Chapter 204 Peony
Chu Jingqi said, "The Pei family betrayed the prince and wanted to marry the Lu family. Of course I have to do this for the prince."
Being insulted on the street was a great humiliation to the Pei family. How could the Pei family be willing to work for the Lu family in the future?
Prince Lu originally wanted to marry the head of Danhua County and marry the Prince of Yu County, but now because of that scandal, he had to marry the notorious Pei Yajing.
After marriage, he would think of that scandal every time he saw Pei Yajing, and the bone-gnawing hatred would follow him for the rest of his life.
How could he be willing to be nice to Pei Yajing?
This is the most powerful plan of the sinister Chu Jingqi.
The marriage between the Lu family and the Pei family made them unable to share the same mind, and they hated each other with their own evil intentions.
This is the most brilliant part of Chu Jingqi's plan.
To plot against the enemy, you must spare no effort to do it thoroughly, so that even if the opponent gets an advantage, he still loses a piece of flesh.
Later, Xia Zihan found out that the prince was a good friend of Chu Jingqi, and Chu Jingqi would go to the palace to spend a few days with him every month.
The queen also particularly liked Chu Jingqi.
At night, when Xia Zihan was lying alone in bed, he would think of the tragic death of Chu Jingqi in his previous life.
Since he had such a good relationship with the Crown Prince and Queen, why did the Crown Prince and Queen Mao not save him at that time, or was it that both the Crown Prince and the Queen were forced by Concubine Lu and had no time to save him?
Xia Zihan tossed and turned for a long time, and finally thought that it seemed that the court was in chaos within a few days of Chu Jingqi's death, and then the prince and queen died.
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After Song Huai applied for the imperial examination, he turned his back on the outside world and fell into crazy reading.
He didn't return from the college until two days before the exam. He planned to go home to rest his head and body for two days, and then go back to the three-day exam with full energy.
Bang...
As the carriage passed through the street, it suddenly made a sharp turn and knocked over a vegetable stall. The vegetables were scattered all over the floor and the carriage stopped.
Song Huai, who was catching up on his sleep, accidentally hit his head on the car, and a big bump immediately formed on the back of his head.
He touched the painful area, grinned, and glared at Shu Zhen with a ferocious expression as if he wanted to eat someone, "Go down and see what's going on?"
Shu Zhen went down tremblingly, and soon came up again, "Your Majesty, a little girl suddenly jumped out of the alley, and was almost trampled to death by a horse. The driver became anxious, turned the horse's head, and knocked over a seller on the roadside. Vegetable stall.”
The stall was knocked over and the vegetables were trampled to pieces. The man selling vegetables angrily dragged the driver and demanded money from the people on the carriage.
A large circle of people watching the excitement suddenly gathered around.
After Shu Zhen went down to see this, she was worried that these troubles would delay the prince's return home to rest.
You must know how important the next three days of exams are to the Crown Prince. Although they are not as stressful as others taking the No. 1 Scholar exam, during those three days, the Crown Prince will also have to stay in a small room to eat, sleep and live in the same way. Even Izuku had to deal with it inside.
He felt very nervous just thinking about the tense and oppressive atmosphere of being restrained, let alone the prince having to experience it personally.
Therefore, these two days of rest are also very important to the prince.
If you don’t get enough rest, it will affect your mood during the exam.
Without saying a word, Shu Zhen took out two taels of silver and gave it to the man selling vegetables.
The food in that stall was only worth one or two eighty cents in total. Now that he had lost two taels of silver, the man quickly let go of the driver, took the silver, and went to clean up the stall with a smile.
Seeing that there was nothing more to watch, the people watching the excitement dispersed.
After Shu Zhen got on the carriage, the coachman whipped his whip and was about to drive the carriage away. The little girl who was running for her life suddenly climbed onto the carriage. Before the coachman could drive her out, she got into the carriage.
Song Huai was asking about Shu Zhen when he saw a girl rushing in. Without saying a word, she knelt down and begged, "Young master, please save the slave family. Please, the slave family kowtows to you."
The girl is only twelve or thirteen years old. She is wearing a pink dress that reaches the floor. Her slender waist is tied with a jade belt, which shows her fair skin that is not too tight and can be broken with a finger. She is charming and graceful, and her eyes are filled with water. , but full of fear and pleading, looking at Chu Chu touching, pitiful.
Song Huai, who had never seen such a beautiful girl before, was distracted for a moment when he saw her face clearly, and he stared at her blankly.
It wasn't until she begged again that Song Huai came back to his senses.
Seeing how pitifully she was crying, Song Huai couldn't help but reach out to help her up, "Girl, please stop crying. If you have any difficulties or grievances, please tell me. Maybe I can help you."
"Slave... my family's name is Mudan... Young Master, please, take my family away, slave..."
Before she could finish her words, there was a commotion outside the carriage.
Peony's expression instantly turned as pale as paper, and her frightened little hands held on to Song Huai's sleeves like a man in the sea pulling a piece of driftwood.
Song Huai felt her fingertips trembling slightly, and a trace of pity rose in his heart. He couldn't help but stretched out his hand to pull Mudan into his arms, let her sit on his lap, then hugged her and comforted her gently, "Don't be afraid, I'm here."
Then he told Shu Zhen to go down and see what was going on.
Shu Zhen glanced at the woman in the prince's arms, hesitated for a moment, and finally got out of the carriage. Only Song Huai and Mu Dan were left in the carriage. Seeing that Mudan was very scared, Song Huai hugged her tighter and said with a soft smile, "You are Mudan from Xinghualou, right? I've heard of you, don't worry, I'll take care of everything." At the worst, he could just buy her some money to redeem her life.
Peony is the famous star of Xinghua Tower. He heard her classmates talk about her, saying that she was the most beautiful woman in the capital, and she was even more beautiful than a fairy.
Not only that, she was also good at playing chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry, embroidery, dancing and singing. She was a rare talented woman, and many men fell under her pomegranate skirt.
It's a pity that before she got haircut, the madam didn't allow her to receive customers in order to increase her status. However, her reputation was already popular in the capital due to the madam's deliberate publicity.
On weekdays, Mudan just drinks, plays the piano, and dances with others, and makes those ghosts so fascinated that they forget about food and drinks. As soon as they see her, they want to knock her down and eat her.
This time, someone offered a big price to bloom peonies. Under the temptation of the money, the madam happily agreed.
Tonight, Peony will pick up guests.
But Mudan had made a secret agreement with the old bustard before accepting guests until she was old enough, but the old bustard went back on her promise. Mudan was very angry and wanted to run away.
When she broke into the carriage and called herself Peony, Song Huai immediately guessed her identity.
In the past, he heard his classmates say that she was the most beautiful woman in the capital. He also ridiculed how a lowly woman who sold her body could deserve the title of the most beautiful woman in the capital.
When it comes to beauty, who can be as beautiful as his cousin Chu Yu.
But when he saw her today, he realized that Peony was called the most beautiful woman in the capital, and she was well deserved.
Although Chu Yu is beautiful, she lacks the charming and enchanting aura that emanates from the bones of Peony.
Outside the carriage, Shu Zhen reported, "Your Majesty, you are the Madam of Xinghua House. The Madam said that it is not impossible for you to protect Miss Peony, as long as..."
"Tell her to go to Xinghua Tower to talk."
Song Huai interrupted Shu Zhen's voice.
He didn't want to talk to the madam about the value of peony in a crowded street. This was an insult to peony and disrespectful to peony.
Song Huai didn't want to wrong the sweetheart in his arms.
Unable to help himself, Song Huai tightened his hands and hugged Mudan's incredibly soft body tightly.
Waves of peony fragrance hit the tip of his nose, making him feel confused and short of breath. He felt an urge to knock down the sweet girl in his arms and give her a good beating.
But he didn't dare to be impulsive, he was afraid of frightening the person in his arms.
This was the first time he hugged a woman.
Only then did he realize that the woman's body was so soft and fragrant that he was reluctant to let go of her.
What exams, what scholars, what Chu Yu, all were thrown out of his mind at this moment.
"Sir." Peony's delicate voice echoed, "You hug me so tightly, I can't breathe."
She moved in his arms, whether unintentionally or on purpose, her delicate buttocks rubbed against his for a few times.
Song Huai, whose face had turned red from being tortured by her, couldn't help but groaned any longer.
A fire was rushing through his body, and he wanted to vent it, but he didn't know what to do. Feeling uncomfortable, he couldn't help but push the person in his arms down with his hands, making her delicate buttocks stick closer to him. .
"Sir." The delicate and soft voice seemed to have an attraction, making him stare at those lips.
"Master, I feel uncomfortable." Mudan twisted her body, "You hugged me too hard."
Unable to suppress the crazy longing in his heart any longer, Song Huai lowered his head and took Cherry's little mouth into his mouth.
Almost instinctively, when Mudan exclaimed, he stuck out his tongue and invaded her mouth, and then, he tasted the most delicious pastry in this time.
Just when the two of them were so entangled that they forgot everything, the carriage stopped at the door of Xinghua Tower, the curtain was opened, and then Song Huai was pushed away with a strong force, and the sweetheart in his arms was snatched away. Gone.
Song Huai came back to his senses and took a closer look. He saw that the person snatching the person was an extremely gorgeously dressed woman in her thirties.
No need to guess, he also knew that this woman was the madam of Xinghua House and the mistress of Peony.
He had seen her when passing by Xinghua Tower with his friends.
The old madam smiled coldly and said, "Master, it's not good for you to be like this. Peony is the number one in our Xinghua House. You took advantage of my Peony without even saying hello. You have to know, My Peony just drinks a glass of wine with someone, which costs two hundred taels of silver. You have stolen my Peony’s first kiss, and I won’t let you go without a thousand taels of silver.”
Song Huai gritted his teeth, got off the carriage and entered Xinghua Tower.
As soon as he walked in, he didn't waste any time and directly asked how much silver it would cost to redeem the peony.
(End of chapter)