Quick Wear: The Wronged One Becomes Rebellious

Chapter 357 Princess's Skirt 03

Gu Li sat up from the bed, pulled aside the curtains, and let down her two straight, white legs.

The spacious inner room was decorated with a thirty-six-fold screen as tall as a person, giving it a luxurious look. Even the octagonal palace lantern stand next to it was carved with a flying phoenix pattern.

No one in the palace except the Queen dared to use such a pattern. Only Gu Li dared to sleep in such a palace for an entire afternoon without any hesitation.

In fact, it was not that Gu Li had violated the rules. The Queen loved her so much that she still lived in a side hall of Fengyi Palace.

Princess Chenxiang had never lived in the Qingluan Palace that the emperor awarded to the little princess.

The Queen was worried that the pampered little princess could not manage the entire palace by herself. She was also worried that the restless concubines in the harem whose families were powerful would use the little princess against her and sow discord between her and the Emperor. Therefore, Princess Chenxiang had always been under the Queen's nose since she was a child.

This is the Queen's love for Princess Chenxiang.

The only one favored by the princes and princesses in the palace.

It was also because of this that although Gu Li, who had traveled several days ago, had met her future prince consort once, she had never found a chance to communicate with Shen Qingzhou in private.

Gu Li experienced a blind marriage for the first time.

Forget it. She is going to marry into the Shen family anyway. It doesn’t make any difference whether she sees him or not.

Three months after the princess's mansion, which took three years to build, was completed, Princess Chenxiang and her husband Shen Qingzhou got married.

After Princess Chenxiang got married, she lived in the Shen Mansion. The huge Princess Mansion has been vacant since it was built.

Shen Qingzhou smiled when he saw the little princess for the first time. He went to Wushan with his new wife every night, and they were inseparable. He had long forgotten the frustration and reluctance he had when he learned that he was going to marry the princess.

Unexpectedly, Princess Chenxiang didn't have the airs of a princess, and she was just the tip of his heart. Her temperament was as soft as her body.

How could he not love this?

Once Gu Li was liberated, she could finally order Shen Qingzhou to take her out of the house to travel and eat around the capital.

It also completely killed the little remaining ambition Shen Qingzhou had for a career in politics.

Half a year passed in this miserable way. Gu Li found an opportunity to enter the palace and revealed the news of the Shen family's rebellion to Emperor Wuchang.

She also asked the emperor to let her handle the matter of the son-in-law.

Emperor Wuchang did not agree to Princess Chenxiang returning to the Prime Minister's Mansion, but Gu Li used the excuse of not alerting the enemy and did not even move out of the Princess's Mansion, and continued to live in the Prime Minister's Mansion with Shen Qingzhou.

The emperor's investigation into the Shen family was proceeding secretly and intensively.

In fact, there is no need to investigate further. The letter that Princess Chenxiang handed to the emperor is enough to convict the Shen family of treason.

All the emperor had to do was to dispatch troops to wipe out the Shen family without hurting Princess Chenxiang.

Gu Li didn't want Shen Qingzhou to face the tragic situation of the Shen family being wiped out. The day before I learned that the emperor was going to take action, I planned to trick Shen Qingzhou out of the city in advance.

She was reluctant to see Shen Qingzhou being thrown into prison, tortured and beheaded, because his every move was so similar to Wei Xiangnan.

Especially the posture of loving her, it is exactly the same.

Gu Li wanted to take the man away directly, knock him unconscious and send him to his own fiefdom to keep him under guard.

After everything was settled, she left the capital on the pretext of relaxing after her husband's death and returned to her fiefdom to start a new life with Shen Qingzhou.

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The night was hazy, and the room was filled with the princess's favorite faint sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Outside the window, the dark sky was dotted with stars.

"It's so beautiful." It's so quiet. If only everything could stay at this moment.

Gu Li supported her chin with both hands, looked out the window, and sighed.

Shen Qingzhou looked at the pretty girl by the window, with long black hair like a waterfall. She tilted her head slightly, revealing a beautiful and slender neck. Even the moonlight seemed to love her particularly, adding a touch of mystery and fantasy to her.

Gu Li only felt her waist tighten and she fell into a strong and warm embrace.

"Princess, it's very cold outside, don't sit by the window for too long!"

Shen Qingzhou hugged her from behind, bent down to kiss the top of her head, and admired the night view with her in front of the window. However, he only looked at a clump of green banana trees outside the window, and did not find any scenery that was beautiful enough to make the little princess stare at it intently.

Of course, in Shen Qingzhou's eyes, no matter how beautiful the scenery is, it cannot compare to the lovely girl in his arms.

"If the princess wants to see it, you have to let me hold you, so you won't be cold!"

Gu Li chuckled and leaned in Shen Qingzhou's arms with a sense of relief, "Well, it's not cold at all!"

"That's right. I can make the princess even hotter." As he spoke, Shen Qingzhou's big hand reached out to the place he wanted to go most.

Gu Li held down Shen Qingzhou's restless hands and asked, "The cherries are almost ripe this season, right?"

"Well, it's time to cook." The restless little boat also stood up.

Gu Li was somewhat tempted, "Then would you like to accompany me to Qingshan to pick cherries tomorrow?"

"Qingshan? It's a bit far!" Shen Qingzhou's lips have found Gu Li's most sensitive ear.

"I don't care, I just want to pick cherries!"

"Okay, okay, if the princess likes, we can go. But I'm worried that the long journey will tire my little princess!"

"Won't----"

The rest of the words were blocked in Shen Qingzhou's throat and could not be uttered.

The beauty in the room and the flickering candlelight danced together to their favorite rhythm.

Early the next morning, Gu Li clamored to set off to Qingshan to pick cherries. The carriage for the trip was ready early, waiting for the princess and her husband's order.

"If the princess wants to eat cherries from Qingshan, I can send someone on horseback to pick them and send them back to the palace. The princess doesn't have to travel by boat or carriage." Shen Qingzhou did not ride a horse, but sat in the carriage with Gu Li.

He always felt that something was not right in the atmosphere in the mansion today, but he was never allowed to interfere in his father and brother's affairs.

I wanted to ask my brother, but the little princess was clamoring to go to Qingshan Manor in Longdong to pick cherries early in the morning.

"It's only a two-day journey, so just think of it as an outing! Besides, how can fruits given by others be as delicious as those picked by yourself!" Gu Li felt that the carriage was a little stuffy, but she didn't want to open the curtain.

At the latest tonight, the emperor will take action against the Shen family.

Now is the best time for her to take Shen Qingzhou away.

Shen Qingzhou put his arm around Gu Li's shoulders and let her lean on him. He said helplessly but with some doting in his voice, "Okay, let's go pick them together. If you like them, I'll pick more and bring them back for the chef at Yongqing House to make you some cherry yogurt, fried cherries, and cherry honey water----"

Shen Qingzhou knew everything about the food that these girls loved to eat. It was not because he was knowledgeable, but since he married the princess, the two of them had been together very close, and he had learned from her how much the princess loved those sweet and greasy foods.

"I'll see which cherry tree has the sweetest cherries, then have someone dig them up and bring them back to plant in our backyard."

Gu Li, who was leaning on Shen Qingzhou's shoulder, closed her eyes and pretended to be asleep, and responded softly, "Okay."

He will never have the chance to come back, and there will no longer be a Shen Mansion in the capital.