Chapter 69: Provocation
When Bu Tan came back in the evening, he saw two women kneeling in the courtyard, their thin clothes making them shiver from the cold, he only glanced at it, and walked over briskly before the two dancers could brew their pitiful emotions.
Xi Yunzhi sat on the edge of the bed, holding the sleeping Xiao An in his arms, coaxing the little guy to sleep with a soft singing voice, after Bu Qin came back, he walked over lightly, looked at the sleeping Xiao An, touched two handfuls on his forehead, and then compared the gesture next door to Xi Yunzhi, saying that he would go first, Xi Yunzhi nodded.
After coaxing Xiao An, Xi Yunzhi returned to the room, poured a cup of calm fragrant tea for Bu Qin, who was sitting behind the bookcase and rummaging through some files, and said in a steady tone:
"Today, Princess Jing sent two dancing girls from the Queen Mother, I asked them to kneel in the courtyard, the Queen Mother knew, will she be angry with you, or punish me?"
Bu Qin glanced at her: "No, she has no reason to be angry with me, and she has no reason to punish you, since she is just a person who is sent to my house to serve, then the master mother can deal with it as she wants." ”
Xi Yunzhi nodded, and obediently stood aside to give Bu Qin a lot of ink, Bu Qin glanced at her again, and felt that his wife was indeed a bit in a state of imposing danger.
When an ordinary woman receives a dancing girl for her husband, if she wants others to say that she is reasonable, she will settle the person and make a decision when her husband comes back, if she is more scheming, she will deal with it secretly, and not let her husband know, but she is good, and she will punish him directly, without concealing it at all, and she doesn't need him to make any decisions, and she is calm and calm that nothing she does is his business.
I have to say that Bu Qin likes this trust from his wife very much, as if she has no doubts about him in her heart, and drives them away - this kind of natural thing, she doesn't even want to ask, because if she asks, she is suspicious, and if she doubts, there will be a crack in her feelings.
Her wife worked very hard to maintain this uncomplicated relationship between them, and he was happy to be maintained by her, and he really felt that it was good.
***
Before dawn the next day, the two dancing girls hurriedly ran out of the general's mansion.
They knelt in the courtyard for a long time and a night, thinking that no one was watching, so they wanted to get up and go to the general themselves, but as soon as they took a step towards the inner courtyard, they would be hit by a hidden weapon from all directions - small stones.
One night, they were scarred, calling the heavens and the earth unspiritual, desperately in danger of being stoned to death, they hugged their heads and ran away, as if they had left the ghost-infested general's mansion.
After Xi Yunzhi got up, the porter Lao Lu came to tell her the news, she nodded to indicate that she knew, and asked Xiao Hei, who had been on the tree all night, to come down for breakfast, and then allowed them to go back and rest for a day.
Obviously, they were the ones behind the beating of the dancing girls last night.
Xi Yunzhi finished breakfast and went to the store. Zhang Yan, who had not been on the road for a long time, suddenly appeared. Xi Yunzhi only felt awkward when he looked at him now, especially after seeing her delicate and beautiful face covered by her extremely ugly man's mask.
Zhang Yan walked around the store like a nobody, Xi Yunzhi looked at her and suddenly beckoned to her.
"What do you command?"
The corners of Xi Yunzhi's mouth twitched, seeing that he was still in the same market style, he was a ruffian hooligan, how could he ...... Stretched out his hand to pull her face, but Zhang Yan quickly retreated, as if he had insight into her movements, and smiled at her proudly after dodging away.
"My face can't be exposed in broad daylight."
Xi Yunzhi scoffed: "A man who always makes you lose sight, what is there to be nostalgic for?" ”
Zhang Yan shrugged disappreciably: "Whether you can see the light or not, anyway, his feelings for me are real, and that's enough." ”
Xi Yunzhi saw her with a big man's face and made a delicate appearance of a little daughter, only to feel a chill all over her body, so she asked her the question she wanted to ask before:
"If I help you remove the crown princess from power and let your man be the only woman by your side, how do you want to thank me?"
Zhang Yan looked at Xi Yunzhi and was stunned, then smiled: "You are playing with me." The crown princess belongs to the Marquis of Dingyuan's family, if it is so easy to step down, why should he and I hide such hard work. ”
Xi Yunzhi smiled calmly: "I mean if, there is no absolute thing in the world." ”
Zhang Yan knew how powerful this woman was, and couldn't help but be a little shaken, and immediately stepped forward and said:
"It's not that I'm not kind, but it's true that I was with him first, and the crown princess is the last, if you can help me pull her off the stage, I will give you whatever you want. Even if I can't afford it, Xiao Nan can give it, don't worry. ”
Xi Yunzhi felt funny when she heard her call the prince by his name, and raised his eyebrows and asked:
"Then you have to ask your prince clearly, if he doesn't want the crown princess to step down at all, but just wants to sneak around with you, wouldn't I do bad things with good intentions?"
Zhang Yan patted her chest and promised: "Xiao Nan has no feelings for that woman, he almost went to a showdown with the crown princess for me several times, if I hadn't pulled him hard, maybe the sky has changed now, how could he not want to?" It's just that I'm afraid that the forces on the side of Dingyuan Hou will rebound. But if the crown princess is at fault first, it's a different story. ”
Xi Yunzhi looked at her, but smiled silently, Zhang Yan's scalp was numb from her look, and she didn't know who provoked this ancestor, and who would be unlucky next.
***
When Xi Yunzhi returned home in the afternoon, she asked Liu's mother to prepare two baskets of eggs for her, and then got into the luxurious carriage used by the general's mansion to go to the prince's mansion and handed the concierge a greeting post to meet the princess.
Since the prince came of age, he moved out of the East Palace, and established a mansion outside, the prince's mansion is the luxury official residence closest to the imperial city, majestic and domineering, symbolizing the supreme status of the prince of a country.
Xi Yunzhi was standing in front of the Prince's Mansion with Ruyi, looking up at the two lanterns above his head, and the porter came out to reply, saying that the princess agreed to meet the general's wife.
Xi Yunzhi let Ruyi carry the eggs, and he politely followed the servant and went to the backyard where the princess was resting, the opulent luxury made Xi Yunzhi unable to take his eyes off it, and when he saw the princess who was incense to protect the baby, Xi Yunzhi expressed his envy and reverence for the prince's mansion to the princess very exaggeratedly.
The crown princess's stomach is not very visible, although she also knows that Xi Yunzhi is just talking casually, but everyone loves to listen to good words, so she leaned on the soft couch and waved her hand at Xi Yunzhi:
"Madame, please be seated."
Before Xi Yunzhi sat down, he asked Ruyi to send two baskets of eggs to the crown princess, and said simply: "This is the egg laid by the chicken raised by Mother Liu in our house, I saved up for more than half a month to save two baskets, so I will send it to the crown princess. ”
The crown princess glanced at the two baskets of eggs with a pair of beautiful eyes, and a look of disgust appeared in her eyes, and she looked up to see that Xi Yunzhi had no disrespect, although she despised her rusticism in her heart, but after all, Xi Yunzhi was the general's wife, and the harmony on the table still had to be maintained, so she reluctantly smiled at Xi Yunzhi with interest:
"Oh, thank you, Madame, for bothering me."
Xi Yunzhi saw that she was impatient, and said: "Don't bother, don't bother, I heard a few days ago that your body has always been weak, and you have to take care of it, after all, what you are pregnant with is the future emperor of our Xiao Kingdom." ”
When the crown princess heard Xi Yunzhi say that the emperor is not the emperor, her eyebrows immediately gathered, and she said angrily: "Don't talk nonsense, if this word spreads, you and I will be punished." ”
Xi Yunzhi made an ignorant look, looking frightened by the princess's fierce color, and stood up with the corners of his clothes, at a loss.
The crown princess also realized that her voice was too high, and she didn't want to delay any more in this kind of matter, so she sighed hurriedly and changed the topic:
"Who said that this palace was raised in the mansion because of his weak body?"
Xi Yunzhi hurriedly replied: "Oh, I heard it at the flower party held by Princess Jing last time, and everyone said so, so you pushed the princess to host the party and let Princess Jing have full authority to handle it." ”
The more the crown princess listened, the more angry she became: "Nonsense. The palace was just cautious about the fetus in the womb and didn't want to work too hard, so it was handed over to Princess Jing to do. ”
Seeing her angry, Xi Yunzhi immediately echoed: "Yes, yes, in fact, it's good to hand it over to Princess Jing, everyone is quite impressed by her, and they all say that King Jing married a good wife with both ability and integrity, and the future is immeasurable." ”
The crown princess was finally so angry that Xi Yunzhi put down the book in her hand: "I haven't heard anyone talk about this palace for so many years?" She only presided over these few times, and then someone said? ”
Xi Yunzhi nodded thoughtfully, as if he didn't realize that he had said the wrong thing: "Yes, Crown Princess, Princess Jing has indeed won the hearts of the people recently, you can just find a young lady in the flower party and ask, if everyone admires Princess Jing." Anyway, I admire it, and I respect the princess well, and often send things to my house, although my husband refuses to accept it, but her heart, I remember. ”
“……”
Although the crown princess had a smile on the corner of her mouth, it seemed that she had endured it to the limit, Xi Yunzhi accepted it when she saw it, so she said goodbye, and affectionately told the princess to remember to eat eggs.
As soon as Xi Yunzhi left, the crown princess asked someone to throw the two baskets of eggs on the street.
***
In the carriage, Ruyi couldn't help but say to his wife:
"Madam, she is the princess after all, let's visit her, only bring some eggs, isn't it too ...... Chilled? ”
Xi Yunzhi smiled silently: "What is cold, the important thing is the mind." ”
Ruyi didn't care, and said: "Mind or something, if it's too little, it will make people feel uncomfortable, what's more, you haven't been to any flower party, how do you know what those ladies said?" In case the crown princess really wants to find someone to ask, then ......"
Xi Yunzhi lifted the curtain and looked at it, the corners of her mouth hooked up with a smile: "What did she ask someone to ask, whether they admired Princess Jing's ability, or did Princess Jing do the flowers well?" ”
Ruyi still doesn't understand: "It's okay to ask these questions." ”
Xi Yunzhi lowered the curtain, leaned on the cushion and closed his eyes, and asked Ruyi rhetorically: "Then how do you think those who are asked will answer?" To admire or not to admire? ”
After thinking about it, she still didn't quite understand, Xi Yunzhi knocked on the door of her head and said: Rotten wood head.
Everyone knows that Princess Jing and the Crown Princess are sisters, if it is not good to respect the princess, and people are sisters, they are not afraid that the words will reach the ears of Princess Jing and make Princess Jing unhappy? I can't say that the princess still blames them for gossiping, if it is good, it can make the princess feel that at least those people respect their sisters.
Therefore, generally people who are asked because of this kind of private talk will choose an answer that is less risky for themselves to protect themselves, in that case, they will just fall for Xi Yunzhi's provocative plan, so that the crown princess will be disgusted with Princess Jing, and then, things will be easy to do.
The day after Xi Yunzhi came back from the visit to the Crown Princess's Mansion, he took two loads of beads, a plate of mixed yuan beads, plus ten pieces of silk satin, and a deer antler man parameter box to Princess Jing's mansion, and didn't say anything, but just said to Princess Jing that he was not, and specially brought these things to make amends to Princess Jing, so that Princess Jing could forgive herself and don't send people to her mansion again.
Between the words, Xi Yunzhi fully showed a woman's uneasiness about her husband's possible new love, this performance made Princess Jing feel that she had won, she threatened Xi Yunzhi's status as the head mother of the general's mansion with two dancing girls, which made Xi Yunzhi feel afraid, so she bowed to her and came to the door with a generous gift to beg for mercy.
Princess Jing looked at the things she sent, and had to say that this woman was really generous, and she was very good at doing business, if she could use it, then maybe it would be of great help in the future, so she pretended to excuse herself, and then accepted Xi Yunzhi's generous gift, and gave grace and power, so that Xi Yunzhi would be smarter in the future.
Princess Jing said some threatening words again, basically that if you are still disobedient, then she will send more women to the General's Mansion next time, one or two, the general may not care, but there are more women, and the general is also a man, no matter how good the concentration is, I am afraid that I will not be able to control Yunyun.
After Xi Yunzhi agreed in every way, he offered to say goodbye, and Princess Jing proudly sent her outside the mansion to show her kindness to 'her own people'.
After Xi Yunzhi sat in the carriage, Ruyi didn't understand again.
"Miss, you only give the princess two baskets of eggs, and the gift you give to the princess is really big enough. Aren't you afraid that you will appease Princess Jing, and then the crown princess will come to you again? ”
Xi Yunzhi leaned on the cushion and hooked the corners of her lips:
"Afraid of what? Whoever wants to come looking for bad luck, just come and find it. Send more people, there is still a shortage of fire girls in the house, right? Xi Yunzhi smiled calmly, lifted the curtain, looked at the traffic on Suzaku Street, raised his eyebrows and sighed:
"I'm afraid they won't have the time to come to me."
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