Zhu Yu turned around and looked at Cui Mubai, smiling and saying, "If I could use your marriage to help me gain a supporter, that would be great."
There was silence in the room for a moment. Cui Mubai's eyes were cold. "Don't bother your highness to worry about it. Yue Lian is pregnant with my child. I will bring her home tomorrow."
Zhu Yu's pupils shrank slightly, and he stared at Cui Mubai closely, his tone gloomy: "She is pregnant with your child?"
Cui Mubai smiled and looked at Zhu Yu: "Yes, Your Highness, aren't you happy for me?"
Zhu Yu subconsciously said, "This is impossible! You must have been fooled by that shameless brothel girl. How many people have you ever seen such a slutty girl serve? Do you believe her when she says she is pregnant with your child?"
Cui Mubai's smile faded, and he said in a cold voice: "I believe it. Your Highness also knows that I don't know how long I can survive with my broken body. The child in Yue Lian's belly may be the only blood I can leave in this world. Your Highness, please don't do anything to my unborn child behind my back."
Zhu Yu was furious, but Cui Mubai said expressionlessly, "Aren't we the ones who are shameless?"
Zhu Yu choked up as he spoke, a trace of guilt flashing across his face: "Mu Bai, don't humiliate yourself..."
Cui Mubai glanced at him coldly and said, "Your Highness, I respectfully send you off. I am not feeling well, so I will not see you off for long."
Seeing his cold expression, Zhu Yu did not dare to stay any longer, and before leaving, he said, "I will not stop you from taking a concubine."
The moon was at its zenith, but a draft was blowing through the hall, causing the candlelight in the main hall to sway constantly. The light and shadow of the candlelight changed on Cui Mubai's face, and the shadow covered half of his face, making it difficult to discern his expression.
A servant stood outside the main hall and said, "Third Young Master, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince has been sent away."
Cui Mubai said nothing, his eyes fell on the jade bottle on the table. He raised his hand to pick it up and poured out the pills inside. The black pills the size of mung beans were crushed into powder in his palm and fell to the ground.
Cui Mubai stepped over and walked out of the main hall.
The next day, a sedan chair carried Yue Lian from the Red Mansion into the Cui Mansion. Yue Lian was placed in a small courtyard which was extremely remote from the Zhenlong Courtyard. Her belly was slightly bulging. After moving into the courtyard, she did not pay much attention to the servants of the Cui Mansion and just stayed quietly in her own courtyard.
The servants of the Cui family looked at her secretly out of curiosity, wanting to see what kind of woman the Third Young Master would rather divorce than marry into the family looked like. After seeing her, they were inevitably disappointed. Although Yue Lian was somewhat pretty, she was not at all like Liu Yaozhen, who came from a family of ministers and had a dignified temperament.
Especially the maidservants who served Liu Yaozhen in Zhenlong Courtyard were very indignant and secretly cursed Yue Lian for being a mother who relied on her son to gain status.
Knowing that Cui Mubai actually carried the woman from the Red Mansion into his home, Liu Yu was extremely disappointed, but he did not set foot in the Cui family's mansion again. Instead, he made trouble in the court. Although Zhu Yu wanted to protect Cui Mubai, Liu Yu had been the second assistant for many years, and almost all the Qingliu faction in the Censorate were his people. Under the verbal criticism of several censors, Cui Mubai was dismissed from the post of Langzhong of the Ministry of Revenue, and returned to being a reader in the Hanlin Academy.
Cui Mubai didn't care about it at all and continued to stay at home to recuperate.
When Yu Qizhe arrived at Cui's house, Cui Mubai was sitting in the pavilion in the middle of the lake feeding the fish, with one of his skinny wrists resting on the railing.
"Third Young Master, Lord Yu is here." The servant reported and then retreated.
Cui Mubai raised his eyes to look at Yu Qizhe and said with a smile: "Sit down."
Yu Qizhe walked into the pavilion in the middle of the lake and sat down at the stone table. He looked cold and straightforward, "Why did you bring me here with Cui Huaiying?"
Cui Mubai threw away the fish food in his hand, wiped his palm with a handkerchief, poured a cup of tea for Yu Qizhe, and asked with a smile: "You knew that Cui Huaiying was the prince's man, but you still wanted to touch him. Why?"
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