Chapter 29: Nocturne: Don't Take the Mirror
The Zhou Kingdom is indeed prosperous and advanced, but looking at the high-rise buildings and luxury cars lining up on the street, I lost the yearning when I drank sweet wine and listened to the description of the envoys. The place I aspire to be where I have my family.
My eldest brother spent a month with me in Zhou, and he went back after my wedding, and before leaving, he took my hand and lowered his voice and said, "You have to stay here in peace, don't treat this place as your home, sooner or later I will come to pick you up." ”
"I'm waiting for big brother."
This is the first time I have seen my big brother's back.
The years of the Zhou Kingdom were extraordinarily long, and after I arrived in the Zhou Kingdom, I learned about the current royal family from the professor who taught me the culture of the Zhou Kingdom. The king and queen have three children, the eldest is a princess, who dropped out of school at an early age, perhaps because she was too depressed in her early years, and she let herself go after becoming a princess. My husband is the second Yunfu, he is very good-looking, more elegant than Zhuo's men, and his temper is also very gentle, but I don't like it. The third is a prince, most favored by the king and queen, and some are rebellious and disobedient. Zhou Guo's etiquette is highly educated, many of my actions are considered rude, and I don't want to embarrass Zhuo's family, so I always do things with my hands tied.
When I attend daily activities, the people of Zhou are very enthusiastic about me, shouting at me and sending me flowers, just like my Zhuo people, which makes me feel a lot better. In addition to this, I often went with Yunfu to visit my in-laws, who were the kings and queens of the Zhou Kingdom. I would talk to them, talk about the various rules and regulations of the Zhou Kingdom, customs and customs, and after a few conversations, I really found a problem.
I knew that the relationship between the Shangguan clan and the Yun clan of the royal clan was not very harmonious, but I didn't expect it to be so far. Today's king does have the right time and place in the battle for the throne, but the most important thing is the support of Shousuke. Although the king of the Central Plains does not have the right to govern, if the king raises an opinion on something, Shousuke will rarely refute it, and besides, the king is the spiritual symbol of the people of the country, so the country still has to have a good king. And the ······ in front of him I don't think he's a good king, his family has been in decline for many years, and has lived a long life as a commoner, but he looks at everyone with undisguised contempt. He will not discipline his own children, and in this month in the Zhou Kingdom, I have heard many scandals of the eldest princess being extravagant and wasteful and the little prince skipping school and fighting. As for the queen, she is completely a vassal, she responds to whatever the king says, her expression is wooden, she does not understand state affairs, she can only do housework, not at all like my mother, she can take care of it inside and outside. It is impossible for Shousuke to choose someone to sit on the throne without understanding his character, he deliberately chose an arrogant person to be the king, and there is only one purpose for this: to subvert the image of the royal family in the hearts of the people!
I can guess, and the old ministers of the Zhou State must also guess, they chose to turn a blind eye, either because they were afraid of the deterrence of Shangguan Shoufu, or they were of the same mind as Shoufu.
The situation in Zhou was more complicated than I thought, and after a few days, I only felt physically and mentally exhausted. Gradually, I stopped seeing my in-laws so often.
In the second month after I came to Zhou, Yunfu seemed to have encountered something, and those who went out early and returned late stopped eating with me. After an all-night stay, I decided to ask him what had happened.
I went to his study and tried to push the door in, but the guards stopped me, and he said that he could only go in until he was informed and the prince agreed. You see, there are so many rules between the husband and wife of the Zhou royal family.
When I went in, I saw him, his face was a little gray, his sideburns were a little wet, he must have just washed his face.
"What have you been up to lately? None of them are with me. ”
"There is a case where the suspect was my nanny when I was a child······" His voice was less mellow.
"Oh, since it's your babysitter, you can keep it." It's human nature, I think.
He reached out and I put my hand up, he held my hand, and the other hand seemed to want to put his arm around my shoulder, and he stretched it out and put it back.
"Ao'er, I remember that you had a plum blossom mark on your waist······ Is it innate? ”
"I don't know by nature, anyway, I have it when I can remember."
"What kind of plum blossom is it?"
"Brown petals, red stamens, ask what this is for, haven't you seen it?"
Suddenly provoked, he shook off my hand, and then looked at me apologetically. "I'm just curious, just ask."
Since then, Yunfu is no longer close to me, and sent people to send me many novelties, but he doesn't accompany me, but I am busy studying Zhou Guo's technology and don't care about this with him.
Princess Celestia would sometimes come to play with me, and she would hear that my father treated me and my brother equally and even favored me, and she was very envious of me, and then kept complaining to me about how his father favored his younger son.
"I don't say these things to others, I see that you have a good heart. You don't know how patriarchal they are, but when it was just me, it was reasonable for me, and then ······ Later······" Her eyes widened, did she recall something bad?
"What happened next?"
"Ahh She sorted out her expression, and then continued: "Then the eldest brother was born, and I became an old thing to throw aside. ”
"Don't say that about yourself."
"Heh, however, the eldest brother didn't live too long, when he was ten years old, the second brother was born, and his parents went around the second brother again."
"My husband is also a boy, why should he be treated differently?"
"How do I know what they think, it's all their children, it seems that only the second brother is biological. Look at you, you will be upset for Fu'er. ”
"He's my husband."
I looked at Princess Celestia, who was thirty years old and still unmarried. There is an eight-year difference between Yunfu and Yunfu, the king and queen want a boy so much, why are they willing to wait so many years to have a child?
"Princess, I heard that you dropped out of school when you were in junior high school, what a pity, we Zhuo don't have such good learning conditions."
"I ······· I was sick, and I dropped out of school when I was sick. Her eyes widened again, and the muscles in her face quivered slightly.
"It's a shame." I said.
Sometimes, I would teach the second prince to read, he was not an ordinary rebel, he was very rebellious, but he could always listen to a few words of my words. According to him, he didn't like to study until he became a prince, and he was happy with gangsters. After becoming a prince, he has a dependence, and he doesn't pay attention to school.
One night, when I went to check his test results, he suddenly asked me mysteriously, "Do you know what my dad's greatest wish is?" ”
"I don't know."
"Hey, don't look at him as a king, in fact, his biggest wish is that our royal family can have a bachelor. But you see me like this, his wish is in vain. ”
I looked at the red cross on his test paper and smiled helplessly. "Isn't your eldest brother studying well, why didn't he go to college?"
"He, in order to be angry with my father, he went to the Internet café with me on the day of the college entrance examination. Haha, my dad didn't know until the day the results came down, and beat him up, and he didn't get out of bed for three days, and since then, my brother has followed me. ”
"Why are you angry that he didn't repeat his college entrance examination?"
"No, my brother just thinks my parents are partial to me, anyway, no one cares if it's good or not, it's better to do whatever you want. Otherwise, to be honest, according to my brother's grades, not to mention a bachelor's degree, he can also get a master's degree. ”
"Alright, let's take a look at the question."
In the middle of the second prince's change of subject, I went to get some fruit salad, and walked by to relieve fatigue, and when I came back, he ran away.
"Little three? Little three? ”
"Princess, the second prince just went to the toilet."
"Oh." I looked at the guard who spoke suspiciously.
"It's coming, it's coming." As he spoke, the second prince ran over.
"I didn't run, I promised you that I would finish the question when I finished correcting it."
"Oh, really? Then you tell me why you knocked over the water glass on the test paper? ”
"Huh? What water glass overturned? ”