Chapter 101 – The Newlywed

However, according to He Zhen, the scruffy man was followed by several well-dressed people. After the arrest of the man who claimed to be her brother, those people dissipated into the crowd and disappeared. But under Lu Yi’s command, Lu Zhong went and followed them secretly. She wondered if he could find out anything.

 

At nightfall, Prince Huaiyang finally came back. He smelled of wine, but his mind was clear. Liu Miantang asked someone to bring him sober soup.

 

After having a few spoonfuls, Cui Xingzhou suddenly asked, “Is there anything wrong with Servant Li going in and out? Miantang didn’t expect him to notice the movement in the courtyard even drinking with his friends in the front hall. It was probably the bodyguard outside who told the prince…”

 

So Miantang told the truth about her guilty brother who came to find her.

 

Cui Xingzhou didn’t frown, but asked, “Do you want me to pick him up?”

 

Miantang shook her head and thought for a moment, she said firmly, “We can’t pick him up. We can’t even let him into the State of Zhen! This matter is likely to be framed by someone. In addition to the crowd on the wedding day, if he was escaping from his exile duties, as long as any of us meets him, we will become a criminal. Now that you have married me, he is your brother-in-law. In this case, someone with bad intentions will impeach you in court. By then, you won’t be able to explain yourself.”

 

Miantang was unable to stop feeling sad. Now she not only realized that her brother was not fit to be the family of Prince Huaiyang, but also her identity as the head of bandits. Although the Mountain of Yang is in peace, she will not be arrested by the court, but it is a shady business.

 

Can’t he see that the emperor is trying to prove that they have nothing to do with the matter, and is determined not to mention the matter of the Mountain of Yang?

 

If Cui Xingzhou marries a woman with a clean family background and a decent standard, will she be so troubled now? Even on the wedding day, people are not letting her have a peaceful day.

 

In fact, Cui Xingzhou didn’t have the same internal dispute as Miantang thought.

 

After he was engaged to marry Lian Binglan, the Lian family troubled him every once in a while. He also tried to be patient and deal with them one by one.

 

By comparison, Miantang’s family has a simple population, and not much of the Liu family bloodline was left. While the children of the Lu family are all told by the Old Master Lu that they are not allowed to cast greedy eyes on Miantang for power. They should only keep their own family business and not cause trouble to her.

 

But what Liu Miantang just said, Cui Xingzhou took into account. If the one in the county government prison was indeed Liu Zhanpeng, then he will be Liu Miantang’s biological brother. He should save her brother if he were asked to.

 

Cui Xingzhou has made preparations to be implicated. However, he did not expect Miantang to be so considerate of him and even refused to meet her brother for fear of involving him.

 

For a moment, Cui Xingzhou was slightly stunned and said, “When you just heard about your brother’s arrest, you cried so hard. Why don’t you care about him now? Don’t worry, the things you worry about are not serious. I will handle them properly.”

 

Miantang held his neck, “Of course, I know your ability. But I don’t need you to do so… I didn’t cry because I loved him, but because my father favored him and hurt others and myself. If I had tried to persuade my father, I might not have ruined my family. For his sake, it’s not worth troubling yourself for a person like him… You don’t know his temperament, and he was spoiled by my father. If you help him out of trouble, he must think he has found a more capable backer than his father. He will perhaps cause you more trouble… That’s why I didn’t let you ask for his release.”

 

Cui Xingzhou looked at Miantang and couldn’t help feeling sad. She is not as tough as she said. He knew that she secretly asked her eldest uncle Lu Wen to sneak the silver to the prison officer who was guarding Liu Zhanpeng. He only asked the prison officer to provide treatment to Liu Zhanpeng in time when he had a headache, and not let him do too much hard work that would consume his life.

 

However, in Liu Miantang’s thoughts, her husband is more important, so she always considers him first and never places him in a difficult position.

 

In this regard, his biological mother did not think so carefully for him.

 

Thinking of this, Cui Xingzhou put his hand around her with some emotions and said with relief, “You don’t have to think so much. I will handle this for you. You just need to keep healthy.”

 

Miantang hugged him tightly, but she was still depressed.

 

In the high nobility residence, most women who are pregnant have to live apart from their husbands. So when she stayed late at night, Old Princess Consort Chu was afraid that her son would lose control after drinking, so she sent someone to urge the prince out, and not to pester Miantang with the reason for being drunk.

 

However, the prince had washed up and wanted to rest. He only asked the servant who came to deliver the message to convey the message to his mother, “Go and tell my mother that I am aware of the importance and will not make trouble. Go, I want to rest now.”

 

Miantang sleeps dishonestly at night and likes to kick the quilt. It is early autumn now, and it turns cold at night, so he can sleep with her and cover her in time. Besides, with people lying beside him, it is more effective than any other thing.

 

As for the worries of his mother, it’s unnecessary. He has been suffering for a year lying on the plank bed in North Street every night. He obviously can resist for a few months now.

 

After Miantang combed, she lay in Cui Xingzhou’s arms with a refreshing fragrance.

 

She has known him for so long and has been calling him husband for nearly two years. But until now, he was then her rightful husband. Today, relatives and friends have witnessed it and no one could deny it.

 

When she thought of this, she was moved for a while. She could not help sticking to his ear and whispered, “My husband…”

 

To sum up, Cui Xingzhou has not heard from this charming voice for a long time, and only felt a warm current rushing straight to his abdomen…

 

At this time, her breath is full of the intoxicatingly sweet smell, and the warm nephrite is also in his arms. Prince Huaiyang felt that the boasting of controlling himself with his mother was said too early.

 

He can only hug her and kiss her warmly with her cherry mouth.

 

But Miantang was tired all day and didn’t fool around with him for too long, so she yawned and fell asleep. Cui Xingzhou counted the wreaths hanging on the bed beam in the moonlight for half a day and finally got up again to practice boxing in the yard.

 

The next day, Miantang had a good sleep. She turned to look at her husband beside him and found that he was sleeping like he was in North Street again.

 

This wasn’t a good sign. she has to serve tea to her mother-in-law today, so Miantang can only half coax and shake her husband to get up quickly.

 

As a result, Cui Xingzhou went to serve tea to his mother with a handsome face that didn’t sleep well.

 

Because of his marriage, his sister Cui Fu returned to the residence and waited with her mother for her brother and sister-in-law to offer tea.

 

To tell the truth, although Cui Fu doesn’t like Lian Binglan, she never thought that her future sister-in-law should be such a woman.

 

She had received a letter to know that her brother was going to get married, but her mother was not a person who could make arrangements for the affairs of the general public, so she came back especially in advance to help her mother manage it.

 

As a result, just the day before yesterday, she heard that her brother was going to be married the day after tomorrow. After asking her mother carefully, she found out that it was the county mayor who was pregnant with her brother’s child and was afraid to let people know.

 

This… What is this called? Cui Fu’s heart and lungs were going to explode with anger, but her mother unexpectedly said like there was no big deal, “Isn’t it that they are in a hurry to get married? It’s good if we can hide it…”

 

Cui Fu was powerless against her mother since childhood. She felt that if she were in the family, she would never ask her brother to act so absurdly and marry such a poor woman. But this is the end of the matter. She can’t say anything. She can only let her brother marry an unmatched woman to become the new Princess Consort of the residence.

 

As a result, she and her mother got up early and waited for the newlyweds to serve tea. The two newlyweds arrived late. Her younger brother was also sleepy and not very energetic as if he had not slept well.

 

She doesn’t know how Liu Miantang provoked his younger brother last night. She was pregnant and still did not allow his brother off. She had to sleep with his younger brother!

 

Is she afraid that his brother will take a concubine and be out of favor? It is clear that she is the main hostess of the royal residence, but she tends to be petty and childish!

 

Cui Fu felt that she should remind her mother to teach this novice bride well.

 

However, Miantang didn’t know what was in her sister-in-law’s mind. She knelt carefully with only a cup to offer tea to the two.

 

Old Princess Consort Chu hurriedly told the servant beside her, “Go, help her up quickly. Yesterday she knelt and worshipped. What if she strains her stomach today? There is no outsider in the room, so there is no need to make a red tape.”

 

Cui Fu felt that her mother was too modest as a mother-in-law. When she was married to Qingguo Mansion, her mother-in-law was afraid that she was a noble girl who came out of a royal residence and make her stand and serve at the table for a month, with full rules.

 

She has married far away. Even if she felt wronged in her heart, she could only grit her teeth and swallow the grievance. This woman of humble origin is lucky to meet such a nice mother-in-law.

 

By comparison, Cui Fu, as the eldest daughter of the royal family, was inevitably imbalanced in her heart. So she said in a side way, “Mother, you are too careful. When I was pregnant, I would greet my mother-in-law every day, and my mother-in-law did not reduce the etiquette. This is the proper etiquette of the family. If it is all exempted, wouldn’t it be a mess, making her think that the family is too casual?”

 

Cui Fu has been hard-tempered since she was a child, and she has no choice but to say that her mother is weak and her brother is young! However, when such a temper comes to his husband’s house, she will suffer when no one supports her. She changed under the rules of her mother-in-law. But in fact, she was too straightforward.

 

Cui Xingzhou knew her sister’s temper, so he just said, “Miantang doesn’t know the rules. You just came back a few days ago, so you might not know that she was very filial and very obedient to our mother. But her pregnancy was not stable, and she only got better after lying for many days. What’s wrong with our mother being considerate of her?”