Chapter 170: Appointment
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Ye Xinrou found the person she liked, but she was not sure that the other party would like her. Although she is a princess and has a prominent status, after all, the other party is not a person who tends to be inflammatory, so she may not really buy the princess's account. In addition, Ye Xinrou has no confidence in her appearance, although she is a little beautiful and generous after carefully dressing up, but if she takes off her dress, she is afraid that the other party will dislike her ordinary appearance.
Once people have people they care about, they begin to suffer from gains and losses. In the past, Ye Xinrou, as long as she was beautiful and generous after dressing up, she could confidently walk in the sun, so she trusted Fang Xiaoyu so much, because for her, Fang Xiaoyu simply changed her life.
However, the person she likes is going to grow old together, she can't face her beloved with a beautiful mask every day, and once she takes off her disguise and sees her ordinary face that she has no confidence, will he still like him?
In fact, even if Ye Xinrou thinks so much now, it is useless, she fell in love with Cheng Yue at first sight, but Cheng Yue has only seen her once, because a rich daughter like her is not afraid of the terrible plague to visit the people who are infected with the disease, and she has a more or less good impression of her, but it is only that, far from the point of liking her. Therefore, our Royal Highness the Seventh Princess still has a long way to go.
Xu was tired of playing, Fang Xiaoyu told the fairy tales he had heard before, and actually coaxed the sixteen princes to sleep. Miss Fang, who had finally been free for a while, looked at the eldest princess in front of her, who had been secretly paying attention to her, and showed an extremely good-looking smile.
"Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has figured it out?" Fang Xiaoyu was also a little happy in her heart. The eldest princess is a good person, and she doesn't have any princess shelves. In addition to not being able to have children, no matter how you look at it, this is a very likable woman. It's just that in such a society, not being able to pass on the family line is equivalent to a death sentence for a woman, such a world where a woman is reduced to a vassal and a tool for procreation, even if she is talented, gentle and considerate, and beautiful. It's all useless. However, this is not a problem in his own Zhenyuan General's Mansion.
She had already guessed that the eldest princess should not be able to refuse such a temptation. It's not that she likes her father more, it's just that she desperately longs for the most ordinary woman's feelings. Marry, give birth to children, husband and children until old age and death. It's that simple. But it has become a luxury.
She saw the eldest princess's unwillingness, otherwise she would not have been officially ordained for so many years, but had been leading her hair to practice.
If you really cut off the red dust, how can you be reluctant to give up that troublesome thread?
The original colt may have hurt her too deeply, making her a little hesitant and afraid of her feelings. But this does not mean that she is willing to accept such a life of escape like a lost dog.
If she can give her a complete relationship, then there is at least half the possibility that the eldest princess will be tempted, and it is worth betting.
Moreover, if his father marries the eldest princess, it is almost the greatest guarantee for the General's Mansion.
"I've been to Zhou Xiang's mansion. It's just quite strange that Zhou Xiang didn't seem surprised by what I said, and accepted it very easily. This is somewhat unusual. The eldest princess remembered Zhou Xiang's expression and reaction when she and Zhou Xiang raised those questions. I always felt strangely tight in my heart.
"Maybe Zhou Xiang is also starting to have doubts." As soon as Fang Xiaoyu heard it, she knew that her plan was going smoothly, and she felt a little at ease.
"Daddy went out to do errands for the emperor, and it took half a month to return to Beijing. Now this matter is still a secret, Your Highness should not tell it. When the father returned to Beijing, the courtiers would definitely invite Her Royal Highness the eldest princess to the general's mansion as a guest. At that time, whatever His Highness decides, he will verify with his own eyes. "Fang Xiaoyu means to tell the eldest princess, my father's secret trip to Beijing is the emperor's order, no one except me and the emperor knows, you see that I already regard you as my own. I didn't hide it at all, which shows my sincerity.
The eldest princess was a little uneasy in her heart.
Since Fang Xiaoyu went to find her, she hesitated for a long time, and she also thoroughly checked Princess An's past. It shows that what Fang Xiaoyu said does not have much source.
This is one of them.
The most important thing is that she didn't resist the temptation of being able to marry like an ordinary woman in the end, and General Fang is indeed a true hero who defends the family and the country, she even feels that such a person should be full of children and grandchildren, and it is a pity to marry herself.
It's just a means of smiling at this girl. I'm afraid that she can't tolerate some women who are all moths to compete with Fang Haozhi for the family business, but she believes that she is really married to General Fang, and when there will be no embarrassing words when she used to be a colt.
Eventually, she wanted to take a gamble. Take a gamble to see if you can get the gift of God and find an ordinary happiness. If she can't, this time she will completely cut her hair and become a sister-in-law, and never ask about Hongchen again.
"So, I'll wait for your news." The eldest princess couldn't be reserved at this time. Isn't this what she's here for? Now that she got Fang Xiaoyu's promise, she was nervous and expectant, and she was panicking for herself as she got older. But the happiness that was close in front of her, she didn't want to let her slip away because of such and such concerns. Perhaps, this is the last time she has tried to pursue a long-awaited happiness in her life.
The eldest princess did not stay long in the General's Mansion. Since she was planning to leave the nunnery and resume her identity as the eldest princess, she had to go back to the palace to exchange feelings with her emperor's younger brother. After all, she hadn't seen her for a long time, and she didn't want to be unfamiliar with it.
Fang Xiaoyu sent the eldest princess away, but got an invitation from the porter.
Flipping through the content of the invitation, Fang Xiaoyu smiled, the bait he had cast, the fish had already been hooked, and the rest was to let the fish bite the hook tighter, so that the fish that got the mouth would not be escaped by him again.
Smoke and Rain Alley. Xiande Building.
Fang Xiaoyu sat by the window in the upstairs wing, ordered a pot of tea, and tasted it silently.
The scenery here is quite idyllic, and sometimes it feels as if you are in the middle of the mountains and rivers, and it does not look like the glitz and glitz of the city.
Yanyu Lane is a famous cultural center in the capital. The layout here is extremely elegant, and the restaurants, tea shops, and shops on the whole street give people a quiet atmosphere.
This is the favorite gathering place of literati and scholars, sometimes three or two friends, call a pot of good tea and wine, chant poems and splash ink, sometimes a group of people with lofty ideals, talk about life ideals, look forward to the world of the country.
In this rainy alley. Even if it is a Qinglou, the girls in it are all talented women who sell their art but not their bodies. Over the years, Yanyu Alley has long become the place with the strongest cultural atmosphere in Beijing. Whether it's a true genius, or those who like to be vassal. When I have nothing to do, I will come here, or bring friends and friends, and I am alone, and I always have endless poems to write. Endless paintings, endless books of talented and beautiful women love and hate hatred.
The Xiande Building is the most famous restaurant in this Yanyu Alley. This restaurant is known for its virtue and is often frequented by talented or virtuous people.
The wine and food in the building also brings together the dishes of different regions in the southeast and northwest, it is rumored that the owner of this restaurant has traveled all over the world when he was young, and he loves food, so he will learn the food he has eaten one by one, and only settled in the capital in his forties, and opened this virtuous building, which is quite popular.
Fang Xiaoyu is the first time to come to Yanyu Alley. She has never had much interest in poetry. However, it is a place frequented by the daughters of major families. The talented women in the capital, if anyone says that they have never been to Yanyu Lane, they are probably embarrassed to admit that they are talented and talented.
Before the person who was waiting arrived, Fang Xiaoyu ordered a pot of tea and sat leisurely by the window to bask in the sun.
There was a sound of footsteps in the distance, Fang Xiaoyu was deaf and clear, and instantly heard that the footsteps were coming from here.
Pushing open the door, Zhou Xiang found that Fang Xiaoyu had already arrived.
Today he came to test the meaning of Fang Xiaoyu, so in order not to stimulate the other party, Zhou Xiang finally decided to come alone. Even Ah Song, who has always been inseparable from him, has never been with him.
After listening to what Ah Song said yesterday, the martial arts of this smile are high, and Ah Song is not the enemy of his ten moves, if so. If the other party really wants to hurt him, no matter how many people he brings, he will not be an opponent, and he will only die in vain. Rather than this, it is better to go to the meeting alone and make it clear to the point.
"I've seen Zhou Xiang. The smile is polite. Fang Xiaoyu saw that Zhou Xiang looked at her in a daze as soon as she pushed the door open, so she took the initiative to act as a junior.
"Sit down." Zhou Xiang reacted. He pointed to the stool by the window and said, "I called you here today, and I think you know what is going on." ”
"I don't know." Fang Xiaoyu still didn't leave any emotion.
She actually has no ill feelings towards Zhou Xiang. Although he may not be really clean in the matter of Princess An and Ye Xici, he is also a victim in the final analysis. Forced to separate from his daughter and deceived by others, this kind of taste of recognizing a thief as a woman, the most painful and sad should be the most profound feeling of himself.
But she couldn't be too polite to him either. After all, the position she is using now is on the side of Ye Xici. If it's too affectionate, it will appear to be a picture. The worse her attitude, the more Zhou Xiang will suffer from gains and losses, and she feels that her attitude is derived from Ye Xici's attitude towards him, and she will feel more and more guilty about Ye Xici.
That's what she's trying to achieve. Even if the charge of disrespect to the elders is suppressed, she must not have a good attitude. Otherwise, I'm afraid Zhou Xiang himself will wonder if she has some plans to be so diligent, and her plan will be wasted.
Zhou Xiang could obviously guess Fang Xiaoyu's attitude, after all, it was only half a month since he saw her last time, and Fang Xiaoyu's attitude towards her was neither humble nor arrogant, and even with rejection, he had already experienced it once, so it would not be strange to be able to do it. However, Fang Xiaoyu, this still rejects the hostile way of speaking, and it still makes Zhou Xiang, who has been in a high position for a long time and rarely hears anyone dare to contradict him, is a little embarrassed and uncomfortable.
"You seem to be hostile to the old man?" Zhou Xiang smiled, not angry about this.
"How? Laughter has always been this kind of stuffy temper, don't be surprised by Zhou Xiang. Fang Xiaoyu smiled gently, as if Fang Cai's hostility and non-buying were just Zhou Xiang's illusions.
"Zhou Xiangyu came here with a smile, I don't know what happened?" Fang Xiaoyu saw Zhou Xiang looking at her and stopped talking, and asked.
Zhou Xiang glanced at Fang Xiaoyu with a complicated expression, and said in a deep voice: "It's really as you expected, the old man regrets it." ”
"Xiaoyu doesn't understand what Zhou Xiang means." Fang Xiaoyu was happy in her heart, but her face was silent.
"You're pretending to be confused." Zhou Xiang said angrily, but he was not really angry.
"In this way, Zhou also has a little understanding of what happened back then?" Fang Xiaoyu suddenly started talking straight to the point, and he didn't seem to be willing to beat around the bush about this matter anymore.
"When did you find out the truth about this?" Zhou Xiang didn't understand how Fang Xiaoyu learned the truth earlier than himself. Did the child tell her about it? But if this is the case, how did the child know about it?
"Since the prince mentioned that Princess An died of poisoning, it just so happened that I had seen the poison elsewhere." Fang replied with a smile. She did not suspect this matter from the time when Ye Xici and Ye Xinrou talked about Princess An's poisoning and death, and she did not lie.
"Do you have a credential?" Zhou Xiang actually hoped that this matter was wrong from the beginning, although he had already developed subtle feelings for Ye Xici, but compared to these feelings, he was more afraid that his love for Zhou Guifei and Ye Shucheng over the years was a complete mistake, and what he didn't want to accept the most was actually the fact that he indirectly killed his own daughter.
Fang Xiaoyu took out a piece of cowhide from his arms, handed it to Zhou Xiang, and said, "This cowhide is written by Princess An herself." ”
Zhou Xiang took the cowhide's hand and paused, but finally took the cowhide and read it according to the handwriting on it.
This cowhide was hidden by Princess An in the Northwest Army. After half an hour has passed, the cowhide will return to its seemingly blank state, and the handwriting will no longer be visible. If you want to see it again, you have to use the methods in the Northwest Army to re-process it.
Coming to the appointment today, Fang Xiaoyu had already thought that she might use this piece of cowhide, so she had already dealt with it in advance, so she showed it to Zhou Xiang to see-
(To be continued.) )