Chapter 71 Give the Princess Face and Push the Prince's Wheelchair
Old Madam Xie had deliberately worn a phoenix robe and pretended to be sick, hoping that Prince Jingbei would give her face and calm the matter down.
After all, she is an elder. If King Jingbei is disrespectful to her and word gets out, people will say that he is disrespectful to his elders.
If you don't even care about the dignity of your elders, won't you get a reputation for being arrogant and conceited?
But she forgot that King Jingbei was sitting in a wheelchair.
Pretending to be sick? Pretending to be miserable?
Is it as serious as his?
She even forgot that the memorials submitted by the censors to the Imperial Censorate implicating the King of Jingbei in his arrogance and arrogance had piled up into a mountain, but Xiao Yizi had not been reprimanded by the Emperor at all.
If King Jingbei cared about his reputation, he would not show up today.
Xie Yao finally stood up and came to Old Madam Xie: "Grandma, please get up quickly and stop embarrassing yourself."
There was a gleam in her eyes.
Prince Jingbei's smile suddenly softened again: "It's still the princess who cares about me."
Old Madam Xie was puzzled by what this meant and was about to make some excuses, but Xie Yao simply bent down, put his hands on her shoulders, and pulled her up from the ground like pulling a carrot!
"The prince has already said that if you kneel down you will shorten his lifespan. You are still kneeling. Are you planning to assassinate the prince?" she asked.
Madam Xie: "Ah? Me?"
How does this involve assassinating the prince? !
However, upon hearing what Second Miss Xie said, Bai Su immediately responded with support: "What, there's an assassin? Protect the prince!"
In an instant, the palace guards all drew their swords and stared at Madam Xie vigilantly.
Old Madam Xie was grabbed by the collar by Xie Yao and sat down beside him tremblingly, with a dazed look on her face.
If I had known this, I wouldn’t have come.
The King of Jingbei then lowered his head and asked in confusion, "Why is Wenchangbo kneeling too?"
Wenchang Bo: "Your humble servant, your humble servant has no way of educating your daughter."
"Didn't Master Bo say that you and I are family? How can we kneel to each other?"
Wenchangbo had no choice but to get up and straighten his appearance.
Xie Chengbai also wanted to take advantage of the situation, but then he heard King Jingbei say again: "The rules of the Bo Mansion are indeed absurd. They gave birth to such a pair of undisciplined children."
Xie Chengbai's legs went weak and he fell down again, resting his head on the ground.
Prince Jingbei's tone was filled with pride. "Fortunately, my princess was raised outside and hasn't picked up the bad habits of the mansion. Lord, you've failed to educate your daughter and manage your household properly."
Wenchang Bo did not dare to refute and admitted his fault: "I acknowledge my guilt."
Xiao Yizi changed his tone and said, "How dare you gossip about the princess and spread rumors about the war at court? Fortunately, today is the Winter Solstice Banquet at the Earl's Mansion. If it were a palace banquet, even I, the king, would not be able to protect you. That would be the real disaster."
A group of Xie family members, except Xie Yao, all lined up neatly and listened to the prince's lecture.
After hearing the last half of the sentence, Wenchangbo was completely numb, thinking: Ah, King Jingbei is protecting them?
When disaster strikes, where does it come from?
Wasn’t this disaster caused by King Jingbei?
But he could only suppress his anger and replied awkwardly: "Thank you, Your Highness, for teaching my Xie family. I will definitely uphold the family tradition and prevent such a thing from happening again."
Xiao Yizi closed his eyes and finally said, "This prince is giving face to the princess, not your Xie family."
All the members of the Xie family looked ashen.
King Jingbei's words were meant to specifically indicate that he came only because of Xie Yao, and that he didn't hold her accountable out of respect for her.
Among them, Xie Chengbai and Xie Zhi's faces were as pale as paper.
Tomorrow, the whole capital will know that these two are the undisciplined children of the Wenchang Marquis’s Mansion that the prince was talking about.
Which family would marry their daughter to Xie Chengbai? Which prominent family would marry Xie Zhi?
Wenchang Bo stared at the concubine's daughter and shook his head secretly.
Useless.
Perhaps the future marriage of the eldest son Xie Yan will be affected.
"Let's go, it's boring." Xiao Yizi glanced at the resentment and unwillingness in Xie Chengbai's eyes and said indifferently.
The guards behind him put away their swords.
Everyone said in unison: "Farewell, Your Majesty."
Xiao Yizi looked at Xie Yao and said in a low voice, "Princess, won't you come and see me off?"
Xie Yao could see that King Jingbei's peach blossom eyes were filled with complacency and temptation, as if he was asking for some reward from her.
Xie Yao walked to Bai Zhu's side and said, "Let me do it."
Bai Zhu: "Princess, the prince's wheelchair is much heavier than ordinary wheelchairs."
Xie Yao shook her head: "Sooner or later, I will be asked to come."
Xiao Yizi's brows knitted slightly. Before he could speak, Bai Su said, "Your Highness, even if you don't let Second Miss Xie push, someone from the palace will come in the next couple of days to teach her what to do."
Xiao Yizi: "..."
Xie Yao was too lazy to argue with him and just went ahead and did it. Anyway, Xiao Yizi didn't really object.
After these few times of getting along, Miss Xie has begun to understand the temper of King Jingbei, which is: as long as he is treated as a normal person, he is a normal person.
If you think he is as violent and cold-blooded as the rumors say, then he will reveal his cruel side.
Bai Zhu could only step aside and, along with the other princes, stare at the future princess nervously.
The future princess held the armrest of the wheelchair's back door tightly, and with a little force, the wheelchair started moving.
It was the first time Xie Yao pushed Xiao Yizi's wheelchair. It was much heavier than she had imagined, and it did take some effort to push it.
But it's not impossible.
She recalled the speed she had seen before. The pace was neither fast nor slow, which was the rhythm he was accustomed to.
Xiao Yizi had his back to her, his face still as calm as usual, but his fingertips curled slightly.
The threshold of the main hall has been covered with wooden boards to allow wheelchairs to move smoothly.
Xie Yao pushed steadily and calmly.
To her, this is just an ordinary little thing, but since she is going to do it, she has to do it seriously.
The cold suddenly came, and fine snowflakes were blown by the wind and fell on them.
Bai Mi quickly opened her umbrella and followed to shield Miss Xie and the prince from the snow.
For a moment, no one else in the main hall dared to speak or see him off.
Bai Zhu looked at their backs that were slowly becoming blurred in the snow. This taciturn man suddenly felt a little sour in the nose.
"I don't know why, but I feel like crying."
A personal guard said what Bai Zhu wanted to say.
"Me too!"
"Thank you...Princess, you are so kind, Your Majesty. I don't seem as lonely as before."
This statement was unanimously nodded by the other guards.
The eyes of these burly guards suddenly turned red.
Soon, Xie Yao sent Xiao Yizi to the door of the Bo's mansion.
She handed control of the wheelchair back to Bai Zhu who had caught up.
The palace's carriage had already been waiting. Today's carriage was pulled by four horses, with carved windows and even the ruts painted with gold. The whole carriage was tall and could easily fit eight or ten people inside.
Therefore, it is impossible to push the wheelchair up using wooden planks as it is too steep.
There were some common people at the gate of the Bo's house, pretending to pass by and looking around secretly.
These people were very cautious and did not dare to mention King Jingbei's legs, but they could not resist their curiosity. King Jingbei's carriage was so high and he was sitting in a wheelchair, so how could he get in?
Could it be that someone was carried into the car?
A pair of wooden armrests were seen unfolding on both sides of the prince's wheelchair. Two tall and strong guards came out, held the armrests expressionlessly, and simultaneously exerted force to lift the prince into the car along with the wheelchair and armrests.
The people opened their eyes wide in surprise and murmured.
The expressions of the guards became more and more serious and solemn. They all knew that the people were treating the prince as a joke, and this behavior damaged the prince's majestic image.
Xiao Yizi was already used to it, and his expression was indifferent, but the smile in his eyes had faded a little.
The King of Jingbei, who was so arrogant and proud in the main hall, now looked like an empty valley covered with snow, emitting a bone-chilling chill from the inside out.
Xie Yao suddenly asked, "Can the prince ride a horse?"
She remembered that when she was dying in her previous life, she saw Xiao Yizi vaguely riding a horse.
Even though Xie Yao had lived two lives as a human, she could not ignore those strange looks, and the people's whispers also entered her ears.
Xiao Yizi was sitting in a wheelchair and was carried onto the carriage. Xie Yao thought it was normal.
The last time she was shot by an arrow and fell off her horse, she was lying on the ground. Her personal guards threw her onto the horse's back and brought her back from the battlefield horizontally. Everyone laughed at her, and she also smiled brightly.
But that kind of ridicule was different from what Xiao Yizi faced.
Xie Yao felt uncomfortable.
It's not disgust, nor sympathy.
I just can't accept it.
She couldn't bear to see King Jingbei, who was once invincible and led the troops in battle, end up like this.
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