Chapter 147: The Overlord of the World vs. Female Zhuge Military Advisor 4
Chapter 147: The Overlord of the World vs. Female Zhuge Military Advisor 4
Fairy palace with fairy tiles and magnificent palace with jade bead curtains.
At this time, Princess Chaoyang was pacing back and forth in Fengzao Palace where Queen Lin was.
In front of her stood a row of palace maids in green attire, each holding a tray filled with gold, silver, and jewels.
Shen Changyin picked among these glittering golden objects.
For some reason, I feel that my sickly cousin, the future sister-in-law of the emperor, may not like these things.
She said casually, "My brother has returned to the capital, and he is busy discussing matters with my father and uncle. The marriage issue has to be put aside. It is useless for you to worry, mother."
Queen Lin, who was sitting on the main seat, was radiantly beautiful. Although she was over forty years old, she was still graceful and elegant. She was dressed in a phoenix robe, dignified and graceful, like a luxurious peony that should be blooming in the nine-story palace.
Seeing that she looked unconcerned, Empress Lin smiled and shook her head, reminding her, "Your brother's Crown Princess has already been decided, and your father has been worried about your choice of consort recently. If you have someone you like, you must tell me as soon as possible."
Shen Changyin frowned when he heard this, waved his hand and asked someone to take the things away.
"Bring another batch."
Empress Lin's eyes were filled with tenderness. Seeing that she was unwilling to speak, she said, "It doesn't matter if you don't have a consort. It's just that I think you already have a lover..."
Tonight's palace banquet is a celebration of the prince's victorious return to the court.
The other princes naturally fell behind.
At the palace gate, the second prince Shen Yuanjia was wearing a blue robe and waving a folding fan in his hand.
Waving a fan in the snow is very strange.
His biological mother was Concubine Qin. Although she was not the queen, she also had a noble status.
A young eunuch knelt beside the carriage, serving as a footstool for him to step on to get off the carriage.
At the palace gate, the car next to his was also quite good, a BMW carriage with red satin curtains, and a faint scent of plum blossoms emanating from it.
It was obvious that he was from a prominent family, but he looked very unfamiliar with him.
"Whose family does this belong to?"
The young eunuch waiting on the side said cleverly: "Your Highness, that is the Chun family."
"Oh? The Prime Minister and his wife have arrived?"
Shen Yuanjia looked surprised and stepped into the palace.
The young eunuch bent over and followed behind him, carefully explaining, "Your Highness, it's not the Prime Minister and his wife, it's his eldest daughter."
"Isn't the one from the Chun family always sick?"
"He said he had gotten much better in the past few days. When he arrived at the palace gate, the head aunt of the Empress's side came to pick him up with the warm sedan chair that the Empress had given him."
……
When Chun Nian entered the palace, she naturally went to Fengzao Palace to pay a visit to her aunt, the Queen.
However, just as he arrived at the gate of Fengzao Palace, he ran into Lin Xian and Shen Yuanxi who had been found.
Lin Xian stood in the snow, wearing a snow cloak, holding a painted sparrow and gold-thread sleeve incense burner in his sleeves. He was very respectful, but he was not a good person when he opened his mouth.
"Aunt Ning, is that short-lived ghost Chun Nianren back? No one told me!"
Shen Yuanxi was so frightened by his words that he felt a chill down his spine. He pulled him back and almost covered his mouth.
It's a cold winter day, but nothing is as cold as what this guy said.
Aunt Ning, as the head of Fengzao Palace, is the Queen's confidant. She knows that Queen Lin loves her nephew Lin Xian very much, but she cannot neglect Chun Nianren for him.
"Young Marquis, Miss Chun has just recovered from a serious illness. If something happens to her, it will be difficult for you to explain to the Queen and the General."
Lin Xian just sneered, staring at the dazzling snow, and then his eyes moved to the warm sedan chair that Chun Nian was riding in.
He knew that the Chunlin and Lin families and even the royal family had let this short-lived girl come back just to make her the Crown Princess.
The daughter of the prime minister, has an aunt who is the queen, and an uncle who is a general of the first rank.
In terms of family background, among the girls from the Pingjing aristocratic families, there is indeed no one who can surpass my cousin.
But so what?
He is a sickly person and I don’t know how many years he can live.
She was manipulated like a chess piece by her family, and she must die as the Crown Princess.
Is it for the prosperity of the family from generation to generation?
nausea!
"If you are still seriously ill, why are you coming back to Beijing in the middle of winter? Is your cousin so anxious to get married that she doesn't even want to live anymore?"
His words were really heartbreaking. After going through all the troubles in Pingjing, no one dared to say this except him.
The palace maids and eunuchs didn't care about the cold weather and all knelt on the ground.
Aunt Ning cast a stern look at them.
There is only one meaning.
If any word of what we said today gets out, you'd better watch out for your heads.
The scene suddenly became cold, but a cough was heard from the warm sedan, followed by a woman's weak voice.
"Hey, Aunt Ning, help me out."
The palace maids kneeling on the ground lowered their heads even lower, not daring to peek at the face of the noble lady.
Aunt Ning responded by standing outside the curtain of the sedan chair and raised her hand to hold up the slender jade hand that was sticking out from behind the curtain.
The palace maid lowered her head and walked forward to pull open the embroidered curtain.
The beauty had a melancholy look on her brows, and was wearing a plain crane cloak. Her skin was whiter than snow, and her figure was delicate.
A jade hairpin tied half of her black hair, with the remaining hair spread out in front and behind her slender shoulders. Her eyebrows were like willow smoke, her lips were stained lotus color, and her breath was like mist coming out of the mountains.
When she stood still in the snow, her slender hands were lightly folded, as slender as peony stems.
For a moment, there was complete silence in the snow, and even breathing seemed to stop there.
Only when the faint coughing sound of shortness of breath was heard again did Shen Yuanxi wake up from his surprise.
"Cousin?"
Shen Yuanxi is the youngest son of Queen Lin and Chunnianren's cousin.
He was wearing a festive red robe and a dark green cloak, and his eyes were bright and clear. Compared with Lin Xian, who had a weird temper, he was obviously much more lively.
Chun Nianren tightly grasped the handkerchief with her slender fingers and covered her lips with her hands while coughing.
"Ahem, Fifth Prince."
She coughed for a while before she felt better and looked at Lin Xian.
"My uncle wrote to me earlier, saying that you have stopped taking medicine for nearly a year. Now it seems that your old illness has not been cured, and you have a mouth disease. You are seriously ill. It is better for you to seek medical treatment in time."
Lin Xian had just come back to his senses from her face when he heard these words and almost vomited blood.
Mrs. Lin had a difficult labor when giving birth to Lin Xianshi. She gave birth to a son with great difficulty, but the child had some congenital defects.
This congenital deficiency was reflected in his stature.
Although Lin Xian was not five feet tall, his height was not noticeable among adult men.
The old illness has not been cured yet, and now a mouth disease has appeared.
The sentence "Chun Nian Ren's old illness has not been cured" is heartbreaking.
Yet she still felt it was not enough.
Lin Xian was not a vengeful person. He was just indignant that his family had put their power on her and asked her, a woman, to shoulder the family's mission.
The heart is good, but the words are harsh.
What he didn't understand was that although the Chun and Lin families were now prosperous, the future of the family was not a thousand years of prosperity, but a bottomless abyss.
If he could only express his dissatisfaction with words, what would he do if the Chunlin and Lin families were in danger of overthrow in the future?
She was just thinking about how to avoid the palace banquet tonight, and now she might as well teach him a lesson.
So she looked at him dimly, and suddenly covered her mouth and coughed heart-wrenchingly. She pinched the handkerchief with her jade fingers so hard that her joints turned pale, which looked scary.
Under the watchful eyes of the crowd, her cough gradually subsided and she leaned weakly on the maid, her slender fingers trembling and her handkerchief falling into the snow.
When I looked closely, I found that he was coughing up blood.
Now everyone present turned pale with fright.
"Call the doctor quickly!"
Aunt Ning was startled, but she had to calm herself down and help Chun Nian into the warm sedan.
Lin Xian stood in the snow and saw everyone rushing to send Chun Nian into Fengzao Palace.
Everything seemed to happen in a flash.
Without waiting for him to express his opinion, Shen Yuanxi pulled him and complained bitterly.
"It's over, it's over. You've made my cousin so angry that she's vomiting blood. You'll definitely be punished by your uncle when you go back!
Think about it quickly, how are you going to explain this to your mother later!"
Lin Xian pulled back his sleeves and said coldly, "This is my business. What does it have to do with you?"
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