Concubine Liao seems to have something on her mind today, and when she talks to the Hu family, she frequently wanders and doesn't say anything, and even her sister came back tired from playing outside, and came to her side and called her one after another, but she didn't react for a while.

When she reacted in hindsight, she found that everyone in front of her was looking at her.

It turned out that the sister was thirsty, and Concubine Liao hurriedly asked the nurse to bring water to feed the sister, and the sister drank the water and trotted out again.

"What's wrong with you today?" Hu also found that Concubine Liao was always distracted today, and she looked absent-minded, so she immediately asked. "Is there something wrong or is it not feeling well?"

"The concubine is fine." Concubine Liao opened her mouth to speak, but when the words really came to her mouth, she didn't know how to speak for a while.

"Everyone has lived in a palace for so long, I can still see if you have something in your heart." Hu said happily. "No matter what happened before, you and I are now a family, and with these children at home, it doesn't matter if you say anything."

"In fact, there is no solid evidence for what the concubine discovered, and the concubine is not good at talking about it."

Hu Shi's heart suddenly understood, and he gestured to the maids beside him, and the maids in the room retreated in order, and the last person to go out closed the door.

"Now you can safely say it, right?" When the people dispersed, Hu said to Concubine Liao.

"Well, here's the thing, there was an accident in the paddock during the spring hunting, His Majesty and his party were attacked by a wild bee swarm, and Princess Zhaoyue was slightly injured, the princess of the county should know about it, right?"

"Of course, I know about this, and I took the time to visit the princess the day after she returned to the imperial capital." Hu Shi wondered. "But this incident was just accidentally provoked by a child in his early tens, and even His Majesty acquiesced, did you suddenly mention this matter because you know something else?"

"It was my maid Caige, she was the dowry maid who followed me out of the Yongchang Earl's Mansion, and her father and brother's family were originally serving in the Yongchang Earl's Mansion. Before His Majesty and they went out for spring hunting, Caige's father was seriously ill and died, and sent a letter to Caige saying that he wanted Caige to go back and see him for the last time. Caige has been with me for many years, so I naturally allowed her to go back to the Yongchang Earl's Mansion to see off her father. Caige's father saw Caige's last face and disappeared, so I asked Caige to keep vigil for my father for three nights. She took my sign and went home through the side door late at night. Concubine Liao was uneasy in her heart, but she finally said it. When Caige came back, he was afraid of alarming the people in the house, so he deliberately took a remote path, and he might as well have accidentally caught a glimpse of the king of the county talking to a man in a guard's uniform. The pigeon did not dare to approach or move, so he had to hide and wait for them to finish speaking before he dared to come out. ”

"Oh, what they said to each other, did the pigeon hear something?" Hu Shi was infected by Concubine Liao's emotions, thinking of Xiao Jin's strange behavior, and his mood sank for a while.

Caige said that their voices were too quiet, and she could only vaguely hear the words of Nan'an Houfu and wild bees far away. At that time, when Caige told me about it, the news of the accident in the paddock had not yet been transmitted back to the imperial capital, and the concubine did not pay much attention to it. Concubine Liao was entangled in her heart. But after the concubine knew that something had happened in the paddock, and then thought about what Caige said to me, the concubine was really scared in her body and mind, and she couldn't sleep all night. ”

Hu knew that the matter of the enclosure was that the four sons of Nan'an Hou inadvertently shot down a wild beecomb when they were playing, and the wild bee swarm would attack a group of people from Emperor Chu who were passing by, and Princess Zhaoyue's horse was attacked by wild bees, and His Majesty also shocked the horse. Xiao Jin reacted quickly and saved Emperor Chu as soon as possible, but Princess Zhaoyue was injured.

Xiao Jin regained the attention of Emperor Chu because of this matter, and after returning to the imperial capital, Xiao Jin was doubly proud. Xiao Jin's relationship with himself has deteriorated day by day, and he has not entered the Hu family's courtyard for several months. But on the first day he returned to the imperial capital, he even made a special trip to her courtyard, took the initiative to tell her what happened in the paddock, and asked her to let her take time to go to Princess Zhaoyue's mansion to visit the injured Princess Zhaoyue.

Looking back now, Hu Shi did feel a little strange about Xiao Jin at that time.

"Do you see what the man in the guard uniform looks like?" Hu asked Concubine Liao carefully.

Caige said that it was too dark for her to see the man's face clearly, but then Caige described the person's clothes to the concubine. The princess knew that the concubine had the honor to follow the prince to the paddock once, and that person was wearing the guard's uniform of the paddock. Concubine Liao subconsciously tightened the handkerchief in her hand and said. How is this good, princess? Now that His Majesty has not pursued the matter again, he even appointed the eldest son of the Nan'an Hou family to enter the palace guard. The concubine is only afraid of Your Majesty, and Your Majesty does not believe that this incident happened by chance. ”

"I see." Hu Shi forced himself to listen to Concubine Liao's words, and now he only felt a headache. "Now don't panic, and tell Caige not to tell this matter, and then if you meet the king of the county in the house, be calmer, don't show your face in front of him. It's fine if this matter has nothing to do with him, but if he is really the culprit, he will definitely not let you go. ”

"Concubine..... The concubines are all ..... It's all written down. "Concubine Liao was said by the Hu family, and immediately recalled the last time she almost died under Xiao Jin's long sword, the whole body lost strength, if she didn't sit on the chair, she would definitely be paralyzed to the ground like a puddle of soft mud." The concubine is not afraid of her own accident now, but she is afraid that the king of the county will really do such a thing and implicate the children in the house. ”

Concubine Liao burst into tears as she spoke, but she cried out to attract the attention of the children who were playing in the yard outside, and hurriedly covered her mouth with her hand to keep herself from crying.

Hu Shi is not worried about this matter in his heart, Concubine Liao has only one sister under her knees, and she has three children under her knees.

Hu now only hates himself for being ignorant, before she entered the palace to participate in the elective, her parents also chose a good marriage for her, as long as she nodded, her parents could set a marriage for her and avoid entering the palace draft.

But she refused, feeling that only by marrying the prince could she have no honor. And now after all these years, the proud and stupid self she was when she was young, now she can't wait to go back to the past and kill her.

The younger sister who entered the palace draft with her was unsuccessful and married outside the palace to Jiangnan, and now her sister has both children and daughters, and her relationship with her husband is also harmonious, although her identity is not as valuable as that of the princess of the county. Last year, my brother-in-law accompanied my sister back to the imperial capital to visit her father and mother, and she also took her children back to the Liguo Mansion.

My sister's face is still as delicate as ever, and the years have not left the slightest hatred on her.

But when you look at yourself, you can see the tiredness in the corners of her eyes and eyebrows from the reflection of the tea in the tea cup.

"Now we can't do anything, Your Majesty has ended this matter openly, and in private he must have handed over the matter to the Banner Guard to investigate. This matter depends on how Xiao Jin does it, if only his methods can be more clever. The consequences of this incident don't seem to be serious, if he can hide, the county king's mansion will naturally be safe. Hu leaned back in his chair and said tiredly. "But I'm even more afraid that he managed to avoid this time, and in the future he will only be bolder and will do more terrible things."

"What should I do?" When Concubine Liao heard this, her heart became more and more desperate.

"I still have the Liguo Mansion behind me, if I can't avoid his involvement when necessary, I can at least ask my parents to protect the children for me." In fact, since the Jiangnan case, Hu has already discussed with his parents, if Xiao Jin really causes a big disaster in the future, Hu hopes that her parents can come forward to protect her children for her. "Although your maiden home Yongchang Earl's Mansion has declined a lot after the Jiangnan case, and your parents have also returned to their hometown to retire, but although the new Yongchang Uncle is not your brother-in-law, he has half the same blood as you, I heard that the new Yongchang Uncle has a good relationship with the King of Qin, if he is willing to come forward, I can't say that he will be able to protect you and his sister in the future."

Concubine Liao listened to Hu's suggestion, but she couldn't help but hesitate in her heart.

Back then, Concubine Liao's mother married into the Earl's Mansion of Yongchang as the stepfamily, and Concubine Liao actually noticed it over the years. The grandmother was unwilling to raise herself and her brother under her knees, but she was willing to raise the eldest brother from her father's original match in front of her, and carefully raised her to prevent his parents from seeing her.

Concubine Liao didn't understand these things when she was young, and she gradually came back to it when she grew up. In addition, Concubine Liao knows a little about her mother, I am afraid that her father's original partner died strangely back then, and there was also a part of her mother. Grandmother wants to raise her eldest brother, who has lost the protection of her biological mother, under her knees, and I am afraid that her mother will secretly do it for the inheritance of the title of Earl of Yongchang.

's mother has been trying for her brother all her life for the title of Earl of Yongchang, but her brother has no big deal, and he caused trouble in vain, and was exempted from the inheritance of the title by Emperor Chu himself. And the elder brother also died absurdly in a dark alley in the imperial capital a few years later.

After the death of his grandmother, the eldest brother had a hard time in the Earl's Mansion of Yongchang. If it weren't for his biological mother's mother's care, the eldest brother would not have survived to this day peacefully.

It's just that the eldest brother has always been alienated from her, and she also knows that the death of her mother and the eldest brother's biological mother is inseparable.

"I know those things in the Earl Mansion of Yongchang, you are not from the same mother, and estrangement is inevitable."