After Gan Qiongying and Li Hua had talked things out, they became happier together.
Despite holding the title of a concubine of the Crown Prince, she roamed freely throughout the vast Crown Prince's residence, and no one dared to stop her.
Sweetheart Aunt, who was in charge of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, followed Gan Qiongying around every day to serve her. Everyone in the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace knew that the Crown Prince's new favorite concubine was the person in His Highness's heart.
After being separated for so long, the two resolved their inner conflicts and their relationship was no different from before, even closer and more affectionate than before.
Gan Qiongying had a variety of ways to coax people, and Li Hua was always smiling from ear to ear. No matter how hard he tried to keep a straight face, it was hard for him not to reveal his joy in front of the court officials.
Therefore, many people have been secretly inquiring about what happy event is happening in the Crown Prince's residence. They have learned that the Crown Prince has taken a concubine and cherishes her dearly. All the high-ranking families and nobles in Jinchuan have their eyes on this.
Invitations to the banquet flew into the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace like snowflakes, but unfortunately, no one could find out where the Crown Prince's concubine's family came from.
All we know is that she was of commoner origin and not even a woman from Jinchuan.
That evening, Gan Qiongying spread out the layers of invitations, which resembled imperial edicts, on the table and summoned Li Hua to come and look at them together.
"It seems that you, as the Crown Prince, are of great importance, and the Crown Prince's palace is impenetrable and impregnable. These people can only have their eyes on me, the 'newly favored' concubine."
Gan Qiongying emphasized the words "newly favored," and looked at Li Hua with a mocking expression: "What are your people saying about me outside? Are they saying I'm a wicked concubine who brought ruin to the country?"
"They say I seduced His Highness the Crown Prince, making him unable to distinguish between day and night, and that he was so engrossed in bed that he missed the morning court session twice..."
Li Hua reached out and naturally covered Gan Qiongying's mouth, his eyes, like two pools of spring water, gently falling on Gan Qiongying.
In the first few days, due to the stress, he would do some strange things. Once, he even got up in the middle of the night and pulled out a gold chain from somewhere, locking Gan Qiongying's feet to the headboard.
Any other woman would have been terrified, but Gan Qiongying simply opened her eyes, swung her leg, and then said to Li Hua with a lazy smile, "My husband is truly... generous! You can't take back what you gave me; this chain is pure gold..."
The pure gold chain was naturally not very strong, but Gan Qiongying's feet were chained for two days, and she did not struggle at all.
She even treated it as a novel thing, and every day when Li Hua came back from court and looked at her cautiously, she would put on a show of "a canary being obedient to its master".
In the end, this play often devolved into... intimate scenes that couldn't be shown in public.
Li Hua went mad for two days. One day, he suddenly woke up from a nightmare, his hands trembling as he untied the chains from Gan Qiongying's feet. After that, he knelt on the bed and apologized to Gan Qiongying.
At that time, Gan Qiongying only sat up in a daze, hugged him and kept patting his back, letting him cry his heart out on her shoulder.
She comforted him, saying, "It's okay, it's okay... nightmares are the opposite of reality."
Li Hua dreamed that he tied Gan Qiongying to the back of his horse and dragged her to her death.
In his previous nightmares, he clearly used a rope to drag Gan Qiongying to death, but this time the rope in his nightmare turned into a gold chain.
Li Hua was terrified. After waking up, he untied the chains from Gan Qiongying and was about to throw them away.
As a result, Gan Qiongying chased after Li Hua, snatched the gold chain from his hand, and held it in her hands like a treasure, saying, "What are you doing? This is pure gold! What if someone picks it up outside?"
At that moment, the veins on Li Hua's forehead throbbed. Having been with Gan Qiongying for so long, he certainly knew how much his wife loved money.
Therefore, Li Hua took a deep breath and said, "If you throw this thing away, I'll give you a mountain of gold!"
Gan Qiongying, of course, refused to throw it away: "Is Jinshan the one that Wen Xueling's father hid? I want Jinshan, and I want this chain too."
Seeing that Li Hua was truly frightened, Gan Qiongying comforted him: "Don't you think about what we've done while I was wearing it? Think about where it's gotten tangled up. If you throw it away, someone else might pick it up..."
Before Gan Qiongying could finish speaking, Li Hua's nightmare-like fear was basically dispelled.
Based on Gan Qiongying's description, he realized what the two of them had done while wearing the chain... It was indeed not suitable for anyone to pick it up.
“Then I’ll have someone melt it down tomorrow,” Li Hua said. “Throw it far away; it gives me a headache.”
Gan Qiongying threw the chain into the cage, then commented from outside, "These two things match quite well. Did you make them as a set?"
"This goldsmith's craftsmanship is really good. I'd like to have a few pure gold jewelry pieces made."
Li Hua hugged Gan Qiongying from behind, buried her head in her shoulder, and couldn't stand it, so she opened her mouth and bit her.
Is gold all you think about?
Gan Qiongying chuckled, making no attempt to hide her greedy and lustful nature.
She turned around and hugged Li Hua, saying, "Besides gold, there's also you, who can earn gold!"
"Speaking of which, Your Highness, now that you are the Crown Prince, shouldn't your monthly allowance of 200,000 taels be increased?"
"Shouldn't you make up for the 200,000 taels owed to me for the first few months?"
Gan Qiongying counted on her fingers how long she had been separated from Li Hua and how many months' worth of money she had lost.
Before she could finish calculating, Li Hua grabbed her fingers as she was counting: "I won't give you a single penny. Do you think I'd give you money so you could run away and I wouldn't be able to find you?"
"No, no... A husband who doesn't give his wife a monthly allowance is not a good husband."
"Let's discuss this. I can give up what I had before... How about I get the 200,000 taels this month?"
“I’m out of money, but I still have many people to support. And Gan Lin… has been in frequent contact with the Northwest Army lately. I don’t know what he plans to do in the future.”
"I want to save some money for him." Gan Qiongying laughed as she spoke, hugging Li Hua's waist and saying coquettishly, "Will you be angry if I give money to my brother?"
In modern society, a woman who takes her husband's money and gives it to her younger brother is called a "brother-supporting demon".
Li Hua has never cared about money in his life. Although he has always been good at making money, he doesn't spend much money on himself. Whether it's clothes or accessories, even though they are very expensive, he never pays much attention to them.
He didn't really enjoy the extravagance that money brought him.
What Li Hua wanted from beginning to end was just one thing—family.
His loved ones, who had been by his side through thick and thin, were now back by his side. Li Hua truly intended to give Gan Qiongying the gold mine he had seized from the King of Jingxi.
She loved gold so much... that she couldn't bear to throw away the gold cage and gold chain that imprisoned her.
Therefore, Li Hua said with a particularly masculine air, "It's alright, my husband has plenty of money."
Gan Qiongying jumped up from the ground and onto Li Hua's back, hugging his neck. Li Hua was caught off guard and staggered a few steps forward before regaining his balance by holding onto the bed.
The two laughed together, one voice clear and the other soft, their voices blending together like the most beautiful melody in the world.
"You are the best, best, best person I have ever met!"
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