After the banquet was over, Concubine Xian stood up, and the maid beside her hurriedly stepped forward to hold her hand, and another maid immediately handed over a jacket and put it on her body.

A gust of cold wind blew by, her face became paler than paper, the hand on the servant girl's arm was as cold as a living person, even the servant girl who was holding her shivered from the cold.

Empress Zhen Yuan noticed from the side, and asked worriedly, "Your sister's body seems to be worse than before, have you taken any medicine recently?"

Concubine Xian didn't buy it, she just glanced at her lightly, and said stiffly, "Thank you, Empress, for your concern, this concubine is in good health."

As she said that, she didn't seem to want to have a long chat, she blessed Empress Zhen Yuan, turned around and left.

Zhen Yuan watched her leaving back from behind her, squinted his eyes, and rubbed his fingers unconsciously.

Concubine Xian was escorted back to the palace by a few maidservants. When she walked out of Qianqing Palace, she suddenly turned her head and looked at the people behind her, "Why are you following me if you don't go back to your Chengfu?"

Chu Rui lowered his eyes, his face sank like water, "I have something to say to my concubine."

Concubine Xian frowned, and waved her hands impatiently, "Follow me."

The two walked around to a relatively remote place. Concubine Xian gathered up the jacket on her body, and waved to the maid beside her, "Go, look at it."

Chu Rui looked at the maid who left, turned his head, and asked in a deep voice, "Mother, how are you doing these days?"

Concubine Xian sighed, rubbed her hands together, without even looking at him, "Speak up, don't beat around the bush, you're not like that."

After hearing his words, Chu Rui clenched his fist, stepped forward, lowered his voice and cut straight to the point, "Why did you do this?"

Concubine Xian raised her head and gave him a strange look.

Chu Rui took a deep breath, suppressed his anger, tried to stay calm and said, "Mother, why didn't you discuss with me before doing these things?"

Concubine Xian sneered, raised her eyebrows and looked at him, "Tell you? Is there any use in telling you? You only read your broken books all day long. Tell me, what can those broken books give you? Fame and fortune? Money? Status? Can I give it to you?"

Chu Rui gritted his teeth, lowered his voice and said, "You don't have to do it every time"

Every time I talk to her, she looks so aggressive and can't communicate at all.

Concubine Xian nodded, "Okay, then I won't talk about this, then tell me, why are you angry?"

Chu Rui frowned, "I don't have any."

"It's because of that child, isn't it?" Concubine Xian interrupted him with a cold face.

"Do you really think I'm blind? You go to Tingzhulou every day as soon as you go to court, and even spend a lot of time not doing some serious business, but hanging out with a person who is of no use at all?"

Chu Rui warned sharply, "Mother Concubine."

Concubine Xian took a deep breath and nodded, "Okay, do you think my words are not nice? I admit, that child is indeed beautiful and smart, but think about it, in this palace, there is no one who is scheming Nothing, don't be fooled by him!"

Chu Rui turned cold, "He is not the kind of person you said."

Concubine Xian glared at him, "It's up to you, let's wait and see."

She waved her hand impatiently, "Okay, you go back, what I did this time was too blatant, there is no way as good as the queen, that woman will be useful to us in the future, that's it Bar."

As she spoke, she waved her sleeves, turned around and left without hesitation.

Chu Rui stood in place, watching her leaving back, suddenly felt powerless.

The lights in the palace flickered. Chu Rui was going out of the palace. For some reason, he walked and walked. When he realized it, he was already standing at the door of Tingzhulou.

Hearing that there were two little eunuchs guarding the gate dozing off at the gate of the bamboo building, leaning on the gate of the palace like a chicken pecking at rice, they didn't notice Chu Rui's arrival at all.

The guard who had been following Chu Rui whispered aside, "Your Highness, the Second Prince, if you don't leave the palace gate, you will have to release the key."

Chu Rui raised his head, watched and heard the tall and dense bamboos in the bamboo building that crossed the palace wall were rustled by the wind, and the sparse bamboo shadows fell outside the palace, casting a patch of mottled, unconsciously sighed.

At this time, Chu Yu had probably fallen asleep.

"Let's go."

He turned around, and before he had taken two steps, there was a squeak, and the palace door behind him suddenly opened.

A man in brocade clothes came out of the palace, and the eunuch behind him took out a silver coin and threw it to the eunuch at the gate.

The two eunuchs accepted it gratefully, and when they turned their heads, seeing the second prince looking at them coldly, they were so frightened that they almost threw out the money.

The gentle and elegant young man showed a little surprise just right, but quickly put away his surprise, smiled and nodded at Chu Rui, "Second brother."

He looked back at the plaque on Tingzhulou, hesitated for a moment, and asked, "If the emperor doesn't go back to Cheng's mansion, why did he come to Yu'er?"

Chu Rui looked at his smiling face with a gloomy face, wishing he could go up and punch his pretending face.

Chu Qing looked unaware, hooked the corners of his mouth gluttonously, and licked his lower lip. His lips were as red as rouge, and his voice was lazy and deep.

"Since the emperor has no intention of chatting with the emperor, then I will not bother, and I will go first."

Said, he really didn't care about Chu Rui anymore, turned around and left.

Hearing that the two eunuchs in Zhulou who had just received the bribes were caught upright, kneeling tremblingly on the ground, with their heads down, not daring to speak.

For a long time, they only heard the sound of footsteps going farther and farther. The two of them raised their heads, only to find that Chu Rui had strode away, and didn't care about them at all.

The two looked at each other, finally let out a breath together, and wiped the cold sweat from their foreheads.

"Emperor Brother, don't you know if you and I are siblings?"

Chu Yu blinked. Originally, she just kept looking at him. After hearing this sentence, she burst out laughing unexpectedly.

He smiled beautifully, a look that Chu Qing had never seen before, which made Chu Qing suspect that he was hallucinating, so he was not deceived by him when he collected himself.

Chu Yu didn't resist anymore, and lay on the couch comfortably, "So the emperor knows everything."

Chu Qing hooked the corners of his mouth, "You clearly know that the little genius is someone I sent, but you still asked him to check the record book of the respect office. After thinking about you, isn't it?"

Chu Yu smiled.

Chu Qing looked at him obsessively, "Your concubine, Zhaoyi, entered the palace on the second day of the first lunar month of the Yin year, was diagnosed by the imperial physician on the sixth day of the third month of the Yin year, and gave birth to you on the second day of the seventh month of the Yin year. The imperial doctor diagnosed by my mother has long been expelled from the palace, and this matter was suppressed by my father, but a jealous concubine in the harem knew about it, and it was rumored that you are not my father's heir."

He had investigated this matter clearly a long time ago. He originally wanted to destroy these records, but because the records of the respect room have not been interrupted for nearly a hundred years, and they are checked every year, if a part is missing, it will definitely be When he noticed something, he didn't act rashly.

Later when Chu Yu moved into Tingzhulou, he knew that he must want to find out about this matter, so he specially sent the young talent to him, but who knew that he just gave the young talent a sweeping errand, and there was no movement at all.

It wasn't until after seeing Chu Aotian that day that Chu Yu secretly ordered the young talent to secretly check the records.

Chu Yu turned her head, looked into Chu Qing's long and narrow eyes, and suddenly asked an irrelevant question, "Brother Huang, it wasn't the first time we met in the East Palace that day, was it?"

Chu Qing was stunned for a moment, then bent his eyes and asked, "Oh? Yu'er remembered?"

Chu Yu nodded, and curled the corners of her mouth in a self-deprecating manner, "Probably because I was young and didn't remember much, and then I vaguely remembered that a year before my mother and concubine passed away, I met His Royal Highness the Crown Prince once."

Chu Qing looked nostalgic, closed his eyes sweetly and painfully, and nodded, "That's right, on the fourth day of February in the next year, I met you who was brought out by the palace maid in the Royal Garden. You were only seven years old at that time."

That day, a maid from the Huanyi Bureau brought clothes over. Seeing Chu Yusheng's cuteness, reciting a book alone, with no one around, she moved her mind and wanted to coax him out to play. Chu Qing walking in the garden.

Such a small child is so thin that a gust of wind can blow him away, and even the thinnest court lady can lift him up with one hand.

But he doesn't look like a little monkey like other children. His skin is white, and his big eyes are smart and simple. It seems that he can't see any particularly strong emotions from those eyes, like a pair of gentle eyes. of lake water.

At that time, Chu Qing was suffering from a headache. Originally, he just wanted to take a look at the scenery in the imperial garden to relax, but he happened to meet the young Chu Yu.

The little palace maid only saw Chu Qing from a distance, left Chu Yu and ran away in a panic, leaving only the seven-year-old Chu Yu staring at this person she had never seen before.

He turned his head and glanced at the maid who ran away, as if he didn't quite understand why the eldest sister who had just said that she wanted to take him to play suddenly ran away.

Chu Qing asked the maid beside him, "Whose child is this?"

The maid next to her didn't know and shook her head.

Chu Qing walked up to Chu Yu, knelt down and patted his head, and asked softly, "Which palace are you from?"

Chu Yu looked at him straight, and asked crisply, "Are you my brother?"

Chu Qing was amused by him, and the headache didn't seem so serious for a moment, he nodded, "Probably so?"

Such a big child who can run around in the harem is probably the child of some concubine with low taste who sneaked out to play.

Seeing him smiling, Chu Yu laughed too, with two dimples on her face, "My concubine mother told me not to sneak out or talk to people I don't know, but I ran out, and it was very special." want to talk to you."

He blinked mischievously, "It's okay not to listen to my concubine sometimes, right?"

As soon as Chu Qing finished saying this, before Chu Qing could react, a small soft body covered him, trying hard to hug him, "The concubine mother said, when I hug her when she is unhappy, she will hug her." I will become happier, then I will hug the emperor brother, and the emperor brother should also be happier."

It turned out that when he saw Chu Qing was frowning all the time just now, he didn't know that it was because of a headache, but thought he was in a bad mood, so he wanted to comfort him.

Chu Qing's body stiffened for a moment, he stretched out his hand, and slowly hugged this little fairy-like child.

The two hugged for a long time, Chu Yu pushed Chu Qing, "Brother Huang, I'm going back, if I go back late, my concubine will be upset."

Chu Qing let go of him, "Can I let Brother Huang take you back?"

Chu Yu shook her head, "No, my concubine doesn't like to meet outsiders. Although the emperor is not an outsider, I'm afraid that my concubine will be unhappy."

Chu Qing rubbed his hair, hooked the corners of his mouth, "Okay, then can you go back alone?"

Little Chuyu nodded with a serious face, "Of course, my memory is pretty good, and my mother and concubine often praise me for being smart."

This half sentence is inseparable from the child of his mother and concubine, so deeply remained in his mind.

From then on, I don't know if it was because Zhaoyi's jurisdiction over him became more severe, or because her condition worsened and Chu Yu no longer wanted to come out to play, but Chu Qing never saw him again after that.

He touched Chu Yu's face, "You have grown up, you are as gentle as you were then, but you are more attractive than before, everyone likes you so much, my love is probably not worth it to Yu'er Mention."

Chu Yu pursed her lips, "The emperor can't bear it."

He didn't realize at that time that his unintentional words and actions would provoke such a difficult person. If he knew, he would not pay attention to him even if he was killed.

After chatting for a long time, Chu Qing was more than half sober at this time.

I don't intend to stay any longer, and my original interest has faded a lot at this time.

He stood up, straightened his clothes, and took a meaningful look at Chu Yu, "Young Brother, rest well. It's getting late today, so I won't bother you. I'll come to talk to you sometime later."

As he spoke, he laughed again, took another deep look at Chu Yu, and turned to leave.

Passing by the door, he bumped into Lan'er who was wandering outside the door and didn't dare to go in. He turned his head and glanced at the cowardly maid, "Take care of him."

Lan'er bit her lower lip, lowered her head, "Yes."

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Chu Qing: Yuer was also a little angel when she was a child!

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