After returning to Siyi Hall, Huayang gave the snow-white silk handkerchief to Chen Jingzong.
Chen Jingzong held the handkerchief and took a few deep sniffs.
Huayang: "Why, you still want to smell your own sweat?"
Chen Jingzong: "I want to smell you. You dislike me so much, is it possible that all your sweat smells good?"
Huayang: "… This handkerchief is still new. I haven't used it once today."
Despite this, Chen Jingzong still smelled her unique faint fragrance on the handkerchief, which was the scent of the bath water she often used.
He folded the handkerchief and put it in his arms.
Huayang: "Didn't you send one before?"
Chen Jingzong: "Are you talking about the love token you gave me on my birthday last year? Since it is a love token, of course I should treasure it and not use it casually."
Huayang looked disgusted: "Who wants to be in love with you? It's just an ordinary handkerchief."
Chen Jingzong: "I don't care. I used to hear people say that a handkerchief given by a woman to a man is a token of love. Apart from my mother, you are the first woman to give me a handkerchief. In my eyes, it is a token of love."
Huayang went straight to the inner room and watched Chaoyun and Chaoyue packing their things.
After lunch, the three couples set off again.
The adults were all fine, but the children were reluctant to leave their parents and stood in front of their grandparents, staring at the carriage that was going away.
Huayang still invited Yu Xiu to ride along.
Watching Yu Xiu looking back at the children reluctantly through the car window, Huayang suddenly remembered the scene of Wanyi and Dalang welcoming Yu Xiu, and also thought of Chen Jingzong's hand that insisted on touching her belly last night.
This guy, could it be that he is jealous of his brothers who have children and is anxious to have a baby too
Before entering the city, Yu Xiu got off the car and was replaced by Chen Jingzong.
Huayang looked at him secretly.
Chen Jingzong: "If you have something to say, just say it. You're sneaking around like a little maid missing her male master."
Huayang didn't expect him to be so perceptive. He skillfully ignored his teasing and asked, "Did you act like that last night because you saw that your eldest and third brothers had children to look after them and you were envious?"
Chen Jingzong looked at her and said, "So what if I'm envious? Are you willing to get pregnant now?"
Huayang was unwilling to do so. She still had a lot of things to do. If she really got pregnant, it would affect her physical movements and she would have to pay more attention to the child.
Not wanting Chen Jingzong to misunderstand, Huayang found a very reasonable excuse, lifted an indistinguishable gap in the curtains, looked at the street and said: "Although I am a princess and noble, I can only wander around in the palace and cannot leave easily. Now that I am married to you, my father and mother can no longer control me every day, so I want to be free for two more years, and when I give up my playfulness, I will have children with you."
Chen Jingzong kept listening with his eyes lowered until she finished her last sentence. Then he raised his eyes, looked at Huayang, and suddenly held him on his lap.
Huayang also looked at him.
Chen Jingzong picked up one of her hands and squeezed it, saying, "It doesn't matter when you want to give birth, three years or five years, three or five. I still say the same thing, as long as the child is mine."
Hua Yang's face was filled with annoyance: "If it's not yours, then whose else could it be? Chen Jingzong, I warn you, you can make other jokes, but if you question my character again, I..."
Before she could finish her words, Chen Jingzong suddenly lowered his head and blocked her mouth.
It's like a white rabbit and a ferocious wolf running in the forest, one unwilling to be captured, the other determined to conquer, they ran and fled, chasing each other, and finally the wolf had the advantage in physical strength, knocked the white rabbit to the ground in the grass, and played with it at will.
After the long kiss, Huayang's cheeks were flushed and his head was dizzy. He had long forgotten what they were arguing about.
Chen Jingzong touched her hot face and said with a smile: "Actually, I don't envy them. If you get pregnant now, won't I have to be a monk for another year? I would rather be a father a few years later, and I want to be happy with you first."
Huayang: …
So he touched her belly for so long, not because he envied the child, but because he was weighing whether or not to let the child affect his happiness
If she had known this, why would she be so soft-hearted? She shouldn't even help him wipe his sweat!
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This time when he returned to Lingzhou City, because Chen Jingzong was busy taking back the military land that had been privately occupied, he often stayed in the guard post for a few nights instead of returning to Ningyuan every night.
Huayang didn't miss him either. She wished Chen Jingzong would only come back two or three times a month so that she could get more good sleep.
In mid-March, Zhou Ji suddenly came to report that Prince Xiang had left the city, and judging from his direction, he should be heading to Taohua Mountain in the eastern suburbs.
Taohua Mountain, as its name suggests, is covered with peach blossoms like clouds every spring. In addition, there is a famous temple, Zhanghua Temple, on the mountain. During seasons like spring and autumn when the climate is pleasant and the scenery is beautiful, Taohua Mountain is always crowded with tourists.
The Prince of Xiang was extremely fond of women. In order to support the beauties he collected, he even built more than twenty pavilions and courtyards.
What the King of Xiang liked most was to take a team of guards and wander around Lingzhou City incognito. Whenever he met a beauty who made his heart beat, he would not ask about her background or identity. In short, no one could surpass him in Lingzhou. So he directly ordered the guards to abduct the beauty to the palace and make the matter a fait accompli. At this time, most of the women would submit to his status as a prince, and from then on they would live in the King of Xiang's villa either willingly or uncomfortably.
Some of the families of these robbed beauties were happy that their daughters had married into a rich family and could help the family to some extent, so they would not care much. Some parents loved their daughters but did not dare to offend a vassal king, so they could only swallow their anger. Occasionally, there would be one or two families who were very stubborn, and the King of Xiang would kill the beauty directly, and then later insist that the beauty seduced him first, and she committed suicide because they could not reach an agreement on the money. This matter could not be explained clearly, and the government could do nothing about it.
In the past, the weather was cold and both dignitaries and ordinary people were reluctant to go out. Now that spring is here and flowers are blooming, it is a good time for young girls to call their friends to enjoy the flowers together.
Although the notoriety of the King of Xiang had spread in the local area long ago, there were always some people who were not cautious enough and felt that such a bad thing would not easily befall them.
Huayang asked Zhou Ji to send people to secretly monitor the movements of Prince Xiang, waiting for this day.
She had also prepared several sets of fine cloth clothes, one for Chaoyun to change into. She wore silk and satin inside to feel comfortable, and a cloth dress outside. She only wore a simple peach wood hairpin on her head, and two pink silk flowers as embellishment, and she disguised herself as a common girl from the folk family.
Chaoyun didn't know what her master was going to do. She just thought that her master was in the mood to go for an outing. Looking at her master in front of her, she smiled and teased, "Princess, you are indeed dressed like a commoner, but how many commoner girls can have skin as white as yours? And me, you asked me to pretend to be your close friend, but to anyone, I am just your little maid."
Huayang: "Stop talking so much. When we're outside, you can only call me by my pseudonym. If you call me by the wrong name once, I'll fine you ten days' salary."
Chao Yun quickly said, "Yes, Ah, Ah Yue."
Huayang's nickname was Panpan, which was taken from "When I was a child, I didn't know the moon, so I called it a white jade plate", which shows the tenderness that Empress Qi had when she was happy to have a daughter.
When going out, Huayang couldn't reveal his real name, so he made up a pseudonym "A Yue" for himself.
After the master and servant finished disguising themselves, they got into the ordinary carriage arranged by Wu Run and set off.
Zhou Ji led fifty guards dressed as ordinary people, and they were distributed in front, behind, left and right of the princess at a certain distance.
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Peach Blossom Mountain.
The whole mountain is covered with peach blossoms. If visitors just want to enjoy the flowers, they can enter the peach forest all over the mountain from many roads. But if they want to burn incense, there is only one road leading to Zhanghua Temple halfway up the mountain.
The King of Xiang specifically followed this road, wandering around on the road and inside the Zhanghua Temple.
He was not stupid. He was afraid that the beauties would be frightened and hide away from him after seeing his large numbers. So the Prince of Xiang ordered the guards in regular clothes to disperse. When he chose a target, he would send a few guards to follow, abduct the person in a place with few people, and take him to the carriage at the foot of the mountain.
The King of Xiang didn't have to pick out the most beautiful women. How many beauties are there in the world? As long as one or two of them impressed the King of Xiang, he would take them. So every time he went out, he would always get four or five women. If they were ordinary in appearance and he got tired of playing with them for a while, he would give them a few taels of silver and send them home. If they were really beautiful or had other things worth his nostalgia, he would keep them for a few more years.
He is almost the same as the emperor who selected concubines in the palace.
The Prince of Xiang was obese, and only when the beauty was hanging on him did he not feel tired, but rather enjoyed it.
When Huayang's master and servant appeared, Prince Xiang had just come down the mountain. His calves were trembling, so he sat down under the shade of a tree to rest.
"My Lord, there is a beauty over there!"
The guard's eyes suddenly lit up, and he pointed into the distance, reminding his master excitedly.
The Prince of Xiang raised his head, and with his eyes narrowed into two lines, he took a casual glance and found the "stunning beauty" that the guard had mentioned.
She was a common girl wearing an ordinary pink embroidered jacket. Her face was so white that it seemed to glow. She looked like a walking piece of jade, or Guanyin who had descended from heaven. She was a beauty who would be spotted at a glance even if she stood in a crowd of thousands.
The Prince of Xiang's eyes were wide open, and he couldn't help but stand up and walked towards the beauty in a daze.
However, before him, a young man in silk clothes came forward to chat with the beauty, but was scolded by a fierce young beauty next to the beauty, so he avoided her.
At this time, the beauty also noticed him.
The Prince of Xiang subconsciously straightened his chest, opened the folding fan in his hand, and fanned it a few times in a self-righteous and dashing manner.
Unexpectedly, a look of deep disgust appeared in the beauty's eyes. She didn't even want to appreciate the peach blossoms and turned away, pulling the little beauty.
Prince Xiang's face changed and he looked around. Several guards strode after the two beauties.
The beauties seemed to sense the danger and began to jog anxiously, but they could not outrun the guards of the Prince of Xiang's Mansion and were surrounded in the blink of an eye.
The guards were only responsible for stopping the beauty and said nothing.
Prince Xiang came over with a lustful look in his eyes, and the two guards spontaneously made way for him and invited their master to enter the encirclement.
The common people passing by formed a larger circle outside. Even if they did not know the King of Xiang, they could tell that he was a rich playboy who intended to tease the women.
"Beauty, what's your name?" The King of Xiang stared at the stunning beauty in front of him. Of course, he was not going to let go of the little beauty next to her, and he would take her back to the palace first.
Huayang didn't want to look at him at all, and said coldly: "Get out of the way."
The King of Xiang laughed: "What if I don't let you?"
Chao Yun stretched out his hands to block the princess and angrily scolded the King of Xiang: "You frog, what do you want to do?"
The King of Xiang really wanted to be nicer to the two beauties, but the little girl started to curse. The King of Xiang was not in a good mood either. He sneered and ordered: "Come here, give me..."
Once he brings them back to the palace, he will have ways to make them surrender.
At the same time, Hua Yang also spoke up, his clear voice filled with anger: "Someone! Stop his mouth and beat him up!"
After these words were spoken, the guards on Prince Xiang's side were stunned, and Prince Xiang was also stunned, as if he didn't understand how the beautiful woman interrupted him.
The next moment, a group of tall and thin young men suddenly surrounded him from all directions. One of them was as fast as the wind. Before the King of Xiang could react, he was kicked to the ground. He first stuffed a ball of rag into his mouth, then took out the whip from his waist and started to whip the King of Xiang, and by the way, he also whipped away several guards from the palace who wanted to rescue the King of Xiang!
"Bold, you know..."
A guard from the palace wanted to reveal the identity of the Prince of Xiang, but he was subdued by the guards from Ning Garden using the same method, gagged and whipped in one go.
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, that's the sound of a whip cutting through the air!
Snap, Snap, Snap. That's the dull sound of the whip hitting the flesh!
The onlookers: …
After a long silence, an old lady with gray hair came out tremblingly and said to Huayang kindly: "Miss, tell your people to stop. This is the King of Xiang. Don't hit him!"
The little girl is now venting her anger by relying on her numbers, but the King of Xiang will take revenge, so she'd better run for her life!
Huayang had a cold face and was obviously still angry.
Chao Yun was surprised and said, "Old lady, you are not mistaken, are you? You said that this bastard who dared to offend the princess is the Prince Xiang of Lingzhou City?"
old lady:…
The King of Xiang, who was rolling on the ground after being beaten, said:…
The people looked at the beautiful woman who was said to be a princess in shock.
Chao Yun continued to ask the old lady: "Take another look, is he really the King of Xiang?"
The old lady stuttered and really looked closely at Prince Xiang's face. During this short period of time when she was trying to identify him, Prince Xiang was whipped seven or eight times by Zhou Ji.
When the old lady nodded, Chaoyun went to report to the princess.
Huayang frowned and continued to watch the King of Xiang being whipped a few times before he said coldly, "Stop it."
Zhou Ji and other guards stopped one after another.
The Prince of Xiang was covered in blood and had a wound on his face, which was swollen.
He cried and howled, pulled out the handkerchief from his mouth, and looked at Huayang in disbelief: "Princess? You are my good niece Huayang?"
Huayang looked at him with great disgust and said, "This princess doesn't have an uncle like you. Come on, go back to the city."
Immediately, a guard drove a carriage through the crowd and stopped in front of the princess.
As soon as the carriage stopped, without waiting for the coachman to get a footstool, a guard knelt down respectfully and used his strong and straight back to serve as a stool for the princess.
The princess with the stunning face entered the carriage in an instant, and no one could see her anymore.
When the princess' carriage left, the people around were still staring blankly in that direction.
Princes were not uncommon in the local area, but today they actually saw a princess, a princess who was born with incomparable beauty and could easily summon dozens of guards and even the princes dared to whip her at will, a real princess!
The people were immersed in the princess's remaining power. The Prince of Xiang was in so much pain that he could not walk. He was lifted up with difficulty by eight guards who had also been whipped, and was carried away like a pig.
People: …
It really feels good!
(End of this chapter)