Zhu Xuxing was indifferent to the eldest sister's accusations, and still said calmly: "What the eldest sister is worried about will not happen. An'er is my daughter, and I will teach her personally. As long as she can be a sensible person, she will be the best among the people in the world." blessing."
Zhu Weizhen raised his hand and lifted the chessboard, and the chess pieces fell down with a clatter, scattering all over the floor.
"The emperor is so willful and reckless. This is a natural disaster."
Zhu Xuxing still sat there motionless and said calmly: "Eldest sister put me on the throne at all costs, is it because of the ancestral regulations?"
Zhu Weizhen was stunned and speechless.
Zhu Xuxing stood up and said: "Eldest sister thinks that filling this palace with women will make everything different. That is a big mistake. Eldest sister, have you forgotten? How did eldest sister get married? Since you have been there before, why let the tragedy happen again? "
Zhu Weizhen's pupils trembled and burst into tears: "The Emperor is right. I have indeed done a lot of things, good and bad, right and wrong. Even I can't tell them apart. But Your Majesty, don't forget, I Everything I do is for the good of the emperor. I want everything the emperor has to be the best in the world. Am I wrong? I just don’t want to see you being wronged. I just don’t want to see anyone being wronged under our noses. It's a trick. The emperor needs to support his connections, and there is no better way than marriage."
Zhu Xuxing's eyes darkened, and he said with melancholy: "Eldest sister, it was the best way to marry someone outside of the family. This kind of marriage is just a calculation. It's okay not to do it."
Zhu Weizhen took a deep breath and finally couldn't help but tell the truth: "Your Majesty, do you want to continue to pretend to be confused? If Zhu Qing is not your daughter, she is Wei Li's daughter. Xu Zhihuai is not a kind woman, she has been Wei Li from the beginning. As a person from Wei Li, she stayed by the Emperor’s side all because of Wei Li.”
Her tone was trembling, laced with a hint of pain.
The truth always hurts.
Zhu Xuxing's expression became even more sad, with a wry smile on his face: "Eldest sister obviously knows everything..."
He stood up to leave.
Zhu Weizhen took two quick steps to catch up with his younger brother and said in a tearful tone, "Doesn't the Emperor even care?"
"Eldest sister, who among the people around us has come here without a purpose? Who can have a clear conscience? Why should I care!"
Zhu Xuxing turned to look at her with tears in his eyes: "Huai'er is a human being too. You or Wei Li, have any of you ever regarded her as a flesh-and-blood person?"
Zhu Weizhen burst into tears and was unable to refute.
"If it was just Wei Li who treated her like that, I wouldn't be so sad."
Zhu Xuxing left these words and left decisively.
Zhu Weizhen clenched the corner of her dress very hard, and she was so excited that she couldn't breathe. She tried her best to hold back her desire to cry loudly, and she just squatted on the ground and cried silently.
The scene of the two breaking up on bad terms was clearly heard by Yue Yichuan.
He was heartbroken for a moment, but he still didn't have the courage to see Zhu Weizhen.
He worried that his comfort would be counterproductive.
Zhu Xuxing walked all the way, and when he returned to the palace, there was no trace of boredom and confusion on his face.
Zhu Qingruo was like a lively little rabbit. As soon as he saw him, he pounced on him, causing the nuns to exclaim: "Your Highness, you can't do that. You have to bow to the emperor first."
As soon as he said this, Zhu Xuxing's face suddenly became colder. He picked up his daughter, turned sideways, and asked the nuns who were bowing before her: "The princess is only three years old, can't she even get close to her own father? If you want to teach the rules, you also have to look at the timing.”
People who never get angry are the most terrible when they lose their temper.
The nuns were so frightened that they knelt down and begged for mercy, which made him frown and said: "Stop making any noise and go down."
When Xu Zhihuai came out, he happened to hear the last words he said and couldn't help but secretly wonder.
As she walked, she whispered: "Hurry up and change the ginseng tea and brew the new Gongju."
Zhu Xuxing was not in a hurry to go in. He took a long breath without sighing, hugged his soft daughter, and listened to her talking to him in a soft voice. All worries disappeared for a while.
Zhu Qingruo was still very obedient, resting her head quietly on her father's shoulder, looking at the high palace walls and lush branches.
"Your Highness is back so early."
Xu Zhihuai thought he would stay in Qianhua Palace for a while.
The siblings played a game of chess and chatted.
Zhu Xuxing pursed his lips and smiled: "Eldest sister is very good at chess, I am really no match for her."
Xu Zhihuai also smiled, feeling that something was wrong with him.
"I have prepared hot tea for Your Highness, would you like to drink it?"
"Of course I do."
Xu Zhihuai followed him into the palace, but Zhu Qingruo was still playful and ran out after not staying in the room for long.
Gongju blooms in the water, bright yellow.
Zhu Xuxing lowered his eyes and looked at the tea bowl in his hand, quietly lost in thought.
Xu Zhihuai pondered for a moment and then said: "Is there something on your mind, Your Highness?"
Although he is quiet, he rarely seems so boring.
"You can see it all."
"Your Highness's face, I am looking at it every day."
Xu Zhihuai said something coquettishly.
"That's why you replaced the ginseng tea with Gongju."
It clears the mind and improves eyesight, and removes fire.
Xu Zhihuai smiled slightly: "Take good care of His Highness's food and daily life. This is what I should do as a concubine."
"You are always so attentive."
Zhu Xuxing praised her and said, "I'm fine. Maybe I was playing chess with my eldest sister, which took too much effort, so I'm a little tired."
Xu Zhihuai stood up slowly: "I, my concubine, give your Highness a press."
"That's fine."
Xu Zhihuai walked around behind him and gently pressed his temples with both hands, one at a time, with neither light nor heavy force.
Zhu Xuxing closed his eyes and rested his mind, and suddenly said: "Tomorrow, we will reduce the number of people in Taiyuan Hospital by half. How about it?"
"Huh? What did Your Highness say? It's so sudden..."
Zhu Xuxing smiled slightly: "Your hands are the medicine to heal me. If there is any pain in the future, I will come to you to touch and press it, and it will be gone."
Xu Zhihuai couldn't help laughing and said, "Your Highness, please don't make trouble like this all the time. I will take it seriously."
Zhu Xuxing asked again: "Do you take everything I say seriously?"
"Of course."
He slowly opened his eyes, raised his hands, pressed the back of her warm and soft hands, and held them firmly: "Then what you say next is also true. Listen carefully, Huai'er."
Xu Zhihuai was startled for a moment, then listened to him say: "Eldest sister and I have made it clear that no matter how many women she summons to the palace, it has nothing to do with me. No one can sit on the position of queen, except you."
Ah, there it is again.
Xu Zhihuai smiled calmly: "Her Royal Highness, the eldest princess, is also concerned. I understand this. Your Highness, don't hurt the relationship between the sibling and the eldest princess because of this matter. I have seen it all these years. What the eldest princess cares about most is, It’s you, Your Highness.”
Zhu Xuxing pressed his palms slightly: "Yes, she cares too much. But what should I do? I want her to be as cheerful and comfortable as before, not like she is now..."
