bestfiction Chapter 262 Sooner or later, one day he will be like us
Chapter 262 Sooner or later, one day he will be like us
Chapter 262 Sooner or later, you will be like us
Lin'an inner city, the gilded street.
This is the most prosperous street in the inner city. Different from the commercial nature of Shuntian Street, it is equivalent to a landscape because it is the only street leading from the inner city to the outer city, and it is also the road that people from the outer city must take after entering the inner city.
Because of its importance, this street was the first to be cleared. Not only were the rubble cleared, but even the stone slabs that were lifted up when the earth dragon turned over were replaced.
At this moment, the carriage of Prince Chen's Mansion was traveling on the Gilded Street at a very fast speed, heading straight towards the city gate.
Ye Chulian sat in the carriage, her eyebrows lowered, and she said nothing. She didn't ask why the carriage was running so fast, why the Fourth Prince who invited her for tea deliberately sent her maid away, and she didn't ask where she was going now. She just clenched a handkerchief in both hands, clenched it so tightly that her joints turned white, to relieve her tension.
Quan Qinghua sat opposite her, not saying anything, just staring at her. It was not until the carriage left the inner city and Ye Chulian heard the sound of the soldiers closing the city gates that she realized it was really late.
Finally, the carriage stopped, and the voice of the attendant Tianxing came from outside the carriage: "Master, we're here."
Quan Qinghua said "hmm" and was not in a hurry to leave. He just asked Ye Chulian: "If you are afraid, I will let this carriage take you back after I get off. Although the inner city has been closed, you can still enter and exit with my jade token."
Ye Chulian shook her head without even thinking about it, and said firmly: "I'm not afraid!"
"Are you not afraid?" He pondered for a while and then asked, "Then do you know why I asked you to come out?"
"Tea." She answered straightforwardly, "The Fourth Prince invited me to tea."
"What if not?"
"No, it's just tea." As she spoke, she stood up first, lifted the curtain of the carriage and walked out.
Tian Xing was startled, thinking that it would be his master who came out first! But it was Miss Ye Si who got out first. He quickly put the small stool in place, and then lent a hand to help Ye Chulian get out of the car. Then he saw Ye Chulian looking at the street, pointing at the teahouse in front of him and asked, "Is this the place?"
Tian Xing glanced at Quan Qinghua who had gotten out of the car, and when he saw his master nod, he said, "It's right here, in the private room on the second floor."
Ye Chulian lifted her skirt and walked in, leaving the waiter in the teahouse stunned.
Finally, the two of them sat down in the private room. The waiter served tea and brought in several candlesticks. Then Ye Chulian said, "I know why the Fourth Prince called me out. My second brother got into trouble and the Fourth Sister helped him to settle the matter, but you were angry. So nominally, you invited me out for tea, but in fact, you were telling me that you were very angry. If the Fourth Sister can't give you an explanation, I may not be able to go back. It's okay. Since I was born in the Ye family, I can't escape these things. I have been mentally prepared for this. The Fourth Prince doesn't have to have much psychological burden. I'm just a hostage. Life or death doesn't matter to me."
She drank the tea in her hand in one gulp, looking ready to die.
Seeing her like this, Quan Qinghua thought of the time when he learned that he was going to be sent to Guiyue Country. At first, he was not happy about it and even tried every way to resist. But later, he gave up. When someone mentioned Guiyue to him, he was indifferent and even talked about it with others, as if Guiyue Country was his home. Even on the day before leaving, he was still smiling and telling people that he would go to Guiyue if he had the chance, and that it was also a very beautiful country.
But he really had no choice at that time, and he was powerless to resist. But Ye Chulian was not like that, and he was not the kind of cruel person who could directly kidnap people. If Ye Chulian shook her head in the general's mansion, he would not take the person out.
But Ye Chulian was right. He took her out of the inner city because he was angry with Ye Wenyan. But he never thought that one day he would do such a thing and transfer his hatred for one person to another.
In the inner city of Lin'an, Ye Wenyan left home with Zhuier, and the coachman was Ji Duo.
When they arrived, they found the gate of the Prince Ren's Mansion wide open. The servant Pingyang, whom she had met twice before, was waiting at the gate. When he saw the carriage of the Ye family coming, he immediately stepped forward, respectfully waited for Ye Wenyan to get off the carriage, bowed respectfully, and then invited him into the mansion without asking any questions. Zhuier said something else: "Why does it seem like he was waiting for us specially?"
Pingyang then said, "It was indeed His Highness who sent me to greet you outside the door. His Highness said that the Fourth Miss would definitely arrive, so no matter how late it is, the door must be left open for her and I must wait outside. Fourth Miss, let's go this way. His Highness is in the study."
Ye Wenyan followed Pingyang all the way to the inner courtyard. As they walked, they heard a woman crying, as if she was begging for something.
Zhuier asked, "Is there a fight going on in the mansion? Are the concubines of the Third Prince fighting?"
Pingyang shook his head, "It's not a fight, it's an expulsion. His Highness ordered that all the concubines and maids in the inner courtyard be sent out of the palace, and given silver and indentures, and sent out of the inner city to live in peace. From now on, as long as they stay close to Prince Ren's Palace, they can do whatever they want."
Zhuier was puzzled, "Why is this?"
Pingyang glanced at Ye Wenyan, and seeing that Ye Wenyan had no intention of speaking, he just said to Zhuier, "Because His Highness doesn't like them, and doesn't want them to stay in the mansion and be an eyesore, and he doesn't want them to annoy the people he cares about."
"Someone you care about? Could it be that the Third Prince is going to marry a wife? So he is cleaning up the backyard?"
As they were talking, the noisy people had come very close, about ten steps away, and could be vaguely seen with the help of the lantern. As for the words they said while crying, they could hear them more clearly. Most of the concubines were still just crying, and at most they said that they didn't want to leave and begged His Highness to let them stay. But there was only one person who was making the most noise and said the most. The woman was being held by the guards in the palace, and was shouting desperately, "I won't leave! Why should we leave? We are legitimate concubines in the Renwang Palace. Even if we are not concubines, at least we are still women. We can carry on the family line for the Third Prince. We can openly follow the Third Prince out and walk on the street together. Why should we give way to the Second Young Master Na Ye? Isn't his status in the Renwang Palace enough? Although he hasn't moved in, who in the palace doesn't listen to him? Even the prince's secret guards are at his disposal. He can come and go as he pleases in this palace. There is no defense against him in any corner. Isn't that enough? Why are you driving us away now? He just can't tolerate us?"
Zhuier stroked her forehead, damn, she was wrong again.
As she was cursing, the man came closer. The concubine looked up at Ye Wenyan, lost in thought for a moment, and subconsciously said, "Isn't it because of the Second Young Master Ye? Is it because of you? Yes, you are so beautiful, you are indeed qualified to occupy this palace alone." She laughed as she spoke, laughing like a madman, "But you have to be careful, this palace is not decided by the prince, but by the Second Young Master of the First-Rank General's Mansion. You can't enter the prince's study, but the Second Young Master of the First-Rank General's Mansion can. If you want to gain a foothold here, the first thing you have to learn is to endure, not to endure other women, but to endure a man. Because in the heart of our prince, there is only that Second Young Master. He wants to give him the entire palace, and even more to give him his heart. Look at us, we are living examples! Each of us has been favored by the prince, and we were all his favorite concubines. But we have been in the palace for so many years, but there is not a day that we don't live under the shadow of that person."
Perhaps because of her emotions, the women behind her began to recount the so-called sufferings they had endured over the years. Every word they said was about the Second Young Master Ye, and every word they said was to persuade Ye Wenyan to stay away from Prince Ren's Mansion, otherwise he would end up like them sooner or later.
Pingyang couldn't stand it anymore, and yelled at the guards: "Why don't you take them away quickly? What are you doing here? If you disturb the Fourth Miss Ye, none of us can take the responsibility!" The concubines understood, "You are not a newcomer in the mansion, you are the most beautiful woman in Lin'an, the Fourth Miss of the Ye family! You are the sister of the Second Young Master Ye!" Now they found the real culprit. The one who cursed the most jumped up and rushed forward, but she was held tightly by the guards and couldn't leave the place. She cried angrily, "I finally entered the palace, and I didn't live a rich life for a few years before I ended up like this. None of you Ye family members are good people!"
Zhuier got angry after hearing this and was about to retort, but was stopped by Ye Wenyan. She looked at the woman with heavy makeup and thin clothes and shook her head, "A woman who can really stand in a place like the palace should not be like you. You don't have to vent your anger on my second brother. Even if my second brother didn't exist, someone like you wouldn't have any future in the palace, and it's even impossible for you to stay in the palace forever. Although I don't have much friendship with the Third Prince, his vision is not so bad. Look for the reasons from yourself first. If you really want to survive in a place like this for a long time, you should definitely not study how to wear thinner clothes or how to put on thicker makeup. If you don't even understand this, even if my second brother didn't exist, the future wife will still drive you out of the palace."
"Impossible!" the woman shouted, "The prince can have many favorites. Even if the principal wife comes into the house, she can't control the man taking concubines."
Ye Wenyan nodded, "I can't control a man's concubines, but I have the power to check the quality of concubines. After all, no princess can afford to lose face like this, facing a woman like you in the backyard all day long."
After saying that, she looked at the people behind her. All of them were wearing heavy makeup and looked very seductive. She really couldn't understand the Third Prince's preferences. Why were all the women who came to the mansion like this?