Chapter 142 Chapter 142 Jingyue: "..." She likes...

Chapter 142

Zhou Bokai led his troops out of the city to welcome Emperor Longshun.

With the Queen's carriage, the speed was relatively slow.

So not long after they left the city, they met Lin Zhiqi and others who had returned from cleaning up the battlefield.

Seeing that Prince Chu and Prince Jing were both outside the hunting ground and safe and sound, the Queen's heart sank.

I'm afraid that what she did in Beijing before will not end well.

Jing Zhuorui and Jing Zhuoyue were also surprised to see the queen was there.

They came forward and saluted.

The Queen said, "Excuse me. I'm concerned for your Majesty's safety, so... I'm going to the hunting grounds myself. If you have any missions to attend to, you don't need to stay." She looked at Zhou Bokai, "Master Zhou, please continue on your way."

Jing Zhuorui and Jing Zhuoyue exchanged a glance, then bowed in unison and said, "Farewell, Mother."

Zhou Bokai didn't have time to talk to Lin Zhiqi. He just looked at her deeply and led his troops to escort the queen's carriage to the hunting ground.

Lin Zhiqi stood there for a moment, then suddenly curled his lips and smiled.

The Queen has left the city, it seems she has figured it out.

Jing Zhuorui asked with great interest, "Captain Lin, where are we going next? Should we go into the city, or go with Lord Zhou and the others to fetch our father?"

Lin Zhiqi had been the one giving orders these days. She knew the King of Chu wasn't that arrogant. Since he was willing to ask her, and although his tone was teasing, he had no ill intentions, she boldly gave an order: "Stay where you are."

She has an invisible responsibility - to protect the two princes, King Chu and King Jing, and their two princesses.

After entering the city, it is temporarily the prince's territory, and no one knows what will happen; but going to the hunting ground is not appropriate. There may be an invisible confrontation between the emperor and the empress in the hunting ground, so it is better for them, the younger generation, to avoid it.

What's more, Prince Rui, the fifth prince, the sixth prince, and the princesses and their husbands are also in the hunting ground.

The more people there are, the more complicated the situation becomes.

Since this group of people have already "stayed out of the matter", they should continue to stay away.

Jing Zhuorui raised his eyebrows when he heard this. He had learned a lot about Lin Zhiqi in the past few days.

I originally thought she was a warmongering person, brave but not wise, but I didn't expect her to be quite dashing, with a kind of "wise but foolish" insight.

Generous, smart, and without so many twists and turns.

Or rather, she disdains to have such messy thoughts.

He's a wonderful person.

Jing Zhuorui looked at Jing Zhuoyue again without any expression.

When these two went to the Western Regions, didn't any sparks fly?

He thought Jing Zhuoyue would like a woman like Lin Zhiqi very much.

No, that's not right.

Jing Zhuorui recalled the details he had seen in the past few days - the fourth brother did care about Lin Zhiqi, but Lin Zhiqi didn't care at all.

She just wanted to realize her own ambitions, rather than stay in the backyard and be a mistress.

Jing Zhuorui collected his thoughts and followed Lin Zhiqi obediently.

In any case, he learned more from this trip than he did last year when he was doing disaster relief in Jizhou.

Royal hunting grounds.

Lin Zhiyi pushed Jingyue, who was in a wheelchair, out to relax.

Suddenly, she heard a commotion at the entrance of the hunting ground. She and Jingyue exchanged a glance and asked, "Could it be that my brother-in-law is here?"

The Queen and the Crown Prince actually let him come to the hunting ground?

"Tang Cong." Jing Yue called out loudly.

Tang Cong swooped down from a tree in the distance and stepped forward to listen to the order.

"Go find out what's happening at the entrance."

"yes!"

Not long after, Tang Cong returned with news: "Lord Zhou Bokai has led the soldiers of the Southern Camp to welcome the Emperor. The Empress has also arrived, and Chief Steward Li is on his way to report to His Majesty."

Jing Yue looked up at Lin Zhiyi and said, "Prince Consort, let's go over and take a look."

"good."

Tang Cong waved his hand, and a large group of guards immediately followed.

Lin Zhiyi and Jing Yue have gotten used to it.

Halfway through their journey, they saw Princess Duanyang coming out of her residence and hurriedly heading towards the palace where Emperor Longshun was staying.

Lin Zhiyi's pace slowed down a bit.

The situation in the capital was unclear at the moment, and Princess Duanyang and her husband were in an awkward position in the hunting ground.

She and the prince were both born to the empress. What the empress and the prince did in the capital hardly considered the safety of her, her husband, and their young child.

Although the emperor would not vent his anger on her, a daughter who had little influence in the court, it was hard to say about his other brothers and sisters.

There is always sarcasm in words and mocking attitudes.

She lacked confidence and was afraid that any further willful behavior would anger her father and bring disaster upon herself, so she gritted her teeth and endured it.

Now that his mother had come to the hunting ground in person to pick up his father, Jinglong could finally breathe a sigh of relief.

The Queen Mother and the Crown Prince must have their own difficulties.

As long as she returned to the capital, she could still be Princess Duanyang, noble and proud.

Lin Zhiyi stopped completely.

Jing Yue turned her head to look at her and whispered, "I always feel that now is not the best time to go there. How about we wait a little longer?"

Jing Yue readily agreed and said, "Okay. Then let's go to Xie Er's tent and wait for a while?"

"OK."

They turned and went to the camp area where the Xie family was located.

When Lin Zhiyi and Jing Yue arrived, they saw Xie Junnuo hurriedly coming out holding his official hat.

Seeing them, Xie Junnuo paused, his eyes wandered for a moment, then he lowered his head and walked forward to salute.

"Brother Xie, you're welcome. Didn't the emperor summon you? Go and get busy." Jing Yue's voice was steady and gentle.

Xie Junnuo bowed very seriously and said, "I will take my leave."

Then he hurried past them and walked away.

Jing Yue couldn't help but follow Xie Junnuo's figure for a moment.

——This person felt instinctively uncomfortable when facing Pianpian.

Could it be that he is still feeling awkward or even nostalgic about the "heroic rescue" and "physical contact" when he test drove the wooden bird last time?

"He..." Jing Yue frowned, but finally said nothing.

It's nothing. Pianpian is beautiful and outstanding enough, so it's normal for her to attract people's admiration.

Didn't he already know this? There was no point in being jealous.

Anyway...Xie Junnuo and Ye Changning couldn't possibly compete with him.

Lin Zhiyi: "It seems that the Queen's arrival this time has also made Father feel difficult."

She didn't pay attention to Xie Junnuo's eyes, she just thought he was in a hurry because of his father's order.

She was always open and honest with potential admirers.

I don’t know whether to say that she is used to it or that she really doesn’t take it seriously.

In her world before, she must have been very charming.

Confident and dazzling.

"Well. Let's just keep a low profile." Jing Yue was not worried about these.

At present, his identity is no longer at risk of being exposed. He has successfully seized the opportunity to hide and even solved the hidden danger of Cheng Lunian.

Everything is perfect.

There's no need to be high-profile at a time like this.

Anyway, given my father's capricious nature, he's likely to soften at the Queen's pleas...

"Thank you, second brother!" Lin Zhiyi called out.

"Xiuyuan? Just come in, I can't leave for the time being!"

Xie Junxing should be immersed in studying the wooden bird in his own base.

Lin Zhiyi pushed Jingyue into the "studio" prepared by Xie Junxing himself.

Sure enough, there were many parts arranged in a messy and complicated manner.

The hunting grounds could use local materials. Various kinds of wood and stones were piled in one corner, and in the middle was a large wooden bird, twice as big as the one they were testing.

Xie Junxing was wearing a shirt with narrow sleeves that was convenient for working, with the hem of his shirt tucked into his belt. He had a carving tool in his mouth, a few charcoal pencils for drawing lines stuck in his hair, and a little stubble on the corners of his lips. He looked very unkempt.

Lin Zhiyi had never seen such a wild and unrestrained side of him, and couldn't help but take a few more glances at him.

When the fourth sister was working day and night to design things, she still remembered to dress beautifully. I wonder if she has ever seen Xie Erlang like this.

I don't know if she likes it or not...

Lin Zhiyi imagined the stubble on Jingyue's lips and couldn't help but shudder.

Oh~ I’d better not do that.

Your Highness the Princess should be pretty and beautiful.

It won’t be too late to grow a beard when Jingyue regains his status as a prince.

The wheelchair stayed in one place for a long time without moving.

Jing Yue noticed that she was distracted and turned half of his body to look at her. Seeing that she was staring at Xie Junxing's face, he also looked at Xie Junxing curiously for a few more times, and then he realized that she was looking at his stubble...

Jing Yue: “…”

Does she like a rougher look?

Looking back at myself... pink dress, bright and heavy makeup, fair skin and beautiful appearance, the overall feeling I give people is rather 'feminine'.

After all, if he wanted to play a woman, he couldn't make his body too strong, nor could he make his skin too dark, so he took great care of himself. He wasn't old enough to grow a beard yet...

Well... I'm afraid she will be disappointed.

Xie Junxing was much more casual than Xie Junnuo. He had long been rude to them. He neither bowed nor spoke. He just arched his eyebrows at them and continued to carve something on the wooden bird stand with a charcoal pencil, and then switched to a carving knife.

After he finished carving the pattern at hand, he finally had time to ask, "How is it? This one looks much better than the last one, right?"

"I heard that you were competing with Fourth Sister? What did you bet on?" Lin Zhiyi asked with a smile as she pushed Jingyue closer.

"I won't tell you!" Xie Junxing chuckled, put down the carving knife, took out the charcoal pencils stuck in his hair and threw them on the table, and finally stretched his body.

He looked towards the direction of Emperor Longshun's palace and said in a low voice, "I thought you would go and join in the fun."

"The two of us have been watched for many days, so it's better for us to keep a low profile now," Lin Zhiyi said frankly.

Xie Junxing: "...Who would dare to treat you as a joke?"

Lin Zhiyi stared at him: "Do you really not know or are you pretending not to know?"

Xie Junxing was defeated. "Alright. I'm just worried that our Ministry of Industry's wooden bird project has been delayed by these messy mundane matters. I don't want to worry about anything else."

Lin Zhiyi comforted him, "Don't worry, it won't happen. His Majesty has so many worries entangled in your achievements. This is the only thing that makes him happy. He will definitely be willing to support the Ministry of Works in promoting new things. Even if His Majesty is not in the mood to pay attention to it for the time being, the Ministry of Works and the Ministry of Revenue will also put in the effort."

Xie Junxing heaved a sigh of relief when he realized that Lin Zhiyi was at the Ministry of Revenue. He knew that as long as they followed the normal application process, the Ministry would definitely allocate funds to them.

"This one is good. It looks like the power system is more complete than the original one. When can we test drive it?" Lin Zhiyi asked seriously after a careful inspection.

Xie Junxing: "In two days. As long as you're not in a hurry to return to Beijing, it will definitely be within these two or three days. I also need to add some protective equipment to the quarantine area."

"I know something..." Lin Zhiyi thought of the parachute. This time she didn't talk to her fourth sister, but directly explained the general principle to Xie Junxing.

Xie Junxing's eyes lit up as he leaned over the table, drawing again and again on the paper with a charcoal pencil. He then kept asking Lin Zhiyi questions, "This thing is great, Xiuyuan, it's a waste of your talent to go to the Ministry of Revenue! You should come to our Ministry of Industry! If you work with Zhihua, you will definitely be invincible!"

Lin Zhiyi said modestly, "I only have a general idea, but I'm at a loss as to how to implement it specifically. Regarding modification, practical testing, and other aspects, I'll have to rely on those of you with strong hands-on skills."

"Are you hiding your abilities? I see you know everything, but you pretend you only know a little bit, and then let others take the credit. From the glasses shop until now..." Xie Junxing guessed carelessly, "Could it be that... you have some unspeakable secret?"

Lin Zhiyi and Jing Yue held their breath.

She really does have a secret.

Him too.

Then Xie Junxing asked, "Which master of machinery accepted you as his disciple? Or are you the reincarnation of some powerful and mighty being?"

From a certain perspective, he was right.

Lin Zhiyi: "You've read too many storybooks!"

"I don't like reading storybooks. Only the Fifth Prince likes reading storybooks." Xie Junxing shrugged, buried his head in changing a few details of the painting of 'parachute', then folded it up, preparing to find Lin Zhihua to discuss it later.

When the Fifth Prince was mentioned, the three of them fell silent.

Xie Junxing asked, "By the way, is the Fifth Prince feeling better now? Ever since he learned about the passing of Empress Xian, he has been in a state of dismay. Even after regaining the ability to speak, he remains silent..."

"The pain of losing a mother...it takes time to accept." Jing Yue sighed.

The three of them were silent for a moment. Lin Zhiyi pushed Jing Yue and turned around: "You go ahead and do your work. Let's go see the fifth brother."

"good."

Although she said she was going to see Jing Zhuoran, Lin Zhiyi and Jing Yue guessed that since the Queen was coming this time, Emperor Longshun would certainly summon the fifth brother to listen.

After all, it was impossible for the Queen to conceal the fact of Concubine Xian's death any longer.

Inside the palace of Emperor Longshun.

The queen looked at Jing Zhuoran in surprise as he spoke, and she didn't come back to her senses for a long time.

He can actually talk?!

Jing Zhuoran knelt beside him with tears in his eyes, and asked again in a hoarse voice: "Mother... Did you leave any words for me? Even just a few words..."