Song Chengze walked to the door and turned back to look at Meng Qi. Meng Qi was standing three steps away from him. Under the dim oil lamp, he looked into Meng Qi's eyes, which were emotionless as her long eyelashes blocked the light.
Song Chengze wanted to reach out and take the scattered hair from Meng Qi's shoulders, but after thinking about it, he held back and said, "I'm leaving."
Meng Qi nodded, took a step forward and pushed the door open, saying loudly, "Then please don't bother, Your Highness. Since Your Highness can't get me out of here, what's the point of saying all this? Please."
Several people standing in the yard stopped talking and looked over here. Song Chengze flicked his sleeves and walked quickly towards the gate. "Hu Changsheng, let's go."
The chief eunuch of the West Six Palaces said with an embarrassed look on his face, "Your Highness, Your Highness, I have something to say."
Song Chengze stood there with an impatient look on his face, "What's the matter?"
"It's like this. The princess is under house arrest. Whether it's the Queen or Concubine Lian, we can't serve them all the time according to the old rules. Look, it's already this time today. I see that the princess has only one maid by her side. There's not even anyone to add firewood to the kang tonight. This..." Then he rubbed his hands, "I am very willing to stay and serve the princess, but if others find out, then..."
Song Chengze turned back and looked at the closed door. "You stay here. You can go back tomorrow after I send the usual attendants to the princess in."
Hu Changsheng nodded in agreement, and the chief eunuch breathed a sigh of relief. This was really putting him in a difficult position. Before Princess Rui was even brought in, he had already received three groups of visitors.
I have to listen to this one and do what that one says. I can't afford to offend either of them. Fortunately, Prince Rui didn't make things difficult for me. If he had insisted that I leave two of them in the courtyard, I would have been scolded again tomorrow.
But seeing that Prince Rui hadn't thought about this at all for the princess, and the quarrel between the two, it seems that what he heard was true. The new princess really doesn't like Prince Rui.
Never mind. He now only prays that Princess Rui will not encounter any accidents during the month she stays in Hanyuan, and that this ancestor will not do anything weird. That would be Amitabha.
Hu Changsheng locked the courtyard door and walked into the house with his hands in his sleeves. Yuandong handed Hu Changsheng a hot water bottle, but he waved his hands away, saying it was not necessary.
"Take it. You'll have to work hard tonight." Meng Qi said with a smile.
Hu Changsheng was stunned for a moment, then said hurriedly, "Princess, please forgive me. If it weren't for this palace rule, I would have wanted to serve you forever."
Meng Qi nodded and said, "Don't go to the west room at night. They haven't had time to light a fire there yet. Just sleep on the fire dragon in the hall. It's warmer."
Hu Changsheng nodded in gratitude. He was Zhang Decheng's most capable and capable person. Although he was only an apprentice to the outside world, they were more like father and son. He also knew that Zhang Decheng was training him to be the eunuch closest to Prince Rui. When Zhang Decheng could no longer do his job or retired, the position of the prince's chief eunuch would be his.
To sit in that position, Zhang Decheng's promotion and work attitude are not enough. The most important thing is the word "loyalty". As an orphan, he has already tied his life to Prince Rui.
But even so, he knew that there were many things his master had never told him, and what he knew in the past was only what his master wanted him to know.
After the Lunar New Year, he'd been increasingly valued, especially since the princess married into the family. He'd been exposed to many things he'd never seen or heard before, including some of the secrets of the Rui Palace. Just like this morning, while escorting the young ladies to Kunning Palace, he'd sneaked out and contacted the person the prince had assigned him.
He didn't know why he did this at first, until he heard that the princess was confined to this cold garden, then he suddenly realized that all this was planned in advance by the prince.
Especially when he had just accompanied the prince here, he knew that the prince's instructions and orders were not what outsiders saw or heard. These were just his guesses before, but now they were confirmed.
The prince hadn't avoided him at all regarding today's arrangements, which meant that his performance over the past period, as well as his diligence and strictness of speech, had earned his approval. Thinking of this, Hu Changsheng felt a heavy responsibility on his shoulders, and at the same time, a sense of pride at being valued also arose spontaneously.
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