Fishing Beauty Dressed As a Vicious Stepmother

After all it was raining.

The guards all withdrew from the sleeping hall, and the hall became quiet again.

Qiao Sha sat on the side of the dragon couch, carefully handling the wound on her neck for the new emperor.

Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi stood in the hall outside the inner room, separated by a curtain, watching the new emperor and Qiao Sha, the new emperor sat on the side of the dragon couch so quietly and obediently, and let Qiao Sha clean up for him. Wound.

From time to time, Qiao Sha would gently and carefully ask: "Does it hurt?"

The new emperor shook his head slightly.

Both Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi understood that the new emperor had been fascinated by this woman. At least for now, moving her would annoy a rabbit who learned to bite.

Can't move her now.

The well-born woman not only confuses the new emperor, but also teaches him to fight back and bite.

Looking at the wound on his palm, Gu Ze felt that he might be able to pinch this woman to make the new emperor more obedient and more obedient.

In his opinion, the new emperor's rebellious heart will explode sooner or later. The new emperor was obedient before because he had not yet realized the real power. He was still as ignorant and ignorant as in the palace.

But since he sat on the throne, he would realize this sooner or later, and he would definitely no longer be obedient at that time.

Just as the new emperor refused to make his sister as the queen, the new emperor would resist more and more, what he didn't want to do.

It would be better to leave this woman and make use of this woman.

It's just that Xie Lanchi is afraid...

Gu Ze turned his head and looked at Xie Lanchi. A blood stain on his chin made him look like ice and snow. He stared straight at the shadow behind the curtain, cold eyes like a knife.

He went over and patted Xie Lanchi and asked him to come down to the window and talk together.

It was raining noisily outside the window. Gu Ze stood under the window and whispered to Xie Lanchi: "You have endured for so many years, are you going to let this woman ruin your painstaking layout? Leaving her is equivalent to leaving the new emperor. Weakness."

Xie Lanchi looked at the window and listened to the sound of falling rain outside the hall. The rotten heart had long since disappeared, and what was left was only a swamp-like silence.

He thought of something and quietly said to Gu Ze: "Do you still remember that there was a year of hunting in autumn, and it also rained heavily. Did I hunt a white deer with the three princes?"

remember.

Gu Ze certainly remembered that the energetic Xie Lanchi shot two arrows in a row, one arrow hit Li Rongxiu's arrow, and the other directly penetrated the deer.

It was also that time, Xie Lanchi came out on top, surpassing everyone present, including the third prince Li Rongxiu.

At that time, no one in Beijing admired Xie Lanchi's literary and military talents, not the thing in the pool.

It is precisely because of this that Xie Lanchi entered the palace and became a eunuch, which is especially embarrassing.

Who can bear this kind of humiliation?

"It rained the night I was drugged and sent to the palace. I woke up and thought of the deer. After I hunted the deer, it was skinned to make boots and make medicinal liquor." Xie Lanchi said quietly, "Cheng If the king loses, I should be shot if I lose, just like that deer."

He added: "My father met me for the last time before he died. He asked me to take my stepmother back to my hometown in Jinan. The day my stepmother drugged me, I just arranged a car to take her away from Kyoto. Horse."

Gu Ze looked at him and understood what he wanted to say. How could Xie Lanchi not understand the truth about success and failure. What he hates is that his stepmother drugged him and sent him to shame.

Xie Lanchi smiled bitterly, looked at the shadow of the window and said: "I was a little jealous of Li Rongzhao just now, when my stepmother stood in front of you for him and spoke for him."

She had never spoken for him or defended him. From the moment she married his father, she whitewashed herself as a stepmother who loved him, but every time he was punished, she stayed away.

He also expected that she could speak for him, even if one sentence, like his mother.

But no.

In the snowy winter, he was punished to kneel outside his father's bedroom. She hid in the room and called the little maid who gave the cloak back, and said in a low voice: Since the master let him kneel and secretly gave him the cloak, didn't it cause trouble for herself?

He lowered his eyes. At first, she could escape, and even kill him to show loyalty to Li Rongxiu, but she chose the way that made him the most painful.

Gu Ze didn't know what to say, so he heard Xie Lanchi lower his eyes and said, "Don't worry, Master Gu, I understand what you mean. She can stay, but she must not stay in the palace and stay with Li Rongzhao."

He raised his eyes to look at Gu Ze, his eyes calm and cold, "I never tried Jiangshan, it was her and Li Rongxiu."

Gu Ze was rather determined. That woman was not only the weakness of the new emperor, but also Xie Lanchi's.

Hate to a point, it's harder to stop than love.

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"Have you heard?" 101 tapped Qiao Sha, and the conversation between Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi was clearly transmitted to the host. "Actually, Xie Lanchi is hateful and pitiful. If the original owner had just married into Xie's house, he could intercede for Xie Lanchi. , Will Xie Lanchi treat her stepmother differently?" He would treat her as a real family member.

Qiao Sha sneered and blew the ointment on Li Rongzhao's wound, full of sarcasm. If Xie Lanchi's father could really treat the original owner as his wife and treat her better, would she live so carefully in Xie's house? Even if you give a cloak, you are afraid of being blamed and causing trouble?

She didn't intercede because she understood that she was in Xie's house and was nothing in front of Xie Lanchi's father. Intercession would only embarrass her and be blamed.

Xie Lanchi didn't blame the father who punished him, but the innocent stepmother.

It's so funny.

101 was even persuaded by her for a while, and the host was right...

Li Rongzhao gently shook Qiao Sha's hand, and repeated to her lowly: "I will protect you."

She knows, of course she knows.

Qiao Sha gave him a mediocre reward, smiled at him, raised her hand to wipe the tears off his face, and gently said to him: "Fool, don't really hurt yourself next time."

His heart was immediately filled with her, it was worth it, and she smiled at him, it was worth it.

Outside the curtain, Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi opened the curtain again and entered the inner room.

Qiao Sha clearly felt Xie Lanchi's gaze and fell straight on her.

She also turned her head to look at them and said to them, "Do you want me to treat the wounds for both of you?"

Gu Ze was stunned for a moment. In this situation, she could still feel like nothing happened. She was really calm.

"Don't bother your mother." Xie Lanchi replied slowly.

Gu Ze glanced at Xie Lanchi and found that he had returned to his usual appearance, cold, unable to see through, and lifeless.

It seemed that the loss of control just now was just an illusion.

Xie Lanchi was the only person Gu Ze admired. He could stand up after being so humiliated. There is no second person who has walked to this day.

"The saint was frightened just now." Xie Lanchi looked at Li Rongzhao and said nonchalantly: "Since the saint likes the minister's stepmother so much, then stay."

Li Rongzhao looked at him and Gu Ze in disbelief, "Really?"

"Really." Gu Ze affirmed Xie Lanchi's words.

Li Rongzhao's brows were suddenly loosened, and he held Qiao Sha's hand tightly, as if he had really won.

Unfortunately, Xie Lanchi's words are still waiting for him.

"It's just that, in what name does the saint intend to keep my stepmother, who is not yet at the end of the funeral, in the palace?" Xie Lanchi asked him, his tone still unchanged: "Palatial maid? Slave maid?"

"Naturally not!" Li Rongzhao immediately said, "I want to make her... as the back." The next two words glanced at Gu Ze before speaking.

Gu Ze laughed and said to him: "If the sage wants to kill her, he can make her a queen. Not to mention Mrs. Xie's background, it means that she is married and the death of her husband is not over, so the world can be verbally criticized. , So that the minister of the DPRK and the Central Government will be infuriated. At that time, Mrs. Xie will become a sinner who deceives the saint, and no one can tolerate her."

Li Rongzhao's joyous heart sank, and Gu Ze was right. Even if Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi no longer stop him, it would never be possible for him to establish her as his back.

People in the world will scold her, and the Minister of Korea and China will do everything possible to target her, deal with her, and force him to kill her.

Isn't that the case with his mother and concubine? Just because there is no family backing, the more the father’s favor, the more guilt will be imposed on her. As long as a small mistake is made, the Manchu civil and military will be criticized and criticized, forcing the father to leave her in the cold and leave her temporarily. Sent to the palace to recuperate, leaving his mother depressed to death.

"The saint should understand that you are not enough to defend her against the Manchu civil and military forces." Gu Ze said to him.

Li Rongzhao held Qiao Sha's hand more tightly. Of course he understood this. If he said that he had never thought of being the emperor before, at this moment, he became more and more determined to be in power.

He not only wants to keep her and protect her, but he also wants to give her the best honor in the world.

"I can think of her as a righteous sister." Gu Ze looked at Qiao Sha, "When she becomes the righteous daughter of the Gu family, then the saint will be able to accept her as a concubine in the palace justifiably."

Li Rongzhao frowned and looked at him, waiting for the rest of his words.

Sure enough, Gu Ze said: "I only have one condition, and the next one must be my Gu family's daughter."

On the contrary, Li Rongzhao's heart was settled. Gu Ze simply hoped that he would stand Gu Jiaojiao as the queen, as long as he can let her go into the palace with justifiable reasons, and when he has the real power and get rid of the Gu family, he can give her all the world.

But, she has to wait for him, is she willing to wait for him?

Does she think he is too weak and not worth relying on? Would you think that he had abandoned her when he promised to set up Gu Jiaojiao?

No, how can he marry other women? Can he not be the emperor and take her away, is she willing?

He wanted to see Qiao Sha, and wanted to determine her mind, but he heard her say: "Isn't it good for General Gu's proposal?"

Xie Lanchi looked up at her, she was very knowledgeable about current affairs.

Li Rongzhao looked at her in surprise, she...doesn't mind, does he marry another woman?

Qiao Sha shook his fingers and said, "Do you remember what I said when I first saw you?"

What did you say?

When she appeared in front of his couch, she said: Can you save me?

He suddenly understood that she didn't care about the back position, she came to him, the first and only purpose was to save her.

"That's the only thing I ask for." She said, "The other is not important."

His heart was broken, she just wanted to survive.

For her, it might be safer to be General Gu's sister-in-law than he would give her a back position.

He wrapped her hands with his hands, like a fragile heart.

He understands that he will get rid of all those who want to harm her, and no one can harm her anymore.

Qiao Sha also held his finger back and gave him an affirmative response, yes, just like this to use each other, fight, and pave all the way for her.

She didn't want a back position at all, it was everyone who aimed her at Xie Lanchi for her.

The old prince, the new emperor, including General Gu.

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The rain fell intermittently for two days. For these two days, Qiao Sha still stayed in the new emperor’s bedroom. The new emperor promised to set up Gu's prostitute as the queen, but before the establishment, let the Gu family recognize Qiao Sha as the righteous daughter. , Also personally sealed her title of princess.

In two days, Li Rongzhao would give everything to Qiao Sha.

He created a new identity for Qiao Sha. She is no longer the daughter of a Beijing official who was born as a merchant. She is a distant relative of the Gu family living outside. Both of her parents have died. She was brought back by the Gu family and regarded as a righteous daughter.

Gu Jiaojiao, a daughter of the Gu family, had the title of princess, and he also gave Qiao Sha the title.

He deliberately asked Gu Ze to invite this new righteous sister in the early dynasty in order to let the Manchu civil and military officials know her identity.

The only thing that is unsatisfactory is that Qiao Sha wants to leave the palace temporarily and goes to Gu's family to complete her confession.

She will stay at Gu's house for a few days, and after his post-liminary will is given, he can first make her a concubine, take her into the palace in a fair way, and then slowly handle post-limination matters.

He was worried at first that Qiao Sha was taken away by Gu Ze, but she didn't seem to be worried, and proactively told him that she was waiting for him at Gu's house.

He didn't worry anymore, he could only let her go out of the palace first. Fortunately, he knew that Gu Jiaojiao's protégé daughter Gu Jiaojiao's character was a nice person to get along with, and Qiao Sha would not be bullied.

On the day Qiao Sha left his bedroom, the rain stopped and the night darkened, Gu Ze personally came to pick her up.

Li Rongzhao sent her away and stood in the empty hall. Suddenly, he felt that the hall was a hundred times quieter and a hundred times lonely than before.

Standing alone in the dormitory, he slowly returned to the couch, holding the clothes she had worn, sniffing her scent, tears slipping into his temples.

He wants to get her back soon, the sooner the better.

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The carriage drove on the street.

Gu Ze hit the horse in front of the carriage, and Qiao Sha leaned in the carriage, listening to the movement outside.

101 reminded her in her ear: "Host, this road should not be the road to Gu's family."

Is it the way to Xie's house?

Qiao Sha knew Gu Ze and Xie Lanchi's plans when they eavesdropped. Gu Ze just wanted to use her to support his sister as a queen.

Xie Lanchi agreed and will leave her life.

They tried their best to take her out of the palace, and naturally it would not be safe to bring her into the Gu mansion.

Gu Ze was going to hand her over to Xie Lanchi, after all, as long as she was left with her life to grasp the new emperor.

"Then why are you still out of the palace?" 101 really does not approve of her going out of the palace.

Gu Ze will definitely not let her die before Li Qing.

But Xie Lanchi will definitely...torture her.

The carriage stopped in the dark night.

Qiao Sha opened the curtain and saw that the door outside was the door of Xie's house. Her stepson Xie Lanchi was standing at the door to greet her.

Why go out of the palace?

Naturally, it was to torture her stepson and destroy Aran's godhead.

101 don't understand, now the host is "a sheep enters the tiger's mouth", how can she torture Xie Lanchi?

Outside the carriage, Gu Ze got off his horse, greeted Xie Lanchi first, and said lowly to him: "I sent you the person, but you have to understand that you can't kill her before you are right."

Under the dark night, Xie Lanchi looked at the carriage, and felt happy again for the first time in so many years. She escaped for so long and was finally caught by him. "General Gu, don't worry."

How could he be willing to kill her? He wants her to experience his pain.

Gu Ze glanced at him again, turned back to the front of the carriage, the coachman picked up the curtain, and he personally helped Qiao Sha get out of the carriage.

When he looked at Qiao Sha and saw Xie Lanchi, his pale face, fixed eyes, and a rare soft voice said to her: "There are some conditions in the Gu Mansion. House."

Her hand was gently taken from his wrist, and it fell like a slippery satin.

In the night, she looked into his eyes, bright like stars, smiled at him and said, "Brother Gu, will you come to pick me up in person tomorrow?"

Gu Ze was actually asked by her brother Gu, a question, and there was a trace of pity and guilt in his heart. He knew that Xie Lanchi would torture her, and he could even imagine her fate...

Her eyes were too bright and moving, she looked at him, her heart swayed, and he subconsciously answered her: "Yes."

She smiled and said to him: "Okay, tomorrow I will be waiting for Brother Gu."

She didn't make trouble, run away, or want to see the new emperor as he thought, and asked why he brought her here, she smiled and left from him and walked towards Xie Lan Chi.

Gu Ze looked at her back, giving birth to the kindness of a woman that she shouldn't have.

She was just a chess piece. Gu Ze reminded himself that he turned and left, but the cuffs were full of the scent left by her. The scent was very special, not powdery, like a floral scent mixed with a bitter medicinal scent.

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Nothing has changed in the Xie Mansion, except that all the people who supported her on weekdays have disappeared. After a long time, she didn't meet anyone.

Qiao Sha walked in front of Xie Lanchi, went to the corridor, and asked him with a smile: "Did you kill all the people? Or did you drive out?"

She looked back at Xie Lanchi, "I deliberately vacated Xie's mansion, how do you plan to torture me? Rejuvenation pills? Then there must be a healthy male dog."

She glanced maliciously at Xie Lanchi's lower body, with a smile on her face as if she was a hunter, not the prey that fell into Xie Lanchi's hands.

101 was so frightened by her that she immediately turned on the protection mode for her, how could the host dare to scream like this... Is she really not afraid?

Xie Lanchi behind her stared at her, her cold eyes dangling under the lantern, unpredictable.

Is he angry?

101 stared at Xie Lanchi fearfully, for fear that he would kill the host in the next instant.

But the host was not worried at all. He stroked the door frame with a smile, provoking Xie Lanchi’s bottom line: "This time I don’t have to find Prince Li Rongxiu anymore. He and I have long been fighting each other. He will be grateful to you, but he won't be humiliated."

101: "!"

Xie Lanchi looked at her and spoke slowly, "Mother, I'm so amazing. Li Rongxiu and Li Rongzhao have become ministers under your skirt."

Standing under the corridor, she stroked the lotus pattern on the door frame with her white fingers, smiling at the corners of her eyes and her eyebrows: "Soon, you too will be."

Xie Lan Chi paused there and looked at her carefully. How could she say these words so proudly? She thinks that he will fall in love with her like Li Rongzhao, is she playing and applauding?

Has she ever thought about how much he hates and hates her?

"Where do I sleep tonight?" she said delicately, "I am not well. If I do not sleep well, I might die."

"Don't worry, mother, I won't let you die." Xie Lanchi walked toward her, walked to her, and opened the door beside her, "Mother is sleeping here tonight."

The door squeaked open.

It was very dark inside, only the light from the corridor was thrown in, Qiao Sha distinguished from memory, this is the bedroom before the original owner?

"It's also the place where the original owner poisoned Xie Lanchi." 101 reminded her.

Xie Lanchi stepped into the room first, and said to her politely: "Mother, come in and see if you are satisfied or not."

Qiao Sha followed him in, everything in the outer room was the same, and the inner room was hanging with gauze curtains, she couldn't see clearly.

It's just that the heavy sandalwood smoked in the room made her a little sick.

The door on the back was gently closed by Xie Lanchi, and there was a slight bang, and a ray of light came through Qiao Sha's back.

She looked back and saw Xie Lanchi polished the Huozhezi and walked to the table to light the lampstand.

The warm candlelight flickered and lit up. Xie Lanchi stood by the lamp and smiled softly at her: "Mother, go in and have a look. I have prepared a present for you."

Qiao Sha looked towards the inner room, and there seemed to be a gray figure dangling in it.

Who is it?

Qiao Sha walked towards the inner room step by step, and she heard 101 asking her to be careful.

The more she walked in, the more pungent the scent of smoke, the more obvious the gray shadow, there seemed to be more than one.

She stood under the curtain and stretched out her hand to open the curtain. She saw two dead bones covered with soil and rotten cloth hanging under the beams of the dim inner room.

There were several **** corpses beside the dead bones. They had their eyes gouged and hung them around their necks, shaking, just to look at her in the opposite direction.

She also saw two coffins beside the bed, one with the name of the original owner's father and the other with the name of the original owner's mother.

She stood under the curtain, moved her fingers, and then looked at the two dead bones. Are they the father and mother of the original owner?

Xie Lanchi was a pervert who dug up the tomb of the original owner's parents and brought the coffin and corpse over, didn't he?

This time even 101 felt discomfort and nausea.

Behind, Xie Lanchi picked up the lampstand on the table, walked to her side, held a lamp for her to illuminate the face of the gray corpse, and said softly, "Is my mother afraid?"

Qiao Sha carefully looked at the corpses that were still bleeding, and distinguished one by one, one woman and two men, and the woman was the original owner's nurse.

The male one is the lover of the original childhood sweetheart.

She couldn't remember the other one.

Fortunately, there is no Cui Cui.

"Can my mother recognize them?" Xie Lanchi pointed to her one by one: "Duan Yi, my mother's childhood sweetheart, I still remember that not long after my mother married into Xie's house, she was in the woods with this Duan Langjun and her clothes were disheveled. Was hit by someone."

Oh, Qiao Sha seems to remember that there is a paragraph in the book, it is written gossip passed down by the people, it turns out that the original owner really has an affair with others?

That's great. Old men don't know how to love people, at least there are other lovers who love people.

Qiao Sha gave a soft "Oh" and asked him again, "What about this one?" She pointed to another man, "Is also my lover? I'm a bit older."

The original owner won't look at the old man, right?

Xie Lanchi watched her in the candlelight, trying to see other emotions on her face, but she looked at him quietly, "He is the driver who drives the car for his mother."

He wants to kill the coachman.

Qiao Sha looked at the corpses again, so what? Should she scream in horror now? Crying bitterly? Fearfully crying and begging Xie Lanchi to let him go? Or to let her go to the bones of her parents?

I'm so sorry, for her, people die like a lamp, and die when they die. She doesn't care what happens to the corpse afterwards.

101 didn't speak. It seemed that Xie Lanchi had no memory of Aran. If there was, he should understand that to the host, she didn't care about the lives of other people.

So she just said faintly: "The scent is too choking, and it makes me sick. Change the room and let me sleep."

She turned to leave, Xie Lanchi grabbed her wrist abruptly, yanked her to the coffin, and slammed her against the coffin.

The lampstand in his hand fell to the ground and went out when it burned.

Back in the dark room, Xie Lanchi pressed her, stretched out her hand to pinch her chin, twisted her face, made her look up at the dead bones hanging above her head, her voice was cold and crazy: "Why is your heart so cold? So cruel?"

Qiao Sha was pressed on the coffin, her waist was painful, she frowned slightly, raised her eyes to look at the two dangling dead bones, and lowered her eyes to look at Xie Lan Chi, a strand of his hair hanging beside his cheek. The hatred in my eyes was about to overflow.

"Look, the hair is loose." She lifted her other hand and gently stroked her hair behind her ears, like a lover full of love, and like a gentle mother he had never received. "My heart is so cold, you should warm up first to make me sad and heartbroken."