The ninth year of the Apocalypse, winter.

The snow was falling, and there was a white expanse everywhere in Beijing, except for the bright red lanterns hanging outside the Xuanping Marquis Mansion.

There is a happy word pasted in front of the door, and there are firecracker crumbs on the ground, which should be festive, but at this time, on the street outside the Xuanping Hou Mansion, there are more than a dozen carriages parked before and after, and from time to time someone walks out of the Hou Mansion with a bad face.

Xuanping Marquis Xie Yuan was wearing a wedding dress that had not yet been changed, and he took the people in the mansion to guard the door and apologize to everyone who left the mansion, and those people had different expressions.

Occasionally, some people spoke out to comfort them, saying that children don't understand things, but most of them are silent.

In the restaurant across the street, from time to time someone looked at the door of the Hou Mansion.

"What's wrong with this Xuanping Marquis Mansion? Didn't you say that today is a happy event? ”

"Yes, didn't you beat gongs and drums before, you should have a wedding banquet at this hour, why did you send off guests?"

"I look like something has happened."

"What's wrong, at the feet of the Son of Heaven, in the Hou Mansion, can something else happen?"

"Why can't that, maybe the bride ran away......"

"Smack!"

Before the joking man finished speaking, he was slammed on the arm, but the person at the table with him glared at him and said, "You don't want to die, dare to talk nonsense?" ”

The man's face suddenly turned scornful, and he also knew that what he had just said was out of line, so he hurriedly coughed lightly and said:

"I just said it casually, and I didn't mean anything else, but seriously, this Xuanping Marquis Mansion has such a big happy event this time, I heard that I married a widow as a stepwife, and this etiquette is about to catch up with the original match, why did it end halfway?"

The Xuanping Marquis Mansion is the most wealthy family in Beijing, and Xie Yuan, the Marquis of Xuanping, is based on the court with his military exploits and has won the trust of the emperor.

Outside of these seven bend alleys, the Xuanping Marquis Mansion occupies a small half, and in a place like Beijing where every inch of land is valuable, it is enough to see Xuanping Marquis Mansion Xuanhe.

Xuanping Hou has married a wife in his early years, taking the younger sister of Shen Fengnian, the prime minister of the dynasty, the two are very affectionate, and gave birth to two sons and a daughter, but it is a pity that the day is not a holiday, Mrs. Xuanping Hou died of illness, and Xuanping Hou has never remarried.

I heard that when the emperor ascended the throne, he intended to marry Xuanping Hou again, but he chose the daughter of Lu Liangzhi, a bachelor of Hanlin Academy, but Xuanping Hou refused.

Everyone in Beijing said that Xuanping Hou had a deep love for his first wife, but he didn't want to be more than a month ago, but Xuanping Hou suddenly brought back a widow from Jingnan and declared that he wanted to marry her.

Hearing that the new lady was graceful, like a fairy shu, she was so fascinated that Xuanping Hou didn't care that her widowhood would be ridiculed, and she directly asked her to marry her as her stepfamily.

This time the marriage of the two, Xuanping Hou is even more wanton, and the Xuanping Hou Mansion, which has always been low-key, has posted almost all the posts to all the people with status in Beijing, intending to raise the face of the new lady.

Someone next to him leaned his neck, and saw that after the carriage on the opposite side dispersed, the people from the Xuanping Marquis Mansion closed the door with a "bang", and couldn't help but wonder.

"This Xuanping Marquis values that new lady so much, is it possible that someone really dares to make trouble at the wedding banquet?"

"I looked at the hanging, I didn't see that the Xie family was so angry, maybe something really happened."

"I don't know who is so bold."

……

Xie Yuan threw himself at the door of the mansion and said in a cold voice: "What about people? ”

"Huh?"

The housekeeper was stunned for a moment, and just wanted to ask someone, he bumped into Xie Yuan's cold eyes, he suddenly woke up, and hurriedly said, "Miss Su is at the old lady's." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, Xie Yuan strode directly towards the backyard.

……

In the Jintang courtyard of the Hou Mansion's back house, Old Lady Xie Xu sat on the top with a pale face, while the rest of the Xie family below also looked ugly.

In the middle of the hall knelt a woman of astonishing beauty.

She was wearing a red wedding dress, and her face was not as delicate as that of an ordinary woman, but her cheeks were plump.

On the slightly rounded face, the skin is white like the most tender tofu, with the delicate color of a girl, but the tails of the eyes are raised with charm, and the slender waist is more like a break.

There was a young girl lying on the ground beside her.

He was about thirteen or fourteen years old, and his face was seven points similar to that of a woman, and at this time he seemed to have fainted, and lay there motionless with his eyes closed.

Chen knelt on the ground, stood in front of the girl and tilted his head and said: "Today's incident is all because of the concubine alone, Ruan Ruan is young and ignorant, so I begged the old lady to spare her this time." ”

"Spare her? How many times have you said I spared her?! ”

Old Madam Xie's face was blue, and she pointed at Su Ruan with a trembling hand.

"It's not the first time, three times!"

"Since your mother and daughter entered the mansion, Su Ruan has made all kinds of trouble."

"The first time I smashed the lampstand of Bihe Garden, I almost burned the entire Xuanping Marquis Mansion."

"The second time, when I went out with someone, I slandered Lord Hou with people outside."

"This time it's better, she directly hugged her father's tablet and made a big fuss, smashed my son's head and face, and made our entire Xuanping Hou Mansion embarrassed in front of everyone. If you ask me to spare her, how can I spare her? ”

"If I spare her, the face of my Xuanping Marquis Mansion will be trampled on the ground by her?!"

"Old lady......"

Seeing that Old Madam Xie was angry, Chen's face suddenly turned anxious.

Old Madam Xie didn't wait for her to speak, she directly said angrily: "Pull her away for me, and wake up Su Ruan for me, I want to ask her, what is her dissatisfaction with our Hou Mansion?" What is the point of mistreatment of her in my Xuanping Marquis Mansion?! ”

The Wang family in the big room next to her, the Wu family in the third room, and several aunts all stepped forward one after another, holding Chen's hand left and right to pull her away.

"Brother and sister, Su Ruan is really wrong this time, don't protect her."

"yes, she's really making too much trouble this time."

Several people persuaded while pulling the Chen family, and they only dared to hold her arm in their hands, but they didn't dare to move roughly, after all, everyone in the mansion knew that Xie Yuan valued the Chen family.

A moment later, a basin of cold water was poured directly on Su Ruan's body.

It was a December day, and it was already cold to the bone.

After the basin of water was splashed on her body, the girl on the ground suddenly shook her head and opened her eyes suddenly.

Su Ruan's head was heavy, and there seemed to be those voices in her ears that roared and scolded her for not being able to die, and before she could fully wake up, she suddenly noticed someone approaching her, and reached out to her face.

Su Ruan's eyes were sharp, and he reflexively grabbed the man's hand and twisted it back.

"Ahh

Mother Liu just wanted to see if Su Ruan woke up or not, and she was unprepared for being attacked, and suddenly screamed in pain.

"Presumptuous, it's against you!"

Old Madam Xie slammed the table and shouted angrily.

Su Ruan's hand moved, and when he heard the voice, he turned his head violently to look at the person above, and saw Old Madam Xie who almost fainted.

She was stunned in place, and after a while, she hesitated: "Grandmother? ”