coobybook Chapter 248 It’s still her
Chapter 248 It’s still her
Jiang Wanyue looked at Li Ce with a smile, and no other emotion could be seen on her face.
"Okay, you two stop arguing with your father. Go wash your hands first. The cook made crab cakes today!"
The two children cried out and ran hurriedly to find their wet nurse and palace maids.
Jiang Wanyue walked forward and took Li Ce's arm very naturally.
"The Emperor is finally here today."
Li Ce touched his nose and followed her inside, not forgetting to defend himself.
"I've been busy with these things recently..."
As soon as he opened his mouth, he saw Jiang Wanyue glancing at him, obviously not believing him.
"Yes, yes, you are busy with state affairs, and I am overthinking."
Jiang Wanyue said this casually, and then deliberately muttered something in a voice that both of them could hear.
"If the two children weren't here, I wouldn't be able to invite you over."
She pulled Li Ce to the table, sat down next to him, held his hand and chattered about the child.
"Zer is a well-behaved and sensible child, and he studies very hard, but he is a little too cautious. Every time he meets the emperor, he is trembling with fear, and they don't seem like father and son at all. I think that Concubine Shu is aloof and quiet, and I can't let her child develop a personality like her."
"So I decided to let Ze'er move in with Xu'er. The two children used to quarrel with each other at Master's place, but now they are much closer. After all, they are brothers, and this blood relationship is engraved in their bones."
As Jiang Wanyue spoke, her eyes narrowed into crescents due to laughter.
"Your Majesty now has only four sons. The Crown Prince has already grown up and moved out, leaving three children who are not much different in age. I want to wait a few months and have them all move to the front so that they can live and eat together and improve their relationship. What do you think, Your Majesty?"
Li Ce frowned.
"Aren't Xu'er and Qi'er too young?"
"You are not small anymore. When Your Majesty was this old, didn't you also live alone?"
Jiang Wanyue blinked and shook his hand.
Li Ce's brows relaxed.
"You decide."
He thought that Jiang Wanyue was very good at disciplining children. Even a girl with Yu'er's temper had improved a lot under her discipline.
Hearing the sound of two boys arguing, Li Ce suddenly said something he hadn't even thought deeply about.
"Wan'er, let's have another child!"
Jiang Wanyue's eyes suddenly widened and she looked at him in surprise, but didn't say anything.
Soon she came back to her senses, pursed her lips and spoke in a low voice.
"You're not afraid that the children will hear you saying this in broad daylight?"
As soon as she finished saying this, two children, Xuer and Zeer, ran in from outside.
The two of them stood hand in hand and called people one by one.
Xu'er calls them "Father the Emperor and Mother the Empress", while Ze'er calls them "Father the Emperor" and "Empress Dowager".
Li Ce's brows suddenly darkened.
"Ze'er, you should call me mother. Didn't your mother teach you this little bit of etiquette?"
Li Chengze was startled and hurriedly called out "Mother".
The smile in Jiang Wanyue's eyes deepened, and she waved for the two children to sit down.
The meal was very lively. Although Xu'er had a stubborn temper, he was impeccable in other aspects.
As soon as the food was served, he reached out and picked up a duck leg for his father, then served a bowl of soup for his mother, then picked up a shrimp crystal dumpling for his third brother, and finally it was his turn.
Li Ce showed satisfaction in his eyes and picked up a piece of food with chopsticks for Xu'er.
Li Chengze watched their interaction with envy in his eyes.
Jiang Wanyue gently poked Li Ce's elbow and glanced towards Li Chengze.
Li Ce paused for a moment, then turned the chopsticks he was about to pull back and dropped them into Li Chengze's bowl.
"Enjoy your meal. Father will test your homework in the afternoon."
Xuer's smiling face suddenly turned bitter.
After lunch, the two children couldn't sit still and ran out to play. Jiang Wanyue accompanied Li Ce for a walk to help digest the food.
The years are quiet.
The two of them walked all the way from Fenglai Palace to Donghai Pool and then walked back.
Li Ce's heart became calm.
The chaotic thoughts from before gradually subsided.
The weather is changeable in the early summer afternoon.
Not long after returning to Fenglai Palace, it suddenly started raining.
Li Ce stood in the corridor, watching the misty drizzle turn into heavy rain in an instant, and suddenly he understood.
I have never been able to leave her.
As long as she stays with me.
He didn't want to think about what Jiang Wanyue's original intention was.
Even if her feelings are not romantic and different from mine, so what? She is my queen, my wife, we will live and die together, and she will never leave me.
The rain was getting heavier and heavier, with no sign of stopping.
Li Chengze and Li Chengxu rushed back in the rain, their clothes were all wet.
Jiang Wanyue hurriedly asked the two to change their clothes, asked someone to make ginger soup, and directed the palace servants to fetch things and deliver messages. She was very busy.
After finally getting a break, I turned around and saw Li Ce still standing outside.
She quickly ran out the door and pulled the person in.
"How come you are even more disobedient than Xu'er and Ze'er? It's raining so hard outside, but you insist on standing outside. Aren't you afraid of catching a cold?"
Half complaining and half worried, she took the towel handed over by the palace maid and carefully wiped the water droplets on Li Ce's hair.
Suddenly, Li Ce grabbed her hand and pulled her into his arms.
Jiang Wanyue blinked.
"emperor?"
Li Ce rubbed her forehead with his chin.
"The Dali Temple found some things."
He said something nonsense.
Jiang Wanyue didn't say anything.
Although she didn't know about the existence of the secret memorial, it was impossible to hide many details during the interrogation and investigation in the Dali Temple.
Even if Li Ce didn't say it, she could guess the purpose of the Dali Temple Minister.
He simply wanted to continue what he failed to do last time and throw dirty water on her and the prince.
Just yesterday, Hongying's origins were found out.
On the surface, her origins seemed to be fine, but upon closer inspection, it was discovered that the family who sold her to the broker was from Shandong.
The current Chief Justice of the Dali Temple is also from Lu.
Lu...Shufei's father had worked in Lu for more than ten years and was transferred elsewhere last year.
All these signs show that Concubine Shu has a great deal to do with this matter.
Jiang Wanyue originally thought that Hongying was inserted into the Fan family by the Duke of Lu's Mansion.
She never imagined that the person behind the scenes would be the Chief Justice of the Dali Temple.
On the contrary, the Duke of Lu's Mansion did not get involved.
It seems that Concubine Shu was concerned about the relationship between her family and the Duke of Lu's Mansion, and was worried that if the Duke of Lu's Mansion was exposed, she would be implicated, so she deliberately found a seemingly unrelated Dali Temple Minister to make plans.
The palace had already found out about the two prince's concubines. They were not spies, nor did they have anyone behind them. They were just used after entering the prince's mansion.