Seeing Xia Luotong retreating a little, Wu Zechen also knew not to act too hastily, so he stopped teasing her and continued about Concubine Xu: "Back then, the relationship between the father and the mother was very deep. Although the emperor gave her the concubine, The woman was ignored as soon as she entered the door, and my father never even looked at her."
"Then where did her two children come from?" Xia Luotong was a little confused, but thinking about the way Princess Xu entered the palace and the situation when she first entered the palace, it was somewhat similar to her own, but she would not act stupidly. speak out.
However, the attitudes and methods of Prince An and his son towards the marriage granted by the emperor were surprisingly consistent.
"So that woman is used to being superficial, always playing low-key, making the father and mother-in-law relax their vigilance, and then seizing the opportunity to use despicable means to climb into the father's bed, and finally get the son in one fell swoop." Wu Zechen glanced at Xia Luotong calmly, feeling a little embarrassed, and then said with disgust, "A year later, she took advantage of her mother and concubine to return to her parents' home to visit relatives, and repeated her old tricks and crawled into her father's palace again. bed, I became pregnant again and gave birth to a daughter.”
Hearing this, Xia Luotong's eyes widened in shock, and his face was full of disbelief: "I didn't expect it! This Concubine Xu Side is actually so capable. She can get pregnant with a baby in the last bed?! That's not bad! She only succeeded twice, otherwise wouldn’t you have a whole litter of younger brothers and sisters?!”
"cough……"
A litter...doesn't this describe pigs?
Wu Zechen choked and couldn't help but cough lightly to relieve his embarrassment. This description was really...could it have even scolded him?
"Uh..." Seeing Wu Zechen's reaction, Xia Luotong seemed to have come to his senses and couldn't help but smile awkwardly, "I didn't talk about you, I didn't talk about you, I was talking about Concubine Xu's family."
Why doesn't it seem right? After all, we still have the same father...
Seeing her embarrassed expression and not knowing how to explain it, Wu Zechen couldn't help but laugh and said, "Just one litter."
I wonder if he and she will have a chance to have a litter in the future...
He straightened his expression and continued: "The eldest son of that woman is named Wu Zhengqing. He is in his early twenties and has a sinecure in the court. He accomplishes nothing and only spends his days drinking and drinking. The second daughter Wu Qingqing should be nineteen years old now. Like her mother, she is a careful person. Both of them are still unmarried and both live in the West Courtyard."
"Not married yet?!" Xia Luotong was surprised, "It doesn't matter that Wu Zhengqing is a man who has not married for twenty years. Why is Wu Qingqing still unmarried at the age of nineteen? It seems that she is an old girl at the age of nineteen. Right? She is engaged?"
Most of the women in the Zhou Dynasty got married when they were seventeen or eighteen years old. If they waited until the age of nineteen, they would be really old girls. Most people would not wait until such an old age, let alone a young lady from the royal palace. Although she was just a young lady, She is a concubine, but her status is much higher than that of ordinary daughters of low-level officials.
"There is no engagement." After saying that, Wu Zechen sneered and continued, "Those three, mother and son in the west courtyard, have no ability and their ambitions are as high as the sky."
When he said this, Xia Luotong immediately understood that it turned out that these three people were high-spirited and wanted to find a good one.
I heard him sneer and continue: "They don't look down on the families who are not powerful enough, and no one looks down on them at all. If it weren't for the name of Prince An's Palace, they would just look down on them. I’m afraid that no one else will bother to pay attention to them.”
"Tsk, tsk, they keep dragging on like this, they are getting older and older, and they can't find anyone anymore." Xia Luotong is not worried about them, but he just thinks that they are really brainless.
"They have been holding on because they are waiting for me." Wu Zechen's lips curled up with a faint sneer. Seeing Xia Luotong's doubtful eyes, he slowly said, "If that good-for-nothing Wu Zhengqing gets the position of Prince An, There are so many people to choose from, even if he is a useless person, the only prince position in the Zhou Dynasty is enough to elevate his status."
"Did you get the position of Prince An?" Xia Luotong was stunned for a moment, then immediately reacted.
So this is what the mother and son in the west courtyard are worried about? Want to seize the throne of Prince An? In that case, the sudden death of Prince Lao An and the old Princess was also related to Concubine Xu Side? Is it also related to the prince's party?
Seventeen years ago, the prince at that time was just a child. Naturally, he could not do such a thing, so it was very likely that it was the person behind him, such as the queen, such as... the emperor in the highest position, after all, Xu Zi The concubine was given a marriage by the emperor back then!
Combined with the turbulent undercurrent of Wu Zechen and the prince's party, Xia Luotong felt that he seemed to have grasped the context of something.
She couldn't help but raise her eyes to look at Wu Zechen, and saw that he was looking at her intently. The look in his eyes told her that she might have guessed right.
But such a secret is also his painful past. If he doesn't take the initiative to talk about it, she won't uncover his scars.
He was infected with the strange poison of passing time when he was five years old. When he was eight years old, both his parents died. Then, when he was still a child, he had to go to the battlefield in the west with his guards. From then on, he served in the army for seventeen years, during which he suffered many hardships. Only he himself knows how much suffering he has endured and how many injuries he has suffered.
His current honor and prestige was achieved step by step through hardships.
Wu Zechen always knew that she was smart, but he didn't expect surprise after surprise that made him discover that she was far smarter than he thought.
Noticing that the look in her eyes was getting softer, he suddenly felt a little glad that he had spoken so much to her today. This change was really an unexpected surprise to him.
"Don't worry, they are not worthy of my position as king." Wu Zechen smiled lightly, with a majestic momentum and infinite confidence in his expression.
"What should I worry about? After I detoxify you, no matter how big you are, no matter how big you are, I won't be able to stop you." confidence and encouragement.
Wu Zechen looked at her deeply, feeling that at this moment he especially wanted to hold her in his arms and keep her in his heart...
Although there was no difference in his expression, his gaze made Xia Luotong feel a little... hot?
Strange, what happened today?
Xia Luotong coughed slightly unnaturally, stood up suddenly, glanced at the sky outside as if unintentionally, then pretended to be relaxed and said: "If there is nothing else, then I will go back and rest first." , I’ll come back to treat you in the evening.”
Seeing her like this, Wu Zechen couldn't help but chuckle: "Okay, I'm waiting for you."
The soft tone was like the breeze blowing by her ears in spring. It seemed to have a different meaning, making people's hearts tremble.
