"Your Highness!" At the entrance of the Eighth Prince's Mansion, Feng Zhi saw Chu Lan coming out safe and sound. His face was filled with joy. His heart that had been hanging for a long time was finally relieved. After a few more moments, he couldn't help but rush in.
Zhang Qingjiu's smiling figure appeared from behind Chu Lan, "Long time no see."
Feng Zhi's face fell instantly, his eyes fell on her hand holding Chu Lan's sleeve, and he couldn't speak clearly, "Why, why is it you?"
He asked how his Royal Highness, who had always been self-restrained and respectful, suddenly wanted to go to the Eighth Prince's Mansion and go in without waiting for notification. It turned out that this troublemaker was here!
"Why can't it be me?" Zhang Qingjiu blinked and poked half of his head out from behind Chu Lan, with a smile on his face, just shy of the word "proud" engraved on his face.
Feng Zhi wanted to say more, but found that Chu Lan's eyes suddenly darkened. He immediately did not dare to say any more, lowered his head and opened the curtain, "Your Highness, please."
As for Zhang Qingjiu, there was no need to bark. After all, this man was no more agile than a monkey when he climbed onto His Highness the Prince's carriage.
"Your Highness." After the curtain fell, Feng Zhi took a deep breath and lowered his voice, "Shall we go back home?"
After waiting for a while, no objection came.
Feng Zhi gritted his teeth and waved to the groom, "Go back home."
The carriage moved slowly and gradually left the Eighth Prince's Mansion.
As soon as he sat down, Zhang Qingjiu wanted to tug Chu Lan's sleeve again, but found that every time even though he didn't look, he could hide away quietly. He couldn't help but curl his lips secretly.
If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have let go when I got on the carriage.
Chu Lan was holding a half-open book in her hand. It seemed that she had already read half of it when she came. Zhang Qingjiu stepped forward and raised her head, "What are you reading?"
Chu Lan stiffened, moved to the side, slowly put away the book in his hand, and put it aside, "Master Xiao Zhang seems to be very satisfied and happy with today's talk about the Eighth Prince's Mansion?"
Zhang Qingjiu was stunned and looked at Chu Lan with wide eyes. He came and everyone picked him up. How could there be such a duplicitous man?
However, thinking that he came to take her away so carelessly, she would be an adult for the time being, so she could forgive his pettiness.
Ever since, Zhang Qingjiu smiled and blinked, "How could I be happy and satisfied just because I saw him? I'm happy because you came to pick me up."
These words were so explicit that Chu Lan's expression changed slightly and he looked away.
Zhang Qingjiu, however, seemed not to notice anything wrong with this sentence, and continued to speak, with a rather proud tone: "The moment you rushed in, I knew that my visit today was not in vain."
These words seemed to contain no message, but why couldn't Chu Lan understand the meaning behind her words? Her tone was grave, "Since you know that he has ulterior motives, why do you still send him to your door like this?"
Zhang Qingjiu curled his lips and said in a sad tone, "If I don't go, can you come find me?"
"So you put yourself in danger?" Chu Lan took a breath.
For the first time, I lost my words to Zhang Qingjiu and lost my sense of proportion.
But Zhang Qingjiu said seriously: "I'm not putting myself in danger, I'm waiting for you."
Chu Lan's face darkened again.
Zhang Qingjiu accepted it as soon as he saw it, and said with a smile: "I just want to block it to see if I can see you."
After saying that, Zhang Qingjiu lowered his eyes again, rested his head on Chu Lan's shoulder, and rubbed it gently, "I know it was you who called Lu Yan, so don't worry, if you really didn't come, I can do it myself."
fixed."
She was very fast and did not follow the rules at all, so when Chu Lan found out, her arms were already hugged by her.
Chu Lan's body froze again, but she did not move away again.
The corners of her thin, bright red lips pursed, and finally her eyes fell on the brocade box she was still holding tightly. Her eyes sank again, and a trace of disgust flashed in her eyes, "Why are you still holding this box?"
"Huh?" Zhang Qingjiu was startled, raised his head, and blinked eagerly, "You ate a piece, I thought you liked it."
Chu Lan: "..."
Seeing Chu Lan's brows furrowed, Zhang Qingjiu immediately threw the brocade box in his arms out of the window. There was a "snap" sound, the brocade box fell to the ground and cracked, and the contents in the box fell to the floor instantly. .
Zhang Qingjiu clapped his hands and said, "Don't worry, the pastries in this brocade box are fine."
Chu Lan took a deep look at her. Of course he knew that the pastry was fine, otherwise he would not have eaten one in the Eighth Prince's Mansion. But if it was really poisoned, he...
But unexpectedly, Zhang Qingjiu spoke quietly at this moment, "Your Highness, if this pastry is really poisoned, what should you do?"
Chu Lan took a deep breath and said, "Get started."
"I'm sorry." Zhang Qingjiu now had both arms free and simply wrapped them around him.
After a long time, Chu Lan's eyes darkened, and his eyes fell on the face of the woman who was resting on his arm, "Do you know that your quarrel today means that you have completely broken up with your eighth brother?"
"Huh?" Zhang Qingjiu raised his chin and blinked, "Didn't I break up with him a long time ago? Besides, he has such shame, why don't you let him go? If you ask me, His Highness the Crown Prince would break in today. Does the action in the mansion count as a act of anger for a beauty?"
Chu Lan snorted lightly and picked up the books aside again.
Outside the carriage, Feng Zhi's handsome face had turned red from suppressing the pain, and he wished he could plug his ears with something.
When can this Zhang Qingjiu shut up? Or who can stop her mouth? He will really thank her.
"You bastard!" In the Shoukang Palace, Queen Mother Xie slapped the table with her palm, her expression was as ferocious as ever, and she was no longer graceful.
The sudden movement made the eunuchs and maids fall to their knees in fear.
Father-in-law Xi, who had just finished reporting to the Queen Mother, had anxiety and confusion written all over his face at this moment. Although victory was clearly within his grasp, who knew that it would turn out like this in the end?
He waved his hand to let all the maids in the palace go out, and asked others to close the palace door. Then he cautiously stepped forward and stroked the back of Queen Mother Xie, "Don't be angry, Queen Mother, there may be room for maneuver in this matter. "
"Spin?" Empress Dowager Xie's face turned livid, "The Ai family deliberately planned to expose the blessed land chosen by their brother, and let Kuo'er act as a low-key to lure her to the Eighth Prince's Mansion. They even used Kuo'er's descendants as bait. ,Chu Lan dares to ruin the Ai family’s good deeds!”
Seeing the anger on Queen Mother Xie's face, Eunuch Xi sighed in his heart. No wonder the Queen Mother was so angry. She was about to succeed, but ended up falling short. Who can bear this?
But when he thought of the figure holding a big red flower in his hand and telling himself with a smile that the flower was called Bairihong, he had an inexplicable feeling. In this scene at the Prince's Mansion, this matter may not be possible.
But he would never dare to say this.
Queen Mother Xie calmed down for a while, finally exhaled the breath in her throat, sat down and said, "How is the Eighth Prince's Mansion now? Where is that woman?"
Eunuch Xi quickly replied, "Your Highness is currently thinking about who leaked the news. If the news in the palace spread so quickly, there must be a thief. As for the Miss Zhang family, I have asked the imperial doctor to see her. The fetus is fine.
She didn’t take too much,”
"If he can think of this, it doesn't mean he has made no progress at all, but don't forget to ask him to deal with all the servants serving in the flower hall today." Queen Mother Xie nodded.
"Yes." Eunuch Xi narrowed his eyes. How could those servants and slaves have thought that they, who were originally chess pieces, would suddenly become scapegoats?
If a person has no power and power, his life is really worthless.
Just as she was thinking about it, Queen Mother Xie spoke again, "Those two children are very lucky."
Eunuch Xi also smiled, touched his nose and said, "The children of His Highness the Eighth Prince are naturally blessed."
Unexpectedly, when she heard what he said, Queen Mother Xie sneered, with a flash of disdain in her eyes, and half-squinted her eyes, "Blessing? Their greatest blessing is to help Kuo'er before he ascends the throne."
Hearing these words, Eunuch Xi was slightly startled, "What the empress means is..."
Eunuch Xi felt that his speculation was a bit ridiculous. Could it be that the Queen Mother made Zhang Qingcha take abortion pills not just to frame Zhang Qingjiu? But she really planned to abort these two children?
Seeing the astonished look on Eunuch Xi's face, Queen Mother Xie snorted coldly, "You have been with the Ai family for so many years, and a concubine still wants to give birth to the eldest son of our Xie family? The Ai family can still keep them today, but
It’s just that they still have value.”
After hearing this, Eunuch Xi finally understood Queen Mother Xie's plan and felt a little sad for a moment.
So what if these two children had a hard life? If they had known that their mother had used them as bargaining chips in exchange for benefits while they were still in their mother's womb; if they had known that they were disliked by their elders even before they were born, I wonder if they would still be glad that they came to this place.
world.
But he didn't expect that each of the Zhang family's daughters was more powerful than the last. Even though the tiger's poison would not eat its children, Zhang Qingcha would even abandon his own children just to curry favor with the Queen Mother!
"You just said that Chu Lan rushed directly into the Eighth Prince and brought Zhang Qingjiu out?" Now that the matter has come to this, it is useless to worry anymore. Queen Mother Xie thought for a while, and a sneer suddenly appeared at the corner of her mouth.
"Yes." Eunuch Xi nodded, "In public, many people saw it."
"Okay." After hearing this, Queen Mother Xie sighed quietly, and her tone finally softened a bit, "His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is willing to do this for Zhang Qingjiu, which shows that they have a close relationship. But how important the Crown Prince is
With a distinguished status, there are many noble ladies from famous families in the capital, why would you do this to Zhang Qingjiu, who is just an ordinary person?"
"What the Queen Mother means..." Eunuch Xi frowned. He knew what the Queen Mother meant, but the eldest lady of the Zhang family didn't seem to be very talented, right?
"This news must be spread throughout the capital just like Zhang Qingjiu's proposal to marry a rich man." Queen Mother Xie waved her hand, with a strange curve in the corner of her mouth.
Since you dare to ruin the good things of the Aijia, the Aijia will let you make the same mistake again.