Forced to be a third person: I turned around and left the palace to marry a villain

Jiang Xue thought that she might have a place to start with Lu Qiongshuang's marriage and Chonghuan's affairs.

Xiaochun nodded and said: "I will start to do it in the next few days."

Jiang Xue smiled, and the master and servant began to eat together. After eating, the sun was almost setting. Jiang Xue asked someone to clean up Wen Qingxuan's main hall, and went back to the bedroom to read.

Not long after, Gu Lintan's voice came from the courtyard.

Jiang Xue heard a gentle knock on the door and asked, "What's wrong?"

Gu Lintan's voice sounded outside the door: "Your Highness, it's me."

Jiang Xue stood up and looked in the mirror again to make sure she was dressed appropriately, then slowly walked over and opened the door.

When she saw Gu Lintan, she immediately looked annoyed.

Jiang Xue turned around and walked to the dressing table in the house, sat down, looked in the mirror, and said calmly:

"It's really difficult to see the Prince Consort Jinmian nowadays."

"What has the prince-in-law been busy with these past two days? From the outside, it seems that you and I are newlyweds, but who knows that I haven't seen the prince-in-law for two or three days."

Gu Lintan was stunned. In the past, when he came to ask Qingxuan to look for Jiang Xue, he either said that he was feeling unwell and had gone to bed, or that he went to the Prime Minister's Mansion or the Palace. Why did it seem like it was all his fault now?

Gu Lintan suppressed his slight annoyance, walked over quickly, stood behind Jiang Xue, and gently put his hand on her shoulder.

"Your Highness," he said warmly, "the Imperial Academy and the Ministry of Rites have been very busy with official duties recently. It's also my fault. When I'm busy, I forget the time and I haven't been able to come to see Your Highness."

"Really?" Jiang Xue stretched out her hand to play with the beaded hairpins in her hairpin and said, "Yesterday, I was concerned about the consort's health, so I sent my personal attendant Fu Dong to the ceremonial department to deliver ginseng soup to the consort. Why did I listen to what she said? I’ve searched the Ministry of Rites and the Imperial Academy, but I can’t find my consort?”

Gu Lintan knew yesterday that Jiang Xue had sent someone to the government office to look for him, and he had already thought of a countermeasure.

"Didn't His Highness want to add a plaque for the medical clinic opened by Mr. Yan Zhe?" Gu Lintan said with a smile, "Yesterday morning after leaving court, I returned to the Ministry of Ceremonies and arranged all the official affairs in advance, and then went to find a calligraphy master to inscribe it. ”

"Oh?" Jiang Xue turned her head slightly and asked, "Which famous person are you looking for?"

"Mr. Yan's medical clinic will be opening in the next few days. Most of the famous doctors are recluses. If someone goes to look for them at this time, I'm afraid I won't be able to make it in time." Gu Lintan said slowly, "Fortunately, the doctor in Beijing Among my colleagues, there are also some who have excellent calligraphy."

"I thought that since this was the case, I shouldn't abandon the near and seek the distant, so I wasn't looking for famous people."

"Who is it?" Jiang Xue asked.

"Master Xue Ke, Yin of Jingzhao Mansion."

Jiang Xue twitched the corner of her mouth. He was smart and didn't hide it. Even if someone found out that he went to Xue Mansion yesterday, he would still have something to say.

"Xue Ke?" Jiang Xue deliberately frowned and said, "Is his calligraphy very good? I guess it must be excellent, so why did the prince-in-law linger so much that he didn't return to the official office until night?"

Gu Lintan was stunned. Was she being stared at in the official office for a whole day?

"Since it's urgent, I naturally want to finish it in one day," Gu Lintan reassured, "I have already taken Mr. Xue's calligraphy treasure to the craftsmen to make a plaque. It will be finished tomorrow. By then Your Highness, would you like to accompany me to Mr. Yan’s place?”

"No," Jiang Xue said lightly, as if she couldn't listen to his explanation. Her expression was still bleak. She glanced at him again and said, "The prince-in-law really didn't lie to me?"

"This," Gu Lintan said with a dumbfounded expression, "What am I trying to do to deceive His Highness?"

Seeing that Jiang Xue still ignored her, he squatted down and looked into her eyes seriously, and said: "I'm really busy with business these days, and I can't get away from it. But His Highness asked me to go as soon as I have some free time. Do it. If Your Highness doesn’t believe it, why not send a few people to follow me and see where I go every day besides going to the government office.”

Jiang Xue sneered in her heart, but her face softened a little, and she said: "What's that like? How can anyone put eyeliner around their husband, and it won't become a joke if word spreads?"

She stretched out her hand to fiddle with the hair in her bun and said nonchalantly: "Recently, during my free time, I heard my servants talking about the gossip about some adults' families outside. It was said that there was a lady in the family of an adult who had been away from home since he was a local official. He refused to give up until he was promoted to a capital official step by step, but he ignored the chaff and turned around and took in several beautiful concubines. "

"In the storybooks I read, stories like this are common. I was thinking-"

After saying that, she looked directly into Gu Lintan's eyes and said in a deep voice: "Isn't it true that the prince-in-law is also like this? They say food and sex are the same, and the prince-in-law is also a person of temperament. I wonder if one day he meets some beautiful fairy, will he? Will you also abandon me as your new wife?"

Gu Lintan pursed his lips and flashed his eyes slightly.

The word "making a wife" fell into his ears, but it seemed to pierce straight into his heart, making him feel uneasy.

A trace of resentment secretly flashed across his eyes, and he quickly faced Jiang Xue with a warm smile.

"It turns out that Your Highness is actually worried about this," he stretched out his hand and gently scratched the bridge of Jiang Xue's nose, and said, "Both the storybooks and the anecdotes in the market are all untrustworthy. I guess it's because I've been too busy recently. It was my neglect of His Highness that caused His Highness to have such uneasy thoughts."

"Gu Lintan swears to the sky that he will never let his wife down in this life."

Jiang Xue suppressed her nausea and frowned, turning her head away slightly. In Gu Lintan's eyes, it was like a little girl's angry look when she sympathizes with Lang's quarrel.

He smiled and coaxed Jiang Xue: "No matter how angry your highness is, you must eat first, right? If you still feel uneasy after eating, you will have the strength to give your husband a good beating."

Jiang Xue saw that the purpose of the beating should be achieved, so she nodded and had a neither salty nor light meal with Gu Lintan.

After dinner, Gu Lintan said: "I have been busy these days, so I took the time to come back to have dinner with His Highness. Now I have to go back to the Ministry of Rites to prepare for the visit of envoys from various countries next month."

Jiang Xue didn't intend to keep him, so she simply said: "The prince-in-law is also thinking about himself. He should finish his official duties and come back early."

Before Gu Lintan left the house, he suddenly remembered something and turned around and asked, "Your Highness, has King Ruichong been to the mansion recently?"

Jiang Xue said angrily: "My grandfather has not recovered from his serious illness. I run back and forth in the prime minister's palace every day. How can I take care of this? If you ask me, it would be better to ask Uncle Huang. He is in the outer courtyard all day long. If a male guest is killed, wouldn't he be the first to know?"

"Your Highness, don't be angry with me. I saw how disrespectful he was to Your Highness that night. I'm not in the house every day, so I'm worried that he will come to cause trouble again-"

"Trouble?" Jiang Xue said, "I am the princess of a country after all, what trouble can he bring to me? It's the consort himself. If he encounters him looking for trouble, it's better to retreat and don't get tense like that night. It's not really possible. What kind of conflict did Father Emperor Shengshou have with him before, which caused criticism from all countries?"

Gu Lintan nodded helplessly and said, "I feel relieved that your Highness is fine."

After walking out of the inner courtyard, Gu Lintan immediately asked people to look for Huang Fu.

There was quite a bit of worry in his heart.

If Jiang Xue is already jealous and dissatisfied with his cold treatment, she is afraid that she will become suspicious in the future and cause something to happen.

It seems that we need to be more cautious in our future actions - especially when asking Huang Fu to take care of Su Xi and Chuan'er, it may be better to be more secretive.