Chapter 92 – A Thousand Things Wait to be Done

Miantang interrupted in time, which attracted Cui Xingzhou’s attention.

 

Prince Huaiyang knew that his mother was timid and fragile. In addition, she was ill. He had to take her back for treatment as soon as possible. So he also ignored the four brothers for the time being and went straight up the mountain to pick up his mother first.

 

Just after washing her dirty face, Old Princess Consort Chu asked Fang Xie to bun her hair up. Finally, she was clean to meet others. When she saw her son, her heart finally felt relieved and she just sobbed and cried.

 

Cui Xingzhou looked around the simple hut on the mountain and the thick rice in the pot. Miantang only brought a warm coat but gave her mother the bedding.

 

His heart was full of mixed feelings, with fear, remorse, and resentment intertwined.

 

He recalled himself as a young soldier. Over the years, he doesn’t know how many life-and-death battles have been fought, but the court took advantage of it and tried to kill the donkey before it was unloaded.

 

Now, the foundation of the new Emperor is not stable, and it is difficult to deter the demons from all directions. He fought with blood in the frontline. But there’s Prince Sui, he ignored the country. While he was fighting, he sneaked into the State of Zhen to attack his family and used it for blackmail.

 

If it was not Miantang who was alert, noticed that something was wrong, and took someone to rescue his mother in time, he would be trapped and restricted at this time…

 

At this time, he looked over his choking mother and at the woman who was directing Fang Xie and Bi Cao to pack things. She looked thin and delicate, but at the most critical moment, such a thin body became his strongest backing… Prince Huaiyang thanked God for the first time in his life that he could meet such a woman…

 

When Cui Xingzhou learned from Fan Hu that Miantang had dived into the cold river to save the Old Princess Consort, his heart seemed like being held tightly by an iron fist.

 

The water is so cold. Her injured hands and feet… How can she stand it?

 

But in the future, he will never let his women take risks like this, nor will he stay passive forever!

 

The revenge of the State of Zhen today must be doubled…

 

Thinking of this, Cui Xingzhou decided in his heart secretly and took his mother and Miantang to the carriage to return to the State of Zhen.

 

Just along the way, Miantang seemed to be tired and spoke very little. She just leaned against the window and stared at the scenery outside the window in a daze. He wondered if she was still immersed in the thrilling adventure these days…

 

Cui Xingzhou watched his mother fall asleep in the swaying carriage, and then stretched out his hand to hold Miantang.

 

He gave her a strong grip, and she came to her sense, looked up, and asked, “Have we arrived?”

 

Cui Xingzhou laughingly pulled her into his arms and whispered, “What are you thinking? We haven’t entered the city gate yet.”

 

It’s hard for Miantang to say what she thought just now. She just smiled and then asked carefully, “Is the disaster in the State of Dong over?”

 

Cui Xingzhou nodded, shook his head again, and said, “Although the rebellion has been put down for the time being, King Lu escaped injured and has not been captured yet. If I don’t catch the thief, it’s not safe enough…”

 

Miantang tightened her voice and said, “It’s just a group of muddy legs who are rebellious. They have made trouble by famine. Now the situation is over. They are just bereaved dogs, and your highness doesn’t need to take them too seriously.”

 

Cui Xingzhou raised his eyebrows and said, “The scouts I sent said that those people seemed to have something to do with Lu Wen. They once said that Lu Wen died in my hands… To avenge their Master. It seems that Lu Wen and Ziyu are not the same person… Do you remember that there is a man named Lu Wen on the Mountain of Yang?”

 

Miantang’s face changed slightly. She pushed Cui Xingzhou and said, “Didn’t you say that not to mention Ziyu again, why do you mention it again? I can’t remember anything about those years in the Mountain of Yang…”

 

Cui Xingzhou thought that she was annoyed by him mentioning her old friend Ziyu, and said with a low voice, “I’m wrong. I’ll apologize to you tonight…”

 

He hugged her tightly and said in a low voice, “These days, I missed you so much that my bones hurt. We will get married immedietely after we return…”

 

However, Miantang’s thoughts at this time were not at all about the wedding she had been vaguely looking forward to before. After a while, she said glumly, “If Lu Wen was still alive, what would your highness do with him?”

 

Hearing this, Cui Xingzhou’s eyes turned cold, and said, “If that guy is not the one in the Imperial Court now… I naturally want to calculate the old accounts with him carefully…”

 

Lu Wen was insidious and cunning when he was trying to wipe out the bandits in the Mountain of Yang. The past that Cui Xingzhou thought he had forgotten was picked up when he encountered similar difficulties in the State of Dong bandit suppression.

 

If it hadn’t been for Lu Wen’s past sin, how could he have left the State of Zhen and nearly put his mother and Miantang in danger?

 

Thinking of this, Cui Xingzhou’s eyes were full of a murderous aura.

 

Miantang was very familiar with the subtle expression changes on Cui Xingzhou’s face. In ordinary times, Prince Huaiyang hardly showed his expression.

 

But now when he mentioned Lu Wen, his face was full of a murderous aura. This expression can make someone fall straight into the bottomless abyss…

 

For a moment, Miantang didn’t want to talk. She just wanted to find a place to have a good sleep, and then decide whether to be frank with Cui XIngzhou about the past she didn’t remember or to hide it and find a chance to break with him…

 

But it’s hard to find a place to sleep.

 

The bodies of Prince Huaiyang Residence have been moved out. Although the inner courtyard is fine, the outer courtyard was badly burned when the bandits attacked the courtyard and needs to redecorate again. The inner courtyard was also robbed and smashed by those people, and it needs to be repaired.

 

However, precious friendship always shines at critical moments. Zhennan Marquis Residence is very hospitable to send a letter from the Old Lady of the Marquis’s Residence, inviting the relatives of Prince Huaiyang to stay in the Marquis’s Residence.

 

Cui Xingzhou knew that her mother needed a comfortable place to rest now, so he let her live there. But she didn’t let Miantang follow.

 

Liu Miantang looked at the mess of the inner courtyard and said to Prince Huaiyang honestly, “I want to go with the Old Princess Consort too. At least I can take a good bath and have a rest at the Marquis’s Residence. It’s so messy here that I can’t live.”

 

Cui Xingzhou hugged her and said, “Zhennan Marquis is also in the Residence. If you go there, he will make a move. I have ordered someone to clean up the study, and we will live there tonight… Don’t you want to stay with me after such a long separation?”

 

Miantang realized that he was jealous. In fact, she also missed him. Although Cui Xingzhou looks serious, he was another version in bed.

 

When she first tasted the rain and dew with him, she tasted the taste that some women would never feel in their whole life. After a long time, it was missed…

 

But now Miantang has something on her mind, and suddenly she was worried. Besides, she hasn’t bathed for several days. How can she have the heart to play with him?

 

However, Cui Xingzhou took out all the tactics when he was staying in the wild.

 

There was no bed in the messy study, so the removed door plate was laid horizontally with bricks and covered with thick quilts, which looked very similar.

 

He simply borrowed a bathtub for bathing from the Marquis’s Residence and transported it in a carriage. After boiling two large pots of water, she could take a hearty hot bath.

 

After Miantang washed, she was a beautiful woman again. After washing, the two people who had not met for a long time played together on the door plank in the study.

 

At first, Cui Xingzhou was careful. The door panel was just creaking. But when he forgot about it, the fragile door panel was obviously under heavy load, and it was overturned with a click.

 

For a moment, the Prince, who has always been favorable on his horse, sprained his waist while dodging to protect Liu Miantang.

 

Liu Miantang looked at the messy appearance of the door panel overturned. She doesn’t know whether to cry or laugh. She only supported Cui Xingzhou and said, “I’d better go to the Marquis’s Residence to sleep tomorrow! You only injured your waist this time. If I break anything important next time, what should I do…”

 

Cui Xingzhou pinched her nose and said, “You are so daring! If it really breaks, how will you spend the rest of your life?”

 

In the middle of the night, it was not easy to find people. The two people simply lay a quilt on the ground and slept together for the night.

 

Miantang was tired of messing with him, but fell asleep soon, while Cui Xingzhou looked at the jade in the moonlight, and couldn’t have enough…

 

However, the next morning, Cui Xingzhou’s waist must have been cold and hurt badly, so he ordered someone to find a doctor.

 

Just in time for Zhao Quan to visit her, he naturally would like to inquire about the cause of the injury while giving physiotherapy and treatment to the Prince.

 

Of course, Prince Huaiyang won’t tell him in detail. He only said that he slept on the temporary door plank last night, and accidentally fell.

 

Unfortunately, Zhao Quan was not stupid. When he first came here, he saw the servant girl Bi Cao. Hearing her, it seemed that the Mayor of Huaisang County also twisted her arm and fell off the bed. If he thought about it a little, it should be the same door panel.

 

Thinking more in-depth, what did these two people do to make the door plate overturn? Zhao Quan was speechless.

 

“I thought you were homeless and pathetic. I didn’t expect that you could have fun in pain and forced the county mayor to sleep with you on the door plank! What a humanity, men are afraid of entering the wrong business and women are afraid of marrying the wrong man. If she had chosen me, why should she be so frightened and sleep in the broken house…”

 

Cui Xingzhou didn’t like to listen to this and interrupted, “My residence has a lot of chores, so I will not let you stay any longer. After you prescribe the medicine, you may leave.”

 

Zhao Quan didn’t leave. He slowly injected Cui Xingzhou’s waist and then asked, “My mother asked me to inquire! I heard that your aunt’s family was also robbed by thieves. Is there any news?”

 

Cui Xingzhou also learned that his mother was almost kidnapped by thieves because of her aunt’s family. Although he was angry with the Lian family, his mother wept when she heard that her sister had been kidnapped and said that she had not taken good care of her sister.

 

If there is any accident with Lian-Chu, He’s afraid that his mother will have some knot in her heart that can’t be solved for a lifetime. So these unlucky relatives who drag their feet behind them, although he was angry, he’s unable to just sit back and watch their family die.

 

However, when Prince Sui asked the middleman to pass the message, Prince Huaiyang did not let go but delayed.

 

Although Prince Sui had many concubines, he only had one son. He was in the hands of Cui Xingzhou. How could he not panic?

 

But Cui Xingzhou refused to admit that he had captured Princess Consort Sui and the little Prince. He only said that bandits were acting in his name and asked Prince Sui to be understanding.

 

On the other hand, he sent people to follow the rules of the bandits and claimed a large amount of ransom from Prince Sui.

 

After all, the Huaiyang Residence lost a lot of money, and the money for repair must be paid by Prince Sui.