The next day, Lu Lingzhi came to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.
The Lu family's manor was originally bestowed by the emperor and was not far from Chengde Villa. Since Lu Lingzhi came to stay, he naturally came to pay his respects to the Empress Dowager.
Although the Empress Dowager did not like Lu Wushuang and was angry with Lu Shide because of Ye Yaoyao, she still had a good impression of Lu Lingzhi. After all, Lu Lingzhi followed Mo Rongzhan to conquer the world and was seriously injured last time in order to suppress the rebels.
"I heard that the Marquis of Anyang has recovered from his illness. I am very happy to hear it. Is your body well now?" The Empress Dowager looked at Lu Lingzhi with a smile, thinking that such a handsome man, if not for his sister Lu Wushuang, perhaps the emperor would value him more now.
"Thank you for your concern, Empress Dowager. Although I have now detoxified the poison, my body is still not as good as before." Lu Lingzhi replied in a low voice, quietly looking at Ye Zhen from the corner of his eyes.
Ye Zhen stood beside the Empress Dowager, looking down and pretending not to hear what Lu Lingzhi said. She knew he would come here, and sure enough, he came.
The Empress Dowager nodded. "Then stay in the manor."
Lu Lingzhi whispered. He did not stay too long at the Empress Dowager's place and was about to leave.
"Yao Yao, see your brother off." The Empress Dowager thought that the brother and sister must have something to say, so she asked Ye Zhen to see Lu Lingzhi off.
Ye Zhen frowned and resisted saying that she didn't want to see Lu Lingzhi off.
"How long are you going to stay in the manor?" Ye Zhen kept a distance of more than five steps from Lu Lingzhi and stopped when he reached the door, refusing to take another step.
Lu Lingzhi looked back at her with a smile. "Do you want me to go back to the capital so much?"
"I'm just worried that there are too many things at home, and grandmother will be tired." Ye Zhen said faintly. Lu Lingzhi was really selfish to leave all the affairs of the family to the old lady.
"Naturally, I will not let grandmother know about the outside affairs. As for the affairs of the inner courtyard, grandmother has her own ideas and will not let me intervene." Lu Lingzhi said.
Ye Zhen pouted. "In that case, I have nothing to say."
"Yaoyao … …" Lu Lingzhi walked towards her and reached out to grab her arm, "Do you know that the emperor is going to choose an empress?"
"What does it have to do with me … What did you say?" Ye Zhen was stunned and wondered if she had heard wrong. Mo Rongzhan wanted to confer the title of Queen?
Lu Lingzhi looked at Ye Zhen with burning eyes and whispered, "She is the eldest daughter of the Bai family in Dinghai, a real daughter of a famous family. The cabinet has prepared the imperial edict for the title of Empress. Today, they will go to the Bai family to announce it."
Dinghai Bai family? A light flashed in Ye Rou's mind. She suddenly remembered that when she was still a soul, Mo Rongzhan had also wanted to choose an Empress, and it seemed that it was the Bai family. But in the end, whether or not the Bai family's daughter was chosen as the Empress, she didn't know, because when the imperial edict was drawn up, she had already been reborn into her sister's body.
Was Mo Rongzhan really going to make an empress? Ye Zhen was in a trance. "Impossible!"
Lu Lingzhi looked at her pitifully. "This matter is absolutely true. Yao Yao, the emperor's heart is only for a moment. The position of Empress is too important. He can't easily …"
"Shut up!" Ye Zhen looked at Lu Lingzhi coldly. "What does this matter have to do with me? You can go now. "
"I know it has nothing to do with you." Lu Lingzhi nodded gently. He just wanted her to give up completely. "Then I'll go first. Take care."
Ye Zhen remembered that on the way back from Zhao Island, Mo Rongzhan kept asking her to wait for him. When he came back, he would make her the Empress. But when she returned to the capital, he seemed to have disappeared. Not even a shadow could be seen. She could only learn what he had been doing recently from the mouths of others.
He wanted to marry her and make the Bai family's daughter the Empress!
Did he want to completely cut off his relationship with her? Or did he come back and found that Ye Zhen was always between them, so he simply gave up, no longer entangled with her, and decided to choose a marriage?
Damn Mo Rongzhan!
Ye Zhen cursed him in her heart, but there was another voice reminding her. Wasn't this what she wanted?
Didn't she always hope to have nothing to do with Mo Rongzhan? Now that he finally stopped pestering her and was going to make another woman the Empress, she should be happy. In this way, wouldn't she be able to walk away more freely?
But although she thought so, she still couldn't help but feel uncomfortable in her heart.
"Yao Yao, what are you doing?" Mo Rongyi was about to come and pay his respects to the Empress Dowager when he saw Ye Zhen outside the courtyard gate. He came over and saw her dull face and slightly red eyes. He couldn't help but call out to her.
Ye Zhen came back to her senses and saw Mo Rongyi coming. She smiled reluctantly. "It's nothing. Why are you here?"
"I came to see you. The weather is very good today. Let's go riding." Mo Rongyi was like a runaway wild horse. When he arrived at Chengde Villa, without the emperor watching him, he could play as he wanted.
"Okay." Ye Zhen nodded and agreed. She wanted to go out and vent the depression in her heart now.
The two rode their horses and left the villa. After running in the nearby woods for most of the day, they also hunted a lot of game. Ye Zhen swept away the depression in her heart and let the cubs go with Mo Rongyi. They asked people to send the game they hunted back to the villa, and the two of them barbecued meat in the woods.
It was not until the sky was covered with a dark blue veil that they came back.
The Empress Dowager reprimanded them and forbade them to go out for such a long time in the future. She was afraid that there would be wild beasts in the woods after dark. The two dusty siblings obediently agreed.
"Yao Yao is usually very well-behaved, but today she is playing with Yi." The Empress Dowager glared at Ye Zhen and sent both of them to freshen up.
Ye Zhen didn't know why she was having so much fun today. It seemed that if she didn't do this, she would think of those unhappy things.
What did it have to do with her that Mo Rongzhan wanted to make an Empress? She didn't care who she loved.
Back in her room, Ye Zhen went to the hot spring pool after dispersing her hair. When she was relaxing, she suddenly heard a cry coming from a corner. Startled, she swam out of the water and turned to find the source of the cry.
The hot spring pool was behind her courtyard. She remembered that Ye Yaoyao lived next to the courtyard. Could it be that the person hiding here crying was Ye Yaoyao? Listening to the voice, Ye Zhen walked a few steps closer and asked in a low voice, "Miss Ye, are you there?"
The crying stopped and the figure hiding in the corner slowly came out. She looked at Ye Zhen timidly and asked in a low voice, "Princess, why are you here?"
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