"Why did the tea-serving go wrong?"
The two of them left the courtyard. Fuling was just happy that her son-in-law had given face to her prince, but she was stunned when she heard her say this.
She whispered in dissatisfaction: "Everyone makes mistakes. Do we always have to care about such trivial matters?"
Her prince had just married and had just been humiliated by her parents-in-law. Was he going to be held accountable by her husband without any reason?
Fuling felt aggrieved for Li Qingwu when she thought about it, and the good impression she had just risen fell in an instant.
The faint smile on Li Qingwu's face also froze for a moment, and then he looked at Qiu Che.
Qiu Che didn't look back, and said lightly: "I know you are not a reckless person. You got up so early to serve tea, how could your hands suddenly shake and spill the tea."
"...What did he say to you?"
Li Qingwu was silent.
Fuling didn't expect that she meant this, and immediately pursed her drooping mouth corners and looked at Li Qingwu with the same worry.
The other person twisted her sleeves with her fingertips for a long while, and said calmly: "When he took the tea, he touched my hand." She
also smiled and said: "He looks good."
Li Qingwu accidentally spilled some tea.
Liu immediately became unhappy.
But Qiu Chudong still pretended to say that nothing happened. When she helped her up, she looked meaningful and whispered that Li Qingwu was now married to a fake man, which was equivalent to a living widow, so she might as well serve Qiu Zhe.
Qiu Chudong knew that Qiu Che was a woman?
It was not until this time that Li Qingwu's face changed drastically. He subconsciously stretched out his hand to push the other person away, and blurted out: "How insolent!"
Qiu Chudong was caught off guard and was pushed by her, and his expression became ugly.
Fuling went forward to help Li Qingwu, so he argued with him.
Qiu Che gritted his teeth, not knowing whether to feel ashamed of Qiu Chudong's stupidity or guilty for Li Qingwu being humiliated for no reason again.
"What if I hadn't come today?" Qiu Che stared into her eyes, "You just let him point at you and scold you?"
"A woman obeys her father at home and her husband after marriage - he is your father. I am already married, if I have a big fight with my parents-in-law on the first day of my marriage... it will make my father feel embarrassed."
Li Qingwu whispered.
"Moreover, I don't want to embarrass you."
"He is sure of your thoughts, and he dares to humiliate you so blatantly." Qiu Che took a deep breath, turned around and continued to walk back.
"You don't need to come to pay your respects to them in the future. Even if you meet them accidentally, you don't need to give them any face."
"But..." Li Qingwu frowned, "He... is your father after all."
Qiu Che said coldly: "I don't have a father anymore."
It started from the last life when he personally delivered the bowl of poison to himself for Qiu Zhe's career.
"Your body and hair are from your parents." Li Qingwu couldn't help but persuade, "I know you don't have a good relationship, but after all, he also knows that you are..."
Because Fuling was there, Li Qingwu didn't finish the rest of the words, but paused and continued, "He knows about that. If you have a falling out with him, and he turns around and tells others about this, what should you do?"
"If he says it, will others believe it?"
What's more, telling others is a serious crime of exterminating the nine clans.
Qiu Chudong is stupid, but not so stupid that he doesn't even know this.
Unless he is desperate and his life is in danger, he will not easily confess that Qiu Che is dressed as a man.
This is also one of the reasons why Qiu Che has not yet killed the father and son.
She only knows that Qiu Chudong and Qiu Zhe both know that she is a girl, but she doesn't know when Qiu Zhe found out.
If Qiu Zhe knows it now, Qiu Zhe can't force him too hard.
Before she has enough confidence to get out of it, before she finds the capital crime evidence that can kill the father and son with one blow - she can only go crazy and say a few poisonous words, but she can't really do anything to them.
She still has some sense of propriety.
There is no way, the situation is limited, and her voice is not taken seriously.
Although she does not intend to live her whole life as a man, she is not yet at the stage of having the final say. She is already at a disadvantage, and she does not know how many eyes are staring at her.
In her previous life, marrying a princess was an accident. The court officials laughed at her absurd behavior. In addition, she was silent for three years, and no one took her seriously.
But now she is amending the law, confronting the court officials, touching the interests of the aristocratic family, and vaguely standing on the opposite side of Wu Xiang.
Just when she was in the limelight in the capital, she asked for an order to marry the most favored eldest princess who was so-called "mutually in love". The wedding was even attended by the emperor.
Everyone was secretly staring at her.
Those greedy, jealous, and panic eyes wanted to immediately catch her handle and pull her down from the altar she had just ascended.
She couldn't expose her disguise as a man too early, because it would only put her in a deeper predicament.
Fortunately, the situation is temporarily controllable, so it's okay to go crazy occasionally to make herself feel better.
Li Qingwu was not aware of her thoughts, he just pursed his lips and said gently: "We should always be prepared for the worst."
"Do you want me to be polite to him in the future?" Qiu Che paused and turned to look at her.
Li Qingwu was speechless: "That's not what I meant. It's just that I don't want you to have a conflict with your father because of these little things..."
As they were talking, the two had already walked to the door of Lianzhu Pavilion.
The yard was still decorated with lights and there were many happy characters on the windowsills and doorways.
Yuming was cleaning up the fireworks and firecrackers that had fallen on the ground in the yard with a broom.
Qiu Che didn't say anything, opened the door and walked in, passing by Yuming directly.
As soon as the other party saluted them, Qiu Che had already walked over like a gust of wind:
"Don't sweep, let's go."
Yuming asked hurriedly: "Where are you going?"
"Back to the courtyard."
Just came back yesterday to get married, and are you leaving today?
Yuming didn't understand, but still said yes, threw down the broom, and called Yuyan to pack up.
Li Qingwu followed Qiu Che into the house and saw her packing up her suitcases. Without saying a word, he asked anxiously, "Are you... angry?"
Qiu Che paused while packing her things: "I have a name."
"... ah?"
"If you don't mind, you can just call me Qiu Che," seeing Li Qingwu's hesitation, Qiu Che thought for a moment and said, "You can also call me Aning."
"Why?"
"Xining is my courtesy name. My mother gave it to me," Qiu Che said, adding, "My dear mother."
It should be said that it was given to me in my previous life.
A man in Daxia is twenty years old. At the ceremony of the ceremony, whether there is a banquet or not, his father will give him a courtesy name.
But at her courtesy ceremony, Qiu Chudong was busy with wine and women, and she didn't even remember that there was a "son" waiting for him to give her a courtesy name.
Not to mention any banquet.
In the end, Wang looked through the books and picked out two of the few characters she knew: Xining.
The implication is also very simple and straightforward: I hope she is in peace and health.
Li Qingwu was indeed stunned when he heard this: "But... aren't you still under 20 this year?"
Qiu Che said casually: "I thought about it a long time ago. Is there a problem?"
Li Qingwu shook his head and said: "In this case, don't always call me 'Your Highness'. My father and others always call me Lehe... Why don't you just call me Qingwu."
Qiu Che nodded, and then answered her question: "I'm not angry, I'm just thinking - I'll answer you now."
"From my point of view, I don't regard him as my father. If he makes me unhappy, I will make him unhappy too."
Qiu Che said calmly, "You want us to reduce conflicts, which is impossible. First of all, his personality cannot be changed immediately. Secondly, I can't bear it."
"I don't want you to bear it for me either."
"I don't want the allies who stand by my side in the future to swallow their anger against my enemies every day."
"You are the eldest princess. Even if you marry into the Qiu family, this has not changed."
"So take out your eldest princess's airs."
Qiu Che said.
"So what if you cause gossip? They are not ashamed, so what are you afraid of?"
Li Qingwu was silent after hearing this. She wanted to speak several times, but stopped.
It was probably the first time she heard someone say such words, the first time she heard someone advise her not to endure.
But didn't she endure it since she was a child?
If the other party was not Qiu Che's father, she would naturally not tolerate it like this, and would have poured the cup of tea in her hand on his head.
But the other party was.
Why must it be known to everyone if it can be passed by enduring?
In this era that is extremely harsh on women, people will not care whether the father-in-law is the first to do something unfaithful to the daughter-in-law, but will focus on her who is more eye-catching.
Because she is young, noble, and beautiful.
And she is a woman.
So all the accusations, whether it is true or not, will eventually focus on her.
Li Qingwu was imprisoned in the deep palace and heard too many tragedies like this.
But at this moment, facing Qiu Che's handsome face, she was suddenly speechless.
At this moment, she clearly felt the huge gulf between them.
It was not the length of time or the distance.
But even if they were face to face, they were still two completely different thoughts far apart.
Because they had never experienced it, because they had been dressed as boys since they were young... So even if they sympathized with women and empathized with women, they didn't know that women had to be extremely careful in this world in order to live in peace and tranquility without being gossiped about behind their backs.
Qiu Che's courage to step out of the house was already beyond their reach.
But Li Qingwu suddenly didn't want to say it.
These difficulties and pains were not what Qiu Che needed to experience.
She was free and free like this now...
It was also good.
At the end, Li Qingwu sighed lightly.
She didn't say anything more, but changed the subject and said, "If you must leave..."
Qiu Che looked up at her.
"Why not go to my princess's mansion?"
Qiu Che stepped into the mansion again.
It had been nearly ten years since she last left here, across two time and space.
In the previous life, Qiu Che was afraid that sleeping next to Li Qingwu would annoy her, so he stayed in the study every day.
The rumor that Li Qingwu was not loved by her husband also came from this.
But by the time Qiu Che heard about it, it was already too late.
At that time, she had just had a quarrel with her father and decided to let Li Qingwu go to the south of the Yangtze River.
When she mentioned it to Li Qingwu, the other party did not hesitate and agreed directly.
Qiu Che naturally thought that she hated herself.
She couldn't say to Li Qingwu at this time, in order to save your reputation, why don't we pretend to be in love and sleep together for a few days?
So the matter ended in vain.
But in this life, they have to hide it from the emperor's eyes and pretend that the two of them are in harmony.
Qiu Che and Li Qingwu tacitly did not mention the matter of separate rooms.
Before Qiu Che got familiar with the scenery of this old place, the two of them had to tidy up and go to the palace to pay their respects to the emperor and empress. On
the second day of the royal family's marriage, after the bride offers tea to her parents-in-law, the couple will go to the palace to offer tea to the emperor and empress, and this is considered the completion of the wedding.
Before entering the palace, Li Qingwu warned Qiu Che: "I know you are straightforward, but the situation in the palace is no simpler than that in the court. You may meet other concubines or princes and princesses when you enter the palace this time. If you... are impatient to deal with them, just listen to me. Just bow and don't say anything."
Qiu Che wanted to say, am I so ignorant of etiquette?
But after thinking about it, he nodded indifferently.
After all, Li Qingwu is more familiar with the palace. With her as the guide, Qiu Che will indeed save a lot of trouble.
Li Qingwu breathed a sigh of relief and was about to speak, but saw Qiu Che looking around, thinking: "This sedan chair seems familiar."
Li Qingwu didn't know why she changed the subject so quickly: "Ah?"
Qiu Che said to herself: "On the day I entered the palace to participate in the palace examination, it seemed that there was also a sedan chair like this, which kindly sent me to the palace gate." Li Qingwu
blinked: "Really..."
Qiu Che smiled: "Yes. I asked the guard driving the carriage, which noble person was in the car? He was very impolite and asked me not to talk nonsense-
"Looking at it this way, it does look a bit like your secret guard... Fufeng?"
The sound of Fufeng whipping and training horses outside seemed to be a little louder.
Qiu Che seemed not to hear it and pretended to be surprised: "Could it be that not only is Miss Yue in the temple you, but the noble person who helped me that day is also you?"
Li Qingwu quickly lost in her eyes with a slight smile.
She tugged at her handkerchief and said depressedly: "It's me."
Qiu Che tilted his head slightly: "How could His Highness suddenly appear at the city gate? "
Li Qingwu lowered his eyes and said softly, "I happened to go out of town for an outing, and when I came back I met him, so I helped him... I didn't think it was you."
Really?
Qiu Che nodded, and didn't ask any more questions.
I don't know whether he believed it or not.
He entered the palace and was led by a little eunuch to the Jingyang Palace where the emperor was. He didn't meet anyone. It was not
until he was about to enter the palace that he saw two figures coming out of the palace door one after the other.
The leading one glanced at Li Qingwu with a strange look, and said slowly, "Hey, Sister Lehe is here to pay respects to the emperor?"
Li Qingwu calmly pulled Qiu Che's sleeve, stopped and saluted, with his eyebrows lowered, "Second brother, third brother."
It turned out to be the Crown Prince Li Hengmao and the Third Prince Li Hengyu, whom he had met at the Queen Mother's birthday banquet that day.
Qiu Che restrained his gaze and followed her to pay respect.
Li Hengmao glanced at Qiu Che, ignored her and Li Qingwu, with a proud face.
Li Hengyu, who was standing beside him, spoke for him like a lackey, grinning: "Lehe, you are married now, why do you pay respects later than us?"
He dragged out the last word, raised his chin, and said in a condescending tone, "Don't forget the rules just because your father loves you."
Qiu Che listened, his eyes moved slightly.
Is Li Qingwu's so-called favor so superficial?
Even the third prince, who was rumored to be a playboy and ignored, could be sarcastic to her.
Li Qingwu saw that she was tempted, so he held her, moved his lips, and said in a low voice: "Don't be impulsive."
Qiu Che looked back with her eyes, and was about to say that she didn't want to scold or hit anyone, but just wanted to say a few words for Li Qingwu.
If she had to swallow her anger every time she was ridiculed, wouldn't she become a soft bun that everyone could bully?
...What's the difference between her and her in her previous life?
But Li Qingwu obviously misunderstood her meaning. Instead, he looked straight at her and raised his hand to grab her arm to prevent her from suddenly breaking free.
Then he reminded her, "You agreed to listen to me."
They came today just to serve tea to the emperor and empress.
In front of the hall, Li Qingwu didn't want to conflict with the prince's people.
Qiu Che looked at her for a moment, and after a long while, he let out a frustrated breath and said, "Okay."
The third prince over there saw the two whispering and rolled his eyes, "It's only been one day since you got married, Lehe, my second brother and I are still here, you should restrain yourself."
Li Qingwu blushed, but did not refute, "...Yes."
The two of them laughed and left the hall.
"I know what you are going to say." Li Qingwu stood up, turned his head and smiled gently at Qiu Che, "But I'm used to it."
Used to... such days of being despised.
She grew up in the palace, and others may not be able to tell whether she is favored or not, but the Third Prince, who is also the adopted son of the Queen, and the Crown Prince, who is the legitimate son, not only live with her day and night, but also see her every day.
They know better than anyone whether Li Qingwu is favored or not.
But they are all princes.
This one point alone can outweigh all the grievances of Li Qingwu.
Due to the limitations of the dynasty and background, the personalities of the two heroines are actually not perfect. They are both growth-oriented and will support each other to become better.
I hope everyone will be tolerant first QAQ
I have already owed three more chapters of nutrient solution, and I will make up for
it when I have time. Due to changes in the author's work, the original nutrient solution extra chapter activity has been cancelled. Muah, everyone, thank you for your feeding during this period~