Bai Jinghao's expression was surprised, and she asked rhetorically, "You want to help me?" ”

Shen Shiyan bowed, "You don't have to be surprised, my mother doesn't like you, but that's all about the previous generation." What's more, your mother has been dead for so many years, what do you care about? ”

Bai Jing looked at the bright girl in front of her, she looked like her mother Bai Qingping, but she understood a lot of things.

As for why Bai Qingping hates Bai Yu and Bai Jinghao, it has to start from more than thirty years ago.

At that time, Chenghua was five years old, and the imperial court had just established the crown prince. The old lady Bai was released back to Beijing to report on her work, and when the old lady gave birth in Yingchuan, she gave birth to Shen Shiyan's mother Bai Qingping in the Temple of Mercy and Grace.

However, Bai Qingping was born with heart disease, and the doctor said that she would not live for more than two days.

The old lady was worried that his wife would not be able to bear the blow of her daughter's early death, so she replaced Bai Qingping with the baby girl she picked up in the bushes on the side of the road, and left her own daughter, who was already dying, in the Temple of Mercy and Grace.

This baby girl is Bai Jinghao's mother, Bai Yu.

Bai Yu has been a young lady in Baifu for more than ten years, because the Bai family has only one daughter, so she has been loved by the old lady and his brothers since she was a child.

In the nineteenth year of Chenghua, the fourteen-year-old Bai Qingping came to the door with the jade pendant that the old lady had left in the swaddling clothes, and the old lady Bai knew that the white feather she had loved for many years was not her own. In order to make up for their biological daughter, the Bai family announced that Miss Bai was frail and sick since she was a child, and now she changed her name at the suggestion of a high-ranking monk.

Since then, Bai Yu has become an embarrassing existence in Baifu.

Fortunately at first, the mother-daughter relationship was still there for many years, and the old lady did not embarrass her too much. But after several conflicts between Bai Qingping and Bai Yu, Old Lady Bai gradually began to alienate her. Until the eldest lord Bai Sheng confessed to Bai Yu and confessed to the old lady that she would not marry her, the old lady was furious and scolded Bai Yu for seducing her brother without shame, so she drove her out of the capital while the old lady was not at home.

After Bai Yu left the capital, the old lady made the decision to force Bai Sheng to marry Qin Rou, the second lady of the Marquis Zongyu's mansion. After marriage, Bai Sheng was drunk day and night in Pinmei Xuan and missed Bai Yu, and it didn't take long for him to run away from home to find Bai Yu, and Qin Rou was pregnant at that time.

Bai Sheng walked for more than half a year, and did not come back until his eldest son Bai Qi was born.

In the winter of the twentieth year of Chenghua, Shen Rui, a well-known general in the court, suddenly proposed to Baifu to marry the young lady of the Bai family.

Bai Qingping married to the General's Mansion and gave birth to a pair of dragon and phoenix fetuses in the second year.

At the end of that year, Bai Yu, who had been away for two years, was suddenly secretly taken back to Baifu by Bai Sheng. Qin Rou asked the old lady for an explanation, and the old lady put pressure on Bai Sheng, but Bai Sheng said that Bai Yu already had his flesh and blood.

After Bai Yu came back, no one wanted to see her except the old lady who really cared for her. However, on the seventh day of the seventh month of the 22nd year of Chenghua, she died of blood collapse after giving birth to Bai Jinghao.

But even if she died, Bai Qingping still hated her, and even had an extreme disgust for Bai Jinghao, often saying that she was not good in front of the old lady, and not allowing her children to get close to her.

Shen Shikai is upright and heroic, good at protecting the weak, and seeing Bai Jing's suffering, he often helps her secretly. But Shen Shiyan has a high spirit, relying on the old lady's favor everywhere in the mansion, and she usually doesn't even look down on Bai Jinyao, let alone Bai Jing.

Therefore, she took the initiative to ask for cooperation, which really shocked Bai Jinghao.

Seeing that she didn't speak, Shen Shiyan continued: "You don't have to be grateful to me, Bai Jinyao thinks that she can marry His Royal Highness the crown princess because she is the niece of the crown princess, and she is against me everywhere." She didn't want to think about it, my father had a heavy army, and he was the emperor's most trusted general, and His Royal Highness could only confront his increasingly powerful imperial uncles if he married me.

Besides, my grandmother loves me so much, who doesn't know that my cousin's status in the Bai family is much more noble than that of you people? Even if my uncle sees the old lady's face, he will also look towards me, and marrying me is much more beneficial than marrying Bai Jinyao. ”

Her straightforward analysis of interests, Bai Jinghao felt quite pathetic. Although the consideration of the selection of the imperial concubine is indeed to expand the strength of the East Palace, Shen Shiyan has not considered her own emotional aspects by piling up chips on herself like this?

Bai Jing opened her lips: "So my cousin asked people to publicize what happened to her last night?" ”

"Yes, I sent someone to do it. At the end of the day, it's all your fault. Shen Shiyan pointed to the side and said kindly, "You sit down and talk." ”

Bai Jing didn't move, and she was disgusted with her in her heart.

There are no eggs under the nest, and Bai Jinghao is fighting back against Bai Jinyao, but behind closed doors, it is all a family affair of Shangshu Mansion. No matter how much she hates Bai Jinyao, she won't make a big deal and let the entire capital come to see her jokes.

But Shen Shiyan is different, when she calculates her competitors, she doesn't miss the sisterhood with Bai Jinyao at all, and she doesn't consider the Bai family as her maternal grandfather at all. She can beg for mercy in front of the old lady, or she can turn her face and ruthlessly ruin the reputation of the Bai family.

Bai Jing asked quietly: "My cousin is the pearl of the general's palm, I want the wind to be the wind and the rain, I can't figure out what I can help you, it's worth your personal come." ”

"Not now, but later." Shen Shiyan said meaningfully: "You don't have to be restrained, I won't harm you, because my brother likes you." ”

Bai Jinghao's face froze.

Shen Shiyan looked at her and smiled, "I already knew you could see it." When Jinyao and Jinzhu embarrassed you since childhood, my brother often helped you, and I don't know how many times I was punished by my mother for this. You did such a bad thing to Bai Jinyao last night, he can defend you, and he really likes you. ”

"Cousin, don't talk nonsense, cousin he helped me just because of cousin affection."

"You don't have to explain in front of me. Actually, it's nothing, I'm just such a brother, and I naturally won't be embarrassed by the person he likes. ”

Shen Shiyan stood up as she spoke, patted Bai Jinghao on the shoulder and said, "We have all grown up together since childhood, I know what your temperament is, even if I hate my mother's embarrassment to your mother in the past, but those are just trivial matters after all." You are the daughter of my eldest uncle and my mother's niece, and if you marry into our general's mansion in the future, as long as you keep to yourself, she will not embarrass you. ”

Bai Jinghao replied: "I never thought of marrying into the General's Mansion. ”

"I know you didn't dare to think about it before, so I can help you and help you win a higher status in the Bai family, and in the future, you will marry into our Shen family as the eldest lady of the Bai family. In fact, it is strange to say that the eldest uncle loves your mother so much, and he does not hesitate to disobey his grandmother for your mother, offend his eldest aunt, and give up everything for your mother to go around to find it in person, why did he ignore your daughter after your mother died? ”

Shen Shiyan is strange, and the entire Bai family is strange. Bai Sheng used to love Bai Yu to death, but after Bai Yu died, he let the eldest lady oppress and embarrass Bai Jing for so many years.

Bai Jing smiled bitterly when she heard this, and said without answering: "With my cousin's family background and character talent, there will naturally be a real noble girl to match him." ”

Shen Shiyan said: "I am going to enter the palace, all the battles in the palace in the future will come from the mother family, if you become my sister-in-law, I don't have to worry about the harmony in my mother's mansion." ”

Bai Jinghao had to say that Shen Shiyan was thinking really far. The power of the noble family in Beijing is complicated, and when she is preparing to marry into the East Palace, she also plans to hold the future mother of the Shen family in the palm of her hand, so as to firmly control the power of the General's Mansion.

Where is this really for Shen Shikai's sake, in the final analysis, it is for herself.

Bai Jinghao was unmoved, and replied tactfully: "Thank you cousin for looking up to me, it's just that Jinghao is self-aware, and she doesn't think anything wrong about her cousin." I still say the same thing, I never thought of marrying into the general's mansion, I am afraid that I will have to live up to my cousin's kindness. ”

"You?"

Shen Shiyan was incredulous, looking at her with confusion and blame in her eyes, and finally sneered: "I really don't know how to lift!" You have already offended Jin Yao, it is impossible for your aunt to let you go, you have to think about it carefully, being able to marry into our general's mansion is a blessing that you have cultivated for several lifetimes. ”

Bai Jinghao lowered his head, "Jinghao doesn't dare to climb high." ”

Shen Shiyan wasted half a day of hard work, and said angrily: "When you cry in the future, don't come to beg me." ”

She finished her words and left Pinmeixuan angrily.

Worried, Er Kite ran into the house to ask about the situation.

Bai Jinghao's face was calm, and she did not regret rejecting Shen Shiyan. Although it is true that with her help, she can quickly win the favor of the old lady, and she no longer has to live as trembling as she does now, but she is the young lady of Baifu, and it is impossible for her to help outsiders deal with her own family.