Chapter 313: To Avoid Suspicion
The carriage unhurriedly passes through the flow of people, driving towards the most lively place in the city.
Not much far ahead of the vehicle stopped, the road crowd as over the river carp, dense, apparently the car can not drive. Marquis of Qingyun greeted everyone off, first walked to the teahouse rooms booked long ago, set up a good rendezvous contact location, and only then began to free activities, willing to stay stay, willing to move around on the move. Marquis of Qingyun added a few guards to follow Zhao Su, the emperor did not come, he can also rest assured to meet with Chen Han.
Although the emperor did not arrive as early as expected, Zhao Su did not intend to live up to the time, walk around and linger.
In the palace, because of the emperor’s injury a delay, today’s dinner with a little late. After cleaning up, the moment of leakage has reached the eleventh hour, the moon has also been in the sky.
After Huo Xiu determined that the emperor did not need him to stay, he and Huo Mingyu retired from the palace. Empress Dowager Lu is also ready to go back, leaving Gao Shu and Si Xi to wait on the emperor before leaving. The emperor looks at the palace people surrounding him and says, “Actually, there’s no need to be so solemn, it didn’t hurt my bones, and I’m able to walk around.”
“There is no need to show off with me, should be nourished on the nourishment.”
The Emperor looked at her, “But A Yu is still waiting for me.”
Empress Lu replied smoothly, “If love lasts for a long time, it doesn’t have to last forever and ever. If you really want to see her, why don’t you bring her in?”
The emperor wanted to say something, in the end did not open his mouth, let five blessings to send her out.
Outside the sound can not be heard, the emperor and rushed to the four happy signal: “Dress.”
Four happiness thought to hear wrong: “Emperor you say what?”
“Change, I want to go out of the palace.”
Four happy startled: “Emperor you have a wound in the body, this moment still go out?”
“Of course I have to go.” The emperor stood up, carefully dragging his injured leg towards the inner room, “I promised Ah Yu to accompany her for the festival, how can I not go? It’s late now, if you don’t hurry up, it’ll be too late!”
Although the identity of the noble, but he is not shoulder can not pick hand can not lift, a martial arts practice out, how can not have been injured? The emperor did not take it to heart.
Four happy or dare not make a move: “not small to ask the vegetarian girl into the palace to come, if the empress knows, is afraid of having to pick the skin of the small can not!”
“Less nagging! I can’t speak well anymore?”
The emperor in the curtain bar under a turn back, four happy will have no choice but to hurry up for him to prepare clothes.
The streets outside the palace gates are bustling with activity, clearly a world of peace and joy. Huo Xiu drove the horse, Huo Mingyu rode the car, out of the palace on the road siblings are a little preoccupied, all the way did not say a word.
Until the door into the mansion, Huo Mingyu out of the car, only as if he could not hold back to turn around, asked: “Previously brother and the emperor’s fight I saw, you are quite serious, in accordance with the should not risk distraction, but why would the emperor because of a cat and lose their minds?”
Huo Xiu’s hand slowed down as he handed the horse’s reins out, his eyes gazing at the faint moon color: “I don’t know. I didn’t expect him to react like this. Perhaps it’s because it’s the Empress Dowager’s cat?”
“Big Orange?”
Huo Xiu nods.
Huo Mingyu muses, “But even if it’s the Empress Dowager’s cat, it’s not as important as the Emperor’s own safety and security, and, as usual, the Emperor doesn’t care much about the Empress Dowager’s things, and cares so much about a cat, it really doesn’t seem like the serious and indifferent he was before.”
“Don’t guess the holy will. His Majesty must have his reasons for doing so. And compared to Big Orange, it’s obvious that the Emperor’s injury is more important.” Huo Xiu stares at his eyebrows, “It’s not early, go in. Back to, tomorrow start to go with our good friends of those families to move around, otherwise it will appear that we do not know the etiquette.”
“I know.”
Huo Mingyu follows him through the door and says, “What happened today, well, the Empress Dowager and the Emperor didn’t blame. This time, when I saw the emperor, I felt very different from the past. The atmosphere in the palace seems to be a little different. Brother, do you think I should listen to the Empress Dowager and go to the palace?”
Huo Xiu slowly walks a few steps, then looks down at her, “Do you want to go?”
Huo Mingyu sighs, “The empress dowager loves us so much, and has gone to great lengths to prepare the Palace of Eternal Life for me to live in, so if I don’t go, I’m afraid I won’t know what’s good for me. Furthermore, she’s alone in the harem, so I should go to keep her company. But if I go – I’m just a royal relative, not a real clan member or a member of the Lu family, and now that there is a prospective empress in the court, she is the mistress of the house, and she hasn’t even lived in it yet, and I’m living in the Palace of Eternal Life, so it’s strange and awkward.”
Huo Xiu looked at her face, and said in a warm voice: “Even if you are not a member of the Lu family, you are still a county princess appointed by the late emperor, and it is the Empress Dowager’s decree to let you go in as a companion, so there’s nothing unreasonable about it. But since you have concerns, it’s better to stay at home. You and the Emperor were together as children, and now that you’re older, you should avoid suspicion.”
Huo Mingyu hmms and continues to walk forward.
Huo Xiu raises his lips and touches the top of her head, “Why are you still moping?”
“It’s nothing.”
As the siblings walk further away, it quiets down under the gateway.
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Although it is still only a quasi-Queen, but who dares to be sloppy? If there are a lot of people around, anything that goes wrong is a matter for the royal family. So Qingyun Hou in and Chen Han met after the head, also did not leave Zhao Su how far, always let her stay in their own line of sight.
The middle-aged couple’s street route is also basically the road of shopping and eating.
“Try this, Sister Su has done it twice, it’s delicious, I don’t know how about this.”
Seeing Zhao Su and the girls sitting down in front of the ice powder stall in front of them, Marquis Qing Yun also slowed down his steps and bought a bowl of teppanyaki tofu for Chen Han.
Chen Han took it, tasted a bite, but his brows were not relieved: “This is almost the end of the eleventh hour, the Emperor has not yet come, and has not sent anyone to pass on the message, in the end, what’s going on?”
Marquis Qingyun said: “The emperor comes or does not come, can not withdraw from the marriage? Look at how worried you are, others still think this is worrying about their own daughters.”
Interhan looked at him askance, “You are not mentioning which pot is which pot? Knowing full well that I’ve never given birth.”
Marquis Qingyun paused and immediately punched himself in the mouth, “It’s my mouth. You scolded me.”
Chen Han also just rolled his eyes, then looked at Zhao Su in the distance and ate another mouthful of tofu: “This girl doesn’t know how tormented she is in her heart, and it’s hard for her to still pretend to be this good.”
Marquis Qingyun looked over and asked, “This Yanping county princess and the emperor, in the past there was no entanglement?”
“Entanglement is not heard of, but, on the contrary, after the Empress Dowager raised her to adulthood, the Marquis of Wei Yuan received her to the military camp, this point in time always makes one’s heart think about it.” Chen Han sank his breath, “Although Marquis Wei Yuan’s reasoning at the time was that he only had Yanping Sheriff Lord as his closest relative, and was unwilling to be separated again, but wouldn’t he have wanted his sister to stay in the capital, and let the empress dowager promise her a proper home?”