Chapter 67

The news sent back said that the prince led the army to attack, but was surrounded by the enemy.Although one against ten, he finally broke through the tight encirclement, but after returning to the camp, he was still seriously injured, and three days later, he stopped breathing at Shen Shi.

According to the usual practice, the accompanying military doctor was locked up alone to interrogate the specific medication. There was no problem, it was innocent, and it was verified that the prince did die of serious injuries.

The mourning soldiers will surely win, and the soldiers at the border gates are working day and night, and one after another, the victory reports are sent back to the capital.

At the same time, people in the court are turbulent and everyone is in danger.Just because the national mourning was added under the conscription, the treasury was empty, and the people were in dire straits.

The emperor aged ten years overnight and gave birth to half a head of gorgeous hair.On the day the crown prince's body returned to Beijing, Lu Zhi went out of the city to welcome him.

The army returned to Beijing after the prince was buried.After Lu Xuan made great achievements, he took the initiative to hand in the military amulet at the celebration banquet, and was named King of Qi by the emperor, plus five thousand eunuchs.Lu Sheng was granted the title of king of the county, plus two thousand cities.

The quality of the land followed, adding a thousand yi for nothing.

At this time, the ministers will not guess what the emperor rewarded him.

The position of the crown prince is a foregone conclusion, and King Yu's status is indistinguishable.But because he has always been indifferent, he seemed difficult to get along with, so he became very popular all of a sudden.

Zirong raised her baby in the house, and the few words she knew about the outside situation were all told by Lu Zhi to relieve his boredom after picking and choosing.

No matter how disturbing the rest is, the flower demon is most at ease in the peaceful corner of the Prince Yu Mansion, accompanied by His Highness and the two little flower demons in her belly.Usually Lu Zhi is tired from dealing with it outside, and only thinking about the warm and fragrant little things can relieve his fatigue.

But no one in the world knows about the death of the prince, and Hua Yao was worried about it. He was Lu Zhi's brother, and he was afraid that he would be too sad.

Lu Zhi had long thought that one day he would confront the prince.But apart from this title, the crown prince is the most mediocre and well-behaved person.It has never harmed him, and it has nothing to do with the grievances of the previous generation, so he never thought about killing the prince.

But it's not sad either.

They were raised in two places since they were young, and they never went out to play in private.In addition, after the prince entered the East Palace, he was always surrounded by a circle of eunuchs and maids, so he had less chance to talk to the rest of the brothers.

But he died after all, the mediocre prince, died in the battlefield of defending his family and country.

The weather in March has begun to warm up, and catkins are blooming one after another. Looking back, it is just like a big dream.

Counting the days, the flower demon will be due in one month.His stomach is already very big, and he can no longer sit in Lu Zhi's arms like before.So the two can only sit on the couch, one half lying down, the other sitting cross-legged, talking to each other.

But just say a few words, people will involuntarily smile.

There was a large cotton pad stuffed into Zi Rong's back, which was made by the jade pendant according to the pad that the mother had stuffed under Zi Rong's knees after she went to the palace to receive a banquet last time.

I didn't expect to make it really look good, it really relieves fatigue, and Zirong often needs to use it for relying on it.

Lu Zhi patted his stomach, as if he liked it, looked at him with a smile and lowered his eyes, and asked, "Is your back sore?"

Not long after he was squeezed, Zirong shook her head: "It's not sour, just sit like this for a while."

After finishing speaking, Zi Rong hesitated, stretched out her hand to grab Lu Zhi's hand, and called out in a soft voice: "Your Highness..."

"Huh?" Lu Zhi handed him his hand. From the looks of it, it was the flower demon who wanted to carry it.

Lu Zhi thought about it for a while, and then said, "You can't enter the bath, what if you slip?"

Before Zirong pouted, he continued, "But you can move a bathtub into the inner room, and I'll help you clean it."

Zirong didn't say whether it was good or bad, she lowered her head and slowly blushed.

Nine months into his pregnancy, he has difficulty moving and blushes more and more often.

In the evening, Lu Zhi ordered people to put two more braziers in the room in advance, and when the temperature heated up and people were about to sweat after standing for a while, he took Zi Rong's hand and Zi Rong walked in.

He first went to the cabinet to look for Zi Rong's obscene clothes, and the flower demon with a big belly was pulling the front of his clothes and standing facing the bathtub, his body was stiff, he didn't make a sound for a long time, and he refused to move.

Lu Zhi leaned over from behind, put his arms around the front and held his hand, and lowered his head to his ear and coaxed in a low voice, "Good boy, don't be ashamed."

Zi Rong trembled, Lu Zhi kissed his earlobe, and said with a light smile, "The water is going to be cold... besides, there is something on you that I haven't seen?"

The flower demon blushed, and finally let go of her hand with lowered eyes and turned her head.

He had already taken off his outer shirt just now, but the two layers of inner clothes were quickly taken off by Lu Zhi and hung on the screen.

Zirong stepped on a blanket with bare feet, holding the side of the tub tightly with one hand, lowered her head, and heard the sound of Lu Zhi twisting the handkerchief in the tub.The blood red spread to the back of the ears and neck, and Zi Rong didn't even dare to look at Lu Zhi in front of her.

Lu Zhi took a hot veil and pasted it on his skin, which seemed to be more delicate than before because of pregnancy, like suet jade, which makes people unable to move their hands away when it gets on it. Lu Zhi discovered it early on. up.

Zi Rong shuddered, feeling that the hot piece touched by Lu Zhi's fingertips made her heart tremble.He subconsciously held Lu Zhi's forearm, and snorted softly in his throat.

Lu Zhi didn't speak any more, and took the white and uniform body of his subordinate very seriously.Every time I wiped a small area, I changed a veil and slowly lowered it to the bulging stomach.

It's round and round, and it's not like the tender buns that looked a little bit like it was more than four months ago.

Seen from behind, the flower demon's back is still thin and thin, but the formerly flat place has bulged up, like a small hill, and there are two clever and mischievous little guys inside, they are the children of him and Zirong.

There was only the sound of water in the room, and the shallow breathing of the two people, but the air was getting hotter and hotter.

"Lu Zhi..." Zirong suddenly raised her head to look at Lu Zhi pitifully, her round eyes contained two pools of clear lake water.

Lu Zhi hummed, pulled the clean obscene clothes on the side and put them on for Zi Rong, and squatted down to help wipe his legs.

The handkerchief rubbed across the trembling thigh of the flower demon, and reached the place where it reacted.In order to prevent falling, Zirong was first hugged by Lu Zhi to sit on the soft stool, and then gently pulled out by Wen Gentle.

The flower demon grabbed Lu Zhi's shoulders squatting in front of him with both hands, and the water in her eyes finally condensed and fell out.

Lu Zhi wiped off the stickiness for him, first kissed the round belly hidden under the obscene clothes, and then straightened up to kiss his panting lips.

After tidying up and resting, Zi Rong was still too shy to see anyone.

In recent days, it was Lu Zhi who wiped his body for him.This situation has happened several times, and the flower demon did not get used to it, but became more and more embarrassed.

After Lu Zhi took a bath and came in, he saw that Zirong hid half of her face under the quilt, only showing a pair of eyes, looking at herself as she walked over.

"Aren't you sleepy?" Lu Zhi walked to the bed and leaned over to stroke the flower demon's hair.

Zi Rong didn't speak, she just moved in and let Lu Zhi go to bed.

As usual, Lu Zhi lay sideways facing him, stretched out his arm, patted his back gently, and coaxed him softly: "Sleep, close your eyes, and sleep."

Zi Rong nodded, put one hand on Lu Zhi's neck, and closed her eyes obediently.

After a while, the flower demon opened her mouth in a low voice and asked Lu Zhi, "Lu Zhi... Tell me, have I... changed, become a bit bad?"

He was with the jade pendant, and gradually understood what was there and what was not.I feel that in this kind of thing, it seems to be more reserved.So I was timid in my heart, and I shouldn't just treat it as emotion.

Lu Zhi held his hand and kissed it on his fingertips, and said softly, "What's wrong? Our baby is the best."

Zirong's long eyelashes flapped one by one, "But, I..."

"Rong Rong is like that because she likes me." Lu Zhi lowered his head and kissed the flower demon's forehead again, and asked, "Do you like me?"

Zi Rong nodded immediately: "I like it."

"Hmm." Lu Zhi touched his blushing face, "That's it."

Zirong listened to Lu Zhi's words the most, and when Lu Zhi said this, all the lumps in his heart disappeared, and after a while, he fell asleep soundly with Lu Zhi's arms in his arms.

But he fell asleep, smacked his lips, and muttered, "Like..."

In this way, two days seemed to be peaceful. During the day, Lu Zhi heard some gossip in Dali Temple. When he returned to the mansion at night, Yan Yu'an came in to answer. Sure enough, something happened in the palace.

The emperor hadn't been to Xijia Palace for a long time, but recently, perhaps to appease her pain of losing a son, he stayed in her room five out of ten nights, which seemed to be a sign of returning to favor.

But just last night, the maids guarding the door suddenly heard the emperor getting angry inside, and they didn't dare to move. It was after a while that the emperor called someone, and when they went in, they saw the teacup was broken on the ground, and Xijia was kneeling beside her, hugging her tightly. Holding his legs, weeping and begging.

The voice was so loud that people outside the house didn't have to prick their ears very long to hear that Xi Jia was asking the emperor to use Lu Sheng again.

She has two princes under her knees. No one would have thought that the prince, who has grown up to be in his twenties, would actually let her have a black hair to send a white hair to him at this time.

He hadn't paved the way for Lu Sheng before, and Xijia was terribly frightened besides the death of the prince.I just feel that I have worked hard for 30 years, and now I feel like I am going to make wedding clothes for others.

During this year, Duo Shi was demoted and punished by the emperor.Originally, the crown prince personally conscripted, so her joy was unnecessary to worry about.Thinking about it, the prince has done a great job, not only looks good in front of the emperor, maybe he can also help the family to build a backbone again.

Thinking of the plan in her heart when she sent the prince to the expedition, every night was like a boiling oil pan in the depths, and she couldn't breathe due to the pain.

She is not reconciled.

Yan Yu'an lowered his head to cover his smile, and said: "The kid who spread the news is very bad-mouthed. He said that the empress doesn't seem to be crying, but she is howling. Everyone in the palace heard it, and two of the people who live in her have just been elected Talented people, I was quite frightened."

Lu Zhi's expression remained the same, and he said, "I'm starting to go to the doctor in a hurry."

"That's not true." Yan Yu'an responded, "His Royal Highness, it's really..."

Yan Yu'an laughed and did not continue.

In the eyes of any normal person, if the prince is moderate, then Lu Sheng can only be described as stupid.

Lu Zhi said: "She is not far from going crazy. Although she is useless, you should still stare at it, the same as before. Only when people are crazy will they do things that surprise you."

Yan Yu'an hurriedly said: "I remember, Your Highness."

Xijia seemed to be half a lunatic already, but the incident didn't end with the emperor getting angry.

The next day, the Empress Dowager issued a decree, reprimanding Concubine Xijia for her immorality, deprived her of the title of Concubine Concubine, and demoted her to Concubine Jing, as an example to others.

The former court didn't respond much, as if they didn't know, but there were more and more papers suggesting that the emperor consider the candidate for the crown prince.

Everyone in Prince Yu's Mansion was overjoyed, but they didn't dare to discuss a word because of the rules. Even Lu Lin had a lot more smiles on his face.

The Duo family is down, there is not even a prince who can do anything, and who cares about the life and death of a concubine in the harem.

Even Lu Sheng, who had just been crowned the county king, didn't plead for his mother and concubine.Lu Zhiyuan expected this situation, but in the end he secretly sighed about the royal affection.

The sky in the capital has changed, Yan Yu'an dare not be careless, twice as many guards go out with Lu Zhi every day.

On the 28th, it was a March day with just the right spring.After hitting the palace gate and getting off the sedan chair, the guards followed Lu Zhi slowly towards the main hall.

A row of well-known and unknown flowers bloomed inside and outside the palace walls, one tree after another, pink and white, and it was very lively when they gathered together.

In the morning, the Minister of Rites mentioned King Yu's marriage.According to Lu Zhi's previous statement, the border has been set now, and the age is indeed here, so it really shouldn't be delayed any longer.

For the first time, the emperor responded directly. He gave Lu Zhi a few words of kindness, and turned around to let the Ministry of Internal Affairs begin to screen suitable women.

Lu Zhi knew that this day would come, so he declined a few words half-truthfully, and looked around him, but he refused to accept it.

The emperor looked at him with a half-smile for a while, Lu Zhi stood upright on the spot, the hall was not stuffy or hot, but for some reason, a layer of sweat broke out from his back, and his inner clothes were wet.

When he came down to court, instead of going to Chengdali Temple, he was directly sent to the imperial study by the emperor, bluntly saying that he had ordered Qin Tianjian to choose the day and let him take on the heavy responsibility of the prince.

It was the first time that the emperor talked to Lu Zhi for such a long time, from state affairs to food, and it was not until the sun went down that Lu Zhi finished his interview and left the door of the imperial study.

The two young eunuchs sent him out of Chengming Palace all the way, and waited for the young servant guarding the gate of the palace to greet him, and quickly put the cloak that was baked on the stove on him, and then bowed back.

Hurrying and noise are avoided in the palace, and the huge palace is quiet only the sound of the wind.The servant waited for a day at the gate of the palace trembling all over, but he still didn't dare to show his secrets in front of the eunuch. After putting Lu Zhi in a cloak, the eunuch turned around and left, then said in a hoarse voice, "Wang, lord... Grandpa Yan from the mansion came to the news, saying...saying..."

Lu Zhi stiffened his back, and asked with a suppressed voice, "What did you say?!"

The boy couldn't say anything, but the guard standing beside him knelt at his feet, lowered his head and said in a deep voice: "My lord, after you entered the palace, the side concubine was announced by the empress dowager, but housekeeper Yan stopped her. It didn't stop me. Yongning Palace is like an iron bucket, our people can't get in, and we can't ask a word. Up to now... It's been four hours."

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