Chapter 696: Things Have Changed
A red petal fell quietly, and Mu Qing hugged the little ball in his hand tightly, silent like a statue.
He had long known that Nangong Yue was not a good woman.
Look, as soon as he returned to the palace, he started to snatch his wife from him!
In the end, Mu Qing's dark face blocked the two people's affectionate gaze.
At the same time, the little dumpling found something wrong and started crying loudly. It took a lot of effort to coax him into crying, but he found that he had to pee and could only solve the problem on the spot in Merlin.
A special bookshelf was set up in Yime Pavilion, which was filled with Hu Xiner's works and peripherals.
Daddy Mu Qing sat upright with the child in his arms, standing firmly between the two women.
The eldest princess laughed at him: "Hey, I've already given birth to your child, why are you still so jealous? Don't you have any manliness?"
She knew Mu Qing was too lazy to pay attention to her, so she winked at Hu Xin'er directly: "Look at me, I am very generous, woman, no matter where you are, I know that your heart is with me!"
"Okay, stop your cheesy love talk." Hu Xiner covered her face directly.
I don’t know why, but every time I talk to the eldest princess, the topic always goes to unexpected places.
The eldest princess liked to see them being embarrassed by her own stupidity, so she laughed wildly.
Mu Qing looked at her coldly: "Princess, please be careful with your words. After all, she is my wife."
The princess wanted to continue to stir up trouble: "Who said that? You are just her consort. I will send her some male favorites tomorrow——"
Mu Qing silently exerted force and broke the corner of the table.
The eldest princess suddenly felt a chill all over her body. She laughed awkwardly twice and dropped the topic.
"By the way, how is His Majesty doing now?" Hu Xin'er suddenly asked, "Why did you suddenly summon me to the palace urgently? And Lord Zhao also said that if I don't go to the capital soon, it will be too late."
Originally, she hadn't thought about this, but it was a bit strange that she hadn't seen the emperor for so long.
The eldest princess's brow furrowed slightly, then quickly relaxed. "Don't you know your father's temper? He rashly agreed to sever ties with you, but later regretted it. And since I miss you now, let's team up and lure you back."
Hu Xin'er frowned, "Don't talk about this kind of private conspiracy so openly!"
The eldest princess chuckled and changed the subject: "You're asking about father, which shows that you care about him too."
Hu Xin'er pursed her lips and said, "Yue'er, I have something I want to tell you..."
The eldest princess only appeared careless, but in fact she sensed something was wrong from her tone and quickly asked, "By the way, why haven't I seen Aunt Lu? Is her illness getting better?"
Hu Xiner originally wanted to tell the truth about her time travel and ask the princess to stop treating her as her own sister.
However, no one expected that the eldest princess, in order to change the subject, accidentally hit the mark and talked about Lu's mother.
Not only did she fall silent, Mu Qing also lowered his eyes, feeling very depressed.
The princess had a vague sense of foreboding: "Could it be... Hey, is the condition serious? That's okay, I can ask Divine Doctor Dou to treat it again. I'll go get the best medicine from the Imperial Hospital right away."
"No need." Hu Xin'er pursed her lips and said, "Mom has already left."
"Gone...how did you leave? Didn't you take the medicine with you when you left?" The eldest princess glanced at their expressions, but after she said this, she received no response.
She asked cautiously, "What about Jiang Yao and the others? Didn't they want to retire with you? Why haven't they entered the palace yet? Are they still holding a grudge against Father?"
This time it was Mu Qing who answered his question: "He's dead too."
"Ah? This...this..." Even with the princess's thick skin, she couldn't help but start stuttering. She was secretly ashamed in her heart and wished she could hit herself to death with a brick.
Hu Xin'er calmed down and said directly, "Even if you don't ask, you'll find out from others sooner or later. We originally wanted to return to Shuangxi Village, but we escaped the prince's pursuit in Qingzhou City, so we decided..."
From staying temporarily in Qingzhou to raise money, to having to stay longer because Lu's mother was seriously ill, to the life-and-death friendship with the Du family... Hu Xiner picked out all the things that could be said and hurriedly recounted them.
She tried her best to describe these things in a wonderful, vivid and interesting way, but the eldest princess looked at her with more and more heartache.
Over the past few months, the eldest princess has been doing nothing but sleeping and eating in the palace, and at most helping her father share some of the important tasks.
She finally got over the pain brought by the prince and thought this was the biggest difficulty she had encountered in her life.
But no one expected that in Qingzhou not far away, Hu Xiner was suffering such torture.
"Why didn't you tell me earlier?" she couldn't help but say, "It's all my fault. If I had sent someone to look for you earlier, you wouldn't have encountered so many difficulties."
Hu Xin'er looked at her self-blaming expression, and her heart couldn't help but warm: "What does this have to do with you? It's our own choice."
"So, Jiang Yao died on her way back to the capital, and after her death, the Taoist priest became disillusioned with worldly matters and returned to his own sect?" The princess pondered for a moment, then sighed. "Sounds like a storybook."
Hu Xiner held it in for a long time before finally saying, "Art comes from life."
A few words can only briefly summarize their experience, and although it is thrilling enough, it still lacks many details.
After a brief moment of amazement, the princess was filled with questions: "Why didn't Lu Yunjue come back with us? Could he be dead too?"
As soon as she finished speaking, she quickly covered her mouth and spat a few times: "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, it was all my fault!"
This time, the couple finally showed some joy on their faces: "He's getting married!"
"What?!" The eldest princess's gene scream almost shook the roof off. "Didn't he dislike women before?"
"Who said he doesn't like women?" This time it was Mu Qing who showed a questioning look.
Hu Xin'er recalled the eldest princess's persistent pursuit of her, and whispered sarcastically, "I've observed carefully. Yun Jue...maybe he just doesn't like you."
The eldest princess screamed and wanted to rush over to "beat" her, but ended up tickling her.
Hu Xin'er was almost laughing to the point of tears, and could only beg for mercy: "It's all my fault."
The eldest princess then withdrew and said confidently, "He used to only flirt with Liu Yanchao, and he and the Crown Prince... the deposed Crown Prince, were in a love-hate relationship, while he ignored me and all the ladies in the capital. What else could this be but a dislike for women?"
She felt that her logic was impeccable.
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