Su Yingyue hugged Xiao Huaiqing and said, "Stop talking. Let's stop blaming each other."
"Huaiqing, let's live a good life. Father will come back sooner or later. Before he comes back, we just need to do our duty well."
"Lin Yue is a princess who is here to celebrate her wedding. We give her the dignity of a princess, and no one can find fault with her. That's enough."
Xiao Huaiqing nodded. This was the only way now.
But as the couple embraced each other, it seemed as if there was something between them, and the initial excitement and joy were no longer there.
Instead, there is more silence and oppression, as if it is hard to breathe.
In the evening, a servant came to report that the Fourth Prince had arrived.
Xiao Huaiqing asked in surprise: "What is he doing here?"
The servant replied, "I came to see the princess and asked her what gift she wanted."
Xiao Huaiqing frowned and stood up.
Su Yingyue was also a little nervous. Seeing this, Xiao Huaiqing said, "Just have someone prepare dinner. I'll be back to eat with you later."
Su Yingyue nodded, and although she was still worried, she did not follow.
She knew that only by playing the role of an obedient wife could she win back Xiao Huaiqing's heart.
Xiao Huaiqing came to the outside of the main room and heard Xiao Huaizheng's voice: "Aunt Huang, I have already listened to you and fooled him. If you don't help me next, I will be miserable."
Lin Yue said: "Stop pretending, I don't buy it."
Xiao Huaiqing asked a servant to pass the message outside. Seeing that he had finally learned to be polite, Lin Yue said calmly, "Please ask the prince to come in."
Xiao Huaiqing went in, and Xiao Huaizheng said with a smile: "Cousin."
Xiao Huaiqing asked in surprise, "Why is Fourth Brother here?"
Xiao Huaizheng said: "I came to ask the Queen Aunt to help me with something."
"Look, they've sent me the only house I own."
Looking at the house deed on the table, Xiao Huaiqing was also a little surprised.
Why would you need to use a house as a bargaining chip?
But Lin Yue said, "You wanted to do it yourself. Don't say it so aggrievedly. Be careful or I will report you to the emperor."
Xiao Huaizheng said: "Oh, please don't, can't I just be wrong?"
"Aunt Huang, please tell me what to do. He has already begun to doubt me."
Lin Yue frowned, thinking: [Is Huo Renli so powerful? Even Xiao Huaizheng came to ask for my help?]
[But as far as I know, if Xiao Huaizheng hadn't finally been unable to get over his own mental issues, what would Huo Renli even be?]
[Could it be that this guy is pretending to be a pig and eating the tiger? ]
Lin Yue quickly became alert and said, "Since I've accepted your benefits, I will definitely help you get to the bottom of the matter, but as for other matters, I won't interfere!"
Seeing that Lin Yue refused so decisively, Xiao Huaizheng stopped forcing her and said, "But this matter started because of the Queen Aunt. You should at least give me some clues, right?"
"Doesn't that person have any weaknesses?"
Lin Yue thought about it carefully and realized that it was true.
Xiao Huaizheng always thought that Huo Renli cared about him the most, and that he was his weak spot.
[But that's all bullshit. Huo Renli only pretended to care about him, but in reality he was using him to make money and gather power.]
As a eunuch, it would have been useless for him to ask for these things. However, when Huo Renli was castrated, he was already married. He had a son and a daughter. He had even wanted to bring his daughter into the palace so that Xiao Huaizheng could favor him and give birth to an heir. However, Xiao Huaizheng disliked his daughter's ugliness and did not allow him to do so. Calculating the time, it should have been this year, so his daughter and son had already arrived in the capital.
[As for where it was arranged, the original book only described it as a remote house. In order not to reveal his identity, Huo Renli did not even go to see it in person.]
After receiving the accurate information, Xiao Huaizheng's eyes changed and he began to think in his mind.
The gift-giving was fake, but the information about Huo Renli was real.
Just looking at Xiao Huaiqing who was sitting on the side in a daze, looking a little uneasy, he probably couldn't hear Lin Yue's inner thoughts, otherwise how could he look so absent-minded.
If this is a chance God has given him to reform, he must seize it and never make the same mistake again.
Thinking of this, Xiao Huaizheng said to Lin Yue: "What if I ask my cousin for help? Is Aunt Huang okay with it?"
Xiao Huaiqing was very surprised. What did this have to do with him?
Lin Yue said: "This is a matter between you and him, you should ask him instead of asking me."
Hearing Lin Yue's words that it had nothing to do with him, Xiao Huaiqing lowered his head sensitively, looking a little lost.
Xiao Huaizheng could tell at a glance that there was still a conflict between Xiao Huaiqing and Lin Yue, and Lin Yue was also impatient to greet Xiao Huaiqing.
He quickly said, "It's settled then. I'll ask my cousin for help."
After saying this, he no longer hesitated and took Xiao Huaiqing out directly.
Xiao Huaiqing was confused. After coming out, he asked Xiao Huaizheng, "Why did you call me out?"
Xiao Huaizheng let him go and said, "The eunuch beside me has committed a crime. If I don't handle it well, it might implicate me. It was the Queen's Aunt who told me this news."
"If I want to save myself now, I have to find out the bottom line of this old eunuch and then get rid of me."
"Even the Imperial Aunt is helping me, are you going to stand by and watch me die?"
Upon hearing this, Xiao Huaiqing asked in surprise, "Aren't you going to tell the emperor?"
Xiao Huaizheng said self-deprecatingly: "Not everyone can rely on father like my cousin."
"My father has five sons, two of whom are legitimate. How could someone like me, born out of wedlock and without a mother, be valued?"
"Besides, I fell into the water in the palace before, and it was the imperial aunt who desperately rescued me, otherwise I would have died long ago."
Xiao Huaiqing was shocked when he heard this and asked, "Are you sure she saved him? When did it happen?"
Xiao Huaizheng said: "She was the one who pulled me ashore, who else could it be but her? Didn't you also go to the palace a few days ago?"
"By the way, I heard that you were not nice to Aunt Huang. Why?"
"Although she is not your biological mother, she has never hurt you. Why do you want to go against her?"
"Besides, you are the prince. If you go against her, others will only think that it is her stepmother who is bad, and it will also greatly damage her reputation."
Hearing this, Xiao Huaiqing shook his head and said, "No, I didn't treat her badly. It was her who bullied Yingyue."
Xiao Huaizheng tutted his words and said, "But before you got married, why didn't you hear that the Emperor's aunt was such a rude and unreasonable person?"
"You've been with her for three years. Don't you know whether she's a bad person or not?"
Xiao Huaiqing fell silent. Yes, he and Lin Yue had been together for three years.
As long as they were well, she would ask about his well-being, take care of his daily life and diet, and be very polite to the servants in the house.
I have never heard of her. Who did she abuse? Who did she hurt?
But everything changed after he got married.
She became sharp, sharp-tongued, and relentless...
She always tries to be like her mother-in-law, but she's obviously not...
He and Yingyue both knew very well that Lin Yue was jealous and angry, so they hated her even more.
Everything happened because of her feelings for him. Now that she no longer has those feelings for him, all the conflicts instantly disintegrated.
Even he felt at a loss.
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