NOVEL WEB Chapter 594: Obstacle
"Why not? When she was a child, Arong must have been like a glutinous rice ball, white, tender, and cute, as delicate as a piece of jade." It's a pity that there is no camera, otherwise I could have kept the photos and looked at them when I grow up.
Pei Shaorong deliberately asked: "When I was a child, I was thin and yellow, like a little maid?"
Xu Muhua paused, remembering what was described in the book, saying that the heroine was often bullied by Pei Zhen, a bastard, and was also abused by Aunt Zhao when she was a child.
"Even if you were skinny and yellow when you were little, you must have been a very good-looking kid! Your facial features are there, and they won't change because of anything else! Oh, if only I had known Rong when I was little, I could have protected him!"
It’s a pity that in the book, when the original owner and Arong met, they were both almost grown up.
Pei Shaorong amusedly reached out and tapped her upturned nose, "You are also a child, you are at an age where you need protection from others, and you still want to protect me!"
"That's different. Ah Rong, you are born to be protected!"
Pei Shaorong sighed: "This is not good. It is better to rely on myself than on others. I still want to be someone who can protect myself."
Xu Muhua looked at her with a serious expression: "Arong, you have always been like this! And now you can protect others too. From now on, I will count on you, the Queen, to protect me!"
"There are only three women in the harem now. Does Concubine Zhao still dare to bully you? Or are you hinting that I will bully you?"
Xu Muhua rolled his eyes and asked tentatively, "Arong, Zhao Chengye is now the emperor. It is said that the emperor has 3,000 beauties in his harem. Even if he really has no intention of selecting concubines, those ministers will not agree. What if one day he can't bear the pressure from the ministers and gives in and selects concubines, you...what will you do?"
Pei Shaorong was startled and at a loss for a moment, as if he was stumped by her question.
After a while, he smiled faintly, with some helplessness in his smile: "What else can I do? He is the emperor, how can I really expect him to only be with me, a woman, for the rest of his life? This is impossible."
"But didn't he promise you that you would be the only woman in his life?"
Pei Shaorong shook her head gently: "Silly girl, how can you believe such words?"
Xu Muhua insisted, "Since he promised, he should do it! This is the promise he made to you. If he can't do it, he shouldn't have promised you! He promised you, but didn't do it, then it's his fault! He is sorry for you!"
Pei Shaorong's face changed, and she quickly covered her mouth, "Keep your voice down! How dare you say such words? What if someone hears you?"
Xu Muhua pulled her hand away, "Just listen to it, I didn't say anything wrong! If you promised someone something, you should do it. Otherwise, why did you promise? Giving others hope and then destroying their hope with your own hands is a very immoral thing to do!"
"Those who betray sincerity must swallow ten thousand needles!"
"But……"
Xu Muhua held her hand and said, "No buts! No matter who it is, if they wrong you or hurt you for no reason, it's their fault! You can't just stand it and make excuses for others!"
Pei Shaorong asked stupidly: "Then what should I do?"
Xu Muhua answered as a matter of course: "Of course I will retaliate fiercely!"
This is completely contrary to the education Pei Shaorong received before!
Isn't it said that people should repay evil with kindness, be tolerant and compassionate?
"But, but he is...he is my husband!"
Xu Muhua held her hand tightly, "Because he is your husband, the one who should love you, protect you, and care about you, but he hurts you for another woman, you can't let him go easily! Forgiveness is even more impossible!"
Pei Shaorong was simply shocked, "Muhua, you——"
"Xu, Mu, Hua!"
A sound of gnashing teeth suddenly came, interrupting what Pei Shaorong was about to say.
The two were startled and turned their heads at the same time!
Hey, shouldn't the emperor be working? Why is he in the harem at this hour?
Xu Muhua was not panicked at all, let alone alarmed. On the contrary, Pei Shaorong's eyes kept flickering, and she didn't dare to look at Zhao Chengye, as if she had done something wrong.
Xu Muhua was so disappointed with the result.
Xu Muhua stood up and saluted as if nothing had happened, "Your Majesty."
Pei Shaorong also bowed, but just as she was about to kneel down, Zhao Chengye reached out and helped her up.
Xu Muhua performed the ceremony obediently.
Seeing this, she rolled her eyes secretly.
Tsk, such a double standard! When his queen wanted to pay her respects, he was so distressed that he quickly stopped her. It was as if she, as a concubine, was blind and couldn't see it.
After Zhao Chengye helped Pei Shaorong sit down, he looked at Xu Muhua with a dark face, gnashing his teeth, and anger in his eyes: "What nonsense did you say to the queen!"
If he and Arong had a quarrel one day, it would most likely be Xu Muhua's fault!
He was beginning to suspect that his imperial concubine was actually a man in disguise, otherwise why would she spare no effort to sow discord between him and Arong? It looked like she was trying her best to steal his girl!
Xu Muhua was not afraid of him, and said confidently: "How can it be nonsense? You and I know Arong's character very well. You are the emperor now, and you are still so young, and there are only three women in the harem. Who knows when you will select concubines? Who knows whether those embroiderers are good or bad?"
"I call this taking precautions in advance, so that Ah Rong can be mentally prepared to avoid being bullied in the future!"
Zhao Chengye was furious, "I didn't say I wanted to select concubines!"
"You haven't said anything now, but it's hard to say in the future. Maybe one day you go out of the palace incognito and see a beautiful woman on the street and you will be attracted to her. You will take her back to the palace and pamper her to the sky, even forgetting about Queen Arong."
Zhao Chengye was so angry at her unreasonable words.
He had handled the ministers in the previous dynasty with ease and calmness, but when he came to the harem, he was furious with his concubine!
This Xu Muhua came into the palace to defeat him, right?
She is the stumbling block in his and Arong's relationship!
"If I say no, then I won't!"
"What if you did?"
Zhao Chengye blurted out: "If one day I really do something to let Arong down, I will let you deal with me!"
Xu Muhua seemed to be waiting for him to say this, and clapped his hands, "Okay, you said this yourself. You are the emperor, your words are binding, and you cannot go back on your words! Ah Rong, you heard it too, you testify, if he dares to do you wrong in the future, we must not let him go!"