Chapter 477 Gentle Country
Xiao Ce rarely took the initiative to explain: "I had something to do and couldn't leave, so I couldn't get back in time..."
"I know that His Highness has something to do. It's not serious. The next time His Highness celebrates his birthday, I will be with His Highness again. The future will be long." Qin Zhao stepped forward and took Xiao Ce's hand: "Your Highness looks very tired, no.
If you want to rest for a while before having lunch."
Xiao Ce saw that Qin Zhao didn't look angry. While he was relieved, he couldn't help but feel a little worried: "Aren't you angry?"
No matter what, yesterday was also his twentieth birthday and her first year in the palace.
"What's there to be angry about? I still know that it was Nian Su who called His Highness here. If there wasn't something important, how could His Highness not come back to celebrate his birthday?" Qin Zhao smiled and pulled Xiao Ce towards the bedroom.
Xiao Ce passively followed Qin Zhao, and soon he thought of business: "Where's Gu's birthday gift?"
Qin Zhao replied without sincerity: "I don't know where I threw it. When His Highness's birthday comes next year, I will prepare it for His Highness."
As soon as she finished speaking, Xiao Ce withdrew his hand: "Are you serious?"
"What's the point of lying about this kind of thing? His Highness's birthday has just passed, and the gift I prepared just happened to be lost. Maybe it's God's will. Anyway, these are external things, not very important. What's important is that Your Highness should be healthy.
Peace and joy." Qin Zhao looked at Xiao Ce, his eyes as gentle as water.
She took Xiao Ce's hand again, but this time Xiao Ce didn't avoid it.
It wasn't until the moment he lay on the couch that Xiao Ce realized that he was extremely tired.
"Lie down with me for a while." Qin Zhao was about to leave when he heard Xiao Ce's tired voice.
Qin Zhao followed Xiao Ce's instructions and lay beside Xiao Ce. The next moment, she was hugged into Xiao Ce's arms.
"I still feel regretful that I lost my birthday gift yesterday, and I am not with you on my twentieth birthday..."
His voice gradually faded away, Qin Zhao turned around and found that he had fallen asleep.
Qin Zhao looked at Xiao Ce's sleeping face intently and sighed silently, being a prince is not that easy.
So when he was the emperor in the previous life, she only saw his indifference as an emperor, but she didn't know that he was also very tired when he was the emperor. In the previous life, she would not put herself in his shoes, and always hoped that he would value her more.
More than his country and his people, and this is an unrealistic luxury.
Xiao Ce slept deeply and didn't wake up until the evening.
"Dinner is ready. Your Highness, would you like to get up and have dinner?" Qin Zhao's warm smile widened in front of him.
Xiao Ce looked at the sky and saw that it was already dusk: "I have slept for such a long time."
"Your Highness didn't sleep all night yesterday, and his body can't stand it anymore. Your Highness will have dinner first, and then get down to business after dinner." Qin Zhao said and asked Baoyu to pass on the meal.
Xiao Ce watched Qin Zhao busy for him, and suddenly felt that Qin Zhao was a good wife.
He also didn't expect that Qin Zhao's temperament could actually give him the feeling of being a good steward of the family.
When he saw the dishes on the table, he found that they were all his favorite dishes.
"Although I missed your Highness's 20th birthday yesterday, every day this year is His Highness's 20th birthday. This is how we live." Qin Zhao was smiling and helping Xiao Ce with food from time to time.
At this moment, Xiao Ce felt that he was being pampered by Qin Zhao. This was a very strange experience that made him uncomfortable, but it also made his heart warm.
I thought he should take care of her, but now it's the opposite. It's Qin Zhao who takes care of him.
After they had eaten and drank enough, Qin Zhao sent Xiao Ce out of Wangyue Residence.
Xiao Ce walked a few steps, then couldn't help but stop and looked back at Qin Zhao.
In the past, he never understood that men would immerse themselves in the gentle countryside. When he met someone like Qin Zhao, he didn't want to deal with political affairs. He just wanted to stay with her all the time and live a leisurely life.
But after all, he is a rational person and would not do such an insane thing.
Qin Zhao watched Xiao Ce blend into the night before turning back indoors.
"That seat is not easy to sit in either." Qin Zhao muttered to himself.
Baozhu and Baoyu looked at each other, and they knew that the position Liangdi mentioned was the dragon chair. In the future, His Highness the Crown Prince will also sit on the Dragon Chair. By then, will someone harm His Highness the Crown Prince?
"If His Highness the Crown Prince sits in that position one day, do you think he will change?" Qin Zhao slowed down.
She thought of the Xiao Ce who had become the emperor. That Xiao Ce was cold and unkind, and seemed to have no emotions. The temperament of such a man was still different from the Xiao Ce of this life.
"No matter how things change in the future, Liangdi will always be the person His Royal Highness cares about the most." Baozhu replied firmly.
His Highness the Crown Prince is not a person who changes his mind when things change.
Qin Zhao smiled: "I also hope that His Royal Highness will never change."
But this is almost impossible.
After becoming the emperor, Xiao Ce had more things to take care of and greater responsibilities.
The news that the Yangxin Hall had replaced a group of slaves did not spread in the harem, but it was true that the emperor's health was gradually improving, which showed that someone had indeed secretly poisoned the emperor.
As for who it was, Qin Zhao didn't gossip.
Even if she asked, Xiao Ce would not tell her these things.
On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, someone came from the banker's house. It was said that Zhuang Qing's marriage had been decided.
Xiao Ce was shocked when he received the news. He thought there would be no problems with this matter, but he didn't expect that Zhuang Qing and Fan Yuan would be privately engaged for life.
Qin Zhao was also shocked when he received the news, "How could this happen?"
She thought she made it clear in her letter, why did Zhuang Qing choose to travel to Tiger Mountain even though he knew there were tigers in the mountains?
"Gu Ye finds it incredible." Xiao Ce remembered that it was years ago that Qin Zhao sent a letter to the banker. In less than a month, things still failed to develop as Qin Zhao thought.
"My servant did deliver the letter into Miss Zhuang's hands." Zhang Jixiang knew the problem was serious and hurriedly explained.
Qin Zhao's mind was in chaos.
After a while she asked: "Has the wedding date been set?"
Xiao Ce nodded and said, "The wedding is scheduled for next month."
Qin Zhao wiped her face, she didn't expect it to happen so quickly.
"I'm leaving the palace to go to the banker."
She wanted to meet Zhuang Qing, maybe she could stop the marriage before she got married.
Xiao Ce had another opinion: "Now that the marriage has been decided, if you suddenly regret it, it will be detrimental to Qing'er's reputation..."
"That's better than marrying someone who doesn't have you in mind and living an unhappy life in the future." Qin Zhao interrupted Xiao Ce.
She thought that as long as she didn't get married, there would be room for change.
"But you have to know that the reputation of your daughter's family is more important than anything else. After this marriage is broken, it will not be easy for her to negotiate a good marriage in the future." Xiao Ce thinks this is also true.
"But I know clearly that Qing'er is entering a pit of fire, but you want me to do nothing. I can't do it." Qin Zhao has made up his mind: "I have thought about it and decided to leave the palace."
(End of chapter)
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