On Our Wedding Night, I Discovered the Crown Prince’s Hidden Illness
Chapter 389: Being Good to the Commandery Princess

Chapter 389: Chapter 389: Being Good to the Commandery Princess

Leng Yu Yan found herself in a dilemma, "Song Guo, please get up first."

Song Guo took a step on his knees closer to her, "If the Commandery Princess does not agree, I shall not rise."

Leng Yu Yan’s brows furrowed slightly as she turned to Ye Yiheng, "Your Highness, please help me say a few words."

"Isn’t this the same issue I spoke of last night?"

Ye Yiheng looked down, his voice clear and elegant, and his tone slow.

Being master and servant, they were in accord, and Leng Yu Yan thought of Miao Zhu, worried about her current situation.

Seeing her silence, Ye Yiheng cast a glance, and Song Guo obediently stood up.

After a while, Leng Yu Yan said, "I want to go to the nearby market to purchase materials for a human skin mask, so our journey might be safer and easier."

Song Guo exclaimed, "Commandery Princess, you must not!"

"Why not?"

"Right now, portraits of Your Highness and the Commandery Princess are plastered everywhere—on official roads, inns and all city gates. If the Commandery Princess goes to purchase them, she will surely be recognized."

Leng Yu Yan’s brows knit together, "Mine too?"

"I don’t know why, but in these recent days, they suddenly added the Commandery Princess’s portrait."

Hearing this, Ye Yiheng pinched his wrist. Could it be that Ye Gaoyun now had the audacity to challenge the Prince Zhenbei Mansion?

Song Guo then said, "Going to the market is possible; Your Highness and the Commandery Princess can stay inside the carriage while I go to buy the materials."

Leng Yu Yan expressed her concern, "But wouldn’t that expose you as well?"

"Commandery Princess, rest assured, I am not important enough to have my portrait posted," Song Guo sighed. "To divert the assassins, we have been traveling in the Eastern Palace Carriage. Even though we removed the plaque with the ’Eastern Palace’ inscription, the carriage itself was the target."

"After the carriage was destroyed, we went our separate ways, but that made us relatively safer. So, it should be safe for me to make the purchase."

Song Guo scratched his head, "Unfortunately, I’m not very familiar with the road to Beilan City. I had to ask around during the day and took some wrong turns before I learned that. Luckily, misfortune turned into a blessing when I encountered Your Highness and the Commandery Princess."

"How did Your Highness and the Commandery Princess also lose your way?" Song Guo asked rhetorically. "It must have been to evade pursuit. I’ve been so foolish to even ask."

Ye Yiheng spoke in an indifferent tone, "Once we’ve bought the materials and made the human skin masks, we’ll travel by the official roads."

Taking the official roads would allow them to reach Beilan City sooner, and Mo Chen and the others were probably traveling that way. By then, they might even be able to meet up with them.

Besides, the situation with the poison in his body was such that he no longer needed to hide from pursuers and assassins.

The three of them decided to head to the market immediately, concluding that it was safest to purchase the materials for the human skin mask overnight.

Ye Yiheng got out of the carriage and continued to drive. Stuck with a beard, and under the cover of darkness, driving to the market should not pose a big problem.

Song Guo was moved to tears. When had their Highness ever driven a carriage?

Now His Highness was driving, while he sat inside. Then he thought, since His Highness had never driven before, it was no wonder the ride was so bumpy. The persimmons and meat he had just eaten were nearly jolted out of him, and his tears quickly stopped.

Suddenly, he heard the low whining of a dog. Song Guo turned to see a dog next to the carriage door, which he had not noticed before.

Seeing the puppy’s adorable look, he sat down on the floor of the carriage.

Seeing this, Leng Yu Yan called out to him, "Song Guo, why are you sitting on the floor? Get up and sit here."

"Commandery Princess, my clothes are dirty; I’ll just sit on the floor," he said, then turned to Yinhui, "Hey, little dog, you’re quite comfortable!"

Yinhui whined again as if to say, "You’re the dog here!"

Leng Yu Yan laughed, "Song Guo, this is a wolf pup. His Highness and I have adopted it. Its name is Yinhui."

"Yinhui..." Song Guo fiddled with the silver-grey fur on the little wolf cub’s head, "This name was given by Your Highness, right?"

"How did you know?" she asked curiously.

Song Guo turned around, crossed his legs, and sat down comfortablly, starting to prattle on, "I am called Song Guo because His Highness gave me a plate of pine nuts to eat, and Song Guo then became my name."

"Mo Chen runs so fast, by the time the dust he kicked up settles, his figure has already vanished."

"Ruofeng’s qinggong is formidable, like a gust of wind."

"As for Liu Yun, when it was time to name him, His Highness was looking at the clouds on the horizon."

"Regarding Yin Shuang, when His Highness saved her, it was so cold that frost formed instantly."

"Don’t think these names all sound nice. We’re happy with them, but His Highness comes up with them off the cuff."

"In the Dark Guard Bureau, others still don’t have names, all use code names. Of course, before Mo Chen and those four became His Highness’s personal guards, they also only had code names. Oh, right, there’s also Ling Lang, his name is actually his real name."

It was at this moment that Ye Yiheng’s cold voice entered the horse carriage, "Song Guo, you got energy?"

Leng Yu Yan chuckled lightly.

"Your Highness, I indeed have the energy to talk now," Song Guo said with a playful grin, "Having not seen Your Highness and the Commandery Princess for many days, I could talk for three days and nights without stopping."

Ye Yiheng spoke again with an icy tone, "Yinhui is being raised by Yanyan and me; it is now a member of our family. Do you understand its status?"

Song Guo’s jaw dropped in shock.

After a long daze, he picked up Yinhui to check its gender, then sighed. Could it be that His Highness is raising this little wolf cub as a son? Could this white wolf cub actually be his master?

Poor His Highness, unable to have children, is actually raising a wolf!

Song Guo blinked sympathetically and looked towards Leng Yu Yan, "Commandery Princess, you are surely aware of His Highness’s health. I assure you, if you marry His Highness, he will treat you exceptionally well!"

Feeling that it wasn’t enough for His Highness alone to treat the Commandery Princess well, he quickly added, "By then, everyone in the Eastern Palace will treat the Commandery Princess well!"

Leng Yu Yan smiled amusedly, "Song Guo, take a rest first. Later, you’ll need to help me buy quite a few things."

Song Guo nodded respectfully, "Yes, as you command."

Although Ye Yiheng was a novice driver, he drove the carriage at breakneck speed. Due to inertia, the two passengers inside were jostled from side to side.

His driving skills had one advantage besides making the passengers uncomfortable: they arrived at the busy market rather quickly.

The carriage stopped in a secluded spot and, just in case, Leng Yu Yan prepared to put a mustache on Song Guo as well.

Just as Leng Yu Yan was about to cut her own hair, Ye Yiheng intervened, "Cut his own."

Song Guo agreed, "Yes, cut mine."

Leng Yu Yan nodded, and in a short while, she had affixed a mustache to Song Guo.

Song Guo touched his mustache and said in a hushed voice, thrilled, "I never thought I’d see the day when I’d have a mustache!"

"Go make the purchases," Ye Yiheng commanded, tossing him the silver.

Song Guo caught the silver, nodded solemnly, and committed Leng Yu Yan’s list of needed materials to memory before stepping out of the carriage.

After several trips through the bustling market, Song Guo had finally bought all the materials needed, plus a copper mirror. Thinking that only candles were lit inside the carriage, which would prove challenging for the Commandery Princess to craft the human skin mask, he also bought an oil lamp.

When he returned to the carriage, Leng Yu Yan began working on the human skin mask.

Seeing that he had bought an oil lamp, Ye Yiheng nodded in approval.

Song Guo finally felt somewhat useful, his eyes welling up with emotion.

You see, when he had been with Mo Chen and the others, due to his mediocre skills, which couldn’t even compare to a three-legged cat, he had held them back numerous times and always felt very guilty.