==Chapter 27==

Indeed, as Xiao Jiuniang thought, there was a reason why the county lord of Chaoxia held back his anger that day and did not attack.

It all started when she was angry and went back to the princess.

On that day, the lord of Chaoxia returned to the princess's mansion with a belly of anger, and when he saw Princess Changping, he howled and cried.

This lord of Chaoxia has always been arrogant and domineering, and this fragile face will probably only be revealed in front of his own mother, Princess Changping naturally gritted her teeth with hatred, and she can't wait to eat all the people who made her daughter unhappy.

Princess Changping gave birth to two daughters in her life, especially doting on this little daughter Chaoxia County Lord, not only because Chaoxia County Lord looks like her, and her temperament and personality are also similar, so she is particularly attentive to her little daughter. Of course, there are other reasons, after the eldest daughter got married, life was quite smooth, but the younger daughter was quite unsatisfactory.

But the husband was chosen by her daughter herself, and she forced her to marry into that kind of family, and the county lord of Changping could say anything, so he could only follow behind and break his heart every day.

After listening to her daughter's story, Princess Changping also cursed the Xiao family with the same enemy.

However, she was more enlightened than Chaoxia County, but she calmed down.

Princess Changping is indeed arrogant, but she also knows how to measure it. You must know that as a princess, she can get out of the palace and be arrogant for so many years, it is not something that Emperor Chengyuan's sister can tell. At least there is one thing that Princess Changping is stronger than her daughter, that is, judging the situation.

"Xia'er, don't cry yet, you wait, wait until A-Niang thinks of a way, so that the group of people in the Xiao family can continue to beg you to live. Don't you want Xiao Hang to take a concubine? A-Niang won't let him dare to take a concubine, don't you want to have a son-in-law? A-Niang asked him to beg you to live. ”

After a moment of silence, Princess Changping said, and her tumbling eyes bloomed with a cruel light.

The county lord of Chaoxia wiped his tears and asked, "Is A-Niang going to ask for uncle?" ”

Princess Changping touched her daughter's hair with a wry smile, "Silly girl, how can A-Niang always take such a trivial matter to beg your uncle, A-Niang has her own opinions." You go back, don't mess with them, and in a few days A-Niang will allow them to change their attitude. ”

Lord Chaoxia nodded.

*

The reason for the attack on the prince of the paddock has still not been found, so the atmosphere in the palace is very gloomy for most of the month.

In the past two days, Princess Changping frequently entered the palace, went to see Emperor Chengyuan, and also went to the East Palace to visit the prince, and did not forget to go to Luan Palace.

On this day, Princess Changping left the Heluan Palace, and Queen Xiao's face was gloomy and scary.

Empress Xiao's henchman Qian Nei said in a low voice: "Niangniang, is this Princess Changping still in contact with Concubine Liu?" ”

"This is not an uncommon thing, this princess of Changping has always been left and right, otherwise she will still be stable if she makes so many troubles?" Empress Xiao sneered, her eyes darkened.

"That's good, isn't-"

"Alright." Empress Xiao frowned, and waved her hand to interrupt Qian's inner attendant, "You ordered to go down and summon Duchess Anguo into the palace." ”

"Yes."

*

After the Duchess An Guo came back from a trip to the palace, she looked at An Guo Gong Xiao Hu worriedly.

"Erlang, how do you say this is good, how could it be that you missed the handle and pinched it in the hands of Princess Changping."

Xiao Hu shook his pale brows, and said with a calm face: "What's so strange about this, others have left a secret hand, and they want to frame the queen and the king, and it's not uncommon to have a handle." ”

"But, but things have happened for so long, and His Majesty has not pursued it, so don't we need to pay attention to it."

Xiao Hu slammed the tea cup in his hand on the desk, making a piercing crisp sound, and his tone was also high, and he could be seen that he was also full of anger.

"Foolish, ignorant woman! His Royal Highness didn't pursue it, it was because the King of Chu blocked an arrow for the crown prince, and the mother family of the King of Chu is our Xiao family, so His Majesty is willing to trust our Xiao family in his heart and did nothing. But from an outsider's point of view, this is not the case, because the whole thing has not been followed up so far, if it is publicized and the evidence is conclusive, the queen and King Cheng and even our Xiao family will be speechless. Not to mention the king of Chu, sacrificing one in exchange for another chance to ascend to the throne, this decision is not difficult to make. Why didn't the matter find out, and what could you want to find out with your majesty's right, how could it not be found? That's because he's waiting, everybody's waiting! ”

"What are you waiting for?"

"Wait and see who jumps out." Xiao Hu's voice was low, "Do you think Your Highness really believes that the Queen and King Cheng have done nothing?" Wrong! He was just half-convinced, because the arrow that the king of Chu blocked for the prince made him willing to believe in the queen and King Cheng for the time being, but he wanted to see what the queen and King Cheng did next, otherwise, why do you think the eldest lady and King Cheng were so subservient to the king of Chu? And why those people have been silent, but they are waiting, waiting for the outsider who takes the initiative to jump out. Now Princess Changping jumped out with a knife, just as others wanted, so you don't hesitate to do this, you have to appease Chaoxia for the time being, and Gorou's side......"

Speaking of this, Xiao Hu paused and sighed, "If you explain it clearly to that child, it should be for the sake of the family." ”

Duchess Anguo's old tears came out at once, and she choked up: "My Wulang, he is pitiful. For the sake of family affairs, I have repeatedly endured and regressed, you said it lightly, how can you bear it for me to be a mother! ”

Xiao Huxu was angry and stood up, "If you can't bear it, you have to endure it, as the son of our Xiao family, he has to compromise for the entire family." The person has already married into the door, and the thing is already like this, it is all you have been with him since childhood, and the lord of Chaoxia County is not as ugly as no salt, so it is worth making him so disgusted? A large number of people of age, due to their temperament, have not even given birth to a sister-in-law, and they will make people laugh when they say it. ”

Duchess An Guo wiped her tears, and she was also aggrieved and angry in her heart, "I'm indulgent, what's wrong with me there?" You don't know what Asaka looks like? This time the eldest brother and the third uncle came, didn't they also make the two of them angry? The daughter-in-law was chosen by you, and it was also the door you allowed to enter, let me say what kind of woman is not worthy of my Goro, so I have to marry a rouge tiger back? ”

"What was the situation like, don't you know? It's not all for the sake of the family! The eldest mother is not your daughter, she was not born by you? You don't know how hard it is for her to be in the palace? Don't forget, when you first married the lord of Chaoxia and entered the door, you didn't have a word of disagreement! ”

After saying this, Xiao Hu brushed his sleeves and left, leaving Duchess Anguo to sit there in a daze for a long time, silently shedding a lot of tears.

*

The lord of Chaoxia has been sick since he left Aneiyuan that day, and he has been coming to Aneiyuan for several days in a row to ask for peace.

Duchess An Guo has always been in a state of ignorance, but now it is strange that she asked about Liuniang in front of everyone. And that's not all, I heard that Liuniang said that the county lord of Chaoxia has not been good, not only took the initiative to change him to a doctor, but also ordered Aunt Hu to send a batch of precious medicinal materials to Chongyue Pavilion on the spot, which simply fell off everyone's eyes.

This qiē all reveals a signal that the direction of the wind has changed.

Cui and Zheng exchanged a look, both of them were puzzled in their eyes, and it seemed that they could only go down afterwards to find out what was going on.

Xiao Jiuniang also saw this, and she thought that the quiet days might be over.

Sure enough, as the county lord of Chaoxia has been bad, when he went to Anrong Yuan to ask for peace the next day, Duchess Anguo mentioned the matter of serving illness.

Indeed, it should be like this, the mother-in-law is sick, and the concubine goes to serve the sick, which is a matter of course.

So after coming out of An Rong Courtyard, Xiao Jiuniang and Xiao Shi Niang went to Chongyue Pavilion together.

When they arrived at Chongyue Pavilion, the maidservants went in to report, but no one summoned them in.

In the scorching summer, the sun was in full bloom, Xiao Jiuniang and Xiao Shiniang stood in the courtyard, with no cover above their heads, but after a while, the two of them were sunburned and their faces turned red.

However, for Xiao Jiuniang, this situation is not unexperienced. In her previous life, she suffered a lot in the hands of the county lord of Chaoxia, what is the exposure to the sun, she has a lot of ways to toss people. It is said that this qiē was learned from Princess Changping, and there have always been many ways to change the law and toss people in the palace, and Princess Changping grew up in the palace since she was a child, so she naturally knows a lot.

Suddenly, there was a ruffled noise in the room, followed by a vague whisper. After a while, the bamboo curtain at the gate trembled, and a thin figure stumbled out of the room and fell to the ground.

Followed by a servant, I saw her raise her eyebrows and scolded: "Let you serve a bowl of soup and medicine, you can also make a mess, the county lord said, punish you for kneeling in front of the door for an hour." ”

The bamboo curtain was lifted and lowered, leaving only the thin figure kneeling, looking very pitiful. Seeing that she was dressed up, she didn't seem to be an ordinary maidservant, Xiao Jiuniang glanced at Xiao Siniang beside her, and sure enough, she was pale and seemed to be sad.

That person is Xiao Shi Niang's mother, Han Yunniang.

This Han Yunniang used to be a handmaid with a face next to Duchess Anguo, and then was given to Xiao Hang by Duchess Anguo, and Xiao Yu was born. It is also the only concubine who has a real concubine around Wulangjun Xiao Hang in the entire five rooms. Xiao Hang was always romantic when he was young, but since he married the lord of Chaoxia, he has never been contaminated with the women in the mansion again, and is willing to sleep in the willows, because he knows that it is harming people.

And Han Yunniang has been able to survive so far, in addition to Xiao Hang's protection, but also because she is the person of the Duchess of Anguo. So even if the county lord of Chaoxia never gave her good fruit to eat, he didn't make anything happen to her.

Xiao Jiuniang had never seen Han Yunniang in her previous life, but she had heard of this person, and when she appeared in her previous life, Han Yunniang was said to be incurable, and she was sick in bed all day long. Soon after, he died.

How did the person die, Xiao Jiuniang didn't know, but it was estimated that it was inseparable from the county lord of Chaoxia.

She vaguely remembered that even if she fought with Xiao Yu at that time, Xiao Yu had always had a calm face. But after the news of Han Yunniang's death came out, when I saw her again, there was a ruthlessness in my eyes, and my methods became more and more ruthless. At that time, Xiao Jiuniang couldn't care about this phenomenon at all, and there were reasons why she couldn't retreat, since she was an enemy, then she would fight.

At this time, I saw the thin figure, and saw her glance at Xiao Siniang in a hurry and sadly, and a soothing smile hung on her emaciated face. Xiao Jiuniang suddenly remembered Yueji, the same thin woman, obviously two different people, but the situation was the same, and a sadness suddenly rose in her heart, and there was an inexplicable impulse.

"Let's work together."

Xiao Siniang looked up at her sharply.

"Even if it's for her."

The corners of Xiao Jiuniang's mouth pursed a smile that seemed to be a memory, but she sighed a little. Xiao Siniang suddenly remembered that she seemed to have a mother, but her mother died.