Chapter 21 The Truth
"Um"
King Zhao only glanced at Miss Ji and said, "Your sister has always been a good person.
Even if you are joking, you should not slander her or hurt her feelings."
Miss Ji raised her head in disbelief:... Ji Yunqing is kind and has good character?
Your Majesty, are you serious about this?
But King Zhao no longer looked at her. He walked to the head of the table and sat down. He looked at Ji Yunqing with his beautiful eyes and said, "Go ahead and chat with your family. Don't worry about me."
Everyone: “…” With such a big prince standing here, staring at us hungrily, who would dare to treat him as if he doesn’t exist?
"Thank you, Your Majesty!"
Ji Yunqing's face was filled with sincere emotion. She moved lightly with lotus steps and grasped the slender and fair hand of King Zhao: "Fortunately, the prince is here, otherwise Yunqing would not know what to do."
In this posture, Ji Yunqing turned his head and looked at Madam Ji again: "Mother, please feel free to say whatever you want to say. The prince is a gentleman. If he says it's not necessary, don't worry about it. Then let's continue with the previous topic.
What are we talking about? Dad wants me to persuade the prince to bend the law for personal gain?"
Madam Ji managed to force a smile: "... Yunqing is really good at joking. Mother was just a little anxious, and she didn't mean it that way."
Oh my God, can something like pillow talk be said so openly?
As if he could see what she was thinking, Ji Yunqing said considerately, "Don't worry, mother. We are all family here. The prince will never tell anyone."
King Zhao looked at Madam Ji with scrutiny in his beautiful eyes.
Mrs. Ji broke out in a cold sweat and said with difficulty:
"Haha, your father's ability is limited, so he has to do what he has to do. He...he is just too anxious to work for the court. He has been restless after taking a half-year break!
Mother was a little anxious at this point, but now that she thinks about it carefully, she really shouldn’t have been anxious.”
Unexpectedly, Ji Yunqing agreed with what he said: "Indeed, Daddy is only fifty-four years old this year, and he is at the right age to make a living. Mother, you should really trust Dad more."
Ji Yunqing is eighteen years old this year. Master Ji married his first wife when he was almost thirty years old in order to prepare for the imperial examination. It took another five or six years before Ji Yunqing was born, but he passed away not long after.
The following year, Mr. Ji married the current Mrs. Ji, and seven months later, Miss Ji II was born.
Roughly speaking, Mr. Ji is exactly 54 years old this year, which is a good age for hard work.
After listening to this, King Zhao nodded thoughtfully: "Is he still a young man?..."
Mrs. Ji looked at the prince in disbelief. The old man was already half buried in the ground. Couldn’t you tell whether he was a young man or not?
No, Mrs. Ji calmed down quickly, with a dazzling and determined light in her eyes.
Ji Yunqing, if you don't listen, don't blame me for being ruthless!
She took a step forward and said calmly, "Yunqing, before coming here, Chengcheng kept talking about you. He was very worried about you."
Chengcheng?
Does the Ji family have this child?
Ji Yunqing quickly recalled and realized that this woman indeed had bad intentions.
The so-called "Chengcheng" is her fiancé, Zeng Cheng, who is only 25 years old and has been staying in the original owner's home and grew up there. His name contains the word "Cheng".
Oh my god, if this matter is exposed one day and King Zhao finds out what they discussed in front of each other, it turns out that Ji Yunqing’s ex-fiancé is still thinking about her.
That would be really exciting!
But now the prince was staring at her with a fierce look in his eyes, and Ji Yunqing could not delay any longer. She could only bite the bullet and pretend to be innocent.
"Ah? Is there a child named Chengcheng in our family? Did he come to our house recently? I haven't seen that child before?"
When Mrs. Ji heard her say this, she deliberately said slowly: "Why haven't you seen this Chengcheng? He has an outstanding talent for reading, and the teacher praised him for his intelligence!
When the imperial examination comes, I will definitely be on the list.”
"is it?"
Ji Yunqing pretended to be surprised and looked at King Zhao again: "Then you can bring it to Your Majesty when you have time. If it is really talented, Yunqing dares to ask, Your Majesty can give it some pointers."
King Zhao was naturally trying to save face for his concubine: "If there is a destiny, it won't be difficult to adopt him as your adopted son."
Ji Yunqing: “…”
Uh, twenty-five years old, such a big adopted son?
But she naturally would not point out the truth, and quickly covered it up, pretending to be happy and said: "Okay, okay! But Your Majesty, when Yun Qing is lucky enough to give birth to a child for you in the future, Your Majesty must love our child even more!"
As she spoke, she raised her hand with a loving look and placed it on her soft abdomen, touching her stomach which was filled with a messy breakfast.
King Zhao's gaze also fell on her lower abdomen. He could not imagine what this flat area would look like when it bulged in the future.
His tone softened a bit, and he said lovingly, "Okay, I will naturally love this prince's child well."
As he spoke, his eyes turned towards Ji Yunqing, as if he was not loving the future child, but the child's biological mother.
At this moment, Ji Yunqing looked extremely moved, but his heart was very calm.
Look, even in this situation, the other party said "this king's child" instead of "our child".
Ji Yunqing was just a person who gave birth to the child, not the "mother" in King Zhao's eyes.
But when Miss Ji Er saw this scene, her eyes turned red with jealousy.
Ji Yunqing lives in such a big palace and owns such a large yard. Even now, she also has a prince of noble birth who loves her!
Furthermore, the prince was not as ugly as imagined. Instead, he was handsome and extremely affectionate.
How come Ji Yunqing always gets to meet all the good things?
Her ex-fiance had no power or influence and was even living in her house. Who would have thought that he would study hard and was about to get into high school.
After much difficulty, I got her to be my concubine. I thought she would have a miserable life, but who knew she would be loved by my husband, and such a handsome husband at that!
If she had known this would happen, she would have chosen to enter the mansion. Everything that Ji Yunqing has now should have been hers.
Yes, it was Ji Yunqing who stole her marriage. She should be the one who could enter the palace. Ji Yunqing is such a shameless person who only seduces other people's men.
She deliberately said loudly: "Sister, how could you deceive the prince like this? And you even teamed up with mother to deceive the prince. That so-called Chengcheng is just - um"
Halfway through her words, Mrs. Ji covered her mouth tightly and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?"
Seeing King Zhao looking at her, Madam Ji's mind raced. Provoking Ji Yunqing was one thing.
However, if the prince found out that their family had deceived the palace and brought an engaged woman into the palace pretending to be an unmarried girl, no one would be able to bear the consequences.
But the truth was almost revealed by this hammer. What should we do now?
Mrs. Ji's forehead was covered with cold sweat, and her back was wet with sweat.