By the time Yu Shuyue returned to her house, it was already the beginning of Haichu.
Qi Xiuyao originally wanted to go back to the house with her so that she could explain the reason why she came back like this, but Yu Shuyue was afraid that she drove him back in the end.
She came back so late and was fooling around with him, even though they were doing business.
But that matter couldn't be brought to light. He hadn't even thought about how to explain her late return to his father and brother.
"Ah Yue, why did you come back so late?"
Sure enough, Yu Shuyue had just entered the house, and she was faced with Yu's father, who had a stern look on his face, and the anxious expression in his brows had just faded, and Yu Hengyue strode up to her with a sullen face, checking whether she was injured with a straight face.
"Ayue..."
"Uncle, it was Xiu Yao who took A Yue to do some errands. He accidentally delayed A Yue for a while and sent A Yue back so late. It's Xiu Yao's fault. Please don't blame A Yue, uncle."
Just when Yu Shuyue was beating her heart and was about to come up with the excuse she had just thought of, Qi Xiuyao's voice suddenly sounded far away and closer. The next moment, Hua An was pushing him in the wheelchair and stopped beside her.
Yu Shuyue saw that he actually came in, still in a wheelchair, and suddenly there was a trace of doubt on her face.
Another reason why she didn't let him come in with her just now was because she didn't see his wheelchair.
He continued to pretend for so long after his leg healed. She didn't want him to be exposed because of her. Although there was no one outside at night, it was better to be careful about this kind of thing.
I just didn't expect that he would suddenly change into a wheelchair and enter the house so grandly.
"I have met His Highness the Crown Prince."
When the Yu family father and son saw him coming, they bowed first.
Qi Xiuyao had already greeted Father Yu before setting off. Otherwise, Father Yu would have been unable to sit still and go look for his daughter in person according to his father's eagerness to love his daughter.
He didn't expect it would take so long. He thought his daughter had already separated from the prince, and she came home late because of her own fun.
"I feel more at ease if I am with the prince. I just hope that your highness will pay attention to the time next time. After all, Ah Yue is still a girl who has not left the court."
"It's Xiu Yao's fault, it won't happen next time."
Although Father Yu had always been very satisfied with his daughter's marriage to the prince, he still asked her to spend the whole day with the prince alone before she left the court.
No matter what he was thinking, he was unhappy.
The same goes for Yu Hengyue on the side.
He could pester Kong Qing all day long, but if the same situation happened to his sister, he, the elder brother, would feel sore and uncomfortable in his heart, feeling all sorts of uncomfortable.
He doesn't even look good when he looks at Qi Xiuyao now.
At this moment, he and Qi Xiuyao no longer had a relationship between monarch and minister, nor did they have any friendship. They only had this person who would take their sister away from them in the future.
Thinking of this, he didn't want to see Qi Xiuyao even more. He directly curled his lips and pulled Ah Yue to his side, while asking if she was injured or cold.
"Brother, I'm fine."
In fact, Yu Shuyue felt very guilty. If she hadn't slept on the carriage for several hours, she probably wouldn't have come back so late.
Now she can only watch Qi Xiuyao being misunderstood by his father and brother, making him suffer this injustice, and she will repay him someday.
After all, if she told him now that she slept in Qi Xiuyao's carriage for several hours, their current situation might be even worse.
So now I can only feel sorry for him.
Yu Shuyue glanced at him apologetically, Qi Xiuyao curled up his lips slightly, continued to chat with Yu's father about other things, and then apologized again and left.
The matter was revealed in this way. In the following time, as the weather became more and more freezing, Yu Shuyue rarely went out.
She spent most of the time lying on her round, furry neck in front of the charcoal fire to keep warm.
As for what Qi Xiuyao said in the cave stone room last time, she didn't take it to heart.
After all, Huairang is an elusive and enlightened monk who has lived for hundreds of years and has profound magical powers. How can they find it if they want to?
And if she remembered correctly, in the ten years before Kong Qing appeared, Prime Minister Gu spent a lot of time looking for a master to cure his grandson's illness.
He has found nothing for more than ten years, which is enough to prove that if Huairang had not been willing to show up, no matter how hard they searched, they would have found nothing.
Until the whole cold winter passed and spring came quietly, she once again received the second imperial edict in her life.
"Miss, why does the Holy Master want you to go to Xunyang City with the Crown Prince? This Xunyang City is located in the southwest of Daqi and is known for being infested with poisonous insects and wild beasts. Why are you and the Crown Prince asked to go somewhere?"
Shaoyao and Ziyuan complained dissatisfiedly while helping their lady pack things.
The emperor really thought about this place, how could he let a weak woman go to such a wild place?
"Didn't you hear what was mentioned in the imperial edict? One is to enhance my relationship with His Highness, and the other is to accompany Your Highness to Xunyang to put down the rogue bandits."
After Yu Shuyue said this, she gently twitched the corners of her mouth, her eyes filled with darkness.
It is said that a tiger's poison cannot eat its seeds, but this saying does not seem to be suitable in the house of an emperor.
After all, in order to compete for imperial power since ancient times, emperors have often killed their fathers, brothers, and sons. This is not new.
But Yu Shuyue didn't expect that the emperor would let her go with him. It seemed that he was going to use her to warn her father.
Otherwise, there would be no reason to send her and the prince to Xunyang at this time. There are obviously more ways to deal with Qi Xiuyao.
She only had less than half a year to get her haircut, and it was time for her to marry the prince.
At this time, the emperor asked her to develop a relationship with the prince before marriage, in the name of allowing them to form an enviable couple.
But his real purpose is intriguing.
Father Yu was not a fool. Of course he knew that the emperor might attack the prince and his daughter during his trip. He thought about resisting the decree and also went to the emperor.
But the emperor was determined. Apart from telling him to go down and get ready with an ugly look on his face, for the time being he could only show the anger in his heart but not at all on his face.
The emperor's actions also completely exhausted Father Yu's loyalty to him.
It would be no problem to take back his military power or let him retire as a retired soldier.
But if he kills both of his children, there will be very little left in Father Yu's heart of the rule of king and minister.
Little did the emperor know that what he thought was killing two birds with one stone was just shooting himself in the foot.
After hunting geese all day long, he was pecked blind by geese.