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Chapter 444, the vicissitudes of life

As soon as he came out of Zhaoyang Palace, Changsheng couldn't help but be excited and asked Mingjing: "What about Juxiang and Xiaoxi?" ”

Mingjing helped her on her shoulders: "You haven't seen you for a long time, and you have experienced so many things, everyone is inevitably emotional, and you have a thousand words to say, it is inconvenient here, your body can't stand it, and I am even more afraid of disturbing the peace of the queen's mother. ”

Changsheng thought about it, it was okay if her body could stand it or not, the key was that everyone must be crying and laughing, and there was still a lot to say, and when they met here, they had to endure their emotions, it was really inconvenient, and the concubine was thoughtful.

From beginning to end, she didn't ask Yuwen Zhaoyi, let alone do anything for her, they only had the share of master and servant, and they had no special feelings, and it was not worth risking for her. Wanting to save her is even more self-defeating, Yuwen Zhaoyi later became an accomplice of Li Jiancheng and Li Yuanji, and helped them do a lot of things that harmed the Qin Palace, even if she doesn't die, it is a living crime, what you plant is because of what you reap, and she doesn't have the ability to save her.

When the sedan chair arrived at the gate of the Baozhu Courtyard, Changsheng took a deep breath to suppress the excitement in his heart, and was about to get off the sedan chair, Mingjing opened the curtain and grabbed her hand: "You are pregnant, don't be too excited when you wait, your sisters have been reunited, and all kinds of tribulations in the past have become a thing of the past, don't always mention the past sadly, think more about the happy things in the future, okay?" ”

Princess Ji also came over: "Mingjing is right, sisters are inevitably excited to see each other, don't pay attention to your body, you have a good parting in the afternoon, Mama Zhou will send you directly after she arrives, the mother concubine arranged a reunion dinner for you, we didn't participate, you guys have a good get-together, I will set up a banquet to entertain them tomorrow." ”

Changsheng nodded and agreed: "Father and mother go and rest, Mingjing will accompany me here." ”

King Huai'an wanted to speak and stopped, and opened his mouth curtly: "Anyang may not know that you have made the princess, she is a child's heart, if you know, you will inevitably eat some vinegar in your heart, don't worry about her as a sister." ”

Changsheng chuckled: "Don't worry, father, my sister is simple-hearted and straightforward, and it is best to get along with her, I am my sister, so I naturally won't worry about her." I think my father underestimates my sister, and my sister will only hope for my well, where will I be really unhappy? ”

The old face of King Huai'an was slightly red: "Your sister is indeed not bad-hearted, but she is young and ignorant, you are a sister, and it is also appropriate to let her." If she goes too far, just tell your father, and he will make the decision for you. ”

Oh, it's right for my sister to find fault with my sister, and it's also right for my sister to swallow her breath, who let my sister have nothing to do with what princess is one level higher than my sister? If it's not as good as my sister everywhere, then it's okay?

Seeing Mingjing frowning, the mother concubine was obviously angry and wanted to refute it, Changsheng signaled them to be calm and not impatient, with a little coquettishness: "Don't worry, father, it's too late for my sister to know that I am happy to be the princess, where will I eat my jealousy?" Only malevolent outsiders would do that. No matter how much you keep saying that your sister is not good, I don't follow it! ”

Seeing that Changsheng was sensible and caring, and that he was willing to be close to him, King Huai'an praised a few words and walked straight in the direction of Concubine Jin.

Princess Ji couldn't help but say: "Just now, the emperor said that the matter of the reconstruction of the princess's mansion and the purchase of things should be discussed with the Ministry of Rites, when will the prince be free?" ”

King Huai'an hurriedly walked: "This king is very tired now, rest first, let's talk about the matter of the princess's mansion tomorrow, or you have time to take Mingjing and Changsheng to take the time to see what the shortcomings are, and then this king will order the Ministry of Rites to repair." ”

Changsheng sneered, he made the princess himself, but the concubine and sister were unhappy, and the father did not blame them and went to coax them personally, maybe he would reward them with a lot of things to make them psychologically balanced. And I can't help my sister if I made the princess, so I should swallow my anger.

She grabbed Princess Ji: "Mother concubine go and rest first, if there is nothing important tomorrow, let's go to the princess's mansion together, forget if the father is not free, it is enough to have a mother to worry about her daughter." ”

Looking at Changsheng's intimate demeanor and smile, Princess Ji was relieved, with such a caring daughter, what else do you care? He only has such a child as Changsheng, but people have a group of children, how can he be required to treat Changsheng exactly the same as himself?

Mingjing consciously sent Princess Ji to rest, and Changsheng knew that she was trying to give herself and Ju Xiang a separate space to get along, so she responded with a smile.

Suppressing the excitement in my heart, I walked into the door, and saw the haggard Ju Xiang and Xiao Xi sitting on the couch drinking tea nervously, if I didn't know in advance that it was them, I wouldn't have recognized them at first sight, so I still changed my clothes and cleaned up and sent them over, it seems that they have really suffered a lot in the miscellaneous bureau.

Seeing her come in, the two of them stood up together, with surprise, excitement, sadness, and inferiority in their eyes, Changsheng waved his hand to signal the girl to go down, covered the door, and rushed over The three of them hugged each other tightly.

Ju Xiang and Xiao Xi let out suppressed cries: "The two of us thought that we were going to be tortured to death in that place, and we couldn't get out for the rest of our lives, but we didn't expect to have such a good life and see you again!" Changsheng, thank you for telling the emperor that we have the grace to save our lives, otherwise according to his hatred of Yuwen Zhaoyi, he would never let us go easily, let alone be a female official and a generous reward. ”

"Don't be sad, it's all over, we will never be separated again, in fact, I have never forgotten you, I have always wanted to find you, but I couldn't keep that ability before. And there is indeed a life-saving grace, I just told the emperor that there is such a thing. ”

When they had cried enough, he handed over a towel to wipe their faces, pulled them to sit down and looked at them carefully, and said in surprise: "How did you lose weight like this?" It's skinny! Xiaoxi used to think that she was fat, but now she is haggard! Ju Xiang's white complexion is now black and thick, ah, his hands are cracked and bloody? If I hadn't looked closely, I wouldn't have recognized it, what kind of life you are living! ”

Xiaoxi wiped her tears: "This is still Sister Yunqing of Zhaoyang Palace, who asked us to serve us carefully and bathe and moisten it with cream, otherwise my sister would not recognize it when she saw it, we were tortured in the Miscellaneous Bureau and were almost gone, I felt like I was dying every day, but I didn't expect to be rescued by my sister!" ”

"Tell me how you've been here for the past few years?"

Ju Xiang stroked the cracks and blood on her fingers: "In the days before the Xuanwumen incident, not to mention my sister, I also knew, although I was always cautious, I didn't have to do any rough work, and there was no shortage of food and clothing." When the emperor was still alive, the current emperor only let Yuwen Zhaoyi serve the emperor, and temporarily let her and the people of Chunhua Palace go, only dismissed most of them, leaving four or five close servants, Xiaoxi and I don't know whether it was lucky or unlucky, so we were left behind, but the emperor died not long after, Yuwen Zhaoyi didn't wait for others to punish her, and she committed suicide by hanging herself first. ”

"She's dead? Hey, young Kiki's. She used to be so favored, so glamorous **** smart and clever, I thought that with the favor of the emperor, she could finally escape her life to be a nun in Ganye Temple, who knew that she had gone, I was afraid of being jealous and didn't dare to ask, I really didn't expect it. ”

Xiao Xi had a resentful face: "If she doesn't die, we don't have to suffer these sins, what does she have to do with us minions when she does a lot of evil herself?" The emperor waited for the emperor to clean her up after his death, but she was smart enough to go with the emperor, and the emperor hated what she did, and poured all his anger on those of us who served, so we were demoted to the miscellaneous bureau to suffer, sister Changsheng, look at it! ”

Xiaoxi said and pulled the collar and bent down, Changsheng was startled, only to see that her exposed back was full of old and new whip marks, and Ju Xiang choked: "It's the same on me." Chunhua Palace, including me and Xiaoxi, a total of five palace maids were demoted to the Miscellaneous Service Bureau, one died of illness, and two couldn't stand the suffering and made a meal with the steward eunuchs, if you don't save us again, I'm afraid there will be no day to meet again. ”

Changsheng stroked the scars on Xiaoxi's back and shed tears: "Does it still hurt?" ”

Xiaoxi shook her head: "It was originally very painful, but Sister Yunqing sent someone to boil the medicinal soup for us to wash, and asked someone to apply the ointment to us, but now it doesn't hurt." Sister Changsheng, don't worry, as long as you don't get beaten again, you will be fine soon. ”

Changsheng held her head: "You are the female official of the queen's mother, no one will bully you, the princess's mansion will soon clean her up, and then we will move over with Mama Zhou, you help me take care of the princess's mansion, just treat it as your own home, do whatever you want!" This is the treasure pearl courtyard of Huai'an Palace, the king and princess of Huai'an are my biological fathers, you can live with peace of mind and recuperate, and Mama Zhou will also be sent later, we will not be separated in the future! ”

"Ah, I was sad just now, and we haven't asked you why you suddenly became the daughter of King Huai'an? Suddenly crowned the princess again? Isn't your father and mother in the countryside of Yunzhou? I didn't dare to ask more questions when I was afraid of causing trouble in the palace, and I heard that you were already married, tell us what's going on? ”

Changsheng smiled and shook his head: "Fate is really a strange thing, I never thought that my fate would change so much. Changsheng carefully from the time she left the palace gate and no one came to pick her up, and then returned to her hometown and couldn't stay anymore to apply for a job to the Xie family as a parenting aunt, the Xie family was copied and sent to prison and pardoned, and she also made a sincere relationship with Mingjing, until her life story was revealed.

For a whole hour, Ju Xiang and Xiao Xi listened to it for a while dumbfounded, sighed again and again, rejoiced for a while, and worried in every way, until Changsheng finished speaking, Ju Xiang leaned softly on her shoulder and said with palpitations: "I thought that Xiaoxi and I had experienced enough things in the past few years, but I didn't expect that you have not been born since the day you left the palace, it's incredible." ”

"Yes, Sister Changsheng, you are amazing, no wonder you are a princess, if it weren't for the **** you persuaded the two of us to help King Qin escape the poisonous hands of the prince and Yuwen Zhaoyi, how could we get out of the palace alive? If you change those things to me, I don't know how to be scared! ”

Changsheng touched her head: "Actually, I also took one step at a time, and I was helplessly forced out, who can see the next moment at this moment?" ”

"When people say the vicissitudes of life, they probably mean your past and present, right? It's not so much that you have a good life to get everything today, but that you are the result of your own hard work, in exchange for me or Xiaoxi, either out of the palace because you had no choice but to marry the guard captain Gao Shouren you said, or you can't stand the hardships when you return to your hometown and obey your parents' arrangements to be a concubine for the landlord's family, where would you think of finding another way out to apply for a position as a parenting aunt? Even if you are an aunt who is raised, you can't stay in that complex environment, and it is impossible to take the initiative to go to prison for a child who has little to do with it, and only you can resolve so many crises and get today's good reward after paying so much. ”

Changsheng smiled silently and motioned for them to drink tea and eat snacks. She couldn't tell them that she only gave Jinshu wholeheartedly without complaint or regret because of her sister in her previous life, and everything she experienced in the Xie family until she married Mingjing was all because of Jinshu. From the moment she saw the recruitment notice, fate was closely linked with Jinshu and the Xie family and Mingjing, and all this must be guided by her sister in the dark.

Changsheng pursed his lips and smiled: "I still haven't said one more thing, that is, I am already pregnant, and you will be busy when he is born!" ”

"Mama knows about this, your father-in-law has told Mama, Mama is not afraid of being busy!"

"Mama Zhou!" Changsheng looked at Zhou Sijun who suddenly appeared at the door in surprise, and Ju Xiang and Xiaoxi stood behind him wiping away tears.

Changsheng stepped forward to hug Mama Zhou, and when she was most frightened and helpless when she crossed over, when she was in crisis everywhere in the palace, he selflessly loved and cared for her for eight years, and this relationship was no worse than that of King Zhou and Princess Ji. I haven't seen her for more than two years, she is much older and thinner than before, and what has not changed is the love in her eyes after the vicissitudes of life.

It was Mama Zhou who gently pushed her away: "You have a body, you have to be careful everywhere, don't be excited, Mama is happy in her heart, I feel that I am still very energetic, and it is no problem to take care of the children." ”

Mingjing smiled and shook his head: "You talk slowly, I'll go and see how the reception banquet is prepared, and the banquet will be set up in half an hour." After saying that, he withdrew and covered the door.

"Son, not only did you save us, but you also suffered bitterly. Your father-in-law personally went to pick me up, and on the way he told me all the things you experienced after leaving the palace, I know about Juxiang and Xiaoxi, and it is indeed not easy for you to have today's blessings. Originally, Mama was already disheartened, thinking that she would wash and sprinkle the hunger and cold in the Ganye Temple until the day she died, but she didn't expect that there would be such blessings, I have no regrets in my life, you can rest assured, the three of us will help you manage the princess's mansion well in the future, so that you can rest assured that you can teach your husband and children! ”

Changsheng nodded: "If I can't have you by my side, I will regret that I will enjoy the glory and wealth in my heart, it is not that I saved you, it is you who have ended the regret in my heart, and we will never leave the mother and daughter sisters in the future!" (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to () subscribe, reward, your support is my biggest motivation. )