To Hold One’s Joy

   Chapter 191 Return

  With Qing'er and the palace maid explaining, Cuihong's motive for assassinating the Crown Princess could not be more clear.

  Princess concubine ordered Cuihong to monitor Yuxuan, and promised Cuihong to become the prince's concubine.

   As a result, Cuihong exposed Shi Yuxuan, but changed to a worse place and continued to serve Yuxuan.

   Cuihong was dissatisfied with the Crown Princess for not fulfilling her promise, and out of resentment, she made an astonishing move to assassinate the Crown Princess.

   Wei Qiang's face was so gloomy that he could drip ink.

  On the one hand, he was annoyed by Cuihong's boldness, and on the other hand, he was annoyed by the crown princess's narrow-mindedness.

  In the past few years, the Crown Princess has never troubled Yuniang. He thought that the Crown Princess was generous, but who would have imagined that she would be so intolerant.

  Although he treats Yuniang differently from others, he still has the respect that should be given to the princess. How can such an imposing woman manage the Eastern Palace and be a good wife of the crown prince?

  He is just a prince now, if he takes that position in the future, as a queen, would he have to kill all the concubines in the harem to be satisfied?

  The more Wei Qiang wanted to get annoyed with the princess, the more he looked at Chao Hua who was kneeling silently, the anger caused by the child-avoiding medicine could not help but dissipated.

  Yuniang is the one left behind by Luo Er, even if what he did touched his heart, if he didn't protect her at all, he might be gnawed to the bone.

   "Get up first."

   Chaohua stood up, lowered her eyes and stepped aside.

  At this moment, a servant hurried in.

   "Your Highness, Cuihong has been found!"

   "Where is the person?"

   "In...an abandoned well..."

   There was a suppressed gasp.

  Wei Qiang was silent for a moment, and asked, "How did you find it? Did someone catch it?"

The servant replied: "The servants and others divided into several teams to search, and found a veil dropped on the ground when they passed a deserted well in a remote place, so they looked into the well, and vaguely saw something floating...the man fished it up, passed by I identified it as Cuihong."

   Concubine Xiao Gui opened her mouth: "It seems that Cui Hong hurt the Crown Princess impulsively, and then threw herself into the well out of fear of crime. Now that the matter is clear, I will go back first."

   "Imperial concubine—" Wei Qiang shouted, feeling a little helpless when he told Concubine Xiao to leave.

  If something like this happened in the East Palace, the Emperor Father would probably be dissatisfied.

   Concubine Xiao Gui smiled slightly: "This Palace only reports the truth found to the Emperor. As for the matter of the Crown Princess, Your Highness should go and tell the Emperor in person."

   "The imperial concubine, go slowly." Wei Qiang watched Xiao Guifei leave with a gloomy expression.

  The princess was chosen by the emperor. No matter what mistakes he made, he has no right to deal with it. Everything depends on the emperor's will.

  Wei Qiang pressed the center of his eyebrows, raised his foot and took two steps outside to stop, staring at Chao Hua displeasedly: "What are you still doing here?"

   Chao Hua trembled her eyelashes, and walked towards Wei Qiang step by step.

   When she approached, Wei Qiang said coldly: "Let's go."

   "Yes." Chaohua responded, and staggered forward.

   "Choose servant, be careful!" Qing'er, who was following behind Chaohua, quickly supported her.

   Wei Qiang's outstretched hand subconsciously hung in the air, quite embarrassed.

   Soon embarrassment was replaced by doubt.

   "Where's your bracelet?" Wei Qiang's eyes fell on Chaohua's arm that was being held by Qing'er.

   Wrists are empty.

   Chao Hua lowered his eyes and remained silent.

   "Say, where is your bracelet?"

   Chaohua still did not say a word.

  Qing'er knelt down: "Your Highness, the bracelet chosen by the attendant was taken away by the Crown Princess this morning!"

   Wei Qiang frowned when he heard this, and said sharply: "What happened in the morning, tell me carefully!"

  Qing'er boldly told the whole story.

   Wei Qiang's face was cloudy and he listened, and asked Nanny Gui: "Where is the bracelet that the Crown Princess took away?"

  Nurse Gui was still kneeling on the ground, tremblingly said: "The Crown Princess ordered the servants to put them away."

  In fact, the princess threw it to her casually so that she could put it away so that it would not be an eyesore.

   What the Crown Princess cared about was not a gold bracelet.

   "Return the bracelet to Yuxuan servant." Wei Qiang said coldly.

   At this time, Nanny Gui dared not twist it, and hurriedly went to get the bracelet.

   "Choose servant, your bracelet." Not long after, Nanny Gui held the bracelet and handed it to Chao Hua.

   Chaohua reached out to take it, and put the bracelet back on her wrist.

  The wrist is slender and fair, and the bracelet is bright and luxurious, complementing each other.

   "Thank you, Your Highness." She slightly knelt towards Wei Qiang.

  Wei Qiang hummed coldly, then walked out.

   Chaohua stroked the bracelet lightly, and silently followed.

  Wei Qiang went directly to Qianqing Palace.

   "Your Majesty, the prince is here."

  A majestic man put down the scroll: "The prince please come in."

   Not long after, Wei Qiang walked in, knelt down and said, "The son apologizes to the emperor."

  Emperor Yong'an stared at Wei Qiang for a moment, then said calmly: "Get up and talk."

   Wei Qiang stood up.

   "Why did Qiang'er plead guilty?"

  Wei Qiang was full of shame, and talked about the princess: "What happened in the East Palace is because the son didn't discipline him well. This alarmed the father, the son is really ashamed..."

  Emperor Yong'an didn't comment on the Crown Princess' actions, but only asked: "How is the Crown Princess' face injured?"

  Wei Qiang paused for a moment, then said: "The imperial physician said that the wound was too deep, and the skin was damaged, and there might be scars."

  Emperor Yong'an was silent for a while, and said lightly: "I understand, you should step back first."

   Wei Qiang's heart skipped a beat, not sure what Emperor Yong'an meant.

  The concubine concubine schemed against the concubine and caused the assassination disaster. In a big way, it is a lack of virtue and lack of stamina.

   To put it mildly, it’s nothing.

  Father asked about the injury on the princess's face, could it be that he wanted to wait to see if the princess was disfigured before deciding whether to stay or not?

  Thinking about this, Wei Qiang left Qianqing Palace with complicated emotions.

   In the next few days, the East Palace was not peaceful.

  Prince Princess woke up and found out that the matter of instigating Cui Hong had been known to the Prince, and the burning pain on her cheek reminded her of the possibility of disfigurement, and she was always on the verge of collapse.

  The broken porcelain in the bedroom was swept out batch after batch.

  Compared with it, that remote courtyard is much calmer.

   "Choice servant, why does the prince still let you live here? He already knows that the concubine ordered Cui Hong to harm you." Qing'er asked puzzled.

   Chao Hua smiled: "Because I did make a mistake. If I made a mistake, I will naturally be punished."

  Qing'er still didn't quite understand, looking at the stone bench in the courtyard where Cui Hong had sat, she asked anxiously, "Then will we live here forever?"

   "No." Chaohua answered calmly.

  The technique of disguise is not an immortal spell. It is not difficult to disguise yourself as a person who does not exist in this world, but to disguise yourself as a specific person, you must have similar body and facial contours.

  For example, Cuihong is similar in stature and face shape to her.

   And she changed Qing'er into Lianfang instead of other maids around the princess, and it was the same reason.

  The palace is strictly forbidden, and the eunuchs who are in charge of going out to buy things from the palace travel in groups, and they need to have a special waist card to be released. Trying to sneak out of the palace through this method is tantamount to nonsense.

  The chance for her to leave the palace still falls on that man.

   Fortunately, she has endured for twelve years. She has nothing else but the most patience.

  The matter of the East Palace is not very glorious, and it has not been spread outside the palace.

  Luo Sheng was preparing to go to the wine shop that day, when Governor Luo sent a message: Luo Chen has arrived.

  Thanks to tsubaki for the reward of 10,000 coins, and thanks to the book friends who voted for the reward. See you tomorrow.

  (end of this chapter)