The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 429 Mother and Son (Part 1)

His tone was like the most gentle whisper in the world, and his eyes were full of affection, but the princess still felt a shudder.

She was frozen there, as if she couldn't say a word.

King Ning caressed her cheek, and said in a low voice: "Linlang, from the day you and this king killed Xiao Heng, you have been unable to pick them clean. Don't you understand this truth?"

The princess's eyes sharpened: "I didn't harm him! It was you! It was you from the beginning to the end! It was you who followed me to the Imperial College...you killed him!"

King Ning raised his hand and stroked the back of her head: "If you hadn't asked him out alone, how could this king have a chance? Admit it, Lin Lang, you were also his accomplice who killed him."

"I'm not! I've never harmed Ah Heng!" The princess reached out to push him, "I don't want to see you, you go!"

King Ning's hand stroking the back of her head suddenly clenched——

"Lin Lang! Lin Lang!"

"Huh? Chunying, why are you here? Where is the Crown Princess? Didn't you go to the Imperial Study with the Crown Princess?"

The prince's doubtful voice was heard not far away.

Immediately afterwards, Chunying replied with a guilty conscience: "Prince Princess..."

The Crown Princess looked at King Ning coldly.

King Ning said fiercely and silently: "You know what to do. Don't provoke me, you can't afford the consequences, Wen Linlang."

He lets go.

The princess staggered and almost fell to the ground.

"what sound?"

Because the distance was too close, the moment King Ning let go of the Crown Princess, the Crown Prince had already walked towards this side, and he saw the pale Crown Princess and the gentle and calm Prince Ning.

He frowned, instinctively he didn't like his woman standing with another man, even if that man was his own brother.

"Brother?" He walked over strangely.

King Ning smiled and said: "Father ordered me to enter the palace to meet him in the imperial study. It happened that the second younger brother and sister came out of the imperial study and ran into him."

So that's the case, the prince secretly thought that he was overthinking, King Ning was his elder brother, even if he wasn't born from the same mother's womb, he was a father after all, and Lin Lang was his younger brother and sister, how could they have anything?

The prince came to the princess's side and held the princess's hand, feeling the coldness of her fingertips, he frowned even tighter: "Why are your hands so cold? Gu Du said that you are injured, and you You can report to Father Emperor after a few days."

"Father entrusted me with the female education,

I should take care of it carefully. "The princess said, feeling the death stare from King Ning, she withdrew the hand held by the prince without a trace, "I'm fine, I'm just a little tired, Your Highness, let's go back. "

After the Moon Festival, the weather seemed to turn cold suddenly, and the wind in the morning and evening brought a bit of autumnal coolness. The prince took off his cloak and put it on the princess, and carefully tied the ribbon for her.

King Ning stared at the two with burning eyes.

The crown princess grabbed the prince's hand, gently took it away, and took the ribbon by herself: "I will do it myself."

"Oh." The prince was a little disappointed, he wanted to do these small things for Lin Lang, but since the elder brother is here, it seems that it is really not good for the two of them to be too tired.

He turned his head to look at King Ning, and the warmth in King Ning's eyes had already returned.

He said: "Brother, we are going back first, since I have summoned you, then go quickly!"

King Ning paused, turned around and looked at the prince who was leaving with the princess in his arms, and said, "Why don't the second brother go with me to see the father, it seems that something happened, and the imperial guards are dispatched."

"Is that so?" the prince hesitated.

King Ning smiled: "Forget it, if you want to accompany the second younger sibling, I'll go see Father Emperor myself."

When he said this, his eyes swept across the face of the princess intentionally or unintentionally.

The Crown Princess felt endless threats, she shook her plain hand, and said to the Crown Prince: "Your Highness, let's go and have a look."

The prince said: "I don't trust you."

The concubine lowered her eyes and said, "With Chunying accompanying my concubine, what worries does Your Highness have?"

In the end, under the persuasion of the princess, the prince still went reluctantly.

It was only after he went that he found out that Xiao Liulang had been captured by an assassin, and his whereabouts were unknown. His father asked King Ning to lead his troops to find someone. Since he also went, his father also gave him a team of troops.

He couldn't go back to the East Palace to accompany Lin Lang in the middle of the night, and had to search Xiao Liulang aimlessly on the street, the prince was so aggrieved!

"Really, it just looks like Xiao Heng, and it's not the real Xiao Heng. Why does the emperor value him so much! And let me, the prince, condescend to find him!"

Xiao Liulang, who was sought so hard by the prince, was lying quietly on Princess Xinyang's bed at the moment, and Gu Jiao replaced him with the last hanging bottle.

It was late at night.

Gu Jiao and Long Yi were quietly guarding him in the room, Gu Jiao was sitting by the bed and Long Yi was sitting on the beam and guarding.

After giving Xiao Liulang a bottle, Gu Jiao fell asleep lying on the edge of the bed unable to resist the drowsiness. Long Yi kept his eyes open all the time, like a sleepless owl.

After an unknown amount of time, the entire Suzaku Avenue fell silent, and only a few people in the room were breathing smoothly.

Suddenly, the door was gently pushed open from the outside.

A pure white embroidered shoe crossed the threshold and landed on the clean as new floor without a sound.

The elegant golden skirt is like a floating lake of gold leaf, slowly passing by.

Xiao Liulang fell into a drowsy sleep, but he didn't have the strength to open his eyes.

Half asleep and half awake, he felt a gentle bare hand on his forehead.

He didn't know whose hand it was, and he didn't know if he was dreaming.

The hand stuck for a while and then left.

When Xiao Liulang opened his eyes completely, he only saw Gu Jiao who had fallen asleep lying beside him.

His hand was held by Gu Jiao, while Gu Jiao's other hand was pressed under her body.

In this posture, no matter what, you can't free your hand to touch his forehead.

So, are you just dreaming?

It was pitch black, and he was only half awake, so he didn't realize where he was for a while. The environment and the atmosphere didn't make him bored, nor did he feel strange.

He pulled the quilt over Gu Jiao's shoulders, took out Gu Jiao's hand that was pressed under her body, closed his eyes, and fell asleep again.

Gu Jiao didn't announce Xiao Liulang's escape for the time being. In her dream, she only knew that someone was plotting against Xiao Liulang, but she didn't know who that person was. What about Rokuro's whereabouts?

As for Princess Xinyang, she didn't seem to have leaked the news about Xiao Liulang.

As the sky was getting brighter, Gu Jiao went back to Bishui Hutong, always wanting to tell her family that she was safe, and along the way, packed up a few sets of Xiao Liulang's clothes.

In fact, it would not be scary if the black hand behind the scenes was found out, but now they are in the open and the enemy is in the dark, so it is hard to guard against.

Gu Jiao has thought about it, Princess Xinyang is safer here, as long as Princess Xinyang doesn't open her mouth to drive them away, she will treat them as a little disgust who didn't see her face.

What Gu Jiao didn't know was that as soon as she left, the Crown Princess came back.

She is here to visit Princess Xinyang, and at the same time, there is one thing she needs to confirm with Princess Xinyang.

Princess Xinyang slept late last night and closed her eyes almost at dawn, but the maids in the courtyard knew the Crown Princess and understood that she was someone Princess Xinyang cared about, so they invited her into the courtyard.

"My maidservant, call Lord Yujin." The little maid said.

The crown princess said: "No need, you go and get busy, I will go find Yujin by myself."

Yujin was drying clothes in the backyard. She was the Home Commander of Princess Xinyang's Mansion, a sixth rank.

Rank six is ​​not a very powerful rank in the capital, but if it is a close confidant of Princess Xinyang, it is another matter.

As long as the crown princess can remember, Yujin has been by Princess Xinyang's side, and she is one of the closest people to Princess Xinyang.

"Lord Yujin." The Crown Princess walked over and greeted her politely.

In Yujin's capacity, there is no need to do this kind of drying work by herself. The crown princess couldn't help but take a look, and then she was stunned.

It was a man's clothes.

There are hidden guards around Princess Xinyang, but the Crown Princess would not think that Yujin would wash clothes for a hidden guard.

"Is Master Hou back?"

The Crown Princess' first reaction was that Xuan Pinghou had returned to Beijing and was here to reunite with Princess Xinyang.

Although the two are not in harmony, they are husband and wife after all. It would not be too strange if Xuan Pinghou came here.

"Ah, no." Yujin shook her head.

For a moment she didn't know how to explain it.

This is Xiao Liulang's clothes.

After thinking and observing all night, Yujin can probably confirm Xiao Liulang's identity, but...the princess hasn't said anything yet, so she can't speak out ahead of time.

Seeing Yujin's difficulty in answering, the crown princess flashed some rumors that she had heard—Princess Xinyang and Xuanpinghou were at odds with her husband and wife, Xuanpinghou was extravagant outside, and Princess Xinyang also...had her own face head.

This is of course just a rumor, the Crown Princess has never believed it, but the clothes of this man...

"Don't get me wrong, it's not the princess, it's...it's me." Yujin decided to take the blame for it herself!

A trace of strong astonishment flashed across the eyes of the Crown Princess.

Yujin cleared her throat and said, "Please ask the princess to keep the secret for me."

The princess came back to her senses. Speaking of which, Lord Yujin is also a strange woman who has never been married. If she was outside, she might be poked in the back, because she is in the princess mansion, and she is protected by Princess Xinyang. , no one dared to embarrass her face to face.

This is a good opportunity to win over Yujin.

The Crown Princess smiled and said, "Lord Yujin, don't worry, I didn't see anything today."

"With the words of the princess, I feel relieved." Yujin laughed uglier than crying.

Princess Xinyang was still sleeping, so she couldn't be disturbed. The princess asked herself that she didn't have such a big face, so she decided to come back another day.

She bid farewell to Yujin, and when she passed by Princess Xinyang's house, there was movement in the house.

She thought it was Princess Xinyang who woke up, and planned to enter the house to pay her respects to Princess Xinyang, but Long Yi who jumped down from the beam firmly blocked the door.