Chapter 352 Star Harbor: Nothing Left
Princess Ning was both shocked and furious: "You!! What are you saying?! You are Qingxi's own brother, how can you side with outsiders and speak ill of your sister?! Huo Yunzhou promised not to take concubines before, which is why I agreed to your sister marrying him. Now he wants to take concubines and even lied to your sister. He is a villain, not a gentleman!"
Prince Ning was also furious: "You unfilial bastard, how dare you complain about your sister coming back to cause trouble? The Prince Ning Mansion is her home. She has suffered a great injustice. Where else can she go if she doesn't come home? Does this house only allow you to act recklessly, and your sister doesn't even have the right to come home?"
Xiao Qingxi screamed in despair, "Xiao Qingyuan, I'll fight you to the death! I'll beat you to death! I'll never have a brother like you again!"
As she spoke, she stretched out her fingernails and scratched Xiao Qingyuan's face.
Xiao Qingyuan begged for mercy while dodging, while Xiao Qingxi chased after him while cursing.
Prince Ning and Princess Ning, one scolded their son, the other advised their daughter.
In an instant, the room became a complete mess, noisy and bustling.
It wasn't until midnight that Xiao Qingxi pinned Xiao Qingyuan to the ground and beat him up to vent her anger before finally calming down.
Knowing he was in the wrong, and fearing that his pregnant sister might get hurt from anger, Xiao Qingyuan didn't dare to fight back. His handsome face was covered in bloody scratches, and there were several footprints on his chest and back.
"I was wrong, I was really wrong."
Xiao Qingyuan apologized repeatedly: "I will never dare to do it again, Qingxi. I support your decision to divorce, okay?"
Xiao Qingxi ignored him and leaned against Princess Ning's arms, shedding tears: "Mother, Huo Yunzhou is keeping Lin Rouxin outside. He spends the day with Lin Rouxin and only comes home to be with me at night. Even today, on New Year's Day, he was not at home all day."
"I became suspicious, so I sent guards to follow him. That's when I found out that he had kept Lin Rouxin as his mistress and had given all his gold and silver jewelry to her."
“When I questioned him, he said that Lin Rouxin was all alone and he was afraid that she would commit suicide, so he could only spend more time with her, give her more gold and silver to protect her, and let her buy whatever she liked to make her happy.”
Princess Ning hugged her daughter with heartache: "Xi'er, don't cry. It's better to be rid of this kind of man! Since he already knows you are pregnant, he still dares to keep a mistress so recklessly and spend all his money on her. It shows that he doesn't care about you at all!"
"Tomorrow I will go to the Huo family with your father and throw the divorce papers in Huo Yunzhou's face!"
Xiao Qingxi, her face streaked with tears, looked up and asked, "A divorce decree? There's such a thing?"
"Of course! You're a princess, you can divorce your husband! What divorce? Huo Yunzhou isn't worthy of you! Divorce him, and your mother will find you someone better! I refuse to believe that we can't find a man in the entire Dafeng who doesn't take concubines!"
"Fine, I'll divorce him! I don't want him anymore!"
Princess Ning comforted her for a while, and finally she stopped crying. She fell asleep in Princess Ning's arms, feeling drowsy.
"Alright, everyone disperse. Tang'er, go back and rest. Qingyuan, go back and reflect on your actions!"
Shen Wantang nodded and left first.
Xiao Qingyuan hesitated, but seeing that his father and mother didn't give him a friendly look, he could only leave dejectedly.
Back at Xinghe Courtyard, Xiao Qingyuan and Huayi stared at each other in bewilderment. They wanted to treat the wounds, but found that the medicine had long been used up. They wanted to take a bath, but found that there was no hot water. They wanted to eat something, but found that there wasn't a single thing to eat in the room.
Xiao Qingyuan belatedly realized: "Shen Wantang is so ruthless? She didn't even send anything to my courtyard for the New Year? If I had known this would happen, I wouldn't have offended her in the first place. Now we're the ones suffering."
Huayi actually regretted it: "Does Your Highness know that the Princess Consort gave every maid and servant a red envelope and new fabric to make clothes?"
How could Xiao Qingyuan not know that everyone in the manor was in high spirits today, and everyone was praising Shen Wantang, the Crown Princess, for being generous and treating the servants very well.
But all of this has nothing to do with Xingheyuan.
Even Xingheyuan didn't receive a red lantern or a "Fu" character sticker.
He nodded stiffly: "She's always pretending to be a good person. It's not unusual for her to give you red envelopes or fabric gifts. You don't need to take it seriously."
How could Huayi not take it seriously? She was an extremely beautiful and fashion-conscious person. Before she served by Xiao Qingyuan's side, she would always try her best to dress herself up as beautifully as possible. Even if the maid's clothes were the same style, she would make sure to wear them in a unique way to show off her beauty.
But now, she has no new clothes to wear for the New Year and can only wear her old clothes. How can she swallow this insult!
Her eyes reddened, and her voice carried a hint of grievance: "Huayi doesn't care about money or materials, it's just that everyone else has them but I don't. I feel very embarrassed. Even Aunt Chu and the maids in her courtyard got new materials, but I... have nothing."
"Perhaps it's because I'm pregnant with the Crown Prince's child that I've displeased the Crown Princess. She's deliberately punishing me, and I can only accept it."
"However, Princess Consort, you should at least consider the Buddha's feelings, even if you don't respect the monk. The child in my belly is the Crown Prince's first child. It's fine if you punish me, but you can't target the child like this. You won't even bring us any food. Are you trying to starve me to death?"
Xiao Qingyuan had just felt regretful for offending Shen Wantang and was thinking of trying to mend their relationship tomorrow, but after hearing what Huayi said, he immediately gave up the idea.
He then remembered that Huayi hadn't eaten dinner yet: "Moji, come in!"
Mo Ji entered in response: "Sir, what are your orders?"
"Go to the kitchen and get some food for Huayi. Pick the best food, understand?"
Mo Ji looked troubled: "Master, the kitchen sent Hua Yi ginseng soup and a sumptuous meal before, but Hua Yi threw it all away. She even went to the kitchen to make things difficult for the head chef before, so now the kitchen doesn't send any food to our courtyard anymore."
"What?!"
Xiao Qingyuan looked at Huayi in disbelief: "You threw away all the food that came from the kitchen? Why did you do that?"
Hua Yi said innocently, "After I became pregnant, I couldn't eat many things. Didn't the young master know that? Moreover, the kitchen knew that some dishes could cause a miscarriage, but they still sent them to me. How could I dare to eat those deadly things? I had no choice but to throw them away."
"Then what's the matter with making things difficult for the chef?"
"I don't know either. I've always been gentle and kind to people, so why would I be making things difficult for you? I'm afraid the chef is acting on someone's orders to deliberately target me and frame me."
After Hua Yi finished speaking, she looked at Mo Ji and said, "We are all from the same courtyard and serve the young master. How can you help outsiders to frame me? Others may not know how easy-going and kind I am, but Mo Ji, don't you know?"
Mo Ji's expression was icy, and his tone was harsh: "I don't know! All I know is that you've become arrogant and domineering, and you don't even respect the Crown Princess anymore!"
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