"Father, I can marry, but I don't want to marry Yu Qiaoqiao. I already have a lover. Please withdraw my order."
Leng Xi spoke seriously, and the emperor suddenly looked at him sideways, "You have a lover? Who is it?"
Leng Xi tightened his lips and said boldly:
"Yes...she is an ordinary peasant girl."
"You are not allowed to marry."
When the emperor heard him say these words from an ordinary peasant girl, he instantly exploded.
Although he felt very weak at the moment, he still shouted with all his strength:
"You are a prince. An ordinary peasant girl can't even be your concubine, let alone your principal wife. Don't even dream about it."
"Why not? The Fourth Emperor's wife is a peasant girl, but she married Fourth Brother as his principal wife. Why can't it be done for me?"
The emperor covered his mouth and coughed lightly, then used his arms to support his body and tried to sit up. Leng Xi hurriedly got up to help him.
After he sat up straight, Leng Xi knelt down again and continued:
"Father, I like that peasant girl. She's very cute, well-educated, and well-mannered. I get along well with her. She's no less capable than Yu Qiaoqiao in every way."
The emperor's expression, which had just been calm, seemed to have become a little more indifferent. He frowned and said:
"No matter how outstanding she is, she cannot enter the royal family. Your fourth sister-in-law's situation is special. When your fourth brother was terminally ill, she entered the Yu Palace as a concubine buried with the prince. Otherwise, with her status at the time, she would not have been able to enter the royal family. Don't compare her to others in everything, cough cough cough..."
At this point, the emperor covered his mouth and coughed lightly, then waved his hands and continued:
"When I recover, I will let you and Yu Qiaoqiao get married. Go back and prepare."
"Father, I will not marry Yu Qiaoqiao."
“Bold.”
The emperor suddenly glared and roared, "I am doing this for your own good. You married the daughter of the Yu family. With the Yu family's status in the court, even if I die in the future, the throne will be passed to your fourth brother, and you can live peacefully as a prince. Go back and think about it carefully."
When Leng Xi heard these words from the emperor, his heart was suddenly filled with gloom.
Firstly, his father did not allow him to marry Long Xiaomin;
Secondly, my father has decided to pass the throne to Leng Yu.
Both decisions were like bolts from the blue, catching him off guard and leaving him at a loss as to what to do.
Seeing that he did not move, the emperor waved his hand and said with a tired face:
"Go away, I'm tired and want to sleep."
After saying this, the emperor waved to Liu Xi who was standing at the door. Liu Xi hurried in with small steps, stepped forward, and helped the emperor lie down.
Leng Xi did not argue with the emperor anymore. He knew the emperor's temper. Once he made a decision, no one else had the right to refute it.
Leng Xi stood up from the ground and slowly walked out of the Yangxin Palace.
In this early spring weather, the wind should have been gentle, but a gust of breeze blew on Leng Xi's face, and he shivered, and the icy feeling instantly spread throughout his body.
"Xi'er, how is it?"
Concubine Li came out from nowhere, maybe she never left!
Leng Xi glanced at her, with an unconcealable sadness between his brows. Without saying a word, he walked away.
Concubine Li was a little confused and quickened her pace to ask,
"Xi'er, didn't you hear me? How is your father?"
"He's fine." He simply replied to Concubine Li with these three words.
His words made Concubine Li's face turn pale, but she soon breathed a sigh of relief and said:
"In that case, let's put the first plan on hold for now. Don't do anything for the next few days. Go to the Yangxin Palace more often to accompany your father. Be more calm and don't..."
"Stop talking."
Leng Xi, who was walking quickly, suddenly stopped. He turned back to look at Concubine Li and said word by word:
"Mother, please forgive me for not being able to obey your order."
Leaving these words behind, he turned around again and walked away with big strides.
"Xi'er..."
Concubine Li called out to him from behind, but he didn't even turn his head.
At this moment, Leng Xi felt indescribably bitter in his heart. Long Xiaomin was the first woman he fell in love with, and it was also the first time that he had the urge to marry a woman home. However, his father and mother refused to even see her and rejected it outright.
Although he knew that a prince could not marry a peasant girl as his principal wife, as it was against the rules, he thought that with the precedent of the fourth emperor's sister-in-law, he could argue with his mother and father. But who would have thought that Yu Qiaoqiao would appear halfway and make all his plans come to nothing.
The more he thought about it, the more irritated he became. He felt his heart was blocked and the gentle wind seemed to become cold.
"Fifth Brother..."
As he walked with his head lowered, Leng Ming appeared in front of him.
He raised his head, looked at Leng Ming, whose face was a little thin, and asked with concern:
"Ming'er, you've lost weight."
Leng Ming's already thin face became even more gloomy. He shook his head and smiled bitterly.
"It would be better to be thinner, it would be better to be dead. Life is too troublesome and tiring."
"What happened to Ming'er?"
Leng Xi suddenly felt that there was something strange in Leng Ming's words, and hurriedly continued to ask,
"What happened?"
Leng Ming shook his head gently. "Fifth brother, come with me to the garden for a walk. I've been having trouble breathing lately and I feel suffocated staying in the house."
"Okay, I feel suffocated too."
As they talked, they walked towards the back garden.
They found a pavilion to sit in, had the servants serve tea, and then sent the servants away.
Leng Ming drank a cup of tea, then poured himself another cup, tilted his head back, and drank it down.
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