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Princess Rui suddenly found that Princes Rui was a little uneasy recently, and she didn't want to say it after asking Princess Rui. Princess Rui simply ignored him. Princess Rui entrusted Chen Xi to Zhao Duan to enlighten him. Although Chen Xi heard Princess Rui's words, she was a little unrealistic for a while, so Princess Rui did not let him come back. Chen Qi was accompanied by Baozhu, and his temperament was better, and sometimes he would go out for a walk with Princess Rui.
In fact, after all, King Rui has been in the capital for so long. No matter how confused he is, he found that the situation seems to be different from what he imagined on the road. Although he asked him to go to the conference hall every day,... King Rui felt that these people did not seem to regard him as the future king. King Rui did not want to hide it from Princess Rui, but thought of the promises he made to Princess Rui along the way. I don’t know what to say at this time. At night, King Rui rested in Princess Rui’s room. After all, he did not bring any of those concubines. Unless King Rui went to sleep in the study, there was really no other place to go.
Princess Rui was asleep. Prince Rui suddenly sat up and said, "I remembered it!"
"What's wrong?" Princess Rui yawned, opened her eyes and looked at the excited King Rui.
King Rui turned his head and looked at Princess Rui and asked, "Is Dongdong really the child of Chu Xiuming and Jin Yatou?"
"Of course." Princess Rui looked at King Rui with some doubt and said, "Have you forgotten? Jin Yatou was produced in the capital."
King Rui was stunned for a moment, "But that child did not grow up by our side!"
Princess Rui stood up and looked at Prince Rui suspiciously and said, "What does the prince mean?"
King Rui didn't know whether it was excitement or something else, but his expression was a little distorted, "Dongdong is probably not the child of his daughter and son-in-law."
Princess Rui's eyes twitched, and she looked at Prince Rui and didn't know what to say, "Your Majesty can't say anything nonsense."
King Rui said with a serious look on his face, "It's not a random talk. I always think Dongdong looks familiar... I suddenly thought about why I think Dongdong looks familiar."
Princess Rui looked at Prince Rui in confusion. Prince Rui swallowed and said, "Dongdong looks like the youngest son of the prince! He is not my grandson but my nephew!"
"Prince... Even if the prince's youngest son is alive, he is still twenty-five or six now." Princess Rui didn't know what to say.
King Rui frowned and said, "That is the son of the youngest son of the prince."
Seeing that King Rui was serious, Princess Rui asked, "Why did the prince say that?"
"The youngest son of the prince... looks the most like the prince." King Rui thought for a moment and said, "Because of this, the father also liked this grandson very much at the beginning, and he even hugged him with his own hands..."
Zhao Duan actually told Princess Rui that Dongdong looks like a prince, but Dongdong is indeed the child of Chu Xiuming and Shen Jin, so he was not surprised at this time, but lowered his eyes slightly and said, "Prince, if there is really a prince's and grandson, the throne will not fall to you."
King Rui pursed his lips and finally spoke, "Actually, I think... neither my son-in-law nor my younger brother meant that I was the emperor."
Princess Rui looked at Prince Rui and said nothing. Prince Rui said, "I think they have other plans."
"Yeah." Princess Rui thought of what Chu Xiuming said before leaving and said, "Because there is indeed a prince and grandson."
"What?" King Rui looked at him in surprise.
Princess Rui said, "It's not something, but someone else."
"How did you know?" King Rui asked in a deep voice.
Princess Rui said, "After I come, Zhao Duan told me." Princess Rui is not stupid. It is impossible to tell Princess Rui that she has always known about this, so it is difficult to act. "I don't know how to tell the prince."
Although King Rui suspected that Dongdong was the prince’s grandson, he was just suspicious. When he really knew that there was such a person, he was stunned, "Was the son-in-law lied to me?"
"Prince, the son-in-law is just talking about the comfort of the prince in the border town." Princess Rui said softly, "Does there be promised something else?"
King Rui shook his head, and Princess Rui spoke, "I think neither my brother nor my son-in-law knows how to speak, so I quietly told me and asked me to tell the prince, but... I don't know what to say."
"Let me think about it..." King Rui said at a loss.
Princess Rui nodded and stopped talking. In fact, she didn't know whether it was right or wrong to tell King Rui at this time. It was just arranged by Chu Xiuming. She made King Rui mentally prepared step by step, and would not be too excited at that time. Princess Rui glanced at King Rui's expression and agreed with Chu Xiuming's arrangement in her heart.
King Rui was in a complicated mood. He felt like he was deceived and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the responsibilities were finally no longer on him. Whether it was victory or defeat, it had nothing to do with him, but he felt faintly lost...
Princess Rui did not persuade her anymore, so she lay down to rest. When she woke up the next day, she found that King Rui was still a little absent-minded and didn't care. She asked him to think about it himself, but someone sent a message to Zhao Duan.
In the capital, since the empress dowager said that Shen Jin would not have to go to ask him in the morning, Shen Jin did not mean to get up early and wait, but she did not sleep until the sun was 30 o'clock, and it was more like when Chu Xiuming was not around when he was in the capital.
After Shen Jin finished his breakfast, he took An Ning and An Yi to the empress dowager's side. The empress dowager was already in the Buddhist temple at this time. After someone reported it, Shen Jin went in by himself. The empress dowager was dressed very well and was twisting Buddhist beads in her hand. She asked gentlely to Shen Jin, "Why don't you sleep more?"
"Grandmother of the Emperor." Shen Jin smiled and greeted the Queen Mother, saying, "I don't want to sleep very much."
The Empress Dowager waved and asked Shen Jin to help her stand up, then said, "How is your father?"
Shen Jin looked at the Empress Dowager with some doubts, and then looked at the people serving the Buddhist temple. However, the Empress Dowager smiled and reached out to pat Shen Jin's arm, "Don't worry."
"Oh." Shen Jin then smiled and whispered, "The father and mother should have arrived in the border town, but I haven't seen them."
The Empress Dowager estimated the time in her heart, nodded, and sat down with Shen Jin and said, "It's good that way, I'm sorry for you."
"Don't feel wronged." Shen Jin looked at the Empress Dowager and spoke.
The Empress Dowager looked at Shen Jin and said, "You are a good child." The Empress Dowager also knew why Shen Jin came. In her heart, it was natural for King Rui, so she was inevitably a little more tolerant of Shen Jin, "There will be a blessing in the future."
Shen Jin pursed her lips and smiled, with a little shyness, but no explanation, "Grandmother, I have something to bother with the Emperor."
"What's wrong?" asked the Queen Mother, "but what is missing?"
Chen Jin shook his head, "I'm pregnant."
The empress dowager frowned and looked at Chen Jin, and saw Chen Jin's expression as usual, "I discovered it as soon as I left the city, but... if I didn't come, I'm afraid my father would be in danger." She touched her stomach with her hand and told the child a month ago.
Chen Jin gently stroked his stomach with his hand, "I kept this matter hidden from my husband, and only kept the maids around me. After I arrived in the capital, I asked the maids to return to the border city and talk to my husband."
The queen mother narrowed her eyes and said, "You child, you are pregnant and still take risks."
Chen Jin shook his head, "My father is so good to me, I can't see that there is danger in my father." He paused and said, "What's more, the father really... is good for me."
If Chen Jin had not told the maid to tell Chu Xiuming this, the empress dowager would probably choose the easiest way to persuade Chen Jin to fall into this child, but now it cannot. Moreover, the empress dowager did not suspect that Chen Jin was telling a lie. If King Rui ascended the throne, then Chen Jin would not say that he would go from a princess to a princess, because this time when he came to Beijing as a hostage, I am afraid that King Rui would remember this daughter's goodness.
If Chen Jin said that Chu Xiu knew that she was pregnant and asked her to come, the empress dowager would not believe it. "This matter..." The empress dowager looked at Chen Jin's belly, "You child, since that's the case, this is also my great-grandson, no matter how you do it." King Rui's life and future were in Chu Xiuming's thoughts. If he really couldn't protect this child, he would probably have another setback, so the empress dowager would not let Chen Jin get into trouble now.
Chen Jin heard this and said, "Then I will trouble my grandmother."
The Queen Mother shook her head, "You have been resting in the house these days, and only said that the road was bumpy and the body was weak. I will summon the Imperial Doctor to show you."
Chen Jin smiled and nodded, "Okay."
The Queen Mother said, "Along the way... go back and rest first."
"Yes." Chen Jin then left with a smile, An Ning and An Yi were waiting for her outside.
When Chen Jin left, the Empress Dowager's face darkened. The nanny who had been standing in the corner said, "Empress Dowager, do you need an old slave..."
"No." The Empress Dowager understood what the nanny meant. Not to mention just being pregnant, even if she was born, as long as the empress dowager didn't want to see the child, there would be countless ways to make the child disappear. It was not that she didn't want to, but that she couldn't, because Chen Jin took the lead. If Chen Jin had been on guard against not telling her without telling her, then she would be fine after she knew it. Now Chen Jin said it openly and added a layer of protection to herself and the child, which was Chu Xiuming and King Rui of the border town. This made the Empress Dowager have to protect this child and also to protect Chen Jin.
He let out a breath slowly. I don’t know if Chen Jin thought of this method or who told her. The queen mother twisted the Buddhist beads and said, “Go and arrange it and let Doctor Lin…”
After returning to the house, An Ning asked in a low voice, "Madam, is it really good to tell the Queen Mother like this?"
"Even if you want to hide it, how long can you hide it?" Chen Jin leaned on the soft couch, holding Anfeng Tea and slowly drank it, "There is only the empress dowager in the harem that the empress dowager doesn't want to know, and there are things that she can't know, let alone we live in the empress dowager's palace, and we can't hide it when we show our worries."
An Ning also understood, "Will the Queen Mother..."
Chen Jin touched her belly and lowered her eyes slightly and said, "At least not in a short period of time, and..." Chen Jin suspected that the Empress Dowager might find a way to take her out of the palace. After all, there is still the queen staring at her side, and the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the Empress is a bit subtle, but it is certain that these two people don't care much about Emperor Cheng now.
Are everyone betrayal? Chen Jin pursed his lips and said, forget it, these things have nothing to do with her. Now it is not easy to contact the outside world in the palace. After leaving the palace, some things need to be arranged, so that all hope can be entrusted to the queen mother. The queen mother can even give up her own son, let alone a granddaughter like her.
Chapter completed!