Chapter Seventy-Three: The Long Night Passes Away
And sometimes if you know too much, it will become a kind of trouble, just like Xu Youshan did to Xie Jing.
His unintentional or intentional words can also make her think about it for a long time, but I am afraid that our Royal Highness the Great Prince will be unhappy, and she will touch his reverse scales without knowing it, and all kinds of things such as misery will make Xu Youshan very irritable anyway.
And as long as she thinks that she may have to get along with someone like Xie Jing who can't be touched, offended and can't afford to offend in the future, she will feel a chill all over her body, and she can't stop it.
"What are you shaking?"
When Xu Youshan was thinking about her miserable life in the future, and her whole body was actually cold and shivering, Xie Jing just looked back, and just happened to see the picture of her shaking like a sieve.
"Uh, nothing." Xu Youshan hurriedly sat down again with some embarrassment, coughed and said, "So His Royal Highness, you want me to come today, what do you want to show, please tell me." Xu Youshan couldn't wait for Xie Jing to finish speaking, she had to run away early.
"You won't take this marriage seriously, right?"
But Xie Jing doesn't say it, he just keeps talking about it, and the habit of hitting the key point when he says it makes Xu Youshan really like it no matter how long it takes, doesn't he understand that there is a word called "step by step"? After Xu Youshan was shocked by Xie Jing's words, she was stunned for a while before she calmed down and said, "I won't take it seriously, but what about others?" ”
In this land, the word "Heli" still exists, but for the royal family, these two words are nothing. Once you enter the door of the imperial Xie family, there is no possibility of going out, so Xie Jing's words shocked Xu Youshan. Although she didn't want to be a real couple with Xie Jing, she didn't think that Xie Jing would want to become a real couple with her. But as long as Emperor Zhou Hui is alive, the marriage between her and Xie Jing will definitely be held as scheduled, so what does Xie Jing mean when he says this at this time?
But since even Xu Youshan could think of it, how could Xie Jing not think of it?
"The sky has changed, what will others say?" Compared to just now, it was even colder than the sound that stung Xu Youshan's eardrums. Slowly spit out from Xie Jing's red lips lightly and lightly.
And this is also because Xu Youshan is not an "aborigine" here, otherwise she would have been frightened to death by Xie Jing's rebellious words. What is called "the sky has changed." What will others say", Xie Jing is cursing Emperor Zhou Hui to die, and no matter how ugly he says, Xie Jing's words can be regarded as ironclad evidence of his rebellion. It is possible to be given death by Emperor Zhou Hui.
"His Royal Highness the Great Prince. Please be cautious. Xu Youshan said with a heavy face.
Xie Jing is going to die, Xu Youshan really won't stop him, but he said such things in front of her without any scruples, if this is known by others, isn't it obvious that he wants to drag her to the prison to "play", don't be so harmful.
"Caution? Wouldn't it be a little ridiculous for you to say this, my Miss Xu Si. Xie Jing raised his eyes, and his narrow eyes were completely stretched to look at Xu Youshan. Although the smile on the corner of his mouth is still the same, it is also amazingly beautiful. Frightened, Xu Youshan hurriedly looked away first, and after pretending to be busy drinking tea to hide the amazement in her eyes, she scolded Xie Jing fiercely in her heart, and used beauty to discharge electricity everywhere, which was really despicable and shameless.
"If you know the word 'Shen Yan', then when I want you to ask Sister Ling out, who pointed to my nose and said that it is absolutely impossible, do you know that you have committed a great crime of disrespect?"
Xie Jing knows that he is good-looking, but he is not like Xu Youshan said, what kind of indiscriminate use of beauty to discharge electricity everywhere and so on, there are people in this world who need him to condescend to use beauty tricks, although it is not without now, after all, Xie Jing's road is too rugged, but even so, Xu Youshan, who has always been a little black charcoal in his heart, is really not important enough to let Xie Jing take the initiative to use beauty tricks on her.
And just now, it was obvious that Xu Youshan was shaken by Xie Jing again.
“……”
So now Xu Youshan suddenly became silent, making Xie Jing look at Xu Youshan like this, and thought that something was wrong with her, so he didn't continue to taunt, but changed his words and said: "I called you here today, just to reach a consensus with you." ”
If Emperor Zhou Hui deliberately mistreated Xie Jing, and the princess who gave him a random marriage was another woman, Xie Jing would not endure it like this, although he can't resist now, he can only really marry someone back to the mansion, but he has thousands of means to make her obedient and at his mercy, so he doesn't have to hold back his boundless anger like this, and he has to talk to her and reach a consensus with her in a good voice or something.
But the problem is that the princess who Emperor Zhou Hui gave him a random marriage was Xu Youshan, not another woman, it was this Xu Youshan who had been entangled with him for so many years since he first met on the official road on the outskirts of the imperial capital that had been abandoned for many years; It's his little black charcoal who has never framed and betrayed him even if he doesn't have a little superfluous love for her, just a relationship that uses each other.
How much Xu Youshan knows about Xie Jing's monstrous secrets, Xie Jing himself knows it, and at the beginning he also wanted to kill her, but he never had a chance, after all, even if she was just the concubine of the Xu family in Jiangzuo, but she was also a member of the Xu family, even if he was conceited, it was impossible for him to pluck the hair on the tiger's mouth like this. But later, with more and more contact with Xu Youshan, Xie Jing gradually forgot the original intention of making this little black charcoal disappear, and as long as it was about Xu Yourong, Xu Mingcheng and Xu Mingwen, she would never compromise on her stinky temper, and Xie Jing was actually used to it.
And she no longer has the luxury of expecting that she will have time to compromise on Xu Yourong's affairs.
It's just that Xie Jing always thought that the entanglement between him and Xu Youshan came here, that is, in the end, no matter whether he finally managed Xu Yourong to become his imperial concubine and bring him the most powerful wife family, the Jiangzuo Xu family, the relationship between him and Xu Youshan would not change much. Because either he succeeds, then Xu Youshan is just an existence that is about to be forgotten for him; And if he fails. The secrets that Xu Youshan knew didn't have to care about anything for him.
The winner is king, and the loser is the loser!
So Xie Jing has always thought so. thought that he and Xu Youshan would only be in a relationship of using each other, but Emperor Zhou Hui stepped in and stirred him into a deeper entangled relationship with Xu Youshan.
And today, when everything can't be changed, Xie Jing has also been tied to Xu Youshan like a grasshopper, Xu Youshan, a girl who knows too many secrets of Xie Jing, has become one of his biggest troubles, a trouble that he can't treat at will.
Thus. Xie Jing called Xu Youshan out and said everything that should be said.
"What consensus?"
But Xu Youshan looked at Xie Jing, who suddenly turned positive. But his hair stood on end and he asked cautiously, after all, Xie Jing is usually gentle and elegant in front of people, but in front of her who doesn't even disdain a gentle and elegant fake face, he is cynical, mocking and ridiculing; But Ruolian was in front of her. He suddenly got up. That's a big deal.
"I hope there will be no change in our relationship." Xie Jing's slender beautiful eyes stared straight at Xu Youshan, and said word by word.
I hope there will be no change in our relationship...... But what is the relationship between Xie Jing and Xu Youshan?
Take advantage of each other!
The relationship between Xie Jing and Xu Youshan is mutually beneficial to say that it sounds good, but it is difficult to say that it uses each other, and there is only an entanglement of interests between each other; He helped her get the news that the second prince Xie Yan and the third prince Xie Wen were going to calculate Xu Yourong, Xu Mingcheng and Xu Mingwen; And she used these news to let Xu Yourong and them avoid falling into the trap of Xie Yan and Xie Wen. made Xie Yan and Xie Wen unable to succeed, so that Xie Jing still had a chance for Xu Yourong.
But Xie Jing said to Xu Youshan now. He hopes that there will be no change in their relationship, so he wants their marriage to turn out to be a bargain of interests?
"Okay."
And this proposal, Xu Youshan agreed without thinking about it at all, she was originally the same as Xie Jing, she never thought of being a real husband and wife with each other at all, anyway, in their opinion, this is just a farce, but the person who manipulated this farce is Emperor Zhou Hui, and they can't resist, so now they can reach a consensus with each other, have an exchange of interests, and be a fake husband and wife, which Xu Youshan can't ask for.
It's just that these benefits, how to customize and distribute, this is what needs to be sat down and discussed. And today Xu Youshan also returned to Dongyang Lane after Shen Zheng, and then went to ask Pei Shi for peace, when Pei Shi asked the reason for the party, Xu Youshan only said that she forgot the time when Jiang Chun entered the book to read, and the people did not dare to disturb her, so she returned late.
Xu Youshan's rhetoric had been used before, and combined with her habit of being a bit of a book-lover, it also made sense, so Pei Shi gently counted her down two sentences, and let her return to Zhengyan Pavilion.
And this day, with the fall of night, is about to pass, but after having freshened up and bathed, Xu Youshan, who was lying on the cloud bed, was about to dream like a dream, and remembered the words that Jiang Chunjin and Xie Jing said on the Phoenix Terrace in the morning, and she still sighed with emotion. But no matter what, no matter whether Xie Jing succeeds or fails in the end, he said that he will protect her thoroughly, although even she sounds a little nonsense, but after all, her heart is still a little shocked. Even if it's just a consolation lie, at the very least, is he willing to say it?
The sky is getting darker, and the long night is gone, and a new day is coming.
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The snow in Layue is a little surprisingly cold, with some meaning of the last period of winter, and it is raining goose feather snow unrelentingly, dyeing the whole world into a silver-covered appearance, a vast expanse, making people look at it at a glance, and the scenery of this world is a little blurry, and they can't even tell where is the sky and where is the earth. And as soon as the cold wind blew, the wind and snow blew all over the sky, making it almost cold to the bottom of my heart at the end of this winter.
"Hurry up, you guys hurry up, if you miss the hour, see how I clean you up."
"Mama, don't rush, isn't it still early."
"What do you little girl know, today is the birthday of the old ancestor, the old lady and the eldest lady are going to take a few masters and young ladies to the palace early in the morning, are you still early? Hurry up for me. ”
But this cold weather did not make the people in the Xu Mansion stop a step, they were all busy preparing in the cold wind at this time. I will send a congratulatory gift to the Beiding Palace. And today, that is, the birthday of the old princess of Beiding, although this time the old princess's birthday is still the same as last year. It's not a big deal, and the guests invited to the banquet are only good friends of the Qi family in the Beiding Palace, but despite this, the expensive congratulatory gifts prepared by Mrs. Qi and the Pei family for the old princess still can't pull off one more car.
At this time, in the Zhengyan Pavilion, it was unusually quiet. Unlike on weekdays, at this hour, the Zheng Yan Pavilion has long been very lively. But if you look closely. But it turned out that Xu Youshan was no longer in the Zheng Yan Pavilion, so where would she be?
Xufu, Weizhou Temple.
"Big sister. Can you hurry? What time is it? ”
"Wait. You wait, I don't know why, today I always feel that I don't look good in anything. ”
Don't think about it, of course Xu Youshan at this time was in Weizhou Courtyard, looking at the one holding a piece of gorgeous clothes next to the bronze mirror, but no matter how she compared, Xu Yourong was dissatisfied with her face, and she couldn't cry or laugh.
"Big sister. You look good in whatever you wear, let's stop picking bones in eggs. All right? ”
Xu Yourong is good, and her figure is slender, so it can be said that no matter what she wears, she is graceful, and Xu Yourong is also extremely conceited on weekdays, although she has always been very picky about clothing, but she is conceited and picky, not as picky as now, extremely unconfident.
And the reason why Xu Yourong can do this, you don't need to think about it, there is only one possibility, and that is Nie Suhyun.
It turned out that today's birthday of the old princess of Beiding, although Qi Pei, the king of Beiding, did not invite Nie Jin, the prince of Zhenguo, but Qi Xuan invited Nie Suhyun, so Xu Yourong would rub beside the bronze mirror for nearly an hour at this time, but he was still wearing a magnolia-colored gauze satin undershirt, looking at the robe in front of her.
"It's easy for you to say, but if that's the case, why do I think it's weird when I look at it." Xu Yourong frowned and said.
"I said it all, that's because you have a bone in your egg." Xu Youshan sighed helplessly.
"Really?" But Xu Youshan still asked suspiciously.
"Of course it is, okay, don't pick it, just this set of pale silk gold Ruyi cloud pattern wide-sleeved skirts, Wan'er, come, help the eldest sister put on this jacket skirt." Xu Youshan no longer paid attention to Xu Yourong's hesitant look, and directly glanced at Wan'er, who was holding back her smile, and asked Wan'er to directly help Xu Yourong change her clothes, and changed into this set of pale silk silk painted gold Ruyi cloud pattern wide-sleeved skirt.
Xu Mansion, Early Autumn Hall.
A day like today is generally the busiest time for Pei's, and today is no exception, starting from early in the morning, there are housekeepers in the early autumn hall who continue to come and go one after another, to report and ask for instructions to Pei's.
"Madam, the carriages and horses are ready, and the congratulatory gifts have been ordered."
"Madam, the accompanying guards are also arranged, and they are all ready to go now."
"Madame......"
Pei's family looked down at the account book in his hand, while listening to the reports of the mothers-in-law, and then instructed them one by one where they did well and where they did not do well.
"Eldest Miss, Second Miss."
But just when Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan admired Pei's family, Liu Yin, who had just returned from the big kitchen, saluted the two.
"Sister Rong, Sister Shan, you're here." In Liu Yin's salute, Pei's eyes moved away from the ledger, raised his eyes to look at the door, and sure enough, he saw the two little people standing there, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan, "Why don't you make a sound when you come, is it cold outside, are you wearing enough clothes?" Come here and sit down. Pei asked with concern.
"Mother."
"Auntie." Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan walked over obediently, and after saluting Pei's first, the two sat down next to Pei's.
"Mother, are you busy?" Xu Yourong asked.
"It's just some habitual things, it's not too busy, is it cold?" Pei Shi took Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan's hands over, probed the temperature, and found that their hands were still warm, so they were relieved.
"Mother, it's not cold, Sister Shan and I are dressed warmly." Xu Yourong said.
"Yes, auntie, don't worry, my eldest sister and I both wear a lot of clothes." Xu Youshan also replied obediently.
"Count you two little mischiefs and obedient." Pei Shi scratched his nose and smiled.
"Madam, the second master has arrived."
And just when Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan were behaving in front of Pei's to please Pei's family, a little maid came in from outside to report.
"Quick, let him in." Pei Shi said busily.
Today's weather is very cold, and the goose feather snow has not been broken since last night, and as long as the curtain at the gate is lifted, there will be a biting cold wind pouring in, so that a cold current will blow in the warm house, and the cold Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan both shivered.
"Mother."
But even so, as long as Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan saw it, when the young men with the thin clouds and broken golden wisps of the Rolling Dai Wind Feather Su embroidered purple cloak, standing slender and tall in front of them, the two of them would smile and squint, how could they care about that little cold.
And since Xu Chen also arrived, Pei Shi let the three of them eat some pastries casually to cushion their stomachs, and then took them to Qinhuatang, and after greeting Mrs. Qi, he waited there for the arrival of Xu Luo, the old lady in the second room, and Mrs. Zheng. And waited until around the end of the hour and the beginning of the hour, and the porter came to report, saying that the old lady of the second room, Xu Luo and Mrs. Zheng, led the second room uncle Xu Mao and they had arrived.
"You're slow enough, when is it now?" Old Madam Qi took Old Madam Zheng's hand and walked into the house, complaining about her way.
"It's only the beginning of the day, it's too late, don't take the opportunity to lie to me." Old Madam Zheng said with a smile.
The old lady in the second room, Xu Luo, took Xu Mao and them straight to the Taixi Garden, and of course the old lady Zheng took the Lian family to Qinhuatang to meet the old lady Qi. And Xu Yourong, Xu Youshan and Xu Mingwen naturally gathered successfully, but after Xu Youshan saw Xu Mingwen today, they grabbed her and went to the corner to have a good "exchange".
"What are you two doing here?" Xu Mingwen asked confusedly.
"What are we two doing? Hum...... If you come from the truth for a while, then we won't do anything, but if you refuse to be honest, then don't blame us for being ruthless. Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan threatened Xu Mingwen without any deterrence.
"Yes, yes, you two, please ask, little girl, I must know everything, and I must say everything." Xu Mingwen said funny, but just as Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan were about to ask a question with a surprised face, Xu Mingwen added slowly, "Except for the night in the Ronghua Palace, how did the eldest prince Zhai save me." ”
“……”
Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan immediately blackened, yes, from the outbreak of the Ronghua Hall to the present, Xu Youshan and the others have not asked from Xu Ming's mouth, how was she rescued that night, how did Zhai Yu save her, how did they stay outside for so long, Zhai Yu handed her over to Xu Yu and asked Xu Yu to bring her back, and what time was she and Zhai Yu together, and what happened?
All of this, so far, Xu Youshan and the others have not yet asked the slightest truth from Xu Ming's mouth, which is really surprising.
And at the beginning, Xu Youshan didn't ask, because even Xu Youshan herself hadn't sorted out her emotions, how could she still have the energy to take care of anything else? As for Xu Yourong and Xu Mingming, they didn't dare to speak directly. And when they got to the back, Xu Youshan and Xu Mingwen were relieved, and they could face it head-on, but Xu Yourong and the others were surprised to find that Xu Mingwen was actually silent about this matter, and she didn't even say a word to them.
This made the three of Xu Youshan, who had almost no secrets between each other, feel a little surprised at Xu Ming's wife, who was so tight-lipped.
But surprise is surprise, Xu Mingwen's abnormality only aroused the curiosity of the other three people, making them want to know more and more about what happened between Zhai Yu and Xu Mingwen on the night of the Ronghua Palace.
Therefore, just now, after Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan got the exact news from Xu Chen, Zhai Yu will also be invited by Qi Xuan today to go to the Beiding Palace to attend the birthday of the old princess of Beiding, Xu Yourong and Xu Youshan thought of a way, a way for Xu Mingwen to obediently explain what happened to her and Zhai Yu in the apse of the Ronghua Hall that night. (To be continued......)