At this moment, the command in his throat suddenly disappeared silently.
He pursed his lips and let Zhizhi go down.
"I have to go to court tomorrow, so come here early."
Zhizhi rolled her eyes secretly. She even remembered that she was on duty tomorrow.
She didn't believe He Xuan if he said he didn't have any feelings for her, but...
Starting from the day after tomorrow, officials will have holidays.
There are actually only a few days left until the annual banquet in the palace on New Year’s Eve.
Zhizhi put on the official robe for He Xuan again, and this time his patience increased a lot.
I could even quietly look down and watch how Zhizhi put the waist belt around her abdomen.
It was slowly opened by the delicate and slender forearms, then circled and tied.
The atmosphere was gloomy and ambiguous.
But the two seemed unaware. Zhizhi pretended to be ignorant even though she knew the truth, and Huimo next to her even lowered his head.
"My Lord—"
Zhizhi pinched her fingers timidly, her curly eyelashes trembling, and she fearfully avoided He Xuan's fierce gaze.
He Xuan came back to his senses, turned around and left.
Since he didn't say anything, Zhizhi just let him do what he wanted. Judging from the current situation, it was beneficial to her.
Because it was the New Year, Li gave a lot of silver and money as rewards to the servants of Xuanhe Hall, and the servants became more diligent in serving the prince.
In the blink of an eye, New Year's Eve is approaching.
Diancui, who hadn't seen her for a month, came to her with a smile and said,
"The Madam has already found a maid, but because it's New Year's Eve, we can't let you go. Tomorrow is New Year's Eve, and the Rongguo Marquis's Mansion also has to go to the palace to thank the Emperor. How about we postpone your exoneration until New Year's Day?"
After her registration was cancelled, she was no longer a slave in the Rongguo Marquis's Mansion.
Hearing this, Zhizhi nodded with a smile, "Thank you for your concern, Madam."
…
Rongguo Marquis Mansion.
Li helped the old lady to take the main seat. She sat at the head, and her two younger brothers and sisters sat below her. The rest of the descendants waited quietly for the family banquet to begin.
She was discussing He Xuan with the old lady.
"Xuan'er and the Prime Minister's residence are not compatible, and there is no one in the courtyard who understands her feelings. I am really worried."
The old lady was a kind person and advised her not to be obsessed with the girl's family background.
"I see there are a few pretty girls in Xuanhe Hall who have served him for so many years. It wouldn't be a problem to take them in as his concubines."
The maidservant of Xuan Hetang climbed onto the bed but nothing serious happened. Mrs. Li had been in charge of the family for many years and was a person who cared about her dignity.
Li sighed when she heard this. If He Xuan was interested, could she stop him?
It can be seen that He Xuan's knot of not getting married is still in the Minister of Personnel's Mansion.
Now she was even more worried.
He Xuan, who was sitting behind a screen not far away, was a little absent-minded. Hui Mo had just come to report to him.
Thousands of taels of silver were found in Chen Qin's house, and she was being severely tortured in the mansion of the Minister of Personnel.
When Green ran out, one of her shoes was missing.
In a miserable state.
Halfway through the family dinner, He Xuan found an excuse to leave.
Everyone was drunk and ignored him.
Therefore, He Xuan and Hui Mo slipped out of the Rongguo Marquis Mansion through the back door in a low-key manner without anyone noticing.
Inside the residence of the Minister of Personnel.
The atmosphere was far worse than that in the Rongguo Marquis Mansion, and even dropped to freezing point at one point.
The Shangshu's wife gritted her teeth in hatred and pointed at Chen Qin who was kneeling in the ancestral hall and cursed,
"I was so blind to marry you into the Shangshu Mansion, yet you dared to have an affair with a man outside yours. Where does this put your dead husband, child, and the Shangshu Mansion?"
Chen Qin wept bitterly,
"Mom, I didn't..."
He Xuan is my younger brother, how could he be a stranger?
The Shangshu's wife was even more angry.
"Why would you accept several thousand taels of silver notes and jewelry from him privately?"
The Shangshu Mansion's annual expenditure was only over 10,000 taels, yet Chen Qin dared to take all of this by herself. Perhaps she had long intended to abandon her widow status! ?
She sneered.
"If I hadn't seen you staying indoors every day and I wasn't afraid you'd start overthinking and get into trouble, I wouldn't have caught you using silver charcoal, which is worth a fortune."
However, after being exposed by her, Chen Qin continued to argue and deny.
Ever since she became a widow, she looked as if she wanted to harm everyone she met. At first, the Shangshu's wife even sold out a group of talkative servants to Chen Qinfa.
As a result, Chen Qin believed the words of "Kei Ren" without a doubt and was suspicious all day long. She even refused the maid sent by the mansion and refused to light the charcoal, for fear that the people in the Shangshu Mansion would eat her.
It was true that she was having a wedding to bring good luck, but the Shangshu Mansion was not a place full of chaos. Whenever she saw her like this, the Shangshu's wife would be so angry that her liver would hurt.
Worried that Chen Qin would cause trouble without thinking, she gave her the Chunhuayuan with the best environment to relax her mind, but she didn't appreciate it at all!
The water in the Qingtan pond became lifeless due to no one taking care of it. The master and servant spent the whole day complaining to themselves and blaming others.
You really don't know how to appreciate it!
She suppressed Chen Qin's inappropriate behavior, and her dissatisfaction with the Rongguo Marquisate reached its peak.
The back door of the Minister of Personnel's Mansion.
Lu Yi cried and complained to He Xuan,
"Not only did the Shangshu Madam treat the master harshly, she also ordered her to kneel in the ancestral hall for three days. The master is already weak, how can she kneel like this?"
She couldn't.
He could only ask He Xuan for help.
After all, He Xuan is truly affectionate towards her master, unlike others who only know how to complain about Chen Qin.
Hui Mo comforted Lu Yi, and He Xuan pondered for a moment and said,
"Tomorrow's annual banquet, Madam Shangshu will not let her kneel for long, so you should go back and take good care of your master."
Not everyone could enter the palace's annual banquet, but Chen Qin's late husband was a young genius. Before his death, he was a fourth-rank academician in the Hanlin Academy. Chen Qin was also posthumously named a concubine.
The Shangshu's wife probably just wanted to scare Chen Qin.
He Xuan's memory of his younger cousin still lingers on her frail but caring figure.
Therefore, even though he knew that Chen Qin's actions had caused him a lot of trouble, he did not feel any resentment.
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