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"Your little prince is quite interesting."

Zhao Xu didn't know how to answer, so she simply changed the subject, "Has your cheap son been born yet?"

Cui Jinghu smiled, "I didn't hear any news before I came, but according to the imperial doctor, it's only been a few days."

"Oh? Is that so? Is it a young prince or a princess?"

Cui Jinghu leaned on his side, "How do I know? But... King Su will always want an heir in the future?"

"I had an agreement with him," Zhao Xu said slowly, "before we divorce, neither he nor I should get close to women. But according to the current situation, it's a bit difficult to say. Maybe one day, Xuanyuan Hui will hug him." A child is calling my mother."

Cui Jinghu sneered, "If it's true, you and I are raising children for others."

But in an instant, he came back to his senses, "But the information I got here is that Su Wang has a deep affection for you, although it is not as stupid as you spread, but it can be called fear, does it mean that he has no affection for you? "

Zhao Xu didn't answer directly, and peeled a grape on his own, "In Brother Changning's opinion, is King Su's affection good or bad for our gentry?"

"Naturally, it is a huge profit. If you are as important as the mountains and rivers in his heart," Cui Jinghu didn't even think about it. "In the government, he will definitely obey you and gain the greatest benefits for our noble family. In the harem, even other concubines When you give birth to an heir, it will be recorded in your name in the end. Maybe you can still be the regent empress dowager in the future, at least you can protect the Zhao family and our Hedong gentry for decades."

Zhao Xu smiled coldly, "Really? Let's not mention whether I have the weight of the world in his heart, even if it is as you said, do you think I really have a crush on the regent empress dowager? To tell you the truth, maybe he will ascend the throne That day will be the time for me to retire."

Cui Jinghu's hand holding the cup paused, and looked up at him, with undisguised surprise in her eyes, before slowly saying: "I really didn't think of this before I came here."

Unexpectedly, Zhao Xu would have feelings for her, and her heart would be moved. Unexpectedly, Su Wang and his wife were not fake mandarin ducks, but a real couple. Unexpectedly, Zhao Xu would become obsessed...

Cui Jinghu looked at Zhao Xu again, he thought that Zhao Xu's eyes would be confused and painful, infatuated with helplessness, but he only saw a frost-like stern look flashing past.

"Love is born, but it's not easy to annihilate," Zhao Xu said indifferently, "Although it is impossible for me to consider wholeheartedly for the gentry and disregard the interests of the Su Palace, I can't care about the life and death of the gentry and only think about Xuanyuan Hui's great cause. What I want to do is to find a balance between the gentry and the clan, so that the inheritance of the gentry can be passed on for generations without making the royal family jealous..."

Cui Jinghu interrupted him, "Foreign relatives and clan, aristocratic family and Han clan, love and heirs, through the ages, how many people have been able to handle it with ease, and how many people have made you feel like strangers? With your heart, I am worried about you." Yes, you probably already thought that if there is a solution, it might not be delayed till today."

"Forget it, let's not talk about that," Zhao Xu sat up straight, "If King Su is defeated and the Deng family ascends the throne, I will surely perish, then I, the Yingchuan Zhao family..."

"I will definitely take care of it, but whether we can make a comeback or not depends on the ability of the younger generation." Cui Jinghu agreed, "And if King Su succeeds..."

Zhao Xu said quietly: "As long as you sincerely help, no matter what happens to me, I will definitely protect your life and protect your Cui family."

Cui Jinghu took a deep breath, "Good!"

The two looked at each other, and Cui Jinghu laughed in a low voice and said, "You and I have met each other with a smile, right? At that time in the Taixue competition, you and I were evenly matched, but I was slightly inferior to you when we talked with each other. Now that the world is a game of chess, you don't know how to win or lose?"

Zhao Xu narrowed her eyes, "You have nothing else to worry about, and I'm in a state of panic. Judging from my state of mind, I've already lost."

Cui Jinghu got up, "I have official duties, so I won't bother you. That Zhang Tianwen is my housekeeper, you already know that although he is not a great talent, he is also a bit quick-witted. Yes."

Zhao Xu didn't get up to see them off, but just made tea and sipped tea by himself, "If you meet the Chan Master Liaoming of Xiangguo Temple, you can ask him, Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva once made a great wish, 'Hell is not empty, and you will never become a Buddha', Now the world is like hell, but why don’t you see the Buddha? If you go to Yuanyang Tower in Xishi, you will find a red jade girl with a mole, order a pot of Mengding nectar, and then say to her, "Luo Ru Bao Dai will solve it for you." , Yan Ge and Zhao Wu open for you, and someone will take care of you later."

It was okay to hear the front, but when she heard the obscene words behind, Cui Jinghu's face turned blue and white, and finally smiled, put on the veiled hat and floated away.

"My lord," Bai Su asked in a low voice, "If the prince asks about our trip to Tibet today, how should I answer?"

"Just say that I went to see Zhizhi." Zhao Xu slowly closed his eyes as he watched the mist rise and dissipate on the teacup.

When Xuanyuan Hui returned to his room from Qinggaitang, Zhao Xu was reading the Biography of Huiniang with his hands.

"Why is it still this book? On the way to Suzhou, you read it twice, and in the past few years, you read it three times intermittently. Is this book really so good?"

Zhao Xu looked up at him from the script, couldn't help being stunned, and said coldly, "Who hurt you?"

Xuanyuan's jade-like forehead was scratched quite a bit with a sharp weapon. Although the blood had dried, it still looked hideous and terrifying.

"It's okay," Xuanyuan Hui didn't care much about it, he took Zhao Xu's teacup and drank the tea in one gulp, "I competed with Dou Li and the others in the school field before, the sword has no eyes, this time it's just a coincidence I hurt my face, Shou Ning has already used the inner secret medicine, so there should be no scars, so there is no need to worry."

Zhao Xu threw the script aside, "My lord! Now is the critical moment to make a big deal happen. You are a man of gold. If anything goes wrong, I can't afford the outcome, and you can't afford it either!"

Xuanyuan Hui was stunned, "Why are you so angry today, someone offended you?"

Zhao Xu took a deep breath, forced a smile and said, "Perhaps he has been dry and irritable lately, and if he cares about it, he will be chaotic. Please don't blame me, my lord."

Xuanyuan Hui's expression was even more strange, "You're still being so polite to me... What's wrong with you?"

"It's nothing." Zhao Xu rubbed the center of his eyebrows, "I've been a little dizzy since the day before yesterday, and I slept for two hours in the afternoon. I'm afraid I slept too much, and now I'm a little dizzy."

Xuanyuan Hui knew that what he said was incomplete and untrue, but he didn't ask any more questions, and pulled him to talk about punishing corrupt officials.

Zhao Xu was talking with him, but his heart sank slowly—if it had been in the past, Xuanyuan Hui would have used the excuse of the covenant back then to dig to the bottom with a face full of grievances.

Now the two finally have secrets with each other, and they have reservations.

And these things that cannot be known to each other will one day make them farther and farther apart.