Chapter 121 My Wife Is Right
Two days after Prince An's wedding, Gu Jincheng came to visit.
When Butler Shi came to report, Qi Wuhan and Jiang Lan were having breakfast.
"I'm busy, so I won't see you." Qi Wuhan said.
"Yes." Butler Shi prepared to leave.
"Wait a moment." Jiang Lan called Butler Shi, tilted her head and leaned over to whisper something to him. Qi Wuhan asked Butler Shi to take the person to the reception room first.
Gu Jincheng walked back and forth in the hall, unable to sit still for a moment. When Qi Wuhan and Jiang Lan came over, he immediately rushed over, but was stopped by Qi Wuhan.
"What did you say to Ru'er?" Gu Jincheng asked impatiently.
Jiang Lan knew that he would come to her house, and she thought that he had already known about Madam Gu's plan to leave.
"My Lord, are you here to call for punishment?" Qi Wuhan asked nonchalantly.
Gu Jincheng said anxiously, "Don't interrupt me. I just want to know what your wife said to Ru'er at Prince An's Mansion the other day."
"What's wrong with the young lady?" Jiang Lan asked, pretending to be ignorant.
Gu Jincheng's expression suddenly turned cold. "She said she was leaving, so she definitely didn't plan to come back."
"Where are you going?" Jiang Lan asked again.
Gu Jincheng's expression turned even colder, and his tone was questioning, "What do you think? Didn't she tell you?"
"You can't even take care of your own wife, so what does it have to do with my wife?" Qi Wuhan said indifferently, his expression also became a little colder. How dare you talk to his Xiaolan'er like this? Does she think that her husband doesn't exist?
Gu Jincheng calmed down for a moment and said in a gentle tone, "I was rude." Then he asked Jiang Lan in an earnest tone, "What did she tell you that day? Did she say she didn't plan to come back?"
Seeing that he seemed to care about Madam Gu, Jiang Lan asked a bold and soul-searching question, "Then what's going on between you and the Crown Princess?"
Gu Jincheng was startled at first, then his face darkened, as if he had touched a sore spot. He glanced at Qi Wuhan again, "Did you tell her?"
"Husbands and wives should be honest with each other." Qi Wuhan shared his experience, "If you hide things, they will only drift apart. If you wait until the time is too late to make amends, regret will be useless."
Gu Jincheng smiled bitterly and said, "What do you know..." He smiled bitterly again and took a deep breath. "Forget it, since she can't get over it, let her be."
"What do you mean she can't get over it? Have you explained it to her? Have you made it clear? You like to keep things to yourself and not let others know, and then you blame others for not understanding your feelings. If everyone can be empathetic, then why do we have mouths? Isn't it to express our feelings to the people we care about, so that they can understand your feelings and you can understand hers? It's useless to think about this and that in your heart, no matter how infatuated you are. Do people know?"
Jiang Lan finished speaking in one breath, leaving Qi Wuhan and Gu Jincheng stunned.
"My wife is right." Qi Wuhan quickly echoed his opinion, saying that whatever my wife says is right.
Gu Jincheng reflected silently for a while, feeling as if he was scolded and murmured, "But she is leaving soon, what else can I do?" After that, he looked up at Jiang Lan again, wanting to hear her advice.
"If someone leaves, won't you chase after him?" Jiang Lan said.
A word awakened the dreamer, and Gu Jincheng said with a happy face: "Yes, why am I so confused?" He patted his not-so-bright head and said, "As long as I am as shameless as your Lord, there is nothing I can't get back~" After that, he left happily. He looked angry when he came and looked happy when he left.
"I hope this problem can be resolved..." Jiang Lan felt that both of them cared about each other, and it would be a good thing if they could really reconcile.
Qi Wuhan took her hand, looked at her gently, and asked softly, "Do you still blame me?" Jiang Lan shook her head, put her arms around his slender waist, looked up at him and said, "But don't hide anything from me in the future. I'm not a delicate girl who would be scared by the slightest thing."
"Okay." He agreed gently.
What Jiang Lan heard afterwards was that Gu Jincheng and Mrs. Gu went back together to visit their grandmother.
According to people familiar with the matter, Gu Jincheng pursued her shamelessly.
Mrs. Gu asked him not to go, and he agreed on the surface. But just before the boat set sail, he chased after her and refused to get off the boat after getting on.
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On this day, Jiang Lan received an invitation from Prince An's Mansion, inviting her and Qi Wuhan to attend a banquet at the mansion.
On the same day, invitations from Prince Fu's Mansion were also sent to the Marquis' Mansion and the Duke's Mansion, but the Marquis Jin'an Mansion was not included.
Jiang Lan and Qi Wuhan went to Prince An's mansion for the banquet. Jiang Yao also came after receiving the invitation. Pei Qian did not come because he was preparing for the palace examination.
"Second sister~" Seeing Jiang Lan, Jiang Yao took the initiative to call out. When she was about to come over, Qi Wuhan glanced at her lightly and she didn't come over.
Zheng Qianer sent a maid to invite Jiang Lan over to talk. After Jiang Lan left, Qi Wuhan followed the servant who led the way to Prince An.
After coming over, Zheng Qianer warmly received Jiang Lan, asked the maids to leave, and told Jiang Lan about the good things Cui Jingshu had done.
"I think she did it on purpose. I had already set the date for the dinner, but she insisted on having it on the same day and sending out the invitations on the same day. As a result, everyone flocked to her side. I think she did it on purpose to disgust me!"
Jiang Lan said that when she came just now, there were quite a lot of guests. Zheng Qianer said that people from the marquis' mansion had gone to Prince Fu's mansion.
"I heard that she even sent an invitation to the palace. I guess she wanted His Royal Highness the Crown Prince to come and support her. But His Royal Highness the Crown Prince didn't come. Otherwise, I think she would be so proud of herself."
At this point, Zheng Qian'er lowered her voice and whispered to Jiang Lan, "A few days ago, I went to the palace to visit my mother, and I heard people in the palace privately discussing that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince wanted to make a palace maid a concubine."
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has never appointed a concubine since he married the Crown Princess. Why does he suddenly want to appoint a palace maid as a concubine? And now the Crown Princess is pregnant. It's most likely that those people are spreading rumors." Jiang Lan analyzed objectively.
Zheng Qian'er said, "It's because the Crown Princess is pregnant now, and His Royal Highness has no one to serve him, so he wants to appoint a concubine. That palace maid must be quite pretty to have caught His Royal Highness's eye. If she really becomes a concubine, it would be a step up to heaven."
Jiang Lan felt that the prince was not the kind of person who would be tempted by beauty, and there might be someone behind the scenes fanning the flames.
"Let's not talk about this anymore." Zheng Qian'er asked Jiang Lan to try the dim sum first. She had someone buy it specially, and the meal was also prepared by the chef from Zhenxiulou. She originally wanted to invite the chef from Yipintang, but Cui Jingshu had booked it first.
However, the chef of Zhenxiulou is no worse than that of Yipintang. Although it was just opened last year, its business is very good and its reputation is almost on par with Yipintang.
This Zhenxiu Restaurant was opened by Manager Hao. Jiang Lan and Qi Wuhan had also eaten there several times. The food was indeed no worse than that of Yipintang. However, both restaurants had their own signature dishes and they did not undercut each other's prices.
However, what impressed Jiang Lan the most was the double-sided embroidered screen in the box, which was truly exquisite.
At the banquet, Jiang Yao complained to Jiang Lan, saying that Pei Qian had been living in the study since returning from the Imperial Examination and hadn't visited her or the children. Jiang Lan, of course, didn't care about Pei Qian and didn't respond. Jiang Yao then asked about Jiang Rui's situation, and Jiang Lan said that Jiang Rui needed more experience in the military camp, which would only benefit him in the future.
Jiang Yao was worried that he couldn't endure the hardship, but she also thought that he would be able to achieve great things one day and support her in the future.
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In the carriage on the way back, Jiang Lan told Qi Wuhan about the prince. No one knew who spread the news in the palace that the prince wanted to make a palace maid his concubine.
"If the Crown Prince wanted to appoint a concubine, he would have done so long ago. Why wait until now? Isn't he deliberately giving people something to talk about?" Qi Wuhan said meaningfully, "I'm afraid someone doesn't want the Crown Prince to take that position smoothly."
The first person Jiang Lan thought of was Prince Rui. Apart from the Crown Prince, he was the most promising candidate. "Did the Emperor ask you to investigate this matter?"
Qi Wuhan replied: "The emperor never mentioned it."
Jiang Lan thought for a moment and said, "Then His Majesty must trust His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."
Qi Wuhan talked about another matter, "The emperor is going to take the fourth prince back to the palace. I will go to the temporary palace tomorrow."
Jiang Lan was a little surprised. The emperor's mind was truly unpredictable. She had no idea what the emperor was thinking about all day long.
The next day, Qi Wuhan led the Black Armor Guards to the temporary palace and secretly brought Prince Ning back to the palace. The emperor arranged for Prince Ning to live in Mo Chi and also arranged for the imperial physician to secretly see Prince Ning.
Afterwards, the emperor secretly summoned Ji Quan and gave him a task.
That night, Ji Quan and his men secretly left the capital.
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