The girl wiped the water stains on his chest and collar with a handkerchief. Zhou Zhan grabbed her wrist and took her into his arms. He looked at her with complicated eyes. He reflected in his heart, how did he lose the initiative step by step?
The candlelight just reflected in her cunning eyes, and Zhou Zhan calmed down.
"It's getting late, Princess, please settle down early."
Shen Moran hooked his neck and said with a sweet smile: "Your Highness, aren't you sleeping?"
The two of them were close to each other, and the orchid fragrance lingering on the tip of Shen Moran's nose was vague. After getting used to using a kind of spice, it seemed that even the sweat carried that smell, which was difficult to cover up with other incense.
The woman's charming smile and unique fragrance ignited a fire in the heart. Zhou Zhan was defeated first, picked her up and walked to the bedside, throwing her on the bed.
After only three steps, he was so tired that he leaned on the edge of the bed and panted.
"Ben, I am afraid that my king is weak-minded today..."
Shen Moran said in a long voice, his expression clearly questioning his ability.
Zhou Zhan gritted his teeth and endured it silently. If he hadn't been afraid of being exposed, he would have wanted to teach her how to be a good person now!
"I will go to the study tonight..."
Shen Moran knelt down and sat on the bed, her lowered eyes smiling as she watched him leave the room.
"Bitao!"
Bi Tao and Miss Liang opened the door together and came in.
"Princess, no matter what the prince's health is like, you are getting married today and your husband is not here on the wedding night. If word gets out..."
Shen Moran sat on the bed nonchalantly.
"A husband is his wife's guide. If His Highness wants to leave, I can't stop him. Why don't Ms. Liang go and persuade the prince?"
One sentence sent Ms. Liang back,
"Your Majesty is unwell and is powerless when it comes to matters between men and women. Does Ms. Liang think His Highness's face is not important?"
No matter how unfavored King Zhan is, it still represents the royal face. How dare the Liang family agree to this!
"In this case, the princess will rest early, and the servant will retire."
The person who was in the way exited, and only Shen Moran and Bi Tao were left in the room. She patted the place beside her.
"I'm exhausted after a long day of work. Please stay with me tonight."
Bitao hesitated and said: "This, I'm afraid it's inappropriate..."
Shen Moran lay back on the large bed that could accommodate five or six people, rolled a few times playfully, and flexed his fingers.
"Nothing wrong."
The bed in Prince Zhan's Mansion was big, soft, and smelled very good. Shen Moran buried her head in the pillow. Just now she was deliberately acting with Zhou Zhan, but now she was lying on this bed, and she really had some charming thoughts. .
"Has the princess fallen asleep?"
Zhou Zhan pretended to be comatose all afternoon, and naturally couldn't fall asleep at night. He found it a bit incredible. It was a shame and humiliation for a woman that her husband didn't stay overnight on the wedding night. She wasn't sad or worried, so she just fell asleep like this?
"Ms. Liang went in to persuade the princess, but the princess dismissed her with a few words."
Yinyue repeated Shen Moran's original words.
Both the master and the servant felt like they had eaten flies.
"My lord, the princess seems to dislike you..."
Yin Yue's voice was a little weak.
"I know!" Zhou Zhan, who had been tempered for more than ten years, had an inexplicably irritable temper, and his tone was raised a few degrees. He forced himself to endure it and said, "Keep an eye on the people coming from the palace. Please step back first."
Si Yiluo raised his hand and knocked on the door. The master and the servant looked at the door warily.
"Your Highness, it's me."
Si Yiluo didn't want to disturb him at first, but he was worried about Shen Moran and kept paying attention to the situation in Prince Zhan's palace.
She couldn't hide it from Zhou Zhan's spy, so she came to see him first.
"Master Si."
Yin Yue opened the door and let her in, then went out to guard the door.
Zhou Zhan put on a dark red python pattern uniform and stood behind the desk with one hand on the back of the chair and one hand behind his back.
"Why are you here at this time?"
Si Yiluo bowed his hands.
"There are some changes in the court, which need to be discussed with the prince."
Because Gong Xichun's case involved too many, Emperor Yao had always been willing to kill three thousand people by mistake rather than let one go. Si Yiluo was fairly fair, but he arrested a lot of officials. Even if they were in Gong Xichun's case,
He is innocent in the case, but he has more or less other lawsuits against him.
No wonder even Zhou Zhan couldn't help but leave, there were too many vacancies this time.
Zhou Zhan raised his hand to signal her to take a seat, and the two discussed it in the study for a long time.
At the end, Si Yiluo cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, the princess helped the official a lot when she was in the boudoir. I have been busy with official duties these past two days and I have not been able to congratulate you in person. I want to see the princess."
There is a question that has been in Zhou Zhan's mind for a long time. Now that he has decided to trust Si Yiluo, he also tries to treat her as one of his own.
"Between you and the princess..."
He didn't ask after all. The rumors in the market were too vulgar. One was a daughter of the prime minister's house, and the other was a third-rank court official. Those words were so unpleasant that it seemed like someone deliberately made them.
Si Yiluo cupped his hands and said: "Your Highness, don't worry. The relationship between Xiaguan and the Princess is clean. Xiaguan didn't have many friends when he first came to the capital. He happened to save the Princess on the way to Beijing, so he invited her to help take care of the house's internal affairs."
"The princess has worked hard for the past six months, and I want to start well and end well."
Zhou Zhan put aside his worries and nodded in agreement.
Si Yiluo exited, and Yinyue took her to the main courtyard in person.
After changing into a strange environment, neither Shen Moran nor Bitao felt sleepy. Si Yiluo opened the door and came in. Bitao immediately got up from the bed alertly.
"Master Si!"
There was surprise in her tone, Si Yiluo pointed to the door, and Bi Tao tacitly ran out to look at the door.
"Aluo, why are you here?"
Shen Moran's slender waist is looming in the red gauze nightgown, and the girl's figure is soft and charming. No wonder Zhou Yu wants to hide in the study. If any normal man sees her, how can he control her...
What's more, Zhou Zhan is young and full of energy. If he is really pretending to be ill and living alone in the same room with a man and a woman, he will probably get sick after a long time.
"I heard that you are not feeling well tonight. I came over to check on you."
Shen Moran felt that Si Yiluo was her courage, and it was precisely because she protected her all the time that she dared to move forward without any scruples.
"Suddenly I thought of the scene in my previous life when I was poisoned by Zhou Yu during the Queen's Conferment Ceremony. The poison was in the Hexin wine."
No matter how strong her heart is, there are still obstacles that she can't overcome. She is glad that she chose Zhou Zhan. If she experiences Zhou Yu again, she will probably be sick to death.
"Perhaps you can try to trust His Highness King Zhan for once."
Zhou Zhan was suspicious of Guizhong, but he was not indifferent to right from wrong. After several tests, he put Si Yiluo into his own camp and did not hide anything from her. The conversation tonight was very pleasant.
If others tried to persuade her, she would definitely not consider it, but after Si Yiluo tried to persuade her several times, she also thought about what she would do if Zhou Zhan was not really weak.
I can't really kill the king and usurp the throne in the future.
"Okay, I will consider it."
Si Yiluo said no more, he felt relieved after making sure that she was fine. The couple had more ambitions than the other, and Si Yiluo couldn't interfere even if he had intentions.
All good things come hard, marriage is done, and the last step requires the parties involved to work hard on their own.
Shen Moran suddenly became emotional.
"Aluo, I'm already married. Don't hang yourself on Wei Heyan's tree. Either find someone to marry or enjoy your life. I think the ones in your backyard are pretty good..."
Things were not just what Si Yiluo wanted to do. No one in her backyard was worried, and she was afraid that she would choke to death.
"Life is short, just enjoy yourself now, why bother thinking so much?"
"Say no more, I'm leaving."
The night was sultry. After coming out of Prince Zhan's Mansion, Si Yiluo walked on the street.
Shengjing City is very noisy at night.
The lights of thousands of houses were lit up, and the children who were playing wildly outside were told to go home by their parents. In a few days, the Mid-Autumn Festival would be here, and the pipa girls performing in teahouses and taverns also began to play homesick songs.
In several places, music and music linger in the bright moonlight, and tens of thousands of families sing and play music during the Mid-Autumn Festival.