Chapter 692: Thoughts of All Parties (Part 4)
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As soon as I walked into the cold study, the prince's hoarse voice immediately reached my ears.
Sun Shaozong paused and looked towards the corner of the wall, where he saw the prince sitting in a high-backed chair. His body was clearly stretched out, yet he looked as if he was curled up in a ball.
Isn't this too easy to be shocked?
Sun Shaozong calmly walked up to the crown prince and bowed, "Your humble servant Sun Shaozong greets Your Highness."
The prince's whole body was shocked, and he suddenly looked up at Sun Shaozong. He first showed a look of surprise, then a bit of dejection, and finally grinned with a fake smile: "So it's Sun Aiqing."
Fortunately, he did not seem to be angry with himself because of the relationship between the Sun family and the Rongguo Mansion.
Sun Shaozong heaved a sigh of relief and said bluntly, "Your Highness, Concubine Xian De is just pregnant. It is still unclear whether it is a prince or a princess. Why are you so depressed?"
After hearing this, the prince looked even more listless. He shook his head slowly and said with a wry smile, "So what if Concubine Xian De is pregnant with a princess? As long as Master Dong Xu helps, one of the concubines in the harem will give birth to a prince to replace me as the crown prince."
True Man Dongxu?
What kind of birdman is this?
Sun Shaozong was a little puzzled and hurriedly asked the prince what was going on.
Only then did we realize that the emperor had placed his hope on ghosts and gods in order to have another son.
In the past two years, the monks and Taoists in the palace have come and gone several times, and the most favored one at the moment is Zhenren Dongxu.
It is said that this Master Dongxu possesses some magical powers that are beyond the reach of ordinary people. Recently, he even set up the Tiangang Disha formation to gather the yin and yang energies to pray for an offspring for Emperor Guangde.
As a result, just four or five days after the formation was set up, Jia Yuanchun became pregnant.
"I have personally seen the abilities of Master Dongxu. He is truly a master who has transcended the Five Elements and is not in the Three Realms. With him praying for a child for my father, what chance do I have?"
Hearing this, Sun Shaozong was speechless.
No wonder this guy collapsed before he even got any definite information. It turned out that he was fooled by the sorcerer !
Since the pregnancy was discovered due to morning sickness, it was obvious that Jia Yuanchun had been pregnant with the dragon seed more than a month ago. What could it have to do with the bird formation that had just been set up for three or five days?
"Your Highness, how can you take the words of this charlatan seriously? In my humble opinion..."
"No, no, no, I saw the magic skills of Master Dongxu with my own eyes, there is no way they are fake!"
Yes~
It seems that I have to give him some scientific advice.
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But when Sun Shaozong was trying every means to expose the Taoist master Dongxu, there was also chaos in Jia Baoyu's Yihong Courtyard.
"Hurry, hurry, drive it to the corner!"
"Ah! Here they come, here they come!"
"Why are you hiding? Can it eat you?!"
"Watch out, it's going to hit you!"
Musk Moon and Qiu Wen led a few maids to chase and intercept a sika deer, but they were afraid of both ends and made many jokes.
Jia Baoyu was watching from the corridor with great delight, while at the same time he was making random comments and causing more trouble.
Just as the quarrel was getting out of control, Xiren came out of the room and took out a cloak. While wrapping it around Jia Baoyu, she scolded him, "It's such a critical moment. Why are you still playing along with them? Hurry up and put on your clothes and go to the front to meet the eldest master!"
Then he turned around and cursed, "How come several living people are making such a fuss for so long that they can't even cover a deer? If this peacock feather cloak is damaged, let's see who the ancestors and the wife can spare!"
Others knew that she was easy to get along with, so they didn't do anything. However, Qiu Wen became anxious.
It turned out that early this morning, Qiu Wen took the golden sparrow fur coat and was dusting outside. Who would have thought that there was a sika deer hiding in the corridor. After being startled by Qiu Wen, it jumped up, held the golden sparrow fur coat on its horns, and ran away.
If the dress is really torn now, wouldn't it be her fault?
Thinking of this, Qiu Wen gritted her teeth, saw an opportunity, pounced on the deer and started fighting with it.
She was afraid that the clothes would be damaged in the fight, so she did not dare to tear them. She just grabbed half of the antler and refused to let go, shouting for others to help her take off the golden pheasant fur coat.
How could the sika deer agree to that?
It was shaking its head and wagging its tail, and flailing its four hooves around, scaring the girls so much that they screamed and shouted, and no one dared to get close to it.
"Be careful, be very careful!"
Seeing this, Jia Baoyu rushed over, reached out his hand from Qiu Wen's armpit, and also grabbed the half of the deer antler, and ordered, "Quickly take the clothes, so that we can give it a chance to live!"
Qiu Wen then pulled her hand out to grab the golden pheasant fur coat, but the deer still tore a small hole in it as it struggled, which made her so worried that she almost cried, and she wished she could kill the deer and bleed it and eat its meat.
"Well, isn't it just a piece of clothing?"
Jia Baoyu smiled indifferently and said, "When the old grandfather and the lady ask about it, I will say that I was so excited yesterday that I accidentally broke it."
As he spoke, he also moved closer to look at the damaged area. Seeing that it was only a small cut, he could not help but blurt out, "It's a pity that Qingwen is gone, otherwise, with her craftsmanship..."
Halfway through his speech, Baoyu suddenly woke up. Now that Qingwen was already Sun Erge's roommate, how could he keep mentioning her?
So he quickly shut up, but the situation became awkward.
Fortunately, at this time, there were sounds of chirping outside the door. It turned out that the sisters had come together to find the vicinity of Yihong Courtyard.
Baoyu got the steps and hurriedly called the maids to come out to greet them.
When they got outside and took a look, they saw about twenty people bustling about, and the leading ones were Li Wan and Xue Baochai.
It turned out that they had received the news yesterday evening. Everyone was delighted and prepared gifts overnight, asking Jia Baoyu to deliver them to the palace.
Since it was the good intention of all the sisters, Jia Baoyu naturally would not refuse. He hurriedly accepted the gifts from them one by one, and asked Jia Tanchun, who was the best calligrapher, to write a general gift list.
While the girls were chattering and showing off their gifts, Xue Baoqin quietly came to Jia Baoyu's side and said shyly, "Second Brother Bao, can I have a word with you?"
Jia Baoyu didn't think much about it. Besides, he didn't know what taboo was, so he immediately obeyed the order and led Xue Baoqin to a corner to talk.
"Second Brother Bao."
Then Xue Baoqin muttered, "I heard that the day before yesterday, Mei Hanlin submitted a memorial, saying that Your Majesty has promised to ask the gods for a succession with a large sum of money, which is detrimental to the country..."
Having said this, she stopped.
If it were in the past, Jia Baoyu would definitely be confused after hearing this half sentence.
But although he has not lost his innocent heart, he has made great progress in understanding the ways of the world.
In addition, with Jia Yuanchun's frequent letters, he knew a lot about what was going on in the palace. So after hearing these words, he immediately realized that Mei Hanlin had walked into a trap.
At that moment, she couldn't help but tease him, "How could the son of Mei Hanlin deserve such kindness that I to work so hard for his family."
"Brother Bao only knows how to bully people!"
Xue Baoqin stamped her feet and said coquettishly, "You have said all the cheap words. You can't just ignore this matter. You must ask for a few words of grace from the queen!"
She was the most beautiful woman among all the girls, and her anger made her even more attractive. Jia Baoyu was so scared that he agreed without thinking.
When he returned to his sisters in a daze, he suddenly realized that one person was missing. He hurriedly went to find Xiren to ask, only to find out that Lin Daiyu saw him whispering with Baoqin, so she said she was not feeling well and went back to Xiaoxiang Pavilion first.
Jia Baoyu then regretted his decision and wanted to find Lin Daiyu to explain something, but Jia She from the front yard had already sent someone over to urge him.
Helplessly, he had to ask Xiren to take the opportunity to apologize, and then went straight to the front yard to meet Jia She and Jia Lian, father and son.
