Chapter 359: Please greet us according to our Princess’s time.
The Crown Princess of Jin beckoned to Xingqing, “Xingqing, come, I’ll send you back to your residence.”
Xingqing ignored Shen Ruolan and immediately boarded the Crown Princess of Jin’s carriage.
Shen Ruolan watched helplessly as Xingqing left in someone else’s carriage, and couldn’t help but feel dejected: Xingqing had become distant from her after all.
Liang Ting ignored them and rode away directly!
Wen Ruiqing also got into his own carriage and directly asked the coachman to drive the carriage away, without waiting for Shen Ruolan.
By the time Shen Ruolan came back to her senses and wanted to get into the carriage, the carriage had already gone far away, leaving her alone standing in the cold wind!
Shen Ruolan came back to her senses and hurried to chase, “Husband, wait for me! I haven’t gotten into the carriage yet! Husband.”
However, the more she chased, the faster the carriage ran. She stumbled and fell forward to the ground.
Shen Ruolan’s tears immediately fell!
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Her daughter ignored her!
Her husband didn’t want her anymore!
The heavy palace gate closed, and there was no one on the street. Shen Ruolan was scared. She quickly got up and ran back to the Princess’s Residence against the cold wind.
Back at the Princess’s Residence, the gate was tightly closed. She knocked hard, but no one came to open it.
The neighbors of the Princess’s Residence heard the commotion, and their gatekeepers came out to watch the excitement, wondering why the gate of the Princess’s Residence was not open for this second wife.
The more Shen Ruolan knocked, the more panicked she became, crying and shouting, “Husband, open the door, please open the door!”
By the time her hands were swollen from knocking, the gate finally opened.
Wen Ruiqing walked out with a dark face.
Shen Ruolan was both surprised and delighted to see his tear-stained face. She put on an ingratiating smile, “Husband!”
Wen Ruiqing directly threw a divorce document at her face, “An unworthy wife, an unfilial son, rebellious and unruly, impossible to discipline! Shen Shi is unworthy, you are divorced! From now on, you and I, Wen Ruiqing, have nothing to do with each other! Take the divorce document and get out! Don’t embarrass yourself at the Princess’s Residence anymore!”
Wen Ruiqing dropped these words and slammed the door shut.
Shen Ruolan held the divorce document with a look of disbelief. After a long while, she came back to her senses and knocked hard on the door, but no matter how hard she knocked, the tightly closed door never opened again!
In the dark night, in the cold wind, Shen Ruolan knelt directly in front of the gate of the Princess’s Residence, knocking on the door all night. Later, she fainted from the cold outside the gate.
Late at night, on the deserted street, a man in black appeared and took her away.
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Dawn broke, and Chu Tiankuo woke up half an hour later than usual.
Last night, after the two returned to their bedchamber, the joy of Xingnong’s wedding was ultimately affected by the mess caused by Princess Changle. Fortunately, it wasn’t Xingqing who had the accident, otherwise their wedding night would have been ruined! Even so, he had spent a long time coaxing her to forget about those upsetting things last night, tiring her so much that she couldn’t remember anything and only had him in her eyes and heart until dawn was approaching. She was so sleepy that she fell asleep as soon as they were done.
At this moment, looking at the person sleeping peacefully in his arms, his heart felt filled with something, extremely satisfied.
If someone were to ask him what the happiest thing in the world was, he would definitely answer that it was waking up every day and seeing the sweet sleeping face of the woman he loved as soon as he opened his eyes.
He didn’t move, just looked at her sleeping face like that. As he looked, he really wanted to kiss her, but he couldn’t bear to wake her up, so he just looked at her without blinking, and he didn’t get tired of looking at her for a long time, only feeling that he couldn’t get enough.
Until Yao Huang’s gentle knock on the door sounded outside, “Crown Prince, the Crown Princess should get up to pay her respects.”
Xingnong frowned, feeling extremely sleepy. She didn’t open her eyes, but just asked, “What time is it?”
Chu Tiankuo kissed her between the eyebrows and hugged her tightly, “The end of the Mao hour, you can sleep for another two quarters of an hour. We’ll go to pay our respects at the second quarter of the Chen hour, sleep a little longer.”
Both of them were quick and efficient people, and wouldn’t waste too much time on dressing up. A quarter of an hour was enough.
Besides, based on his understanding of the Empress Dowager, she was holding back her anger last night and would definitely deliberately make things difficult for them today. Going there so early would only result in being ignored, so it was better to sleep a little longer.
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Most importantly, he still wanted to hold her and didn’t want to get up.
It wouldn’t be too late to get up two quarters of an hour later!
Xingnong heard the end of the Mao hour and immediately opened her eyes. If it were usual, she could indeed sleep for another half an hour, but thinking of the Crown Princess’s palace attire and its complexity, it would take a lot of time to put on each piece, so she didn’t dare to sleep anymore.
“No, it’s time to get up.” Today, they had to offer tea to the Emperor, Empress, and Empress Dowager. If they were late, it would give the Empress Dowager an excuse to make things difficult for them.
Although Xingnong was not afraid of the Empress Dowager, she would not give her a chance to make things difficult for her.
Princess Changle had suffered such a big loss because of Xingqing yesterday, and the Empress Dowager must be holding back her anger. If she made a mistake during the tea ceremony today, wouldn’t it give her a chance to vent her anger?
Xingnong struggled to get up in his arms.
With the little person moving around in his arms, Chu Tiankuo, who was already a little restless, felt his breath quicken. He turned over and pressed her down, “Really, there’s no rush. Trust your husband, since we’ll be made things difficult for anyway, why hurry?”
Thinking about it this way, he felt his words made sense. He lowered his head and decided to be late to the very end.
Xingnong also felt that it made sense when she heard it. Yeah, no rush then!
Moaning sounds soon came from the room.
Outside, the palace maids holding copper basins and other toiletries, waiting for the two to get up and enter the room to serve them: “…”
After a quarter of an hour, Ruyi heard that the sounds inside showed no signs of stopping. Thinking of the two’s “battle” time last night, if she didn’t remind them, they would probably not get up until the sun was high in the sky. She anxiously glanced at Wei Zi and Yao Huang, who were calmly guarding the door, and whispered, “Sisters, should we remind the Crown Prince and Crown Princess that the time for paying respects is almost up?”
Wei Zi calmly shook her head, “No need.”
Yao Huang also had a calm expression, “Please greet us according to our Princess’s time.”
The Emperor said that the Princess was the Princess of Jin, and marrying into their Chu was a grievance to the Princess. No matter what the Princess did, whether it was right or wrong, they just had to accept it!
Besides, it was just a little late for the tea ceremony. As newlyweds, the Empress Dowager of Chu should be understanding if she was sensible!
Ruyi: “…”
Are all the palace maids from Jin so domineering?
However, she was not a palace maid from Jin. If the Crown Prince and Crown Princess were late to pay their respects, and the Empress or Empress Dowager blamed them, she, the head palace maid of the Eastern Palace, would not be able to escape!
At this time, a Momo from the Empress’s palace came to deliver a message. The Momo was extremely polite to the people from the Eastern Palace and said with a smile, “The Empress has sent this servant to deliver a message to the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. The Empress Dowager has not yet risen, so the two of you do not need to go over so early.”
Ruyi finally breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this.
She was not a palace maid from Jin and did not have the confidence of Yao Huang and Wei Zi. She was worried that the Empress Dowager would blame them for not waking up the Crown Prince and Crown Princess. Now that she had the Empress’s words, she felt relieved.
Chu Tiankuo heard the Momo’s words outside and understood that the Empress Dowager was indeed putting on airs. As a result, he became even more unrestrained.
