Chapter 466: Give First Before Taking
It was clearly noon, but the sky outside the window suddenly darkened inch by inch.
The dark clouds obscured the sunny day and also took away the starlight in Zhaohua's eyes.
'Boom'
Thunder roars,
Soon, the sound of sparse rain spread to my ears.
Xiao Jingheng looked out the window at the rain hitting the balcony, and saw the same person in front of the bed. He vaguely recalled the night when Zhao Hua first slept with him.
At that time, she was still a young girl who knew nothing about the world.
When she hears the thunder, she will be afraid and cowardly, and will tremble and crawl into his arms.
The girl is so bright and beautiful that people can't help but want to possess and protect her.
Today,
When the thunder roars again,
However, Zhao Hua was able to sit quietly beside him, with no fear on his face, and even a faint, ambiguous smile at the corner of his lips.
Xiao Jingheng seemed to be thinking about something, then smiled bitterly and shook his head:
"I remember that when you first entered the palace, you were most afraid of thunderstorms. Now it seems that everything has changed."
Zhaohua stroked her hair gently and said in a gentle and submissive tone:
"I am still afraid of thunderstorms, but I also remember what Xiao Lang once said to me: as long as you are by my side, I don't need to be afraid of anything."
She pushed the quilt that was half-covered on Xiao Jingheng's body closer, and took his cold hand.
"Now that Xiao Lang is here, I am naturally not afraid of anything."
However, this time, Xiao Jingheng pulled his hand out of her palm stiffly.
“You already knew that Jamel Xiao is related to you by blood.”
Zhao Hua smiled calmly and nodded without hesitation.
"Jingyan is my elder brother. Tianji Office only obeys my orders in secret. He is just pretending to be nice to Xiao Lang. What else does Xiao Lang want to ask me?"
"Tianji Office...Tianji Office...Hahahaha!"
Xiao Jingheng's eyes grew colder and colder, like the ashes that had burned out in the incense burner.
When it was extremely cold, he laughed like a madman.
"The Queen Mother...she was plotting against me until her death."
"The Queen Mother plotted against you? Then there is no plot between Xiao Lang and the Queen Mother and her son, right?"
Hearing this, Xiao Jingheng fell into a long silence.
Outside, the rain was getting heavier.
Zhaohua stood up and closed the window, then blew the fire stick and lit the only candle on the yellow pear wood.
"The Queen Mother raised Xiao Lang and treated him the same as the Fourth Master, never harshly. But how did Xiao Lang repay the Queen Mother? You took advantage of the Fourth Master's serious illness and took care of him 'until death' under the guise of caring for him. I am stupid and wonder if this is Xiao Lang's plan for the Queen Mother?"
Xiao Jingheng panted and said, "Who among the princes didn't scheme in order to fight for power? Even if I schemed against the fourth prince, I was sincere to the queen mother!"
"Haha, are you serious?" Zhao Hua covered her lips with her hands and smiled awkwardly, looking at Xiao Jingheng with teasing eyes.
Xiao Jingheng asked angrily, "What do you mean by looking at me like this?"
He struggled to get up from the sickbed, grabbed Zhao Hua's wrist and wanted to take action, but was shocked to find that his whole body was limp and he couldn't exert any strength at all.
To the extent that Zhao Hua could knock him down with just a flick of his sleeve, causing him to fall to the ground in a mess.
Next to him was the medicine cup that he had just broken.
He looked at the dark brown stain and realized, "This medicine... Did Concubine Ying tamper with this medicine? Or did you? "
He suddenly raised his eyes and glared at Zhao Hua.
Zhaohua didn't answer, but just looked at him with a smile and raised her beautiful eyebrows provocatively.
Because of anger, veins popped up on Xiao Jingheng's forehead and his temples were throbbing uncontrollably.
A hoarse and sharp shout came from a throat that seemed to have been rubbed by sand and stones.
"Tell me, what exactly do you want? I have already given you the most honorable position for a woman in the world, and I have also given you the position of Crown Prince Cheng Yu. What else do you want? Song Zhao, I have treated you well, and you really disappoint me!"
The smile on Zhao Hua's face froze for a moment. She lowered her eyes and looked down at Xiao Jingheng.
This was also the first time she looked down at him from a superior's perspective.
It looks even more inferior and disgusting.
"Xiao Lang treated me well, so he ordered Cheng Yu to be buried alive and sent me to the cold palace. He treated the Imperial Concubine well, so her whole family was killed and all her children died. He treated Concubine Ying well, so her mother's family was completely annihilated in the dust of history, and she was turned from a Hu person into a Han person..."
"But have they ever been sincere to me?" Xiao Jingheng was exposed, and he started to cry wolf.
"Which of the concubines in the harem dares to say that they approach me and please me for no other reason? Which one of them is not for my power, which one of them is not for seeking benefits from me!?
If I were not the emperor today, but an ordinary farmer tilling the fields, who would greet me with a smile, who would follow me wholeheartedly? Would you? "
Zhao Hua shook her head decisively and said, "Ask yourself, of course I don't want to. But if it was the former Imperial Concubine, I can be sure that she would agree to you without hesitation, whether it was fine clothes and delicious food or displacement, as long as you nodded, she would follow you regardless of the future. Because what she likes is not your imperial power, but you as a person."
"She?" Xiao Jingheng sneered, "In the past, the Imperial Concubine was close to me, but now that I'm sick, how many times has she come to see me?"
Zhao Hua said indifferently: "Why doesn't she want to come to see you? Don't you know it yourself? If you want to get something, you must give it first. Don't you understand this simple truth, Xiao Lang?"
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