Chapter 96

Zhou Xian Yang was stunned, not expecting her to be so blunt on such an occasion.

“Your Highness?” Rong Xiangzhi asked again.

Looking directly into her eyes, Zhou Xian Yang suddenly realized many things.

In the beginning, it wasn’t for the sake of the Emperor, to preserve the face of the Eldest Princess and Wen Zhongqing. That was just his grand excuse.

Is he in the city temple, polo field will be on each other fell in love. She always had an inexplicable attraction for him.

He liked Aimi, not because she looked like anyone. Otherwise how to explain his eyes in front of this pair of similar, never had a similar feeling.

Just he can’t answer like this, otherwise Rong Xiangzhi this temper, still don’t know how will make up her sister.

He said: “Proposal? Do you mean to enjoy the happiness of all, or give up that person who was willing to marry me when I had nothing? I can’t do it.”

Rong Xiangzhi smiled bitterly with pathos: “Xiangmian good fortune, blame me, not as good a life as fourth sister.”

“Third girl, isn’t the marriage to the Eldest Princess’ House something that you and your mother went through a lot of trouble to get? You should be very satisfied with it.”

Rong Xiangzhi didn’t realize that he knew about the Mansion’s affairs, and busily said, “That’s because my mother only gave birth to one, and I couldn’t leave my mother behind to marry far away! I have bitter feelings.”

“Now that you’ve gotten the marriage you wanted, glory and wealth, and stayed in the capital, and Zhongqing is good to you, what exactly are you dissatisfied with?”

Rong Xiangzhi shed a few more tears, “Although Zhongqing is good, he can only be good to me where the Princess can’t see him. I asked him to talk to you, but he only brought back the word ‘avoiding suspicion’. Avoiding suspicion, avoiding what suspicion? The Empress Dowager and His Majesty are coming to the Jing Yi Yuan, and the whole family is going to receive them, and the second sister is going, but I can’t go, so what will outsiders say about me? I’ll be disgraced.”

Zhou Xian Yang did not think about it, but from her point of view, it was indeed disgraceful.

Rong Xiangzhi immediately added, “If there is a dispatch, I will do whatever I can, I didn’t ask you to say this, if you are really a gentleman of your word, you should find a way to fulfill your promise, and let Xiangyang see the next posting, to block the mouth of the Eldest Princess.”

Her eager appearance only felt strange in Zhou Xian Yang’s eyes. After returning to the capital and counting, this was only the second time he had spoken to Rong Xiangshi alone. He realized that he didn’t actually count himself as knowing her, let alone understanding her.

He shook his head and said, ”Third girl, I owe you, but Xiangshi doesn’t owe you anything, I won’t force her to do anything for the sake of my own promises. You can call me a villain or a scoundrel all you want, I’m sorry.”

He turned around to leave, only to hear Rong Xiangmian’s voice come out, “Third sister, it is my younger sister who is not well thought out. I’ll borrow Imperial Uncle’s study and give you an invitation.”

After saying that, Rong Xiangmian quickly left. Zhou Xian Yang did not know how much of what she had just said she had heard, and was busy following up to explain.

Without taking a few steps Sun Mingyue stopped him and threw him a blank stare, then sneered at Rong Xiangshi and said, “Shameless!”

“What did you say?” Rong Xiangzhi had never been given such heavy words since she was a child, and immediately stomped her feet and cried anxiously.

Zhou Xian Yang also got angry, and was not polite to Sun Mingyue: “Princess Yoon, be careful with your words, we were just chatting about the banquet at the Jing Yi Garden, how can you call it shameless in your eyes? Then what do you mean by pulling me like this?”

Sun Mingyue had just pulled on King Yu’s arm in her haste, which she hurriedly shook off.

Although they were both married men and women, and there was no need for their words and actions to be as strict as they were in the boudoir, it would be difficult to let someone with a heart see and gossip about them for a few moments.

“I mean her!” Sun Mingyue is also not a soft and docile temperament, pointing at Rong Xiangzhi and saying bluntly, “When Xiangmian had an accident in the palace, she clearly saw it, and saw her own sister die to save her, and now she has the face to ask for any post?”

This matter of the heart was suddenly poked and prodded, Rong Xiangzhi instantly panicked, busy crying: “What are you talking about? To denigrate me like this without proof?”

“Denigrate?” Sun Mingyue grunted, “When Xiangmian was detained in the palace by the Empress’s people, Feiyun ran out to report the news, and her fingernails were tipped over. When she begged you bitterly, weren’t you the one who pretended not to recognize her and had those palace men lock her up as a crazy woman? You reckoned that those lackeys were all executed, and with no evidence of death, you denied it?”

Feiyun’s hand injury was known to Zhou Xian Yang. Now, it all made sense. The external version of what happened to Xiangmai had been that she had fallen hard, and now that she saw Rong Xiangzhi’s panicked appearance, she knew that what Sun Mingyue had said was true.

After Sun Mingyue scolded Rong Xiangzhi, she tried her best to fight back, and questioned Zhou Xianyang loudly, “King Yu, Xiangmian grew up in the palace, and she has always been respectful to the Empress, never disrespectful, so why did the Empress want to harm her for a good reason? It’s not because she hates you! You’ve caused her to suffer so much, and you don’t feel sorry for her, but you still have the nerve to treat an outsider with ‘nothing but respect’, what kind of reasoning is that?”

Zhou Xian Yang’s heart is already guilty, listening to her say this is even more ashamed, and have no time to explain to her, pulling his legs and ran in the direction of the King of Jin, asking him where the study is, where the princess is.

Jin Wang has sent a girl to lead Rong Xiang see to the study, waiting for her to study ink. At this moment, I don’t know that Yu Wang is anxious, but also pulled him to look at these two extremely rare ginkgo trees, talking about how much effort he wasted, from where in the mountains to transport out and so on.

Zhou Xian Yang was able to finish perfuming his royal uncle and immediately rushed to the study, sending Fei Xue out to keep watch, and walked over to Wang Fei: “Listen to my explanation.”

Rong Xiangmian was so angry that her organs were burning like fire, her pen was unstructured and her words were written crookedly. She kneaded the ruined paper into a ball and slammed it hard on Zhou Xian Yang: “Explain what? Explaining your ‘if there is a dispatch, I will do whatever I can’? Since His Highness does nothing to Third Sister, I am His Highness’s wife, so naturally I should be a husband and a wife, and do nothing to her, at her beck and call.”

“You don’t have to gamble like this.” Zhou Xian Yang pressed his hand on the ink stone and refused to move it away.

Rong Xiangyan laughed coldly, “You’re also too difficult to serve. It’s not right for me to place an invitation, it’s not right for me not to, what do you want me to do to be satisfied!”

“I just need you to listen to me!”

“Good, my concubine is all ears!” Rong Xiangmian threw away his pen and leaned back in his chair with an exasperated sigh.

“These eight words are just wanting to repay her for her favor back then, it’s not for any kind of male-female affair ah.”

Seeing that Rong Xiangshi did not retort and was willing to listen to him, Zhou Xian Yang immediately explained, “Back then, mother was deposed and all the palace’s close servants were executed. The Emperor didn’t see me, nor was I allowed to see my mother, and sent me to Yonghua Palace to be Shufei’s son. Later, he even hid my mother from me and sent her out of the palace, so that we were not allowed to see each other for the rest of our lives.

At that time, I had no idea how to live. That day, when I was trapped in the palace, it was your third sister who helped me out, and even gave me good advice to help me out, so that I could pull myself together and know where to go. If it wasn’t for her, I might have died a long time ago.

If it wasn’t for her, I wouldn’t have lasted for many years in Western Qin, and I wouldn’t have had the days in Yuhuangfu today. When I met your family at the City God Temple during the Lantern Festival, I took the opportunity to thank her and said that I would do whatever she asked me to do. I just hope that if she has any difficulties in the future, I will be able to do something for her and repay her favor.”

When Rong Xiangmian heard this, he didn’t feel half as good, and smiled bitterly, “When someone pulls you out of a desperate situation, how can this favor be forgotten? No wonder Your Highness has been thinking of her for so many years, carrying her things around for so many years, and can’t forget her in your drunken dreams.”

Zhou Xian Yang’s heart stuttered, “You still can’t forget that incident.”

Rong Xiangyang looked sulky: “If I were to call out another man’s name in my drunken dreams, could Your Highness pretend to live with me without any hard feelings!”

“Can’t.” Zhou Xian Yang thought to himself that he was not that broad-minded.

“Precisely! What Your Highness can’t do, is it possible for me to do?” Rong Xiangyan took a deep breath and displayed a decent smile, “Your Highness, take your hand away. I’ve come to help you repay the favor! If it wasn’t for her, there wouldn’t be the glory that I have today as Consort Yu!”

Rong Xiangmian opened his hand, gathered his emotions, and rewrote an invitation. As the group of people took their leave from the Jin Wang Mansion, they handed it to Rong Xiangshi’s maid with flying snow.

Wen Zhongqing did not know what just happened, Rong Xiangshi face and hide extremely well, he stupidly laughed: “Mother and Wangfei really sisterly love, thank you Yu Wangfei.”

These four words, nowadays sound extraordinarily ironic.

Rong Xiangzhi ignored it and took the invitation, as if he had won a trophy, and said to Rong Xiangmian, “Many thanks to fourth sister. The whole family will be there on that day, it will be very lively.”

Rong Xiangmian turns around expressionlessly.

Rong Xiangshi even thanked King Yu, but he only stared at Xiangshi and did not look at the bystanders one more time in the slightest.

After resigning from each residence, Rong Xiangmian walks to the carriage side of Yü Wang’s residence, Xiao Bei is already waiting here, she instructs, “Xiao Bei, bring your master a horse, he doesn’t ride in the carriage.”

“When did I say I won’t ride in the carriage?” Zhou Xian Yang pulled her hand behind her, resisting being arranged.

Rong Xiangyang vigorously shook it off, “I don’t want to see you! If you want to get in the car, I’ll ride a horse!”

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Jing Yi Yuan pick up the driver on the day to say open everything, this before some necessary padding~