Looking at Tai'an from the full moon

Since her daughter's birthday party, the princess hasn't seen her husband for four days. In the past, she would have been furious. But since she did something wrong that day, she hoped that her husband would never come back to see her. She didn't know how the woman was dealt with by the old woman. If she didn't deal with it well, her husband would find out sooner or later.

If the prince consort knew what would happen, he couldn't do anything to her. At most, he would divorce her. After all, he didn't like her for a long time, otherwise he wouldn't go back to his old house every day. And if she divorced, she would be the one who was embarrassed. Outsiders would say that she was a princess, but she couldn't even keep a man. If she still had feelings for the prince consort, they might have been exhausted after years of mutual torture.

"Princess, the prince consort is back!..."

Suddenly, a servant came in from outside the courtyard to report to the princess, who was slightly surprised. Why is it that the more you fear something, the more it will happen?

"...Princess, the Prince Consort's expression seems a little strange..."

The servant reminded quietly. The princess frowned, glanced at him casually, and then waved her hand.

"Go down and ask everyone around you to step back."

"Yes!"

Although everyone else has long known that the eldest princess and her husband are not on good terms, the eldest princess still wants to save her face.

So the moment before Fu Ma entered the princess's courtyard, the servants had already hidden far away.

"You're back."

The eldest princess pretended to be calm and acted like she knew nothing.

The prince consort walked up to her and didn't say anything. He just stared at her as if he could see through her.

The princess looked at her husband's expression and felt a little guilty, but she had to pretend that she had done nothing. She raised her hand and stroked her hair.

"Why is your Highness staring at me today? Is there something dirty on my face?"

The prince consort, who had been silent all this time, suddenly spoke after hearing the eldest princess' words, and his tone was filled with undisguised disgust.

"What are you pretending to be? Don't you think your face is disgusting!?"

The eldest princess froze in place instantly. These might be the most vicious words she had ever heard, because they came from her husband's mouth.

"you!..."

The eldest princess wanted to say something, but she didn't know what to say. It was obvious that her husband knew what she had done.

"So, you know everything."

"You are also a woman, how could you do this?"

The prince consort was very angry. Although he did not yell at the princess, he really did not understand why she became like this. He still remembered how virtuous and dignified she was when she first married him. Even though he knew that she had an engagement, he never made things difficult for the family. He even stepped forward to stop it when he learned that the emperor was suppressing the Li family.

"...You look like a vicious woman now! You grew up in the palace. Haven't you seen the intrigues and deceptions in the palace? Haven't you experienced them? Hasn't your mother been harmed? Haven't you hated those people? And what's the difference between you and them now!? Aren't you all relying on those dirty tricks to fill your empty and lonely hearts!"

The princess' eyes widened. She had never seen a husband who could talk so much. After hearing what the husband said, her expression became a little ferocious again.

"I am vicious? I am lonely? Is all this my fault? I have never hurt anyone before. If those vicious people didn't want to hurt me, I would definitely not resist for no reason! And if Li Jinxiu didn't just live in the house of a married man, and it didn't affect our relationship, and you came back every day, would I be suspicious? Would I do such a thing!? Why don't you think about what you did wrong and what she did wrong? Now you are just blaming me, can you get away with it?"

"You...you are totally unreasonable! At this point, you still want to put the blame on us? You did this! It's your own dirty mind that made you do such a thing!"

The parents, who had been suppressing their anger, completely exploded after hearing the eldest princess' words.

"I'm shirking my responsibility? Ha~ Do you know what responsibility is? After Jiashan was born, did you really take care of her? Did you teach her to read and write, and taught her to wield a sword? She is a princess! Not one of those girls who needs to learn needlework and female virtues to please her husband. And have you really fulfilled your responsibilities as a father? Even on her birthday, you just brought a random gift. I've been taking care of Jiashan and teaching her since she grew up! She's going to have her coming-of-age ceremony soon, have you thought about her future husband for her!? What have you done! Apart from accompanying that woman and caring about her life and death, what have you done!"

The prince consort's arrogance seemed to have faded a little after the princess said these words. But he still spoke.

"Nothing I do has anything to do with the evil things you do!"

"You once said that when you were young, your father had a mistress outside and was away from home every night, causing your mother to become sick with lovesickness. How is your current behavior different from your father's?"

"Of course I am different from my father! I know very well that keeping a concubine will harm the wife, so I don't even have a concubine!"

"To me, what's the difference? Isn't it that you stay away from home every night and live in the old house with another woman every night? How can you make me believe that you two live in the same house and it's really innocent! If you can really think like this, then your mother won't miss you so much..."

"Snapped--"

The prince consort slapped the princess in the face. But after he slapped her, he was also scared by himself. He never thought that he would hit the princess.

I saw that he raised his hand tremblingly, but still pretended to be calm.

"You don't deserve to mention my mother!"

"Ah!"

After being beaten, the eldest princess did not get angry but laughed instead. She covered her face with one hand, then slowly turned her head to look at him and said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Look at your hypocritical expression. You are exactly the same as your father!"

"I...let's get divorced!"

The prince consort said this and prepared to leave. He didn't want to talk to the princess anymore, and there was nothing more to say between them. He shook his sleeves and walked out, leaving the princess alone to clean up the mess. After seeing the prince consort leave, the princess smiled bitterly, as if she was helpless, and as if she was mocking herself.

The prince consort walked out of the Princess's mansion and wandered aimlessly on the street. After walking for an unknown amount of time, he came to a busy stall, surrounded by the shouts of merchants and the atmosphere of fireworks. The prince consort took a deep breath. This was the life he had always longed for, instead of staying in a so-called exquisite mansion and living a decadent life.

They came to a stall where a woman was rolling noodles with great effort, and a little girl was watching beside her. Although they didn't know the prince consort, they knew he was a rich man by looking at his clothes.

"Would you like something to eat, sir?"

The prince consort originally just wanted to take a look, but when he saw the woman speak, he nodded.

"Just a bowl of noodles."

"Do you need any side dishes?"

The prince consort looked at the jar beside him.

"Just go ahead and do it."

"Oh, okay~"

The prince consort found a random seat and sat down, and the little girl sat opposite him and looked at him. The two looked at each other for a while, and the little girl did not look away.

"Little girl, what are you looking at me for?"

The little girl, who was originally looking at him with her head tilted, sat up straight instantly when she heard him speak and spoke to him seriously.

"I wonder if my father looks like you?"

The prince consort was startled when the girl said this. The woman who had just served a bowl of noodles was also startled.

"Sir, the child's words are innocent, please don't bother with her."

After saying that, he glared at the child and told her not to talk nonsense.

The girl curled her lips. The prince consort saw it and said with a smile.

"It's okay. I have a daughter too. She was as cute as your daughter when she was little."

"You are joking, my bastard, how can we compare with your daughter?"

The little girl got a little angry when she heard that, and suddenly stood up from the stool with her hands on her waist.

"I'm not the second girl! I didn't say anything nonsense! It was my mother who said that my father was very rich and often sent money home. I am a child with a father! Humph!"

After the girl finished speaking, she ran to the farthest stool, laid down on the table, and buried her head, as if she was angry.

"This is..."

The prince consort seemed startled, but he seemed to understand something.

"Alas, my husband goes out to earn money, and he does ask someone to send some silver every month. But he just sends money home, but never comes back. Since my daughter was born, she has rarely seen her father. That's why the children in the neighborhood sometimes laugh at her for being a fatherless child."

"But, aren't you going to receive the money your man will send back? Why do they still say that?"

"It's useless. Sending all that money is just empty talk. Only when the family is truly together is it real. Even if it's not for show, it's for the real reunion of the family."

The woman said this, looking in the direction of the girl with eyes full of pity.

"He never hugged our daughter properly, nor did he teach her to read and write..."

As the woman spoke, she began to cry.

"Reading and writing..."

The prince consort was stunned. The princess had just said this. However, the princess was of noble status after all. She didn't need to work so hard to earn money to raise children. Her life was not difficult at all. But the prince consort couldn't help but ask.

"If the man from a wealthy family doesn't go home, and the woman has money to raise the children, will there still be these troubles?"

"Maybe these troubles won't exist, but there may be new troubles. For children, the love of both parents is very important, and it's incomplete without one. And if a man from a wealthy family doesn't come home, it's probably because he has someone else outside."

The prince consort frowned.

"Does everyone think so? Do you think he has someone else outside?"

The woman nodded.

"I've been around a lot of people here, and I've heard of a lot of this kind of stuff. For example, if a woman from a poor family has someone else outside, they'll kick her out. If it's an ordinary family, they can still scrape together some money and find a concubine, but their lives will be chaotic. But there's more gossip about rich families. If a man doesn't come home, it means he's having someone else outside. Rich people have money, so they don't need to take a woman home as a concubine. They can just buy another mansion and place her outside. The poor ones are the decent women. If they come home a little late, they'll be accused of being indecent. But those men go out to look for those coquettish women. Despite this, those men are still not satisfied. They always feel that their wives at home are too strict with them, as if only decent women deserve to be bound and abandoned."

The prince consort pursed his lips and said nothing. He knew that the world was very strict with women. But...hearing these words from someone else, he still had some different feelings. Looking up at the little girl who was still sulking in the distance, he couldn't help but think of Jiashan and the eldest princess. It seemed that the eldest princess had never complained about him before, even at the beginning, when he lived in the old house, the eldest princess never complained about him. It seemed that in the past two years, the eldest princess gradually lost her patience with him.

"Is it really my fault?"

The prince consort muttered something, and then seemed to have figured something out. He took out some silver from his sleeve, put it on the table, and left. He didn't even have time to eat a mouthful of noodles.