Chapter 188 It's not that I took advantage of King Qi's concubine
"Princess Ruan, I will take care of this old pious woman who is disrespectful to her superiors for you today."
Hua Jin came forward with her shawl in her arms, looked at Princess Ruan with phoenix eyes, and asked thoughtfully,
"Do you have any objections?"
Princess Ruan lowered her head and shook her head hastily. She had no objection. How dare she have an objection in this situation?
"Since you have no objection, please ask Princess Ruan to calm down and listen to me talk to you."
Among the rugged plum branches, Hua Jin slowly walked to Princess Ruan's side,
"First of all, this is the capital of Guqizhou. You and I are both guests of Prince Qi's Mansion. You can't just stay here in the capital of Guqizhou just because Prince Qi is still young and the concubine beside Prince Qi is a widowed woman.
Act wantonly."
"The state has its own laws, and every family has its own rules. Even though you are the princess, the emperor's crimes are the same as those of the common people. I don't need to repeat them to you."
"Not only Princess Ruan's people cannot use lynching in the capital, but also people who belong to King Qi's side concubine cannot use lynching in the capital. Does Princess Ruan understand?"
Princess Ruan nodded hurriedly and glanced at Nanny Yu who had been beaten without any breath outside Meilin. She didn't dare to say, wasn't Hua Jin also using lynching?
Hua Jin also saw Princess Ruan's gaze. She raised her hand, patted Princess Ruan's shoulder, leaned into Princess Ruan's ear, and whispered:
"You know why you can't, but can I? Because I am the law of this Guqi State."
These words made Princess Ruan's eyes widen. She turned her head to look at Hua Jin in shock.
"You, what are you talking about? You are too arrogant. How can you be so arrogant?"
"Why not?"
Hua Jin straightened her shawl with an expressionless face,
"Strong people do not distinguish between men and women. Whether it is in the North or in Guqi Prefecture, whatever I say is what I say. What's more, the old pious woman next to you should be executed if she contradicts me."
She raised her hand, and the shawl wrapped around her wrist fluttered in the breeze, and Hua Jin said lightly again:
"It just so happens that King Ruan has come to Guqi Prefecture. This time Princess Ruan will go back to Hushan County with King Ruan, and I will not accompany you."
When Princess Ruan heard this, she trembled and said:
"But, the storytellers in the capital of Gu Banner Prefecture are all telling rumors about my concubine and Prince Ruan's palace."
"That's because Princess Ruan spread the rumor herself, so someone went to tell it first."
Hua Jin snorted coldly, led Tianxiang and others away, and said,
"I didn't do anything, I just let the rumors spread on their own. Before releasing lies, Princess Ruan should understand that public opinion is a scourge, and those who take advantage of public opinion will turn against them."
In this matter, Hua Jin did nothing. She even took the entire Prince Qi's palace to listen to the stories told by several storytellers.
Because of her indulgence and lack of restraint, and even showed interest in Yu Jiajia's romantic affair, the storyteller became more and more bold.
When public opinion is not clearly and effectively controlled, it will spiral out of control.
This truth will be understood by future generations.
Look at the celebrities who were on trending searches before the end of the world. After one scandal is exposed, countless scandals will follow.
In the end, public opinion could not be controlled and developed in an unfavorable direction.
Princess Ruan's attempt to use public opinion to put pressure on Hua Jin is simply stupid.
A group of people gradually left, leaving Princess Ruan standing there, and Nanny Yu who had been beaten to death not far away.
Looking at the body of Nanny Yu, Princess Ruan felt cold all over.
She walked back to her residence top-heavy, and just in time, she met Mrs. Yu coming out.
"I heard that Prince Ruan is here. What's the reason?"
Mrs. Yu wanted to go see her son-in-law, but as soon as she left the house, she met Princess Ruan returning.
Seeing that Princess Ruan didn't speak, Mrs. Yu reached out eagerly and held Princess Ruan's arm.
"What's wrong with you? Prince Ruan is here, why didn't you go to accompany him? Why did he suddenly come to Prince Qi's Mansion?"
Princess Ruan finally came back to her senses, her absent-minded eyes regained focus, she looked at Mrs. Yu and cried "Wow",
"Aniang, Aniang, I can't live anymore. My road, my road has been blocked. I really can't live anymore."
She could not use lynching to kill those storytellers in Guqi Prefecture. The rumors would only spread and become more exaggerated. However, if she ignored these rumors, Prince Ruan was now at Prince Qi's palace again.
King Ruan will hear these rumors sooner or later, and when the time comes to blame him, Princess Ruan will have to skin her skin even if she doesn't die.
So now, how could she still be in the mood to find out why Prince Ruan came to Prince Qi's Mansion?
Mrs. Yu brought the crying Princess Ruan back to the house. When she asked the reason, she became anxious.
I saw Mrs. Yu walking around the house,
"Is there no royal law in this? That little Princess Li, why did she beat our old servant of the Yu family to death? Doesn't she have no royal law in her heart?"
The problem is a bit tricky. This is different from what Mrs. Yu imagined. Before she came to Prince Qi's Mansion, she thought that Hua Jin was the kind of woman who was not loved by her husband. As long as the Yu family spent some money, they would definitely make Yu Jiajia the queen of Prince Li.
concubine.
As a result, this flower brocade turned out to be so fierce.
Mrs. Yu was rare and timid at this time. She thought for a long time before saying to Princess Ruan:
"For the current plan, we can only cover Prince Ruan's ears and eyes so that he doesn't know what's going on outside. We must first protect your position as Princess Ruan."
Princess Ruan, whose face was full of tears, asked without any idea:
"How to cover the prince's ears and eyes? This is not a matter of a day or two, this is a matter of a long time."
"Transfer all the people around him who should be serving him, and replace them all with our people first, and wait until we return to Hushan County."
Mrs. Yu said, sitting next to Princess Ruan, holding one of her hands and saying distressedly:
"Son, our Yu family's century-old wealth depends not only on the wealth accumulated by our ancestors, but also because our Yu family has people in the court. Now Jiajia is getting more and more precarious. You must not get into trouble, you Ruan
The position of princess must be taken to the end."
At least, until another princess comes out of the Yu family, Princess Ruan's position must not be lost.
Otherwise, who will protect the glory of the Yu family?
A family that is rich but without any influence will be surrounded by tigers and wolves in a matter of minutes, and no bones will be left.
From this point of view, Yu Jiajia must also marry into Prince Li's Mansion. The powerful Prince Li's Mansion can at least preserve the wealth of the Yu family for decades to come.
Princess Ruan cried and nodded, "It's all up to my mother-in-law."
However, the mother and daughter planned well. They only waited for King Ruan to come over and then replaced all the people around King Ruan.
But that night, King Ruan did not come to Princess Ruan. Princess Ruan sent people to ask several times, but King Ruan was still talking to King Xiao Li.
Hua Jin also asked Hua Jin, but Hua Jin was not worried about whether Li Yunqing would go back to the room. She only thought that she had eaten and washed before going to bed.
Late at night, in a daze, Hua Jin felt like she was being held in a warm embrace.
The ever-burning lamp outside the tent burned all night long, casting a vague and warm light into the tent. Hua Jin closed her eyes, turned over, and buried her cheek in Li Yunqing's broad arms.
"what time is it?"
"Um?"
There was confusion in Li Yunqing's low voice, but he didn't understand.
So Hua Jin lazily changed her words,
"What time is it?"
"Go to sleep, it's still early before Mao hour."
Mao Shi is the time for going to court, and Li Yunqing is accustomed to using this time as the time line for getting up.
Hua Jin asked again with a thick nasal voice:
"Why are you back again? Aren't you still angry?"
The man was heartbroken. Li Yunqing was so angry when he left last time, but this time he came back and slept with her in his arms. It was really hard to figure out.
Suddenly, Hua Jin's waist was pinched hard by the man's big hand, and Li Yunqing's annoyed voice came from above her head,
"No matter how angry I am, I should sleep with you in my arms. I still have to sleep with you in my arms."
Besides, when had he been angry with her for more than twenty-four hours? How often had she not made him half angry to death, and not long after, he obediently returned to her and continued to be angry?
Thinking of how she was angry with him after he and Hua Jin got together, Li Yunqing felt itchy with hatred and wanted to bite the woman in his arms.
His big hands pinched her waist, and Hua Jin snorted softly. Unusually, she did not play with Li Yunqing like before, but just nestled obediently in Li Yunqing's arms, like a lazy cat.
This made Li Yunqing suddenly feel something was wrong. He lowered his head, pinched Hua Jin's chin with his long fingers, raised her face, and asked under the dim warm light:
"What's wrong? You're so obedient all of a sudden. What happened to you?"
"without."
Hua Jin fluttered her long eyelashes, stretched out her white and tender hands, took Li Yunqing's hand holding her chin, gently took it away, and buried her face back in Li Yunqing's arms.
A very strange feeling suddenly arose in her heart. She felt that this man's embrace was so warm and so broad.
She just curled up in his arms without saying anything, asking nothing, or caring about anything, just like an animal that had been wandering for a long time and finally found a dry and warm nest.
She was so lazy that she didn't want to do anything.
Sensing her change, Li Yunqing's heart tightened, and his worry revealed great joy. He stretched out his arms to hug the little woman in his arms, protecting her in his arms, and explained to himself:
"This time, King Ruan came to Guqi Prefecture. I have been paying attention to King Ruan's movements. He came to Guqi Prefecture in person to see me."
"Well, why do I see you?"
Hua Jin was drowsy, listening to everything.
"Sun Guogong made Hushan County so miserable that all ten houses in Hushan County were empty, and almost all the people in the capital were gone. King Ruan had no choice but to write to the imperial capital, hoping that the imperial capital would take care of Sun Guogong, but the imperial capital had no choice. He
We can only come to Guqi Prefecture in person to seek help from this king."
Li Yunqing had already prepared for this matter.
After all, considering the entire Tianjing Kingdom's military strength, I'm afraid they won't be able to find a team that they want to fight Sun Guogong head-on.
Not even the imperial army can take action.
All the king's armies are not much different from the original Qi King's army. When combined, they may not even be able to defeat Huajin's city defense army.
Then let alone fight Sun Guogong to the death.
But leaving Sun Guogong alone was not a problem. Originally, Li Yunqing only restrained the army of 300,000 soldiers. When Sun Guogong finished Hushan County, tens of thousands of strong men were captured by him.
Now Sun Guogong's army has another 350,000 soldiers.
But the entire Hushan County has become destitute for the people.
Hua Jin yawned and asked lazily:
"Isn't the Yu family also in Hushan County? How is the Yu family?"
"Except for Yujia Village, all the Yu family's businesses in Hushan County have been shut down."
Li Yunqing said that King Ruan also told him this matter. King Ruan originally lived in the clouds and was not so sensitive to the situation in Hushan County. However, when the money supplied by the Yu family to Prince Ruan's palace was cut off, he himself became increasingly stretched.
Prince Ruan's Mansion could no longer let him stay, so he simply took his servants to Guqi Prefecture. In name, he wanted to seek help from King Xiao Li, but in fact, he probably came to Guqi Prefecture to take refuge and annex him to fight the autumn wind.
When Hua Jin mentioned the words "beating the autumn wind", she couldn't help but sneer.
"Prince Ruan is such a big man, and he is really embarrassed. Prince Qi's residence only has Tian Xiang and a pair of children. Now he and Princess Ruan both live in Prince Qi's residence, and all the food and clothing expenses belong to Prince Qi's residence. This
It’s just bullying Tianxiang’s orphan and widowed mother.”
Li Yunqing smiled and rubbed Hua Jin's slender waist,
"Then I have never paid a single gold or silver to Prince Qi's Mansion. Now that I and the princess are living together in Prince Qi's Mansion, aren't I taking advantage of Prince Qi's side concubine?"
"How is that the same? Now all the expenses of Prince Qi's Mansion still come from me."
Hua Jin slapped Li Yunqing softly. He was asking questions knowingly. Now she is the actual person in charge of Guqi Prefecture. When the tax revenue of Guqi Prefecture comes up, she must first go to Huajin's household department and register before allocating money to her.
Add fragrance to mother and son.
The money allocated also provided additional food and clothing for everyone in Prince Li's Mansion, and many more were given.
So Hua Jin and Prince Li's Mansion live here, and Princess Ruan lives here with Prince Ruan's Mansion, which are different in nature.
"Well, my princess is the most sensible."
There was a hint of doting flattery in Li Yunqing's voice. He kissed Hua Jin's smooth forehead and said in a hoarse voice:
"Go to sleep, you are tired too, my husband will hold you to sleep."
At this moment, he is not a prince, nor is he Li Yunqing, he is just her husband-in-law.
The husband-in-law in a monogamous relationship.
Just like my husband in future generations.
This realization made Hua Jin's heart beat fast, but she was too sleepy, and Li Yunqing's embrace was too warm, so she fell into a deep sleep without realizing it.
When he woke up the next day, Li Yunqing had already gotten up and didn't know what he had done.
Hua Jintui sat up and fell into a trance.
With her vigilance and ability, there was someone beside her unknowingly. It was really unbelievable that she slept with her all night and left quietly early in the morning.
The key issue is that she really fell asleep in Li Yunqing's arms.
"Empress."
Su Niang entered the inner room happily, holding a bowl of pregnancy medicine in her hand.
"My Lady, hurry up and drink it while it's hot. This is a recipe for pregnancy spread from the imperial palace."
She thought that Li Yunqing slept in Hua Jin's room yesterday and something must have happened between the two of them, so before dawn, Su Niang was busy making miscarriage medicine for Hua Jin.
A bitter smell rushed into Hua Jin's nose. She frowned slightly and took the bitter medicine from Su Niang's hand.
"Let it go, I will drink it later."
It’s weird to know how to drink!
Hua Jin didn't explain that much to Su Niang. When Su Niang didn't pay attention, she poured the bowl of pregnancy medicine in her hand into the potted plant beside the bed.
Su Niang was completely unaware and looked relieved as she said to herself,
"It's okay now. As long as the prince is willing to come to the mother-in-law's room a few more times, our little prince will have hope. Oh, I have to prepare some better fabrics quickly. The child's skin is tender, including clothes and hats.
Yeah, shoes, these need to be ready quickly."
She was rambling, but she was afraid that she would forget, so she hurriedly left the inner room to choose fabrics for her children's clothes.
This look full of expectation made Hua Jin couldn't help but shake his head and sigh.
Well... the relationship between her and Li Yunqing is completely innocent. They were just chatting under the quilt last night.
Not only Su Niang had misunderstood something, but everyone in Prince Li's Mansion was very happy. As long as their prince and princess slept together, their little prince would have hope.
Even if the first child is not a little prince, it would be good to give them a little princess.
So everyone in Prince Li's Mansion was beaming with joy, and they were even more energetic than during the Chinese New Year.
Soon, the entire Prince Qi's Mansion also knew that Li Yunqing slept in Hua Jin's room last night.
With a "pop" sound, Yu Jiajia broke a valuable vase, and she screamed in anger,
"Why did the prince go to Hua Jin's place again? She has been deposed by the prince, why is she still seducing the prince?"
The expression on Yu Jiajia's face was changeable. Soon, she ordered the trembling girls in panic,
"Hurry up and make soup for that bitch. Don't let her get pregnant with the prince's flesh and blood. Go quickly!"
Even if the girls were brave enough, they would not dare to give Princess Li the soup.
Everyone wanted to get as far away from this lunatic as Yu Jiajia, so they rushed to leave one after another.
"I'll go make some soup right away."
"My slave, go and see if the Bizi soup is ready."
"Slave, give it to that woman, and that woman will deliver the soup!"
No one dared to call Hua Jin a "bitch", after all, Hua Jin beat Grandma Yu to death just yesterday.
After a while, all the girls in the house were gone.