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

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Zhou Xiaoshan said in a hurry: "Madam and the old lady are very anxious, let the young one come to the east courtyard to call you over, and let the young one come to ask you if you bumped into the Long Live God at the ceremony of offering sacrifices to heaven, and the Long Live God wants Blame it on you."

Zhou Jinyu said in relief: "Don't worry, if Lord Long Live wants to blame me, then I won't be standing here right now. Lord Long Live will send the Imperial Forest Army to take me directly, don't you think so?"

When Zhou Xiaoshan heard it, he quickly said: "The fourth son is right, so the villain can rest assured, but the Lord Long Live suddenly sent someone here, what is the reason for looking for you?"

Zhou Jinyu said: "Just follow me to have a look."

Zhou Jinyu came all the way to the front yard, followed by Zhou Xiaoshan, and saw a circle of servants peeking around in front of the outer hall of the front yard.

"Hmm...cough." Zhou Jinyu coughed lightly, walked over with his hands behind his back, and asked them with a smile, "What are you all looking at?"

The servants didn't expect to hear Zhou Jinyu's voice suddenly. When they came back to their senses, they hurriedly bowed their hands to Zhou Jinyu: "Four...four sons!"

Zhou Jinyu didn't blame him, but said, "Don't just stand around here, go down and do whatever you want."

The servants hurriedly said yes, and dispersed.

They walked far away, whispering a few words to each other, with inexplicable excitement on their faces.

Zhou Jinyu shook his head helplessly, thinking that they must be curious about the little eunuch who came from the palace just now, so they opened the door to peek here.

In fact, she was right, most of these servants lived to such an age, and they had never seen what a eunuch who came out of the palace looked like, so they were naturally very curious.

Some little maids even went up to serve tea with tea, just to catch a glimpse of the father-in-law and to satisfy their own curiosity.

Zhou Jinyu was not curious about the little father-in-law, but was curious about the emperor's edict from the little father-in-law. She stepped over the threshold, first saluted her mother Liu, called "Mother", and then saluted the old lady Zhou , called "grandmother".

After all, in front of outsiders, and in front of people from the palace, etiquette naturally began to increase.

After Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhou all responded, Zhou Jinyu looked at the little eunuch who was drinking tea on the chair and saluted, and asked, "I guess this father-in-law is here to look for me?"

The little eunuch hurriedly got up and returned the salute: "Tan Hualang can't do it, a slave can't afford Zhou Tanhua's great gift!"

When he saw Zhou Jinyu saluting to him, he was naturally scared, especially before he left the palace. He didn't even know who Zhou Jinyu was. He was assassinated in the sky, and because of the fact that Tan Hualang named Zhou Jinyu risked his life to save him, he became a little more cautious.

Every year in the Jin Dynasty, Tanhualang will be dispatched. His Majesty will either be appointed as an official and released, or put in the six idle jobs. The Zhongshu and the two provinces under the sect are naturally reserved for the champion. No one will remember who Tanhualang is. The most talked about in the imperial examination in [-] is only the number one scholar.

No one even remembered who Tan Hualang was who was not appointed as an official, so no one knew the name Zhou Jinyu.

"Your Majesty asked the villain to come here this time to pass on an order to Tanhua Lang." The little eunuch turned around and walked to the north of the outer hall, and stood facing south: "Tanhualang Zhou Jinyu listens to the order."

Zhou Jinyu quickly knelt down, and even Mrs. Liu, who was sitting in the room, helped Mrs. Zhou to kneel down.

Zhou Jinyu spread out his hands, palms up, pressed his forehead to the ground, and bowed to the little eunuch: "The villain listens to the order!"

I just heard the little eunuch clear his throat and said: "Zhou Jinyu, you come to the palace for me at noon tomorrow. Didn't you say that you want to ask me for an official position? I want to discuss it with you and reward you." Hello, official position, did you hear me?"

Zhou Jinyu originally thought that the emperor's oral instructions were the same as those in the storybook, which was the kind of "following the heavens, the emperor's edicts", but she never expected that the emperor's oral instructions were no different from his usual speech, and even used "You fellow" "Come and call her.

She could even imagine the expression that Emperor Tianshun looked at her, with a hint of anger in his seriousness, deliberately frightening her with a cold face, and she could even imagine Emperor Tianshun's hoarse voice in her mind.

Zhou Jinyu suddenly wanted to laugh, the emperor of the Great Jin Dynasty was a little too approachable, just like an ordinary grandfather.

The little eunuch finished announcing Emperor Tianshun's oral order, and seeing Zhou Jinyu's delay in responding, he tentatively called out: "Zhou Tanhua, did you hear me clearly? Do you need a servant to say it again?"

Zhou Jinyu quickly raised his head, and said solemnly: "The villain obeys the order, long live my emperor, long live, long live, long live!"

Seeing that she was still kneeling, the little eunuch laughed and said, "Zhou Tanhua, you can get up now."

Zhou Jinyu stood up, and hurriedly ordered his servants: "Quickly prepare wine and food, and greet Eunuch."

The little eunuch hurriedly said: "Don't dare to bother, the servant will go back to the palace after the oral order is finished, and the servant wishes Zhou Tanhua all the best in advance."

Zhou Jinyu smiled and said, "Thank you, Eunuch."

The little eunuch said: "Zhou Tanhua stays behind, the villain is leaving."

Mrs. Liu had asked the housekeeper to bring a bag of silver, and stuffed it into the little eunuch's hand before he left. The little eunuch thanked him again, feeling more and more in his heart that the Zhou family would be a good man, and returned to the palace happily.

As soon as the person walked away, Liu called Zhou Jinyu to the study. She looked at Zhou Jinyu, neither happy nor angry, but asked flatly, "Tell me, what's going on?"

Zhou Jinyu saw that he couldn't hide it anymore, so he took her to the altar, and told the story of saving Emperor Tianshun by mistake from beginning to end, deliberately ignoring the fact that she thought the little bun girl was an assassin, so naturally Did not tell Liu Shi.

Mrs. Liu sighed: "It's fate. I won't let you become an official. I hope that you will live your life in an orderly manner. Who knows that such a good fortune will still exist."

Zhou Jinyu bit the bullet and said, "Mother, if you don't let your daughter become an official, when will she take revenge on that old man?"

Liu Shi looked at her for a while, and then said: "Even if you become an official, what can you do? Is it possible that you can be like him, so cold-hearted that your relatives don't recognize you? Can you still kill him?"

Zhou Jinyu paused for a moment, and finally said coldly: "It's only natural to kill people and pay debts. Mother, do you still remember why we came to the capital to hide our names?"

Mrs. Liu saw the raging anger and cold murderous look in Zhou Jinyu's eyes. Her daughter is obviously a beautiful girl, but she deliberately dresses up as a man every day, and makes jokes among men every day. You can't marry someone, and you have to live as a man for the rest of your life.

And all of this is because of her...

Thinking of this, Liu's heart hurts like a needle. Zhou Jinyu is now burdened with hatred and lives in pain every day, all because of her wrong decision that day, if it wasn't for her ignorance , none of this will happen.

After all, she owes this daughter too much...

Liu Shi paused for a while, then asked her: "Do you know how dangerous the court is?"

"My daughter knows."

Standing in front of Liu Shi, Zhou Jinyu no longer had the sloppy look she deliberately put on others on weekdays, and was replaced by calmness and calmness.

Seeing her like this, Mrs. Liu knew that she had already made a decision, and it would be useless to try to persuade her.

She finally sighed and said: "It's good that you know, you have to enter the palace tomorrow, go to rest earlier."

Zhou Jinyu nodded, said nothing more, and went back to the room.

After returning to her room, she took off her outer robe, lay on the bed, wrapped herself in the warm brocade quilt, and stared blankly at the top of the curtain, feeling that her mind was filled with too many things at once. The fire and the escape all seemed to have happened yesterday, and they would never be forgotten.

She sometimes thinks that Liu's idea of ​​wanting her to forget her hatred is ridiculous. She has never been so generous that when someone sets fire to burn her relatives to death, she can still act as if nothing happened and continue in peace. People who live.

But she can understand Liu's, she can understand that Liu's is for her own good, in order to let her live a stable life, to let her survive in this dirty world, just to save her life, in fact She can understand all these.

She also sometimes doubts the authenticity of this world. Sometimes she wonders whether this world is real, whether it is a mirror image, or a phantom, which turns into a piece of dust in the end, and everything is turned into nothingness. nothingness.

Sometimes she also wonders whether the hatred she has remembered for so many years is meaningful.

But whenever she sees the scars on A Niang's face, and whenever she thinks of the lives in Niujia Village, she feels that this matter cannot be finished.Even if all of this will eventually turn into dust, even if her enemy will one day grow old and die before her.

But even so, she would personally destroy that man before he died of old age.

In the early morning of the next day, the little bun lady delivered the little bun as promised.

Zhou Jinyu personally went to the gate of the mansion to pick up Xiao Baozi and got off the carriage. Holding Xiao Baozi in her arms, she walked all the way to the new study specially prepared for her and Xiao Baozi by the Zhou family.

Zhou Jinyu first put the little bun on the small chair and sat down, then brought him a plate of candy, then tilted his head and looked at Wei Huanian who was standing beside her, and asked tentatively: "Yesterday, what happened to that incident?" You did it too?"

Wei Huanian was confused by her question: "What is Mr. Zhou talking about?"

Zhou Jinyu hinted at her: "It was just yesterday, the big birds flew around in the sky, and then...then, all of a sudden, bouncing, bang bang!"

Wei Huanian: "..."

Is she ventriloquist?

Zhou Jinyu saw that the little bun girl was looking at her inexplicably, so she simply stopped playing riddles, lowered her voice and asked Wei Huanian cautiously: "It was at the altar yesterday, are you there?"

Wei Huanian remembered that when she saw Zhou Jinyu at the altar yesterday, she took Wei Jingrui away with an excuse. Could it be that she discovered her identity?

Wei Huanian tentatively asked, "So what if I'm here, so what if I'm not here?"

Zhou Jinyu had an expression of "Don't talk about it, I understand", she quickly walked to the door, closed the study door with a "bang", and then said helplessly: "I said little bun girl, Why can't you have a snack!"

Wei Huanian: "..."

Wei Huanian chuckled secretly, as expected, this idiot must have regarded himself as those rebels from yesterday again.

"I said you...you...ah!"

Zhou Jinyu looked at Wei Huanian and sighed for a while, but finally felt that she would not listen to what he said.

After all, I have persuaded him so many times, if she was willing to listen, she would have already listened.

Wei Huanian turned around and walked to the table, poured her a cup of tea, and asked innocently, "Mr. Zhou, do you want to moisten your throat?"

Zhou Jinyu was so angry that he said with a mournful face, "I can't drink it!"

Then she took the tea from the little bun lady and drank it in one gulp.

Zhou Jinyu looked at Wei Huanian, as if he had discovered some big secret of hers, and said, "I know everything about you, and I also know about that assassin."

Wei Huanian was startled when he heard the words, and asked calmly, "What do you know?"

Zhou Jinyu said: "That female assassin is the proprietress of Sihai Restaurant, you are all in the same group!"

Wei Huanian asked, "Which Four Seas Restaurant?"

Zhou Jinyu ignored her and just said, "Hey, what's the matter? All of you rebels are girls. Are you discriminating against men?"

Wei Huanian: "..."