"Princess! Are you okay?" Zhang You anxiously helped Qiao Si up and nervously checked the back of her head.
Qiao Si had a lot of pearl hairpins on her head, but Li Guanghan pushed her down without caring whether she would get hurt or not.
"I'm fine." Qiao Si comforted the angry girls in a gentle voice: "I'm not hurt."
"What does the prince want to do? Why can't he just say it nicely? Why does he have to do it like this?" After checking and finding that Qiao Si was fine, Cui Liu stood up with lingering fear and questioned Li Guanghan.
"Do you have any right to tell me what I want to do? Get out! Don't touch me!" Li Guanghan stood staggeringly, and once again waved away Jinfu Jinlu's hand that came to support him, like a drunk madman.
"Your Majesty!"
"Your Majesty! You are drunk!"
"I'm not drunk, please get out of the way!" Li Guanghan raised his hand and pointed at Zhang You and the others who were blocking Qiao Si's way, with a bad look on his face.
"No! If the prince wants to attack the county lord, he has to step over us first!"
"Do you really think that I don't dare?" The furious voice was deafening, and Li Guanghan's eyes were fierce, as if he wanted to attack them.
"Stop!" Qiao Si looked at Li Guanghan who was about to attack, and his cold voice was also filled with anger. "You two go down first, I'll talk to him."
"Princess?" Zhang You and the others shouted in unison, looking at her nervously.
"If you are worried, just watch from the side. Nothing will happen." Qiao Si whispered. Then they reluctantly walked away, but they kept looking at Li Guanghan vigilantly, ready to stop him at any time.
Li Guanghan walked to the bedside and looked down at Qiao Si. His eyes were half-closed, filled with intense hatred. He threatened her in a low voice, "You killed Ah Shu, so you deserve to be tortured, from high and mighty to low and low! Every day in the palace will be unsatisfactory for you!"
Qiao Si looked up at him, her face showing no fear of being threatened. She looked over fearlessly, "You always say that I killed Yao Yushu, what evidence do you have?
Did I let Yao Yushu go to Zhiwen Tower that day? Or was it me who tied her up and made her have an intimate relationship with the Crown Prince? Or was it me who set the fire in Zhiwen Tower?
"Your Highness, you have no evidence, no witnesses, and yet you're pointing the finger at me based on nothing but empty words! How can this be justified? Judging from the actions, isn't the Crown Prince the culprit?"
Qiao Si pushed him away, stood up and confronted him, refusing to lose.
"Shut up!" Li Guanghan staggered after being pushed, but he quickly stabilized his body. As he listened to Qiao Si's words, his face turned red and his body trembled slightly.
"Ah Shu is not what you said! If you hadn't been pestering me, I would have married Ah Shu now! Ah Shu wouldn't have been favored by Li Yuanzhuo! It's you!"
Li Guanghan rushed to Qiao Si in one step, raised his right hand and grabbed Qiao Si's neck with a ferocious look on his face.
Jingzhu and the others wanted to go forward, but Qiao Si raised his hand to stop them. Zhang You and the others were all on high alert, restraining themselves and not moving.
Qiao Si raised her hand and placed it on Li Guanghan's. She looked back at him and squeezed out the words with great effort: "What is the truth... Your Highness... doesn't he know... well...?
You are just... taking advantage of my love for you, so... you abuse me wantonly."
Li Guanghan shook off Qiao Si's hand with such force that Qiao Si was shocked backward and almost fell. Zhang You and the others supported her in time.
"You've gone to great lengths to marry into the palace, hoping to win my favor. That's wishful thinking!
"Qiao Xiting! From now on, you and I will only be husband and wife in name only. Since you've married into the palace, you should atone for Ah Shu's sins!" Li Guanghan said harshly, then left with a flick of his sleeves.
Jinlu looked at them apologetically, not daring to speak. At Jinfu's urging, he followed Li Guanghan and left.
There was quite a commotion in the bridal chamber. The servants from the outer courtyard gathered at the door to watch the show. Li Guanghan walked out and happened to see this group of people. He suddenly became furious and shouted at them: "What are you looking at! Go back to work!"
Jinfu hurriedly stopped his raised hand and pulled him out, "Your Highness, if you're not staying in the bridal chamber, where are you going?"
"Where are you going? Back to the study!" Li Guanghan staggered, pointed randomly, and yelled. His shouting could be heard all the way.
Li Guanghan's noisy voice gradually faded away, and the maids in the yard immediately began to complain angrily.
"Why is the prince taking his anger out on us? It's clearly the princess's fault!"
"The prince has always been gentle and polite. If it weren't for the princess, how could we be scolded by the prince? What bad luck!"
"She couldn't keep her husband on her wedding night and had to stay alone in the empty room. It's her own fault! And she even implicated us! How could she have a master like her?"
"She really deserves it!"
The noise outside was loud enough for Qiao Si to hear. Cui Liu looked at Qiao Si's expression and angrily walked outside and yelled at them, "How dare you! Do you think you can make up stories about the princess? If I hear you gossiping again, I'll pull out your tongues and feed them to the dogs! What are you looking at? Don't you accept it?"
"What right do you have to scold us? You are also a maid! What's more, this is Prince Han's mansion! When a princess marries into the mansion, she must obey the prince! The prince didn't say he would punish us, so what right do you have?"
"I just don't accept it! Why should whatever you say be the final word?" The group of people were dissatisfied with Cui Liu and started pushing her.
Seeing that the other side had more people and more power, Zhang You and the others also went out to support Cui Liu.
"Let's see who dares! The princess was conferred by His Majesty himself, so how can you slander her at will?" Dongmei rudely pushed away one of the people who was clamoring to hit Cuiliu.
When they saw Qiuyue and Dongmei fighting, they couldn't beat them and could only chirp quietly.
"Say anything more!" Dongmei glared at them fiercely, and they all shut up obediently.
"Get out of here. You don't need to serve me in this yard tonight!" Zhang You said angrily.
The group of people hugged each other and ran out of the yard. Before leaving, they were "considerate" enough to close the door like guilty thieves under their fierce gaze.
"Puff."
Qiuyue couldn't help but chuckle quietly.
Her smile actually eased the originally serious atmosphere. When Qiao Si walked to the door to see how they were doing, she happened to hear the laugh and she laughed along.
Qiao Si's smile quickly affected everyone else, and they smiled at each other.
They haven't done this kind of "fox borrowing the power of the tiger" to bully others for a long time. The last time was in Dingzhou.
The long-lost feeling of familiarity made each of them involuntarily recall the simplicity and purity of that time. When they smiled again, the smile was tinged with a subtle sadness belonging to memories.
"Don't stand there like an idiot. Help me take these off. They're so heavy." Qiao Si pointed at the headdress and clothes on his body and smiled helplessly.
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