Pei Luoan got off the carriage and went straight to the study. After sitting down in the study for a while, he asked the eunuch to summon Liu Jingyu.
When Liu Jingyu came over, Pei Luoan's emotions had calmed down. Seeing her coming over to salute, he stretched out his hand and shook it to indicate that she didn't need to salute.
"Your Highness, why did you call me here?" Liu Jingyu asked softly.
"Send a gift to the King of England's palace again. Even if you don't go, the gift cannot be wasted." Pei Luoan ordered.
"Your Highness, if I keep sending gifts to the Prince of England's Palace, will that make people look down on you?" Liu Jingyu raised her eyes and asked.
The Crown Prince is in the East Palace and in the eyes of others, he is superior to all the ministers.
If you repeatedly lose face, people will look down on you.
Pei Luoan glanced at her and said, "Now is not the time to worry about such things."
If it weren't for the matter of the prince born to the Empress, Pei Luoan would not have let Liu Jingyu visit him again. But now he urgently needed someone to support him. Even if Pei Yuanjun didn't express his opinion, he at least had to make it seem like he had a good relationship with Pei Yuanjun.
Pei Yusheng's family was also to blame for the incident involving Princess Ying. Even if he wanted to visit them, he didn't dare to go there too long at this time, lest Pei Yuanjun remember the cause of the incident and get angry with him.
Compared to Pei Yusheng, even if I lost some face here, at least it seems that it has nothing to do with this matter. In the eyes of outsiders, the relationship between me and Pei Yuanjun may be further improved.
The attitudes of the ministers made Pei Luoan feel that it was the most critical moment. At this time, he had to stick closer to the King of England's Palace. It didn't matter whether Pei Yuanjun accepted it or not. At least he could give people such a signal, making people think that the King of England treated him well.
"Should I prepare some medicinal materials?" Liu Jingyu said with a smile.
These are what I sent last time.
"Add some clothes for the British princess." Pei Luoan thought for a while and said, "Don't make it too bright, it's better to keep it light."
"Why?" Liu Jingyu asked puzzledly.
"I see that the clothes of the Princess of England are mostly elegant. She must like this kind of clothes." Pei Luoan said.
The prince actually observed other women's clothes. The implication of his words made Liu Jingyu feel uncomfortable. She had also selected materials before, and the prince happened to be there. She even specifically asked the prince what he thought. At that time, the prince said without raising his head that as long as she liked it, there was no need to ask him.
"Your Highness... After this incident, will Princess Ying still be favored?" Liu Jingyu hesitated for a moment, but still asked.
Pei Luoan frowned irritably: "No matter what the British Princess is like, it will not prevent the East Palace from sending her gifts. As long as she is still the British Palace, giving her a gift is giving the British Palace respect."
If he wanted to get close to the Prince of England's Palace, if it wasn't for Liu Jingyu, he would have to come forward. Compared to Liu Jingyu's face, Pei Luoan felt that his own face was more important. Besides, Pei Yuanjun was not the Princess of England. Who knew when he would be angered and what he would do.
"Why, you don't want to?" Pei Luoan looked up at Liu Jingyu and asked coldly.
Liu Jingyu hurriedly shook her hands, "I dare not. I am just afraid that the King of England will have a problem with the Queen of England. If I get too close to the Queen of England at this time, the King of England will be unhappy."
"The King of England will not care about this kind of thing. This kind of thing has happened, and the Princess of England is ill in bed. As the Crown Princess, you should go and inquire more. Even if you can't go in person, this matter must be handled by someone special. You can't treat the Prince of England's Mansion poorly." Pei Luoan looked at Liu Jingyu and said
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"Yes, Your Highness, I understand." Liu Jingyu said softly.
"There is one more thing..." Pei Luoan coughed softly, picked up the teacup and took a sip before continuing, "Ji Youran... send it to the Ling Anbo Mansion."
After Ji Youran got into trouble, she was thrown into a corner of the East Palace because of the investigation. She has not been buried yet. The weather was hot and there was already a smell. Liu Jingyu had someone put a lot of ice cubes in there, but it still didn't work. He was just about to tell Pei Luoan about this.
It's not good to just leave it like this, we have to find a way to deal with it, and the government has also said that they will no longer come to check...
"Ling Anbo's Mansion wants it?" Liu Jingyu was stunned for a moment. She really didn't expect this.
"I don't want it, but I have to send it over. It won't work if she stays in the East Palace." Pei Luoan said angrily. He got angry when he thought of what Chen Xiang said before. Ji Youran was no longer a member of the East Palace, but he still belonged to the East Palace. No matter how he dealt with her, it was not someone else's turn to take care of her. But someone did, and he had to throw her back to the Ling Anbo Mansion.
Pei Luoan was not reluctant to part with Ji Youran. After all, Ji Youran had been his concubine for a period of time. At that time, everyone knew her good reputation as the concubine of the Eastern Palace. Now she was dead and was sent back to the Ling Anbo Mansion. What did this mean? Did she not get married yet
How can he, the prince, save face
This is something that everyone knows, but it has to be handled in this way. The emperor is getting older and more confused. When he thought of the most hateful thing, he slammed his hand on the table.
Liu Jingyu was startled and stepped back, fearing that something on the table would fall down. He lowered his head and became more cautious.
At this time, I didn't dare to take the initiative to answer the call.
It took a long while before Pei Luoan's voice was heard from above: "Get rid of her quickly. Ling'anbo Mansion should have nothing to do with the Eastern Palace. From now on, she will only be the eldest lady of Ling'anbo Mansion."
Since she was sent back to the Ling Anbo Mansion, it meant that her previous status was not recognized.
Pei Luoan felt that this was really like covering one's ears and stealing the bell, which was ridiculous, but he had to do it anyway. Otherwise, he would disobey the emperor's order, which he could not afford now.
Liu Jingyu retreated in response. Pei Luoan closed his eyes and lowered his head weakly. He thought the road was getting wider and wider, but why did it become narrower and harder to walk on
He just wanted to get to his position as the crown prince, he just wanted to go up along the crown prince's position. Originally these things belonged to him, shouldn't he reach out
Pei Yusheng dared to reach out, why should he give in, why should he retreat...
But why did things come to this point? He never thought of taking Ji Hanyue's life, but Ji Hanyue died. He still had to rely on Ji Youran, and now Ji Youran was also "dead" and became a person who should not exist.
Was he wrong? He was not wrong. All of this was his. All of it was his. Why couldn't he take it for himself
His eyes slowly opened, and they were almost bloodshot...
"Your Highness." A eunuch came in to report.
The bloodshot in Pei Luoan's eyes had not completely faded, and he looked at the eunuch gloomily and said, "Speak."
"Someone has come from the government office again." The eunuch reported in a low voice.
"Which place?" Pei Luoan pressed his head with his hand, took a deep breath, and suppressed the anger in his heart. If possible, he just wanted to drive all these people out.
But he can't.
He is still a powerless lady.
He has not even secured the throne of Crown Prince...
"Someone from the Western Prison came and said he had received an order to help us check it again." The eunuch had sweat on his forehead and his voice became lower and lower.
Pei Luoan couldn't bear it any longer, so he picked up the teacup in front of him and smashed it hard.
The fragments slid past the eunuch, frightening him so much that he dared not move.
After a long while, I heard Pei Luoan above say viciously: "Investigate... Let them investigate, there won't be a next time."
His Eastern Palace had none of the majesty of the Crown Prince's Eastern Palace, and the Western Prison had actually checked it several times. Whenever Pei Luoan thought of this, he felt that the Eastern Palace was not safe at all.
Not only the Eastern Palace, but also the places related to the Eastern Palace are not safe. Although Ji Youran has been sent out, it is not known whether she will be found out. Now it is best to send Ji Youran to a safer place, a place that no one else can think of.
Ji Youran is still useful, she can't die yet.
The Eastern Palace cannot hide her, and no place related to the Eastern Palace is allowed. He cannot take risks for Ji Youran, so he has to find another place to hide her, preferably farther away from the Eastern Palace...
After seeing Madam Qu off, Qu Moying couldn't help feeling sad.
I know this is better, but I still can't let it go.
She stayed at home due to illness, and Pei Yuanjun also said that he didn't want too many people to visit her. With his words, the mansion became much quieter. Even if someone wanted to come to visit her, at most they would just send a steward and say they could come back when Princess Ying was feeling better.
Although rest is the main thing, it is also necessary to walk around appropriately. Qu Moying held Yuxiu's hand and walked around after breakfast while the weather was not yet hot. Everyone in the mansion knew that the princess was not feeling well, so they did not dare to approach her. When they saw her from a distance, they bowed and avoided her.
The princess needs to be kept in seclusion. If she is disturbed by them and something happens, they cannot afford it.
"Master, it doesn't look like it." The servants looked over from afar and saw that it was Yuxiu helping Princess Ying to walk. In fact, Yuxiu took the opportunity of "helping" to report to Qu Moying in a low voice.
"Not really?" Qu Moying's eyes moved slightly.
"It's said... something like the hands don't match, it's not her." Yu Xiu also felt a little strange. Concubine Ji was like that, could it be that the prince still wanted to keep her? Make a fake one. When the incident happened, the news that the East Palace received was a little delayed. In a hurry, the prince wanted to keep Ji Youran, but he couldn't. How could it be that she is not her again
"Do you think so?" Qu Moying frowned slightly and asked.
"I find it hard to say... It's not possible under normal circumstances! When I checked, didn't they say that the leg bone was broken? He broke his leg in a fall. His body shape and appearance are also similar... It's impossible for such a person to be in the East Palace by coincidence, right?"
Yuxiu thought for a moment and replied that even though she had heard the rumors from Mingxin, she still felt that it was not true. How could such a coincidence be possible? The information that the government office had found out at the beginning was also learned from Eunuch Ji Hai. They knew that although the appearance could not be seen clearly, there were several obvious features.
The young woman had a broken leg, but she should have a good appearance. Her face was injured, but her hands and feet did not look like those of a servant who did rough work. She looked more like a lady from an aristocratic family, the slender and delicate type.
All signs indicate that it couldn't be anyone else... otherwise it would be too much of a coincidence!
Qu Moying suddenly said: "It's not impossible, at least there is another possibility..."