The Virtuous Concubine

When Malu heard the prince's answer, her heart was beating like a deer. She coughed lightly, trying to hide her panic: "Huh, you are right? Help me button up my clothes."

The prince followed his words and helped her put away her clothes. The scene in front of him made him breathe heavily again. However, Malu was staring at him, so he didn't dare to do anything else. He could only take the opportunity to pinch and rub her.

After cleaning up, Malu was also out of breath, and his movements were heaving even more violently, and the young prince couldn't take his eyes off him.

Seeing the prince like this, Malu's cheeks flushed. She patted the prince's shoulder and said, "Focus on that look. You've only just started. You don't have any self-control at all."

The prince came back to his senses and said awkwardly: "Yes."

But in my heart I have already begun to look forward to it. If the day of the trial marriage really comes, what an exciting scene it will be.

Just thinking about it, his heart beat faster involuntarily.

Malu recovered. She pinched the prince's face and asked him, "The maid who died in the palace a few days ago, was it you?"

When the prince heard this, a trace of panic flashed across his eyes, but he quickly calmed down.

In front of her, he seemed like a transparent person, and all his disguises were exposed.

But how could he admit it? He didn't want Malu to think that he was a cruel and cruel person. He couldn't bear Malu to have any bad opinion of him.

The prince gently took Malu's hand away and said with an evasive look: "What palace maid? I don't know."

As soon as Malu heard it, he knew it must be him!

She sighed: "Can you tell me what this maid did wrong?"

Hearing that there was no blame in her words, only worry, the prince's tense heartstrings suddenly relaxed. He opened his arms and hugged her again, buried his head in her shoulders and said coquettishly: "This palace maid is so ignorant, always pestering me. I told her to get out, but she disobeyed."

Malu frowned slightly and patted the prince's back gently: "Even so, you shouldn't take someone's life casually. You are the prince, and you will be in charge of the world in the future. You should know how to cherish life. If you do it casually, how can you convince the public in the future? If this palace maid was instructed by someone and had ill intentions, then you should act more cautiously, find out who is behind her, and uproot him to prevent future troubles. You are too reckless."

The prince nuzzled into Malu's arms and said unconvincedly, "I was so upset by her pestering me at the time that I didn't have time to think so much. How come you think the same as the emperor? If it were me, I wouldn't hide it. I want to let everyone know the consequences of doing this, to serve as a warning to others."

When the prince said this, he suddenly bit her small earlobe again, with a hint of complaint and jealousy in his tone: "Do you like these messy women to throw themselves at me?"

Malu whimpered at the prince's sudden action. She gently pushed the prince and said angrily, "You are becoming more and more unruly."

The prince refused to give in and hugged Malu tightly: "You haven't answered my question yet."

Malu sighed helplessly, lowered his eyes and said calmly: "You are the prince, naturally there are many people who want to cling to you, and in the future you will have your own princess, concubines and maids. How can I control these people who throw themselves at you? What identity do I have to control them?"

After hearing what Malu said, the prince felt inexplicably irritated.

He knew in his heart that every word Malu said made sense, but he just inexplicably resisted what Malu said.

I can still do something with her during the trial marriage, and change the day. What about after that? And I don't like the emperor to go to her, so I asked someone to do something in the Jingshifang. I don't know if she knows about it, and if she will be angry with me after knowing it?

After all, favor is the foundation of a concubine's status in the harem.

The prince closed his eyes in pain.

Malu thought he had heard it, and when she saw the prince closing his eyes, her heart softened slightly.

She sighed softly and said, "Your Highness, I should not stay for long. I will leave first. Remember to eat the food I brought you today, and remember to be careful of the Eighth Prince."

The prince watched her swaying skirt disappear through the door before he sat down.

The peony bird's nest dish had already gone cold, but he seemed not to notice and simply picked up the ivory chopsticks beside it and started eating.

The cold bird's nest smelled fishy, ​​but the prince didn't care. He chewed mechanically, his heart full of Malu's instructions and loss when he left.

He knew that Malu was also very sad, but it seemed that neither he nor she had any other choice.

It seemed that only... only when he ascended the throne would he be able to have the freedom to be with her.

Ma Lu followed Bai Xia all the way back to Yonghe Palace smoothly. After changing her clothes and fixing her hair, Bai Xia asked Ma Lu tremblingly, "My queen, what is worth taking such a big risk to talk to the crown prince in person?"

Malu sighed, "The maid who died a while ago, Yinzuo told me that the prince must have beaten her to death."

Bai Xia's face changed when she heard this. She could empathize with the dead palace maid. If it weren't for the good relationship between her queen and the prince, she would have died many times.

"This... Your Highness is too casual. No matter what mistakes the maid made, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Punishment will deal with them."

Bai Xia murmured, actually she was filled with fear of the prince's behavior. After spending so much time in the Yonghe Palace, these things outside were even more shocking.

A living human life cannot be easily explained away by the word "casual".

She looked at Malu cautiously, wanting to say something but stopping herself. Malu saw through her thoughts and comforted her, "It was that maid who disobeyed the emperor's orders many times, and... the prince also had his reasons. It's just that the emperor decided to suppress the matter without giving an explanation, which made everyone in the palace panic."

Bai Xia hurriedly served tea to Malu. While Malu was drinking tea, Bai Xia couldn't help but sigh, "I heard that the palace maid died in a very tragic way. No wonder it was widely spread. Many people saw it."

Malu put down the teacup, unwilling to mention the matter again: "Okay, go and get the two princesses back from Jingyi."

Bai Xia responded and then hurriedly retreated.

Not long after, Bai Xia returned with the two princesses. When the princesses saw Malu, they ran over happily. Malu looked at his innocent and lively daughters, and the haze in his heart temporarily dissipated a little.

She could fool Bai Xia, but she couldn't fool herself.

The prince and her... Oh!