The General is Pregnant: His Majesty Abstinence and Sexual Devotion Every Night

Chapter 165 Giving Up

The three men came out of the interrogation room, leaving Yue'er alone trapped in the dim little room. She breathed a sigh of relief. She looked around the dark and almost silent interrogation room and felt inexplicably familiar.

Gu Junqing now felt what it was like for three grown men to appreciate the lotus together. The atmosphere was awkward and weird, and it was suffocating. She had never expected this. Even though she was a woman.

"That place is only a dozen meters away from Youlan Courtyard. I don't know if Yue'er was pushed into the water because she knew something, or if it was for some other reason..."

Gu Junqing, who couldn't stand it anymore, spoke first, trying to ease the atmosphere. The two men standing on the left and right also saw Gu Junqing's intention to ease the atmosphere, and they cooperated.

Ji Rang said: "Maybe it's just because of some minor things. There is something fishy going on between the family members, the guards and the servants. It's not a bad idea to get rid of them as soon as possible."

Qi Yunjin: "Do you still remember which courtyard of the Shen Mansion Yue'er belongs to?"

Gu Junqing and Ji Ran, who were thinking of other possibilities, were both stunned.

Yes, they were thinking about these possibilities from the beginning to the end, and they even forgot the most basic and important questions.

Only after the emperor reminded them did they remember.

Qi Yunjin glanced at the two people who were almost dumbfounded and didn't say much. Fortunately, he had asked them just now, so he said:

"It belongs to Shen Qingzhu's courtyard."

As soon as he finished speaking, he subconsciously looked at Gu Junqing's face. He didn't know what was going on in this man's mind, and his expression was a little weird. He then looked at Ji Rang and found that their expressions were actually somewhat similar. This realization made Qi Yunjin a little unhappy.

Qi Yunjin attributed this dissatisfaction to the fact that they could think of the same thing but he knew nothing.

He asked, "But what do you remember?"

Since Qi Yunjin was looking at Gu Junqing when he said this, Gu Junqing thought about the wording for a second, and then spoke hesitantly:

"This Shen Qingzhu seems to be the princess's favorite consort..."

As Gu Junqing said this, she raised her eyes to observe the expression on Qi Yunjin's face. Coincidentally, their eyes met. Gu Junqing was startled but pretended to be calm. She looked away and fixed her gaze on Ji Rang who was about to speak.

Qi Yunjin also withdrew his gaze, his eyes flashed slightly, and then he turned his attention to Ji Rang.

Ji Rang: "At that time, we were thinking of going to the small garden east of the Shen Mansion to see the peonies there, and then we heard the conversation between Liu Yanyan and Shen Qingzhu, so we knew that the eldest princess liked Shen Qingzhu, so I dare to ask Your Majesty, Your Majesty, do you know that the eldest princess wants to recruit a prince consort recently?"

Qi Yunjin recalled what the princess said to him yesterday when she suddenly came to Qinzheng Palace. His eyes paused, as if he had thought of something, so he twitched the corners of his mouth and said:

"Yesterday, the princess did express to me her desire to recruit a prince consort."

When he first entered the banquet today, he knew that the mixed-gender banquet was arranged by the eldest princess herself. Although he didn't like this arrangement in his heart, he couldn't refuse it in front of so many people for the sake of the eldest princess's face. After all, the lotus viewing banquet was organized by the eldest princess herself. At that time, he only thought about abolishing this rule next year.

However, now that Gu Junqing and Ji Rang had said this, the issue of mixed seating for men and women seemed to have deeper implications.

Gu Junqing's eyes flickered. "So, the princess agreed to the mixed-gender banquet because of Shen Qingzhu, or did she tell the emperor about this yesterday?"

Qi Yunjin looked at her with peach blossom eyes: "No, you only told me yesterday about your intention to recruit a prince consort. I'm afraid you were talking about something else. I was afraid that it would arouse my thoughts, so I didn't tell you about it."

"If this is really the case, if Duke Shen is taking advantage of the princess's love for Shen Qingzhu and telling her to have a mixed-gender banquet, then what does Duke Shen want to do?"

Ji Rang also looked at Gu Junqing with a puzzled look in his eyes and asked.

Gu Junqing: ...

Look at what she is doing, she doesn't know.

Ji Rang continued: "Hasn't Shen Lian'er been sitting behind General Gu?"

Gu Junqing's face darkened: "So what does Lord Ji want to express?"

Qi Yunjin smiled playfully: "Could it be that Duke Shen still hasn't given up on putting his daughter into General Gu's backyard?" Gu Junqing was completely silent.

This is too scary. I haven’t given up yet.

"Maybe it's because of other reasons, and it's not necessarily that he wants to bring someone together. He made such a big fuss and even changed the rules of previous years just to force Shen Lian'er into my life... This is too absurd."

Gu Junqing retorted without giving up.

"But apart from this idea, I don't have any other ideas at the moment. Could it be that Princess Cheng doesn't want to sit behind Shen Qingzhu? But at the banquet just now, she was still sitting in her original position."

Ji Rang tilted his head and looked at the emperor.

As soon as he finished speaking, the atmosphere seemed to be even more stagnant than when he came out just now.

Ji Rang: “…”

Gu Junqing had a tense face and said nothing. He thought to himself that if this was true, then he would have to be careful of Duke Shen and Shen Lian'er. It would be best if he could hide when he saw Shen Lian'er in the future. After all, Shen Lian'er had no grudge against him, so he didn't need to get rid of her. Moreover, in his previous life, Shen Lian'er had done him a favor...

"What are you thinking about?"

"Shen Lian'er"

The above is a question Qi Yunjin suddenly asked Gu Junqing, but Gu Junqing did not react and answered subconsciously.

Seeing Qi Yunjin's inexplicably gloomy eyes, Gu Junqing's eyelids jumped and he quickly explained:

"Thinking about how to avoid Shen Lian'er in the future"

Gu Junqing, the famous war god general of the Great Qi, should have been fearless. However, today he actually said that he would try to avoid a girl if he saw one, as if a girl was a scourge or a beast. The two men present really laughed when they heard it.

The originally tense atmosphere became much more relaxed after Gu Junqing's slightly humorous words.

"Otherwise, if you come to my house, I guarantee you won't see Shen Lian'er."

Ji Rang joked.

Gu Junqing was about to retort, but unexpectedly Qi Yunjin also said: "Since Lord Ji said so, wouldn't it be safer to let General Gu stay in my palace?"

Gu Junqing, Ji Rang: "..."

Very good, the good atmosphere did not last for more than three seconds.

But seeing Qi Yunjin's indifferent smile, it seemed that he was just saying it casually and jokingly.

Gu Junqing breathed a sigh of relief. She didn't want to stay in the palace. If she was exposed, it would be no joke.