Chapter 161 Do you want to be the queen?
Chapter 161 Do you want to be the queen?
When the news that Xiao Mu's leg had improved significantly came to Chuixing Garden, Xiao Jichen was accompanying Su Yunling to keep warm by the stove, roasting chestnuts and making tea.
Xiao Ji Chen didn't react much to this, but a faint smile appeared on the corner of his lips while he was peeling chestnuts for Su Yunling.
"Your brother's leg is almost healed, and this is your reaction?" Su Yunling chewed the soft, sweet chestnuts carefully, looking at him with a smile.
"I knew you could cure him, and I'm not surprised." Xiao Ji Chen poured her another cup of tea with a skillful and elegant gesture.
Su Yunling patted the chestnut powder on her palms, moved the cushion under her body forward, supported her chin with both hands, and looked at Xiao Jichen with interest.
"Tell me the truth, do you really want me to heal his leg? Aren't you afraid that he will compete with you for that position in the future?"
Xiao Ji Chen lowered his eyes and chuckled, then picked up the teacup and took an elegant sip.
"I really hope that day will come. Then I can take you to ride horses all over the world and live a carefree life. Wouldn't that be wonderful?"
Su Yunling frowned in confusion: "Didn't you say you wanted to be the superior? Are you willing to give up your position to Xiao Mu?"
Xiao Jichen put away the playfulness on his face and suddenly became serious, "Do you want to be the queen in the future?"
Su Yunling shook her head instinctively. She didn’t want to. With her personality, she couldn’t be the queen.
Thinking about being locked up in the palace for the next few decades and arranging for her husband to favor other women, she wanted to go crazy.
Her original plan was to accompany Prince Su's lineage to sit in that position, and then retire after achieving success.
So she never thought about becoming a queen.
"If you want that position, I will fight for it. If you don't want it, then I am willing to give up." Xiao Ji Chen said it lightly, but very seriously.
His calm tone was like a huge rock pressing on Su Yunling's heart. She seemed to feel his silent yet deep love for her.
"Are you...really willing to give up your kingdom for me?" She felt her heart beating wildly.
Xiao Jichen's lips curved into a relieved smile, "Without you here, I don't even need to sit on the throne."
Su Yunling reached out and held his face, smiling brightly.
"In fact, being an idle prince is better than being an emperor. You have the right amount of money, the right status, and the most precious freedom. As an emperor, you have to work hard for the country and the people every day. When you return to the harem, there are hundreds of women waiting to be favored. You can sleep with them until you die. In the end, there may be a few children who are not your own. It's miserable to think about it."
Xiao Jichen was amused by her words, and he lowered his eyes and chuckled twice: "My lady, you are right, so let Ziqian do this exhausting job!"
"Brother, you are so cunning!" An anxious voice came from outside the door.
The door was pushed open, and Xiao Mu was seen in a wheelchair outside, with snow still on his shoulders and head.
I originally planned to come here in person to thank my sister-in-law, but as soon as I reached the door, I heard my brother and sister-in-law's "plan".
"Why did you come here in the snow?" Xiao Ji Chen went over and pushed him to the fire.
Xiao Mu was still thinking about what the two had just said, and immediately made a solemn statement:
"Brother, you are the prince, don't push your own responsibilities to me. I will go out to explore the world in the future, please don't hurt me."
Xiao Jichen glared at him and said rudely: "Want to venture into the martial arts world? Give up your thoughts as soon as possible, otherwise your sister-in-law will stop your medicine, and you will crawl to go there?"
"I...you..." Xiao Mu's face turned red, but he still held his neck stiff and refused to lower his head.
"I won't do it anyway. My two legs have just recovered. If I really do that hard job, my third leg will be useless."
Xiao Ji Chen grabbed a chestnut and threw it at Xiao Mu's head.
"Watch your words in front of your sister-in-law!"
Xiao Mu's face turned red. The two brothers were used to speaking without restraint and for a moment forgot that there was a sister-in-law around.
"Anyway, don't try to shirk your responsibility, brother. I won't do that hard work."
"That's not up to you..."
Su Yunling didn't know whether to laugh or cry when she saw the two brothers were unwilling to suffer a loss.
Other brothers would fight each other to the death for the throne, but these two were doing the opposite.
But she was not surprised, because as early as the awakening plot, she knew whether the relationship between the two brothers could withstand the test of imperial power.
The book describes Xiao Mu as a young man with a dream of becoming a martial artist. However, Prince Su's rebellion failed, and Prince Su and his wife died tragically in prison. Xiao Ji Chen was imprisoned by Su Yueying, and because of his leg disability, he escaped temporarily under the protection of the death squad.
But in order to rescue Xiao Jichen, he fell into Su Yueying's trap and ended up being torn into pieces.
Su Yueying would resolutely treat Xiao Mu's leg because she knew that he was a man who would not bow to fame and fortune, but only bend for friendship, and would never do something like killing his brothers.
Seeing that neither of them was willing to give in, Su Yunling slammed the table.
"Alright, stop arguing. Father is only over 40 years old, so he can handle it for another 20 years. If you really don't want to, don't you still have the emperor's grandson?"
The two men looked at Su Yunling at the same time. Xiao Mu slapped his forehead and smiled:
"That's right! Why didn't I think of the emperor's eldest grandson? So... brother and sister-in-law, you have to work hard!"
Su Yunling's ears blushed as she looked at Xiao Jichen's fiery yet gentle eyes.
No, how did this happen to me?
"Ziqian, when your leg is healed, I will immediately introduce you to a beautiful lady from the capital to start a family. I will also prescribe a few of my exclusive fertility-enhancing secret recipes, and I guarantee that you will have two children in three years."
Xiao Mu's smile was uglier than crying. It seemed that his brother and sister-in-law were determined to harm him!
Shangjing——
Emperor Jing Zhao's health was deteriorating, and he was almost unable to get off the dragon bed.
But his mind was extremely clear. He had not sat on the throne for long, and the lineage of Prince Su was not dead yet. How could he be willing to leave this world like this?
So, he finally remembered Su Yunling, who he regarded as a disaster star and threw to the Prince Su's Mansion.
Her medicine and acupuncture had truly had an immediate effect on him.
"How is the situation... in Prince Su's fiefdom now? Has... has anything big happened?" He half-leaned on the soft pillow of the dragon couch and asked the spy who was sent out to monitor Prince Su.
"Your Majesty, several major events have indeed occurred in Yanbei City and Prince Su's Mansion."
Emperor Jing Zhao forced himself to cheer up, and a gleam of light appeared in his cloudy eyes.
"Who died?"
The spy lowered his head, his eyes dodging, "No... no one died."
"What's that?" Emperor Jing Zhao said a few words and then gasped like a cow.
The spy risked his life to report the truth: "On the night when Prince Su returned to Yanbei this time, it rained heavily in Yanbei City, ending the drought that had lasted for five months. Moreover, Yanbei, which had not seen heavy snow for several years, had heavy snow this year. Rumor has it... it's said..."
"say what?"
"It is said that the Crown Prince's Consort of the Su Palace is a lucky star sent from heaven. Her appearance not only solved Yanbei's urgent problem, but also helped the Second Young Master of the Su Palace, who had been disabled for many years, to stand up again."
Emperor Jing Zhao suddenly felt a dull pain in his chest and suddenly spat out a mouthful of old blood:
"Then the cripple, is healed...?"
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