Prince Jing looked at the aunt and niece, a cold smile in his heart.
Such an obvious evasion, they really took him for a fool!
"For a couple to want harmony, they ultimately need to be well-matched, or else even if forcibly bound together, though seemingly compatible, it will only breed trouble, harming both parties," Prince Jing looked at the Princess Consort soberly, "Princess Consort, would you not say I’m right?"
Princess Consort always felt that Prince Jing’s words had an underlying meaning.
But, if it were said that the Prince despised her low status, having been married for over a decade, did he not feel it too late to complain now?
Only Liu Yunqing felt deep inside that Prince Jing behaving so unusually meant that, perhaps, the truth had been exposed.
Moreover, Prince Jing’s current words, no matter how one heard them, seemed to carry a hidden implication.
Even though she knew something was wrong, Liu Yunqing dared not speak much.
Soon, the wild vegetables and black bread that Prince Jing ordered were served. Although Prince Jing had said not to treat them specially, the chefs did not dare to serve them just like that.
Still, the ingredients were here, there wasn’t much that could be done with them.
Prince Jing tasted a bite of the wild vegetables; the flavor was indeed not delicious, but it was not so bad that it couldn’t be swallowed. He then took a piece of the black bread, which, even though still warm, felt hard as a rock.
He bit into it, and indeed, as Ye Jiu had said, it was both awful and difficult to swallow. Prince Jing’s first reaction was to spit it out, but thinking that Ye Jiu had been eating this way for years, he forcefully held it in and forced himself to swallow.
"Prince..." Although Princess Consort was blunt, she too noticed the difference in Prince Jing today.
Prince Jing did not respond but forced himself to eat these unpalatable things, bite by bite, until he finished. Then he asked, "Didn’t I say no special treatment was necessary? Why don’t these wild vegetables taste bitter?"
Just then, the person serving the food from the kitchen had not yet left and hurriedly explained, "Your Highness, these wild vegetables have various types, and naturally, they taste different. Now in winter, the post station only has some dried vegetables, which have all been processed and do not have any bitter wild vegetables, please forgive us, Your Highness."
It’s baffling with these high-ranking people, surely they aren’t accustomed to good days to the extent they want to taste hardship, making one wonder.
Prince Jing indicated he understood, then dismissed the servant. The room instantly was left with only Prince Jing, his wife, and Liu Yunqing.
Prince Jing handed a piece of black bread to the Princess Consort, "Here, Princess Consort, try it and see how it is?"
Under Prince Jing’s gaze, the Princess Consort took a bite, and her first reaction was to spit it out, but seeing Prince Jing’s look, she forced herself to swallow it down hard.
Immediately afterward, she hurriedly drank a spoonful of soup from the bowl, but her throat still felt uncomfortably dry.
"Is it awful?" Prince Jing asked as he picked up a handkerchief to wipe his hands.
The Princess Consort hesitated, first shaking her head, but then, seeing Prince Jing’s increasingly cold gaze, she quickly nodded.
"What has gotten into you today, Your Highness?" The Princess Consort finally felt it, the change in the Prince today was too great.
"So, the Princess Consort also finds these difficult to swallow!" Prince Jing did not answer directly but scoffed coldly, "Did you know that because of your selfishness, my own flesh and blood have suffered poison and been estranged for decades, surviving on these things you find hard to swallow?"
The sound of the soup bowl touching the floor crisply, like the Princess Consort’s heart, shattered all at once.