Slave to Queen: One Night Bride

Chapter 244 Succession
The queen mother said: "The emperor is still here, how can you all say long live?"

Miao Fu said loudly: "I respectfully invite the little prince to succeed to the throne, and the queen mother will listen to the government."

Although the queen mother has already made a decision, in order to maintain Zhao Deji's face, she still has to bargain. She also said: "I am an old woman with a young child in her arms who is in charge of the government. If the captives learn about it, won't they wantonly harass me? Now the country is in a difficult situation. , A thousand wastes are waiting to be prosperous, don’t the two Taiwei hear the principle of the rooster serving the morning? The emperor still needs to listen to the government together.”

Miao Fu and the others could not argue, so they knelt down and untied their armor and said: "The ministers are loyal, and the Queen Mother refuses to obey, so they can only kill themselves at their own request. It's just that the soldiers haven't eaten since morning, and they are afraid that something will change."

As soon as he finished speaking, the rebels under the city roared with astonishing momentum.

Zhai Ruwen knew that if he didn't agree today, not to mention the emperor, everyone would die, but he refused to bear the name of the emperor's abdication no matter what, so he said: "If the minister is not effective, he will be killed if he is willing..."

Zhao Deji glanced at the queen mother, and said: "Today, I will abdicate as the little prince to thank the world."

The queen mother nodded, took out a yellow vest that had been prepared and put it on the little prince, and said to him: "Go and kowtow to Father."

The little prince knelt down: "My son apologizes to Dad."

Zhao Deji burst into tears, but the city shouted long live again, supporting the new king and queen mother.

Under the coercion of Miao and Liu, Zhao Deji was forcibly moved to Xianzhong Temple outside the palace with Wu Jinnu, Zhang Yingying and dozens of other concubines on the same day.Under Zhai Ruwen's arguments, Miao and Liu finally agreed to be escorted by Xu Caizhi and other guards.

Before leaving, Tian Wei found an opportunity and whispered in Zhao Deji's ear: "Don't worry, Ninth Brother, Auntie and I will try our best to restore it."

Zhao Deji said in a low voice: "You can discuss it with Mr. Zhai."

Tian Wei nodded, and said, "Wanwan went out of the palace to look for Mrs. Yue."

Hearing her mention Hua Rong at this moment, Zhao Deji had mixed feelings in his heart.After having a grudge with Hua Rong and his wife, he didn't expect to fall into a desperate situation again. He didn't dare to trust Yue Pengju 100%. He just thought, what about Rong'er?Rong'er, would he still go through life and death to save himself like before?
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On this day, Yue Pengju and his wife got the news that the guards had escorted the wet nurse and Lu Wenlong to Jiangping.However, because the child contracted typhoid fever, he was delayed in the local hotel and could not go on the road for several days.Jiangping is only more than a hundred miles away from the capital, and the husband and wife were very anxious, so they went to greet him in person.

After being separated from the child for a long time, the two of them naturally missed it. When they saw that the child was seriously ill and had a high fever all day long, they invited a doctor again for diagnosis and treatment, and the husband and wife took care of it personally.

Everyone rented an independent yard of the hotel, and made a fire to cook.It took half a day to prepare medicine and soup for the child. In the evening, the child's condition improved slightly, so Yue Pengju ordered everyone to disperse, rest early, and prepare to go on the road tomorrow.

Hua Rong didn't see the child for a long time, so she asked the wet nurse to rest and take care of it herself.She touched the child's forehead, and it was much better, and she breathed a sigh of relief. At this moment, she noticed that the child was dressed in gold and silver, and was dressed up by the nurse as a good fortune boy. The poor sick child was still wearing a necklace. Several gold pendants and jade pendants.She said with a smile: "Pengju, look at how tired the boy is with this ornament."

The wet nurse is timid and knows that she is coming to see the emperor, so she puts almost all her belongings on the child in order to look good.

Yue Pengju slowly took off the accessories on his son's body, took off the tortoise shell on the brim of his hat and put it aside, so that he could sleep more comfortably, looked up and saw his wife was sweating profusely, and said: "You I'm tired too, I'll look at the child, you go eat first."

Seeing that the child was fast asleep, Hua Rong took her husband's hand: "Let's have dinner together first, the child won't wake up for a while."

When the husband and wife came to the outside room, the guards had already prepared some side dishes as ordered.

Just as he was about to move his chopsticks, he heard a slight noise outside the door. Yue Pengju was startled, only to hear a person outside the door shout: "It's me."

That voice was King Qin.Yue Pengju hurriedly opened the door, and King Qin walked in immediately.The arrival of King Qin at night is so mysterious, everyone knows that he must not want to be discovered.Yue Pengju changed his mind, and immediately ordered enough food to be delivered, then turned around and stopped calling.

Jiangping was much colder than Lin'an, and it snowed lightly at night.King Qin took off his big hat to keep out the cold, patted the snowflakes on his body, sat down, and found that the small room was very warm with a fire burning.

Hua Rong was both surprised and delighted: "Why are you here?"

Before he answered, Hua Rong poured him another cup of hot tea: "It's cold, drink a cup of tea first."

He took the tea, took a sip, the boiling water immediately warmed his palms.I feel a little dazed, feeling a little bit at home, returning home on a snowy night, there is a woman waiting for me like this, and there will be steaming meals at any time.

He was absent-minded for a while, and then replied: "I'm passing by here, and I'll come and see you."

From here is one of the ways back to the sea, Yue Pengju couldn't help asking: "Are you going back?"

"There are plans for this."

It's going to be a farewell, it's thousands of rivers and mountains, and I don't know when it will be goodbye, Hua Rong felt a little melancholy, and gave him a bowl of rice: "You haven't eaten yet, have you? We just happen to have dinner together."

"Well, I'm starving."

"What about Ma Su and the others? Tell them to have dinner together."

"They're outside drinking by the fire, don't worry about them."

During this meal, the three chatted and had a great time.Especially King Qin, he had never chatted with the two of them with such a peaceful mind in his life. He only felt that he and Yue Pengju had a lot in common in many views. He added food, which was exactly the same treatment as Yue Pengju.

He was very happy, he ate seven or eight bowls of this meal without drinking, and it was expected that Yue Pengju would also eat that much.

After putting away the bowls and chopsticks, Hua Rong went to visit his son again, and found that his fever had completely subsided, and he was sleeping very peacefully.King Qin followed him in, but he saw many ornaments on the cabinet next to the child's bed, and one of the Arhat Boxers he gave him was actually in it.He laughed: "This little bastard..."

Hua Rong lowered his voice softly: "Don't wake up the child."

He stuck out his tongue and hurried out, thinking to himself, such a day is so fucking weird, but it's not bad.

Everyone sat in front of the stove, Hua Rong was happy because his son recovered from his illness and saw King Qin come back safe and sound. He sat beside Yue Pengju, talked warmly, and suddenly had a whim: "I'll make tea for you."

Yue Pengju smiled and nodded: "Okay, I'll help you."

Everything is ready-made in the hotel, good pot, stove, water spoon, wood burner, Hua Rong sat on a one-legged stool, and there was a tea set on the table in front of him.Yue Pengju tied up his big sleeves for her, exposing two snow-white spring onion-like hands, watching the water in the pot in front of him slowly start to boil, he took a bunch of wooden spoons and started ordering tea.

The hotel has a complete set of tools, which are very convenient to use.Yue Pengju had seen her make tea a few times, and he had a lot of experience. Every time, he handed her the most suitable utensils just right. She was so happy that she used all the unique skills she knew in her life.

King Qin had been reckless for half his life, although there were piles of gold and silver, and he cuddled among the red powder, but how many times had he seen such a gentle and delicate scene?I saw the white boiling water vapor smoked the face of the woman across the way into a rose-like pink, I saw the pair of crispy red hands flying, and a blur in front of my eyes turned out to be the shape of a whole big fish.

He exclaimed, and before he had time to praise, he saw that the figure had transformed into a huge flower.I don't know if it's an illusion, but I feel that the flowers seem to have colors, like water drops after a rainbow, colorful, lively and fragrant.

"Girl, how did this happen? How did this happen?"

He stared blankly, only knowing to ask this sentence over and over again, amazed by those skillful hands, and experienced the profound charm of art for the first time.Although, he never thought that there are so many "artistic mysteries" in drinking a cup of tea.

When the shape of the last flower slowly bloomed before his eyes and then disappeared, before he recovered, a pure white teacup was handed to him: "Try it..."

The soft hands, the sweet face, everything was like a dream, he laughed, and took the tea, for the first time in his life, he didn't drink it all, as if he was afraid that if he took a sip, it would be gone.

Yue Pengju was also holding the tea, carefully looking at the result of his cooperation with his wife, before taking a sip, and praised: "Good tea, sister Seventeen's skillful hands... Hahaha..."

This is the first time King Qin heard the name "Sister Seventeen", and he stared: "Girl, why are you called Sister Seventeen?"

Hua Rong smiled, took a sip of tea herself, put down the teacup, and said, "When I was young, everyone called me Miss Seventeen, hehe, do you want to call me Miss Seventeen too?"

"Sister Seventeen? It's really ugly."

King Qin drank the tea in the cup in one gulp, Hua Rong handed him another cup: "Drink slowly."

He and Yue Pengju seemed to be drinking compared to each other, until after several cups, Yue Pengju slapped the table boldly and sang loudly: "Going eastward, the waves will sweep away all the romantic people of the ages..."

Not to be outdone, King Qin said, "I also sing a song."

Hua Rong remembered the "terrible" mountain tunes he sang when he was injured, covered his mouth and secretly smiled.I saw that King Qin really sang with Yue Pengju's voice, and sang more happily than him.

When he was in high spirits, he suddenly heard a "wow" in the room, Hua Rong hurriedly said: "Oops, I forgot about the child, I was woken up by you."

The two immediately stopped talking and looked at each other.

Hua Rong ran into the house, hugged the child, the child opened his eyes to see his mother, was overjoyed, stopped crying, and shouted: "Mom, mother..."

Seeing that he had been in a coma for a few days, Hua Rong hugged him when he woke up, and said softly, "Mom will take you out to play for a while."

She carried the child out, the child first called "Daddy" affectionately, Yue Pengju hugged him with a smile, only then did he see King Qin, his mouth flattened, and he laughed: "Big villain..."

King Qin stared: "Little bastard, I don't call you a big villain."

Hua Rong said softly: "Be good, baby, you will be called uncle from now on."

The child was very unconvinced, King Qin suddenly lowered his head, fumbled here and there, finally found something, and said with a smile: "Little bastard, I will give it to you if you call me."

The child yelled "Uncle", took the toys, and was very happy, but after a while, he got tired of playing, Hua Rong immediately carried him into the room and coaxed him to sleep before coming out.

King Qin saw that the family was happy and happy, so he looked at Yue Pengju: "What are your plans?"

This question really stuck with Yue Pengju, he pondered for a while before saying: "I will be released to Xiangyang, and I will leave in about a year's time."

"Xiangyang? I heard that the naval forces around the two lakes are very powerful, especially Yang Yi of Dongting Lake, who has entangled a lot of power, and now almost occupies the entire two lakes..."

Yue Peng went here, the biggest task was water bandits, and was about to ask King Qin for advice, when he saw that he asked, he immediately said: "Your Majesty, the overlord of the sea, has rich experience in water warfare, and I am going to ask you for advice."

(End of this chapter)