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Chapter 24
The thoughts in her heart kept spinning, and she asked calmly, "Why did the princess say that?"
Princess Le'an said with deep meaning: "It's up to Miss Shen whether you believe it or not." After these words, Princess Le'an's gorgeous skirt drew a beautiful arc, turned her head and walked towards the prison.
Seeing that the princess was gone, Qing Zhu walked over and said: "Miss, the princess is gone, let's go too."
Jiayu stood where she was, but did not hear Qingzhu's voice.
Qing Zhu called out twice more: "Miss, Miss."
Jiayu's out-of-focus eyes fell on Qingzhu's body, and it took a moment to recover and said: "Qingzhu, what are you talking about?" She was very absent-minded.
"Miss, we should go." Qingzhu looked at her carefully, and couldn't help but asked with concern, "Miss, what did Princess Le An say?"
Jiayu paused and said, "I just said some nasty things."
Seeing that she didn't want to say more, Qingzhu didn't ask any more questions.
The two got into the carriage, and after half an hour, the two returned to the Shen family's mansion.
Jiayu couldn't hold it back anymore, and waited for Shen Qi'an to go home after he got off duty and went to insinuate, seeing that he didn't know anything about what Princess Le'an said.
She calmed down a bit. Although her elder brother has no real power, he is still a marquis and has a wide range of friends. He has no news about this kind of thing, which means that few people know about it.
At the first hearing today, she was fascinated by Princess Le An, but after thinking about it carefully, there is actually a problem.If the crown prince was not born to King Ping, how about the resemblance in appearance between the two, the crown prince is clearly picking on the strengths of Princess Ping and King Ping.
But despite thinking this way, she was still worried, and asked Qingzhu to send a letter to the small house in the south of the city.
On the third day, received a reply letter from the prince, and we will meet in Linjianyue two days later.
During this period, Prince Ping's son took Xue Xiuxiu to the Imperial Mausoleum, and on the day they left, Jiayu also went to Prince Ping's mansion to see Princess Ping, but Princess Ping did not want to see her and her mother.
Upon hearing this, Mrs. Shen reluctantly took Jiayu back to Shen's house.
In a blink of an eye, it was time to meet the prince that day, Jiayu took Qingzhu and went out early to the Moon Tea House in the forest.The summer was hard to end, she went early, but when she arrived, she found that the prince had already arrived.
"Why did His Highness come so early?" Jiayu asked.
"It's just a few steps ahead of you." The prince looked at her and said, now that the summer is getting longer and the temperature is scorching hot, when he goes out in the morning and is exposed to the sun, his whole body will feel hot. He poured a glass of sour plum soup with ice for her, "Xiao Xiaohot."
Jiayu sat down on the drum stool, took a sip of sour plum soup, the cold sweet and sour liquid slipped into her throat, Jiayu immediately felt much better, and she said to the prince again: "Thank you."
The prince waved his hand: "You said you have something to tell Gu, what is it?"
Jiayu raised her head while holding the slightly cool sour plum tea, "When I met Princess Le'an that day, she said something to me, she must have lied to me, but His Royal Highness still needs to know.What do you plan to do."
The prince's eyes flashed: "What is it?"
She looked around and saw that the doors and windows were closed tightly, and the guards in the green bamboo forest had retreated, so she approached the prince and lowered her voice, "She said..."
She paused, seeming a little embarrassed to speak.
The prince asked: "What?"
Jiayu gritted her teeth and said, "She said that His Highness is not King Ping's biological son."
After she finished speaking, she saw that the prince's expression did not change in the slightest. She couldn't grasp what he was thinking for a while, and added: "His Royal Highness and King Heping have similar appearances. How could it be like what the princess said, but the servants are worried that the princess will set a trap.I want to frame His Highness."
Seeing the worry on her face, the prince's eyes flashed with deep meaning, and he said with a smile: "Apart from this, did Le'an say anything else?"
Jiayu looked at the smiling face of the prince, and the words "Aren't you afraid that the prince will be jealous" flashed across her mind, and she immediately turned her eyes away: "No."
The prince hummed, and asked curiously, "Jiayu, how did you meet Le'an."
"I'm going," she replied for a while, subconsciously raised her head to look at the prince, saw the prince's normal expression, and replied, "I went to visit Prince Ping's son in the prison, and I happened to meet Princess Le'an at the gate of the prison."
As she spoke, her gaze fell firmly on the prince.
Seeing that the Prince's expression did not change in any way, Jiayu was completely relieved.
"That's how it is, I know." The prince said, "I will draw attention to Princess Le'an."
Jiayu nodded and said: "Since the crown prince knows, that's fine." Then, Jiayu thought of another question, and asked with a frown, "What happened to Princess Le'an and Mr. Li Heyang?"
She still remembers that it was Li Heyang who targeted her in the first place.
It's just that after a while, she didn't hear any news about the marriage between Li Heyang and Princess Le'an. Even if Li Heyang didn't want to, according to Princess Le'an's temperament, it stands to reason that Li Heyang should have been blocked long ago.There are no rumors about the two of them.
"Are you still concerned about Li Heyang?" The prince's voice became slightly colder.
Jiayu took a sip of sour plum drink and said, "It's strange why I didn't hear about the princess and Li Heyang."
Seeing that Princess Le'an and Li Heyang jointly spoke about her, and there was no sad news about the spring, the prince's mood improved again, and he said softly, "Your Majesty does not agree with Le'an marrying Li Heyang. You also know that,Ping Le's personality is changeable, moody and angry, he likes Li Heyang, but he doesn't like it much, now His Majesty not only disagrees, but also his health is not very good, Le An didn't mention it any more."
Jiayu was a little strange and said: "Li Heyang comes from a family with good literary talents and looks, how could His Majesty disagree." Although Li Heyang could not be regarded as the best bachelor in the imperial city, he still belonged to the first-class echelon, and everything was not bad..
"Do you think everything about him is fine?" the prince asked with raised eyebrows.
Jiayu nodded immediately: "Isn't it?" As she spoke, a pair of watery almond eyes stared straight at the prince.
The jealousy in the prince's heart did not show, and he said lightly: "You see too superficially. Your Majesty does not agree to the marriage. It must be that there is something hidden in Li Heyang that you don't know about."
"Really?" Jiayu didn't quite believe it.
Although she didn't meet Li Heyang very often, after getting to know him better, he was indeed a very nice person.
"Of course it is." The prince said affirmatively, "If it's what you think, why doesn't His Majesty agree to marry Le An to him? Le An is not young now, and His Majesty has no plans to use her to get married or win over courtiers."
Jiayu glanced at the prince. The prince was right in one aspect. As the only daughter of His Majesty, the future consort must be selected from thousands of choices. Maybe there is something about Li Heyang that His Majesty is not satisfied with.
It's just that she really felt that Li Heyang was not very picky, so she said, "Perhaps it's because His Majesty has too high demands on the son-in-law, not necessarily that there is something wrong with Mr. Li."
The prince clenched his fists tightly: "Maybe so, anyway, Li Heyang has nothing to do with you and me."
Jiayu didn't understand the deep meaning of the crown prince's words, so she nodded immediately and asked, "Has your Majesty's attitude towards His Majesty changed?"
In the first two years when the crown prince became His Majesty's son, she was not in the capital, but she also heard that the relationship between the crown prince and His Majesty was relatively harmonious.When he went to the paddock last time, His Majesty's attitude was quite gentle, but the prince has encountered these things recently, and don't know if His Majesty has any other thoughts.
His eyes fell on Jiayu's face and said: "It's no different from before, but recently His Majesty is planning to choose a princess for Gu."
"Crown Princess?" Jiayu's eyes lit up. If His Majesty intends to choose a Crown Princess for the Crown Prince, it means that His Majesty has no intention of abolishing the Crown Prince. It is very likely that His Majesty does not know what Princess Le An said, and it is very likely thatShe made it up to trick her.Thinking of it this way, Jiayu's mood improved a lot, and she even asked enthusiastically, "Does Your Highness have a girl he likes?"
Now that she is in a better mood, she can't avoid asking a few more questions, not to mention that this is not her marriage, and there is nothing she should be ashamed of.
Seeing her laughing at Yan Yan, the crown prince said in a low voice, "I don't have any girls I like."
Jiayu frowned, the prince is almost twenty years old now, but it's normal that he doesn't have a girl he likes, he has a lot of things to do.As long as he has a girl who is suitable for him, he can ask His Majesty to marry him. If he doesn't have one, he can just choose a good-looking princess, but what to do if he doesn't like it in life in the future.
This is his life's event, and she hopes he won't make do with it.
So Jiayu said: "Then did your Majesty tell you which girls are good?" She looked very concerned about his marriage.
"Choose a few," the crown prince said to Jiayu, "the second daughter of Prime Minister Liu, the youngest daughter of Duke Ding, and the eldest daughter of General Xiaoqi."
Jiayu had heard the names of these girls, they were all good-looking, talented and well-educated noble girls in the capital, who could afford the post of princess and concubine, and their father and brother were both important and powerful people.
It seems that His Majesty is not very wary of the prince, Jiayu's heart is settled again.
"Since Your Majesty has a general candidate, Your Highness might as well get in touch with them more. For His Highness's lifelong event, it is best to choose a girl you like." Of course, it doesn't matter if you can't choose for a while, he is the crown prince, side concubine LiangdiWith all the rest left, if you meet a girl you like in the future, it won't be a big deal to be included in the East Palace.
The prince lowered his head and laughed twice: "Cousin is very concerned about Gu's life-long affairs."