Because Wen Xuan really hates the current Ming Shen, hates her hateful face with fake and bewitching charm, and hates her contemptuous eyes with a hint of mockery; I hate her clever smile that harbors evil intentions; hated her for her weak and pitiful appearance; I hate her indifference and gentleness......

In this way, in the time that seems to be flowing, Wen Xuan habitually hates everything about Ming Shenso!

The days of two and two tired of each other, boring but also calm, a comfortable time like the wind, rustling in the tip of the pen of Ming Shen copying scriptures, depressed for a long time Wen Xuan, not only undiminished ambition into the whirlpool of the struggle for imperial power, but also the style of the former between his good wives and concubines, Jin and Ming Shen fell silent at the same time, but let Bai Fengxi and Xi Linyan taste the old wine new, and took turns to share the comfort of Wenxuan's spring breeze and rain.

In the West Chamber, Ming Shen was still immersed in the shadow of the pain of losing his mother, and did not get out of the sad mood, not only deliberately locked himself in the lonely empty court, but also chanted the Buddha day and night, and copied countless "Mantras of the Afterlife" and "Yin Qi Wen" to surpass the dead, so as to comfort and paralyze his broken heart full of self-blame and guilt.

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After Laba, Emperor Xuande somewhere learned the news of Ming Shen's illness, not only inexplicably rewarded her with sixteen horses of silk and satin newly paid tribute by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but also a ferret with grace.

Concubine Xian saw that Emperor Xuande suddenly loved Ming Shen so much, as an aunt of the lineage, she naturally had to express something, so she sent someone to send a lynx blanket over, and even Concubine Hui, who didn't like Ming Shen very much, was reluctant to give the Hetian jade carved pillow to marry.

The harem is the most popular place to see the wind and rudder, and those concubines and concubines tend to follow the two palaces, and reward many gorgeous clothes and exquisite food to Ming Shen, and talk about condolences!

As the so-called misfortune and blessing come, blessing and misfortune depend, sometimes the cycle of the world is really so wonderful, but there must be a demon when things go wrong, whether it is a blessing or a curse, it is still unknown.

All in all, Ming Shen went from an unloved unknown concubine to a hot figure among the royal family and nobles, and the West Chamber, which had been silent for a long time, became full of guests again, and one day later, even Nalan Mufeng arranged for Rong Lu to go to Prince Duan's Mansion as the eldest brother to visit the patient.

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The next day, Nalan Ronglu took people to carry a lot of rich gifts and precious medicinal materials, to visit his sister in the West Chamber, although he came this time, in the name of General Nalan's Mansion, but more than half of the treasures, all of which he paid out of his own pocket to add to the gifts, after the gifts were piled into the West Chamber's treasury under the leadership of Caifeng, he was led by Caifeng into the warm pavilion of the West Chamber.

After Rong Lu entered the door, he silently looked around, the layout was quite elegant and exquisite, but in front of the kang couch near the window, there was an eye-catching crystal bead curtain inexplicably, as if it was to cut off the love between each other.

"My brother is not a man with a foreign surname, so why should the fourth sister do this? Isn't it, intent on having a relationship with me? ”

Rong Lu saw Ming Shensu's pale figure vaguely through the gap in the bead curtain, and her heart was sour, only to feel that when her blushing face was reduced, she seemed to be emaciated and about to lose her human shape!

"It's rare for our brothers and sisters to get together, and it's too late for my sister to be happy? What is the theory of afterlife? It's just that the filial piety is in the body, and it ...... Ahem...... and sick, disfigured...... So...... Ahem......" The dry voice, like a north wind that rolls up dust and sand, wafts out from behind the curtain. The more Ming Shen wanted to suppress the cough, the more he couldn't suppress it, before he finished speaking, his heart and lungs were about to be coughed out, and it was hot and spicy.

"Why do you cough so badly?"

Rong Lu hurriedly lifted the curtain and came in, Ming Shen hurriedly turned around, raised his sleeves to cover his face, and only gave him a thin and bony back, coughing non-stop, tearing his heart!

Caifeng served the decoction, and Ming Shen drank all the medicinal juice in the bowl with her hand, and then eased up, and said with a sad face: "Eldest son, you came just in time, quickly persuade our young lady, she is heartbroken all day long, she doesn't think about tea and dinner, how can her condition improve?" I'm afraid that the old disease has not been cured, and a new disease should be added. ”

After listening to this, Rong Lu turned his eyes to look at Ming Shen in front of him, only to see that she was dressed in a vegetarian dress, ready to take off the hairpin, the flesh and blood on the side face were almost dry, her face was sallow, and the green silk was dry, like a weak white plum that was destroyed by the cold wind of the wax moon on the coldest branch, weak and thin, and dying.

Rong Lu's heart suddenly gathered countless sourness, and the corners of his eyes were slightly red: "Four girls, are you practicing yourself like this?" Can you be worthy of Aunt Bai who recites and prays for you day and night? If she knew that you had become too sad because of your grief, she would definitely die of sadness! ”

After hearing this, the emotion in Ming Shen's heart was like a huge wave rolling, and he could no longer hold himself for a while, and threw himself into Rong Lu's warm embrace, tears like the tide of the embankment, fierce gushing out of his eyes.

"Big brother...... Shen'er will never dare to be willful in the future, Aunt Bai ....... Is she okay? What about my mother, is she okay? How is sister-in-law? The eldest brother is in the General's Mansion, is everything going well? ”

Rong Lu took out a square handkerchief from his sleeve, gently wiped the tears for her, hesitated again and again when the words came to his mouth, and finally turned into a long sigh: "Last time you sent fake news to your father, which made him very angry, and when you returned home, you whipped Aunt Mei Xiang half to death, and then threw it back into the waste garden, this time I asked me to visit you, but also so that I can bring you a word for him, he asked me to warn you, if you dare to eat inside and outside again, let you prepare to collect Aunt Mei Xiang's body!" ”

Hearing the last sentence, Ming Shen was so shocked that she almost fell from Rong Lu's arms, but fortunately Rong Lu stabilized her in time so that she didn't fall.

"How can my father be so ruthless?"

Ming Shen's voice trembled like the wind, his eyes showed the decay of autumn water and lotus, and he frowned: "Anyway, my mother is also the woman he once loved, how can she do it?" ”

"Our father's heart has always been as hard as iron, and you have always known it!" Rong Lu sighed, with a deep helplessness in his tone: "My brother also knows that you are caught between your husband and your biological mother, and I only hate that my brother is now soft-spoken and can't help you much." ”

Ming Shen listened to it with a chill down his spine, and then realized that today's eldest brother was different from usual, and he looked full of loss, without the majesty of the past, but like a down-and-out scholar named Sun Shan.

can force a high-spirited man like the eldest brother to feel heroic shortness of breath, which shows that the methods of Gu * Lun * Gong * Lord and Aunt Nangong are really high-end!

She had expected in her early years that as her father's body grew old, the title of hereditary general would sooner or later become the object of contention between the two elder brothers.

On the other hand, the second brother Ronghua, not only does not learn and has no skills, but he is also a concubine, and it stands to reason that he is not qualified to compete with the eldest brother at all, but he was adopted as a son by Gu * Lun * Gong * The master, and he is in the same breath as his biological mother Aunt Nangong, so he has a chance to be with the eldest brother for a long time, but he is always at a disadvantage, and he is not afraid at all.

However, seeing that the eldest brother's expression was so embarrassed today, Ming Shen had already realized that the battle for the title of 'heir or chief' in General Nalan's Mansion had changed from the secret battle in the past to the open dispute.

"In the past, Gu * Lun * Lord * Gong * and Aunt Nangong did not stumble on the eldest brother, but I have never seen the eldest brother difficult to become like this, what happened, does the elder brother still have to hide it from Shen'er?" Ming Shen asked with a solemn expression, his pale and pointed face, and the clouds of suspicion were covered with a haze.

Rong Lu was a little angry, and said fiercely: "It's not the princess of Heshuo yet, she has been raised under Aunt Xian's knees since she was a child, so she naturally listens to the mediation of Aunt Xian and Gu Lun * Gong * in everything, and now that she is at the age of leaving the cabinet, I heard that she is ready to recruit me as the East Bed Concubine."

"How's that going to work?" Ming Shen's face changed drastically, Dai raised his eyebrows, and said hurriedly: "Dajin In order to prevent the dictatorship of foreign relatives, the imperial relatives generally do not give real power, and our father was cut off most of his authority by the imperial court because he married Gu * Lun * Gong * Lord, and now if my brother is marrying Princess Heshuo, I am afraid that not only will he lose the qualification to inherit the title, but even your errand in the military department may not be able to keep it." ”

"Well, who's to say it's not?" Rong Lu smiled bitterly, gritted his teeth with hatred: "I don't admit it, I have been working hard for so many years, and in the end, I actually made a wedding dress for others, as long as I think of it, I can only be a vain horse master in the future, and I hate it to the point of congestion!" ”

Caifeng took two cups of Qiyun melon slices and inserted them at the right time, and said slightly puzzled: "Isn't the eldest prince already married to a room and two concubines, how can Princess Heshuo be willing to become a concubine?" She was the daughter of the late Queen, and if she was to be subordinated to a commonerwoman, wouldn't she let the whole world see her jokes? ”

Rong Lu stretched out his hand to take the white-glazed porcelain cup, and snorted coldly: "She is unwilling to become a concubine, it is estimated that she will have to do it like when the lord forced my mother to go to the court, and begged the emperor to make a holy decree to force Shu Yao to give up the position of the main room...... It's a pity that she has just given birth to a son for me after years of hard work, but she is about to become a cousin. ”

With a sigh in his heart, Ming Shen lowered his head, took a sip of Qiyun melon slices in his hand, and persuaded: "Brother, don't be so negative first, the emperor may not approve of this marriage, I don't know?" The princess of a dignified country, who specializes in robbing other people's husbands, is also disgraceful on the emperor's face, and isn't the emperor always treated the Shen family with kindness and courtesy? It shouldn't be that the daughter of the Shen family will be reduced to an abandoned woman. ”

Rong Lu shook his head and sneered: "It is not wrong for the emperor to treat the Shen family preferentially, but after all, the daughter of the Shen family is no better than his own biological daughter, not to mention, Princess Heshuo is a descendant of the main palace, and she has Aunt Xian and Gu * Lun * Gong * The main media, this matter cannot be easily stopped." ”

"Is it really irreparable?" Ming Shen twisted her eyebrows tightly, and set up an abacus in her heart.

Rong Lu picked up the teacup, tasted it, and said: "Eight * nine is not far from ten, or don't talk about me, what are the plans of the fourth sister in the future?" ”

"Caifeng, go down first!"

Ming Shen commanded softly, and after Caifeng left, he said with hatred: "I have thought about it, the grace of birth and nourishment is greater than the sky, if I can't kill the Jin family to avenge the nurse, I won't be alive from now on!"

When Rong Lu heard this, he was stunned for a long time, and persuaded: "The eldest brother has heard some rumors in the officialdom, and the gold and silver used by Prince Duan to collect the courtiers are all from the Jin family. Whether this matter is true or false does not matter for the time being, but if you want to move the Jin family, I am afraid that you must first bring down the Jin family. ”

"However, if you want to bring down the Jin family, you must first let Prince Duan and you have one heart before it can be done, but my fourth sister, have you thought about it, if you and Prince Duan become one heart and one mind, our father's side, I'm afraid that I can't tolerate you anymore, you have lost a nurse, do you have to take revenge and compensate your own mother?"

Ming Shen's eyes narrowed slightly, and he exuded a gentle edge, and said unhurriedly: "The eldest brother thinks about his sister everywhere, and the younger sister may as well say something heart-wrenching to the eldest brother, although the death of the nurse was the arrogance of the Jin family, but the younger sister herself is also the culprit who is to blame!" ”

"If it weren't for my low-key forbearance in everything, the villain who was used to it became more and more proud, the Jin family categorically didn't dare to be rampant to this point, and the nurse would not be beaten to death by her, now the eldest brother is in a predicament, and the younger sister is also determined to swear revenge, why don't we brothers and sisters join forces, use the existing chips at hand, and fight to the death, even if it fails, it is only a death, how bad can it be?"

"What the fourth sister said is very true, no matter how bad it is, it is not much better than now, if I am asked to hang on to my job and coax a barbaric woman to live for a lifetime, I would rather let it go, even if there is no corpse, it is better than living in a nest!" Rong Lu raised his eyebrows and smiled, his mood was bright, and his eyes instantly became extraordinarily bright.

Ming Shen smiled faintly and said hesitantly: "Since the eldest brother said so, the younger sister has an idea in her heart that is perfect for both worlds and once and for all, and wants to say it to her brother, but if the younger sister has the wrong mind, please read it for the sake of my young and ignorant people, don't blame it!" ”

"Four girls, you are a cool person on weekdays, why have you become spitting up?" Rong Lu smiled and urged: "Say it quickly, as long as the eldest brother can help you, he will never stand idly by." ”