Chapter 177 I'll be back soon
Huo Zheng paused for a moment after hearing Chunzhi's question, then whispered, "My father wants to send a prince to Xizhou to take charge of the affairs. Prince Rui was seriously injured after falling off his horse. There's no one else to take charge of Xizhou except me."
His fourth brother is obsessed with Taoism and usually doesn't even attend palace banquets. The emperor will not hand Xizhou over to such a person.
When Chunzhi heard him say this, she couldn't help but feel worried, but she didn't say anything else. She just said, "You go to the palace first. I'll go home and wait for you."
"Then you go back first, I'll be back soon."
Huo Zheng really wanted to hug Chunzhi, but this was in front of the Prince Rui's Mansion, in public, and he couldn't do anything too intimate with Chunzhi, so he just reached out and tucked her scattered hair behind him.
Chunzhi carried Xiaoxing back into the carriage.
Huo Zheng ordered the driver: "Send the princess back to the palace."
The driver replied "yes", whipped the horse and drove the carriage towards the Chang'an Palace.
The wind lifted the curtain of the carriage, and Chunzhi saw the attendant leading the horse to Huo Zheng. Huo Zheng jumped on the horse and headed in the opposite direction into the palace.
Chunzhi returned to the Chang'an Palace. Xiaoxing fell asleep in the wobbly carriage. She carried the child back to the side room, put him on the bed, and asked the wet nurse to take good care of him.
The wet nurse responded "yes" repeatedly and stood guard by the young master's bed.
Chunzhi returned to the main house and began to pack Huo Zheng's things. On the battlefield, swords and knives are blind, but there seemed to be a piece of gold-threaded soft armor in the treasury...
She immediately called the housekeeper Cheng, took the key to open the warehouse, and went to find the gold silk soft armor, and then the best wound medicine and wound medicine, and told him to bring more clothes as the weather was getting colder.
Butler Cheng didn't know what the princess was busy with, he just followed her instructions and did what she said.
On the other side, the imperial palace.
The news of Huo Yang's fall from his horse had already been reported by his personal attendants to the palace, and the emperor was troubled by this matter.
Huo Zheng went directly to the emperor's bedroom. After having the eunuchs pass on the message, he entered and bowed to his father, saying, "I just went to Prince Rui's Mansion."
The emperor held his forehead and asked in a deep voice, "How is Huo Yang injured?"
Huo Zheng said, "Brother Prince Rui broke a bone, and the imperial physician just reconnected it."
It would take a hundred days to heal his broken bones, so Huo Yang definitely couldn't go to Xizhou.
The emperor sneered, "He always thinks I only value you. Today, just as I gave him the affairs of Xizhou, he fell off his horse and got injured. He is truly unworthy of being used."
Huo Yang was the emperor's eldest son. Although he was not born of a legitimate wife, many ministers had clamored to make the eldest son the crown prince in recent years.
The emperor had also had such considerations. This time he sent Huo Yang to Xizhou just to see how capable he was. However, he didn't expect that Huo Yang fell off his horse and was injured before he even left the capital.
It doesn't matter whether he really fell off a horse or pretended to do so. The emperor was very disappointed with his eldest son.
Huo Zheng said, "The rebellion in Xizhou is urgent. Since Prince Rui has been injured and cannot go to Xizhou, I, your son, request to go there."
Huo Zheng knew clearly that even if he didn't bring it up, the Xizhou matter would still fall on his shoulders, so it would be better for him to bring it up.
"You are a responsible person." The emperor looked at his handsome son and felt a little relieved. "If you can quell the rebellion in Xizhou, I will definitely reward you after you return to the capital."
This was the first time the emperor said such words in front of Huo Zheng.
Previously, Huo Yuan always felt that he was still young, and the ministers urged him to appoint a crown prince. He was unhappy and was reluctant to decide on the candidate.
But this time, a rebellion broke out in Xizhou, and his most beloved ninth prince Huo Yan was captured alive by the rebels. He sent his eldest son to Xizhou to take charge of the affairs, but he ended up falling off a horse and getting injured.
The emperor was extremely tired and suffered a headache. He suddenly looked much older.
All those people previously assigned to King Rui are now given to Huo Zheng.
Everything went according to the original arrangement, and the person in charge changed from Huo Yang to Huo Zheng, which was actually safer.
The emperor gave Huo Zheng a few more instructions, then said, "Go ahead."
"Your son obeys your order."
Huo Zheng bowed and took his leave, then walked out of the emperor's bedroom.
He did not leave the palace immediately, but went to Qiwu Palace.
Queen Wang had long heard the news that Prince Rui had fallen from his horse and was injured. When she saw Huo Zheng approaching, she immediately understood, "Huo Yang fell from his horse and was injured. Did the Emperor replace you with the one who will take charge of Xizhou?"
Huo Zheng said calmly, "It is indeed as expected by your majesty, your majesty. I will be heading to Xizhou today."
"I knew it..."
Queen Wang had guessed it after hearing the eunuch say that Prince Rui had fallen from his horse.
But when I heard the news with my own ears, I still felt a little sad.
Queen Wang said, "You and Chunzhi are newlyweds, and Zi'an is still so young... How could the Emperor allow you to go to a dangerous place like Xizhou?"
Patrolling the borders of the Northern Province and the Southern Province were both extremely dangerous tasks, and Huo Zheng almost died in a foreign land.
Originally, Huo Zheng should not have been responsible for the rebellion in Xizhou, but Huo Yan was useless, and Huo Yang had never fallen off his horse earlier or later, so he got injured here.
Queen Wang suspected that Huo Yang was going to Xizhou to avoid the enemy, but Huo Zheng had already promised the emperor that he had to go to Xizhou.
Huo Zheng said, "Don't worry, mother. I will definitely be able to pacify Xizhou and bring more glory to you, mother."
"Bah!" Queen Wang was furious when she heard him say that. "Who asked you to risk your life to bring honor to me?"
When Queen Wang first raised Huo Zheng, she often compared him with the other princes, demanding that he surpass his brothers in every way.
Huo Zheng also lived up to his expectations. Not only was he the best in both civil and military skills, but his appearance and character were also beyond the reach of several other princes.
"Mother, please calm down. I was the one who said the wrong thing." Huo Zheng said this, but his face did not look as if he had done anything wrong.
He said: "It is your son who wants to bring honor to your mother."
"You." Queen Wang sometimes really didn't know what to do with Huo Zheng.
Although he is not her biological son, she has raised him carefully for more than 20 years.
Huo Zheng appears to be well-behaved and polite on weekdays, but in fact he is the most unruly person at heart.
Queen Wang has actually been very satisfied with her son over the years. Apart from not marrying a noble lady from an aristocratic family as she wished, Huo Zheng has never disobeyed her.
Queen Wang looked at Huo Zheng with a look of seven parts worry and three parts helplessness. "You want to go to Xizhou, but why didn't you go back and tell your princess first? Why did you come here to me? Can I stop you from going?"
Huo Zheng raised his eyes to look at Queen Wang and said sternly, "I am going to Xizhou and don't know when I can return. I have come to ask you, Queen Mother, to take good care of my wife and children."
"What do you mean?" Queen Wang asked, "Are you afraid that I'll take advantage of your absence to embarrass your princess? Is that why you made this special trip to Qiwu Palace?"
Huo Zheng said calmly, "I have absolutely no such intention."
"That's what you mean." Queen Wang insisted, "You were raised by me, and I don't even know you."
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