Prince Be Careful: Concubine is Prickly - Chapter 406

When Xue ronghua woke up in the morning, Chu Zongge had disappeared, leaving only a handkerchief on the counter. It’s painted with Suzhou embroidery. It’s two or three jasmines. She picked up her handkerchief and sniffed at the tip of her nose. Sure enough, a smell of jasmine rushed into my nose and refused to disperse for a long time.

Maybe he was afraid of leaving too sad, so he left without saying a word. Xue ronghua rolled up his handkerchief and stuffed it into his sleeve. She was covered with a faint fragrance of jasmine. She dressed and walked out of the door. But Chu Chengxun was found sitting in the corridor not far away.

“Why did you get up so early? I saw you drink a lot yesterday and thought you were going to sleep for a long time today.” Xue ronghua gathered his hair. “What’s the matter with you coming to me?”

Chu Chengxun coughed softly, “the emperor has left in the morning. Did he tell you?”

“Told me.” Xue ronghua showed a clear smile. “Naturally, he told me that he would leave again.”

Chu Chengxun nodded slightly. “I’m just afraid that if you wake up and don’t see him, you’ll worry about where he went. So I’ll tell you here, you know. I’ll go back to make up my sleep now.”

“You’re here for something else,” Xue ronghua stopped him. “Are you going to hide something from me about our relationship? Just tell me. It’s summer. I discussed with the emperor that we should go back to the palace at the end of autumn.”

“Will you go back in autumn?” Chu Chengxun’s complex eyes fell on her swollen stomach. “Well, actually, it’s not that I have something to find you, it’s Xiyu.”

Xue ronghua frowned, “what kind of things will Xiyu find me?”

After listening to the conversation between the two people behind the door for a long time, Xi Yu slowly walked to the queen and saluted, “empress, I can’t serve you in King Xiang’s house.”

“What are you going to do?”

“The slave wants to go to the front line of the state of Qin to fight with Xirong,” Xiyu paused, flashing a cold light word by word. “The people of Xirong are so greedy that the slave can’t watch the mountains and rivers of the state of Qin crushed by Xirong’s iron hooves.”

Xue ronghua looked at him in surprise. “Aren’t you from Xirong? Why are you willing to fight with Xirong for the state of Qin?”

“I don’t think I’m from Xirong for a long time. When I returned to the state of Qin with the king of Xiang, I naturally became a person from the state of Qin like the king of Xiang,” Xi Yu sighed gently. “Empress, I want to ask you to help me.”

“If you want to go to the front line to fight with Xirong, just tell the prime minister. I don’t have any opinion. The battlefield is always the most dangerous place. The prime minister is still waiting for you to come back,” Xue ronghua looked at him in some wonder. “Do you have anything else to find me? I don’t know where I can help you?”

“I know that the queen was a famous general mu of Qi in her previous life, so I want the queen to teach me tactics,” Xi Yu lowered his eyes. “We can’t be attacked behind our backs. It’s a very dangerous thing.”

Chu Chengxun was stunned and immediately stared at him, “when you told me you wanted to see the queen, you never said you were going to learn tactics.”

“The slave is remembered now,” Xi Yu looked at her piously. “I hope the queen can help the slave. If the slave doesn’t defeat Xirong in the front line, he will never come back.”

Xue ronghua was full of awe, but she was infected by his ambition. She lowered her eyebrows and thought carefully for a while, looked at him and said with a smile: “come with me. I led troops to defeat Xirong several times in my previous life. I know some of their generals, especially their different armies. Come here and I’ll tell you one by one.”

Seeing that Xiyu followed her to the study, Chu Chengxun sat on the corridor and couldn’t stand it. He stood up and passed with them.

Chu Changqing waited until sunset to see Gu Gu coming back from the outside with a tired face. He quickly stopped her on the way and asked, “where did you go and come back so late? Do you know that general Kur and I are very worried for fear of any trouble in the harem of the state of Qin? You are princess Xirong, not princess of the state of Qin.”

“I know. Since they are from Xirong, they don’t dare to do anything to me. Besides, the place where we live is not the harem. The harem is lived by the empress. No one can live in the harem except her.” Gu Yi pursed his lips into a line and couldn’t see his emotions in his eyes. “Also, you don’t have to worry about me. I’m playing with Linglong.”

“You don’t want to lie to me,” Chu Changqing grabbed her wrist and narrowed her eyes dangerously. “Kang Linglong was ill today and didn’t come out of the palace at all. Where on earth did you go and didn’t tell me the truth?”

“You don’t always want to treat me like a child. I’ve grown up long ago,” Gu Tao frowned, and a trace of anger flashed between his eyebrows. “You have to show me that I can go wherever I want.”

Chu Changqing’s eyes widened, his anger rose in his heart, and he dragged her into his room with greater strength.

Gu Gu kept struggling under his hands, but in vain. She cursed again and again: “I’m Princess Xirong. Who can you treat me like this?”

“Just because I am your only lover in this life,” Chu Changqing pressed her ear and said, “where have you been?”

He slammed the door and she pressed it on the wall. Gu Gu didn’t even dare to breathe. He stared at him with two round eyes. “You care where I went. You sent me to this shady place, but you just want to complete the mission in your heart and ask for credit in front of your father. You didn’t love me at all. I’m just a stepping stone for your success.”

“What are you talking about? You’re crazy,” Chu Changqing’s eyes turned scarlet. He glanced at her with a sinister look on his face. “Did you run to Xu Hanfei? These are what he said to you?”

“You don’t care where I went,” Gu Gu thought for a moment, and simply admitted it all. “Yes, I did go to Xu Hanfei. He was a good man. He didn’t look like what you said. Besides, you forced him to come to the state of Qin.”

“You were really persuaded by his sharp mouth. Your long relationship with me was that you immediately rebelled after spending a few hours with him.” Chu Changqing’s face became ferocious. “I look at you like this. I really regret sending you to the state of Qin. How can you be the queen of others like this.”

“I told you long ago that I don’t want to be his queen, I don’t want to be the queen of Qin, I want to be your wife, and I only have you in my heart,” Gu’s eyes turned red and his voice slowly lowered, “I know what you mean. You want me to make contributions and sacrifices for Xirong, but I don’t want to be the victim of my father’s desire for profit. I want to pursue my own happiness.”

Chu Changqing was silent for a long time, raised his eyes and looked at her quietly, “what did Xu Hanfei say to you? How could you become like this? I didn’t agree with you. You become the queen of the state of Qin. I’ll accompany you to live in the back palace of the state of Qin until the emperor died. Isn’t it enough?”

Gu Gu’s eyes were wet, “not enough, not enough. I want to be with you all the time. I don’t want to marry the emperor. I don’t love him at all. I really have no way to be with people I don’t love.”

Chu Changqing rubbed his eyebrows upset. “What did Xu Hanfei say to you and why did you become like this? We have agreed that this is what your father asked you to do. As the princess of Xirong, you have enjoyed glory and wealth. This is the time for you to contribute to the country.”

Gu Gu’s eyes are as red as a rabbit. “Do you want to take your credit for successfully persuading me to marry the emperor of Qin, and then return to my father and become his right hand, and then you can smoothly marry other women to have children, and I live the most miserable life in the cold harem of Qin thousands of miles away?”

“Why do you think so? Why don’t you believe me? We are one heart. Don’t you forget,” Chu Changqing clenched his teeth. “I must know what Xu Hanfei said to you.”

“It’s not that I don’t believe you, but I don’t believe that the relationship between us is so strong that people will change. In the past, it was the case between father and queen mother, and we may also,” Gu Yi breathed out faintly. “Forget it, it’s useless to talk to you more. I’m too happy to play outside. I’m really tired. I want to go back to my room to sleep.”

Gu Gu resolutely pushed away his hand and walked out of the house. Behind him came Chu Changqing’s low voice, “it seems that I didn’t accept Xu Hanfei at the beginning. He really isn’t a good man. Now he’s coming to destroy the relationship between us.”

“This is not all his fault. If our relationship is extremely strong, there is no way for anyone to come,” Gu’s eyes slowly darkened. “But there has been a crack between us for a long time. You don’t repair it but just ignore it. In the end, it can only be like this. Even if Xu Hanfei doesn’t say it, I will break out when I marry someone I don’t love.”

Chu Changqing asked patiently, “when are you going to do this?”

“How I wish the emperor would unswervingly love the queen and have no interest in me, so I don’t have to be melancholy here,” Gu said with a bitter smile on his lips. “But you will be very disappointed, won’t you?”

Chu Changqing looked away and hid his emotions in the dark. “Don’t be impulsive. You are responsible for the whole Xirong.”

“You see, you’ve begun to impose responsibility on me again,” Gu Chua smiled. “Why is it not the prince who bears the burden? They also live a life of luxury, but don’t have to make the same sacrifice as me. Isn’t it extremely unfair?”