Li Rong watched Pei Wenxuan quickly stand up. She reacted instantly and frowned: "You lied to me?"

"It's just a temporary solution," Pei Wenxuan said quickly, "I can explain it."

Li Rong was so angry that she started laughing after hearing what he said. She wanted to say something, but in the end she just shouted, "Stop!"

"No, no, no!" Pei Wenxuan stood up and tried to pull Li Rong. "Don't be angry. I really had no choice. I'll explain it to you. Okay?"

Li Rong ignored him. When she saw the carriage stopped, she pushed him and turned around to get off.

But she pushed him hard, and Pei Wenxuan fell back. The pressure on his wound forced him to take a breath. Li Rong heard the inhalation behind her, and she paused, turned around, and saw Pei Wenxuan sitting on the ground, with blood splattering from the wound on his shoulder. Li Rong's face changed, and she quickly turned back, helped him up and said, "What are you looking for?"

Pei Wenxuan sat back on the couch with her strength and let Li Rong call a doctor. The doctor came on the carriage to check the wound and re-bandaged it.

When bandaging, Li Rong looked at Pei Wenxuan's wound, and Pei Wenxuan looked at Li Rong. After the wound was bandaged again and the doctors and servants left, Pei Wenxuan reached out from under the quilt, carefully touched Li Rong's hand, gently touched her, and whispered, "I was just pretending for everyone to see, it's hard to explain to you, please don't be angry, okay?"

Li Rong was interrupted like this, and her anger subsided a lot. She knew that Pei Wenxuan had his own considerations. She looked down at the patterns on the quilt and said calmly, "What are your plans? Tell me."

"Today, Concubine Rou asked me to talk to the remaining scholars and ask them to give up pursuing the matter of this cheating. If they are willing to give up, they will be allowed to take the imperial examination normally and will be given a sum of money. If they are not willing..."

Pei Wenxuan did not continue, but Li Rong understood. She nodded and said slowly, "Empress Rou wants to have it all her own way. On the one hand, she wants to gain a good reputation for speaking up for the people, but on the other hand, she does not want to offend too many noble families."

Li Rong said, looking up at him: "So you came to Wang Houwen's house to cause trouble on purpose, just to let Wang Houwen take you in?"

After all, Wang Houwen was the Minister of Personnel. How could he not have any solution when the attack went straight to his home?

"Yes," Pei Wenxuan nodded, "but I didn't think that Su Rongqing would come. When he came, I couldn't help but worry that he would take this opportunity to kill me, so I arranged guards to protect me all the way, and at the same time chatted with him to delay time and wait for His Highness."

"Then why did you get hit by this sword?" Li Rong frowned, and Pei Wenxuan touched his nose embarrassedly, "Well, the position of the Minister of Justice has not been decided yet, right?"

Something happened to him at the hands of Su Rongqing, so Su Rongqing was more or less implicated.

Li Rong knew his plan, and she lowered her head to think without saying anything. Pei Wenxuan saw this, reached out to hug her, held her in his arms, and comforted her, "I was hurt by myself, I know my limits, don't worry too much."

"Take good care of yourself."

Li Rong used her fan to block his hand that was stretched out to hug her, and said calmly: "When you recover, I will settle the account with you later."

As she spoke, Li Rong helped him lie down. Pei Wenxuan looked at the man in front of him with a stern face but unusually gentle movements, and couldn't help laughing.

Li Rong glanced at him calmly: "What are you laughing at?"

"I thought His Highness would punish me."

"You're not a child anymore," Li Rong sat next to him, "I wouldn't bother you at this time. I'll go to the palace later, you go back and sleep first."

Pei Wenxuan responded, and seeing Li Rong in a daze, he reached out and held Li Rong's fist, and said in a gentle voice: "Your Highness, what did you say to Su Rongqing just now?"

"Huh?" Li Rong turned her head. She didn't expect him to be interested in this matter.

Naturally, she would not let others hear what she said to Su Rongqing just now. Pei Wenxuan only saw the two people confronting each other. Li Rong thought for a moment and said, "I just said some harsh words to him."

"But when His Highness turned around, he seemed sad."

Pei Wenxuan continued to ask. Li Rong didn't want to answer, but when she met Pei Wenxuan's smiling eyes, her movements paused for a moment.

She guessed that Pei Wenxuan was concerned, so after a brief silence, she smiled bitterly and said slowly: "I just feel that raising a dog is a waste of effort, but I still can't get used to it."

"It took him a long time to train him," Pei Wenxuan said curiously. "When he found out that he had killed His Highness, His Highness was not sad. Why does he care about it now?"

Li Rong didn't say anything, so Pei Wenxuan waited quietly. The wheels of the carriage slowly rolled over the ground, making a creaking sound.

"About that. I expected him to kill me." Li Rong smiled and shook her head. "But I didn't expect him to not know who I am."

"Okay," Li Rong turned around and tucked the quilt in for him. "You are so petty. I never saw you being so calculating in your last life. Why do you have to fight for everything in this life?"

"In fact, I was also very stingy in my previous life."

Pei Wenxuan didn't hide it, Li Rong laughed: "Oh? How come I didn't know?"

"I almost wanted to kill him."

Li Rong paused. Pei Wenxuan said softly, "When you wanted to divorce me for him, I thought about whether I should kill him."

"Why not?"

Li Rong pretended to be calm and said jokingly, "If we kill him, maybe we can both live a few more years."

"Yeah, I regret it too." Pei Wenxuan lay down and looked at Li Rong, smiling, "But he died at that time, so you will have to remember him for the rest of your life, right?"

"I don't know about that."

The curtains of the carriage rose and fell, and Li Rong glanced outside. They were not far from the Princess's Mansion. Li Rong patted the quilt and said to him, "Go to sleep first."

"Your Highness, are you sending me back home?"

"You've got on my carriage, and you want to go back?"

Li Rong smiled and patted his face gently: "Come back to the Princess's Mansion with me, Master Pei?"

"Then your Majesty..." Pei Wenxuan frowned, and Li Rong laughed, "I am obsessed with Master Pei. Today, I knew that Master Pei was going to meet another woman, so I went to catch him. When I found out that Master Pei was in danger, I kidnapped him and took him back to the palace. What do you think of this excuse?"

Pei Wenxuan thought about it, raised his good hand and put it behind his head, then nodded and said, "Okay."

The two of them arrived at the princess's mansion. As soon as they reached the door of the mansion, they heard the driver's somewhat nervous voice coming from outside: "Your Highness..."

Li Rong opened the carriage curtain and saw a capable guard beside Concubine Rou blocking the door. He said in a cold voice: "Your Highness Pingle, you violated the ban and left the palace without permission..."

"How?"

Li Rong spoke directly. The guards were stunned by her question "How?". Li Rong sneered: "You come to blame me, why don't you go back and ask your master if he has any clues after investigating Chen Houzhao's case for so long? I agreed to my father's house arrest because I wanted to save his face. Don't take it as a token of authority and think that I, Pingle, am someone who is easy to bully!"

"Go back and tell her that if she dares to let those questionable women get close to the former prince consort again, she is shameless and I will tear her face off for her!"

After Li Rong finished her scolding, everyone was stunned. They had no idea what Li Rong meant by "unworthy" woman.

Pei Wenxuan listened to Li Rong's scolding and quickly pretended to be unconscious. Li Rong directly asked someone to come up and carry Pei Wenxuan down. When the guard saw Pei Wenxuan, he immediately said, "Your Highness, this is an official appointed by the court..."

"This is my former husband!" Li Rong said confidently, standing in front of the guards, "Since he is married to me, he is mine for life. If he wants to die, he must die in my Pingle mansion. If you don't let him die here, I will let you die here."

"Get out of the way! Lift it in!"

Li Rong raised her hand and pointed towards the mansion. She stood in front of the guards, forced a path, and carried Pei Wenxuan in.

After Pei Wenxuan was carried in, as soon as the two entered the house, Pei Wenxuan opened his eyes.

"Your Highness," Pei Wenxuan looked at the woman sitting in the room waving a fan. Li Rong looked at him with a squint and heard Pei Wenxuan say, "After today, the story of Your Highness losing his mind to beauty will probably spread around the court again."

"Haven't I lost my mind because of you enough?" Li Rong glared at him and sneered, "I have been crying all the way after you, and now I am scolded for forcing you into the mansion when you were in danger?"

Pei Wenxuan was amused by her and waved to Li Rong.

Li Rong walked up to him, sat on the bed and raised her eyebrows: "What are you doing?"

"Your Highness, I want to ask you a question. Can you answer me truthfully?"

Pei Wenxuan seemed to think for a long time before asking. Li Rong raised her eyebrows: "You go ahead."

"Your Highness, if Su Rongqing hadn't killed us," Pei Wenxuan asked with some difficulty, "would we still be together?"

Li Rong didn't expect him to ask this. She was stunned for a moment, and Pei Wenxuan laughed: "I just asked casually. This is nonsense. You don't have to think too much about it."

"Then why did you ask?"

Pei Wenxuan choked up, and Li Rong laughed. She reached out and hugged Pei Wenxuan: "Don't worry, no matter what."

"I like Brother Pei the most."

Pei Wenxuan laughed, and his chest shook slightly. He lowered his head and kissed Li Rong's hair. The moonlight fell into his slightly gray eyes. He said in a gentle voice, "I like Your Highness the most, too."

When Pei Wenxuan fell asleep in the princess's mansion, Concubine Rou's guard returned to the palace. He whispered Li Rong's words to Concubine Rou. Hua Le got up angrily and said, "What do you mean by a woman of questionable character? She wants to rob a man who divorced her. Does she have any shame? Why is she so proud? Mother," Hua Le turned to look at Concubine Rou, "I will go to my father and report her for violating the house arrest order to save Pei Wenxuan."

"That's enough." Concubine Rou drank her tea and said slowly, "She was confined because your father asked her to give us face. If she doesn't make trouble, we should be thankful. Don't look for trouble now."

After all, no other connection between Chen Houwen’s case and Li Rong has been found so far.

What Concubine Rou cared about was not Li Rong at all, but why Pei Wenxuan, who was fine, went to provoke Wang Houwen.

I provoked Wang Houwen, and now something bad has happened...

Who of those students will be lobbyists? What will happen next?

Wang Houwen is the Minister of Personnel, and this matter is obviously related to him, but he is in a high position of power and has many followers, so he cannot be touched at all. Pei Wenxuan offended him in her name, so she still has to apologize.

Concubine Rou thought about it, and then asked someone beside her to draft an apology letter, added some gold and silver, and sent it to Wang Houwen.

But before Concubine Rou sent the letter out, she received a letter saying that it was sent by the Wang family from outside the palace.

Concubine Rou quickly asked someone to open the letter, and saw a doggerel poem written on it:

Crows are busy in the pig-feeding alley, and one day the phoenix appears on the branch.

Wearing a yellow cap, green mouth and pearls, her body is stained with the night fragrance.

When Concubine Rou saw the poem, her expression changed immediately. Hua Le quickly took the paper and just glanced at it before he became furious: "This Wang Houwen is too presumptuous! Who does he think he is? He actually said that you..."

Zhushi Lane is where Concubine Rou was born. This poem can be said to be a perfect example of satire.

Concubine Rou's expression remained unchanged. After a long time, she chuckled.

"Good, very good."