69. Humiliation
In the early spring, how warm and cold, although she was draped in a thick cloak, Hua Yuan still felt cold hands and feet, she held her hands in her sleeves and clasped them tightly, but her fingertips were still cold and cold, and the coolness went down her limbs and reached the bottom of her heart.
"You beg me to help you? You don't keep your eyes open to see clearly, what time is it? How long has my father been dead? The whole Dajin Dynasty is dressed in linen and filial piety, and I even listen to a little song and am sprayed on the face by those old immortal officials, your eldest brother is romantic, obviously there is a comfortable nest and is not satisfied, and he comes all the way to Yicheng Wind and snow. How? Do you Jinxi have no prostitution or no gambling? Do you have to come to Yicheng to find death? ”
Yan Min said while looking at Hua Yuan with disdain, her eyes turned gloomy because of anger, "Knowing that the Ping'an Marquis Mansion is on the cusp of the storm right now, he still dares to enter Beijing and look around, isn't this no silver here?" Knowing that those officials bite me everywhere, if I speak for your Song family, wouldn't they be charged with ten or eight crimes? Over the years, the Song family has relied on the support of the Empress Dowager, and it is okay to be domineering in Jinxi, but now they dare to spread wild and scatter to Yicheng, and I want to come forward to help him? Do you want to fall into injustice? Ridiculous, why did I help Song Bao's pig? ”
In the past, the Ping'an Hou Mansion did not stammer Yan Min, and the benefits of paying tribute to him privately every year did not know much, Hua Yuan bit her lip tightly, she didn't dare to cry or refute, she knew Yan Min's temper, he was completely sane when he started a fire, and he could say anything ruthless. After a while, she whispered: "Your Majesty is angry, how dare my father and eldest brother fall into injustice?" The eldest brother was framed by someone at all, and he came to Yicheng this time, but because the family was concerned about Hua Yuan, he asked him to come to see me quietly, and bring some hometown specialties to the Empress Dowager by the way......"
Yan Min interrupted her before her words fell, "You don't talk about the Empress Dowager, do you think that if you get involved with the Empress Dowager, the people in the court will give her face?" They even dare to contradict me, and they will be afraid of an old woman? ”
Seeing that he still didn't let go, Hua Yuan couldn't help crying, threw herself on her knees, pulled his sleeve and cried: "It's Hua Yuan who said the wrong thing, Your Majesty is angry." The eldest brother also knew that he was wrong, and he didn't dare anymore, so he would help him for the last time, and ask him to watch it...... For the sake of being a one-night husband and wife with Hua Yuan, help the eldest brother......"
It was a shameful experience that she didn't want to mention in her lifetime, but when people reach despair, even if there is only a glimmer of hope, they don't hesitate to put down their dignity and fight to the death, if the eldest brother is asked, he is not alone, and the entire Ping'an Hou will be implicated, she can only covet the last hope on the dewy marriage between the two, hoping that he will help her in this regard.
As soon as Yan Min heard her mention this, he was immediately furious, and pulled back his sleeve in disgust, as if he felt disgusted when she touched it again, "You are so bold!" How dare you blackmail me? Who do you think you have been to my bed? You really think of yourself as one thing, you and Song Bao are really a family, they are all shameless works! Prostitutes! His already gloomy eyes were even more terrifying at this time, gritting his teeth and squeezing out words from between his teeth, "Hua Yuan, you listen to me, if you dare to mention half a sentence about that night, I will let you die with Song Bao's pig, saving him from being lonely on the road alone!" Get lost! Don't let me see you again! ”
For him, wasn't that night humiliating? Over the years, there have been more women who have tried their best to climb into his bed, and he didn't think anything at all, anyway, his father had intended to let him marry her, and he just had a cave room in advance. But not long after, he happened to hear the little rumor in the palace and the palace maid breaking her mouth, saying that the lord of Hua Yuan County had loved the prince of Rui for many years, but the prince of the family looked down on her, and rejected her ruthlessly, and she was sad to design and seduce the prince in order to take revenge on the prince. has been compared to Yan Xu everywhere since he was a child, Yan Min already has an ulterior grudge against Yan Xu in his heart, which is simply a great shame, like swallowing a fly, and he hates Hua Yuan and Yan Xu even more in his heart.
Hua Yuan stumbled out of the Chengde Palace, the spring outside the hall was bright, the wind and the sun were warm, but she couldn't help but shiver with cold. The Ping'an Marquis Mansion seems to have been cursed recently, and everything is not going well. First of all, his father Ping'an Hou was impeached for deducting military salaries and falsely reporting soldiers and horses, in fact, which person in charge of the army has never done this kind of thing? Everyone knows that it will pass with one eye closed and one eye closed, but those officials bite Ping'an Hou and hold on, and even some old accounts have been turned over, and my father is anxious about this matter, so he has to let her eldest brother secretly go to Beijing to do something.
It was also in line with the bad luck of the Ping'an Marquis Mansion that his eldest brother Song Bao actually met a concubine he once loved deeply in Yicheng. The little concubine was originally a maid in the house, who served Song Bao since childhood, the relationship between the two was extraordinary, Song Bao accepted her as a concubine before marrying a wife, who knew that his wife was an intolerable person, and when he left the house on business, he actually sold the little concubine to the Qinglou, and when he came back a month later, he lied that she had a sudden illness and died, Song Bao was very sad and depressed for a long time.
In fact, Song Bao is also a person who does big things, and he has always been calm and moderate, otherwise Ping'an Hou would not let him enter Beijing to do a little bit, but the concubine was his weakness, and he accidentally learned that she was not dead, and spent the day in a green building in Yicheng.
Ping'an Hou panicked, sent someone to find Hua Yuan, and asked her to keep her eldest brother, of course she also knew the stakes, now the Ping'an Hou Mansion is in turmoil, before the eldest brother's matter, there are also some Ping'an Hou in the court to alternate him to speak, but if the eldest brother is convicted for this ugly thing again, the Hou Mansion will be finished.
Hua Yuan actually didn't want to find Yan Min at all, she found the Empress Dowager as soon as possible, after all, she was from her own family, and the Empress Dowager was also anxious, but she had already been set aside by Yan Xu, so she was only in a hurry. Hua Yuan turned to Yan Min in desperation, in fact, before looking for Yan Min, she expected that Yan Min, the emperor, was aggrieved and constrained everywhere, and it was impossible to keep her eldest brother with an order. The words he kept accusing Ping'an Hou just now were just because he had no choice at all, and he didn't want to admit it for the sake of face, so as to cover up his incompetence.
What she didn't expect was that Yan Min couldn't help her, and even said those vicious words, scolding her so badly. She was sad and desperate, and she hated Yan Min so much, wandering aimlessly alone on the remote tree-lined path in a daze, thinking of her bumpy love road, and the only one she relied on, the Ping'an Hou Mansion fell into a swamp again, not only sad.
In a trance, a slender figure turned leisurely on the path ahead, the sun was just right, from the branches and leaves, just right sprinkled on the person, he walked towards her from the tree-lined path, still so handsome, gentle as jade. Hua Yuan stopped suddenly, almost thinking that she was dazzled, and when she saw that the person who came was the man she loved deeply and couldn't ask for, she couldn't help but breathe. But it was only for a moment, and she turned sharply and hurried away.
She didn't know who she was looking to really save her eldest brother and save the Hou Mansion, but she also knew very well that that person would not help him at all. She has been stupid twice, although she loves him, but she also has her pride and dignity, as the saying goes, no matter how much she loves him, she will not allow herself to be humiliated by sending him to the door again and again.
But she had only taken two steps, and Yan Xu had already said coldly, "If you want to save Song Bao, stop." ”
Hua Yuan's body stiffened, and she turned around in disbelief, but she didn't dare to speak, only looked at Yan Xu in a daze. Yan Xu stopped a few steps away, looked sideways at the peach blossoms that were blooming beside the path, and said casually: "In the entire court, I am the only one who can save Song Bao and the Ping'an Marquis Mansion." Don't want to hear what I have to say? ”
After suffering Yan Min's ruthless Ling Chi just now, Yan Xu's words at this time were tantamount to throwing a lifeline at her, but Hua Yuan still looked at him in disbelief, "You...... Will you help my big brother? ”
Yan Xu didn't look at her, a pair of phoenix eyes only looked at the peach blossom closest to him, and a light smile appeared on the corner of his mouth, which was more dazzling than the delicate peach blossom, "I just said...... I can help, but there is no such thing as a gratuitous good thing, and I can help you, provided that ...... You marry into the Rui Palace. ”