PS: Lalala, today I went with my husband to get the red book, and I came back to add more~

Inexplicably, Xiao Jingbei remembered the blood-colored night in Huzhou City six years ago, and on the corner of the skirt in front of him, there was a scarlet stain.

Although he was born in a powerful family, whoever mentioned the prince of Anguo in the capital had to say that his life was bitter.

In Xiao Jingbei's life in the past 20 years, I don't know how many times he has encountered life-threatening dangers, and he can count them on one hand regardless of the others who pull him when he is in danger.

Therefore, even if what happened that night was not beautiful, that scarlet color still became one of the few warmth in his heart.

However, Xiao Jingbei immediately shook his head in his heart, he was so stunned, the capital and Huzhou were so far apart, how could he connect the two years together.

"Abei?"

After saying a lot of words and getting no response, Wen Yue stretched out his hand in front of Xiao Jingbei and waved it.

Xiao Jingbei came back to his senses and glanced at Wen Yue lightly with a pair of cold eyes.

Wen Yue hurriedly rubbed his shoulders, looking frightened: "I'll just say, how can you be in a daze with this big ice cube, by the way, Huzhou and the capital are so far apart, when did you have a feud with Mrs. Weiyuan Hou?" ”

Ning Xiuyi also looked at Xiao Jingbei when he heard this.

Xiao Jingbei was stunned, although the expressions on his face did not change, but the two people who had always been close to him felt his sudden low feelings.

After a long time, Xiao Jingbei said in a low voice: "Don't ask more about this matter." There are some things I have to do, but knowing more will not do you any good. ”

"Abei, you don't treat us as brothers, do you!" Wen Yue jumped up, and a baby face puffed out with anger.

"Ah Yue!"

Ning Xiuyi glanced at Xiao Jingbei, who was motionless, and reached out to press Wen Yue's shoulder to let him sit down.

They have known Xiao Jingbei since childhood, and they have been friends for so many years, they all know that Xiao Jingbei has a secret in his heart, but no matter how they ask. Xiao Jingbei has never confided a word.

Ning Xiuyi understood Xiao Jingbei's temperament, if he didn't want to say something, no one would try to pry his mouth open.

Just as he was about to open his mouth to persuade Wen Yue to say a few words, it happened that the junior who ran the hall in Yunlaiju sent them the wine and food they ordered at the right time.

"What you ordered!"

Wait until the meal is finished. The little two said viciously, and walked out without looking back.

Wen Yue was already a little blocked, and at this time he was agitated by Xiao Er's attitude, if Ning Xiuyi hadn't pulled him in time, I'm afraid he would have jumped out to reason with that Xiao Er.

In the end, I don't feel happy. Wen Yue glared at Xiao Jingbei, who still had an ice cube face, "Do you say that you are a cheap, every time you come out, you have to come here to find anger, if it weren't for your face, this broken restaurant, I will definitely demolish it for him ten times!" ”

Wen Yue really wasn't joking.

Although the backstage of Yunlaiju is not small, but who in the capital does not know that although Wen Sacrificial Wine looks like a gentleman with a breeze and a moon on weekdays, once it comes to his baby pimple, which took him in his thirties, it instantly becomes a fiery temper.

Even if it is only for the sake of smelling the sacrificial wine, Wen Yue really demolished Yunlaiju. It was Yunlaiju who was at a loss, and the owner behind the scenes could definitely only touch his nose and admit it.

Most of the people in the capital are arrogant, and even ordinary people feel superior to others, not to mention the dignitaries and nobles who come to live in such a big restaurant.

If Yun Laiju's Xiao Er has such a rude attitude towards everyone, I am afraid that no matter how big Yun Laiju's backstage is, no one will buy it.

The people of Yunlaiju were so rude to Xiao Jingbei and the others, so naturally there was a source.

Just because, the owner of Yunlaiju is surnamed Zhou.

The stepwife of the Anguo Mansion is surnamed Zhou, and the current Queen Mother is also surnamed Zhou.

After the founding of the Dawu Dynasty, the original poor family members of the current Queen Mother naturally followed the chicken dog to heaven. The current emperor is also under the strong request of the queen mother, and gave the queen mother's brother a title of Duke Cheng'en.

From a clay leg at the bottom of the society to a relative of the emperor, how excited and frightened the Zhou family was at that time, you can know with just a little thought.

The real old family aristocrats will never look down on an upstart like the Zhou family. Therefore, the process of the Zhou family's initial integration into the aristocratic circle of the capital was also very difficult, but these nobles still looked at the face of the queen mother and the emperor, and did not make too many difficulties.

Even, because there is the queen mother and the emperor behind him. The confidence of the Zhou family is a little more than that of other clans.

Speaking of today's Duchess Zhou Yuran, she was also a household name in the capital back then.

Of course, the reason why she is famous is not because of anything good.

When Zhou Yuran was born, the Zhao family had not yet begun to develop, and the Zhou family at that time could be described as a family with four walls, not even a field, and lived by renting the landlord's land.

Under such circumstances, when Zhou Yuran, who still has several elder brothers above, was born, he was naturally not taken seriously.

Until Zhou Yuran grew up to a few years old, he first showed a little Yuxue's cute appearance, and was favored by the landlord of the Zhou family's rented land.

The landlord's family only has a son who is four or five years older than Zhou Yuran, although he can't be said to be stupid, but he can be regarded as silly, the landlord took a fancy to Zhou Yuran's cleverness, thinking that if there is such a lively daughter-in-law in the future, his son will be more angry.

So it was a few acres of high-quality land as a price, and Zhou Yuran was bought as his son's child daughter-in-law.

If the Zhou family continues to be so poor, Zhou Yuran's life will undoubtedly be to marry the landlord's son when he is fourteen or fifteen years old, and become a landlord's wife in the future.

However, no one thought that the Zhou family could still have such a great transformation.

When Zhou Yuran was twelve years old, Zhao Tiannan established the Dawu Dynasty, and subsequently, Zhou Yuran's father was named the Duke of Cheng'en.

The Zhou family went from begging for a living under the landlord overnight to a high-ranking imperial relative.

Subsequently, the family moved to the capital.

Zhou Yuran has also lived the life of a young lady since then.

As for the fact that she was sold to a landlord as a child bride when she was a child, how could the suddenly developed family still think of it.

In the Zhou family's mind, their family now has such a good future, if the landlord who made them look up to in the past knew each other, they should naturally know that the marriage could no longer be done.

In fact, if you change to a slightly more lively person, you should understand that your arms can't twist your thighs, and you will only tear the deed paper on your hands as if you had never done so.

But who let the landlord have a son who is simple and twisted?

When the son of the landlord's family was twenty years old, the originally honest boy suddenly felt that he should marry a daughter-in-law. Although this child is a little simple, his memory is not bad, and he still remembers that he had a child daughter-in-law back then.

Isn't that right?

So, this simple boy ignored his father's dissuasion. pinched the yellowed deed paper back then, and went all the way to the capital, vowing to marry his daughter-in-law home.

The name of the Zhou family in the capital is very loud, and even Zhou Yuran is often mentioned because he was discussing marriage with the son of the household department Shangshu at that time. It even reached the ears of the Han boy who had just entered the capital.

The more honest the person, the more he admits death.

In that Han boy's heart, Zhou Yuran is his daughter-in-law, how can he still talk to others behind his back?

The angry Han boy found the Cheng'en Mansion after several inquiries, but no matter how he said it, he was thrown out directly without even entering the door.

This can be regarded as angering the Han boy, and he didn't bother much, and directly took the deed paper and sued the Zhou family to Shuntianfu.

As the saying goes, the people don't fight with the officials.

This Han boy only has a few acres of thin fields at home, and he dares to sue the Chengen Mansion. This caused a sensation at the time and aroused the curiosity of many people.

It didn't take long for Zhou Yuran to be sold to the landlord's family by the Zhou family for a few acres of land, and it spread throughout the capital.

In the end, the Han boy naturally didn't get a good deal, but Zhou Yuran's relationship with the son of the Hubu Shangshu naturally didn't work.

In the future, because of such a well-known experience of selling one's body, those who are in charge of the Zhou family will naturally not marry such a daughter-in-law, which makes people laugh, so Zhou Yuran's family affairs have become a problem for the Zhou family.

Zhou Yuran herself is also very arrogant, and the best family doesn't look down on her, so the Zhou family intends to find someone with a slightly worse family for her. But she couldn't look down on it.

came and went, and Zhou Yuran's marriage was delayed.

It wasn't until Zhou Yuran was over twenty that she became a veritable old girl, and the Queen Mother, who finally couldn't see it, intervened in it. made a decree for Zhou Yuran to marry An Guogong, who had lost his wife for four years.

An Guogong was already in his thirties at the time, and there was a yuan match left under his knees and he had already asked for the son-in-law of the prince, it is said that the girl of Chengen's family is not guilty of being a stepmother, but who made Zhou Yuran already twenty-two, and he has never found a suitable person?

Zhou Yuran figured it out this time, although An Guogong was more than ten years older than her. has another son, but as long as she gives birth to a son-in-law after entering the door, the Anguo Mansion will not be her son's in the future?

So, An Guogong married Zhou Yuran into the door under Yi's order.

Who would have thought that on the night of the candles in the cave room, An Guogong received a secret order from the emperor to go to Huzhou on an errand, and he left in a hurry before he even had time to explain to Zhou Yuran.

When An Guogong went, he was still a fierce man, but when he came back, he didn't know the strange poison in his body, and he was judged by the imperial doctor to be almost impossible to recover as before.

Zhou Yuran's dream of having a son-in-law to inherit the Anguo Mansion was of course shattered, and not only that, but she also had to keep a living widow.

Zhou Yuran didn't think about using her mother's power to reconcile with An Guogong, but first, this marriage was the queen mother's marriage, and An Guogong's divorce as soon as he had an accident inevitably left people with the impression of being affectionate, and secondly, Zhou Yuran also knew that at her current age, she would never be able to marry a family like An Guogong's mansion after she left.

So he gritted his teeth and persevered.

At the beginning, he was afraid of people's words, and Zhou Yuran was able to treat the young prince of Anguo, that is, Xiao Jingbei, but after a long time, Zhou Yuran would inevitably have other thoughts in his heart, and Xiao Jingbei would naturally not be as good as before.

Later, the Zhou family came up with an idea for Zhou Yuran, to inherit the Anguo Mansion from a young child from the Zhou family, although it was also not from Zhou Yuran's belly, but at least it was related to Zhou Yuran, but it was not better than leaving the Anguo Mansion to Xiao Jingbei?

Xiao Jingbei was originally not close to Zhou Yuran, and after several comparisons, Zhou Yuran couldn't help but be unmoved.

Xiao Jingbei is the rightful son of Duke Anguo, Zhou Yuran wants to have a stepchild from the Zhou family, and he also hopes that the child who has passed over will inherit the title of Duke Anguo in the future, so he naturally became a roadblock in Zhou Yuran's eyes.

Since the fight, Zhou Yuran's attitude towards Xiao Jingbei has changed significantly.

At first, her methods were quite gentle, nothing more than taking advantage of Xiao Jingbei's young age to take some interesting and interesting things, wanting to lure Xiao Jingbei's playthings to lose their morale and be aggressive, but Xiao Jingbei was not as lively as other children when he was young. is even more naturally vigilant about people who are not familiar with or don't like it, and Zhou Yuran's methods naturally failed to work.

Zhou Yuran is not a patient person, this kind of roundabout means will not work, and she will no longer waste her efforts. directly bought the people of the Anguo Mansion to drug Xiao Jingbei's diet.

Of course, Zhou Yuran also knew that if Xiao Jingbei died a few years after she got married, and she then passed from her mother's family as a stepchild, a clear-eyed person only needs to think about it a little. You can see what role she plays in this.

Therefore, she didn't want Xiao Jingbei to die, but to give Xiao Jingbei the poison that could make people become stupid day by day.

Of course, a stupid son can't inherit the Guogong Mansion, and when she proposes to pass on a stepchild from her mother's family, others not only have no reason to object, but they may also sympathize with her plight.

Zhou Yuran's abacus was not bad, but she didn't expect that although Xiao Jingbei's biological mother died early, she left behind a few shrewd and powerful servants, after discovering something that should not be in Xiao Jingbei's diet. Those servants directly found a reason to set up a small kitchen in Xiao Jingbei's courtyard.

Not only that, but several loyal servants also told An Guogong's close friend Ning Guogong Ning Yuanshan about it.

Ning Yuanshan and Xiao Li have been friends for many years, and now that the old friend has encountered an accident, and only Xiao Jingbei has been left with this bit of blood, he naturally wants to protect Xiao Jingbei, and immediately broke into the Anguo Mansion to warn Zhou Yuran.

At this point, Zhou Yuran's plan to drug Xiao Jingbei was declared aborted.

After that, there were loyal servants who protected the lord to take care of them every step, and Ning Guogong stared at them from the side, and Zhou Yu thought of many methods that failed to work.

watched Xiao Jingbei grow up little by little. knew that if he really waited until Xiao Jingbei became an adult, the plan of succession would have to be abandoned, Zhou Yuran was also ruthless, and directly borrowed people from his mother's family to assassinate Xiao Jingbei directly.

Arguably. Xiao Jingbei's life after the age of twelve has been shrouded in the shadow of death, and if you want to choose one of the people who have been assassinated the most times among his peers in the capital, Xiao Jingbei is undoubtedly the most of them.

Up to now, the Zhou family and Zhou Yuran have made no secret of how much they don't want to see Xiao Jingbei, Xiao Jingbei has encountered so many assassinations over the years, everyone knows that Zhou Yuran did it. But because there is no evidence, she can only let her continue to do evil.

Because of this, Yunlai Curie of the Zhou family, even the second child has such a bad attitude towards Xiao Jingbei and Wen Yue and Ning Xiuyi, who are good friends with him.

Then return to the private room of Yunlaiju.

Wen Yue is the youngest of the three, and he is already a child's temper, and after a few mouthfuls of wine and food, his resentment towards Xiao Jingbei disappeared.

While eating the food, he asked Xiao Jingbei: "Abei, have you found out who spread this rumor?" Who has such a tacit understanding with you that he actually wants to go with you. ”

This question can be regarded as asking Xiao Jingbei's heart.

Rao is face that has never been expressionless, and he is also a little puzzled at this time.

"I found out," Xiao Jingbei rarely hesitated, "Yang Shi, the wife of Wu Mingyuan, the newly appointed Qing official of the Ministry of Officials." ”

There is another sentence that Xiao Jingbei did not say, this Mrs. Yang is also from Huzhou.

Huzhou, Huzhou......

"Wu Mingyuan? I've heard of this guy too. Ning Xiuyi was surprised on his face, not because Wu Mingyuan was famous, but because he actually stood out among so many people and got the errand of the ministry.

Wen Yue also said, "I heard that this Lord Wu is from Huzhou, it is where the Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion is located, isn't it because of this that he made an enmity with that Marquis of Weiyuan, so he deliberately slandered her?" ”

Ning Xiuyi and Wen Yue are usually not long-tongued people, and they don't like to talk about gossip between women, they will know the rumors of Mrs. Weiyuan Hou, it is really because people can hear about this everywhere in the capital these days, and the content of this rumor is too shocking, how can it be that Mrs. Houfu is impersonated by a concubine?

Xiao Jingbei raised his eyebrows, but he showed a bit of fanfare that belonged to his age, "You think it's just slander?" ”

Hearing the meaning of his words, Ning Xiuyi and Wen Yue couldn't help but open their mouths wide.

"Could it be," Ning Xiuyi said hesitantly, "is it true?" ”

Xiao Jingbei nodded lightly.

It's no wonder that Ning Xiuyi and Wen Yue couldn't believe it, Mrs. Weiyuan Hou is a court wife, how can others pretend to be if they want to?

However, the Marquis of Weiyuan's Mansion suddenly moved to Huzhou overnight, and if there is no strange thing about it, I am afraid no one will believe it.

"Could it be that it has something to do with the relocation of the Weiyuan Marquis Mansion to Huzhou back then?" Wen Yue's mind spun quickly, and he came to this conclusion in just a moment.

Under the inquiring gaze of the two, Xiao Jingbei said: "Soon you will know." ”

Then he refused to talk about it anymore, it was useless for Ren Ning Xiuyi and Wen Yue to say, so that the two of them could only stare dryly, especially Wen Yue, who was very curious, was really anxious to scratch his ears and cheeks.

However, compared to patience, they are definitely inferior to Xiao Jingbei, and seeing that Xiao Jingbei has made up his mind to sell Guanzi, he can only give up.

"By the way, Ah Bei, my father got the news that the emperor intends to mention you as the newly established Jinyi Weibei Town Fusi Fu Envoy?" Ning Xiuyi said suddenly.

Xiao Jingbei hadn't reacted yet, and Wen Yue was already excited, "Really? The emperor really attaches great importance to Abei, I heard that although this brocade guard has not been established for a long time, it is in charge of the guards, patrolling and arresting, it can be said that he has real power, and he directly faces the emperor, and does not listen to anyone else. Moreover, this soothing envoy is from the fourth grade......"

Wen Yue's excited words were still echoing in his ears, but Xiao Jingbei sneered in his heart. (To be continued.) )