&nbXiang Rong had never expected to hear such an invitation. She was a little dazed for a moment. She stared at Xuan Tianhua and asked, "Why do you want me to stay here?"
Xuan Tianhua said: "Because my mother lives here and has no one to accompany her on weekdays, you should be kind and do something good for me to accompany her, okay? I beg you."
&nbXiang Rong waved her hands again and again, "Seventh Prince, please do not ask for anything. Xiang Rong is lucky to be able to do something for Your Highness and to have the opportunity to be with Concubine Yun."
Xuan Tianhua smiled, stood up, raised his hand and patted Xiangrong's shoulder, and then said: "Everyone in the mansion calls her Madam, you don't have to always call her Empress. Anyway, you can agree, I... thank you." After speaking, he stretched out his hand to pick up the food box that Xiangrong brought, and put the unfinished snacks into the food box, "I'll take these back to eat. It's cold outside, you should go back earlier too! Ming'er will come back later and we will have dinner together."
&nbAfter he finished speaking, he left alone, the background was bleak and lonely.
&nbXiangrong looked at the background and suddenly burst into tears. The tears started to fall one by one at first, and then they couldn't be stopped, and they became patches, so that the background began to blur.
&nbShe was unwilling to give up and kept wiping with her hands, even the light makeup on her face was smudged, but she only saw the pure white back gradually blending into the flying snow until it disappeared from sight.
&nbXiangrong covered her face with her hands and started to cry, but she didn't know that the figure in white clothes in the snow had stopped and looked back.
&nbThis is the child that the Feng family and Feng Yuheng have the most in common! Xuan Tianhua muttered to himself, and then smiled bitterly. Is he possessed by a demon? He looked down upon the vanity of this life, but he did not expect that saving her from drowning that year would actually disturb his heart. What should he do?
&nbXuan Tianming rushed back before dinner. The chef of Prince Chun's mansion prepared a table of delicious dishes, and everyone was eating happily. During the meal, Xuan Tianhua took the initiative to ask Xiangrong to stay and accompany Concubine Yun. Concubine Yun was very happy. Xuan Tianming also raised his eyebrows and felt that his seventh brother seemed to have come to his senses. But only Feng Yuheng said to Xuan Tianhua before leaving: "If the seventh brother does not treat you sincerely, please let Xiangrong go! I don't want that child to get deeper and deeper. She deserves a better destination."
&nbXuan Tianhua didn't know why he did this. When Feng Yuheng said that just now, he had a momentary impulse to let Xiangrong go back with her second sister. He also felt that he didn't really treat her sincerely, but he couldn't explain why he kept Xiangrong. It wasn't until Xiangrong called him softly: "Your Highness, go back to the mansion. The palace carriage of His Highness the Ninth Prince has gone far away." He came back to his senses and looked at Xiangrong again, but he couldn't say the words to let her go back to Prince Yu's Mansion.
The two walked back from the gate of the mansion. Xiangrong's residence was arranged in the east wing of Yun Fei's courtyard. She knew that it was Xuan Tianhua's courtyard, and he moved out because Yun Fei moved in. Now she also lived in that courtyard, and her mood could not calm down no matter what.
&nbFor Xuan Tianhua, having a little girl in the mansion, who lived quietly, had no impact on his life, and could make Concubine Yun happy, which was a good thing. But that night, he still couldn't sleep, and stood alone in the yard, without dancing with the sword, just standing there, facing the direction of Concubine Yun's yard, letting the light snow fall all over his shoulders. From dusk to dawn, he was thinking about the same question: What was the purpose of him begging Feng Xiangrong to stay?
&nbThe next day, everyone attended the court, but only the fourth prince from Prince Ping's mansion was not qualified to attend the court. The servant beside him advised him: "If Your Highness is really curious about what's going on in the palace, why not follow the people attending the court and go in to take a look."
Xuan Tianyi snorted coldly, "Don't watch! What's so good about it? It's not like I don't know. What's the point of verifying it with a new eye? Just based on the perverted palace ban, I can tell it's all true."
&nbAfter hearing this, the servant stopped persuading him to enter the palace, but told him another piece of news: "I heard that Miss Feng San went to Prince Chun's Mansion with Princess Yu yesterday, but when they came back, only His Highness the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu came back, so Miss Feng San was left in Prince Chun's Mansion."
&nb"What?" Xuan Tianyi almost thought he had heard it wrong, "Where did she stay?"
&nb"Prince Chun's Mansion."
&nb"Prince Chun's Mansion? Did you ask correctly? Is it Prince Chun's Mansion or Prince Yu's Mansion?"
&nbThe servant changed his tone this time: "I heard it right. She stayed at the Seventh Prince's residence. It seems that she will stay there for a long time, because last night Princess Yu sent someone to deliver a lot of clothes to Prince Chun's residence, saying that they were for Miss Feng San."
"Damn it!" Xuan Tianyi stood up immediately, spinning around in anger, "What is Old Seven going to do? Hasn't he always looked down upon women? What do you call him? A god! But why would a god keep a little girl in his mansion? Is he attracted to our little girl?"
&nbThe servant was sweating all over his forehead when he heard this. When did she become your little girl? Your Highness, have you forgotten? Miss Feng San has always disliked you! She never gave you a good face all the way from Ji'an County to the capital, not to mention that she also scolded you from time to time in Ji'an County. She would hide whenever she could. Would she rather talk to the Sixth Prince than to you?
&nbBut he thought so in his heart, but he didn't dare to say it out loud. He still had to think of ways to comfort his master: "Don't worry, Your Highness. Maybe it's because it's inconvenient to live in Prince Yu's Mansion. After all, the Ninth Prince and Princess Yu are already married. What's the big deal about having a sister-in-law living there? Besides, wouldn't Miss Feng be scared by the Ninth Prince's face? But after all, they are relatives. Just because the Ninth Prince is close to the Seventh Prince, I think Miss Feng should be staying there. There's nothing else."
&nb"Bullshit!" Xuan Tianyi sometimes spoke in the same style as Emperor Tianwu. He pointed at the servant and said, "Can you use your brain to analyze the problem? If she feels that Prince Yu's Mansion is inconvenient, she can just live in Princess' Mansion! At worst, there is still Yao Mansion. How can it not be Old Seven's turn? There is something weird in this matter! I have to think about it carefully. I can't go back to Beijing and let Old Seven take advantage of it." After that, he asked the servant again, "Do you think Old Seven has taken a fancy to that girl?"
&nbThe servant waved his hands quickly: "No, no, she's not a fairy, why does everyone like her?"
&nb"Say it to me again!"
&nb"No, no! I like it, I like it!"
&nb"Do you think Lao Qi likes it?"
&nb"No..." The servant was going crazy. He thought his wise and brave Fourth Prince was quite clear about other things, but how come he had changed completely after meeting the Third Miss of the Feng family? Should he say he liked her or not? He was confused! What should he do?
&nbThe servant was sweating profusely from anxiety, but Xuan Tianyi kept muttering to himself: "That girl just can't get over it, but it doesn't matter, sooner or later, I will let that girl know who treats her best in this world!"
&nbXuan Tianyi was sulking for the whole day because he wanted Rong to stay in Prince Chun's mansion. On the same day, because of the upcoming New Year's Eve banquet, the concubines in the harem gathered in Cunshan Palace again and gave Concubine Yuan Shu a bad idea - "My queen, since it is a New Year's Eve banquet, everyone should come out to participate. Except for those who have been banished to the cold palace, no one in the harem can be an exception!"
&nb"That's right. Our Concubine Shu and the Queen of Jingci Palace are both with the Emperor. How can anyone else be treated specially?"
&nb Concubine Yuan Shu drank her tea and asked, "What are you talking about..."
&nb"Of course it's Concubine Yun in Yuehan Palace!" The women chattered, "Concubine Yun hasn't shown up for more than 20 years, relying on the emperor's favor and indulgence. But now she has no favor. The emperor's mind has long been transferred to Concubine Shu, and even the ninth prince has fallen out of favor. Why is she still pretending?"
&nb"Of course! Now everyone in the court knows that Concubine Shu is the one that the emperor loves the most, and the Eighth Prince is the emperor's most beloved child. Concubine Yun and the Ninth Prince have long been forgotten by the emperor. There is nothing to be proud of in her current position. The queen only needs to say a word, and she must obediently walk out of Yuehan Palace and attend the New Year's banquet with us. There will be no special exceptions for her."
&nb"Your Majesty, please talk to the Emperor. Why should he let her live alone in such a nice Yuehan Palace? She should be moved to another palace!"
&nbPeople were talking about Concubine Yun's faults, all because they wanted Concubine Yuan Shu to step in and force Concubine Yun out of Yuehan Palace. These women had suffered from Concubine Yun's anger for more than 20 years, and every one of them wanted to tear Concubine Yun apart with their own hands. She even knew that these people must be thinking that if Concubine Yun hadn't been there, Emperor Tianwu would never have only these nine sons. Maybe they could also give birth to children for the emperor and climb to the position of concubine, and at this age, they could have sons around them and always have someone to rely on.
&nb Concubine Yuan Shu could understand the suffering of these people. She herself had gone through the same thing. But was she going to get Concubine Yun out of Yuehan Palace? She didn't dare!
&nb Yun Fei did need to be dealt with, but not now. The time was not yet ripe. Emperor Tianwu would still have a headache when he mentioned Yuehan Palace. That kind of pain made her almost dare not try to mention Yun Fei again. She didn't know how Emperor Tianwu would react once the word Yun Fei was mentioned. After all, she was a person who had been imprinted in his heart for more than 20 years and was the one he truly loved. If she acted too hastily and Emperor Tianwu collapsed because of it, everything would be in vain.
&nb Concubine Yuan Shu refused to invite Concubine Yun to attend the palace banquet on the grounds of being magnanimous, and brought up Emperor Tianwu as an excuse: "The emperor is not in good health now. If he sees Concubine Yun and thinks of the past... it's not worth the loss."
&nbHer original intention was to say that Emperor Tianwu should not be angry anymore, but the concubines thought that Concubine Yuan Shu meant that she was afraid that Emperor Tianwu would rekindle his old love for Concubine Yun as soon as he saw her. When they thought that this was indeed a possibility, they all shut up and never mentioned it again. Although Concubine Yuan Shu was now monopolizing the emperor and they could not get involved, at least there was hope. At least Concubine Yuan Shu could be flattered, and she also said that she would give them a chance in the early spring of next year. But once Concubine Yun regained her power, everything would return to the way it was before, which would be hell, and they never wanted to go back...
&nbAfter sending away this group of women, Concubine Yuan Shu was still furious, so she took her maid Yuexiu out for a walk, and they arrived at the gate of Yuehan Palace.
&nbShe looked at the palace and murmured to herself, "Empress Yun! Just wait and see! I will trap you in Yuehan Palace forever until you die!"
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