Chapter 125: Ready
The rain was pouring down, and the fast horses galloped through the rain, and the horses' hooves trampled through the mud, leaving deep marks, but they were soon overshadowed by the heavy rain.
The horseman's face was pale, his left arm had a deep scar visible to the bone, the knife on his waist was missing, the whole person was jolting with the horse, his eyes were hollow, as if the breath he was hanging would swallow at any time, and he couldn't take his life.
Eventually, a family appeared in the rain, and on the side of the road, it seemed to be the house where the hunters lived on the mountain, and the roof of the house was still a little smoky.
As if he had seen hope, the rider went to the house with all his might, and when he reached the door of the house, he finally took hold of the reins, and the man fell off his horse.
The people in the house heard the movement and quickly ran out and opened the door. Seeing that it was him, he breathed a sigh of relief: "The general is finally here." β
"You know me?"
"My master has asked me to wait for the general here for a long time." The man who opened the door smiled lightly before beckoning someone to carry him in.
In the capital, Roujia bathed out and let her subordinates wipe her hair.
Xiuzhu, the palace maid who spoke for her before, looked at her with empty eyes, and couldn't help but worry: "Niangniang, the slave maid asks the princess to come and talk to you." β
"No, you don't." After Rou Jia finished speaking, she looked at the jewelry piled up on the table, resisted the action of wanting to wave it away with one hand, and only said softly: "After cleaning up, I want to go and see Concubine Xian." β
"Yes." Xiuzhu responded, thought about it, and said: "Otherwise, please invite Princess Zhao to also enter the palace, and let her take care of Concubine Xian, so that Concubine Xian Niangniang will be taken care of by someone and can also take care of you." β
Roujia thought about it and didn't agree.
If the news of the emperor's forcible seizure of his daughter-in-law spreads, he will leave his sleeves here, but I am afraid that her reputation will also be hindered. The emperor has already harmed so many women, how can she put on another Chen Yan sleeve?
She went out of the palace, and Wei Ruyi watched in the side hall.
The palace maids who served her were all strict and disciplined, and she couldn't ask a few words about the situation in the palace, and when she saw that Roujia had also gone out, she could only turn her head and sit down on the warm couch in the inner hall, but this palace was not an ordinary boredom, not only could she not move around at will, but she could not talk casually, and if she wanted to read, she could only read some books with three obedience and four virtues.
She ate all the snacks that could be eaten in the hall by herself, and before Roujia came back, she became sleepy because she was too supportive, and fell asleep on the low table next to the warm couch.
When Roujia came back from Concubine Xian, she saw her like this, and she didn't ask anyone to wake her up, but only let the palace maid take care of her carefully and left.
As soon as Wei Ruyi slept like this, he slept until it was time for dinner.
"Mother, are you back?" Wei Ruyi felt extremely thirsty, poured a cup of tea and poured it down.
"I'm back, the emperor is also here, and I'm eating in the main hall. The emperor ordered, saying that since you have fallen asleep, princess, you don't have to go to ask for peace. The palace maid Caixia replied.
When Wei Ruyi heard that the emperor's shameless night came, most of them had to stay overnight. With Roujia's current mentality, the emperor wants to stay overnight, and she is afraid that she will kill in the middle of the night.
No, there are so many secret guards around the emperor, even if Roujia's knife can be put on the emperor's neck, I'm afraid they won't be able to kill him.
"Let's go say goodbye." Wei Ruyi got up and went out, Caixia was startled, and hurriedly grabbed her: "Princess, it's not appropriate for you to go here." β
"What's wrong, the emperor and his mother are having dinner at this time, and I just don't have dinner." Wei Ruyi took her hand away and hurried to the main hall, when the emperor was about to talk about sleeping here tonight.
Seeing Wei Ruyi coming, Rou Jia didn't expect it, and subconsciously asked her: "Ruyi, why are you here?" β
The emperor's face was not very good-looking, but he didn't say anything, only bowed his head and drank tea.
Wei Ruyi secretly pinched his thigh, his eyes turned red, and tears fell out with him.
"What are you crying about, what's wrong? Is it that the palace maid is not well served, so that you are wronged? Rou Jia asked again, but Wei Ruyi just didn't say anything, only pursed her lips and looked at the emperor crying.
Seeing this, the emperor became a little embarrassed, coughed lightly twice, and finally asked her: "Is Jinghe dissatisfied with me leaving you in the palace, or dissatisfied with me staying with the concubine?" β
His words were a bit joking, as if he wanted to alleviate the embarrassment, but he heard Wei Ruyi say: "The emperor misunderstood, the courtiers were just moved." β
Move?
It was the first time the emperor heard this statement, and he couldn't help laughing: "What moved? β
"When the courtiers were in the Wei Mansion, they had never seen their parents so loving, their fathers were always busy outside, their mothers never saw their courtiers, and the courtiers were always lonely, but I didn't expect to see my father-in-law and mother-in-law so loving after I arrived in the palace......"
"Ahem, cough, cough ......" The emperor coughed a few times to interrupt Wei Ruyi's words, he didn't come to love, but he had been worrying a lot recently, thinking that Rou Jia didn't blame himself for the affairs of the general's mansion, so he just wanted to come to her to relax. And he has long been indifferent to the things between husband and wife, not to mention the death of several of his own sons, and he doesn't have that mind.
Wei Ruyi still looked moved, and choked up: "If the emperor doesn't dislike it, can you let Ruyi serve on the side?" β
Rou Jia looked at Wei Ruyi and sighed lightly in her heart, she must have guessed what she wanted to do.
No wonder the old lady spoiled her so much, she was indeed more sincere and more generous than ordinary relatives.
"Ruyi, there are so many people serving here, you are a princess, how can I let you come." Rou Jia smiled lightly, but turned her eyes away from her.
Wei Ruyi knew that she had made up her mind, but it was not wise to do so now.
"Courtiers are juniors, and it is natural for juniors to be filial to their elders." Wei Ruyi looked at her, and Baba looked at the emperor: "Your Majesty, Ruyi will give you cloth vegetables." β
"No, I've already finished eating."
"Then Ruyi will serve you tea."
"I've drunk it." The emperor looked at her as a filial daughter and served diligently, and said: "I am also tired, I am going to rest, you might as well ......"
"The courtiers are going to fetch you hot water, by the way, the emperor, you don't look very good, maybe you haven't rested well recently, and the mattress you sleep on can't be too soft, otherwise it's not good for your waist, but the mattress here is very soft, and the courtiers are sore and have back pain when they sleep. Why don't the courtiers immediately ask someone to go to the Heart Cultivation Hall to move your mattress over, and you can live here in the future......"
Wei Ruyi commanded as he spoke, as if he regarded himself as the emperor's own daughter.
The emperor listened to her kindness, but he didn't think it was a good taste. I just came here quietly, I didn't want to alarm the others, and it was absolutely impossible to live here permanently.
"Okay, okay, I know your filial piety." The emperor interrupted her, looked at Rou Jia, who couldn't interject on the side, and said, "I was originally worried that you would be depressed because of the loss of your loved ones, but now that I am so filial, I am relieved." β
"The Emperor's ......"
"I don't have much left today, and there are still a lot of government affairs to deal with." After the emperor finished speaking, he glanced at Wei Ruyi, who longed for his father's love, whether he was reprimanding or loving, it was like a thorn that was stuck when he ate fish just now, he couldn't swallow it or spit it out, he couldn't go up or down, it was very uncomfortable.
He even felt that Wei Ruyi did this on purpose, but he couldn't think of her intention to do it on purpose.
Wei Ruyi looked at him with an expression of eating, and shed tears even more powerfully: "Your Majesty, the courtiers don't look good at you, otherwise the courtiers will go to the Heart Cultivation Palace to serve ......."
"No need." The emperor almost choked to death in a hurry, this Wei Ruyi, she doesn't understand what it means to tell the emperor in the harem that she wants to 'serve'! And now the people have only broken out about Princess Ping, if someone with good things adds fuel and vinegar to say that he covets his righteous daughter and the fiancΓ©e of his courtier, then his reputation will be really ruined.
The emperor's brows twisted fiercely, and it was difficult to make this clear, so he only coughed a few times and walked quickly.
When passing by Wei Ruyi's side, Wei Ruyi also deliberately took a step forward, and the emperor thought she was going to pounce, so he was so frightened that he hurriedly took two steps back.
After stepping back, he realized that Wei Ruyi just took a step forward and stopped, and looked at himself inexplicably.
The atmosphere in the room also became weird, all the palace maids lowered their heads in interest, Rou Jia was also speechless in shock, Wei Ruyi only said aggrieved as frightened: "Your Majesty, what's wrong with you?" β
If it weren't for the purpose of blackmailing Lou Yan, the emperor promised that he would definitely throw Wei Ruyi out of the palace immediately!
"I'm fine." The emperor coughed violently while covering his heart, and the cold air from the heavy rain outside rushed straight into his body, but he still insisted on walking out quickly.
It wasn't until his back disappeared at the gate of the palace that Wei Ruyi exhaled quietly.
Rou Jia said directly: "Everyone retreats and stays as they wish." β
The palace maids saluted and left, Wei Ruyi wiped her tears and turned back aggrievedly, in fact, she was worried that Roujia would be unhappy after revealing the stuffing, but she only listened to her: "Okay, the emperor doesn't dare to see your little tricks, can't I see through it?" β
Roujia's tone was light, but there was no meaning to blame.
Wei Ruyi looked at her in surprise: "Niangniang can see it!" β
"You think I'm a three-year-old?" Rou Jia didn't look at her angrily, before motioning for her to sit down on the side, and then said, "What are you worried about when you came here in such a hurry, are you worried that I will raise a knife to kill him tonight?" β
"Courtiers don't dare to ......"
"What would you not dare. Ruyi, since you dared to break into the palace to save me out, I knew that you were not an ordinary woman. The reason why Lou Yan has an end of love for you must be because of this, not the greedy and sleepy you on the surface. β
Wei Ruyi: "......" On the surface, she is also dignified and beautiful.
"Mother's ......"
"Don't worry, I know what to do now, I can't kill him for a while. But I still have to thank you tonight, otherwise I'm afraid I'll feel very sick tonight. When Rou Jia said this, her eyes were filled with tears, but she lowered her eyes and didn't let Wei Ruyi see it.
Wei Ruyi didn't know how to comfort if he wanted to comfort him, so he only said: "Niangniang, it's not early, you should rest early." β
Rou Jia looked at her with a smile: "Fang just said that he wanted to be filial to me, and he didn't want to talk to me at this time?" β
"That's not what the courtiers meant." Wei Ruyi was terried, looking at her like this, she probably panicked in her heart, and said, "Niangniang, have you heard of a solution?" β
"What's the solution?"
"Find a place to dig a hole, talk to the hole, and bury the hole when you are done, and then the words and the mood when you speak can be buried in it, and no one will find out." Wei Ruyi said with a smile.
Roujia looked at her with her eyes bent and smiling, and suddenly felt as if she was not a teenager, but an adult covered in devastation.
Thinking of Wei Ruyi's life experience and those people in the Wei family, the corners of Rou Jia's mouth also pulled a smile: "Good way." β
After Wei Ruyi said goodbye and returned to the side hall, Roujia went to dig a pit.
Caixia cautiously asked Wei Ruyi: "Princess, didn't the emperor treat you well, right?" β
"What can I do, I'm the princess Jinghe who was personally crowned by the emperor." Wei Ruyi, the emperor is angry now, and he should be angry at the beginning of the swear that he should be canonized by himself.
Caixia watched with admiration that she was still eating and drinking, and after she finished eating, she laid out the bedding for her very carefully before serving her to rest.
All night, Wei Ruyi slept soundly.
Brother Yan said that with him, nothing will happen.
But she slept soundly, and some people were not stable.
Zhuohua never thought that Wei Ruyi could have such a great ability to deceive her father, and she could come out safe and sound under the suspicious father, and even her bad deeds were bad, and her father still believed what she said.
"Princess, which hairpin will you use this morning?"
The palace maid came to ask questions with a column of hairpins, and Zhuo Hua finally came back to his senses. She looked at herself in the bronze mirror, as beautiful as Lou Yan's phoenix eyes, pink lips like peach petals, tall and small nose, and smooth and fair skin, there was no place where she was inferior to Wei Ruyi, but Lou Yan only had Wei Ruyi in her eyes, and she couldn't see herself for half a minute.
She lowered her eyes and glanced at the hairpins, but she didn't pick a single one, so she went out lightly.
She wanted to go to her father and ask him if he was willing to marry herself and Lou Yan.
She walked out in a daze, and the palace maids were not allowed to follow, but as she walked, the oncoming man almost collided.
"Little palace maid, ask you, how to get to the Heart Cultivation Palace?" Zhao Ji pulled her and asked. He specially entered the palace to see the emperor, but halfway through, he found that he had dropped a wrench, so he followed the eunuchs all the way back to find it, but after looking for it, he was scattered. He didn't dare to walk around, for fear that it would be bad to meet a concubine, so he waited in place, waited and waited, just waiting for the woman who looked stupid in front of him.
It was the first time that Zhuo Hua had seen someone call her a little palace maid, and glanced at Zhao Ji, an unfamiliar face.
She didn't care, she coldly put aside his hand and was about to leave, but Zhao Ji grabbed her again and pressed against the wall: "It's the first time I've seen a palace maid like you, beautiful is beautiful, but it's too impolite." Zhao Ji saw that she was dressed well, but there was no hairpin in her hair, and there was only a faint fat powder on her face, thinking that most of them were the favored palace maids around the concubine, otherwise the concubines and princesses, which one would come out like this?
The strong masculine aura made Zhuohua very disgusted, and she glared at him coldly: "You want to die? β
Zhao Ji also laughed: "Death? I don't want to, but if you show me the way today, I will tell the emperor that you will go back as a concubine, and let you wash and wipe the floor and eat cold rice every day. β
Zhuohua's teeth tightened slightly, and he raised his hand and hit him in the face, but Zhao Ji only grabbed her hand and pressed it back, and looked at her little face: "It looks good, but with such a bad temper, you won't be able to get married." β
"You don't have to."
"I don't want to care either, tell me where the Heart Cultivation Hall is, I don't care." Zhao Ji said.
Zhuohua was suffocated in his chest, and he just wanted to kill him, but soon a eunuch came over, but when he saw this scene, he almost knelt on the ground with weak legs: "Fourteen princes, Princess Zhuohua ......"
His lips trembled, Zhao Ji heard the word 'Zhuohua', and was stunned, this is the princess Zhuohua who was kidnapped in the market that day but played the person who kidnapped her?
He became excited: "It turned out to be you!" β
Zhuohua's eyebrows tightened slightly, he didn't know what he was talking about, and only said coldly: "Let go!" β
"Oh oh......" Zhao Ji hurriedly let go of his hand, thinking that the people had praised this princess before, and hurriedly said: "Did Fang just hurt you, don't be angry, I will apologize to you." β
Zhuohua lightly threw off his sleeve robe and left, Zhao Ji only looked at her back, and smiled, originally thought that this princess of Beiyan was so boring, it turned out to be interesting.
The little eunuch smiled when he saw that he still had a face, coughed twice, and reminded: "Your Highness Fourteen, our emperor has been waiting for you for a long time. β
When Zhao Ji heard this, he nodded and went with him.
When I left, I happened to meet Wei Ruyi chasing Caixia out, and shouted: "Last night, the soup buns brought me two more cages, as well as bird's nest duck soup, fruit Baishou peach, three fresh pigeon egg ......"
shouted more than a dozen dishes in one breath, and Zhao Ji's eyes widened: "This is also the emperor's concubine?" With such a large amount of food, the harem must have a lot of expenses. β
The little eunuch's face turned the color of pig liver, and he wanted to laugh but didn't dare to laugh.
Caixia blushed and responded one by one, and Wei Ruyi breathed a sigh of relief. If the old emperor wants to keep her in the palace, then she is not welcome, she will open her belly to eat, and it is best to eat him a hundred and ten taels of silver a day, and when the budget of his kitchen is used up, he and the manager will stare at her, and they will not punish her for a little food.
Wei Ruyi shook his head with a smile while thinking, he was really helpless, he had this way to anger the old emperor.
Wait, who's going to be hot watching her?
She turned her head and saw a tall man looking at him with a look of jealousy, looking at the appearance of the little eunuch next to her, this man's status was not low.
Wei Ruyi grinned, showed eight teeth, raised his hand to cover his lips and smiled lightly, and then left with elegant steps.
"It's nice to laugh tight." Zhao Ji was enthusiastic and wanted to ask, but the little eunuch was busy saying, "The emperor has been waiting for you for a long time......
Zhao Ji didn't dare to delay, and hurriedly went to the Heart Cultivation Palace.
By the time Wei Ruyi had eaten and drunk to his heart's content, the morning had almost passed again.
She moved her arms and legs in the courtyard, thinking of the serious Master Rulan, thinking of Zhiyu Muying, and then thinking of the Chen family's big family and the eldest uncle whose whereabouts are unknown, so she sat on the side of the flower bed and began to sigh with her face propped up.
As everyone knows, Chen Youcai, who is most concerned about her now, has already figured out that he wants to enter the palace to find her. Originally, he thought about the marriage, he thought about forbearance, Zuo was just one woman in the family, and there were many women outside, but this Princess Luo Ning really didn't take him seriously.
When Chen Youcai entered the palace with an embarrassed face, Wei Ruyi was watching Rou Jia personally cook soup for the emperor, and there was no poisonous soup.
Wei Ruyi didn't know what she was thinking, but she thought that it was not as simple as pleasing the emperor, and Rou Jia's mood had also changed, as if there was finally living water pouring into a stagnant lake.
"Ruyi, you don't know ......" Chen Youcai took a deep breath and raised his eyes to look at the sky, looking like a sand sculpture like this.
Wei Ruyi stuffed a soft glutinous pastry with bean paste in his mouth, and asked him while chewing, "If you have something to say, speak slowly." β
Chen Youcai looked at her leisurely appearance, and was heartbroken: "I'm your own brother, the first thing I had an accident was to come to you, I trust you so much, how can you still eat this girl!" β
"It's delicious, I heard that you can't buy one for one or two pieces of silver outside, authentic palace pastries." After Wei Ruyi finished speaking, she took another stuffed mouth and touched her stomach by the way, she felt that she was going to be fat.
Chen Youcai: "......"
Wei Ruyi saw that he didn't speak, and finally put down the plate he was holding, wiped his hands, and said seriously: "Okay, you can say it." In her opinion, Chen Youcai, who has no heart and no lungs, will not encounter any hardships in life.
Chen Youcai continued to grieve at this time: "Can you imagine it? She told me in person that not only did she dislike me, but she also didn't like men...... Woo woo, just because of the marriage given to me, she actually changed her hobbies and liked women, am I so unbearable......"
Chen Youcai's man's self-esteem was really hit, and he cried like a child.
Wei Ruyi didn't know how to comfort him, so he could only say: "Don't worry, talented brother, maybe the princess likes women from the beginning?" β
"Then how did she marry King Rong willingly?" Chen Youcai didn't understand, although he heard some rumors, he only heard them as jokes, until Luo Ning personally spoke to him.
Chen Youcai was extremely sad: "And she also said that she would confess to the emperor and then withdraw from the marriage." If she confesses to the divorce, my life will be over. Ruyi, what do you say I should do, our Chen family has never lost such a big face, a big man was divorced by a woman, the reason is because she also likes women......"
"You don't have to worry about getting married." Wei Ruyi laughed at him.
Chen Youcai glared at her, and then took the happy pastry she had just eaten and stuffed it into her mouth.
Wei Ruyi wanted to strangle him.
After Chen Youcai swept away the delicious food she asked Caixia to scavenge, he finally lowered his voice and said: "The national teacher said that the concubine will send you out of the palace tomorrow night, don't hesitate when the time comes." After speaking, he immediately returned to his normal voice and complained: "The stinky girl has no heart and no liver, I can't marry a daughter-in-law when I turn back, so you will give Mu Ying and Zhiyu as concubines to me." After speaking, he rolled up the dim sum that Wei Ruyi hid in the food box and ran.
Wei Ruyi was stunned, she had never seen such a brazen person!
Looking at the palace maids around her, she just covered her mouth and snickered, she secretly breathed a sigh of relief, but Chen Youcai's words, meaning, is the concubine also on Brother Yan's side? Then if you leave the palace tomorrow night, is Brother Yan going to start?
She glanced at the main hall, where Roujia had just finished boiling the soup and was ready to change her clothes.
"Princess, what's wrong with you?" Caixia saw that she was in a bad mood and said with concern.
"It's fine." Wei Ruyi shook her head, but Caixia thought that she was unhappy because the snacks were robbed, and said with a smile: "The slave maid will go to the imperial dining room to give you those foods." β
"Caixia is the best!" Wei Ruyi looked at her with a smile, Caixia blushed again, and went to the imperial dining room to get food for her with a smile.
The current Roujia Guifei is still as favored as before, and no one in the imperial dining room dares to slack off, so when Caixia came out, she carried a full food box on the left and right.
When Zhao Ji came out, his eyes widened when he saw Caixia.
"It's the concubine's food again, that woman's appetite is really not ordinary." Zhao Ji said.
"Princess Zhuohua." The little eunuch was just about to reply, but found that Zhuohua had also come out of it, but his face was not very good, and he hurriedly bowed and saluted.
Zhao Ji looked back at her unhappy appearance and smiled: "Still angry?" β
"Your Highness, please respect yourself!" Zhuo Hua thought that Fang Cai's father and emperor wanted him to go to Daqi and kiss him, and his face turned dark. What good end can be with relatives, her mother's family is thousands of miles away, and no one will treat her as a princess after marrying, and she will be bullied, and she will not marry an ordinary nobleman.
Zhao Ji saw that her face was so cold, and she was slightly embarrassed: "I'm really so angry, I didn't mean to do it before, how about I apologize to you again......"
Zhuohua really didn't want to see him again, so he turned around and left.
Zhao Ji blinked, and the little eunuch on one side hurriedly said: "Your Highness, you are also tired, so the slave will send you out of the palace." β
Zhao Ji responded decently, and walked outside the palace.
It was the scorching brilliance of his bad temper that made him feel extraordinarily real.
Out of the palace, he stood at the gate of the palace with his hands and looked at the cloudy weather, and breathed a sigh of relief.
Zhao Ji hurriedly went up and hugged him from behind, and gave him a few blows: "Brother Tai is fine." β
"Thank you, thank you." Chen Youcai's face slowly returned to blood, and Zhao Ji also breathed a sigh of relief, only to find that the postures of the two were not quite right.
The two were busy awkwardly parting, and they both laughed when they looked at each other: "Which family are you, why haven't you seen it?" Chen Youcai asked him.
Zhao Ji also smiled: "My name is Zhao Ji, dare to ask my brother Taizun's surname?" β
"My name is Chen Youcai, if my brother is free, let's go have a drink or two?" As soon as Chen Youcai heard that his surname was Zhao, he knew his identity, but he didn't say it clearly, and he didn't find fault with it.
Zhao Ji was also looking for someone to drink, but it was rare to meet him, so he naturally responded, and the two turned their heads and went to a tavern to drink.
In the dark, Ah Zhong stared at Zhao Ji and Chen Youcai to leave, and then turned around and returned to the National Division's Mansion.
At that time, Jing Zhaoyin and Yun Shangshu were sitting in the National Teacher's Mansion, Jing Zhaoyin was quite calm, but Yun Shangshu was a little unable to sit still.
"Master Guoshi, do you really want to deal with it like this?" Yun Shangshu said tremblingly.
"Since the emperor asked Lord Shangshu to check, it must be to find out, I believe that the Lord already has a lot of evidence in his hands, and the deity limits you to sort out all the evidence tomorrow." Lou Yan said coldly.
Jing Zhaoyin listened to it and said: "Then this case involves the National Uncle's Mansion, what does the National Teacher think should be done?" β
"Do what you have to do." Lou Yan's words made Jing Zhaoyin's heart fall back into his stomach, and he was also worried that Lou Yan would harbor a heart of protection and prevent him from continuing to investigate.
Jing Zhaoyin sat back steadily, and Yun Shangshu's heart hung in his throat.
He didn't understand what Lou Yan meant, he clearly knew that the case of the people's daughter suing her father-in-law for forcible occupation was exactly the same as that of the emperor and Princess Peace, and he also asked himself to find out, what was he going to do?
Is it to help the crown prince harm the emperor?
Yun Shangshu was frightened by this thought, Lou Yan glanced at him lightly, and smiled lightly: "Lord Shangshu doesn't have to be afraid, this matter can be investigated clearly, and only then can the world return the truth, gossip speculation may not be better than the cruel truth." β
Yun Shangshu saw that he actually admitted it secretly, and the whole person was dumbfounded.
The emperor's henchman, this is a rebellion!
Ah Zhong came over and saluted, and Lou Yancai said, "The two adults are still busy, so let's go down first." β
Jing Zhaoyin got up and retreated, and Yun Shangshu hurriedly followed.
"Lord Liu, you wait for me." Yun Shangshu ran behind him and hurriedly said, "Don't you think this matter is strange?" β
"Strange." Jing Zhaoyin naturally knew, but he didn't care.
Yun Shangshu was speechless, and then said, "Then what do you think I should do now?" "If you don't do what Lou Yan wants, it's a dead end, but if you do it according to his will, it's still a dead end!
Jing Zhaoyin was direct: "Stretching out the head is a knife, shrinking the head is still a knife, why should Lord Yun be the one who shrinks his head?" β
Yun Shangshu was dumbfounded, it is not you who dare to die, what you said is so light.
Jing Zhaoyin only smiled, although he was not attached to the party, but now everyone can see that the prince's position is very stable, although the emperor is not too old, but his body has been exhausted by the successive deaths of the three princes, and the death of the old lady and Princess An Chang before, I am afraid that the one who wants the prince to be safe at this time is the emperor. Even if this scandal is discovered, the emperor will not treat the crown prince as such, that is, the people who can be relied on in the future are the prince and Lou Yan.
He didn't say anything, and went out.
Yun Shangshu saw him leave like this, looked back at the elegantly arranged National Teacher's Mansion, sighed heavily, and then went out.
After they left, Ah Zhong smiled and said, "It seems that this time the matter can be foolproof." β
"If you can't do such a small thing, then how can you do a big thing." Ayi said on the side: "How is His Highness Fourteen?" β
"I went to drink with the son of the Chen family, and the news of the son of the Chen family should also be passed on to Miss Wei." Ah Zhong replied.
Lou Yan's eyelids moved slightly, looking at the rainy outside, hoping that things would go as expected.
Near evening, after Rou Jia came back from the Heart Cultivation Palace, she came with a lot of rewards, and Wei Ruyi also had a share, two pairs of Nanzhu earrings and some gold and silver jewelry, which were very exquisite.
"If you like it, pick it again, and give it to you to make makeup." Rou Jia asked people to move out all her jewelry and treasures, and more than a dozen boxes were placed in front of Wei Ruyi for her to choose.
Wei Ruyi was dazzled by this large pile of jewelry, looked at Rou Jia's tired appearance, and said softly: "Niangniang, do you want to rest?" β
"You pick first, if you don't pick it, I'll give it to you." Rou Jia smiled lightly, her smile was still as bright as before, but Wei Ruyi could see that her smile was disguised, and there was no smile in her eyes.
Wei Ruyi casually pointed to a few pieces, and Rou Jia dialed a lot of them before agreeing to let her go to the side hall to rest.
After returning to the side hall, Wei Ruyi was crooked on the side of the warm couch, gently pinching her calves by Caixia, while eating the newly developed dim sum fried with flour and other things in the imperial dining room, frowning and thinking about something, she smelled a fragrant breeze.
"Princess, Princess Zhuohua is here." The palace maid was busy.
Wei Ruyi chewed the things in his mouth, looked at the palace maid's panicked appearance, and smiled lightly: "If you come, please come in, I still have a lot of food left here, and I can barely entertain them." β
The palace maid hurriedly responded, but Zhuohua, who was outside the door at the moment, felt that Wei Ruyi was sarcastic about her. Entertaining herself with leftovers, does she think she is a real princess?
Zhuohua came in, Wei Ruyi wiped his hands clean, drank tea and rinsed his mouth, and then said with a smile: "Why did the princess come here so late, it's cold outside, but don't catch the cold." β
As soon as Zhuohua raised his hand, everyone in the room looked at Wei Ruyi.
Wei Ruyi looked at her as if she had a secret to say, but she didn't say anything, but just asked everyone to wait outside.
When the others left, Zhuo Hua glanced at the food and jewelry on the table, and sneered: "I can't imagine that people who have lived for two lifetimes are still so greedy for these things outside their bodies." β
Wei Ruyi blinked, looking dazed: "What is the princess talking about?" β
"You're still pretending! Don't think I don't know your secret, you're not an ordinary person at all, you've lived two lives, and you killed Lou Yan with your own hands in your last life! β
Wei Ruyi looked at her with a smile: "The princess has a nightmare?" Would you like a cup of tea first? With that, he poured tea for her with his eyes down, and carefully hid all the waves under his eyes.
The tea was reversed, and Zhuohua raised his hand and flipped to the ground.
Caixia outside was startled, and hurriedly shouted inside: "Princess, are you okay?" β
"It's okay, I accidentally knocked over the teacup." Zhuo Hua said a cold word and passed perfunctorily, Wei Ruyi only leaned over lightly to clean up, but Zhuo Hua took a step forward, if it wasn't for Wei Ruyi's fast hand, she would have stepped on the broken porcelain piece with her hand.
Wei Ruyi looked at her with a smile: "The princess seems to be in a bad mood, but Ruyi is not an object for the princess to relieve her anger, you have to be discouraged, and go back to your palace." β
"Are you worthy to talk to me like that?" Zhuohua asked her sarcastically.
Wei Ruyi was not timid, and slowly straightened up and looked at her: "Whether you are worthy or not, it is the emperor who has the final say, and since his old man has given me the title of Princess Jinghe, then in terms of position, I am equal to the princess." β
Zhuohua's palms tightened slightly, but Wei Ruyi only turned around and sat down by himself, poured himself tea, and drank it slowly.
The more Zhuohua looked, the more he felt that something was wrong, Wei Ruyi was so calm, was this normal? Those nobles outside the palace, even if they have been accustomed to seeing high-ranking officials and nobles since childhood, most of them are restrained and unrestrained in the palace, and they will never dare to be so calm when they lose their temper, unless Wei Ruyi has long been accustomed to seeing such storms in her previous life.
"I'll find out the evidence sooner or later." Zhuohua said coldly.
"Although I don't know what the princess is talking about, but since the princess has decided it, let's do it, young man, you always have to have the courage to try." Wei Ruyi looked bitter, looking at the somewhat aggressive Zhuohua, the only thing he was worried about was the plan to leave the palace tomorrow.
Zhuohua saw that she didn't show any cowardice, and also gathered up the fierce and vicious looks just now, and smiled with contempt and contempt: "You don't have to be so proud. As long as things happen, there will always be flaws, Wei Ruyi, I think instead of hiding everyone all the time, you should think about it, after knowing the truth that you just used him in your previous life and caused him to die a tragic death, will Lou Yan still like you as much as you do now. You deceived him and lied to him, and you dared to approach him with a cheeky face in this life, Wei Ruyi, you are really the most ruthless woman I have ever seen! β
Zhuohua said and turned away.
Wei Ruyi's hand holding the teacup was tightly held, she never dared to relax, although the things in her previous life were not her willing, but because of her, Lou Yan lost her life in order to save her, and the National Teacher's Mansion was also washed in blood because of this.
"Princess?"
Caixia saw that she was stunned, and called softly, but Wei Ruyi was excited, and the teacup in her hand was knocked over on the ground.
Caixia was startled, thinking that she was scaring her, so she hurriedly knelt down: "The slave is reckless, and please punish the princess." β
Wei Ruyi came back to her senses, looked at her, thought about the picture in Fang Cai's mind, and only helped her up: "I'm tired." "Those things, she will tell Brother Yan, since there is Lou Ruo's existence, she knows that this matter must not be hidden for a lifetime, so she will definitely tell him, but Brother Yan is ...... Is it acceptable?
Wei Ruyi wasn't sure, she knew that Lou Yan loved herself at the moment, and it must be as deep as the love in her previous life.
But in his previous life, he lost his life because of this love, so what about this time, does he dare to bet?
Wei Ruyi was not sure, because if it was her, she would definitely hesitate and hesitate.
In the middle of the night, the wind outside the window blew softly, shuttling between the high palace walls, faintly making a sound, like a ghost's cry for life when walking at night.
stayed up all night, and the next morning, Roujia asked people to call her over, pulled her in the room, closed the door and explained for a long time before letting her out.
At noon, the emperor came here for lunch.
At lunchtime, Wei Ruyi was also there, this time she didn't cry, and the emperor's inexplicable heart was also put down, but just after finishing the meal, he listened to Rou Jia say: "Your Majesty, the concubine has a reluctant request." β
"Love concubine, let's talk about it, what kind of reluctant invitation." The emperor was still smiling, but his eyes had changed, not as gentle as Fang Cai, but as calculating and cold.
Wei Ruyi was cold for Rou Jia, but Rou Jia seemed to be unaware, and said with a smile: "The concubine wants Ruyi to go out of the palace." β
"Why did you suddenly talk about this, is it because she is not filial and caring enough, and she can't serve you as an adoptive mother well?" The emperor laughed, and there was a faint threat in his tone: "If you don't like her, then I will let her stay in the cold palace." β
Wei Ruyi got up immediately, Rou Jia only said shyly: "It's the concubine who has found the master, if the concubine wants a child with the emperor, you can't stay by your side like an adopted son and daughter, Zhuohua will forget it, she will never call the concubine, but Ruyi will call the concubine as an adoptive mother......" As she spoke, Rou Jia's tone choked up: "The concubine is only the emperor now, and the concubine has wanted a child to be under Chenghuan for so many years, if the emperor should not, why don't you let the concubine go out of the palace to be a sister-in-law." β
Roujia's words are reasonable, without the slightest resentment, and it seems to be coquettish.
The emperor likes her and feels sorry for her, and naturally remembers the child in her womb who was beaten by him.
But Wei Ruyi ......
"If the mother goes to be a sister-in-law, it is all Ruyi's fault, and Ruyi will also be a sister-in-law with you!" Wei Ruyi choked up.
The emperor took a deep look at her, Wei Ruyi was clamoring to be a sister-in-law at the moment, would Lou Yan expose Princess Ping's matter to take revenge on him because of this?
The emperor suddenly felt that it was not too wise to leave things to Lou Yan with full authority.
He thought about it and felt that it would be okay to let Wei Ruyi go, Lou Yan dared to betray, then he would directly remove Lou Yan!