Chapter 42
“What? Mourning Home is taking it out on you for King Yu, and you still don’t appreciate it?” The Empress Dowager was somewhat unhappy.
Rong Xiangshi saw to it that she told Wei Mama to leave an empty space there in the bedroom this morning, allowing the Empress’s people to burrow in. The more concubine Yi’s and concubine Xian’s gossip went overboard and reached the Emperor’s ears, the worse Empress Zhang acted, so she could take advantage of it.
However, as a well-behaved granddaughter-in-law, she couldn’t say that, she glanced at King Yuhang and said, ”The Empress Dowager loves Xiangmian as much as she does, and Xiangmian feels it in her heart. It’s just that concubine Xianfei’s mother’s family are all close to the most important ministers, and Xianfei is the seventh brother’s biological mother. If for the purpose of meeting with His Highness in the court of the Liang, but a little bit of the harem of the mouth is a big deal. The Empress Dowager will pretend she didn’t hear it, and will love her grandson and grandson in-law.” Said, performed a big salute.
The Empress Dowager was a bit surprised and sighed lightly. Zhou Xian Yang’s expression was moved, he didn’t care about the rules, he grabbed the Empress Dowager and said, “You don’t have to worry about me, I’m no more incompetent than I am, I won’t let you suffer this kind of aggravation for me.”
The Empress Dowager saw that once Xian Yang encountered the matter of the Princess, he lost his usual dignity, smiled and nodded towards Vice Governor Tang, telling him to go and convey the punishment immediately.
She then signaled Xiangmian to get up and said with a smile, “Good boy, it’s hard to believe that you have the temperament to put Xian Yang first in all matters. It’s just that everything is a matter of reason, and it’s only right that you should be punished for your mistakes! I’m still here, and she still owns the harem. If you don’t give me support at this time, when will you wait? You know how to hold back, which is good, but a step back may not be a wide open sky, but may be the nose on the face. From now on, you don’t have to settle for less, do you hear me?”
Second sister had said similar things earlier, Rong Xiangmian also understood this reasoning. It is her two lifetimes have been stoic, trying to avoid conflict with others, because once conflict, she is unsupported floating weeds, trampled on by others. But the result proved that right and wrong never because of stoicism and avoidance will not find up. Good thing, now she wasn’t facing it alone.
With red eyes, she gratefully looked at her grandchildren, “Many thanks to Empress Dowager, many thanks to Your Highness.”
King Yu reminded, “Still calling the Empress Dowager?”
Rong Xiangmian smiled, “Many thanks to Imperial Grandmother for her affection ……”
After saying that, King Yu came over to hold her hand and said in a low voice, “It’s all because of me that Zhang embarrassed you, I really can’t do right by you.”
Rong Xiangmian didn’t expect him to be so unsuspicious in front of the Empress Dowager and hurriedly pulled his hand out and went over to help the Empress Dowager up. In the Empress Dowager’s snickering eyes, Zhou Xian Yang followed as if nothing had happened, one on the left and one on the right, helping the Empress Dowager to her meal.
The Empress Dowager also urged him, ”You should usually listen to Wangfei’s advice, do everything in the long run, and know how to retreat for advancement when appropriate, don’t be too sharp. To Zhang, face respect is necessary.”
Zhou Xian Yang immediately obliged, “Grandson knows.”
The wine-stuffed pearl rounds made by Xiangyang made the empress dowager’s appetite rare. After a lunch, the old dowager became more and more satisfied with this granddaughter-in-law and ordered twelve treasures to be given to Xiangmian as a way to appease her.
When the Empress Dowager was tired and wanted to take a nap, Zhou Xianyang and Rong Xiangmei left the palace.
On the way back to the palace, Zhou Xianyang observed the princess’s face and said, “The empress dowager is reintroducing the marriage for my sake, so if the empress dowager is concerned, she doesn’t have to bear it, but only blames me.”
Rong Xiangmian hummed softly, “The Empress wishes me to mind, I prefer not to.”
“But what do you really think in your heart?”
Rong Xiangshi laughed, “The empress is doing this for the good of her own grandson, so why should I mind? If I were in that position, I might have done the same thing. Even if Empress Hui loved me so much, if one day she had to choose between the Sixth Princess and me, she would not hesitate to choose the Sixth Princess. Am I supposed to resent Empress Hui? In the end, in this world, only my mother would put me in the most important position in her heart, if I can’t even see through this, then there really is no comfortable day.”
Her expression was bland, and the words she said were cold to the extreme, as if she was impervious to swords and spears, and invulnerable to all poisons.
The more she saw through it, the more Zhou Xian Yang was moved by it, and he knew that since she was young, she had lost the only person who had put her in the most important place in her heart.
He knew that she had lost the only person who had put her in the most important place in his heart since she was young.
Xian Yang holds her hand, “In the future, there will be one more person in this world who will put you in the most important place in his heart.”
Xiang Yang looked at Yu Wang’s hand, attached to his scar, tightly closed in her palm, her heart flushed with faint joy. Even if these were words to coax her to be happy.
She blossomed into a smile, “I wish, I would die right now.”
“What did you say?” Xian Yang felt that this princess’s brain was really different from others. Lei Shi’s comment that she was a demoness was somewhat true.
“Dying when you’re happy, being a ghost is about as happy as a ghost can be.” Rong Xiangmei smiled, her last death was so painful that she had nightmares for so many years. She had been thinking that if she died again in this life, she must die happily.
The way she talks about life and death with a smile is more open-minded and optimistic than the heroes of the battlefield that Zhou Xian Yang has known. The way she talked about life and death with a smile was more open and optimistic than the heroes of the battlefield that Zhou Xianyang had known, and it was a description of a woman like the princess.
Xian Yang couldn’t help but put his arm around her waist and rested it against her forehead, admiring her moving brows and eyes close at hand, his heart filled with unspeakable emotions, “Don’t talk about death, we still have a lot of happy things that we haven’t experienced yet.”
Xian Yang kissed her eyes once more. And then downwards, all the way to the lips, kissing her, very green and reckless.
Seeing each other with a little less shyness from last night, she pulled back a bit, her hand against King Yu’s chest, and whispered, “It’s not like that.”
Zhou Xian Yang knew that he was disliked by the king’s consort, and snapped, not daring to move again.
Xiang Xiang looked at him and felt more and more adorable, taking the initiative to kiss up and guide Zhou Xian Yang with his lips and tongue. He was surprised at first, and then that surprise was immediately thrown out the window. He was a fast learner.
The lip and teeth game that was becoming more and more in tune with each other brought both physical and spiritual pleasure. The two of them embraced each other tightly, and the breathing in the carriage and sedan became more and more rapid and heavy, and the atmosphere became thicker and thicker.
Kisses quickly slid down to the nape of Wangfei’s neck, Zhou Xian Yang continued what he had interrupted last night, greedily capturing every strand of Wangfei’s scent, Wangfei trembled and murmured in his ear, “Your Highness ……”
Somerset instinctively follows the pleasures of the body to sink, until he feels that he and King Yu, are both a little too amorous to restrain themselves, and if he goes on, he doesn’t know what absurdities he’ll make, before he alertly pushes King Yu away, “Your Highness, this is not appropriate.”
“Yes, it’s me who was rude.” Zhou Xian Yang sat back in his seat and took a few deep breaths, still unable to resist a sideways glance at the crown princess. Her cheeks burned scarlet, and her lip beads were full to the brim.
Strange to say, he was never a person who indulged in female color, in the past in Western Qin, or all the way back to the capital, there were quite a few women who offered him in various names, and he never lost control like this.
Rong Xiangmian straightened her slightly disheveled hair, thinking about what the two empresses had instructed her to do today, and said in a low voice, “Your Highness, let’s light the dragon and phoenix red candles once more at night.”
Zhou Xian Yang immediately understood what she was referring to, and a smile spread across the corners of his mouth, “Well, I owe you. I won’t leave even if the sky collapses tonight.”
The crown princess pursed her lips, but her smile overflowed from the corners of her eyes, and even from the slightly jangling bells of her footsteps.
When Linlang assisted the Wangfei to get off the carriage, she felt that something was not quite right: the Wangfei’s eyes were evasive, she did not look at Yuwang, nor did she look at her, and she kept her head down and headed towards the mansion, as if she had done something wrong.