The Prince Consort's Beloved

After the emperor left, the officials became less reserved and began to move around and toast.

Li Yuanrou herself actually had no appetite. She put her whole heart and soul on Xiao Luobai, constantly picking food for him and serving him attentively, without any dignity of a princess at all.

The more she humbles herself, the more others will look up to Xiao Luobai.

Li Yuanrou even picked up some food and fed him: "Ah~ open your mouth."

This attracted everyone's attention and they began to hear whispers of discussion.

Xiao Luobai looked calm, but he was actually extremely embarrassed. He said in a very soft voice, "Be more restrained."

Seeing that he rarely showed such a silly look, Li Yuanrou instantly became playful and deliberately raised her voice to scold him: "Husband, eat~ah~open your mouth."

More people looked over here with different expressions, and the eldest princess also looked over here.

Xiao Luobai felt extremely embarrassed. He calmly kicked her from below and gave Li Yuanrou a warning look.

Li Yuanrou didn't care at all and blinked at him innocently, "What's wrong? Which one do you want to eat? I'll pick it up for you."

As she spoke, her eyes looked for new dishes, wondering which one to pick.

She glanced at Mr. Chang, the Internal Affairs Officer who was sitting next to Xiao Luobai. Li Yuanrou stood up and walked to his side, smiling and calling out, "Grandpa Chang."

The call of "Grandpa" made Lord Chang spill most of the wine in his hand. He thought back to the time when this call of "Grandpa" had caused him to be impeached by the court officials.

He was so shocked that he was about to kneel down and kowtow, saying, "I am so terrified, I am so terrified..."

Li Yuanrou helped Lord Chang to sit down, then looked at him and pointed at the mutton on his table and said with a smile: "Grandpa Chang, you don't want to eat this mutton, give it to my husband."

Lord Chang was about to bow down again in fear: "Princess, please don't call me grandpa anymore."

Li Yuanrou supported him: "Then the mutton..."

"Princess, please do as you please."

Li Yuanrou returned to her seat with the mutton, smiling, and turned back to say thank you: "Thank you, Grandpa Chang."

Lord Chang, the Internal Secretary of the Grain Administration, widened his eyes in panic and looked around vigilantly, fearing that someone would stare at him and punish him again.

Xiao Luobai on the side stared at Li Yuanrou with a frown. For some reason, a bad premonition came to his mind, and he felt that Li Yuanrou was about to use his ultimate move.

Li Yuanrou picked up a piece of mutton, blinked her big innocent eyes and passed it to Xiao Luobai's mouth. Just as she was about to say something pretentiously sweet, Xiao Luobai gave up struggling and didn't wait for her to speak. He opened his mouth and ate the dish she picked up as if he was ready to die.

Although he was very open when they were alone, he couldn't accept the act of feeding someone in public, in full view of everyone, and the words that could only be said between the two of them in the boudoir.

In his heart, he silently made a note of Li Yuanrou in his little notebook, thinking of settling the score with her when he got back.

Lord Chang, who was sitting next to him, leaned over and praised him generously, "Lord Xiao, you must have listened to my words before. Did you go back and discipline the princess? Seeing how obedient Princess Shanyang is to you now, Lord Xiao must have revived Fugang and is a role model for us."

Some people around were looking at them as if they were watching a show, some showed envy, and some were feeling indignant inside - such as Li Yanchen who was not far away.

He stared at this side with eyes full of anger, and looked like he wanted to throw the food on the table onto Li Yuanrou and Xiao Luobai's faces.

"Sir Xiao, the emperor invites you." Eunuch Fulai, the eunuch beside the emperor, conveyed the emperor's oral order to invite Xiao Luobai.

Xiao Luobai said to Li Yuanrou: "I'll be back soon."

Li Yuanrou nodded.

After Xiao Luobai left, Li Yuanrou's face fell, thinking that she felt really out of tune with the royal family and felt very awkward.

She was filled with melancholy: one or two things were abnormal, her eldest sister had no husband, An'er had no biological father, and her mother favored her eldest sister.

Later, Lian Yuanqi felt very strange and suddenly he became less close to his eldest sister. He used to call himself "Second Sister", but suddenly he changed to calling her "Ajie".

She thought again of Princess Shanyang's messy love affairs, He Wenting and Li Yanchen, what the hell are they doing?

She shook her head and began to pour herself a drink.

Daya advised: "Princess, please drink less. I heard that this wine has a strong aftereffect."

After learning from the previous experience, Li Yuanrou also knew that he had a bad drinking habit and did not dare to drink too much.

After drinking a few cups, she felt bored and turned to Daya and said, "Daya, go and see why the prince consort hasn't come back yet. Ask him to come back to find me soon. I want to go back."

A trace of worry flashed across Daya's eyes: "If I leave, how can the princess be left here alone?"

Li Yuanrou waved her hand and said, "Don't worry, this is the imperial palace. There are so many people here. How can anything happen to this princess?"

Daya thought about it again, and felt that what the princess said made sense, so she went to find Xiao Luobai.

Several people came over to toast Li Yuanrou, and Li Yuanrou took a bite of their toasts out of courtesy.

Li Yuanrou was holding his chin in deep thought when Li Chun came over with a wine jug and a wine glass.

She poured a glass of wine for Li Yuanrou and another for herself, and said with an apologetic look in her eyes: "Princess, my brother's words and actions today offended you. I apologize to you on behalf of my brother."

After she finished speaking, she tilted her head back and drank it in one gulp.

Li Yuanrou didn't respond. She said clearly, "It's not you who offended me. You don't need to apologize. Let him apologize himself."

When Li Chun saw that she didn't accept it, tears immediately welled up in his eyes and he looked very pitiful.

Li Yuanrou was annoyed and wanted to send her away quickly. She picked up the wine glass and replied impatiently: "Okay, okay, I'll drink it, you go quickly."

She said and took a peck.

Li Chun burst into laughter upon seeing this, thanked Li Yuanrou and left.

Li Yuanrou felt that the wine was a bit too much and his head was a little dizzy. He knew he couldn't drink any more.

She stood up and swayed for a moment, and a palace maid immediately came forward to support her: "Princess, are you drunk? Let me help you to rest."

Li Yuanrou nodded and walked out supported by the palace maid. She also reminded the palace maid to ask her to come to the side hall to find her when her husband returned.

The palace maid responded, helped her into the side hall, sat her down, and then closed the door and left.

Li Yuanrou was half lying on the couch, feeling very sleepy and drowsy. Suddenly, she gradually felt that something was wrong.

This is not the effect of alcohol.

She felt a little hot and staggered to the table to pour a cup of tea.

The door was pushed open, and she lifted her heavy eyelids to look. It was not Xiao Luobai and Daya, and she did not recognize the people who came.

The man's obscene eyes were wandering around her, which made Li Yuanrou feel uneasy.

The man put away his vulgarity, came up to help her and said, "Princess, you are drunk. I will help you sit down."

Li Yuanrou waved his hand away and asked, "Who are you?"

The man took another step forward and said, "Princess, don't you remember me? I am Zhang Ding. I had a glimpse of you at the Hundred Flowers Banquet last year, and I have been deeply in love with you ever since."

As he spoke, he took another step forward, his eyes fixed on Li Yuanrou.

Li Yuanrou retreated repeatedly, his steps unsteady, and he fell into the couch.

She sounded a little panicked: "What are you going to do? If you dare to offend me, I will kill all your clans!"

Zhang Ding was not frightened by these words at all. Instead, he looked very sad: "I am deeply in love with the princess. How can the princess say such hurtful words?"

As he spoke, his face suddenly changed. The speed of the change scared Li Yuanrou and made her sober up a little.

He said fiercely: "The princess has always disliked Lord Xiao, but now she can accept him, why can't she accept me?"

If a normal person said this, people would probably think that he was jealous and vying for favor, but Zhang Ding had a big belly, a greasy face, and a very vulgar and scary smile, which made Li Yuanrou feel sick.

He actually compared himself with Xiao Luobai. How could they be compared at all?

Li Yuanrou felt weak all over and looked towards the door anxiously, wondering why Xiao Luobai hadn't come back yet. She had to calm Zhang Ding down first.

She wanted to say something nice to confuse the other party so that he would not act rashly and delay some time.

But she couldn't say anything to that face, and finally she could only say: "Don't mess around, leave now, and I can pretend nothing happened."

Zhang Ding waved his fat arms and impatiently unbuttoned his shirt while saying, "The princess has been poisoned. I am doing this to help her. Please don't struggle. Once the matter is settled, everything will be settled."

Li Yuanrou pinched her thigh to force herself to cheer up a little.

She raised her faintly red eyes and looked at Zhang Ding, barely maintaining her composure and scolded him, "How dare you drug this princess? The palace is heavily guarded, and the food at the palace banquet is strictly controlled. How did you do it?"

Zhang Ding did not hide his intentions and blurted out, "I am a humble official, I don't have the ability to do that. I must have the help of a nobleman. Otherwise, why would you think there is no one guarding the area? Your maidservant was lucky to leave, otherwise I would have to spend some effort to deal with her."

Li Yuanrou was shocked and even secretly thanked God that she had sent Daya away, otherwise, the consequences for Daya would be disastrous.

Zhang Ding took off his coat and threw it aside, saying with a lecherous look: "Princess, I really admire you. For you, I can do anything."

Li Yuanrou was extremely anxious when she saw him continuing to take off his clothes. Daya had been gone for quite some time, so she should be back soon.

She began to adopt a conciliatory policy, trying to guide the other party to follow her own ideas: "Master Zhang, are you really pleased with this princess?"

Hearing this, Zhang Ding paused in taking off his clothes and said with true feelings: "Of course it's true."

Li Yuanrou said: "If Lord Zhang really loves me, he would never do such a rude thing, so I don't believe it. I need time to see Lord Zhang's sincerity. If what Lord Zhang said is true, I will naturally fulfill his sincerity."

Zhang Ding's eyes lit up immediately after hearing this, and he stepped forward and grabbed Li Yuanrou's hand: "Is what the princess said true?"

Li Yuanrou quickly pulled her hand out and rubbed it on her clothes, then moved aside, forcing a smile: "This princess's words are as good as gold. I hope that Master Zhang will not do anything that he will regret today."

Zhang Ding was about to nod, but suddenly his lewd smile disappeared and he said in a puzzled tone: "The princess is deceiving me. Today I saw that the princess is very caring towards Xiao Luobai and even lowered her status to serve him food. I also saw it at the princess' birthday banquet last time. The princess really likes her husband. If I don't give it a try today, I'm afraid I won't have a chance in this life. And as far as I know, Xiao Luobai is extremely jealous and has a very small mind. Some time ago, Qinlou and Chuguan were closed for more than half a month. I found out that the princess went to Qingyuanchun for entertainment, and Xiao Luobai made some moves the next day to cause Qinlou to close down."

As he spoke, he became angry and seemed to be defending Li Yuanrou: "Princess, look at your consort. He is so petty. What on earth do you like about him?"

Zhang Ding hesitated for a moment before speaking again: "Although he appears to be a businessman, he has considerable power..."

As he spoke, he had already taken off his upper body, revealing a body as white and plump as an old sow. Li Yuanrou took a look and saw that her breasts were about to droop and looked bigger than her own.

Li Yuanrou felt like he was going blind, and thought to himself, "Oh my god, which manhole cover was not properly closed to allow such a toad to crawl out?"

She calmed herself down a bit and asked, "Since you know everything, aren't you afraid? Think about it, if something happened between you and this princess, would you still be alive afterwards?"

Zhang Ding paused while unbuttoning his pants, then smiled as if he had made up his mind: "Of course I am afraid. I am also a person who cherishes my life, but I hold an important position and have the support of Prince Yun, so I am not afraid. Prince Yun is now powerful and will protect me. I am still of great use to him. Maybe when I and the princess are together, the princess will change her mind about me."

Zhang Ding did not forget to promote himself: "I will definitely not be as jealous as the prince consort."

Li Yuanrou's mind was full of the words that Prince Yun would protect him. She was shocked: "Is Prince Yun going to deal with me?"