she was old, weak, and sick.

The warm afternoon sun was just right, and the palace people gathered in one place, Meng Qingtang leaned over to take a look and saw a familiar scene at that time.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was seriously digging a pit and burying loquat saplings, Rao is trouser leg was stained with mud, and his posture was still so noble and dusty.

The palace people could only wipe his sweat for him, and they were not allowed to take a hand.

It's a pity not to go to farming, to be born in the emperor's family.

Meng Qingtang thought so, turned around and left.

"Miss Meng." Shen Cheng called her.

Meng Qingtang waited a few steps on the spot, Shen Cheng glanced at the prince, and after making sure that the prince didn't notice this, he walked quickly in front of Meng Qingtang.

"Miss Meng, Your Highness has done your best, and I ask Miss Meng not to embarrass Your Highness anymore."

"Am I embarrassed for him?"

"Miss Meng refuses to be a concubine, but His Royal Highness can't marry you, and His Royal Highness can't help himself, can Miss Meng be considerate?"

Meng Qingtang smiled, "Whether you want to marry or not is my business, and whether you marry or not is his business." ”

"Your Highness is sincere to you, isn't that enough?"

Shen Cheng felt that this woman was somewhat ignorant.

"I'd rather have no name for the rest of my life, than be in the name of a concubine, crowded under his name with so many women."

Meng Qingtang said lightly: "I didn't leave, and I didn't threaten him with myself." Why is it difficult? ”

Shen Cheng lowered his head in thought, shook his head and said, "Miss Meng, you keep saying that you would rather not have any reputation, if you are really so indifferent to fame and fortune, why don't you want to be a concubine?" What's more, the prince's concubine is also of a high grade, which is not ...... ordinary people."

"No matter how expensive a concubine is, it is also a concubine." Meng Qingtang stood quietly in front of him, his eyes were quiet, "Not only do I not want to be a concubine, but I also don't want to share my husband with others." He will have another wife, and I will be with him for a shallow life, and there is no need to mention the relationship. ”

"Miss Meng...... Your Highness is also in pain. The emperor talked about the concubine and the queen, and told His Royal Highness in a roundabout way, if you can be the crown princess, then the concubine can be the queen. ”

Shen Cheng was worried that everyone had lost weight, "Daughter-in-law and mother, the palms and backs of your hands are all flesh in your hearts, what do you want Your Highness to do?" Miss Meng, Shen begs your understanding......"

In the middle of speaking, Shen Cheng suddenly stopped, looked behind Meng Qingtang, and lowered his head as if he had done something wrong.

Meng Qingtang looked back and saw Li Keyi with his sleeves on, and there were dots of filth on his jade-colored robe.

"Why ......" he should always forget and never think again.

Li Ke also stretched out her freshly washed hand to hold her, but she subconsciously took a step back.

"Your Highness, let's go and change your clothes first."

Li Ke also doesn't remember how many times she refused to hold hands with her, and she doesn't remember telling her how many times not to call him like that.

His retracted hand went behind him, "You don't have to listen to Shen Cheng's nonsense, and I don't want you to be a concubine." ”

"I'm not going to be reassured."

"Oh, good."

Li Ke also went to take a shower and change clothes, and Shen Cheng followed behind him awkwardly, waiting for this scolding.

Sure enough, as soon as he walked out of Meng Qingtang's field of vision, Li Ke also stopped, looking at Shen Cheng like a torch.

"If you hadn't gone to her and told her those things, she wouldn't have suffered so much."