At the banquet, Lord Gu was eager to get closer to other officials, so he toasted them left and right with glasses of wine, and finally stood up and went to other seats to toast them one by one.

Gu Baizhou sat in an inconspicuous corner, drinking alone.

"Oh, this is our prince. Why is he drinking alone?" A man in red official uniform walked up to Gu Baizhou holding a wine glass.

Seeing someone going forward, the other officials looked at each other and followed.

"Get out of here." Gu Baizhou was not in a good mood. He knew that this group of people came to laugh at him.

"Don't be angry, Master. We are here to congratulate you on recovering from your hidden illness." The man said as he looked towards Gu Baizhou.

"Yeah, this is the first time I've heard that broken roots can grow back, hahaha." Another person echoed.

"Get out of my way!" Gu Baizhou stood up angrily, his eyes wide open.

"It must have grown out. After all, everyone saw how cool the prince was in the brothel."

"It's not just a brothel, isn't there also the backyard of the Cheng'en Marquis's Mansion?"

Everyone laughed.

Gu Baizhou was so angry that he picked up the wine glass and smashed it at them, but one of them knew some martial arts and easily pushed Gu Baizhou back to his seat.

"If you really want to know whether the prince has recovered, you have to ask his wife." A man took the lead.

It happened that Yu Wangfei came back from outside at this time. They recognized Yu Wangfei at once and hurried over.

"Sister-in-law, has the prince really cured that wound?" They didn't care whether what they said was in accordance with etiquette and just asked directly.

In their eyes, the people in the Marquis' Mansion were all the same kind of people, so there was no need to be polite to Yu Wangfei.

Hearing this, Yu Wangfei knew what they were talking about just now, so Yu Wangfei turned his gaze to Gu Baizhou.

I saw that he was being held down by someone and couldn't move at all. It would be impossible for him to defend himself now.

Just as Yu Wangfei was about to speak, Chu Yuheng walked out from behind him. He looked at the officials seriously and sneered, "I didn't know that you all learned so little about propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame."

The implication is to insult them for having no sense of propriety, righteousness, integrity and shame.

Seeing that the man was Chu Yuheng, several minor officials immediately calmed down and apologized: "We are rude, please forgive us, Your Highness the Ninth Prince."

"Get out." Chu Yuheng spat out one word.

He became increasingly dissatisfied with these civil and military officials. Although the emperor attached great importance to the imperial examination, every year a large number of young men from aristocratic families entered the officialdom directly without going through the imperial examination.

These people often have no real talent or knowledge, and they hold high positions in the court by relying on their ancestors' connections. They simply do not know how to benefit the people.

If possible, he hoped that Chu Fei could completely eradicate this chaos after ascending the throne.

Just at this time, Yunhua returned to Yu Wangfei. She knelt beside Yu Wangfei nervously, not knowing whether to tell Yu Wangfei what she had just seen.

Yu Wangfei saw her tangle and asked softly, "What's wrong?"

"Madam, Yu Qiaoqiao..." Yunhua wanted to poke his eyes out when he thought of what he had just seen.

"How?" Yu Wangfei asked.

Yunhua sighed heavily and looked at Chu Yuheng carefully, and found that he was drinking wine upstairs. Then she looked towards Chu Fei and found that Chu Fei was chatting with Feng Zhao.

After thinking about it carefully, Yun Hua whispered in Yu Wangfei's ear: "I followed Yu Qiaoqiao to a room, and then the eldest prince also went in."

The moment she saw Chu Aotian and Yu Qiaoqiao taking off their clothes and lying on the bed, she wished she had not followed Yu Qiaoqiao tonight. After all, this was a royal scandal.

It is not a good thing for the crown prince of the current dynasty to be involved with the concubine of the marquis's mansion. If the crown prince finds out that she is following him, she will definitely not live until tomorrow morning.

After hearing the news, Yu Wangfei was shocked in her heart but her expression remained calm. She also knew that this matter must not be made a big deal, after all, it was she who brought Yu Qiaoqiao to the party.

However, she can take advantage of this and let Chu Aotian do things for her in the future.

Thinking of this, Yu Wangfei looked up at Chu Yuheng in the distance. After thinking for a while, she decided not to let Chu Yuheng know.

"Don't tell anyone else yet, not even the Ninth Prince." Yu Wangfei warned.

She knew that Yunhua was Chu Yuheng's person, and if he asked her she would tell the truth, but Chu Yuheng didn't know about this matter, so naturally he wouldn't ask about it.

"Really not going to tell the prince?" Yunhua was a little undecided.

Because she felt that the matter was of great importance, if she didn't discuss it with Chu Yuheng...

"Not telling him, okay, Yunhua? I have the freedom to make the decision on this matter." Yu Wangfei looked at Yunhua, hoping that she would agree to him.

After a long while, Yunhua nodded: "Okay."

Yu Qiaoqiao and Chu Aotian came back one after another when the banquet was almost over. At this time, the emperor had already taken the imperial concubine to rest, and the banquet was organized by the eunuch.

Chu Yuheng also packed up and prepared to leave, while Yu Wangfei pretended to be unaware and asked Yu Qiaoqiao with concern: "Where have you been? Why are you back so late?"

"The palace is too big and I'm lost." Yu Qiaoqiao made up a story.

At this banquet, Lord Gu did not get along very well with the ministers. Some officials who were righteous in their hearts were not willing to look at him well at all.

The banquet finally ended, and Lord Gu walked out dejectedly, not caring whether Gu Baizhou and Yu Wangfei followed him or not.

Seeing this, Yu Wangfei immediately stood up. Seeing that Gu Baizhou was still drinking alone, she kicked him in annoyance.

"It's over, hurry up and leave!"

Just as Gu Baizhou was about to get angry, he saw Chu Yuheng behind Yu Wangfei. He could only endure it and ran out.

Yu Wangfei did not say goodbye to Chu Yuheng. She just walked out and got on the carriage back home.

Seeing that most people had left, Chu Fei gave Chu Yuheng a look and went to the emperor's bedroom alone. Feng Zhao stood beside Chu Yuheng and waited with him for the seventh prince to come out.

As for why Chu Fei wanted to go to the emperor's bedroom after the banquet, it was because he wanted to tell the truth about what happened that year.

That year, he was accidentally pushed into the water by the eldest prince and fell seriously ill. The imperial physician who treated him was bribed by the eldest prince to poison him. If the imperial concubine had not discovered it in time, he would have died long ago.

In fact, Chu Fei has always been trained by the emperor as the crown prince. If it were not for his physical condition, the emperor would not have lost confidence in him. Now that his health is good, the emperor decided to test him so as to hand over the position of crown prince to him.

It was late at night when Yu Wangfei returned to Fangfei Garden. She quickly washed herself and went to bed, having a good night's sleep.

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