The same conversation spread among each household.

But the smarter ones have different opinions.

"Father, what do you think of what happened today?" Lu Yanran, the daughter of the Lu family, raised her beautiful eyes slightly, thinking and savoring, "My daughter has heard you talk about Princess Zhaoyang's deeds. Although she is young, she is not such a fool."

Marquis Lu was very satisfied with his daughter's intelligence and calmness, and he was willing to give her advice: "Princess Zhaoyang admitted it, the crown prince admitted it, and His Majesty also admitted it. This matter is true."

Lu Yanran's eyes flickered, and there was a glimmer in them: "My daughter understands."

Even if it is false, as long as Your Majesty admits it, it is true.

Although she didn't know the twists and turns involved, she understood the principle.

Marquis Lu was pleased and patted Lu Yanran's wrist with his big hand: "Seeing that the Crown Prince October will marry a concubine soon, the King of Chu and the King of Jin will probably have to prepare their wives. The King of Chu has the Royal Concubine to take care of him, and the King of Jin may be a little inferior."

Lu Yanran looked at Lu Hou, hesitated for a moment, and asked: "What do you mean?"

"Go out more often when you have time."

Lu Yanran nodded, her porcelain-white skin was as delicate as jade under the candlelight, and her face was generous yet gentle: "My daughter understands."

Lu Yanran knew that her father was close to Prince Jin. What she had to do was to meet Prince Jin a few times, make him feel good about her, and become his principal wife.

The autumn night is as cool as water, the moon is high in the sky and the crows are darker.

In the main courtyard of the Imperial Master's Mansion, a lamp was on in the bedroom, illuminating a corner.

"Master! I took a very bad blame today, and you didn't even hug me or give me some comfort."

"It's getting late, go back to your yard."

Xie Rangchen stretched one arm out of the curtain and pressed against Helian Yu's little head that was trying to push into his tent. His slender fingers, like bone jade, were slightly cool, and the gauze-like inner garment had a unique and refreshing fragrance.

Helian Yu hugged his wrist and forced his way into his tent, with all his brute force, like a calf.

"Master, I am so sad today. I lost my wife and my army, and you don't even bother to comfort me! If you don't comfort me, I will go to Chang Zuo to drink to drown my sorrows!"

Helian Yu has always been good at this - using verbal threats to hurt her to make her master compromise.

Just as Helian Yu relied on, Xie Rangchen did.

"Am I really leaving?"

"I drink peach blossom wine! I drink lotus——"

A corner of the curtain suddenly opened, revealing half of a large carved bed.

The young man, dressed thinly but rigorously, had a calm expression and a pair of eyes full of resentment. When you get close to him, you can smell the purest fragrance beneath the ice of the snow-capped mountains and feel the most comfortable warmth and coolness.

"Take your hands away."

Xie Rangchen frowned and stared at her hand that was secretly touching his waist.

He really didn't understand, he was so disciplined, how come she didn't learn a thing? "Oh! Master, your waist looks so nice, and it's still hard, don't feel inferior."

Xie Rangchen wanted to speak, but he felt that it would be a waste of words to explain a single word to her. She knew it in her heart, but her mouth was filled with not only confusion but also frivolous nonsense.

Who taught her bad habits?

"Master, go to sleep!"

After saying that, the little girl lay down on her pillow, covered herself with the small quilt she had brought with her, and closed her eyes comfortably.

Xie Rangchen remained silent and raised his hand to extinguish the candlelight.

He sat quietly on the bed, looking through the darkness at the peaceful sleeping face of the little girl, and he thought -

Why did he sleep with the untransformed bunny in his arms? Why did he allow the shedding bunny to crawl on him?

Now, she has these bad habits that he personally cultivated.

Xie Rangchen was kicked by the sleeping girl. He curled his lips helplessly, got out of bed quietly, picked up a pot of wine and went out to the bamboo forest in the side yard.

There are stone tables and stone chairs in the bamboo forest, and on the stone tables there are glazed wine cups, which are clean and bright, like the most mysterious treasures under the moonlight.

The clear wine splashed into the glass.

It was poured silently into the throat again.

The thin figure does not seem lonely, but rather more free and easy.

"Sir."

Chang Zuo's voice sounded, revealing a hint of confusion.

"sit."

Xie Rangchen didn't look back, but he noticed Chang Zuo when he flew in.

Chang Zuo strode over and sat down next to Xie Rangchen. He handed a glass wine glass in front of him and filled it with sake.

"Are you worried, sir?"

"Yes and no."

Chang Zuo: “…”

Can't understand.

I want to pry open the young master's mouth and ask him clearly, but -

I dare not.

Chang Zuo simply picked up the wine glass and took a sip: "Is it because of the young lady's matter?"

"Um."

Xie Rangchen was not drunk, and even just had a slight scent of alcohol on his body, but his voice was gentler than usual.

"The young master and the young lady seem to be old acquaintances."

Chang Zuo wondered for a long time and finally asked the question.

"I raised it for a while." Xie Rangchen supported his chin lazily, but he did not hide it from Chang Zuo.

"No wonder the young master looks more like the young lady's father than His Majesty does."

Xie Rangchen's eyes turned cold and he glanced at Chang Zuo.

He didn't like to hear this.

Chang Zuo hurriedly explained: "I didn't mean to say that the young master is old."

Xie Rangchen frowned and said: I don’t like to hear it anymore.

Chang Zuo saw that Xie Rangchen was still unhappy, so he racked his brains and thought of another sentence: "Although the young lady is naughty, she will definitely be filial to you when she grows up."

Xie Rangchen tightly grasped the wine glass, and there seemed to be a chilly aura around him. He withdrew his gaze from Chang Zuo and said, "The night is getting darker, you should go back and settle down earlier."

"good."

Chang Zuo drank the wine in the glass, hesitated for a moment, then stood up and left.

The young master cared about him because of the word "filial piety", so the young master liked to hear him praise "the young lady will be filial to him"? Chang Zuo suddenly realized and decided to say more about it in the future!

The young master will definitely be happy! During the month when Princess Zhaoyang was under house arrest, several strange things happened in the capital.

One was that the Liang family on West Street was struck by lightning at night, and the lady of the house was in a coma for three days.

Second, the third prince, Prince Qin, returned with his troops and not only destroyed Dongning, but also captured three cities in the Western Regions, and brought back a beautiful woman.

"Stop, doesn't Third Brother only like Miss Ning Liu?"

Helian Yu lay on the rattan chair, took off the book with the lid off, and looked at Fang Zhengjin in surprise who was telling her these things.

"Yes!" Fang Zhengjin nodded. "The beautiful woman the King of Qin brought back was a female doctor. It was said that she had great medical skills. He sent her to the palace to be a female official."

"Third brother is such a nice person." Helian Yu sighed, "Let's talk about other things. It's bad luck that I can't go out for a month~"

Fang Zhengjin knew that something was fishy about the palace banquet, but she didn't dare to ask, nor did she dare to know. Her father had specifically warned her not to ask Princess Zhaoyang anything, otherwise the entire Fang family, or even the Fang clan, would be implicated.

"The King of Chu led Master Lu and his group to edit the capital's daily, bi-weekly, and monthly newspapers. Many officials bribed them with banquets and gifts, begging the King of Chu to write articles praising them in the newspapers. For a time, the King of Chu's palace was crowded with people."