The ministers of the court seemed to see the clues in the actions of King An and Concubine Shu, especially the ministers who were a little wavering, this time they seemed to see the strength of King An and began to secretly show favor to King An.

It's just that Ling Yuanhang has been very busy during this period of time. Sometimes he came home late at night, and if it was too late, in order not to disturb Aru's rest, he would stay outside the house or rest in his study. Except for the king of the county, no one knew what he was doing at all.

Since Yaru appeared about Aunt Xu, and now she has a concubine, she can't get over this hurdle in her heart. So she didn't care much about what Ling Yuanhang was doing and why he always didn't go home.

In the blink of an eye, Aunt Xu came out of the full moon. Although the weather was getting colder and colder, the old lady asked Aunt Xu to take the child over to her every once in a while.

Relatives of the next generation, this is probably a common problem of the elderly, especially the boy in the family, which is the life of the old lady. What's more, now there is only one boy in Ling Yuanhang's brotherhood. According to the old lady's meaning, if it wasn't for Xiao Wu's dissuasion to her, she might have to take the child to her own yard to raise.

So when it came time to say goodbye, Aunt Xu became the person who was most treated by the old lady.

And Yaru has become a transparent person in the eyes of the old lady. Anyway, Yaru didn't care, didn't she just give birth to a son? So the old lady's attitude did not have a sense of loss for Yaru.

Aunt Xu's status in the mansion has changed with the old lady's love for this child, and she is no longer the one who has to smile at anyone. She can now take a rack of her own, too.

However, there was one thing that made Aunt Xu very dissatisfied, that is, neither Ling Yuanhang nor the county king gave this child a name. It was the old lady who gave her a milk named Brother An, so everyone called it that.

On this day, Ling Yuanhang came back from outside the mansion, and he hadn't come back for several days. As soon as he entered the house, Ju Xiang, who had just returned from the old lady, saw it, and she hurriedly returned to Aunt Xu's courtyard.

At night, when Yaru and Ling Yuanhang were about to go to bed. Ju Xiang came over, and she said to Ling Yuanhang, "Shizi, the little young master vomited everything he ate just now. I don't know what's going on? ”

Ling Yuanhang frowned and said unhappily, "Did you choke on the wind when you hugged you?"

Ju Xiang said: "I have already asked Uncle Ling to find a doctor, but our aunt has been coaxing for a long time, and she can't be coaxed." Shizi, you better go and have a look. ”

Yaru sneered in her heart: Ling Yuanhang didn't come back, nothing happened, but as soon as Ling Yuanhang came back, Aunt Xu got the news, and then said that the child was sick. She looked at Ling Yuanhang and looked at her a little embarrassed, so she said, "Why don't you go and have a look, you can talk to the doctor there." ”

Ling Yuanhang nodded apologetically to her and said, "Ru'er, then I'll go and have a look, and I'll be back in a while." With that, he walked out with Juxiang.

When Ju Xiang went out, neither Ling Yuanhang nor Yaru noticed the corners of her mouth that turned up with pride.

Yaru looked at their distant backs, expressionless.

During the third watch, Ling Yuanhang did not come back.

Yaru was lying on the bed, her thoughts were flying, and then she heard Piaohong pouting outside on night duty: "Concubine Shizi, the prince has passed the word, saying that the little young master is making a big fuss, and he is resting in Aunt Xu's courtyard today, so don't wait for him anymore, so that you don't wait for him."

Yaru's hand grabbed the corner of the quilt at once, and she grabbed it like this, and she didn't let go for a long time. This is the first time since Aunt Xu entered the mansion that Ling Yuanhang has stayed in Aunt Xu's courtyard and not returned. Yaru thought, with the first time, there will be a second time, this child will hold on to Ling Yuanhang tightly, and there is no movement in his stomach until now.

In ancient times, if a woman had no son, she had no status.

The rumors and rumors in the house in the past few days, she didn't hear it, what princess has no son, Aunt Xu is going to gain power, if the princess can't have a son in the future, maybe she will fall out of favor.

These words made a few girls angry. Taohong said: "Maybe this is the rumor that Aunt Xu let people spread." I don't think the chrysanthemum next to her is a fuel-efficient lamp. Maybe she said it outside. ”

Thinking of the events of this period of time, Yaru lay on the bed for a long time and couldn't close her eyes, she only felt that Ling Yuanhang was getting farther and farther away from her, and she seemed to be unable to catch him more and more.

The next day, Aunt Xu brought Juxiang to greet her, and Aunt Xu was dressed up very beautifully today. She walked in with a graceful manner, and when she bowed her head, she revealed her smooth neck, and saw some purple marks on it.

Yaru's eyes were fixed on those marks, which she was all too familiar with, because Ling Yuanhang often left such marks on her body. Yaru's heart felt as if something had hit her hard, and it hurt dullly.

She took a sip of tea from her teacup to hide her loss. Then she asked, "Is Brother An better?"

Aunt Xu replied with a smile on her face: "Yesterday, Brother An made trouble for the third watch, and then it slowly stopped. It turns out that the son of the world is so good at holding children. This Brother An is strange to say, when he arrived in his father's arms, he was quiet. So in the second half of the night, he didn't bother me and Shizi. ”

The peach next to her was so angry that she couldn't go up and tear Aunt Xu's mouth.

Yaru had calmed down now, and she knew that this was Aunt Xu showing off to herself, and she was also provoking herself. I can't fall for her. So she said: "That's good, it's nothing, then Aunt Xu will go back and take good care of Brother An, and you don't have to come here every day to ask for peace in the future, it's better to come on the fifteenth day of the new year." ”

Aunt Xu agreed and left happily.

Taohong scolded angrily: "This Aunt Xu is too cheap, princess of the world, where is she here to ask for peace, she is here to show off, yesterday she was favored by the prince." ”

Yaru stopped her: "Peach, who the prince favors, that's his freedom, it's not something we can control." In the future, you are not allowed to say these words again, we are already on the oil pot now, if we let others grab the handle again, then Aunt Xu will be even more arrogant. ”

Yaru began to try to put away her thoughts about Ling Yuanhang from this moment on, and she began to slowly close herself.

Ling Yuanhang obviously felt that Yaru seemed to be getting farther and farther away from him during this period of time, and he was now going home. Ajubi was much more respectful, and she would rise to meet him, and wait for him to undress like a wise wife, and she smiled at herself. But Ling Yuanhang couldn't feel her smile, he always felt that her smile was mechanical, as if she was laughing for the sake of laughing, as if she was completing a task.

Yaru no longer takes the initiative to ask him about things, sometimes he asks, she answers, he doesn't ask, she doesn't ask anything.

Ling Yuanhang wanted to tell her what he had been busy with lately. But every time he tried to talk to her, he always found that her attention was not on him, so he swallowed back the words that came to his mouth.

The atmosphere in this house is also getting more and more dull, and in this family, Ling Yuanhang feels more and more depressed. Sometimes he doesn't come back at all, and even when he does, he lives in the study.

In the meantime, Aunt Xu came to ask for peace a few more times. But every time she asked for peace, she was dressed very brightly, and several times she had to deliberately bow her head to show her scarred neck.

So Yaru knew that she was showing off by inviting An again, and Ling Yuanhang went to her courtyard to pamper her.

Peach scolded angrily as usual, and Yaru's heart was cold again.

Yan Hong said worriedly: "Princess Shizi, you can't always let her be arrogant like this, Shizi has been living in the study most of the time during this time. I see that you went to bring him some supper at night, you took the initiative and were more enthusiastic about the prince, and at that time I felt that although the prince also went to live with Aunt Xu, his heart was still on you. ”

Yaru was silent for a while and said, "Yanhong, you haven't liked a man yet. So you don't know that when you like a man, it's all about you in his heart. Your son used to hate Aunt Xu very much, but Aunt Xu had his child. The mother of his own son, he can't ignore it. The son was born, and the son's mother was not a dispensable person in his heart. You see that he has hated Aunt Xu from time to time, and now he can go to Aunt Xu's room to spend the night from time to time. What about in the future? Aunt Xu's position in his heart may become more and more important. ”

Yan Hong said: "But the princess, after all, you are still the wife of the prince. Aunt Xu can't get past you anymore. ”

Yaru smiled bitterly: "So what, love is exclusive, there can only be two people living in the space of love, if there is one more person, it will become a competition for favor, an endless struggle." Because there is a man between two women. Both of them are vying for the man's favor. I don't want to make myself look hideous in order to compete for a man, and I don't want to let myself compete for favor by pleasing humility. ”

It was the first time for Yan Hong to hear Yaru say such a thing, and she felt that what the princess said was so profound and fresh. But she also thinks it makes sense.

But she was a little puzzled: "But the princess, what will you do in the future?

Yaru looked outside in silence, she didn't answer Yan Hong's words, but said, "The outside world is so big!"

Yan Hong looked outside in confusion, and she asked puzzledly: "Princess Shizi, what does the world mean, where is the world?"

Aru couldn't help but be amused by her, she said, "The world is everywhere. For example, this yard is our world, and the outside of our yard is also a big world, which can be as big as the border and so big that we can't imagine it. The outside world is certainly a colorful living space. Would you like to go outside and have a look?"

Yan Hong smiled: "That's good, princess, if you have a chance in the future, you can take us out to have a look." ”

Aru replied, "Yes." ”