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Hearing this, Empress Xu frowned.

"Your Majesty, this is not good, right?"

she advised.

"There is a folk saying that the fetal god and the happy god will collide with each other, so the happy concubine is not suitable to go."

Of course, some people would be superstitious, but she didn't care whether Jiusu was superstitious or not. Tomorrow was the wedding of the two people she had chosen, so how could she let anyone mess up?

Emperor Xu frowned, his tone clearly dissatisfied: "When did the Queen believe these rumors?"

Empress Xu took a sip of tea and didn't care about his emotions: "Rumors are rumors, there are always bad things. If you make the Marquis and the Jiang family unhappy, will they still be loyal to the emperor?"

Emperor Xu slammed the table: "I will care..."

"Your Majesty!" Empress Xu raised her voice to stop him from speaking. "Which one should you choose, the kingdom or the beauty? I'm sure the late emperor has asked you this question countless times. Before, there was Imperial Concubine Qijing, and now there is Imperial Concubine Xi. Don't you think you've been attending court less recently?"

In fact, she still had a lot of dissatisfaction in her heart.

If she hadn't been there and her son had talent, the Emperor would probably have deposed the Crown Prince and enthroned Xu Cairong. She clenched her fists nervously, thinking of a bad outcome.

The prince failed in his attempt to control the flood.

Xu Cairong won a great victory.

I'm afraid the sky in Shengjing is about to change.

Emperor Xu frowned and said coldly: "Don't you think the Queen is meddling too much? Could it be..."

At this time, Xi Xiang ran in from outside the courtyard, knelt on the ground, and looked at the queen happily: "The prince is back, and is waiting outside the palace now."

Empress Xu secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Her eyes were red, and she just hoped she could come back alive.

She looked at the emperor and said, "I will go with you."

"Hmph, now your temper is better." Emperor Xu put his hands behind his back in annoyance. His friendship with the queen was no less than that with the imperial concubine, but he didn't like the queen's stern look.

He trusted the queen, but did not love her.

The emperor was walking in front.

Empress Xu followed behind without any complaints. She was glad to see her son, so what if the Emperor said a few words to her? It wouldn't cost her anything.

Royal study room.

Xu Qihuai and An Wenzhi entered the hall one after another. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed. When they raised their heads, tears welled up in Empress Xu's eyes. She stepped forward and held her son's arm.

What the majesty of the Lord of the Six Palaces.

These days, she has been unable to sleep or eat, worried about the emperor's grandson in the palace, and concerned about her son outside the palace. She is exhausted, and her mouth is trembling.

"Qi Huai, why have you lost so much weight?"

Xu Qihuai's sturdy face showed emotion: "I am fine, but my mother has dark circles under her eyes. Why didn't you take good care of yourself?"

Empress Xu was just about to speak.

Then Emperor Xu coughed a few times in dissatisfaction.

Xu Qihuai stepped forward and said, "Father, I have already taken care of the floods in the south and eliminated a number of corrupt officials. Please review this."

He presented the letter with both hands, his wrists exposed and covered with scars.

Emperor Xu frowned as he flipped through the memorial. Such swift and decisive action arrested most of the officials who went south and sentenced them to heavy crimes. This was almost a threat to his life.

Fortunately, all the confiscated property went into the national treasury.

It made him feel better.

"Your Highness is brave and resourceful. Tomorrow, please come to the palace and help me handle state affairs."

Xu Qihuai's eyes lit up and he knelt down calmly to express his gratitude.

Emperor Xu looked at An Wenzhi and asked, "Lord An, is there anything you want? How about I give you a promotion?"

An Wenzhi knelt forward and leaned forward to say.

"I would like to ask for a favor from Your Majesty." He looked up and saw that the emperor was not angry, so he continued, "I would like to marry Jiang Nianyin of the Jiang family and become husband and wife. Please grant the marriage, Your Majesty."

After a while, Emperor Xu responded with a smile.

He immediately wrote an imperial edict. As he watched the ink smudge out beautiful words on the paper, the corners of his mouth curled up. He asked Eunuch Shang to follow An Wenzhi to Jiang Mansion to announce the edict.

He looked at the queen and teased, "Queen, the country and the beauty, many heroes also choose beauties!"

Empress Xu did not refute. She was very happy that the An family would marry the Jiang family. From then on, there was one more aristocratic family in the prince's team. She said, "Your Majesty is right."

She looked at her son who seemed worried, and knew that he wanted to go back to see the Crown Princess.

"Your Majesty, didn't you say you would have lunch with Concubine Xi at noon today?"

"Oh, yes." Emperor Xu seemed to have remembered, and he frowned. Did he say that? Forget it, let's go see Concubine Xi. "The Queen should talk to the Crown Prince about what happened in the past month."

The three of them walked out of the imperial study.

The Queen bowed and said, "Farewell, Your Majesty."

Afterwards, Empress Xu walked towards the harem with a bad look on her face. Xu Qihuai said, "Mother, Ying'er is pregnant. Can you allow me to go back to the Crown Prince's Mansion first?"

Seeing that his mother was not leaving, Xu Qihuai thought he had made her angry and was about to explain.

Then I heard my mother's voice in a low voice.

"Okay, go back first. If you don't understand, come back to me."

Don't understand? Xu Qihuai didn't understand.

After leaving the palace, he rode a fast horse straight to the Prince's Mansion. The Prince's Mansion was silent. Even the servants in the mansion looked at him strangely, as if they were... earnest?

Xu Qihuai asked: "Housekeeper, is there something wrong in the mansion?"

The butler lowered his head, thinking of the scene that day, he was still frightened to death. His face was pale and he said: "Your Highness, you should go to the bedroom and take a look yourself."

Hearing what the butler said, Xu Qihuai quickened his pace.

There were still traces of blood in the main courtyard. Even after cleaning it countless times, Xu Qihuai still felt it was very strange. There was a platform in the middle of the courtyard, on which were placed Ying'er's favorite flowers.

It’s gone now.

He pursed his lips, thinking of his mother's words, and felt worried.

"Ying'er?"

Through the door, he could see a woman inside, who seemed to be sitting. No, when Xu Qihuai got closer, he saw that it was Zhou Ruier who was kneeling. Apart from her, there was no one else in the hall.

Zhou Ruier raised her hands high, tied with iron chains that fell on the roof.

In front of her was a huge snake and a pool of blood. When she heard the noise, she slowly raised her pale face and saw who was coming. Suddenly, she burst into tears: "Your Highness!"

Is it a dream? No, it must be real.

"Your Highness, I miss you so much."

Xu Qihuai took a half step back, took a deep breath, and stepped forward to untie the chain, but couldn't pull it. He asked, "Why are you here? Where is the Crown Princess?"

Zhou Ruier bit her lip, "The Crown Princess went to the palace."

Xu Qihuai tilted his head and scolded the housekeeper.

"Open!"

The butler came forward with the key and opened the chain. Seeing the Crown Prince holding Consort Liang, he felt a little sorry for the Crown Princess. He said, "Your Highness, the Crown Princess has given birth."

Xu Qihuai stood up happily, but suddenly frowned.

"I remember that the Crown Princess didn't seem to have a date yet, right?"

The housekeeper responded, "Your Highness, half a month ago, the Crown Princess gave birth prematurely due to shock. If it weren't for Miss Jiu, there might have been two deaths."

"Who did it!?" Xu Qihuai's eyes turned red.

He was suffering outside, and Man'er and the child were also being bullied? ! How could he tolerate this? The woman in his arms was trembling. He lowered his head and looked into her terrified eyes.

And the poisonous snake next to it.

Suddenly, everything became clear.

His expression was indifferent as he let go of the woman in his arms.