Chapter 209: Chicken Feathers
Different from the warm and sweet atmosphere of the Marquis of Jingyuan's mansion, the East Palace was full of gloomy clouds.
The crown prince Wei Jin overturned the tea cup on the table, and for the first time his face was cold in front of the crown princess: "How dare you be so bold!" β
The palace people in the hall knelt on the ground, and they didn't even dare to say anything to plead.
Seeing that the situation was not good, the two side concubines of the Wu family and the Chu family avoided it early.
"Cousin, are you blaming me?" The crown princess Chen Rong covered her chest, a miserable smile appeared on her flower-like face, and she said infinitely sadly: "That's right, I shouldn't lie to you." But ask yourself, what did you do to me? β
"My father and brother died innocently. As a daughter and sister, I can't even keep filial piety for them. But what about you! You comforted me while carrying me behind my back to marry the newlyweds, what am I in your heart! β
Chen Rong originally had a little intention of acting, but the more she talked about it, the more sad she became. She has no powerful maiden family to rely on, and her husband's favor is like a rootless flower, which looks like a thousand good things, but it is like a castle in the air, and it will be dispersed when the wind blows.
A tear fell from Chen Rong's eyes.
Why has it only been three years, she has forgotten her mood when she first married to the East Palace, and the anxiety and longing of the bride have long been consumed in the shadow of the sword and sword.
In the face of Chen Rong's hysterical questioning, Wei Jin also lost his temper, he only felt that his deep affection was misunderstood, let down, wronged, dissatisfied, and heartbroken...... All kinds of flavors come to my heart, and finally turn into a thick bitterness.
He asked-for-tat: "Rong'er, I also want to ask you, what am I in your heart!" Is it your husband, or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince?! β
Chen Rong's eyes widened in disbelief, and a pair of moist apricot eyes were blurred for a moment.
Chen Rong thought with great sadness: This is the man she worked hard to get with all her infamy! Now, he would ask himself such a question.
Chen Rong admitted that since she was sensible, she had been thinking about the position of the crown princess for a long time. But if the prince weren't him, she wouldn't marry just one person!
"Of course you are my husband, but you are also His Royal Highness the Crown Prince." Chen Rong's heart had already been so painful that she lost consciousness.
She seemed to be crying, and asked Wei Jin with teary eyes: "So, in your heart, I am a woman who climbs the dragon and the phoenix, right?!" β
Wei Jin's heart shrank, and he looked away a little embarrassed.
He clenched his fingers, and there was a sharp pain in the knuckles of his finger bones, Wei Jin forced the indifference in his expression, and said astringently: "Obviously, you are already the crown princess, but you have repeatedly attacked Xie Yanhe, and you have to put her to death; Obviously, I have promised you that I will never have a round house with the two side concubines of the Chu family and the Wu family, but you disguised yourself as a miscarriage and wanted to charge them with murdering the imperial heir. Rong'er, have you changed? Or did I never recognize you? β
Wei Jin's questioning became more and more intense, and Chen Rong moved her lips, but found that she couldn't think of any perfect explanation at all.
Eventually, she smiled bitterly and said to herself, "I'm not only your cousin, but also your pillow person." But you say...... Never recognized me! β
Chen Rong felt very ridiculous, she laughed with tears: "Yes, you are right!" My generosity, my indifference, are all pretended. I'm just stingy and jealous. I am not willing to Xie Yanhe to swagger through the market in the name of your ex-fiancΓ©e, and I am even more unwilling to let you accept two side concubines, even if they are just a vain ornament! β
Chen Rong was full of resentment and yelled at Wei Jin: "Cousin, it was you who broke your promise to me first. It's you, not me, that's wrong! β
Wei Jin closed his eyes tiredly.
He wondered how he had come to this point with his cousin. used to share the same bed and grinding their ears and temples, but today they attack each other, and their words are merciless, and her cousin is even more eager to dig a piece of meat from herself. And I have nothing to say to her.
"You're not well, take a good rest."
In the end, Wei Jin left a word that was not comforting and fled.
Chen Rong looked at the man's staggering back, watched him disappear at the door of the main hall, and the light in her eyes gradually died out, turning into bottomless darkness.
Wei Jin came to the atrium in despair.
Under the moonlit night, a woman in a light blue dress walked slowly.
I saw her cloud-stacked green silk combed into a simple and graceful, coquettish fallen horse bun, jet-black hair only inserted into a mutton fat white jade butterfly hairpin, feet did not wear embroidered shoes, but stepped on a pair of white silk socks clogs, wide robe with large sleeves, clothes and belts, fluttering from the splendid garden, flowing like a cloud of movements revealed a chic, down-to-earth Wei and Jin heritage.
Wei Jin involuntarily stopped, a pair of handsome eyes narrowed slightly, and watched coldly as the woman walked in front of him.
"Your Royal Highness the Prince, why are you here?"
Chu Linglong seemed to be very surprised by the sudden appearance of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, and a trace of surprise appeared in her eyes. Soon, she realized her faux pas, and hurriedly excused herself: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince forgives me, the concubine didn't mean to find out your whereabouts, just unintentionally." β
"It's so late, why are you outside the princess's bedroom?" Wei Jin's face was calm, and it was impossible to guess what was going on in his heart.
Chu Linglong had already rehearsed this scene countless times in her heart, and she didn't panic when she heard the words, but lit up the white jade porcelain bottle in her hand.
She lowered her head and replied softly: "Back to His Royal Highness the Prince, the concubine has just gotten an incense recipe and needs the dew on the gardenia at the end of the unitary time." The concubine saw that the gardenias here bloomed the best, so she chose to pick them at this time, but she didn't want to alarm His Royal Highness the Prince. Please also ask your Highness to condemn your sin. β
Wei Jin didn't find any flaws in Chu Linglong's words for the time being, he suppressed the sneer that was about to overflow at the corner of his lips, and slowed down his voice as much as possible: "Get up." The crown princess is in a bad mood these days, so don't disturb her outside the hall at will. β
Rong'er framed the Chu family and the Wu family under the pretense of having a miscarriage, and without investigating it clearly, she asked the chamberlain to punish them with a cane.
Chu Linglong stood up, her eyebrows were already more delicate than ordinary women, and her appearance was even more pure and harmless.
I only heard Chu Linglong say softly: "Your Highness, rest assured, the concubine will never do it again in the future." β
However, Wei Jin is not an ordinary man, as a man with a heart, Chu Linglong's delicate appearance fell into his eyes without any fluctuations, but a manifestation of deep scheming.
The guilt in his heart was slightly reduced, and he said in a cold voice: "The county lord of Yonghe County has been assassinated, and the entire palace has been under martial law. If you are fine, go back to the room as soon as possible to rest, and don't cause trouble to the East Palace. β
Wei Jin's words were extremely serious, and he didn't save face for Chu Linglong at all.
Chu Linglong's face turned pale, and she involuntarily bit her cherry lips, her delicate body was shaky, like a water lotus flower trembling in the cold wind, but there was a trace of stubbornness in her eyes, and she said forcefully: "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince taught me a lesson!" The concubine is not here to hinder your eyes, Your Highness. The concubine retired. β
A tear rolled down from Chu Linglong's eyes, she raised her hand, wiped it with the back of her hand, hurriedly saluted Wei Jin, and flew away.
Wei Jin looked at Chu Linglong's sad and sad back, and the tears in the corners of Fang Cai's eyes, his eyes were inexplicable.
"Zhang Desong!" Wei Zhao shouted at the people behind him.
Zhang Desong stepped forward and nodded with a flattering expression: "Your Highness, what do you command!" β
Wei Jin's anger that he couldn't vent all night finally found a breakthrough, he flew up and kicked Zhang Desong, kicking his most important henchman eunuch in the past into a rolling gourd!
"Bastard thing! I don't know when you started to do the business of protecting the media and pulling fibers! Wei Jin's angry voice was like an uncontrolled mountain fire, and he didn't know when it would burst into flames and burn an entire mountain.
Zhang Desong clutched his aching chest, not daring to defend himself, let alone begging for mercy. Whether it is himself or His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, all of them are like mirrors. If it weren't for his secret help, Concubine Chu wouldn't even be able to get out of her own courtyard gate.
Zhang Desong secretly touched a thumb-sized night pearl hidden in his sleeve, and even his intestines were blue for a while. Isn't it because of a night pearl! He angered His Royal Highness the Crown Prince because he was greedy for money, what a mistake!
However, after experiencing the turmoil of the crown princess falling into the water, Zhang Desong thought that the crown princess was about to fall out of favor.
After all, even a man can't stand his wife hugging and hugging other men, and being looked at by so many people! What's more, this man's identity is still the prince of a country.
This is also the reason why Zhang Desong will help Concubine Chu. didn't think about it, but he miscalculated the position of the crown princess in the heart of His Royal Highness the prince, it was really a miscalculation!
"Your Highness, the minions will never dare to make their own decisions in the future!" Zhang Desong was so anxious that he was about to cry, he rounded his arms and slapped his face with a big mouth: "Let you be confused again!" Make you confused again! β¦β¦β
"That's it!" Wei Jin looked impatient and stopped Zhang Desong's movements. For the sake of Zhang Desong growing up with him and always being loyal, Wei Jin spared him this time.
"Zhang Desong, you have memorized it! There is only one hostess in this East Palace, and that is the crown princess! If you do it again in the future, you don't have to appear in front of Lone. β
It was the first time for Zhang Desong to hear such heartless words from the mouth of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince, he felt a chill in his heart, respectfully kowtowed to Wei Jin three times, and said vaguely with a swollen pig's face: "Your Highness is magnanimous, the slave will never dare anymore!" β
Wei Jin snorted lightly, brushed his sleeves and left, and went to the study alone to sleep.
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In a remote courtyard assigned to the East Palace, the maidservant Xiao Tao has been paying attention to the movement on the other side.
Seeing the lights coming from afar, Xiao Tao hurriedly hid behind the moon cave door, and when Concubine Chu returned to her courtyard with people, Xiao Tao's eyes rolled, and then she trotted all the way back to the main house.
"Concubine Chu, Concubine Chu is back."
Wu Bijun was holding an embroidery bandage in her hand, and she finished embroidering the last stitch of the mandarin duck on it, and then said casually: "I'm back, I'm back, what to make a fuss about!" β
"But aren't you curious, concubine? Has Concubine Chu been favored by His Royal Highness the Prince? Xiao Tao looked at Wu Bijun's expression and said cautiously.
"What's there to be curious about?"
Wu Bijun cut the silk thread in his hand with scissors and inserted the embroidery needle into the embroidery bandage.
She nodded Xiao Tao's forehead and said, "What do you look at or not, if you say such vulgar words in the future, I will punish you." β
Xiao Tao suddenly restrained a little, and said with a well-behaved face: "Concubine Fang, the slave and maid remember, next time I will never talk nonsense." β
Wu Bijun nodded.