Chen Jiao is leaving.

Zhou Qian stood alone in a rockery cave.

There seemed to be a faint fragrance on her body around her, and there seemed to be holding her warm and delicate wrist between her fingertips. Her people seemed to be leaning obediently in his arms. Her whole body was soft and chubby, and it was very comfortable to pick it up. Zhou Qian looked down and looked there, but there was nothing in front of him.

"The prince is noble, and the people are as humble as grass."

She told him this.

Zhou Qian clenched his fists. He knew that her identity was humble. He reminded her of her humility more than once, but when she said it herself, he didn't want to hear it.

The birthday banquet at the Marquis of Wuping's Mansion will not end until evening. Zhou Qian claimed the crime to Princess Yongchang and left early.

The Ding Palace is built very grandly. The inner room of Prince Ding is very spacious, and the bed of Prince Ding is very large.

Zhou Qian lay on it, his hands empty, and he always wanted to squeeze something.

"Come." Zhou Qian shouted outside when it was getting dark.

Eunuch Liu immediately bent down and walked in.

"I want to keep a cat, the fatter the better."

fat?

Eunuch Liu thought of Chen Jiao, who had become Princess Changning. Although he didn't understand why his master didn't find a few beauties as plump as Chen Jiao, he still ordered his master's request. A few days later, Zhou Qian came back from the palace, and Eunuch Liu ordered people to bring up more than a dozen fat cats he had found.

There are more than a dozen cages, each of which is closed. Each cat looks very round. Due to its size, some fat cats are seven or eight kilograms, and the heaviest orange cat is said to be thirty kilograms.

Zhou Qian fell in love with the orange fat cat at a glance.

The fat cat doesn't like to move. At night, the eunuch put the clean-washed cat on his master's bed, and the fat cat lies there motionlessly, very honest.

Zhou Qian came over to take a shower and saw the fat cat on the bed and smiled.

He picked up the heavy cat and pinched it a few times, which felt very good.

On New Year's Eve, a family banquet was held in the palace, and all the royal relatives who were favored in front of Emperor Huiyuan would attend.

Zhou Qian entered the palace and went to Zhaoning Palace to pay his respects to his adoptive mother, Concubine Xian. After entering Zhaoning Palace, he found that his fiancée Wei Wanyi was also there.

"My daughter pays homage to the prince."

Wei Wanyi stood up and saluted him respectfully.

The prospective princess wore a red palace outfit, but she was taciturn, rarely laughed, and looked cold and alienated. Even when she saw her fiancé, she didn't feel shy on her face.

Zhou Qian looked at such a fiancée and Chen Jiao's words rang out in his ears again: "The prince is noble and he is a perfect match with the future princess."

Is it a perfect match made by heaven?

He had no relationship with Wei Wanyi, and he had said only a few things since he was a child. He agreed to marry because his father was interested, but because the Wei family could help him block the suspicion of the emperor's brothers. Judging from Wei Wanyi's attitude, she should have no feelings for him. Both of them just listened to the father's decision on this marriage.

"Cousin, please get up." Zhou Qian said with a faint smile.

The two sat next to Concubine Xian, one left and one right.

In the middle, the Xianfei concubine made an excuse to leave for a moment, giving the two a chance to get close. However, Zhou Qian had something else to worry about. Wei Wanyi looked at her nose and nose, and kept her eyes down. For nearly a quarter of an hour, the unmarried man and woman did not look at each other, let alone talked half a sentence.

After leaving Zhaoning Palace, Zhou Qian met the Seventh Prince.

"Sixth Brother!" The seventh prince was very happy to see him and enthusiastically pulled Zhou Qian back to his bedroom for tea. Anyway, the banquet was still early.

"Sixth Brother, I think you're losing weight." After sitting down, the seventh prince looked at Zhou Qian and asked strangely.

Zhou Qian himself didn't feel it, so he drank tea silently.

The seventh prince thought of something and asked, "Giao was stolen by her grandma. Is there any other beauty around my sixth brother?"

Zhou Qian had no interest in this topic.

The Seventh Prince is a chattering chatter, and Zhou Qian didn't respond. He first sighed about Chen Jiao's encounter, and suddenly sighed again, saying to Zhou Qian: "Actually, it may not be a good thing to have too many people in the backyard. Have you heard of the incident that happened in the Third Brother's mansion a few days ago?"

Zhou Qian glanced at him.

Finally, he was interested, and the Seventh Prince immediately started whispering: "Isn't the third sister-in-law pregnant? A maid next to the third sister-in-law took the opportunity to climb into the third brother's bed. At first, he was well concealed, but later he got pregnant, so he couldn't hide it. The third sister-in-law pretended not to know and deliberately punished the maid to kneel long. This kneeling made the child lose his knelt. A few days later the maid also went, and the third brother was angry with the third sister-in-law."

Zhou Qian lowered his eyes again.

The seventh prince sighed, "That maid is the same. It's great to be a maid. If you have to seek death, why should you be the master? If you want to be an unkind mistress, you can't beat or punish me if you want to be a maid. The third brother is outside during the day and can't even control it."

Zhou Qian inexplicably thought of his biological mother.

His biological mother turned out to be just a palace maid next to Concubine Xian. It was because the father insisted on favoring her or the biological mother seduced her on his own initiative. Zhou Qian had no idea. He only knew that under the diligent care of Concubine Xian, the biological mother gave birth to him smoothly but left immediately. In the cradle, he became a way for Concubine Xian to invite favor.

Zhou Qian suddenly felt sarcastic.

He always disliked Chen Jiao's identity, but his biological mother, like Chen Jiao, was just a palace maid.

He put down the tea bowl and walked straight away.

The seventh prince stared at him blankly: "Sixth brother?"

At the palace banquet, Zhou Qian saw Chen Jiao again. She sat next to the eldest princess Yongchang and had not seen her for almost two months. She looked better, as beautiful as a flower, talking with the eldest princess Yongchang with a smile. Someone came forward to greet the eldest princess Yongchang. She was neither humble nor arrogant, and her demeanor was not inferior to any noble girl.

Zhou Qian took a sip of wine and his eyes moved elsewhere.

He saw the third brother, King Jing and Princess Jing. The couple sat side by side and laughed at everyone, but they never saw the people around him at all. They looked like apart, and they were probably like this.

Zhou Qian saw the husband and wife of Wuping, who were regarded as a role model by Chen Jiao. Wuping was careless and Mrs. Wuping was gentle and gentle. Marquis Wuping drank too quickly and the wine spilled on her clothes. Marquis Wuping naturally reached over and wiped her husband. She seemed to complain a few times, so when Marquis Wuping drank again, she did not spill it.

Zhou Qian, who is about to be eighteen years old, has really begun to think about the meaning of husband and wife.

The wife is the only one who can sit side by side with him. Since his wife's status is so important, why should he share that name to a woman he doesn't like?

The next day on the first day of the Lunar New Year, Zhou Qian went to the palace to pay New Year's greetings and met Wei Wanyi in Zhaoning Palace again.

This time, Zhou Qian invited Wei Wanyi to the yard and spoke alone.

"Cousin, what do you think of our marriage?" Zhou Qian asked calmly. He knew Wei Wanyi's situation in the Wei family. It was because the Xianfei did not like Wei Wanyi that Zhou Qian was willing to discuss with Wei Wanyi to show respect, otherwise he would do his own thing.

Wei Wanyi looked at him unexpectedly: "Why did the prince ask this?"

Zhou Qian smiled faintly and said, "When my father and the Empress gave me a marriage last year, I was ignorant and agreed casually. Now, I regret it a little. I don't have a cousin in my heart, and my cousin doesn't have me in my heart. Instead of being tied together, it's better to break off the engagement and find someone who is truly suitable."

Wei Wanyi was indeed unintentional to Zhou Qian. After hearing Zhou Qian's words, she breathed a sigh of relief and looked into the distance and said, "I think so with the prince. It's just that the imperial edict has been issued. How is the prince going to break off the engagement?"

Zhou Qian said: "Don't worry, I won't implicate your reputation. I just inform you in advance, and I will make arrangements later."

Wei Wanyi nodded: "Then I'll bother the prince."

In June, Zhou Qian suffered from a serious illness. Emperor Huiyuan sent all the imperial physicians to treat his son. The entire imperial hospital was helpless. After a month of treatment, Zhou Qian became thinner and thinner, and he was almost out of reach.

Emperor Huiyuan left the palace to visit his son. He felt so distressed when he saw that Lao Liu, who was once in the wind, had become skinny and bone-skinned.

"Father, my son has something to ask for." Lying on the bed, Zhou Qian said authentically as if he was so angry.

Emperor Huiyuan held his son's hand and said distressedly: "You said, the father and the emperor agreed to you in everything."

Zhou Qian smiled bitterly and said, "Father, my marriage date with my cousin is getting closer, but I really don't want to implicate my cousin. I also asked my father to take back the marriage order and give me another good marriage for my cousin in the future."

Emperor Huiyuan frowned and said, "Don't think about it all the time, you are still young, and the disease will be cured soon."

Not to mention whether his son's illness can be cured. Even if it cannot be cured, he still wants Wei Wanyi to marry his son to celebrate. Just Wei Wanyi, how can his son's life be important?

Zhou Qian looked at his emperor, and said firmly: "Father, my son knows how he is. My son is so old and has no shame in the world. Now he can't let go of his cousin. If his father does not agree to his son's request, my son will no longer take medicine from now on and leave early, so he will not cause any implication of his cousin to marry and be a widow."

Emperor Huiyuan was in pain and angry: "You dare!"

Zhou Qian really stopped taking medicine. The imperial physicians forced him to feed him, so he tried to vomit it out by himself. After Emperor Huiyuan learned about it, he was afraid that his son would really give up the treatment, so he had no choice but to terminate the engagement on the grounds that King Ding was seriously ill and was kind-hearted and unwilling to implicate the Wei daughter. Concubine Xian was happy that Zhou Qian was about to die, and did not care. The Wei family did not want to get a daughter in vain, and was also very happy after being dismissed. When the people in the capital heard about it, they regretted that King Ding was about to die at a young age, and praised King Ding Renshan. Knowing that he was terminally ill, he let his fiancée go free.

In the Marquis of Wuping, Chen Jiao had known that Zhou Qian was sick for a long time, but she didn't expect that Zhou Qian was so sick that he even voluntarily retired from marriage.

Is it really not cured?

After all, I have been together day and night and have the closest relationship. I think that Zhou Qian is about to die young, Chen Jiao is in a very complicated mood.

Princess Yongchang saw the adoptive daughter's unbearableness and asked softly: "You met King Ding. Now that he is like this, do you want to visit him?"

Chen Jiao hesitated and said, "Will it be inappropriate?"

Princess Yongchang smiled and said, "Silly girl, I'll visit him. Would you just be with me?"

Chen Jiao really wanted to see Zhou Qian off, so she nodded and agreed.

The next day, the eldest princess Yongchang took Chen Jiao to Prince Ding's Mansion.

"Prince, the eldest princess and the princess are here." Eunuch Liu trotted to the inner room and said to the dying master on the bed.

Zhou Qian was lying down and was thin, but he broke the engagement successfully. He was in a good mood. As for his illness, he asked a Miao witch doctor he knew when he went to Yunnan to prescribe a prescription for him. The illness lasted for three months, and as soon as the time came, he would gradually recover without medicine. At this time, he heard that the old lady had come to see him, and Zhou Qian felt a little itchy.

Eunuch Liu invited Princess Yongchang and Chen Jiao in.

Seeing Zhou Qian who was skinny on the bed, Chen Jiao was shocked and couldn't speak.

When the eldest princess Yongchang saw Zhou Qian's appearance, she felt very pity. She sat by the bed to comfort her for a long time before retreating to the outside room and giving Chen Jiao and Zhou Qian a chance to tell her apart.

"What are you leaving for?" Lying on his back, Zhou Qian stared at Chen Jiao indifferently, not losing weight at all. Obviously, his bad news did not affect her desire to eat, this ruthless woman.

He is almost dead, how could Chen Jiao beg him? Sitting beside the bed, Chen Jiao couldn't help asking: "The prince is fine, why did he suddenly get sick?"

Zhou Qian snorted: "You ask me, who will I ask?"

Chen Jiao choked by him. I have to say that it is rare for a dying person to have such a big temper.
To be continued...