Chapter 1146
After Nuanyu retreated, Chu Yijie pestered Xia Zihan to talk about her affairs in Jiangning City, while Chu Jingqi wanted to test their chess skills.
Chu Yijie pouted and looked at him pitifully, "Dad, let my brother play chess with you first. When my brother loses, can I play chess with my father again?"
"How do you know I will lose?" Without waiting for Chu Jingqi's consent, Chu Yixuan glared at his brother who was trying to vent his anger. Chu Yijie curled his lips and said, "We have only been playing chess for a long time, and we can win against daddy?"
He is self-aware, right?
Dad always plays chess vigorously and unexpectedly, and every time he defeats them miserably within ten moves.
It makes no sense that your chess skills will decline if your father is away from home for more than a month?
Chu Yixuan snorted with a look of reluctance and glared at his younger brother, "The battle has not even started yet, but you are boosting the enemy's morale and destroying your own prestige. How can you win this battle?"
"What kind of enemy? This is daddy." Chu Yijie curled his lips and pounced on Xia Zihan, "Mom, tell me, will daddy win? Or will my brother win?"
The corners of Xia Zihan's mouth twitched, and his face was covered with black lines.
Was she shot while lying down?
Was he dragged into a trap by his younger son?
Saying that Aqi will win will hurt the eldest son's heart, but if you say that the eldest son will win, this is obviously telling lies with open eyes, right?
Xia Zihan looked at her eldest son who was looking at her expectantly, and then at Aqi who had an evil smile on his face. She laughed and said, "Jie'er, come on, let's go to the kangwei, mother." Let me tell you a story. Let your father and your brother play chess on this kang. Whoever wins, let him buy us roast duck.”
Chu Yijie's eyes lit up, he hugged his mother's neck and giggled, "Okay, let me buy Baiwei roast duck, I want to eat it."
Chu Qing had already set up the chessboard at the end of the kang, and Xia Zihan hurriedly hugged her youngest son and slipped away to the end of the kang. The two of them happily ate snacks while talking about the commotion outside.
Chu Jingqi and Chu Yixuan also played chess seriously.
Before leaving Beijing, when Chu Jingqi played chess with her two sons, she could beat her son with just a little thought.
But this time, he spent a lot of time and half an hour to win his son's three pieces.
In the past month or so, his son's chess skills have improved rapidly. Although he lost to his father, he was highly praised by his father, which made Chu Yixuan, who was hurt by the loss, not feel so uncomfortable.
Xia Zihan said to Chu Jingqi with crooked eyebrows, "Aqi, if you win, you can't win in vain. You have to buy Baiwei roast duck for us three mothers and children to eat tomorrow."
"Dad, I don't want spicy food, I want fresh food." Chu Yijie muttered along with him.
It was a rare occasion for them to have fun together with their parents. The two usually indifferent little buns seemed particularly excited, especially Chu Yijie. They wanted to jump on the roof and lift the roof off.
After playing until midnight, the two little buns were carried back to their dormitory by their parents.
Back in the room, Chu Jingqi and Xia Zihan briefly washed themselves and then sat on the bed to talk.
Chu Jingqi said, "Dad sent Fox to investigate the emperor's affairs. He said he wanted to start with the people around the emperor." "Dad suspects that the people around the emperor are trying to harm the emperor?" Xia Zihan frowned.
She lay half on Chu Jingqi's chest, holding Chu Jingqi's waist with one hand habitually, listening to his strong heartbeat in her ears, and smelling the faint grassy scent emanating from his body.
Chu Jingqi loved her physical dependence on him. He held her hand tightly and said in a deep voice, "The emperor married the queen and doted on the queen so much that he no longer even let the concubines sleep with him. In this case, once the queen gives birth to a legitimate son, the concubines will lose the chance to compete for the throne.”
Therefore, if you want your son to inherit the throne, it is best to kill the emperor before the queen gives birth to a legitimate son.
As long as the emperor dies and the queen does not give birth to a legitimate son, then one of several concubines can only be chosen to inherit the throne.
Among the several concubines, the natal family of Concubine Xiao and the eldest prince’s mother-in-law were the most powerful. Therefore, Chu Xuanyu ordered the fox to investigate these two concubines first.
"Aqi, how true do you think dad's guess is?" Xia Zihan always felt that things should not be thought in this direction.
Although the concubines who can occupy a place in the harem are scheming and ruthless, they will fight for it at all costs, even if they are broken into pieces, in order for their son to inherit the throne.
However, none of them are fools. Who would be so stupid as to kill the emperor first when their son is only a few years old and they don't know whether he can raise him or even who will take the throne after he takes over?
You must know that harming the emperor is a major crime that annihilates the nine clans. It is a capital crime. If it is found out, not only that the son will not be able to inherit the throne, I am afraid that both myself and my mother-in-law will be implicated, and there will be no recovery.
Who would be stupid enough to take such a big risk, just for the sake of a throne that will go to who knows who?
Xia Zihan thought about it and thought it was impossible.
Chu Jingqi said solemnly, "No matter how true it is, you have to investigate to know the result. Recently, because of the emperor's illness, the concubines have become restless, especially the Xiao family, who are even preparing to support the fifth prince to ascend to the throne. ”
After hearing this, Xia Zihan sneered angrily, "Although the emperor's illness is very strange, it is not necessarily hopeless. People from the Xiao family dare to curse the emperor. They don't take the emperor seriously." , How can the Second Prince leave them alone?"
Chu Jingqi said, "The Xiao family are just dying grasshoppers. They can't live for a few days. The emperor's illness is still more important. Tomorrow, my father will go to Huguo Temple in person to ask Master Wuchen to come down and help the emperor see a doctor."
"It's true that the emperor's illness is very strange. I always feel that it is very evil. It seems that it is not a normal illness." But it doesn't seem like he is possessed by an evil spirit, because the emperor is conscious and it doesn't seem like his soul has been replaced by someone.
Xia Zihan remembered that she had been possessed by an evil spirit and the evil spirit wanted to rob her body.
That time, luckily the evil ghost didn't take away her body. Otherwise, she really didn't know if she would be taken away by ghosts after losing this body. After all, she was not a living soul, but a ghost.
She has died once.
"Why are you sighing?" Chu Jingqi heard the sigh of the person in his arms. He kissed her on the forehead, tightened his hands and said, "Go to sleep, wife, you don't have to worry about these things, just let them go." Now that my husband is feeling better, you can coax your son at home. Our son is over two years old, but we spend very little time with them. Please spend time with them while we are at home.”
"Yeah, I got it."
Xia Zihan put aside the bad thoughts in his mind and burrowed into his arms, not forgetting to mutter, "Don't forget to send someone to buy Baiwei roast duck for your son tomorrow. I heard from my mother that my son has recently been Fall in love with Juxianglou’s roast duck.”
(End of chapter)