Chapter 47: Beginning to fight back
The cold wind blew through the woods, and Gu Shuiyue's heart was also cold.
She set up a very meticulous game. She knew that Mrs. Chen Guo and the old lady had an old enmity, so she specially invited Mrs. Chen Guo and designed to earn face for the old lady. and then revealed that Meng Xiyu did not hesitate to destroy the birthday banquet in order to frame her. If it is common sense, in such a situation, even if it is his own niece, it should be dealt with fairly.
The only thing she didn't count was people's bias.
The old lady's meaning is already very clear, as long as she is still in the day, she Gu Shuiyue will not think about touching a single hair of Meng Xiyu.
Meng Xiyu breathed a sigh of relief slightly, and looked at Gu Shuiyue almost as a victor. She suddenly understood that the old lady asked her to wait, and she really asked her to wait. She didn't need to work hard to deal with Gu Shuiyue at all, because she had already won.
The justice they want is in the hands of the old lady, and the old lady is on her side, and she is justice. What if Gu Shuiyue is exhausted? She Meng Xiyu is still safe and sound as her side princess, and in the future, the position of the princess will also be hers.
Thinking of this, Meng Xiyu's sharp eyes looked directly at Gu Shuiyue, trying to capture despair and pain from it. However, she looked at it for a long time and saw nothing.
She thought that Gu Shuiyue was hiding it well, but in fact, Gu Shuiyue really didn't have any despair.
Gu Shuiyue is not such an easy person to admit defeat, she was a general who fought bloodily on the battlefield, and she saw it much longer than Meng Xiyu. She felt that she had not gained nothing in this battle, she knew the bottom line of the old lady, and in front of the interests of the palace, the old lady still protected Meng Xiyu. Gu Shuiyue even had the illusion that in the old lady's heart, Meng Xiyu might be more important than Gongsun Yi.
This time, she won't be as easy as last time, otherwise Meng Xiyu really thought that she would have nothing to do with her!
Gu Shuiyue quickly calculated in her heart, but her face was as calm as water.
She lowered her eyes slightly, and made a obedient appearance: "It's all up to the old lady to decide." “
After Gu Shuiyue finished speaking, she left and returned to the dinner party she hosted, talking and laughing with the guests, as if nothing had happened just now.
This is the end of the matter.
The old lady was very satisfied with Gu Shuiyue's performance, she liked people who were self-aware. On the second day of the dinner, she rewarded a pair of jade ruyi and praised Gu Shuiyue's performance in this dinner.
"Master, you might as well leave the palace. In the study, An Xian put down the account book in his hand and said to Gu Shuiyue.
Gu Shuiyue played with the jade Ruyi in her hand, and glanced at An Xian in surprise when she heard this: "Why?"
"The old man has not been a housekeeper in this palace for a long time, but the situation in the palace has also seen something. No matter how powerful King Yun is, he can't take care of the affairs of the backyard, so this backyard is still respected by the old lady. The old lady's heart is so biased that she can't twist it, and what you do can't get into her eyes at all. She will only find the right time to take your place as the princess. You will manage the palace in an orderly manner, and she will unload the mill and kill the donkey, and at that time, all the benefits will be taken by Meng Xiyu. You might as well leave now......" Speaking of this, An Xian lowered his voice and said, "There are more than 10,000 people in my generation, as long as the master gives an order, the subordinates are willing to follow the master to kill back to the moon and wash away the old enemy!"
Gu Shuiyue turned her head to look at An Xian and said, "Steward An has a point. “
An Xian's old eyes suddenly lit up: "Then the subordinate will arrange for the master to leave here quietly." “
"I'm saying that I shouldn't have run the reputation of the palace so well. “
"Huh?" An Xian was stunned for a moment, and he couldn't grasp Gu Shuiyue's meaning.
"Steward An, you ask people to find a place with a lot of people to say this......"
After listening to what the master asked him to spread, An Xian became even more incredible: "Niangniang, you will be in a very disadvantageous situation in this way!"
Rather than conscientiously running the palace under her small favor and being removed by her like a boiled frog in warm water, it is better to take the initiative to attack in order to have a glimmer of life. Gu Shuiyue's eyes were resolute, she had already made a decision, and she didn't dare to say anything more.
An Xian had no choice but to take his orders.
On the fiftieth birthday of the old princess, a grand banquet was held in the Yunwang Mansion, the banquet venue was ingenious, and many programs were also unique and talked about.
However, there was a flaw in this banquet, it was rumored that someone wanted to poison the wine, but fortunately the princess found out. There are also rumors that the person who poisoned the person turned out to be one of the prince's concubines, and Princess Yun reported the matter to the old princess, just because the concubine was the old lady's maiden family, and she did not dispose of the concubine.
King Yun was wise and martial, but he didn't expect the backyard to catch fire, and there were so many pickled things.
There are those who envy the King of the Clouds, and there are those who are jealous of the King of the Clouds, and for a while, these rumors quickly spread all over the streets and alleys of the capital, and they even overshadowed the grand scene of the birthday banquet.
The matter soon reached the ears of the old princess, who had always paid the most attention to fame, but it was rumored that she had become a person who valued selfish feelings and did not distinguish between loyalty and treachery.
When the maid told the old lady about it, Meng Xiyu was also in the room.
Hearing the news, she was not angry in her heart, but happy.
She knew that Gu Shuiyue was not so obedient. After that day, Gu Shuiyue must have been resentful, so she spread the matter. Although this is relieving, it touches the bottom line of the old lady.
Meng Xiyu looked at the old lady's angry appearance, and said: "It was Xiyu who affected my aunt, and my aunt should punish Xiyu, otherwise my sister's anger would not be so great that she would do such a ridiculous thing." “
The old lady's anger was completely provoked: "Let Gu Shuiyue come." “
When Gu Shuiyue came, what she saw was the old lady's cold face.
The old lady repeated the rumors outside with a cold face, and said in a cold voice: "The matter in the backyard should be solved in the backyard, the so-called family ugliness should not be publicized, as the head of the palace, don't you even know about this matter?"
Gu Shuiyue said calmly: "These rumors are not spread by concubines. The concubine went to investigate, but the real murderer was not found. It is difficult to stop the mouths of the people, especially since this matter is not groundless, and the concubine has no way to deal with it, so please ask the concubine to make it clear. “
Her tone was righteous and stern, and the old lady's face was already extremely ugly.
"You are the mistress of the palace, and you are going to ask the old man how to deal with the backyard?"
"The concubine means that this matter is decided by the concubine?"
The old princess was asked by her to such a point, so she had to nod.
The concubine thought that in order to eliminate these rumors, she only needed to solve the problem at the source. The audacious concubine had been imprisoned for a long time, and after a period of investigation, it was finally determined that the concubine really wanted to plot against him. The concubine thought that she should sell the concubine and no longer stay in the palace. In this way, the rumors will automatically dissipate. “
Gu Shuiyue's words did not leave any affection at all, not only the old princess, but Meng Xiyu's face was already flushed, and she couldn't wait to go up and block her mouth.
If she is placed in an ordinary family, she is indeed just a concubine. But she was born into a famous family, she is the princess of the side, and she has always been held by others, and at this time, she was belittled and despised by Gu Shuiyue like this, and Meng Xiyu's chest was already burning with anger.
"Gu Shuiyue, you're too much!" Meng Xiyu glared at her.
The old princess's anger also burned her reason: "Gu Shuiyue, are you so disrespectful?"
"You asked the concubine what to do with this matter. Gu Shuiyue's face remained unchanged.
The old princess was so angry with her that she couldn't care about her reputation: "Come on, slap your mouth!"
An old woman came over with a fierce face. This old woman has known the old woman who was waiting by Meng Xiyu's side for more than ten years, and she is already an old friend, and the old woman was planted in Gu Shuiyue's hands, and this old woman wanted to avenge her.
The old woman pushed Gu Shuiyue to the ground, pressed her with one hand, and raised it high with the other, wanting to smash on Gu Shuiyue's delicate little face, fanning her face to the ground, and when her hand was almost touching Gu Shuiyue's face, her hand was caught.
"You dare to stop the old lady's order!" the old woman let out a low startle, and when she turned her head to see the owner of her hand, her legs went limp, "The old slave pays a visit to the prince." “
Yunwang Gongsun Yi stood there in a loose white robe, sleepily pulled up Gu Shuiyue, who was kneeling on the ground, walked to the chair and sat down, and Gu Shuiyue stood next to him.
"Mother is fine. This king woke up and didn't see his princess, all came to look for it, mother, what did this princess do wrong?" Gongsun Yi asked while rubbing Gu Shuiyue's hand affectionately.
The faces of the old princess and Gu Xiyu were both pale and pale.
The old princess took a deep breath: "Lord, Gu Shuiyue let out nonsense, such a virtuous and virtuous person is not worthy of being the princess of Yunwang's Mansion at all." “
"Mother, this is a holy order, in this case, the mother concubine still has to say it, otherwise it will be known by someone with a heart, and it will not be good for the palace and the mother. Gongsun Yi said with a serious face.
"Holy order, lord, you actually used the holy order to suppress the old body, if you knew the holy order, you shouldn't have done such a blatant thing to put the Yunwang Mansion in such a situation!" The old princess was already angry, and Gongsun Yi's words almost made her lose her mind. She originally wanted to continue, but at Shanggong Sun Yi's cold and piercing eyes, she suddenly felt that something was choking her throat, making her say a good word.
She sat back in her chair and looked at Gongsun Yi with some dejection.
Gu Shuiyue keenly sensed something from the confrontation between the mother and son, and under the mask of the mother's filial piety, the bloody truth was concealed.
Gongsun Yi turned around, hugged Gu Shuiyue, who was pushed to the ground by the old woman, and walked out straight under the shocked eyes of the old lady and Meng Xiyu.
Gongsun Yi hugged Gu Shuiyue back to her yard.
Gu Shuiyue put her arms around Gongsun Yi's neck, and the coldness emanating from his body almost froze her.
"If the prince doesn't come, my face will be smashed. Looking at Gongsun Yi's tense face lines and pursed lips, Gu Shuiyue said such a sentence in a hurry.
"Shut up!" Gongsun Yi said in a vicious voice.
Gu Shuiyue: "......"