C126 (1/2)

At dawn, Chu Zongge took the carriage and stepped on the snow that had almost melted all the way to the Prime Minister's Mansion.

Coincidentally, Xue Longhu had gone out to work continuously for a few days, causing a majority of the people in the house to be brought away. When he kicked open the door, it was extremely quiet, with only the sound of his wife sweeping the courtyard clean of snow.

”Your Highness, why have you come?” Little Zhui, who was outside, happened to see his figure, and was shocked.

Chu Zongge anxiously pulled her arm, ”Has your young miss woken up?”

Little Zhui sized up his frozen face in confusion, and asked suspiciously: ”Miss woke up early, and is currently in her room reading a book. Prince coming to find Miss so early, is there something urgent?”

”It's very important,” Chu Zongge said as he hurried up the stairs. ”Don't come down yet, and don't let anyone go upstairs either.”

Little Zhui nodded solemnly, ”Then I'll go make breakfast for Miss.”

Chu Zongge quickly rushed to Xue Ronghua's room and saw her reading a book with a refreshed expression.

Xue Ronghua looked at the panting Chu Zongge, and laughed lightly: ”I heard your carriage's sound upstairs, why are you here so early?”

Chu Zongge swallowed his breath and enunciated word by word, ”Do you know that the Emperor has appointed a Peace-Making Princess?”

”Everyone in the palace should know about this,” Xue Ronghua said as she lit the stove to warm his body. ”I was still talking about this to Consort Fu yesterday, and she was even quite sympathetic towards Princess Wen Min.”

”The one who is going to make a marriage alliance is not Princess Wen Min,” Chu Zongge's eyes were filled with frost, ”The Emperor has changed.”

”Switch people?” Xue Ronghua was still unhurried, ”Who else?”

Chu Zongge's eyes dimmed, gritted his teeth and said: ”Princess Poyang Chu Lingyun.”

Xue Ronghua's smile immediately stiffened on her face. This was something that was hard for her to believe. How could the emperor, who doted on the Princess Poyang above all else, allow Chu Lingyun to be a Peace-Making Princess to be sent to the Great Qi?

Chu Zongge revealed a bitter smile, ”I never thought that the emperor would make such a decision, I'm afraid that Princess Poyang is still in the dark.”

Xue Ronghua bit her lips and thought for a moment, then asked, ”Why does the Emperor want to send Princess Poyang out?”

”I don't know. The Emperor said it was because she loved to cause trouble. This definitely isn't the real reason.”

Xue Ronghua stared at him blankly. ”She originally wanted to ally with the Princess Poyang and push Chu Zongge onto the throne, but why is it that suddenly, this princess is about to be sent to the Qi Nation?”

”I thought about it carefully, maybe it's because of these reasons,” Chu Zongge said seriously. ”Firstly, Chu Lingyun entered the palace with poison as an accomplice, and the emperor was extremely disappointed in her, and secondly, the emperor was afraid that I would become stronger, so she directly chopped off my arm, and thirdly, the emperor planned for Chu Lingyun to become a snitch in the Qi Nation.”

The second way is also wrong. If the emperor wants to weaken your power, he can just find a reason to do so. As for the third way, doesn't the emperor want to forgive the princess? ”

”In short, the emperor has already made his decision. If the Princess Poyang really wants to send it to the Qi Nation, I can't persuade him no matter what.”

”What exactly does the Emperor mean by this,” Xue Ronghua said as she rubbed her head, upset. ”Why would she do such an unbelievable thing?”

”It has already been a while since the emperor visited the Princess Poyang,” Chu Zongge pursed his lips, ”For more than ten years, the relationship between father and daughter, how did it suddenly give birth to such a feud?”

”I'm also curious, I just can't understand why the Emperor would send the princess to the Qi Nation,” Xue Ronghua rolled her eyes and continued. ”Do you think it's a good thing for us that the Princess Poyang is going to the Qi Nation?”

Chu Zongge shook his head, and said in a deep voice: ”This cannot be considered as saving us the trouble, in many ways, the Princess Poyang is extremely useful to us.”

Xue Ronghua muttered to herself for a moment, then laughed: ”Then, let's go to the Qi Nation together with her.”

Chu Zongge's body froze, his eyes opened wide in disbelief, ”You want to go to Qi Nation?”

”Yes,” A trace of malice flashed past Xue Ronghua's eyes, ”Sooner or later, I will have to return to the Qi Nation to seek revenge on Meng Qianzhong and Su Rushuang. Rather than delaying until I don't know when I'll get the chance, I might as well go with Princess Poyang.”

”If we were to go to the Qi Nation, then all the direct battles would have ended here,” Chu Zongge looked at her unhappily. ”We have worked hard to prepare for so long, and after finally defeating the Prince Jin and the crown prince, and just as we were about to take the Eastern Palace for ourselves, you actually brought up the idea of going to the Qi Nation right now.”

”I didn't say that I'd let you go,” Xue Ronghua said thoughtfully. ”You've also tested me out quite a few times, does Your Majesty really intend to make you the crown prince?”

Chu Zongge stared blankly, gritting his teeth and shaking his head. This was the truth, the Emperor had asked him to interfere in the affairs of government, but had never revealed anything to him.