073:Past Events (2)
Nalan Jinxiu is with such an aura, with her noble and unparalleled title, with the ten-mile red makeup purchased for her by Nalan Mansion, step by step out of the pure and childish girl world, to the man she loves, this autumn's new champion - Zong Xuanyi.
It was a nameless white dress, but it suddenly hit the top of the list, like a pearl unearthed, blooming like a peach and plum, and the luster can no longer be buried.
This is a good marriage for a talented woman, she is married to the ninth brother she liked at the beginning of her love, and he is married to a girl who has always admired his demeanor and bearing. Nalan Jinxiu and Zong Xuanyi are a match made in heaven in terms of appearance.
Speaking of the Zong family, people have to regret that there have been three auxiliary ministers and one concubine. It's a pity that two years ago, the head of the Zong family, when Zong Yunzhi, the right minister of the dynasty, was suspected of colluding with foreign countries and attempting to rebel, the Son of Heaven was furious, and the Zong family overturned.
To say that Zong Xuanyi survived and was not exiled to a wild land, there are no more than two reasons. One is that he is not from a high background, and his biological mother is a lowly singer, although he is deeply loved by Zong Yunzhi, he can only be raised outside and cannot enter the sect's family.
The second is to rely on Nalan Yanzhang, and it is rumored that Nalan Yanzhang is devoted to Zong Xuanyi's biological mother, but unfortunately he couldn't get it, so he paid special attention to Zong Xuanyi, and kept him teaching Nalan Jinxiu homework, which also gave them the love of childhood sweethearts.
Although Nalan Yanzhang has a noble status, he is a person who does not like women, he has only married one wife in his life, there is no concubine, and there is only this one daughter under his knees, so he is naturally a collection of thousands of favors. Zong Xuanyi married her because he got the support of Nalan Yanzhang, and the future is bound to be bright.
On the wedding night, the red clothes were like xia, the beauty was like jade, and the light lead was thick with heavy makeup. Nalan Jinxiu, who was dressed in a red wedding dress, sat in front of the bookcase, half-leaning on Zong Xuanyi's arms, and his slender jade fingers pinched a tube of sheep's hair.
Zong Xuanyi, who was behind him, shook her hand and replied: I wish to have one heart, and my head will not be separated.
A smile appeared on her delicate lips like a rose, and she looked at him with her cheeks half up, and asked very childishly, "Brother Jiu, will we always be together?"
"Yes. He replied firmly.
"Will you always like me?"
"Yes. ”
"Then will you have three wives and four concubines, marry a group of women and go home?"
"No, it won't. ”
She smiled brightly, with the innocence of a girl: "Why are you so smart, you can't be stunned like this?"
He stretched out his hand to caress her eyebrows as beautiful as the water moon in the south of the Yangtze River, and said in a doting tone: "That's because you're too stupid to know anything......"
"Why, haven't you always complimented me on being smart?"
He chuckled, "I'm making you happy." ”
"Then why don't you coax me now?"
"Don't coax, silly girl, I think you can understand that you will only marry this one time in this life, and you are the only wife. ”
She looked up at his warm eyebrows, and her heart became more and more dependent. Her ninth brother, a man who is eighteen years old but has never married, has been waiting for her to grow up and marry her, he will be her lover, and he will definitely be.
After marriage, Zong Xuanyi did it, and after Nalan Jinxiu married into the Zong family, he was always carefree under his wings. In addition to greeting Mrs. Zong every morning, the rest of the time is always studying medical skills and taking care of medicinal materials in the huge medicine garden of the Zong family.
She never feels depressed in the boudoir, and her husband will take her out of the house. At that time, he was already in the position of the second rank of the imperial court, but he took her to shuttle through the market, mingling among the common people, and never shied away.
Occasionally, I was met by my colleagues, and when I saw the most well-behaved Ministry of Etiquette, holding all kinds of nut snacks in one hand and his wife in the other, I always had to be teased a few words.
He smiled lightly and chatted calmly, but his wife was not a master who could be born in peace, and soon he would come over to take his sleeve, and whispered with bright eyes: "Brother Jiu, there is something fun over there." ”
He would take out a small packet of nuts and gently reply, "Go and wait for me in the car first, and I'll take you there later." ”
After a while, there will be a little girl coming over, attaching something to Zong Xuanyi's ear, he smiled in his eyes, said goodbye to people lightly, went to the place where the flow of people was most concentrated, and took her hand.
"Didn't you go to the car and wait for me?
She didn't speak, only looked up at him and smiled sweetly, as bright and pretty as a spring peach, which instantly made his heart flutter. Half-grabbed her, held her to his chest, and watched the juggling show while preventing his wife from suddenly raising her head and hitting his chin.
After a woman gets married, the change is the greatest, just like flowers, under the precipitation of the years, some are dignified, some are charming, some are majestic, and some are gradually withering, but she is always as innocent and beautiful as a girl.
Many people envy her for her peerless appearance, noble status, and the ability to find a wishful husband, but they don't know that their big wedding is just the beginning of Zong Xuanyi's work as a cold-blooded politician.
In the next few years, Nalan Jinxiu witnessed him use the Nalan family as a springboard to devour the Nalan family step by step and replace it. Until the official residence is a product, not only with heavy troops but also in control of the cabinet, he has become the youngest minister in Daning, and his power is overwhelming.
Four years after marriage, Nalan Jinxiu discovered that the past love was like smoke and dust, and everything was Zong Xuanyi's play.
The Nalan family gradually lost power, and Nalan Yanzhang changed from a taifu to a prisoner, a Nalan clan and a servant, exiled and sold. The people who were attached to them at the beginning no longer want to have anything to do with them, and even avoided them like snakes and scorpions, and some began to trample on them.
This change in the current situation made Nalan Jinxiu, who was pampered in the deep boudoir, deeply feel what it means to be in the hot and cold world. The subordinates of the Zong family called her Mrs. in front of her, but the words about her behind her back were hard to hear. Also, she has been married for four years and has nothing to do, she thinks she has excellent medical skills, but she can't diagnose the reason.
What infertility means to a woman, she knows very well. Mrs. Zong has already wanted to take concubines for Zong Xuanyi more than once, and women must obey the female precepts and female virtues, even if she has thousands of reluctances in her heart, she can only echo it, and then be silent.
Zong Xuanyi didn't care much about this, he didn't plan to take a concubine at all, or he wasn't interested in anything other than power, of course, including the love of children.
At first, she begged him, who was in a high position, to save his father and save the Nalan family. Whenever that time, he was always very silent, and a pair of warm eyes gradually rose to a sharp color, and then, naturally, it was gone.
"I can only protect you from being implicated, and I can't do anything else. It was his comfort when he saw her bow her head, weak and helpless.
She was disheartened and became more and more silent, almost forgetting what it was like to be happy, and gradually seeing through something. Love in the world is such a thing, dispensable, she is not stupid, she just never sees it clearly.
She thought that she had lost everything she could lose, so it seemed that there was nothing wrong with doing this, Mrs. Zong, the wife of Zong Xuanyi, the prime minister of the dynasty, and living in a mess. But fate always seems to be playing tricks on people, she still hears what she shouldn't hear, sees what she shouldn't see, and knows what she shouldn't know.
"You can successfully bring down Nalan Yanzhang and become this powerful Xiangguo, isn't it that I sacrificed everything to help you accomplish it?"
"What do you want?"
"I think you divorced her. ”
"I've allowed you to poison her diet, and she won't be able to have children in her life, and you're still not satisfied?"
"As long as he is still your Zong Xuanyi's wife, I will not be satisfied!"
"Oh?" he said lightly, and there was no joy or anger in his tone: "If she is not my wife, then who should my lady be?
Nalan was like falling into an ice cave, she hoped that she had heard it wrong, and hoped that there was someone in this world who spoke in the same voice as Zong Xuanyi. But her eyes don't deceive, she still clearly sees him in a plain white robe and the extravagant Concubine Liu.
She knew that Liu Jingxian liked Zong Xuanyi when she didn't enter the palace before, and she liked it very much, and she couldn't help but ask him: "Brother Jiu, do you also like Miss Liu?"
His handsome and warm eyebrows gradually frowned, and he replied coldly: "I don't like it!"
She was still young at the time, and she didn't know much about the relationship between men and women, and she didn't know that the daughter of the household department Shangshu had been promised to the prince early on, and she was the one who wanted to be the prince's side concubine. Royal majesty, which of the selected women can escape? I didn't have the mood I have now, and after listening to his answer, I thought that he really didn't like Liu Jingxian, so I happily pulled his sleeve and said, "Well, Brother Jiu doesn't like her, he likes me." ”
Looking back now, how ironic is Nalan Jinxiu closed his eyes, and his heart seemed to be poured into the cold wind, bringing a chill and a slight cold pain to the bone.
It turned out that it was not that she couldn't have children, but that she was poisoned, no wonder she was proficient in medical skills but couldn't diagnose any diseases; it turned out that her ninth brother didn't just like power, but the woman she really liked had married a wife, or a concubine who favored the harem, and he couldn't get it.
It turns out that he is not a good person.
Later, Concubine Liu left and Chen Xin came. Zong Xuanyi's most powerful subordinates have six, respectively in the name of benevolence, loyalty, righteousness, etiquette, wisdom and faith, complementary personalities, civil and military merger, and no one knows the background except for Zong Xuanyi himself.
"Ninth Master, the person you are looking for has been found by your subordinates. ”
"Did you try?"
"A hundred steps through the Yang, the arrow is not missing. ”
"I want nothing to go wrong, not to make any mistakes. ”
"Don't worry, it's about the life of the lady, and the subordinates have tried many times, and the score is exactly right. ”
Zong Xuanyi said lightly: "That's good." ”
Nalan Jinxiu didn't know what a divine archer would have to do with her own life, and it wasn't until the saint wanted to pay tribute to the emperor and asked the court officials above the second rank to bring their families into the palace that she faintly realized what was going to happen. The king of Zhenbei, who has made great military achievements, has returned, he and Zong Xuanyi have always been at odds, perhaps, he wants to use her to do something and exclude dissidents.