C84 (1/2)

Zhao Deng had been running very hard towards the General's Estate recently, but he didn't come to look for her.

Qian Qian was pregnant. He was so happy that he jumped up and down for his first child, saying that after the child was born, he would make the child his or her godfather.

Zhu Guanliang rejected it, he did not even have a wife, so being a godfather to others was not appropriate for him. Moreover, the prince's children must be very delicate, and he was so poor that he could not bear the heavy responsibility of godfather.

This brother was worthy of being called a real brother. Even his wife was pregnant, but Zhao Deng was clearly more cocky.

When Zhou Leping heard that he had already begun to fantasize about the birth of his child, she asked suspiciously, ”Is that wangfei of yours not jealous?”

With Qian Qian having a child, I can't let her only be a concubine for the rest of her life, right? Just a few days ago, I gave her the position of the secondary wife, and now that the imperial concubine knows about it, she almost tore me apart. Otherwise, I would come over to your place everyday.

Zhou Leping laughed, ”No wonder people say that peaches and flowers are a debt, there are so many peaches and flowers, all of it is a debt, but you don't come home everyday, aren't you afraid that the wangfei will tear Qian Qian apart?”

”That won't happen. I'm the enemy of everyone else, and I still believe in Princess Hua-Yang. She still has some sense of propriety.”

Zhou Leping touched his money bag and sighed, ”I keep having the feeling that you've been coming to find me every day to collect my debt, you just gave the empress a jade ruyi, and now that the bag is empty, you're happy again, it seems like I won't be able to keep my property anymore.”

”Speaking of the empress …” Zhao Deng asked curiously, ”It's been so many years, I was unable to put in any effort in the past, but now that I suddenly got pregnant, why do I feel like there's something wrong with this the more I think about it?”

Zhou Leping recalled Zhao Shiqian's attitude towards him and nodded, ”The Emperor seems to not be as happy as he thinks.”

”It would be weird if the Royal Brother was happy, but think about it, the empress is pregnant, and the person born in the next life is a prince, and that's the eldest son. According to the ancestor's rules, the prince will be the crown prince, and if the crown prince is by the empress's side, then the Lin Family's tail will go up to the sky, right?”

Zhu Guanliang, who had been silent all this while, suddenly spoke up. ”It's still too early to say all these.

Zhou Leping and Zhao Deng turned their heads at the same time and spoke in unison, ”How do you know?”

”Is there really no one in the imperial harem who has ever gotten pregnant with a dragon?” He shook his head. ”Since the emperor wants to suppress the Lin Clan, he will definitely act from the imperial harem when the imperial court is isolated and without help. It's obviously impossible that no one is pregnant, so the only possibility is that the empress, in order to preserve her position with her family …”

Zhao Shiqian and the Empress were not very close, and had not visited the empress many times over the years. In this way, the other concubines would have plenty of opportunities, and none of them would be a problem.

Zhao Deng suddenly asked, ”You suspect that it was the empress's evil scheme?”

”I only suspect that the truth is probably the one that the Emperor and the Empress are the clearest.”

Zhou Leping felt chills down her spine. She had never been so afraid of fighting in her life, because it was an open sword fighting in the open, but the battles in the harem were all underhanded. From the looks of it, wasn't Zhou Lean's situation more dangerous in the palace?

After Zhao Deng left, she was sighing alone in the courtyard. Zhu Guanliang, who was standing behind her, looked and spoke faintly, ”What is the General thinking?”

”Thinking of women.”

”You miss women?” He laughed.

Zhou Leping paced back and forth, adding on the last half of the sentence, ”Thinking of women is really scary. There are always literati who use the word 'tigress' to describe women, and I used to think that these people were just bullsh * t. But now, I feel that women are really not much gentler than tigers.”