Celebrating the Year of the Fish: A Princess is Not a Concubine[GL]

[fourteen]

At this time, the entire princess mansion was asleep, and it was eerily quiet.

The man in black deliberately lowered his voice, and said to Wei Huanian: "Today, your Majesty went hunting in the eastern suburbs. Halfway through the journey, the little eunuch leading the horse didn't stand firmly on his feet and let go of the reins. His Majesty's horse was frightened, and His Majesty fell off the horse. down."

Wei Huanian just sat on the armchair by the window, gave a soft 'hmm', and asked, "Is Your Majesty safe?"

The man in black said coldly: "Naturally nothing happened, the second prince Wei Hongfei rushed over and used his body as a meat pad for His Majesty, so His Majesty was safe from danger."

Wei Huanian just said indifferently: "This palace can save me."

The expression of the man in black remained the same, he still had the same cold look, but the eyes on the black mask flickered for a little bit: "Your Majesty ordered that the little eunuch leading the horse be killed with a stick, and later, the second prince was rewarded."

"Come on," Wei Huanian stood up from the chair, picked up the scissors wrapped in red cloth on the table, and cut short the beeping wick. The light in the room instantly softened, hitting her face, I can't see the joy or anger.

She asked again: "What about her? What are you busy with today?"

The man in black was startled, and after a long while of reaction, he said: "Young master Zhou, I sang in the mansion today, and I sang for a long time."

A smile suddenly appeared in Wei Huanian's eyes, and his originally dull eyes became brighter, and he said with great interest, "Sing? What song?"

"Sing...," the man in black couldn't continue. After all, he had never heard the song sung by that man, and listening to the princess meant to let him sing it, but how could he sing it?

"Forget it," Wei Huanian waved his hand: "I won't make things difficult for you, just step back."

The man in black stood there for a while, and did not leave.

Seeing that he didn't leave, Wei Huanian asked, "Is there anything else?"

The man in black was at a loss for words, he stood for a long while before saying: "Princess, you have to think more about yourself."

Wei Huanian smiled and said, "What? What do you want to say?"

"The villain wants to say that your majesty is using the second prince now, and I'm afraid the abolished prince will not be able to get up." The abolished prince is the current first prince, Wei Chenglu who has just been released from the clan's mansion for half a year.The man in black continued: "Now that the Khitan is eyeing you, Your Majesty wants to fulfill you and General Han's grandson, Feng Weizhi. His Majesty is definitely not only trying to use you to win over General Han, but also to balance the power of the deposed prince. -"

Having said that, seeing Wei Huanian's displeasure, he stopped talking.

Wei Huanian pondered for a while, and finally waved his hand and said: "You don't have to worry, just do your own thing, as for the others... I have my own plans, you go first."

"Princess……"

"Yes, the villain retire!"

The man in black opened his mouth, but after all he didn't say what he wanted to persuade her, he jumped out of the window.

Wei Huanian sat back in that chair again, still holding the pair of scissors wrapped in red cloth strips in her hands. She stared at the candlestick for a long while, raised her hand, and slid the scissors down, cutting off the burning red candle wick.

In the blink of an eye, it was another sunny day. The early morning sun shone on the world with a trace of warmth, but it did not dispel the gloom that was permeating the entire Zhou Mansion.

At this time, the head of the Zhou Mansion, that is, Zhou Jinyu's mother, Mrs. Liu, was sitting on the left side of the main hall, and Mrs. Zhou's old lady, Mrs. Wang, was sitting on the right side.

On the other hand, Zhou Jinyu knelt down neatly, holding her ears with both hands, and drooping her head, like a wronged little daughter-in-law.

It was a lie to say that she was not afraid, her mother asked the housekeeper Zhou Cheng to wait by with a stick with thick arms, she made a slight mistake, although Zhou Cheng would not really hit her, but the stick would go down, Enough for her to moan for days.

The old lady Zhou said distressedly: "Daughter-in-law, what are you doing to my good grandson by making such a big fight?"

Mrs. Liu said angrily: "Mother, you don't know what she did? If you know, you will be angry too."

Mrs. Zhou was taken aback by what Liu said, and looked at the one below who was secretly scrunching up, looking at Mrs. Zhou with a pitiful look about to cry.When Mrs. Zhou saw that her grandson was about to cry, she immediately panicked and persuaded Mrs. Liu, "Even if she does something, she doesn't need to use family law. Jinyu is still young—"

Before Mrs. Zhou finished speaking, Liu's hand slapped on the table with a "slap", which made Mrs. Zhou tremble in shock and wanted to cover her heart.

When Mrs. Liu saw that Mrs. Zhou was clutching her heart as if she couldn't breathe, she immediately panicked and said softly, "Mother, I'm not here for you, I'm here for this unfilial son."

Seeing that her trick of pretending to be sick was effective, Mrs. Zhou immediately said in a soft voice: "Daughter-in-law, if you have something to say, say it well, don't scare the child."

Liu stared at Zhou Jinyu, who was kneeling obediently below, for a long while before saying, "Mother, you don't know what she did."

Mrs. Zhou's stubborn temper came up: "Whatever you do, you have to say it well."

"Okay, I'll listen to you." Mrs. Liu said to Mrs. Zhou in a friendly voice, then turned to look at Zhou Jinyu who was kneeling below, and changed her stern face again: "Zhou Jinyu, I ask you--!"

Zhou Jinyu immediately raised his head, bared his glutinous white teeth, tried his best to smile at her mother Liu Shi, "Mother, tell me."

"Your second brother went down to the countryside yesterday, why didn't you tell me yesterday?" Liu said angrily.

Zhou Jinyu was taken aback. Although she had expected that Liu Shi would get angry, she didn't expect it to come so quickly.Her second elder brother Zhou Zimu is honest and has always been in poor health. He took an errand from the Ministry of Industry and left in a hurry, so he asked her to tell Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhou, but she chose to keep it a secret.

Zhou Jinyu knelt on the ground and said, "My son forgot."

"Forget! Can you forget such a big thing?" Liu was about to raise her hand to take the whip angrily, and in a blink of an eye she had come to Zhou Jinyu with the rattan whip: "You bastard, your second brother he You are not in good health, this time you go down to the countryside alone, if something goes wrong, it will be your bastard's fault!"

As she spoke, she raised the whip in her hand and slapped Zhou Jinyu's back fiercely.

Zhou Jinyu grinned her teeth in pain as her back hurt. She didn't forget to lie down on the ground and take the initiative to expose her buttocks.After all, if the rattan whip hits the meaty butt, it is much lighter than the back.

But Mrs. Liu ignored her small thoughts at all, and slapped her on the back while scolding: "You bastard, you can forget such a big thing! Do you think you should hit me? Should you?" ! Should it be!"

Following Liu's anger, the whip was pulled down one by one, Zhou Jinyu gritted his teeth, lying on the ground without saying a word.

Mrs. Liu whipped her four or five times, but Mrs. Zhou finally couldn't stand it any longer. With the help of her maid, she stood up and said, "Enough is enough! Daughter-in-law...don't hit Jinyu."

Only then did Liu give up, her eyes were red and her heart ached.

Zhou Jinyu struggled to get up from the ground, then knelt down in front of Liu's, grabbed Liu's trouser legs and said, "Mother, my son knows his mistake, you calm down, there is no need to be angry for your son."

Before Mrs. Liu could speak, Mrs. Zhou walked down distressedly, and helped Zhou Jinyu up and hugged her in her arms: "Since Zimu has already left, what's the use of beating him again? Turn around and let Zhou Cheng go to the Ministry of Industry." Just go and ask where Zimu has gone, and then send someone to look after him."

Liu's anger was still there, and he threw the whip in his hand to the ground.

The old lady Zhou looked at Zhou Xiaoshan, who was not daring to show his anger, and said, "Take your young master back to the room!"

Only then did Zhou Xiaoshan come to his senses: "Yes, I will take the young master back to the room!"

Zhou Jinyu was brought back to the east courtyard by Zhou Xiaoshan, her back was in burning pain, she wanted to cry very much now, but she didn't know why she was crying.

Since she came to the Zhou family, and since her stepfather Zhou Gongfu left, all the burdens of the Zhou family have fallen on the head of her mother, Liu. Taking care of the family, she was forced to become a woman who is exquisite in all aspects outside, but unsmiling and stern at home.

But every time the person who takes the initiative in family law is always her.

After all, even if Mrs. Liu and her came to the Zhou family, they would still be outsiders after all. The second elder brother Zhou Zimu and the third sister Zhou Linger, who had the blood of the Zhou family, should always be the first in all careers. In fact, she was very considerate of Liu's being a stepmother in the Zhou family. identity of.

However, every time the whip was pulled off her body, it was her who hurt herself, and she felt aggrieved again.

After noon, the front yard didn't come to call her for lunch. She turned around, tried her best to get medicine on herself, and lay on the bed 'groaning and chirping', excruciatingly painful.The kitchen delivered food, but she couldn't eat it either. She was hungry until the afternoon, when there was nothing in her stomach, she began to growl.

With a 'creak' sound, the door was pushed open.

Zhou Jinyu thought it was Zhou Xiaoshan who came to persuade her to eat again, so she said angrily, "Take it away, I don't want to eat!"

"Zhou Jinyu, you are getting more and more unruly."

Unexpectedly, it was not Zhou Xiaoshan's voice, but her mother Liu's.Although the tone of the voice contained reproach, it was not as severe as scolding her in the lobby in the morning, but instead had a hint of helplessness.

Zhou Jinyu didn't care about the pain in his back, turned over and sat up, curled up his legs and looked at Liu Shi in front of the door, and yelled aggrievedly: "Mother..."

Mrs. Liu held a bowl of noodles in her hand. She held the noodles with one hand, closed the door with the other hand, entered the room, and put the noodles on the table. Zhou Jin had sharp eyes, and there was a poached egg lying on the noodles. There are a few green vegetables around the poached egg, which look very good-looking in combination with green and white. In addition, she is hungry at this time, so the aroma from the bowl of noodles spread to her nose.

Mrs. Liu came to the bed, sat on the small chair in front of the curtain, looked at Zhou Jinyu who was curled up on the bed, and asked softly, "Did Aunt hurt you?"

Just such a sentence made Zhou Jinyu's suffocating breath dissipate in an instant. She sniffled and said, "My son doesn't hurt."

Liu Shi was stunned for a while, then asked her again: "Are you blaming A Niang?"

"No wonder!" Zhou Jinyu put on a well-behaved look and shook his head vigorously: "My son knows about mother's difficulties. Although mother is in power in the Zhou family, we are outsiders after all. We are still treated as the second brother and third sister. First, the son understands what mother is thinking."

Seeing that Mrs. Liu just looked at her and didn't speak, Zhou Jinyu said, "Second brother has been idle in the Ministry of Industry for a long time, and my son can tell that he wants to do something this time. Brother is also not happy, son does not say, because he is afraid that grandma will worry."

Liu Shi sighed, looking at the sensible Zhou Jinyu in front of her, she was at a loss for words for a moment, not knowing what to say.

Zhou Jinyu smiled and said, "Did mother cook my son's favorite noodles? My son is going to get out of bed to eat noodles. After a long day of hunger, his stomach is empty."

With tears in Liu's eyes, she smiled and said, "Okay, come down and eat."

Zhou Jinyu turned over and was about to get out of bed, but accidentally touched the wound on her back. She grinned her teeth in pain and let out an "oops".

Liu quickly supported her arm, and said distressedly: "Be careful!"

"It's all right," Zhou Jinyu grinned, and immediately jumped off the bed.

It was a warm and cold weather, and the windows in the house were open to let the sun shine in and disperse the moisture.

Under the sunlight, the ordinary surface of the bowl seemed to be covered with a layer of golden light, which greatly increased the appetite.

Zhou Jinyu picked up the chopsticks and started to gobble it up.

"Eat slowly, it's not the time when you didn't have anything to eat before, why are you in such a hurry?" Liu Shi poured her a glass of water, but Zhou Jinyu ignored it at all, and instead smiled foolishly: "I still do it myself." The noodles are the best."

"Stupid." The corner of Liu's mouth was stained with a smile, and then said: "I went to Guining Palace at noon, met the old concubine, brought her robe back to mend her cuffs, and inquired about the Eldest Princess' selection of a son-in-law .”

Zhou Jinyu stopped what he was doing when he heard the words, and asked, "What can you find out?"

Liu Shi said: "I'm afraid I'm overthinking this time, you are the old concubine who handed it to the empress's palace to fill up."

Zhou Jinyu finally felt relieved: "This is the best."

Mrs. Liu paused, and then said: "The old princess also said that Your Majesty prefers Feng Weizhi, the grandson of General Han's family."

Hearing this, Zhou Jinyu's original smile disappeared in an instant, replaced by deep hatred: "If Feng Weizhi becomes the king's son-in-law, wouldn't his old man, Feng Boyang, be even better? Floors."

Today's Minister of the Household Department, Feng Bo Yang, is a second-rank official. He was originally the number one scholar from a poor family. Later, because he married the daughter of General Han, who was in power at the time, he was like a fish in water. Now he has become the Minister of the Household Department. The high position, and the one that people in Beijing love to talk about is his son, Feng Weizhi, who is known as the number one prince in the capital.

When Liu heard the words, she hung her head and said nothing, not knowing what she was thinking.