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Queen Li cried heartbrokenly, Feng Zheng was sympathetic, but she couldn't find any comforting words to say. A small injury and pain could comfort her. Before the pain of losing her son, any words seemed pale and powerless. She looked down and saw that Brother Cheng opened her eyes at some point. She was either hungry or wanted to swear. Feng Zheng looked at Queen Li again, pursing her lips and trying to hug her son as gently as possible.
Queen Li did not stop her and turned around to wipe her tears.
Feng Zheng handed Cheng Ge'er to the wet nurse who was brought into the palace, and the wet nurse went to the side room to feed him. Seeing that the wet nurse left, Feng Zheng clenched his hands and returned to the warm bed. Seeing that although Queen Li was still carrying her back, her crying was gone, only her shoulders were still trembling slightly. Feng Zheng sighed, and it was definitely not okay to ignore him. She could only try her best to say: "If the mother does not dislike her, my daughter-in-law would always come to the palace to accompany you."
In such a huge palace, if you want to compete for a prince between concubines, even if you are harmonious on the surface, you will not like each other in your heart. The emperor is also a diligent person. He can accompany Queen Li at most at night every day, and he will have to give half a month to other concubines. Feng Zheng can understand Queen Li's loneliness. It can be seen that Queen Li likes Brother Sheng very much. Feng Zheng can only wait for the children to enter the palace a few more times to express his feelings.
Queen Li turned around unexpectedly, with tears in her eyes, and said in surprise: "Really?"
Feng Zheng nodded with a smile.
Queen Li smiled immediately on her face and happily held Feng Zheng's hand: "Actually, although we are mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, I am only three or four years older than you, and you are the first to marry in. You sisters-in-law, I am the most in love with you, and I have always treated you as a sister. I won't hide anything from you. Now that you pity me like this, I really don't know how to thank you."
It is true that the two are of similar age, but Feng Zheng dare not overthrow it. Empress Li felt uncomfortable at this moment and forgot his identity for the time being. When the sadness passes, Empress Li's majesty will definitely come back and said hurriedly: "My mother is so serious. I am a junior. I should have entered the palace more often to be filial to my mother."
However, Feng Zheng believed what Queen Li said she liked her most. After all, her mother-in-law disappeared early. Princess Rui and Princess Gong had Concubine Wu. Concubine Hui wanted to be filial. Queen Li could not get close to those two. As for Song Jianing, she married two years later, which was not as good as her relationship with Queen Li.
But Feng Zheng has never been proud of this. Even if Empress Li treats her closeness, she will be sincere.
"But you have to take care of the prince and Brother Cheng. Seeing the prince's desire to spoil you, you will definitely be pregnant again in a short time. How can I have much free time to enter the palace to accompany me?" Queen Li suddenly said again, the smile on her face disappeared like a fireworks, and she regained her self-pitying sad face again.
Feng Zheng was completely speechless. She comforted her all the things she could. If she promised that she would enter the palace with a big belly, it would be too fake.
Queen Li suddenly thought of something and looked at Feng Zheng excitedly and said, "How about this? Keep Brother Sheng here and I will help you take care of the big ones and the small ones, and it will be difficult for you to take care of both the big ones."
Feng Zheng's heart shrank violently. He felt that Queen Li was pitiful just now and was still trying to find some comfort words. At this time, he met Queen Li's bright and excessive eyes. Feng Zheng felt terrifying. The cold air spread from the bottom of his heart instantly to his whole body. His body was stiff, and his eldest son's lively and cute little face appeared in his mind. Feng Zheng instinctively refused: "I appreciate the kindness of the mother, but Brother Sheng'er is too naughty and his daughter-in-law dare not bother her mother."
While talking, he tried to retract the hand that was held by Queen Li.
Queen Li refused to let go. She felt Feng Zheng's quick and cold hands. She couldn't bear it, but she really couldn't help it. The deep palace was lonely. She was now pampered by the emperor and could still hold on for the time being, but the emperor was getting older year by year, and maybe she would go there at any time. She was only in her early twenties. If she could not keep Sheng Ge'er while the emperor was pampering her, wait for the emperor to die, wait for the King of Chu or any prince to ascend the throne, what greeted her would be a long silence in the harem, with only the honor of the empress dowager and no real power.
After raising Sheng Ge'er, Emperor Xuande's will, and King Chu could not take Sheng Ge'er away even after ascending the throne. He had to respect her for his son. Empress Li didn't want much, and she had no ambitions for the government affairs of the court. She just wanted to have a smart child around her to relieve her boredom. She just wanted to treat her as a person after the King of Chu ascended the throne, and thought of her in everything she did in the harem, rather than a queen mother with a false reputation.
"A Zheng, don't you know my situation? Don't say that Brother Sheng is well-behaved and sensible, even if he is really naughty, I can't ask for anything, so why do you feel hard?" Tears rolled down again, Queen Li held Feng Zheng's hand tightly and begged her: "A Zheng, let Brother Sheng stay by my side, otherwise I really can't stand it anymore. During the day, I always hear Xiaowu crying, and in my dreams, I also cried in my dreams. My heart is about to hurt to death..."
Feng Zheng also cried, and forced herself to break free from Queen Li's hand, kneeled in front of her, and she fell like a bead with tears broken down: "Fifth brother is gone, my mother is feeling uncomfortable, but my daughter-in-law also asked her mother to be considerate and considerate. Brother Sheng was born from ten months of pregnancy. If I don't see her daughter-in-law later, I will be worried about her. If I leave it to my mother, daughter-in-law..."
She couldn't cry and couldn't continue to say anything, so she knelt down and kowtowed: "The daughter-in-law is begging her mother."
Looking at Feng Zheng kneeling on the ground, her daughter-in-law, Princess Chu, at this point, Queen Li understood that relying solely on the friendship between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law, and Feng Zheng's kindness, she could not keep Brother Sheng at all. The road of love could not be understood. Queen Li took a deep breath, raised her head, wiped tears with her hands, and when no new tears came out, she whispered: "A Zheng, I will tell you a few truths. I will only tell you this, don't tell anyone again, the prince can't do it."
Feng Zheng raised her head in shock.
Queen Li patted the place beside her and looked directly at her and said, "Sit here, it's related to the prince. If someone hears him, you can't afford to take care of him."
If it were something else, Feng Zheng would never listen to what Queen Li said just after the dangers. She would rather not know, but it was related to her own prince. Feng Zheng hesitated for a moment, and finally wiped his eyes and sat next to Queen Li uneasy. She deliberately kept a distance. Queen Li took the initiative to move to her side, kneeled behind Feng Zheng, took off her hair bun, and then pretended to comb Feng Zheng's hair while combing it, saying quietly: "When Prince Wu'an went, did the prince blame the emperor?"
Feng Zheng's heart was shocked. Others may not know that she was a person around the King of Chu, so they naturally remember clearly that on the night that the Prince of Wu'an committed suicide, the prince was still calm outside. When he came back, he began to blame the emperor, and he accused the emperor of forcing the Prince of Wu'an to death with red eyes. If she hadn't pretended to have a fetal aura, she forced the prince to shut up and force the prince to promise not to complain anymore. The matter was heard in the emperor's ears, and it might have caused some evil consequences.
However, she thought that she had hidden it perfectly, and Empress Li actually knew it? That emperor...
A chill surged in Feng Zheng's heart again, and it was even more cold than worrying that his son would be robbed.
"If there is nothing, please don't believe the villain's slander." Feng Zheng said reluctantly.
A chuckling came from behind, like a cat's cry outside the window in the dark night. It was obviously very light, but it made people panic. Feng Zheng was uneasy and wanted to turn her head to see Queen Li's expression. Queen Li held her long black and smooth hair and continued to combed her slowly. Her voice was calm and gentle: "Don't worry, no one told me that no one was talking bad about the prince. I guessed it myself. You know better than me. But, what I can guess is, the emperor knows the prince better than me. I can't guarantee whether the emperor has guessed or not, and whether he has sent someone to investigate."
Feng Zheng's cheeks were pale and she couldn't help but tremble.
Queen Li held her shoulder for the time being and glanced at Feng Zheng's pale face. She comforted her in time: "Don't be afraid. The emperor values the prince the most. No one is wrong. The emperor will not neglect the prince for one or two complaints. It's just that the prince's temper. The emperor attacked his cousin. He complained that when the emperor dealt with the prince's closest uncle in the future..."
Feng Zheng was shocked and looked back at her in disbelief.
Queen Li said nothing, but looked at Feng Zheng quietly. When the shock in Feng Zheng's eyes turned into fear, Queen Li glanced at the door of the inner hall and reminded him in a faint voice that Feng Zheng could not hear too clearly: "The emperor's dragon throne was taken from his brother. Brother and brother, the emperor made this rule first. Although the emperor did not say it, there were always rumors among the people. Even the prince himself thought that the emperor would hand the dragon throne to his uncle in the end, right?"
Feng Zheng was trembling all over. Her good prince really thought so. The emperor humiliated King Shou in the first lunar month. At night, the prince complained to her, complaining that the emperor was very unfair to King Shou. Then he mentioned King Shou’s mansion in the outer city, and said that when his uncle King Qin ascended the throne, he would definitely ask his uncle to give him another mansion to King Shou.
At that time, Feng Zheng felt something was wrong and asked why the King of Qin ascended the throne. Her prince told the truth about the brother-in-law that Queen Li just mentioned. Feng Zheng just wanted to live a peaceful life with the King of Chu. Since the King of Chu did not have the ambition to be the emperor, and since the King of Chu said that the Great Zhou was the rule of brother-in-law, she believed it.
"Why did Yao Song and Lu Yun support the first person to support Wu'an County Prince instead of Qin? Because they did not agree with brothers and brothers, they felt that the throne should be passed down from father to son. Why were the two ministers just talking nonsense that the emperor was suspicious of Wu'an County Prince, and... Because he was the emperor, he could not tolerate any unstable throne. He didn't even give his nephew, and would willingly pass the throne to his younger brother? On one side was his own son and on the other side was his younger brother, A Zheng, what do you think the emperor would do?"
Feng Zheng didn't understand, and his mind was like layers of dark clouds piled up, heavy. She didn't understand that the emperor was the emperor, the most powerful person in the world. Even if he wanted to pass the throne to his son, he would just give it to him directly. Can the court officials and the people still dare to object? Why is Empress Li so sure that the emperor would deal with the King of Qin?
"People's words are terrifying. The emperor must be concerned about the people in front of him, and also about how the people in the future will comment on him. If he wants his son to inherit the throne openly, he must first make his younger brother lose the people's hearts and lose the qualification to inherit the throne." Empress Li held up Feng Zheng's hair again, cleverly helped Feng Zheng set his hair bun with his hands, and then he leaned into Feng Zheng's ear and said quietly: "Will the prince watch his uncle end like the prince of Wu'an?"
Feng Zheng was chilling all over. She knew the King of Chu so much that she respected her uncle, King Qin, more than her own father and emperor. Her uncle and nephew were like father and son. Someone like her father had an accident, and the King of Chu...
"If you are willing to hand over Brother Sheng to me, I swear to take care of Brother Sheng as my grandson. Then the King of Chu is equivalent to my son. One day he will contradict the emperor impulsively, and I will do my best to plead for him in front of the emperor."
Speaking of this, there is no need to cover up, Empress Li held Feng Zheng's shoulder and sincerely told her the pros and cons: "A Zheng, we have our own difficulties when we marry into the royal family. Today I will tell you the truth that the emperor will have a disaster, and the prince will not stand by. That will be the time when the emperor is most annoyed by him, and it is also the best time for others to take advantage of the situation. The emperor wants to pass the throne to his son, but he is not the only prince. Once the prince confronts the emperor and King Shou has a verbal disease, then only King Rui and Prince Gong are left. No matter who succeeds to the throne, how do you think they will treat the elder brother who was once valued by their father as the crown prince after they ascend the throne? And when the prince falls, your mother and mother will also suffer."
Feng Zheng's face was as white as paper.
Queen Li held her hand tightly and looked like a raging: "As long as you give me Brother Sheng, I will try my best to protect their father and son. A Zheng, I have selfish intentions in doing this, but I really plan for your family. Go back and think about it carefully, and wait until you figure it out before entering the palace. If you still don't want to in the end, I will never force you. In the future, the prince will have something to do, and I will try my best to help each other because of our relationship. After all, both families have their own mother-in-law, and even if I have sex with my friends, I will just make it boring."
She kept saying and saying, saying so many truths, Feng Zheng heard them, but was immersed in the threats and facts and could not react.
Queen Li was not in a hurry, and only reminded her one thing again and again: "After leaving the palace, just pretend that I had never said anything. Don't let the prince see the clues, otherwise the prince would know that he would come into the palace to make a fuss about me, or simply question the emperor. If that were the case, my family and you would be rejected by the emperor."
This statement was like a wake-up call. Feng Zheng suddenly came back to her senses and looked at Queen Li. She nodded in a complicated mood.
The more you care about someone, the less you will not put it in danger. Queen Li believes that Feng Zheng is a smart person and said everything she should say. She smiled and patted Feng Zheng's little hand, and then regained her kind tone of concern: "Look at you, I just think of Xiaowu's pitifulness in the dream, and I can't help crying for a while. Why do you cry more than me? Go and wash your face quickly, so that the prince will not see it, and think I have bullied you."
Feng Zheng lowered her eyes and forced a smile, but she knew in her heart that this was an excuse for Queen Li to give her. Her face was wrong and she couldn't recover for a moment. It was impossible to hide it from the prince. Queen Li even thought of this, which shows how cunning she was. I'm afraid she had already set her eyes on Brother Sheng.
However, the more she saw through Queen Li’s scheming, the more she became worried, and she felt that Queen Li’s reminders were all right.
If this is true, there is Brother Sheng on one side, and the other is their family of four...
After taking the warm towel handed over by the palace maid, Feng Zheng covered her face and covered the newly shed tears on her face. After washing her face for a quarter of an hour, Feng Zheng turned back to the inner hall and saw Empress Li sitting cross-legged on the warm couch, holding her brother Cheng in her arms. Empress Li smiled very gently, just like a mother holding her own son to coax her. Feng Zheng was like being tangled by a poisonous snake, and her body was cold. She tried to restrain herself and walked over, bowed her head and saluted, "My mother should rest for so long, and the daughter-in-law will leave first."
Queen Li did not force herself to stay, looked at Feng Zheng deeply and returned Brother Cheng.
The wet nurse wanted to pick her up, but Feng Zheng was useless. She held her son with her own hands and left the central palace as if she was running away. Halfway through, she saw the King of Chu walking towards her with her eldest son. Brother Sheng, who was only three years old, sat on the shoulders of his father, held his father's big head with both hands, and shouted happily at his mother. Feng Zheng's eyes were sore and almost burst into tears.
"Cry?" The family of four was getting closer, and the King of Chu immediately realized what his wife was wrong.
Feng Zheng felt bitter, and some words were wandering around the tip of her tongue for a long time, and finally said, "My mother said she dreamed of her fifth brother, and I felt uncomfortable listening to it."
The King of Chu knew that she was kind-hearted and glanced at the direction of the palace. He was a little dissatisfied with Empress Li and blamed Empress Li for making his wife sad.
Chapter completed!