Yu Shu shook into the Dingbo Pavilion with the holy decree, and the noble uncle welcomed the person into the hall with a good voice, and when he looked out, he saw two rows of cold-faced guards in black robes walking around outside, and then guarded the front and back doors, leaving two close-quarters protective swords standing behind Yu Shu. Having said that, where would another person dare to be so arrogant on the territory of Prince Ping.

Yu Shu and Uncle Gui are old acquaintances, but they are only unfamiliar in front of people. Uncle Gui just sent the beauties rewarded by the palace back to the backyard, and in a blink of an eye, he saw Yu Shu with a smile, crying bitterly in his heart, afraid that she had heard about the queen mother's gift of beauty, and specially came to the door to ask the teacher to ask about the guilt.

"Lord Lao Yu came to the door in person, the old slave has already sent someone to invite the prince back to the house, it is estimated that it will take half an hour to come back, do you sit here to rest, or go to the lake for a stroll, the view of the Dingbo Pavilion is excellent."

Yu Shu raised the imperial order in his hand and said, "Don't bother, this seat is here waiting for King Ping to come back." ”

Uncle Gui had no choice but to stay with the guests with fear, thinking about finding out what the emperor's will was for this aunt

Xue Rui stayed in the Wenhua Hall for several days to preside over the revision of the new law, and he was busy going out early and returning late all day, and today he saw that he was empty, and he showed his face in the library in the morning, and he didn't change his clothes, so he took a team of guards to prepare to go to Chengbei Street, and unveiled the reward notice for a son-in-law on the Tianji list of the Forgotten Machine Building as soon as possible, so as not to have too many dreams at night.

Whoever came up with Donghua Gate was intercepted by someone from the Dingbo Pavilion, and said carefully - one of the beauties in the palace was actually a palace concubine of the previous dynasty after the reward of those beauties yesterday!

Xue Rui's complexion changed when he heard this, not frightened, but angry - people are rewarded by the Queen Mother, if you want to say that the Queen Mother doesn't know, he doesn't believe it. When Emperor Yan entered the palace that day, he ordered all the concubines of Emperor Chongzhen to be imprisoned in the cold palace. But what is the intention of the queen mother to deliberately send the palace concubine of the previous dynasty to his door as a palace maid? Is it intended to provoke the brotherhood between him and Emperor Yan, or is it an attempt to frame him?

"Let's go, go back and see." So he could only turn around and go back to the Dingbo Pavilion to solve the trouble that the Queen Mother threw at him first, so as not to get into trouble in the future and spread it to the ears of that heart, so that she could misunderstand something else.

Because he went back and walked the main road, Xue Rui missed the person sent by Guibo to report the news later, until outside the door of the Dingbo Pavilion, he saw the black-clothed guard standing guard in front of the door and Yu Shu's car, and then he knew that she had come to the door.

Xue Rui couldn't help but think about it, and reinstated her official, in order to avoid suspicion, she never took the initiative to come to him, the Queen Mother just sent a few women yesterday, and she came today. He thought about it a lot, but he didn't feel empty-hearted, got off the horse, tidied up his clothes, and walked inside.

There was a clever little guy in the concierge who trotted forward to lead the way, and reported in a low voice: "Yu Da has been here for half an hour, and he is sitting in the front yard listening to Songzhai." ”

Xue Rui didn't ask much, his pace sped up a few points, and he arrived in the living room in a blink of an eye, the black-clothed guard guarding the door bowed his head and saluted, he swept a glance at them, and couldn't help muttering in his heart, and when he saw Yu Shu sitting quietly in the house, his eyes lit up, and he couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth, and his face was cloudy and clear.

"Why did you come quietly?" There is a way that is not seen for a day as if it were every other autumn, Xue Rui only has her shadow in his eyes at this time, where can he still see Uncle Gui secretly winking at him.

Yu Shu took the sleeve of his coat to cover the golden silk of the holy decree, and the corner of his mouth was smiling, and he looked at him and said, "I came to say hello to the prince." ”

Xue Rui's eyelids jumped, and Chi asked, "Where does the joy come from?" ”

Yu Shu asked him rhetorically: "What kind of happy event does the prince think?" ”

"This" Xue Rui glanced at Uncle Gui, and saw that Uncle Gui was squeezing his eyebrows and shaking his head at him gently, but unfortunately he couldn't understand what it meant, so he had to guess according to her words: "Could it be that you mean that the Queen Mother sent me a few people yesterday?" ”

Yu Shu suddenly turned cold: "It turns out that you think it is a happy event." ”

Xue Rui knew that he had said the wrong thing, and immediately denied it: "What kind of happy event is this, yesterday I said that I asked your uncle to send people away, I don't believe you ask him." "It's a pity that he is a majestic prince of Ping in the court, but when he comes to her, he has no momentum at all.

Uncle Gui was also afraid that Yu Shu would turn his face, so he hurriedly testified: "Yes, it is true, the prince asked the old slave to send people away yesterday." ”

"Did the man send him away?"

“”

Unexpectedly, their master and servant couldn't answer, Yu Shu raised her eyebrows, she didn't take those palace maids seriously in the first place, if she didn't have any confidence in Xue Rui, why wait for him for five years? With her understanding of Xue Rui, he won't eat the Queen Mother, so why didn't he send people away, it's intriguing.

"So people are still there?" She put the holy decree into her cuffs, got up and walked out of the door, "Lead the way ahead, I want to see what kind of national color and natural fragrance the queen mother sent, so that the prince was reluctant to send it away." ”

Xue Rui listened to her ridicule, shook his head and smiled bitterly, pulled his heels, didn't care about the black-clothed guards stuck behind, gently supported her corner of the sleeve, lowered his head close to her ear and explained: "There is a problem with the person sent by the Queen Mother, it is not good to make extraneous branches, you come, I will make it clear to you." ”

Yu Shu was not angry, he squinted at him, waved his hand and motioned to the black-clothed guard who followed behind him to wait in place, and he led his sleeve and walked forward. The two went down the corridor side by side, and after the corner, Xue Rui opened his mouth to tell her what happened-

"The Queen Mother sent four people yesterday, saying that they were ladies in the palace, and when the noble uncle sent people away this morning, he found that one of them was actually the concubine of Emperor Chongzhen of the previous dynasty."

"Hey," Yu Shu frowned, "What does the Queen Mother want to do?" Like Xue Rui, the first thing she thought of was conspiracy.

Xue Rui shook his head and said, "I just came back, and I haven't had time to ask in detail." Why don't you go with me and see? ”

"It's fine." There are priorities, and Yu Shu immediately stopped messing with him.

Uncle Gui followed not far behind, watching them reconcile, Xue Rui beckoned to him, and he hurriedly rushed forward to lead the way. The four palace maids were placed by him in a small building in the southwest corner of the Dingbo Pavilion, and there were guards watching the four corners of the downstairs.

When Yu Shu and Xue Rui walked outside the small building, they vaguely heard the crying coming from inside, glanced at each other, and walked in silently.

On the bed in the room, there was a pale but very beautiful woman lying flat, staring at the top of the bed with blank eyes, and another palace maid kneeling beside her bed, crying and persuading in the middle of the period: "Niangniang, you must hold on, now this day is bitter, but compared to the future, what is it worth to suffer some grievances at this time, you think about the benefits, and wait until you see Xue - no, it is Prince Ping, seeing others, you ask him for a begging, for the sake of the love of the year, he will not be able to see death without saving it." ”

Hearing this, the woman lying on the bed finally reacted a little, and muttered: "What if I see him, I am the emperor's concubine, and he has become an enemy general who destroys the country, even if he is willing to pity me and take me in, how should I deal with myself in the future?" Do you really want me to commit to him and be a lowly concubine? But with his current status, what kind of woman does he want, and how many days can he pity me? ”

Outside the door, Yu Shu, who heard their voices, turned her head to look at Xue Rui with a strange expression, she could hear that the "Niangniang" in this was sacred, so she didn't know if he knew it in his heart. This rotten peach blossom, it's really hard to hide, and after all these years, you can still find the door, hey.

Xue Rui couldn't listen to it anymore, he was innocent and alone, and he didn't have to ask the two in the room to smear his face, and everything that didn't exist became true. So he raised his hand and pushed the door of the house, interrupting the woman in the room to pity herself.

When the two women in the room heard the door, they immediately closed their mouths, looked at the screen blocking the door with a frightened look, and saw that a sturdy man came out first, with honey-colored skin and a handsome appearance, and a purple robe and a rusty python on his body, which was indescribably expensive and majestic, but it was not the King of Yanping who they were talking about just now.

The "mother" sat up quickly, remembering what she had just said, and two clouds flew up her cheeks, and she hung her head and trembled nervously. In his early twenties, it is the time when a flower blooms at its most beautiful, but it is not like the begonia after the rain, delicate and weak is pitiful.

Xue Rui looked at her carefully, only then did he recognize which number one person she was, and just as he was about to speak, he heard a cold snort behind him, and Yu Shu also walked in from outside the door.

"I didn't expect to meet Concubine Niangniang here, this seat is really a surprise."

Hearing this unfamiliar voice, Rui Zizhu fell from the warm autumn into the cold winter in an instant, she hurriedly raised her head, and when she saw Yu Shu who walked to Xue Rui's side and stood still, the whole person was not good.

"Yu, Yu—why are you here?"

Previously, although Rui Zizhu was the head of the four concubines, she had not been favored by Emperor Chongzhen, and when the army of Yan was pressing, Emperor Chongzhen sent the two queen mothers and Empress Xiajiang to Luoyang for refuge together, but maybe they and the concubines left Beijing. She was trapped in the palace and witnessed the change of imperial power and the change of ownership of the world.

She still remembers that on that day, the Yan army broke through the Beijing Gate, broke into the palace, and scattered corpses everywhere, she thought that death was imminent, but let her reunite with the person who she had never had the chance to see again in this life. Although he refused to admit it, she was sure that she would not admit her mistake, he was Xue Rui, the one who almost became her husband.

Although he didn't recognize her, he didn't kill her, but sent her to the cold palace with those palace concubines and maids, giving her a way to live. She guessed that he was probably thinking about an old love.

The days of the cold palace were very difficult, and she gritted her teeth and endured it for a whole month, not without a glimmer of hope in her heart, that he would think of her and rescue her from this cage. But she didn't wait for him to appear, but waited for the Shang Palace Bureau who came to the cold palace to select people. Her identity is not a secret, and it can't be hidden, but for some reason, she was actually picked and left the cold palace that day.

No one mentioned her identity, so she trembled and followed the palace maids who were selected together to learn the rules of serving the nobles, until yesterday, the Empress Dowager Dayan summoned them, and in the Cining Palace, she saw Yu Shu, who made her hate.

Rui Zizhu can't forget that year's gentleman's hibiscus banquet, the lake of the Dingbo Pavilion is full of thousands of lotus lanterns, talented and beautiful people gathered together, it should be a good story to compose a song to sing for future generations, but it was ruined by this femme fatale. Her fate seemed to take a turn on that night, first her reputation was ruined, and then her marriage with the Xue family's brother came to naught, and her longing came to naught, and finally she ended up with a disappearance and her entry into the palace.

Fortunately, Yu Shu didn't recognize her at the time, and under the order of the Queen Mother, she was sent to the Dingbo Pavilion, with both apprehension and a hint of ulterior joy in her heart. But she never dreamed that she would see Yu Shu here.

Besides, Yu Shu, seeing Rui Zizhu's ghostly look, said with a smile: "This seat was ordered to pass on the decree, you might as well encounter a rare thing, the concubine of the previous dynasty actually ran to the backyard of the prince of this dynasty, and His Royal Highness King Ping invited me to come together to find out the truth in order to prove his innocence." ”

During the reign of Emperor Chongzhen, Concubine Rui Shu relied on the power of the Empress Dowager, and she had to block her from time to time, and then she cleaned it up fiercely before she became honest. Yu Shu has never been soft-hearted, and seeing Rui Zizhu fall into such a field today, she doesn't feel pity at all.

Rui Zizhu's hands were trembling, she hated and feared Yu Shu, so she could only pretend to be calm and said: "It was the Queen Mother who allowed me to leave the palace and sent me here, if you have any questions, why don't you go into the palace and ask the Queen Mother." ”

"Then you mean to say that the Queen Mother knew your identity and origin, but deliberately sent you to King Ping as a palace maid, right?" Yu Shu grabbed her handle in a few words and dragged the Queen Mother into the water together.

After all, Rui Zizhu has been in the palace for a few years, and she is not hopelessly stupid, hearing Yu Shu ask like this, where can she dare to respond, biting her lip and looking at Xue Rui, her sparkling eyes filled with panic and pleading.

"So far, I just want a place to live, Xue, Brother Xue, I know it's you, it's okay if you don't admit it, but you and I have known each other for a long time, do you want to watch me being forced to die?"

Xue Rui was robbed of words by Yu Shu when he entered the door, he felt wronged, yes, the Xue family and the Rui family almost became in-laws back then, but the conscience of heaven and earth, he has never had any thoughts about Miss Rui's family, just such a little bit of a relationship, it is difficult for her to rely on him.

"Concubine Shu, this Wang Xing does not change his name, he does not change his surname, and Liu Shining of Dayan is also. If you don't rush to find death and life, this king will ask you, you claim that the queen mother has allowed you to leave the palace, so does she already know that you are the concubine of the previous dynasty? ”

Rui Zizhu couldn't avoid this question, and Ai Ai said: "The Queen Mother is high, how can I know her thoughts." ”

Xue Rui looked at Yu Shu, whether it was true or false, she knew it as soon as she heard it. Yu Shu's Great Insight Technique has been cultivated to the last level, and he can break through the delusion as he wants. Sure enough, Yu Shu only stared at Rui Zizhu, and then turned his head to tell Xue Rui: "It seems that Concubine Shu doesn't know." The subtext of this sentence is: If you want to know what medicine is sold in Empress Dowager Wei's gourd, you can't ask from Rui Zizhu's mouth.

Xue Rui nodded, he had an idea in a blink of an eye, and when he called someone to come, Uncle Gui walked in from outside the door. "What does the prince command?"

"Prepare a carriage, and the king will personally send this concubine back to the palace to show her saint." Didn't the Queen Mother intend to test him, then he did what she wished, and let her rest that mind as soon as possible.

"Don't!" Rui Zizhuhua's face turned pale, and she looked at Xue Rui and shook her head, "I don't want to go back to the palace, please, don't send me back." ”

Xue Rui didn't hear it, turned around and wanted to leave, but he didn't care about the old feelings, Rui Zizhu saw this, didn't care about Yu Shu's presence, lifted the quilt and jumped out of bed, threw himself barefoot behind him, grabbed the corner of his clothes before falling, raised his head, tears slipped from the corners of his eyes, and his beautiful face was delicate.

"When I return to the palace, I have only one way to die, where can I stay alive in the cold palace, are you really ruthless? Brother Xue, I'd rather stay by your side, be a maid who brings tea and water to you, and serve you as a cow and a horse for a lifetime, please save me, okay? ”

Xue Rui frowned slightly, it was not good to kick her away, he never did anything to a woman. But where would he eat her, if any woman cried and begged in front of him, he would be soft-hearted and take him in, then marching all the way from the northeast to Anling, he didn't know how many warblers and warblers Yanyan had around him, and he didn't know how many times he had borne Ashu hundreds of times.

"What a maid who is a cow and a horse, the lady is really an eye-opener for this seat," Yu Shu sneered, raised his arms and looked down at the beauty who was kneeling and begging, and seduced her man in front of her, who was simply looking for death.

Rui Zizhu saw her contemptuous eyes, new hatred and old hatred were aroused by a fire, and looked at her angrily with tears in her eyes: "Yu Lianfang, you shameless villain with a femme fatale, how can you have the face to stand in front of Brother Xue, he is benevolent and righteous to you, but you slandered the Xue family for colluding with the Yan thief, causing his family to bear injustice, if it weren't for your treachery, how could Grandpa Xue die unjustly, how could Aunt Xue and Sister Xue suffer humiliation, how can you have the face to see him!?" ”

As she spoke, she turned her head excitedly, her teeth chattered, and she yelled at Xue Rui: "Don't you even know that she is your enemy, why, why would you rather save her than save me?" ”

During the period when she was trained in the Shang Palace Bureau, she occasionally heard some gossip, such as the fact that Prince Ping asked for the order of the former court Si Tianjian at the palace banquet, so she knew that Yu Shu was not only convicted, but was reinstated with the help of Xue Rui and continued to enjoy her glory and wealth. She just thought that Yu Shu was trying to confuse him, and she couldn't wait to go to him to expose her true colors.

"Enemies? Ha ha. Yu Shu suddenly felt that she was pitiful, and she was just amorous, why did she still suffer from paranoia. She looked at Xue Rui, and when she saw him also looking over, the two looked at each other and smiled, without saying anything at all.

On that day, she came forward to testify that the Xue family collaborated with the enemy, one was to protect herself, and the other was to prevent Xue Lingnan from rebelling with the King of Xiang, which was really the capital crime of the Jiu clan. Later, Xue Lingnan died of illness in prison, which was his own fault, as for Mrs. Xue and Jinxun's sister, she had already quietly taken them out of the nunnery after she gained power and sent them to a safe place to escape the troubled times.

Even if the world scolds her for treachery and hiding a femme fatale, she doesn't care, she did what she should do, even if there are thousands of people in this world who misunderstand her, but he won't, that's enough.

"How do you understand?" She gave Rui Zizhu a sympathetic look at the end, reached out and grabbed Xue Rui's palm, and pulled him out of here.

Rui Zizhu couldn't grasp the corner of the clothes, her eyes were full of their tightly buttoned ten fingers, she seemed to have been pulled out of her bones, and she collapsed weakly on the ground.

"So it is, so it is"

Yu Shu and Xue Rui walked out of the small building and walked to the garden path, and then he remembered and asked her, "What is the happy event you are talking about?" ”

Yu Shu gently broke free of his palm, pulled out the holy decree from his sleeve, threw it into his arms casually, endured his pride, and said seriously: "Ahem, the emperor rewarded you to me." ”R1152