I dare not

Gu Qiao was dizzy, but he didn't notice when he tore off the belt with his hand that reached into the quilt.

The third child's trousers were much bigger on him, and they slipped off easily with a few movements of his waist.

Xiang Zenan kissed him while holding his semi-hard place.

Gu Qiao pinched his shoulder and panted lightly, "Your Highness..."

"Um……"

Xiang Zenan buried his face in his neck, traced his curves with the tip of his nose, and moved his hands skillfully, Gu Qiao couldn't bear it soon.

His hair was messed up, his clothes were messed up, and his body was still sticky, but the prince was still wearing the boa robe upright, with a natural look on his face, unable to tell what he had just done.

"Is it warm now?"

Gu Qiao pulled up the quilt to cover her head, "It's warm..."

After being blindfolded for a while, he pulled down the quilt again, revealing a pair of steamy eyes.

He looked at Xiang Zenan's place, "Do you want me to help you?"

"No, I owe it first, and I want to calculate the interest."

"How do you calculate the interest?"

Xiang Zenan leaned over and said something close to his ear.

Gu Qiao blushed and immediately wrapped the quilt tightly.

After a commotion for a while, the palace people came to report that the emperor had passed on the prince.

Gu Qiao also changed her clothes and prepared to leave the palace, and left the Palace of Chengxuan with Xiang Zenan.

The emperor's condition is getting worse day by day, he is less and less awake, and he always feels that he is still a child of a few years old, and every day he pulls He Guifei to ask for his father and mother.

When the queen mother went to see him, he couldn't recognize him, so he caught the queen mother and called him the emperor's grandmother.

The Empress Dowager wiped her tears a few times, she simply stopped reading the scriptures, and took turns guarding the emperor with Concubine He Gui.

The second prince went several times, but the emperor didn't know him, so he simply didn't go, and stayed behind closed doors in Chunhui Hall all day long.Occasionally, there would be the sound of silk and bamboo coming from the palace. Some palace people complained to the queen mother that the second prince was playing music every night in the palace.

Concubine He Gui secretly observed the Queen Mother's attitude, trembling and always felt that she wanted to settle accounts with the Empress Dowager Qiu.She wasn't sure how much the queen mother knew, and how much evidence Xiang Zenan had in his hands. This feeling of not knowing if and when she would die tormented her, and she was like walking on a sharp knife every day.

The Empress Dowager was there when Xiang Zenan arrived at Qianyang Hall, he bowed in a proper manner, and the emperor beckoned him to come and talk.

The emperor was leaning on the bed, the poison of the snail fruit drained all his vitality, in just over a month, he had aged many years.

His wrinkled face was dark with lifelessness, and he was completely different from the father Xiang Zenan saw when he first came back.

"On the third day of next month, I will place Zen in your place." The emperor was afraid that he would not have much time to wake up, so he cut to the chase, "After I abdicate, I will immediately move to Keqingshan Palace."

Xiang Zenan knelt beside the bed, holding the emperor's skinny hand, "Father..."

The emperor patted his hand so that he didn't need to say more, "My body... I'm afraid it will be unsustainable in the future, the world depends on you."

Xiang Zenan was not the emperor's most satisfied son, and he didn't like it much, but at this moment he had no choice.

He continued: "In just two months, two of the five prime ministers were lost. Zhang Zhilin, Wang Yundong, and Zhou Mian are available. You can promote the other two as appropriate. The officials in the court should not make big moves. Today I have issued an edict to deal with He Fang If you know one case, don’t bring up the old case again today. Zezhang is your brother. I named him King Yi, and the fiefdom is in Yanzhou Island. Let him leave for the fiefdom immediately. After you ascend the throne, you must protect him for life. "

This is to ask Xiang Zenan to promise to protect the life of the second prince. Although the son he loves almost killed him, he still supported the last moment of sobriety in exchange for his life's peace.

Xiang Zenan responded one by one.

The emperor pointed at Eunuch Zhai with a trembling finger, and Eunuch Zhai took out the Zen Edict prepared in advance from the long red box in his hand, spread it on the table, and solemnly stamped it with a seal.

The emperor looked at the seal of the jade seal, heaved a long sigh, and closed his eyes exhaustedly.

Xiang Zenan helped the emperor to lie down on the bed, and the queen mother covered him with a quilt.

The queen mother stood in front of the emperor's bed for a while, and said to Xiang Zenan, "Come with me." She signaled the prince to follow her out.

Xiang Zenan followed the Empress Dowager's chariot to the Hall of Ciming, all the way silent.

He keenly felt that the queen mother was a little unhappy, but he didn't know whether it was because of the father or something else.

The Empress Dowager took him into the hall, screened him back and forth, and said to him:

"Kneel down."

Xiang Zenan didn't know why, but he still knelt on the ground honestly, "Grandmother?"

"Do you know why I made you kneel?"

"Grandson... I don't know."

"What's going on with you and Zuo Shiyi Gu Qiao?"

Xiang Zenan seemed to have been beaten by someone. Only King Yu knew about his relationship with Gu Qiao. Why did the Queen Mother ask this question?

He tentatively replied: "The grandson thinks that Gu Shiyi is a useful talent, so he got closer to him."

The Empress Dowager turned sideways and squinted at him, "How do you get close?"

He didn't know how to answer, the queen mother said again: "The crown prince is so close to his subordinates that he is not close to women. Is this Gu Qiao a useful talent, or a talent that will harm the country?!"

"Imperial Grandmother!" Xiang Zenan said urgently: "Gu Qiao devoted himself to the country of Hao and his sons and ministers, and slept through the night. Grandmother should not be so prejudiced!"

"I only regret that I didn't arrange for you to choose a concubine sooner, so I let the treacherous officials take advantage of it! That time when he passed out in the imperial study, I thought it was wrong to carry him to your palace. No prince would invite the former court frequently. The official went to his own bedroom. If you think that I can't even see this after living so long, you are too naive!"

Hearing her explanation, Xiang Zenan understood that Lin Wanqing probably said something to her.

Today, he was careless and only wanted to make Gu Qiao happy, so he deliberately ignored Lin Wanqing, maybe she saw something.

In addition, when she fell into the water and Gu Qiao went into the water to save her, his care and love for Gu Qiao was indeed too obvious.

A woman's intuition is sometimes so sharp and terrifying.

She simply stopped being secretive and admitted frankly, "Grandmother, my servant must let Gu Qiao stay by my side."

The Queen Mother frowned, "If you keep him by your side, you can keep him by your side. He's just a courtier! But you can't live without women! If you don't like Lin Wanqing, I will arrange someone else for you!"

"Gu Qiao is not a courtier!"

Xiang Zenan walked a few steps to the Empress Dowager's legs, and pulled the corner of the Empress Dowager's clothes, "Grandmother, the grandson must be Gu Qiao! If you want to keep him by your side, you can't have a woman by your grandson's side!"

"The good one has to be him! The good one can't have a woman by his side!" The queen mother was anxious, "He, Gu Qiao, killed your heir with his own power. Such a subject should be killed immediately!"

Xiang Zenan buried his head in his emotions for a while, and when he raised his head again, tears were streaming down his face. He hugged the queen mother's leg and cried on his back: "If the imperial grandmother wants to kill Gu Qiao, she will kill her grandson!"

Xiang Zenan hadn't cried since he went to the frontier at the age of eight, but he had cried many times in front of the queen mother when he was a child, and now he had to repeat the same trick after more than ten years.

The queen mother saw that he was crying like a child at such a big man, she couldn't help feeling a little soft-hearted, and helped him up with both hands, "Hey, why are you bothering?"

Xiang Zenan sobbed, crying with some real feelings, "The grandson lost his mother since he was young, and he has never experienced what it feels like to be loved by a mother. Fortunately, the emperor's grandmother loves him so that his childhood will not be miserable. All these years , My father doesn’t love me, my brothers don’t love me, apart from my grandmother, Gu Qiao is the only one who truly loves me! Now that I’m fledgling and about to inherit the important responsibilities of the world, my grandson is also worried. My son doesn't know how to persevere. Can the grandmother have the heart to see her grandson live a lonely life without experiencing love in the world?"

The queen mother was so distressed by his confession that he almost let him in, but she quickly grasped the point, "The imperial grandmother didn't let Gu Qiao accompany you, but you can't have no children, you can't have a harem!"

Xiang Zenan bowed his tall body and huddled in the empress dowager's arms aggrievedly, tears rubbing against the empress dowager's body, "There will definitely be an heir, grandma, don't worry. There is no need to arrange for the grandson, the grandson knows it well."

The Empress Dowager received the guarantee, and caressed his back, "You can't help yourself when you are born in the royal family. I promise you that you will not make things difficult for me, just pick up the lost things. You don't want to cry anymore."

The queen mother has always been very tolerant to her grandchildren, and Xiang Zenan is his favorite child who has grown up on the tip of his heart for so many years.When he was young, he left the capital to go to the frontier to endure hardships, and he loved him a little more than other children in his heart.

Xiang Zenan had never begged the Queen Mother for anything, and now he was crying like this because of a man. Although the Queen Mother felt ridiculous in her heart, she couldn't bear to blame him anymore.

The only thing to blame is that the emperor was too eccentric, which made the child lack warmth since he was a child, so he was so easily coaxed.

But speaking of it, this absurd thing in the deep palace is not the only one, as long as it doesn't affect the emperor's heir, let him go.

Xiang Zenan had long made up his mind that he would never have another pillow besides Gu Qiao in this life. Ever since he became the prince, he had been arranging to find suitable juniors in the clan.During the reign of Taizu, there were also incidents where few heirs were adopted from the clan, but there are precedents to follow.

The Empress Dowager left him to have a meal in the Hall of Compassion, and asked someone to bring ice to apply to his eyes.

Xiang Zenan was worried that he wouldn't be able to cry, but he didn't expect that the words would become more and more dramatic.Thinking of Gu Qiao's old-fashioned temperament, there is no need for drastic means, as long as the queen mother comes forward to beat him, and say a few words about the ancient sages and sages of his family, country and world, he can make him back down and compromise.After thinking about it, it became a real cry. I acted too much and accidentally swollen my eyes from crying.

He originally wanted to have a showdown with the Queen Mother after he formally ascended the throne, but this time his on-the-spot performance turned out to be unexpectedly effective.

After the meal, he talked with the queen mother again, and simply told the queen mother how he met Gu Qiao in Lianzhou, how Gu Qiao helped him save him, and how the two of them secretly fell in love.

The Queen Mother listened for a long time, and finally sighed: "It should be a marriage."

Xiang Zenan knew that this level had been passed, but don't tell Gu Qiao how he passed it.

Who would have thought that the resolute and resolute Crown Prince would have such a hand.