Rebirth with my ex-husband

Chapter 82

After returning from celebrating her mother's birthday, Su Yun was a little absent-minded for the next few days.

Despite this, she still found time to visit the eldest prince's palace.

Su Yun entered the mansion and vaguely felt the depressing atmosphere inside.

No matter how far or near, no bird was heard singing. The servants were silent as cicadas, with their heads lowered and their necks shrunk. Everyone felt insecure.

The person who came to greet her was the person she had met in Ciyuan Palace.

Everyone else had a lifeless look on their faces, except for the palace maid from Ciyuan Palace who looked normal.

It takes about a moment to walk from the main gate into the East Garden.

After entering the East Garden and arriving outside the imperial concubine's room, Su Yun saw Aunt Liu, the head maid serving the queen.

Aunt Liu bowed slightly to Su Yun, then opened the door and invited her in.

Su Yun entered the room and saw the eldest imperial concubine drinking medicine. When she saw her, she smiled faintly.

After finishing the medicine, Xie Yiran looked at Su Yun and said politely, "Madam Gu, please sit down."

Su Yun sat down, looked at Xie Yiran, whose face was flushed, and asked, "How is the imperial concubine's health?"

Xie Yiran said in a gentle voice, "I feel much better now. Doctor Fu checked my pulse this morning and said that my pulse has gradually stabilized. I just need to rest for a few more days."

At the end, Xie Yiran said sincerely: "Thank you very much, Madam Gu. If it weren't for your help, I don't think I would have been able to sleep well."

Xie Yiran had no idea how many of Concubine De's followers were in this great palace. She only knew that after Imperial Doctor Liu said that, she became so terrified that she even had to be wary of drinking a sip of water.

Su Yun was silent for a moment, and after careful consideration, he asked, "Does the eldest prince know that it was the imperial concubine who asked me for help?"

Xie Yiran thought for a moment before saying, "You should have thought of it."

After all, not long after the wife of the Marquis of Zhongyi and the wife of the Crown Prince entered the palace that day, the Queen ordered the head maid and the imperial physician to come to the Crown Prince's Mansion. They came for the matter of the Crown Princess. It only takes a little analysis to figure out what was going on.

The Grand Concubine smiled faintly, not seeming to be too entangled: "For me, there is no worse situation than losing a child without knowing anything." At this point, she raised her eyes and looked at Su Yun: "I lost a child before. It was a kind of heartbreaking pain, which made people feel desperate."

Su Yun had tasted despair, so she could understand what it felt like.

"So what should the princess do next?"

"Things will work out when the time comes. Besides, now that things have gotten out of hand, the person in the palace is probably more worried that something might happen to me, so he won't reach out to me again." Xie Yiran's expression was gentle and calm.

Although Concubine Chen is now taking the blame, Concubine De's situation is not much better.

Su Yun lowered her voice and asked, "Then Concubine Chen didn't say anything?"

Xie Yiran shook his head: "I haven't heard any news about her, but I think she may think that the person in the palace and His Highness can save her, so she won't say anything."

At this time, the voice of Xie Yiran's personal maid came from outside the house: "Princess, Concubine De has sent a lot of precious things, which are piled up in the yard."

Xie Yiran sneered when he heard this, "Not long after we finished talking, the stuff arrived. We have been receiving supplements non-stop these past few days."

No matter how precious the supplement is, who would dare to use something sent by someone who harmed them?

I dare not use it even if I throw it away.

After that, Xie Yiran said to the outside, "Put it in the warehouse and sort it out."

After giving the order, he looked back at Su Yun and said clearly, "I also know that the Queen asked Aunt Liu to discipline the servants in name, but in fact she was keeping an eye on the eldest prince's mansion, but I don't regret it."

At the end of the words, his eyes were clear: "After all, Aunt Liu has powerful eyes, and can also help me block those demons and monsters."

There are gains and losses, but she thinks it's worth it.

Seeing that she was so open-minded, Su Yun didn't say anything else. She just said, "You don't have to worry about anything, Concubine. The most important thing right now is to take good care of the baby."

As soon as Su Yun finished speaking, she heard the voice of a maid outside the house calling "Your Highness". She raised her eyes slightly and glanced at Xie Yiran. Her expression did not change at all. She thought that Li Ji had also come over these few days, so she did not react.

Su Yun stood up and said goodbye, "I came here today mainly to see the imperial concubine. Now that I have visited her, I will not stay any longer."

"It's inconvenient for me now, so I won't send you off."

Su Yun bowed slightly with a faint smile, then turned and left the room.

After leaving the room, Su Yun met Li Ji in the corridor.

When Li Ji saw Su Yun, his face was sullen and his eyes were slightly cold.

Su Yun bowed slightly towards him and called out, "Your Highness the Crown Prince."

As Li Ji walked past her, he paused for a moment, lowered his voice, and warned her sternly, "I advise Madam Gu not to try to scheme against or take advantage of the imperial concubine."

Su Yun was slightly surprised in her heart, but she smiled lightly and looked at Li Ji, as if she was puzzled: "Your Highness, I don't understand what you said. I came to visit the imperial concubine just because I was worried. How could I be calculating and taking advantage of you?"

Li Ji narrowed his eyes and looked at her, his gaze gradually sharpening: "What are you two thinking? Why do you need me to expose it?"

Prince Dinghuai sued him, and he would not believe it if someone said that this matter had nothing to do with Gu Shixing.

What he did to the couple, and what the couple did to him, even if they didn't expose it, they both knew it.

Su Yun looked calm and replied, "I have a clear conscience."

Li Ji sneered, "What a clear conscience."

After saying this, he walked past Su Yun with a gloomy face.

Su Yun turned around at this time, and said calmly behind Li Ji: "Your Highness feels that I have ulterior motives, but if it weren't for me, do you think the imperial concubine can still be safe now?"

Li Ji paused, then stepped into the house.

Su Yun retracted his gaze and turned away, thinking about Li Ji's reaction.

Judging from the situation, he seems to care a lot about the First Imperial Concubine, but what about his feelings for Concubine Chen?

Could it be that he really came to his senses as she had thought before?

But his mother and concubines had forced his wife to seek protection from the queen, and it was no longer possible for him to live happily with his wife.

……

Li Ji entered the room. Xie Yiran didn't look at him. He just lay down, pulled up the quilt and closed his eyes.

Li Ji looked at her, sat at the table outside, and was silent for a long time before speaking: "The prince and his wife of the Zhongyi Marquis's mansion have ulterior motives, so don't get too close."

Hearing this, Xie Yiran closed her eyes but suddenly smiled, with a hint of sarcasm: "Who among the people around me now doesn't have ulterior motives? Even so, I can clearly tell which ones will not harm me and which ones want to kill me."

Li Ji wanted to continue to persuade her, but all the words were stuck in his throat. Then he heard her say: "Concubine Chen is still in prison. Instead of coming to the East Garden to see me, Your Highness should think of a way to rescue Concubine Chen."

Li Ji frowned upon hearing this. He glanced at his wife who was lying on the bed without even opening her eyes. He didn't know what to feel for a moment, so he didn't say anything in the end.

He stood up, took one last look at her, said "Have a good rest" and left the room.

After leaving the house, Li Ji took a deep breath, his eyes dark and gloomy.

Doctor Liu was a doctor that my mother valued. Now that Doctor Liu was plotting to murder his first wife and children, I'm afraid it was most likely that my mother had instructed him to do so. As for the concubine...

If the murder of the imperial concubine had nothing to do with her, how could her mother easily put all the blame on her?

Did he dote on her too much, making her feel that he would not pursue the matter even if she murdered his wife and his children?

Thinking of her, Li Ji just felt a headache.

Now he couldn't even leave the mansion, and there was a scandal of a concubine murdering his wife. He was completely disliked by his father, so how could he save her?

To save her is to bring out the mastermind.

Thinking of his mother, Li Ji's face became more solemn. Seeing the servants packing up the things his mother had sent, he ordered, "Put all these things in the warehouse of the outer courtyard. From now on, if the imperial concubine sends anything again, just put it in the warehouse of the outer courtyard. There is no need to send it to the East Garden."

After giving the order, he also left the East Garden.

Aunt Liu looked at the servants of the eldest prince's mansion carrying the precious treasures that had just been carried into the yard and then carrying them out of the yard one after another, and an intriguing smile appeared on her face.

It seems that there is a rift between the mother and son.

*

In the evening, when Gu Shixing came back, Su Yun was leaning on the couch and fell asleep with a book in her arms.

Gu Shixing walked closer with light steps, carefully took the book out of her arms, closed it and looked at the cover.

His brows furrowed slightly.

It's a magazine of weird and strange things.

His eyes moved from the book cover to her face.

After she took a bath and washed off the powder on her face, a faint blue tint could be seen under her eyes.

She had not slept well these days, and I knew that she was having too many thoughts, so these few nights when she tossed and turned and couldn't sleep, I would make love with her to the extreme, leaving her no time to think and fall asleep exhausted.

But she was still overthinking and didn't rest very well. He didn't have the heart to wake her up, so he walked into the inner room, took out the thin quilt, and gently covered her with it.

He sat aside and picked up the ghost story magazine he had just put down and started flipping through it.

Gu Shixing has read many books during this period.

There are many stories like theirs in novels and ghost story magazines. In the novels, the characters either die with regrets, and then when they open their eyes, they return to the time before the regrets occurred, avoiding disasters and regrets.

Or maybe you accidentally entered a secret realm, and when you walked out of it you ended up returning to the past.

Or maybe it was an object that he carried with him that had spiritual energy, which led to the coincidence.

Either way, the ending is different.

Some people go back to the past and live to old age.

Some people wake up from a dream and find that it was all a dream.

Some people go back to the past and then back to the starting point. After much persistence, they finally get their wish to go back to the past again.

Even though Gu Shixing had read hundreds of books, he still didn't know which relationship he and his wife would have in the end.

For him, either one is fine.

But Ayun can't do that.

In her previous life, there were too many rumors about her, and people treated her unkindly.

Besides, her mother was mentally ill and looked haggard, and she was not living as freely as she is now.

While Gu Shixing was deep in thought, Su Yun slowly woke up. Seeing Gu Shixing sitting beside him, she rubbed her eyes and sat up, asking softly, "What time is it?"

He reached out and tucked the hair by her ear behind her head, and said softly, "It's not dark yet, wake up for a while, and then go have dinner."

Perhaps because of her bad sleeping posture, she felt a little tired. She stretched her arms for a while before saying, "I went to see the Grand Concubine today. The Grand Prince seemed to have feelings for her that were beyond my expectations. It felt a little different."

Gu Shixing calmly placed the book on a stool where she couldn't see it, and then asked, "How do you feel?"

Su Yun frowned and thought for a moment, then analyzed, "I thought he loved Concubine Chen to death, but now it seems that he is just that. His reaction today makes me feel like he has a legal wife in his heart."

At the end of the conversation, Su Yun sneered: "He only found out when his wife was almost killed. What were you doing before?"

Gu Shixing thought for a moment, and then told the story of Doctor Liu: "This morning, when the jailer was patrolling the cells, he found Doctor Liu had left a note and cut his wrists to commit suicide. When he was found, he was already dead."

"He committed suicide by cutting his wrists out of fear of punishment?!" Su Yun was surprised.

Gu Shixing nodded: "Leave a letter of confession, rather than a will that points out Concubine Chen's crimes."

"What about Concubine Chen?"

"She didn't dare to commit suicide, but in order to prevent someone from harming her, I sent someone to keep an eye on her. However, this is not my case, so I can't interfere too much."

At the end of his words, he continued, "I went to see my father and mother when I returned. My mother just came out of the palace today. She learned from my aunt that after the emperor knew about this matter, he was angry with Concubine De and banned Concubine De from traveling."

"First there was the matter of Prince Dinghuai, and then there was this matter. I heard from my father that His Majesty has already thought of sending the eldest prince out of Jindu."

Su Yun heard this and chuckled: "In the end, all my plans were ruined in one fell swoop."

After he heaving a sigh of relief, he continued, "The division of fiefdoms out of Jindu is something that will happen after the eldest empress gives birth to the child."

The eldest imperial concubine is pregnant and it is not suitable for her to travel long distances, and the emperor also thought of this.

Su Yun felt so. A few days later, he received news that the emperor had issued an edict to confer the title of Prince Jing on the eldest prince and to assign him a fiefdom north of Lingnan.

The area south of Lingnan is rich, but the area north of it is half poor and half rich. The Prince of Jing was given the name Jing. The Emperor probably wanted the eldest prince to be obedient and quietly be the Prince of Jing.

The time for going to the fiefdom was exactly as Su Yun had guessed. The couple would go to the fiefdom together when the eldest empress gave birth to the imperial grandson, who was one month old.