Chapter 72 The lips and teeth are cold and the flowers are the wall
"The prince of King Rong's mansion raised troops at his son's wedding, and he attempted to kill his brother and rebel."
"I heard that it was not his own son, it was the emperor's illegitimate son."
"The third princess, all thoughts were lost, and she hit the pillar and died on the spot......"
"The ceremony has not yet been completed, her son will keep filial piety for her for three years, and I am afraid that he will not be able to marry again"
"The bride, who was taken home by An Guogong and Jinke Champion, went home again"
"You say, is the Rongwang Mansion unlucky, the two weddings have all become funerals."
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After tea, people are discussing the wedding of the Rong Wangfu in the streets and alleys, after all, it is the marriage of the nobles of the prince's etiquette in the Ministry of Rites, and the things on the surface are enough for people to chew the root of the tongue, not to mention that there is a turbulent dark tide behind it, collusion, and intricacy, but there are few ginseng grinds thoroughly.
Why, is it strange? On the day of the wedding of Zhao Mengqi (Zizi), the eldest son of King Rong's mansion, the wedding became a funeral; On the day of the wedding of the youngest son Zhao Mengzeng, the wedding became a funeral again. It was the bride who died at the last wedding, Jia Daile; This time the wedding died, it was the groom's mother, Dugu Han.
The rebellion has not gone down in history, but has entered the hearts of the people. Emperor Zhao and Ju and the three princesses of King Rong Dugu Han, the letter of the bamboo horse Qingmei in the past became a pillar and died. The story of history is not full of variables, concealment, and cover-up, but also wants to cover up.
As soon as Duguhan, the third princess of King Rong, died, Wan Mo had to mourn for her, and she couldn't marry again within three years, he and Zhixi's wedding ceremony was not completed, and when she encountered such a thing, Zhixi's identity was really embarrassing, staying, no, no, no.
"Zhixi, come home with me." Gu mistakenly understood Zhixi's situation, grabbed her wrist, and was about to go out.
"Zhixi, don't go!" Wan Mo grabbed the other wrist of Zhixi, who was still wearing a wedding dress, and said to Gu Cuo: "Wu Gu Cuo, you are breaking up our marriage." β
"Ruthless, it's not a marriage," Gu Cuo looked at Zhixi, and said to Yu Mo: "Besides, the ceremony has not been completed." King Rong's Mansion is going to have a funeral now, and he can't see joy after three years of mourning. β
Zhixi felt in a trance that the words 'ruthless, not marriage' seemed familiar, but she couldn't think of anything. Ignorance stays there. I don't know which way to go.
"What's the matter with you taking her back?" Yu Mo questioned Gu Wrong: "You say 'ruthless', is it ruthless?" β
"What's the matter with you leaving her here?" Gu Cuo questioned Yu Mo: "When your filial piety period is over, come to the scenery to marry her." I can't let her stay with you for no reason. β
Both of them feel that they are reasonable, but they are not reasonable.
Zhixi's left arm began to hurt again, and Wan Mo thought it hurt her, so he let go of his hand. Gu Wrong took advantage of the situation, pulled her, and walked out of the gate of right and wrong in King Rong's Mansion.
Old Master Wu was seriously injured and was carried home first, and Zhixi was pulled by mistake, got on the same horse, added two whips, and caught up with the sedan chair in front of his father.
When he arrived at the Wu Mansion of Anguo Gong, Gu Cuo first placed the master in the main courtyard, and then pulled Zhixi and went to the barley workshop to adjust the medicine. When passing through the Guan Ju Palace, Wu Niangzi split the bone with one hand and pulled Zhixi's hand and shouted: "She is the daughter-in-law of Rongwangfu, you pull her back, you are not afraid of people's jokes." β
In the courtyard of Guan Ju Palace, raise a vine moon, two wisterias, several triangular plums, in the flowering season, the vines fall with flowers, will climb all over the wall, occasionally dotted with some woody incense, roses, clematis, and a large piece of angelica flowers, and there are red-breasted birds hiding in the flowers chirping, it becomes a person's poetic and picturesque meaning.
Only now, the autumn mood has withered the petals, leaving some dead branches, and the leaves are wrapped around the low hedge, and the simplicity of the bone house is implicated in the autumn color.
Gu Cuo and Zhixi, stepping on these gossips behind them, walked home haggard, and were beaten by Wu Niangzi's stick, and there was a sense of panic that the wind was blowing and the grass and trees were soldiers.
"Zhixi is going to trouble her stepmother again." Zhixi knelt down to worship Wu Niangzi. She was so lonely that she had nowhere to cast.
"You are a broom star, you have harmed the Zhao family of Yue, and the Zhao family of King Rong, next, are you going to harm my family?" Wu Niangzi stared at Jing Zhixi, who was kneeling on the ground, and said these words with sarcasm.
"Mother, what are you talking about!" Gu Cuo felt helpless about Wu Niangzi's fatalism, and changed the topic: "Father, he was too frightened and fainted at the wedding of Father Mo, Zhixi and I rushed to Qingli Fang to get him medicine, you don't have to be here to make it difficult for us." β
"I haven't heard that the medicine has to be put into pairs, and the one who receives it is someone else's daughter-in-law." Mrs. Wu still held on to her words: "Your father and I are not dead yet, we still want to have a face." β
"The Tai Hospital is busy treating the emperor and other relatives, the barley workshop is closed today, and Dian Er was injured at the wedding again, and is now taken care of by Chen Zigui," Gu said wrongly: "Go to the barley workshop to adjust the prescription, it is the fastest, Zhixi has learned medical science, can prepare, and where to put the medicine is the most familiar." β
"Hey, who dares to take the medicine she is a monk halfway through, are you going to use your father as a test for her?" Wu Niangzi said.
"The prescription was given by Dian Er, according to the tune, Zhixi will not go wrong, in the previous plague, Zhixi herself saved many people." The bone mistake defended Zhixi.
While speaking, a doctor temporarily dispatched by the Tai Hospital entered the main hospital, and when Wu Niangzi saw it, she hurriedly turned her smile and went over to greet her. Gu Cuo pulled Zhixi and continued to walk towards the barley workshop.
Busy until the night, the master woke up, Zhixi prepared dinner, after eating, washed and washed again, and then went to boil the medicine, after boiling, he personally held it in front of the master, presented it to Gu Cuo, Gu Cuo scooped up a spoonful, and was about to feed his father, but was deliberately knocked over by Wu Niangzi.
"I think about the medicine she concocted, if it is poisoned, who will we talk to?" Wu Niangzi said.
"You, you, you can't say a good thing that is ready-made, the doctor praised it just now, this prescription is better than him," the master looked at Wu Niangzi, shook his head, and turned to Gu Cuo and said: "Ming'er, Gu Cuo hurry up and send me back, if I am with your mother all day long, I will not die of poison, and I will be cursed to death." β
"Okay, you bad old man, you dislike me now?!" Mrs. Wu cried and wiped her tears, grabbed her master's ears, and cried and said, "I broke my heart, for whom?" It's not for the two of you that can't be broken! β
"Mother, dad is joking with you, let you stop cursing him," Gu Cuo hurriedly explained: "Besides, you broke your heart, that is, you broke your heart to support Zhixi alone, you can use her alone, this maid and wife in the mansion should be blasted out." β
"Turning the corner, you are just speaking for her," Wu Niangzi said: "She is going to live in my house for a long time, I will call and call, and I shouldn't be." β
"Zhixi is not tired, Zhixi is an unlucky person, and Wu Niangzi is willing to take it in, which is the grace of recreation." Zhixi was busy bowing to the side.
"Zhixi, come here," the master patted the open space next to the bed, "Sit here," Zhixi knew that his eyes and ears were not good, so he obediently went over and sat down.
"Child, don't take your heart too seriously," the master taught him as a female student in the tone of an elder, even now, the girls in his Gumuyin Women's Pavilion are only a handful, it can be seen that the daughter's family wants to read and write, and it is still terrifying: "In life, there is never a way to predict the ending, and I never know what will happen in the next second." What happened to the Zhao family is not your fault, don't take everything on yourself. β
"Master, may I come with you? Zhixi can cook, mix medicine, sprinkle and sweep, grind ink, and go back to Gumuyin, I can take care of you, and I can also take care of those children. A line of tears flowed down Zhixi's face, because the master had never regarded her as different.
At that time, Zhixi returned to the Weixi Palace. The courtyard of the Weixi Palace, such as the copy of the Guan Ju Palace, at this time, is also wrapped around the walls of withered vines. She walked into the middle of the ruined angelica, and gently touched the stems and leaves with her hand, and at the touch of her fingertips, those angelica, vine moon, and wood fragrance suddenly came like a spring breeze, and thousands of flowers bloomed and climbed all over the wall.
Zhixi's squatting body was hidden between the fields of Angelica flowers, and she looked at this incredible face in amazement, joy and gratitude, and tears welled up in her eyes.
At this time, the gods in the heavens were stunned by the omen and discussed:
"Dead wood is spring, this is a good omen."
The flower god peony smiled happily and said with a smile: "With my technique, I can't change the autumn into a spring dynasty, it can be seen that the prophecy of the mother back then was good, and the power of Zhixi was higher than that of the flood wilderness, and it appeared for the first time." β
"Could it be that after the impermanence realm is resolved, the Six Realms will usher in the first heroine?" The Chaos Ancestor also twisted his beard and his head, not knowing why.
Heaven is heaven, and the world is earth, not to mention, the realm of impermanence is a realm that the gods can't control.
A few night watchmen, with lanterns, walked in the winding paths of the Weixi Palace, thinking that the flowers blooming in a courtyard in the autumn Xiao Suoli were haunted, and they did not see Zhixi hidden among the flowers.
"Isn't it haunted"
"Who said it was impossible, I heard that our young master brought back the daughter-in-law of the Rong Wangfu,"
"I heard that it was possessed by ghosts, and the Zhao family was wiped out from her."
"You say, the gate valve clan of King Rong's Mansion is so high, and it has suffered bad luck, is it because of her bad luck?"
"Who's to say it isn't? That woman, seeing that there is no hope of marrying into King Rong's mansion, is going to entangle our family's An Guogong,"
"This is not a good omen, hurry up and report to the young master and Mrs. Wu."
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The voice, along with the figure, was drowned in the darkness.
Zhixi stood up from the flower field, dazed. She must find her own life, since she was born in infancy, there is nothing within reach, her whole life, she has been disliked, expelled, and she has to rely on her kindness and hard work to earn her right to live. Even though she never complained about anyone, she was still wrapped in the broken words of others. She never hoped for anything, but just swayed her own wishes according to the wishes of others. But when the things that others set for her before were shattered again and again, what was waiting for her?
Her left arm was in severe pain. Her consciousness is awakening. Then, the flowers, which became dead branches again, crawled into her mouth one by one, and were eaten by the ghosts. She felt like she was a monster, and she felt sick.
Zhixi, staggering, weakly lifted the bamboo curtain in front of the door, and entered the carved but empty room, which was pitch black. She lit the candlelight, drank the medicine she had prepared in advance, and her arm slowly stopped hurting.
The next day, the court.
"Your Majesty, the minister recently requested the implementation of the 'meridian push and row law', and now according to the reaction of various places, the effect is very good, and the county guards are measuring the fields, resetting the tax amount, and implementing it on all roads, so that the land south of the Yangtze River has a tax on the size. Soon, the treasury of the Great Song Dynasty will be filled again, and the trend of decaying Su Chen will be reappeared. Jia seemed to play the class in the morning, and made a generous statement.
"Jia Xiangguo, he really knows how to sing Brother Kai, but as everyone knows, there is a folk song left now, which is to sing praises for Lord Jia." Bone wrong out of class, back to it.
"Oh?" The emperor was also interested, "Tell me about it." β
"The ballad goes like this: 'The prime minister sits in the temple and speaks of the meridians, and he will measure them, and he is too frivolous to stay in my country, and he hears the meridians, and the starry night meridians. Shandong and Hebei have been abandoned for a long time, so it is good to go to the warpulation, but not the warp? The bone sang the ballad, and the house laughed all over the house.
"Wu Gu is wrong! You, you ----" Jia Rudao was so angry that he couldn't speak, and he had nothing to say to fight back.
"Your Majesty, according to the minister's opinion, at this time, it is not the time to measure the land and increase the people's endowment, but should first defend the land and increase the troops in the northern Xinjiang, the two cities of Xiangyang and Fancheng are the throat of the place, where they were only subjected to yesterday's battle, and the same room has made it impossible to form an army. Bone mistakes show the current stakes.
"An Guogong is too worried, Mongolia has not had a war with me on the border for four years, before, Mongolia also united with my Great Song Dynasty to destroy his sworn enemy Dajin, how could it harm its allies and be criticized by the world?" Song Lizong was naΓ―ve.
"Your Majesty, will the story of the death of the lips and teeth be repeated?" Gu Cuo analyzed for Li Zong: "In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Jin State wanted to go to the Yu State to destroy the Yu State, and the Gong Zhiqi of the Yu State dissuaded Yu Gong and said: 'The cheeks and gum bones are attached to each other, the lips are gone, and the teeth will be cold, just like the interdependent relationship between Yu and Yu', Yu Gong insisted on going his own way, or let the Jin State borrow the road, but after the Jin destroyed the Yu State, he camped in the Yu State on the way back to the division, and took the opportunity to suddenly launch an attack and destroy the Yu State. β
"Be bold and wrong, and be arrogant! I am compared to the faint king of the dead country! The Emperor was furious.
Gu Cuo knelt on the ground and earnestly repeated: "The minister Gu Cuo has no such intention, but just advises me to take precautions." At that time, Mongolia borrowed the power of our Great Song Dynasty to destroy Dajin, and did not fulfill its promise to return my territory, so that we were later indignant and ashamed of entering Luo. Your Majesty thought that in the past four years, Mongolia and I have been calm, but as everyone knows, in the past four years, it is just two brothers Kublai Khan and Ali Buge fighting in the same room and competing for the position of the Han Dynasty. Now, Ali Buge has surrendered to Kublai Khan, so in the future, the spearhead will be pointed at my Great Song Dynasty, and I hope Your Majesty will think twice! β