The carriage drove slowly, the wheels pressed against the bluestone slab on the ground and made a sound, Chen Yansleeve looked at Wei Ruyi, thought about it, didn't know how to comfort her, and simply raised his hand to gently comb the long hair behind her.

Her hair was very soft, and Chen Yansleeve thought that it should be the same as her heart.

I don't know how long it took, the carriage finally stopped, and Wei Ruyi slowly raised his head, his eyes were red, and his eyelashes were wet.

"You don't have to tell your grandfather about today, he is worried."

"Hmm." Chen Yansleeve saw that she was still smiling, and only said: "Don't force yourself, if you feel uncomfortable, just rest at home." ”

"It's rare to go out together, and besides, I promised Qing'er that I would take him out to play." After Wei Ruyi finished speaking, he wiped away his tears with a handkerchief and jumped out of the carriage.

Old Lady Chen and Chen Ding have already come out, Qing'er has changed into a royal blue robe, her hair is meticulously combed, and the whole person looks extremely energetic.

When he saw her come out, he immediately trotted over, looked up at her and smiled: "Sister, let's go to put the river lantern together today." ”

"Okay." Wei Ruyi raised his hand and gently rubbed his forehead, if the ancestors of the Wei family have spirits in the sky, don't blame her for being ruthless, she must take back some debts!

After packing up, Wei Ruyi went out with the Chen family, but he didn't see his mother, who had never appeared.

In the Midyear Festival, every household has prepared paper ingots and river lanterns, and during the day, they go to kowtow in front of the graves of their ancestors and ancestors, and wait until it gets dark, and then go to the river to put river lanterns, and pass the fireworks in the world to the underworld through the river lanterns, which is considered to have fulfilled the children's wishes.

Because Yu Rouyi was a concubine, she couldn't go out at will, but she also prepared a lot of paper ingots at home, but it was not yet noon, when she saw the girl ring who was following her running in quickly, and said in a low voice: "Madame sent the news that my cousin had an accident this morning." ”

"What's wrong?" Yu Rouyi thought of Qiu Shi, although he didn't like it, he liked himself so much, and now he was busy in the Yu family, so he also regarded him as a family member.

"Early this morning, in the middle of the year, my cousin was going to go out with his wife to worship, but when he went out, a crazy horse ran over, and his cousin couldn't dodge and fell to the ground, and was trampled on the stomach by the crazy horse, and his intestines were stepped out, and now there is still a breath left, and his wife wants to ask him for a doctor to take a look." Yahuan said busily.

The scissors in Yu Rouyi's hand fell to the ground with a clatter, and the finished paper ingots were scattered all over the ground: "Crazy Horse? ”

"Yes, somehow it's that coincidental......"

Yahuan muttered, but she herself knew, where was such a coincidence, although her father was dead, the Yu family still had a small house in the mansion, why did the crazy horse not step on others, but only stepped on him?

"Miss, what's wrong with you?" Yahuan looked at her clenching her fists tightly and didn't know what to think, and asked worriedly.

Yu Rouyi thought for a while and asked her, "Is Your Highness in the mansion?" ”

Yahuan nodded: "It's here, but I'm going to enter the palace in a while, there are also sacrificial ceremonies in the palace today, and His Royal Highness will go to the imperial tomb with His Royal Highness King Ping in the afternoon, I'm afraid it will take two or three days to return." ”

When Yu Rouyi heard this, she hurriedly wanted to go out, walked a few steps, and returned to the bronze mirror to take care of her makeup, and then walked quickly to the front yard.

When he arrived, Jiang Yan happened to hear about the Sun family's bullying of Wei Ruyi and Chen Yansleeve early this morning, and his face was very ugly: "This Sun family is really lawless, Ruyi is now the princess of his father's own title, what is his Sun family!" ”

"Your Highness, don't be angry, that Sun Shangshu is a sensible person, that is, Mrs. Sun and Mrs. Wei......" The people below hurriedly explained, just as Yu Rouyi rushed over.

Jiang Yan didn't want to see her at all, he just happened to be angry in his heart, and when he saw her coming, he didn't say a word again, and left angrily.

"Your Highness......"

Yu Rouyi called him, Jiang Yan turned a deaf ear, and left the house in a blink of an eye.

Seeing this, Yu Rouyi wanted to follow again, but before she walked out of the flower hall, a mother-in-law wearing a dark dress walked in outside, and the mother-in-law looked at her, and said with a smile: "It turns out that my aunt is here, and the side concubine told the slave maid to invite you to come over." ”

"Concubine ......" Yu Rou said badly, and before she could speak, she was dragged by two maid rings, and she went to Concubine Meng's courtyard half-dragged and half-pushed.

Meng Shi was holding a half-arm-long whip in her hand, she was not a person who liked to use force, standing in front of the door, watching Yu Rouyi being arrested, and smiling coldly: "I heard that Your Highness grounded me because of you." ”

"Side concubine, it was His Royal Highness who misunderstood that the injury on Rouyi's body was done by the side concubine, so he ......" Yu Rouyi wanted to defend, but Meng's face became even more sarcastic: "Your Highness thinks?" Why didn't His Highness think so before, but when you entered the mansion, he thought so? As for the injury on your body, it has nothing to do with the concubine, the concubine hasn't even slapped you, but you can act. ”

Yu Rouyi didn't expect Meng Shi to become smarter.

She hurriedly explained: "Concubine Fang, these things are all ......"

"Shut up, I know you have a three-inch tongue that can say that the dead are alive, and I call you today, I don't plan to listen to your nonsense!" After speaking, he handed the whip in his hand to the girl ring on the side: "Give me a slap on her face until it's broken!" ”

Yu Rouyi's face was pale, and seeing that Meng Shi didn't intend to show mercy, she immediately said, "If His Highness knows, he will definitely be angry." Side concubine, Rouyi was also deceived by someone, so she said to her aunt in the same yard as Rouyi......"

"It matters what you say, it's how you do it."

Another female voice came, Yu Rouyi looked up, and saw Fang Qiaoqiao, who was dressed in gorgeous clothes, actually walked out of the house.

Yu Rouyi was dumbfounded, Concubine Meng was originally jealous and hesitant, but she was also ruthless in an instant: "Don't be stunned, give me a hard beating!" ”

After speaking, the girls stepped forward to hold her, and the tenacious whip struck down at Yu Rouyi's flower-like little face, and all at once, the pain was hot, as if it was going to tear her face apart.

Meng Shi looked at Fang Qiaoqiao with a smile: "If it weren't for the imperial sister-in-law to tell the concubine, the concubine wouldn't know yet." ”

Fang Qiaoqiao glanced at Yu Rouyi and smiled lightly: "Yu Rouyi is scheming, last time she asked us to go to the restaurant to make trouble, after returning to the Rui Palace, I was scolded by the prince, and it was only later that I figured out that we let a concubine be a gunman." When I came here today, I found out that she actually designed King Zhao to ground you again. ”

The more Meng listened, the more he hated Yu Rouyi.

"There is a fox charmer, and now she is so ruthless, and when Chen Yansleeve enters the house in the future, my situation is still not very difficult." Meng Shi said secretly, but Fang Qiaoqiao came over and said, "Recently, I accidentally heard His Royal Highness King Derui mention something. ”

"What's the matter?"

"His Royal Highness King Rui heard that this Chen Yansleeve has been privately agreed with someone for life." Fang Qiaoqiao said.

After hearing this, Meng Shi's eyes showed a little joy: "Who?" ”

Fang Qiaoqiao: "I don't know about this man, but I heard that he may come to the capital, that is, in the past few months." ”

"But Chen Yansleeve will enter the door next month."

"That's good, when she enters the door, she finds out that she has a private agreement with someone for life, and there is still a way to live when the time comes?" Fang Qiaoqiao said again: "But I'm afraid that Wei Ruyi will help her deal with this matter, and maybe you will suffer when the time comes." ”

When Concubine Meng mentioned Wei Ruyi, she was also hateful and afraid: "Then you mean that before you solve Chen Yan's sleeve, you must first restrain Wei Ruyi?" ”

"It's up to the side concubine, I can't help much, but your brother has heard that he has a wide range of contacts, if you can think of a way......"

Fang Qiaoqiao paused, and when she saw Concubine Meng frowning and refusing with a face full of rejection, she said: "No matter how ruthless Wei Ruyi is, she is also a woman, and if she is a woman, she cherishes her reputation, and it is always easier to start from this aspect." ”

Meng Shi still hesitated, she was such an elder brother, if she folded in, she would not be able to come back.

"I just proposed, by the way, I should go back before the hour is too late." Fang Qiaoqiao smiled, and then said goodbye and left, without forcing Concubine Meng at all.

But she knew that Meng Shi didn't have any ideas in her heart, and she wasn't smart enough, so she would definitely do it.

When Fang Qiaoqiao passed by Yu Rouyi, she saw that her tender white face was beaten and covered with blood, and she smiled coldly before stepping out.

After going out, I got into the carriage, and when I saw the person who was taking a nap, I smiled shyly: "Lord Wang." ”

"It's all done?" King Rui pulled her into his arms, and his hand had already untied her clothes.

"Hmm."

"Then I'll do something for my grandfather." A strange smile appeared on the ugly face of King Rui, and he held her in his arms.

The guards guarding the carriage listened to the woman's coquettish moans coming from the carriage, and they all lowered their heads with red faces.

In the dark, Da Chun watched the carriage walk away, and then hurried back to find Xiao Yao.

When Wei Ruyi heard the news of Qiu Shi, he was sitting in the shade of a tree with the people of the Chen family.

This is a lawn by a forest outside the city, facing a creek, and many people who have just finished their sacrifices sit and rest here.

The temperature in the forest is not high, and the breeze blows, which is very cool.

Chen Ding chatted with the people nearby, while Old Lady Chen took a few people to sit on the mat spread out on the lawn, and the guards brought the food boxes and took out all kinds of exquisite snacks.

Qing'er couldn't sit still, her eyes chased the birds that occasionally flew by, and Chen Yansleeve glanced at the fish that occasionally swam in the creek out of the corner of her eye, just waiting for a good time to send out her darts.

Wei Ruyi put all his worries aside and talked to a few people.

"Your Excellency, where do you want to sit?"

Ah Zhong's voice came, Wei Ruyi turned his head and saw Lou Yan in a plain robe, blinking, he was not nearby to worship his ancestors, why did he come?

When Old Lady Chen saw him, he immediately said, "Xiao Yan, come and sit here." ”

"That Lou Yan is disrespectful." Lou Yan saluted, walked over, and sat cross-legged opposite Wei Ruyi.

Looking at each other, Lou Yan glanced at each other lightly, and only said to Old Lady Chen: "I heard that there are a lot of green fruits in this forest, and picking fresh tea is the best way to drive away the heat." ”

"Yes, that's great, Ruyi......" Old Lady Chen said naturally.

"Tell Qing'er and Mu Ying to go." Wei Ruyi was very lazy, and she still wanted to listen to Brother Yan.

Qing'er stood up with a fart, and Lou Yan said again: "You go." ”

"Why ......"

"The fruit picked by the beauty is the most refreshing."

"Then it's up to you!" Wei Ruyi clenched his fists with both hands, stood up suddenly, put on the small basket and went to the forest, causing everyone to laugh and bend over.

Chen Yansleeve looked at Lou Yan and said, "I deliberately broke her away, but something happened to the old lady?" ”

Lou Yan nodded slightly.

Chen Yansleeve's heart also pinched, she knew how much Wei Ruyi cared about the old lady.

Lou Yan looked at Old Lady Chen at this time: "In the past two days, the idea has detained her, it is best to make her sick, and it is best to make her unable to move." ”

"Princess, she...... Really? Old lady Chen also said.

"Well, it's been these two days." After Lou Yan finished speaking, he said to Chen Yansleeve again: "Miss Chen has been working hard these days. ”

Chen Yan's sleeve looked solemn: "It's impossible to hide it from her all the time, she is smarter than everyone else, and she can guess if she shows a little rumor." ”

"So it's good to hide it from her for a day or two." After Lou Yan finished speaking, he looked at Wei Ruyi, who was running happily in the forest, and felt pity, Wei Ruyi seemed to feel something, turned his head sideways, just met his gaze, smiled with crooked eyebrows, and raised the fruit he had just picked in his hand at him, and then led Qing'er to continue looking for it.

"Help...... Help ......"

Suddenly, there was a scream, and everyone turned their heads to see a half-grown child falling into the water.

Lou Yan was about to call Ah Zhong over, when he saw a figure flash, and then the child was picked up.

"Thank you, thank you, Childe......"

The family hurriedly thanked him, and the man who saved him just smiled politely, and when he saw Lou Yan, he immediately came over and saluted.

"I didn't expect the national teacher to be here today." He smiled politely.

"Jiang Gongzi, this is Old General Chen." Lou Yan introduced, and Xiao Jiang Gongzi immediately greeted Mrs. Chen.

Old Lady Chen smiled and nodded, and only asked him, "Is Ling Zun okay?" ”

"It's okay, thank you for the old general's attention." After Xiao Jiang Gongzi finished speaking, he smiled and left politely.

After watching him leave, General Chen asked Lou Yan: "Jiang Wangfu has not been involved in party disputes for hundreds of years, and now this junior appears frequently, but I am afraid that it is not accidental." ”

"Jiang Wangfu is far away from a piece of land in Hengzhou, and I heard that it was swallowed by the Dingguo Mansion." Lou Yan said lightly.

Chen Yansleeve doesn't understand, a piece of land can let Jiang Wangfu, who is not involved in party disputes, come out and stir up this party dispute?

Old lady Chen is from the past, and Lou Yan only said this sentence, and he heard the reason. Jiang Wangfu is a palace with the same surname as the royal family, which shows its dignity, but now the land under their name can be embezzled by a single Dingguo Mansion, how can the emperor not know? But now I don't see any reaction from the emperor, which can only show that the emperor no longer takes Jiang Wangfu seriously, and even has the intention of banning it.

If this is the case, King Jiang's Mansion is in jeopardy, and it is no longer the previous mansion.

"And what do you mean?" Old Lady Chen asked him.

"His Royal Highness King Ping is now in need of a lot of power, and in terms of fame, no one in Jiang Wangfu can match it." The people of Jiang Wangfu have never been involved in political party disputes, but because of their strict family style, all successive princes have been respected by the people as 'virtuous kings'.

Old Lady Chen turned his head to look at the little Jiang Gongzi who had already talked to Chen Ding, and knew in his heart: "I understand." But what do you need Chen Fu to do? ”

"The old general is polite, the Chen family doesn't have to get involved in these things for the time being." Lou Yan said shallowly.

Old lady Chen nodded in response, the current King Ping is no longer the King of Ping at that time, and it is indeed not a good thing for the Chen family to be involved at this time.

As he was talking, Wei Ruyi had already returned, a basket full of green fruits, and handed it to Lou Yan: "How about you taste it?" ”

"It must be good." Lou Yan raised his eyes to look at her, Wei Ruyi smiled and was a little proud: "That's, I don't look at who picked it up." ”

"Brother-in-law, I saw a rabbit in the forest just now." Qing'er also smiled and said, but when these words came out, Wei Ruyi was stunned: "Qing'er, I'm not married yet." ”

"It's okay, Xiaobai said that you will marry sooner or later."

"Who is Xiaobai?" Wei Ruyi was puzzled, Qing'er smiled and pointed in a certain direction, Wei Ruyi looked up, and saw that the three teenagers were huddled together and looked at her with a look of adoration.

Wei Ruyi was dumbfounded, what were these three stupid boys thinking day by day?

Lou Yan stood up: "It's not early, I'll leave first." ”

Wei Ruyi saw that he was about to leave, and was puzzled: "How tired is the National Teacher's running back and forth, why don't you rest for a while?" ”

"Nope." Lou Yan glanced at her and saw that she was unhappy, so he said, "I will go to Laifu Building for dinner." After saying that, he turned around and left.

Wei Ruyi was overjoyed to see him leave, so he went to play with Qing'er again.

Chen Yansleeve looked at her and sighed softly.

Old lady Chen saw it thoroughly: "Birth, old age, sickness and death, no one can escape, she is a smart person, she can naturally understand it thoroughly without being told." The matter of the old lady, just listen to Lou Yan, and wait for those sad days to pass, it will be fine. ”

"I pity her and no one loves her, and as soon as the old lady leaves, there will be one less person who loves her. I think it's because of this that the national teacher came here on purpose. Chen Yan sleeved.

Old lady Chen picked up the teacup in front of him, took a sip, thought of the Wei family, and thought of his daughter who still refused to go out, and sighed.

"Why did the old general sigh, but something unpleasant happened?"

The old man's voice came, and the old lady Chen was stunned, and turned her head to see Yun Tao, the head of the Yun family.

Yun Tao's hair was all white, and the wrinkles on his face were crowded together, looking more and more gloomy, and the one who was supporting him was the Yun family.

Old lady Chen has seen the Yun family, and when Wei Xin took a leave of absence from his daughter to marry the Yun family, he specially rushed back, just to see who this woman was.

"You're still alive, I didn't hear from you for so long, I thought you were dead." Old Lady Chen snorted angrily.

The head of the Yun family was not angry, he just sat down on one side with a smile and glanced at Chen Yansleeve: "This is Miss Chen, if you have really grown up, when I saw you, you were still a female doll." ”

Chen Yansleeve is a junior, and according to the number of etiquette, he still got up and saluted.

The Yun family only glanced coldly at Wei Ruyi in the distance, seeing that she was smiling like a flower, and the hatred in her heart seemed to be quenched. Her mother's and son's filial life was all ruined by her!

When Qing'er was playing, she suddenly looked at Shangyun's eyes, and was so frightened that her little face turned white and her legs fell to the ground weakly.

Wei Ruyi came back to his senses, turned his head to see the Yun family, saw her cruel gaze, and smiled back.

Yun dared to come to the door herself, and she was not afraid to return it a hundred times.

Chen Yansleeve asked Chen Ding to come back to accompany Mrs. Chen, and then went to Wei Ruyi's side to protect her.

"I don't know how they came."

"Today's Midyear Festival, they must have come to sacrifice, and Yun Hao just died." Wei Ruyi thought of Qiu Shi, who was trampled on by a horse, and then looked at the white-haired but ruthless head of the Yun family at this time, and said to Chen Yansleeve: "Be careful today, try to return to Beijing before dark." ”

"I understand." Chen Yan responded with his sleeves, and as soon as she finished speaking, she saw someone pulling her sleeves: "Sister, my handkerchief fell into the water, can you help me pick it up?" ”

Chen Yansleeve looked at the little girl who had been playing nearby for a long time, was unguarded, nodded, turned around and flew to get the handkerchief floating in the stream, but before she left, she heard the low roar of a wild beast nearby.

The people present were frightened, and Wei Ruyi was also vigilant, staring carefully at every move around him, for fear that a beast would come out.

But just when her attention was completely on the beast, Qing'er felt as if something cool was wrapped around her legs, he froze, couldn't help but tremble slightly, and shouted Wei Ruyi angrily: "Sister......"

"How ......"

"Don't move!" Chen Yansleeve shouted Wei Ruyi, who was standing next to Qing'er, this is a poisonous snake, the most vigilant, if it senses the abnormal movement and bites Qing'er fiercely, Qing'er's life will not be saved!

Wei Ruyi lowered his head slightly, and when he saw the red poisonous snake slowly crawling up around Qing'er's legs, his heart rose to his throat.

"Qing'er, listen to me, don't move......" Wei Ruyi was not afraid of snakes, but she was afraid that snakes would attack Qing'er if they were frightened.

But the more tense the moment, the more obvious the roar of the beast in the forest became.

Wei Ruyi was puzzled, where did such a small forest come from......

"It's a tiger!"

Someone whispered, Wei Ruyi's sweat had already dripped down her forehead, she clenched her palms tightly, didn't care about the panicked voice behind her, and only watched Chen Yansleeve carefully pull out her sword: "Sister Yansleeve, cut off the poisonous snake ...... first"

"Ruyi, ...... behind you"

"I don't care, save Qing'er." Wei Ruyi knew where she was standing, even if there were tigers, there were still so many people, but Chen Ding, who was supposed to be talking to someone behind her, because the Yun family was no longer in this direction at the moment.

The timid Qing'er is also working hard at this time, trying not to make her legs weak.

Chen Yansleeve saw that Mu Ying was already on guard, secretly gritted his teeth, and was about to make a move on the poisonous snake that was slowly spitting out the letter, so he heard the Yun clan suddenly call her: "Miss Chen——! ”

Chen Yansleeve subconsciously looked back at her, and saw someone running towards her suddenly.

Chen Yansleeve had to draw his sword to meet him, and the poisonous snake on Qing'er's body was suddenly frightened, like an arrow from the string, and bit down on Qing'er's body, Qing'er seemed to be able to see the sharp teeth quenching venom.

Wei Ruyi didn't have time to think about it, and reached out to grab it at the moment when the poisonous snake bit down.

She knew very well that if she caught the poisonous snake, the poisonous snake would definitely bite her in turn as soon as possible, but she couldn't care about it so much.

"Ruyi!"

Old Lady Chen almost vomited out a mouthful of blood, but at this most critical moment, a black shadow flashed along with the chirping of birds, and the back of Wei Ruyi's hand only left three cracks in an instant.