Chapter 24: What Kind of Crown Prince's Consort Is This?
The next morning.
Gu Yan heard the voices of Qing Ming and the maid outside the door, opened his eyes, and went outside to wash up for fear of waking up Yun Xiangye.
Seeing a few unfamiliar maids, Gu Yan whispered, "Don't wake up the Madam. She just went to bed at midnight yesterday. Let her sleep a little longer."
"yes."
Seeing that it was still dark, Gu Yan went to the main gate with a lantern held by a servant.
Gu Yan walked to the door and saw Gu Ling who was waiting for him to go to court together, "Dad."
Gu Ling saw the new redness and swelling on Gu Yan's right cheek and said, "Did you make the fingerprints on your right cheek yesterday?"
Gu Yan touched the redness and swelling on his right cheek and felt the pain. He replied, "Yes."
Gu Ling ordered someone to quickly get the Snow Skin Cream and couldn't help but ask, "Gu Yan, where is your ambition as a man of the Gu family? You have been slapped by the Madam again and again. You are a man after all, why do you get beaten by a woman every other day?"
Gu Yan cupped his hands and said, "Didn't I learn all this from you, Dad?"
Gu Ling frowned coldly: "Don't talk nonsense, your mother is very gentle and never slaps anyone, not to mention I never make your mother angry."
Gu Yan didn't dare to argue and just waited for the maid to bring the snow muscle cream.
It was Xie Zhixuan who brought the Snow Skin Cream. Gu Ling frowned slightly when he saw Xie Zhixuan coming over. He took off his black fox cloak and put it on Xie Zhixuan. "It's the coldest time of the year. Just let the maid bring the medicine. Why do you have to go there in person?"
Xie Zhixuan looked up at the new slap marks on her son's face and couldn't help but get angry: "What did you do wrong to deserve this beating?"
Gu Yan said: "Mother, I pressed it myself, I wasn't beaten. The morning court is almost here, so I left first."
Xie Zhixuan gave the Snow Skin Cream to Gu Yan, but seeing that he was unwilling to say it clearly and that it was almost time for the morning court session, she could only sigh.
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When Yun Xiangye woke up in a daze, she heard Run'er calling her anxiously.
Yun Xiangye opened her heavy eyelids, feeling extremely resentful towards Gu Yan. He had been making trouble in her back until midnight last night.
“Run…”
As soon as Yun Xiangye opened her mouth, she felt a severe pain in her throat.
Run'er hurriedly brought some warm tea and said to Yun Xiangye, "Miss, the princess came at 7:00 p.m. She and Nuonuo have been playing outside for an hour, so I had no choice but to wake you up."
Yun Xiangye drank a sip of warm tea and coughed twice. Her throat felt as if it was on fire. It must be because she had been sweating last night and Gu Yan took her to the hot spring bath and she caught a cold.
Yun Xiangye became more and more annoyed with Gu Yan, but she was anxious to get up because she had fallen asleep due to the arrival of the eldest princess.
“Ahem.”
Yun Xiangye wanted to get up, but her whole body was weak. Whenever she moved, her throat felt uncomfortable, the tip of her nose felt sore, and she had a severe headache from coughing.
Xie Zhixuan opened the door curtain and took Xiao Nuonuo's hand and walked in. Seeing Yun Xiangye on the bed, she hurried forward and put her hand on Yun Xiangye's forehead, "Why is it so hot?"
Yun Xiangye held onto the edge of the bed, covered her lips with her back hand, and almost vomited.
"Mom." Nuonuo cried and said worriedly.
After checking Yun Xiangye's pulse, Xie Zhixuan said, "You have caught a cold. It is inevitable that you will have some discomfort with the climate since you first came to Chang'an. I will prescribe some medicine for you later. You should take it and have a good rest. You don't have to go to the plum blossom viewing banquet at the Duke of Wei's mansion in two days."
"Yes." Yun Xiangye responded with a cough.
Xie Zhixuan stood up and wrote a prescription, and asked the maid beside her to get the medicine and boil it. She stayed with Yun Xiangye and comforted Xiao Nuonuo who was crying because she saw her mother was in pain.
It was not until the afternoon when Gu Yan came back that Xie Zhixuan glared at him fiercely and told him to get out.
When they got outside, Xie Zhixuan said sternly, "Gu Yan, Xiangye is your wife. You have only been back for a few days, and you have tortured her to the point of making her seriously ill."
Gu Yan was surprised and asked, "She is seriously ill? Wasn't she fine last night?"
Xie Zhixuan said: "You should take good care of her later. She is an orphan without a father or a mother. You should also take care of her and be more considerate of her."
"The child has taken good care of her."
Xie Zhixuan looked at Gu Yan's right face, which had become less swollen after applying the medicine, and asked, "If she forgives you, will she still slap you in the face?"
Gu Yan said: "This happened when she was quarreling with me yesterday. I said that if it were someone else, my wife would have been divorced long ago for making such a fuss. Then she beat me without any reason."
"You really deserve to be beaten!"
Xie Zhixuan glared at Gu Yan angrily, "How dare you want to divorce your wife?"
"I don't want to divorce her. What I mean is that if it were someone else, they would divorce her..." Gu Yan said in a low voice.
Xie Zhixuan took a deep breath and said, "Does it make any difference? So you still want Xiangye to thank you for not divorcing her? No wonder Xiangye was so angry. A slap in the face was too easy for you."
Gu Yan just lowered his head and said, "I was wrong."
Xie Zhixuan frowned and said, "You don't have to admit your mistakes in front of me. Tell your wife that you admit your mistakes. Go inside and take good care of Xiangye."
Gu Yan entered the room and saw Yun Xiangye drinking medicine. He frowned at Yun Xiangye's sickly appearance and said, "You were fine last night, how come you are so seriously ill now?"
Yun Xiangye said in a hoarse voice: "How dare you say that? Ahem."
Seeing Yun Xiangye's serious illness, Gu Yan frowned and asked, "Did you catch a cold in the bath last night?"
Yun Xiangye glared at Gu Yan angrily, "Isn't it your fault?"
Gu Yan took the medicine bowl from Run'er and fed Yun Xiangye the medicine. He whispered in Yun Xiangye's ear: "It was indeed my fault yesterday, but you were still thinking about Master Chu when you fell asleep, and you muttered Master Chu's name in your dream..."
Yun Xiangye recalled last night. She vaguely remembered Gu Yan asking her who she liked. It was really funny.
He never considered himself as a wife, and never took himself seriously in his heart, leaving her unprepared to become the daughter-in-law of the princess. Yet he had the nerve to ask her who her favorite person was.
After Yun Xiangye drank the medicine, she lay in a daze, feeling extremely ill. Since returning to Chang'an, she has been angry every day.
Now that she is ill, she understands that the most important thing is her health.
She did not argue with Gu Yan about the matter of Master Chu in her dream. After all, she did dream about Chu Jing yesterday, but what she dreamed of was his questioning. She was thinking about it during the day and had a nightmare at night.
Yun Xiangye slept in a daze, and vaguely felt that she was sweating a lot. Gu Yan, who was beside her, helped her wipe the sweat off and change clothes.
Her eyelids felt heavy, but Yun Xiangye didn't want to wake up.
When she woke up in the morning, the fever had subsided, but her head was still aching and her nose was still blocked.
Gu Yan asked from the side: "What do you want to eat?"
Yun Xiangye coughed and said, "Walnut."
Gu Yan ordered someone to bring walnuts, and he easily peeled the walnut shells for Yun Xiangye and took out the walnut kernels.
Yun Xiangye saw the big walnut in front of him and asked, "What kind of fruit is this?"
Gu Yan said: "This is the walnut from Chang'an City. It is different from the walnuts from Yongxing City. Try it."
Yun Xiangye took a bite and shook her head, saying, "This walnut is not tasty. I want to eat the walnuts from Yongxing City. Peel them for me with your hands."
Gu Yan knew that Yun Xiangye was deliberately making things difficult for him. After all, hickory nuts were much harder to peel than the common walnuts in Chang'an.
However, considering her serious illness, Gu Yan could only try to cheer her up and ordered people to buy pecans.
However, pecans, which are commonly seen in dried fruit and dry goods stores in the south of the Yangtze River, are extremely rare in Chang'an City. Several servants went to Chang'an City to look for them for a whole day, but they did not see any pecans in any of the shops.
Seeing Yun Xiangye coughing, Gu Yan didn't want her to feel disappointed, so he could only wait until tomorrow to ask Zhao Jing if he had any pecans at home.
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In the Plum Garden at the Duke of Wei's Mansion, today is a plum blossom viewing banquet, and many guests have come to the garden early in the morning.
At noon, the guests in groups of three or four were discussing the return of Prince Ning to Chang'an.
"I heard that Prince Ning has been back in Chang'an for a few days. I wonder which daughter he will choose to marry? Three years ago, five noble ladies came to the princess's mansion to propose marriage. Prince Ning is so lucky. Any daughter he chooses as his wife will be the envy of all men in the world."
"Prince Ning has already married and has a daughter. I just wonder if his wife will come to the plum blossom viewing banquet today."
"The Prince of Ning got married? When did he get married? Whose girl is that? There has never been a wedding banquet in the Princess's mansion."
"Some time ago, the maids around the prince went to the Censorate to plead for mercy. The Ning Wang prince's wife was jealous of the maids' beauty and drove them out of the mansion."
"Whose family is the Crown Prince's Consort? How dare she be so jealous even though she is the Crown Prince's Consort? Aren't you afraid of being divorced when you can't even tolerate a few beautiful personal maids?"
"I heard that she was just a merchant girl from a small town in the south of the Yangtze River. She was able to marry the prince because she wanted to bring him good luck. So there was no three books and six ceremonies, and there was no wedding banquet."
"A girl from a small Jiangnan town who came here to get married? What kind of a princess is she? She's not married yet."
"Indeed, without the three letters and six ceremonies, it cannot be considered a marriage. How can the Ning Wang's Crown Prince's Consort be a merchant's daughter? She is marrying up to a high standard by having this merchant's daughter as a concubine."
Wei Xi smiled slightly as he listened to the guests in groups of three or four discussing Yun Xiangye.
The eyes of the people in this world are sharp, and everyone knows that Yun Xiangye is not worthy of being the Prince of Ning's consort.
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