When Xue Yuan returned to the mansion, he took off these clothes on his body.
The blood from the wound had already clung to the clothing, Xue Yuan's face was expressionless as he exerted force violently, and the wound that had managed to stop bleeding violently popped out again.
The table in Xue Yuan's room was filled with imperial herbs. Of course, these medicinal herbs were not rewarded to him by Gu Yuanbai, but rather, Gu Yuanbai had sent someone to reward Second Prince Xue.
These medicinal herbs Xue Yuan also didn't use them, he just laid them out and kept them to look at.
Xue Yuan's breathing was rough, and after a few breaths, he had someone call for a doctor. He himself, on the other hand, glanced sideways and wanted to laugh when he saw a bloody mess behind him.
After being seriously injured and jumping into the lake, the lake water had soaked for so long that I guessed the wounds were going to rot.
But happy.
A thousand pieces of gold are hard to exchange for a happy master.
After a while, along with the doctor, there was also Mrs. Xue Yuan's mother, Mrs. Xue.
Mrs. Xue stood outside the door and said in a loud voice, "Xue Jiuyao, what the hell did you put under your bed!"
Mrs. Xue has always been gentle and sensible, in the Xue House is completely different existence. At this time, she let go of her voice and questioned with anger, and the boy in the house almost even dropped the bowl of medicine in his hand, and the whole person was confused.
Xue Yuan lazily said, "Jade pieces."
Mrs. Xue said angrily, "Is that a jade piece?"
"If I say it's a jade piece, it can only be a jade piece," Xue Yuan said, "Mother saw it?"
Mrs. Xue snorted coldly, "Not only did I see it, I threw it away. You can fool around as much as you want during the day, your father and I have never controlled you. But the Xue family ...... you are the eldest, how can you be like this? You are not young anymore, it has long been time to marry. Earlier in the northern border, I did not ask you to come back to marry. But now that you've returned from the Northern Border, in my opinion, it's still necessary for you to be betrothed, how old are you, how can you learn to be bad?"
Xue Yuan: "Can't throw it."
But these three words Mrs. Xue didn't hear, she couldn't stop herself from talking for a while longer, and at the end of her words, with tears in her eyes again, she took a handkerchief and wiped the corners of her eyes, "Good son, you be good. Mother will show you a good girl, and when you take the marriage, you will be more stable, and mother will feel relieved."
Xue Yuan laughed, "If you dare to marry me, I will dare to kill my wife."
Mrs. Xue's tears stopped immediately, and she was so angry that she turned around and was about to leave.
Xue Yuan raised his voice, "Remember to return it to me."
The doctor of the mansion was curious in his heart and did not hold back from asking, "The Grand Duke is now twenty-four, why is he still unwilling to take a wife?"
If the eldest prince doesn't take a wife, the second prince naturally can't take a wife either. Now with Xue Yuan's momentum, his reputation is so good, and with it, the second son of Xue's reputation stinks to the point where he probably won't be able to get a wife.
Xue Yuan closed his eyes and didn't answer.
When he smiles, his wit is exposed, and when he doesn't smile, he is much deeper. Xue Yuan looks handsome, but not the same as the capital of the handsome son of the boy, he has in the border for many years of military career, these years of war and the vast and desolate grassland, in his body formed both savage freedom and repressed gloomy contradictions, through a wave of evil and the sharp edge of the blade of the power.
Resounding manhood, iron bones of a good son, I am afraid that there is no lack of good daughters want to marry.
Seeing that the Grand Duke was unwilling to speak, the doctor stopped talking.
After a long while, Xue Yuan closed his eyes and said as if he was talking in his sleep, "Just be able to marry."
The doctor spoke kind words, "If Duke Xue wants to marry, in my opinion, there's no one he can't marry."
Xue Yuan smothered in his pillow and laughed twice, his shoulders and back moving, then raised his voice and said, "Someone, bring the reward silver. That's a good point, you can't not reward it!"
On the other end, as soon as the Prince of Harmony came back from His Holiness, he locked himself in his study with an ugly face and didn't come out until the night.
Early the next morning, the Prince Consort came to visit the Prince of Peace with a bowl of tonic soup, dutifully.
No one stood in front of the Prince of Harmony's door, it should be that the king had deliberately waved people away. The Prince Consort of Harmony had her maid go up and knock on the door, calling out, "Your Highness?"
No one answered the door.
The Prince Consort of Harmony's heart was strange, and with worry, she pushed open the door of the room. With a creak, a few rays of sunlight from outside threw themselves right through the doorway onto the floor of the study.
The doors and windows in the study were closed tightly, and the dimness was somewhat depressing. The Prince Consort received the tonic soup from the maid and went into the study by herself.
The study had two parts, inside and outside, and there was no one outside, Prince Consort of He turned to the inner room, and at a glance, she saw Prince He who was nestled on the bed sleeping.
Prince Consort He breathed a sigh of relief, and was about to put down the tonic soup, when she glanced at the wall facing the bed, but glanced at a painting hanging on the wall with a slight white light, which was really translucent, and seemed to be able to emit light in this dimly lit room.
A wave of curiosity welled up in the heart of the Prince Consort of Harmony, and as she softly walked over to take a look, she could vaguely make out what appeared to be a portrait of a person.
Who could this man be, a portrait that even the Prince of Peace would hang on his wall?
The light was so dim that the Prince Consort of Peace didn't see clearly who the person in the painting was until she was about to put it on.
But see clearly the moment, and the Prince Consort's hand is a tremor, the hands of the tonic soup "bang" a heavy fall on the ground.
The porcelain was split into pieces, the sound brought back the Prince Consort of He's shocked out-of-body mind, she took two hasty steps back, and when she turned around, she met the Prince of He's eyes.
The Prince of Harmony's eyes were green and black as he gathered the covers and sat up, looking sullenly at the Princess.
Princess Wang's heart and liver trembled violently, and the coldness in the bottom of her heart suddenly rose. The piece of tonic soup on the ground splashed woefully onto her skirt, and the pieces of meat in the tonic soup were trampled into mud in the panic, dirty and sticky.
The Prince of Harmony's line of sight passed through her side and saw it on the portrait hanging on the wall, "When the Princess came in, was there no one to inform her?"
Wangfei's voice trembled, her fingers shaking as she gripped the corner of her skirt, "Your Highness, there's no one outside."
Yes, after Prince He returned from Gu Yuanbai's place yesterday, he waved off his attendants and went into the study alone.
Because of the ghost in his heart, he dismissed the people outside the study far away as well.
Then alone, he took out this portrait.
This is not the two specious paintings taken from the hands of the son of the Marquis of Pingchang and the son of the Minister of the Household, but the Prince of Harmony has hired someone to re-draw a pair of paintings.
The paintings were so good that he didn't dare to look at them much during the day. After returning from Gu Yuanbai's place, Prince He originally wanted to tear these paintings up in a fit of rage, but once he saw the paintings, he still couldn't get his hands off them.
Finally finally gave up and hung the painting where it could be seen as soon as his eyes were raised, and the Prince of Harmony looked at the painting and fell asleep at some point.
The study was dimly lit, and not a peep was heard.
The Prince Consort of Peace was somewhat inexplicably alarmed. She felt as if she herself had discovered some extraordinary secret, but it was too unbelievable, so she subconsciously dismissed that idea.
But deep in his heart, he had begun to tremble with fear.
"Your Highness," the Prince Consort of Harmony tried her best to calm down, "Concubine ......"
The Prince of Harmony slowly said, "Your Highness, next time you are not allowed to step into the study without this king's permission."
The Prince Consort of Harmony responded extremely quickly, "Concubine knows."
"Go down." The Prince of Harmony said in a deep voice.
The Prince Consort of Harmony hurriedly walked out of the inner room with quick steps, the oiled meat on the soles of her feet making footprints on the floor. The more she walked, the more anxious she became, and in the end, she was even so scared that she raised her skirt and ran.
The door of the room rattled and closed, and a great deal of sunlight was again shut out. The Prince of Peace, who remained alone in the darkness, wrapped himself in the quilt, covered his head again, and lay down and closed his eyes.
It was during the evening meal that the Prince of Harmony came out from the middle of his study.
He changed his clothes, his eyes still green and black from lack of sleep.
On top of the dining table, no one dared to make a sound, and for a while only the sound of bowls and chopsticks colliding could be heard. After a while, the Prince of Harmony suddenly said, "His Majesty's birthday is at the end of September, the Prince of Harmony's House's birthday gift to His Majesty should be prepared now."
The crown princess carefully said, "My concubine has been preparing since two months ago. One hundred embroiderers are allowed to reside in the royal residence and are embroidering on a picture of brocade mountains and rivers."
When the late emperor was around, the Prince of Harmony personally prepared the birthday every year. But once the late emperor died and Gu Yuanbai came to power, the Prince of Harmony was too lazy to take care of these things. Gradually, the matter of preparing congratulatory gifts for His Majesty was taken care of by the Princess.
The Prince of Harmony listened and felt that there was no room for error or anything out of the ordinary, he frowned, "Is that all?"
Wangfei suddenly remembered the painting she saw in the middle of his study, her body shivered slightly, "Does Your Highness still feel that something is missing?"
How the princess would like to ask the king why he hung a painting of the saint in the middle of his study. Is it because of respect, or because you miss your brother?
But how could taking the painting be something an older brother should look at!
The princess was too timid to ask.
The Prince of Harmony hesitated for a moment, ''Forget it, that's all. What does His Majesty want that he doesn't have? Still care about a congratulatory gift from me, a small Prince of Peace?"
As he spoke, his anger rose vaguely, "I guess that Xue Mansion is more to his liking than my and the Prince's Mansion!"
When the master was angry, no one dared to make a sound. After a moment of silence, the Prince of Harmony uncertainly pressed the fire down, "Come on, go send someone to inquire about the Xue family's eldest son."
How can the Emperor take a detour.
Gu Yuanbai wouldn't like men, absolutely not. If he liked men, then someone else must be seducing him.
But if.
What if Gu Yuanbai really liked men?
Gu Yuanbai couldn't like men, how could he like men!
If he really liked men, then what was he, Gu Zhao?