Chapter 280: Downfall

originally thought that everything would be under control and there would be no big mistakes, but Yu Zhao put down all his heart that day, and chose to retreat silently. Now the matter of returning to the Chu Palace is really unexpected. Naturally, she never thought about what it would be like to reunite with those old people who had some dealings with her in the past.

The scene in front of her had already arrived in front of Yu Zhao, but it was clearly telling her that she had overconfidence in the past, and in the past few years since she left, the reality was cruel and changeable, and many things had not developed according to what she thought in her heart. Yu Zhu's life has been ruined.

No matter how she is not a person with no family background, Yu Zhu at least bears the status of a virtuous princess, at this time, she is only wrapped in plain old clothes in the cold wind, and she comes out to do things in the market, but she is doing it alone.

Not even a maid who carried things for the envoy followed, let alone the palace guards who could protect the people to help clear the way. In addition, Yu Zhao's face was haggard and pale, and when she walked into the crowd of people in the market, who could tell that it was the princess she was used to pampering? I just thought it was a bitter-faced mother-in-law whose husband didn't come out to look for firewood, rice, oil and salt.

From these aspects, it can be seen how much those people in the palace have despised her.

When she went out of the house, she did not go into the jewelry shop to buy fashionable clothes like other noble ladies, but stayed in the pawnshop street that was rarely frequented by the people. The bag of broken silver in his hand was not known to be exchanged for the biased phoenix hairpin at the bottom of the box, or the ruyi brocade robe that he was willing to wear when attending the palace banquet.

From her overly simple outfit, it can be inferred that the slightly decent head jewelry in her dressing box has probably entered the pawnshop's storeroom.

Da Chu people have the best face, money is small, face is big, according to the old saying, the footsteps set foot in the pawnshop, it means that the family has been completely down, even if ordinary people do not live in the rich and noble halls, they all know to taboo this allusion, as long as they have food and clothing, do not encounter disasters, they will never easily think of taking the things that are used as facades at home to exchange for money.

What's more, Yu Zhu is a person who lives in the palace where the magnificence of face is used as a road order, and without the step beads hanging down from the bun, it is equivalent to being embarrassed by clothes without a bad body to cover his shame. It can be seen that she must have been severely deducted from her daily food and clothing, so she had to find a way to find herself, and she really couldn't find any other way out of this predicament, so she could only grit her teeth and pull down her whole face and do this unseemly thing.

The husband is rich and noble, and he is definitely not a mean person, why can Yu Zhu fall into such a miserable situation? Yu Zhao frowned, puzzled, and thought that the original matter of letting Yu Zhu marry Chu Ziyang was the idea he helped take, and he couldn't help but feel a little ashamed in his heart. But after thinking about it, I always felt that things should not have turned out like this, and confirmed with her:

"I heard from Your Majesty that after Yu Cheng was ambushed, the four kings insisted on confronting Concubine Liu in order to protect your position as the princess, and never had the idea of giving you a letter of resignation and driving you out of the palace, so it can be seen that he has not forgotten the alliance with your white head. And during this period, it is said that you have quarreled with the four kings several times, but why did you make trouble? Is it because of this that the four kings are angry and alienate you? ”

"Those disgraceful things, the concubine body will not say it, and it will pollute the mother's ears."

After refusing in a low voice, Yu Zhu's hand seemed to be frozen, and she trembled uncontrollably, so she slowly raised her hand and stretched it out to the stove to bake, and her whole hand was warmed by the heat emitted by the coals for a moment, before she dared to open her fingers and open her entire palm, and let out a low breath to relax her consciousness.

With this move, you can see that Yu Zhu's hands are scattered with some strange marks of red and black, which are clearly visible, and this mark fell into Yu Zhao's eyes, which only makes her feel extremely long lost and familiar, and also makes her heart more sure that the internal and external difficulties that Yu Zhu is currently in have almost oppressed her to a desperate situation.

When Yu Zhao was young, he followed Yu Lu to live on the four walls of his family, and in order to survive, he had to catch river fish and dig wild vegetable roots in the winter. At that time, I didn't dare to expect any idler's hand warmers such as Tang Pozi's velvet embroidery set, and there was no one like Chu Zikai who was willing to use her body temperature to warm her hands.

When the weather is colder, the places with bruises and black marks will gradually be broken and cracked by the cold, spreading into wounds with blood scabs, and producing painful and unbearable chilblains. If you accidentally get wet or see the wind, it will worsen and you will have to spend the whole winter in pain.

After Yu Zhao got rid of it, he didn't want to re-experience it in this life, and he didn't want to change it to Yu Zhu, who had been the eldest lady for more than ten or twenty years, to taste the bitterness...... After secretly sighing, Yu Zhao said again:

"If you can stand the current life and don't want to talk about it, when you meet today, you should reminisce about the past, and I won't ask too much. If you want to change the situation, you need to tell me clearly, when, where, and what did you do to make the four kings distract from you? Even to the point of ignoring you? ”

It is impossible for things and disputes in the world to be turned upside down for no reason, and there must be a key to achieving contradictions, and if you want to solve the contradictions between the two of them, you must also face the problems and find the root cause.

After Yu Zhao asked, she saw that Yu Zhu still only smiled bitterly and shook her head, as if she had been soaked in the vicissitudes of suffering in the world in this good year, and she didn't want to do any struggle, nor did she want to remember the painful scars, so she still didn't want to talk about it silently.

Seeing this, Yu Zhao didn't want to force her too much, retracted her gaze at Yu Zhu, looked sideways out of the window and pretended to enjoy the scenery, she is not a nosy person, if Yu Zhu doesn't appreciate it, she doesn't have to find something to do for herself, just said:

"The four kings, he was the beloved person you knelt down and asked me to find for you, but if I looked away and he changed his mind to fail you, I would feel ashamed, and I was afraid that you would resent me, but I could try to get justice for you. But if you make a mess of things yourself, so that the connection with him is stalemate without the slightest room for reversal, you also need to face it open-mindedly and learn to reflect, there is no need to just look for other factors to take the blame, to escape your own wrong. ”