Click!

It was past curfew, and only the sound of horses' hooves echoed in the empty streets, and the atmosphere in the carriage was a little stiff.

Su Lou and Su Xian looked at Su Li with blank eyes, looking pitiful as if they had been tortured to extract a confession.

Su Li raised her eyebrows, not wanting to let them go at all.

Su Lou was the youngest and had the weakest psychological endurance, so he quickly couldn't bear it, and replied in a low voice: "Miss Lin is sick and confused, and she wants to be strong...... Kiss Hou Ye. ”

Forced kisses?

Su Lidai frowned slightly, her heart felt like she had been bitten by something, densely hurt, very unhappy, and felt that her private property had been touched.

Fortunately, Su Lou immediately added: "But Hou Ye had already noticed it, and directly stunned her, and didn't let her succeed!" ”

“……”

Su Li secretly breathed a sigh of relief, only then did she find that her palm was soaked in a thin layer of sweat, and she was very concerned about whether Lin Yueshuang had kissed Chu Huai'an.

Su Li's face was still tense, Su Xian was afraid that something bad would happen, and Chu Huai'an would kill them when he came back, so he hurriedly opened his mouth to show his loyalty to Chu Huai'an: "Sister doesn't need to care, Master Hou is the only one in his heart from beginning to end, how can the woman next to him not get into his eyes!" ”

"Really?"

Su Li replied lightly, and was already vigilant in her heart.

Su Xian and they are still young, they don't know how complicated the affairs of men and women are, Su Li has seen many drama books before, and has seen the different endings of Su Bangyue and Su Zhaoyue, of course, they can't pretend not to care, but they have to take this matter to heart.

Now that Lin Yueshuang is worried about her husband, she will definitely ask for something, if she doesn't take precautions in advance, can she still expect Chu Huai'an to sit still?

After making up her mind, Su Li's face calmed down, and she said softly: "I am about to marry Hou Ye, after marriage, husband and wife are one, the most important way to get along is to be honest, if there is anything, you should tell me, so as not to cause a gap between our husband and wife." ”

Su Li was not angry at all, Su Lou and Su Xian both relaxed, the two of them were thoughtful, and after a while, Su Lou asked in a low voice: "That...... Sister do you want to see the little master first? ”

“……”？？

Small...... Master?

Su Li's mind went blank for a moment, and she hesitated to speak: "You mean, when I was away, Chu Huai'an had a son?" ”

Su Lou: "......"

Su Xian: "......"

Su Xun: "......"

The eyes of the three of them were full of shock written at the same time, and their backs were cold, and they felt like they were being stared at by death.

Doesn't Sister know about this?

"How old is the child? Do you know who your birth mother is? ”

Su Li asked, and the three of them lowered their heads and pretended to be quails, and made up their minds not to say a word again.

Su Li knew what they were afraid of, so she didn't ask any more questions, and returned to the county lord's mansion in silence all the way.

As soon as she got out of the carriage, a delicate-looking round-faced girl stepped forward with a pink cloak: "Your Excellency is back!" ”

The little girl put the cloak on Su Li's shoulders as she spoke, although her face was round, but not big, it was very honest and cute, it looked a little familiar, Su Li was trying to recall, the little girl smiled and said: "Adults forgot, I am Qibao." ”

Shippo?

Su Li thought for a while, and finally remembered that she was a girl from the Hou Mansion, and she was raised in the courtyard of the Chu Liu family before.

"Master Hou thought I was still quite clever, so he transferred me to the county lord's mansion and asked me to serve my lord."

Qibao took the initiative to answer, Su Li was not surprised by this arrangement, for more than two years, that person was afraid that he had replaced the people in this mansion with his own.

"Adults are tired, come into the house and rest."

Qibao said enthusiastically, and Su Xun and the three of them followed behind and stopped talking, for fear that Qibao would not know the inside story and say something wrong.

Qibao's ability to observe words and emotions has improved a lot in the past two years, and since he noticed their abnormality, he quietly turned his head and exchanged glances with them: What's wrong with you? Got an adult angry?

The three of them shook their heads again and again, and kept gesturing in their hands, Qibao didn't know what it meant, Su Li suddenly opened his mouth and ordered: "It's not early, you go back to rest first, although I am now your sister in name, I still have to take care of the defense of men and women." ”

The three of them were taken aback, and they all straightened their backs and tensed their bodies: "Yes!" Follow Sister's teachings! ”

The three of them left in a hurry, and Qibao also suppressed his doubts and followed Su Li back to the house, where hot water and fumigation medicine had already been prepared.

After Su Li finished washing, Qibao squatted down to help Su Li massage the crook of her legs.

"Master Hou said that winter is coming, and he must help adults take care of their knees, and he has already sent a letter back to Beijing, instructing Qibao to find a doctor from Tai Hospital to learn massage techniques, what do you think?"

Qibao raised his head and asked, looking at Su Li with sparkling eyes, looking forward to it.

This appearance overlapped a little with the nucleus in Su Li's memory, Su Li's eyes flashed slightly, and she smiled gently: "Very good, thank you." ”

Qibao didn't expect Su Li to be so gentle, and thanked her, her heart beat faster for a while, her little face was a little red, and she couldn't help but praise in a whisper: "My lord, you are so gentle." ”

She had only met Su Li a few times in the Hou Mansion before, and at that time she was closer to Sizhu, and she always felt that Su Li and them were not together, but now that she was close to each other, she found that Su Li was much easier to get along with than she remembered.

Qibao didn't know that this sentence had often been on his lips before, and he felt that Su Li was the most gentle, kind and intelligent woman in the world.

Su Li was dazzled by her words, and this room was the boudoir she lived in before, so her eyes turned red unconsciously.

"My lord, did Shippo say the wrong thing?"

Qibao was at a loss, Su Li came back to her senses, and lowered her eyes to collect her emotions: "No, I just remembered some old things." ”

The red in the corners of Su Li's eyes faded, Qibao didn't dare to speak casually anymore, the stuffy boy carefully helped her massage, and after pressing, he helped Su Li scoop up a cotton pad and cover it on her knees with a hot compress.

She had been doing this for a while, and the tingling pain in her knees had lessened a lot, and Su Li's brows furrowed, remembering what had happened in the carriage before.

"I heard that there is a young master in the Hou Mansion?"

"Well, yes! The little young master is very smart, and he will be able to see him when the adults and the Hou Ye get married! "Qibao doesn't think as much as Su Xun, and they will answer all questions.

"How old is that little master? Who is the birth mother? ”

Su Li continued to ask, after drinking some wine at night, coupled with medicinal properties to help sleep, she gradually became sleepy, and Qibao covered the lampshade when she saw this, making the candlelight in the room dimer.

"The little young master is almost three years old, and he was brought home from the northwest by the Hou Ye, and the Hou Ye didn't say who the little young master's biological mother was."

Brought back from the Northwest? Isn't it an orphan entrusted by a soldier in the army??

Su Li guessed, Qibao thought seriously for a while, and said with some hesitation: "By the way, the little young master is ...... gave birth to a yin and yang face. ”

Su Li immediately opened her eyes, and she was completely sleepy.

She had heard from the play book that people with yin and yang faces can see ghosts and gods, but in real life, she has only seen one person with a yin and yang face.

The kid ...... It's Su Bangyue's flesh and blood!

Su Li vaguely knew what was going on, and still asked Qibao for confirmation: "Your Majesty sent the eldest prince out of the palace to recuperate before, and now you can take it back?" ”

"Well, on Chinese New Year's Eve last year, His Majesty sent someone to bring the prince back, because Concubine Su died of illness, and now he is raised under the knees of Concubine An, listen to them, in two or three years, His Majesty will probably make Concubine An Guifei the queen!"

And so it was!

Su Li didn't listen to Qibao's words, she only knew that Chu Lingzhao said that sending the prince out of the palace for recuperation was just an excuse, and he obviously took the opportunity to transfer the child.

Even if the prince with a natural yin and yang face has royal blood flowing on his body, he cannot inherit the throne, what Chu Lingzhao wants is a healthy and intelligent prince.

But fortunately, he also kept his promise and did not put his closest relatives to death.

"Master Hou can name the little master?"

“…… Yes. Qibao said hesitantly, the expression on his face was a little strange, and he held back a sentence for a while: "Master Hou called Little Master Chugua and said that he was a fool." ”

“……”

What's the name? is named like this, does he want to be a father in the future?

Su Li twitched the corners of her eyes speechlessly, secretly thinking that she would discuss it with Chu Huai'an after a while and change the child's name to a better one.

Just as he was thinking, someone knocked on the window twice.

"Who!?"

Shippo shouted nervously, there was no movement outside the window, Shippo grabbed the vase on the side and carefully moved it to the window, and pushed the window open suddenly, only to find that there was no one outside, only the faint aroma of wine had not yet completely drifted away.

"My lord, a drunkard has broken in!"

Qibao turned his head and was about to run out to call someone, but was stopped by Su Li: "It's not a drunkard, it's Master Hou." ”

"Huh? How do adults know it's Hou Ye? ”

“……”

Su Li was asked, she couldn't say that Chu Huai'an used to like to come in over the wall to find her, she could understand what he meant by knocking on the window.

Su Li didn't answer Qibao or ask questions, she knew in a daze that there was a special kind of window knocking code between Su Li and Hou Ye.

After steaming his legs, Qibao took the bucket and retreated, Su Li quickly fell asleep, and was woken up by Qibao early the next morning.

"My lord, someone from the palace has arrived!"

Qibao said anxiously, a little scared, Su Li washed up and got dressed and went out, and found that it was Mama Jiaoxi from the palace.

These Mama Xi are the most well-behaved, and those with a little status will ask Mama Xi to teach their daughters before marrying their daughters, so as not to go to their in-laws' house and lose their parents' face.

Mama Xi is in charge of the palace maids in the palace, and she has polished a face that is not smiling and frightening for decades, Qibao has never entered the palace, and she can't bear the aura of Mama Xi, and she is so frightened that she is uneasy.

"The old slave greets the county lord and greets the county lord!"

Mama's thoughtful salute and loud voice are loud, and at first glance it is a style that only exists in the palace.

Qibao's eyes widened, the Hou Mansion had never been very strict with her subordinates, and it was the first time she had seen someone behave so standardly.

"Hello, Mama." Su Li bowed back, and when she saw that the sun was already high, she explained embarrassedly: "I slept a little late when I came back from the banquet yesterday, and I accidentally got up late today, so please don't be surprised." ”

"The county lord didn't let the women shave their eyebrows, and they were tired all the way, which was really hard, and the old slave didn't dare to blame the county lord."

Mama softened her tone, in fact, no one wanted to take this errand at first.

Su Li's reputation is well-known in Beijing, she is not like ordinary women who embroider and play the piano at home, she has killed people on the battlefield, and the Marquis of Xiaoyao regards her more than her eyeballs, and whoever takes this errand will not get any good fruit.

After all, teaching and learning will inevitably reprimand and punish, in order to teach well to offend Lord Hou and the future Mrs. Hou, this thing is not worth it, if you don't teach well, it will ruin your reputation, after it spreads, which family in Beijing will marry your daughter and still look for you? Even if you return to the palace, you will also be looked down upon.

Mama was bitter in her heart, but she didn't show it on her face.

Su Li asked someone to bring breakfast over and persuaded Mama twice, but Mama insisted on refusing to eat at the same table with her, and Su Li no longer insisted.

Because of the grandmother watching from the side, Su Li carefully recalled the rules she had learned before, and it was rare to eat slowly and methodically.

This slowness is also relative to her usual eating in the barracks, which is actually quite fast.

Mama frowned slightly, although Su Li's movements looked very elegant, there was nothing too wrong, it was still not good to eat so fast after all.

"As the old saying goes, eating should be chewed and swallowed slowly, which is good for the body, and the county lord will become a relative in the future, and the guests at home will be embarrassed if they eat so quickly."

Mama's tone softened, it was probably the first time to teach someone so softly, and the words she said were a little awkward.

Su Li knew that she was doing it for her own good, and sincerely apologized: "I'm sorry, I'm used to it in the army, and I will pay attention to it in the future." ”

"It's good that the county lord can take it to heart."

After eating, Mama checked Su Li from all aspects of clothing, food, housing and transportation, Su Li except for the fact that she is walking too big now and looks too manly, there are no major problems in other aspects.

"Before I came, I thought that the county lord had forgotten these etiquettes, but now it seems that the old slave is too worried."

Mama breathed a sigh of relief, and Su Li smiled silently.

She was only seven years old when she learned these rites, which was the best age to rebel.

She refuses to be obedient well, she is always punished to kneel, and sometimes she will be punished by kneeling with the second sister, and if she kneels too much, those etiquettes seem to be engraved into her bones, no matter how long it has passed, she can't forget it.

In the afternoon, Mama trained Su Li to walk, to move slightly, and to be graceful.

Xu felt that Su Li was a good person, and Mama also taught her with her heart, telling her that she should not be too subtle and introverted after getting married, and that she should make herself move like a willow, and everything was not beautiful, so that she could be in love with her husband for a long time.

These words should actually be told to Su Li by her mother or sister and sister-in-law, but now that there is no one, she can only tell Su Li by her grandmother.

Su Li blushed a little, but she still thanked Mama.

Until the evening, Su Li's legs hurt a little, and after eating, Mama didn't let Su Li practice walking, but asked people to carry hot water to bathe Su Li, and the water put petals and essential oils, and the fragrance of flowers was overflowing.

Waiting for Su Li to sit in the bathtub, Mama started to help Su Li massage her body, Su Li was not used to this kind of contact, and subconsciously wanted to hide, Mama saw the staggered scars on her back and exclaimed: "Why are there so many injuries on the girl's body?" ”

Mama is also well-informed in the palace, but it is the first time she has seen such a dense and terrifying scar.

"I was accidentally injured before, but it doesn't hurt anymore, so there's no need to panic."

Obviously, she was the one who was hurt, but in the end, she comforted others.

"Everyone else said that the girl was a strange woman, not inferior to the man, I really saw these injuries, and I knew that none of those words were exaggerated, and the girl had suffered all these years!" Mama choked up.

She has been in the palace all her life and has not had children, but she also knows that even ordinary people will never see their daughter suffer so many injuries.

"It's all over, and with the Hou Ye here in the future, I won't be asked to suffer."

Su Li whispered, for Mama, and for herself.

Mama nodded yes, helped Su Li massage more and more attentively, and at the same time taught Su Li a lot of ways to maintain her appearance, and let her bathe like this every day for the past few days.

Su Li didn't doubt Mama's words at all, and carefully wrote down those methods, hoping that she could marry Chu Huai'an in the best possible way.

After taking a bath, Su Li changed into a middle coat, and Mama helped Su Li touch the hair oil to take care of her hair, and praised her hair quality again.

I haven't been so delicate for a long time, sitting in front of the bronze mirror, Su Li's whole person is still in a trance.

In the near future, she will marry Chu Huai'an, and from now on, she will be his wife, and she will respect him like a guest, Qin Se and Ming.

After doing skin care, Mama didn't retreat, let Su Li put on her coat, and went to the warehouse with her.

The 100,000 taels of silver that were put in the treasury before were later let Wen Ling take it for trading, in Su Li's memory, there were no valuable things in it, Su Li thought that Mama was going to teach her how to manage the expenses of the government in the future, but after the door of the treasury was pushed open, the whole person was stunned.

Su Li hasn't been there for nearly two years, but the warehouse hasn't fallen into dust, and it is obvious that someone has been cleaning here.

In the huge warehouse, there are all kinds of precious jade, ginseng and deer antler velvet and more than a dozen boxes full of gold and silver, which are dazzling to see, but the most eye-catching thing is the complicated and gorgeous wedding dress in the center of the warehouse.

The wedding dress is propped up by a one-person high wooden frame, the sleeves are wide, all embroidered with gold silk mandarin duck dark patterns, and the collar mouth and skirt of the dress are full of light, which is too beautiful to speak.

And there is still a large blank space on the chest and waist of the clothes.

The bride's wedding dress is to be embroidered by herself.

"This is the wedding dress prepared by the Hou Ye for the girl, the girl has worked hard these days, so embroider the pattern by herself."

Mama whispered, Su Li looked at the wedding dress in a daze and didn't come back to her senses, as if there was an attraction invisibly, Su Li walked over step by step, and her hand touched the silky wedding dress material, so she had a little sense of reality.

"Do you know when this wedding dress was prepared?"

Su Li asked softly, and Mama shook her head: "The old slave doesn't know, but this wedding dress is snow silk, which is a very precious tribute, and even His Majesty only used this material to make a set of clothes, and it should have taken a lot of effort for the Hou Ye to find this for the girl." ”

What he gave her was naturally the best, no wonder he was so angry yesterday and refused to intervene with the officials of the Ministry of Rites.

Su Li looked at the wedding dress, and the corners of her lips rose uncontrollably.

She was very happy to marry him.

That night, Su Li painted the pattern of the wedding dress, and it was not a few days before the day of marriage, Su Li did not design the pattern too complicated, so as not to delay the embroidery.

The next day, Su Li got up early in the morning and was about to go to the warehouse to start embroidering the wedding dress, but she didn't want to scare Qibao who came in to serve her to wash.

Su Li had a rash all over her body, especially on her face, with dense red spots, and it didn't take long for her to itch.

Su Li knew that it was powerful, so she didn't dare to scratch casually, and she didn't dare to make a noise at will, for fear that Chu Huai'an would make a big fuss, so she asked Qibao to send a worship post into the palace for Yue Yan.

On the post, Su Li said that she wanted Yue Yan to help her choose the jewelry for the wedding day, Yue Yan quickly left the palace, and when she arrived at the house, Su Li's whole person was already swollen, and her face was so swollen that she couldn't see it, Yue Yan was taken aback.

"What's going on?"

Yue Yan asked and put her hand on Su Li's hand to check her pulse, and after a while, her face was gloomy: "What strange things has Ah Li been exposed to these days?" ”

"The food and clothing are all the same, but I listened to my grandmother's words and sprinkled some petals when I took a bath, and there was a wedding dress made of snow silk in the storeroom." Su Li replied clearly, and asked half-jokingly: "Isn't it that I am destined to fight against that silk?" ”

"It's not a mutual restraint." Yue Yan's expression was serious: "It's poisoning!" ”

Su Li was not surprised, and tried to open her eyes and said to the grandmother: "Please silently show the things you have used these days to the county lord." ”

Mama was so frightened that her face turned pale, and she hurriedly asked people to hand over all the things she brought out of the palace to Yue Yan for inspection.

"County lord, the old slave has been in the palace for many years, and the brides he has taught are not one or two, which things can't be mixed together, the old slave is all in mind, and it will definitely not be harmful to the girl!"

Mama knelt down and defended herself loudly, and she broke out in a cold sweat.

"Don't worry, Mama, I've gotten along well with you in the past two days, and I won't suspect you, these things are under the system of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, if there is a problem, there are so many people who handle it, and I will never directly detain the charge on your head."

Su Li comforted Mama, feeling that Mama had no reason to do it to herself.

Yue Yan opened those things and examined them one by one, and after checking them, his brows furrowed even tighter.

"These things are non-toxic and don't cause any harm to the body."

Everything is non-toxic, so how can Su Li be poisoned?

Yue Yan was puzzled, Mama breathed a sigh of relief beside her, and heard Su Li ask: "Mama, these things are all used for marriage, but one or two things have only been added to it in the past two years?" ”

Su Li asked, Mama frowned and thought carefully, and said after a long time: "There is such a thing, although His Majesty ordered to prohibit marriage, but the things used by the nobles in Beijing have never been less, at the beginning of the year, the three girls of the Zhao family used a pear white paste, which was prepared with pear flower pollen and honey before the Qingming Dynasty, and it had the effect of rejuvenating and toning on the body, and the girls in Beijing were using it, and several palace maids under the old slave were also using it, and the effect was very good, and the old slave wanted to add it to the girl for use." ”

The more Mama talked, the more annoyed she became, and she almost decided that she had tried pear white cream to cause Su Li to become like this.

Su Li didn't react much, judging from Mama's answer, it didn't look like someone was deliberately trying to harm her.

"Let's think about the reason behind it later, sister, help me take a look, I'm going to itch to death."

Su Li couldn't help but say that she had endured it for a long time, and her whole body was itching uncomfortably at this moment, but she heard Yue Yan's guilty and anxious voice: "Ah Li, I haven't seen what kind of poison you have, and I don't know how to detoxify." ”