Chapter 331: Don’t you know that His Majesty wants to depose the Queen?
In the early morning, when Chu Chi got up, he felt severe soreness all over. Perhaps because he wanted to have a prince too much, Zhao Jie did not show any mercy to her last night.
The palace maid beside him brought the medicine bowl, and Chu Chi took it and drank the medicine in the bowl.
The maid who took Chu Chi's medicine bowl whispered, "Your Majesty, there is a new person coming into the palace. If His Majesty finds a new lover, it will be very bad for you to have no children. You still have to rely on the prince."
Chu Chi said: "It is also necessary to protect it. There will be many princes in the harem in the future. Rather than letting the child be schemed and fought by others all his life, and his position being coveted by others and he has to be careful everywhere, it is better not to have a child in the first place.
In this palace, only the sons are honored because of their mothers. My children are not my support. I have never had anyone to rely on in the palace."
The palace maid looked at Chu Chi with pity. When she went out with the medicine bowl, she happened to run into Zhao Jie who came for the morning court.
Zhao Jie saw the medicine bowl and asked, "What medicine did the queen take?"
Chu Chi said from inside: "It's a pregnancy-maintaining medicine. I haven't been able to get pregnant in these years, so I just take some tonic medicine."
Zhao Jie held Chu Chi's hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work."
Chu Chi withdrew her hand from Zhao Jie's and began to sew clothes for Chu Che.
Zhao Jie watched her sew Chu Che's clothes and said, "When you finish sewing my brother's clothes, make one for me as well. I haven't worn any of your clothes since you left the Clothing Bureau."
Chu Chi responded: "Okay."
Lu Yiling was even more nervous than Chu Che when he was taking the imperial examination this time, and she wished she could go to the examination room in Chu Che's place.
Chu Che was in the examination room for five days, and Lu Yiling worshipped Buddha at home for five days, very pious. When Chu Che came out of the examination room, Lu Yiling was the first to go up to Chu Che and ask, "How is it? How did you write?"
Chu Che looked at Lu Yiling and said, "I think I can enter the palace examination."
"Everything will be fine once you are able to take the palace examination." Lu Yiling said.
Chu Che said: "What if, I mean what if, I can't pass the palace examination..."
Lu Yiling said: "In that case, I can only humble myself and marry an official from the Dali Temple.
By the way, you are not young anymore. You said before that you can't listen to me about marriage, but you have to find a wife. Do you want me to help you find one? What do you think of Lin Luo? Her father is Lord Lin Jiang. "
Chu Che looked at Lu Yiling and said, "Are you really unaware or are you pretending not to know? The daughter of the Lin family obviously likes Zhixiu. Didn't you see that she went to find Zhixiu as soon as she arrived at the princess's mansion?"
Lu Yiling said, "Really? Then I'll find you another rich girl. Don't worry, I won't treat you unfairly."
Chu Che looked at Lu Yiling and retracted his gaze. She only regarded him as a little guard. Even if he didn't express his feelings now, at least he could still be by her side for the rest of his life.
If expressing my feelings makes her disgusted, I think I will never be able to be so close to her in this life.
Lu Yiling asked: "What kind of girl do you like?"
Chu Che said: "Let's wait until the results of the Spring Examination are announced first."
Lu Yiling said: "Tell me first, so I can help you find one as soon as possible."
Chu Che said: "I like pretty girls."
"Superficial." Lu Yiling said, "What's the point of choosing a wife just based on beauty?"
Chu Che lowered his head to look at Lu Yiling's profile. When Lu Yiling raised her eyes and met Chu Che's gaze, her heart trembled and she coughed several times.
Lu Yiling just felt that she was crazy. How could she feel that the way Chu Che looked at her showed affection for her?
Chu Che averted his gaze and followed Lu Yiling to Qingshan Tower to have dinner.
Lu Yiling picked up a honey-roasted pigeon leg for Chu Che, "This is my mother's favorite, you try it."
Chu Che took the pigeon leg that Lu Yiling handed over and said with a faint smile: "It smells good."
"I heard that Princess Chen is currently selecting a husband for the young princess of the Lu family. I wonder who will be so lucky to get married in one go?"
"What do you mean by ascending to the sky overnight? Your Majesty is becoming more powerful. Sooner or later, he will settle accounts with the Qi and Lu families! Anyone who is related to the Qi and Lu families now will be unlucky."
"This shouldn't be the case. Young Prince Qi married the Empress's sister. The Qi and Lu families are royal relatives, and are cousins to Your Majesty. Now they are also married to the Empress's family..."
"Don't you know that His Majesty wants to depose the Queen?"
"What?"
Chu Che was halfway through eating his pigeon leg when he put down his chopsticks and went out to ask the talkative young man, "What did you say? Dethrone the queen?"
The young masters who were discussing this obviously didn't know Chu Che, but they knew Lu Yiling who came out of the side room. Lu Yiling also said with dark eyes: "Who told you that the queen was deposed?"
"Princess, my adoptive father is a minor official in the Ministry of Personnel. His Majesty has already drafted an imperial decree to depose the empress..."
Chu Che frowned and said to Lu Yiling: "Hurry up and go into the palace."
Lu Yiling nodded, holding Chu Che's hand, she said: "Don't panic, if my uncle really dares to do something to let Sister Chi down, I will definitely stand on your side, I will not let my uncle abandon her and want to abolish the queen!"
Chu Che held Lu Yiling's hand tightly and went to the palace with her.
Lu Yiling made it all the way to the gate of Fengyi Palace without any hindrance, but was stopped. The gate was closed and surrounded by a group of palace guards outside.
Lu Yiling felt that something big had happened. Why would there be guards with knives surrounding Fengyi Palace in the harem?
"Princess, His Majesty has ordered that no one is allowed to approach Fengyi Palace!"
Lu Yiling asked, "Is it not possible for me? Is it not possible for Uncle Chu?"
"no!"
Lu Yiling frowned and said, "Do I have to go in then?"
The guard held the sword in front of Lu Yiling and said, "Your Majesty has ordered, no one can disobey."
Lu Yiling frowned and said to Chu Che: "Let's go to the Purple Palace."
When Lu Yiling arrived at the Zichen Palace, she did not see Chu Che. It was only when she went to the Taiji Palace that she met Zhao Jie and the six-year-old Princess Shi Yi.
When Shi Yi saw the person coming, she called out sweetly, "Sister Lingling, little uncle."
Lu Yiling said to Chu Che: "Take Shi Yi out to play."
Chu Che walked over and held Shi Yi's hand and said, "Uncle will take you to play outside."
Shi Yi glanced at Zhao Jie, and Zhao Jie nodded. Only then did she dare to hold Chu Che's hand and leave Taiji Palace.
After Shi Yi left, Lu Yiling hurriedly asked Zhao Jie, "Uncle, why did you depose the queen and block the Fengyi Palace? Have you forgotten how much effort you put in to marry Sister Chi?"
Zhao Jie said, "She doesn't want to stay in the palace, so I'll help her and let her leave. Now that the Spring Examination is approaching, the matter of deposing the queen will inevitably affect the former dynasty. After the Spring Examination is over, I will do as she wishes and depose her and let her leave the palace."
Lu Yiling was puzzled and asked, "What are you talking about? How could Sister Chi not want to stay in the palace? Ah Shi would not leave the palace with her. How could she be willing to leave Ah Shi and leave the palace?"
Zhao Jie sneered, "In the past four years, she has been taking contraceptive pills without interruption. I wanted her to be born as the eldest prince, and I disobeyed my mother many times, allowing the harem of Dasheng to remain childless. But it turns out that she hates me so much that she doesn't even want to give birth to a child for me.
She even lied to me that it was a drug that could help her get pregnant. If I hadn't felt that she hadn't gotten pregnant despite taking the drug, and hadn't gone to the imperial physician to see if she should change the prescription, I wouldn't have known that the tonic she took every day was actually a drug that could make her pregnant. It's simply ridiculous!"
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