Chapter 649: Ambition
The princess of the county held the tea bowl and remembered the things before she got married, at that time she was still immersed in the joy of marrying into the clan and becoming the wife of her sweetheart, who knew that the reality slapped her hard.
For the girl who is full of longing for the future and looking forward to the sweet life after marriage, it is the most unforgivable sin to shatter her dreams, and the king of Shuilan County unconsciously ruined his wife's dream.
There are his beautiful concubines and intimate concubines in the house, and there are his confidants outside the house, and there are ambitious women who want to replace her wherever they go.
She has endured it since she was young, and she doesn't know how long she will endure?
After returning to the county king's mansion, the king of Shuilan county hugged the two concubines who had just left the mansion, and the two beautiful concubines were originally going to ride in the same car with the county king, because the county princess did not stay in Tianbaofang, but came back, so the two of them were driven to sit in the carriage behind.
Along the way, they were frightened and worried, because the two of them had just been in Tianbaofang, and they had taken a bunch of eye medicine from the princess and the prince of the county, and asked the prince for several faces, and they hadn't finished talking to the princess of the county!
Therefore, as soon as they got out of the car, the two of them immediately rushed over to the county king's side, and when they saw the two of them, their faces were as usual, so they secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and then patted the county prince coquettishly.
The princess of the county looked at the princess of the county without changing her face, hugged the two beautiful concubines who gave her face before leaving, and walked farther and farther, and when they were no longer visible, she said to her henchman and daughter-in-law, "Let people check and see if anyone is impatient again." ”
Those two things dared to give her eye medicine in front of the county king, thinking that she didn't know! Heh, she just didn't want to bother with them!
The daughter-in-law of the confidant housekeeper glanced at the county king who was far away, nodded silently, and the county princess turned her head to meet her little son.
Her youngest son is only 14 years old, and he is in the prime of his youth.
"How are you at home?"
"When I was in class in the morning, I felt a little headache and came back. The seventeenth-ranked son smiled and shook his mother's hand.
"It's not like it's lazy again, is it?"
"Don't confuse me with Brother Ten, I'm not like him!" The tenth is the third son born to the princess of the county.
The princess smiled and reached out to rub her youngest son's hair, "Where is your eldest brother and sister-in-law?"
"Sister-in-law is in the room, I heard that the eldest brother's concubines want to make her ugly, but I didn't expect my good sister-in-law to be amazing!"
The princess listened to her son patiently, and walked in the direction of the main house while holding his hand, and when she saw the stitches in the gap between his words, she asked him what kind of woman he wanted to marry.
No matter how mixed the seventeenth prince was, he couldn't help the old lady to ask him like this, but his hand was held, and he had nowhere to escape if he wanted to, so he had to honestly follow the princess into the house.
But it didn't take long for him to find a way to slip away.
The princess smiled bitterly at the maid beside her, "This kid, as soon as he talked about lifelong events, he ran away!"
"The seventeenth prince is still young!"
"It's not small. ”
The master and servant laughed, and suddenly the princess of the county stopped laughing, and the others looked at each other and smiled, and after a while, the princess of the county said, "I remember who I heard that day, the leader of the Li sect seems to have just reached the end of the day?"
The maids and servants quickly exchanged glances, and then shook their heads collectively, "Haven't you heard of the slaves, maybe the lady said it?"
Hurriedly pushed the pot out, even if they heard it, they couldn't admit it, who knew what the princess of the county was going to do when she suddenly talked about it? But don't be what they think, just ask them to match the seventeenth prince to marry the Li sect leader.
Fortunately, the princess changed the subject next.
They didn't know that the princess of the county did have a mind, but she quickly dispelled her thoughts.
She wanted her youngest son to marry Li Qianqian, but then she thought about who Li Qianqian's father was, if the youngest son married her, she would have the strongest family background among several daughters-in-law, would the youngest son want to replace his brother and become the next county king......
Anyway, it's good that she and her eldest daughter-in-law Jiang Mingting are related, because they are too close, and it will have a bad impact on their palace.
But she doesn't want to, just because the rest of the house doesn't want to.
A few side concubines are ambitious!
not only wants his son to marry Li Qianqian, but also wants his son to replace his son.
It's just that they have encountered a big problem in operation, and they have found that this Li sect leader is really the best in the world! They are the side concubines and ladies of the county prince's mansion, and they can't even invite her to be a small person from the rivers and lakes? This is too big a trust!
Moreover, they are in the inner courtyard of the county king's mansion, and if they want to see Li Qianqian, they can only come quietly, and they can't let the county king know, let alone the princess of the county.
Therefore, they can only invite Li Qianqian to go to the temple or Taoist temple, and they will meet quietly when they offer incense.
Who knows, I just can't invite you.
can make them angry, but even if they are so angry that they vomit blood, they have to hold back, and they can't ask for a doctor, because they are carrying the county king and the county princess behind their backs, and invite Li Qianqian, so she should not be invited, and they will take her for nothing, even if they want to sue the county king and let the county king take action to clean her up, they will be nameless.
When Li Qianqian received their invitations, she also took the invitations and asked the helmsman, why did the concubine of the county king invite her to go to the temple to offer incense and go to the Taoist temple to listen to the sermon? Is she very Buddha or ......
The helmsman laughed when he heard it, and popularized the thoughts of these side concubines and ladies for her.
"Don't they know that if they want to ask for a son, even if they are a descendant, they have to be allowed by the emperor to become a son?"
"I guess they don't know, right?" the helmsman laughed, and at the same time said in his heart, it is better to let his daughter out quickly, lest these women see that they can't marry his master as a daughter-in-law, so they will target his daughter.
The daughter-in-law of the confidant came back not long after, and the princess of the county learned that they had written to Li Qianqian many times behind her back and wanted to ask her to meet, but after Li Qianqian refused, she was so angry that her face turned blue.
"How dare they act behind my back and the king of the county?" Needless to say, she also knew what those sluts were meeting for.
"Go check and see what they've done besides meeting with the Sect Master?"
"Yes. ”
This is unbelievable, there is actually a side concubine's mother's family, asked relatives to buy medicine from the Dongqi Wei's pharmacy to come back, as for what kind of medicine? Because I bought too much medicine, and the notes on the bottle were torn off, it took a lot of effort to find out what kind of medicine was in the bottle, but fortunately it was robbed by her people.
In addition, there is a lady's maiden brother, who has been doing business in Xiyue all the year round, and came back at the beginning of the year and brought a few bottles of Xiyue secret medicine to her.
The princess of the county does not know the Xiyue language, but there are female officials from the palace around her, and this female official Xie is proficient in the languages of various countries, and the Xiyue language is difficult for her.
The princess of the county asked her to hand over the bottles of Xiyue secret medicine to Lady Xie, and when Lady Xie took it, her face changed.
"Princess Jun, where did you get these medicines?"
"What's the problem?"
Lady Xie sighed, and explained the functions of these bottles of Xiyue secret medicine for the princess of the county, beautifying the face and hair, these are not surprising, and the aphrodisiac is also very common, think about the geometry of the women in the palace, and then think about their only man, I feel that the use of aphrodisiacs when the emperor is no more common.
Lady Xie carefully placed the remaining medicine bottles on the table and introduced them one by one from left to right. "Seventy-seven desperate steps, nine turns of yin and yang pills, beautiful tears, a thousand days of drunkenness. As soon as the names of these four bottles of medicine were said, the princess of the county gasped directly.
Seventy-seven is absolutely down, after taking this medicine, the time to walk forty-nine steps will fall, nine turns of Yin Yang Pill, the temperament of the person who takes it has changed greatly, and the person who has always been shrewd will become no longer so cautious and shrewd.
As for the tears of beauty, this poison will make a person's appearance change greatly, and they will not return to their former beauty, and they will be drunk for a thousand days, and once they take it, they will not wake up until they die.
Lady Xie was shocked when she saw the princess of the county, and knew that this would not be the princess of the county, but from whom she searched it out.
It's just that who is so vicious?
"Please also ask the female official Xie to keep it secret and not spread it. ”
"Princess County, who got these poisons?" she looked at Princess County seriously, "This person has such a vicious mind, Princess County must not spare her." ”
"I know. The princess smiled bitterly, "It's just that the princess has always taken her seriously, and no one is allowed to wronged her." ”
Although the princess of the county did not say it explicitly, it was already pointed out in the words who did it, and the king of the county should be careful to see the meat, isn't there only one side concubine like this for so many years?
"If you are not easy to explain, it is better for you to explain it to Your Majesty on your behalf, and ask Your Majesty to send someone to ...... to the king of the county."
"No, no, if the county king knew, he would definitely be even more angry!" The county princess hurriedly stopped, the female official Xie hated iron and steel and looked at her, the county princess smiled bitterly and pulled her hand, "I know you have good intentions, but if Your Majesty interferes in this matter, the county prince will definitely hate me to death!"
"You, just tell people what they say about you. ”
Although the female official Xie promised the princess of the county that she would not tell His Majesty, she immediately repaired the book and sent it to the capital.
When the princess learned about it, she smiled like a flower and said to her henchman's daughter-in-law, "I knew that she would definitely send news to Beijing." ”
"You ......" The daughter-in-law of the confidant and housekeeper only said one word, and then looked at the princess of the county with a complicated face, she also thought that the princess of the county and the female official Xie had been together for so many years, and they should be friends who trusted each other, but they did not expect that the female official Xie finally chose the emperor.
"There's nothing to be sad about, she's one of the people sent by the emperor to spy on our husband and wife, what's there to be sad about, that's her duty. ”
When the finances of the county king's mansion began to get on the right track, the emperor must be very unhappy!
When the princess of the county checked her husband's women, Zhang Jianye finally arrived, and with him, there were also Mrs. Zhang, her children, daughters-in-law, sons-in-law and others who were rumored to be at odds with him.
Seeing him dragging such a large group of people, Li Qianqian understood why he was so late, and he definitely didn't want to bring them with him, but Mrs. Zhang insisted on following.
And no wonder!
The last time Li Qianqian came, he found a new way out for Zhang Jianye, who was struggling with the livelihood of the sect, and made Zhang Jianye's status in the sect rise, but his status improved, only he benefited personally, and she and her children were excluded.
Of course, Zhang Jianye can't be blamed for this, it is Mrs. Zhang who is too good at doing things, and she pushes her husband's heart away, she only thinks about reaching out to Rui Yaojiao through her husband to obtain benefits, never asking how much she pays for others, she just wants to get what she wants from others.
Fame, fortune, power, etc., she wants, and she also wants the happiness of her children, stepping on others to seek her own interests.
It's no wonder that the four elders will go farther and farther away with her.
Because she was separated from her husband, Li Qianqian came back this time, and she was afraid that her children would be excluded again, so she hurriedly chased after her children.
The four elders are no longer what Li Qianqian looked like when he first met him! Although from his eyes, the look of the honest man of that day can still be faintly seen, but his appearance, bearing, words and deeds are no longer the same as he was back then.
Now he has a successful career, he is very confident in his own actions, and his every move when he speaks carries the aura of a successful person.
In contrast, Mrs. Zhang is not as graceful and dignified as she was when she first saw it, but instead there is an unspeakable anxiety, she is very anxious, she has lost her original calm self-confidence, and when she speaks, she does not feel that her voice has become louder, as if she wants to use the volume to assist the lack of confidence.
Li Qianqian watched coldly, the sons of the Zhang family, some of them looked coldly, and some of them were the same as Mrs. Zhang, they were very eager to make Li Qianqian agree with them, and like Mrs. Zhang, they couldn't help but amplify the volume when they spoke to her, and the movements of their hands were also exaggerated.
It's just that what they say is very empty and contradictory, they want her to take back the authority of the four elders to manage the caravan and the store, and they want her to give this authority to their brothers, saying that their father has selfish intentions, but they can't provide any evidence.
Li Qianqian listened politely for a long time, and just when Mrs. Zhang's mother and son felt that they should have convinced her, they were poured a bucket of cold water on Li Qianqian's head, which made them feel cold.
"Thank you Mrs. Zhang and a few young masters, we Rui Yao Sect's housework, we don't have to bother a few people, whether the person in charge of Zhang is good or bad, we have our own internal ruling, as for what you said, I will let people check it out, and I will definitely not let the sect members be wronged." Thank you a few very much. Mr. Zhang, are you going to stay today, or do you want to go back to your residence to rest?"
"I'm still living in the rudder! didn't you say you had something to discuss with me?"
"Yes. As for a few, I'm really sorry, the guest house room where we divide the rudder is limited, and the person in charge of Zhang has a house in Shuilan City, so I don't want to worry about having no place to rest, so I won't leave a few to live. ”
Li Qianqian asked Chunshou to send Mrs. Zhang and them out, while the four elders took the first step and were led away by Liu Yi.
Mrs. Zhang didn't expect that Li Qianqian would not keep them to live, after all, every time she came before, even if the four elders were not there, the helmsman would look at the four elders and invite her to live in the main courtyard.
When the rudder was out, Miss Zhang's son pulled his mother's skirt and asked, "Mother, we don't live here this time?"
"I can't stop it. ”
"But I like it here!" The main courtyard is spacious and comfortable, not to mention the grandparents who are not in charge of them.
"I'll talk to your grandmother about it. Miss Zhang comforted her son, and when she looked up, she saw her mother with a blank face, holding her brother's hand and asking, "What she said just now means is that we are outsiders, so we don't have to worry about Rui Yao's affairs?"