Chapter 33: Entering the Palace
Bai Wanrou's helpless eyes probed and probed the two people in the room, and the look seemed to ask: What is going on?
However, she probably thought that it was not polite to let people wait outside the door for a long time, so she could only go out first to deal with Chen Ruzhi.
"Lord Wang, what do you mean by that?"
Chen Ruzhi raised his eyebrows, obviously surprised by her ignorance.
"I thought my subordinates had already told you, didn't you know that you were going to enter the palace today?"
Bai Wanrou carefully retrieved her memories in her mind, but found that there was no such stubble at all.
Her pink lips moved and moved, but she didn't say anything after all.
Luzhu and Qingtang behind him probably wanted to follow her, but they were stopped by Lin Yi with a raised hand.
"Today, the emperor only invited the prince and the princess, and other idle people don't need to follow."
Qingtang, who has always been in a hurry, was about to get angry when he heard this, but in the end he was stopped by the green bamboo beside him.
"The princess is still here, if you find trouble with others at this moment, how should we deal with it?"
Although she was speaking with her voice suppressed, the content of her words was also heard clearly by Lin Yi.
He wandered away from Lu Zhu for a while with a looking gaze, obviously not expecting that there was a trouble-free person among the subordinates who had befriended the princess.
Qingtang also thought for a moment when he heard this, looked at Bai Wanrou who had not left in front of him, and suppressed the anger in his heart, but his unkind gaze always stayed on Lin Yi.
The latter was not annoyed, and quietly waited there for Chen Ru to get on the back of the carriage before leaving.
"Hmph, isn't it just bullying our young lady to be unfavored!"
The sound of her shouting was still echoing in her ears, Lin Yi paused, remembering that the prince was at a loss every time he faced the princess, his heart suddenly panicked, and the pace of leaving was also speeding up in an instant.
"Okay Qingtang, although you are also impatient on weekdays, you have always been very good at observing words and feelings, why did you lose this ability today?"
Luzhu blamed Qingtang when he turned around and went back to the room, but he actually agreed with her words in his heart.
"I ...... I can't tell you clearly, looking at Lin Yi's face, I don't know why I am angry. ”
Midoritake smiled dumbly and patted her on the shoulder, and the two quickly broke away from their emotions and turned to work.
At this time, their young lady was sitting on pins and needles in the carriage.
Bai Wanrou glanced at Chen Ruzhi, who was leisurely beside her, and still didn't understand why she wanted to enter the palace.
Seeing that his expression was a little happy, she asked a little pretending to be unintentional: "Lord Wang, why are we entering the palace today?" ”
The movements of Chen Ruzhi's hand stiffened for a moment, his eyes turned to the side, and he did not answer her question.
Bai Wanrou probably understood something, her expression turned cold in a moment, and her eyes stared at Chen Ruzhi directly.
Until he couldn't stand such a burning gaze and was forced to speak, "The Queen Mother wants to see you, so she made an appointment with me to enter the palace to meet today." ”
Her hanging heart was relieved at this time, at least she knew what she meant by entering the palace, and no matter how unstable she was, she had some confidence in her heart.
She thought about Chen Ruzhi's answer, and then asked, "What is the relationship between the Queen Mother and you?" ”
With Fang Cai's experience as a lesson from the past, her tone of questioning was a little less cautious.
It's a pity that no matter how she stared at it this time, Chen Ruzhi still didn't let go of such pressure, and only replied lightly, "The Queen Mother is a very kind person." ”
Bai Wanrou only felt that her anger suddenly rushed up, and she didn't ask this question because she was curious about what kind of queen mother she was.
But thinking of Chen Ruzhi's temperament, she didn't continue to make trouble in the end.
Because she knows better than anyone else in her heart, no matter how much she asks, Chen Ruzhi will not respond to her.
But even she didn't realize that she was extremely dissatisfied with such Chen Ruzhi in her heart.
She doesn't like anyone not to confess to herself, and the love that is hidden in the depths blends with this, and it becomes a depression.
Bai Wanrou turned her head away, if she faced Chen Ruzhi at this time, the latter would definitely find that the tails of her eyes were flushed with a faint red.
The carriage sped down the street, and it didn't take long for it to come to a sudden stop.
Bai Wanrou's whole person seemed to be pushed out from behind by a powerful force, and her body fell forward uncontrollably.
Seeing this, Chen Ruzhi hurriedly put his body under her.
The moment the carriage came to a stop, the thin lips of the two men were closely connected, and then quickly separated.
Bai Wanrou no longer had time to take care of Fang Cai's emotions, and at this moment, the whole person was trapped in a state of shyness and couldn't extricate herself.
Chen Ruzhi stayed directly in place, so much so that he forgot to prop up his body.
Until the coachman asked in a trembling voice because of fear, "Lord Wang...... Princess? Are you two alright? ”
Obviously, the coachman was a little frightened, and everyone knew that the prince of Jian'an had been fighting on the battlefield all the year round, and he was an iron-blooded man, and his personality was the most aggressive.
And he just made such a serious mistake, and he didn't hear the sound of reprimanding from the car, how could he not be worried.
And the bodies that were attached to each other in the car quickly separated because of these words, Bai Wanrou sorted out the hair that was scattered due to the fall, and Chen Ruzhi immediately turned his head to hide the redness of his cheeks and earlobes.
However, probably because he was afraid that his careful thoughts would be discovered, Chen Ruzhi patted the dust on his body vigorously, and completely turned his heartbeat into anger and vented it on the coachman.
"Reckless fellow! Is it the first time you have been a coachman? Such a low-level mistake would have been made! ”
Then he took advantage of the fact that the people around him were not paying attention and pressed his heart, which was his rapidly beating heart.
He let out a long breath, and seeing that Bai Wanrou's face had long since lost its charming look, the heart that had been tight in his heart was relieved a little.
He couldn't tell why he suddenly had such a reaction to Bai Wanrou, but instinct made him refuse to be discovered by Bai Wanrou.
The coachman outside the curtain heard his reprimand, but for some reason relaxed a little, and quickly admitted his mistake.
In the end, the carriage arrived at the palace under the slow guidance of the coachman, and Bai Wanrou and Chen Ruzhi had already returned to normal at that time.
The two of them stepped down the steps, and before entering the palace, Chen Ruzhi suddenly bent his arms.
Bai Wanrou beside him obviously didn't know what this meant, and her eyes were full of doubts.
"Although you and I are not husband and wife, we must also be pretentious in front of the emperor."
She quickly understood what Chen Ruzhi wanted to do, but her heart couldn't stop being sour.
Hearing him ruthlessly expose this hypocritical in-law, she only felt as if a dagger was stuck in her heart, and she spun around and pulled out.
At the same time, there was a thought that was extremely easy to overlook.
It is rumored that Prince Jian'an is very good friends with the emperor, and because of his outstanding achievements, the emperor values him very much.
However, listening to the tone of Chen Ruzhi's mouth just now, it seemed that it was just perfunctory.
Bai Wanrou suppressed the curiosity in her heart and left this matter behind.
"See the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother."
After Chen Ruzhi entered the palace, he was familiar with the road in the palace, and if someone else who didn't know why looked at it, I was afraid that he would think that he was the emperor.
Bai Wanrou followed him from beginning to end, and even saluted in the same way as him.
It was as kind as Chen Ruzhi said, looking at Bai Wanrou, who was a little dazed but dignified and elegant from beginning to end, she showed a satisfied smile.
No one knows why she fell in love with Bai Wanrou at first sight, and the world only knows that the Queen Mother has some preference for Princess Jian'an.
For example, at this moment, the first person she called was not Chen Ruzhi, but Bai Wanrou.
"On weekdays, I always hear about the deeds of Princess Jian'an, but today I met the real person, and it was as rumored."
Bai Wanrou raised her eyebrows slightly, probably because she felt that she was just an ordinary person, and she was a little curious about those rumors.
But she is always bad at asking these words in front of the Queen Mother, so she can only smile gently, and she should be weak-hearted.
"Yes, the princess is worthy of being the daughter of the Hou Mansion, and her down-to-earth and generous appearance is really cute."
If the Queen Mother said this before, Bai Wanrou was confused but acceptable in her heart, but now it is all an accident.
How honored is it that he can provoke the Queen Mother and the Queen to praise him at the same time?
There was a bit of joy in her smile that couldn't be hidden, and Chen Ruzhi beside her also quietly curled the corners of her mouth in a place she couldn't see.
It seems that he has already acquiesced this praise to his praise for his wife when he is unconscious.
So much so that Chen Ruzhi was a little unconscious when he pressed the corners of his lips.
"Thank you to the Queen Mother and the Queen Mother for their praise, the courtiers are ashamed, but they are still not as good as the Queen Mother's kindness and benevolence and the Queen Mother's motherhood."
When these two praised people, they never thought that Bai Wanrou would praise back, but now they were overjoyed when they heard this, and their faces were full of cheerful smiles.
Such a harmonious and warm scene was interrupted by a sharp word from the eunuch-
"Your Majesty and the noble concubine have arrived!"
Hearing this, the queen's face was obviously stiff, and her smile was a little unbearable.
And the Queen Mother didn't react much, and sat firmly in her chair.
"Yo, my general, it's not easy to see you here today."
After the emperor came in, he first saluted the queen mother, and then joked with Chen Ruzhi, and just skipped Bai Wanrou plainly.
Bai Wanrou was not surprised by this, and there was no loss in her heart.
It was the emperor's favorite concubine, Lin Guifei, whose gaze stayed on Bai Wanrou for a few moments, not thinking about anything in her heart.
After everyone sat down, she spoke leisurely: "I heard that the relationship between the prince and the princess is quite bumpy, and I met the two today, I don't know if I have the honor to listen to your opinions." ”
Bai Wanrou knew that the person who came was not good as soon as she heard it, but at this moment, in front of everyone's eyes, she didn't want to save the face of the concubine, and it was not good to say that Chen Ruzhi was not in front of them.
"I'm afraid that the concubine Niangniang heard it wrong, my wife and I are in love, and it is the wisest thing to do to become a partner, not to mention the ups and downs, even if there is not even a little setback."
Lin Guifei didn't expect such words to come from the mouth of General Chang Sheng, and she was surprised and a little envious.
"I don't think so, it's important for the prince to extend the heirs, and I'm afraid it's not appropriate to come today without bringing a few girls to the room."