Chapter 464 This old man is too bad
Pei Shaorong had already stood up, wearing a coat, "Have you found out what happened?"
Zhao Chengye reached out and held her hand, soothing her, "Don't worry, it's okay, it's all a misunderstanding. Someone has been asked to check, it was the noise coming from Lanyuan, it should be some nocturnal animal, there is nothing else unusual."
Pei Shaorong breathed a sigh of relief, "That's good, I thought..."
"Don't worry, I've asked someone to keep an eye on it, the same thing won't happen again."
Zhao Chengye said as he carried her to the warm pavilion, wanting to take her away to sleep with him.
But Pei Shaorong woke up while walking, stopped and looked at him: "In this case, Your Highness should rest early, I also want to go back and lie down to continue sleeping."
Zhao Chengye: "..."
Before he could say anything else, Pei Shaorong had left him without hesitation and went back to find Xu Muhua!
Zhao Chengye's outstretched hand was suspended in the air.
He is the prince, and she is the princess!
Xu Muhua knew nothing about all this and slept soundly!
Pei Shaorong slept well afterwards. After her wedding, she slept in the same bed with the prince every night, and she was used to having someone sleeping next to her. Although it was a different person last night, Muhua was delicate, soft, and fragrant, which was even better, so of course there was no problem of getting used to it.
The only one who slept in the warm room was Zhao Chengye.
The warm room was actually not badly decorated, but it certainly couldn't compare with the bed in his room in the main hall. Not to mention how nice it was for him to hug his dainty wife every night. But last night, it was icy cold. The familiar temperature was gone, the familiar fragrance was gone, and he felt uncomfortable everywhere! How could he sleep well?
So after getting up, his face looked a little smelly.
Xu Muhua had someone quietly send Pei Shaorong back to avoid being discovered. She thought she should find an opportunity to dig a tunnel leading directly to her place, so that when the prince stayed overnight in the future, she could let Arong come through the tunnel without anyone noticing!
She saw Zhao Chengye coming from the warm room, glanced at him and said, "Your Highness, please put some blood on that handkerchief!"
She pointed to the Yuan handkerchief thrown beside the bed.
Zhao Chengye didn't react for a moment, "What?"
Xu Muhua stood up and walked over, picked up the Yuanpa, and waved it, "That's it, last night was our wedding night. If this Yuanpa was clean, wouldn't our efforts last night be in vain? So I have to trouble you to get some blood on it."
After a pause, as if she was afraid that he didn't understand, she also gave her thoughtful instructions: "Find a hidden place, make a slight wound - no, just prick it with a needle and drip a few drops of blood on it."
Zhao Chengye's eyes widened, "Why don't you do it yourself?"
Didn't he understand what she meant? He understood, he just didn't understand!
Xu Muhua looked at him in disbelief, "Prince, how can you let me do this? You know, I'm doing this for your own good!"
But he refused to cooperate with even such a small matter?
Isn't it too much?
Zhao Chengye felt that this was not the case! But he couldn't refute it! Because she did this, it seemed to be really for his own good!
In the end, Zhao Chengye had to pierce his little finger with a needle and drip a few drops of blood on the Yuanpa.
After dripping the blood, he wanted to turn around and leave, but he couldn't leave!
Xu Muhua looked at him with an expression that was hard to describe, "Your Highness, why are you so willful and childish? Do you know that if you walk out like this, all our previous efforts will be in vain?"
What would others think when they saw his black face?
The concubine offended the prince on the first day she married into the East Palace? The concubine had only been favored for one night and already provoked the prince's disgust? If that was the case, then wasn't everything done last night in vain?
Wasn't he the prince? Couldn't he have been more thoughtful? Play the whole act!
Of course, acting all the time would get tiring. After enduring for a while, there would be almost no need to act anymore. But wasn't this a newlywed?
And she had always felt that the man on the throne had ulterior motives in marrying her to the prince! It was definitely not because he saw that she had a good relationship with the crown princess that he arranged the marriage, hoping that the two of them would become the prince's virtuous wives.
She suspected that his purpose was the opposite, and he wanted her to compete with Arong, the crown princess, for favor and use the power of the two families to gain benefits for himself. Compared to the Taifu Mansion, the influence of the Chengguo Mansion in the capital is still relatively small. If they really confront each other, it is hard to say who will win or lose in the end.
Taifu has so many disciples. If they unite, the Chengguo Mansion will most likely not be able to defeat them.
If this is the case, the emperor himself can wipe out the Chengguo Mansion and take back the military power without even doing anything.
Zhao Chengye swallowed his anger and decided not to bother with a woman like her.
He frowned and said, "I just want to walk around, not leave."
Xu Muhua glanced at him and decided to give him some face and not expose him.
It was two quarters of an hour later when she packed up.
The status of a concubine is not as high as that of a principal wife. Logically, she does not need to go to see the empress specially, let alone the emperor. But who made her born in the Chengguo Mansion? So she still had to go and pay her respects to the two masters of the palace.
The emperor even specially set aside some time today to meet the newlyweds.
The two went directly to the empress's palace, where the emperor was already waiting.
Pei Shaorong, the crown princess, was also there. In addition to the emperor, empress, and crown princess, other concubines who came to the empress's palace to pay their respects were also there. As for why they didn't leave after paying their respects, it was probably because they wanted to see the excitement.
"Your son greets the emperor and mother, and wishes you the best of health."
Xu Muhua followed the prince and knelt on the ground to pay their respects to the emperor and the empress.
"Get up!"
After getting up, the two sat down on the chairs beside them, but the sitting position was still particular. Xu Muhua was a concubine, so she had to sit below the crown princess.
"I feel relieved to see that the concubine and the prince have such a good relationship. Prince, you are not allowed to bully your concubine. She is the daughter of Duke Cheng, who raised her with love. If you bully her, Duke Cheng will come to settle the score with me, and I will not help you!"
Xu Muhua's face turned red at the right time, revealing a shy expression.
Sure enough, isn't this old man saying this to make her hate him?
The Crown Princess is still sitting here! Which wife would be willing to hear her father-in-law telling her husband in public not to bully the concubine in the future? Under normal circumstances, what would a wife think and feel when hearing such words?
Wouldn't she hate her concubine to death? Wouldn't she have to deal with her in a very tough way when she gets home?