After coming out of Gu's house, Zhixia's brows have been furrowed and never relaxed.
Seeing this, Chu Qingluan joked, "If you keep frowning, you'll probably get wrinkles."
Zhixia was anxious and grumbled in dissatisfaction: "Princess, you are still in the mood to joke. Aren't you angry that the Gu family is forcing you like this?"
"Why should I be angry?" Chu Qingluan asked back.
"Princess!"
"They are clearly plotting against you. Gu Yanran is relying on the fact that she has a child in her belly to threaten you with death, and Madam Gu is relying on your kindness to be so presumptuous!"
Chu Qingluan chuckled and tapped Zhixia's brow with her fingertips: "Silly girl, the more they act like this, the more it shows that they are anxious."
Zhixia was stunned: "Are you anxious?"
"That's right."
"If they were absolutely sure, why would they be so desperate?" Chu Qingluan's eyes turned cold: "You know how much Gu Tingyuan cherishes his daughter. This time he is willing to sacrifice her reputation to rescue Qi Che. What do you think is the reason?"
Zhixia thought for a moment, and suddenly her eyes widened: "Could it be that I really guessed it right just now? Does Qi Che have something on Gu Tingyuan?
What would that be?
Chu Qingluan curled her lips and looked up at the sky in the distance: "I don't know this either, so I just went with the flow and released Qi Che."
However, his honors and official positions were stripped away, and he was reduced to a ninth-rank clerk, which was tantamount to being demoted to the lowest position, and he would be no different from a useless person from now on.
Zhixia suddenly realized: "It turns out that the princess had already made a plan, and I have worried for nothing!"
Chu Qingluan glanced at her with a smile; "You're not frowning now?"
Zhixia touched her forehead and said in an exaggerated manner: "I dare not frown anymore. If I really grow wrinkles, how can I get married in the future?"
Chu Qingluan laughed and tapped her head gently: "You are so talkative."
But then again, she remembered the look in Li's eyes when she was at Gu's house just now. There was something wrong.
Her gaze fell on Zhixia's face again. She reached out and gently stroked the loose hair on her forehead, looking at her eyebrows and eyes.
"Come to think of it, your facial features do resemble Madam Gu." Zhixia took a breath and said, "No, no way? How could it be possible?"
"Zhixia." Chu Qingluan said seriously, "I am just guessing, but if there is really something hidden, the Gu family will reveal it sooner or later."
Zhixia was still a little dazed and stood there blankly.
"Don't you remember anything about your childhood?"
Zhixia shook her head subconsciously, then lowered her head.
She was an orphan picked up by the late queen on the battlefield. She had lived in the palace since she could remember, so how could she remember anything that happened before?
Upon seeing this, Chu Qingluan gently lifted her sleeves, and on the inside of Zhixia's arm, there was an iris-shaped birthmark. This was the only mark on Zhixia's body that might be related to her life experience.
"Don't think too much. No matter who you are, you are the person I trust the most."
Zhixia's eyes were red, and she nodded heavily, "Yes! I will always belong to the princess!"
After these words, the carriage traveled smoothly all the way and soon arrived at the princess's mansion.
However, as soon as she got off the carriage, Chu Qingluan vaguely felt that there was something wrong with the atmosphere at the door.
At this time, the housekeeper came up with a bitter face.
"Princess, you are finally back. Prime Minister Xie has moved into the mansion. He said he wants to recuperate in the mansion and refuses to go anywhere!"
Chu Qingluan slipped and almost fell to the ground.
"What did you say?"
Xie Yunqi?
Lived in the princess's mansion?
Is this correct?
Zhixia behind him was also shocked.
"Ridiculous! Prime Minister Xie is a minister, are you dead? How could you let him live in the princess's mansion? Where are the guards? Didn't they try to stop him?" Zhixia shouted with her hands on her hips.
The housekeeper laughed bitterly, "Of course they stopped us. Even the old lady of the Xie family came to the princess's house in person, but Prime Minister Xie had someone carry a chair and sit at the door of the house, saying that if anyone dared to stop us, he would spit blood on the spot for everyone in the capital to see!"
The housekeeper wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and said, "The old lady was so angry that she stamped her feet, but Prime Minister Xie didn't even raise his eyelids and said..."
"What else do you have to say?" Chu Qingluan's temples were throbbing.
The housekeeper said, "Prime Minister Xie said that he was seriously injured in an assassination attempt, and it was only because he went outside the city to welcome the princess that the assassin discovered his whereabouts. If the princess refuses to take him in, it would be ungrateful. He also said...if His Majesty asks, he will go to the Golden Palace to cry and let all the civil and military officials in the court judge for the matter."
Zhixia was also shocked: "What is Prime Minister Xie going to do? Are the ministers in the court just going to let him do whatever he wants?"
The housekeeper's old face was wrinkled like a bitter gourd: "Prime Minister Xie said that the assassination case may involve serious matters. Only the guards of the princess's mansion are highly skilled in martial arts and have strict security. He also said that if the court officials have any objections, they can check the "Great Chu Law" - according to the law, if an official of the third rank or above is assassinated, the royal family can temporarily protect him to prevent any accidents..."
The butler's voice became smaller and smaller. "Prime Minister Xie even dug up an old precedent from the previous emperor's time to prove that this move was legal..."
Chu Qingluan: “…”
What a Xie Yunqi! He even misinterpreted the law like this.
The emperor and the officials have also thought of some words to object.
"Where are the others?" Chu Qingluan gritted her teeth.
The butler wiped the sweat off his forehead and said, "Princess, Prime Minister Xie is reviewing memorials in your study."
"My study?!" Chu Qingluan almost laughed out of anger: "He really knows how to choose a place!"
Chu Qingluan closed her eyes and suppressed her anger: "So, he just moved in so brazenly?"
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