Lu Yan frowned and looked at Bai Wanyi: "You came to me just to talk about this?"
"What else?" Bai Wanyi had laughed enough, then stood up and looked at Lu Yan, saying, "Why? Are you feeling distressed? If you're distressed, go to the East Palace and comfort your white moonlight and cinnabar mole. Who are you pretending to be affectionate for here?"
"The one in the main courtyard's study? A lowly whore who's been ridden by thousands of men and tasted by tens of thousands of people. How can she compare to your white moonlight, the Crown Princess? Right?"
"That's enough!"
Lu Yan yelled at Bai Wanyi, "Why have you become so unreasonable?"
"I'm being unreasonable? Didn't you betray me? You broke your oath to me!" Bai Wanyi pointed to the sky and said, "Who told me that we'd be together forever? Who told me that I was the only one in your eyes and heart? Who told me to listen to me? And what happened? What happened to all these women in this yard? Tell me!"
The angrier and more arrogant Bai Wanyi became, the more Lu Yan missed Qin Wan.
Although Qin Wan was naughty when she was young, she was bright, outgoing, confident and beautiful.
Later, he said he wanted to marry Bai Wanyi as his equal wife, so she calmly asked for a divorce.
Lu Yan originally thought that Qin Wan was just throwing a tantrum, and was afraid that she would make a fuss, so he didn't want to pay any attention to her. Who would have thought that she actually wanted a divorce!
Left quietly.
Lu Yan came back to his senses, looked at Bai Wanyi with a distorted face, and said coldly: "If you don't like me taking a concubine, let's get a divorce."
"You actually want to divorce me?" Bai Wanyi looked at Lu Yan in disbelief and pain. "I didn't even bother with military merit for you, and you actually want to divorce me! If I didn't marry you, I could easily be crowned a princess with my military merit! I've sacrificed so much for you, and you want to divorce me now? How could it be so easy!"
Lu Yan looked at Bai Wanyi calmly. "Then why are you making such a fuss? Are you sending those women away? No way. You always said that it's not easy for women to survive. You always said that in a society like ours, women can't survive without men. You understand their difficulties best. Now you want them to leave. How can you expect them to live on?"
A series of questions left Bai Wanyi confused: "When did I say I would send them away?"
Lu Yan asked back, "Isn't that what you meant? If that's not what you meant, then it proves that you can tolerate them. If you can tolerate them, then why do you argue with me every day? If you can't tolerate them, then don't you just want to send them away?"
Bai Wanyi looked at Lu Yan, feeling sad. "You'll never understand what I mean. We don't get along. I'm tired, so I'll go back first."
For the first time, Bai Wanyi knelt down and bowed to Lu Yan to take his leave.
Lu Yan looked at Bai Wanyi who suddenly understood etiquette, and felt a sudden emptiness in his heart. But when he thought about Qin Wan now in the palace, facing several beautiful newcomers, he couldn't help but worry.
If he can't enter the Eastern Palace, can't he go find His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?
The prince's whereabouts are not difficult to find out.
A snow came late in winter.
Xie Qing rode his horse back to Beijing. This time he went to inspect several dams in the capital. As the weather was getting colder, the construction of the dams had stopped, but some places still had to be completed. He was worried and went out to check.
He is now the regent, and his travels are different from before. Not only is the crown prince's ceremonial guard displayed in full, but at least half of it is displayed.
Now he was galloping in the front, and behind him was a group of people with flags waving, making a strong breeze.
From a distance, Xie Qing saw a person standing at the city gate in the wind and snow. He hoped it was Qin Wan, but he also knew that it was inconvenient for her to travel now, so it couldn't be her.
Then who is it?
Whoever it is, probably isn't waiting for him.
Xie Qing waved his whip, intending to quickly enter the city gate so that he could return to the East Palace as soon as possible. He hadn't seen his wife for two days.
Unexpectedly, the figure suddenly blocked the way in front of the horse.
Xie Qing tightened the reins and took a closer look at the person blocking his way. He frowned and said, "Marquis Pingyang, if you want to die, please go somewhere else. Why are you looking for trouble with me?"
Lu Yan looked up at Xie Qing on horseback. The wind blew snowflakes into his eyes. He couldn't help but burst into tears, but he forced himself to hold them back. "Your Highness, do you know that when you are not in the East Palace, someone will bully your woman?"
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Xie Qing tilted his head to look at Lu Yan, and said with a half-smile, "My woman is the Crown Princess. Please, Marquis Pingyang, call her the Crown Princess. Also, I want to thank Marquis Pingyang. If you hadn't bullied the Crown Princess first, making her decide to divorce you, I wouldn't have been able to marry such a good woman."
Killing someone and destroying their heart, Lu Yan's eyes were red, and he clenched his fists. He looked at Xie Qing and said, "Since you know she is a good woman, you should treat her well. She is in a difficult situation now. I hope Your Highness the Crown Prince will have mercy on her."
"Heh." Xie Qing leaned back, raised his hand to brush away the snow on his hood, and said calmly, "How I treat my own Crown Princess is my own business. I don't need you, Marquis Pingyang, to tell me so many things. If you have the time, Marquis Pingyang, you might as well take care of your own affairs. As the saying goes, if you can't clean up your own house, how can you clean up the world?"
"Marquis Pingyang, your comrades are now fourth-rank officials, but you are still living in the fifth rank. Aren't you ashamed?"
The person Xie Qing was talking about was Qian Si. He seemed to have defected to the Fourth Prince, and his ascension speed was very fast. He was now holding an important position in the Five Military Commander's Office.
Lu Yan suddenly felt ashamed, but he still blocked Xie Qing's way: "Your Highness, if you are interested in taking a concubine, please wait a year or two. She... The Crown Princess is stubborn and will never share a husband with anyone."
"However, since she has chosen to marry His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, she must be well aware that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will definitely take a concubine in the future. However, now that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess are newly married, I have to say that it is not appropriate for you to take a concubine at this time. It will hurt the Crown Princess's feelings."
Xie Qing originally wanted to say, "Does it matter to you whether I take a concubine or not? Why are you here in public caring about my wife?"
But when the words were on the tip of his tongue, he saw out of the corner of his eye that there seemed to be officials in the crowd, and his mind moved slightly.
In the past, no one sent people to the Eastern Palace because they were afraid of losing their status and being implicated.
Now that he was the regent and had a good chance of inheriting the throne, he guessed that some people were becoming restless.
What happened in the East Palace?
Let Lu Yan know everything?
Xie Qing's heart flew back, and his eyes casually swept over the crowd. His tone was light, but it seemed to carry a great force as he said loudly: "Take a concubine? I have never thought of taking a concubine. My wife, my woman, is only the Crown Princess."
"This is the case now, and it will be the same in the future. You can just wait and see. Marquis Pingyang, make way."
Under Xie Qing's indifferent gaze, Lu Yan unconsciously made way. Is this the power of an emperor?
Just one look can make people surrender unconsciously.
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