When they saw Xue Huan, the expressions of the adults were stunned. Cui Hu's face turned cold and he even snorted at her.
Xue Huan was baffled. Did these people get humiliated by Pei Ji? Did that make them dislike her?
After entering, she complained to Pei Ji.
Pei Ji laughed and held her to sit on his lap, "Hanhan, do you know that there are rumors about you and me out there?"
"What rumor?" Xue Huan opened the lunch box and took out the dishes one by one.
Pei Ji kissed her tender, white, and lovely earlobe and said, "The prince is a man who likes men and has had an affair with a man in private."
Xue Huan burst into laughter. "This rumor is too outrageous, isn't it? It's sheer nonsense. When did you—"
Suddenly she thought of something, her laughter stopped, and she pointed at herself in fear, "They say that I have a connection with the Crown Prince, could they be talking about me?"
Pei Ji nodded with a smile.
Xue Huan was at a loss whether to laugh or cry.
"No, how did we end up like this? When I was disguised as a man, we didn't even hold hands. Those people are really good at making up stories, aren't they?"
Pei Ji knew that the rumors were not entirely groundless. Although she dressed as a man when she was outside, he knew it was her, so her words and actions would always reveal something. No wonder those people misunderstood.
However, the reason why the rumor spread so quickly and so widely, even the prime minister and others heard it, was that there were certain people behind the scenes who fanned the flames.
Xue Huan also thought of this. "Could this rumor be directed at you? You're the Crown Prince, yet you have no Crown Princess, no concubines, and no offspring. If this rumor about you being homosexual gets out, your supporters must be worried, right?"
No wonder those adults just now disliked her.
The emotional reason is here.
"Did those gentlemen just now force you to take a concubine? They also wanted you to give birth to a child quickly, right?"
Xue Huan stared at Pei Ji with burning eyes.
Pei Ji held her hand and kissed it, "Hanhuan, you are so smart." His tone was like coaxing a child.
Xue Huan hit him and asked, "So what are you going to do now?"
When I asked this question, my heart unconsciously rose up, and I felt a nervousness that I didn't even realize.
Although Pei Ji said that he would marry her and only her, he was the crown prince, and it would obviously be more beneficial for him to marry a crown princess from a powerful family, and she obviously had no advantage in family background.
The promise of "I'll only take one scoop from you out of the vast expanse of water" was indeed beautiful, but in reality, there were too many things to consider, especially for someone of his status. One can imagine how great the obstacles he would face if he insisted on marrying her, and only her.
And she seemed to have no way to help him.
Pei Ji noticed her frustration and anxiety, held her face, and kissed her on the lips. "This kind of rumor can't be dispelled at all, and will only make it worse. I'll have someone find a child, disguise him to look like me, and show him around a few times. People will naturally think he's my child, and then the rumors will be self-defeating, and the Prime Minister and the others will have nothing to say."
Xue Huan: “…”
"What about the child then?"
"Children are prone to premature death. When the time is right, I will fake his death, send him to a safe place, and find someone to adopt him. Don't worry, Huanhuan. His existence won't have any impact on our future children."
Xue Huan felt strange. She hadn't even married him yet, but he was already thinking about their future children.
"There's no need to look for a child. If you look outside, no matter how covertly you do it, there will still be flaws. Moreover, you're confusing the royal bloodline. Once it's exposed, the consequences will be disastrous. I'll refine a small puppet for you, ensuring that others will know it's your child at first glance."
She smiled mischievously at him.
"Then I'll wait and see."
"Alright, let's eat quickly, or the food will get cold."
Xue Huan sat aside and scooped a bowl of soup and handed it to him.
Pei Ji could tell it was her cooking as soon as he tasted it. His appetite immediately increased and he ate up all the food she brought.
After dinner, the two of them went for a walk hand in hand. Pei Ji asked, "Did you see Mo Shiqi when you went to the Mo family this time?"
Xue Huan told him everything that happened in the Mo family, in even more detail than she had told Pei Qian.
"Mo Shiqi said he forgot about Xiaowu and I going to visit, but he seemed completely unaware of it. I heard the conversation between his sister Mo Xuefei and Liu Jirou. It was obvious that this was their doing, and their intention was to kill me. I just don't understand why these two women are so hostile to me."
Speaking of which, her only connection with Liu Jirou was that she beat her brother Liu Xian in the game of throwing pots that day, causing him to lose face in front of everyone, but did he want to kill her just because of this?
Pei Ji then realized that she had encountered such danger after visiting the Mo family. He quickly pulled her over and checked her up and down. "Are you okay? Are you hurt anywhere?"
Xue Huan shook her head. Seeing that he still looked so heavy, she poked him in the face and said, "I'm very powerful. How could those Mo family's mechanical formations be so difficult for me?"
Pei Ji hugged her tightly and said, "Yes, Huanhuan is the best."
There was a murderous look in his eyes. If he had been there at that time, he would have stuffed the woman from the Mo family into an iron box and let her experience the feeling of having no one to turn to for help and could only wait to die!
But there will always be opportunities in the future. Huanhuan is magnanimous and doesn't care, but he holds a grudge very hard, and it's not so easy for him to let go of this matter.
The five great families have been high and mighty for too long, disregarding the imperial power and laws, and only believing in the set of rules of conduct within their own families. Sooner or later, he will shatter their beautiful illusions and make them face reality.
After returning to Qinghui Building, Xue Huan asked someone to clean up a guest room upstairs and turn it into a workshop. Although she was refining puppets in the space, she still had to make something look good outside.
Otherwise it would be too weird to take it out of thin air.
"Hanhan, come and see!" As soon as Xue Han entered the space, Mu He rode on the Ganoderma lucidum cow and ran over to her quickly.
She followed the two little ones to the ginseng field in the medicine garden.
This field is planted with ginseng, and the ginseng seeds were bought from Zhou Ao's grocery store. She originally thought that the ginseng seeds had gone bad, but unexpectedly they sprouted one after another.
After growing in the space for more than a year, these ginsengs have grown quite well, equivalent to those that have grown for dozens or even hundreds of years outside.
Seeing these ginsengs again, she couldn't help but be astonished. These ginsengs were white and plump, each one the size of a radish! Most of their bodies were exposed outside the soil, and they already had very clear facial features.
Did all this ginseng take hormones? I just haven't seen it for a while, how could it have changed so much?
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