Chapter 612 Daily Life in the Prince's Mansion
It was almost dawn.
The Crown Princess Sun, along with a few personal maids, hurried to the door of the study. Seeing that it was still pitch black inside without a trace of light, she asked for a food box from her left and right and prepared to go in and help the Crown Prince change his clothes and have his meal.
Ever since the Long Gen case, the prince has been living alone in his study, served day and night by several eunuchs, and he never allows maids or servants to approach him at will.
On ordinary days, even the Crown Princess did not dare to disturb his "peace" in the morning or evening.
The reason why I have made an exception and come here now is that this morning, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will represent the court to go outside the East Gate to welcome Sun Shaozong's triumphant return.
This was the first time that the crown prince had independently taken on an "important responsibility" since he came of age, and in the eyes of many court officials, this was also an important indicator that the emperor wanted the crown prince to take over.
Therefore, after the decree was issued, the status of the Prince's Mansion in the court suddenly rose a lot.
In addition, the prince has always loved his great-grandson Shaozong's talent and courage, and his triumphant return to the capital this time made the prince even more excited.
The Crown Princess arrived early, hoping to take advantage of this double blessing to ease the increasingly tense relationship between the couple.
This is a good idea, but unfortunately...
"Please stay, madam."
Just as the Crown Princess arrived not far from the door, a skinny and short figure suddenly flashed out from the shadows on both sides, and said in a shrill voice, "Your Highness has already set out before dawn. Now, only the servants are serving inside and outside the study."
"Your Highness has already set off?!"
The Crown Princess was stunned when she heard this, and the light in her beautiful eyes dimmed.
Because Sun Shaozong's proposal was leaked, the prince has replaced many servants in the mansion in the past two years in order to run the prince's mansion like an iron wall.
The Crown Princess had also given her full support to this, but she had never imagined that in the end, this kind of strict guard treatment would fall upon her - as the mistress of the Crown Prince's Mansion, she had not even received the news that the Crown Prince had left in advance. If she told this to others, I'm afraid no one would believe it!
Why is there such coldness between husband and wife?
For a moment, the Crown Princess felt quite disheartened. She was about to return with the food box, but when she saw the young eunuch blocking the door and seeming to be quite wary of her, all the resentment in her heart surged out.
"Why?"
She narrowed her eyes, looked at the young eunuch with a haughty look and said, "Since the Crown Prince is not in the palace, I cannot enter this study room?"
The Crown Princess was usually known for being approachable in the palace, but when she got slightly angry, she had a domineering aura.
The young eunuch had originally relied on the prince's favor, and knew that the couple had a bad relationship and that the Crown Princess was a mistress in name only, so he had never taken her seriously.
But at this moment, facing the Crown Princess's anger, he could not help but soften his spine, tilted his shoulders and smiled flatteringly: "Your Majesty, what are you talking about? How dare I stop you? It's really that this room is a bit dirty, and I'm afraid I might accidentally bump into you."
"What a dog slave!"
The Crown Princess gave a delicate scolding and shouted, "How dare you say that His Highness's bedroom is filthy?!"
The young eunuch's face suddenly turned pale after accidentally dropping the handle. He knelt on the ground and was slapped on the face by two big slaps on both sides. He begged for mercy: "I was confused for a moment. Please forgive me, my lady, please forgive me!"
While begging, he touched the ground with his knees and moved his body away from the door.
What he was afraid of was not the Crown Princess, but the Crown Prince's moody personality - take this morning for example, it was clearly the Crown Prince who asked to be woken up early, but after being woken up, he instead became furious and tortured the little eunuch half to death!
Seeing that the eunuch had wisely given way, the Crown Princess was too lazy to even look at him. She just passed the food box behind her and said calmly, "Light the lamps in front."
Two little maids immediately stepped out from the crowd, holding lanterns in a shape of eight, lighting the way to the study.
The Crown Princess walked slowly into the study room. Before she could see the layout of the room clearly, she smelled a pungent fishy odor.
Subconsciously, she raised her hands to cover her mouth and nose, but suddenly she heard the maid holding the lamp on her left exclaim, "Madam, what do you see?!"
As it spoke, the lantern shone into a corner of the house.
And the next second, there were several high-pitched screams:
"ah!"
"Blood! It's blood!"
"Why is there blood in the study?!"
It turned out that the black and red area in the corner was flashing a sticky color under the light. If it wasn’t blood plasma, then what could it be?
The Crown Princess was also surprised at first, but soon calmed down and calmly ordered: "What are you all standing there for? Why don't you help His Highness clean up."
The maids and servants pushed each other around for a while, and finally a few brave ones took out their sweeping tools and carefully cleaned up the pool of blood.
Then someone dug out the incense burner and lit a few sticks of fine sandalwood.
Just like this, after a lot of ups and downs, the smell in the room finally became a little fresher.
The Crown Princess had a chair placed near the window and sat down on it with dignity and grace, watching the red sun gradually rising outside the window, with mixed feelings in her heart.
The prince was quite naughty in the beginning. After the Long Gen case, he appeared to have restrained himself a lot, but secretly he became even worse. In the past two years alone, there were more than 20 to 30 servants who "went missing" in the mansion.
Therefore, sometimes the Crown Princess would have some doubts. Letting such a prince ascend to the throne might not be a good thing for the country and the court, right?
But she was a virtuous woman after all, and even if she had some hesitations in her heart, she would not openly go against her husband.
Besides, how many deposed princes had a good ending since ancient times?
And what will be the fate of the families of the deposed princes?
Alas~
There is no use thinking about these things.
Anyway, Lord Sun is about to return to the capital. I just hope he can persuade the prince not to do such cruel things again.
Thinking of Sun Shaozong, the Crown Princess's face suddenly flushed. She subconsciously put her hand on the imitation Tang-style hezi, holding up the Fenglong that was filled with loneliness.
But immediately, she took her hands away from her chest as if she had been electrocuted.
Two years of loneliness have made some things that should have been forgotten long ago become more fresh...
Phew!
Why are you thinking about all this for no reason?
The Crown Princess spat quietly, driving those annoying fantasies out of her mind, and ordered someone to find the tea set, clean it, and brew a cup of strong almond tea.
When it cooled down , not knowing whether she was anxious to extinguish the heat in her heart, or to quench the thoughts and distractions that were secretly growing...
