"The slave doesn't agree!"

Yu Ruyan's cold voice sounded in the slightly noisy hall, and everyone once again focused their eyes on her, compared to Mu Lingzhi's appointment of her as a side concubine, her words shocked everyone even more!

Mu Lingzhi's hand holding the teacup shook and looked at her in disbelief.

Ignoring the gazes around her, her clear and cold eyes calmly looked at Mu Lingzhi, who was so shocked that she was stunned, and sneered: "Although the slave maid is just a lowly military prostitute, the slave maid also knows that there are rules for the reward and promotion of the back house, not to mention the side concubine with the background of the slave and maid, I am afraid that even the concubine will not be able to afford it." ”

The hall was so quiet that a rusty needle could be heard falling to the ground, and everyone looked at her in amazement, unable to believe that she had said these words herself.

I saw that she had a dark wry smile on her face, and she continued to say without any hurry:

"Slaves and maids are from humble backgrounds and can't afford to be concubines, this is one of them; Second, the slave and maid are not good at giving birth to children, and they have been by His Royal Highness's side for so long and have not been able to give birth to a son and a half daughter for His Highness, so what kind of face does he have to lick and occupy a high position? Third, slaves and maids are free and loose by nature, and they don't like too many constraints. Therefore, please also ask Your Highness to take back your order. ”

She knelt down respectfully, lowered her eyebrows and didn't look at Mu Lingzhi's pale face, but there seemed to be a blunt knife scraping fiercely in her heart, which made her whole body twitch.

As smart as she is, she already understands that Mu Lingzhi wants to take advantage of Chen Yanfei as a concubine today to give herself a higher name, she knows the guilt he feels about her in his heart, and she also knows how much pressure and public opinion he has to endure in doing this, not to mention that his father, emperor and mother will not agree to him appointing a military prostitute as a side concubine, even the ridicule and sarcasm of the world will drown him!

If he wanted to compensate her because of the guilt of Chen Yanfei's incident yesterday, she didn't want it;

If he was alone for her, he would be an enemy of the whole world, an enemy of his father, queen and mother who loved him, and she didn't want such a result.

Listening to her words, An Lirong recovered from the shock, stepped forward and knelt down in front of Mu Lingzhi with a 'plop' and said eagerly: "Your Highness, Miss Xiaoqing is reasonable, although you love Xiaoqing, but the ancestral family law still has to be taken into account, she is only a military prostitute, how can she be named a side concubine?" The royal concubine wants to make a jade plate to enter the temple! If the emperor and the concubine know about it, I am afraid that it will set off another wave. The ministers and the common people will laugh at His Highness's wisdom. The concubine begs His Highness to think twice! ”

An Lan on the side led the flower shadow Kuang Qinqin to kneel in front of Mu Lingzhi, An Lan followed An Lirong's words and persuaded: "Niangniang's words are reasonable, His Royal Highness's favor for military prostitutes has already spread in the streets, if she is made a concubine again, I am afraid of ······ I'm afraid that it will become everyone's laughter, Your Highness might as well raise the girl as an aunt first, and then ······ when she gives birth to a boy and a half girl for His Highness in the future."

"Shut up! Say no more! Mu Ling's voice was so frightened that the women kneeling on the ground trembled one by one, his eyes swept over everyone, and finally his gaze stopped at Yu Ruyan, his gaze became firm, and he said word by word: "No matter how unbearable her background is, but this palace just likes it." This palace doesn't care about the rumors of accidents, and it doesn't care about the rules of the ancestors. This palace has made up its mind, you have to say it again! ”

Hearing the absolute decision in his words, even An Lirong and the others didn't dare to say a word more no matter how much dissatisfaction they had in their hearts, they knelt there one by one with gray faces, thinking that they would be pressed by a girl who was born as a military prostitute in the future, and they couldn't help but feel angry and hateful in their hearts!

Listening to Mu Lingzhi's resolute words, Yu Ruyan's heart was sour, but she knew in her heart that last night's incident had become a scar in her and Mu Ling's hearts, and it was an eternal pain in her heart, she could no longer stay by his side without a mustard, and the picture of last night always appeared involuntarily in her mind, and she couldn't control the demons in her heart.

She smiled slightly, and said slowly to Mu Lingzhi: "Your Highness, do you still remember the oath you once made to the slaves?" ”

Hearing this, his face turned pale, and before he could speak, she sneered: "Your Highness personally promised the slave maid by the pillow that day, and from now on only the slave and maid will be favored, and there will be no new people in the palace, but in a blink of an eye, Aunt Chen will be admitted into the mansion." Since His Royal Highness doesn't do what he says, the slave and maid don't have to abide by the white-headed covenant anymore, let alone the position of a side concubine, it is better to continue to be a garden cleaner to be comfortable. ”

If she hadn't promised him to be his slave for the rest of her life, she was afraid that she would leave the country and never see the people and things here again!

She mercilessly rejected Mu Lingzhi's kindness in front of everyone, and accused him of betraying his promise, undoubtedly giving him a slap in public, his face was blue, and his heart sank into the ice cave and couldn't float up-

He withstood public opinion and pressure, was criticized by his father and mother to make her a concubine, and this morning he agreed to Uncle Chen's plea to accept Chen Yanfei as a concubine also to take this opportunity to give her a better name, but he didn't expect that everything he had worked hard to do was so disgusted by her - he would rather be a cleaning girl than be his concubine.

Knowing that yesterday's incident was someone else's conspiracy, he was just one of the victims, but she still had to expose his scars in public to embarrass him······

But even so, he still didn't want to give up, since yesterday, he always had a premonition that she would eventually leave him, so he panicked and tried everything to keep her······

Suppressing the pain in his heart, Mu Lingzhi's tone was decayed, and he said slowly: "What do you want this palace to do to agree to be the side concubine of this palace?" ”

As he spoke, he unconsciously crushed the celadon jade cup in his hand, the broken porcelain pieces pierced into his palm, and blood dripped from his palm, which shocked An Lirong and the others in a panic, and hurriedly surrounded him one by one to help him check the wound.

Yu Ruyan stood motionless, even though the bright red blood stabbed her heart, she still gritted her teeth and let herself be ruthless, raised her hand and pointed at the women who were busy and worried around him, and said with a shallow smile: "If His Royal Highness takes all of them out of the palace, the slave will agree to be His Highness's side concubine!" ”

As soon as such arrogant words came out, the audience fell silent again, and the An family looked back at Yu Ruyan with an arrogant face in disbelief, but they didn't expect a little girl to say such incredible words.

An Lirong couldn't hold back any longer, pointed at her and scolded sharply: "You······ It's so arrogant, although Your Highness favors you, I didn't expect you to be so arrogant, we have followed Your Highness for many years, there is no merit and hard work, a little military prostitute actually threatened His Highness to abandon us, it is really hateful! ”

The more she talked, the more angry she became, and she couldn't control the anger in her heart and rushed forward to tear Yu Ruyan, Yu Ruyan turned sideways to avoid it, she was unsteady and pounced on An Lan on the side, pushing An Lan to the ground······

A scream sounded in the chaotic hall, An Lan was pushed down, touched her stomach, and suddenly broke out in cold sweat, holding her stomach and moaning in pain, her maid Huan Yuan'er's face turned white, crying and shouting: "Call the doctor, master, she is pregnant, and nothing can happen!" ”

The scene was suddenly chaotic!

Through the panicked crowd, Yu Ruyan took a deep look at Mu Lingzhi, and he finally withdrew his gaze that stayed on An Lan after hearing her moans of pain, and stepped forward to inspect An Lan's situation.

Yu Ruyan smiled bitterly, turned around and left silently······

Fortunately, the fetus in her womb had passed the most dangerous first three months, so under the doctor's treatment, it was not a big problem, and the child was well preserved. And she herself was raised to be a husband, which can be regarded as a blessing in disguise.

When Tong Qian told Yu Ruyan the news, her worries were completely put down, and she drank the last pot of wine, and she fell asleep with her head covered with a splitting headache······

I don't know how long I slept this night, and when she fell asleep, I don't know how many days had passed, but when I looked down, I saw that I had changed into clean clothes, and there was still a faint ambergris in the room.

She felt a sour in her heart, it turned out that everything she dreamed in her sleep was true, and the person who had been with her bedside in her sleep was really him······

The door squeaked open, and she looked up with a shock, but it was a knife coming in with a bowl of rice porridge. Seeing her wake up, he hurriedly stepped forward and said happily: "Sister has finally woken up, come, drink this porridge." ”

Yu Ruyan guessed that this porridge must have been boiled by Chen's mother, she didn't know how long she had been sleeping, but she began to panic after smelling the porridge in the knife's hand, she sat up and drank the porridge in the bowl in one go, wiped her mouth and asked the knife: "Why did you enter the house again?" But what happened? ”

The knife took the empty bowl in her hand and stretched her face and said: "Originally, you said that you would come to the yard the day before yesterday, but I didn't see you alone after waiting for a day, I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I sneaked into the house, but I didn't expect it······ Chen's mother told me everything about her daughter and the palace, my sister did the right thing, who is rare and what is the position of the side concubine, the people in this house are cunning, there are few good people, and when Brother An's revenge is avenged, the three of us should go back to Qi State, and we don't have to go back to the palace, just go to Putuo Temple to stay, where the green mountains and green water are like a paradise, and the most happy ······"

If it was before, Yu Ruyan would definitely be reluctant to leave, but now listening to the description of the knife, there was a trace of yearning in her heart, she looked at the knife with a wry smile, and said angrily: "You used to hate the sound of wooden fish in the temple the most, every time you take you to Putuo Temple, it seems to kill you, why do you take the initiative to go back to live there now?" ”

Speaking of this, her eyes flashed, she suddenly thought of something, looked at Xiao Dao's eyes fixedly and asked, "Xiao Dao, did you hide something from your sister?" ”

Xiao Dao's expression instantly panicked, he turned his back to Yu Ruyan, and said in a muffled voice: "What's the matter with me?" It's just that you and Brother An are unhappy, and I want to take you away from this troublesome land, but live in a quiet place! ”

The panic in his eyes did not escape Yu Ruyan's eyes, and she wondered: "Xiaodao, do you know Uncle Chen?" Did he tell you anything? ”

Xiaodao stiffened his back against her, and his voice was a little flustered: "I don't remember anything before, how can I know him?" ”

"Then why did he help you at the risk of his life?" Yu Ruyan turned his body, let him look into his eyes, and asked seriously.

A hint of fierceness flashed in Yu Xiaodao's dark eyes, and he said coldly: "Sister is too worried, I just want to help me because he looks a little similar to Uncle Chen's dead son, my sister thinks too much." ”

"Uncle Chen has a son?" Yu Ruyan always thought that the Chen family only had one daughter, Chen Yanfei, and had never heard that his family had a son.

"I heard him say he had a son, but he was in ······ He's dead! ”

After Yu Ruyan woke up, Mu Lingzhi never appeared again, and no one in the palace mentioned the matter of setting up a side concubine again, as if the unhappiness of that day was just a dream that everyone had, and everything was scattered when they woke up.

She no longer goes to Yunsong Courtyard, she stays in the small bungalow every day, cleans the South Garden twice in the morning and dusk, and finds a quiet place to stay alone the rest of the time.

On this day, the sun was just right, she climbed to the top of a rockery and lay down in the sun, but in a daze she heard the voice of a person below, she continued to close her eyes, but the sound in her ears became clearer and clearer.

"You can help me again, I won't bother you anymore." The female voice is very familiar, who else is not the new Aunt Chen?

The other person didn't seem to pay attention to her, she continued to beg: "There are rumors outside that His Royal Highness is going to marry Miss Mufu as a concubine, this princess is about to enter the mansion, and His Royal Highness has snubbed me for a long time, and I am not as pregnant as Aunt An, so ······ In the future, I want to establish myself in this palace now? ”

Chen Yanfei's voice was crying, and Yu Ruyan's eyes suddenly opened after hearing the words of Miss Mufu!

Does he want to marry Mu Ziyue?

Oh, I didn't expect to go around in circles, and he still returned to her!

A bitter smile escaped from the corner of her mouth, and Yu Ruyan closed her eyes again.

"Don't talk nonsense, Your Highness only has Miss Xiaoqing in her heart now, how could she marry Miss Mu, hmph, if it weren't for those shady and lowly methods among them, why would the girl be angry with His Highness? The two of them were so good before! ”

The man turned out to be a copper coin, Yu Ruyan couldn't help but be curious, she turned sideways and quietly looked at the two people below from above.

"Also, didn't Your Highness just go to your courtyard yesterday, why did you snub you?" Tong Qian coldly looked at Chen Yanfei, who was dressed in pearls, and his eyes were full of disgust.

Chen Yanfei's face turned pale, his expression flashed a trace of embarrassment, and he snorted for a long time before gritting his teeth and said: "Although His Royal Highness went to my room, he didn't even look at me, I slept in the main house and he slept in the east room, and he didn't even eat at the same table with me." This ····· What's the matter? If not, why am I still cheeky to beg you, I also know that now you hate me as much as your sister! ”

Yu Ruyan hooked her lips and smiled, it was like this, she still had her sister who opened her mouth and closed her mouth, she was embarrassed if she was not ashamed!

Tong Qian smiled coldly and said, "This is what you deserve, so you can bear it." ”

Just lift your legs and go.

Chen Yanfei is smart, she sensitively sensed something from the words of the copper coin, stretched out her hand to stop the copper coin, gritted her teeth and said: "You tell me, why does His Highness spoil me on the surface, but secretly dislikes me to the extreme, why does he do this?" If you hate me, just leave me in the yard and ignore it, but you come to my yard every day, but you don't even look at me when you come. Tell me, is there something I don't know? ”

Tong Qian glanced back at her, and said coldly: "What does your matter to me?" I've got something to do, and I don't have time to deal with you! ”

"Wow!" Chen Yanfei suddenly ripped the bun on his head, put his hand on his belt, and forced the copper coin to say: "If you don't make it clear today, I will call someone and say that you raped me!" ”

Looking at the red face of the copper coin and the helpless appearance, Yu Ruyan's eyes were cold and she was about to go down, but she heard the copper coin say in a panic: "You stay away from me, I'll tell you." ”

Yu Ruyan's movements stopped, and she continued to stay on the top of the rockery and watch coldly.

"Eight years ago, your eldest brother, Major General Chen, sacrificed his life to save His Highness. His Highness didn't know that you were Major General Chen's sister before, and His Highness didn't know until your father came to ask His Highness······ Your Highness owes you a life to the Chen family, and your father said that this life is still on your side, so Your Highness will take you back into the mansion and accept you as a concubine. ”

Hearing this, Chen Yanfei's face darkened little by little, and then he understood why His Royal Highness suddenly took her in after driving her out of the house that day, and accepted her as an aunt, it turned out that there were such twists and turns······

Although she is now an aunt, the other wives and concubines in the house secretly laughed at her for using subordinate means to climb the bed of His Royal Highness, and even the subordinates in the mansion looked down on her, and they didn't know how much they heard in secret?

If she had known that His Royal Highness owed them the kindness of the Chen family, why did she put so much effort into doing these things, she had a better way to make Mu Lingzhi accept herself!

Looking at her dejected appearance, Tong Qian still couldn't understand her hatred, and said coldly: "Don't think that Your Highness likes you when you come back, but it is for the sake of your eldest brother and your father that I gave you this title, I advise you to do it yourself." Be honest with your Aunt Chen, don't think anything wrong. ”

The two left one after the other, Yu Ruyan suddenly felt very blocked, and after learning about Mu Lingzhi's concubine's distress, her silent heart fluctuated again.

The sun was in the west, she climbed down the rockery, and unconsciously walked to the flower garden, but there was already a person standing there, and the lonely figure was Mu Lingzhi, who had not been seen for many days.

I saw him standing on the edge of the flower garden with his hands in his hands, his expression was very lonely, his eyes were empty, and he was too far from the third prince who had a sharp vision before.

Yu Ruyan hid her body behind a tall tree, looked at his hand bandaged with white gauze, and felt a trace of sadness in her heart for no reason-

When, she and him reached the point where they didn't see each other!

The copper coin came from the side and invited him back to the courtyard for dinner, and he asked with a long sigh, "What has she eaten today?" ”

Tong Qian replied seriously: "According to your instructions, Mother Chen gave the girl a crucian carp, stewed mushroom soup, and scrambled a plate of eggs, and she ate a little of everything." ”

"Where's the rice?"

"Rice······ I only ate a few bites of rice, but I drank it······ Drank three glasses of wine! ”

Mu Lingzhi frowned and said, "Recently, she has been drinking more and more, so let Mother Chen secretly put away the wine in her room, she really wants to drink, so she seeps some water into the wine." ”

"Your Highness, will this make her secretly arranged by you behind your back?" Copper Coin muttered quietly.

"No!" Mu Lingzhi's voice carried a deep melancholy, "She resented me in her heart, I kept my promise, and accepted the Chen family regardless of her feelings, she hated me in her heart, so she found so many excuses that she was unwilling to accept the identity of the side concubine." ”

When talking about her, his empty and dim eyes flashed again, "Although she is just a servant girl, she has a very high spirit, don't look at her usual appearance, in fact, she has her pride, she is not in the same stream as others, nor is she like ordinary women who love vanity, strong and unyielding." Many times, I forget her status as a handmaid, but I think she is a little better than those noble girls in Dongdu! ”

Speaking of jade Ruyan, Mu Lingzhi's face was unconsciously covered with a soft light. Seeing him like this, Tong Qian whispered on the side: "Your Highness, what are you going to do in the future?" Have you been stiffening with the girl like this? After the matter of the concubine was reported to the concubine Niangniang last time, she made it clear that she ······"

"Don't say it, go back!" Mu Lingzhi stopped him in frustration and turned back.

Yu Ruyan leaned weakly on the branches, and her heart rolled up layers of waves, it turned out that Mother Chen did not atone for her sins and served her every day, all of this was actually his arrangement!

She had a big stone blocked in her heart, thinking that after falling out with him in public like last time, he would not put her in his heart again, but she didn't expect it······

My eyes couldn't help but sore again······

When she returned to her small bungalow, it was already dark, and when Yu Ruyan went in, Xiaodao was already waiting for her in a hurry, her face was pale, and she seemed to have encountered something embarrassing?

Seeing her come back, the knife pounced on her and said in a panic: "Sister, something is wrong!" ”

Although Xiao Dao was not very old, he was a bold person, and for the first time he had such an uneasy look on his face, she couldn't help frowning and said, "What made you so alarmed?" ”

After thinking about it, she blurted out: "Is there a problem with Su Niang?" She's revealed? ”

The knife swallowed his throat and shook the cradle head and said anxiously: "It's not her, it's the news from her, that wooden ······ Mu Ziyue quietly sent someone to the Qi Palace to inquire about your situation, but I didn't expect that she would find the real Xiaoqing and bring her back to the Prime Minister's Mansion! ”

My heart sank with a thump······

I thought that after the last search of the mansion, Mu Ziyue finally knew how to restrain herself, but she didn't expect that during her quiet days, she actually went to Qi Country to dig up her secrets!

She knew that how could a vicious person like her, who couldn't bear a loss, be so easy to retract?

A trace of cold sweat dripped from her forehead, Yu Ruyan didn't know if Mu Ziyue had guessed her true identity, but she knew that it wouldn't be long before Mu Ziyue would definitely bring the real Xiaoqing to 'visit' and let them confront each other face to face!

Xiao Dao also broke out in a cold sweat, he was afraid that Mu Lingzhi would kill her again if he knew Yu Ruyan's identity. But now, he knew that he would definitely be reluctant to take her life, but he didn't want Mu Lingzhi to know Yu Ruyan's identity even more!

If he knew that she was the princess of Qi and Qin that he really wanted to marry, he was afraid that he would completely keep her by his side in the name of this and never let her leave again, but this was the last thing Xiaodao wanted to see······

From the moment Yu Ruyan rescued him and risked his life to bring him into the palace to protect her, Yu Xiaodao's blank heart had irrepressible feelings for her.

When he didn't understand the affairs of men and women, he always regarded her as a relative, and he didn't know the so-called love between men and women, but he only knew that there was always a thought in his heart, that is, Yu Ruyan could only belong to him in this life.

Now that he has grown up, he understands that Yu Ruyan has been deeply engraved into his heart, and he has unconsciously fallen in love with his 'sister'.

However, by mistake, she became a ······