Chapter 12: Confrontation
In the carriage.
Gong Zhaoyi was more excited than when he came, and he was much more lively, "Mother, you are so amazing today!" ”
"What's so powerful," Su Yingtong smiled, "Anyway, you remember, people don't offend me, I don't offend people, if people offend me, if people offend me......"
"How?" Gong Zhaoyi looked at her with big eyes.
"It depends!" Su Yingtong glanced at the palace mirror domain, "You are the little prince of Xiangyuan Palace, you are too low-key for others to think you are a bully, but you are too high-profile, and others think that you are self-assured that you have no one in your eyes, so what do you say?" ”
Gong Zhaoyi scratched the back of his head, thought about it, and shook his head.
"Yi'er," Gong Jingyu said in a deep voice, "What did Father tell you?" ”
Hearing this, Gong Zhaoyi immediately sat upright, his little face tightened, "Skills are higher than people and not arrogant, learning is higher than people and not arrogant, joy and anger are not visible, and pampering and humiliation are not shocked, it is a trip for the success." ”
"Now that you know, why do you want to have a verbal dispute with Gong Mozhang."
"......" Gong Zhaoyi's little face gradually turned red, and his head became lower and lower.
"Look up!" Gong Jingyu's tone was a little more stern, "I said ...... for my father"
"Alright, don't kill him again!" Su Yingtong hugged Gong Zhaoyi in his arms, felt the little trembling in his arms, and felt very uncomfortable, "The child should be taught slowly, what's the use of being fierce!" Overkill, too much, doesn't King Xiangyuan understand? ”
"Su Yingrou," Gong Jingyu looked at her, his eyes were full of forbearant anger, "Father and son, it is natural and righteous, you are just ......"
"I'm just the daughter of a humble prime minister, the backer behind me may soon be exiled, my life and death are completely executed at the hands of your Xiangyuan King, what qualifications do you have to accuse you?" The corners of Su Yingtong's mouth pulled up a self-deprecating smile, but the tone was not like that at all, "The prince has been in a high position for a long time, and he is used to ordering anyone, but Xiao Zhao is not your subordinate, why do you only regard him as the little son of Xiangyuan Palace, not your son, the so-called speed is not enough, education is important, but you can't take a gentle approach?" Even the child's education is not qualified, even if the prince has the ability to assist the saint in taking care of the country, but how can he be a horse! ”
The words were merciless and loud.
Gong Zhaoyi looked at Su Yingtong in astonishment. For the first time, I saw someone who dared to contradict his father in person, and this person was still for him.
There was a mist in his eyes, and he remembered that his father had said that a manly husband would shed blood without tears, so he could only hold back desperately.
"Su Yingrou," Gong Jingyu's thin lips pulled slightly, and his face couldn't see joy and anger, "You ......"
"Father!" Gong Zhaoyi looked directly at the palace mirror domain, and his tone was a little more brave than before, "Please don't blame the mother concubine, the child will be cautious in his words and deeds in the future, learn martial arts and study literature, and will not let you down!" ”
Gong Jingyu was stunned.
This child has had little contact with him since he was born, and he has always been strict just because he is afraid that he will not inherit the prosperity of the family, and he really hasn't considered whether he is too strict like this?
Today, he dared to intercede for others in front of himself, and I have to say that he appreciates his courage.
And this qiē is actually for Su Yingrou?
"Su Yingrou, no matter what, the wife is the husband, and you are guilty of refuting this king like this, but for Yi'er's sake, this king doesn't care about you, just deduct your monthly allowance for two months."
Wife as husband? Su Yingtong wanted to laugh. It can be seen that no matter how smart and wise the palace mirror domain is, both civil and military, wise and martial, righteous and cloudy, and mindful of the world...... But after all, he is a feudal magnate, and machismo is deep-rooted, is this a shortcoming?
But for the sake of him not caring about her "no big or small" - indeed, it was a bit too much to challenge his authority in front of his son, no matter how dissatisfied she was, she should vent it in private. He wants to maintain the dignity of his Xiangyuan King, and he just deducts her for two months, which is really gracious.
Fortunately, I just blackmailed Yue Yinchu a large sum, and I am not afraid that I will have no money.
"Okay." Su Yingtong replied very well-behaved.
The palace mirror domain was a little surprised. He thought it would be a war of words.
Feng Yan looked at Su Yingtong in a daze, with a stunned confusion.
Su Yingtong saw Gong Jingyu have such a stunned expression for the first time, and suddenly felt a sense of accomplishment that he had successfully tricked people, and lowered his head and covered his mouth and laughed.
Gong Jingyu immediately calmed his face, "Are you laughing at this king?" ”
"Absolutely not!" Su Yingtong replied seriously, "I'm just very happy that there are a lot of adults like you, Lord Wang, it's really admirable!" ”
Gong Jingyu obviously didn't believe her nonsense, her thin lips moved slightly, and finally gave up.
Su Yingtong smiled even more happily.
Gong Zhaoyi also pursed his lips and snickered sullenly.
Gong Jing Yujun's face darkened.
Fortunately, the carriage stopped at this time, and the family said respectfully outside: "The palace has arrived, please get off the prince and the little prince." ”
Gong Jingyu couldn't even wait for the family to take the footstool, leaving a sentence of "I'll go to my study later" and jumped out of the carriage and strode into the palace.
No matter how you look at it, it feels like a bit of an escape.
A large number of subordinates looked at their always calm prince stupidly, why did they feel weird today?
I saw Miss Su getting off the carriage again, and I didn't want to pay attention to it, so I heard the little prince behind her call her "Mother Concubine", everyone was excited, and the family hurriedly handed over the footstool, and the maidservant girl also came to help, for fear that she would break her foot, "Master, be careful of your step." ”
Look, the subordinates of the Xiangyuan Royal Mansion are so clever. Although I can't figure out what the prince means, I don't know whether to change the name of "princess" to "Miss Su", but no matter what, it will not be wrong to call her the master.
Su Yingtong got out of the carriage and helped Gong Zhaoyi again, and the two stood at the door and were stunned for a while, "Just now your father asked you to go to the study, right?" ”
"Didn't you call your mother?"
"No," Su Yingtong walked in hesitantly, "I heard that King Xiangyuan's study is like his military plane, and he doesn't accept outsiders, and I wouldn't have broken in last time if it wasn't for you." ”
Speaking of this matter, Gong Zhaoyi couldn't help but be moved again, "But the mother concubine is the mother concubine, how can she be compared with outsiders!" Others can't go to their father's study, but the mother can! The tone is very reasonable.
"You little fool," Su Yingtong nodded his head, "I'm just a cameo today, you should call me Sister Su in the future." ”
"Don't," Xiao Shizi is not negotiable, "you are my mother, I will call you mother!" ”
Su Yingtong's head was big, "No, it's ...... at all"
"Mother," Xiao Shizi said weakly, his eyes full of tears, and he looked pitiful, "Are you still blaming me for almost suffering from family law last time?" I'm sorry, I won't be in the future. ”
Su Yingtong surrendered instantly, "Where do I blame you, don't cry...... Okay, whatever you want. ”
"Oh, you said! Then to set up a gentleman's agreement! Xiao Shizi hurriedly took Su Yingtong's hand and hooked it, "The agreement is established!" You will be my mother from now on! "I smiled so much that I couldn't see my teeth and eyes, and I still had a trace of sadness.
Su Yingtong felt that he had been fooled.
This little kid is eager to learn but not to learn, and he has learned his father's cunning, which is really ......!
"Mother, then I'll go back to Yu'an Courtyard, you hurry up and go to your father's study, maybe your father is in a hurry." Su Yingtong was not allowed to regret it, Gong Zhaoyi left a warm reminder and ran away, unable to scream.
Alas!
Su Yingtong hung his shoulders weakly, it was really troublesome for him to meet this pair of father and son!
Silk Union Library.
It turned out that the study room in the palace mirror domain was called the Lianlian Library, and I didn't pay much attention to it last time because I was in a hurry. Su Yingtong looked at the vigorous and powerful font on the plaque, the word is a good word, I don't know if it was mentioned by Gong Jingyu himself?
As soon as she wanted to enter, a dark shadow flashed at the door, it was the guard who was beaten down by her last time.
The guard saw that it was Su Yingtong, which was very unnatural. He followed the prince and didn't know how many bloody storms he had gone through, he never missed, and now he was defeated by a woman, which was a shame!
"Please pass it on, does the prince have something to look for me?" Su Yingtong was as polite as he was fine, as if he had never seen him, let alone beaten him.
The guard was very grateful, without cynicism, at least maintaining his reputation as "King Xiangyuan's personal guard", and his tone couldn't help but be much more respectful, "No need, the prince is waiting for the princess, the princess is please." ”
Su Yingtong smiled with satisfaction, "Then there will be labor." Sure enough, no matter who you are dealing with, you can't go wrong with a gentle attitude.
Be polite and humble, this is an important parenting criterion for Aunt Wei.
"Princess, please follow your subordinates." The guards led the way.
Su Yingtong followed behind, carefully looking at the scenery of the Lianlian Library all the way. The library is quite large, there is a small courtyard inside, there are rockery pavilions, there are also small bridges and flowing water, the house is divided into several buildings, but the layout is not exquisite, the decoration is not extravagant and luxurious, just like the farmhouse of paradise, quiet, beautiful, casual, simple, looking at people are refreshed and happy, leisurely.
It's a great place indeed.
The guard stopped in front of the door of the house and knocked on the door, "My lord, the princess has arrived." ”
"Come in." A calm voice came from inside.
"Princess, please." The guard opened the door, and after Su Yingtong entered, he closed the door again.
Su Yingtong saw Gong Jingyu sitting at the desk, and walked over and sat down opposite him, "What are you looking for me?" ”
Gong Jingyu Jian frowned slightly, obviously dissatisfied with Su Yingtong's "rudeness", his phoenix eyes approached her sight, but the other party was not afraid at all, and looked at him with questions, he didn't know that he shouldn't be presumptuous in front of King Xiangyuan, and sat down in front of him without consent, and his words were very disrespectful...... Forget it, Gong Jingyu rubbed his eyebrows helplessly, why bother to meet her in general!
"The Prime Minister's Mansion sent a letter this morning, the Prime Minister's wife is seriously ill, and I inform you to go back to visit."
Gong Jingyu's fluttering words successfully shocked Su Yingtong. She looked straight at Gong Jingyu, trying to make sure he wasn't joking.
Is there any mistake? Thinking that Su Yingrou was so badly injured in the Xiangyuan Palace, she couldn't return to the door in the first three days, and no one from her "mother's family" came to greet her, although she was not uncommon for those who didn't know to greet her, but the problem she saw was really chilling.
Otherwise, they wouldn't even know that the real Su Yingrou had already died, and they still didn't know anything.
According to what I learned from Qingzhu, Prime Minister Su is not a good person, especially her wife, although she looks like she is good to Su Yingrou, she is not bad at eating and drinking, and she is also very "tolerant", but it is because she is too "tolerant" that Su Yingrou has developed a brutal and willful character, and it stands to reason that the daughter of the Su family is going to be sent to the palace to choose a concubine.
So much so that Su Yingrou married the princess of Xiangyuan by mistake.
But Prime Minister Su will never let go of the opportunity to give his daughter Rengong as a concubine, and the key is here - she also has a younger sister, a half-sister, the biological daughter of the Prime Minister's wife.
Of course, she can see one or two of them, and she doesn't waste so many court dramas she has watched.
This prime minister's wife is a thousand-year-old scourge, how could she suddenly be "seriously ill"?
"When?"
"Tomorrow."
"You promised?"
"Prime Minister Su so politely informed you to return home, how could this king obstruct it more?"
Definitely on purpose! This kind of thing is so good, people have a hairy use!
Su Yingtong wanted to scream.
"Then please trouble the prince, you refuse, just say that Miss Ben, I am unwell, frail and sickly, and it is not suitable to go out." No wonder I didn't see the prime minister's wife attending the banquet today, it turned out to be such a play.
Gong Jingyu raised his eyebrows, unwell? Sickly? It's a shame that she can say it.
But looking at her face, she really doesn't want to go back, why? Isn't there something else to "report" to Prime Minister Su?
"The king has agreed."
"You!"
Su Yingtong hated it so much that she had no choice but to throw her sleeves and leave, and if she stayed, she would not be able to control the Haibian Palace Mirror Domain - provided that she could beat it!
It's just that before leaving, she didn't forget to kick the door of the study, imagining the door as a palace mirror domain, and kicked it with all her strength to show that she was extremely dissatisfied, and finally withdrew with her head held high.
walked in a straight line to the arch very elegantly, and as soon as she turned the corner, Su Yingtong jumped violently with her right foot - mom hurt her to death!! What kind of material is that door, so hard!!
Tears ~~~!
Gong Jingyu looked at the direction Su Yingrou left thoughtfully, and remembered that her appearance today was indeed not what Su Yingrou could do before, and under her nose, she didn't know when Su Yingrou began to change. Or has she been pretending to be for more than ten years, and now she is her true face?
If so, then she really isn't simple.
Sure enough, it's kind of interesting.
Back at Xuelan Courtyard, Su Yingtong asked Qingzhu to take a hundred taels of silver tickets out to exchange huàn into ten taels or five taels of broken silver, counted them, and gave Qingzhu Qingmei an equal share of twenty taels each.
Qingzhu Qingmei looked at their young lady in surprise, not daring to pick up the heavy silver taels.
Oh my God, their monthly silver is only two taels of silver, or without being deducted by the housekeeper, and now the young lady rewards them with a full twenty taels at once, how can they see so much silver when they are so old?
"What's wrong? Take it, go back and buy some clothes and food for your parents and sisters. ”
Su Yingtong looked at their reactions and his nose was a little sour. As far as she knows, they are all born in the family, and their fathers, mothers, brothers and sisters are all subordinates of the Prime Minister's Mansion, in such feudal antiquity, slaves are slaves, and they can only marry slaves in the future, and they will always live at the bottom of society, and they will not be able to turn over for generations.
It's just that how can she make them serve themselves so hard? These silver taels can only be regarded as a little compensation. It has not been easy for them to follow Su Yingrou over the years, even if they are suppressed by other maids in the house, even their own masters are no better, these should be regarded as a little compensation for Su Yingrou.
"Tomorrow you go back to the Prime Minister's Mansion with me, these silver taels can be used."
Qingzhu Qingmei took the silver two with trembling hands, if it weren't for the fact that Miss didn't like to kneel and kowtow, they would have knelt down to thank the reward, except for kowtowing, they didn't know how to thank Miss for the heavy reward, and they stood aside and didn't know what to say.
"Let's go down first, and ask Ning'er and them to come in."
Su Yingtong knows that the reward must also be fair, otherwise the maid will be discordant, although she has obviously given more Qingzhu Qingmei than her, but they are her maids in marriage, and they are also served here, which is understandable.
As for the two maids in the house that Mr. Lin sent over later, one Ning'er, one Xing'er, and several mothers-in-law in the kitchen laundry room, they are all very clever and diligent, but maybe she has a heavy sense of self-defense and is not too light to trust others, so she is naturally much more alienated from them.
Although she was raising funds for her "treasure hunting trip", the six hundred taels that had just come from the pit at the beginning of the moon were missing one-sixth of them at once, but in comparison, she understood the importance of people's hearts and minds.
She wants to cultivate the loyalty of the people around her as much as possible, even if she can't help, she can reduce the possibility of being put behind the back of the people around her.
"The slave has seen Miss Su."
Ning'er, Xing'er, and a few mothers-in-law were called into the house by Qingzhu for some reason, and they couldn't help but be a little worried, although Miss Su didn't make things difficult for them these days, but she didn't necessarily treat them well, not salty or light, and now she was a little worried.
"You've been here for a while," their caution made Su Yingtong have mixed feelings, especially Ning'er Xing'er, who was only twelve or three years old, was a junior high school student in her time, was cared for by her parents in every way, enjoyed compulsory education, and was even more cared for than boys at school, youthful and energetic.
Instead of being humble and cautious now, he has learned to observe words and emotions at a young age, and has lived for his master all his life, never daring to have his own thoughts, as if he was born to be so.
This is their fate.
"Take this money as a reward for your hard work." Not much, just five taels per person.
They thought they had misheard, but the shining silver was in front of them, "This...... Slave ......"
"Take it, listen well, I have clear rewards and punishments here, and there are rewards for the table, and of course you have to be punished for doing something wrong, understand?"
"Yes!"
"Alright, let's go out."
Ning Er Xing'er was still a little dizzy, she couldn't believe that she actually had five taels of silver all of a sudden, this was their reward for several months!
In comparison, those mothers-in-law are much more sophisticated, and they are busy thanking, "Thank you, Miss Su!" ”
The tone can't help but be a little empty-hearted. took the reward, their "Miss Su" was a little twisted, they were obviously princesses, and others called it that, but they were in a room, and it seemed a little unreasonable to "make fun" with the princess like this......
Su Yingtong didn't notice these at all, in fact, she didn't have much awareness of her identity, and naturally she didn't know what these servants thought.
He also asked Qingzhu to divide the twenty taels of broken silver to the sprinkler and sweeper in the courtyard according to the situation, and it was relatively fair according to the level and work.
Therefore, Xuelan Courtyard can be said to be very happy, everyone has a reward, and the people who originally complained privately about serving an abandoned concubine and have no future are now silent, and they are called positive when they work.
Su Yingtong was very satisfied.
The next day.
Su Yingtong reluctantly dragged out the door, and when Qingmei asked her if she would go with the Palace Mirror Domain, she was really speechless for a while, child, do you think that piece of ice will go with the woman he hates the most to meet his biggest enemy?
Qingzhu was also very embarrassed, glared at Qingmei, and came back to comfort Su Yingtong, what prince will definitely accompany the young lady back to her parents' house when he is free after being busy with official business, after all, he has to go back to his parents' house alone when he gets married - or when he doesn't return to the door for the first three days, it's very embarrassing.
Su Yingtong didn't care, she really didn't care about these vulgar etiquette, but her thoughts were not something that Qingzhu Qingmei could understand, so she didn't say much, just asked them not to talk more, and just go there and just do what they should do.
Qingzhu Qingmei was silent, still looking at their young lady with anxiety, alas, poor young lady!
Su Yingtong looked at their worried looks, and his head hurt even more.
I woke up this morning and felt a terrible headache, since the serious injury has healed, under his own conditioning this thin body has improved a little, although not very good, but rarely fever and cold.
I still wanted to go to the hospital, but the prime minister's wife may be pretending to be sick, but she is really sick, why do you want to see her?
After thinking about it, it's better to give up, sooner or later, let's go and see what tricks they want to play?
Before she fired the Prime Minister's Mansion and the squid of the Xiangyuan Palace, she was still very passive!
After falling asleep in the carriage for a while, Qingmei woke up and said that the Prime Minister's Mansion had arrived, Su Yingtong opened her eyes for a while before she fully woke up and got out of the carriage with their support.
"Miss, I don't think you're in a very good state, why don't you take a break before you go in?" Qingzhu was nervous.
Su Yingtong is funny, why does it seem that entering the Prime Minister's Mansion is entering the battlefield?