"Merchant's daughter?"

Mrs. Xiao sneered: "What's wrong with the merchant's daughter?" You were still the Xiao family, what was before? Now that the Xiao family is unable to make ends meet, and your grandfathers are not good at management, the family is almost unable to survive, and you are not in a hurry to marry a girl from a big merchant family to help the family get through the difficulties, do you have to wait for the poor to beg for food before putting away your noble style. ”

Speaking of this, Mrs. Xiao became more and more angry: "Xiao Zhi is just a cheap maid, who will he call if he doesn't marry the daughter of a merchant?" I wanted to ask Yong'er to marry, but unfortunately Yong'er had already married and had children. ”

Old Man Xiao's hands trembled, but there was no way to take Mrs. Xiao.

He snorted angrily and sat down: "After all, I have already done this family business, I will write a letter in a while, and then send someone to Chang'an to send some tokens, so that Zhi'er can decide on the marriage as soon as possible, whether you agree or not, this matter is so decided." ”

Mrs. Xiao said coldly: "Since you have already discussed something with me, I can see it, and I am nothing in your eyes." ”

"Isn't that you disagree?" Master Xiao also carried an airway.

"You wait, wait for him to marry his daughter-in-law and come back, how can I entertain him, I am a serious mother-in-law, and I don't believe that I can't handle a little daughter-in-law." Mrs. Xiao was ruthless and gambled with Master Xiao.

Master Xiao couldn't listen to these words more and more, and left angrily.

As soon as he left, Mrs. Xiao swept all the embroidery work on the table to the ground, and scolded angrily: "Little mongrel, the surname Xiao is full of that little mongrel, you don't have any respect and humility in your heart, you spoil your concubine and kill your wife, and you suppress your ......concubine with your concubine."

She scolded like this, which frightened Little Lady Xiao. Cowering in the corner, he didn't dare to speak.

Waiting for Mrs. Xiao to scold enough, she glanced at Xiao Xiaoniang, and when she saw her unproductive appearance, she was angry again, and stretched out her hand and pointed at her forehead: "You are a worthless thing, you are as cowardly and incompetent as your eldest brother, hurry up and leave me, and look at you angrily." ”

As soon as these words came out, Xiao Xiaoniang quickly got up and left.

Mrs. Xiao was angry and had nowhere to spill, she smashed a lot of things like crazy, and the sound of smashing things made the girls in the room outside so frightened that they shrank their necks and didn't dare to pull their heads.

Master Xiao came out of Mrs. Xiao to the study and wrote a letter, in which he took a fancy to Xiao Zhi's ability to win the Qi family. and to marry a girl from the Qi family and praise his wife. He also told Xiao Zhi to have a good relationship with the Qi family, and he must not be offended, and in addition, he took out an ancestral sword to ask people to give it to Xiao Zhi with the letter. The sword was regarded as a token of engagement with the Qi family.

Master Xiao sent his henchmen to deliver the letter. and told his henchmen to stay in Chang'an to help Xiao Zhi and Zhang Luo. Wait until Xiao Zhi marries a wife and then come back.

After everything was done, Master Xiao sat on the chair weakly, holding his head and complaining that Mrs. Xiao was mean and vicious and couldn't tolerate the concubine. Thinking of the cruel words that Mrs. Xiao said again, Master Xiao gritted his teeth and finally made up his mind.

Let's say that Qi Jing is here, because of Qi Zhen's relationship, he has been taken by Qi Zhen to participate in various literary meetings for many days.

Although Qi Jing said that he didn't grow well, his talent was really good, and with Qi Zhen with him, those people were also very face-saving, even if he was a little narrow-minded, because he didn't want to offend Qi Zhen, he didn't dare to deal with Qi Jing in the end.

Qi Jing was like a fish in water at these literary meetings, and wrote many poems that were praised, and the name of the text spread all over Chang'an City, not to mention those who lifted people, even the officials of Chang'an City and even the Hanlin scholars of the Hanlin Academy heard of Qi Jing's name.

On this day, on the way back from Qi Jing and Qi Zhen's participation in the cultural meeting, Qi Zhen once again mentioned that he wanted to invite Yun Yao to the princess's mansion as a guest, and Qi Jing agreed after thinking about it.

After going home, Qi Jing and Yun Yao talked about it, Yun Yao smiled and said that she knew, and discussed with Qi Jing with great interest how to dress up, how to meet the princess at that time, etc., she really wanted to please the princess, and by the way, she asked the horse to be able to carry Qi Jing more, and only thought about these things for a while, and didn't find the worry in Qi Jing's eyes at all.

Qi Jing saw that Yun Yao was very interested, and he couldn't say anything, but he went to the study under the pretext of reading.

Sitting down in the study, Qi Jing took the book to read, but he didn't read a word after turning a few pages, he simply dropped the book and let out a long sigh.

This is also not Qi Jing worried, it is really Yun Yao who looks too good, whether it is a man or a woman who will be amazed and fascinated when she sees her appearance, Qi Jing is afraid that Yun Yao will ask Qi Zhen to see that something will happen again.

Although Qi Zhen has already made a promise that when discussing painting skills with Yun Yao, he will definitely avoid suspicion through the screen, but there is a case for everything, and Qi Jing is afraid of this kind of case now.

If you really let the horse see Yun Yao's appearance, who knows what will happen when the time comes.

At this moment, Qi Jing hated himself even more for not being strong enough to protect Yun Yao impermeable, if it was...... If he can be admitted to the Jinshi and be a slaughterer for the official, not to mention the horse, even today, he will not be able to take his wife.

Qi Jing's right hand tightened several times, and he once again made up his mind that he must work hard to strengthen himself, and one day he will be able to protect Yun Yao, and he must not be so powerless again.

Yun Yao didn't understand Qi Jing's worries at all, she had been an ugly girl who everyone looked down on in the interstellar world for more than two hundred years, and the aesthetics of the interstellar world had been deeply rooted, even if she knew that the aesthetics of the Great Zhou Dynasty were different, and she also understood that she had excellent looks in the eyes of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty, but she still often forgot about these, and she still regarded herself as an ugly girl, and she didn't know what kind of turmoil her appearance would cause.

Early the next morning, Yun Yao got up and chose clothes with great interest.

She first picked out a royal blue dark pattern robe for Qi Jing, and then took a black cloak with gray squirrel skin, and helped Qi Jing coil a long hair on the top of his head, tie it with a gold crown, and fix it with a golden wisp of hollow cloud hairpin.

She herself wore a royal blue dress, the same black fabric gray squirrel skin cloak, her hair was also coiled into a simple flat bun, and she wore a hairpin with the same pattern as Qi Jing on her head, but her hairstyle was more complicated, and only one hairpin was too thin, so she inserted a blue hosta flower.

When Yun Yao was dressed up, she happily stood with Qi Jing, dragged the clothes on the two people, and took Qi Jing's hand: "How is it, is it good-looking?" ”

Qi Jing nodded with a smile: "It's good-looking." ”

He stretched out his hand to help Yun Yao tighten the cloak, and tied the cloak strap with a nice bow: "It's cold outside, you be careful." ”

"Hmm." Yun Yao smiled and threw herself into Qi Jing's arms: "Xianggong, you see that we are dressed the same, and the golden hairpin on our heads is exactly the same, this is a couple outfit I specially made, the two of us stand together, even the blind can see that we are two people." ”

Qi Jing laughed: "How can a blind man see it?" ”

"If I say yes, I can." Yun Yao hugged Qi Jing's waist but didn't follow: "Let's go out in a couple outfit, are you happy?" ”

"Happy." Qi Jing was very helpless, but in order to make Yun Yao happy, he still replied kindly.

"Insincere." Yun Yao pouted: "Forget it, don't worry about you nerd, let's go, let's go to the princess's mansion and go." ”

Qi Jing smiled and took Yun Yao's hand and carefully protected her: "You put on the hat, be careful that the cold wind blows back and you have a headache, walk slowly, the road is very slippery, be careful of falling......"

When he went out, Qi Jing helped Yun Yao get into the carriage, and asked Peony to follow him, and after settling Yun Yao, he led the horse.

Yun Yao was fantasizing about how the princess's mansion was all the way, and when it really arrived, Yun Yao looked at the gate of the princess's mansion and couldn't help but feel a little disappointed.

The five gatehouses facing south of the princess's mansion, the main gate occupies three, the side doors are opened on both sides, the gatehouse has red walls and blue tiles, and the doors are all vermilion, and there are copper nails nailed on the top, which is very powerful and rich.

However, the wall is not high enough, the gatehouse is not open enough, there is more wealth and nobility, and the majesty is insufficient, and it cannot set off the royal atmosphere.

Just like today's Great Zhou Dynasty, there is a scene of wealth and prosperity everywhere, but it has lost the wind of steel and righteousness, and now the peaceful and prosperous times are good, if there is a foreign invasion, I am afraid that the Great Zhou Dynasty will die.

Yun Yao stood outside the door of the princess's mansion and thought a lot for a moment, and when she came back to her senses, Qi Jing had already sent a sticker, and the chief housekeeper of the princess's mansion also greeted her, and took two people to enter from the side door.

And Yun Yao and Peony followed a girl through a small door on the right, and then passed through a corridor to a small and delicate courtyard.

When I entered the hospital, I saw that the courtyard was clean and tidy, whether it was the courtyard wall or the house, it was a little different, but it might be because of winter, no matter how Yun Yao looked at it, she felt that this small courtyard was full of indescribable gloom.

She didn't delve into it, followed the girl up the steps, and listened to the girl say calmly outside: "Princess, Qi Jieyuan's wife Yun has arrived." ”

I heard a somewhat delicate but crisp voice from the room: "Come in." ”

The girl hurriedly opened the cotton curtain with dark blue python pattern, and Yun Yao lowered her head and entered the house.

As soon as you enter the door from the outside, you feel a sense of heat, mixed with some charcoal fire, although Princess Changle is extremely favored, and the princess's mansion is not short of money, and the best silver frost charcoal is naturally used, but in the end, the brazier is gathered all day and night, and the charcoal fire in the house cannot be broken.

Yun Yao went in and walked a few steps, took off the hood and handed it to the girl, and followed the girl into a warm pavilion.

This warm pavilion was warmer than the outside room, and Yun Yao was sweating a little not long after entering.

When she looked up, she saw a woman in palace clothes sitting on the chair against the wall in the Warm Pavilion, the woman's skin was white and her lips were red, and she couldn't look ugly in Yun Yao's eyes, but Yun Yao also knew that this woman should be extremely beautiful in the eyes of the people of the Great Zhou Dynasty.

"Princess, the Yun clan has arrived." The girl spoke again.

Yun Yao hurriedly saluted: "The people's woman Yun has seen the princess, the princess Wan'an." ”

Princess Changle originally heard the concubine say that she would invite a Xie Yuan and his wife to come to the mansion as guests today, and asked Princess Changle to help entertain one or two, and she agreed, but she didn't take it to heart.

Today is also looking for an old routine to receive Yun Yao, but since Yun Yao entered the door, Princess Changle felt her heart fluttering. (To be continued.) )