Chapter 38 He is bad! He was looking for a girl at Yunfanglou that day!
Seeing his little darling's harmless look, Zhao Jinyuan silently glanced at a certain big-tailed wolf.
The warning is obvious.
Xiao Mingxuan pretended to be blind and didn't see anything. He took a piece of cake and stuffed it into the little girl's mouth.
Xihe immediately lay in the other's arms with satisfaction.
Xiao Mingxuan smiled and gave Zhao Jinyuan a look that said "what do you know?"
Zhao Jinyuan suddenly felt angry.
Based on the principle of not letting his sister be taken away, Zhao Jinyuan immediately expressed his willingness to go to the Princess's Mansion together.
On the way, Emperor Jingyuan sent someone to call Xiao Mingxuan away. Helplessly, Xiao Mingxuan had to leave under Zhao Jinyuan's gloating eyes.
The two of them unexpectedly met Zhao Siyuan who had just escaped, and the three of them rushed towards the princess's mansion in a mighty manner.
Unexpectedly, there was no one in the Princess's Mansion, but the Xining Marquis' Mansion opposite was very lively.
Because the beautiful concubine that the prince of Xining had been hiding was diagnosed to be pregnant, Li Xihong argued with the princess in order to allow the beautiful concubine to enter the mansion.
It would have been fine if he had just kept her secretly, but Li Xihong had to make a big fuss about it and let everyone know about it to save face for his mistress.
Princess Yuanyang had turned a blind eye to the fact that he had a concubine, but she would never agree to make it known to everyone. This would obviously be throwing the royal family's reputation into the ground.
As soon as the group arrived at the main hall door, they heard the howling of pigs being slaughtered.
Zhao Siyuan glanced at the woman in the center of the main hall from a distance, his expression changing unpredictably as he gritted his teeth. "Don't tell me that's the gentle and considerate concubine Li Xihong mentioned?"
The aunt who slaughters pigs at the village entrance sounds more gentle than her in this cry.
Xihe looked at each other and said, "It seems so."
The two sisters looked at each other and saw confusion in each other's eyes.
Li Xihong might really be blind.
The prince and princess came to the mansion, and the wife of the Marquis of Xining came to welcome them with her family.
"This humble servant and my family have met the Second Prince and his two princesses."
Unexpectedly, none of the three people opposite asked her to stand up, so the wife of the Marquis of Xining had no choice but to continue to perform the ceremony, not daring to make any mistakes.
The Second Prince wanted to discipline this group of people, so he naturally wouldn't speak.
The two little girls were thinking about something in their minds and were too lazy to say anything.
After a long time, everyone in the Xining Marquis Mansion was getting a little uneasy. The leader's body was shaking slightly, and he looked a little shaky.
Princess Yuanyang did not stand up, but was sitting upright in the main hall. She seemed to be in a good mood and was even interested in reading military books.
Seeing the situation was at a standstill, he also spoke up, "It's snowing hard outside, come in quickly, don't catch a cold."
She knew that the three children were speaking up for her, and she felt comforted in her heart.
"Aunt, here I come!" Xihe rolled into Princess Yuanyang's arms as usual, and the next second her butt was in trouble.
Princess Yuanyang feigned anger, "How dare you wear so little when you go out to play? You're asking for a beating."
Xihe smiled shyly and snuggled into the eldest princess's arms, "No, no, it's still warm in my aunt's arms!"
The eldest princess laughed and pinched the little girl's round cheek. "You! You are such a living ancestor!"
His hands did not stop, and he pulled the person closer to his arms.
The eldest princess looked up and called Zhao Siyuan and Zhao Jinyuan to her side again, without any intention of favoring one over the other.
Lady Yun, wife of the Marquis of Xining, felt more and more that something was not right and was extremely upset.
She is the eldest princess's mother-in-law, and she could only stand up after her own daughter-in-law spoke. How could this make sense!
Where is her majesty!
Yun glanced around and put on airs again, "I'm here, Wanyu, just give me your word, are you going to let Ping'er in or not?"
Zhao Wanyu was the maiden name of Princess Yuanyang.
As soon as Yun opened her mouth, Zhao Jinyuan frowned, but because of his male identity, he was reluctant to speak.
Zhao Siyuan was used to being unscrupulous, so he immediately exploded.
Pointing at the nose of the Marquis of Xining, he cursed, "Who do you think you are? Do you think you can call Aunt Yuanyang by her maiden name? Where is the difference between your status and that between the emperor and his subjects? Is the Marquis of Xining trying to disrespect His Majesty?"
The fourth princess suddenly attacked, and everyone was stunned for a moment, and no one spoke.
Yun's face was the color of a pig's liver from anger. Seeing the eyes around her being scrutinized, she couldn't help but blush. She retorted with what little strength she had left, "Princess, don't go too far! Wanyu is a princess, but she is also the daughter-in-law of our Xining Marquisate. How can a daughter-in-law disrespect her parents-in-law? If she tells anyone about this, she'll lose all her dignity!"
Zhao Siyuan sneered and spoke slowly, "Prince and subject first, father and son second. Lady Xining has become so used to running amok in the mansion that she's forgotten even the ancestral etiquette and laws. In front of Aunt Yuanyang, you're a subject first, and a relative second!"
Zhao Siyuan's temper flared up, and with a whip he swung, shattering the cup in front of the Xining Marquis's wife. She said coldly, "What are you standing there for? Pay your respects to your aunt!"
Zhao Jinyuan took a sip of tea and decided to ignore it. The guards he brought with him stood with knives in their hands, looking very aggressive.
Yun's chest heaved violently, but he held on tightly and refused to move.
Asking her to bow to that bitch Zhao Wanyu is no different from losing face!
Li Xihong couldn't bear to see his mother being humiliated, and said angrily, "Why do you treat my mother like this?"
He angrily tried to push, but before his hand could touch Zhao Siyuan, he was held down by a knife-wielding guard beside him.
Zhao Jinyuan finally gave him a look, "Dare to touch the princess, the crime is even more serious."
Zhao Siyuan finally reacted. The thought of Li Xihong's hands made her feel sick, and she whipped him in the face. "Disgusting thing, how dare you stretch out your claws to this princess!"
A bloody scar suddenly appeared on Li Xihong's face, and blood flowed down his cheek.
"Mother! Mother! Save me! Mother!"
Li Xihong covered the wound on his face and rolled around on the ground, looking extremely funny.
Yun was over fifty years old when she got such a precious baby. She usually held the baby in her hands for fear that it would melt. She had never suffered such an injury before, and she burst into tears.
"Quick! Call a doctor!" Yun wanted to find fault, but she couldn't do anything about the arrogant Fourth Princess. She could only look at Zhao Wanyu, who stood as steady as a rock, with hatred and cursed, "Bitch! Your husband has been murdered to such an extent, and you don't even know how to come and help? You're still from the Xining Marquisate!"
Zhao Wanyu raised her eyelids calmly and looked at Li Xihong, whose face was covered in blood not far away. Without a trace of emotion in her eyes, she said, "He's not dying. There's no need to see a doctor."
Zhao Wanyu had suffered many injuries during his previous military campaigns. Li Xihong's injury would probably stop bleeding in a cup of tea, so there was no need to waste a doctor's visit.
"You!" Yun choked and stared at Zhao Wanyu hatefully, her eyes full of resentment.
"Isn't that right?" Xihe, who had been eating a shortbread obediently, suddenly looked up. "Daddy told me that Aunt Yuanyang established the Princess's Mansion to recruit a prince consort. How can she say that it belongs to someone from your Xining Marquisate?"
When Princess Yuanyang got married, Emperor Jingyuan specially granted her a princess's mansion, saying that the princess did not need to live in the Xining Marquis's mansion.
In other words, Li Xihong married into the wife's family instead of marrying her.
The two sisters exchanged a glance, and Zhao Siyuan, receiving the signal, spoke up, "That's right, it's clearly Li Xihong who's marrying into the princess's household, so stop making yourself sound so high and mighty! You've really whetted your appetites. You don't even know your own limitations, and you even dare to take a concubine!"
Princess Yuanyang didn't care about these things, and over time Li Xihong became more and more unrestrained, often telling others how much he had won the favor of Emperor Jingyuan by marrying the princess.
Marry and recruit have two completely different meanings.
As soon as these words were spoken, the servants serving on the side looked a little abnormal, and their eyes looked at the mother and child in the middle of the hall with a bit of scrutiny.
Li Xihong's face turned red and he hid behind the wife of Xining Marquis, not daring to see anyone.
The more proud he pretended to be in front of others, the more embarrassed he felt now.
Yun almost suffocated and collapsed.
The old nanny beside her immediately stepped forward to support her and called for a doctor, "Quickly call the palace doctor, the eldest lady has fainted from the anger of the young lady!"
Implicit in his words were accusations that Zhao Wanyu, as a daughter-in-law, was disrespectful to her mother-in-law and was considered unfilial.
The whole house was in chaos, with servants pushing and shoving and making a lot of noise.
Xihe poked her head out, blinked her eyes, and asked, "Ah? Auntie hasn't said anything yet, why are you so angry?"
The old lady choked.
The little girl's big round eyes were full of confusion. "Could it be that the Marquis' wife would be so angry just by looking at her? Then why haven't you died of anger yet?"
If I see you every day and get mad every time, I won't live this long.
Zhao Siyuan was the first one who couldn't help laughing out loud. "Madam Hou's illness is really strange. She was fine just now, but how could she faint so suddenly? It's like it was pre-ordained."
"Sister, why don't we hire a doctor for the Marquis' wife? The doctor is very good and can cure any disease."
Xihe felt that she was very considerate.
"No! No need!" The old nanny hurriedly said, "Husband, Madam will wake up soon, soon."
It was a scam in the first place. If the imperial physician was allowed to come, it would be difficult to back down. To put it bluntly, it would be a serious crime of deceiving the emperor.
The old nanny quietly pinched the Marquis' wife, and sure enough, not long after, the Marquis' wife woke up.
Yun pretended to be weak, but she hated him in her heart. However, she couldn't confront Princess Zhaoyuan, so she had to swallow her anger and coax her carefully.
"I thank the princess. It's just an old illness, so there's no need to bother the imperial physician."
Xihe waved her hand sympathetically, "It's okay, Madam Hou, please take care of yourself. You faint all the time, it's so scary. If someone didn't know, they would think I pissed you off."
"How scary." As he said that, Xihe snuggled into Princess Yuanyang's arms, acting as if he was frightened and pitiful.
The fake smile on the Xining Marquis's face almost fell, "Your Highness... you're joking."
She dared to plot against Zhao Wanyu, but she didn't dare to attack Zhao Xihe. After all, the second prince and the fourth princess were not easy to fool.
"Madam Hou, can I give you a gift?" Xihe asked in a baby voice.
The wife of the Marquis of Xining had just sat down when she jumped up again. "I'm so terrified. I don't know what Your Highness wants to give me."
Xihe jumped out of Zhao Wanyu's arms and slowly walked to the side of the wife of the Marquis of Xining, "Stretch out your hand!"
The wife of the Marquis of Xining was silent for a while, then raised her hand and handed it over.
Xihe quietly placed a small object in the other person's hand, her eyes curved, "I hope you like it!"
The wife of the Marquis of Xining was suspicious and looked down. There was a caterpillar in the palm of her hand. It was green all over and was slowly wriggling in her palm.
"Ah!" The wife of the Marquis of Xining screamed, her face pale with fear. She threw the insect away and hid behind him. "Someone come quickly! Stompie it to death!"
"Don't step on them!" Xihe gave an order, and the second prince's guards moved immediately and stopped the group of servants.
The wife of the Marquis of Xining was furious. "Why not? I don't know what I did wrong to deserve such a scare from His Highness!"
"Xihe didn't scare you. This really is a gift." The little girl lowered her head aggrievedly. "This is the insect my father and I raised together. It's the only one I got, so I gave it to Madam Hou as a gift. Don't you like it?"
The little girl pouted, feeling extremely aggrieved.
Zhao Jinyuan added at the right moment, "This is the one raised by the emperor. The Marquis' wife wanted to crush it to death right away. Is she trying to show contempt for the emperor?"
"I dare not!" Lady Xining Hou immediately bowed and said, "My hand just slipped, that's all."
"Really?" Xihe asked softly.
The wife of the Marquis of Xining nodded reluctantly under everyone's gaze, "Of course it should be so."
As soon as they leave, I'll crush these damn bugs to death!
Xihe smiled broadly, picked up the insect and placed it in the hands of the trembling Xining Marquis's wife, saying seriously, "Then Madam, you must treat it well. Who knows, father might want to see it soon."
The corners of Xining Marquis's mouth twitched, and she hardened her heart and agreed, "This is a gift from Your Majesty, and I will offer incense and offerings."
"Then I'll have to trouble Madam Hou." Xihe showed the other party a sweet smile, without a trace of calculation in her eyes, so that Madam Hou Xining had no place to vent her anger and could only swallow this loss.
Everyone looked at the wife of the Marquis of Xining holding a bug respectfully, and they felt it was funny and amusing.
Zhao Wanyu rubbed his brows, too lazy to beat around the bush with the Xining Marquis's family, and made the final decision, "I still say the same thing, you can take a concubine, but if you want to make a big fuss about it with a sedan chair, forget it."
Li Xihong was a bit smart and knew how much Zhao Wanyu meant to him. He quickly said, "Princess! We've been married for many years, and I'm sincere to you. Now you're unwilling to even talk about such a small matter. Are you really trying to embarrass me?"
Li Xihong just felt that Zhao Wanyu was making a fuss out of nothing. He had already given her the position of the Crown Prince's wife, so why was she still clinging to it and having to pick on the concubine? It was really outrageous.
"Sincerely?" Zhao Wanyu's voice rose slightly, as if she had heard something interesting. "Why does this word sound so off-putting when it comes out of your mouth?"
"We have been married for many years, and you have to humiliate me like this?" Li Xihong felt his face burning.
Zhao Wanyu didn't bother to look at the other person's fake expression. "Whether it's humiliation or the truth, you know it clearly."
After all, he didn't want to break up completely, so he gave Li Xihong some face.
Li Xihong wanted to argue a few more words, but was suddenly interrupted by Xihe.
The little girl poked her head out from her arms and said loudly, "I know! He's bad! He was looking for a girl at Yunfang Tower that day! My brother and I saw it!"
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