"Oh my God, Willow Green, go through the crescent moon gate and go around the wall to see what is going on!"

In the inner courtyard separated by a wall, Zhang Yunyan, who had her heart raised to her throat the moment Xia Shuanghan fell from the tree, was really so frightened that tears came down. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info "If the princess falls out of three long and two short in order to help me get that handkerchief, then I will really have trouble sleeping in this life!" ”

"Yes, Miss, I'll go outside and have a look." Zhang Yunyan's maid Liu Lu curtsied her knees and nodded silently to the other maid, Taohong, and motioned to her with her eyes, "Miss will be handed over to you." Then, turning around and taking a step, she quickly ran to the crescent gate that was closest to here, leading to the outer courtyard, under the guidance of the maid of Yong'an Houfu.

"Miss, don't worry too much, the princess must be fine." Helping Zhang Yunyan to rush to the peach under the tree, pricking up her ears, and trying to eliminate the exclamations of the surrounding women, she heard Xia Shuanghan's vague voice from the courtyard wall. "Listen, Miss, judging from the voice, the princess doesn't look like she was injured."

"Yes...... Is it? Raising her hand to wipe the tears from her cheeks, Zhang Yunyan, who couldn't hear Xia Shuanghan's voice due to the noisy environment around her, didn't know where she got the courage, so she only turned her head impulsively and without thinking and yelled at the women who were talking around her: "Can you all shut up for me now!" ”

"......" Zhang Yunyan, who was shocked by her fierce words and deeds, immediately got her wish and gained a piece of tranquility. Subsequently, knowing that "words spoken are equal to spilled water", she turned to the courtyard wall again with the mentality of breaking the jar and breaking it.

So in this way, Xia Shuanghan taught Xie Zhuoting a lesson in the outer courtyard, and all the girls standing under the courtyard wall listened to it completely.

"My God, this loyal countryman can't be considered a woman at all! Started beating people, and beat a half-grown teenager to the point of bowing his head and admitting defeat, is this a woman? My rough mother-in-law may not have this ability! ”

"The visitor who came to congratulate him on his birthday beat up the young master of the house in the master's house, the loyal and righteous townsman is finished now, and he will return to the Xiangyang palace later, maybe the princess will punish her!"

"This loyal and righteous countryman is inevitably too arrogant, the practice of whipping people with a horsewhip on the street is already hard to hear, how can she be so unscrupulous and unmeasured in other people's homes?"

Zhang Yunyan didn't listen to the various opinions around her at all. Judging from the fact that Xia Shuanghan could still defeat Xie Zhuoting in the outer courtyard, she knew that she didn't have to worry too much: "It's good that you're not seriously injured, it's good that you're not seriously injured!" It's a pity, it's really gratifying! ”

"Sorry to worry you. I encountered something outside, and I delayed for a while, and I didn't bother to shout at you to tell you that I was safe. ”

Xia Shuanghan, who was carrying Zhang Yunyan's handkerchief in his sleeve pocket, soon arrived at the crescent moon gate under the leadership of Jia Ding. Subsequently, she followed Liu Lu to the garden, and soon reconciled with Zhang Yunyan.

"The injury is the right hand, isn't it? Are there any wounds elsewhere? At the moment when Xia Shuanghan appeared in front of her bypassing the osmanthus tree, she saw Zhang Yunyan, who was wrapped in her right hand and the blood-stained handkerchief, and immediately lifted up her heart that had just been put down slightly.

"No, that's all there is here. And this is a small injury, it is not in the way, and it will be fine in three or five days. Ignoring the women around her who were pointing and whispering to her because of her behavior, Xia Shuanghan, who briefly comforted Zhang Yunyan, quickly took out the handkerchief that belonged to her from her sleeve pocket. Here, I've got it back for you. ”

"Thank you...... Thank you. Taking the handkerchief handed over by Xia Shuanghan, Zhang Yunyan, who couldn't help but sweat for her in the outer courtyard, asked worriedly: "In the outer courtyard just now, did you make a big and serious disturbance about the tenth young master of the Xie family?" Later, when you go back to Xiangyang Palace, will you be punished for this incident? ”

"No, you're worried." Xia Shuanghan, who was confident that he would not have anything to do next, waved his hand aggressively, and then changed the topic. At the same time, the after-effects of what she had just done were also revealed in Xie Zou's courtyard.

In the lively Rongxi Hall, sitting on the main seat is today's old birthday star Xie Zou. Sitting next to her was the princess of Xiangyang, Xie Shi. Zhou Yaoguang, who came today with the purpose of showing his face in front of all the ladies, stood silently behind Xie Shi. Xie Shi was right, and she sat with her third brother and sister, the third lady of the Xie family.

Originally, before the messenger who reported the news that "Xie Zhuoting was beaten by Zhongyi Xiangjun" entered Rongxi Hall, the atmosphere in the room was really happy and very comfortable.

It's just that when Mrs. Xie San, who has always pampered her son, learned that Xie Zhuoting was beaten by Xia Shuanghan, the princess of Xiangyang Wang, she couldn't care about the occasion and time, so she used her own loud exclamation to destroy all the harmonious atmosphere in Rongxi Hall.

Judging from personal relationships alone, compared with his eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law, the relationship between Xie's and her third brother and sister is really much worse. The reason is just because after Xie's marriage, her eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law once came to her for help, and when she let the two sisters-in-law get what they wanted, she refused Mrs. Xie San, who also asked for the same door, soon after.

Fundamentally speaking, the reason why Xie agreed to his eldest sister-in-law and second sister-in-law in the first place was because what they asked for was within her ability, so she was willing to lend a hand.

But what Mrs. Xie San asked for was something beyond her ability and involved in officialdom. Therefore, as the great housekeeper of Xiangyang Palace, she was too busy to take care of herself because of Su Yixing's commotion at that time, and she didn't think that she had enough face to mention this matter to Su Chunfeng. Therefore, Mrs. Xie San, who failed to get her wish, just held a grudge against her.

On August 18, when Mrs. Xie San, who had already had some holidays with the Xie family, heard that Xie Zhuoting was beaten by Xia Shuanghan, her first reaction was: You looked down on my mother's family back then and refused to help, and now your daughter-in-law doesn't take my son in her eyes and bullies him directly, if I can bear it like this, I am simply a turtle grandson!

So, with such a mentality, Mrs. Xie suddenly turned her head in the Rongxi Hall and shouted to the messenger maid: "What? You said that the tenth young master was beaten in the garden by the princess of Xiangyang in front of all the visitors?! ”

"Third Lady Hui, that's true." In the Rongxi Hall, which suddenly became audible because of Mrs. Xie's words, only the maid's report was left for a while: "According to the family members in the garden, the princess twisted the arm of the tenth young master, stepped on his knee socket, and asked him to kneel in the garden. ”

"What?!" Hearing this, Mrs. Xie San, who suddenly seemed to have a heart attack, covered her chest and gasped for breath for a while, and then turned to Xie Shi and said: "Sister-in-law, that Zhongyi Xiangjun was a fierce woman before he got married, and everyone in the entire West City knows about it, and now you welcome her into the door as a daughter-in-law, why don't you know how to discipline her well!" My son can be beaten up by staying at home, which is too deceitful! ”

"Brother and sister, what are you anxious about, now that the cause and effect of the matter have not been figured out, you can't wait to put a hat on my family's frost and cold, this is inevitable, some wicked people are suspected of suing first, right?"

After getting along in the past few months, Xie Shi, who has long understood what kind of person Xia Shuanghan is in his bones, said that he didn't believe that today's incident was caused by Xia Shuanghan taking the lead first. Therefore, she sat in a precarious position with a calm face and said unhurriedly: "I think, let's go to a few more people to figure things out as soon as possible, and when the origin and details of the matter are clarified, it's not too late to judge who is right and who is wrong!" ”

"Old lady, you must be the master of Zhuo Ting!" Seeing that the maid had already said that the matter was so serious, but the Xie family still looked like he was high and fearless, he couldn't swallow this breath in his heart, and at the same time, the third lady Xie who said that she also wanted to win back the city today, immediately turned to Xie Zou, and said in a trembling voice: "Old lady, Zhuo Ting, he is your own grandson, and now that he is being bullied by outsiders, you can't sit idly by and ignore anything!" ”

"Did I say I don't care? But even if you want to take care of it, you have to wait until you figure things out! Xie Zou, who was sitting on a high seat and took a sip of tea without being salty, turned his head slightly to look at the big girl beside him. Then, the girl who understood the meaning of the master turned around and walked out of Rongxi Hall very wisely.

What kind of virtue his grandson is, there is no old and confused Xie Zou is still very clear. Xie Zhuoting's grandson, in the eyes of Xie Zou's family, is a bastard boy who is not literate, does not succeed in martial arts, learns everything for three days and fishes for two days, but is only persistent and talented in pranks.

Moreover, Mrs. Xie San doted on her children, bent on raising her own son in waste, and did not allow her father and her to interfere as a grandmother, which had also left a deep-rooted bad impression in her heart.

Therefore, when he heard that Xie Zhuoting was beaten up, Xie Zou's first reaction was: That bastard boy should have been beaten up a long time ago after doing so many wrong things, as long as there will be no sequelae, it will be a good beating!

The most authoritative old lady has already expressed her position, so no matter how dissatisfied she is in her heart and how anxious she is, Mrs. Xie must force herself to press it down and wait for the girl to bring back the original story.

Mrs. Xie San, who thought that her son was good everywhere and was a treasure everywhere, absolutely did not believe that the problem was her son, so when she heard the truth and details of the matter from the old lady's maid, and received a sentence brought in by her son Tuo Ya, Mrs. Xie San, who did not expect that the truth of the matter was completely opposite to what she imagined, was dumbfounded.

"The fault of this matter is all on Zhuo Ting and me, and it has nothing to do with the princess's sister at all. I feel ashamed, and I don't want anyone to hold the princess and sister accountable for this matter. I can't even beat a woman, and if I lose, my elders will stand up for me, so I can't afford such a. ”

Xie Zhuoting's confession blocked all the words that Mrs. Xie San had prepared silently in her heart during the time she was waiting.

Xie Zhuoting has admitted that all the fault lies with him, and said that he doesn't want anyone to hold Xia Shuanghan accountable for this matter. What's more, he was beaten with the front foot, and the back foot affectionately called his sister to the person who beat him.

In addition, Xie Zhuoting only suffered some superficial flesh wounds, and he could fully recover in three or five days. Therefore, things have developed to this point, and if anyone is endlessly tossed around with him being beaten, it is really narrow-minded and unreasonable.

"Okay, good, Zhuo Ting was beaten, and he actually understood so much. Sure enough, as the saying goes, filial piety comes out under the stick, and the reason why Zhuo Ting hasn't been able to show any corners until now is because he has been beaten too little! ”

Xie Zou, who laughed after hearing Xie Zhuoting's confession, laughed so much that tears came out of his eyes for a while, "Listen, listen, he was beaten, and he made up his mind to start practicing martial arts from tomorrow, and he was beaten this time, but he really didn't lose at all!" ”

The words and deeds of the old birthday star Xie Zou have made it clear that she not only does not pursue Xia Shuanghan, but even wants to commend her. Therefore, the many greeting guests with the idea of "as long as the birthday star is happy, then everything will be fine", even though there are several people who have contempt and contempt for Xia Shuanghan in their hearts, but in the end, they all smiled and echoed Xie Zou's family.

The son dragged his feet at the critical moment, and dragged it to the root of his thigh; The mother-in-law, who was supposed to come out impartially to uphold justice, was biased from the beginning. Mrs. Xie San, who thought like this, faced with this embarrassing situation, her face turned uncontrollably red and white, white and blue, and it was not wonderful after several changes.

In the same Rongxi Hall, the third lady Xie was not the only one who was dissatisfied because of the incident of "Xia Shuanghan taught Xie Zhuoting a lesson", and kept cursing silently in his heart. Zhou Yaoguang, who had been standing behind Xie and completely took the riot in Rongxi Hall into his eyes, also twisted the handkerchief pinched on his fingertips in the process of silently venting his anger against Xia Shuanghan.

Thinking about it three months ago, when Zhou Yaoguang begged to go to Tingtao Courtyard in order to get rid of her marriage contract, Xia Shuanghan's two countermeasures of "ruthlessness" and "sweeping the floor" against her had already made her hold a grudge against her.

Now, in the face of the many ladies in Rongxi Hall, who shifted the focus of the conversation to Xia Shuanghan because of Xie Zhuoting's beating, Zhou Yaoguang, who felt that he was left out and did not achieve the purpose of "showing his face" at all, couldn't help but have a lot of negative emotions.

"Xia Shuanghan, today is the first day for me to contact the backyard social circle of the powerful people in Beijing, do you know how important it is for people like me who want to travel thousands of miles to determine the direction and lay the foundation? But you, it's all you, it's you who completely ruined my first step! I should be the protagonist who was proudly introduced by Xie Shi, and I should be the central figure of this topic. The attention and praise of others, these things should not belong to you at all, why should you snatch this praise and praise that should belong to me? ”

Zhou Yaoguang, who was standing silently on the side, was trying to be as quiet as possible to resentment against Xia Shuanghan, and Xie Shi, who was busy chatting with Xie Zou, didn't notice it. However, just because Xie didn't notice it doesn't mean that others didn't notice it either. No, on August 18, Pei Huanting, who accompanied her mother-in-law to Yong'an Hou's Mansion to celebrate her birthday, and is now in Rongxi Hall, saw Zhou Yaoguang's changes in demeanor and body language.

Coming to celebrate his birthday, his family will always come earlier than outsiders anyway, so when Xia Shuanghan followed Xie into Rongxi Hall, Pei Huanting and her mother-in-law were still sitting in the carriage that came to Yong'an Houfu.

When Pei Huanting followed her mother-in-law to see Xie Zou, she recognized that the person at Xie Zou's hand was the Princess Xie of Xiangyang the moment she crossed the threshold, and she quickly looked around the people in the room. Subsequently, after confirming that Xia Shuanghan was not present, Pei Huanting shifted her attention to Zhou Yaoguang, who was silently standing behind Xie.

When the messenger told Mrs. Xie that Xie Zhuoting was beaten, and provoked Mrs. Xie to snort instantly, the shock that flashed on Zhou Yaoguang's face and the subsequent schadenfreude did not escape Pei Huanting's eyes.

After Xie Zou's maid brought back the cause and effect of the matter, facing the ladies who continued to talk about Xia Shuanghan according to the old birthday star's wishes, the unwillingness, resentment and jealousy on Zhou Yaoguang's face were also easily recognized by Pei Huanting, who also had these feelings for Xia Shuanghan.

"The enemy of the enemy is his friend", Pei Huanting, who knows the meaning of this sentence, saw through Zhou Yaoguang's attitude towards Xia Shuanghan at the moment she had such an idea: A woman who will always live in the Xiangyang palace before getting married, a woman who will always have a bad feeling for Xia Shuanghan regardless of whether she is married or not, isn't such a woman exactly what I need most?

"As the saying goes, it's hard to guard against thieves day and night, if I can form an alliance with Zhou Yaoguang to deal with Xia Shuanghan together, there is always a thief like her in the Xiangyang Palace, I want to play some tricks with her to ruin Xia Shuanghan's current happy life in the inside and outside, isn't it?"

Pei Huanting, who had such an idea in her mind, quickly made up her mind to contact Zhou Yaoguang. At the same time, Xia Shuanghan, who was continuing to chat with Zhang Yunyan in the garden at this time, quickly became friends with her who would often come and go in the future.

Time flies by, August, and the days soon come to September.

September, this is the month when the Great Xia royal family conducts autumn hunting on a peaceful day in the world, and it is also the favorite month of Xia Shuanghan, who was trapped in the back house in his previous life.

Early in the morning of the first day of September, Xia Shuanghan, who turned over and rode behind Su Chunfeng and on Su Yixing's side, led the convoy of Xiangyang Palaces behind him to join the army out of Beijing.

"Look at you, they all said that you should take the carriage, but you didn't listen, it's all wet now!"

When the convoy entered the suburbs, the morning sun in the east was still cherry red without much heat, and it could not dispel the faint mist. In addition, after leaving the capital, the morning in the suburbs was already full of mountains and mountains, and the morning dew was heavy and heavy, so after riding a horse for a while, the heavy water vapor stained on Xia Shuanghan's forehead and eyebrows directly converged into small crystal droplets and dripped downward.

"No need, I'll just wipe it myself." Facing Su Yixing, who leaned over diligently and wanted to wipe off the small droplets of water on the side of her hairline, Xia Shuanghan hurriedly took out his handkerchief and pressed it on the corner of his forehead first.

Faced with Xia Shuanghan's refusal, Su Yixing did not feel any feelings of loss. After all, compared to Xia Shuanghan's attitude of avoiding him at the beginning, now her attitude of not wanting to be touched intimately by friends who are not her favorite men is much more relaxed. Therefore, Su Yixing, who thought that no matter what, he had already achieved some results, withdrew the handkerchief and did not force it again.

"The prince is so good to the princess!" Zhou Yaoguang, who was sitting in the carriage with Xie Shi, through the half-open window, took in Su Yixing's ardent concern and deep doting on Xia Shuanghan. So, she couldn't help but let out a sigh, which attracted a faint smile from Xie Shi, who also took this scene into her eyes.

"Do you think that it is a blessing that Shuang Han can find a good man as gentle and considerate as Zhe Chen, which she cultivated in her previous life?" The lightly smiling Xie Shi quickly got an affirmative answer from Zhou Yaoguang, who nodded yes, so she continued: "But in fact, this is not the case. ”

"You haven't been in Beijing for a long time, and you haven't seen Zhen Chen before, so you don't know that he has been moody and uncertain since the death of his biological mother. The reason he was the way he was was because the frost had changed him. Before Zhe Chen encountered the frost, not to mention the fact that women were no different from wild dogs on the street in his eyes, he didn't take the prince as a father in his eyes. ”

Xie's words triggered Zhou Yaoguang's thoughts: Was Su Shizi reborn as another person for the sake of Xia Shuanghan? However, what can she do in the summer frost? What is there about her that deserves the noble Su Shizi to deign to bow down to her? Su Shizi obviously deserves a better woman to accompany him for the rest of his life, not a woman like Xia Shuanghan who lives with someone else in her heart!

Zhou Yaoguang, who faintly gave birth to the thought of "I am more suitable for Su Shizi than Xia Shuanghan" in his heart, after looking at the handsome man outside the house again, made up his mind: Perhaps, I should indeed go and deal with Pei Huanting, the granddaughter of the prime minister I saw in the Yong'an Houfu, and have a good deal with each other. (To be continued.) )