In the East Palace, Xu Rong was still waiting restlessly outside the Guangtian Hall, walking back and forth from time to time with a solemn expression, as if he always felt that something unexpected was about to happen.
After an unknown time, the guards who were standing outside came to report: "Shi Du, Your Highness—His Royal Highness the Crown Princess is back!"
Xu Rong was full of excitement, and he stepped forward in a hassle of three or two steps. Sure enough, he saw Chu Ning walking by, but seeing her calm face, she couldn't see any clues, and she beat a drum in her heart for a while: "Your Highness, are things going well?"
Chu Ning smiled, actually gave him a slight salute, and said warmly: "Xu Shidu, you can no longer call me 'His Royal Highness' now."
As soon as Xu Rong heard this, he knew that it was done, so he put down the heart that had been in his throat, and was about to smile and go forward to continue to comfort a few words, but saw that she had instructed Cui He beside her: "Go and pack the things out. Well, it's time to go."
"Let's go?" Xu Rong was stunned, "Your Highness—where is the lady going?"
Even if she is not the Crown Princess, she should still be the wife of the East Palace, and the Crown Prince takes pity on her, how could she let her go
"Xu Shidu, I have already pleaded with the sage to give up the position of the crown prince, and from now on, I can't live in the East Palace anymore. Is Shidu satisfied?"
Chu Ning stepped into the hall, looked around, and took a closer look at the house where he had lived for more than two years.
The furnishings here are very similar to her original boudoir, but there is no warmth and warmth there.
"As long as our own things are fine."
Cui He nodded in agreement, and quickly put the title deeds of the farms and houses she had saved for her in her childhood home, the flying money that could be exchanged at big merchants, and several pieces of jewelry. In the treasure box, I collected a few more plain clothes that were already on the side of the cupboard, and my luggage was ready.
"Ma'am, this—" Xu Rong realized that things seemed to have changed, and immediately followed the door to the door to ask questions, but was interrupted by Xiao Yu who came back from the Taiji Palace.
"A Ning! What do you mean!" His face was a little scary, and he stood outside the door of the dormitory three or two steps straight, blocking her way, and his tone was full of questions.
Chu Ning took a step back, opened the distance from him, lowered his eyes and said, "Your Highness asked Aning to give up the position of his wife, but Aning gave up, isn't His Highness still dissatisfied?"
Xiao Yu paused, the gloom in his gloomy eyes persisted, as if trying to suppress his anger: "How does this satisfy me? I-I never thought you would leave!"
As he spoke, he closed his eyes, took a deep breath, and as if he had remembered something, he suddenly sneered and said, "A Ning, you have resentment in your heart, right?"
"Your Highness is worrying too much, An Ning doesn't dare." She put away the gentle and submissive face in the past, revealing her icy face below, without looking at him, she just turned around to bypass him, but he grabbed her wrist.
"A Ning, don't blame me, okay? You know, I have to!" He saw her indifferent expression, and he felt more and more that he guessed right. The original anger subsided a little, and he lowered his stance again and said to her. Soft talk.
An impatience flashed in Chu Ning's heart, but she didn't show it in the end, she was still cold and wanted to pull out her hand, but she was clenched even tighter.
"Please let go, Your Highness."
"Annin—"
Xiao Yu wanted to say something, but a few servants had already arrived in the Tai Chi Palace. They were stopping at the foot of the stone steps, and the two of them rushed up to salute: "It is inconvenient for the lady to live in the East Palace. The sage ordered the slave to come and invite the lady to enter Guizhen View."
"Your Highness, it's time for me to go." Chu Ning calmed down and said coldly.
Xiao Yu's face flashed a twist.
For him to send someone to take away the Crown Princess, it is really a kind of humiliation and ridicule!
The veins on his forehead jumped, wishing he could directly break into the Tai Chi Palace and pull the uncle who had robbed the throne off the throne.
"A Ning, don't forget about your father. No one can help you except me."
He clenched her hand tightly, lowered his voice and said the last words in her ear, whether it was a consolation or a warning, in short, he gnashed his teeth unspeakably.
Referring to his father, Chu Ning withdrew his expression and looked at him with a cold gaze, as if he was silently saying the word "let go".
For some reason, Xiao Yu's heart flashed a trace of guilt, and his fingers that were tightened unconsciously loosened.
She withdrew her wrist, saluted slightly, and turned to leave.
There were swallows passing by in the sky, and the wind was fragrant with grass and trees. Xiao Yu stood on the high stairs, staring blankly at Chu Ning, surrounded by the servants, and gradually disappeared without looking back.
"His Royal Highness, what the hell is going on here?" Xu Rong waited for a while, and finally couldn't help but ask him.
Anger flashed across his pale face, and the hand holding the door frame tightened, making the knuckles more prominent: "It was originally according to your arrangement, but she suddenly asked the saint to leave the East Palace and enter the Taoist Temple. Cultivation, the sage agreed to let her move to Guizhen View."
"I'm afraid this move has been planned for a long time. It seems that the lady is determined to leave His Highness." Xu Rong's heart flashed with surprise. He never thought that the always gentle and submissive Crown Princess Chu would be so unexpectedly tough. On the one hand, "It's the minister who didn't think carefully and didn't notice the difference in advance. Please forgive me."
"Forget it, the person next to my pillow, even I didn't find out, how could you know?" Xiao Yu put one hand on his forehead, blocking the exceptionally bright sunlight.
Once calmed down, the doubts and panic that had been kept in my heart spread like weeds.
In the past two years, he had never really let go of his guard against Chu Ning, but now that she suddenly left, he became more and more uneasy.
Fortunately, Zhao Yanzhou was still there, and he knew where the only two little princes of the Chu family were.
Her weakness, he knew very well.
"Send someone to stare at Zhao Sizhi." He put down his hands, opened his eyes to face the dazzling light, and instructed coldly, "Chuzhou, watch more closely, and use it when necessary."
Chuzhou is the place where Xiao Langjun of the Chu family studied.
Xu Rong bowed in response, "Hey", and his heart gradually relaxed. The prince was still awake after all, and he was not blindly confused by the Chu family. The more this is the case, the less the mind should be disturbed by trivial matters.
"For the Zhao family, hurry up." After a while, Xiao Yu had returned to his former face. Except for his strangely pale face, his whole person looked gentle and refined.
He didn't have many paths to choose from, so he could only follow the one in front of him, the sooner the better.
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In the Taiji Palace, under the guidance of the inner servant, Chu Ning passed through the Shenlong Gate, entered the back garden, and walked in the direction of Guizhen Temple.
Cui He followed her, and the luggage in her hand was nothing but a treasure box and a small package, as if she was only going out for a day or two.
Along the way, there were still unsuspecting palace servants who called her "His Royal Highness" and bowed to her. She all smiled and turned sideways to avoid them, and patiently explained to them one by one: "I am no longer a prince concubine, so I don't need to do any more. Salute to me."
The servants all looked surprised, but they didn't dare to ask in detail. They could only watch her walk by and talk quietly behind their backs.
"The lady doesn't have to take it to heart. There is a saint, and they dare not disrespect the lady." A servant beside her was afraid of hurting her, so she couldn't help but comfort her quietly.
Chu Ning didn't mind, just shook his head and said, "I'm just an ordinary woman now, and I live in the temple in the future, it doesn't matter if they respect me or not."
The maid glanced at her, covered her eyes, and said nothing.
Guizhen View was in the west, and a few people led her to turn around and walked onto a slightly narrow and winding pebble path.
However, she saw a young girl with a maid walking towards her. She was dressed in a light yellow skirt. She was beautiful, generous, and steady and dignified. It was Qi Chenxiang.
As Qi Chenxiang walked away, she listened to the maid beside her, her face did not seem as calm as usual, but with a bit of surprise and disapproval that could not be concealed. She was dazed, unaware of Chu Ning's appearance, until the maid beside her quietly signaled, and she came back to her senses.
"You..." She stopped, frowning at Chu Ning's simple dress, "I heard that you are going to Guizhen View."
She never liked Chuning.
In the past, when Chu Qianyu was still alive, the girl from the Chu family was the most sought after in Beijing. When the sisters in her family talked about Chu Ning, they always had a bit of envy or even jealousy. Naturally, he didn't like Chu Ning either.
Later, when something happened to Chu Qianyu, Chu Ning was in trouble, and when he married the prince Xiao Yu, it became even more clear that he and Qi Jiajing were separated.
But today she entered the palace to say goodbye to the queen mother, but I heard that Chu Ning asked to give up the position of the wife because she had been married for two years and had nothing to do, and turned to Taoism to practice. She felt a strange anger in her heart. sense.
She was clearly a noble girl from a noble family who was sought after by thousands of people at the beginning. Even if she was in trouble later on, she should not be so weak and spineless!
She looked at Chu Ning's pitiful luggage, and the disapproval in her eyes became more and more clear: "How can you let yourself fall into such a situation? There is no way out!"
Chu Ning was stunned by her question. For a while, she didn't know why she looked at him with such disapproval, but then she thought about her current situation and gradually came back to it.
Others don't know about her, let alone Xiao Yu's true face. In their opinion, she, the prince concubine who left voluntarily, is probably a pitiful, pathetic and lamentable weak woman. After leaving her husband, she will have nothing.
I just didn't expect that Qi Chenxiang, who has always been generous and decent and couldn't make mistakes, would be such a proud person who couldn't tolerate sand in his eyes. He was far from the Queen Mother Qi.
She paused, and showed a gentle smile to Qi Chenxiang: "Thank you Liu Niang for your concern, I am very satisfied to be here today."
Before, she didn't even dare to imagine that she could leave Xiao Yu so smoothly, but now the only thing left in her heart is her father.
Qi Chenxiang looked at her arrogant appearance, and was disappointed in her heart, she couldn't help shaking her head: "Forget it, you are so weak, it's no wonder you couldn't make yourself feel better, and it's useless for others to worry about it."
She didn't bother anymore, nodded slightly, and left with the maid.
Chu Ning stood there for a moment, looking at her back, only to feel that today was the first time she met her.
After a while, the servant led her to the Guizhen View.
The wing room in the view has been tidied up, and after the female crowns came to see her, they all went back.
For the rest, she took Cui He to stay in the house, and listened to the servant's explanation: "The furnishings in the lady's house were all supervised by Supervisor Liu. It's all right."
As the inner waiter said, he took her for a walk in this small yard and looked everywhere.
Sure enough, many delicate clothes were stacked in the cupboard, some gorgeous, some pure and elegant, and they were no worse than when she was in the East Palace.
These seem to be placed in advance by Xiao Kezhi after learning that she is going to leave the prince.
She looked at it carefully, and thanked her solemnly. After she sent the person away, she picked out a green lotus-colored large-sleeved shirt that was closest to the other women's crowns from the clothes in the cabinet, and put it on, and sat down in the bronze mirror. In front of him, he released Wan Qi's hair, took a yellow crown, and tied his black hair high.
The hair accessories that are indistinguishable from men make the original gentle and graceful face show a bit of heroic spirit.
Looking at herself in the mirror, she suddenly felt as if an invisible mask that had been worn for two or three years had been removed from her face.
Her eyes were sparkling, and she was in high spirits. She was clearly wearing the most simple clothes, and even removed all her usual jewelry.
"Miss..." Cui He watched from behind, her eyes suddenly turning red.
Chu Ning smiled and whispered, "Don't cry, what a good day this is."
As long as Xiao Yu gets married again, she will really have nothing to do with him anymore.
But Cui He endured it, but still burst into tears.