Resourceful beauty

Chapter 362 Endgame
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Overturning the tea bowl in her hand, Queen Zhou looked at Fang Shanggong in disbelief, "What did you say, the king ordered that King Yong go to the fief immediately?"

Fang Shanggong nodded, "The Lizhou and the five surrounding counties were entrusted to His Royal Highness King Rui that day, and the king delineated two more states as fiefs for His Royal Highness Yong. The imperial decree has been issued. It means to let His Royal Highness King Yong set off immediately."

"Depart immediately..."

While muttering, King Zhou's back was covered in ashes.

"How could this be? King Yong obviously has no fault at all."

Speaking sharply, Queen Zhou stood up abruptly, her body tensed, and she even trembled slightly.

After standing for a while, Queen Zhou turned around and entered the inner hall, changed her clothes, and went to Qian'an Hall with a solemn face.

When he arrived at the gate of the hall, he was stopped by Li Sheng, "My queen, the king is still talking to His Royal Highness King Rui, and the king has an order. Except for His Royal Highness, no one else will be seen."

"I can't do it either?"

Queen Zhou's face darkened.

"Don't be a slave to the queen, that's exactly what the king said."

Li Sheng answered with lowered eyebrows and narrowed eyes.

Staring fixedly at Li Sheng, and then glanced at the closed palace gate with resentment, Queen Zhou turned around and left unwillingly.

In the inner hall of Qian'an Hall, King Yao was wearing bright yellow pajamas, leaning on the bed, before stepping on his feet, King Rui was kneeling straight with his head bowed, unable to see the expression on his face.

"Do you understand what I said now?"

There was endless exhaustion in the words, King Yao looked at King Rui who had been silent all the time, with slight disappointment in his eyes.

All night, the father and son didn't see eye to eye. At first, the two could talk well, but until King Yao said that even if Chu Yuan didn't come back, King Rui was not a qualified prince, so King Rui didn't say a word until Now.

"You are unwilling, I understand. But, looking back at what you have done these years, and looking at the prince, you will know how different you are from him."

Said in a deep voice, King Yao coughed, and continued: "Raise an army, make friends with ministers, privately build iron mines... You think that what you have done these years is extremely secretive, but in fact, I know it very well. "

King Yao's words made King Rui raise his head in disbelief, and when he saw the calm expression on King Yao's face and knew that he was not deceiving him, King Rui lowered his head a little guilty.

"You think I checked you?"

With a soft laugh, King Yao said, "This is what the prince found out."

King Rui's body froze, and the hands hanging on both sides couldn't help clenching into fists.

King Yao continued: "So, the prince's unfathomable depth is far beyond your comparability. If you were the crown prince and knew what he did, what would you do? Even if you dare not move in the open, you will do it secretly. Trying everything to suppress and control it? But the crown prince didn’t, he just quietly collected everything and presented it to me. If I don’t care about it, when he ascends the throne, what do you think he will do to you with his means?”

King Rui pursed his lips, the words he wanted to say, but he paused the moment he said them.

If it were me, I'm afraid I wouldn't let him go, right?How could he have any scruples?Just like King Yao said, it's hard to imagine how miserable he will be when the time comes.

However, after all, I still feel unwilling.

Knowing the son is more like father, King Yao can probably guess what King Rui is thinking at the moment. Seeing that he is silent, King Yao drank a sip of tea and spoke again, feeling a little weak and tired, "What should be said, I have already told you I said it clearly. My intention has been decided and cannot be changed. As for what you want to do and how you will go in the future, it is up to you alone. If you insist on going your own way, you will wait until that day in the future..."

As if he couldn't bear to continue talking, King Yao stopped talking, and after a while, he waved his hands and said, "Kneel down."

Kneeling stubbornly, he didn't move for a long time, until King Yao put down the tea bowl in his hand, and there was a soft sound in his ear, and King Rui came back to his senses.

With a stiff body, he bent down and kowtowed three times to King Yao. King Rui got up, staggered a bit, and walked out of Qian'an Hall slowly.

The door of the palace opened, and the bright sunlight outside made him feel a little unwell to block it with his hand. Then he saw the familiar stone path and nursery outside the door, but King Rui felt that everything had changed after one night.

"His Royal Highness, Princess Rui is in Rui'an Palace..."

Seeing that King Rui turned around and was heading towards the outside of the palace, Li Sheng thought he had forgotten, so he hurriedly reminded him, but King Rui didn't hesitate at all, and strode away.

Li Sheng straightened his hat suspiciously, turned around and entered Qian'an Hall.

The news that King Yong was going to Lizhou to take over the feudal domain resounded through the court and the people in the early court, and it didn't take long for everyone in the palace to know about it.

When the news reached Lanyue Pavilion, Concubine Fang was hugging her daughter and teasing her softly. After hearing Liu Shang's words, Concubine Fang's hands paused, and her face sank instantly.

"Depart immediately?"

Looking up at the glass of water in disbelief, Concubine Fang asked in a loud voice: "Will King Yong receive the order? Where is Princess Yong, have you left the palace yet?"

Liu Shang nodded, "His Royal Highness received the decree in the morning and left the palace to go back to Yongwang's mansion. Concubine Yong is now taking her young son and two young ladies to say goodbye in each palace. It is estimated that she will leave for Li in three to five days. state."

"Three or five days..."

While muttering, she didn't even notice that the infant daughter in her arms was pouting and crying, and Concubine Fang's face was pale.

While in a daze, he heard the voice of the palace maid outside, saying that Princess Yong had arrived.

Handing the daughter to the wet nurse in a hurry, and waving away the irrelevant people around her, Concubine Fang sat upright, looking at Concubine Yong who was walking slowly, feeling mixed emotions in her heart.

Seeing Prince Yong's young son in the arms of the wet nurse behind her, Concubine Fang felt like a knife was cutting her heart.

Suppressing the feeling in her heart, Concubine Fang cried out with a smile, and gave her a seat again.

"Unexpectedly, this time, His Highness King Yong was dragged down by King Rui."

Seeing that Concubine Yong's complexion was not much better, Concubine Fang spoke softly.

Concubine Yong smiled bitterly, "It's just good luck to make people fool me. Now, I don't have anything to complain about."

The treatment of King Rui has not yet been decided, but King Yong only sealed three counties near Lizhou as fiefdoms. Even the unremarkable King Ping couldn't compare to that day. Princess Yong only felt extremely funny.

No matter what happened to King Rui, it was his own fault, but as for King Yong, the two states and counties that were lost are already enough to make him lose face in front of civil and military officials and the people of the world, right?

After planning for so long, it now looks like a farce.

As for Concubine Fang, when she thought of King Yong going to Lizhou and returning to Shangyang City, she didn't know what year and month it was, and she had very few opportunities to meet her son in this life, so she felt bitter in her mouth.

Looking at the child's gaze became softer, Concubine Fang waved her hand, but seeing him shrinking and cuddling beside Concubine Yong unwilling to come over, Concubine Fang's eye sockets instantly gathered a layer of crystal clear tears.

Knowing that her gaffe was suspicious, Concubine Fang forcefully forced back her tears by turning around to drink tea.

Fortunately, no matter how far away you are, you can always find out the news. Fortunately, he is the son of Prince Yong. As long as the Yunfu is still there, no one will wait to seize everything that belongs to him.

Concubine Fang comforted herself again and again, and Concubine Fang felt a little more comfortable, and looked up again, only to see Concubine Yong lowering her head and coaxing the child softly, the smile on her face was sympathetic mixed with pity.

Suddenly, a bad feeling rose in Concubine Fang's heart.

"The little prince and the fourteenth prince hit it off, why don't you let them play in the courtyard for a while."

Princess Yong opened her mouth.

Seeing Concubine Fang's signal, Liu Shang went to call the wet nurse, and led the fourteenth prince over. Concubine Yong lowered her head and said a few words to the young prince, and the two children went to the yard holding hands.

"The empress and the young prince are destined to fall in love, and the concubine sees it, but in the end, this child is unlucky, unlike the fourteenth prince, there will be good luck in the future."

Opening her mouth slowly, she saw a bit of sadness in Concubine Fang's expression, and the dark energy in Concubine Yong's heart burst out like a flame.

However, after all, worrying about the difference in their identities, Princess Yong didn't show any anger on her face no matter how angry she was. However, the words she said were not so pleasant.

"I've been in the palace for the past few days, seeing that the little prince is always listless. I invited the imperial doctor to show him. After seeing this, my heart is half cold."

Speaking calmly, Princess Yong's eyes stared blankly at Concubine Fang.

Sure enough, Concubine Fang's eyes widened nervously, and she even leaned forward, as if waiting for her to say the following.

Concubine Yong sighed, shook her head and said: "The imperial doctor said that the heart disease brought out from the mother's womb by Xiao Shizi is naturally weak. Now that he is young, it is not a problem. If he grows up in the future, it will be even worse. But Fortunately, we were born in a family like ours, and we will be well-fed and well-clothed, so it doesn't matter if we think about it. What do you think, Madam?"

The handkerchief in her hand was already tightly clenched. Looking at the chasing figure in the courtyard, Concubine Fang's heart was as cold as if soaked in an ice bucket on a cold day.

"Is it the pulse case ordered by an imperial doctor in the imperial hospital?"

With a trembling sound in her voice, Concubine Fang asked softly.

"Qin Yuan is looking at it himself."

Concubine Yong's words were sad, but in her heart, there was an indescribable sense of comfort.

Concubine Fang froze there like a statue.

When she came back to her senses, Concubine Yong had disappeared, and she left with her young son at some point, and beside her, the fourteenth prince tugged on his sleeve and timidly called "Concubine Mother".

It was him, it was this wild child who did not know where he had taken away his child's life, that's why he had a heart attack at a young age, and he didn't know when the next time we saw each other, it was all him.

Thinking bitterly in her heart, Concubine Fang vigorously pushed the Fourteenth Prince away, "Go away, I am not your concubine mother."

The cry of "Wow" sounded in the main hall of Lanyue Pavilion, and Concubine Fang turned her head again, and saw a pair of red crystal bracelets quietly placed on the desk at the place where Concubine Yong had been sitting just now, exuding a dazzling light. of light.

She must have known, must have been.

Looking at the pair of beads in horror, Concubine Fang's heart became a little cooler than before.

(End of this chapter)