Chu Jingxing had been taught by Xia Song, so he could understand what Xia Song meant and he honestly told his father what Xia Song meant.
Prince Linjiang was very handsome, with a beard on his chin. He stroked his beard with clear eyes and smiled, then nodded: "What the Prime Minister said is right. It is the best for us now. Now that the King of Chu is dead, Your Majesty will be at ease for a while. As long as he can successfully have another son, it will be time for us to return to our fiefdom."
Chu Jingxing responded, picked up the teapot beside him and added tea to his father. He called him "Father" respectfully but intimately, and asked him hesitantly: "Then, do we want the title of Marquis of Pingxi... or not?"
Prince Linjiang did not frown, but raised his eyebrows and shook his head: "How can we ask for it ourselves? If His Majesty wants to give it, we will naturally accept it. If His Majesty does not want to give it, but we still ask for it, it would be an act of usurpation."
Chu Jingxing stopped talking.
When he went out, he happened to run into Shen Chen and Chu Jingwu playing and laughing together. The two of them were arm in arm with each other. They didn't look like the sons of a prince, but more like brothers from an ordinary family, very close.
When they saw him, they all stood with their heads bowed and respectfully called him "Big Brother".
He had lived in the capital since he was a child and had just returned to his fiefdom a while ago. He was not familiar with his two younger brothers, and he was also cold and calm, so he could not fit in with them. Now that they had such an attitude, he understood it in his heart, nodded, walked straight past them, and when he turned onto the corridor and entered the house, he asked his mother: "What are Jingwu and Achen doing?"
Princess Linjiang's face was full of smiles. Her well-maintained delicate hands were placed on a small table beside her, being dyed by a maid. When she heard his question, she smiled and said, "What else can we do? The two of them are fooling around all day long and have no manners. They just came to tell me that they want to go out of town for a while."
Chu Jingxing relaxed a lot in front of his mother, and lowered his eyelids in disapproval: "It is indeed nonsense. What time is it now? As long as the situation is a little calmer, they will forget their place. If they continue to make trouble like this, they will be reported to the censor. I wonder if they will..."
Princess Linjiang's smile froze. Thinking about the fact that her eldest son and youngest son had always been at odds with each other, she frowned and sighed, "You should also be more amiable. Even if there is a reason, you should talk to your brother nicely..."
Chu Jingxing has always had a cold temper. Princess Linjiang glanced at him and saw that he was still expressionless. She couldn't help but feel a little discouraged. She sighed and said to him earnestly: "You are brothers from the same mother. Is there anything you can't talk about peacefully? The one in that room..."
She bit her lip, finally holding back her anger, and shook her head: "If there is any more conflict between you, won't it make others arrogant?"
There was nothing wrong with Prince Linjiang, and he was not keen on women, but he couldn't refuse her at the beginning, and there were various considerations. If you count the people around him, he had several servants.
Two of them were concubines.
One is Concubine Chen, who was given by Emperor Longqing in the palace. Although she was given by Emperor Longqing, she did not have any ulterior motives and followed her wholeheartedly. Now she has a son by her side.
The other one was Concubine Yu, a girl from the Peng family in southern Jiangxi. She was well-educated and good at playing the piano, chess, calligraphy, painting, and playing backsixes. She was simply a wonderful person and was very much loved by Prince Linjiang.
As her son grew up, he began to show signs of being different, which gave Princess Linjiang a headache.
Chu Jingxing frowned imperceptibly, and it was unclear whether he really heard it or it went in one ear and out the other. He responded insincerely.
Princess Linjiang grabbed his hand and said, "Remember what your mother said..."
Her chatter obviously didn't go over well with her son. Princess Linjiang watched him leave before leaning back on the cushion and frowning, "They're both causing me so much trouble!"
The waitress, Jin Mama, didn't dare to answer this, but just smiled and said something nice: "Stop it, stop it, Madam. Look at the families in front. The Duan family is always engaged in cockfighting and running errands. The people in the Jin family are even more tyrants who cannot be offended. These little princes in our family are all good!"
It is true that Chu Jingxing is calm and steady, and Chu Jingwu is smart and intelligent. They are not the kind of playboys who need others to worry about them.
Princess Linjiang's tone became better, but she still sighed: "Even so, it's still worrying. Brothers are so distant from each other, it's really annoying."
This is true. Thinking of Chu Jingxing's eyes when he left, Mother Jin's heart moved, and she shook her head: "But it's not that the old servant said that our young master was indeed... too close to that person."
Princess Linjiang knew she was talking about Shen Chen as soon as she heard him. She frowned and then relaxed her brows immediately, rebuking her in a low voice: "Is that something you can say? If the prince hears, will you live or die?!"
When Shen Chen first came to the palace, Princess Linjiang was busy taking care of her own son and was indeed a little negligent. The servants followed her lead and treated Shen Chen poorly. Prince Linjiang was very angry about this.
He only had one younger sister, and they had been dependent on each other for support during their youth, which was not easy. His sister died, and his brother-in-law also died, leaving only Shen Chen as his bloodline, and he was determined to treat Shen Chen as his own.
Princess Linjiang still remembers the expression on his face when he hugged Shen Chen, and she feels a chill in her feet whenever she thinks of it.
Later, Princess Linjiang saw that the situation was not going well and took the initiative to give in, but Prince Linjiang did not appreciate it. In the end, Princess Linjiang herself became annoyed, and the two of them started to quarrel more and more.
If it weren't for this protracted cold war, Concubine Yu wouldn't have had the glory she deserved.
Princess Linjiang always kept it in mind, and with the constant persuasion from the old maids who came from home, she started to treat Shen Chen better.
In recent years, he has treated him like his own son.
After all, Shen Chen is indeed a person who deserves to be loved. He knows how to read people's expressions and knows how to repay kindness.
When something happened in Princess Linjiang's family, Shen Chen contributed a lot.
Mother Jin quickly slapped her mouth and dared not say anything more.
It was she who had interfered and caused the emergence of the glorious Concubine Yu. When Princess Linjiang returned to her natal family, the Zou family of the Marquis of Huainan, because of this matter, she was severely punished by the wife of the Marquis of Huainan.
She had been gradually falling out of favor, but had only gotten better in recent days because one of Princess Linjiang's trusted nannies, Qin, fell ill, and another nanny, Liu Wang's, had to take leave to visit her relatives in her hometown. Princess Linjiang then remembered her again.
The room was silent for a while, and after a long while Princess Linjiang asked, "Is it quiet over there?"