Chapter 148 Cheating
"Her Majesty, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess have returned to the Eastern Palace!" Nanny Liang repeated.
"Who? Who are you talking about the prince and?" the queen asked again.
"His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and the Crown Princess." Nanny Liang emphasized the three words "Crown Princess".
"Nonsense!" The queen didn't believe it.
"Your Majesty, I saw it with my own eyes." After Jiang Zhaoyue got into trouble, Madam Liang had been paying attention to the movements in the Eastern Palace. She saw with her own eyes that a carriage stopped at the gate of the Eastern Palace, and His Royal Highness the Crown Prince carefully helped the Crown Princess down.
The queen still refused to believe it.
Nanny Yun arrived at this time.
The Queen immediately acted like a mother of a nation: "Madam Yun, what brings you here?"
Madam Yun bowed and said, "Your Majesty, the Crown Prince has sent this old servant to inform you that the Crown Princess has been found. Please do not worry anymore."
Really found it!
Jiang Zhaoyue was really found!
The Queen forced herself to remain calm and pretended to be happy: "Really?"
"It's absolutely true." Nanny Yun replied.
"Where did you find it?"
"I don't know."
"Is there anything unusual?"
"I don't know yet."
He knows nothing about anything!
What servant?!
The Queen was very dissatisfied, but Nanny Yun was a member of the Queen's family after all. She had done nothing wrong, so she could not blame her. However, she was very curious about Jiang Zhaoyue's situation, so she said, "Then I will go and take a look."
Nanny Yun was unable to stop the Queen's behavior, so she followed the Queen to the East Palace.
Jiang Zhaoyue and Pei Jingzhou had already bathed and changed their clothes, wearing comfortable wide-sleeved clothes. They were sitting at the dinner table waiting for food. When they saw the queen coming, they stood up and saluted.
"You're welcome." said the queen.
Jiang Zhaoyue and Pei Jingzhou stood up straight.
The Queen looked at Jiang Zhaoyue and acted delighted: "The Crown Princess is really back."
"Yes, mother." Jiang Zhaoyue replied.
"What on earth happened? I have been worried since last night and didn't sleep well all night." The queen said sincerely.
Jiang Zhaoyue replied seriously, "Mother, my daughter-in-law fainted from shock and doesn't know anything."
The Queen then asked, "Where did the Prince find you?"
Jiang Zhaoyue doesn't care whether it is a brothel or not, but she is the current Crown Princess after all.
If people knew that she had spent the entire night in the brothel, even if the saliva couldn't drown her, it would be directed at Pei Jingzhou, either openly or covertly.
She didn't want to make her life more difficult, so she discussed a solution with Pei Jingzhou and said, "In a forest."
In the woods?
She was clearly thrown into a brothel!
The Queen was surprised: "Why is it in a forest?"
"Even my daughter-in-law doesn't know, Your Highness should know." Jiang Zhaoyue had only drunk a few sips of water from yesterday morning until now. She was so hungry that she didn't want to talk, so she threw all the questions to Pei Jingzhou.
Unexpectedly, Pei Jingzhou asked directly: "Doesn't the Queen Mother know?"
What's the meaning?
Was this done by the Queen?
Jiang Zhaoyue had been frightened, afraid, tired and hungry for the past few days. She had not yet thought carefully about the ups and downs of this matter. Could it really be the queen... She looked at the queen in astonishment.
This matter was orchestrated by the Queen, so she naturally knew everything. However, she was caught off guard by Pei Jingzhou's direct question. A trace of panic flashed across her eyes, and then she calmed down and said, "What do I know?"
Pei Jingzhou accurately captured her expression and continued, "They say a wild boar stole the Crown Princess away. Doesn't your mother know that?"
"This matter." The Queen secretly breathed a sigh of relief. She thought Pei Jingzhou knew something and said, "I know."
"It's this matter, otherwise what would mother think it was?" Pei Jingzhou said something with a hint of meaning again.
The queen suddenly couldn't figure out what Pei Jingzhou knew. She reflected on her own actions and found them to be flawless.
Then Pei Jingzhou was cheating.
She calmed down again and said, "I thought the prince was talking about something else."
"Anything else?" Pei Jingzhou asked again.
The Queen sensed the undercurrent beneath his calm tone, but she pretended not to know and said, "This is something I don't know."
"The Queen Mother should know everything." Pei Jingzhou was playing guessing games again.
Jiang Zhaoyue also noticed that Pei Jingzhou was competing with the Queen.
The Queen looked at Pei Jingzhou and suddenly smiled, "The Crown Prince is truly filial. He only says nice things to please me. If I knew everything, there would be no Dali Temple in the Great Jin."
"Your Majesty, you are too modest." Pei Jingzhou changed the subject and said, "However, the matter of the Crown Princess will indeed require the assistance of the Dali Temple."
The Queen was slightly surprised: "Why?"
"The matter of the two wild boars is really strange. When I was looking for the Crown Princess, I found some clues and caught one..." Pei Jingzhou suddenly stopped talking.
The Queen asked anxiously, "What did you catch?"
"Please forgive me, Mother. I'd better discuss this matter with the Dali Temple Minister first, and then report it to you, Mother, to avoid unnecessary misunderstandings."
The Queen really wanted to know what Pei Jingzhou had caught, but if she acted too eager, it would seem that she was being extravagant. So she put away her curiosity and asked about Jiang Zhaoyue's health instead.
Pei Jingzhou answered on his behalf.
"The Crown Princess looks very tired, so I won't disturb her anymore." The Queen couldn't find anything useful, so she didn't plan to stay any longer.
Jiang Zhaoyue was overjoyed and hurriedly bowed: "Thank you, my daughter-in-law, for coming to visit me, mother."
The queen smiled and walked away.
Jiang Zhaoyue watched her leave Muhuayuan and immediately fell towards Pei Jingzhou.
Pei Jingzhou quickly hugged her and asked nervously, "What's wrong?"
"I'm starving." Jiang Zhaoyue leaned softly against Pei Jingzhou.
"Set the meal." Pei Jingzhou said immediately.
"I don't even have the energy to eat." Jiang Zhaoyue acted coquettishly.
Pei Jingzhou looked down at her and said, "I'll feed you."
Jiang Zhaoyue nodded, but Pei Jingzhou fed her so politely and gently that she was not satisfied with the meal. She stopped acting coquettishly and stopped trying to take advantage of him. She picked up her chopsticks and started to eat with relish.
Pei Jingzhou was relieved to see that she could eat and drink, and called out, "Hongyao."
Jiang Zhaoyue ate half his fill and almost recovered his spirits. He asked, "Is Hongyao back?"
"Well, Xiao Peng and Qing Luo are living well in the Duke of Zhenguo's Mansion. Hong Cao was injured, so I asked her to come back and stay with you."
Hongyao appeared: "Your Highness the Crown Prince."
"Go and follow the Queen." Pei Jingzhou said.
"Yes." Hongyao didn't ask any more questions and left immediately.
Jiang Zhaoyue asked, "What are you doing following the Queen Mother?"
"Find evidence." Pei Jingzhou said.
"What evidence?"
"Evidence that would harm you."
Jiang Zhaoyue thought back to what Pei Jingzhou had just done and said, "When someone does something bad and worries about being discovered, they'll repeatedly ponder the loopholes in their actions and even try to remedy them."
Pei Jingzhou looked at Jiang Zhaoyue with admiration and said, "That's right."
The queen returned to Shunning Palace at this time.
Yan Zhi immediately came forward and said, "Aunt, is the Crown Princess really back?"
The Queen dismissed the servants and said unhappily, "He's really back."
Yan Zhi frowned: "Why did you come back?"
"Pei Jingzhou found it."
"Where did you find it?"
"This is not the point. What is more urgent now is that Pei Jingzhou seems to have known what I have done." The queen was a little panicked.
Yan Zhi picked out the key words: "Seems?"
"Yes." The Queen explained the affairs of the Eastern Palace and called out, "Madam Liang."
Nanny Liang walked in quickly.
"Where is the beast tamer?" asked the Queen.
Nanny Liang replied, "In——"
"Aunt!" Yan Zhi interrupted Nanny Liang and looked at the Queen and asked, "Aunt, could it be that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is trying to trick you?"
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