"These carriages are..." Gu Lingyue asked with a puzzled look.

Wang An quickly stepped forward and said, "Princess, one of the carriages is for you, and the others are for the gifts you'll bring back."

Upon hearing this, Gu Lingyue walked forward, lifted the curtain of one of the carriages and took a look. There were so many gift boxes of all sizes, more than the betrothal gifts given by King Xing!

Can a housekeeper make the decision on so many things?

This further confirmed her guess that Prince Jing was not unconscious at all.

However, was he really preparing so many return gifts just for himself? Or was he trying to win over the Gu family?

Although Gu Shuo has been demoted now, he was once the prime minister of the dynasty and still has some connections. Besides, he was demoted because of the marriage exchange incident, so he might be promoted in the future.

She also thought that if Liu had not interfered, it would have been Gu Youyan who married into Prince Jing's mansion. She felt that she did not have the face to ask Prince Jing to give her so many things just as a return gift.

However, she is now the Princess of Jing, and she is planning to turn against the Gu family. It seems that Long Shang’s plan will fail.

Wouldn't it be a bargain for the Liu family if so many things were sent to the Gu family?

Thinking of this, Gu Lingyue suddenly remembered that the return gift alone was so much, so would the betrothal gift be even more?

Now that she is the Princess of Jing, all those betrothal gifts are for her, and no longer for Gu Youyan.

I guess the betrothal gifts are all in Liu's hands now.

It seems that I have to find a way to get the betrothal gift back.

Even if he couldn't get it in his own hands, he should give it to the original owner's mother or return it to Prince Jing's Mansion, instead of letting Liu get it for his own benefit.

However, let’s deal with the current issue first.

Gu Lingyue looked at Wang An and said, "Please take all the things off the carriage. I don't need to carry so many things with me when I go back home."

"This……"

Wang An hesitated. This was something their prince had specifically ordered to be prepared for the princess' return visit. If they all moved down, the princess wouldn't be able to return empty-handed, right?

The prince can't even accompany the princess back home. If he doesn't bring the return gift, won't others look down on his princess?

Gu Lingyue saw that Wang An was hesitant and didn't understand what he was thinking at the moment. Since he had helped her yesterday, Gu Lingyue decided to tell him. As for what he should do, that was a matter between him and his master.

“Actually, apart from my mother and brother, I don’t have a good relationship with the rest of the Gu family, and this time when I came back, my main purpose was to bring my mother and the others out.

If you're sending it to the Ancient Mansion in my name, forget it, it's unnecessary. If there's another reason, then just ignore what I said."

After saying that, Gu Lingyue walked to the carriage prepared for her and got on. Qiu Tong followed suit with a worried look on her face.

She didn't expect that her young lady would have such an idea.

Her wife was indeed unhappy living in the ancient mansion, and was now seriously ill.

But, after all, the lady's mother's family is the Zhenbei Marquis Mansion. Can her master let her leave? Qiu Tong expressed doubt.

Yun Shu glanced at the long line of carriages and wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing and got on the carriage.

Upon seeing this, Wang An ordered all the carriages carrying gifts to be driven into the palace.

What a joke. Their prince sent so many return gifts just to make his princess look good. Since the people in the Gu Mansion treat the princess badly, they are against the Jing Palace. So these things really cannot be sent to them to give them a bargain. There are many ways to save face for their princess.

Finally, Wang An brought more than ten people to personally escort Gu Lingyue to the ancient mansion.

Gu Lingyue lifted the carriage curtain and took a look. Knowing that Wang An meant well, she didn't say anything more.

When the team passed by the market, Gu Lingyue asked Qiu Tong and Yun Shu to buy some cakes to take with them.

At this time, in Liu's house in the ancient mansion.

Gu Youyan brought Xinghua back to the Gu Mansion early in the morning. Her face was red and had many small rashes as if she had an allergy.

Even his hands would scratch his body through his clothes from time to time.

"Mom, I won't be disfigured, right?" Gu Youyan asked worriedly.

She was fine yesterday and had a good night's sleep, but when she woke up this morning, she found that she had small rashes all over her body, and they were extremely itchy.

It took a lot of willpower for her not to scratch her face, for fear of disfiguring it.

Originally, she had planned not to return home if the prince was injured, and to serve the prince well in the mansion. However, when she found that she had a small rash on her face and body, she dared not go to Prince Xing, fearing that Prince Xing would dislike her. So she had to go back home under the pretext of returning home to let the palace doctor see her.

Mrs. Liu was originally a little angry with Gu Youyan because her own daughter had tricked her, but now, looking at the small rashes on her face, she could no longer care about her anger. She said with concern, "Don't worry, Madam Xing has already sent for the palace doctor."

After comforting Gu Youyan, he looked at Xinghua who was bowing her head beside him and said, "You damn girl, how did you take care of your master? How could she suddenly become like this?"

Xinghua was thinking about something with her head down when she was suddenly scolded by Liu. She was a little flustered and her hands were clenched into fists under her sleeves.

She tried hard to remain calm, knelt on the ground, and cried, "Madam, please forgive me. I don't know why you were fine yesterday, but you became like this this morning..."

As he said this, he started to cry, "Wuwu~".

"Shut up! You didn't serve the young lady well, and you still have the nerve to cry?"

Liu glared at Xinghua fiercely, and Xinghua quickly shut her mouth, knelt there and lowered her head.

At this time, Nanny Xing hurried in with a thin, older man.

"Greetings to the Concubine, and greetings to the Madam." The court physician saluted.

"Okay, come and show the concubine what's going on?" Liu urged.

"Yes, ma'am."

The court doctor walked over to Gu Youyan and began to examine her carefully, and Xinghua, who had been lowering her head, became nervous.

After a while, the court physician frowned and reported to Liu: "Madam, the Concubine has liver and spleen deficiency, insufficient liver blood, and heart fire, which is causing her itchy skin. Let me prescribe some medicine for you to take first, and then I will prepare some ointment for you to apply. She will be fine in a few days."

"Then hurry up, this matter must not be spread out, do you understand?" Liu warned sternly.

The court doctor nodded, "Yes."

Nanny Xing quickly took the ink pen and asked the court doctor to write a prescription.

Gu Youyan heard that it would be fine in a few days and breathed a sigh of relief. Xinghua, who was kneeling there, was wondering, can it really be fine?

Liu then said to Xinghua, "You should get up too."

"Thank you, Madam. Thank you, Madam."

Xinghua stood up and lowered her head and stepped aside. After the court doctor wrote a prescription and left, Liu asked Xinghua to take the prescription to get the medicine, and she asked about Gu Youyan's entry into the palace.

Upon hearing this, Gu Youyan burst into tears of grievance and recounted everything that had happened in the palace. Finally, she said, "Mother, what should we do? The Emperor has ordained that his daughter is not allowed to get pregnant unless the prince has a legitimate son."

She had originally thought that once she entered Prince Xing's Mansion, even if she was a concubine now, after she gave birth to her eldest son, she would be promoted to the position of prime minister sooner or later because her father was the prime minister of Tianqi. Who knew that the emperor would do such a thing.

Mrs. Liu felt particularly distressed when she saw her daughter with red and swollen eyes from crying, but she had no good solution at the moment.

If it weren't for the fact that her daughter didn't want to marry the unconscious Prince Jing for the sake of good fortune, and she couldn't bear to let her marry a living dead man, she wouldn't have agreed to the marriage exchange at the risk of being beheaded. In the end, not only did her master get demoted, she also lost her power as the head of the family and was punished to kneel in the ancestral hall.

She didn't go to the ancestral hall to kneel today because her Yan'er and that idiot were coming back today. Her master specially allowed her not to go to the ancestral hall to kneel today, so that she could talk to her Yan'er in her own yard.

Not only is her husband angry with her, but her mother-in-law is also blaming her.

Liu sighed and comforted him, "Don't get excited, things are not as bad as you think.

"Wait a while, until this matter has calmed down. Even if you do have a child by then, will the emperor still be able to have his own grandson beaten?"

Gu Youyan thought about it and felt that what her mother said made some sense. Anyway, there was no other way now, so she could only take it slowly.

Seeing that Gu Youyan had calmed down a lot, Liu continued, "Now that the prince is injured, he needs someone to take care of him. You don't need to stay here anymore. Go back quickly."

"My daughter knows. Yesterday, the prince said that he couldn't go back with me because of his injury, so he asked me to go back by myself today. He will bring me to meet my father and mother after he recovers..."

When Gu Youyan said this, a shy look unconsciously appeared on her face. Finally, when she thought about her current state, she felt a little annoyed.

Fortunately, the doctor said that I would be well in a few days, otherwise, I wouldn’t have dared to go back to the palace.

Liu was very pleased to hear this.

As long as Prince Xing has Yan'er in his heart, it is enough. Now the emperor does not allow Yan'er to have children, but he has not said that she will never be allowed to have children.

"Okay, go and pay your respects to your grandmother now, and then go back. Your most important thing now is to serve the prince well." Liu urged, not caring that today was the day Gu Youyan was returning home and the rash on her body.

"My daughter listens to her mother, but where is my father..."

Because of the rash on her body, she got up early in the morning and returned to the ancient mansion. After entering the mansion, she did not disturb other people and went directly to her mother's yard. It was not until now that she remembered that her father must be angry with her because she caused her father's official position to be demoted.

"Don't worry about it, everything is up to you."

Gu Youyan hugged Liu's arm and said coquettishly, "Thank you, mother. You are the best."

"You……"

Liu tapped Gu Youyan's forehead and shook her head helplessly.

Forget it, as long as my daughter is happy, it doesn’t matter if I suffer a little injustice.

Afraid that Gu Youyan would be wronged in front of Madam Gu, she decided to take Gu Youyan to pay her respects to Madam Gu in person.

Gu Youyan stood up, picked up the Mi Li that was placed aside and put it on her head, and then the mother and daughter walked outside.

At this time, at the gate of the ancient mansion.

The carriage from Prince Jing's Mansion had already stopped there. Wang An got off the carriage and waited next to Gu Lingyue's carriage.

When the gatekeeper saw such a group of people stopped at the gate of the Prime Minister's Mansion, he ran towards Gu Shuo's study.

Wang An looked at the gate of the ancient mansion and saw that there was no one else except a carriage and its driver, and he looked displeased.

The people in this ancient mansion knew that his princess was coming back home today, but there was no one to greet her. It seemed that they did not take the Prince Jing's Mansion seriously at all.

What Wang An didn't know was that because of Gu Youyan and Liu's arbitrary decision-making, Gu Shuo was punished and demoted by Emperor Tianqi. Today was supposed to be his first day back to work after being demoted. How could he have the nerve to go to work? Wouldn't he be laughed to death by his mortal enemies in the same dynasty?

He had no choice but to stay at home on the pretext of illness. At this time, he was discussing with his eldest son Gu Chenxuan in the study how to resume his official position.

As for Madam Gu, Liu's boldness was the result of Madam Gu's indulgence, and Gu Shuo had no say in his mother's affairs, so now even his mother was angry.

Madam Gu was angry with Liu, who made the decision on her own without consulting her on such a big matter. Although she punished Liu, she was also really sick from anger.

The most important thing is that she didn't take Gu Lingyue seriously.

Gu Lingyue asked Qiu Tong and Yun Shu to take the cakes and get off the carriage. Seeing that no one was there to greet them at the door, she just sneered and walked towards the Gu Mansion.

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