Daqian Night Emperor

Chapter 6 Princess Yuzhen
"Cough cough!"

When Zhao Qian'an coughed, the ugly slave, whose thoughts had wandered away, was brought back to his senses.

Only then did she realize that she had unknowingly poured the tea so that the tea overflowed. She hurriedly put down the teapot and wiped the water stains on the table with her sleeve, showing an awkward but ingratiating smile.

Zhao Qi'an said angrily, "What are you thinking about?"

"No, I didn't think about anything!" The ugly slave answered subconsciously.

But she soon felt that the answer was too perfunctory, and hurriedly added: "I was just wondering that Luan Nu was a maid brought out from the palace by the princess. She grew up with the princess since she was young. How did she become yours? Ah, you don't have to answer, I'm just asking casually, just asking casually."

Zhao Qi'an smiled and said, "You are usually carefree, but today you have learned to be cautious with your master?"

The ugly slave smiled awkwardly: "I...I was too presumptuous before."

"I still like your previous rebellious look."

Zhao Qi'an casually placed the document on the table and said, "It's nothing. I came to Beijing when I was eighteen, and Yuzhen was only ten at that time. It was not difficult to send some people to the palace."

"But how do you know that the person you send to the palace can become the princess's maid?"

"She can only get access to a few maids of her age, so it doesn't matter who she chooses." Zhao Qi'an said calmly, as if he was talking about something insignificant. "But Feng Nu was given to her by her mother, Concubine Zhen, so it's inconvenient to change her."

The ugly slave was stunned.

Our master has extended his hands into the backyard of the palace.

To achieve this, one must at least bribe the senior eunuch in the Jingshifang. This requires more than just money!

But she couldn't understand: "You have tolerated Princess Yuzhen for so long, why did you suddenly...ah, I understand, you really care about what happened today?"

She seemed to have discovered something interesting and nodded secretly: "Yes, which man would not be angry? If I were a man, I would pick up a knife and kill the adulterous couple right now!"

What an adulterous whore!
Zhao Qi'an was quite speechless, looking at her face full of indignation. If he didn't know that her loyalty to him was just above the passing line, he might have thought that she was such a loyal servant.

He shook his head and said, "If I cared, I would have exposed her in public when she replaced her maid with me on the wedding day."

Ugly slave asked in confusion: "Why is that?"

"She's crossed the line." Zhao Qi'an picked up the document on the table and waved it in front of her. "The spies deployed by the Xiaowei in the Health Hall have discovered someone from the Princess's Mansion."

Chou Nu's face turned serious, and she finally understood why Zhao Qi'an was behaving abnormally today.

Yangshengtang...that is Zhao Qian'an's bottom line that is more important than his life!

Zhao Qi'an placed the document in his hand over the candle flame and burned it. His calm expression seemed gloomy under the dim candlelight.

He didn't mind that Princess Yuzhen was stupid, that she was extravagant, and that she even found a little girl to love and care for...

But she crossed the line.

She shouldn't have sent people to investigate the health center, let alone try to place people in Zhao's health center.

But Yu Zhen is a fool, she shouldn't even think of doing these things.

Who has bewitched this idiot?
……

In the princess's mansion, inside the main bedroom.

Bronze crane-beak lamps stand on both sides, with candlesticks placed in the crane's beaks.

The flames flickered, illuminating the bedroom brightly.

The couch was facing the hall door. A wide gauze curtain hung from the ceiling, covering the entire couch. The graceful figure on the couch could be vaguely seen through the candlelight.

The entire bedroom was filled with a strange fragrance, which made one feel like entering a fairyland and not knowing where one was.

At this moment, the gauze curtain covering the couch was suddenly pulled open by a delicate hand, and a faint angry shout was heard:

"Did Zhao Qi'an really say that?" She was a tall woman.

She was wearing a long red dress with the long hem trailing on the ground.

The chest-length skirt reveals her full bust, and her slender waist is so slender that it can be held in one hand.

Her hair was piled high on her head, adorned with various expensive head ornaments. The most eye-catching one was a pair of golden hairpins weighing ten pounds.

Nothing is more elegant and luxurious than this.

Even among all the noble ladies in Kyoto Prefecture, there is no other lady as gorgeous and ostentatious as Princess Yuzhen.

But at this moment, her charming peach blossom eyes were full of anger, and her slightly furrowed brows made her look even more intimidating, staring closely at the maid in purple skirt kneeling in the hall.

The maidservant in purple skirt was immersed in the strange fragrance in the hall, her eyes were blurred, and she woke up as if from a dream when her master shouted. She bowed her head and knelt down quickly: "I dare not hide it."

Princess Yuzhen raised her eyebrows upon hearing this and sneered, "Is he trying to be tough in front of me?"

"Luan Nu, go get my whip. I want to let this dog know who is the master in this mansion."

The maid in purple skirt agreed quickly, lifted her skirt and stood up to get the black sheath whip hanging on the rack.

But when she approached the shelf, a cold female voice came from the couch.

"Your Highness, why do you have to fight over your feelings?"

It was not until this moment that Luan Nu realized that there was another delicate figure under the gauze curtain covering the bed.

As Princess Yuzhen's personal maid, she naturally knew who the woman was who appeared on the princess's bed in the middle of the night, and she quickly lowered her head.

Only after hearing the cold female voice did Princess Yuzhen calm down.

She snorted softly: "Do you think I can bear this? If he dares to hit my maid today, he will dare to hit me tomorrow!"

The gauze curtain moved slightly, and a female Taoist with bare feet walked out from the couch.

The simple Taoist robe could not hide her exquisite figure, and her unpainted face was as white and flawless as a peeled egg.
She looked calm and holy.

The Taoist woman held a whisk in her hand and walked slowly to Princess Yuzhen.

She was much smaller than Princess Yuzhen, barely reaching Princess Yuzhen's chest, but her aura was more eye-catching than Princess Yuzhen's and could not be ignored.

When Princess Yuzhen saw the little girl, her originally shy and angry look softened.

Gong Xinying moved her whisk slightly and said calmly, "Striving for a moment of pleasure may relieve hatred but not worries. Your Highness should understand that if the Prince Consort is angry and goes to the current emperor to file a complaint... If the emperor sends someone to investigate and finds out my background, it will be a disaster for both me and Your Highness."

She sighed in her heart, if Princess Yuzhen hadn't been so obsessed with dual cultivation and not satisfied with going to Baiyun Temple once a week, and insisted on her coming to the princess's mansion, how could such complications have arisen?
If what she and Princess Yuzhen were to be exposed, it would be a capital crime!
Compared to Gong Xinying's worry, Princess Yuzhen was dismissive and sneered, "It's useless for him to sue. Zhao Qi'an is just a hostage. Who would care? As long as I either kill him or bully, humiliate and scold him every day, what can he do to me? Who can control the 'family affairs' between him and me?"

She deliberately emphasized the word "household affairs".

"But Your Majesty must always consider his face..."

"Don't worry. I know my father best. He now lives in the palace, seeking only the path to immortality. Why would he care about these things? If Zhao Qi'an really reported this to him and disturbed my father's meditation, my father would think he was a loser who couldn't even manage household affairs, and would not pay any attention to him."

Princess Yuzhen was full of confidence and didn't care at all about being caught by Zhao Qi'an what happened today.

Gong Xinying did not feel relaxed because of Princess Yuzhen's words, and frowned slightly.

Today she and Princess Yuzhen had a secret meeting in the mansion, and they had set up layers of defense outside the bedroom. With masters from the sect in charge, how could they let an ordinary person get close without being noticed, resulting in something that should not be seen being caught.

Zhao Qi'an...is he really an ordinary person?

A faint sense of crisis lingers in my heart and won't go away.

Gong Xinying seemed to have made up her mind and said, "I would like to ask a Blood Bodhisattva to marry Zhao Qi'an. What do you think, Your Highness?"

(End of this chapter)