Splendid Pastoral

Chapter 263
"Go back to His Royal Highness, King Ling has led his troops to leave the imperial city."

Lie Feng knelt on the ground and reported to the prince.

The prince sat in front of the chessboard, holding a chess piece in his hand, watching the chess game in front of him intently, and did not answer Lie Feng's words.

Lie Feng stood aside respectfully, did not say much after speaking, and waited for His Royal Highness to speak.

"Gie Feng, what do you think the palace will do next?" The corner of His Royal Highness's mouth curled up into a smile, the chess piece in his hand had not been dropped for a long time, he raised his head and asked Lie Feng who had been standing aside.

Lie Feng stepped forward, and after looking carefully for a long time, his brows were tightly frowned. The situation between the two sides is at a stalemate, and this guy is indeed not easy to let go: "This subordinate is dull, please enlighten me, Your Highness the Crown Prince."

Lie Feng didn't give his own answer, and the prince didn't blame him, and it didn't affect his good mood, he directly dropped the chess piece in his hand on one point.

After looking at the piece that His Highness the Crown Prince dropped, Liefeng suddenly realized that the black and white chess situation was stalemate. After His Highness the Crown Prince dropped the black piece, it became a situation of encirclement. He retreated steadily and was swallowed by black chess one after another.

"Gu Qi's fate can already be known. Now I don't have to do anything, just wait and reap the benefits of being a fisherman."

"Your Highness, Your Majesty is coming this way."

After hearing the announcement from the servants outside, Gu Zixing gave Lie Feng a wink, Lie Feng nodded, and then jumped out from the back window.

"Your Highness, why don't you rest at this late hour? The concubine ordered someone to make some supper for you, come over and eat some."

Gu Zixing stood up from the desk and walked forward, her eyes full of surprises: "You said, what are you doing this trip in such a cold day? If I am hungry, I will order someone to do it, and I will ask you to do it. Why bother you to go there yourself."

After Gu Zixing helped the princess to sit on the chair, she looked at the food on the table and didn't intend to move her chopsticks.

The princess suppressed the bitterness in her heart: "It doesn't matter, your highness has worked so hard, so a wife should be more considerate."

Since my last miscarriage, although His Royal Highness still treats me as gentle as usual, the princess always feels that something is different. Now he only comes to my room once a month, and usually stays in the Concubine there.

According to the imperial doctor, after the last miscarriage, my body was injured, and it was already very difficult to get pregnant.

His Royal Highness the Crown Prince comes to the house very rarely every month, and getting pregnant is even more difficult. There are three ways to be filial, and having no offspring is the greatest. How can you gain a foothold in the Prince's Mansion if you have no heirs?And how to hold up your head in front of the prince and queen?

"Xiao Lian." Gu Zixing reprimanded Xiao Lian next to her with a straight face, "Your Majesty is not in good health, and you don't try to persuade her, how can you be so tired?"

Xiao Lian hurriedly knelt down beside her: "His Royal Highness forgives the sin, it's all the servant's fault."

The princess recovered from her thoughts and frowned: "Your Highness, what are you scolding Xiaolian for? I just want to do something for you. Don't I even have the right now?"

Gu Zixing chuckled, and immediately denied: "Where is the princess thinking? I am just worried that your body will not be able to bear it."

The Crown Princess lowered her head and smiled wryly: "If Your Highness is really worried about the health of the concubine, why don't you come to see the concubine every month."

Hearing this, Gu Zixing was taken aback for a moment. This was the first time since the Crown Princess married him that she had so straightforwardly asked herself to fight for favor.

Gu Zixing calmed down the strangeness in her heart, stretched out her right hand and placed it on the crown princess's hand: "What the crown princess said was that it was my fault before, it is indeed a bit late today, and this palace does have some official business to do. To deal with it, it is better for the crown princess to go back first, and tomorrow the Japanese palace will definitely go to visit the princess."

Gu Zixing still needs the support of the princess's natal family in the court, so naturally she won't go too far.

Hearing Gu Zixing's promise to herself, the corner of the princess's mouth raised an imperceptible smile, and her goal this time was achieved.

She withdrew her hand from Gu Zixing's, stood up, and blessed him: "Since Your Highness still has something to deal with, I don't want to disturb you, so I will leave first."

"Xiao Lian, get up." After listening to the order of the princess, Xiao Lian stood up and followed her and left the study step by step.

Seeing her leaving figure, Gu Zixing narrowed her eyes slightly, snorted coldly, flicked her sleeves, turned back to the desk, and ordered as she walked, "Take this thing away."

"hiss…"

Seeing that his finger was bleeding from the rusty needle, Zhao Min immediately exclaimed and put it in his mouth to inhale.

Seeing her like this, Nanny Gu couldn't help blaming her worriedly: "You say that you are a concubine with all your hands and feet, why are you still so inattentive?"

Although Nanny Gu said reproachful words, she walked to the medicine box next to her immediately and took out the medicine for Zhao Min to wipe.

Zhao Min smiled and looked at Nanny Gu: "Mommy, it's okay, it's just a prick."

Nanny Gu, on the other hand, took care of the almost invisible wound on her hand: "That can't be done, the prince asked me to take good care of you before he left."

As soon as Madam Gu mentioned Gu Lingqing, Zhao Min's eyes flashed with disappointment, and he murmured, "I don't know where Ling Qing is now?"

Listening to Zhao Min's question, Nanny Gu put the medicine bottle in her hand back into the medicine box, feeling a little annoyed that she shouldn't have mentioned the prince just now: "It's only been three days since I left, and I still have a long way to go to Wangcheng .”

"Yeah, it probably hasn't arrived yet." Zhao Min sighed deeply, put down the embroidery work in his hands, stood up, walked to the window, and opened it.

Seeing that the trees outside showed signs of sprouting, she couldn't help closing her eyes, sniffing the fragrance in the air lightly, and said to herself, "I don't know if Ling Qing will come back in midsummer."

Seeing this, Nanny Gu immediately stepped forward to close the window: "The weather is not warm yet, how can we stand at the window and blow the cold wind."

When Zhao Min heard that she just chuckled, she fulfilled Nanny Gu's wish, walked to the bedside and sat down with her support.

"Mommy, how could I be such a delicate person? I have suffered so much before, so what is this wind?" Zhao Min felt that Nanny Gu was making a fuss.

Gu Momo disagreed with her statement: "This is different from the past, not to mention that your body has not been taken care of, how many people in the imperial city are staring at our Ling Palace now, and now the prince is not in the palace, Everything is up to you alone, how can you fall, how dare you fall?"

(End of this chapter)