When I returned to the inner courtyard of the villa, I saw Mrs. Min standing in the courtyard, looking in the direction of the second gate.

Seeing Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun coming in hand in hand, Mrs. Min couldn't help but tilt her head and look away. Shui Xiao considered that she was an elder after all, so she coughed and let go of Yuan Chun's hand.

Shui Xiao put his hands behind his back, slowly stepped forward, and asked her gently, "Why hasn't Mrs. rested?" ”

"I'm not tired." Mrs. Min answered Shui Xiao's question in three words, and asked eagerly, "What did the Taoist chief say?" ”

Shui Xiao smiled: "That Taoist priest's nonsense, Mrs. doesn't need to ask." ”

"Hu ...... Words, nonsense, words? Mrs. Min's eyes widened, and she couldn't believe that what Xuan Qingzhen, whom she had worked so hard to invite, had said was actually defined as "gibberish" by Shui Xiao!

"The prince doesn't believe me?" Mrs. Min felt that her kindness had become a donkey's liver and lungs, and her self-esteem and face had been greatly damaged.

Shui Xiao felt: This situation is very headache!

If Mrs. Min messes around, he will easily teach her a little lesson, so that she will never dare to do anything wrong. It's just that she is indeed a good heart, but she was deliberately used, which made him very headache.

"How so? I naturally believe in the Min family and my wife. Shui Xiao paused and organized his language, "But things in the court are not so simple. This Xuanqing Taoist is not the kind of Taoist person that his wife thinks. I'm afraid that his origin is not so simple. It's a long story, let's talk about it! ”

Shui Xiao and Mrs. Min walked to the main hall one after the other.

Yuan Chun silently followed Shui Xiao's side, glad that he didn't have to deal with this Mrs. Min.

After sitting down in the main hall, Shui Xiao asked Mrs. Min, "I don't know how Mrs. knows about this Xuanqing Daoist?" How did you find him? Could you tell me about it? ”

Mrs. Min's emotions have eased up, and she answered truthfully: Last month, the old lady of a certain mansion celebrated her seventieth birthday, and she also went. She was handed over by a handkerchief back then, and now Mrs. XX talked about this Xuanqing real person, and it is said that this real person is extremely effective in divination and fortune telling. After she heard about it, she discussed with the Min family, tried her best to get acquainted with this Xuanqing Taoist, and said all the good things to invite him to Meishan Huangzhuang.

After hearing this, Yuan Chun smiled in his heart: Mrs. Min's handkerchief was either a childcare or was also used by others.

After Mrs. Min finished speaking, she asked Shui Xiao with some trepidation: "Listen to the prince's meaning...... This Xuanqing Taoist ...... Be...... Is it someone else's? ”

Shui Xiao smiled: "It's too early to draw conclusions, but I'll find out." After a pause, he asked, "Didn't I say it before I left Beijing?" I told you not to do anything, but the princess and I know everything about the court and the heirs. Mrs. doesn't remember? ”

Hearing his words, there was a hint of reproach, Mrs. Min's face was ashamed and anxious, and she unconsciously tightened the handkerchief in her hand: "I...... I...... Wasn't I in a hurry?! ”

She defended herself a little eagerly: "The prince doesn't know how ugly the prince and the princess are talking about outside now!" Some people say that the prince does not dare to take a concubine because he has already entered the princess's master, and also says that the princess's master only treats men as pets......"

"Say no more!" Shui Xiao stopped her in a slightly stern tone.

Mrs. Min was startled, and then she realized what she was talking about, and she was even more anxious and ashamed, and couldn't help but get up from her chair.

"Wang ...... Master, I'm ...... I lost my words......" she said, so anxious that tears were about to come out.

Yuan Chun was listening attentively, but Mrs. Min's words were interrupted by Shui Xiao.

She couldn't help glaring at Shui Xiao: "It's rare to hear a few words of truth, why should the prince be like this?" Let Mrs. Min finish her sentence! ”

Shui Xiao also glared at her: "What is there to listen to in these gossips?" ”

"When I return to Beijing, I will always have to socialize with these women. Have a plan in mind first, so as not to be caught off guard when you encounter something. Yuan Chun said it confidently, completely refusing to admit that he actually wanted to hear what kind of gossip he had with Shui Xiao.

Shui Xiao glared at her for a few more seconds, then sighed, turned to Mrs. Min and said, "The princess has a point. Let's ask my wife to tell me about the gossip! The princess and I have been away from Beijing for a while, and I don't know what the situation in Beijing is. I hope that my wife knows everything and says everything! …… Please sit down and talk! ”

Mrs. Min looked at Shui Xiao and then at Yuan Chun, and saw that they were all looking at her, waiting for her to speak.

She breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: since the prince and the princess wanted to hear it, it would not be counted as her gaffe before! He sat down again and talked about the rumors in Beijing in great detail.

Generally speaking, the current wind direction in the capital is: seeing that Prince Zhaohui has lost his favor, some people jumped out and beat the water dogs, and threw stones into the well desperately, trying to choke Prince Zhaohui to death in one go, so that he could never turn over again.

Mrs. Min didn't understand the affairs of the court, and she could only guess from her husband's solemn face all day long that the situation was not good.

But when socializing among the female dependents, she hears, sees, and feels more.

The courtiers who openly supported Shui Xiao before were successively demoted, transferred, promoted and demoted, and there were also a few unlucky people who either had their own handles and were taken away, or they were framed and framed, and they were dismissed and questioned.

These changes in the court situation, after Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun left Beijing, gradually reflected their influence in the social circle of the female dependents.

The most obvious impact is that the female dependents of whomever suddenly stopped appearing, because they left Beijing with their masters, or returned to their hometowns with their families, or were temporarily embarrassed or inconvenient to come out to meet people, or simply became the female dependents of criminal officials, and fell from the sky to the ground overnight.

Secondly, in the past ten years, Mrs. Min has been very popular in the social circle of female dependents, although the level of communication is not high. But now, she has suddenly been snubbed by the collective snub of her former social circle.

In the past, when she went to a banquet, there were always many noblewomen who knew and didn't know rushed to talk to her, and even curry favor with her. But now, in addition to her best friends, she is in a hurry to talk to people, and people are also indifferent. Although no one has ever ridiculed her face-to-face, the huge gap in treatment alone has made Mrs. Min have a good experience of what human affection is.

What made Mrs. Min even more sad was that her daughter, Min Rou, was also affected by this wind direction and suffered a lot of anger in her in-law's house. Back then, she wanted to marry Min Rou to King Zhaohui as a wife, and when Min Rou had a son and a half daughter in the future, with the relationship between the two families, it was not too much to fight for the position of a side concubine. But Princess Zhaohui said: Some Taoist priests said that the prince should not take concubines, and said that the marriage of close relatives is not conducive to the heirs. She had no choice but to dispel the idea of marrying her daughter into the Zhaohui Palace, and chose another husband for her daughter.

Now, Min Rou is married to Xie Kun, the grandson of the Marquis of Dingcheng. This Xie Kun can also be regarded as a talent, and he is also motivated, and she is also very satisfied with this son-in-law. But recently, Xie Kun's father didn't know if he was affected by King Zhaohui, and he was transferred out of the capital from a hot place, which was strictly speaking. Min Rou was very angry with her mother-in-law.

And all kinds of rumors about Zhaohui Wangfu have also intensified in this atmosphere, becoming a national gossip feast!

There is a rumor that the prince of Zhaohui has entered the princess's division, and the princess's division is that women are inferior to men, and women can accept the face, and men must guard themselves like jade, otherwise their lives will not be guaranteed. Don't look at the prince Zhaohui was born heroic, but once he married the princess, he was wrong for life. Now, the prince wants to wash the princess's feet, beat the princess's legs, fan the princess, hand the princess a handpaper, cover the princess's feet, and make soup for the princess...... If you don't do it well, you will be whipped and scolded by the princess, and you will be punished by kneeling in the ice and snow...... Now that it's still on our side, Prince Zhaohui is so miserable; When Princess Zhaohui's master came in the future and took Princess Zhaohui and the prince away, the prince would be even more helpless...... Alas, Prince Zhaohui is so miserable, but he is still a dragon and a phoenix! Because the princess took a fancy to him and forcibly married him, his life now is not as good as that of us ordinary people...... Alas, so miserable, so miserable!

- In short, in this version of the rumor, Yuan Chun is the Empress of Heaven, and the dignified Prince Zhaohui is the face, male pet, and slave who is temporarily favored by the Empress! Maybe when, when the princess gets tired of the prince, she will put the prince into the cold palace, so that the prince will never see the light of day again.

Another rumor said: Princess Zhaohui was naturally jealous, and when she entered the palace, she fell in love with Prince Zhaohui's dignified appearance. Therefore, the princess took the opportunity to treat the prince's illness and put a trick on the prince, confusing the prince's mind, so that the princess would obey the princess from now on. Now in the eyes of the prince, only the princess is a beauty, and all other women are dominatrix. The princess coaxed him to say that there was a one-eyed Taoist priest who said that he had a conflict with the Yin people, and he was convinced of it, and he never pretended to women other than the princess. The emperor originally valued the prince so much, but now that he has seen through the true face of Princess Zhaohui, how dare he let King Zhaohui succeed to the throne? ! It's a pity! King Zhaohui's future originally didn't stop there! It's a pity! The adults who originally supported King Zhaohui have all been punished! It's a pity that the emperor treated Princess Zhaohui so politely before, but I didn't expect the princess to be such a person......

- So, in this version of the rumor, Yuan Chun is the demon and poisonous woman. took a fancy to a certain man, and unscrupulously obtained that man and controlled that man...... And the dignified Zhaohui prince is the poor prince who was controlled by the demon woman and fell into the hands of the demons!

There are even more bizarre rumors: What Yuan Chun met back then was not an immortal at all, but a banshee with a little mana. Those banshees are dissolute by nature, and they specialize in picking some handsome young men in the world to be their faces and suck yang energy. Do you think Princess Zhaohui married Prince Zhaohui? Wrong! That banshee had already occupied Jia's body, and now she spends her spring night with the prince and sucks the prince's yang energy. It is unknown how long the prince can live, so how can he have children?

- In this version of the rumor, Yuan Chun is directly a banshee!

And in addition to these three mainstream versions of the rumors, there are many rumors derived from them. Yuan Chun had to admit: the enemy's intentions are sinister, and the creativity of the working people is endless!

Look at this paragraph, it's so imaginative!

If there is a chance in the future, why don't you let those singers make up these rumors into scripts? This is much more exciting than the stories of those talented and beautiful people.

After Mrs. Min told all these rumors she had heard and heard, she hesitated for a moment, and then said to Yuan Chun: "Did the princess and the county lord of Anping fall out?" ”

Yuan Chun raised his eyebrows slightly: I and the county lord of Anping have never really been good, okay? It has always been her ill-intentioned, and I am vain and wronged.

"What did the county lord of Anping do?" She asked.

Mrs. Min said with a little indignation: "The county lord of Anping once said in public: The princess has been jealous since she was a child. She was originally a good princess, and she was wholeheartedly friendly with the princess, but later found that the princess was different from the outside, and her face was kind and dark, so she gradually became estranged......"

Yuan Chun smiled: "Mrs. doesn't have to take Lord Anping's words seriously. She is the daughter of King Xiaogong, and in this situation, can she still be expected to speak well for me? ”

"This ...... That's right! It's just that...... Alas! Mrs. Min sighed again and again, but she was helpless, "For these rumors, Lord Wang...... What is the response with the princess? ”

Shui Xiao said: "Mrs. don't pay attention to these rumors. After returning to Beijing, the princess and I had our own plans. As long as my wife takes care of her own house and doesn't make trouble. ”

"That'...... What about this heir? Mrs. Min asked hesitantly. She still wanted to get her word for it.

Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun glanced at each other and said with a smile: "The matter of the heir, I and the princess know it in our hearts!" Mrs. really doesn't have to worry about it! ”

It's really out of their control. Who knows how much merit that little lotus flower will take, when it will bloom and bear fruit, and when will the lotus seeds mature?!

Mrs. Min saw that they refused to tell the truth, and she was helpless.

Prince Zhaohui has always been a person with ideas, and it is not something that a cheap foreigner like his family can control.

"That's it! I was just an inner house woman, with long hair and short knowledge, so I didn't mess with the prince! Mrs. Min sighed and asked, "I wonder where the Xuan Qing people are placed?" I want to take Zhang'er and say hello. Anyway, I invited him here, and he must be polite! ”

Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun glanced at each other again, and they both saw the smile in each other's eyes.

Shui Xiao covered his mouth and coughed lightly: "That Xuanqing Daoist has already left." ”

"Gone?" Mrs. Min was not familiar with the surrounding situation, and she couldn't think of the question of where the Xuanqing Daoist slept tonight, so she only sighed, "That's it!" I can't take care of it either! ”

Mrs. Min was supported by the girls and went back to rest.

It was already dusk.

Xuanqing Daoist turned back for the Nth time, but he still didn't see the people from Meishan Huangzhuang coming to invite him back, and his heart became heavier and heavier: It's over, this can't be in the village before, there is no store in the back, and he won't really sleep in the wilderness tonight, right?!

He couldn't help but secretly regret that he shouldn't have pretended to be a master and overdone!

I knew this was the case, why did I have to leave at that time? How good would it be to settle down in the villa and leave with Mrs. Min in her car?!

But he has obviously said that the prince and the princess are ugly! His words should have hit the hearts of the prince and the princess!

He was about to leave, but he was retreating! I thought that the prince and princess of Zhaohui would definitely keep themselves and ask for advice from themselves, just like many village husbands and foolish women.

He had taken the shelf to his heart's content, and his face was shining, and his heart was satisfied—he liked to see these princes and nobles bowing and pleading with him; Second, you can make more tongues and completely deceive the prince and princess...... He didn't expect that he would be so wrong!

It shouldn't be like this!

Xuanqing Daoist was so depressed that he wanted to cry, but seeing that it was getting late, he could only calm down and think: Where are you going to spend the night tonight?!

Do you want to go back and spend the night at those households?

He hesitated for a long time, but finally gave up on the idea. One is that this place is no longer inhabited, and it is far away from those villagers, and I am too lazy to go back so much; The second is also afraid that if it comes out afterwards, his image as a master will be greatly reduced! It's okay to damage the image of the master elsewhere, but if you damage the image of the master here, I don't know what the impact will be.

All right! Anyway, the weather is hot now, and it doesn't look like there are robbers and beasts in this area, so let's sleep in the open! When I was poor before, I didn't sleep in the open.

After making up his mind, the Xuanqing Daoist entered the grove on the side of the road. But he didn't find a cave or anything like that for a long time, so he found a big tree, picked up some dead branches and leaves, and made a small fire with the fire fold he had with him, intending to spend the night under the tree.

But what he didn't expect was that the weather changed suddenly that night, and in the middle of the night, there was lightning and thunder, wind and rain......

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Mrs. Min originally had a little problem with choosing a seat, and lived in Tiansu Villa, but she was not used to it, so she didn't sleep very well.

Awakened by the sound of thunder and rain in the middle of the night, she couldn't help but sigh and thought: With such a heavy rain, how can she go tomorrow? I don't know how long it will rain...... It's better to get sunny sooner!

Fortunately, although the wind and rain were strong, the next day, the sky was clear.

Afraid that the road would be muddy, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao persuaded Mrs. Min to stay in the Zhuangzi for one more day, and when the road was dry tomorrow, it would not be too late to set off.

In the afternoon, several bankers suddenly carried a man with a door panel.

This person is none other than Xuanqing Daoist.

This Xuanqing Daoist was hot all over his body and was having a fever. The clothes on his body were torn, dirty and muddy, and there were a few abrasions on his hands, and he looked very embarrassed.

According to the farmer, at noon today, the Taoist priest carried a branch to the Zhuangzi to ask for help, and the villagers thought that their master was in the Zhuangzi, so they carried him here.

Yuan Chun thought unkindly: Yesterday this Taoist priest came to talk nonsense, and in a blink of an eye, he made himself into such a miserable appearance, it is really a June debt, and it has to be repaid quickly!

She glanced at Mrs. Min next to her, and saw that Mrs. Min looked like she was thunderbolted, and thought: idols are used to disillusion! When the girls came to report just now, Mrs. Min happened to be with Yuan Chun, so she came over to take a look.

Yuan Chun prescribed a prescription, asked people to grab the medicine and decoction, and gave this person acupuncture. It took a long time to stabilize the Taoist priest's illness.

In the evening, the Xuanqing Daoist finally woke up.

The next day, Mrs. Min said goodbye to Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun: "I brought that Taoist priest here, why don't you still ask me to bring it back?" The princess rewarded him with two doses of medicine, that is! ”

Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun didn't want this long life to be an eyesore on Zhuangzi, so they naturally agreed. Yuan Chun asked someone to prepare two medicines and let them be brought by the Taoist priest.

The Taoist priest was seriously ill and had not recovered, and when he was helped out by the little guys, his face was a little sneering. Lowering his head, he bowed his head to Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun from afar: "Thank you, Lord Wang!" Thank you, Princess! ”

Shui Xiao laughed: "Dao Chief...... Do it for yourself! ”

After Mrs. Min and the others left, the life of Meishan Huangzhuang returned to its former tranquility and relaxation.

Yuanchun's artificially cultivated purple lingzhi finally survived, and she was extremely happy. Maybe in the future, you can try to make this an industry? That's a way to make money!

Shui Xiao finally sat side by side with Yuan Chun in front of the lotus pond and enjoyed the lotus flowers together!

Although Yuan Chun felt that Shui Xiao's appearance was just looking at lotus flowers, which had nothing to do with the word "reward". Because he was very tense, not like admiring the fragrance and beauty of the lotus flowers, but confronting the enemy.

In August, there was a little steward in the Zhuangzi who married his daughter-in-law.

After arriving in this world, Yuan Chun has participated in countless weddings of dignitaries, but he has not participated in a civil wedding, so he can't help but be very curious, so he took Shui Xiao to have fun together.

Shui Xiao was also very interested, so he went to participate with Yuan Chun.

They didn't say anything to the family beforehand, but wore the clothes of ordinary people, let people lead them, and went quietly.

Yuan Chun wore a mask and a hat, but the maids around her were usually dressed like this when they walked around the village, so no one thought about her as soon as they saw this dress. In addition, although they live in the villages, they do not have much actual contact with these villagers. Where they were going, the dealers avoided first. Those who didn't have time to avoid it also knelt on the ground and hung their heads low, not daring to look up, naturally not recognizing them. They hid behind the crowd and watched the commotion, but no one noticed that they were coming.

The bride's house is also a farmer in the Zhuangzi, so after the sedan chair came out of the bride's house, it just circled around the Zhuangzi and was carried to the man's house.

Yuan Chun watched how the bride was helped out of the sedan door, how she stepped over the brazier, how she bowed to the groom and sent her into the cave room.

When the ceremonial official invited all the guests to sit down, Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun were no longer suitable to secretly watch the excitement. Otherwise, where would they sit? It's not appropriate to still sit with these dealers.

Ming Se took a step forward, opened his throat and said, "Prince Zhaohui has arrived!" Princess Zhaohui has arrived! ”

Only then did all the villagers look around, and the father of the groom official first saw Ming Se and Yuan Weihou. Seeing the two of them standing behind Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun on the left and right, he guessed the identities of Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun, and hurriedly stepped forward to greet him at a loss. The people around him also bowed down.

"You're welcome!" Shui Xiao smiled and said, "This king has never seen a folk wedding, so he was curious for a while, so he came over to see the excitement." ”

The father of the bridegroom was so excited that he almost fainted, and the other people around him also looked proud and excited. The groom's father hurriedly invited Shui Xiao and Yuanchun to take a seat, and asked the bride and groom to come out and kowtow to the prince and princess.

The bride's hijab has been removed. Yuan Chun finally saw the bride.

The bride looks quite good, and she looks excited when she sees Yuan Chun.

Yuan Chun gave a congratulatory gift, and Shui Xiao drank two more glasses of wedding wine before leaving: "This king is here, and you are not comfortable." I'll go back first! ”

The dealers hurriedly sent it off. After Shui Xiao and Yuan Chun left, it was like an explosion of the pot, and they talked about it, praising the bride and groom for being blessed, and the prince and princess came to the wedding in person, and there will be great things in the future!

On the way back to the villa, Yuan Chun and Shui Xiao asked the waiters to follow far behind, and talked about the family affairs of the people around them: "These palace maids around me are a few years older than me, and they are not young now. If you put it in an ordinary family, there are several children! And the girls I married should also think about marriage. ”

"And what are your plans?" Shui Xiao asked.

Yuan Chun said: "I plan to return to the palace this time, and I will ask the queen to remove the palace registration of Qiu Ningshuang and others, let them out of the palace, and allow them to marry themselves." ”

Shui Xiao smiled slightly: "It's just someone else!" Those two people are afraid that they will not leave the palace, and they are not willing to marry. ”

Yuan Chun knew who the "two people" he was talking about: Qiu Ningshuang and Qin Zhen!

They are the deepest nails buried by the emperor by his side, and unless the emperor relieves them of their tasks, they are afraid that they will neither dare nor have the opportunity to marry. And will the Emperor relieve them of their mandate? In a short period of time, it will certainly not be possible!