In the garden of purple and red

Ruyi and Brother Parrot helped Yan Qingge walk slowly

Five months have passed since the beating, Yan Qingge's belly is as big as a balloon, if it weren't for the fact that a lot of Lang Zhong came to check the pulse and said that there was only one child in the belly, Yan Qingge would have suspected that she was pregnant with twins

"The eldest lady is the princess of the Zhongwang Mansion to visit you," a clever maid named Ziyan trotted all the way to report to Yan Qingge

"It's Ling Xiao here, please invite her in," Yan Qingge was walking a little sullenly, and when he was a little sullen, he had a smile on his face and hurriedly called someone to invite Ling Xiao in

Ling Xiao was followed by six maids and was led into the house

Yan Qingge immediately greeted him and smiled: "But I haven't seen you for a long time, I wanted to go to the door to greet you in person, but the maids and ladies around me watched it tightly and just told me to wait."

Ling Xiao looked Yan Qingge up and down

I saw that her upper body was a large flower tuft with a moon white background, a chest-length blouse, a water-red long gauze skirt, and a protruding waist, as if a watermelon was buttoned on it

"I have known the news that you are pregnant for a long time, and I want to come to see you, but now it is not as easy to travel as it was when I was a child, and everything in the house is spread out on my head, and I can't easily move," Ling Xiao said

"I know that even now I rarely go out, when I am not married, I always envy those ladies who can go out casually, and now I know that the most alive is when I am a girl, otherwise I can only wait until I am older to be relaxed."

The two talked and laughed, Yan Qingge saw that the time was not early, and asked the kitchen to cook, leaving Ling Xiao for lunch

Ling Xiao's eyes flashed with hesitation, and he stood up and said, "I won't stay for lunch, I have to go back."

"How can this be done, if you can't say anything important, it's up to me to let people go," Yan Qingge pursed his lips slightly and said to Ling Xiao

Yan Qingge treated Ling Xiao exactly as intimately as before, but Ling Xiao was panicked by her question

Fortunately, she was ready to sigh and said: "It's not for the sake of water plants, although his legs and feet are not good, but he is still a man, and he has to get married, but it is not easy for us to find a suitable daughter-in-law for him in the house."

Yan Qingge's impression was quite deep and he said seriously: "Then you go, I won't leave you in vain, if I see the right girl, I will also help you pull the strings."

Ling Xiao said with joy on his face: "Really"

"Lying to you is a puppy" Yan Qingge quipped

Ling Xiao seemed to remember something and said to Yan Qingge: "Qingge has one thing I don't know if I should say or not."

"What's the matter, which girl in your family wants to ask me to pull the strings," Yan Qingge asked Xiang Xiao directly without beating around the bush

"Well, my family has a crush on a girl, I heard that Qingge, you and that girl have a bit of friendship."

"Hey, this is strange, how come there is still someone I have a friendship with, but you don't have a friendship," Yan Qingge couldn't help but drag his face with a handkerchief and laughed

"You will be ashamed of me, this girl is really you know, I don't know, she is the princess of Qianning in the palace," Ling Xiao said

Yan Qingge's face was condensed, and when he remembered it, Qian Ning didn't know how to answer Ling Xiao's words

No matter how unfavored the royal princess is, she will not be so lowly that she casually allows it to a disabled person who has no merit or achievements, not to mention that Qianning is only such a young child, and the age difference between her and Shui Zhi is seven or eight years old, so she can't be considered a good match

Ling Xiao, what's wrong with this, she's not the kind of person who doesn't know the severity

It seemed to see Yan Qingge's doubts, Ling Xiao smiled: "Qingge is not that I am not greedy enough, but the days when Princess Qianning was in the palace and everyone heard about it a long time ago" Speaking of this, she paused, and seemed to have made up her mind and said to Yan Qingge: "That year, the barbarians entered Beijing, and many women were ...... Fortunately, the water plant is already like that, and I don't care about this."

Yan Qingge's expression had cracked

She immediately waved her hand and said to the dozen or so maids waiting in the hall: "You all step down from today's matter, and you are not allowed to say half a word outside."

Although what Ling Xiao said was very vague, which one in this room was not a human spirit, and as soon as he heard it, he knew that Ling Xiao was implying that Princess Qianning was no longer a virgin

Not to mention how much damage this matter will do to Princess Qianning, even Ling Xiao himself will inevitably be accused of criticizing the royal family

These subordinates had already been swept out by the people of Yanwang Mansion, and in the blink of an eye, only Yan Qingge and Ling Xiao were left in the room

Yan Qingge slowly stood up with some difficulty on the handle of the chair, and shook his head at Ling Xiao: "Ling Xiao, why have you become so confused now, can you talk nonsense like this, not to mention that I have never heard such rumors in the palace, it must be made up by the people, you must not say anything like that again."

"I ...... I was also worried about Shui Mu's marriage, so I told the rumors outside, and I knew that I was wrong," Ling Xiao said with his head down

Yan Qingge was a little speechless for a while, she had already known that Ling Xiao was very bold, and sometimes she didn't expect that she hadn't seen her all these days, and after becoming the housewife, she not only did not become calm, but became even more intense

It's just that Ling Xiao is her friend, Yan Qingge can't say anything, she stepped forward and held Ling Xiao's hand and comforted: "Today's matter, I will call them rotten in the stomach, no matter how the people outside say it, don't believe it, you forgot that the three of us sisters didn't want to enter the palace at the beginning, but Providence made people, Shui Ying has already entered, and the two of us must not mix up and go there again."

"I know Qingge," Ling Xiao's tone was slightly difficult, and after a while, he raised his head and smiled at Yan Qingge reluctantly: "What you said is also like you, the Yan Wangfu Lord, married the eldest princess of Roufu, because he is the heir of the Yanwang Mansion, and he is really talented, so he can support the court, if the second brother is still the princess of Qianning, it is time for great changes in our mansion."

What Ling Xiao said was a bit of a self-talk, and Yan Qingge always felt that something was not right

She looked at Ling Xiao keenly and comforted her: "Don't worry, since Shui Mu's position as the prince has been decided, he must be the one who will inherit the throne of King Zhong's Mansion in the future."

After sending Ling Xiao away in a hurry, Yan Qingge sat back in the large circle chair covered with soft cushions, rubbing his head with his hands, his face full of distress

Even if a few little maids were on her side to make fun of her, Yan Qingge didn't have half of her spirits

Ruyi held the tea on the side, secretly thinking to herself, the eldest lady must be like this for Miss Lingxiao, but fortunately, the little prince came back in the evening, and the eldest lady must be fine again

It's like God knows that Yan Qingge is not in the mood today

In the afternoon, Yan Xiuyu didn't come back, and there was another big news, the old lady of the Xinguo Mansion handed over the sign and entered the palace to see the queen begging for grace, and the Xinguo Mansion was about to officially split up

Because it has been a long time since there has been such a large-scale division of the Great Zhou, now the household department, the Ministry of Rites and other related yamen have been involved in it, and they are busy operating

The Xinguo Mansion is brewing a separation, and it has been a while, Yan Qingge often makes some arrangements outside with Cao Yan and Yan Xiuyu, and beats the side drum for the Xinguo Mansion, Rao is so, it has been rubbing for so long, and the Zhao family went to the queen to hand over the sign

After Ruyi knew it, the expression on his face was red at first, and he was a little happy, but after listening to the mother-in-law who came to report the news, he learned two sentences, and the expression on his face became whiter and whiter

"The queen's mother agreed to let the Xinguo Mansion divide the family, one is that all the property and population of the Xinguo Mansion must be listed and reported to the imperial court, and the second is that their old lady should personally accept the Xinguo Mansion, which can still be passed down to the next generation, and the title is up to now, and the third is that half of the property of all the Zhu children related to the division of the family should be filled into the treasury, and those who already have officials and titles will be demoted by two levels."

The more I listened to these three, the more frightened Ruyi became

Just the first one makes many families completely unacceptable, and all the property and population have to be reported, which is equivalent to showing everything about themselves in front of the world, and there are no secrets and fig leafs, and even because they have been discovered, there are a lot of old things that are greasy, which nobles of the family will not do this

The second is just the old lady of the Xinguo Mansion's own conditions, and it is only a reference for the rest of the people who want to split the family

Article 3 is even more terrifying: those who do not have the ability to support themselves from their own families receive half of their property and fill the state treasury is equivalent to directly knocking down their lives by one or even more than one grade, while those who have the ability to rely on themselves and have nothing to rely on their ancestors' family property will face the cruel thing of being demoted by two ranks

Ruyi's hands were tightly wringing handkerchiefs, and she was very nervous

She involuntarily began to substitute this matter onto Cao Yan's body

Oh my God, if the Cao family is also divided like this, Cao Yan's official position will be reduced from the fourth rank to the sixth rank of the court all of a sudden, how difficult it is to be promoted, I can't imagine that Cao Yan was entrusted with a heavy task as soon as he took office, but it was just borrowed from King Jing's merit at that time, and the court was indeed scarce talents, so that advantage was taken, if it was promoted according to the normal level, ten years or twenty years may not be enough

Ruyi's eyes were full of pain

If the Cao family is also divided like this, she might as well not marry

At this time, a pair of warm and silky hands held her cold palm, and Yan Qingge's gentle voice came: "Ruyi is worried about Cao Gongzi"

As soon as Ruyi raised his head, his ignorant and painful eyes collided with Yan Qingge's eyes, looking at Yan Qingge's gentle eyes, Ruyi suddenly felt much more relieved

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(Tianjin)