Ning Chang'an looked at the back of Concubine Zhen leaving in a daze, her heart was like a heavy dark cloud, she recalled that year when Lan Yuchen announced that she entered the palace to meet her, Concubine Zhen quietly sent someone to take Shen Yichen into the palace, in the dispute between her and Lan Yuchen, Shen Yichen, who had no idea, was led under Lan Yuchen's nose, and the angry Lan Yuchen immediately lifted Shen Yichen with one hand and pushed him out of the guardrail on the third floor. Looking at the frightened child with wide eyes in the wind, the pain of that moment was like the tide of Qiantang, mixed with the anger of the sky, surging - I have never hated the man in front of me so much!

On that day, she was forced to agree to a ten-year contract, and it was also on that day that she cut him clean from her heart, and her flesh and blood were grinding!

Now, she had a strong premonition that Concubine Zhen was going to do something to her daughter.

"Ran'er, why don't you leave with your father and mother this time, my mother's heart will never be settled." Ning Changan looked at the direction where Concubine Zhen disappeared, "Mother is worried that she will jump off the wall in a hurry!" ”

"An old dog, she can't jump very high, and she has to be careful of breaking her legs." Shen Qianran smiled, she didn't care, she grabbed her mother's arm, leaned her head on her mother's shoulder affectionately, and said naughtily, "Mother, you see, she tried to dress up today, but in front of you, she is still too inferior to raise her head." ”

Ning Changan reluctantly swept the corners of his lips and smiled, his eyes were full of worry, "But she is the concubine of a country after all, I really want to embarrass you, my mother is very worried!" ”

"Mother, don't worry about Concubine Zhen, your daughter knows what she is calculating, don't worry, good and evil will be rewarded in the end, she will only calculate herself in the end!" The corners of Shen Qianran's lips hooked up a touch of coolness, and she sneered in her heart, Concubine Zhen even had a dislike for her dearest son, and she didn't blame her for jumping off the wall in a hurry.

At this time, Mama Guang hurriedly came in and reported, "Madam, Second Miss, Mrs. Yang, the daughter-in-law of Lord Yang of the Cabinet, asks to see you!" ”

Shen Qianran and Ning Changan glanced at each other, Shen Qianran didn't react for a while, raised her eyebrows and asked, "Ask clearly, which Mrs. Yang is it?" ”

Mama Guang stepped forward and explained with a little embarrassment, "It's Princess Ryan's eldest daughter, and she asked the slave maid to report like this!" After speaking, he muttered to himself: If you say that it is Miss Zhong, you can't get it, what cabinet Lord Yang, who knows!

Shen Qianran suddenly understood, she smiled at Ning Changan and said, "Mother, you go in to accompany Ci'er, and your daughter will entertain her!" "If someone from the Yang family asks to see her, it must be for Princess Ryan's affairs to come to her, and this Miss Zhong surprised her a little.

Zhong Yafu just got up early in the morning, and before she could serve tea to her mother-in-law, the porter came to spread the word, saying that Miss Zhong Er was here.

Zhong Yafu intuitively felt that something big must have happened, with her sister, who slept three times a day and ignored the sky when the sky fell, how could she come to her early in the morning?

didn't care about anything, so she asked Yahuan to pass a message to her mother-in-law, and then pulled her little sister to the bedroom to ask for clarification.

Zhong Yanan can endure until there is no one in the room before playing with the child's temper. She threw herself into her sister's arms, she cried before she could open her mouth, stretched out her right hand, showed her the scratches on the back of her hand, and twitched aggrievedly, "Sister, my mother must be crazy, I won't go back, I will never live with my mother again, sister, I'll be here with you in the future, okay?" ”

Zhong Yafu heard that tears fell instantly, looking at the heartless sister in front of her, she even had the heart to slap her, she didn't say a word, her eyes were no longer the usual gentleness, and she asked almost as usual, "If you treat yourself as my sister, go with me, if not, I will only let you die in the future!" ”

"Sister, why are you ......" Zhong Yanan just wanted to shout a few times willfully, she was used to her sister's peaceful and gentle gaze, when Zhong Yanan's eyes touched, the disappointed and angry gaze that had been concealed made her eyes shrink quickly, and the rest of the words were swallowed after circling around the pharynx.

The two sisters were on the way, Zhong Yanan looked at her sister's face carefully, and intermittently said about Ruian's gaffe at last night's night banquet, and finally, when she said that she had been beaten, she cried and complained, "After my mother returned to the bedroom, she smashed everything in the house, and Qiushuang and I couldn't stop it, sister, look, your mother scratched me so painfully, I shed a lot of blood, and Ming'er must have a scar." ”

Although Ryan was occasionally impatient with her, she had never suffered such a grievance since she was a child, and the more she thought about it, the more uncomfortable she became, so she ran to cry to her sister early in the morning.

When the two sisters arrived at the door of Shen's house, Zhong Yanan pulled her sister and wanted to go in, Zhong Yafu grabbed her, and she had to let the guards report it.

Zhong Yanan has never understood this sister's behavior, but she is afraid of her sister, so she can only pout dissatisfiedly and wait patiently.

Mama Guang came out quickly, and after greeting Zhong Yafu and Zhong Yanan, she said with a smile, "Our second lady has invited Mrs. Yang!" ”

Zhong Yafu said to the personal maid, "You are waiting in the sedan chair." Although her maid has been with her for two years, she is still a member of the Yang family, and she doesn't want her mother's situation in the Shen family to be known by the Yang family.

"Yes, young lady!" Yahuan Xing'er responded.

Zhong Yafu glanced at Zhong Yanan, who was waiting impatiently on the side, "Let's go, put the corners of your mouth flat, don't keep your mouth stilted, you're seventeen years old." ”

"Oh!" Zhong Yanan hurriedly responded obediently, she never dared to be presumptuous in front of her angry sister.

Dye Qianran watched a pair of sisters come in, stood up to greet them, and the etiquette was respectful and polite, "Mrs. Yang came to the house early in the morning, I don't know what you have to do?" She looked at the young woman lightly, dressed in a very formal purple and red gold phoenix makeup satin, with broad shoulders and a waist, and a golden baodian hairpin embedded in the bun of a hundred birds, which was dazzling.

Out of the corner of Zhong Yafu's eyes, she saw her sister Zhong Yanan As soon as she saw Shen Qianran, she looked like a fighting and raised the feathers on her neck, shook her head gently, and ordered, "Little sister, you go and see your mother, my sister has a few words that I want to talk to Miss Shen Er alone." ”

Zhong Yanan glared at Shen Qianran and left.

Zhong Yafu walked to Shen Qianran's side, with a gentle expression, and blessed herself with disgust, "Second Miss, my sister is rude, I apologize to you on her behalf!" ”

"It's okay, Ah Ran doesn't care." Shen Qianran's face did not change, her quiet smile, like a porcelain doll with exquisite clothes and makeup, did not show any emotion, "Mrs. Yang, please take a seat." Caihua, tea! ”

After Zhong Yafu thanked her, she was worried about Ryan in her heart, but she didn't want to go around in circles, the tea was not yet set, and she said directly, "Second Miss, Yafu came here today for her mother, Yafu knows that her mother has been inconsiderate since she entered the Shen family, no, it should be regarded as a mistake, Yafu made a special trip to Yu's mother today to apologize, and asked Miss Shen Er to open up!" "She was expected that Ryan must be in charge, and she was short in the accounts and known to the Shen family. Ryan has been a family for so many years, and no one has found out, and now not long after Miss Shen Er returned to Beijing, she held such a big birthday banquet for her biological mother, she thought, only Miss Shen Er has the ability to make her mother "crazy".

"My brother has counted it, and he has lost more than two million silver, the dowry that Qianran's mother brought over when she married the Shen family, the silver and some valuable gifts that my uncle gave to my mother in the past few years, except for a few things that can't be moved, have been emptied." Shen Qianran lowered her eyelashes and covered the faint smile in her eyes, this mother and daughter are the same, thinking that they are the heirs of the royal family, what they say and do is beyond human nature, and even such a request is too naïve!

Zhong Yafu gasped, more than two million in three years, how did this be squandered, this money is enough to buy several Shen mansions. Even the Houfu left behind by her father is not worth this amount.

She sighed slightly in her heart, sighed with some difficulty, hesitated for a while, and finally spoke, "Please ask the second lady to give Yafu a thin face, this matter is ......"

Before he finished speaking, Shen Qianran had already stood up with an impeccable smile on his face, "Mrs. Yang has said it, this is the Shen family's business, and now only Ah Ran's grandmother can be the master, and Ah Ran is just a girl who has not left the cabinet!" ”

A thin layer of moisture floated in Zhong Yafu's eyes, and she sighed gracefully, "Second Miss, Yafu has the cheekiness to ask for a favor with Second Miss." She also slowly got up, stood in front of Shen Qianran, and looked at her at eye level, her eyes were soaked in water, which made people feel pitiful.

Shen Qianran smiled, she had already hinted at it obviously, but this Miss Zhong didn't seem to know each other at all. Before she was reborn, she had an impression of Zhong Yanan, but she didn't have any memory of this Zhong Yafu, and for a person who had never hurt herself, although she was Ryan's daughter, Shen Qianran didn't want to embarrass her too much.

But that's all, she has never had a good impression of the people of the Zhong family. I want her to retreat with a pitiful expression and a few words of pleading, it's impossible!

Her expression turned cold, her face was no longer patient, and she said coldly, "Miss Zhong, Ah Ran has no friendship with you at all, even if there is, it depends on what kind of favor this person is, whether Ah Ran can call the shots!" ”

Zhong Yafu smiled bitterly, if it weren't for her mother, she wouldn't have prayed so despicably in her life, "Ten years ago, my mother brought me and my sister to Shen's house as guests, and at that time, I still remember being by the pond in the back garden......" Zhong Yafu said this, looking at Shen Qianran with a slight wave in her eyes.

She was only nine years old that year, and her mother invited a lot of famous ladies to come to Shen's house to play, many people brought their children, and she and Zhong Yanan also came to play. At that time, she didn't know why her mother liked to come to the Shen family, but now she knows that her mother brought them here purely to show off that she was married to Yong Enhou, to laugh at Ning Chang'an for ruining her appearance.

But today, she is still here to ask for such a favor.

That day, the adults were listening to the fourth aunt singing in the back garden, and a group of children were playing hide and seek in the garden.

Later, when everyone went to fly kites, she was quiet, so she quietly went to the lotus pond to watch the fish.

Suddenly, she heard a low cry of a little girl from behind the rockery, and she went around the path to take a look.

A little girl in a small blue flower dress was half-kneeling on the ground, wiping the tears from her face with a dirty little hand and crying quietly, and holding a small shabby cloth doll in the other hand.

She noticed that in the sun, the little girl's hair was unusual, sparse and yellow.

"Why don't you go play with them and cry here alone?" She scooped up the beautiful windmills in her hand and greeted them in a friendly manner.

The little girl raised her head and looked at her, Zhong Yafu was slightly taken aback, this little girl was very thin, her face was very yellow, and there were many dark spots on her cheeks, like a little old woman, but her eyes were black and bright like black pleated stones soaked in water.

The little girl blinked her bright eyes, and a few tears rolled down, and she hung her head and told her, "They all say I'm ugly, and they don't play with me!" Saying that, he snorted a few times aggrievedly, picked a hole under the corner of the rockery with his hand, and cried even more aggrieved, "I found the little frog, I want to play with it, but she also thinks I'm ugly, and I hid in the hole, no matter how I call her, she won't come out...... Whining...... Everybody calls it ugly and ugly......"

She saw that the girl's hands were all black mud, and she begged in a low voice while digging listlessly, "Little frog, come out, it's black inside, it's not fun, you come out, let's be good friends." ”

"Then I'll play with you, okay?" Zhong Yafu's heart was slightly sour, she immediately raised the windmill in her hand, and said with a smile, "This is what my mother bought for me to play, and I will give it to you." ”

A hint of surprise flashed in the little girl's eyes, and she was about to stand up and scoop it, but suddenly hid her hand behind her back, and after taking a few steps back, she shook her head desperately, "My mother said that you can't scoop strangers' things, and you can't eat strangers' things." ”

"Alright then!" She looked at the windmill in her hand with a little disappointment, and then blew hard, the phoenix car turned up, colorful and beautiful, the little girl stepped forward enviously, raised her head and begged, "Good sister, I don't scoop, let me blow a mouthful, okay?" ”

"Okay, you blow it!" She generously handed the windmill to her, and the little girl immediately puffed out her cheeks and blew with great force, and when the windmill turned, the little girl's eyebrows and eyes were crooked, and her eyes were as bright as stars, and they were incredibly beautiful.

Later, the young lady scooped the windmill in her hand and played with her, and said that the ugly duckling would one day turn into a swan, so that she should not be sad." Shen Qianran took a step forward, a strong sadness rose in his heart, and he poured out in a low voice, "This young lady is wearing a lotus dress, and her voice is very gentle!" Mrs. Yang, is that you? ”

Zhong Yafu looked at the corner of her eyes, nodded slightly, and finally smiled, "The ugly duckling is really a swan now." ”

"Mrs. Yang, Ah Ran can only say that the Shen family will not pursue this money again, but Ah Ran hopes that Mrs. Yang will persuade the princess and hope that she can abide by her duty."

Her pupils condensed and moved violently, looking at the beautiful girl in front of her, there seemed to be a warm liquid slowly sliding down her face, "Second Miss, don't worry, I will advise my mother." She stood up and said, "Yafu thanks the second lady for her leniency, so I won't bother me much." Zhong Yafu also knew that it was the limit for her to exchange such a big favor for a trace of concealment back then, and she only hoped that her mother could listen to her advice and leave the whirlpool of the Shen family as soon as possible.

Zhong Yanan arrived at Ruian's Chaoyan Pavilion and saw all the maids and daughters-in-law whispering together, while his sister was still making fun like a fool, and she didn't know how to disperse these subordinates.

She stepped forward and said coldly, "Is my mother inviting you here to let you gossip about your master?" ”

The maids and daughters immediately dispersed quietly, many of these people were brought by Ryan from Yong'en Houfu, and naturally they all knew their eldest lady.

"Didn't I let you go in with my mother? Why are you here? ”

Zhong Yanan looked at the back of his hand aggrievedly, and pouted, "I want my sister to accompany me!" ”

Zhong Yafu shook her head lightly and sighed weakly, "Sister, when will you grow up, our father is gone, and my mother is like this, you ...... If you continue like this, you will suffer in the future! ”

"Sister, don't I still have you?" Zhong Yanan immediately stepped forward coquettishly and hugged her sister's waist, and put her head on her sister's shoulder, with a slack look.

Zhong Yafu pushed her sister's head away and said coldly, "How can I take care of you?" Do you care about you for a year or two? Are you going to get married? How can you stay at your in-law's house in the future? ”

Zhong Yanan stilted her mouth unhappily, and didn't dare to argue, she didn't care about Zhong Yafu's words very much, she had already made up her mind in her heart, in the future, she would find a good one, and move out with Xianggong, so as not to look at her mother-in-law's face.

Zhong Yafu looked at her sister with a heartless look, and didn't bother to say anything about her.

When the two arrived outside Ryan's bedroom, Qiushuang was waiting outside with a red face, seeing that her forehead was bruised and swollen, Zhong Yafu said, "Go and rub some medicine, just have me here." ”

Zhong Yanan saw that Qiushuang was not lightly injured, so she shrank and gently pulled Zhong Yafu's sleeve pleadingly, "Sister, shall I wait outside?" ”

"No need, you go eat something," she didn't dare to bring her maid into the Shen Mansion, for fear that after she found out, she would go back to Yang's house to smack, but there was no one waiting outside, in case something could not be called, she thought for a while, and then ordered, "Qiushuang, you will come back after wiping the medicine, wait here." Don't go far, and don't let people get close, so you don't have to talk about it. ”

"Miss, the slave understands!" Qiushuang's eyes were red and swollen, and it seemed that she had been crying all night. She has been waiting for Ryan for many years, and Ryan has always been a knife mouth and a tofu heart to her. The relationship between the two masters and servants is not thin, and she is also sad and uncomfortable when she looks at Ryan now. But the second lady was useless, something happened, and she ran faster than anyone else.

In the entire Chaoyan Pavilion, she was alone outside Ryan's bedroom and kept watch all night. Several times when she heard that there was no movement inside, she was terrified, lest Ryan would not be able to see it and hang herself to wipe her neck. I boldly opened the door and went in, but I was beaten several times, and the most serious one hurt my forehead.

"Open the door!"

Qiushuang answered, took out the key from her arms, and opened it carefully, lest she make a noise, alarm Ryan, and beg for another beating.

Zhong Yafu went in with her skirt, and when she saw it, there was a mess, the lenses and glass vases of the dressing table were shattered to the ground, the tables and chairs were all overturned, and there were many pieces of clothes on the ground, scattered everywhere.

And her mother, dressed in white profane clothes and trousers, sat on the ground against the wall with her hair discreet, and there was a puddle of filth beside her, which exuded a strange smell, like vomit.

Zhong Yafu stepped forward gently, did not speak, but carefully removed a stool next to her mother's lap, and then slowly moved to her mother's side and sat on the ground side by side with her.

Ryan had actually heard Zhong Yafu's voice outside the dormitory door a long time ago, and she had an inexplicable sense of steadiness in her heart when she came to see her eldest daughter. She shrank slightly, closed her eyes, but did not look at her.

"Mother, if you don't like to talk, you don't have to speak, my daughter said, just listen." Zhong Yafu knew that her mother had always loved face, and now that she encountered this incident, she was afraid that she would not accept it psychologically, she sighed lowly, "When my daughter came in, she had already negotiated with Miss Shen Er, and she said that the deficit money would not be pursued, nor would it be publicized." This matter has come to an end, and my mother does not have to worry about it anymore. ”

She saw that Ruian should not, so she then relieved, "Mother is in poor health, fortunately, Chaoyan Pavilion is her own person, Qiushuang is her own minion, and she will not break her mouth, as long as my mother freshens up a little and goes out, she is still a dignified and elegant princess." ”

A wry smile flashed through Rui'an's heart, remembering that she appeared in front of everyone last night in a broken dress, such a wolf bèi was unbearable, and she didn't know anything. Her heart twitched one by one, but in front of her daughter, she still held back her crying and said in a dumb voice, "No, last night, my mother had already lost all her face!" ”

Zhong Yafu stretched out her hand and gently hugged her mother into her arms, her voice was calm and gentle, "Old Madam Shen is sick, and it is normal for you to be in a hurry as a daughter-in-law and lose some dignity, and in just a few days, everyone will forget about it." In these years, who doesn't have some worries in their hearts, who still has time to think about others? If you live well, you are serious. Since the second lady of the Shen family agreed, she would not mention this matter again, and her daughter thought that she could do it. ”

Even if Shen Qianran let her go so lightly, Ryan's heart still twitched like ice water, sleepless all night, and her chest was even more depressed and couldn't open her lungs as if it was difficult to breathe, she demolished the east wall to make up the west wall, and suffered mental devastation for several days, but she couldn't avoid this embarrassing situation. Even if you can get out of it today, how can there be an impermeable wall in this world? How will she deal with the overwhelming rumors in the future? When she thought about this, she really had a dead heart.

"Mother, you heard your daughter say, it's not a way for you to be locked up here, it's just to make your daughters anxious, my sister ran to my house early in the morning to cry, she can't hold it down, if the mother is not strong, the daughter will worry about her sister."

Ryan thought of Zhong Yanan, and suddenly remembered that he scratched his daughter's hand on impulse yesterday. She sighed softly, in fact, after the incident, she had always been clear, but she was so uncomfortable in her heart that she wanted to go crazy.

"Actually, what's the big deal, the things that money can solve are not the hardest things. It's the body that counts. Mother, you have to think about your sister, she hasn't found her in-law yet, and she still needs you to help her plan everything. ”

With a flash of fear, Ryan's pupils were shrinking, yes, she almost forgot that if she went crazy like this, who would want her second daughter? She went crazy like this, didn't she miss Zhong Yanan's life?

Tears filled instantly, fortunately, fortunately, she had this sensible eldest daughter, at the most critical time, she always used her own wisdom to point out her ignorance, she sighed lightly and choked, "Nan'er If you are so sensible, I don't have to worry so much." ”

"Mother, it's extremely uncomfortable to sit like this, why don't your daughter help you freshen up first, change your clothes, go outside to bask in the sun and talk, and let Qiushuang clean it up." Zhong Yafu helped her mother up and looked around, only on the bed could barely sit on the bed.

She helped her mother to the bed, found a light-colored palace dress from the cabinet, and after serving Ryan to put it on, she lost a simple and expensive hair for Ryan, and said with a smile, "Mother, you look at how energetic you are now, after going down for a while, who dares to spit on her lips to see if her daughter doesn't tear her mouth!" ”

Ryan smiled, and suddenly felt relaxed in her heart, she patted her daughter's hand lightly and smiled, "Let's go, let's go down!" ”

The mother and daughter joined hands and sat down at the small tea pavilion in the garden.

Zhong Yafu looked around, suddenly stopped laughing, her voice lowered, she said very slowly, with a solemn meaning, "Mother, this is not a place for you to stay, it is better for you and Lord Shen to leave, and mother will take her little sister back to Yong'en Houfu." ”

"Yong'en Houfu?" Ryan was taken aback, she had forgotten all about the commotion last night, and didn't go to Ding Shengqi to verify.

"Yes, mother, my daughter has also heard some things about the relationship between Lord Shen and her wife over the years, mother, listen to my daughter, why do you have to be caught between them, only to increase your own troubles. Mother, let's go back, my daughter always feels that the Shen family has too many rights and wrongs. ”

"This ...... Let the mother think about it for a few days. However, even if it is engaged, this is the emperor's marriage, and the emperor's approval must be obtained. There was a touch of sadness between Ryan's eyebrows, Shen Yueshan didn't have a trace of affection for her, and Ning Chang'an... Her countenance is restored!

"Okay, if the mother is willing to separate, this matter, the daughter will ask the uncle to mention it to the emperor, after all, the father is sacrificing his life for Xiling, and the emperor will not be too embarrassed about our orphans and widows, the uncle proposed, there should be no problem. As for the Shen family, let alone that. ”

Ryan smiled bitterly, the Shen family should be a disaster star now, her daughter is right, this family has no place for her to stay, wait for her to recover a little more, and go to implement Ding Shengqi's matter. Then we'll figure out how to solve it.

That's the way it is about his own affairs, Ryan suddenly remembered his daughter's troubles, and asked unconsciously with concern, "Fu'er, what about your business, that concubine is now pregnant with you first, does your husband have any statement?" ”

Zhong Yafu smiled slightly bitterly and shook her head, "This is a great joy for the Yang family, Zou Qi is looking forward to the birth of a child more than anyone else!" ”

"Daughter, don't you think it's strange, you haven't moved for two years since you got married, and she has it as soon as she passes through the door, my mother wondered, is there something greasy here?"

"What's so funny, she's also a serious lady from a big family, it's a blessing." Zhong Yafu's eyes were slightly red, "It's my daughter Fubo, and I can't blame Xianggong, he is the only seedling of the Yang family." ”

"Phew, who said that you are blessed, you are the daughter of a dignified princess, she is just the daughter of a four-grade little waiter, can this be compared? The mother is thinking, maybe it is a fake pregnancy. Seeing Zhong Yafu shaking her head with a wry smile, she patted her thigh and said, "Did she get along with someone else and get pregnant with someone else's kind of wrongs to Zou Qi?" Just passed the door, and I got pregnant, too fast! ”

"Mother, don't say these words lightly, how can there be these nonsense things in this world, being pregnant is being pregnant, you have to be born, is your own flesh and blood that can still be hidden? As soon as this day is calculated, Zou Qi is not a fool. Mother, don't worry about this, my daughter has an opinion. ”

"Claim, assert what? You have a temperament that lets people do everything, don't let a concubine be deceived! No, when do you have to go to the Yang Mansion to mention something to the old woman. Ryan's own scars are not good, and his flamboyant and good-looking personality is revealed again, which makes Zhong Yafu angry and funny.

"Mother, look at what you said, is your daughter so stupid, in fact, Zou Qi also told her daughter......" Zhong Yafu's expression became gentle, and under Rui'an's gaze, her face turned red and said softly, "He said, if two years later, the daughter is still gone, this noble concubine has a daughter, forget it, if it is a son, it will be under my name, and he has also discussed this matter with his father-in-law and mother-in-law, and he has been insistent, so this matter has been decided." ”

"That room is actually willing?" This back to Ryan is unbelievable.

Zhong Yafu's face was even more red, "She shouldn't, her husband can't be in her room, how can she ...... Mother, you know this, my daughter didn't want to mention it, but I was afraid that you would be worried all the time, don't go around saying that your daughter is not good at that time! ”

Ryan sighed with relief, this daughter really doesn't have to worry about it, this kind of thing, in other words, Nan'er, would have been crying and crying for a long time, but it was she who solved it lightly and skillfully. The child is gone, but her husband's heart is still on her.

After the mother and daughter talked for a while, Zhong Yafu stayed, and after the mother and daughter had dinner together, Zhong Yafu returned to Yang's house.

Concubine Zhen returned to Yongning Palace and immediately sent someone to inquire about the so-called eight-hundred-mile urgency. He also instructed Xiuya to find the portrait that Ryan had sent to the palace that day.

She thought in her heart that the first batch of screened portraits in the draft had been sent to Mr. Zhao, and in addition to more than 200 selected by the Internal Affairs Office, more than 30 were also selected. Sent to the emperor's hands, selected by the emperor, unless it is particularly preferred, can be directly selected into the palace, the rest will be arranged by the Ministry of Rites to enter the palace, after layers of checks, and then selected into the harem. There are generally only about 30 people who can really stay.

With her understanding of Lan Yujian, Lan Yuchen would not go to see those portraits at all, so the matter of choosing a show girl is, to put it bluntly, a matter of the harem.

If she directly sent Shen Qianran to the emperor, Lan Yuyan was suspicious by nature, and she would probably think that they were calculating Ning Chang'an, and refused.

For so many years, with her understanding of Lan Yuyan, Ning Changan has always been his bottom line, he can toss by his own temperament, but he will never allow others to calculate.

Shen Qianran is indeed not inferior to Ning Chang'an in terms of appearance, such a look, any man in the world will be tempted.

He believed that Lan Yuyan would not be an exception. But after pondering all the way, she didn't dare to be sure whether Lan Yuyan would accept Shen Qianran into the palace, because in Lan Yuyan's heart, Ning Changan was already rooted in the bone marrow, and for the emperor, Shen Qianran was just a beautiful woman, and the beauty in this world was easy to find, but Ning Changan had only one.

This is the difference between heart and emotion, one word, a thousand miles!

Therefore, she had to use another way to let Lan Yuyan recruit Shen Qianran into the palace.

At dusk, the palace people finally brought the news.

After the flood in the south of the Yangtze River, the court opened a warehouse for the earthquake, but found that all the grain in the granary of the government was moldy. The governor of Jiangnan immediately ordered the use of the silver allocated by the court to buy grain from the grain merchants, but found that there was no grain to buy.

As early as half a year ago, in addition to the official grain requisitioned by the government, the grain in the hands of the farmers in the south of the Yangtze River was bought up by Ding Shengqi, a grain merchant in East Vietnam.

When Concubine Zhen heard this, she sighed in her heart, as long as it wasn't a war, as long as it wasn't her son who was going to go on an expedition, it didn't matter what the people of Jiangnan were, it didn't matter how many people starved to death.

Besides, it's not a big deal, didn't the Ning family give the court 50 million taels of silver? Scoop out a part of it, go to Dongyue to buy grain, and solve the problem, Jiangnan is close to Dongyue, but it will be solved in two or three weeks.

After thinking about it for a night, she finally came up with a way, and on the second day, she kept sending someone to find out when the emperor would go to court, but after the emperor left the court, he also discussed with several ministers of the interior in the imperial study.

She waited anxiously in Yongning Palace, until the time of You, she didn't care that it was dark, so she took a few close palace maids to Chengyi Palace.

Mr. Zhao felt sorry for the emperor who didn't close his eyes yesterday, and today he took care of the government for another day, and said implicitly, "Niangniang, this emperor has just rested, and the first Zhaoyi Niangniang has also come to visit, and after the slave reports, the emperor also asked Niangniang to return to the palace first." I'll talk about it later. ”

Concubine Zhen was hesitant in her heart, she listened to it, and she didn't want to force it, she just wanted to turn back, but she heard the emperor's voice from inside.

Concubine Zhen lifted her skirt and went in, and she saw that Lan Yuyan was wearing a dark purple home wide shirt, untied, and only used a green scarf to hold her long hair casually and hang it behind her. The corners of his eyes are not raised, and he reclines lazily on the warm couch to read.

Her mind shook slightly, and the emperor at this time was very much like the prince who was idle in the palace at that time.

"Is there anything wrong with seeing me so late......" Lan Yuyan's voice was full of lazy tiredness, containing careless coolness, and dizzying bones, low and deep in the air, lingering around Concubine Zhen's ears. She used to like this sound very much, but Lan Yuyan would only make such a slow sound when she was between the beds, and she hadn't heard it for many years.

Concubine Zhen reined in her thoughts, put on an impeccable smile, and stepped forward with a dignified demeanor, "Your Majesty, forgive the reckless concubine and come to disturb at this hour, the concubine is just thinking about one thing in her heart, she gathered the concubine all night last night, and she wanted to come to face the saint in the morning, and she was afraid that the emperor would suspect that the concubine would be sour and vinegar, so I ......"

"Zhen'er, since you're here, you can say whatever you want, you don't have to go around in circles." He said word by word, and his tone was very light, so that people couldn't hear any emotion.

Concubine Zhen was already flustered, and she had just relied on a thought before, she must break up Lan Ting and Shen Qianran, and mustered up the courage to rush over. Now that he has really arrived, with the courage of a reckless man who has taken the lead, he has already disappeared under Lan Yuyan's cold eyes. This matter is about Ning Chang'an, if it is not good to mention it a little, it is to put a whisker on the tiger's head, the consequences are too strict, she can't help but think of the tragedy of Shengdemen again, at that time, she was forced to watch the punishment for three days, and every time she was scared and fainted, the emperor always asked the palace people to wake her up.

Later, Concubine Lan's plan was seamless, and she dared to poison Shen Qian, and in addition, she saw that Lan Yuyan was willing to see this result.

But today is different, today this plan is proposed, and Ming Li is aimed at Ning Chang'an.

She began to regret coming here, and for a while she was embarrassed and at a loss.

"Since you don't have anything to say, just kneel down!" She showed a slightly flustered and unnatural look, and he saw it in his eyes, but he didn't break it, and he didn't make any gestures, and the arc of the coldness on his lips became deeper and deeper.

"Your Majesty. The concubine actually came to ask...... The day before yesterday, the emperor took his concubines to the Shen family's night banquet, and during the banquet, the concubines saw ...... The concubine wanted to ......" Her mind was flustered, and the wording she had just thought of was suddenly emptied, and she couldn't say anything.

At this time, she regretted it even more, in front of this emperor, all her wisdom and calmness could not be used, and she didn't want to make the emperor blame herself. Her father has lost her military power, and now she can't rely on her father.

"What the Zhong family deserves, I give it all, and your Zhong family can't afford the rest." He seemed to understand what she was thinking, he interrupted her meditation, his slender fingers lifted the red pen, made a slight annotation under the black text, and his face was calm, "What your father and your brother can understand, you don't understand, haven't they advised you?" It's really not transparent. "The new emperor ascended the throne, or rewarded for meritorious deeds or killed meritorious heroes to release military power. Xinyihou is not stupid at all, although Lan Yuyan is young, he is not soft at all, not to mention that he was already full of wings at that time. Therefore, Xinyihou immediately offered the military power with both hands, and only opened his mouth to ask for the title of a concubine for his daughter. Lan Yuyan was not ambiguous at all, and sealed a first-class letter and righteousness, a protector of the country, and a hereditary rim.

Now it is her eldest brother who is hereditary and righteous.

It turned out that Lan Yuyan still thought that she was moving this thought, but Concubine Zhen smiled, simply let go of her thoughts, and said bluntly, "The emperor misunderstood the concubine, forgive the concubine."

bluntly said that last night, the concubines saw that the emperor had not forgotten the old feelings. Therefore, the concubine came this time to offer a plan, if the emperor is willing to listen, and the concubine guarantees, Ning Changan will ask to enter the palace as a concubine. ”

Lan Yuyan smiled lowly, and Concubine Zhen breathed a sigh of relief, but she heard him laugh out loud, as if she thought it was funny, and she was in a good mood.

When I raised my eyes, I saw that the dark phoenix eyes were still there, and there was no temperature. He has a pair of eyes that become more and more indifferent the more he smiles.

Her heart rose to her throat again. In a panic, he got up again gracefully, paced to her, gently put his slender hand on her bun, and said, "Zhen'er, your patience has always been better than Yun'er, why are you so smart this time." ”

The lines between Lan Yuyan's eyebrows and eyes were as cold as the moon, but the slight smile on his lips seemed so careless. The tone of his voice was as casual as his smile, but there was a faint light and shadow in his eyes.

At that moment, she had a feeling that he would not hesitate to break her neck if her answer displeased him.

Her heart suddenly rose to her throat again, but she had no way back, whether it was for herself or for Lan Ting.

"Your Majesty, according to the concubines, there is only one way to force Ning Chang'an to enter the palace automatically."

"Say—"

"Shen Qianran is already a woman of appropriate age, so she can be allowed to enter the palace draft. This is reasonable! If Ning Changan is unwilling to let her daughter enter the palace, then let her return to the palace as Concubine Lan. She thought, whether Ning Chang'an entered the palace or Shen Qianran entered the palace, the fate of Lanting and Shen Qianran could only be broken here.

She used to be a woman who was on guard, but now, in order to cut off Lanting's mind, she would rather give up her husband!

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