As soon as the words fell, no one present dared to speak again. Chun Liu could only watch as her master was escorted to the Buddhist temple by two strong old women.
She gritted her teeth, wiped away her tears, turned around, and ran away like the wind.
The news that the Crown Prince's wife had angered the Grand Princess and was punished to kneel in the Buddhist temple spread quickly throughout the mansion like wings.
"Where is the prince?!" Chun Liu was so anxious that she didn't even wait to let someone know. She pushed open the door and rushed in, but she didn't see the familiar figure inside.
"The prince is really not in the mansion. I didn't lie to you." Lian Xiang wanted to step forward to stop her, but was pushed by her and staggered. Now that she couldn't find anyone, she said this with some grievance.
Chun Liu was so anxious that tears were about to flow out. He didn't care about her at all. He just stamped his feet in hatred and complained in a very rebellious way: "Now that my wife is in trouble, he, as a husband, is not at home. What kind of husband is he!!"
After saying that, she turned around and ran away again, shocking the little girl beside her so much that she smacked her lips in amazement. Her eyes sparkled and her face was full of admiration: "Sister Chunliu is so amazing that she even dares to complain to the prince!"
Lian Xiang shook her head with a wry smile. Only someone close to the Crown Prince's wife would be so courageous.
Prince Wei, who thought "what kind of husband I am", did not know that he was blamed by his wife's maid. At this time, he moved a small stool and sat on the corridor of a house in the city, as if he was sitting in protest.
"Wei Junhang, Prince Wei, Prince, Brother Wei, please consider it as a beg of mine. I will definitely pay you back the money I owe you in three days!! Please forgive me today! The little peach blossom in Lixiangyuan is still waiting for me to listen to the music!" The famous 'devil king' in Beijing, Mr. Qiao Liu, bowed to him bitterly.
"No, you must return the money to me today! Otherwise I won't leave!!" Wei Junhang crossed his legs, looking as if he was determined to fight him to the end.
Young Master Qiao choked and glared at him: "Master Wei, you don't look like you are short of money. We are brothers, there is no need for you to rush so much, right? A man should regard money as dirt!"
Wei Junhang glanced at him with a smile: "I am different from you. I have a wife, children and daughters, and I have to save up dowry for my daughter!"
That smug look on his face really made Qiao Liu's teeth itch.
"Bah, having a wife, children and daughters is not a big deal! If you want to get married, there will be a bunch of girls crying to marry you!"
"Yeah, yeah, the girls at Lixiangyuan will form a long queue." Wei Junhang had an expression that said, 'You're right, I totally agree.'
The corner of Qiao Liu's mouth twitched, and he suddenly had the urge to kick him away.
He took a deep breath and kept telling himself in his heart, 'This person must not be touched. It will be too troublesome if he is touched.'
After finally suppressing the anger in his heart, he gritted his teeth and asked, "You have a wife, children and daughter today, why didn't you seem to be so obsessed with money before?"
Wei Junhang was choked by him, which was rare. After a while, he said righteously: "Isn't it that I have come to my senses? Why, haven't you heard of the saying 'A prodigal son who returns home is worth more than gold'?"
"Okay, okay, you are a prodigal son who has come back, I admire you. This is all the money I have, I will pay you back first, and someday, someday even if I have to sell everything I have, I will definitely pay you back the rest without a single cent owed, okay? Master Wei!" Qiao Liu rubbed his forehead with a headache, took out a stack of banknotes from his sleeve and threw it to him.
Wei Junhang happily took it and counted it carefully, then said without looking up: "Don't forget the interest!"
As Qiao Liu was about to step down the stairs, his footsteps slipped and he almost fell flat on his face.
"Wei Lao Er, you have never seen money in your whole life! Why are you so stingy? You have the nerve to charge me interest even though we are brothers?!"
"Brothers should settle accounts clearly." Wei Junhang ignored him, put the banknote into his arms with a smile, patted the wrinkles on his clothes, and waved his hand, "I'm leaving. I won't disturb you from going to Xiao Taohong to listen to music!"
Qiao Liu stared at him fiercely, wishing he could stare a hole in his back.
This idiot, why didn’t you say you didn’t want to disturb me just now?
Wei Junhang was walking with the silver bills he had finally recovered in his arms. However, he had just returned home and had not had time to wash his hands and face and put the silver bills back into his treasure box when he heard that his wife had angered the Grand Princess and was punished to kneel in the Buddhist temple. He was so frightened that his hands went limp and he almost couldn't hold the cotton towel in his hands.
How could this happen? My mother has always been kind and compassionate, and my wife is gentle, generous and uncalculative. How could these two have quarreled?
He hurriedly grabbed Chunliu to ask her what had happened. Chunliu would not hide anything from him and told him everything in detail.
After hearing this, Wei Junhang sighed secretly, waved his hand to let Chunliu go back first, and gave a few instructions to the newly promoted maid Mingshuang. Seeing Mingshuang taking the order and leaving, he thought for a while, then went back to the inner room, took out an exquisite black gold-rimmed box locked in the cabinet, and suddenly thought of what Fangcai Qiao Liu said, "You don't look like you're short of money," and muttered to himself.
"How come I'm not short of money? I'm obviously short of money!"
With three important women at home who need his comfort, how could he not be short of money!
After calming himself down, he straightened his clothes, walked out of the door holding the brocade box, and went straight to the eldest princess's room.
When the servants came to report that the prince had arrived, the eldest princess, who was still furious, snorted coldly and sneered at Aunt Xu beside her: "Look, he is like a horse without a bridle on weekdays, easily showing his disgrace to others. Now that he heard that his wife is in trouble, he immediately ran back! Look, isn't this a typical case of marrying a wife and forgetting the mother!"
Aunt Xu smiled and consoled him, "Let me be fair. Your Highness is wrong. The whole family is watching the filial piety of the Crown Prince!"
The eldest princess sneered again and cast her eyes on Wei Junhang who walked in with a brocade box in his hands and a smile on his face. When she saw his look, she was stunned.
"Mother, please come and see what I have brought you." Wei Junhang came to her side as if he were presenting a treasure, and handed the brocade box to her with a mysterious look on his face.
Seeing such a smiling face, the eldest princess's anger subsided a little, and she pushed him on the face unhappily: "How old are you? You are already a father, why are you still like a child, approaching people whenever you see them!"
Wei Junhang smiled and said, "Even if I'm a grandfather, I'm still my mother's son! Mom, please open it and take a look. I worked hard to get someone to make this."
The eldest princess was somewhat calmed by his first words, but after hearing his second words, her curiosity was finally aroused. She took the box and opened it while saying, "I want to see what kind of rare treasure it is that is worth your sending it to me!"
When the exquisite glazed palace appeared in the brocade box, her throat choked and she was unable to speak for a moment.
Wei Junhang didn't notice her change, and said proudly, "Look, mother, does this look like the Ningxi Palace where my grandmother lived? I had to persuade my cousin the emperor to allow me to use the craftsmen from the Ministry of Works to make it."
The eldest princess did not answer him. Her hands gently stroked the small palace, her eyes filled with memories of the past.
Ningxi Palace was the palace where her mother lived, and it contained her best childhood memories. However, since her mother passed away, Ningxi Palace has changed hands several times and is no longer the palace she was familiar with. Whenever she passed by the palace, she would feel sad when she saw how things had changed and remembered her loving mother who had passed away.
But she never expected that her son could understand her worries and restore the palace for her.
"Mother, don't you like it?" Seeing that she didn't speak for a long time, Wei Junhang, who was originally confident about this gift, couldn't help feeling uneasy.
This is a scaled-down version of the Ningxi Palace that he had built by using both soft and hard tactics to persuade his cousin the Emperor to lend it to him, and it also cost him a lot of money and effort. He had intended to give it to his mother as a birthday gift on her birthday this year, but now he took it out in advance to appease her.
Could it be that all his efforts were in vain?
When he thought of this, he looked depressed.
The eldest princess finally came back to her senses from those warm but sad memories. Seeing his expression, she felt relieved and amused. She poked him on the forehead unhappily: "You!"
After a pause, he continued, "My mother likes it very much. It's amazing that you are so filial."
When Wei Junhang heard this, he finally breathed a sigh of relief and even pulled her sleeves like a child and shook them: "Is mother happy?"
"Happy, of course I'm happy!"
How could she not be happy when her son was so thoughtful and considerate!
only……
After all, she was the eldest princess who had experienced the intrigues in the harem, and the man in front of her was her own biological son. The eldest princess narrowed her eyes and guessed the purpose of his action.
Thinking of this, my original happiness diminished a bit.
It's good for her son to be filial, but if this filial piety is mixed with selfishness, it would make her feel uncomfortable.
Although she had some thoughts in her mind, she did not show any sign of wrongdoing on the surface. She beat her son just to see how he would plead for his wife.
Wei Junhang seemed unaware of her thoughts and used all his tricks to make her smile so happily that she couldn't hide her smile.
She thought that if her son begged for mercy, she might be able to forgive Shen a little, considering his colorful and entertaining behavior.
However, to her surprise, Wei Junhang accompanied her for dinner, and took a walk with her to digest the meal before leaving, but he never mentioned Shen Xinyan at all, which made her confused. She just wondered if he didn't know what his wife had done?
But then he thought again that it was impossible! How could those girls from the Shen family not ask him for help!
At this time, in front of the Buddhist temple, Mingshuang glared at the two maids guarding the door and said coldly: "I am following the order of the prince to deliver a quilt and food to the prince's wife. How dare you stop me? If the prince's wife is frozen and hungry, and something unexpected happens, can you afford it?!"