Shocked! The salty concubine was spoiled by the cold prince

Chapter 147: Presenting a Beauty

Gu Jiaorong doesn't care about these things, and she doesn't understand them.

"Your Highness, just make the arrangements. Don't worry about the rest. I won't hold you back. If anything happens, Your Highness, please send me out first."

She was not polite, but in a moment, she had arranged her retreat.

Pei Xu smiled and looked at her with his eyes narrowed.

"Rong'er, can you bear to abandon me and take the child away?"

Gu Jiaorong looked back at him, her eyes as deep as a pool as always, as if able to draw people in.

She nodded without hesitation and answered decisively: "I can bear it."

She knew that Pei Xu would be fine, but it was hard to say for her and the child, both of whom were fragile.

She really cherishes her life and just wants to live a long life. She doesn't want to die in an accident.

Pei Xu looked at her with a low smile and spoke helplessly.

"What a heartless little thing."

Fortunately, he was happy that she was worried about him, but he didn't expect that she was already thinking of escaping from him.

"I won't send you away. I will protect you no matter what the situation is, and you will be safest if you stay with me."

Pei Xu looked at her with burning eyes and his tone was extremely serious.

Gu Jiaorong felt that this was a warning, and Pei Xu did not want her to leave.

"Of course. Apart from the prince, no one else can protect me so wholeheartedly."

Gu Jiaorong smiled and tiptoed to kiss Pei Xu's lips.

Perhaps it was the arrival of autumn, his lips were much cooler than in the summer.

Gu Jiaorong thought a little distractedly, it was a bit like jelly.

Too bad she never had the chance to eat it again.

Pei Xu obviously noticed that she was distracted and was dissatisfied with it, so he gently bit her lips.

"Rong'er, you're not concentrating."

His hot breath entangled with hers, and his eyes were heavy.

Gu Jiaorong felt guilty for a second for no reason, but she did not respond. Instead, she covered his mouth again to divert his attention.

Fortunately, Pei Xu didn't really want to make a fuss about it, he just wanted to take advantage of the opportunity.

When they separated again, Gu Jiaorong was already out of breath and had no energy to think about anything else.

Pei Xu held her in his arms and let her rest for a while, but before she knew it, Gu Jiayi fell asleep in his arms.

Since she was four months pregnant, Gu Jiaorong became sleepy.

Pei Xu gently picked her up, put her on the bed, and then sat beside her to handle official business.

Just as Gu Jiaorong said, after they returned to the palace, there would be more and more things to do, and he needed to prepare in advance.

Gu Jiaorong slept until late at night. She sat up, rubbed her eyes with her hands, and wanted to call Shaoyao, but Pei Xu lit the light and came in first.

"Your Majesty, why are you..."

"There's time for me to sleep on the way. I'll get things sorted out first, so tomorrow will be easy."

Pei Xu interrupted her, "You've been sleeping for several hours, it's already late at night, are you hungry?"

He walked over to the bed and touched her red cheek.

Pei Xu seemed to have developed a habit of touching her cheek every time to check if she was feeling unwell.

Gu Jiaorong blinked and nodded at the tall man in front of her.

"I'm a little hungry."

But Shaoyao should be asleep now, and I don’t know if there is any food in the kitchen.

Gu Jiaorong's thoughts were obviously unnecessary, as Pei Xu had never let her go hungry.

"The food is warming on the fire. I'll bring it to you. Please wait for me."

After Pei Xu finished speaking, he left quickly, fearing that Gu Jiaorong would be hungry.

But Gu Jiaorong did not sit obediently on the bed and wait for him to come back with dinner.

She walked out and picked up the document that Pei Xu had placed on the table and started reading.

The above is Pei Yunqing's information. He has been very active recently, even presenting a beautiful woman who is good at singing and dancing to the emperor.

It was hard for Gu Jiaorong not to suspect that this beauty was no ordinary woman.

"This girl was eighteen years old and was raised in Pei Yunqing's private garden for five years. Her father was once the Minister of the Ministry of Revenue. He was investigated for corruption and bribery. Dozens of his family members, young and old, perished, and she was the only one who survived."

Pei Xu came back with the food and seeing the curiosity in her eyes, he started to explain to her.

Gu Jiaorong didn't expect that Pei Yunqing had been planning this for so long. Five years ago, he was only twelve or thirteen years old.

"Then this woman's father was wrongly accused?"

Gu Jiaorong knew that he was the Minister of Dali Temple, so even if it was an old story, he must have known something about it.

Besides, the woman's background was already laid out on his desk.

"Of course not. Although His Majesty is a king who maintains the status quo, he is not senile. He values his reputation very much and is unwilling to wrongly kill a minister, lest he be cursed by future generations a hundred years from now."

Pei Xu walked to her side with a smile, put the food on the table, and pulled her to sit down.

"This country needs a wise ruler to protect it. Even though he made many mistakes, if we look at his life, he did have both merits and faults, and he is not an absolutely incompetent ruler."

But the position was too tempting and the emperor was reluctant to give it up.

Gu Jiaorong understood what he meant, but it was too early to judge the emperor's merits and demerits.

After all, when Emperor Minghuang of Tang was young, he was considered a legend and created the Kaiyuan Prosperity. But in his later years, he became confused and not only neglected state affairs, but also relied on eunuchs and favored treacherous ministers.

Everyone blamed Concubine Yang for the disaster, believing that she was a beauty who brought disaster and the root cause of the Anshi Rebellion. But she was just a helpless woman who could not even make her own decisions about marriage and funerals.

The current emperor is also going to follow this old path.

Although his son presented the beauty as an offering of filial piety, it was clearly written on the paper that the emperor was very pleased and cherished her.

"Pei Yunqing has already begun his plan, and this beauty is his first chess piece."

Gu Jiaorong lowered her eyes and said, if she guessed correctly, by winter, the emperor's body would be hollowed out, and then Pei Yunqing would have to start the next plan.

The pursuit of immortality

This seems to have been an obsession for many emperors in their later years.

Going back to the Qin Emperor and Han Emperor, there was the Jiajing Emperor who was devoted to seeking the truth.

Gu Jiaorong felt that the current emperor could not avoid it either. After all, he had power and beauties in his hands. The only thing he lacked was longevity.

Even ordinary people want to survive, let alone the emperor who is high above everyone else.

"He wants the emperor to have his people around him. This is the fastest way, and a favorite concubine can do so much."

Pei Xu chuckled, "Now the Third Prince has probably been suppressed by him. After all, he has always relied on Concubine Shu."

Concubine Shu was already old and had been gradually falling out of favor. It was only because there were no new people in the palace that she was able to be proud for a while longer. Now that Pei Yunqing presented the beauty to her, Concubine Shu was naturally neglected.

"Although this move of his was a cliché, it was also a brilliant one."

When Gu Jiaorong heard this, she also laughed.

“Sometimes it doesn’t matter if the method is bad, as long as it works.”

No matter what, Pei Yunqing achieved his goal.