webnovelfull Chapter 164 Asking for shelter
Chapter 164 Asking for shelter
"Not bad. I'm not saying anything bad about you, Xiao Jue. What's wrong with you? A place as big as Prince Xiao's Mansion can't accommodate a prince like you?" Wen Jiu chuckled twice.
"Isn't that right? Now that their precious son is back, I am redundant, right?" Xiao Jue said calmly.
"Your half-brother is back?" Wen Jiu felt that he was complaining, but was unsure for a moment.
"Yes, so just keep me here for a few hours." Xiao Jue wrung out almost all of her black hair.
"You... forget it, just stay here." Wen Jiu had a lot to ask him, but after thinking about it, he decided to just leave him alone!
Wen Jiu was too lazy to pay attention to him. Her hair was dry, so she lay down on the bed and prepared to sleep for a while. "If I fall asleep, remember to wake me up."
Xiao Jue followed and lay beside her
"Are you sick? Get out of here!" Wen Jiu was angry.
"It's not comfortable to sleep without a bed. Stop making trouble and take a nap." Xiao Jue was obviously very tired, and his eyes were a little bruised.
Kicked him down
"You are so ruthless!" Xiao Jue got up helplessly, found a quilt and slept on the chaise longue covered with mink.
Inside the palace
Chu Yinan had been kneeling outside for several hours. The imperial concubine was furious. Emperor Yuan could not bear to see the imperial concubine get angry, and would not listen to any explanations. He directly made him kneel outside the palace and think of a comprehensive solution.
The scandal has been exposed, and those with ulterior motives will certainly take this opportunity to disrupt the good image he has just established for Yu'er. Now that it has collapsed, the Crown Prince and the Fifth Prince will not let go of the opportunity to suppress Yu'er!
"My beloved concubine, don't be angry. I won't let Yu'er suffer. I have asked Chu Yinan to think of a way to have the best of both worlds. Okay, okay, if you keep getting angry, I will feel bad. I will give you the cloth that you chose as a tribute from the Western Regions in a little while." Emperor Yuan hugged the concubine and coaxed her.
It was obvious that the imperial concubine was not pleased at all by Emperor Yuan. If it were in the past, she would definitely be happy. After all, she made it so obvious that Emperor Yuan did not give in. He only said that it was something that only the empress could use. After all, the ministers, the wives of the clan, and the ladies of the court could not justify it.
Now she is only thinking about how to restore Yu'er's reputation. She wants Yu'er to sit in that high position, and she can't be hypocritical. Qing'er keeps telling her to keep a low profile, but she can still do it even though she has difficulty walking... No one is worry-free.
It's not nice to hear that the brother and sister are together with Chu Tunan and his wife. It's morally wrong and shameful. They are still royals. How can Yu'er gain a foothold in the future?
"Little Li, go ask our Lord Chu if he has come up with a solution?" Emperor Yuan called the butler and asked him to go and ask.
"Yes," Chief Steward Li ran out, stood on Chu Yinan's right and asked, "Sir Chu, the emperor asked me to come out and ask, have you come up with any solution?"
"Manager Li, I just can't think of it..." Chu Yinan's face was pale, and his whole body was trembling, as if he could faint at any time.
With a bang, he fainted. Manager Li hurried forward to shake him, but he didn't respond. He touched him and found that it was too hot.
He hurried to report, "Your Majesty, Lord Chu has fainted due to a fever in the wind."
"Then pour it on him to wake him up. You still have the nerve to faint." The imperial concubine became even more angry when she heard this. A grown man fainted just like that. She didn't even think about the fact that it was the time when the snow was melting and it was also the coldest time of the year. Chu Yinan had been kneeling for several hours...
"Wait a minute," Emperor Yuan called out to Li Zongguan, who was about to leave, "Send him back, wake him up, and come up with a win-win plan."
"Yes, old slave, I'll deliver it right away."
"Humph"
"Okay, my beloved concubine, don't be angry. I was the Chu family not long ago, and I originally kept talents for Yu'er. This matter was at most done by his sister and his brother-in-law. If it really doesn't work, then we can just sentence them to death. Don't be angry, come, let me hug you." Emperor Yuan thought that instead of sentencing them to death, it would be more of a favor to Chu Yinan.
"Master, what happened?" The housekeeper of the Chu Mansion also followed him to the capital.
"We have sent Master Chu back. When he wakes up, remember to tell him that the emperor asked him to find a win-win solution as soon as possible, otherwise..."
"Yes, I've made a note of it. This is some money. It's cold, so you can have some wine to warm yourself up." The butler stuffed a purse into his pocket.
Manager Li weighed it and laughed, "Remember to take good care of Lord Chu. He has a fever after kneeling in the wind for so long."
"Yes, I send you off, Grandpa."
Manager Li waved his hand and had the carriage driven away. He didn't even get off the carriage. Chu Yinan was not worth getting off the carriage to see him off.
"Quick, go get a doctor." Suddenly, the Chu Mansion was in chaos.
Near midnight, Xiao Jue and Wen Jiu both woke up. Wen Jiu asked him jokingly, "You slept well, Prince Xiao."
"Well, that's good. Let's go?" Xiao Jue asked
"If you have something to say, just say it. It's not your usual style to be hesitant." Wen Jiu sensed what he wanted to say, and it was just intuition.
"I don't know. I thought the county lady could tell fortunes. Does the county lady have any business cooperation recently?" Xiao Jue stood up and straightened his clothes after saying this.
"Let's talk about it when we get back from the palace." Wen Jiu obviously doesn't want to talk about work for the time being
"..." Then why ask him?
Wenjiu took out a nightgown and put it on, and threw him a set as well. He had asked Qingfeng to prepare some in the car outside, but this one was very good, and his mood instantly improved.
"Didn't your guards prepare anything for you? Fortunately I did, otherwise you would be exposed." Wen Jiu asked after changing his clothes and covering his face with a scarf.
"My guard is a fool, but I'm still grateful to the county lady," Xiao Jue said with a guilty conscience.
At this time, the breeze that came in early outside sneezed, and he muttered in his heart: I won’t catch a cold! I have to ask the master to increase the monthly salary. It’s too cold. Why don’t you come out?
"Go, go."
The two of them bypassed the night patrol servants of the General's Mansion, jumped up, got into the carriage at the door, and headed straight for the palace. When they were less than 200 meters away from the palace, they let Qingfeng go back.
"No, we can get here with our lightness skills. Why did you let him ride in a carriage?" Wen Jiu was speechless.
"Don't worry, no one is following us. We have already checked one route." Xiao Jue always knew that she was rigorous.
"Be careful when you go back, and take a detour when you return home, so that no one will follow you."
"Yes, Crown Princess... uh, County Princess" seeing Wen Jiu's face, she quickly changed her words
"Don't come with me next time..." Wen Jiu directly explained to him that if his actions tonight really encountered a force more powerful than theirs, he would be exposed, and even Xiao Qing'er's stroke would be blamed on her. Xiao Jue's disagreement with her might also make him suspected by Emperor Yuan, and he could even accuse them of assassination.
"Don't worry, there won't be anyone else next time. I know you're a serious person, but trust me, I won't do anything I'm not sure of. This road has been cleared by my people, so you can rest assured. Besides, it's just an ordinary carriage with no logo, and we're masked, so no one will recognize us," Xiao Jue explained patiently.
I don't bother to say more about warming the wine for the "last time"