"What are you talking about?!" the handsome young man in brocade clothes frowned and listened to his subordinates' report with a beautiful sword brow on his face.

The black-clothed man standing in front of the bookcase took a breath and repeated what he had just said: "After investigation by his subordinates, it has been confirmed that the woman that His Highness wants his subordinates to find is Situ Chengcheng, the only daughter of General Situ. "I secretly muttered in my heart: What is the idea of His Royal Highness the Prince? A few days ago, he was in a hurry to find someone by himself, but now people find him but they are angry, this is too moody?

"Situ Allure..."Yang Yi muttered and repeated these four words, no matter how he heard it, he felt a little gnashing of teeth. The slender fingers stroked an agarwood lily pattern brocade box on the bookcase, inside was a jade fan, the fan bone was made of the best mutton fat white jade, and the fan surface was made of rain silk brocade woven by the best weaver in the special life palace to weave the lily pattern.

The man in black was startled, and secretly glanced at the angry master, and he was entangled in whether to persuade him, he was a good hand at fighting and killing people, but his verbal skills were really not good, so it was better not to open his mouth and make the master angry. Now he began to miss the waiter who followed his master all day long, thinking about it carefully, although this kid talked a little more and loved to pretend to be an uncle, he was not useless, and it was a pity to lose his life when he went to Jiangnan with his master.

The entourage and guards who accompanied Yang Yi to Jiangnan were all bad for the assassin's poisonous hands, and even the little eunuch Xiao Yinzi, who had been serving by his side for more than ten years, died, and the newly replaced chamberlain Xiao Hongzi was not as clever as Xiao Yinzi, and secondly, he didn't know what the master had experienced in Jiangnan, so he naturally couldn't guess Yang Yi's thoughts, and he opened his mouth with the mentality of protecting himself or didn't say anything, only lowered his head.

Yang Yi was full of worries and there was no one around him to guide him correctly, he only felt that he had been tricked, and the more he thought about it, the more angry he became, and he shouted on impulse to make Situ Allure look good!

"Hiss!" Situ Ningbing was sitting in the gazebo embroidering in a distracted way, and her finger was pricked by a needle again, so hated that she shook the embroidery needle in her hand, turned her back and said angrily: "Don't embroider!"

Mama Xue, who was waiting on the side, took out a handkerchief to bandage her and said with a smile: "Miss, this female red is a skill that every woman must learn, and you are the daughter of a wealthy family. My good lady, you embroider for a while, and we won't embroider this peony after embroidering it. ”

Situ Ningbing looked at the thing on the embroidered cloth that could barely be called a flower, and wanted to cry without tears. "No, there won't be anything great! There is no shortage of embroidery girls in our family!" Situ Ningbing has been back home for nearly half a month, except for the good life on the first day, the days after that are simply miserable. Mrs. Situ was immersed in the joy of her return home, and it didn't take long for her to immediately think about how to marry her, considering her daughter's appearance, Mrs. Situ used her brains on the word "virtuous", marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous Mrs. Situ naively thought that with a good family background and good character, the lack of her daughter's appearance could not be so important. So, Situ Ningbing lived a life of learning etiquette in the morning, embroidering in the afternoon, and reciting the "Female Ring" in the evening.

Etiquette is not a problem with "The Female Ring", Situ Ningbing has a natural nobility, and when she was young, she learned the etiquette rules according to the standards of the future queen, and after leaving home, the master was almost harsh and critical of her manners, so in terms of etiquette, Mrs. Situ specially invited to raise her grandmother is also ashamed. As for "The Female Ring", with Situ Ningbing's ability to never forget, he can recite it backwards and draw inferences from one after another, and it is definitely not a problem to fool people. The only thing that gave Situ Ningbing a headache was that the woman was red, an embroidery needle weighed a thousand pounds in her hand, she could afford to hold a pen and shoot an arrow, but she was defeated by a needle!

"Miss..."In the face of Situ Ningbing's "children can't be taught", Mama Xue couldn't cry or laugh, so she could only persuade patiently: "No matter how much embroidery you have, you still have to embroider your own wedding dress in the future, not to mention that your husband's family is not as good as your own family, and if the female red is not good, the husband's family will be more or less despised by others." ”

With the Situ family's background, as long as you look lower and find a family with a thin foundation and a simpler population, not to mention that she is not a female celebrity, even if she will not waste anything, people will treat her as a bodhisattva. Situ Ningbing only thought about it in his heart and didn't say it, anyway, he didn't pay attention to it.

"Mama Xue, I'm afraid that my cousin is tired after embroidering for so long, so it's better to come here today. Duguxiu, who was accompanying Situ Ningbing to do embroidery work on the side, saw her with a headache on her face, and also opened her mouth to help her out. After more than half a month of getting along, Duguxiu felt that her cousin was gentle and amiable, and she treated her very well, so she got close to Situ Ningbing, and when she saw that she was forced to be a school girl, she volunteered to accompany her, often taking advantage of Mama Xue's inattention to help Situ Ningbing embroider two stitches, or help her cover and be lazy.

Duguxiu would never have thought that this "gentle and amiable" cousin sent someone to check her from head to toe when she returned home on the first day, just last night her father tried to hide the secret for fifteen years, but it was all counted through a few thin pieces of rice paper to Situ Ningbing's hands.

Facts have proved that Situ Ningbing's suspicion is not suspicious, Duguxiu is really not the Yang family's own child, but her uncle Duguren's illegitimate daughter outside! This matter is not a big deal if the family that is left aside, even if Duguxiu is not a grandson, but he has been raised by his mother's side since he was a child, it is no different from his daughter, that is, it is known, at most, it is only to make fun of it for a while, and lose some face, there is no big hindrance, but in Dugu's family, this is a secret that can kill her!

Just because the Dugu clan has two unbelievable but iron-clad clan rules: first, the Dugu clan has no concubine, and the concubine dies! Second, the Dugu clan has no second wife, no concubine, no outer room, no selfish feelings, and the offender will be severely punished!

Situ Ningbing was also taken aback when he knew that his grandfather's family had these two rules, and later after checking the cause and effect, he realized that Dugu's intentions were good. Only the Gu clan set an iron law because of a "catastrophe" that almost wiped out the clan hundreds of years ago, and it seemed to be foolish but really pushed the Dugu clan to prosperity. Because of these two iron laws, Dugu has become the best choice for the wives of the Gaomen family to choose a son-in-law, and because it is not surprising that only one can be married in a lifetime, the man of the Dugu family is particularly carefully selected when he hires a wife, and the family has no inner courtyard to compete for favor with the housewife's mind are placed on the husband and godson, and the Dugu family pays special attention to the cultivation of the next generation, so since then the Dugu family is a little thin but the generations are outstanding, the men are all civil and military will enter the phase, and the women are always in the harem Houmen, and the Dugu family has developed from an inconspicuous third-rate family to one of the best in the dynasty！

Unexpectedly, as the head of the most prosperous branch of the Dugu clan, Duguren actually violated the clan rules, and what is even more outrageous is that he dared to blatantly raise his illegitimate daughter under his wife's name and pretend to be a concubine! Situ Ningbing can probably guess what his uncle's idea is, the Yang family originally gave birth to four children, three sons and one daughter, but unfortunately the youngest daughter died a few days after birth, and the Yang family also injured her body during childbirth and could not give birth again, it happened that Duguxiu was born at this time, Duguren took her back and pretended to be the daughter of the Yang family, and when Duguxiu grew up, she was crowned with the glory of Dugu's family and three queens, even if Situ Chengcheng was set as the crown princess first, Duguxiu is always no problem to be a good woman, if you can give birth to the eldest son first, the future queen mother is surnamed Situ or Dugu is still unknown。

It seems that God is helping Duguren, Situ Chengcheng was six years old because of the fire and his life was ruined and was taken overseas by the master for treatment, the general Situ Xin took the initiative to ask the emperor to take back his daughter as the crown princess, the emperor pretended to shirk twice, and couldn't help Situ Xin and the Manchu Dynasty Wenwu repeatedly wrote to approve it. Although there are eight major clans in the world, the most qualified to become the queen is the daughter of Duguren, except for Situ Xin's daughter.

Situ Ningbing looked at Duguxiu, who was talking to him, and felt a little sad in his heart, such a beautiful and docile girl was just a chess piece that gained more power in the eyes of her biological father! With the current power and prestige of the Dugu clan, even if it is not a foreign relative, it will not be much worse, and the cousin and the two cousins are also the leaders of their generation, and the future is immeasurable, but in order to go to the next level, the uncle is willing to take the crime of bullying the king after violating the clan rules and pushing his own daughter like a sheep into the wolves, Situ Ningbing really doesn't know whether to say that he is smart or stupid, and finally only came to one conclusion: people's hearts are not enough to swallow elephants!

"Cousin, what are you staring at me?" Duguxiu's somewhat embarrassed voice recalled Situ Ningbing's thoughts, and looked at the shy and timid cousin Situ Ningbing's face did not change color and his heart did not beat: "I saw that my cousin was fascinated by Huajiao for a while, and I asked my cousin not to be surprised." ”

Duguxiu's face turned red when she heard this, and she lowered her head and twisted her handkerchief and said, "Cousin, don't joke about me." ”

Situ Ningbing glanced at the maids who were waiting around him and said leisurely, "Do you think I'm joking?"

The lively big girl Hongluan responded with a smile: "Miss is naturally not joking, isn't Miss Cousin more beautiful than Huajiao?"

Bi Yuan, who was laughing and waiting outside, raised the white gauze curtain in the pavilion and led a maid wearing a smoky flower-sprinkled skirt to walk in, curtsy and said, "Miss, Sister Xinmei beside Mrs. is here to deliver a message." ”

As soon as these words came out, the pavilion immediately fell silent, and the maids who were still smiling with their mouths covered all stood with their smiles in their faces, and Situ Ningbing raised his eyes to look at the maid who was famous for calling Xinmei, "What does Mother command?"

Xinmei hurriedly saluted, and said hurriedly: "Back to Miss, someone came to the palace and said that Miss Shufei Niangniang Xuan entered the palace to meet her, and Mrs. asked you to dress up and go to Tianxiang Pavilion to enter the palace with her." She spoke quickly and clearly.

Situ Ningbing replied lightly, "I know, you go down." "A lot of the time, she talks and does things lazily, and it's easy to drive some people crazy.

Xinmei is a girl with an anxious personality, she saw that Situ Ningbing didn't look anxious at all when she heard the news, and she didn't sit still, so she couldn't help but remind her for a while: "Miss, it's a big deal for the lady to be summoned, you better go into the house quickly and dress up, if you go late, I'm afraid that the lady will blame." Although she was kind-hearted, these words were overstepped after all, and after speaking, she also regretted it a little, and looked at Situ Ningbing's face carefully.

Unexpectedly, instead of getting angry, Situ Ningbing nodded and said, "What you said is, I'm going to change my clothes." Saying that, he glanced at Duguxiu again, and Duguxiu also got up and said goodbye: "Since my cousin is going to prepare to enter the palace, I won't bother." ”

Situ Ningbing said a little embarrassed: "Don't be surprised if something happens suddenly, cousin. He also instructed Yuhe, who was standing on the side, to "send Miss Watch for me." Yuhe respectfully accepted the order.

The slave and maid also went back to their lives. Seeing that Situ Ningbing was not angry, Xinmei secretly breathed a sigh of relief, she had long heard that the young lady had a gentle temperament, and she couldn't imagine that she was so easy to speak. Zheng was glad that he suddenly felt a pain in his arm, turned his head and saw that it was Yuhe who pinched herself, she was inexplicable, but Yuhe didn't say anything, just glared at her fiercely, and led Duguxiu out of the pavilion, making the second monk of Meizhang confused.

How did she know that as soon as she came out of the pavilion, Situ Ningbing seemed to say to herself, "This girl is too frizzy, it's not appropriate to stay with her mother." Her voice was very soft, and most of the maids didn't hear it clearly, and even if they did, they wouldn't care, but the pity beside her nodded at her imperceptibly.