Why are you so anxious?

Zhuang Lin strode all the way into the inner hall, his eyes naturally fell on Jun Shaoyou who was sitting upright.Seeing Jun Shaoyou's ruddy complexion and his high spirits today, Zhuang Lin let go of his half-suspended heart.

All the guests in the room immediately got up to say hello to Zhuang Lin.Zhuang Lin smiled and waved his hands to signal everyone to stand up. His eyes fell on the face of Jun Shaoan, the only one who was unfamiliar, and he said with a smile: "This is the eldest brother. I have been admired for a long time, but I haven't seen each other for a long time. When I saw you today, it really is true." It’s more like being famous when you meet.”

A clearly visible flush appeared on Jun Shaoan's dark face, he got up and clasped his fists and said, "The general has seen the eldest prince."

Zhuang Lin held Jun Shaoan's arm with a smile, and said cordially, "They are all relatives of my own family, why bother to see outsiders like this. If you don't mind elder brother, just call me Zhaoming."

Jun Shao'an said with a slightly reserved face: "There is a difference between superiority and inferiority, how dare I be abrupt."

Zhuang Lin smiled slightly, not very reluctantly.Feel free to exchange a few words with the guests in the hall before turning into the back house.When I was young, I changed into homely clothes and came out to meet guests.

At that time, it was almost noon, and the kitchen had already prepared food and wine.The little girl who was standing there came to ask where to put the food.Jun Shaoyou sized up the whole room full of guests, and said with a smile, "It's just placed in Hefengxuan."

Jun Shaoyou has an elegant personality, and he likes blue leaf lotus the most. His hobby of sparkling has long been spread throughout the capital along with his literary talent.What's more, it's not the first time for everyone to eat in Yong'an Palace, so it's not surprising to hear this.

For a while, everyone chatted and laughed and went to Hefengxuan.At that time, tables and chairs had already been set up in the hall, and maids and maids, big and small, stood awe-inspiringly with washbasins and handkerchiefs in their hands, serving everyone after a brief wash.The host and guest take their seats.A little girl came in one after another holding dishes and wine.

After the food was ready, there was a team of musicians playing leisurely in the side hall, responding to the sparkling light and the gurgling sound of water, which was quite interesting.

Everyone is used to it, and they don't know how to enjoy it.Only Jun Shaoan looked at the rippling lake in a good mood.He doesn't have any arty poetic quality, he just thinks that the view here is wider, which is much better than the cramped and dark room.

Zhuang Lin secretly ordered the maid serving the dishes to replace the wine on Jun Shaoyou's food table with sour plum soup, which attracted Jun Shaoyou's inexplicable glance.Zhuang Lin smiled repeatedly, and explained in a low voice: "Didn't you say that the greasy food these two days caused stomach discomfort, so I thought you would drink less alcohol and eat some sweet and sour fruit drinks, so that you can eat more .”

Jun Shaoyou didn't take it seriously.But he really has no interest in drinking at the moment, it's just because of the etiquette at the banquet.

Seeing this, Yang Daimei, who was sitting at the bottom, couldn't help saying: "What the lord said is very true. Your wife's body is weak, and you should take care of it on weekdays. Drinking alcohol is harmful to your health. If you can stop drinking, it's better not to drink. What's more We are not outsiders, if the empress insists on entertaining with courtesy and courtesy, it will appear that we are unfamiliar with each other."

What he said was very much on Zhuang Lin's mind.Zhuang Lin unconsciously glanced at Yang Daimei with admiration, and said with a smile: "Since the madam has said so, we should obey the elder's orders."

After saying that, I couldn't help but tell the servant girl to remove the drink, reached out to pick up the fish meat with chopsticks, carefully picked the thorns and put it into the bone dish in front of Jun Shaoyou, and said with a smile: "This is the sweet and sour carp that I asked the kitchen to make specially. , try it and see if it smells like that."

The gentle and careless demeanor made everyone in the hall quite envious.Yang Daimei even said flatteringly: "The prince really cares about the empress. Seeing that the prince and his wife are singing so harmoniously, I feel relieved."

After a pause, he smiled and said to Shen Qingmian who was beside him, "You can rest assured if you think about it."

Shen Qingmian smiled slightly, only looked at Jun Shaoyou softly, and did not speak.

Yang Daimei's calm gaze swept over Jun Zhixuan who was beside Shen Qingmian. This concubine kept her eyebrows lowered and her eyes lowered, cautiously.If it wasn't for these two days when she was so anxious about her lifelong affairs and jumped up and down a little bit, I'm afraid Yang Daimei herself would have missed her.

Thinking of this, Yang Dai sneered, turned to Jun Shaoyou and said, "I heard that His Majesty intends to betroth Princess An Ning, who was born by Concubine Xian, to the eldest son of the Duke of Li. The Duke of Li is really blessed. !"

Jun Shaoyou raised his eyebrows, and replied calmly: "It seems that there is such a thing, but it's just a rumor. Madam has such a sharp ear, and she has heard such a secret thing."

Yang Daimei smiled back and said: "It's just what Liangyuan Niangniang said, but she didn't ask seriously."

When Jun Shaoyou heard the words, he was noncommittal.

Yang Dai frowned and pondered for a moment, then said, "I've always felt sorry for the matter of Rouran. After all, our two families are old friends and have a very good relationship since our ancestors. How can we be so affectionate for so many years?" It can be broken because of Rouran's bad thoughts. If it spreads out, it will also affect the relationship between the empress and the government of Liguo. So I thought, we can't do this kind of marriage, but if we don't want to become enemies, If such a big thing happened, I'm afraid the only way to make up for it is to get married."

Jun Shaoyou glanced at Yang Daimei with a half-smile, not understanding what she was going to do.

Yang Daimei glanced at the concubine Jun Zhixuan who was sitting honestly beside Shen Qingmian, and said with a smile: "I was thinking of getting married with the Duke of Li, but their family didn't have a legitimate daughter of the right age. So I thought If you can't get married if you're a concubine, it's also good if you're a concubine."

Jun Shaoyou's heart moved, and he unconsciously looked at Shen Qingmian, Jun Zhixuan, who was pale and tottering.He felt that he vaguely understood the reason why Yang Daimei went out of her way today and brought the children of the concubines out to visit.

On the other side, Jun Zhixuan, who was sitting under Shen Qingmian, couldn't help showing a trace of panic, and couldn't tell whether the thoughts in her heart were fear or expectation.She was not sure about the pros and cons of this matter, so she couldn't help looking at Shen Qingmian beside her pitifully.Shen Qingmian patted the back of her hand in relief, and looked at Jun Shaoyou questioningly.

Jun Shaoyou pondered for a moment, if he told about Jun Rouran, the relationship between him and Li Guogong's mansion would be a bit embarrassing.It made him feel like facing Li Yu speechlessly.Even though Li Yu still didn't take it seriously, when he visited Duke Li's mansion last time, he was indeed treated coldly.However, this kind of face-slapping behavior cannot be blamed on Duke Li for being angry. If it weren't for the royal majesty and the power of Yong'an Palace, Duke Li might not be able to bear such a shame no matter how good-tempered he is.If this matter were placed on Jun Shaoyou himself, at least he would have to calculate that the other party's family would be ruined, otherwise it would be difficult to dispel the resentment in his heart.

So even if the royal reputation cannot be announced, the enmity between the two families may be settled.Now, Yang Daimei suddenly wants to marry the concubine's daughter to the concubine of the Duke of Li's family, it seems that she wants to win the forgiveness of the Duke of Li's family.In essence, however, the rumors that had been slowly subsided after two months were once again brought to the surface.It's like pouring a layer of cold water on the seemingly calm oil pan, isn't it lively enough?

Jun Shaoyou frowned, feeling a little unhappy.

Seeing this, Jun Zhixuan, who was sitting at the bottom, sighed in disappointment.She and Jun Shaoyou belonged to the same concubine, and her biological mother was Aunt Chen who had a good friend with Shen Qingmian.There is also a concubine elder brother Jun Shaolan, who originally had a good relationship with Jun Shaoyou.Only after Jun Shaoyou married into the palace, there was not much contact in the past two years, and the relationship gradually became distant.

Thinking of this, Jun Zhixuan sighed even more unpleasantly.

Both were born of aunts and concubines, Jun Shaoyou's mother and son were disgusted and excluded by his wife earlier, and even the women and girls who were a little shameless in the mansion could give them shame.In the past, I still relied on Aunt Chen's face in front of the Duke of the country to protect me a little bit.In general, life is far worse than them.Unexpectedly, Jun Shaoyou won the favor of King Yong'an overnight, and was able to marry into the palace as his concubine.From then on, Qianlong came out of the water, and the blue sky went straight up, but it took only a year or two to become famous.Now, he has become someone they can't even curry favor with.It can be seen that the fate of life is really unpredictable.

Jun Zhixuan looked jealously at Zhuang Lin who was busy picking vegetables and soup for Jun Shaoyou.Noble status, prominent reputation, resolute deeds, deep demeanor, rare handsome face, single-minded temperament, who would not want such a husband.But all the women in the world are not as lucky as a man like Jun Shaoyou.It's fine if it's someone else, but she grew up with Jun Shaoyou since she was a child. Even if the relationship was good back then, she saw that a person who was not in a situation as hers could surpass her and live a more prosperous life, saying that she could sincerely replace her. He was happy that it was a lie, but the bitterness and jealousy that suddenly arose in his heart was truly indescribable.

I wish I could replace it with my body.

So when Jun Rouran acted like crazy that day, Jun Zhixuan could faintly understand it.Not only her, I am afraid that all the children in the backyard of Duke Protector's Mansion have the same experience.But empathy is one thing, Jun Zhixuan will never be able to do something stupid like Jun Rouran who is dazzled by jealousy.

Doing everything you know you can't do is the behavior of a fool.Unlike Jun Rouran's high self-esteem, what Jun Zhixuan wants is to take advantage of the situation and use Jun Shaoyou's banner to gain some benefits for herself.Now that she has passed her age, when she was supposed to discuss marriage, there was no movement in the mansion.Yang Daimei put all her mind on Jun Rouran and Jun Shaoan's two sons, and it is understandable that she occasionally neglected the concubine daughter at home.However, seeing how old she is now, no matter how calm and self-possessed Jun Zhixuan is, she will inevitably feel anxious and worried.

Originally, the marriage of the children was handled by the aunt.If it was normal, Yang Daimei would be happy to pretend to be virtuous and generous as a aunt because of Jun Zhixuan's prudence, and won praise from everyone for finding a decent marriage for her.However, Jun Rouran has just been diagnosed with pregnancy, the eldest son is over 25 and has not yet engaged, and the youngest son has also reached the age of weak crown. Yang Daimei is too busy to take care of her own children, so how can she have the energy to take care of Jun Zhixuan, a concubine daughter? .So Jun Zhixuan had no choice but to curry favor with Aunt Shen who had a better relationship with her aunt, hoping that Aunt Shen would take care of her marriage.

However, even though Shen Qingmian got Yang Daimei's blue eyes and helped her manage the family affairs and even the marriage of the son-in-law in the mansion, she was essentially an aunt and concubine who hadn't interacted with anyone for more than 20 years.What's more, his nature is a bit cold and withdrawn, he is not good at socializing, and because of his status, even if the female family members of the noble family in Beijing respect Princess Yong'an superficially, how can the wife of the royal family look at her from the bottom of her heart? Shen Qingmian, who was born as an aunt's concubine.What's more, Jun Zhixuan is not Jun Shaoyou's biological sister, even if she wants to use Jun Zhixuan's relationship to cling to Jun Shaoyou in the future, it will be too far away, and Yang Daimei's bad reputation from earlier years comes first. However, after being frivolous and inexplicably broke the marriage contract and served in the palace, which family with a clean and upright family would marry such a daughter.

For a time, people were picky and picky, families with family backgrounds were not happy, and families with good family backgrounds did not match.Under all kinds of unsatisfactory conditions, Jun Zhixuan's tenderness gradually faded away.She knew that she couldn't place her hopes on Shen Qingmian, so she might as well ask her to say something nice to Jun Shaoyou, as long as Jun Shaoyou, the princess of Yong'an, was willing to pay a little attention to her marriage, she could do whatever she wanted. To say a word is probably better than their efforts.

After thinking about it, Jun Zhixuan immediately found her own mother, Aunt Chen, and asked Aunt Chen to talk to Aunt Shen. Aunt Shen thought twice before going to softly beg Daimei Yang.In this way, Yang Daimei led the concubine's children to pay a visit to Yong'an Palace today.

If not, Yang Daimei can bring Aunt Shen and her two sons over here.As for the life and death of the concubine's children, she would not take it seriously.

However, before Jun Zhixuan could figure out how to curry favor with Jun Shaoyou, Yang Daimei unexpectedly came up with such an idea preemptively.For a moment, Jun Zhixuan was naturally apprehensive and panicked, not knowing what to do.

If one can marry into the Duke of Li's mansion, even if one is married to a concubine, she can be regarded as a well-matched family, which is actually better than many families I have seen these days.But if it is really possible to marry into the Duke of Li's mansion, Jun Rouran gave the Duke of Li's so much shame that day, I am afraid that the Duke of Li's heart is already jealous.Even though he was intimidated by the power of the Yong'an Palace, he reluctantly agreed, but can the people in the Liguo Palace sincerely accept her?

At that time, the whole family of Duke Li's mansion will be hostile and dissatisfied with her, so will she have a good life for the rest of her life?

But if she can't marry into Duke Li's Mansion, with the current reputation of Duke Hu Guo's mansion and her family background, how can she find a satisfactory marriage?

For a while, Jun Zhixuan was already obsessed with herself and fell into a daze.A brocade handkerchief in his hand was twisted and threaded, twisted and twisted out of shape.

But obviously except for her, everyone in He Feng Xuan was startled by Yang Daimei's words.

If it is said that being jealous is not kind, I am afraid that this is a common problem of the wives of the royal family in all dynasties.At least Jun Shaoyou himself suffered from it.After all, the hostility between the wife and the mistress is common in ancient and modern times, just like a man can't bear being cuckolded, few women in this world can smile tolerantly at their husband's blatant derailment.Therefore, the evidence of the husband's infidelity - the children of the concubine are naturally not much better.

Jun Shaoyou can understand Yang Daimei's resentment towards her concubine's harsh treatment.But understanding is not the same as acceptance. Jun Shaoyou himself almost died under this kind of jealousy, so he especially rejected Yang Daimei who used concubine children as pawns. Goods generally earn more benefits.

Jun Shaoyou was originally surprised that Yang Daimei brought all the concubines' children to visit today.Mistakenly thinking that Yang Daimei saw that Jun Rouran was pregnant, so she thought of doing some scenes of motherly kindness and filial piety to reverse her bad reputation.But I didn't expect that even if the pig moved to the capital, it would still be a pig. What is the difference between Yang Daimei's behavior and selling girls to seek peace?

Could it be that Yang Daimei naively thought that as long as a concubine's daughter was stuffed into Liguo's mansion, the previous rift between the two families could be bridged?

For a while, Jun Shaoyou went from being inexplicable before to being a little bit dumbfounded.I really admire Yang Daimei's self-satisfied temperament.