The Crown Prince stood at the doorway with a gloomy face, his eyes revealing a hint of authority and displeasure. He glanced coldly at He Zhu, his voice tinged with anger: "What are you all standing there for? Come in with me!"
He Zhu's heart tightened, and he dared not delay for a moment. He quickly bowed his head and replied, "Yes!" Then he carefully followed the Crown Prince into the room.
After the Crown Prince sat down, he looked at He Zhu and said, "If you dare to deceive me, that was your last sentence!"
"This servant wouldn't dare!" He Zhu quickly replied, "Your Highness, are you troubled by your relationship with Princess Xue?"
"What do you think?" the crown prince countered. What else could possibly trouble him now but Xue?
"This servant guesses that you didn't see Princess Hexue today, did you?" He Zhu was also guessing. He thought that after Princess Hexue asked the Crown Prince for help last time, Princess Hexue had forgiven the Crown Prince!
"Hmph!" The Crown Prince glanced at He Zhu with displeasure. He really knew how to rub salt in the wound.
Seeing the Crown Prince's expression, He Zhu knew he had guessed correctly, and his mind raced as he tried to come up with a solution.
Suddenly, He Zhu had an idea. "Your Highness, although the princess hasn't seen you, you can write a letter! You can tell her what you want to say, right?"
"Write a letter?" The crown prince pondered the feasibility of this method.
“Yes, Your Highness, isn’t there a saying called ‘wild geese carrying letters’?” He Zhu showed off his meager knowledge.
"A letter carried by a wild goose?"
He Zhu then realized that using the wild goose to deliver messages between the Crown Prince and He Xue was inappropriate. "Your Highness, I misspoke. This is not suitable for you and the Princess!"
"No, I think it's very suitable!" The Crown Prince's lips curled up.
He Zhu stared in shock, his mouth agape. Could it be what he was thinking?
"Shut your mouth!" The Crown Prince looked up at He Zhu. "I don't want a third person to know!"
The Crown Prince's words confirmed He Zhu's suspicions. "Your Highness, please rest assured, this servant is the most discreet of all!"
At the same time, He Zhu decided in his heart that he must try to please He Xue in the future. She is the future mistress of their Yuqing Palace. He thought to himself, His Highness the Crown Prince is really too good to Princess He Xue. It turns out that His Highness the Crown Prince personally chose her as his Crown Princess!
The Crown Prince wrote the letter, gently dried it, and personally put it into an envelope, then handed it to He Zhu along with a small box.
"He Zhu, you personally delivered these to Chengqian Palace. I don't need to teach you how to say it, do I?"
"No need, Your Highness, please rest assured, this servant will handle it perfectly!" He Zhu said confidently.
"Yes, go quickly!" the crown prince said with satisfaction.
He Zhu took the things and headed straight for Chengqian Palace.
When Consort Tongjia heard that He Zhu had come to Chengqian Palace to see He Xue, she had someone take He Zhu directly to see He Xue.
"This servant greets Your Highness, may Your Highness be blessed!" He Zhu bowed respectfully to He Xue.
"Get up, He Zhu, what brings you here?" He Xue asked.
"Your Highness, it was His Highness the Crown Prince who sent me!" He Zhu said, taking out a letter. "His Highness the Crown Prince instructed me to give this to you!"
"What is this? A letter?" Kazuyuki asked in surprise.
"Yes, these are the words His Highness the Crown Prince wanted to say to you. Since you cannot see His Highness the Crown Prince, this is all he can do."
"You have no idea how much His Highness has lost his appetite and even lost weight these past few days while you've been ignoring him!" He Zhu kept trying to win over the Crown Prince in front of He Xue.
“He Zhu, you can’t say that. You’re saying I’m ignoring the Crown Prince. Doesn’t that mean I’m disrespectful to the Crown Prince?”
"How dare I, the daughter of a foreign official, not see the Crown Prince!" He Xue said with dissatisfaction.
As she spoke, she herself realized that she was being a bit ungrateful. She only dared to be so willful because the Crown Prince treated her well.
If it were anyone else, they probably wouldn't dare treat the Crown Prince like that, even if they had ten lives.
The Crown Prince probably won't have that kind of patience either.
He Xue felt that she had been living too comfortably lately and had forgotten that she was living in the Qing Dynasty, a time of centralized imperial power. The ruler might punish her if he was unhappy, and it might even implicate her family.
After Xue figured all this out, she felt a little down; she had overestimated herself.
He Xue said to He Zhu, "He Zhu, please return these to the Crown Prince! Please tell the Crown Prince that I am not literate enough and I am afraid that I will not be able to understand His Highness's letter."
"I overstepped my bounds before, but I will not do so again!"
He Zhu almost collapsed to the ground upon hearing He Xue's words. How had things come to this? If he relayed these words to the Crown Prince, would the Crown Prince still give him a chance to live?
"Princess, did I say something wrong? Please..." He Zhu was almost in tears.
“No, it has nothing to do with you! Just report this to the Crown Prince!” He Xue said to He Zhu.
Seeing that He Xue didn't want to say anything more, He Zhu left Chengqian Palace with a long face. He didn't know how to tell the Crown Prince when he returned to Yuqing Palace.
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