"You don't dare approach him, because you're worried about this?" Zhou Shiling glanced at Su Xi helplessly, stopped talking, thought for a long time, and then said: "You are my little sister, in the imperial city, who doesn't know?" Do you have my father and them to make decisions for you, and you are worried that after you marry into the palace, you will not be respected by others? ”

"Miss, no." Su Xi shook her head desperately, and a few tears flew on the back of Zhou Shiling's hand.

Zhou Shiling was very heartbroken.

[Silly sister, Jiaojiao sister does not have His Royal Highness the Second Prince in her heart, and she is a very assertive woman. As long as you nod your head and say that you really want to marry His Royal Highness the Second Prince, then I will definitely go to my father and ask him to enter the palace to see the emperor and ask the emperor to marry His Royal Highness the Second Prince and you.

The strength of our Zhou family, plus the strength of your own family, will not be much worse than the strength of the Bai family. 】

Zhou Shiling just thought about these words in his heart, but he didn't say them to Su Xi.

Thinking that there were guests in the living room, Su Xi just cried, and put all the makeup to cry, if he went out for a while, it would not be very convenient.

Gan took out the silk handkerchief, handed it to Su Xi, and said, "Go and wash your face, and quickly re-dress yourself." Don't wait until you go out to meet him in a moment and let him see that your eyes are swollen and dull...... That's not going to look good. ”

When Su Xi heard this, she was frightened and hurriedly enjoyed the handkerchief to fetch water to wash her face, and after washing, she hurriedly sat down in front of Zhou Shiling's dresser and applied grease and powder.

"He has cared about you since he was a child, but you yourself are too subtle to make him feel how special you are to him, so ...... He didn't hint at anything to you when he grew up. ”

When Su Xi heard Zhou Shiling mention this, her heart was like a deer, and for a while, the wooden comb in her hand flew out of her palm and slipped to the ground.

Zhou Shiling saw Su Xi like this, and sat up with her body propped up, wanting to help Su Xi. But seeing Su Xi running to the bed in a panic, she hurriedly helped her sit down, and said, "Miss, what are you doing with this?" At that time, we were all young, we were all children, and it was nothing to help each other. But now that we're all grown up, he has his own ideas, so he won't notice me. ”

"Oh, you're sour, it's like drinking a jar of vinegar." Zhou Shiling glanced at Su Xi in embarrassment, and urged: "Go and clean up, don't go out to see off the guests for a while, lose the image of our Zhou family and the Yun family." ”

Su Xi winked at Zhou Shiling and said, "I know, miss, I won't give you a face." ”

At the same time.

Bai Jiaojiao was held by Qin Zhaoyi and sat opposite Qin Zhaoyi, while Lu Jue was sitting less than two steps away from her, she always felt that Xiao Jue's gaze never took off her face.

The original Bai Jiaojiao was timid, and she was nervous when she saw Lu Jue.

Now that she saw Lu Jue, she was not nervous at all, but she was afraid that Qin Zhaoyi would ask her.

She always felt that no matter what Qin Zhaoyi asked her, it was like something in her words, as long as she was not careful, she might fall into the pit.

"Jiaojiao, I watched you grow up, and I liked you very much when you were very young. You're a good-looking kid, well-read, and have such a high level of medical skills. If my tortoise can marry you home, then he will be really blessed. ”

Bai Jiaojiao smiled shyly and didn't dare to speak.

I'm afraid that when I speak, I will say one word: "No!" ”

She doesn't want to marry Lu Jue, no matter who mentions it, she can't do it.

Lu Ying gave his mother Qin Zhaoyi a look, which means:

Mother, if you say a few words, that's what you mean, it's almost over, don't mention this matter without looking at other people's Jiaojiao and don't say anything......

Qin Zhaoyi quickly understood what Lu Jue meant, and immediately handed the plate with lotus cake to Bai Jiaojiao's eyes, and said in a soft voice: "Come, eat some lotus cake, Jiaojiao." This is made by me, and the Queen Mother has tasted it, and it tastes good. I've listened to it, so I've brought you some

Not <5

Bai Jiaojiao heard it clearly, Qin Zhaoyi said "I brought you some", not "I brought you some".

It can be seen that Xiao Jue may not like her, but because he is a filial man, he thinks that the future princess chosen for him by his mother is her, so he treats her well.

Thinking about it like this, Bai Jiaojiao immediately thought in her heart that maybe Su Xi's sister liked Lu Yu and could have a good result.

In order to promote the good deeds of Sister Su Xi and Lu Yu, she is willing to be kind to Qin Zhaoyi. At that time, find another opportunity to tell Qin Zhaoyi that someone is more suitable than her to be the princess of His Royal Highness the Second Prince.

Bai Jiaojiao smiled and raised her eyes to look at Qin Zhaoyi, stretched out her hand to hold the chopsticks, sandwiched a piece of pastry for Qin Zhaoyi, put it in the small porcelain bowl in front of Qin Zhaoyi, and said, "Zhaoyi Niangniang, thank you for sending the pastry, come, you can also taste it." ”

This is a pastry brought by Qin Zhaoyi herself, so it doesn't have to be like when she eats in the palace, and Qin Zhaoyi only eats it after letting the palace people try it.

Therefore, she dared to put the pastry directly in the bowl and invite Qin Zhaoyi to eat it.

Qin Zhaoyi hooked her lips and smiled, looking at Bai Jiaojiao with warm eyes, the more she looked at it, the more happy she became. It's just that she hasn't seen her for a few days, and when she sees Bai Jiaojiao again, she thinks in her heart that Bai Jiaojiao is like a different person.

It's no wonder that before this, she told Ju'er that he would marry Empress Dowager Bai's maiden relatives in the future, and when Bai Jiaojiao was a concubine, he looked loveless.

When she saw it at the time, she was very distressed. But he had to endure that heartache and patiently persuade Yu'er to be far-sighted and strategic.

can't affect his good future because he looks down on Bai Jiaojiao.

"Once upon a time, when Shiling was not married, I mentioned this to her biological parents. I was thinking, Zhou Xiangnai is the minister of humerus in the court, if you marry Shi Ling, you will be the commander of the future Weiyuan army. At that time, you can not only take charge of the forbidden army, but also mobilize the Weiyuan army, and the power is so great that no one can do it

And. ”

When Qin Zhaoyi said this, a trace of regret flashed in her eyes, and she said, "But when I went to mention this to Shiling's mother-in-law, she said that there are already people in Shiling's heart......"

As soon as Lu Ying heard this, the pair of sword eyebrows that were still locked before unconsciously stretched out slightly, and said, "Mother, Zhou Shiling has someone in her heart, so we should bless them well." That's a good thing. ”

"Jue'er, if you want to enter the East Palace, you must only marry the daughter of a military general. You see, Shiling has someone in her heart, the Yun family only has a few men, but there are no women, but General JL Shentu's family has two daughters, one is still young, and the other is often with her father and several brothers over there, and it is rare for me to see her mother. ”

Qin Zhaoyi's words were a little helpless.

Lu Jue smiled lightly and said, "Mother, isn't the child still an adult, and he is only seventeen years old this year?" Then when the child is an adult, the mother will look for a princess for the child. ”

"That's not good, you're about to become an adult, and you can't delay this. It's not that the mother concubine hasn't helped you consider other women, but there is really no one who is more suitable for you than Bai Jiaojiao. ”

When Qin Zhaoyi said this, she stretched out her hand and stroked Lu Jiao's back, and said, "Jue'er, if you don't look down on Bai Jiaojiao, you can marry a few side concubines according to your own wishes after marrying her." ”

"Mother, if the child marries Bai Jiaojiao and marries a few more concubines, General Bai will let the child go?" The corners of Lu Jue's lips curled up with a bitter arc, and said: "Then Bai Jiaojiao, marry early, marry late, the child has to marry a princess sooner or later." Although Bai Jiaojiao is too cowardly, she is General Bai's only concubine after all

Female ......"

Hearing Lu Yu's words, Qin Zhaoyi finally breathed a sigh of relief in her heart. As a mother, who doesn't want their children to have a good life?

She knew that Ling'er didn't look down on Bai Jiaojiao, but if she could think of a second suitable woman who could let Ling'er marry back as a princess, how could she persuade Ling'er,

Let him marry Bai Jiaojiao, who can't make him like?

On the outskirts of the Imperial City.

Qin Zhaoyi sat in the hall of Zhou Shiling's house, holding a bowl, and ate a piece of the pastry that Bai Jiaojiao sandwiched for her, only to see that Bai Jiaojiao was also eating the lotus cake she made, her eyes flashing with joy.

"Zhaoyi Niangniang, the lotus cakes you made are so delicious, can I keep these cakes and bring them over to Sister Shiling and Sister Su Xi to share later?"

Bai Jiaojiao asked with a sincere face.

I thought to myself, if my sister could eat the pastries made by the second prince's mother, I couldn't imagine how happy I would be.

Before Qin Zhaoyi could answer, Lu Jue immediately stepped forward, took the food box with pastries to Bai Jiaojiao, smiled happily, and said, "Jiaojiao, then you go and give it to Sister Shiling to eat, my mother and I will be here waiting for you to come back." ”

Bai Jiaojiao looked grateful, stretched out her hands to take the food box, and thanked Lu Dang and Qin Zhaoyi.

Then exited the hall and walked to the door of Zhou Shiling's bedroom, and was about to reach out and knock on the door, when she heard Su Xi's words: "In dealing with the matter of the Xiang family, the Shentu clan only considered it from the perspective of her husband Wan Ming, and did not take into account the feelings of others. What she said to the outside world was that the Xiang family was under house arrest, but I heard the second prince tell me that the Xiang family was likely to have been assassinated by the Shentu family. ”

Bai Jiaojiao knew that the Shentu clan that Su Xi was talking about was referring to General Shentu's cousin, that is, Bai Qingyun's maternal uncle.

She listened with bated breath, wondering what the reason why the Shentu clan spared no effort to deal with the Xiang clan.

Zhou Shiling's words came: "The Shentu clan loves Wan Ming very much, even if she really killed the Xiang clan, it was to help Wan Ming, so she did that." Xiang is dead, let's die, a restless woman, just let her live, can she live a good life? Besides, the child in her womb is gone, so it's no good for us to look for evidence.

What's the use of keeping her? ”

Su Xi said in a deep voice: "But Miss, Guo Xiaochi is a responsible person, if he hadn't married Xiang and came back, I'm afraid he wouldn't have encountered so many unlucky things." He really died too unjustly, although the emperor did not order to destroy Guo Xiaochi and the other three clans. But in the imperial city, they have also become sinners known to all......"

After thinking about it, I was going to leave the food box at the door and return to the living room.

But at this moment, Zhou Shiling's question came from her ears: "Is Jiaojiao's sister here?" ”

"Hmm." Bai Jiaojiao replied.

After all, Sister Shiling is a female general who has been training outside for so many years. Even if you are sitting in the house, you can sense that someone is coming from outside.

In Zhou Shiling's own words, that is, even if a fly flies by, she can feel it at the first time.

But when she was thinking about the problem, she ignored this point. Thinking of this, the corners of her lips couldn't help but curl up with embarrassment.

Today, what's wrong with you?

Didn't you just see Lu Yu's mother in the hall, Qin Zhaoyi?

Will it make your mind unable to be quiet, and thus affect your own thinking about other issues?

Bai Jiaojiao's eyes flashed a trace of embarrassment, and as soon as the door of Zhou Shiling's bedroom was opened, she hurriedly approached the room and handed the food box containing pastries to Su Xi with both hands.

"This is what Qin Zhaoyi asked me to send to you to taste, it is a lotus cake made by her own hands, and the Queen Mother has also tasted it, and she said it was not bad."