There was a lot of disturbance outside, and it was spread like a god. Zhou Rushui didn't know anything, after returning to the palace from Langya Palace, she had a good night's sleep, and she didn't know how comfortable it was.

Yu Cui had already learned about the game between His Royal Highness and Wang Sanlang from Renxi Palace, and she asked left and right, but no one knew who won in the end. When she saw Zhou Rushui wake up, she was busy and ran forward to serve, serving her master obediently, while carefully expressing the doubts in her heart. But I don't want to, and the answer I get is still unknown!

In front of the bronze mirror, Yu Cui still didn't give up, she took out Zhou Rushui's silky black hair from the placket, carefully combed it slowly with a grate, and looked at Zhou Rushui who was still squinting and pretending to sleep, and asked in a low voice: "Nujun, don't you really know whether you win or lose?"

"I don't know, I fell asleep. Zhou Rushui flattened her mouth at the bronze mirror, revealing a rare kind of noble charm that can only be raised by Zhong Mingding's food family, and she muttered in a low voice: "Although the game is too concerned about the outcome of the game, it will lose interest." But my brother seemed to have made a bet with Wang Saburo on that game of chess, but unfortunately I slept too deeply, and when I woke up, the chess board was empty. ”

Wang Yuxi and Gongzi Musheng are two people, and their chess skills are comparable, regardless of whether they are up or down. It is rare to gamble, and the interest is full of interest. As for what he gambled, Zhou Rushui didn't know. When she later returned to the palace, she knew and asked her brother, but she didn't want to, but her brother smiled faintly, but he didn't say anything, as if he was hiding it from her.

Seeing that there was no sound of wind outside, Zhou Rushui was also beating a drum in his heart, and he always felt that something was coming.

Seeing such a rare scene, only the female monarch can sleep. Ying Cui sighed helplessly, looked at Zhou Rushui through the bronze mirror, and saw that her fair face was floating with a faint red, and her black eyes seemed to be rippling with water waves. When he landed, he didn't say anything, and suddenly felt that His Royal Highness and Wang Sanlang were a picturesque scene, and her master was also a rare beauty in the world. In this way, it is no wonder that Zhou Rushui can sleep peacefully.

At this moment, Shu Ying walked in with a mahogany box inlaid with shell coral, she saluted, and said, "Nujun, Your Royal Highness got a good old pit inkstone, and personally painted the style for the craftsman, so I carved it, and I ordered Abi to send it to you." ”

"Duan inkstone?" Hearing this, Zhou Rushui raised his eyebrows in surprise, tilted his head slightly to look at Shuying, and raised his hand to take the inkstone.

Take a closer look, and see that the inkstone is really a rare treasure, the appearance of blue gray slightly purple blue, the stone pattern is delicate and smooth, delicate and dense and solid. On the forehead of the inkstone, there is a shallow carving of the Yang-patterned landscape map, the clouds and mist float on it, the two ancient pines in the middle confront each other on both sides, and the water ripples under it, which is really full of interest.

"The appearance is elegant!" Zhou Rushui nodded appreciatively like an old pedant, and gently pressed the inkstone of the inkstone with his palm, and immediately, moist water vapor appeared on the inkstone. Seeing this, she smiled and said softly with a lot of knowledge: "Weight and light, rigid and soft, heck and grind ink, such a good inkstone was given to this palace, it is really a tyrannical thing." ”

The good old pit inkstone is purple and blue with a slight blue color from the surface, and it has not retreated for a long time. If it caresses children's skin, it is soft and tender but not slippery, and it is delicate and delicate, moisturizing, and can "breathe and grind ink". Therefore, the ink and ink under the inkstone of the old pit are excellent, and it is a rare treasure. It's just that everyone knows that Zhou Tianjiao's words have always been perfunctory, and Gongzi Musheng gave her such a good inkstone, so I really don't blame her for laughing at herself as a "tyrannical thing".

Zhou Rushui laughed at herself, but she didn't do it, she put down the grate lightly, and said seriously: "Nujun, you can't vent your confidence in vain! Now that you are finally willing to work hard, coupled with the inkstone of the Second Highness, you will definitely get twice the result with half the effort!"

"Do more with less?" Acui, a few days ago, the words of the Daoben Palace can stop children crying at night, but you?" Zhou Rushui smiled and stared at Yucui.

Hearing this, Yingcui was really stunned, glanced at the inkstone, and ran away with his face covered.

Seeing her turn around and run, Shuying shook her head behind her, she stepped forward and took the grate, and said helplessly: "Acui, this lazy girl, is getting more and more unruly." ”

Zhou Rushui smiled, glanced at her, raised his hand and put the inkstone back into the mahogany box, and said indifferently: "It's okay, let her go!"

Both of them are Zhou Rushui's attendants. But their personalities and actions are very different.

Her original surname is Feng, called Feng Cui'er, her father and brother have fought on the battlefield with King Zhou, and they can be described as full of loyalty. But unfortunately, a fire in the past ruined the future of the Feng family, and the Feng family died in the fire, but the young Aocui was protected by the nurse and jumped into the well, which survived.

Later, Empress Lou took pity on Yingcui for being helpless at a young age, so she took her into the palace and let her accompany Zhou Rushui. In the past, Zhou Cui was like half a master in the Huanong Palace, and Zhou Rushui has always been a good-natured person, so he made Liang Cui develop an innocent and straightforward temperament. She is all about Gongzi Musheng, so she is even more attentive and thoughtful to Zhou Rushui.

Compared with her upright background, Shuying is much more lonely and depressed.

Her father, Xu Chen, was also a military general, but he was a coward who fled from the battle, and he also sold twenty carts of grain and grass to barbarians when the war was urgent. This should have been a felony of extermination, but because of the meritorious service of the ancestors of the Xu family, King Zhou had to be exempted from the crime of raiding the family and destroying the door outside the law. But capital sins can be avoided, but living sins cannot be escaped. The people of the Xu clan were all demoted to concubines because of Xu Chen's fault, and Xu Chen himself was also subjected to the type.

Su Ying's mother Peng is a patriarchal parent, she knew that a catastrophe was coming, so she took advantage of the loophole and reconciled with Xu Xi, leaving the young Su Ying, and only took her young son back to her parents' house.

Because of Xu's resentment, Yangzhou Xu's family was reduced from a solid house to a broken settlement in the past. Xu Xi died soon after being tortured, but he took pity on Shuying, who was scolded by relatives and friends and despised by passers-by because of his father's misfortune at a young age.

At that time, Su Ying was only eight years old. After Xu Chen's death, the Xu clan had no time to take care of themselves, and no one was willing to take care of Gu Shuying. And when Xu Chen was dying, in addition to leaving Shuying with his cold reputation and corpse that was spurned by everyone, he also left a foreign debt of fifty taels of silver.

Fifty taels was only a fraction of what Shuying used to reward his subordinates. It can be 30 years in the east of the river and 30 years in the west of the river. Fifty taels, but in the blink of an eye, it has become a life-urging talisman for Shuying.

Shu Ying was told that if the silver was not paid within three days, he would have to pay off the debt to the head of the Peng family in the south of the city as a concubine. There was nothing wrong with this, but at that time, Su Ying was in despair, and when she knew that her mother who had returned to her parents' house was unwilling to help her, she had already accepted her fate.

However, when she learned that the head of the Peng family was happy with prostitution, he liked to drink the blood of virgins raw, and used girls as playthings, often having the pleasure of cutting scars with thin knives. When his concubines were all bled alive and bled to death, she no longer wanted to accept her fate.

Although Su Ying knows that a gentleman is not subject to food, she does not want to die so unjustly. So, with a breath, Shu Ying knelt on the street with a straw mat, she hoped that her sister-in-law, who knew her on weekdays, would kindly buy her, she was willing to be a cow and a horse, and her loyalty was in return.

But what Su Ying encountered was all white eyes, all laughing and slandering. When her sister-in-law, who had been good friends with her in the past, saw her and didn't look at her, she sneered and avoided her. No one saved her, no one helped her, no one took pity on her. That is, when she was disheartened and ready to kill herself, Zhou Rushui saw her.

At that time, the young Zhou Rushui was riding on the shoulders of the prince Luo He, the prince of Zhou, with a string of silver bells hanging on her pink wrist, her little arms lazily hooking the neck of the prince Luo He, and her white and cute little face hanging crookedly on the top of the young man's hair, which was really dexterous and cute.

No one would have thought that this little girl would look away from the sugar man on the side of the road and notice the daughter of a sinner kneeling on a straw mat.

Not only did she see Shuying, but she also tilted her little head and pointed at her, and softly said to Luo He, the prince of Zhou: "Big brother, the servant girl and son you sent are not happy, but the son is happy with her." ”

Luo He, the prince of Zhou, was originally a dissolute and uninhibited character, and when he heard the words, he didn't ask the reason and the way, so he wanted to buy Shuying according to Amei's wishes.

On the contrary, Gongzi Mu Sheng, who was following behind, stopped the prince, he looked at Shuying carefully for a while, and asked her: "Are you the daughter of Xu Chen?" Seeing that she should be, Gongzi Mu Sheng's gaze at her obviously became different, and he asked her lightly, compassionately, condescendingly: "Do you have any grievances about falling into such a field?"

Where did Shuying dare to complain, she knew what her father had done, and her father escaped from the battle, killing all the 3,000 men and horses under his command. My father was greedy for life and afraid of death, so he exchanged the grain and grass in his hand for gold and silver with the barbarians, and escaped by himself, but the border guards stationed in Tianshui City were hungry and cold. She is her father's daughter, and she is also a sinner in the Zhou Kingdom. Therefore, she is ashamed of her mother country and the emperor's grace.

Su Ying shook her head from the bottom of her heart, at that time, she had already guessed who the three brothers and sisters in front of her were. She kowtowed heavily to her son-in-law Mu Sheng, and said extremely sincerely and helplessly: "My Xu family has a negative imperial grace." She didn't explain more, she didn't say more repentance, but the blood on her forehead showed her sincerity.

After a long time, in Zhou Rushui's dissatisfied muttering, Gongzi Musheng spoke again, this time, his voice softened a lot, and asked her again: "The so-called, 'The old man, and the old man.'" The young of me, and the young of man. 'You are not much older than my sister, nor much younger than her, how will she be with you?'

At that time, Shuying, who was in despair, knew that this might be the last dawn and the last chance in her last life.

Shuying was silent for a long time before she saluted her son-in-law Mu Sheng with great sincerity and replied: "The old man is powerless, and he can't have food and clothing. The young are ignorant, and there is no way to live. The slave is powerless and ignorant, compared to both have shortcomings, but fortunately, the slave has some foolishness and filial piety. If the little master buys a slave, the slave will be like a rebirth, and he will be loyal and repay him with his life. "Shuying used to be a master, so she understands that the most important thing for a slave is to be loyal to the master, and the only thing she has left is loyalty.

After that, Gongzi Musheng believed in Shuying's loyalty, he bought her and asked her to change her face and serve Zhou Rushui.

Now, because the master lives in a simple place, no one remembers the down-and-out Xu family daughter who knelt on the street like a beggar in the past, and there is no Yangzhou Xu family among the Zhou Guoshi clan. More people only know that Zhou Tianjiao has two maids by his side, one is gentle and the other is lively, both of whom are highly valued.