"Okay."

Wang Shu appeased the two children, and then heard Mama Jiang outside: "Master, there is a female family visiting." ”

Wang Shu frowned, it stands to reason that she is a side concubine. Although it is her big day, when the female relatives visit, according to the rules, they should go to the courtyard of the concubine first. I came here to congratulate after meeting the concubine, why did I come at this hour?

But when people are outside the door, they can't stop them from entering.

Wang Shu cleaned up a little, and then asked Mama Jiang to bring people in.

More than one person came. A group of noble ladies led by the Duchess of Zhenguo, and the housewives of major families came with heavy gifts and smiles on their faces. A large number of people entered the courtyard, and all those who did not dare to rush into the inner hall crowded in. Those who have just produced must not like to be noisy. They are considerate. As soon as he walked through the main hall, he left the maids outside the hall and came in alone to visit.

As a result, before the oncoming Duchess of Zhenguo opened her mouth, she was shocked by Wang Shu's face, stupid.

Chapter 144

Most of the people here are very familiar with the Duchess of Zhenguo, otherwise they would not have come together. This photo was originally to congratulate the princess. Who could not be shocked to see such a familiar face when they saw it?

Duchess Zhenguo was not only shocked, her face turned white in an instant, and the blood on her lips faded in an instant.

The others looked at each other, their limbs stiffened, and the hall suddenly fell silent.

Seeing that Wang Shu didn't know what was going on, she looked at her with a very surprised look. Only then did they realize that they were rude, and they were busy pulling the corners of their mouths again. Other noble ladies who were familiar with the Duchess of Zhenguo hurriedly pushed the Duchess of Zhenguo and eagerly came up to say congratulatory words. Some people took the lead, and others reacted. One by one, they came up to give gifts and congratulate Wang Shu.

Jiang Mama, Skylark and the others hurriedly stepped forward to accept the gift, Wang Shu smiled and asked them to sit, and the ladies talked casually.

The Duchess of Zhenguo was originally at the front, but at this time she sat in the back. She leaned on a noble lady wearing a peacock blue twelve-panel skirt and looked at Wang Shu for a long time without a trace. After making sure that Wang Shu didn't recognize her, she slowly regained her elegant posture.

However, these ladies are not familiar with Wang Shu. came to the door in a hurry, but in fact, he didn't know Wang Shu's preferences, and he couldn't grasp the way to please Wang Shu. And Wang Shu herself is not good at communicating with people, she talks little and does not agree with them. The ladies talked about the current affairs in Beijing, and Wang Shu could only listen to most of them. She didn't recognize who was in their words.

After a few moments of greeting without embarrassment, the ladies got up to take their leave.

Wang Shu naturally didn't stay, and got up with a smile and motioned to Mama Jiang and the others to send the VIP out. The three banquets were placed in the garden of the backyard of the East Palace, and they passed after giving the gifts, and the time was about the same. After all, it would be a quarter of an hour before the table began.

The ladies left one after another. The Duchess of Zhenguo fell to the last. After taking two steps, he glanced back at Wang Shu.

Wang Shu noticed her gaze, raised her eyes and met her suspiciously.

The Duchess of Zhenguo hooked the corners of her mouth slightly embarrassed, and turned away without saying anything.

Wang Shu is a perceptive person. They just entered the door with that strange gesture, and she naturally saw it. The Duchess of Zhenguo lost her temper several times, she frowned, and thought back to the experience of her two lives. Make sure that you have never had an intersection with the Zhenguo Mansion.

The third child is still asleep now, and no one dares to disturb him.

The yard soon fell silent. Wang Shu is now in confinement, and she can get out of bed and walk around, but she can't go out of the house to see the wind. After dealing with these noble ladies for a long time, she was also a little hungry. Let Mama Jiang bring some soup to cushion her stomach.

At the same time, the smiles on the corners of the noblewomen's mouths faded when they left Wang Shu's courtyard.

They exchanged glances with each other and glanced at the Duchess of Zhenguo secretly.

Before the Duchess of Zhenguo noticed their snooping gaze, she quickly withdrew her gaze.

I just saw who the side concubine's face looked like, obviously everyone knew it. That kind of face, no matter how many years have passed, is always memorable. The Duchess of Zhenguo was secretly looked at several times, and the look on her face did not change. After walking all the way with them, I heard several noble ladies who came with me go separately from her on the grounds that someone in the family was looking for them.

The Duchess of Zhenguo felt something in her heart, but she didn't find fault with it on her face.

"Then I'll go first." The Duchess of Zhenguo hooked the corners of her mouth and turned away decently.

As soon as she left, there was a private chatter.

"That's right, right?" A person who was quite close to the Zhenguo Mansion asked in a low voice, and the face just now looked too shocking. I didn't expect to see this face again after 20 years, "Do you look like it?" ”

Several people didn't speak, but their eyes showed affirmation.

The woman couldn't help but open her mouth in surprise, and was about to say something. I looked left and right, and realized that the occasion was not quite right, so I pressed it. I didn't dare to be surprised. After a while, calming the turbulent waves in her heart, she couldn't hold her breath and gathered together and asked in a whisper: "It should be a coincidence, right?" Xu just looks alike, it shouldn't matter, right? ”

…… It's possible, but it's not certain. Although there are many beauties in the world, it is indeed too coincidental that they look so similar.

But no matter what, this is also someone else's business, and it has nothing to do with them. Several people exchanged glances with each other again, and walked towards the bamboo forest with muttering.

Those rare things in the early years of the Zhenguo Mansion were known to the nobles of their age.

After so many years, in fact, some old things have long been forgotten. It's just that today is a bit of a coincidence, but the people who came to tie up suddenly saw a face that they hadn't seen for a long time, which prompted them to recall the past.

Today's Duchess of Zhenguo is actually not the original match, but the steproom who entered the door later.

Speaking of which, there's a mess here.

Zhenguo Gong's original wife is actually Liu Ao, the cousin of the Xiao family.

Although the Liu family is not too bad now, it was not qualified in the early years. Liu's father, Liu Xianpeng, was born in a poor family, although he was talented, he had no connections. After marrying the daughter of the official family, he had the help of the Yue family, and climbed all the way from the Qipin County Order to the position of the local magistrate of the fourth grade. At least the Liu family is still young, and the Liu family is not enough to see in front of the real family.

is also because of the Liu family's financial constraints back then, although Liu Ao was a concubine, she was sent by her parents to her aunt's house for foster care at the age of six or seven.

is called foster care, and in the eyes of the Xue family, it is an autumn wind. After all, the Liu family sent the girl, but they didn't send the gold and silver that was fine enough to educate the girl. called uncle and aunt, but didn't they just want to rely on their relatives to ask the Xue family to help them raise the girl for nothing?

Thinking so in their hearts, the Xue family looked at the face of the eldest son and daughter-in-law, and did not provoke this matter. The two families are brothers-in-law, and the Xue family's son's wife, Zhang, is the sister of Liu's mother's mother. With the Xue family's big business, raising a little girl is a matter of adding a chair to Xixi. My aunt didn't care about these three melons and two dates, so she kept the Liu family by her side.

Liu then grew up with Xue Changfeng, the grandson of the Xue family, since childhood. It's a childhood sweetheart, and the two have no guesses.

If they were simply cousins, the excitement of the Xue family would not be so big later.

It's really Liu's natural beauty. From the age of ten, he gradually revealed his amazing beauty. Every year older, he is outstanding, and his beauty is thrilling. With the springboard of the Xue family, the children of the family who were staring at the Liu family and wanted to marry her were able to line up from the Zhenguo Mansion to the city gate. But Xue Changfeng, the most outstanding grandson of the Xue family, has long regarded her as his own.

In order to drive away the people who coveted the Liu family, Xue Changfeng was extremely ruthless, and even did not hesitate to make a big move.

Later, the Xue family saw that Xue Changfeng was a good and outstanding seedling, and he was so indulged in his children's private affairs. Afraid that the good eldest grandson would be delayed, he privately made the decision to send the Liu family to the showgirl, preparing to send it to the palace.

Although the eldest daughter-in-law of Xue Mansion, Zhang, felt that she couldn't live with her niece like this, her niece couldn't kiss her own son no matter how close she was. She didn't want her son to be delayed by her niece like this.

To tell the truth, although Da Zhang's family is Liu's aunt, he actually looks down on the Liu family from the bottom of his heart. In her opinion, if the Liu family has integrity and rules, they should take their daughter back after slowly improving. Or don't take it back, be generous, and make up for the silver taels that the Xue family has raised for him over the years. As a result, the Liu family seemed to have no daughter, and asked in a letter during the New Year's holidays, but there was nothing else.

How can such a family get married? How can such a small family's Yue family help their son in the future? is affectionate again, Da Zhang's still thinks that his son can pick a better one.

So he ordered Xue Changfeng not to associate with the Liu family, and began to secretly look at the school-age girl with the right person.

Because of the obstacles of their elders, the relationship between the two has deepened.

Seeing that the draft was imminent, Xue Changfeng forced him with his life. If he hadn't forced the old man to leave Liu Ao, Liu Ao would have entered the palace.

Of course, if Liu Ao enters the palace, I am afraid that there will be no matter of Ye Guifei, who has been favored for 20 years. Liu Ao is not just beautiful, but a rare beauty that crushes the nobles in Beijing. There is a world of difference between ordinary beauties and supreme beauties. Maybe the only person who could compare with her at the beginning was the beautiful Queen Han. Not to mention Liu's beautiful appearance, many families in Beijing who love her are staring at. Let's just say that because of the vigorous troublemaking between the two, there is indeed a lingering and sympathetic feeling.

The old duchess saw that Xue Changfeng and the Liu family had a very strong relationship, and personally decided to marry the two.

Xue Changfeng and Liu became relatives at the age of fifteen.

After marriage, the two were like glue, and Liu became pregnant in less than a year. gave birth to Xue Jiyue, the great-grandson of the Xue family.

In the third year, Liu became pregnant again and gave birth to Xue Lingxing, the great-granddaughter of the Xue family.

During the marriage of the two, Xue Changfeng was extremely fond of the Liu family, and the back house was so clean that there was not even a little star in the room. The two couldn't blend into the feelings of others, and for a while they were envied and longed for by many nobles in the capital, and it became a good story.

It wouldn't be so embarrassing if it had been like this. However, in the fifth year after the two got married, Xue Changfeng suddenly changed his mind.

The two are in a close relationship between husband and wife. A lively and clever Zhao Jiaojiao came in.

Zhao Jiaojiao is now the Duchess of Zhenguo, and the granddaughter of the old Guogong's subordinates. Because of his grandfather's pleading, he was sent to Xue's house to live.

She and Liu are two completely different temperaments. Liu's trembling living environment has caused him to be cautious and reticent. This Zhao Jiaojiao was raised like a wild boy in the horse farm, with a lively and cunning temperament, articulate, and a lively personality who does not understand the difference between men and women. The two are quiet and noisy, diametrically opposed.

Xue Changfeng used to really like Liu, and liked her so much that he could give his life for her. But five years of dull days have long worn out the passion of the past, especially when the mother continued to count Liu's temperament too wooden, and often belittled. Over time, Xue Changfeng also felt that the taste of the same wax was the same as that of the Liu family, who had not yet aged his complexion, and he couldn't stir up a splash in his heart.

Especially when Zhao Jiaojiao's arrival is like a long drought and a rainstorm, she often pulls Xue Changfeng to ride a horse and shoot arrows without knowing the rules, chatting about the world. Although Xue Changfeng often scolded her for being unruly and unruly, she didn't know how to keep her distance from men. But my heart was uncontrollably biased towards this eccentric girl.

The rest of the story was very miserable, and the movement was so big that the whole capital saw the jokes.

Zhao Jiaojiao clashed with his wife Liu three or four times, and Xue Changfeng was upset on the one hand, and stood on Zhao Jiaojiao's side blindly. He sharply reprimanded Liu for becoming small-bellied and suspicious all day long after getting married. claims that Zhao Jiaojiao is just a child's heart, but in fact she is simple and cute, and has no malice. Let Liu not worry about others and back down everywhere.

After a few setbacks, Liu also learned to dodge. However, she wanted to hide, but Zhao Jiaojiao refused to let her.

After living in Xue Mansion for nearly a year, Zhao Jiaojiao seemed to have taken root here, and she had no intention of leaving at all. Not only did she not leave, but her love affair with Xue Changfeng became deeper and deeper day by day. I think the capital is too boring, complaining that it is not as free as her horse farm, and wants to go out. Xue Changfeng had no choice but to ask her female relatives to accompany her to the suburbs. As a result, the horse lost control inexplicably, and the carriage rushed out of the capital at a gallop like crazy.

The crazy horse ran so fast that he crashed into the woods on the outskirts of Beijing and lost his track.

At that time, there was Zhao Jiaojiao in the carriage, accompanying Liu, who was pregnant with Liujia. After Xue Changfeng learned the news, in order to find them, he even alarmed the government. The entire capital of the toss heard the news. The guards of the Xue Mansion and the yacha of Jing Zhaoyin searched for a whole day in the woods on the outskirts of Beijing, and finally found the carriage that fell to the ground. The two women inside were injured.

Zhao Jiaojiao injured her head and fainted, Liu hit her stomach, and the blood stained the carriage red. The child in her belly died on the spot, she still had a faint breath, but she couldn't open her eyes.

Xue Changfeng was late, and his face was so frightened when he saw such a scene. immediately went crazy, and generally took the two of them to the palace to ask for a doctor.

The imperial doctor came, and it was finally determined that Zhao Jiaojiao only suffered a few skin injuries. The wound on the head looked hideous, but it didn't hurt his life, at most it left a scar. Liu's situation is more serious. Carrying Rokko is already very fragile, and bumping and touching it can cause injury. What's more, people bumped into each other in the carriage, not to mention the stillbirth, and lay on the ground for a day with heavy bleeding before being found.

As long as Xue Changfeng invited the imperial doctor one step later, Liu's life would end on this day. Fortunately, her luck was not bad, the imperial doctor came in time, and it was the gynecological holy hand old Qian Taiyi. It took the old lady a whole night to pull her back from the ghost gate.

Liu didn't open his eyes until three days later.

The only thing I said to Xue Changfeng, who had been guarding the bed for a few days, was when I woke up. It's to invite yourself to go to church.

In order to beg her for forgiveness, Xue Changfeng heard that he knelt in front of the door for a day. Regardless of Zhao Jiaojiao's repentance and pleading, he ordered people to be sent out of Xue's mansion. Xue Changfeng repented and begged the Liu family to give him another chance to ensure that he would not make such a mistake again. Not to mention Zhao Jiaojiao's crying and fussing appearance when she was sent out of the Xue family, how many good people were attracted to see the excitement, let's just say that the Liu family couldn't listen to it.

Liu seems to be weak but has a strong temperament, and bluntly said that if he dares to say a word to keep her, she will hang herself on the spot.

The two were in a stalemate for a month, and in the end, the old man came forward to imprison Xue Changfeng in the Xue family ancestral hall and wrote a letter of release for Xue Changfeng as his grandfather.

The day after Liu got the letter of release of his wife, he left Xue's house with a small package without caring that his body had not recovered.

How many years have passed, and they can't help but sigh when they think of Xue Changfeng's crazy appearance after learning that the Liu family left. Turning her head to look at Zhao Jiaojiao, who was already the Duchess of the Kingdom, she suddenly felt bored.

In this world, no matter how many immoral things have been done at the beginning, only those who get the actual benefits and laugh to the end have real skills. No matter how shameless the Zhao family is, he blatantly hooks up with a married man. The person who now sits in the position of the Duchess of Zhenguo is her. And Liu, who has been wronged, has long been missing.

They couldn't help but look in the direction of the courtyard again, guessing Wang Shu's identity in their hearts.

"Absolutely not. It's just a coincidence. One person thinks so in his heart, and the others immediately guess it.

I thought it was a coincidence, so I didn't feel at ease. The only one who can rest assured about this matter is the Duchess of Zhenguo, Zhao.

Zhao has always liked to socialize, and he will always do his best when he encounters happy events in the big family on weekdays. This time, I was uneasy, and I left halfway through the banquet with an urgent matter at home.

The first thing he did when he returned home was to order someone to investigate Wang Shu's life.

She ordered someone to check Wang Shu, and Wang Shu also asked people to check the Zhenguo Mansion out of a cautious attitude. Not to mention that Xiao Yanxing kept Wang Shu's information secret. The average person can't find out at all. Let's just say that Wang Shu checked the town of Guogong's mansion and did a little bit of trouble, it would be easy.

Those things in the Zhenguo Mansion have not been covered up at all, and the whole picture can be found out with a little effort. Wang Shu knew that her mother was the Duchess of Zhenguo, or to be precise, the granddaughter-in-law of the Xue family. How shocking. She couldn't see that her mother had suffered so much humiliation. No wonder I saw my mother's weak body since I was a child, and it turned out that the roots were here.

Wang Shu had never been so angry, and her anger was like countless needles piercing her heart.

Thinking that her mother was gone before she was thirty, Wang Shu felt disgusted when she thought of the beautifully dressed Duchess of Zhenguo.

"Master, you must not be angry now." Mama Jiang didn't expect that there was still this inside story here, but compared to the deceased Liu, she cared more about Wang Shu's body, "The body is recovering, so take good care of it." Don't be angry! Don't be angry! ”

Where can Wang Shu say that if she is not angry, she will not be angry? But it is also clear that it is a little unrealistic for her to come to seek justice for her mother at this time in the past.

However, this reason did not prevent Wang Shu from asking Mama Jiang to take out the gift given by the Duchess of Zhenguo and return it.