Chapter 123: What is his intention in giving this kind of thing?

"Yes!" Cui Shuang took the sachet and climbed up to the closet at the back. She found a camphorwood box and threw it in. She then covered it with bedding and other things. "Okay, don't worry, Princess. I guarantee that no one will find it."

Fang Qianxue breathed a sigh of relief, looked out the window and said, "It's still early, why don't I go out for a walk."

She had just eaten and wanted to go see Qilin and take a walk to digest her food.

"Princess!" Two matchmakers hurriedly stopped her, "How can a newlywed woman go out and wander around? It's unlucky."

Fang Qianxue couldn't convince them and had to give up.

Soon, the sound of fireworks was heard outside, and at the same time, dazzling colorful lights illuminated the entire night sky.

The little maids gathered on the corridor to watch the fireworks in surprise, and Cuishuang and Suiqiong were also eager to try it.

Fang Qianxue saw through their thoughts and said, "You guys can go out and watch the fireworks too. I have two maids with me, so it's okay."

"Yes!" The two maids knelt down and saluted, then quickly ran out to watch the fireworks.

Fang Qianxue leaned against the window and looked out for a while. She saw countless stars rising and falling in the courtyard patio, like fairies scattering flowers, and the children's laughter filled the air.

In the crowd, two figures were drinking together.

The sudden light made the two people's silhouettes look as if they were cut by a knife, very handsome but a little lonely.

"When does the young marquis plan to leave Shangjing?" Yan Fenghua looked up at the fireworks in the sky.

"I'll leave in a few days," Jiang Xu stared at the fireworks in the sky, "I never thought that the ferocious King Beining would spend so much time on her."

"Isn't it? It's like coaxing a child," Yan Fenghua laughed at herself, "When Qianxue was a child, she loved to pester me to take her to set off fireworks during the Chinese New Year. Unfortunately, she doesn't remember it now."

Jiang Xu gave him a meaningful look and said, "Given the current situation of the Fang family, Prince Beining is the best choice for her. If Lord Yan really cares about her, he shouldn't mention the past."

"I know," Yan Fenghua drank another glass of wine, "My mother is also urging me to get married. Maybe it will be settled in the next few months. What about you, young marquis?"

In fact, what does it matter whether he mentions it or not? Fang Qianxue only has a brotherly and sisterly relationship with him. Besides, their Yan family is different from the Beining Palace. They have a large family and a large business. Expanding their family is the top priority. They will never allow a divorced woman with a child to marry him.

He had witnessed his mother and other aunts in the family living unhappy lives since he was a child, and he couldn't bear to see Fang Qianxue jump into the fire pit again. Otherwise, if Fang Qianxue couldn't get pregnant in the future, he would have to take a concubine to continue his family line, but he didn't want to do that.

He once thought about marrying Fang Qianxue despite all difficulties. If Fang Qianxue really had difficulty getting pregnant, he could take Cuishuang as a concubine and let her give birth to a son. However, he thought that doing so would not only hurt the relationship between him and Fang Qianxue, but also the relationship between Fang Qianxue and Cuishuang as master and servant.

Anyway, let it go.

Jiang Xu frowned and replied, "My father has already sent someone to propose marriage to the Princess's Mansion."

"County Princess Yi'an? Very good." Yan Fenghua toasted him.

As both of them were wanderers in this world, they felt sorry for themselves and drank in a corner until the banquet was over. Then they left with everyone else.

When the palace became quiet again, Fang Qianxue was dozing off in front of the window when she suddenly heard Cuishuang's voice.

"Princess, Master Lu sent someone to deliver a letter." Cui Shuang held a letter in her hand, hesitating whether to give it to her.

Today is the prince and princess' wedding day. Lu Changqing sent someone to deliver a letter, which must not be a good thing.

Fang Qianxue was also a little surprised. She took the letter with trembling fingers.

Lu Changqing is a petty person. He just made his mother sick a few days ago. The things he sent at this time...wouldn't contain poison?

"Princess, please don't open it!" Cui Shuang stopped her, "I'm afraid there's something dirty inside."

"Let me open it!" a matchmaker volunteered, "I don't believe in evil."

Fang Qianxue handed the letter to her and said, "Thank you for your help, Madam."

The matchmaker tore open the letter with a "sizzle", and unexpectedly a light green handkerchief embroidered with plum blossoms fell out from inside.

Fang Qianxue was stunned for a moment. When she picked up the handkerchief, she remembered that it was a gift she had given to Lu Changqing that year. However, due to the passage of time, the light green handkerchief had already turned yellow.

"What's his intention in giving such a gift at this time?" Cui Shuang said, snatching the handkerchief from her hand, "A broken mirror cannot be mended, and spilled water cannot be healed! Princess, I will help you burn this handkerchief!"

The princess knew very well how much injustice she had suffered in the Lu family. Lu Changqing was nice to his wife only in the first few years of their marriage, but he became cold afterwards and spoke coldly to her every time they met. The princess had to swallow her anger for the sake of her two children. If it weren't for Xu's incident, she might not have made up her mind to jump out of the fire pit!

Cui Shuang was determined not to let the princess jump back into that fire pit.

"Let me see it first!" Fang Qianxue stopped her and heard the matchmaker shout again.

"Ah! There's... there's also a letter written in blood!"

"What?" Fang Qianxue was startled.

"Hurry up and throw away this bloody thing!" Another matchmaker came over in a hurry, "Today is the princess's wedding day, we can't see blood."

"It's okay. Let me take a look." Fang Qianxue stretched out her hand to the matchmaker, and the latter had no choice but to hand the blood letter to her.

Lu Changqing was a man with unstable emotions, and sending her a blood letter on her wedding day seemed like something he would do.

When she saw the contents of the blood letter, she was immediately furious. It was actually an accusation letter that accused her grandfather Fang Qingshi of colluding with Prince Yong and plotting for the position of crown prince. The writer of the letter was one of Master Fang's disciples, named Wei Zhenglin.

This man's entire family was exiled to Luzhou, and now Wei Zhenglin is also imprisoned in the Ministry of Justice. As for where this blood letter came from, Fang Qianxue knew with her toes that it was a confession under torture, or perhaps it was a threat to the lives of his entire family.

"Princess, what's wrong?" Cui Shuang asked carefully when she saw her pale face.

"What else did the person who delivered the letter say?" Fang Qianxue asked.

"Nothing was said," Cui Shuang glanced out the window nervously, "He just said it was a gift from Lord Lu to you, Princess, this letter..."

"It is a letter of denunciation that my grandfather colluded with Prince Yong and plotted to seize the throne."

"Ah?" Cui Shuang knew that this matter was very serious. If she wasn't careful, hundreds of people in the Fang family would die. "How about... I can help you burn it!"

It was the only idea she could come up with.

"No need for that. Since he can get one letter of denunciation, he can get two or three." Fang Qianxue folded the blood letter and the handkerchief and put them back into the envelope. "We can't burn them all."

Torturing someone into confessing was a very easy tactic for the presiding judge, Lu Changqing.

"What should we do then?" Cui Shuang and Sui Qiong looked at each other, both of them were about to cry, the joy they had just felt gone.