AWB Chapter 411 The Emperor and Empress Talk!
Chapter 411 The Emperor and Empress Talk!
While Gu Jingzhi and his wife were talking, Emperor Wen and Qiao Shuwan, who were in the palace, also sat together.
Qiao Shuwan was holding her little daughter beside her. She was her and Gu Jingzhi's daughter.
Emperor Wen couldn't say whether he liked or disliked this unexpected daughter. It was probably because his relationship with Qiao Shuwan gradually turned into that of the most familiar strangers!
Qiao Shuwan is now in her thirties, but she has always lived a life of luxury. Time seems to have left no trace on her face. She is still as charming and graceful as when Gu Jingzhi first met her.
Especially after being given the title of Queen, her temperament became even more apparent.
Since Ningzhou, she has given her whole heart to Gu Jingzhi. After being crowned as queen, she felt more and more lonely in the palace. The idea of being abandoned in the past lingered in her mind again, so for a while, she and Gu Jingzhi were particularly crazy.
As smart as she was, she naturally knew that something bad would happen, so she set up a plan to let Emperor Wen stay overnight in her palace, but that time Emperor Wen fell into a coma.
The birth of the little princess did not arouse any suspicion.
After learning that it was a princess and not a prince, Qiao Shuwan felt relieved.
Frankly speaking, although she desperately wanted to give Gu Jingzhi a child of their own, she had never thought of changing the ownership of the Great Xia Empire.
After she became pregnant, she was anxious for a while. She worried that if it was a prince, would she want this child to inherit the throne in the future?
After all, this child’s biological father... definitely has the ability to protect him in the future.
However, both her and Emperor Wen's sons were her biological children. Moreover, no matter how many reasons she had, she understood that she was a traitor after all.
Therefore, due to her inner conflict, she wanted to compensate her other two children.
Fortunately, God seemed to understand her prayers and gave birth to a princess. From then on, she had no worries at all and loved her little daughter even more.
Compared to the still bright and beautiful Qiao Shuwan, Emperor Wen looked a little old.
He is only thirty-six years old, but looks like he is in forty, and he looks a little old.
Emperor Wen looked at his queen with complicated eyes. After he ascended the throne, he was full of vigor and vitality. As a king who maintained the status quo, although he did not have great military achievements, thanks to the various reforms of the previous emperor in his later years, the entire Daxia was rejuvenated with a different vitality.
It was true that he gradually distanced himself from Gu Jingzhi, but he always had a bottom line in his heart, which was to listen to the late emperor. Gu Jingzhi could be suppressed but he must not be used, nor could he be completely disappointed!
Gu Jingzhi is not only the person who can help him suppress the aristocratic families, but also the person who can protect Daxia for at least a hundred years.
He made this very clear.
However, rather than being wary of Gu Jingzhi, he harbored resentment, which gradually turned into dislike.
This contradictory mentality gradually alienated the emperor and his ministers.
Gu Jingzhi always acted like a subject in front of him, but he had never felt the awe that a subject had for his lord from Gu Jingzhi. Gu Jingzhi was actually right, he could never forget the events in Ningzhou.
It's not just because of Gu Jingzhi's attitude towards him as a minister at that time, but also... probably because of the incident when he was assassinated!
After returning to Beijing, he recovered well, but he gradually realized that the injury he suffered seemed to have shortened his lifespan.
Perhaps sometime late at night, when it was quiet and no one was around, he would be able to admit that it was his own fault, but the king could not be wrong, so this mistake could only be the fault of Gu Jingzhi.
Even in bed, he could clearly feel the exhaustion caused by physical exhaustion. How could he not wonder if he had any hidden illness?
After returning to Beijing, he had been very cautious and even gave up sex, for fear that physical exhaustion would trigger his old illness.
Without a good body, would his father pass on the position to him?
He couldn't guarantee it.
He didn't breathe a sigh of relief until everything became a certainty.
When he stayed overnight in Qiao Shuwan's palace, he was very confused after waking up. Why was Qiao Shuwan, who had a distant relationship with him, like this?
However, Qiao Shuwan's reason was very simple. The rift between husband and wife made her, a woman, too lonely in the deep palace. She wanted to have a child to raise personally!
Perhaps he felt that the other two children were growing up and could not always be with Qiao Shuwan, so the excuse of wanting a child to accompany her did not make Emperor Wen suspicious!
In fact, Qiao Shuwan’s words were not an excuse. She really wanted a child, but she just didn’t think of giving birth to one for Emperor Wen!
Now, the palace maids and eunuchs in Qiao Shuwan's harem are all secret guards. To put it bluntly, if Emperor Wen and Qiao Shuwan ever fall out, if he wants to see Qiao Shuwan, it will all depend on whether Gu Jingzhi agrees.
Qiao Shuwan's pregnancy seemed to have opened up Emperor Wen's Ren and Du meridians. He was no longer worried that his physical condition would affect his rule over Daxia, so in the past few years, he took in some new concubines.
In the end, my body wouldn't allow it, so I took some medicine to stimulate my body's potential.
It was fine at the beginning, but it got out of control a year ago, and it made Emperor Wen realize that his body really couldn't hold on for much longer.
He spent a year laying the groundwork and today he planned to have a frank talk with Qiao Shuwan.
However, the couple who were once in love seemed very unfamiliar this time.
Qiao Shuwan looked at Emperor Wen and asked casually, "Your Majesty, did you come to my place today just to take a look?"
The cute little girl sitting in her arms looked at the adult in front of her curiously. Although she was only a three-year-old girl, she vaguely knew that her father did not seem to be that close to her.
At least, he rarely comes to see it in recent years, not even as often as his uncle!
If she had to say who she likes the most, besides her mother, it would be Aunt Chen. Every time she comes, she brings her a lot of food and toys. And the brothers and sisters of the Gu family also always play with her!
Emperor Wen noticed his wife's alienation and the strangeness in his child's eyes, and his heart suddenly turned cold.
He pondered for a moment and said, "Queen, I probably won't live much longer!"
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Ah!
Qiao Shuwan sneered in her heart.
She knew his body very well. Only a few people knew about his condition during the assassination in Ningzhou.
It was also from that time that her heart completely stood with Gu Jingzhi and the Qiao family.
What Emperor Wen said today was something she knew full well, but she still said, "Your Majesty is the Son of Heaven, and you are blessed by Heaven. You will surely live forever..."
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