Mei Ru was summoned by the queen on the cusp of this kind of storm, which is really a great gift, and everyone can guess the deep meaning - Mei Mansion is afraid that there will be a crown princess.

But Meiru herself was very anxious. She would rather take the name of Kefu and never marry for the rest of her life, rather than see the queen and the prince all day long, as well as the ignorant Princess Baohui. The thought of these people made her feel uncomfortable.

Therefore, in the face of Queen Li's overtures at this time, Mei Ru was iron-hearted and unwilling to accept it. Whatever Empress Li asked, she answered in a proper manner, and her every move was without joy or stammering, neither humble nor arrogant, completely ignoring the queen's attempts.

No one is a fool.

Seeing Mei Ru's rejecting appearance, Queen Li knew in her heart that this girl was unwilling to be a concubine for the prince. Actually, she is asking this sentence now, it is the blessing of this girl, ordinary people don't say thank you, you should also keep it in mind, I didn't expect that there was no need, it's really uninteresting! Empress Li frowned in displeasure.

Seeing the person standing upright there at the bottom, quite a bit of Mr. Pingyang's elevated posture, Empress Li became more and more unhappy, and she pointed out: "The third girl has sent an envoy back to the court this time, and the palace has not yet been rewarded." ”

"Niangniang, this is the duty of a courtier, and I dare not accept the reward." Mei Ru flatly resigned.

This is clearly not to.

Empress Li said coldly: "The third girl's words are too polite. This palace has always appreciated the three girls very much, but now can't even reward them? Her voice was much louder, and she was very upset.

"The courtiers don't dare." Mei Ru hurriedly knelt down.

"Huh." Empress Li smiled angrily, and the huge Kunning Palace suddenly quieted down, so quiet that even everyone's breathing was much lighter.

angered the queen, Mei Ru's heart tightened, but she still lowered her head and knelt there, refusing to give in.

Seeing her like this, Queen Li didn't say anything about letting Mei Ru get up, but only colded her. Queen Li just wants to use a dismount to cure this girl's ignorance. Mei Ru knelt for a short while, and then a palace maid came in to report that the little eunuch in front of the palace was coming. Empress Li helped Yun Sideburns, and the eunuch Xuan came in, and asked Mei Ru to get up by the way.

Mei Ru still stood there with her head bowed.

The little eunuch in front of the emperor came in and greeted the queen, and said, "Niangniang, the emperor invited Miss Mei to go." ”

"Oh?" Although Empress Li smiled, her eyes turned cold. This rescue came too timely, and the emperor was really thinking about Mr. Pingyang's apprentice! It's just that she really can't do anything with Mei Ru on the bright side, Mei Ru is a disciple of Pingyang, and she has made meritorious contributions to the imperial court and has fallen into the eyes of Emperor Yanchang...... The corners of her mouth hooked, Queen Li was unhappy, and asked with a smile: "What did the emperor ask Miss Mei for?" ”

The little eunuch replied: "The emperor heard that Miss Mei wrote a good handwriting, and he made a poem before, and wanted Miss Mei to copy it." ”

"The emperor is really good Yaxing." Empress Li and Yan Yuese said to Mei Ru, "Since that's the case, then the three girls should go." "Where is the cold look from before?

Mei Ru calmly said goodbye to Empress Li, and followed the little eunuch to the palace. Walking out of Kunning Palace, she exhaled, but she was a little faintly worried.

This time I was really offended, and I don't know what I will do later......

Emperor Yanchang is in the Imperial Garden at this time.

It's already winter, and the imperial garden is still full of flowers, and all kinds of autumn chrysanthemums are still blooming just right, white, purple, pink, mud gold and snow blue...... Dazzling, it is no wonder that Emperor Yanchang is flourishing.

When Mei Ru went over to ask for peace, she found that Fu Zheng was also there. Far away, the two looked at each other from afar, and Fu Zheng opened his eyes lightly. Today's weather is good, he is wearing a snow-blue gold silk and silver thread embroidered dark pattern robe, hosta hairpin, jade belt waist, long figure, quite a literati style. Mei Ru estimated that he should have come to accompany Emperor Yanchang to visit the garden and compose poems by the way. Mei Ru stepped forward to greet Emperor Yanchang, and then turned sideways to Fu Zheng and said, "Courtiers see Your Highness." ”

Fu Zheng looked over again, and replied without saltiness: "Three girls." ”

It's a strange feeling that two people are acting in front of people...... Mei Ru blinked uncomfortably and stood beside her respectfully.

Emperor Yanchang said to her: "I heard that Ru Yatou's handwriting is good, come and copy a poem for me." ”

There are few people in this world who have seen Mei Ru's words, who else can Emperor Yanchang listen to? It's nothing more than Fu Zheng. Thinking like this, Mei Ru felt uncomfortable again, and she looked at Fu Zheng. The man only looked lazily to the side, as if he didn't care about himself. Mei Ru retracted her gaze and stepped forward respectfully. There have long been little eunuchs who have brought over the new poems written by Emperor Yanchang. She lifted the pen, dipped it in ink, and put it down.

On this day, although Mei Ru was deflated by Empress Li, she showed her face fiercely at Emperor Yanchang.

Emperor Yanchang praised her words for being interesting and very aura, and her face was very happy. After that, Mei Ru's characters and her paintings became famous in the capital. All literati and writers wanted to see what Emperor Chrysostom boasted of as "interesting and aura words". It's just that Meiru's ink treasure is few, and it was really rumored to be amazing for a while.

When Mei Ru retired that day, Fu Zheng glanced at her again. This glance is meaningful. Mei Ru was even more uncomfortable.

- She owes Fu Zheng another favor.

Coming out of the palace, Mei Ru went straight home. Before the carriage arrived at the house, she received a message from Fu Zhao, saying that there was an urgent matter and asked her to meet in Sixi Hall. After Mei Ru came back, she hadn't seen this highness yet. Thinking that Fu Zhao really had something to say to herself before leaving Beijing, she twisted her eyebrows, and she passed.

When the shopkeeper saw Mei Ru coming, he led her up to the second floor, walked to the innermost room and said, "Girl, Your Highness is inside." With that, the shopkeeper stepped back.

Pushing open the door, Mei Ru took two steps inside, and quickly paused.

I saw Fu Zheng sitting inside, looking at her with a pair of eyes, his eyes were black, and they were still meaningful.

Thinking that he had been deceived by him in the name of Fu Zhao, Mei Ru stood by the door, embarrassed and annoyed for a while.

Fu Zheng got up and walked over. said to Jingqin and Yichan: "This king and your young lady have a few words." "Neither of them moved. Fu Zheng glanced at them and sneered: "That's it, you can watch it if you like." As he spoke, he directly grabbed Mei Ru's wrist. His strength was a little big, and Mei Ru was pinched by him. She looked at Fu Zheng angrily, but Fu Zheng looked at her idly, it was a silent confrontation. Twisting her eyebrows, Mei Ru was forced to tilt her head and order, "You go out first." The two maids were frightened, so they hesitated to go out.

Fu Zheng let go of his hand, straightened his sleeves, and said to Mei Ru: "I heard that you and Ruan Shilang's family affair is not done?" ”

"Whether it succeeds or not has nothing to do with His Highness." Mei Ru was not happy in her heart, and choked directly.

Being choked like this, Fu Zheng actually laughed, he nodded indifferently and agreed: "Indeed, if you don't marry this king, naturally it has nothing to do with this king." ”

Hearing him tease like this, Mei Ru looked over in annoyance. Fu Zheng still smiled, intriguing: "It's a pity that your family affairs are related to others." ”

Who else could this be? It's nothing more than the queen and the crown prince.

was poked in a sore foot, and Mei Ru glared at him dissatisfied.

Fu Zheng just asked, "In front of the queen today, how did you get back?" ”

"What do I have to do with Your Highness?" Mei Ru still choked him unhappily.

After being silent, Fu Zheng suddenly sighed: "It has nothing to do with this king, I'm just afraid that you will upset her." He looked at Mei Ru and said helplessly: "You little temperament ......"

Mei Ru was slightly stunned, and her face turned red slowly.

Fu Zheng stared at her with deep eyes, and still asked, "Did you promise the queen?" ”

"Nope." Mei Ru shook her head, her attitude softened.

Her attitude softened slightly, Fu Zheng had to inch in, raised his hand and touched her face, he praised: "Good girl." ”

Mei Ru hurriedly dodged, and Fu Zheng's hand fell into the air again. He was neither angry nor annoyed, but smiled softly, like a puddle of emotional spring water. Fu Zheng continued to ask: "Since you didn't agree, did the queen give you a horse?" ”

Thinking of Empress Li's anger before, Mei Ru didn't answer, just lowered her head and didn't speak.

Fu Zheng looked at it in his eyes and said, "It seems that it was given to you." With a sigh, he stroked her face again, and said distressedly: "Aru, the prince will not give up, you and Ruan Shilang's family affair is what he is doing to obstruct you, are you still unwilling to marry me?" ”

His hand ran along her face, rubbing roughly against her earlobe, and Mei Ru's face turned completely red.

She slapped his hand away and looked over angrily.

Fu Zheng asked: "Do you really want to marry me?" Or - do you want to marry him? ”

Mei Ru said coldly: "I will neither marry you nor him." ”

"Huh." Fu Zheng smiled, and he said slowly, "The prince is holding back his strength to ruin your marriage, did you go to the house to check?" Maybe...... He's angry, and he's going to ruin your reputation. ”

Mei Ru still tilted her head and ignored him, only to feel that the person in front of her was becoming more and more shameless, and he used to be more restrained, but now he ...... Mei Ru's face became more and more hot.

Fu Zheng sighed: "That's it, I came to you today just to remind you to be more wary of him." ”

"You know, you want you to say?" Mei Ru** replied. After speaking, she turned around and left, Fu Zheng seemed to remember something, called her "Aru", and casually admonished: "If the eleventh brother asks you to write, you can write a Lingfei Sutra to him." ”

"Lingfei Sutra?" Mei Ru was curious.

Fu Zheng didn't explain, but said: "You owe me a favor today, so you should pay me back." ”

……

Over there, the prince heard Mei Ru's refusal, and he was really angry, and scolded: "This person who doesn't know how to lift up, even dares to brush off the kindness of the palace, he really doesn't know whether he is alive or dead!" ”

He smiled coldly.

In fact, there is no need for Fu Zheng to remind her, Mei Ru also knows that she should stay in the house these days to avoid the limelight, but she didn't expect that on this day, Hesui next to the Dong family quietly came over to find Jingqin and brought a message to say that the Dong family wanted to see Mei Ru.

It was rare for the Dong family to take the initiative to find her, but Mei Ru didn't dare to delay and hurriedly went to Hu's house.

As soon as she got out of the car, Mei Ru was shocked. I saw a white banner hanging by the door of Hu's house, and there was a cry inside. Mei Ru was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly went in, and when she entered, she was even more startled!

I saw that the hall had become a mourning hall, and the Dong family was dressed in vegetarian clothes, kneeling there to burn paper!

"Sister Yao." Mei Ru walked up quickly.

Hearing the voice, Dong looked over bluntly, and his eyes were swollen like peaches. Mei Ru hurriedly squatted down to hug her, Dong avoided her hand unusually, and only asked sadly: "Xunxun, are you Brother Hu really good?" ”

"I'm ......" Mei Ru paused, turned her head to look at the scene, and suddenly seemed to be blocked in her heart, unable to say a word.

Dong Shi saw it in her eyes, tears fell again, and she said sadly: "Your big brother Hu's pension money has come down." ”

This sentence floated into her ears, Mei Ru was dizzy, and Xiao Changsheng in the cradle next to her cried even more.

"What's going on?" Mei Ru asked blankly.

Yesterday, Dong and Aunt Hu An An were at home, but two officials suddenly came to the house, and asked in a rough voice: "Is this Hu Sanbiao's house and General Hu Shen's house?" Dong and Aunt Hu didn't dare to offend, so of course they nodded. The two officials took out a few ingots of silver and explained: "General Hu Shen died on the battlefield, this is the silver allocated by the yamen, you can take it." ”

"Dead?" Dong was anxious, "It's impossible, he asked someone to bring back the silver a few days ago." ”

"We can't be wrong about this lady, you see we still have a list here." The official said.

Aunt Hu took it in a panic, but she couldn't understand it at all, so she hurriedly handed it to Dong. When Dong saw it, he fainted. When she woke up, she understood everything. Dong's face turned pale, and he ordered the two little maids to set up a mourning hall, and asked Hesui to invite Meiru.

Mei Ru was stunned at this moment and entered the room with Dong.

I saw Dong take out a bag of silver from under the box and said, "Follow, we can't ask for this silver." This bag of silver was brought by Mei Xiang and asked Mei Ru to bring it. Dong Shi said: "I also put the silver sent a few months ago in it. Take it back, let your eldest brother order a little, if it is less, just ask for it. After a pause, she said, "Although your brother Hu is gone, we can't owe anyone else." ”

After saying this, Dong's tears fell again, she hugged Xiao Changsheng and turned her head.

Mei Ru brought the bag of silver back to the house and handed it to Mei Xiang, Mei Xiang was stunned, "Follow it, this ......"

Mei Ru just asked, "Big brother, is Big Brother Hu alive or dead?" ”

Thinking of the empty bed, Mei Xiang's eyes turned red, and he turned his face.

Without any answer, Mei Ru suddenly cried.

Mei Xiang clasped his hands and said hurriedly: "Follow it, it's inconvenient for me to go over." You tell her, I don't want her to do anything, you ask her to take the silver, they are orphans and widows and have an old lady......" Mei Xiang said and sighed, gritted her teeth, and ran out by herself.