The husband who forced her to marry her couldn't keep her warm, and she didn't want him to

Last night, Emperor Jianyuan stayed in Yikun Palace. Before going to court, he said to Concubine Shu:

"I haven't seen Yongle in the past few days? Are you embarrassed because of what the Japanese said?"

Concubine Shu lowered her eyes and adjusted his belt, saying softly, "Her childish temper will be fine in a few days. If she knew that His Majesty was thinking about her, she might come soon."

Emperor Jianyuan took Concubine Shu's hand and walked towards the palace gate. "Yongle is already seventeen years old after the New Year. I promised you that you will decide Yongle's marriage. You can't always follow her temper."

After seeing the emperor off, Concubine Shu sat in the yard and looked at the blooming water lilies.

Zhuo Liangcai came over and whispered in her ear: "Madam, the Fifth Master sent a letter last night."

Concubine Shu frowned slightly, raised her hand and placed it on his arm before standing up. "Why are you saying this now?"

Zhuo Liangcai lowered his head and bent his body without explaining. The two of them walked towards the small study in the inner room.

Seeing Concubine Shu sitting down, he swept the whisk in his hand, and several palace maids in the room bowed their heads and retreated.

After everyone had left, he took out a rather ordinary envelope and handed it over with both hands.

"I have asked someone and found out that the Princess and Tianqing did go to the flower hall that day in Huitong Hall. I don't know what they talked about at that time, but whether they were as intimate as the Fuso people said."

Shufei's hands were as slender and white as jade bamboo shoots, and the bright color of her nail polish added a touch of nobility and charm.

She took the envelope that Zhuo Liangcai handed to her and said, "Of course I won't doubt the Jiang family. I'm just afraid that my sister Xuan will be tricked."

After unfolding the letter, he lowered his eyes to look at it. Soon his face turned pale. He turned the letter upside down on the table, and a fierce look flashed in his eyes.

"In order to ensure that the late emperor could secure his throne, my father handed over the military power to the emperor at the prime of his life. He never asked about the affairs of the court or the army over the years, and he did not allow the Jiang family to interfere in the selection of the crown prince. They are forcing us like this because they want to..."

"Empress..."

Zhuo Liangcai stopped her from saying anything in time and flattened the crumpled letter in her hand, "Your Majesty, please be careful with your words. Everyone in the palace wishes they had a clairvoyant eye and a keen ear."

Concubine Shu closed her eyes, and when she opened them again, she calmed down and ordered, "Send Yongle here. Let her know whether the people she likes and protects are human or ghosts!"

"Yes, ma'am."

"Don't be angry. Fortunately, Master Wu noticed something was wrong, but nothing irreparable has happened yet."

The concubine was leaning on the big pillow, the chief eunuch was standing behind her and massaging her temples carefully, and the aunt in charge was fanning her with a round fan.

This was the scene that Princess Zhao Xuan saw when she arrived.

She asked the two men to keep quiet, tiptoed to her mother's side, picked up the round fan on the kang, and started fanning herself properly.

Concubine Shu opened her eyes and pushed away the fan in her hand. "I was feeling cool, but you've disturbed me and the wind has changed."

Zhao Xuan put down the fan and used a silver fork to pick up a piece of watermelon and eat it. "Is your headache coming back again, mother?"

"Do you still remember the former Imperial Physician Wu Zizhen? Why don't you ask him to come to the palace and take a look at Mother?"

Concubine Shu raised her hand, and her two confidants withdrew their hands at the same time.

Liu Yingqiu stood aside with her arm around her and said, "The emperor stayed at your place last night. There are so many people watching the Yikun Palace. If we ask for the imperial physician now, I'm afraid there will be many different versions of the story."

Zhao Xuan sneered, "My mother has been favored for many years, and she is also my biological mother. Do you have to wait until today to become arrogant because of your favor?"

"Yes, these years, because they are afraid of the Jiang family behind the queen, and the queen makes it impossible for them to find fault, so the spearhead is pointed at you, young master."

Zhuo Liangcai spoke after the eldest princess finished speaking and handed her the opened letter.

The princess disagreed. She unfolded the letter and said, "I am a princess who only knows how to eat, drink and have fun. I have also set up a residence outside the palace. The people around me are all carefully selected by my uncle. They can..."

She raised her head and looked at Concubine Shu with a half-smile, "Mother, why are you showing this to me?"

The name Zuo Hongwen appeared most frequently in the letter, and she now wanted to find Gu Jinchu.

Tell her that Zuo Hongwen did not have a first wife in Jinan Prefecture as she said. Instead, it was even worse than that. His name and identity were both fake!

"Mother, you're acting strange today. I didn't have a good impression of Zuo Hongwen in the first place, or...someone told me that he was married outside and didn't admit it. Isn't this a problem with his character? I just mentioned it casually that day, but I didn't expect my uncle to take it seriously..."

Concubine Shu was leaning against the bed, her face calm and expressionless, but she made Zhao Xuan feel like she had nowhere to hide.

She said nothing more, just stood there with red eyes, feeling sad but still remembering the etiquette as the eldest princess.

Concubine Shu spoke at this time, "Who told you that he got married? Whether he got married or not, has become a topic between you and whom?"

Zhao Xuan didn't look into her mother's eyes and kept her eyes down.

Gu Jinchu didn't know Zuo Hongwen's background, which had already been known by the Princess and Concubine Shu.

She will have her coming-of-age ceremony in three days, and the Gu family started receiving gifts yesterday.

Zheng, who hadn't managed the household for a long time, had to take care of it herself.

The banquet guest list was drawn up by Zheng and Gu Huanian together. Not only was a stage set up, but the chef for the coming-of-age ceremony was also invited from Qianweilou.

Jigui represents a woman’s coming of age. In her previous life, Gu Jinchu also learned how to manage the household from her mother after the Jigui ceremony.

She arranged Tao Xuelin to work at the Huihui Office, and every day detailed gift lists would be sent to Moxiangju and Sui'antang respectively.

Gu Jinchu saw two Song families in the booklet, one was the chief academic officer of the Imperial College, and the other was the Song Fangya family who was going to give her a hairpin.

In the previous life, the Song family, like the Luo family, came to the Gu family one day in advance. How come they sent gifts in advance?

She rubbed the cat's ears and asked it with a smile: "Little thing, why are you so lazy?"

Gu Jinchu hasn't given it a name yet.

In her mind, once she gave it a name, it became hers.

Bai Shao was fanning her master and said beside her, "The little girls in the yard like it very much. Strangely enough, no matter who gives it food, it just ignores it."

"It only recognizes you, young lady. When you are in Sui'an Hall, it follows you everywhere. If you go out, it will just lie there and act as if it can't hear anyone calling you."

Gu Jinchu usually never paid attention to it, but after hearing Bai Shao say this, he looked at it carefully for a while.

The wound on the front paw no longer needed to be bandaged. Apart from a slight limp when walking, the scar was almost invisible under the fur around the wound.

Gu Jinchu hugged its ribs and picked it up, smiling and saying, "Since you are so clingy, you can be called Doubao from now on!"

Doubao Milk responded with a whoosh.

Bai Zhi walked in quickly from outside the door, "Miss, your Baodi grandparents are here and are in Madam Tai's Cuihua Courtyard."