At this moment, the Huaiyang Princess Consort, who was struggling to hold onto the scene in everyone’s eyes, spoke with a smile and intonation, “Today is the day when the Autumn Stage Poetry Society was established. Thank you for your respect. After tea, we will issue a poetry order sign. Please gather your thoughts and come up with some quatrains.”
Among the many guests and friends that Miantang invited today, many are true talents and naturally have more enthusiasm for poetry recitation and opposition.
For a moment, the guests were adorned with autumn chrysanthemums, sitting cross-legged on the table or standing with wine glasses, eagerly waiting for the draw to be decided.
After Miantang finished announcing, she whispered to Cui Fu sitting next to her, “Sister, you know me well. The talent in my belly is a bit empty. Although I can barely handle the situation with a few poems of Xingzhou, after a few rounds, I will show my true form. So later, you need to take over me, and you cannot let the reputation of the Prince’s Residence be defeated.”
Cui Fu wanted to ignore everyone’s presence and glared at her unreliable sister-in-law fiercely.
Miantang wasn’t resting at home properly with her big stomach and planned on a poetry club. She has just miscarried a baby and was now entrusted with a heavy responsibility, which makes her nervous.
But Cui Fu also knew that Miantang had been suffocating during this time, so she also sighed slightly and comforted Miantang, saying that she would cover for Miantang when she finished the poem later.
The reason for her being so amiable was because she felt pitiful for Miantang.
Her brother, who has always been calm, doesn’t know why. Recently, he either glared at Miantang or spoke coldly. Unfortunately, Miantang still had a calm and displeased demeanor, always smiling and sticking to the cold buttocks of his brother.
Looking at it, Cui Fu felt heartbroken. When she was in the Residence of Qingguo before, she also had such a life of words and sticks. If her husband did not confide in her, it would be the most hurtful.
She didn’t expect her brother to act like this, treating his pregnant wife like this. Unfortunately, this was a private matter between the husband and wife again, and Cui Fu, as a sister, cannot say much.
Although she was in the residence, she didn’t know what had happened to her younger brother and Miantang.
But later on, when she miscarried, familiar ladies would always come to visit her and try to inquire about the situation with her.
Even those close associates secretly told her about some rumors outside, only to say that Liu Miantang had been a bandit. Cui Fu’s heart almost jumped out upon hearing this, and she asked where the words came from, which was too absurd.
Later, the lady who spoke to her was the wife of the Imperial General who had been promoted from the State of Zhen. She was a person who knew the root and bottom of the world, so she didn’t speak like the wives of the Marquis’s Mansion so secretively. She only spoke directly about what she heard. Princess Consort Huaiyang was probably the famous Lu Wen from the Mountain of Yang before.
Cui Fu was dumbfounded at the time, feeling like she could slip out of a baby in fear again. Although she later married far away, she also knew the bandit name of Lu Wen.
How could a person like Miantang be Lu Wen?
Just yesterday, she secretly pulled Cui Xingzhou and asked. Cui Xingzhou thought for a moment and felt that there was no need to hide her sister, otherwise, she would have to go to Miantang’s place to set up a story. Thus, he told her, “She was spoiled when she was young and not in her prime, and now she doesn’t remember anything about it. Don’t bother her by asking about it.”
Cui Fu was so shocked that she was almost shaking, her mouth opening again and again. Faced with the scandals, as the legitimate daughter of the royal family, she naturally could devise thousands of ways to conceal and annihilate the scandal.
After all, it was not difficult for the royal family to change their daughter-in-law.
But when she thought of Miantang, Cui Fu couldn’t bear to part with it. That transparent and thief-like jade figure, looking around the capital, couldn’t find anyone on par with her. Moreover, this sister-in-law was so kind to the royal family, her mother-in-law, and even to her that she has nothing to say.
At the time of the chaos in the State of Zhen, if it weren’t for her, the royal residence might have fallen into bad shape now.
If her younger brother did not marry her, she would advise him to stop his losses in a timely manner and never get married. But now that they even have a baby, if they follow what the rumor stated and kill the mother and only let the child be alive, how different would it be from being an animal?
For a moment, she had no choice but to ask her younger brother what to do.
Cui Xingzhou comforted her sister and said, “Now that we have been married for a long time and have children, she has also learned well. Sister, don’t worry, just let’s live a good life together.”
Cui Fu felt that Cui Xingzhou had spoken too lightly. She knew that her younger brother had a deep heart and a deep sense of the city. In addition, he was about to have a big fight with Miantang a while ago. How could he have passed away so smoothly?
She thought and thought, but instead anxiously reminded her younger brother, “She really shouldn’t have married into the royal family, but she was also unintentional. Didn’t you want to marry her at the beginning? You can’t distort your heart and do any dirty tricks, otherwise, how will you face the children she has raised in the future?”
Cui Xingzhou felt that his sister had misunderstood him. Although he had indeed become a bit concerned when dealing with those malicious concubines in the residence, Miantang was his wife. How could he use those means to deal with her?
At present, he reluctantly shook his head and told his sister not to bring up these words again.
But how can she let it go in her heart?
When Xiaoxi Garden opened today, looking at the gloating eyes of many wealthy women, she could guess what they were thinking. However, looking at Miantang’s calm and confident demeanor, one cannot help but admire her.
The aura of her sister-in-law, the female bandit leader who caused such a stir in the state, was not comparable to those ordinary women in the backyard.
Just as the poetry club was about to sound the gong to open, someone suddenly ran to the garden and reported, “Princess… Princess Consort, the emperor has also come. The imperial guard is at the door, please go and pick him up quickly.”
Upon hearing this, everyone was startled. Shouldn’t he be taking his concubines of the harem hunting in the western suburbs today? Why did he personally come to Xiaoxi Garden now?
Miantang frowned slightly upon hearing this, but could not neglect the emperor. She could only lead everyone to the front door of the garden to pick him up.
Liu Yu was indeed going to the western suburbs to hunt today, but unfortunately, halfway through, Prince Sui unintentionally mentioned the secret news that has been circulating in the capital recently.
Due to Yunniang’s instructions, the scouts of the Imperial Examination Department did not present the turmoil in the Huaiyang Residence to the emperor. But Prince Sui felt that not letting the emperor know about such matters would be too disappointing.
So, while passing by Xiaoxi Garden, he timely revealed it. Sure enough, Liu Yu’s expression changed greatly. Upon hearing that Miantang was opening a club today, he ordered someone to drive to Xiaoxi Garden to celebrate the opening of the princess consort’s club.
Due to the fact that Empress Shi was still in confinement, the king is accompanied by concubines today.
Upon hearing that Liu Yu was going to Xiaoxi Garden, Imperial Concubine Yun held her hand tightly together and secretly resented her adoptive father for revealing the news of the estrangement between Prince Huaiyang and his wife.
When the young and handsome emperor appeared in Xiaoxi Garden, the Dragon Eye looked at Miantang with great concern, only asking her, who was pregnant, not to be too polite.
There are some things that women are born to be more sensitive. With their lively minds, they watched the emperor’s soft voice whispering to the Huaiyang Princess Consort. Suddenly, they thought of something. It was rumored that when the emperor fled to the folk to escape the persecution of the demon queen, he once wandered to the Mountain of Yang.
If this princess consort were really a bandit on the Mountain of Yang, wouldn’t these two people be familiar? They are of the same age, one was handsome, the other was beautiful… If they don’t have any personal relationships, it’s a bit indescribable!
Recalling the extraordinary generosity of the emperor when he awarded Liu Miantang as the head of Huaisang County, he personally came to support Xiaoxi Garden this time, and there were articles everywhere!
For a moment, the hearts of everyone suddenly fell. They can’t blame the prince for beating the princess consort. It turns out that besides Liu Miantang concealing her past as a bandit, there was also a possibility of having a private affair with the emperor!
Miantang certainly knows what kind of rumors Liu Yu will cause when he comes here, but he was the emperor and naturally goes wherever he wanted, without considering the burden it brings to others.
So when she got up, her gaze on Liu Yu was extremely cold.
At this moment, Liu Yu suddenly realized that it was not appropriate to come here, but when he heard that Miantang had been beaten by Cui Xingzhou, he was worried and heartbroken. He didn’t think much and came.
The initiator, Prince Sui, looked at him with a smile and felt that Prince Huaiyang was going to patrol the camp outside the city first today. It was a pity that he could not come early to see the scene of the emperor’s concern for his wife.
Liu Yu wanted to use the power of Prince Huaiyang to resist him? It was a beautiful thought! Let’s see how he provokes the relationship between their monarchs and ministers, causing them to gradually create gaps.
Since he was here to participate in the poetry club, he naturally want to write poetry. Although Liu Yu’s arrival interrupted the gong, when Liu Yu and the concubines sat down, the poetry club officially began.
After the draw, the topic was Chrysanthemum. When the drums started, whether it was intentional or unintentional, the first one up was Liu Miantang.
Liu Miantang smiled slightly and had a confident mind. After all, Cui Xingzhou also guessed that those people would use the season to write articles, so she prepared several poems about chrysanthemums for her.
Although it was a seven-year-old work, the content was witty and the conceptual perspective carries a touch of naivety. Coupled with Miantang’s bright expression and soft voice, it only makes people feel a bit intoxicated. They only felt that the Huaiyang Princess Consort was standing next to the exquisite eaves and flower pavilion, looking like a delicate picture of a lady.
When Miantang’s gentle voice stopped, she couldn’t help but reach out and put her hand in her broken hair at the temples and smiled a slightly guilty smile.
A stunning beauty, every smile, and glance was attractive, only making people reluctant to speak out and break the artistic conception of this moment.
For a moment, some people even suspected that the previous shadow biography was too outrageous. How could a woman with such a national beauty and delicate physique be the bandit leader who made the court restless in the past?
Could it be jealousy towards the deep love between Prince Huaiyang and his wife that led to the fabrication of such a rumor without a trace?
After everyone had woken up, it was natural to speak up and praise the princess consort for her pure and unique thinking. Someone immediately transcribed it and prepared to write it into the opening manuscript of the Autumn Stage Poetry Society.
And Liu Yu sat silently, staring at the beauty next to the flowers under the pavilion. Every time he sees her now, he felt an indescribable dull pain in his heart.
The current Miantang was no longer the fake boy who used to dress up as a man on the Mountain of Yang. At that time, every time she was asked to read and write, she pretended to have a headache and secretly looked at himself, so cute that he couldn’t ask for more.
Now, she was able to compose and recite poetry calmly in front of everyone, with a gentle temperament as if she was born a lady from a wealthy family.
How could he have accidentally lost such a good girl? He was sorry for her, but he couldn’t watch her being honed by others. If Cui Xingzhou cannot tolerate her, wouldn’t there be millions of means to deal with her?
How can she protect herself from injuries to her hands and feet now?
No, he wanted to tell Prince Huaiyang directly that if he cannot tolerate her, he was willing to take care of her for the rest of his life.
Ruth Ibale On TSFLIP Chapter 1133