"Where's Lu Ko'er?" Jian Xubai looked at her for a moment, and said softly, "What did she do to you?" ”

Seeing his wife's confused expression, he reminded, "You said in the palace before that Xiao Cui's wanted you to give way to Lu Kou'er, but Lu Kou'er also murdered you?" ”

"Not really." Song Yixiao suddenly sighed, and said, "It's just that the situation at the time, if you want to disrupt Cui Jianlian's plan, and it is reasonable, you can only mention her; The second is to take this opportunity to drive a wedge between the princess of Hengshan and Cui Jianlian. ”

Speaking of this, she was silent for a moment before she said, "Another reason is that when Sister Xie came to see me a few years ago, she privately revealed that during my 'couch recuperation', Lu Ko'er came to visit me three times and twice under the banner of wanting to be close to you. I don't want to do anything to her, but I don't want to guard against her all the time, so I want to use this incident to let her marry farther! ”

- She had already asked, although the matter at the Lantern Festival Palace banquet had leaked out, but now the government and the opposition only knew that Song Yixiao and Cui Jianlian were involved, and as for the Hengshan Palace, no one mentioned it.

After all, this rumor was basically released by the eldest princess of the country and Queen Su, otherwise how could there be such a storm in the city so quickly? They naturally did this to divide the relationship between the Yanguo Mansion and the East Palace, but they couldn't offend the neutral Hengshan Palace.

It's just that although Lu Ko'er escaped by relying on her good background, Song Yixiao's words were said in front of many people, even if the concubine wanted to avoid suspicion, she would definitely not let her marry in the imperial capital in the future!

"Your nurse sister eats inside and out, the palace will definitely not let her go, even if the palace lets her back, I can't spare her!" Hearing this, Jian Xubai glanced at her deeply before saying, "But Mother Zhao, there is still that child, I can try!" ”

These words greatly surprised Song Yixiao, she was not surprised for a while, but looked at her husband in amazement!

"I mean the maid stopping you." Jian Xubai let her look at it, and said lightly, "On the night of Changxing's descent, I said that I would not let you get into danger again - don't meddle in this matter, it's useless for you to meddle, maybe you will lose yourself!" ”

He said expressionlessly, "I will enter the palace tomorrow to plead with the imperial grandmother, if Mother Zhao did not betray you, the imperial grandmother will give me this face!" ”

Song Yi pursed her lips with a smile, only feeling that her heart was full of mixed tastes.

She knew that Jian Xubai was actually very easy to coax - at least in front of her - but a few hours ago, this husband suspected that she was in a private relationship with Su Shaoge, which would just watch her cry, and immediately melted the ice and snow, and continued to be obedient to her, saying that it was not sincere, who would believe it?

After all, Jian Xubai is not a kind person like Lu Guanlun.

"I didn't look good when I came back before, not because I was annoyed that you caused me trouble, but because I didn't like you to hide something from me." There was silence in the room for a moment, and Jian Xubai said, "You and I are husband and wife, we should be as close as one, not to mention that I am not a Dali Siqing, I don't need to be fair and selfless, how can I help or not help my relatives?" You have to say these words to me earlier, so that I can understand that you and Xiao Cui's are not ordinary grievances, but they don't share the sky, how can I not help you? ”

His tone was not shocked, but in Song Yixiao's ears, it was clearly melancholy and hidden.

She took a deep breath and suddenly laughed miserably: "Do you still remember the day when the third brother and third sister-in-law served tea, let's go to my mother's house first, I talked to the eldest sister about nourishment, and you asked me what I didn't eat a few bottles of Tianxiang Bilu at home?" ”

"Yes." Jian was stunned for a moment, "You said you didn't have much appetite in those days?" ”

"When I was still in the Song family, the Liu family had only entered the door for about three or two months, and one day her niece and nephew came to see her, and I was led to the back hall to meet her." Song Yi smiled lightly and said, "That Miss Liu was wearing a pair of earrings with a very unique style at that time, I was curious to take a look at it, and after the Liu family found out, she immediately gave me a slap in the face!" Said I was definitely trying to steal her niece's stuff. ”

Jian Xubai's hand on his lap clenched subconsciously, and asked in a deep voice: "What happened later?" ”

"Later, my grandmother persuaded my mother to take me to Hengshan Wangfu to raise, but my mother was unwilling." Song Yixiao's tone was flat, "My grandmother said that I don't look bad, and I will definitely be able to sell it for a good price after I raise it!" So after I arrived at the Hengshan Palace, I became more and more cautious, I didn't want anything I could, and I didn't mention any requests that I couldn't mention! ”

"I'm afraid my mother will trouble me and think that it is not worth raising me—and I don't know, what will she do with me then?"

"But I also feel that I am at a loss in front of the people of the palace, because I am afraid of taking the lead."

Over time, "I have become accustomed to hearing anything beneficial, and to stay away, lest the people around me think that I want to fight; When I see something good, stay away, so that people will know that I don't covet it! ”

Some injuries can fool others, but they can't fool themselves.

Since she came out of the cabinet, she has not been the hostess of Yanguo's mansion once or twice, and she has never shown the slightest timidity on the scene.

Even in the eyes of nobles such as the queen mother and the queen, she is "worthy of Ah Xuan in terms of bearing".

But the few bottles of Tianxiang Bilu in the cabinet that no one cared about clearly reflected her humility and cowardice.

She raised her eyes, "You see, I don't even dare to take a few bottles of food rewarded by the palace subconsciously, I always feel as if I will be disgusted by you after eating...... What's more, it makes you risk a rift between you and the crown prince? So how dare I tell you the truth? Not only do I dare not tell you, but I am even more afraid that you will notice any flaws - when the time comes, you will personally stare at me, and I am afraid that I will have no hope of avenging Zhiqin at all! ”

"I can only hide from you to cut it first and then play!"

"It's not that you don't treat me well enough, it's that I'm under the fence and no one is used to relying on me, and I have already taken it for granted that I can solve problems by myself!"

Song Yi smiled self-deprecatingly, "Actually, I already knew that you had me in your heart, and the reason why I dared to do this this time was because I was very sure that you would help me regardless of your previous suspicions-but even so, I still didn't dare to discuss with you first!" ”

"Because neither my father, nor my grandmother, nor my father-in-law, want me; My biological mother, if she hadn't listened to my grandmother say, 'You will never suffer a loss in the future for raising this daughter', she wouldn't care if I lived or died - people say that it is the nature of parents to love their children, but I can't even get the favor and maintenance of my parents, how dare I expect others, even my husband, to pay for me without regrets? ”

The environment in which she grew up without support since she was a child has long since worn out the luck and optimism in her heart.

So

I'd rather take a gamble and leave it to fate.

I don't dare to be sure that no matter the wind, frost and rain, my husband will be on my side!

…… After saying all the words that had been pent up in her heart for many years, Song Yixiao calmed down, she brushed away her husband's fingers that wiped her tears for herself, and walked to the basin behind the screen to freshen up.

"You know that I have to take the antidote for the past two years, and I also know that this poison was in the Wuhuan period." Jian Xubai stood up and followed, pouring hot water from the soup woman for her, and said lightly, "But do you know who this person who wants to take my life is?" ”

Song Yi was stunned for a moment, and reacted that he was repaying the favor, and he was going to tell himself his secret.

She originally wanted to say, "You were captured by Wuhuan, of course it was the hand of the Wuhuan people", but when the words came to her mouth, she suddenly thought of something, and blurted out: "Dad or third brother?!" ”

"The third brother doesn't have that ability yet." Jian Xubai stretched out his hand to test the temperature of the water, and felt that it was okay, shook off the water droplets on his fingers, put the soup woman back on the shelf, took the handkerchief on the screen to dry his hands, and said flatly, "It is your father-in-law - this is also the reason why I participated in the seizure of the prince, otherwise, with the status of a mother, I can completely learn from the Hengshan Wangfu to choose neutrality, and rely on the title and the identity of the emperor's nephew, I am not worried about wealth and power!" Why gamble your life to go through such troubled waters? ”

Song Yixiao's heart shook violently, and he subconsciously grabbed his sleeve: "Didn't you say that grandfather was afraid of high merit, so he let him deliberately have a relationship with you?" ”

"This is just a pretense for grandfather to coax us!" Jian Xubai showed a touch of ridicule, "In fact, my grandfather was purely a loss of personal morality in his early years, and he was exposed by coincidence - if it weren't for the emperor's uncle thinking that he was a veteran of the two dynasties, he wouldn't even have the dignity to invite himself, and he would definitely be impeached and removed from power, and his reputation would be ruined!" ”

And Jian Pingyu attaches the most importance to Jian Likuang and Jian Yiyu's father and son, when he left the imperial capital, Jian Xubai was only five years old, and he basically never got along with this grandfather, which way Jian Pingyu's heart will be biased, don't ask!

"In fact, if someone without a grandfather helps, with our father's ability, he may not be able to let me go!"

After all, although he was young and ignorant at that time, and he was defenseless against Jian Likuang, he was raised under the knees of the Queen Mother, and when he went to Wuhuan, how could the Queen Mother not arrange for him?

Song Yixiao is going to care about what to do if you don't freshen up? Trembling asked in a trembling voice: "Just because he and Jian Likuang both like Jian Yiyu more, so they teamed up to kill you?!" ”

She won't be able to call out "grandfather" and "father" no matter what-Song Yixiao doesn't know whether she should cry or laugh at the moment: she said that Jian Xubai, a person who grew up in a thousand loves, can't understand the pain of her birth at all, who wants her husband to be beautiful in front of people, but he has already gone through life and death in the hands of his grandfather and father?!

How would he have felt?

Song Yixiao felt that it should be even more sad than when he died in his previous life, right?

After all, Jian Xubai is not her, her days as the pearl of the palm are too short and short, so short that she often feels that she has never been cared for and loved; And Jian Xubai is still the heart and liver of the Queen Mother!

"No wonder he said that he would kill the people in charge of the chief steward!" Song Yixiao suddenly realized her husband's previous decision: if he didn't kill those people, those people would try their best to kill him when they turned around!

"It's for the title." Jian was silent for a moment before continuing, "Seven years ago—I knew about that meeting, and I could do almost anything to get that person's favor, right? So at his suggestion, I asked my grandmother to give up the title to my third brother. ”

Of course, the Queen Mother refused to agree.

Not only did he refuse to agree, but he also summoned Jian Likuang to him and reprimanded him fiercely!

But the fashionable and naïve Jane Xubai couldn't understand the meaning of his ascension to the knighthood, and he decided to go to Wuhuan with the army to go around and make his loving grandmother compromise through separation.

Who wanted to make this move, but Jian Likuang made up his mind, "He didn't dare to touch me before, firstly, because he had no chance, and secondly, he was not sure that if I died, how would the title be passed on?" ”

But he personally stated that he wanted to give up the title to Jian Yiyou, and after going to Wuhuan again, it was equivalent to taking the initiative to solve these two problems for Jian Likuang!

"So I have to have enough power!" Jian Xubai sighed lightly, "The emperor's grandmother, imperial uncle, and mother all love me very much, but these are all my elders, and they are all older than that person - once they can no longer protect me, there is a way that the father wants the son to die, and the son has to die, and then my fate can be imagined!" ”

- Filial piety and public opinion are certainly a sharp blade, but when there is enough power, they will also be weak and powerless, and even turn the spearhead and point the finger at the initiator.

This is his only way out, and the only option he doesn't want to sit still!

Jian Xubai looked at his wife, who raised his sleeves to cover his mouth and couldn't stop trembling, stretched out his arms to take her into his arms, and said gently: "So you see, although I have the favor and maintenance of the emperor's grandmother, the emperor's uncle, and my mother, in fact, only you can accompany me to the end." ”

He stroked his wife's green cloud-like sideburns, "Even if none of your mother's parents really care for you, you are no longer the daughter of the Song family, but my Jane's wife." ”

"Now and in the future, it should be you who you rely on, it's me!"

Song Yixiao hugged his waist tightly, thousands of emotions gathered in her chest, surging like a stormy wave, and tears had wet her husband's clothes in an instant-she had countless words to say at the moment, wanted to ask and want to confide, but in the end, she only whispered, word by word, and even a little cautious, and said: "Tie your hair and pillow mat?" ”

"Huangquan is a friend!" Jian Xubai did not hesitate or pause, and answered her almost instantly. Immediately, he lowered his head and kissed his wife on the lips.

At this moment, there is no bell and drum ringing when they get married, only the wind and snow outside the window; There are no full guests to witness the blessings, but the husband and wife are relatively unscabbed; There is no charm of a talented woman with red sleeves and fragrance, but it shows each other's unbearable look back on the past.

But the two hearts have never been so close.