Chapter 349 The Greatest Publicity
“Prince, you really want to go to Duke Xing’s Mansion to propose marriage?” Xiao Xuanzi asked anxiously. He followed Chu Liuchen and saw his owner ordered a few ornaments randomly.
“I don’t go!” Chu Liuchen said. He put his hands on his back and walked a few steps.
“Then why do you find this kind of women’s ornaments?” Xiao Xuanzi asked puzzledly. This was a private storehouse in the palace of his master and the things in it were given by the n.o.bles in the palace. Each one in it was of amazing value.
However, his master never cared about them and even didn’t like to take them out of the mansion. Some of them were thrown directly into the private storehouse in the palace. And he didn’t come to see them in daily life.
“She kept that fat cat for me, so I have to pay for her labor!” Chu Liuchen casually picked up a box and looked at it, in which there was a pair of blood jade bracelets. “This pair is good. Keep it!”
When he heard that this was for Qin Wanru, Xiao Xuanzi immediately had energy and took out some boutique things in the corner. These were all specially put aside by Xiao Xuanzi. He originally wanted to leave them to his female master. Before Chu Liuchen said that it was for Qin Wanru, Xiao Xuanzi didn’t plan to take them out.
After Chu Liuchen picked a few more, he walked out of the private storehouse. Xiao Xuanzi locked the door of the private storehouse quickly and took out some of the picked accessories and followed Chu Liuchen to go out.
“Is master going to send someone to reward Second Miss? I am free and can go!” Xiao Xuanzi asked for help actively.
“I have something for you to do!” Chu Liuchen said slightly.
“What’s the matter, Prince?” Xiao Xuanzi froze and asked quickly.
“Of course there is something that I need to do. You take something randomly to Duke Xing’s Mansion and ask for me when the First Miss in their mansion will come back.”
Chu Liuchen said with some deep meanings.
“Master, you don’t plan to marry the Miss from Duke Xing’s Mansion, but you send things to her. Do you want her to be a concubine?” Xiao Xuanzi didn’t understand him.
“I don’t want her to come into my mansion!” Chu Liuchen said slightly and his handsome lips tickled, feeling very interesting.
The more Chu Liuyue wanted to hide, the more he wanted to make it public.
“Yes, then I will go to the Duke Xing’s Mansion. So who will send these things to Second Miss?” Xiao Xuanzi felt that he actually wanted to go to Ningyuan Army General’s Mansion more.
“I have n.o.body but you?” Chu Liuchen raised up his eyebrows.
“No… I am just afraid that master couldn’t find a suitable person!” Xiao Xuanzi said with a smile.
“Have Imperial Grandmother let her go?” Chu Liuchen suddenly stood still and looked in the direction of Empress Dowager’s Palace of Benevolent Peace.
“It is said that the Second Miss has gone. Empress Dowager also specially gives Second Miss Qin many gifts and asks some palace maids to send her out of the door. Many people in the palace said that Second Miss Qin had won the affection of Empress Dowager and was very lucky.” Xiao Xuanzi reported what he had heard to Chu Liuchen.
There was a smile on Chu Liuchen’s handsome face, and he coughed in a low voice. He seemed to be very satisfied. The affection and attention from Imperial Grandmother were more suitable than his own attention on her.
“Master, please take a break first. You need to take medicine for a while!” Xiao Xuanzi stepped forward quickly and reached out his hands to help him.
“Medicine?” Chu Liuchen stood still and calmed himself and asked.
“Yes, it’s a new medicine. Master, Doctor Qi said that if you go to see the doctor regularly, you would be better. But if you… are still like this…” Xiao Xuanzi wanted to persuade him but he was afraid of saying something wrong. He couldn’t organize his way of saying this at once so he was so anxious that he sweated heavily.
Others didn’t know his master but he knew. His master was sick in heart and the most serious sickness of him was also the sickness in his heart. Doctor Qi had said that if his master did not have the idea of living, even the G.o.d could not save him. The person who could save his master was his master himself.
This was also one of the main reasons why Xiao Xuanzi particularly liked Qin Wanru.
He felt that when his master stayed with Second Miss Qin, he was like a living person. All his joys and sorrows were free to be expressed instead of being conveyed according to different situations and distinct people and being as sorrowful as his heart had died.
Even the medicine was casually taken if he wanted to take it. And when he didn’t want to take it, he would refuse to do so!
“A new medicine?” Chu Liuchen raised up his eyes.
“Yes, it’s new. Doctor Qi said that if you always agreed to take it, you would be okay. Although you have been sick from childhood, you have always been practicing martial arts, which is great for your recovery!” he said quickly. Xiao Xuanzi was afraid that Chu Liuchen would not listen to him, so he hurriedly promised when his master was in a good mood.
“Come and get the medicine!” Chu Liuchen said lightly.
“Ah…” Xiao Xuanzi was stunned because he thought that he had to persuade for a long time. And he didn’t know whether his master would agree or not.
The result was so simple that Xiao Xuanzi suddenly didn’t believe that he could be so lucky.
“Since I have decided to let the little girl follow me. I wouldn’t let her be a widow!” Chu Liuchen said casually. His words sounded not very true and he even felt funny when he said it. He even thought that whether it was possible or not.
Considering the idea of his Imperial Grandmother to him, if something happened to him, it would be possible for her to force this little girl to be a widow. Although they didn’t have a relations.h.i.+p now, if he couldn’t get up from bed and was about to pa.s.s away, Imperial Grandmother would definitely ask Qin’s Mansion to agree with this marriage. It was also very unreasonable for his Imperial Grandmother to be arbitrary.
Therefore, it was reasonable to use this reason to explain and he thought that he had believed it!
“Yes, yes, this is the reason. Even if you don’t think for yourself, you have to think for Second Miss Qin!” Xiao Xuanzi was so happy that he almost cried.
“I am not willing to die like this. Those people are all right!” Chu Liuchen smiled and his handsome eyes looked at the sky. There was darkness in his cold and cruel eyes. That place was not the Palace of Benevolent Peace lived by Empress Dowager. His glance made Xiao Xuanzi frightened. The location seemed to be the place where the emperor lived?
“When you went to Duke Xing’s Mansion and asked about Shao Yanru, if anyone asked me why I suddenly asked about her, you said that I thought she was pretty when I saw her portrait at my eldest brother’s place.”
Chu Liuchen held back the smile in his eyes and waved his hands very elegantly.
Chu Liuyue thought what he did was secretive, so he wanted everyone to see it. What the royal most disliked was that two men competed for one woman, especially the brothers of the royal family. He wanted to see how Chu Liuyue joined hands with Duke Xing’s Mansion. And he would not be afraid of their cooperation, for the support of Duke Xing’s Mansion was not Chu Liuyue.
Besides, there was also Chu Liuzhou.
The bigger the thing was, the better it would be.
Prince Chen sent a servant to present gifts to Duke Xing’s Mansion and asked that First Miss Shao who always had a good reputation especially. Many aristocratic families got the news and they wondered if Prince Chen wanted to marry this First Miss Shao at that time. If this was true, everyone thought it was a pity for this First Miss Shao.
Such a beautiful and talented Miss was only loved by Prince Chen. What a pity it was!
Not to mention the ident.i.ty of Prince Chen was very embarra.s.sing, the body of him was so weak that he couldn’t live for many years. Who wanted to marry him! Even if someone married him, she would not be good in the future. If she did not have any child, she would be a lonely widow no matter how rich she was. Or if she had a child, that would also not be a good thing.
No matter who inherited the throne in the future, his son would be a taboo because basically, Chu Liuchen was the orthodox royal prince and no one knew when some of the old officials of the former emperor would come out and wanted to maintain the throne of him. That would be a great battle then. So the best way was to kill all his sons when they were young.
They reason why Chu Liuchen could live to now was not because the emperor now was not beware of him, but because he thought that Chu Liuchen could not live for a long time, so he did not want to calculate a person who was determined to die. It was better for him to make some gestures of affection for people to see. That was the reason why the emperor favoured this Prince Chen so much.
This pampering to him even surpa.s.sed that to his other three sons!
Everyone thought that it was understandable. But this kind of affection was only because of Chu Liuchen himself. If he had a child in the future, everyone thought that would be a tragedy. If the beautiful First Miss Shao had to marry into Prince Chen’s Mansion, that would be the tragedy of tragedy. She was such a beauty like a flower.
Many people secretly sighed for Shao Yanru but of course many Misses felt happy secretly. Wherever Shao Yanru went to, she was the center of so many Misses, so many Misses were angry and jealous of her. When they heard that Shao Yanru would be in trouble, n.o.body would be unhappy. Each one of them was very proud and pleasant.
Then when another piece of news came out, everyone looked highly at this First Miss Shao.
It was said that this Prince Chen, who seldom appeared before people, went to Duke Xing’s Mansion to ask about her because he saw the picture of this First Miss Shao in the mansion of Prince Yue. That was to say, there was a kind of ambiguous relations.h.i.+p between Prince Yue and First Miss Shao. Many people thought that this First Miss Shao was quite amazing when they thought like this.
This was because she found the potential of Prince Yue so she had relations.h.i.+ps with Prince Yue. Everyone suddenly felt clear when they thought like this.
So what did that Prince Chen mean was that he wanted to compete with this Prince Yue for First Miss Shao?
It seemed to be right that everyone thought in this way. But they didn’t know whether there was a relations.h.i.+p between this First Miss Shao and Prince Chen in the early time?
When people guessed with such psychology, they suddenly heard that the Second Miss of Ningyuan Army General had the eyes of Empress Dowager and allowed her to enter the palace from time to time to accompany her. What was more, it was said that the white cat of Prince Chen which was especially loved by him was taken out of the palace with Second Miss Qin.
Prince Chen also prepared a gift for this because he entrusted that cat in Qin’s Mansion, so that would be a reward to Second Miss Qin.
For a while, Qin Wanru’s publicity was unparalleled. Many people in the capital city were asking who she was. Later, when they heard that she was the younger sister who had been scolded by her elder sister on the street, they shook their heads to this elder sister because she not only lost her reputation, but also wouldn’t be loved by the n.o.bles in the palace. In the future… would she have future?
When these gossips spread to Duke Xing’s Mansion, Madam of Duke Xing’s face turned blue, and after sitting for a while in her room, she led people directly to Old Madam’s yard.