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Chapter 121 What is it if not Xinyue

After tossing and turning all night, Xia Zheng didn't even know when she fell asleep. When she opened her eyes again, it was already noon the next day.

Gu Yizi had gone to court long ago, and the chaos in the house had been cleaned up. Only Xia Zheng's soreness and red marks on her body told everything.

Hearing the noise, Shuangjiang, who had been waiting outside, came in with teacups and kettle to help Xia Zheng get up.

Xia Zheng sat up, rubbed her aching waist and asked, "Didn't Ruanruan cry last night?"

"No, the young lady was very well-behaved last night, staying up all night." Although Shuangjiang tried to lower his voice when he said this, Xia Zheng could still hear the smile in it.

Look at Frost again carefully, he lowered his head and kept hiding his smile.

"You're grinning at me so slyly. Do you have some good news? Why don't you tell me?" Xia Zheng asked curiously as she took the teacup for rinsing her mouth.

"I am happy for my aunt."

"For me?" Xia Zheng was even more puzzled. Apart from the fact that she had just finished her confinement, there was nothing else worth being happy about.

"Yes, the prince stayed overnight with you yesterday. This morning, everyone knew that you were very favored. They said that the prince hadn't stayed with anyone since he returned home. As soon as you came out of confinement, he came to bother you, and the noise was loud and long..."

"Pfft~"

Xia Zheng spat out a mouthful of tea and choked herself, coughing.

"Aunt, what's wrong with you?" Shuangjiang hurried over and patted her on the back.

Looking at Shuangjiang's innocent look, Xia Zheng suspected that she had no idea what that loud and long sound meant.

Thinking back to yesterday, Gu Yizi seemed tireless. She had been led away and had long lost her mind. She didn't even try to control the noise. Could it be that the noise had really been heard outside the courtyard?

Xia Zheng's face turned red with embarrassment, and she was even more angry with herself for not being able to control herself when it came to that matter.

And Gu Yizi!

She figured it out later, the mistakes and slips were all intentional on his part!

She held the bowl of ingredients very steadily and was about to put it on the table. Even if it slipped, it would not spill so much towards Gu Yizi.

It was clearly controlled by Gu Yizi!

The same thing happened when they were bathing. He deliberately made her panic and make mistakes, and then agreed to it. It was obvious that everything was planned by him!

Pianruanruan also cooperated with him and did not wake up at midnight, otherwise the next two times would have been...

Shuangjiang just said that Gu Yizi has not stayed at anyone's house since he came back, and he did not bring any women with him during the march. Doesn't that mean he has been holding it in? No wonder he is so demanding.

But she is not the only one in this mansion. Even if he doesn't like Tao Yurong, Wei Qingqing is in confinement, and there are other maids. If he wants, there are at least fifty who want to be his concubine.

"Auntie, why is your face so red? Are you shy?"

Xia Zheng glared at Shuangjiang and said, "Little girl, you are so young and yet you are still talking nonsense. I will ask Madam Liang to teach you a lesson later."

Upon hearing Madam Liang's words, Shuangjiang immediately became frightened. "Don't! Auntie, please don't! I dare not tease you anymore. I am just happy that the prince cares about you and loves you. You have finally come to a happy ending after all the hardships."

"What nonsense are you talking about? I'm just a concubine. How could the prince be willing to let me go? Don't say that again in the future."

"Isn't this just what I was saying in the room? Besides, the prince is so kind to my aunt, what else can it be but love? I see that the prince is not like this to others, and he loves the young lady too."

It's obvious that he loves Ruanruan so much because of her.

"After all, our little lady came into being because of our concubine. If the prince didn't like our concubine, how could we have our little lady?"

When Xia Zheng was about to explain, Shuangjiang spoke first and stunned Xia Zheng.

Yes.

She first became Gu Yizi's concubine and served him, which is why she became so soft.

The first time Gu Yizi used traditional Chinese medicine, what about the second time?

Is it just desire?

What about yesterday?

What about those things you did for her?

Looking at the two tigers placed at the head of the bed, Xia Zheng couldn't help but think of the scene in front of the stall yesterday.

If she was just one of the many flowers in this mansion, why would he tolerate her?

There is no need to bother making arrangements for her, or even changing her rest time just to take her to see her mother on the day she leaves confinement.

Could it be that raising her as a concubine was not just for Ruanruan?

Could it be that Gu Yizhi is really...

"Aunt, the Crown Princess sent someone to ask if you have woken up. Can you go and pay your respects before 9:00 a.m.?" Nanny Liang's voice came from outside the door.

Say hello?

Xia Zheng remembered.

After a concubine has given birth and has finished her confinement, she has to go to the wife to pay her respects for the first time.

For Tao Yurong, the greeting at this time seemed more like showing off. Why would she be so active?

But on the surface, she was promoted by Tao Yurong, and she was a concubine after all, so she could not openly violate etiquette.

"Get up and go in a moment."

After putting down the teacup and tidying up simply, Xia Zheng took Shuangjiang to Fanghuayuan.

As she walked past the corridor and passed the small garden, she heard a burst of laughter. Xia Zheng looked in the direction of the sound and saw seven or eight girls. The youngest one looked about fourteen or fifteen, and the oldest one was no more than seventeen or eighteen.

Judging from her attire, she looks very noble, she must be a young lady from some family.

But there was no banquet held in the Duke's Mansion, so why did so many young ladies from official families come?

Watching them walking away talking and laughing, Xia Zheng didn't look at them any further and continued walking forward.

Fanghuayuan remains the same as before, as if no matter how the outside world changes, this place will always stand unchanged and no one can shake it in the slightest.

As you walk into the main house, the fragrance is overwhelming.

Turning around, I didn't see Tao Yurong in the main hall.

"Come in, I'm in the inner room." Tao Yurong's voice came from the inner room.

Xia Zheng didn't understand what Tao Yurong was planning, but seeing that the room was full of people and she didn't stop Shuangjiang from following her, Xia Zheng carefully walked a few steps inside.

From the open door of the inner room, one could see Tao Yurong leaning over a soft small table, holding a small copper spoon in her hand, stirring the incense bowl on the low table.

She is making perfume.

How can you have such leisure time?

"Your maidservant greets the Crown Prince's wife and asks how she is doing."

"You still call yourself a maid, but now you are a concubine, not a maid." Tao Yurong looked up, still smiling gently and warmly, with kind eyes.

Xia Zheng really admired Tao Yurong's acting skills. Even though her relationship was broken and she wanted to skin her alive, tear out her tendons, break her bones and suck her marrow, she could still treat her the same as before without revealing a single flaw.

She knew she could never do it.

But even if her acting skills are not as good as others, she still has to act along, otherwise she will be accused of disrespecting the mistress, which just proves that she is arrogant because of her favor.

"I forgot. Thank you, Princess, for reminding me."

"Please sit down." Tao Yurong pointed to the other side of the couch.

Xia Zheng sat down on the eight-drum embroidered stool next to her.

Tao Yurong glanced at him, pretending not to notice, and said, "So much has happened recently. First, Wei's difficult labor, then the Crown Prince's return to the capital, and then your birth. Although I don't have to pray for the Crown Prince anymore, I haven't resumed greeting him. Look, even you haven't thought of it."

Xia Zheng became suspicious. Was he going to hold her accountable for this?