The third prince was taken aback, but he never thought about it.
However, listening to the queen's words, it really makes sense.
"My son, my son..." The third prince blushed, not knowing what to say.
It seems that he has ulterior motives, as if he intends to put the prince in an unrighteous way...
But the conscience of heaven and earth, he really didn't think so! I don't even think about it at all!
Seeing this, the empress was so powerless that she could only sigh to comfort him and said: "I know that you will never have evil intentions. In these years, you have never caused any trouble, and you have never fought for anything. How can this palace and the prince not be clear? Now that this matter is over, let’s forget about it! You, it’s serious to take care of your body!”
If you don't know what to say, don't say it!
It's better not to mention this bad debt that is inconsistent with the inside and outside, and there is no way to fix it right now.
The third prince couldn't wait for the sound, so he nodded immediately, and said with a very happy smile: "Yes, yes, what the queen said is very true! Now that this matter is over, don't mention it again! Don't worry, the queen, my son. Your body is fine!"
The queen smiled, then nodded, and asked some more about his recovery these days.
What medicine did you take? What did the doctor say? How often is it diagnosed? Who took the medicine and who made the medicine? How do you feel after taking it? Do you eat a lot? Sleep peacefully at night...
There are all kinds of things, and there are many details, so I asked for a while before I finished.
The third prince didn't think about other places, his heart was already too moved.
The queen's words are definitely not just simple to win people's hearts and clean up the mess for the prince, he can feel the concern revealed in it.
It was also because of this that the Third Prince felt more and more that he had done the right thing in concealing his injuries! Otherwise, how sad the queen would be!
The third prince was not at all impatient, and answered all the queen's questions in detail.
The two asked and answered, talking and laughing, and the atmosphere was very good. If the uninformed person saw it, wouldn't it be like a concubine talking to his aunt? They are clearly their own mother and child!
The third prince didn't dislike the queen's gossip at all, on the contrary he was very moved. The queen treated him like her own son! He secretly told himself in his heart: Never do things that are sorry to his mother or make her sad, otherwise, he would never forgive himself!
Aunt Qing's heart rose again, and she quietly signaled to the queen several times, but the queen didn't respond at all. In desperation, she had no choice but to wink at the serving servants, and turned away all the serving eunuchs and maids.
After talking for a while, the empress changed the topic, and then brought the topic to her main purpose of summoning the third prince. She glanced at him and smiled and said, "Third son, what did the empress tell you last time?" Son, what are you thinking?"
The third prince's heart sank: when he saw the queen, he only asked about his injuries, and he thought he summoned him just for this matter! Unexpectedly, the heart that had been relaxed just now suddenly tightened up again! After all, I still can't avoid it!
"Mother, queen mother..." The third prince forced a smile, and said: "My son, my son—I don't want to accept a concubine yet."
He is not a glib person, and he can't think of any good ideas. The only thing he can do is the word "drag".
"That's impossible! You are not young now, this matter can't be delayed any longer!" The queen laughed, and said half-seriously and half-jokingly: "Otherwise, the ministers of the Manchu Dynasty and the people of the world Everyone has something to say, saying that the emperor father and the queen mother are eccentric!"
"I've never thought this way—" the third prince became anxious immediately.
The queen interrupted him to signal to be calm and calm, and said with a smile: "You are a good boy, the queen mother will naturally believe that you don't think so, but you can't hold back your words! What's wrong? You don't like girls from the Lu family?"
The queen didn't expect that he would give herself such a result after thinking about it. Didn't she get the report from the lower office that they went swimming together in the lake a while ago? If the girl from the Lu family didn't like him, why would she swim in the lake with him
The empress also had troubles in her heart. She had already found a candidate for the concubine for him in her heart, which would be of great help to him, but it was inconvenient to say it out. Once she said it, the prince might do something good Come on! We have to wait until everything is almost a foregone conclusion.
Therefore, right now, he can only accept the side concubine for him.
The third prince moved his lips, wanting to say "I don't like it" against his will, but he couldn't get those three words out of his mouth no matter what.
He obviously likes her so much, how can he say it
He is still hesitating, the empress is such a shrewd person, she has already seen what he meant, she just pretended not to know, and said with a smile: "That's what I like! You really are, what is there to avoid in front of the empress? Just say it straight That's right, it's a shame to be so hesitant! There's nothing to be ashamed about!"
"Mother's queen!" Seeing the queen smiling and talking as if he wanted to settle the matter, the third prince suddenly became anxious and hurriedly said: "Mother's queen, I don't want to marry her!"
What he said was that he didn't want to, not that he didn't like it.
The third prince seemed to breathe a sigh of relief as he said the words, calmed his breath, and said: "Mother, I don't want to marry a girl from the Lu family, so I ask my mother to make it happen!"
Unless he is a concubine, how could he have the heart to wrong Xiao Shu
For a long time, the queen didn't speak.
At the moment there were only the queen, the third prince and Aunt Qing in the hall, and the silence was so unbearable for a while. In this unusual silence, the third prince's heart also became uneasy.
"I don't want to? Why is that? You obviously like her in your heart, don't you?" The queen asked with a smile.
After all, it was her own son. If she was facing the prince, she would have lost the patience.
The third prince didn't know what to say, he just murmured: "Mother, I really don't want to marry her, I really don't want to..."
"Your thoughts are clearly written on your face!" The queen sneered slightly, raised her eyebrows and said, "You say that, but you don't think so! Did that girl of the Lu family tell you something? "
The third prince was taken aback, he didn't expect the queen to ask such a question, and hearing her sullen tone implied that he was very dissatisfied with Lu Xiaoshu.
"No, no..." The third prince lowered his eyelids guiltily.
But the queen snorted softly, pretending she didn't hear his words, she stared straight at the third prince with her sharp eyes, and asked coldly: "I ask you, is it because that girl refuses to be a side concubine?" Inciting you to make trouble in front of this palace? What a retreat! Her heart is too big, is she worthy of being a concubine! Not to mention anything else, how can she be worthy of being a concubine with her background? position? You will be ridiculed by then!"
The third prince's face turned pale, and he hurriedly distinguished: "No, no, not such a queen mother! Xiaoshu didn't say—"
"Didn't she say she doesn't want to be a side concubine?" The queen interrupted him coldly and asked.
The third prince froze, feeling a little sad in his heart, nodded, and said: "She, she said she didn't want to be a side concubine, she, she said she didn't want... didn't want to be with Erchen."
The queen was so angry that she didn't know what to say, and said angrily: "Why don't you want to? This is clearly a way of retreating, you, this kind of heart is too real, you can't even see this! This palace is wrong, just I feel that she has a bright and cheerful temperament, and she is a cheerful person, but I don't think there are so many twists and turns in her stomach!"
The third prince immediately became anxious when he heard the empress say that Lu Xiaoshu, and hurriedly said: "My queen, you misunderstood her! Xiaoshu is not such a person! When she said she doesn't want to, she really doesn't want to, it's not... that she wants to retreat!"
"That can only show that she has deep scheming, you can't see it!" The queen gave the third prince a look, and sighed: "If you can see it, then it's not called retreating to advance! Besides, she said she didn't want to." Don't you want to? It's out of her hands!"
The third prince sighed in his heart, he knew that things would end up like this.
The queen mother really loves herself, she knows that she likes her, she will never let her refuse, but, she really can't bear to wrong Xiaoshu!
That's why he said he didn't want to marry her. But who knows that the queen mother dug out all his words in a few words, and she couldn't be fooled at all.
Seeing that the third prince was full of anxiety, the queen thought that he cared so much for that little girl of the Lu family, she clearly took the words of that little girl of the Lu family as an imperial decree!
Otherwise, he liked her so much - she could see it clearly, but when the little girl said that she didn't want to marry him, he would give her her due without saying a word, and obeyed her, that's not bad!
On the contrary, the queen mother herself is going to lean back.
The queen felt faintly sour in her heart, but she didn't think about the fact that the third prince didn't know that he was her own son.
However, does this marriage refer to it or not? The queen really made a mistake all of a sudden!
Don't point it out, she feels sorry for her son again. Having owed her son for so many years, it's rare that he has someone he really likes, so she naturally wants to put him by his side and accompany him.
However, his feelings for that girl from the Lu family are obviously much deeper than he expected, and that girl from the Lu family has such a temper! If you put such a person by your son's side, why don't you eat him to death? In the future, if the son marries the concubine again, how can he be the opponent of that little girl? Even if the fight is evenly matched, will the backyard and harem still be peaceful
The queen didn't know what to do for a while!
"Mother! My son really still doesn't want to get married now, so please let my mother do it!" The third prince was afraid that the queen would not agree, so he gritted his teeth and simply knelt down and begged: "Mother, even if, even if the mother really wants to marry, my son will not marry you!" Let’s talk about marrying the main concubine first! There is no main concubine who accepts the side concubine before entering the house.”
He thought about it, if Xiaoshu didn't want to, he really didn't want to, even though he was unwilling, even though he was eager to try before, but he knew that it would be futile!
There is not much he can do for her, so let her be fulfilled!