Zhao Pu rarely smiled sincerely.

But this appearance that seemed to be smiling but not smiling fell in Fang Linyuan's eyes, and it became a naked ridicule.

"You ......" Fang Linyuan's face changed slightly.

Zhao Pu spoke first and interrupted him.

"I promise you." He said. "As long as you do your part, your relatives and clansmen don't have to worry."

When Fang Linyuan heard this, he didn't believe it.

"You have been planning for more than ten years, and what you are trying to do will not be trivial. You don't have to protect yourself, and it's a blessing that you don't drag me down all over the house. He said.

These words fell on Zhao Pu's ears, but they were fresh.

He acted decisively and meticulously, and those who were dragged into the game by him were all dead set on him, and even if they were coerced by him, they did not dare to disrespect him in the slightest.

It was the first time anyone dared to question him so bluntly.

It's also that he knows very little about himself, and apart from his true identity, it's almost a blank.

However, Zhao Pu never likes to talk to people about what to explain. Hearing Fang Linyuan's words, he just laughed, his smile was lazy, like a giant python that easily wrapped people around his siblings.

"So, you have to pray that I can succeed, and I won't be buried with you after I am defeated-"

Looking at Fang Linyuan's eyes, he had some bad taste inexplicably, and added slowly.

"After all, husband and wife are one, you and I should work together." He said.

——

That night, Fang Linyuan reluctantly rested outside for one night, and left the next morning after breakfast.

Early in the morning of the third day, he waited in front of the gate of the house on time.

It is also the custom of returning to the door for three days in the palace, which is the day when the princess returns to the palace to meet the emperor. And in order to show the deep love between husband and wife, and also to thank the emperor for marriage, the concubine usually enters the palace with the princess.

It is a three-quarter hour drive from the Anping Marquis Mansion to enter the palace. In winter, the days are short and the nights are long, and the lanterns in the hands of the nurses reflect the snow on the side of the road.

"Why is Master Hou waiting here?" Seeing Fang Linyuan standing aside, the coachman rubbed his hands and stepped forward to ask. "The wind is so cold, Master Hou might as well go into the house and wait."

If you don't wait here, you have to be in the Huaiyu Pavilion. Compared to Zhao Pu, Fang Linyuan would rather be frozen into an ice sculpture here.

He was wrapped in a mink fur outside his official uniform, and his face did not change: "No need." ”

The coachman admired deeply: "Master Hou is in the prime of life, and he is still so considerate of his wife. ”

Fang Linyuan tilted his head: "You think so?" ”

The coachman said, "Yes! Hou Ye didn't wait inside, wasn't he afraid that his wife would be uncomfortable when she was dressing up! ”

As he spoke, he looked at Fang Linyuan with a pair of eyes with admiration, and Fang Linyuan immediately read the meaning in his eyes-

Careful, I even thought of this!

Fang Linyuan raised the corners of his mouth stiffly and said perfunctorily: "Yes." ”

While the two were talking, footsteps could already be heard behind them. Fang Linyuan turned his head and saw a few small servants holding lamps, and a group of maids surrounded Zhao Pu and walked towards them.

Zhao Pu is wearing a palace costume today, wearing a pearl crown and two golden phoenix hairpins with beads on the crown, shining under the lantern.

What is even more eye-catching than Dongzhu is Zhao Pu's expressionless but beautiful face.

The two of them looked at each other in the air, and Fang Linyuan was feeling awkward, but he saw two threats flashing in Zhao Pu's eyes.

Fang Linyuan's movement to avoid his gaze stopped in place.

Zhao Pu slowly approached, while Fang Linyuan gradually showed a slightly stiff and decent smile.

Walking in front of Fang Linyuan, he bowed his head slightly and saluted, and Fang Linyuan also supported him at the right time and helped him into the carriage.

"Madame beware." Fang Linyuan lowered his eyes.

The candlelight reflects the snow, and the beauties go hand in hand, looking at it from a distance, as if they have entered a painting.

It's just a play with a dummy. Fang Linyuan, who was lowering his eyes, thought indignantly.

With Zhao Pu's skills, it's just a car to get on, do you still need him to help? He perfunctorily pumped up, then sent Zhao Pu to the car, and he also got into the carriage neatly and sat on the other side from a distance.

Seeing him look like a snake and scorpion, Zhao Pu smiled faintly and turned his gaze away.

The carriage moved slowly, followed by the chief maid, and the group headed towards the magnificent imperial city at the end of the road.

——

When the carriage stopped outside the Kaiyang Gate, the sky outside the window was already bright.

The officials in the palace were already waiting in front of the door, and when they saw the carriage stopping, they hurriedly came forward and said with a smile: "Slave maid, please peace Hou'an, please princess Her Royal Highness." The emperor is in the Qingning Palace at the moment, and the special slave maid came to greet the princess. ”

As soon as he waved his hand, an attendant stepped forward to raise the curtain and set up a low stool in front of the car.

The curtain was raised, and it was Fang Linyuan who got out of the car first.

He was dressed in a royal unicorn and a mink coat, and the gold unicorn pattern on the crimson robe shone in the sun. He jumped out of the carriage and turned back with his cloak gently raised, rolling up the snow on the ground.

But he didn't realize it, he only stretched out his hand and held the slender hand that stretched out from the carriage.

Zhao Pu slowly stepped out of the carriage with his support.

The internal official smiled with a smile on his face, his eyes swept over the hands of the two of them without a trace, and bowed his head respectfully.

"I haven't seen the princess for many days, and His Royal Highness's complexion is getting better and better." He smiled and flattered.

saw Zhao Pu lightly look away, and did not agree.

Fang Linyuan swept the expressions of the two of them, and guessed most of the situation.

Zhao Pu has always been famous in the palace, and even the people around the emperor are not pretentious. This father-in-law Fang Linyuan recognized that he was one of the emperor's close attendants, surnamed Huang, and he looked commonplace at this time, presumably accustomed to Zhao Pu's ignorance.

"I'm tired of Gonggong Huang going this way." He responded loudly for Zhao Pu.

Huang Neiguan laughed when he heard this, and while leading the two of them towards the palace, he said with a smile: "Being able to serve the Hou Ye and the princess is a blessing for the slave maid." Your Majesty is worried about the princess, and today I will be relieved to see the princess and the princess with such affection. ”

"Your Majesty is merciful." Fang Linyuan said. "When I entered the palace a few days ago, I heard His Majesty cough twice, I'm afraid it's a cold winter day, but it's all right these days?"

"Hou Ye Lao remembers, Hou Ye just rest assured. It's just that Your Majesty is in charge of state affairs, and sometimes it is inevitable that you can't take care of your own body......"

The two talked happily all the way, and Zhao Pu, who was side by side, looked at each other slightly, which was inevitably a little surprised.

Fang Linyuan's appearance of being able to move with ease and advance and retreat appropriately at this time was really a bit unexpected for him. Even when Fang Cai supported him, his expression and attitude were also gentle and decent, and even an old fox like Huang Wei couldn't see the clues.

Zhao Pu lowered his eyes slightly, and his long and thick eyelashes easily covered the scrutiny in his eyes.

He also saw Fang Linyuan's hand hanging down at his side, hidden in the ermine fur, when he lowered his eyes.

Its fingerbones curled up, pinched and rubbed uncomfortably, like a girl with a soiled dress, annoyed and ashamed.

It was the hand that had just been with him.

Zhao Xuan lowered his eyes and raised his lips slightly.

Still a little breathless. He thought to himself lazily.

——

Fang Linyuan talked with Huang Wei all the way, walked through the wide square in front of the palace gate, and walked in the direction of Qingning Palace.

At this moment, a young man in a fancy costume was followed by several chamberlains, who walked towards the palace gate from the direction of the Wenhua Hall and met them.

The boy was slightly stunned, and even stopped walking.

Zhao Pu raised his eyes and saw the man.

Qu Huajun, the second son of the Ministry of Rites.

Zhao Pu frowned without a trace, and there was undisguised boredom in his eyes.

This person is the companion of the third prince Zhao Jin, who was selected to enter the palace since he was a child, and is one of the followers who grew up with the third prince.

Zhao Jin didn't deal with him since he was a child, and he was looking for trouble with him, and Qu Huajun, the kid, followed him as an accomplice. Who knew that as he got older, this kid stopped coaxing, but his eyes became more and more disgusting.

Until five years ago, Qu Huajun blocked him in the imperial garden after a banquet.

"You still have a year to go, and then I will ask my father to ask the emperor to marry you." He stood in front of Zhao Pu, holding his head high, looking arrogant and proud.

Zhao Xuan frowned, and before he could speak, he heard the kid continue: "It's okay, don't worry, I won't dislike you for being too tall, and I won't dislike your mother for being a wasted queen." It's just that I don't like women who are too cold, and you have to learn to be gentle and obedient from now on. ”

At that time, Zhao Pu glanced at him with mentally handicapped eyes and walked away.

When passing by him, Zhao Pu did not forget to the side of his body, and knocked him into the flowers next to him with one shoulder, rolling his head and face with snow.

But unexpectedly, since then, this kid began to pester him endlessly, and even insisted that his dislike was shy.

It wasn't until his mother died, and he asked himself to keep filial piety for three years, that Qu Huajun stopped for the time being.

Facing his straight eyes, Zhao Pu was sick to his stomach for a while and lowered his eyes.

And Fang Linyuan on the side also saw that person.

He went to the border very early, and the princes and nobles in the capital did not recognize a few, and the person in the distance naturally did not know either.

It's just that the eyes he looked at him seemed to be a little hurt, and a little jealous, as if he had a grudge against him.

The next moment, the man turned his footsteps, and strode towards them, ignoring the obstruction of the attendants behind him.

"Qu Gongzi Wan'an." The man approached, and Huang Wei saluted with a smile on his side. "Gongzi Qu entered the palace again today to accompany His Royal Highness to study?"

Qu Huajun didn't say anything, staring at Fang Linyuan with a pair of eyes.

Surname Qu...... The Ministry of Rites seems to have the surname Qu.

Without waiting for Fang Linyuan to speak, the person in front of him stared at him directly, and sneered: "The Marquis of Anping has returned from a great victory, and he has been married by His Majesty, and now the streets and alleys are all about the beautiful talk between you and the princess, which really makes me envious!" ”

Fang Linyuan was stunned.

Streets and lanes? He just got married, and it caused everyone to talk about it in the streets?

"What did they say?" He asked nervously.

If it is really passed on to the two of them as a pair of immortal couples, then when Zhao Pu's identity is revealed, he will not be able to be a man!

However, Qu Huajun didn't answer him, and the eyes that looked at him were even more resentful.

This kid, who was born as a military general, is still so good at pretending? I asked knowingly, isn't it just to show off in front of me that he married a princess!

Qu Huajun hurriedly looked at Zhao Pu.

Your Royal Highness Princess, you can see that this person is a villain, and he is really not your lover!

However, the princess's watery, glamorous, but cold and ruthless eyes like Guanyin looked at the martial artist intently and quietly.

The mountain lotus that he hadn't picked for many years actually fell into the arms of others.

Qu Huajun's teeth were about to be crushed.

And Fang Linyuan, who didn't get an answer for a while, immediately came back to his senses.

Seeing Qu Huajun's injured eyes staring at Zhao Pu, Fang Linyuan suddenly realized.

It turned out to be because of Zhao Pu, no wonder he looked like he was going to eat people.

Fang Linyuan's gaze was a little more sympathetic.

Brother, it's not necessarily a bad thing that some people don't get married.

If you really want to marry him, you will be hurt even more than you are today.