Chapter 18(1/2)
Chen Qingqing felt that she was dreaming, and she couldn't understand why she had just entered the palace, so why was she involved in Li Zhi?
"Qingqing, Qingqing..."
Chen Qingqing turned his gaze woodenly.
Chen, who was kneeling in front, tilted his head and whispered to his daughter: "Go and receive the order."
Receive the order?
Chen Qingqing remembered that Emperor Qingde had just given her marriage to her Yu Lizhi.
She clenched her lips, her eyelashes drooped, and her body was stiff.
The father-in-law Xuanzhi had been waiting for a long time. Seeing that Chen Qingqing seemed reluctant, the father-in-law Xuanzhi coughed. After thinking of the imperial concubine, he reminded him warmly: "Seventh Miss, come and receive the imperial edict. I have to go back to the palace to report to the emperor."
Chen Qingqing still didn't move, and her plump and pink lower lips were bitten white.
Chen's heart suddenly stumbled. Seeing her daughter's appearance, she seemed very reluctant to marry Li Zhi. Could it be that these elders chose Li Zhi wrongly? Her daughter actually wanted to enter the East Palace even more?
The eldest lady also saw that Chen Qingqing was reluctant, but the trouble of the third wife was her fun, so the more Chen Qingqing didn't want to accept the order, the eldest lady insisted on provoking her: "What are you doing while Qingqing is standing there? Do you want to resist the order and disrespect? Resisting the order is a serious crime. Do you want to implicate our whole family?"
Chen Qingqing's eyelashes moved slightly. After a while, she slowly raised her eyes and looked at her mother. Tears were filled with almond eyes and would fall off at any time.
That helpless and aggrieved look made Chen's heart shatter.
Chen Qingqing stopped looking at her mother, lowered her head and walked forward, slowly raised her hands.
The eunuch announced the eunuch put the re-rolled imperial edict in the little girl's fair hand.
After the ceremony, the eldest lady smiled and asked the father-in-law to go to the hall for tea.
Chen Qingqing couldn't see the eldest lady, but the eldest lady's smiley voice pierced her head like a needle. She was as irritable as a tide that flooded her. Chen Qingqing grabbed the imperial edict and ran towards the third room as if she ran away.
Chen didn't care about anything and was in a hurry to chase his daughter.
The eldest lady glanced at the embarrassing back of the mother and her lips curled up.
Chen Qingqing ran back to her yard. The jade butterfly and jade cicada were shocked by the sudden appearance of the master. What made them even more frightened was that the master came back crying!
Before the two of them could react, Chen also rushed over panting, and the mother and the other one entered the inner room one after another.
Jade butterfly and Jade cicada looked at each other and stood outside silently.
Chen ran into the inner room and saw his daughter pounced on the bed and was crying.
"Qingqing, please listen to your mother's explanation!" Chen quickly rushed to the edge of the bed, sat down to help his daughter.
Chen Qingqing's face was buried in the quilt, and she was stiff and refused to get up.
Chen had no choice but to explain the whole story quickly, and finally said helplessly: "Qingqing, they are two of them, one is romantic, a group of wives and concubines, and the other is self-disciplined and has a life-saving grace to you. Now you are dissatisfied with Li Zhi, do you still want to be a concubine for the prince?"
Chen Qingqing cried, "I would rather be my concubine!"
Li Zhi is a cruel, ruthless and shameless person, so she doesn't want to marry him!
Chen didn't believe it: "Qingqing, tell the truth to your mother, do you really want to be the prince's concubine?"
Chen Qingqing didn't say anything anymore. She didn't want to have any of them.
At this point, Chen finally understood that his daughter did not like the prince nor Li Zhi.
"Qingqing, Li Zhi has saved you, why are you so disgusted with marrying him?" Chen leaned over and looked at the broken question in his daughter's ear.
Chen Qingqing turned around with red eyes and thrust and said, "Where has he saved me? Cao Xiong used me as a hostage that day, he, he..."
As he met his mother's concerned face, Chen Qingqing suddenly couldn't continue to say the words afterwards.
First, Empress Chen took a fancy to her as the prince's concubine, and then Concubine Chun asked for marriage for Li Zhi. For her, Emperor Qingde had already refuted Empress Chen's face. Even if his father and grandfather were willing to ask Emperor Qingde to take back the order, Emperor Qingde could not disappoint his favorite Concubine Chun. The Shen family was obsessed with it, which would only arouse the emperor's anger.
In other words, her marriage with Li Zhi has been confirmed. Now that she tells the truth about Koizumi Temple that day, she has no use except to make her parents angry and then blame herself when she gets angry.
Thinking of this, Chen Qingqing cried even more sadly.
Chen's hair was almost griefed and sat aside and asked constantly: "Qingqing, what's going on?"
Chen Qingqing just cried. After she cried enough, she reluctantly found a reason: "I am only fourteen, he is twenty-four, he is so big..."
It turned out to be for this!
Chen was so amused that he patted his daughter's shoulder and said, "Ten years old is not too far away, but the emperor and the imperial concubine are old."
Chen Qingqing was unwilling to give up: "Why should I compare with the imperial concubine?"
"Okay, okay, no comparison." Chen quickly followed his daughter's words, "What are you not satisfied with him except for his age?"
Chen Qingqing said hatefully: "I don't like him, and I feel disgusted when he smiles!"
Chen was stunned. He was so handsome that he was so handsome that he smiled better than his husband. How could he feel disgusted?
Chen Qingqing continued: "He is just a stinky businessman. He can only reach the top with the concubine's sister, and he is not worthy of me at all!"
My daughter was so arrogant. Chen couldn't help but say, "Qingqing, before your grandfather became an official, the Shen family farmed for generations..."
Chen Qingqing heard this and sat up angrily: "Does mom dislike our Shen family?"
Chen hugged his daughter and smiled: "What nonsense? Oh, my heart and soul, tell the truth to your mother, why don't you like Li Zhi?"
Chen Qingqing pursed her lips and said nothing.
She didn't want to say it, because anything she said was futile.
"Marry it!"
As soon as he turned around, Chen Qingqing pounced on the quilt again, holding the quilt tightly with his hands, wishing he could snatch the quilt out of two holes.
In the East Palace, when he learned that his concubine had changed from a cousin to a cousin of Jiarong, and her cousin was given a marriage to Li Zhi, the Crown Prince Zhao Ji was so angry that he overturned the table on the spot and went to the Central Palace to raise an army to question the crime with a calm face.
"Mother, it's fine if you don't choose Qingqing, why should you instigate your father to give her to Li Zhi?"
As soon as the palace people retreated, Zhao Ji stared at Queen Chen and questioned, his tone of disrespect.
The son treated her like this for a woman. Queen Chen was so angry and laughed: "The prince really wants to know? Then go and ask the imperial concubine!"
Pure Concubine?
Zhao Ji felt aroused in his heart and frowned and asked, "What does the mother mean is the imperial concubine making a joke?"
Queen Chen was too lazy to pay attention to her son, so she lowered her head and continued to trim her flowers and plants.
The confidant palace maid next to Queen Chen explained to the master thoughtfully: "Your Highness, the emperor has clearly agreed to the empress, but when he fainted and became pregnant, the matter changed drastically."
Li Zhi, that stinky villain!
To seize the hatred of beauty, Zhao Ji punched the table.
Queen Chen didn't even look at it and said sarcastically: "If the prince has nothing to do, he can leave."
Zhao Ji then remembered that he had wronged his mother and hurried over to apologize: "My mother, my son is confused. If you offend me, please forgive me."
After all, Queen Chen sighed and said to the buds in front of her, "It's over now, it's useless to be angry. Jiarong is your relative's cousin. When she enters the palace, you should treat her well, so as not to lose your uncle and aunt's heart."
She had offended her father and third brother in the trial. If her son treats her niece more harshly, she would completely push away all her relatives.
Zhao Ji was reluctant to accept it.
Jiarong's cousin's appearance is not eye-catching in the palace and his temperament is not pleasing. He would rather change his concubine.
It has been three days since the marriage decree was given, Chen Qingqing locked herself in her boudoir and went nowhere.
She couldn't resist the order, and she didn't want to worry her parents too much, but Yunmai was the only thing Chen Qingqing could do at the moment, making her smile, but she couldn't do it.
Chen Tingwen and his wife were worried when they saw their daughter being so disgusted with Li Zhi. That day, Li Zhi was chosen for their daughter's sake, but how could they expect Li Zhi to be the same?
"It's all the blame for the queen and the prince!"
It was late at night and Chen couldn't help but complain to her husband that the culprit was the one who was responsible.
Chen Tingwen dared not say a word. It is indeed a blame on the queen, but the half-sister who has too high status is so high that he cannot make decisions for his daughter.
Before dawn the next day, Chen Tingwen went to court in disgrace. When he went out, he met his father. Chen Tingwen took a look and found that the old man's eyes were dark and he seemed to have not had a good sleep last night. Last night, the old man rested in Tongyuan last night, right?
When Chen Tingwen thought of his biological mother showing the old man's face, he felt relieved. His wife blamed him, and he wanted to blame the old man. At that time, his brothers were so strict that they would be scolded if they had eaten an extra piece of meat, but he neglected his teaching to the queen.
"The third brother, why don't Qingqing want to marry Li Zhi?" When he went out, Chen Qu asked his son coldly.
Chen Tingwen had to bring out the excuses listed by his daughter, such as Li Zhi, who was old and from a businessman.
Chen Qu's old face sank: "Choice of a son-in-law depends on the other party's character and talent. What does it have to do with age? He also has a background. Your aunt is also the daughter of a businessman. Could it be that she even dislikes your aunt?"
Chen Tingwen lowered his head: "What my father said is, I will definitely advise Qingqing when I look back."
When Chen Qu thought of Song's cold face, he vented his anger on his son: "You are so arrogant that you are not strict in teaching."
Chen Tingwen listened to the lecture honestly, but replied to the old man in his heart: You are strict in teaching, so how did you teach the queen like this?
The father and son went to court. After dawn, a rare guest came to the third room.
Chen came out in surprise: "Auntie, why are you here?" He said that and held Song's arm.
Song has been a concubine for Chen Qu for more than 30 years and has never surpassed the rules. Today, for her poor granddaughter, Song decided to make an exception.
"You are busy with yours, I'll go and see Qingqing." Song said to his daughter-in-law with a smile.
Chen said ashamedly: "My daughter-in-law is incompetent, you are tired and troubled."
To be continued...