Chapter 194 Marriage
Chapter 194: Marriage

Zhu Huan seemed to have read this folk story as well. He looked at the handkerchiefs scattered on the ground and said angrily, "I thought they were all good people, but it turns out they are just shameless people who flirt with people everywhere. Ye Xuan, you must not be fooled!"

After saying that, she seemed still uneasy, as if worried that Ye Xuan would secretly pick it up behind her back, and actually ordered Zhu'er and other palace servants who were accompanying him to pick up the handkerchief and throw it away.

Ye Xuan was speechless. Although those women were all very beautiful, they were obviously veterans of the battlefield. Their knowledge reserves might even be richer than that of Ye Xuan, a modern man. Did he, Ye Xuan, look like such a hungry person?
After doing all this, Zhu Huan seemed to realize that she was trying to cover up the truth by doing this. Her little face flushed and she didn't dare to look at Ye Xuan.

Ye Xuan naturally had nothing to say, he just looked up and stared at the shadows between the branches in a daze.

After being indifferent for a while, Zhu Huan couldn't resist his curiosity about Ye Xuan. He walked over to Ye Xuan and asked a question that almost made Ye Xuan spit out his food: "Ye Xuan, is Ye Liangchen your name or your pen name?"

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Happy times are always short. Seeing that it was getting late, Ye Xuan and his party set out again on the journey back to the imperial city.

In the carriage, Zhu'er bent over, raised her head, and looked at Zhu Huan's face, saying with a smile: "Ah, Your Highness, why is your face so red? Are you sick?"

Zhu Huanjiao scolded, "What nonsense are you talking about, damn Zhu'er? Why did this lady get sick for no reason?"

Zhu Er groaned and said with a smile: "It's just lovesickness!"

"You are in the car while others are outside. You will get sick. It seems that your love sickness is very serious! You have to be with each other day and night for it to be relieved!"

"You have no shame, Zhu'er. You just say shameless things! If you continue like this, I will send you to the laundry to do laundry!" Zhu Huan said sternly, but his face became even redder.

Zhu Er admitted her mistake with a smile, and then blushed, which was rare, and said, "Well, Your Highness, do you still keep your word?"

Zhu Huan was slightly surprised, looked up at Zhu'er and asked, "What did you say?"

Zhu Er stammered, "It's just... it's about letting Zhu Er be a trial marriage maid!"

Zhu Huan finally found an opportunity to laugh at Zhu Er, "Hey, didn't you say you weren't poisoned by Ye Qianhu? You didn't want to do it before, but why are you begging for it this time?"

Zhu Er blushed and said shyly, "I've always heard you reciting his poems before, but I don't understand them and don't know what's good about them. But when I saw Ye Qianhu today, I found that he is a handsome and strong man!"

"Rather than waiting for you to get married and die alone in the palace, it would be better for Zhu'er to marry you, Your Highness!"

Zhu Huan covered his mouth and chuckled, "Stop pretending to be pitiful, you little girl is just in love!"

Unknowingly, time passed as the two girls played around. In seconds, the carriage arrived outside the Meridian Gate, and Ye Xuan's mission was completed.

"Your Highness, take care. I'm leaving!" Ye Xuan stood outside the carriage and bowed.

The curtain of the carriage was opened, revealing Zhu Huan's pretty face. She said crisply, "Goodbye, Captain Ye. Um... come to the palace to play when you have time!"

"Uh……"

Ye Xuan was speechless. He had only heard of people coming to the palace to do business, but never heard of people coming to the palace to play. Those who didn’t know would think that Ye Xuan was some royal relative.

However, Ye Xuan didn't say much. He nodded ambiguously and left.

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That night, Kunning Palace.

Queen Ma handed a crisp pear to Zhu Huan with a smile and said, "How was it? Did you meet your Ye Liangchen?"

Zhu Huan blushed upon hearing this and said coquettishly, "Mother, what are you talking about? My Ye Liangchen, I am so embarrassed!" Empress Ma teased, "Oh, since he is not yours, I heard that other princesses are also interested in this Ye Liangchen. Since you don't like him, mother can tell other concubines to ask your father to grant him marriage to other princesses."

Zhu Huan immediately became anxious when he heard this. He didn't even bother to swallow the pear he had just taken a bite of, and said anxiously, "Don't, Huan'er didn't say she didn't like it!"

"So you like her?" Queen Ma smiled narrowly.

Zhu Huan suddenly fell silent again and just nodded shyly.

Empress Ma smiled and said, "That's fine. Anyway, I like this young man very much. I'll tell your father about this matter and see when to grant the marriage."

However, another voice said, "What are you talking about, mother? Are you going to grant my eldest sister a marriage?"

The mother and daughter looked up and saw Anqing, who was sweating from playing, walked in and asked curiously.

When Empress Ma told Anqing about the matter, he immediately became anxious.

"No, no, the eldest sister cannot marry Ye Xuan!"

When these words were spoken, Empress Ma and Zhu Huan were both stunned.

Empress Ma asked directly, "What's wrong? Mother, remember you said you liked Ye Xuan very much? Why don't you want your eldest sister to marry him now?"

Anqing pouted her lips, looking like she was about to cry, "Yes, mother, don't you remember what Anqing said?"

Empress Ma was even more confused, and she said with a stern face: "What are you talking about? It's incomprehensible!"

An Qing said with red eyes: "If the eldest sister marries Ye Xuan, what will I do when I grow up? An Qing also wants to marry Ye Xuan when she grows up, so that he can play with me every day!"

Upon hearing what had happened, Empress Ma and Zhu Huan could not help but feel both angry and amused.

"You are still too young to get married, and you are not ashamed to think about these things!"

"Humph, I don't care. Anyway, I was the one who fell in love with Ye Xuan first!"

"If you keep talking nonsense, be careful or your mother will beat you up!"

"I don't care, I don't care, wuwuwu! Mother and the eldest sister are bullying me, I'm going to report it to father!"

"Hey, who is bullying my Anqing!" At this moment, a hearty laugh came in.

Zhu Yuanzhang then strode into the Kunning Palace. When he saw Anqing sitting on the ground and acting like a rogue, he immediately laughed.

Empress Ma explained the whole story and said angrily and amusedly, "Look, this girl has been spoiled by you. She even knows how to compete with her sister for a husband."

At the end, I couldn't help but laugh out loud.

Anqing is only seven years old now, and it's really funny that he is clamoring to be a prince consort.

"Oh, so Huan'er is attracted to him?" Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the temper of a child in Anqing, but paid attention to the key point.

Queen Ma nodded and said with a smile, "What an injustice! I don't know where this boy Ye got such great charm to bewitch our two daughters!"

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed when he heard this and said, "Haha, if he can't be charmed, I don't want to marry my daughter to him! Fine, let's call Ye Xuan into the palace tomorrow and tell him about this."

(End of this chapter)