Since the last dressing change, Zhongli Mingye hadn't seen Song Jinyu again in the following several times. He was quite puzzled. For several days on end, what on earth was she up to?
His wound had healed quite a bit. Just as he got out of bed, he heard Qingfeng come to report that Song Jinyu was not in the prince's mansion.
"Will the prince of Wo Kingdom arrive in the capital tomorrow?" The young girl on his mind was standing on a desolate mountain outside the capital at this moment.
Mi Cui honestly told her the information she had gathered.
"Very good..."
"Go and ask someone you're familiar with in the palace to pass a message to Princess Heyi." Mi Cui couldn't believe her ears.
Song Jinyu chuckled lightly. "Miss here believes you must know some eunuchs or maids." After all, she was one of the leaders of the shadow guards trained by Prince Yu.
Looking at her helplessly, Mi Cui secretly thought in her heart, what kind of person did the prince take a fancy to? But she still obediently stepped forward and followed Song Jinyu's instructions.
The message wasn't too excessive. It just told Heyi to pretend to be ill and avoid meeting that prince. Then, after a few days, she should find an excuse to come and stay in Prince Yu's mansion for a few days.
After Mi Cui left, Zhong Yuanliu emerged from behind and said, "You have to be more careful with this."
"If the sect master finds out, you'll surely be punished with confinement!" He was a bit helpless. As the sect master, he always obeyed Song Jinyu's instructions, but he still couldn't help advising her not to meddle in other people's affairs.
Song Jinyu gave him a smile in return.
"Yuanliu... good Yuanliu, you won't tell on me, will you?"
Zhong Yuanliu looked at her helplessly and only said, "Our people are waiting on this mountain."
The Song Jinyu he had watched grow up from a young age had gradually become a confident young woman. Thinking of the sect master's arrangement, Zhong Yuanliu felt a bit embarrassed. She was living a happy life. If she really stood at a high position, would she still be able to laugh so carelessly?
By the time Song Jinyu returned to the mansion, it was already dark. Qingfeng was waiting for her outside. "Miss, the prince is waiting for you."
Waiting for her? For what? Song Jinyu didn't really want to see that person, so she had been going straight to the study when she came back these days.
Helpless, she had to go and see Zhongli Mingye. The man looked at her indifferently. In the dim light, Song Jinyu couldn't see his features clearly.
"Is your wound getting better?"
She pretended to forget what had happened that night and summoned up the courage to ask about his wound.
"Why don't you ask this prince what exactly happened that night?" Zhongli Mingye was curious that she seemed not to care about that night at all.
Song Jinyu approached him and said, "Do you want to tell me? Then go ahead! Anyway, it has nothing to do with me."
It seemed to make sense, but Zhongli Mingye didn't like the sound of it. It had nothing to do with her?
He pulled her to sit down. "This is the information you wanted..."
This prince of Wo Kingdom was really good - for - nothing. Song Jinyu picked it up and took a careful look. Sure enough, as the young servant had said, he was a lecher. Compared with Heyi, it was like one was in the sky and the other was on the ground.
"Last night, this prince learned that the envoy of Wo Kingdom secretly requested an audience with the crown prince, so I went to find out the news." It wasn't for Heyi's sake. He just wanted to confirm the relationship between the crown prince and Wo Kingdom.
"Unexpectedly, there were ninjas from Wo Kingdom, and they discovered this prince's whereabouts."
Song Jinyu looked at him curiously. "Does the prince do such things personally?"
"Call me Mingye..." For the first time, he hoped she could be closer to him. Every time she called Ming Ruyi, Yan Fei, Jin Se, but addressed him as "prince", he would feel uncomfortable.
Staring at him for a long time, Song Jinyu had no choice but to say, "Call you 'prince' in public and 'Mingye' in private?" After all, there was a gap in their status.
Zhongli Mingye laughed and said, "You've been quite carefree these days and didn't even care about this prince's wound."
"Hey... Didn't I prepare the medicine?" How could she not have cared about him? He was really making a mountain out of a molehill.
Suddenly remembering something, she said seriously, "You should invite Heyi out more often these days. I think she's really depressed." Regardless of whether Mi Cui had delivered the message or not, it would surely be more effective if Prince Yu gave the order.
"Okay..."
He was really obedient for once!
In Prince Cheng's mansion, Princess Consort Yu Duanya had dinner alone and didn't ask about Prince Cheng's whereabouts before going to bed.
The maid couldn't help but say, "The prince is staying in Qingyue Pavilion tonight." That was the residence of the concubine Xiao Yishuang.
Although she pretended not to care, she still minded in her heart. She nodded slightly. "You don't need to report his whereabouts in the future."
After saying that, she ordered to get ready for bed.
Just as Prince Cheng had expected, his princess consort didn't care about him at all. Instead, he was a bit angry. In the first few days of their marriage, not only was she very polite and distant to him, but Yu Duanya didn't even look at him properly.
The more he thought about it, the angrier he got. He even ignored the obviously aroused concubine beside him. He directly changed his clothes and rushed to the princess consort's residence.
Yu Duanya looked at him. His clothes were in a mess. Presumably, he had just been flirting with that concubine.
But the next moment, before she could even ask anything, she was pulled into Prince Cheng's arms. "Why don't you care? This prince is staying with the concubine tonight. Hmm?"
He reached out and tugged at Yu Duanya's clothes, and his big hand rubbed inside. Yu Duanya panicked and dodged backward. "My love, no matter who is in your heart, you are already this prince's woman."
At night, Yu Duanya, who had been thoroughly loved, looked at that round face and wished she could eat his flesh and drink his blood. But that person opened his eyes and smiled. "Princess Consort, do you want to eat someone?"
After saying that, he pulled her over and held her in his arms. "Go to sleep..." The embrace was warm and solid. Yu Duanya stopped crying and soon fell asleep.
Yes, she still had to live her life.
Gong Linghai, the prince of Wo Kingdom, brought the marriage certificate and arrived in the capital of Xia Dynasty. He stayed in the Honglu Temple. He officially paid an audience to the emperor of Xia Dynasty. At the same time, Princess Heyi reported that she was ill and didn't leave Frost Cloud Palace.
Prince Yu invited Princess Heyi out of the palace to relax.
"Jinyu, I don't want to live anymore..."
Just thinking about that person's fondness for male lovers, Heyi felt completely disheartened.
Princess Heyi was on the verge of tears. She only said, "Jinyu, take me away from the capital!"
Although Song Jinyu sympathized with Princess Heyi, it would be quite difficult to take away the princess of Xia Dynasty so openly.
"Don't be in a hurry..." She leaned close to Heyi's ear and told her the whole plan. "Like this... and like that..."
Hearing this, Princess Heyi instantly widened her eyes. "My dear Jinyu, this is..." A matter that could cost one's head!
Although she didn't want to marry into a foreign country, she didn't want her best friend to lose her head because of this either. Heyi was the emperor's own daughter. If she caused trouble, at most she would be locked up by the emperor. But if Song Jinyu was caught, she would surely be beheaded.
The worry in her eyes comforted Song Jinyu. She didn't have many close female friends, and Heyi was one of them. She couldn't let her suffer such a marriage. That prince of Wo Kingdom was not as reliable in character as an upright young master from a fifth - rank official's family in Xia Dynasty.