The room was so quiet you could hear a pin drop.
"Why don't we all get up?" Shuyi suggested tentatively.
The Fourth Prince looked at the Crown Prince. He didn't need to kneel down at all, but he felt that since everyone else was kneeling, it would be out of place if he didn't.
"Get up, all of you!" the crown prince said.
"Uncle, this was my fault. You may punish me as you see fit, I will have no complaints!" the Crown Prince said to Su Hetai after standing up.
"Your Highness, Your Majesty said that the reason you haven't married all these years is because of He Xue. Have you been waiting for He Xue all this time?"
The Crown Prince was somewhat shocked by Suhetai's words. How did his father, the Emperor, guess that?
In Suhetai's eyes, the Crown Prince's expression was one of shock at being discovered.
Su Hetai never expected that the Crown Prince was such a romantic. Just because the Crown Prince had waited for He Xue for so many years, he would agree to let He Xue marry the Crown Prince!
If the Crown Prince had known that Suhetai would agree to let Xue marry him so easily, he would have told Suhetai about it long ago.
The Fourth Prince looked at the Crown Prince in surprise. Was his Second Brother really so affectionate? Then, thinking about what the Crown Prince had done for He Xue, the Fourth Prince also believed that the Crown Prince was a affectionate person.
"Jing Shu, what's going on with that person outside?" Su Hetai asked. Even if Tongjia had made a mistake, she should have waited until the Crown Prince left before punishing him!
Jing Shu looked at Shu Yi with some difficulty, unsure whether he should speak or not.
Shuyi glanced at Suhetai guiltily.
Su Hetai also noticed Jing Shu and Shu Yi's subtle movements. His face darkened, and he said sternly, "What exactly happened? Tell me quickly!"
The Crown Prince wanted to speak, but then he thought again that Shuyi was Hexue's brother and his brother-in-law. He couldn't afford to offend him now, in case he made things difficult for him when he married Hexue later.
But he was somewhat unwilling to let Shuyi off so easily, since Shuyi had disgusted him with other women!
So the Crown Prince looked at the Fourth Prince, hoping that the Fourth Prince could tell Suhetai about this.
When the Fourth Prince saw the Crown Prince's gaze, he understood what the Crown Prince meant and thought to himself, "Second Brother doesn't want to offend his brother-in-law, so he's preparing to make his younger brother take the blame!"
But my second brother seems to have forgotten that he's also my second brother's brother-in-law! He's not someone to be trifled with!
The Crown Prince tried to signal to the Fourth Prince with his eyes, his eyes almost twitching, but the Fourth Prince remained unmoved.
"Your Highness, are you aware of this?" Su Hetai asked the Crown Prince when he saw that Jing Shu and Shu Yi remained silent.
The Crown Prince glanced at Shuyi with a troubled expression.
"Your Highness, it seems you don't want to marry He Xue?" Su Hetai threatened the Crown Prince.
The crown prince suddenly felt that he, as the crown prince, was sometimes quite aggrieved.
"Uncle, the person outside was someone Shuyi found to pour us wine, but for some reason she lunged at me. My heart belongs only to He Xue, how could such a vulgar woman get close to me!"
"If it weren't for the fact that he's from your household, such a person with impure intentions would have been dealt with long ago."
Upon hearing the Crown Prince's words, Su Hetai was furious. He pointed at Shuyi, speechless. Shuyi was simply making things difficult for Hexue! She was actually finding women for the Crown Prince.
"Father, it's all a misunderstanding. I don't know how she fell!" Shuyi immediately explained, seeing Su Hetai's dark face.
“Let her in, I’ll interrogate her myself!” Suhetai said.
Shuyi had no choice but to call Xiaoyu in.
"Tell me what exactly happened?" Suhetai asked Xiaoyu.
"Master, I'm innocent! It was the second young master who told me to do this. He said a distinguished guest had come to the manor and asked me to pour wine. If the guest took a liking to me, I could rise to the top in one step!" Xiaoyu said tremblingly.
"The general's mansion is too small to accommodate such a great figure as you!" Su Hetai ordered Xiaoyu to be driven out of the mansion. With such intentions, who knows what trouble she might cause in the future! It's better to deal with it as soon as possible.
Suhetai said to Shuyi, "You can carry Dali and run ten laps!"
Shuyi was dumbfounded after hearing this.
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