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Gu Jiao handed Rui Wangfei a handkerchief, saying, "You are pregnant yourself. Don't be too upset."
"En..." Rui Wangfei took the handkerchief and sobbingly tried to calm her emotions, "You're right... I... I can't be too sad... I can't let the baby get affected..."
Having a good cry by Gu Jiao’s side, Rui Wangfei felt a little better.
Gu Jiao originally thought that the incident with the white cat was someone trying to hit two birds with one stone—— getting rid of Ning Wangfei's baby using Xiao Liulang's hand. However, if Ning Wangfei's fetal condition had already reached the point where she would naturally miscarry, then there was no need to do that at all.
In that case, it was unknown whether the incident yesterday was really someone wanting to get rid of Ning Wangfei's baby or Ning Wangfei's side wanting to blame someone else for the loss of a fetus that couldn't be kept in the first place.
Ning Wangfei was obviously not targeting Xiao Liulang, otherwise something else would have gone wrong in the imperial garden at that time.
Gu Jiao did not care about the palace's internal strife.
She only cared about the person who tried to frighten Xiao Liulang with the white cat.
The other party seemed to know Xiao Liulang well, aware that he was afraid of cats.
“Rui Wangfei.” Gu Jiao paused and asked her, "Is there anyone in Marquis Xuanping Estate who’s afraid of cats? Such as Marquis Xuanping, or his sons?"
"This..." Rui Wangfei racked her brain and thought, "Marquis Xuanping is surely not. He’s someone who has been on the battlefield, he won’t be afraid of those cats and dogs. As for his sons... I am not certain. Why do you ask?"
"Just asking." Gu Jiao replied.
"Oh." Rui Wangfei didn't doubt it. She said, "Our Du Family doesn't have much contact with the Marquis Xuanping Estate, but that woman Wen Linlang… ahem."
Halfway through her speech, she realized that she had spoken indiscreetly. She suppressed the volume of her voice, and changed her words. "The Crown Princess often goes to Marquis Xuanping Estate. She was engaged to Little Marquis since childhood, and they grew up as childhood friends. She knows the people of Marquis Xuanping Estate better."
Gu Jiao said thoughtfully, "I heard that the Crown Princess is not high-born, so how could she get engaged to Marquis Xuanping Estate’s young master?"
Rui Wangfei pouted and answered, "It's because she saved Little Marquis when they were young. That was when I was five years old, and Wen Linlang… Erm, the Crown Princess was five years old too at the time. Little Marquis, who was just two years old, fell into an ice hole, and the Crown Princess, lying on her stomach on the ice surface, held him persistently with both hands, not letting him sink.”
“Little Marquis was saved, but the Crown Princess's hands were damaged in ice-cold water. According to the physician, in order to save her life, she had to cut off her hands. Perhaps Princess Xinyang and Marquis Xuanping both feel indebted to her, so they decided on this marriage. Later, however, the Marquis Xuanping Estate found the best physician in the State of Zhao and cured the Crown Princess's hands."
"So that’s the case?" Gu Jiao murmured.
Rui Wangfei grunted, "She had a very good relationship with Little Marquis when she was a child. Do you know why she could become Zhuang Xianzhi’s student? Ah, by the way, did you know that she had taken the fourth son of Grand Preceptor Zhuang, Zhuang Xianzhi, as a teacher? Actually, it was also for Princess Xinyang's sake that she was accepted as his student."
“I admit that she has talent, but without Marquis Xuanping Estate and Princess Xinyang, who would know who Wen Linlang is? But look what she's done. As soon as Little Marquis died, she married the Crown Prince!"
Gu Jiao was not averse to pursuing one's own happiness, so long as it didn’t hurt others.
Rui Wangfei’s speech became more crooked the longer she talked, until she began to spout out all kinds of complaints about the Crown Princess.
Gu Jiao already knew what she wanted to know, and she almost had a guess in her heart.
In the afternoon, she went to the Imperial Academy to meet Little Jing Kong after school.
Little Jing Kong came out with Qin Chuyu and Xu Zhouzhou.
Since the last time Ming'er was beaten in the East Palace, the three of them hadn't been to the palace for a long time, but today Qin Chuyu couldn't help inviting them again.
He found a huge bird's nest in a big tree in the palace, and he wanted to go with his friends to pluck it.
Little Jing Kong ran in front of Gu Jiao, hugged Gu Jiao's leg, and rubbed his little head against her thigh, "JiaoJiao, I miss you!"
Gu Jiao patted his little bald head and asked, "Did you have a good time today?"
"Yep!" Little Jing Kong looked up and said bashfully, "JiaoJiao, can I go to the palace to play?"
Last time, Marquis Xuanping did not inform Gu Jiao about the children’s misadventure in the imperial palace, so Gu Jiao didn’t know about him getting into trouble. But even if Gu Jiao did, she would not stop him from eating for fear of choking.
The Emperor’s fake identity had already fallen off in front of Gu Jiao, and as the son of the Emperor, Gu Jiao knew exactly who Qin Chuyu was.
Gu Jiao didn't agree in a hurry, but asked Qin Chuyu, "Does your family consent to this?"
Qin Chuyu nodded as though pounding a garlic, "Yes, yes! If you don't believe me, my sister-in-law will pick me up later! You can ask her!"
Speak of the devil and it would appear.
The Crown Princess's carriage stopped at the gate of the Imperial Academy. A junior eunuch stepped down from the carriage, came up to Qin Chuyu, and smiled gently, "Seventh young master, I'm here to pick you up."
Qin Chuyu asked, "Is my sister-in-law here?"
The junior eunuch was stunned for a moment and then replied with a smile, "The Young Madame… is unable to come today because something came up all of a sudden. She had this humble servant pick you up instead."
Qin Chuyu was extremely depressed, "She promised to pick me up herself… how could she break her word?"
The junior eunuch hurriedly said, "The Young Madame didn't break her word. To tell the truth, the Young Madame went to buy sesame cakes for young master. Didn't young master say he loved the sesame cakes last time?"
Qin Chuyu was relieved when he heard that she was buying him snacks, "That's fine then, let's go first!"
Qin Chuyu and Little Jing Kong were both ready to get into the carriage, but Xu Zhouzhou hesitated.
After he was brought home and beaten by his father back then, his father lectured him harshly and forbade him to go to the palace to make trouble again.
So now, he was a little afraid to go.
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