Chapter 25: Stepping Stones
Zhou Ying suddenly understood.
Strange Dao Zhou Huan will break with her at this time, it turns out that people have already hooked Xu Guifei, and the effect is quite good. Didn't you see the two of them talking happily? In an instant, all the sadness and sorrow, and the feeling of people's hearts, all receded like a tide. Zhou Ying immediately sounded the siren, full of fighting spirit.
Zhou Ying left Mingxi Palace after weighing it, but in a short period of time, Xu Guifei was still her biggest backer, and she did not accept others to covet and take her place. In the past, Zhou Mei inquired from time to time, but Zhou Ying didn't pay attention to it, because Zhou Mei couldn't enter the door at all, so how could she be qualified to be an opponent. Now that Zhou Huan has entered the house, if Zhou Ying turns a blind eye, she will be ridiculously arrogant.
In a few steps, Zhou Ying faded away from her weakness and self-pity, and greeted Xu Guifei with a smile.
Xu Guifei called out with a smile, "Come and sit down, this is your sixth sister, she is weak and doesn't go out often, I'm afraid you don't see it often." β
It seems that Zhou Huan did not mention her past friendship with Zhou Ying in front of Xu Guifei.
"Why isn't it common?" Zhou Ying glanced at Zhou Huan playfully, tilted her head and smiled, "I just met the sixth sister in Qianxi No. 4, and I knew that the sixth sister was also going to come to see the concubine, so I came with the sixth sister." β
"I haven't gone to school yet, and the time to say hello to my mother is different from you." Zhou Huan's psychological element is obviously better, seeing Zhou Ying is not a little uncomfortable, she apologizes softly, "I forgot to have a holiday in the study in the afternoon, look at my memory, I really should fight." β
"I just said casually, my sister took it seriously, it made me embarrassed." Zhou Ying hurriedly arched her hand.
The two of you are blessed to me, and I arch my hand to you, one is polite and humble. Xu Guifei looked at this, and then at that, and couldn't help laughing, "Look at your words, this tacit understanding is really white-headed and as new, and it is as old as ever." β
Zhou Ying stopped suddenly, like the softest tender meat in her heart, she was stung violently, and the pain was caught off guard.
The two sisters looked at each other and looked away.
Zhou Ying slowly exhaled a breath and led the topic away with a smile, "Mother Concubine loves to make fun of people, look at this spiritual head is really much better than yesterday, it seems that the imperial doctor is still a little capable in the end, otherwise my father will soon dismantle the imperial hospital." β
Xu Guifei couldn't hide the smile in her eyes, and nodded to Zhou Ying, "Look at your narrow mouth, you dare to make fun of the concubine." β
Zhou Ying Laipi blinked, "Father did it, can't I still say it?" β
Xu Guifei and Zhou Ying's mother and daughter were intimate and laughed.
Zhou Huan on the side was obviously not very suitable for sitting on the cold bench, and tried to interject several times, but Zhou Ying seemed to have no intention of interrupting. After several unsuccessful attempts, Zhou Huan was aware. Zhou Huan glanced at Zhou Ying vaguely and sat back unwillingly.
Zhou Ying sneered in her heart, didn't she think she was blocking the Qingyun Road? What was it before, but it was not introduced, and it was hated so far, if it didn't really interfere once, wouldn't it be in vain to bear this infamy.
Besides, why does anyone want to step on her face and climb up, do you really think she can't be paper-mΓ’chΓ©?
Throughout the afternoon, except for Xu Guifei who watched Zhou Huan sit alone and took care of a few words, Zhou Huan didn't interject a word. It wasn't until Xu Guifei served tea to the guests that Zhou Huan got up to say goodbye, and Xu Guifei smiled and told her to be careful on the road.
After Zhou Huan left, Zhou Ying was finally able to thank Xu Guifei and bow down, "If it weren't for my mother's plan for me and my father's father, I don't know how many people would have to see the joke." β
Xu Guifei helped Zhou Ying up and sighed: "Don't see your mother, it's a dispute between adults after all, but it will affect you as a child." β
Just as Lychee knocked on the door to deliver the medicine, the two stopped talking. Zhou Ying personally took the medicine bowl and served Xu Guifei to drink the medicine.
After Lychee retreated with the empty bowl, Xu Guifei didn't want to mention those unpleasant things to Zhou Ying again, and nodded Zhou Ying's forehead with a smile, "Look at you, you squeezed your sixth sister like that." β
Zhou Ying didn't intend to hide it from Xu Guifei this time, and she was not surprised by this question.
Although she and Xu Guifei are not as good as their mother and daughter, if they don't even have this idea frankly after half a year, she will really live in vain. If Zhou Huan wanted to use her run to set off his innocence and cuteness to ask for mercy from Xu Guifei, he would have made a mistake.
Zhou Ying snuggled beside Xu Guifei and said frankly: "If I really treat her as a sister, I will be a fool." When I don't know? This is to see me empty the nest, and one by one I want to replace it. β
Xu Guifei's eyes sank, and she smiled again: "You have wronged people this time, she is not rushing at your mother, but someone else." β
"Not a concubine?" Zhou Yingqi said.
Xu Guifei would not coax her for an outsider, so Zhou Ying did not doubt the credibility of this statement, she searched for the target of Mingxi Palace, "Is it my father?" Without waiting for Xu Guifei to respond, Zhou Ying shook her head first, "No, my father has always been diligent, and she is still meeting ministers and discussing affairs at this point, if she has the heart to please, she shouldn't have inquired in advance." β
But before and after this Mingxi Palace, there are only these two masters. Apart from these two, who else is worthy of Zhou Huan's shot?
When Zhou Ying was puzzled, Lychee came to report, "Niangniang, Xu Gongzi has come to ask for peace." β
This sentence was like a lightning bolt crossing Zhou Ying's mind, it turned out to be Xu Hong!
Xu Guifei was born in the Anguo Mansion, her ancestors were the founding heroes, and the successive generations of Anguo Gongs were very trusted by the emperors, and Xu Guifei was the sister-in-law of this generation of Anguo Gong. The emperor's favor for Xu Guifei for more than ten years has not diminished, although it is Xu Guifei's own talent and appearance, but it is not the support of the Anguo Mansion that makes Xu Guifei feel at ease.
Xu Hong is Xu Guifei's maiden nephew, the eldest son of Duke An Guo, and the companion of the eldest prince.
In fact, the inner and outer study rooms are not far apart, and you can almost reach it by foot. But the daughter's family is noble, and there is a companion reading in the outer study, and the default rule in the palace is that those in the outer study cannot enter the inner study at will, so as not to collide with the golden branches and jade leaves, but the princesses are not restricted from entering and leaving the outer study. But Zhou Ying didn't have a brother to study in the outer study, and secondly, she was already a princess, so there was no need to fight for the dragon's skills, so naturally she wouldn't set foot in the outer study.
It's no wonder that Zhou Ying couldn't think of Xu Hong.
It's really a different course in the inner and outer study, Zhou Ying entered school as soon as she recovered from her illness, and she staggered with Xu Hong to go to and from school, except for when she was learning about Xu Guifei's background, she was popularized by Mama Li for a sentence or two, she really didn't have any real feelings about this titular cousin.
Thinking about who Zhou Huan is, Zhou Ying's mood is delicate.
It is true that Zhou Ying understands that Xu Hong, as the eldest son of Duke Anguo, will be able to inherit the title if there is no accident. Even if Xu Hong is an idle loser, he is definitely the kind of gold and jade. And he himself is also very competitive, Wen can become a poem in seven steps, Wu can wear Yang in a hundred steps, and he is second to none in the outer study room full of talents, which is still in the case of avoiding the edge of the prince.
He is talented and has a family background, Xu Hong can be said to have a promising future.
What's more, with an aunt in the harem like Xu Guifei, how bad can Xu Hong's appearance be. Such a talented, good-looking and well-born child of a family is definitely the best candidate for a good son-in-law in the heart of Mrs. and Miss.
Zhou Ying was a little stunned, "Mother, if I'm not mistaken, Cousin Xu is only in his teens this year, right?" β
Xu Guifei obviously guessed what Zhou Ying was thinking, and nodded with a smile, "I'm just in my early tens." β
"Not to mention the sixth sister, who has only turned six years old." Zhou Ying couldn't believe it, and muttered, "I admit that Sixth Sister is an out-and-out beauty embryo, but she is still a child, isn't it too early to think about this now?" β