The fourth princess gently held Gu Nian's hand and continued sincerely, "I am a little virtuous, but I still have that bit of tolerance, as long as you nod, I will never wronged you in the future."

In the future, we will be like sisters, serve the prince, share the wealth, if you have any concerns, I will do my best to help you. ”

After speaking, the four princesses bowed to the princess in a panic,

"Auntie, it's all my fault for being open-mouthed, my nephew and daughter-in-law really like my sister so much, I can't wait to take it home now......"

Gu Nian was silent, the eldest princess of the protector looked at the four princesses with a pale face, and Zhou Yuyan wanted to jump up and scold if she wanted to.

But he actually said this in front of the princess of the protector.

It's just a princess, and she dared to bully her.

Just when she wanted someone to drive the four princesses out, Gu Nian glanced at the eldest princess of the country soothingly, then took Zhou Yuyan's hand, and said to the four princesses with a smile,

"Princess, you really exalted me like this, but I was stupid and couldn't understand what you said.

My mother only has one daughter, and I have cousins, cousins, and I really don't know why I call you my sister.

My grandmother raised me with hard work, my father treated me as a pearl in his palm, and my cousin regarded me as a sister.

You should have heard that you would rather be a poor wife than a noble concubine.

My father and my mother Qin Se and Ming, not to mention that when my mother was alive, even if my mother was gone, I didn't want to take a concubine,

My father said that although there are many women in the world, he only respects her and loves her in his heart, how can he be willing to take the woman next to him to wronged her.

Everyone in the capital knows the good name of the princess, and your words made me feel something.

The princess is really a model among women, which makes us look up to it, and it turns out that people can be said to be so high-sounding. ”

Gu Nian didn't let the eldest princess get angry, but also to leave a glimmer of leeway, if she said it, it could be said that the little girl was talking nonsense.

In case the princess of the protector makes a move, it will not be good in the end.

The fourth princess was still smiling with a dignified smile at first, her face slowly stiffened, and the two earlobes began to reddened faintly, and she reached out and touched the earrings that fell next to her ears.

She barely kept a smile, "It's just my hope, it's all my fault, I can't speak, aunt, sister, I'm sorry." ”

The eldest princess didn't speak, but Gu Nian said, "Princess, in fact, I want to call you 'cousin', this generation, you still have to make it clear."

People are terrible, if the reputation of the prince and the princess is tarnished because of the niece, the courtiers will be to blame."

The fourth princess gritted her teeth, and when she began to mention her parents, she seemed to be stabbed, even if her words inadvertently stepped on her sore spot, she suddenly heard Gu Nian talk about the matter of seniority, and suddenly felt cold sweat wet her back.

She dared to say those words in front of the eldest princess of the country, naturally she had to rely on it, and it was originally the fourth prince who asked her to come to the mansion.

I never thought that Gu Nian would dare to reprimand herself like this, and she couldn't get off the stage for a while, but fortunately, she was also thick-skinned.

Her heart was full of fire, and she said goodbye to the princess with a calm face and returned home.

The eldest princess of the country waited until the fourth princess left, and her anger finally calmed down, sneering again and again, she was used to calming her anger, and it was extremely rare to be so angry as today.

"She really dares to say, being a concubine? I don't necessarily agree to be a princess, but when I'm old now, I'm useless? ”

"Don't be angry, it's not worth it." Gu Nian pressed it on the shoulder of the eldest princess of the country, and her eyes narrowed, "Even if it is really the meaning of the fourth prince, the emperor will definitely not agree." ”

The anger of the eldest princess slowly dissipated, she reached out and patted Gu Nian's hand, and said angrily, "You kid, you are too calm, no, I still have to go to the palace tomorrow." ”

Gu Nian smiled slightly, although Emperor Yongping doted on the four princes and gave him a lot of things that did not belong to him, but Emperor Yongping was not mediocre, and he would definitely not accept her from the four princes.

Daddy is the emperor's confidant, how could he let her be a concubine? If it is a princess, it is still possible.

Zhou Yuyan muttered angrily on the side, "She likes to let people be concubines, why don't she welcome her sisters to the palace." ”

Gu Nian's lips bent slightly, and he smiled, his eyes bright.

*

After appeasing the eldest princess of the country, Gu Nian retreated, Zhou Yuyan continued to go back to the courtyard to embroider the dowry shyly, and after separating from Zhou Yuyan with a smile, Astragalus quietly stepped forward and said,

"Girl, the prince is waiting for us in the Deyue Tower."

Gu Nian couldn't think of any excuse to go out of the house, so after thinking about it, he went back to the courtyard, picked up a painting that needed to be framed, put the astragalus in a box, and asked Ah Jing to stay in the courtyard, and took the astragalus to the courtyard of the princess who protected the country.

As I passed through the garden, I saw a slender figure standing under a loquat tree, looking up at the loquat trees that had not yet completely turned yellow.

Hearing footsteps behind him, he slowly turned around, it was Zhou Yuxuan.

Gu Nian's footsteps paused, after the two dissolved the marriage contract, in order to avoid suspicion, even if they were in the same mansion, it was rare for the two to see each other.

"Nian Nian." Zhou Yuxuan called out gently.

Gu Nian stopped, with a smile on his face, blessed Zhou Yuxuan, and said, "Cousin, don't delay your spending, I'll go to my grandmother's for something." ”

Zhou Yuxuan kept looking at her, as if she couldn't see enough of it, and Gu Nian couldn't slip away even if she wanted to.

"Cousin, how are you doing lately?" I have nothing to say, I can only find something to say.

Zhou Yuxuan smiled slightly and said, "It's still like that, thank you cousin for your concern." ”

There was silence between the two again, and when Gu Nian wanted to say goodbye and leave again, Zhou Yuxuan said abruptly, "Cousin, even if we can't be husband and wife, we are still brothers and sisters, we are relatives, we can't be like this for the rest of our lives." ”

Gu Nian was silent, if not, then what is it? It is impossible for her to act as if nothing had happened, and to talk and laugh with Zhou Yuxuan.

But to ignore him completely, it hurt the relationship between the two of them, so she usually avoided Zhou Yuxuan as much as possible, and if she could, she wouldn't see it.

Zhou Yuxuan sighed and said quietly, "You...... No matter who you are, you are my cousin, and you have to live a good life. ”

Gu Nian nodded, "I came to this world once to live a good life." ”

Otherwise, how to be worthy of doing it again and again.

After speaking, she blessed Zhou Yuxuan, turned her head and left.

Zhou Yuxuan looked at the back of Gu Nian leaving, bent down and coughed, and then raised his head, and the dirt on the ground was wet for a while.

Gu Nian walked quickly to the courtyard of the eldest princess of the country, quickly entered the inner room, and said to the eldest princess of the protector coquettishly,

"Grandmother, I want to go to the street, and I have a painting that I want to frame."

Seeing her rolling around on her like this, the eldest princess of the protector suddenly couldn't stand it, "If you want to frame the painting, you can hand it over to the next person, and you have to go by yourself to do something." ”

"Where can the subordinates make my request clear." Gu Nian muttered.

In the end, the eldest princess of the protector couldn't stand it, "Okay, good, good, go, but you have to bring enough people, you used to have a Mama Chen by your side, but now there is no old and stable one." I think I'd better dial Mama Su to you. ”

When Gu Nian heard this, he hurriedly jumped up and said continuously, "I don't want it, Mama Su has been waiting for you all your life, why give it to me." ”

After saying that, she left the courtyard of the eldest princess as if she had fled, and went straight to Deyue Tower after leaving the house.

As soon as the carriage arrived downstairs at Deyue Tower, Gu Nian got down from the carriage and saw Xiao Yue standing in front of the window on the second floor.

When she saw the voice of him standing far away on the second floor, she felt strange in her heart, and she had a feeling of waiting for the beautiful woman to return.

One of the two was upstairs and the other was downstairs for a while, Xiao Yue didn't move at all upstairs, Gu Nian looked around, and hurriedly walked in with his skirt.

Just walked to the door, Gu Nian actually met the Taoist priest Zhang Yiping who had helped Gu Shi'an.

After Zhang Yiping was almost falsely accused last time, he also approached Gu Shi'an and said that he wanted to see Gu Nian, but he was blocked by Gu Shi'an, and when he was able to see Gu Nian at this moment, he immediately stepped forward.

"I talked to Master Gu a few times that I wanted to see the girl, but I didn't have the opportunity to see her, but I was fortunate to see it today, I wonder if I can say a few words to the girl alone?"

Gu Nian took a few steps forward, raised his eyebrows, and said slowly, "I don't know what the Taoist master has to say?" ”

Zhang Yiping insisted on talking to Gu Nian alone, Gu Nian turned his head and told Huang Qi to go upstairs to talk to Xiao Yue, and followed Zhang Yiping to another private room.

After the two of them sat down, Gu Nian bowed slightly, "Now you can talk about it." ”

Zhang Yiping looked at her carefully a few times, then leaned closer to stare at her face and looked at her carefully for a while, then slowly shook his head and said,

"I can't be mistaken, you have long been dead, you should have died a long time ago, but now you are standing in front of me alive, could it be that someone changed your life against the sky and failed to renew your life?"

Gu Nian pursed his lips and said coldly, "Don't you think what Dao Leader said is nonsense? What is going against the sky to change one's life and continue one's life, this girl can't understand. ”

Zhang Yiping was still unbelievable, and calculated for a long time, with an unbelievable expression on his face,

"I can't be mistaken, your natal astrolabe has run out of qi, and it stands to reason that it is impossible to live well."

Gu Nian thought of the old monk he met when he was a child, his heart moved, and he said tentatively,

"The Taoist chief is not afraid of leaking the heavenly secret and being punished by God?

It's just that I often dream, the person in the dream is me, and the life I live in the dream is different from the me outside the dream.

Sometimes I can't tell if I'm in a dream or out of a dream. ”

She said this with a little sarcasm, and every time she reworked she felt like she was in a dream, not knowing whether it was true or false.

She saw that Zhang Yiping was deep in thought, and said slowly, "I don't know if the chief can help this girl answer one or two, what is the reason for this?" ”

Zhang Yiping glanced up at her, shook his head, and said, "Every person who learns hexagrams must make an oath before studying.

There are three things not to say in life, not to say about the emperor who is widely implicated, if you are not careful, it is a major event to lose your head, and the second is not to say about the dying person, and it is futile to say it.

The third is the abnormal thing, the abnormal is a demon, and it is said that it will be punished by heaven. ”

Gu Nian hooked her lips, but no, the old monk was injured in his foot, she raised her eyebrows and asked, "In that case, why are you so persistent in talking to me alone?" ”

Zhang Yiping was silent for a while, and said, "I am persuading you to ......"

"What are you doing?" A gloomy voice suddenly sounded at the door, interrupting Zhang Yiping's words.

Gu Nian turned around and saw Xiao Yue standing at the door with a dark face, as if he had caught a traitor, looking at the two people inside.

Just now, Xiao Yue stood in front of the window, watching Gu Nian downstairs get out of the carriage, looking left and right for a while, and then picked up his skirt and walked inside, as if he was doing something unseemly.

He had already put on a posture and waited for Gu Nian to come in, and he had also thought about what he wanted to say, but no one came in, and then Huang Qi came up and said that there was a Taoist priest who wanted to talk to Gu Nian......

He waited a little longer, but no one came up, so he could only purse his lips and go downstairs to see who the bold man was.

Unexpectedly, what I saw turned out to be Zhang Yiping, the son of Zhang Guoshi.

Gu Nian stood up, bowed to Zhang Yi and walked out, and glanced at Xiao Yue angrily as he passed by.

Xiao Yue ordered the entourage behind him to take Gu Nian upstairs first, and he glanced at Zhang Yiping, "I don't know what advice the master has for her?" ”

He knew that the Zhang family was the successor of the Chongyang Sect, and had inherited the position of the national teacher of the Eastern Departure Country for generations, not only could calculate the destiny of heaven, but was also proficient in astronomy and geography.

Zhang Yiping glanced at Xiao Yue, and suddenly said, "Your Highness, you and that girl shouldn't have known each other, you were wrong from the beginning, it's better to stay away from that girl." ”

When Xiao Yue heard this, he sneered, "Who am I with, what's in your way?" What are you dog doing with a rat meddling? ”

Zhang Yiping wanted to say something, but Xiao Yue calmly took a few steps back and said slowly, "Don't get close to her in the future." ”

His voice was full of anger, and his eyes looked at Zhang Yiping gloomily.

Zhang Yiping smiled helplessly, isn't it just to stay away from someone? It's not a fatal matter, and such ferocity makes it seem that he is extremely guilty.

After Xiao Yue went upstairs, he said to Gu Nian, "Who knows what those Divine Stick Daoists think all day long, don't take what he says to heart, I think he behaves very strangely, you don't have to care." ”

After speaking, he looked at Gu Nian again and said, "I don't look bad." ”

Gu Nian raised her eyebrows and looked at Xiao Yue, why did she care so much about her body?

"Is there anything you want me to do?" As soon as Gu Nian sat down, he first picked the question he was most concerned about and asked.

"I didn't call you out to talk about things." Xiao Yue leaned against the window and said confidently.

Gu Nian, "......"

*

On the corridor of the Four Princes' Mansion, the orange lights swayed gently in the night breeze, shaking out gentle candlelight.

The fourth princess was wearing a snow-white middle coat and was crying silently, she choked up and said to the personal grandmother beside her, "Where did he go again?" Did you go to that slut's place for the night again? ”

A wealthy grandmother stepped forward and persuaded softly, "No, Your Highness is reading the official document in the study." She hesitated for a moment, and said,

"But I do have Miss Rong with me."

The Fourth Princess's body paused for a moment, and then tears flowed out again, "He asked me to go to see Aunt Protector, how can you blame me for not succeeding?"

Everyone said that they would not be concubines. ”

Speaking of this, the four princesses suddenly thought of Gu Nian who they saw during the day, and their eyebrows and eyes were crooked, which made people feel sorry for them.

"What is this? We have been married for so many years, and he looks at it and says that he doesn't accept concubines, only me, but who can know that he stays in the study for twenty-five days a month, and I, the princess, have become decorations. ”

The grandmother didn't know how to persuade her, so she could only say, "You are still young, although your mother's family is not very prominent, but you have a good reputation, girl, that red cloud was even said to be a good omen by Zhang Tianshi at that time." ”

The four princesses were stunned and young? She is not young for a long time, she has not even had a child for so many years, and every time she faces the medicine-like eyes of the concubine, she panics.

She suddenly grabbed the mama's hand,

"You say, if I get rid of that little goblin, will he come back to me?"

Mama's hands tightened, and she was shocked, "Princess, you can't come nonsense." ”

Then he persuaded, "Our Highness is a capable person, and there may be great blessings waiting for you in the future, so why bother with the length of this time."

Besides, it's just an object, pet today, and there will definitely be other new lovers in the future.

You see, in the daytime, isn't the cousin girl in the eldest princess's mansion being targeted?

You are the princess of the main house, can you afford to deal with her? ”

The fourth princess said in a hoarse voice, "Although he used to have a room, he didn't say anything when he was sent away by me."

It's just that this Rong Yue, as if he was the same as his heart, was a little wrong, so he rushed to protect it, and I was not even allowed to touch it, and hid it in the study.

Forget about others, but this person can't stay, and that Gu's daughter can't stay.

For so many years, how could he have ever told me about asking for a woman, except for Rong Yue, I didn't touch any of the maids I gave him. ”

The grandmother beside her thought about it, and felt that the fourth prince was really different from that Rong Yue, nodded meaningfully, and asked, "What do you mean?" ”

The fourth princess bit her lip, wiped away her tears, and said gloomily, "This time I went to the princess's mansion, the mother concubine will definitely know, maybe she will call me into the palace to scold, and let people rumor that Miss Gu entered the palace to appease."

When the time comes, I will enter the palace with that Gu girl, and when the time comes, let Rong Yue follow me......"

Mama hesitated, "Do you want to borrow Miss Gu's hand to get rid of Rong Yue?" ”

The four princesses want to kill two birds with one stone, where is there such a good thing, the nobles in the palace are gathered, and they embarrass their husbands there, what's the good thing?

But when my mother saw her face full of sinisterity, she swallowed back everything she wanted to say.

*

Because of Gu Nian's life experience, the eldest princess of the country asked the people left by the old marquis to investigate, she didn't tell Gu Shi'an, and they checked each other separately, and they could always find different clues.

She didn't believe that the thought would be brought here, but in order to find out the purpose behind the old lady's words, she also had to find out.

Over there, there was a complainant kneeling in front of Lord Yin Liu of Shuntian Mansion, crying with a handful of snot and tears, accusing Gu Zhicheng, the prince of Qi Guo, of forcibly robbing a fifteen-year-old girl, colluding with the county order, disregarding the law of the country, and disregarding people's lives.

The person who complained was the little girl's brother, and he said, "We want to report to the official, but he said that he is the prince of the Duke of Qi, and his grandfather is the elder of the pavilion, so it is useless to sue the emperor."

My father didn't believe it, so he went to the yamen to sue him, but the yamen drove us out, and my father didn't give up, and when he went again, he was beaten according to the press, saying that he was disrupting official business, and he was beaten with forty boards.

Pity my father for his age, he was beaten by the board, and he didn't even survive for a month, and he was gone.

Before he died, he was still thinking about my sister, and he didn't blink an eye.

I want to go to the prince of the Qi State Mansion and the elder of the pavilion, but a small person like me is ignored, and until now, I don't know if my sister is alive or dead. ”

The complainant burst into tears, and the crying onlookers were sour, only to see the complainant slap himself,

"I said I was going to come to the capital to sue them, but the result was ...... As a result, a fire broke out in my house that night. ”

"I went out temporarily, escaped, I was hiding in the mountains during this time, I don't know what to do, I want to take revenge, but he covers the sky with one hand, how can I take revenge?

Fortunately, I met a kind caravan and they helped me enter the capital. ”

After saying this, the onlookers on the side even had tears in the eyes of the man, and they were all helpless ordinary people, all of whom felt the same way.

Lord Yin Liu of Shuntian Mansion appeased Wang Erhu and the onlookers while sending people to investigate the place where Wang Erhu said.

Just when he was busy, the person who interceded for Gu Zhicheng came, and the person was sent by the old lady Yang Ge.

Old Mrs. Yang Ge also hated the Yang family's mother and son for being unconscious, and smeared Ge Lao, but if Gu Zhicheng's matter was confirmed, he would also be implicated.

Considering that the city is bullying, and the battle also has the power of Yang Ge Lao, outsiders will settle the account on Yang Ge Lao's head.

Lord Liu politely entertained the visitor, and when he finally sent the person away, he couldn't help but sigh, Mrs. Neizhai is shallow and falsely accused? A touch of the upper and lower mouths is a false accusation? When the people are stupid, can't they be?

Fortunately, Yang Ge Lao said it at the beginning and asked him to investigate thoroughly. However, even if Yang Ge didn't say anything, he would investigate it thoroughly.

Lord Liu's efficiency has always been very fast, and this time it is the same.

Within a few days, all the interrogations were clear.

The first time the Wang family went to the local county government to file a complaint, Gu Zhicheng came to the door with silver, and also put out the nobles, the local county order was timid, did not dare to accept the silver, and did not dare to accept the case, so he sold the Gu family's favor.

After all, it is around the capital, and once the matter is stabbed out, half of the life will be removed.

It was only for the second time that the steward of the Yang family came to say hello, and someone was carrying it above, so the county order dared to let go of his courage to do it, beat Wang's father, and took a large sum of money from the Gu family, and the Wang family really stopped.

But who would have thought that Gu Zhicheng would be so mixed up and send people to kill people?

The county magistrate took the money and was soft, so he had to help cover it up, and he regretted that he took the money himself, and it was clearly urging the money.

He was so frightened that he was relieved when the incident happened.

Gu Zhicheng was studying at Dongshan College, but he didn't expect that he didn't read well and did a lot of bad things, and the Yang family often helped cover it up.

Lord Liu didn't expect Gu Zhicheng to do such a thing, why was he so ruthless?

Not to mention how anxious the Gu family was, the people sent out by the princess of the protector arrested the grandmother who had served by the old lady's side for decades.

The princess of the protector met her in the firewood room.

"Why didn't there be any children born together back then? But your master said yes, what is the matter? ”