Pu Lanyan walked up to Xu Huan and bowed.
"Empress, the Emperor has ordered me to entertain you, but time is short and the palace has not made any preparations. I hope you don't mind."
She stepped aside and invited Xu Huan and more than thirty concubines into the room.
Xu Huan asked, "Princess, is the Emperor also in there?"
Pu Lanyan smiled slightly and said, "The emperor has left the capital with two ministers. I'm afraid they are now on the official road."
Xu Huan paused and stared at Pu Lanyan, her face filled with disbelief. "What? The Emperor left the capital? Didn't he say he would take us with him?"
The concubines were also surprised.
Pu Lanyan still maintained her smile: "I don't know about this. The emperor only said that the queen took the concubines out of the palace for fun and asked me to make good arrangements for their reception."
She looked at the thirty or so concubines and said, "I have already sent invitations to all the mansions in the capital. Soon many people will come to my mansion for tea and wine. Since you are here, please enjoy yourself in the mansion so that you don't have to go back to the palace, where it will be difficult to get out."
This was instructed by her brother, the emperor, who asked her to find some people to accompany the lonely concubines in the deep palace.
Xu Huan said, "No, I have to go find the Emperor."
She turned and was about to leave.
"Queen." Pu Lanyan called out to Xu Huan.
Xu Huan turned around and looked at Pu Lanyan.
Pu Lanyan walked to Xu Huan and took her arm: "Queen, the Emperor asked me to bring a message to you." She looked at the concubines.
All the concubines looked over.
Pu Lanyan said, "When the Empress Dowager chose you to enter the palace, the Emperor didn't agree. He doesn't love you, so there's no need for you to waste your time on him."
When the concubines heard this, they knew that their expectations were in vain.
The emperor actually tricked them out and left the capital with Yu Jinshu alone.
Pu Lanyan listened to the cries and had no choice but to comfort them: "The Emperor does not want you to waste your time in the palace. He hopes that you can find another good partner. That is why he allows you to leave the palace and spend a few days in my residence. After these days, if you still want to return to the palace to waste your time, then the Emperor can only let you go. In short, the Emperor will not favor you. If you remarry, the Emperor will give you a generous dowry on your wedding day as compensation for all these years."
One of the concubines said, "Since the Emperor has no intention of favoring us, there's no reason for us to return to the palace. We'll just follow the Princess's instructions and stay at her mansion for a few days."
After these words were spoken, the concubines were speechless.
It's not easy to leave the palace for a while, so how can I go back to the palace right away? Wouldn't that be stupid!
Xu Huan felt heartbroken at this moment. She gritted her teeth and thought to herself that she was the queen.
If you ask who in this world can become the queen, it can only be her.
How could she just give up and hand over the throne of queen to Yu Jinshu?
Xu Huan didn't resist, but said to Pu Lanyan, "Princess, since the Emperor won't let me follow him, then I'll go back to my parents' home. I haven't been back in eight years, and I'm afraid many of my family members won't recognize me anymore."
Pu Lanyan said, "That's fine."
Xu Huan left the Princess's Mansion in a carriage.
Those concubines all stayed in the Princess's Mansion.
In less than half an hour, young men from famous families were invited into the Princess's Mansion one after another.
Deep in the palace, the empress dowager was a step late. When she arrived at Zhenghe Hall, the empress and concubines had just left.
At this moment, she was in the Cining Palace, completely unaware that the concubines she had carefully selected to enter the palace were having a great time in the Princess's Mansion, drinking wine, tea, composing poetry, and painting with many young men from famous families.
Sixteen strong horses came to a rest on the official road dozens of miles away from the capital.
Pu Kun and Yu Jinshu sat on the ground, while the guards were busy setting up the stove to boil tea, eat some dry food and take a short rest.
Yu Jinshu discovered that Emperor Pu Kun was a warm-hearted man. Ever since he favored her last night, she had gone from serving him to him serving her.
At this moment, Pu Kun blew on the freshly boiled tea for a while, and when it reached the right temperature, he handed it to Yu Jinshu.
Yu Jinshu held the teacup and drank, but she still frowned from time to time.
"What's wrong? Do you have a stomachache?" Pu Kun saw that something was wrong with her and asked her with concern.
Yu Jinshu shook his head.
Pu Kun thought about the madness of last night and looked at her belly. "Could it be that you got hurt because of your first time last night and riding a horse again today?"
At this time, the two of them were sitting alone on one side, while Chen Faliang and the guards stayed far away, so they didn't have to worry about being overheard when talking.
Yu Jinshu looked at him, her eyes filled with shame. "That's true, but I haven't ridden a horse in a long time, and my thighs are hurting."
Upon hearing this, Pu Kun immediately looked at the guards and said, "Set up the tents."
The guards thought that the emperor was in a good mood, so they quickly took out the tents from their horses and set them up.
After a while, the tent was set up and Pu Kun walked in holding Yu Jinshu.
Inside the tent, Pu Kun untied the belt around Yu Jinshu's waist and took off her dress, revealing her white and slender legs.
Sure enough, both sides of my thighs were red and the skin was rubbed raw.
Pu Kun frowned deeply: "We should have taken a carriage a long time ago."
Yu Jinshu folded her legs, a little shy: "Your Majesty, it's okay, I have medicine on me, it will be easy to heal after applying it."
She said as she pulled out a medicine bottle.
This is the ointment she bought from the system, and it works very well.
Pu Kun took the medicine bottle from her hand, spread her legs apart, and personally applied the ointment to her.
But when applying the medicine, Yu Jinshu couldn't help but groan in pain.
Outside, Chen Faliang and a dozen guards looked at each other. He whispered, "Great news! There's hope for an heir to the throne."
The guards all nodded, very happy.
If the emperor has no heir, it will easily cause unrest in the court, which is something they all don't want to see.
But now, the emperor has fallen in love with Grand Secretary Yu. He favored him all night last night, and he became interested again today after walking only a few dozen miles. It seems that the royal heir will be born in ten months.
Inside the tent, Pu Kun said, "I'll send them to find a carriage."
Yu Jinshu hurriedly stopped him: "No need, there's no village or shop here, you can't let me affect your trip."
Pu Kun said, "Then you will ride with me."
Yu Jinshu shook his head again: "No, the horse has already run dozens of miles and is very tired. If two more people sit on it, the horse will die."
Pu Kun lifted up his robe, tore off two pieces of the inner robe he was wearing, and carefully wrapped the two pieces of soft cloth around Yu Jinshu's thighs.
Yu Jinshu smiled and said, "That's good now. It's wrapped up so well, I won't be bothered anymore."
In fact, once the medicine was applied, she didn't feel as much pain anymore.
But the worn skin has not healed quickly, so it is definitely not possible to ride on it directly. Now that it is wrapped so thickly, I am not afraid.
She stood up and said, "Let's go!"
She didn't want to appear too delicate.
Capital city, Duke Xu’s Mansion.
This is Xu Huan’s parents’ home.
At this moment, Xu Huan was talking to her father at home about the emperor and Yu Jinshu.
After hearing his daughter's sobbing, Duke Xu pounded his fist on the table and said, "Yu Jinshu must die."
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