When the wise king heard this, his face was full of resistance.
He said stubbornly: "Concubine, I don't agree.
If you insist on forcing me to marry a wife, then I will most likely disappoint you, and I may never marry for the rest of my life!"
Hearing this, Concubine Jing was so angry that she almost fainted. She pointed at King Xian, covered her chest, and said: "Liu Yun, you, how can you never marry for the rest of your life?
Wouldn’t it be cold to my heart and your father’s heart to be like this?”
The wise king said seriously: "Mother, concubine, once people have more things, do they become greedy and want more?"
"What do you mean?"
Concubine Jing's face turned pale.
The wise king said: "When I was sick and on the verge of death, you just hoped that I would be healthy and alive.
Other than that, there is nothing else you can ask for.
Now that I'm in good health, you're going to force me to do something I don't want to do?"
Concubine Jing's eyes flickered.
Yes, when the wise king was ill, she only expected him to live. How could she dare to hope for this?
Now that his illness is cured, she has more extravagant wishes. She hopes that he will get married and have children, so that he can continue the Chu family's family lineage and continue the family tradition.
The wise king said: "Moreover, concubine, you always say that you want to find someone with a prominent family background and a good match for me to be my wife.
But in my opinion, when looking for a partner, you should not only focus on the other person’s family background and identity, but also the person.
No matter whether the other party is the daughter of a high-ranking official or a wealthy woman, as long as I don't like her, I will not marry her.
On the other hand, if I like the other person, no matter whether she is a high-class person or a maid or a servant, I will marry her without hesitation.
Under my previous conditions, even a maid was unwilling to marry me. Now that I am in better health, who am I to be picky?"
"Liu Yun, what happened to you before?
Except for being sick, you were excellent in everything before, so you don’t need to belittle yourself, my mother-in-law has always thought you were very good."
Concubine Jing said.
The wise king raised his eyebrows: "That's just what the mother and concubine thinks. I was a dying person, what good can I do?
Who is willing to marry a sick man like me?
Also, although Liu'er is Princess Li's god-sister, I can see that Princess Li loves and protects her very much. How could she bear to let Liu'er marry me as my concubine? You look down on her too much!"
Concubine Jing thought for a while and said, "You are right.
But I don't mean to look down on her by asking Liu'er to be your concubine. I just think that your concubine must be able to help you.
However, if you don’t want to marry anyone else and just want to marry Liu Er as your concubine, I, I can compromise!"
In her opinion, it would be good if her son was willing to marry him. How dare she ask him to marry anyone?
If her son is only willing to marry Liu'er, she can also make Liu'er his concubine, which is better than never marrying him for life.
King Xian glanced at Concubine Jing helplessly and said: "Concubine, you have misunderstood me. I don't want to marry anyone else, nor do I want to marry Liu'er.
If I marry someone else if I don't love them, wouldn't I be harming them?
This makes me unhappy and others are unhappy too, so why bother?"
"But now you want to seize the world. If you don't have the help of your heirs and the woman's family, how can you seize it?
You have no heirs, so what’s the use of taking over the world?”
Concubine Jing said anxiously.
The wise king said, "Mother and concubine, it's still early for these things, and it's still early for the issue of heirs.
I'm still young, let's talk about it later."
Seeing his resolute attitude, Concubine Jing felt angry in her heart, "Are you still young?
You are no longer young. Among the princes of your age, which one does not have many wives, concubines, and children?
Didn’t Princess Li say that your body needs to be recuperated for five years, and that you will be fine after five years?
Since you are much better now, why don't you take this opportunity to make early plans to have a few children for yourself?"