52 Chapter 52

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Several large ships were sailing steadily on the boat. A thin mist rose in the morning, which seemed to block the rising sun. Looking out through the window, the rolling river water was drifting away with the waves. Huiyin got on the boat before the sun set in the east. Now her neck and waist were sore. She looked at Li Cheng and said, "I don't know why you are so anxious?"

"I'll feel at ease if you come back earlier." Li Cheng said happily.

"What do you want to feel at ease about? My neck is so sore." Huiyin was also afraid of him, so she did what she said. He personally supervised people to pack up the boxes overnight, and even woke up Jing'er who was still asleep.

Li Cheng said obediently: "Let me give you a massage."

"Don't use too much strength." Huiyin touched her neck.

It was comfortable to have someone help her massage. She always felt like she was reborn after coming out of Jianye. Li Cheng couldn't help but kiss her bare face. Even though Huiyin glared at him, he felt comfortable all over.

Huiyin was in a good mood to be with her husband and son alone, but the hard-earned network of people that Jianye had built up might be cut off. But she was not too sad. Life is like this. You have to give up to gain. If you are too greedy, even God will be jealous.

"Timis mouth, I want to massage it." Huiyin stretched out her hand in front of Li Cheng again.

Li Cheng started to rub her knuckles without saying a word. Huiyin touched his face and smiled.

This time, Li Cheng also mentioned that Concubine Wu should come with her, but Concubine Wu said that she wanted to go with Concubine Wei, so Li Cheng didn't force her. I don't know what kind of changes will happen when I arrive in Xuzhou, but at least she is very happy now.

Her life was comfortable, but Deyin's was not so easy. She could sense that Li Heng was becoming increasingly cold towards her, and she didn't even know why.

Madam Xu handed in a sign, but there was no summons from the palace, so she could not enter the palace at will. Ji would not go out of her way to be the Crown Princess of Deyin. In her opinion, the court of Daye was already in a state of decline, and the country might change hands in the future. There was no need to enter the palace and deal with the Empress.

Although Deyin was happy that her father had been promoted, her status had not changed at all.

"Lianzhi, what's wrong? Didn't I ask you to send a box of snacks to the Crown Princess?" Deyin was unwilling to kick the man when he was down, and was openly respectful to Crown Princess Lu Xiao.

Lian Zhi said, "You have good intentions, but the Crown Princess's palace doesn't allow people to send things in. They say it's the Crown Prince's order, and I have no right to do so."

Deyin didn't understand: "The Lu family is all dead, why would the Crown Prince imprison the Crown Princess? Just banish her to the cold palace. After all, the Crown Princess has done nothing wrong and is a simple person."

"If you don't understand something, then I understand even less." Lian Zhi said with a smile.

Deyin sighed and touched her belly: "You said that when I was at my mother's house, my health was much better than my second sister's. How come after I got married, my menstruation became irregular? I've been married for more than three years, but my belly is empty."

Lian Zhi said, "I don't understand the truth. I only know that good things are worth waiting for. Who knows, you might become the Crown Princess and have children. That would be a real blessing."

Deyin was very pleased to hear this, and quickly asked Lianzhi and Yunzhi to distribute the snacks to the others, and she then cheered up again.

But Deyin's snacks were not delivered, but Empress He sent someone to deliver the things. Empress He was not someone who could tolerate Lu Wei's daughter staying in the position of Crown Princess. But Li Heng couldn't bear to do it, so she had to come herself.

The bowl of poisonous soup was delivered, but was poured out by Li Heng's men.

Li Heng felt that this was not a good idea. He originally wanted to protect Lu Xiao, but if he let her stay in the position of Crown Princess, people would constantly try to harm her. It was fine for him to be in the capital now, but if he wasn't here, how would he succeed her in the future?

Therefore, he decisively requested to depose the Crown Princess the next day and let Lu live in a separate palace.

Lu Xiaoxiao originally wanted to wait for the news that her family was safe, but what she waited for was the news that she was deposed as the Crown Princess. In a place like the cold palace, as the saying goes, a tiger in plain water is bullied by a dog. Although Li Heng sent a few guards to protect her, Empress He also sent someone to tell Lu Xiao that everyone in the Lu family had died...

Only then did Lu Xiao realize that Li Heng had deceived her. He did not let her family go and even killed them all.

It's so sad. A person like this actually said he loved her. How could he have the nerve to say such a thing after killing her whole family?

Lu Xiaosheng had nothing to love. She was a person who would feel uncomfortable for a long time if she was pricked by a needle while sewing. But now she felt that she had no other choice but to die. Li Heng already had a very good woman by his side. Zheng Deyin had never ridiculed her when she was at her most frustrated. Li Heng also liked her and was not as useless as she was.

The next day, when Deyin woke up, she heard that Lu Xiao had died.

Lianzhi reported: "I heard that he died of swallowing gold. His whole body was twitching in pain. The Empress asked that he be buried casually, but the Crown Prince went to the cold palace himself."

"Crown Prince?" Yes, the crown prince was a man who valued feelings the most. Even though he killed many people from the Lu family, he did not vent his anger on a weak woman.

But Li Heng was holding Lu Xiao's body like a madman. He really didn't expect Lu Xiao to hang herself. She was such an innocent and lovely woman who seemed to be invincible. He only expected that someone would harm her, but he didn't expect that she would hang herself.

He even thought that he would release her after he ascended the throne, and would not let her live in seclusion in the cold palace forever. His father was in poor health, and the He family was out of power. He would inherit the throne sooner or later, and he would have the final say in the future.

"Prince, Master Zheng is here." the guard reminded.

Li Heng then recovered. Zheng Fang had been appointed as the Grand Tutor since the death of Lu Wei. Li Heng and him were not on good terms, and he often provoked He and Lu's subordinates to commit crimes, deliberately making Zheng Fang run around. Zheng Fang underestimated him and always thought he was a puppet prince. However, he was immature in dealing with Lu Wei, but he looked down on Zheng Fang. Such an arrogant, conceited, frivolous and fickle person would sooner or later become a tortoise in his jar.

But now Li Heng was socializing with Zheng Fang with a smile. Zheng Fang was about to ask the court to confer titles on several of his subordinates, and he agreed one by one. After all, the emperor was weak, and all palace affairs and official deployment were still handled by the prince.

Zheng Fang then left with peace of mind. He was actually a little depressed. As the saying goes, a hat should fit the size of one's head. The place he occupied now was unstable, and he had to transfer troops from Jizhou. It was only because his son-in-law was next to him that he felt relieved. Otherwise, he was afraid that if he transferred troops from Jizhou, the King of Wei in Qingzhou would attack him. Everyone knew that the King of Wei was also ambitious and had seized Qingzhou before.

If the King of Wei really went north at that time, he would probably fall out with his son-in-law.

So no matter what, you still have to consolidate your position first.

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On the other hand, after arriving in Xuzhou, Huiyin felt more at home here than in Jianye. The place here was more spacious than in Jianye, and there were no difficult things or difficult people. If she hadn't been pregnant, she would have wanted to roll around in bed, and before she knew it, she told Li Cheng about it.

Li Cheng pointed at Jing'er and said, "Who do you think your son looks like? I think he looks most like you. Look how relaxed he is when he rolls around."

"Nonsense." Huiyin went forward and sat beside the bed, afraid that her son would fall.

The family of three just sat together like this, and Li Cheng felt particularly at ease, without the constant worry. He held Huiyin's hand and began to talk about the court affairs: "The Lu family was ordered to be killed by the prince, and the son of the Lu family was originally preparing to rebel, but was caught by your father. It seems that the prince is really cruel and merciless. It is said that he did not even let the newborn baby go."

"If you don't remove the roots of the weeds, they will grow again in the spring breeze. But the prince is so cruel, what about the princess? I knew the princess before when I was in the palace. She was a naive person and didn't have any scheming at all." Huiyin also sighed. This was the fate of the Lu family in past and present lives.

Li Cheng shook his head: "I don't know about these, but I think the Lu family has fallen, and it seems that your sister's good days are coming."

Huiyin didn't believe it: "The prince hates the Lu family deeply, doesn't he have any hatred towards our Zheng family? As the prince, he wants the world, but my father's troops were also obtained by him through fighting for so many years, he certainly won't be willing to give them up."

"You're right. Don't worry, I won't move Qingzhou for now. But I can't promise you anything in the future." Li Cheng was also very frank. Everyone has their own master, and there is nothing that can be done about it.

If it were another woman, she would definitely ask her husband how to take care of her family, but Huiyin thought differently. She said, "You can do whatever you want when the time comes. Being kind to the enemy on the battlefield is being cruel to yourself."

In her previous life, her elder brother and younger brother followed Li Heng. In this life, she asked the Zheng family to take care of themselves and has not asked them to do anything. Her father is probably very arrogant now, and he will not listen to anything she says. Besides, Li Cheng is not yet as heroic and domineering as before, and the King of Wei is still over his head. Some things can only be seen when things change.

Li Cheng held her hand and said, "You are so understanding and righteous. I don't know what to say."

"Don't think too much. I'll just take good care of the baby now. Don't you think it's strange that when we are not together, I always feel like I have a lot to say, but when we are really together, I just feel at ease and want to sleep." Huiyin even stretched lazily.

Li Cheng always felt that Huiyin was very expressive. She could talk about even a small matter like sleeping with great interest. He knew that saying it like an imitation of a fool, but he still said, "I was like this the last time I went back to Jianye and was by your side. I was just very sleepy and just wanted to sleep. I don't know why."

Huiyin smiled and said, "I remember that you slept so soundly last time. I was surprised. Now I remember that I also slept soundly next to you. The reason must be the same. We are people who can give our lives to each other, so we can only sleep soundly next to each other without having to consider anything else."

Seeing Li Cheng nodding in agreement, Huiyin thought that this person might be sold out by her in the future and would even help her count money!

【Author’s words】

There is another update in the morning.