"Princess, calm down."
Gu Yanran gritted her teeth, "The Liu mother and daughter are just like witchcraft. My great-grandmother, Old Lady Xu, was such a shrewd person in the past. But look at what she has become after being bewitched by the Liu mother and daughter? Shen Qingqiu is just a bastard with no blood relationship, but he is so doted on by the old lady?"
"It is an honor to enter the palace to be the princess's companion, but the old lady actually wants to confine me to the mansion, just because I had a quarrel with the applicant the day before yesterday!" She did not mention how she planned to destroy Shen Qingqiu's appearance.
"Shen Qingqiu and her witch must be able to use witchcraft. They bewitched my uncle and made him marry a faded woman as his principal wife, and they also bewitched the old lady. Now Liu is pregnant with an evil fetus, and she will take over our Gu family as soon as it is born."
"Look, this witch is not satisfied now, and she actually wants to use the same method to deal with the emperor. Princess, you must be careful!"
Princess Yongping was only a young child after all. She was just scared when she heard it at first, and she angrily scolded Gu Yanran, "Shut up, my father is wise and brave, how can evil spirits approach him!" Yongping was a child in the palace, and even though she was young, she was thoughtful and knew that there were some things she could not say to Gu Yanran.
"If you tell me this kind of thing again in the future, I will ask my mother to kick you out!" After saying that, he turned around and left.
Anxious, Gu Yanran hurriedly tried to catch up, "Princess, Princess...I am just worried about you..." She was indeed worried. She had originally wanted to use a trick to kill someone with a borrowed knife and hand over the evil Shen Qingqiu to Princess Yongping for disposal. But if Princess Yongping really told the Queen, with Queen Pei's skills in the palace, she would not benefit from using the princess.
"Stop her, I don't want to see her now." Yongping ordered the guards behind him.
The guards tried to stop Gu Yanran when she tried to catch up, but there were many stairs in the palace and she ran so fast that she almost fell. Just as the world was spinning, a pair of hands were on her waist. When Gu Yanran was panicking, she saw the face of the Crown Prince Gu Tang, who looked like a god, close to her.
The prince helped Gu Yanran to a flat ground and let her go. He just smiled and said, "This garden has rugged rockeries. It's not suitable for Miss Gu to run around like this."
Gu Yanran blushed slightly, lowered her head and said, "Your Highness, I have lost my manners."
Gu Tang just smiled and said, "I noticed that you seemed to be chasing something just now?"
Gu Yanran bit her lip. She was afraid that if the Eleventh Princess went to complain to Queen Pei, she would be seen as a sinister person by the Crown Prince. "It seemed that Princess Yongping had misunderstood what I said just now. I wanted to explain to the princess, but the guards stopped me..."
Upon hearing this, Crown Prince Gu Tang smiled, "Yongping is the Queen Mother's legitimate daughter, and has been spoiled since she was young. It was my fault that I casually assigned her to be a study partner, but forgot about her bad temper." The Crown Prince could naturally be merciless when talking about his sister, but Gu Yanran could not.
Her cheeks were slightly red. "Thank you for your concern, Your Highness. As a companion, it is my duty to share the princess' worries. How can you blame the princess?"
The prince smiled again. He had never had any bad feelings towards these young girls. Seeing that she was in such a hurry that the jewelry on her temples fell off, he lowered his head and happened to see a flower in full bloom. He picked it and tied it into Gu Yanran's bun, "Okay."
He withdrew his hand, "Yongping is just ahead, she should have calmed down by now, you go."
Gu Yanran looked at him shyly and contentedly, then ran over quickly, not forgetting to hold the flower on her head.
"Your Highness, are you interested in Miss Gu?" asked the palace servant who was serving the prince.
The prince frowned instantly, "What nonsense are you talking about? She is just a girl of twelve or thirteen years old." Why would he be interested in a girl of this age? He picked a flower just because Yongping caused someone's hairpin to fall off.
The palace maid smiled, "She's not too young. I heard that the old lady had discussed arranging a wife for the fourth young lady. Your Highness, although your principal wife has been chosen as the legitimate daughter of the Wang family, your concubine has not yet been chosen. Logically, the legitimate daughter of the Gu family should not be young, but since the queen has chosen the fourth young lady Gu as a companion for Princess Yongping, maybe she has her own intentions."
Gu Tang frowned when he heard this, "What nonsense."
Seeing that the prince had an unhappy look on his face, the eunuch stopped talking and dared not continue.
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Shen Qingqiu had no idea of Gu Yanran's actions. Her bright official robe made her skin look as smooth as jade. However, the Princess of Changhe and the Ninth Princess, two people who had seen a lot of the world, surrounded her like bumpkins, rubbing her sleeves and touching her hem.
Shen Qingqiu sat in the middle with his arms and legs spread out, allowing them to touch him, while the eunuchs serving in the hall peeled juicy grapes and fed them to him.
After eating for a long time with his neck tilted back, Shen Qingqiu finally couldn't stand it anymore and stood up and changed his posture, "Have you seen enough?"
Princess Changhe shook her head and kept praising, "My goodness, Qiu'er, you are really amazing! Isn't it said that you can cast a curse? How long have you been in the palace? You've even put on an official robe?"
Hearing this, it was unclear whether he was praising himself or scolding himself. Shen Qingqiu smiled and said, "It was a curse. I cursed you. If you eat anything secretly again in the future, your tongue will be shortened." Chang He immediately pouted in anger when he heard it, "I was just playing a joke on you, but you cursed me to have a shorter tongue!"
It would be better to curse her to have a rotten intestine than to have no taste for food. "Qiu'er, I heard from my father that you are going to investigate a case with Brother Nine?" The Ninth Princess propped up her chin and asked with sparkling eyes, "Can I go with you?"
Chang He, who was standing by, immediately raised his chubby hand and said, "I want to go too!"
Shen Qingqiu pinched the Ninth Princess's cheek, "You are so cute, of course I want to take you with me, but the Emperor said that Master Lin will take me and His Highness the Ninth Prince. Not only that, Master Lin's grandson Lin Xuanfeng will also be there—" He smiled and looked at Princess Changhe beside him, "Do you still want to go?"
The two of them shook their heads like rattles. It was scary enough that Master Lin had a stern face. His grandson, Lin Xuanfeng, was exactly like Master Lin when he was young. Changhe had met him once when she was young. At that time, she had just accidentally hit his boots with an egg yolk mooncake, and he looked at her as if he wanted to eat her.
"I'm not going, I'm not going..."
Shen Qingqiu didn't mean to scare the two of them. She usually played around, but if she investigated a case like this this time, she might get into trouble. Not to mention that she didn't want to take the two of them with her, I'm afraid even the emperor wouldn't want his daughter to be involved.
"Don't worry, I'll go out of the palace for a while. If there's anything delicious or fun, I'll definitely bring it back for you."
The Ninth Princess nodded eagerly. Princess Changhe also wanted to nod, but she didn't know what she thought of and her eyes lit up.
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“Your Highness, Your Highness!” Wang Xi hurriedly chased after the man in front of him with his cloak in his hand, “Why are you walking so fast? It’s not even dawn yet!”
Gu Yanwei was still walking in a hurry. He usually wore plain white clothes, but today he wore a red robe, which was unusual. After the eunuch Wang Xi caught up with him, he wrapped him in a gray-brown plush cloak, which made the elegant nobleman look even more heavy.
Gu Yanwei coughed twice, then smiled and shook his head, trying to take off his cloak. "It's only been a few months, and you've already taken all this out?"
Wang Xi said, "It's cold this morning, Your Highness, you should put it on. I will put it away for you when the sun comes out."
Gu Yanwei shook his head firmly and just waited there. His son's hair was just turning pale, so he stared at the pale spot, and the red clothes fluttered like the wind. He didn't know how long he had been waiting. Just when he felt a little sour in the corners of his eyes, a bright light suddenly crept in from the corners of his eyes.
Then I saw a red figure walking towards here quickly in the corner of the palace wall.
Gu Yanwei suddenly felt a little nervous... He deliberately wore red today, would she find out something? When his mind was full of thoughts, he saw her walking towards him gracefully, her black hair was supported by a black crown, and she was dressed in a red official robe. But she was not in disguise today, and her eyes were as bright as stars.
Gu Yanwei could only feel his heart pounding, beating many times faster than before.
"Why is Your Highness wearing red today?" Shen Qingqiu asked.
She really asked... Gu Yanwei said, letting his heart beat wildly, but he opened his mouth and said, "This is the first time that my father has allowed me to participate in government affairs. I heard from Wang Xi that red clothes are a good omen."
Shen Qingqiu smiled when he heard this, and after taking a look at Gu Yanwei, he couldn't help but praise: "Your Highness looks good in red too."
Although he was only 13 or 14 years old, Gu Yanwei was truly the most beautiful person Shen Qingqiu had ever seen in this world. Her father Gu Yong was also handsome, but that handsomeness was mostly due to his decisiveness in killing on the battlefield. Shen Qingqiu had also seen the crown prince, who was known as the most beautiful man in the world.
It's not that he got the reputation in vain. The prince was born with a refined and romantic temperament, especially a pair of affectionate eyes. He seemed to be affectionate to everyone he looked at. No wonder he had such a high prestige among the women in the folk. Both of them were very good-looking, but compared with the young man in front of them, they were a little worse. His facial features were indeed very beautiful.
She usually wore plain clothes, and her sickly and pale face obscured some of her radiance.
The sunset glowed brightly today, he was dressed in bright clothes, his eyebrows and eyes were extremely charming, but there was a hint of coldness in the depths of his pupils, which made people unable to help but look at him again and again.
"Does it look good?" Gu Yanwei asked.
Shen Qingqiu nodded, "Your Highness has a good appearance, so naturally he looks good in anything he wears."
Gu Yanwei couldn't help but ask, "You like red, right?" He always saw her wearing red.
Shen Qingqiu nodded. To be more precise, she liked the color of blood.
Seeing her nod, Gu Yanwei said, "Then I will wear red from now on."
Shen Qingqiu didn't hear anything. She was not very good at this. But the king behind her was so angry that he pulled his handkerchief. How could he, the ninth prince, who never left the house, be hooked up by a wild girl who climbed trees and over walls? It was really annoying!
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