The emperor and Yuan Bohua drank together for a long time, from noon to night.
In fact, if you really think about it, the emperor can drink more. After all, Yuan Bohua has been in poor health since he was seriously injured on the battlefield.
Zhou Qiongyue would not allow Yuan Bohua to drink easily.
If you don't drink alcohol for a long time, your alcohol tolerance will decrease.
But Yuan Bohua had been to the battlefield after all, and he relied on his willpower to stay awake. When he couldn't hold on any longer, Yuan Bohua could only fall on the table and pretend to be drunk.
The emperor took advantage of Yuan Bohua's drunkenness to ask a few more questions. When he saw Yuan Bohua snoring, he leaned back in his chair in disappointment, allowing the alcohol to erode his sobriety.
Although Yuan Bohua was snoring and pretending to be unconscious, he remained conscious.
In a place like the palace, who would dare to lose consciousness? If anything happened, there would be no recovery.
Yuan Bohua didn't fall asleep until he got on the carriage and saw his confidant Fang Fu.
Fang Fu obviously understood the prince. He personally helped the prince into the carriage and stayed in the carriage without leaving, not giving the prince any chance to do anything.
As soon as Yuan Bohua's carriage arrived at the palace, Fang Fu personally helped Yuan Bohua to the princess's main courtyard.
Fang Fu saw with his own eyes the princess directing people to help the prince in, and then Fang Fu went to the front yard to rest.
Ever since Yuan Bohua and the emperor drank together, the emperor thought that his friendship with Yuan Bohua had been restored, so he began to summon Yuan Bohua to the palace frequently again.
Maybe this is a great honor for others, but for Yuan Bohua, it is too annoying.
He was a leisurely prince who only wanted to accompany the princess to go fishing in the mansion every day, and did not want to go to the palace every day to play tricks with the emperor.
Zhou Qiongyue looked at Yuan Bohua who was becoming increasingly irritable, and immediately decided to go live with Yuan Bohua in the imperial farm next to the royal villa, so that she could occasionally visit the empress dowager.
Zhou Qiongyue had just mentioned her idea to Yuan Bohua, and Yuan Bohua agreed without hesitation. Then the two of them ordered their men to pack up and leave Yuan'an that same day, aiming for a quick finish.
After hearing the news, the emperor felt a little envious for the first time of Yuan Bohua's life, where he could live wherever he wanted with the princess and the two of them.
After Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Bohua arrived at the manor of the palace, they rested for a day. Then Zhou Qiongyue went to the royal villa to accompany the empress dowager for a few days. After that, she and Yuan Bohua lived a life of growing vegetables, hunting and picking vegetables on the manor.
When they are in the mood, Yuan Bohua and Zhou Qiongyue will go to the stream to catch fish, and then prepare them. They will prepare the ancient jade and roast it directly by the stream.
Enjoy the wild life with real people to serve you.
Although Yuan Bohua couldn't catch anything, he was quite good at catching fish. In the end, not to mention Zhou Qiongyue, even the people serving him were full of fish.
Zhou Qiongyue had reason to suspect that the fish in the stream were raised by the people on the farm, otherwise how could there be so many of them.
Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Bohua lived a comfortable life at the manor. They had people to look after them and no worries. Sometimes, each of them could read a book and spend half a day there.
Zhou Qiongyue felt that after spending some time alone with Yuan Bohua, her relationship with him was better than before.
Sometimes, even if you don't go looking for trouble, trouble will come looking for you.
On the day when trouble came, Zhou Qiongyue and Yuan Bohua had someone set up a tea table outside in the yard. It was quite enjoyable to drink tea and read books in the sun.
After a while, Gulan came in with a dark face.
Zhou Qiongyue looked at Gulan's expression and asked curiously, "Who made our Gulan angry? Tell me and I will take care of it for you."
Gulan glanced at the princess, then at the prince, and said hesitantly, "There's a group of mother and daughter fleeing outside, claiming to be..."
"What is it?" Yuan Bohua didn't know that a blame was about to fall from the sky, and he asked curiously about the follow-up.
Gulan still had some faith in his own prince. After all, many people in the palace had witnessed his madness. Otherwise, how could those slaves be so obedient?
Obviously, compared to being alive, wealth and glory are not that important.
Gulan finally said angrily, "Claiming to be the prince's child."
Yuan Bohua was so frightened that he spilled the tea in his hand. He immediately looked at Zhou Qiongyue and said, "Yue'er, believe me, I really didn't do anything to let you down."
Zhou Qiongyue did not suspect Yuan Bohua at the first moment. After all, she did not explicitly say that he was not allowed to take a concubine, so it would not have come to this.
Zhou Qiongyue looked at Yuan Bohua with a smile on her face and asked:
"How old?"
Gulan quickly replied, "The woman said the child is six years old."
Upon hearing this, Yuan Bohua thought he had cleared himself of the suspicion of being a "happy father" and quickly looked at Zhou Qiongyue, "Yue'er, look! I told you it wasn't mine! Six years ago, I was fighting on the front lines!"
Gulan looked at the prince's happy face and quickly poured cold water on him, "That mother and daughter came from the place where Tianyuan Kingdom and Shenggan Kingdom were at war."
Yuan Bohua... Is this a setup specifically targeting him?
"Yue'er, when I was at the front, except when I was fighting, I was inseparable from Prince Rong the rest of the time. Prince Rong was watching me very closely! There was no way I would have the chance to go out and fool around."
"Don't worry, Your Highness. I didn't say I don't believe you." Zhou Qiongyue first comforted the prince who was about to pick up a knife to chop the mother and daughter, and then ordered people to ride at full speed to Yuan'an to invite Prince Rong over.
As for the mother and daughter, Zhou Qiongyue ordered someone to take them away to wash and rest.
The truth of the matter must be investigated. Zhou Qiongyue felt that if it really belonged to the prince, her relationship with him would be over.
Zhou Qiongyue didn't want to argue with other women, she only wanted to deal with the culprit.
However, Zhou Qiongyue still believed in Yuan Bohua at this time. After all, the prince had given her enough sense of security over the years.
Prince Rong arrived that evening, having already found out what had happened on the way. He kept wondering about Yuan Bohua's whereabouts at the front lines; it was rare for him to disappear.
Moreover, he had been on the battlefield with Yuan Bohua for a long time over the years, and he knew Yuan Bohua's attitude towards women outside. He was a living devil.
Prince Rong was really curious about who was so desperate.
When Zhou Qiongyue saw her fifth cousin had arrived, she didn't even wait until the next day. Instead, she had the mother and daughter brought up that very night.
Although the mother and daughter had washed, Zhou Qiongyue only ordered someone to find two sets of clean clothes for the servants. Both of them looked thin and malnourished.
As soon as the woman came in, she threw herself in front of Zhou Qiongyue and said, "My concubine Lian'er greets the princess."
The girl named Lian'er not only bowed herself, but also whispered to the six-year-old child to call her "mother".
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