Three years later, in the capital, it was the height of summer, and the birthday banquet of the Marquis of Jianing.

In the leisurely vocal music, in the courtyard full of rare and exotic plants, festive and joyful, women and girls dressed in luxurious or graceful or atmospheric or delicate manners, as well as young men, talked and laughed in groups of threes and twos.

However, all the hustle and bustle paused when a slender figure of aqua blue arrived, and everyone looked at the young woman, who was about twenty-three or four years old—

She wore a light blue ribbon to pull her hair, half of which hung down casually on her left chest, and a round pink pearl silver tassel between her ears, which reflected her white and flawless face more beautifully, a pair of bright eyes blinking lightly like a budding peach blossom, and a faint and suitable smile on her lips.

Someone seemed to have just reacted, and hurriedly saluted: "See Princess Yuejun." ”

Then, people saluted one after another, that is, Mrs. Jianinghou, who was sitting in the center of the pavilion, dressed extremely luxuriously, and was flattered by many guests, also stood up, and unwillingly bent down and said: "The courtiers see the princess of Yuejun." ”

It turned out that sitting beside her, the young woman, who was about twenty-five or sixteen years old, was even more jealous and only blessed. and lowered his face to be silent, covering up his sour eyebrows and jealous eyes with layers of salutation.

"No courtesy." He Le'an was very indifferent to these unwilling or contemptuous, or sarcastic or indifferent or curious courtesies, but her voice fell softly, and a small dissatisfaction jumped out from Mrs. Jianinghou's side:

"If there is any reason to ask your mother to bow, you are not afraid of being damned!"

Everyone had not yet followed the prestige in disbelief, and He Le'an had calmly said, "Don't be afraid." ”

"You!"

The voice of dissatisfaction became angry, and was stopped by Mrs. Jianinghou in time, but she heard the young woman standing on the other side of Mrs. Jianinghou mocking, "Eleven, she is now the princess of the county who is high, where can she still tolerate us in her eyes, let alone a light mother, even she can't look down on the entire Jianing Marquis Mansion, why should we stick a hot face to her cold ass!" ”

It is also okay to paste the four big words of ingratitude on her, He Le'an chuckled and said: "When I married the Shangjia family that day, you don't say that you went to Fengzhou City to participate in the wedding, even if you don't have a word of blessing lightly." ”

"Now that Xu Xie has become the king of Yuejun, you think that I don't recognize my relatives, too, I have always been just a lowly concubine, and I really don't dare to climb the Marquis of Jianing." In the past, I was ignored and full of contempt, and now I am how you can cling if you want to cling~

Mrs. Jianinghou said: "Princess Yuejun is serious, even if you have been raised by the old lady's side since childhood, but after all, you are from Jianing Hou's Mansion, even if it is not as good as Prince Qian's Mansion, it is also your home, if you want to come back, you can come back at any time, this Manchu people, don't dare to leave you in trouble." She put on a compassionate and loving face and made a round.

"Yi'er too, how many years have you been married, why are you still messing around with your eleventh sister!" Mrs. Jianinghou reproached, "I am indeed not the biological mother of Princess Yuejun, and I have not raised her over the years. ”

This sounds like no problem, but if you think about it, it's extremely unpleasant, but He Le'an saw that his sister He Leyi and his sister He Lehuan were suffocated and aggrieved, and they didn't bother to care about it anymore, at this time, the girl standing next to He Lehuan laughed and said:

"I have heard that the princess of Yuejun is very smart, not only in Yumen Pass to help the king of Yuejun to win the three cities in Yingdong, there is no mystery that can't be guessed, it is better to take advantage of the banquet yet, let's guess the riddle!"

In order to save the atmosphere that was almost frozen, the guests around who were not embarrassed or embarrassed enthusiastically agreed, and He Le'an looked at the girl who spoke, it was He Leshan, the daughter of her second uncle, since the sisters in the house got married one by one, the relationship between He Lehuan and He Leshan has become better and better, and at this time she is looking confident, she must be prepared, so she heard He Lehuan pout:

"Come out with your hands and talk about it, what's the point of that, it's better to be a pair!" After finishing, he looked at He Le'an provocatively, "If you want to come to the smart Princess Yuejun, you must not mind playing with us and others." But if you're really not good at it, we can also play what you're good at~"

It's really good or bad, she said it all, He Le'an resisted the urge to roll his eyes, shrugged his shoulders indifferently, and said with a light smile, "It's okay, I like to challenge difficult ones, so it's good to play the right pair that you are good at." "The implication is that even if you use the pair you are good at bullying people, if you can't come out, I, the princess of Yuejun, have been in vain all these years.

He Lehuan snorted coldly in a low voice, and He Leshan said: "I know that the princess of Yuejun has always studied medicinal diets, and I just have a pair related to medicinal materials, I wonder if the princess of Yuejun is interested in hearing about it?" ”

"Say it."

"'He Shouwu drove the puffer fish into the sea to manipulate the immortal grass and force the carpenter to kill the thief for a thousand years, which can be called a Changqing immortal'." He Leshan said with a smile.

Before the surrounding guests had time to count a few flavors of Chinese medicine in the pair, He Le'an had already said: "'Pulsatilla rode a seahorse to Changshan to wave a halberd and fight against the grass and lily, worthy of the old general'." ”

He Leshan was so surprised by her agile speed that she couldn't react, so she heard He Le'an smile silently: "Since Miss He Twelve has a lot of research on medicinal materials, then I will also come up with a pair related to medicinal materials, 'The Yellow Flower Girl burns the grass and piles it up, and it loses the wind and burns it into grass'." ”

“！” Unexpectedly, He Leshan looked at He Lehuan in a panic, didn't she say that no one in the entire capital could match that pair, how could He Le'an come out all of a sudden, where did she come from to study medicinal materials!

He Lehuan didn't expect that He Le'an, who was not good at pairs since childhood, hadn't seen her for a few years, and her thinking had become so agile, and she was stunned before she reacted, but she didn't study the medicinal materials or anything, and she knew those words separately, but she didn't know what they were even together, and looked at He Leyi, who had a good hand in pairs, for help.

However, although He Leyi has a good hand in pairs, she doesn't understand medicinal materials, so she blames them for lifting stones and hitting their own feet, and has to think hard about some of the most common medicinal materials they know, to see if they can be connected in pairs, but she heard a male voice say:

"Pulsatilla morning glory over Changshan, talc fell and broke the ox's knee."

From a distant voice, everyone followed the sound, and saw four handsome young men coming together, speaking was Yin Yishan, the son of the director of the Tai Hospital, and he smiled at He Le'an in the eyes of everyone or admired:

"It's my turn to go out of Shanglian, although I also want to take the test for the princess of Yuejun, but the fun of the banquet is that it is better to be happy alone than to be happy, so I will come up with other pairs, 'Pear Blossom Xie but Spring Remnant'." Delicately resolve the embarrassment of the He sisters.

Walking beside him, a man of about twenty-four or five years of age and extraordinary appearance gave him a grateful look. After saluting He Le'an with the others, he said to Mrs. Jianinghou: "My son-in-law has seen my mother-in-law. "He is the son of the Shengguo Mansion, Hang Mince, and he is also the husband of He Leyi.

He Le'an looked at He Leyi with a calm expression, happily grabbed Hang Mince's arm, and took the next couplet: "'Late autumn after the sound of geese'." In front of Hang Mince, she put away all her sharp minions, and she was so gentle and lovely that she seemed to be possessed by a ghost.

He Le'an almost thought that she was dazzled, after all, in her previous life, there was not a day when she was not hysterical because she couldn't have children, and it was just a normal thing to beat and abuse her, and she was also extremely cruel to the maid, not to mention seeing Hang Min spoil a concubine and hurt a concubine.

She casually flickered her gaze, and saw He Lehuan shyly glancing at one of the men who was walking with Hang Mince from time to time, who was very red-lipped and white-toothed. The slightly immature and young son looks no more than fifteen or sixteen years old.

Hearing the people next to him call him Chu San, he knew that it was Chu Moran, the sister-in-law of the Ministry of Rites who had just taken office a few years ago, but if she remembered correctly, he had already married Miss Chang of the Qingguo Mansion - because the Qingguo Gong was the elder brother of Prince Qian and the Marquis of Jinning, she had heard about the affairs of the Qingguo Mansion, even if she had just returned to Beijing.

After a few pairs, the embarrassing atmosphere just now has disappeared, and He Leyi and the others seem to have forgotten He Le'an, showing their talents to the fullest, asking the person they like to look at each other for themselves and continue to sink for themselves. Teaching her is boring, and watching them is like watching children play with mud and sand.

Especially He Leshan kept praising He Lehuan, and He Lehuan praised her in disguise, don't sing the double reed too obviously, at this time, someone exclaimed: "King Slack!" Ten Princesses! ”

Then, people saluted in fear, but He Le'an was still indifferent, and when they were pardoned, the slack king, who was about twenty years old and a talent, and the tenth princess who was sixteen or seventeen years old, turned to Ali and saluted her: "I've seen Aunt Yuejun." ”

Prince Qian is the uncle of the current holy prince. The king of Yue County is naturally the cousin of today's saint, and the children of today's saint naturally want to call her aunt, and King Slack and the tenth princess are the children of today's queen, which shows that the Marquis of Jianing still has a lot of face.

He Le'an smiled lightly: "No need to be polite, I'm afraid that I will not let you go to play in this generation, it is rare to be lively, but don't be unhappy, I went to the garden next to me for a walk, and it happened to be many years, and I never went to the former residence of my biological mother to take a look." ”

Hearing this, Mrs. Jianinghou's face darkened, but she quickly hid her anger again.

He Le'an didn't seem to pay attention to that. Turning around and leaving, the road of the Hou Mansion, she did not forget, went to a small courtyard that had long been deserted, remote and small, her face was full of nostalgia, about the mother she had never seen, it seemed that suddenly it was alive, but it also made her uncontrollably sad.

She didn't leave until the maid of the Hou Mansion announced the opening of the banquet.

When the banquet was dispersed, she had no intention of staying, and she wanted to leave immediately, but the maid respectfully stopped the road, "Lord Hou asked Princess Yuejun to go to the newly built Basho Pavilion to wait for a while." ”

"......" remembered Jianinghou's guilt for her who couldn't bear to look at her, He Le'an had to stay for the time being, and followed the maid to the Basho Pavilion where she didn't know where, but soon she found that something was wrong, the road was winding around, and gradually there were not necessarily a few people, she felt in her heart that even if Jianinghou told her a shocking secret, she would not find such a remote place.

So, curious about who wanted to do something, she silently became vigilant, and the maid took her to a gazebo, handed her a delicate sachet with no unusual expression, and said, "There are many mosquitoes in summer, you be careful, and the maid will bring you some tea and pastries." ”

He Le'an silently took the sachet, but as soon as the maid left, she threw the sachet far away, and after a while, the sound of heavy messy footsteps sounded clearly in the silence, she raised her eyes and saw a man who came with Hang Mince and them today, drunkenly walked towards her, and grinned stupidly, and said with words in her mouth:

"Eh, sure enough, sure enough, there is a beauty in the Basho Pavilion, eha, you didn't lie to me, you didn't lie to me hahahahaha!"

"Come on, don't be afraid, beauty, I, Wei Da Shao, will definitely pamper you, forehead, come and hug you-"

However, before he could get close to the gazebo, the man somehow screamed and fell to the ground like a dog eating, and the sound of his jaw bone hitting the bluestone slab was particularly terrifying, and his eyes widened in extreme pain, and he just grew his mouth to make a scream like killing a pig. His movements paused strangely, as if he had been pointed.

There was not even the sound of insects, and in the calm night, He Le'an blinked his eyes blankly, and whispered tentatively to the void: "Aomori, is it your hand-" Before her words fell, a smile of surprise bloomed brightly on her lips, and she rushed towards the bright red figure that fell from the sky, "Yeming! ”

"You are getting more and more bold, and you know that there is a deception, and you still follow." Zhong Sun Yue scratched her nose without reproach.

He Le'an said: "If the secret guards around me can't even solve the small conspiracy of the little marquis's mansion, they are afraid that they will die on the way back to Beijing." "You know. On the way back to Beijing after being secretly ordered, all kinds of bulls, ghosts, snakes and gods came out to ask for their lives, but they still returned to Beijing safely and in good health.

"There's a lot of people coming this way."

He Le'an's eyes rolled slyly, and he said with a smile: "Hide this goods, let's see who did it, and then use the way of others to treat others." With a snap of her fingers, the secret guard came out and carried the person away, and she was picked up by Zhong Sun Yue and hid in a dark corner.

Soon, the brigade came, men, women and children, many familiar faces, led by He Leyi. Seeing the unexpected scene, she was a little disappointed, but quickly hid it again, looked around suspiciously, and said to Hang Min beside her, "It's strange, the maid said that Wei Shao was drunk and had to see the plantain, but our Hou Mansion only has the plantain here!" ”

After rummaging for a long time, and unable to find the person they were looking for, they squeaked and left.

He Le'an sank his expression and said, "At first, I thought it was He Lehuan or He Leshan, but I didn't think that He Leyi, who was also another woman, would be so vicious and wanted to destroy me." "If she doesn't have any protection around her. After today's plan, what awaits her will be worse than death.

Zhong Sun Yue comforted her, "The Shengguo Mansion is from a poor family, and her thoughts are the most pedantic, how can the Duchess of Shengguo not care about He Leyi not being able to give birth to a child, that is, the Marquis of Jianing is favored by the emperor, they dare not take He Leyi off, but they don't know how to treat her harshly behind their backs, He Leyi and Hang Mince have long been at odds, and they are just acting on weekdays." ”

"Then let them never make this show any longer."

**

The secret guard inquired that He Leyi was going to stay in the Marquis of Jianing Mansion today, so Hang Mince would also leave later. Although the main banquet has been dispersed, many close relatives still stay to talk and laugh, and the atmosphere is getting higher and higher.

And after she went to the toilet, the secret guard directly knocked her unconscious, put the flowers in the yard next to her, and then dragged out Na Wei Dashao and threw it, fed the medicine, untied the acupoint, and let Wei Dashao tear and entangle He Leyi, who couldn't resist, and when it was almost there, she opened her throat in the dark and screamed miserably. Just when He Leyi woke up from the impact because he didn't develop, the guests arrived-

Faced with unbelievable faces, He Leyi, who was so strong that she was very confused, reacted and kept pushing away Wei Dashao on her body, but after taking medicine, it was the brave Wei Dashao who slapped her impatiently, and said: "Wasn't it very obedient just now, what is the trouble, I will give it to you now, make you want to die!" ”

"No, no, ahhhh

Ho Lok Yi screamed and struggled with all his might, and the guests who gathered around separated them with hindsight. Hang Mince stood aside, looking at his wife who was disheveled, revealing a large piece of spring light on her chest, and under the bleak night, the green hat on her head was greasy and reflective.

He Leyi, who was saved, didn't care about the badness in herself, and rushed to Hang Mince with a crawl, "No! No! That's not true! You listen to my explanation, Xianggong, you listen to my explanation! It's him, it's him—"

Bang, Hang Mince kicked her away in disgust, only to see He Leyi, who had rolled a few times in the flowers, revealing more scenery, and everyone saw the bright red and viscous liquid flowing down her thighs. "You slut, don't stain the eyes of this son of the world anymore!" With that, he turned away angrily.

"No!!"

He Leyi was heartbroken and wanted to stop Hang Mince, but Mrs. Jianinghou, who finally recovered from the shock, commanded with a dark face, "What are you still doing in a daze, quickly take off your shirt to cover up for Mrs. Shizi!" Jianinghou on the side had to beat Wei Dashao even more.

Wei Dashao, who was in a daze, kept screaming in pain and insisted on yelling: "She seduced me!" ”

**

Prince Ken's Mansion, Taketori-in.

He Le'an sat on the windowsill and watched the moonlight in a daze, suddenly bursts of fresh and sweet fragrance entered her nose, she turned around and saw Zhong Sun Yue come in with a pot of obviously boiled wine, and smiled at her: "Your favorite 'Hechi', I asked someone to get it back from Fengzhou City, and it just arrived today." ”

When she was churning, she often liked to drink hot wine, and later he specially asked someone to brew something that tasted better to cook, using all the plants that could be made into wine outside Langyaju, He Le'an opened his hand coquettishly, and he clearly put down the wine and hugged her into his arms, "Yeming, in the last life, was my first offense, I was blinded by power and status, and walked towards the swamp step by step." ”

"But I can do everything to make myself scarred, hated and hated, even before I die, I can't get what I want, I can't get a little bit, I think, if there is an afterlife, I will be diligent and diligent, helpful, do not have any harmful intentions, do not bend my waist for the position of power, and do not want those who do not belong to me."

He Le'an said, "I didn't expect that I was reborn, before I got up and was about to recover, I begged to send me to the Shengguo Mansion as a concubine, why did Leyi give birth to Mrs. Jianinghou, don't push me to death, she saw that I was hard-hearted and didn't go, and she was afraid that I would lie, so she secretly seduced Hang Mince, ruined He Leyi's marriage, and insisted that I go to Xiangguo Temple to become a monk for three months. ”

"It's a woman dressed as a man, and I admit it."

"But I didn't expect that she asked me to enter Xiangguo Temple with the intention of ruining my name, and later the master found out and took me under his name, and the children who were raised next to me couldn't enter the courtyard without an order."

"Master said that my life is not good. But if you have the heart to change it, you can do it. ”

She smiled, "I thought at that time, if I stayed in Xiangguo Temple for the rest of my life, it would be good, there are brothers and sisters who treat each other sincerely, there is a master who loves and is taught, and can cook, and I am free, no one will want to harm me or treat me harshly, I don't have to be vigilant and vigilant, I sleep sweetly every day, and there are occasional troubles in my dreams, but when I wake up, it will be a new day." ”

"This life. I avoid the powerful like a snake and scorpion, but you have come close to me again and again, warm me, so that I am reluctant to let go again, even so, I just want to stay by your side and be safe, but ...... They always provoke me first, and how I am doing is my business, why should they turn envy into jealousy, and it is not I who causes them to be unhappy. ”

"Now I feel more and more that it is better to be at the border, my position is different, I fight for my own country and my country, and I fight to the death. Calculate the conspiracy theories of the city, dark or bright, but also happy, unlike women's hearts, you are at ease, they think you show off, you are happy, they are unhappy. ”

"Still, I'm starting to like seeing them upset and I can't get rid of me." He Le'an gently pushed him away, looking at him with a smile, as if he had fallen into the eyes of many stars, "It seems that after staying by your side for a long time, I have also become bad." ”

"This kind of An'er is even cuter." Zhong Sun Yue bowed his head and kissed her lips. Every time his daughter-in-law retaliates against others, she will reflect on whether she is too ruthless, but every time she does it, the next time she does it, she should be ruthless, and she is born to do big things.

He Le'an licked his lips, raised his eyebrows and said, "You secretly drank wine." ”

"Stolen from you." Zhong Sun Yue deepened the light kiss.

After a few tosses, He Le'an said aggrievedly, "Eat a little wine, but I'm a little hungry." ”

Zhong Sun Yue's lips raised a touch of meaning, "I'm hungry too, but I want to taste it more." It's An'er's taste—"Anyway, someone turned into a wolf and pounced on a lamb that was rolling its eyes speechlessly!"