0p0 Chapter 574 Sir, Please Stay (36)
Chapter 574 Sir, Please Stay (36)
"Your Majesty, please speak frankly. There are only two of us here."
Looking at Gu Yuxi, Li Haozheng looked at her seriously and said, "Miss Gu, I am pleased with you."
"Ah...oh, I was just joking again. After not seeing you for three years, Your Highness seems to like joking now."
"I am not kidding you, Gu Yuxi, look at me, I am pleased with you."
"Your Majesty, you should prepare your words carefully. Would you believe that someone you haven't seen for three years would say that he or she likes you?"
Looking into Gu Yuxi's eyes, Li Haozheng felt that his confession was very abrupt and indeed hard to believe. At first, he didn't believe that he would fall in love with a girl who was seven years younger than him.
"This king... although we have been together for a short time, this king dares to swear to heaven..."
"So many people swear to the sky every day, God is too busy to handle it. If His Majesty finds this joke funny, then it is meaningful for me to try to make His Majesty laugh."
"For the past three years, I have been confined to the important affairs of the capital. Since you don't like Deng Wenjie, why don't you find a man with high status and power to rely on?"
"Your Majesty, be careful with your words. I don't need a backer, because I am my own backer. Let me tell you this, I want to be with one person for the rest of my life. Can Your Majesty afford that?"
"This……"
"Besides, can you accept that your wife is childless?"
"I……"
Seeing Li Haozheng speechless, Gu Yuxi said, "Prince, don't make promises to other women easily next time. You are busy."
boom……
The door was closed. Li Haozheng fell into deep thought and said calmly, "You are a miracle doctor. I don't believe the rumors. If you want to be together forever, I will pack up all the annoying women in the backyard and throw them out."
Because he still had to prepare to pick up the Queen Mother and return to Beijing later, Li Haozheng looked at the closed courtyard and then left.
After he left, a woman came out from Gu Yuxi's corner. She stamped her feet in anger and said, "Gu Yuxi, why does the King of Zhenjiang like you? Are you worthy?"
Thinking that Gu Yuxi didn't like Deng Wenjie, but Deng Wenjie had someone he liked, a plan began to become clear in Chen Jiaojiao's mind.
The next day, Li Haozheng took the Queen Mother down the mountain, and after dismissing the servants in the County Magistrate's Mansion, he said, "Mother, my son has found someone he likes, please grant me marriage."
The Queen Mother was very excited after hearing this and said, "My son has found someone he likes. Who is her family? As long as her character is acceptable, I will grant you a marriage."
"She is General Gu's sister, Gu Yuxi. I admire her and want to marry her as a princess."
"This... is this the infertile lady who was a miracle doctor? Half a month ago, she gave me massages and cooked delicious meals."
"Mother, I only want to spend my life with the person I love. I only want to marry her in this life. It depends on fate."
"If you marry her, how can the child be judged by fate? Fate that popped out of a crack in a stone? There is nothing wrong with her, but her body has problems. I don't agree to this marriage!"
"Why? Since you also praise her highly, is it because of her..."
"The royal family values offspring. If you have no children, who will take care of you in the future?"
"My Li family has many children and grandchildren. We can just find a child from the same clan to adopt."
"Go down. I need to think about this for a while."
"Mother, I have never asked you for anything. I hope you will agree to this matter."
"Please leave. I am tired."
Li Haozheng had no choice but to retreat, but he didn't expect the guard to whisper something in his ear. He was so scared that he quickly left the county magistrate's mansion...
That night, the Queen Mother rubbed her brows and asked Chen Jiaojiao beside her, "Jiaojiao, the Prince of Zhenjiang asked me to arrange a marriage for him. The other party is a barren woman. Do you think I should agree?"
"Empress Dowager, you are talking about Miss Gu, right? The prince should have married a long time ago, but Jiaojiao feels that Gu Yuxi is not a good match for the prince."
"That child has a stubborn temper. Am I going to break up the couple?"
"If that woman is betrothed to someone else, will the prince still be stubborn? Moreover, it seems that Gu Yuxi and the prince have only met a few times in the capital. Now that the prince has just arrived in Fuxing City, he must marry her. She is proficient in medicine, will she..."
Chen Jiaojiao didn't say the rest, but the old woman was so angry that she slammed the table and said, "What a deep-minded woman, she used so many tricks to seduce people. Fortunately, I didn't soften my heart and immediately granted the marriage to the prince."
"Queen Mother, calm down."
"I'm not angry, I just didn't expect that I made a mistake in choosing the right person. I thought that little girl was pretty good at first."
"Maybe I'm overthinking. Miss Gu is not like that."
"People's hearts are hidden in their stomachs. I have a ruler in my heart to measure what kind of person she is. Your words remind me, what happened between you and County Magistrate Deng?"
"He said that he would never marry me even if he had no children. Empress Dowager, I don't want to marry Lord Deng anymore, but he called me vulgar and arrogant, and he was uncomfortable living in the same house with me. He has been moving out of the county magistrate's house to sleep recently. You have to make the decision for me."
"Another bully who has gone too far. Fine, I'll make him have no descendants, right? I'll help him. It's a blessing for a man with a disfigured face to be favored by the royal family. I didn't expect him to be so ignorant."
"Queen, perhaps it's a misunderstanding."
"This is a huge misunderstanding. I will be returning to the capital tomorrow, so this matter must be resolved tonight to avenge you and the prince."
The Queen Mother instructed the maid next to her: "Go and call Magistrate Deng over. I have something to ask him."
"promise."
Chen Jiaojiao was secretly happy: Didn't Deng Wenjie have someone he loved? Then she would make sure Deng Wenjie never found love in his life. Moreover, Gu Yuxi was fierce and cunning, and didn't like...hated Deng Wenjie, so it was a good opportunity to take revenge on Deng Wenjie and Li Jingshu, who often opposed her.
Deng Wenjie felt depressed when he came over. He knelt on the ground and saluted the empress dowager: "Your humble servant pays respect to the empress dowager. May the queen be well."
"Get up."
"Thank you, Queen Mother."
Looking at the disfigured man, the Queen Mother couldn't understand why he could refuse their royal family, so she began to ask, "How old is Lord Deng this year?"
"Replying to the Queen Mother, I am twenty-five."
"Your backyard is vacant, and you need to get married. I think General Gu's sister Gu Yuxi, whom I met half a month ago, is pretty good, and I plan to arrange a marriage for you. What do you think, sir?"
Bang!
"Your Majesty, please forgive me for being rude, but..."
Seeing that Deng Wenjie couldn't even hold his teacup steady after hearing what she said, the Queen Mother didn't wait for him to reply and made the final decision: "Could it be that Lord Deng doesn't like the marriage I arranged for you?"
"It is not……"
"Then it's settled. You will only have Gu Yuxi as your wife in this life. You are not allowed to take concubines in the backyard. You will marry her in seven days."
"in this way……"
"Why are you refusing, Lord Deng? Are you dissatisfied with the marriage I arranged?"
The man immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed: "Deng Wenjie thanks the Queen Mother for granting you the marriage. May the Queen Mother live a thousand years."
"Go down."
Seeing Deng Wenjie bumping into the door while walking, the Queen Mother said to Chen Jiaojiao beside her: "Jiaojiao, are you relieved?"