Chapter 38 The Prince Consort's Childhood Sweetheart
"After finishing his duty yesterday, the Prince Consort took a carriage directly to the innermost courtyard of Chunyu Lane.
There lived a woman named Lanxiang in the courtyard. She looked about the same age as the eldest princess.
As soon as Lanxiang opened the door, they hugged each other and expressed their love to each other.
Lanxiang said that he hadn't come for so many days, and the prince consort said that it was because of the rigid old witch who was too strict.
Then they went in. I won't tell you what happened inside, it was a bit shocking.
It was not until the early morning that the prince consort came out and returned home. ”
As soon as Wen Ling finished speaking, the entire hall could hear a pin drop.
The prince consort, who was originally extremely angry, became more panicked the more he listened to Wen Ling's words, and the way he looked at Wen Ling changed from wanting to kill her to one of fear and dread.
They all matched, exactly the same.
Of course the prince consort could not have imagined that this was what Wen Ling saw directly from him.
He thought that he was not cautious enough when he went to Chunyu Lane to meet Lanxiang last night, and someone hiding in the corner saw the whole process and told Princess Chen, so Princess Chen knew about it.
He felt extremely regretful and thought he should have been more careful last night!
The princess felt as if the blood in her body was about to freeze after hearing Wen Ling's words.
She looked at the prince consort in disbelief, her voice trembling: "You..."
The name Lanxiang was so familiar. She felt as if she had heard it somewhere before. But where exactly had she heard it before?
The prince consort shook his head and waved his hands repeatedly: "I didn't, I don't even know where Chunyu Lane is. Madam, please don't listen to such one-sided words without any evidence!"
Wen Ling immediately said, "The prince consort didn't go to Chunyu Lane in the carriage that the princess usually rides in. He rode in a small gray-brown carriage, and the driver was a middle-aged man with a big mole on his mouth, and there was a hair on the mole."
"If you want to know whether I am talking nonsense or not, and who is lying between me and the prince consort, just ask this coachman and you will know."
Because the characteristics of the driver described by Wen Ling were too obvious.
The eldest princess immediately thought of the fact that her family had a very profitable horse business outside, and she used her connections in the northern border to make the business.
The general manager of the horse shop is a middle-aged man with a big mole on his mouth.
The prince consort thought highly of him. At that time, the eldest princess wanted to make a servant boy in her mansion the shopkeeper. It was the prince consort who recommended him to her and promoted the shopkeeper from a small groom.
So the eldest princess was impressed by him.
Before the prince consort could say anything, the princess ordered directly: "Bring that shopkeeper Huang to me for questioning!"
The prince consort was anxious when Wen Lingquan hit the nail on the head, but he was not that panicked. Shopkeeper Huang was his most trusted confidant, and he was smart and smooth-talking. It was impossible for him to be like Chen Gongfu, who would tell everything in a panic.
Soon, Shopkeeper Huang was brought over.
The guard who brought Manager Huang here was the eldest princess's man. Along the way, he tried to ask why he was suddenly brought here, but he got nothing out of it.
When Manager Huang arrived, he kowtowed and knelt down, not even daring to raise his head. He could already sense that the atmosphere here was unusual.
The princess walked up to him, looked down at him, and asked without any emotion from her voice: "Where did you go after your husband got off duty last night?"
Shopkeeper Huang subconsciously looked up at the prince consort, and when he saw the prince consort wink at him, he immediately nodded in understanding.
They had been prepared for this kind of situation before. Just when he lowered his head and wanted to say, "I don't know where the prince consort went last night."
He felt a sharp pain in his head, and in a trance, he spoke out: "The Prince Consort went to my cousin Lanxiang's place last night."
Everyone: “…”
Prince Consort: “!!!”
The eldest princess only felt a rusty taste rising up in her throat, which she suppressed tightly.
She dug her nails tightly into the back of her hand and continued to ask, "Who is your cousin Lanxiang?"
Before Shopkeeper Huang could say anything, the Prince Consort rushed towards him, shouting, "Huang Liang! You'd better think carefully before you speak!"
"Someone, control the prince consort for me!"
The eldest princess gave a loud shout, and the guards beside her immediately clamped the prince consort, and even covered his mouth considerately.
The prince consort felt extremely humiliated and angry at the same time.
You see, no matter how decent he lives in daily life and how much others seem to respect him, in fact he is nothing in this family.
With just one word from the princess, he would be held here by the guards.
No matter how hard he worked in officialdom, no matter what achievements he made, people would congratulate him openly but would secretly say behind his back that he only rose to power because of the eldest princess.
But back then, he was clearly a Jinshi in two exams and was clearly the top scholar in the imperial examination.
The princess looked at Huang Liang again and asked, "Who is your cousin Lanxiang?!"
Huang Liang blurted out, "My cousin Lanxiang is the Prince Consort's childhood sweetheart. They grew up together and were even engaged. If the Emperor hadn't granted you a marriage, they would have been married long ago and the whole family would be happy!"
The more Huang Liang spoke, the more terrified his expression became.
He tried desperately to change his words, but his mouth wouldn't obey him at all.
It’s over. The Prince Consort’s expression became dejected. Everything is over now.
At this time, the eldest princess finally remembered where she had heard the name Lanxiang.
Before the emperor's brother arranged the marriage, he told her that the prince consort had a childhood sweetheart named Lanxiang in his hometown. When he sent people to investigate the background, someone asked her what to do with Lanxiang since the prince consort was going to marry the princess.
She had even asked her husband in advance that if he already had an engagement in his hometown or he already had a lover, then they were not destined to be together and the marriage would be called off.
But at that time, the prince consort clearly swore to her that the girl was just a little girl from the next-door neighbor's family. Seeing that he was good at studying, he knew that he would have a bright future, so he kept pestering her.
After he said this, the emperor's decree to grant the marriage came down.
Because it happened so long ago, she never heard the woman's name again and she never took it to heart, so she didn't remember it when she heard it just now.
At this point, there is nothing that the eldest princess doesn't understand.
It turns out that Lanxiang is really the prince consort’s childhood sweetheart and fiancée, and has been kept by him in Chunyu Lane in the capital!
She now recalled that her husband had often been on duty until late at night over the past decade or so. He said it was because of his busy official duties. Could it be that he had secretly gone to Chunyu Lane?
Now, listening to Huang Liang's words, she became the villain who broke up a pair of true lovers!
The eldest princess felt as if the blood in her body had frozen cold at this moment.
The maid next to her quickly stepped forward to support her and whispered, "Princess, you can't fall down. This matter needs to be thoroughly investigated today. Otherwise, if you go down without knowing the answer, it will be another mess!"
The loyal nanny didn't want to see the princess, whom she had raised, being deceived in this way.
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