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"Where did you... just now?" Xu Shu raised her head and moved slightly away from Zhou Jin. Her intuition and common sense told her that the smell of incense belonged to a woman.
Although Zhuang Li had already said it, Xu Shu still asked. In fact, she could have said it directly, but somehow, she asked this question by chance.
"I went to the Pingning Prince's Mansion!" Zhou Jin did not hide it, "I have unexpected gains when I went there this time!"
“What gains?”
"I met someone in the palace. Who do you think it is?"
"Is it Xu Ting?"
Zhou Jin shook his head and chuckled, "How did you know?"
"You just talked about Xu Ting at noon. Now you come to ask deliberately. I think it's her!"
"It's her!" Zhou Jin nodded, "I went to the royal palace to send Gao Zhinan a chance to do so, but I didn't expect to meet Xu Ting halfway!"
"Did she go to find Gao Zhinan?"
"Yes! But..." Zhou Jin frowned, not only with the evil behavior Xu Ting had done to Xu Shu, but Xu Ting still gave Zhou Jin an extremely uncomfortable feeling.
"But what? Does she have other purposes?" Xu Shu guessed casually.
Zhou Jin nodded in agreement, "I remember you said that Xu Ting is a gentle and obedient lady. Even though she has many plans in her heart, she looks elegant and elegant! Isn't it?"
"Yes... she is used to acting in front of others, and there are two different faces in front of others!"
Xu Shu will always remember the contemptuous saying when Xu Ting mentioned her, "It's just a blind man." Her persistence in family affection began to collapse at a moment, and even a bowl of poison in Li's family could not kill Li's nostalgia finally withered at that moment.
"But the Xu Ting I saw today..." Zhou Jin frowned again, pursed his lips in disgust. The more he had to be distorted, the more he had to be distorted, "It's very different from what you said!"
"Why is it different?"
"I originally planned to pay my respects to Concubine Zhen first and then to Xiaocuiyuan. I met Xu Ting on the way, but I saw her from a distance from the flower garden. She couldn't even pass by her side, but she deliberately walked around to pay my respects to me!"
Xu Ting is a family member of others. When she sees a man outside, she should avoid it. Even if she is in another family, even if she is the prince, she still has no reason to come forward to pay her respects alone. Without avoiding suspicion, she is indeed not like what a well-educated and polite lady should do.
Xu Shu pulled the corner of her mouth, "In the past, she probably did such embarrassing things to cling to Prince Long'an!"
"She asked An and I was leaving. She probably saw that I was going to Fuxianju, so she actually said that she was going to pay tribute to Concubine Zhen, and she wanted to go with me!"
Speaking of this, Zhou Jin's face was extremely awkward. He had never seen someone like Xu Ting who did not avoid suspicion at all, but who took the initiative to cling to him was simply... he was simply shameless!
Xu Shu remembered Deng Yarong and said that Xu Ting used a word when she frequently went in and out of Qi's house, "the flowers were shining", and combined with the strong incense stained by Zhou Jin's body today, Xu Shu seemed to have guessed Xu Ting's purpose, and her face suddenly turned strange.
"Xu Shu is planning to seduce Zhou Jin? Did she do this to Prince Longan before? But with Xu Ting's appearance... Prince Longan probably doesn't like it.
Zhou Jin's face looked very ugly, "Although I don't want to think so, what you guess should be similar to what I think!"
Zhou Jin is handsome and is the prince. Of course, there are many people who will fall in love with him. However, what Xu Shu didn't expect was that Xu Ting, who is already a wife, had such an idea. Is she planning to attach herself to Zhou Jin and become a royal concubine in the future?
Being an imperial concubine is indeed better than being a down-and-out Duke's mansion, and her husband is still lame and unable to inherit the title. Moreover, judging by the difficult situation of the Dayin royal family's descendants, as long as she can give birth to children, she will be a hero of Dayin. As for her past, all of her past can be ignored. From then on, she will be able to be rich and powerful.
"So you went with her?" Xu Shu "looked" at Zhou Jin teasingly.
Zhou Jin frowned in disgust, "How is that possible! I turned around and left, she still wanted to follow me, but she was still unwilling to accept it when she was stopped! Later, I heard that she had been staying in Xiaocuiyuan, so I came back!"
Firstly, Zhou Jin was really afraid of Xu Ting's behavior, and secondly, with Xu Ting here, it would be less convenient to let Gao Zhinan go, so Zhou Jin had to give up.
"It's good that way. If you just let Gao Zhinan go so impulsively, the court will be lively again tomorrow!" Gao Zhinan was punished, and the Gao family could not sit idly by, and the Fu family definitely didn't want to destroy this move so quickly.
Zhou Jin smiled and said, "Don't worry, no matter how lively there is, there will be no one to the Gao family. After all, if one opponent is missing, your chances of winning will be greater!"
Xu Shu couldn't help but remember the purpose of Zhou Jin keeping those women as Zhuang Li said. What was Zhou Jin keeping them for? Now the overall situation has been decided, and Zhou Jin can't use their mother's house too much!
"In this way, it's very lively when you return to the royal palace!"
Zhou Jin nodded, "In just a quarter of an hour, everyone came to Fuxianju to pay homage. Concubine Zhen said that Fuxianju has not been so lively for a long time!"
Zhou Jin lived in Jingyuan. Jingyuan was nominally given to Zhou Jin by the empress dowager, but Concubine Zhen was left in the Pingning Palace. Zhou Jin never saw it once. Everyone saw it, so they naturally felt that Zhou Jin respected the empress dowager more than Concubine Zhen, so they tried every means to please the empress dowager, and when Concubine Zhen was naturally alienated.
"Everyone is here, except Gao Zhinan!"
Zhou Jin's tone was plain but his expression was solemn. This shows that Gao Zhinan was the one with the deepest scheming among these people. Everyone went there, but she didn't. First, she seemed to be not as tempted as others, and second, everyone went there, and her not going there was more memorable person, and everyone went there to please Zhou Jin. She was so maverick and attracted men more.
"As soon as you say that, her purpose has been achieved!" Xu Shu saw through Gao Zhinan's thoughts at a glance, "You have not paid attention to anyone who has gone, and have never mentioned it. Only this person who has not gone has left traces in your heart!"
"So I was plotted against by her?" Zhou Jin couldn't help but smack his tongue. Is the twists and turns in a woman's mind so complicated? He still remembered that Xu Shu had analyzed his mother's thoughts for him when she was in Pingliang City. He was amazed at that time. Women are really hard to see through!
Chapter completed!