Doting on concubines and destroying wives? I don’t want to be the mistress of the Hou clan anymore.

Gu Zhao was stunned for a moment, then smiled bitterly.

Lin Miaofu realized that she had said something wrong and said: "I'm not a good person either. Do you know how the Heli book came about? He put a knife on Liang Yuqi's neck, forced him to write it, and used favors , let you help me make it happen."

"No one in this world is innocent, and no one is pure and kind. I understand all this." Lin Miaofu lowered her head and said, "I just hope that we can be people with a bottom line in our hearts."

"I know." Gu Zhao said, "Don't worry, at least now I am a person with a bottom line."

What Gu Zhao said meant something, and his bottom line was about to be touched.

Lin Miaofu wanted to say something else, but she didn't know how to say it.

"You go to bed early, I'll go back first."

Gu Zhao raised his hand and wanted to touch her head, but he felt a little embarrassed and took his hand back.

As soon as he returned to the inn, the prince sent someone to invite him.

"What's going on with you?" The prince said with a dark face, "One is drunk, and the other almost stayed up all night. Did you forget that my father will be driving back to the palace early in the morning?"

"What happened?"

Gu Zhao was a little upset. He and Chen Jue were just two idle nobles, just helping the prince with things. The prince had to decide the specific matters.

The trip back to the palace has been arranged for a long time. There is not much difference between the two of them being there or not.

"It's okay, it's just that my father asked about it at night, and my sister covered it for you two."

The prince looked at Gu Zhao, but without waiting for his reply, he sighed, patted his shoulder and said, "Even if I don't tell you about this, you may hear it from other people tomorrow."

"Duke Yongyi asked to see my father in the afternoon and wanted to ask for the seventh princess for Gu Sheng, but my father did not agree for the time being."

What happened in Duke Yongyi's mansion was really huge. Both the princes, nobles and the common people knew something about it. The difference was whether they knew more or less.

There are also folk scripts based on this.

"Don't blame your father. How can father and son have an overnight feud?"

The prince didn't know how to comfort people, so he only had these dry words.

"Don't worry, Your Highness, I won't stop him. He should be nice to Gu Sheng. After all, my mother is gone, so he will be the only one to take care of the meeting." A sarcastic smile appeared on Gu Zhao's face.

As long as Gu Zhao remains the heir, even if Gu Xicheng marries the princess himself, Gu Zhao will not be afraid of him.

The prince scratched his head. He felt that as a royal, he had never encountered so many bad things.

The harem has always been peaceful, except for a sister who loves to tease her and has not yet gotten married, everything else is pretty good.

"Don't worry, no matter what, Gu Sheng should not get past you." The prince sighed: "If it were not your marriage but Mrs. Jiang's last wish, I really feel that that woman's life experience is not worthy of you. "

Seeing Gu Zhao's face getting darker and darker, the prince felt that he might have said the wrong thing again, and hurriedly added: "But since the imperial sister values ​​him so much, he must have some merits. Since you will also be able to play with each other in the future, Ming, you are better than me, and you haven’t even seen the Crown Princess until now.”

The last sentence was quite resentful.

At this moment, Gu Zhao actually felt that the prince was quite pitiful.

The prince patted Gu Zhao on the shoulder, sighed, and asked him to rest early.

When the emperor returned to the palace early the next morning, the people knelt on both sides of the road and hundreds of officials greeted him in front of the Xuande Hall. This was the end of his trip to Xiangshan.

On Nanxiang Street, not long after Li's shop opened, several vegetable sellers were sitting in front of her house chatting.

They were all talking about the emperor's return to Luan in the morning. "Oh, Mrs. Li, it's such a pity that you didn't go see it. It's so majestic."

The girl surnamed Li was raised in the outer room by the consort, and she opened a candied fruit shop. Because she was kind, she got along very well with the neighbors.

She took a small stool and sat at the door picking vegetables, while chatting with the women selling vegetables.

"Really? That's a pity. It's rare for the emperor to return to the court."

As soon as these words came out, those few people who saw it started talking.

They described the excitement of the scene and the majesty of the emperor.

After talking for a long time, a woman seemed to have remembered something and said to Mrs. Li: "Speaking of which, I also saw the second princess and her consort. The consort was riding next to the princess's carriage. I saw He looks a little familiar."

"Really? Aren't you a scholar living in your house?"

Someone said jokingly.

Others should follow suit.

"When you say that, it looks familiar to me. Maybe I've seen him somewhere before. I heard that the consort often comes to our place, saying he's here to buy some peonies."

"Peony?"

"I heard from the person next to me that the second princess liked peonies very much, so the prince-in-law traveled thousands of miles to find flower seeds and gardeners for him... In short, he was very good to the second princess."

"Wait a minute, I just thought about it carefully. That prince-in-law also looks like Madam Li's husband."

The prince-in-law always takes the opportunity to help the princess find flower seeds and settles down outside.

Only in this way can he preserve his reputation as a miserably in love with the princess and be able to get along with his wife.

In the past, when he and the princess traveled together, he would accompany her in the sedan chair, but today, His Royal Highness arranged a horse for him, which was seen by almost everyone in the city.

"When you say that, it sounds a bit like it."

"How is this possible? My man is in Yangzhou now?"

Several women were chatting and laughing, but none of them took this matter seriously.

After all, he was a high-ranking prince-in-law, so how could he be neighbors with fighting commoners like them?

Only Mrs. Li remembered it in her heart.

In the past, she would not have believed it, but now that she has established a firm foothold in the capital, the store she runs has signature products, and she has money on hand, she wants to stop her husband from running a business.

However, the husband did not want to.

He never took him to meet her business partners, and would only rest at home for three to five days before leaving.

And he also has a very strong peony fragrance.

Madam Li did not live in the capital before, but in the suburbs. There were many farmers there who specialized in cultivating famous flowers and varieties for a living. Madam Li could naturally smell the fragrance of peonies.

Just because I could smell it all year round, I thought it was my husband's own fragrance and never thought about it elsewhere.

But now, I feel like there might be another explanation.

After listening to the gossip among the women for a while, customers began to arrive in the shop one after another, and she got busy with business.