Chapter 91: Exclusivity
Plotting for us? I'm afraid it's just for her son. Yan Lingyue felt a burst of disgust in her heart.
Queen Xiao said, "If you want the queen mother to say, Yue'er might as well send someone to the military camp to care about Ziyu." This woman, sometimes you have to learn to be soft, and a coquettish woman is the best. ”
If she wants to say anything else, Mama Li disagrees. But Queen Xiao's last sentence, Mama Li quite agreed. In Mama Li's opinion, the Nine Emperors like their young ladies so much, as long as their young ladies bow their heads and coax the Nine Emperors, then there is no contradiction that cannot be resolved.
As soon as Queen Xiao left, Mama Li persuaded Yan Lingyue to say, "Why don't you go to the barracks?" ”
Yan Lingyue shook her head and stopped Mama Li. After another two days, Zhou Ziyu still didn't come back, but Zhang Yu came back halfway to help Zhou Ziyu get a change of clothes.
Although Yan Lingyue didn't say anything about Zhou Ziyu living in the barracks, Mama Li knew that their young lady actually cared a lot. Looking at Yan Lingyue's increasingly thin little face, Mama Li was anxious.
At this moment, something happened in the palace, and the second prince Zhou Zichang was bitten by a rat in the dungeon and contracted the plague. When it was discovered, it was too late, and even his life was in danger. After telling the king, Zhou Zichang was pulled out of the dungeon overnight and sent back to his courtyard.
The imperial concubine, who was grounded, ignored the guards' obstruction, held a dagger around her neck, and rushed into Zhou Zichang's room. This night, the imperial concubine cried all night at Zhou Zichang's bedside, disturbing most of the people in the palace who did not rest well.
The next morning, when Yan Lingyue woke up, her eyes were swollen. Originally, I was going to see the second prince, but as soon as I walked to the door, Mama Zhou, who was next to Queen Xiao, came over. repeatedly instructed Yan Lingyue to tell her to move less recently, saying that the plague would be contagious, and asked Ming Hanxuan's people to be careful.
I thought that with the imperial doctor guarding him, Zhou Zichang should be able to survive this catastrophe, but I never thought that the news of Zhou Zichang's death would come that morning. Although Zhou Zichang is guilty, he is a prince after all. Not long after the Empress Dowager's 100-day festival, the two princes left again, and King Zhou's face was so ugly and ugly.
As soon as the news came out, Zhou Ziyu, who had lived in the barracks for a long time, rushed back to the palace. Zhou Ziyan, the sixth prince, and Zhou Ziqin, the third prince, who were guarding the queen mother's soul at the imperial mausoleum, also hurried back to the palace.
Because Zhou Zichang was infected with the plague and died, his coffin was not placed in the palace for a long time, and he was buried the next day. There were not many people at the funeral, and Yan Lingyue, who was pregnant, naturally did not go. However, I heard that during the burial, the imperial concubine held the coffin and did not let go, and in the end, in order not to delay the time to enter the earth, the guards could only arrest the imperial concubine.
In any case, with the death of Zhou Zichang, the former prince's party has completely collapsed.
And the imperial concubine, who once regarded herself very highly and arrogantly, completely collapsed mentally after experiencing the death of her two sons, and shouted that her son was wronged when she saw people.
When King Zhou heard the news, he directly issued an order and sent her into the cold palace.
As for the concubines in Zhou Zichang's courtyard, those who had no heirs were stuffed with silver and sent out of the palace, and those who had children moved out of the palace with Lin Manqing and moved into the house arranged by the king.
Listening to the discussion between Mama Li and the four maids, Yan Lingyue was also emotional. This toss, a month passed quietly. The sky gradually warmed up, and when she took off her thick clothes, Yan Lingyue's body was also pregnant.
After Zhou Ziyu was busy with Zhou Zichang's funeral, he returned to Ming Hanxuan, but he would live in the barracks every once in a while.
Although Zhou Ziyu and Yan Lingyue seemed to have no problem on the surface, slaves like Mama Li and Zhang Yu, who were close to them, knew that the relationship between the two masters was not as good as before.
Since King Zhou issued an order to let Zhou Ziyu accept Duan Nianyun as a side concubine, there seems to be a rift between Yan Lingyue and Zhou Ziyu.
But the servants who worked as errands in Ming Hanxuan knew very well that the reason why Zhou Ziyu agreed to marry Duan Nianyun was all because of Yan Lingyue's request. It stands to reason that this should not affect the relationship between the two.
Indeed, Yan Lingyue did not have such a cold attitude because of Duan Nianyun, she recognized the situation. Zhou Ziyu is the son of her enemy, and she should never have fallen in love with him in the first place. But she not only fell in love, but also loved her to death, and even wanted to monopolize his love.
This delusion was shattered as Zhou Ziyu regained his senses and with Duan Nianyun's forced marriage.
Yan Lingyue clearly realized that if one day in the future, Zhou Ziyu really inherited the throne, then there must be more than one Duan Nianyun by his side. And she, at best, is one of these women. Every day, I have to rack my brains to think about how to compete with other women for Zhou Ziyu's favor.
As long as she thought of this, Yan Lingyue felt tired. Thinking that one day, other women might fall asleep on Zhou Ziyu's pillow, Yan Lingyue's heart hurt and couldn't breathe. However, she is powerless to change the status quo, so she can only change herself.
As long as she doesn't love it, as long as she can restrain her heart, then she won't care how many women Zhou Ziyu will accept, then she won't be sad anymore. She Yan Lingyue lived a new life, and her only purpose was revenge. She can't waste all her life on jealousy like many women in this harem.
That's why she is so cold to Zhou Ziyu, she just wants to cool down her heart for Zhou Ziyu.
And Zhou Ziyu lived in the military camp at the beginning, it was entirely because Yan Lingyue asked him to accept Duan Nianyun as a side concubine, and he was a little angry, so he deliberately played a role. As long as Yan Lingyue coaxed him, there would be nothing. But I didn't expect that a day had passed, and two days had passed...... Five days passed, and Yan Lingyue also sent someone to greet him without saying a word. At this time, Zhou Ziyu was really unhappy, so he simply lived in the barracks and didn't return to Ming Hanxuan.
But he couldn't help but worry about Yan Lingyue, worried that if he wasn't there, she wouldn't be able to eat and sleep well. Originally, he wanted to punish Yan Lingyue a little by living in the barracks, but he never thought that it was himself who suffered in the end.
It wasn't until the news of Zhou Zichang's death came that Zhou Ziyu had an excuse to go back to the palace, and after the funeral, he planned to be ambitious and go back to the barracks directly. But as soon as he saw Yan Lingyue, he couldn't move his feet, and finally couldn't help but return to Ming Hanxuan.
can look at Yan Lingyue's face, ruddy and bright, and her complexion is so good. Zhou Ziyu was relieved at the same time, but also sad, he was the only one who couldn't eat or sleep well.
Could it be that she doesn't even want him? Zhou Ziyu originally wanted to ask Yan Lingyue, but looking at her indifferent attitude, he swallowed the words again when they came to his mouth.
When he returned to Ming Hanxuan, although Yan Lingyue would also shush him as usual, he didn't have that sense of intimacy. To Zhou Ziyu, Yan Lingyue felt as if she was just completing the task of being a wife. He didn't like the feeling of respecting each other.
Several times, he tried to talk to Yan Lingyue, but he found that Yan Lingyue didn't seem to be interested and didn't answer his topic at all. Zhou Ziyu, who was depressed, really wanted to move directly to the barracks, and let Yan Lingyue dry for a month to see if she would miss him. But when he really went to the barracks, he found that he couldn't do it at all, and he returned to Ming Hanxuan at night. But he doesn't come back every day, sometimes he is busy training, and he lives in the barracks.
The days are just as plain as water. When Yan Lingyue was reassuring to raise the fetus, she also ushered in the day of Yan Xiling's marriage. If it weren't for the death of the Queen Mother, according to the original time, Yan Xiling would have been married years ago, but it was dragged back for half a year.
However, the weather is warmer and everything is recovering, and it is also a great time to have happy events.
Because Yan Xiling is the object of marriage, there are no relatives in the imperial city, so the people who go to the banquet are basically the close relatives of the Yan family and colleagues in the imperial court. Yan Lingyue, as a younger sister, will inevitably go with Zhou Ziyu. Although the scene is not huge, it is also grand and warm.
The old lady laughed from beginning to end, happier than when Yan Lingyue first got married. Presumably, the top and bottom of the Yan Mansion are quite satisfied with Yan Xiling, the husband.
Although Yan Lingyue and Yan Xiling did not have a lot of contact, seeing her happily married, Yan Lingyue was also happy from the bottom of her heart. The only thing that made people feel unpleasant was that they actually ran into Duan Nianyun at the banquet.
In the court, Second Master Duan and Yan resolutely did not walk closely, and after Duan Nianyun committed suicide and forced marriage in the palace, the two of them looked at each other a little incorrectly in private. Yan Xiling got married, and Second Master Duan came to show his face out of the face of his colleagues, and there was no need for Li and Duan Nianyun to come.
But because he knew that Zhou Ziyu would come, Duan Nianyun wanted to follow him alive and dead, just to see Zhou Ziyu.
Since the king's decree on marriage was issued, Yan Lingyue and Zhou Ziyu have not met Duan Nianyun head-on. Even if she had been mentally prepared for a long time, when she really saw Duan Nianyun coming to Zhou Ziyu in a delicate manner and saluting Zhou Ziyu, Yan Lingyue was still answered.
Even after the banquet was over, when the guests left the table, Duan Nianyun still pulled the Li family and went out with Yan Lingyue.
Fortunately, Zhou Ziyu's attitude was very cold, which made Yan Lingyue feel better. But even so, when they were about to get into the carriage, Second Master Duan and the Li family still stopped them, saying that they wanted to invite them to Duan's mansion as guests.
King Zhou has already given marriage, according to common sense, Zhou Ziyu should indeed go to Duan's Mansion often to sit and see Duan Nianyun. However, Zhou Ziyu hated Duan Nianyun to the extreme, and he didn't even bother to do face kung fu.
"Thank you Second Master and Mrs. Duan for the invitation. The main reason is that Yue'er is heavy, and I'm tired after tossing for half a day today, so it's better to have time another day, and make an appointment. ”
When the words fell, Zhou Ziyu didn't give them a chance to speak at all, so he helped Yan Lingyue to the carriage.
Zhang Yu waved his whip, and the carriage set off.
Looking at Zhou Ziyu and his party drifting away, Duan Nianyun gritted his teeth with hatred.