After bidding farewell to the queen, Qi Jin hugged the sleeping child and left the palace with Princess Qixia.
After getting on the carriage, Qi Jin adjusted Jun'er to a comfortable sleeping position and turned to look at Princess Qixia: "Have you had a hard time in the past three years?"
The royal princess was unmarried and pregnant, and there were countless rumors and rumors attacking her. Qi Jin could not help but feel a little sad as he imagined that scene.
"It's not that the past three years have been difficult, but that the past ten years have not been easy." Princess Qixia leaned against the carriage. She didn't know if the two of them had a child together, which made her put down her guard. At this time, she faced There was a faint look of exhaustion on the emperor's head, "You are a princess, but your life is not as good as that of the palace maids and eunuchs. For more than ten years, you have been submissive and endured all kinds of humiliation and trampling. After my mother left, I, the princess, seemed to have become my father's." It’s a thorn in my side and a thorn in my flesh, he can’t even remember to see me after not seeing me for three years.”
Qi Jin pursed his lips: "You are his daughter."
"So what about daughters?" Princess Qixia smiled sarcastically, "The emperor has so many children, one more than me is not much, and one less than me is not much. What's more, he has betrayed the person who should not be blamed the most, whether he hates me or is indifferent to me. Treating me will make him feel guilty. In short, the emperor's neglect has made me, a princess, a little pitiful person that no one cares about. I have been walking on thin ice for more than ten years, but it has also developed my habit of forbearing and scheming. "
The carriage was obviously spacious and elegant, but at this moment it was inexplicably enveloped in a sad and depressing atmosphere, which made people feel uncomfortable.
Qi Jin lowered his eyes: "Everything is over."
"Yes, it's all over." Princess Qixia nodded, "I have tolerated it for more than ten years and planned secretly for more than ten years, and finally it's time to settle accounts with them."
Qi Jin moved his lips. He really wanted to know what she had done in the past ten years. After becoming pregnant, she still had to resist the insults and abuses, and how she persuaded the emperor to agree to her marriage.
But if he thought about it for a moment, he could imagine that there must be countless pains and sufferings involved, and how many grievances and sufferings he could not tell to outsiders.
What's the use of saying it?
No one can empathize with her, it just makes her recall the pain again.
"I'll ask Ji Ziyi to come over and check on the child later. He is a miracle doctor and should have a way to detoxify the poison." Qi Jin said, looking down at the child lying obediently in his arms, "Jun'er is awake?"
Sijun opened his eyes dimly and looked at Qi Jin blankly: "Dad?"
"Yes." Qi Jin's heart palpitated, and his heart melted when he was called father, "I am Jun'er's father. I will listen to Jun'er call him again."
"Daddy." Jun'er's face gradually became more joyful, and he couldn't help but crawl into Qi Jin's arms. His voice was soft and endearing, "Daddy, daddy, daddy... Jun'er is also a child with a father. Jun'er You are not a bastard, you have a father..."
Qi Jin's eyes suddenly turned red, and he hugged him tightly: "Yes, Jun'er has a father, he is not a bastard, Jun'er is a good boy."
Princess Qixia looked at the father and son in silence, feeling that the blood relationship in this world was really wonderful.
It was obviously the first day that the father and son met, but there seemed to be no sense of unfamiliarity at all, and they accepted each other's existence so easily.
"His name is Sijun." Qi Jin suddenly turned his head to look at her, "Do you miss me?"
Princess Qixia was startled. She was asked this question off guard, and her face turned red: "Not exactly, I just... don't want my child to live in a home without love. Last year, he was still young and couldn't understand words. This year, there are people... He whispered some unpleasant things in his ear, but he could understand it, so I had to explain to him that daddy loved him and only left because of last resort..."
Qi Jin hummed: "Jun'er speaks much more fluently than ordinary children, you should have put a lot of thought into it."
"Jun'er is very smart, articulate and articulate. He does speak earlier than other children of the same age." Princess Qixia raised her hand and held the child's little hand. "The days in the princess mansion were dull and quiet. The most fulfilling thing was to teach Jun'er how to speak. Words, he already knows your name now."
Qi Jin looked at his son in surprise: "Really?"
Jun'er nodded repeatedly: "Well, Jun'er has... also seen dad's portrait..."
Qi Jin understood: "No wonder he stared at me as soon as he entered the palace. I thought it was father and son connected."
Princess Qixia lowered her eyes and smiled: "It's okay to say that father and son are connected."
"Your father doesn't like you, so he gives you a separate princess mansion?"
"After I became pregnant, I talked to him." Princess Qixia explained, "Originally, he wanted to give me a glass of poisonous wine to kill me, a daughter who had disgraced the royal family. Unfortunately, my words moved his heart. I said I can help him drive a wedge between the father and son of Marquis Zhongyi of the Chu State and the emperor, so that the Chu State will be in chaos and its military strength will be weakened. Mobei can reap the benefits. This child is the best bargaining chip. As long as Marquis Zhongyi dies, the Chu State will never be able to do so again. He will not be Mobei’s opponent.”
So she has actually walked away from hell?
Qi Jin silently thought, when Mobei is overthrown, what kind of death should he give that inhumane emperor?
"He is ambitious, and I'm sure he will agree, but even if he doesn't agree, I can't really die." Princess Qixia smiled coldly, "Forbearance for more than ten years is not just forbearance, but also planning. They were just stupid enough to think that I was really a pitiful little guy who was being bullied and had no power to resist, so they were blindly confident that they could completely control me."
Qi Jin was silent for a moment: "Actually, even if something happens to my father and me, Chu State will not be Mobei's opponent."
Princess Qixia shook her head slowly: "Don't forget the letters written by Taifu Qin's two sons-in-law to Dugu Yinyun. As early as three years ago, Dugu Yinyun had contacts with some people in Chu State. They naturally believed that there was an insider. It will be easier to succeed than if the two countries fight head-on."
It is extremely dangerous for any country to have spies inside. Once someone with military power cooperates with external enemies, even if the country is not destroyed, the territory will gradually fall apart.
The carriage quickly drove to the gate of the Princess's mansion.
Qi Jin took the lead to get out of the carriage, and the housekeeper and nanny who came out to greet the master were about to salute, but then they saw the child in Qi Jin's arms and the beauty walking out of the carriage... huh?
child?
Grandma stared at the child Qi Jin was holding with wide eyes, and was about to ask whose family the child belonged to. Suddenly, as if she had discovered a new world, her expression gradually became shocked, and her eyes kept turning on the child and Qi Jin's faces.
She found that the child looked similar to the prince, the nose, the eyes, the forehead...
"This... this, this, this... who is this child?" Mammy looked at Qi Jin in disbelief, and her tone was so shocked that she stuttered, "It can't be the crown prince's concubine, right? What if the prince and the eldest son are allowed to marry each other? If the princess knows, she will definitely break the crown prince’s legs, she will definitely——”
Qi Jin froze: "No."
"Huh?" Mammy's expression stabilized instantly, "He is not the prince's child? But it's really incredible that he looks so similar."
The corner of Qi Jin's mouth twitched: "He is my son, but he is not the son of a foreign wife."
Grandma in charge: "..."
Since he didn't have a wife and the prince didn't get married, where did a child come from?
