Chapter 20 Turning over old accounts
The second lady Jiang Min was able to enter and leave the palace, which depended on her eldest sister who was a concubine and was fortunate enough to be favored by the emperor to enter the palace, and finally became a concubine and gave birth to a prince for the emperor.
The second lady is a concubine in her mother's house, her mother was originally an aunt, and her fate was not good, and she gave birth to her daughter and then had no son, but with her wisdom and wisdom, low and small, able to speak well, and coaxed the eldest sister to please, and later the eldest sister entered the palace, and gave birth to a prince after the emperor's favor, and gave birth to a princess after a few years, that is, the Changping princess who was married to Gu in the past.
Back then, when the second lady was still an aunt, with the help of her eldest sister, she married Hou Ye as she wished, gave birth to a son, and became closer and closer to her eldest sister.
I thought that after becoming the mistress of this divine mansion, she would be able to live a peaceful and happy life in this life, but who would have thought that Gu Xiannian would come back, and it seemed that she would not intend to make her better, since this was the case, she had to plan well.
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On that day, after Gu Xi's wave of monks went back, the matter of the fourth lady falling into the water did not end there, Hou Ye came back in the afternoon and learned about it, and he also saw his daughter injured by Shang Xi, her knees were purple and swollen, and she threw herself into his arms so aggrieved that tears burst into tears, where could Hou Ye sit still.
The son just came back, and Hou Ye didn't want to tear his face with his son because of an outsider, but he couldn't pretend to be deaf and dumb about this matter, otherwise he wouldn't be able to explain it to his daughter.
Hou Ye went to Qingfeng East Courtyard for dinner, and now they have a small kitchen here, and they basically don't eat with them.
In order to adjust his wife's life, Shang Xi deliberately took his wife to the small kitchen to cook meals, thanks to the fact that Meng Po passed it down to her back then.
Meng Po said that to capture a man's heart, she must first grab a man's stomach, so when she was thirteen years old, she made up her mind to work her meals, and it is estimated that she was born with a talent for cooking.
Originally, she wanted to burn it for Gu Qiannian every day, but Meng Po said: A man can't spoil his stomach, so she decided to do it once every ten days and a half months, and occasionally show her hand to get some praise, and make it for him every day, but he is tired of eating.
"Madam, the vegetables are well cut, you must have liked to cook before."
originally thought that Mrs. should have been pampered before, and then she was imprisoned for eight years, but now her technique of picking up a knife and cutting vegetables is no worse than her, and a white lotus root has been cut out by her.
Madame smiled at her, in fact, she didn't know if she could chop vegetables, but she just watched Shang Xi do it, and she wanted to give it a try, but she never expected that she would be so skilled when the knife fell.
The two of them were busy in the kitchen for more than an hour, and the old mother in the kitchen helped to make a fire, made a few vegetarian dishes and meat dishes, and boiled a pigeon soup.
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Unconsciously, the sky is gradually darkening, and the lights are also in the hands of the gods, which can be described as brightly lit, and the night falls, except for the patrolling guards, no one walks around in the courtyard, and the already solemn god's house is more and more quiet because the eldest prince has hurt people today, only the Qingfeng East Courtyard, more and more the breath of the living.
The slave maid helped bring all the meals cooked by Shang Xi and his wife to the table, and they could taste the delicious food from a distance.
Knowing that they had been busy in the kitchen for a long time, Gu had already sat down and looked at the dishes in front of him, all of which were made according to his appetite.
Seeing that his wife still looked a little reserved, Shang Xi pulled her to squint and smiled and asked her to sit down, and he sat down next to her.
From the moment Gu Qiannian was rescued, whenever Gu Qiannian was there, they all ate together, and others may have a difference of dignity and inferiority, and they can't sit at the same table with him, but she has always been an exception, and unconsciously, Shang Xi has already put himself and Gu Qiannian in the position of a family.
For this man, she instinctively fears him, fears him, and respects him.
At this time, he sat in front of them, but Shang Xi felt for the first time that the distance between them was so far that she couldn't touch it anyway, and she hadn't forgotten that this man had been given to marry Princess Changping, and although he said that he would not marry, she had countless uncertainties in her heart.
"Hou Ye, Hou Ye is here." In the distance, I heard the voice of the guards in the courtyard outside, and because I couldn't stop the waiter, the guards deliberately raised their voices to report it.
Sure enough, I saw Hou Ye Gu Yibo striding towards this side, because he had just been stopped by the guards at the door, his face was not very good-looking, when did he have to report his son first?
Gu Yibo strode in, glanced at the people present, and everyone looked at him, but no one spoke first, which made Gu Yibo feel very unhappy, and he sat down and said with a cold face: "You girl is very bold, push Xing'er into the water, what do you want to do?" ”
It turned out to be for the fourth young lady, Shang Xi glanced at Gu Qiannian, he pursed his mouth and didn't mean to speak, so she opened her mouth and said: "Everyone will spew blood, I said that I didn't push her, she fell into the water by herself, Hou Ye can't just rely on the words of the fourth young lady and a few of her slaves and maids to determine that I did it." If you want to detain a basin for me, please also find a third-party witness, and if their testimony can be admissible, can the testimony of my slave and maid also be admitted. ”
Gu looked at her without waves, in her memory, as long as she opened the topic, she could talk endlessly, if she was a man, it would be a good thing to find an errand in the government to solve cases for others.
Gu Yibo glared at this little girl angrily, she was not very old, and when she was reasoning with others, the speed of speech was not fast or slow, but it was just able to make people angry.
Hou Ye was choked by her words and couldn't argue, so he heard Shang Xi say again: "Hou Ye also listened to Gu Qingyi's words back then, and took a broken letter to determine that Mrs. was having an affair with your second brother, you wronged Mrs. back then, because she was no longer able to defend herself at that time, and the parties were no longer there, if Mrs. was sober, she would not let you slander her like this." ”
"Presumptuous." Gu Yibo was so angry that no one dared to mention it in front of him many years ago, but he didn't expect this girl to dare to expose his scars.
Shang Xi quietly looked at Gu Xiannian again, his expression was no different from before, as if he didn't hear what they were saying, since he didn't have the slightest intention of stopping, Shang Xi was not welcome, she sneered and said: "Hou Ye, please allow me to be presumptuous, you have tortured her for eight years, let her be wronged for eight years, I want to ask for greetings, how can you conclude that Mrs. is having an affair with your second brother?" Even if the prisoner is a prisoner, he must be given a chance to plead and confess, but the lady is speechless, and there is no way to defend herself, but you convict her because of a letter, are you sure that the letter is from the pen of the lady? Or was she mentally sound? ”
"In what position do you say such things to me? What qualifications do you have to say such things to me? Gu Yibo was so angry that he almost jumped up, he condemned her, this Shang Xi actually dared to say that he had wronged her.
Shang Xi was slightly stunned, Hou Ye's words hit her heart like a thunderbolt, she was neither Gu Nian's wife, nor a member of the Gu family, nor did she know the eldest lady, let alone an official to handle the case......