In the last life, in order to get rid of Yao Xi and Zhang Zha's marriage, the Yao family not only spread rumors that Zhang Zhe had killed his wife, but also suppressed them in the court. Framed, Mrs. Yao knew that Zhang Zhe was wronged, but deliberately turned a blind eye to it, and even fell into the trap, adding fuel to the flames in the middle, and finally causing Zhang Zhe to be thrown into prison.
It was not until later that Gu Chunfang, the former censor of Henan Province, was promoted to the Minister of Punishment.
In this life, Jiang Xuening once warned Yao Xi, but she could not predict how Yao Xi and Mrs. Yao would choose.
The moment their eyes met, the entrance to the palace was a little quiet.
Jiang Xuening and Yao Xi were at odds with each other, but the harmony on their faces would still be perfunctory, so it seemed that they had forgotten the unpleasantness of a few days ago, and took the initiative to say hello, "Miss Yao."
Yao Xi was startled, and then returned the ceremony.
It's just that Jiang Xuening, who had said those words to herself, couldn't warm up her attitude anyway.
Jiang Xuening didn't care either.
At the door, the eunuch checked the items brought into the palace this time, and the two followed into the palace.
The last time he entered the palace, Jiang Xuening still had hope, thinking that he was just entering the palace to select for a walk, and eventually he would come out safe and sound and live a free day.
But God does not want it.
It's just that she didn't get rid of the fate of entering the palace. In this life, Xie Wei was eyeing her, and the Yongyi Hou Mansion was about to happen. She didn't dare to think about what kind of situation she would be in when she entered the palace this time.
A layer of palace gates opened one after another in front of her eyes, like a chain link connecting the long silent palace road, dotted with high vermilion palace walls.
The heavy weight of the Forbidden City came.
Everything in the palace was built so high and so big that it was hard for people to even look up when they were in the middle of it.
When walking in the meantime, Jiang Xuening seemed to have returned to the previous life: on the narrow or wide palace road, the floor tiles were soaked with blood flowing along the gaps, even if it penetrated down the broken stems of the soil and withered grass, There are still traces of cold blood and blood; the original vermilion palace wall, some places are more vivid as if splashed with ink, and some places still have the shock of swords; and on the palace gate in front, hanging It was not the unicorn auspicious beast, but the head of Zhou Yinzhi with a ferocious face and wide eyes that could not be closed.
Xu Shi was already late autumn and winter, and the wind passing through the palace road was so mournful and cold that she couldn't help shivering and shrugged her shoulders.
The figure of Xie Wei who was holding a bow and stood on the Nine Towers also floated up in the distance like a nightmare.
In the past six months, can she really get away with it
At this moment, in Yangzhizhai, several companions have arrived first, and they are talking to each other with a smile.
"Yeah, Fang Miao, Fang Miao, you brought a lot of messy things with you."
"This is for transfer use. It's not that you don't know, my elm head is actually not good at reading. If it wasn't for Jiang Er girl who guessed the question before, how could I choose a companion reading? This transfer pen holder, I will put it back when I look back. On the desk, I just hope that the gentlemen will not pick me up to read, answer questions, etc. Blessed and blessed!”
"Speaking of which, does anyone know what to go back and learn?"
"Except that Mr. Xie can teach the piano, nothing else is clear."
"Sister Xiao brought a lot of books with you. Are these rare books in the world?"
Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi still came together this time, sitting by the window in the house; Fang Miao, who also came early, was restless, walking around the house, adjusting the position of the decorations, saying yes I wanted to change the feng shui for everyone; Zhou Baoying, the youngest and blushing, was lying on the table yawning, looking sleepy.
Xiao Shu couldn't help but ask her, "Bao Ying, why are you so sleepy?"
Zhou Baoying pursed her lips and was extremely aggrieved: "After returning home from the palace last time, my father actually said that I didn't know the rules and skills in the palace. now…”
"… "
It was for food.
Xiao Shu was suffocated by her answer and didn't answer.
I just didn't expect the next moment, Zhou Baoying's little nose suddenly sniffed around, like a cat smelling fishy smell, her head was lifted from the table, her sleepy eyes widened instantly: "Yes. Eat, eat!"
And the scent is absolutely delicious!
With her years of experience, Zhou Baoying could easily smell the delicious food, so she immediately jumped up from her seat, looked at the door, and exclaimed in surprise, "Wow, Sister Xiao Yao brought it here. Come eat!"
Because of the girls who were selected as companions this time, there were two surnames Yao, one was Yao Rongrong, a girl from Yao Duping's family, a minister of the Imperial Academy, and the other was Yao Xi, a girl from Yao Qingyu's family, the prince's grandfather and minister of officials.
If they were all called "Ms. Yao", it would be difficult to tell them apart.
Therefore, according to their age, everyone called Yao Xi "Girl of Dayao" and Yao Rongrong "Girl of Little Yao".
At this moment, Yao Rongrong walked in with a food box in her hand. She was originally from a small family, and she felt a little cautious in the palace. She didn't expect someone to jump out of the room and was almost startled. Jump.
Seeing that it was Zhou Baoying, she handed the food box forward.
Said: "This is the peach cake I made myself when I went home. Thinking that your sisters and Baoying took good care of Rongrong in the public before, I brought it here to show some thoughts, and I would like to invite everyone to try it."
"It's for us to eat!"
Zhou Baoying couldn't help drooling as soon as she smelled the faint sweet smell. Hearing Yao Rongrong's words, her face suddenly brightened, and she stretched out her hand almost immediately.
"Then I'll try it first!"
The peach cake is made with glutinous rice, peach kernels and sugar. They are all cut into thin slices. They look snow-white and have a soft, glutinous and sweet taste. The peach kernels embedded in the middle add a sweet fragrance.
Whether it is done well or not depends on how the entrance feels.
In fact, there are not many shops in Beijing that make good peach cakes. Even if there are, Zhou Baoying has eaten them all.
But she did not expect that this peach cake made by Yao Rongrong was actually sweet and not greasy, almost melted in the mouth, and left a mild aftertaste.
As soon as she took a bite, she rolled her eyes.
An exclamation: "Oh my God, it's delicious!"
Zhou Baoying is an avid eater, and because of her good background, she has basically eaten all the delicious food in the world. Naturally, she has developed a cunning taste. Not everything can enter her mouth.
Therefore, as long as she can be praised by her, it must be delicious.
Not to mention how amazing it looks right now.
Everyone became curious. Although they felt that Yao Rongrong was sometimes too petty, for example, she was not very smart when talking to Jiang Xuening earlier, but this did not affect everyone's apparent entertainment.
At this time, they all took the peach cake to eat.
It really tasted good.
Even after Xiao Shu took a bite, she couldn't hold back her eyebrows, and she was a little surprised: "It's really delicious. It's comparable to the famous Xingfangzhai and Qi Yunzhai in Beijing. I didn't expect Miss Yao to have such a skill."
Yao Rongrong's face was suddenly full of surprise, obviously she didn't expect that she would be praised by Xiao Shu, her fingers trembling slightly while holding the food box, she blushed and said, "Rongrong has little knowledge, so she can't leave the door at home. Mai, I have to study these. Sister Xiao and everyone like it, so I am happy."
Everyone said she was humble.
Because of this unexpected box of peach sliced cakes, the atmosphere in the room finally became lively.
Jiang Xuening and Yao Xi came in at this time.
Fang Miao was holding a compass in her hand to calculate something, and when she looked up, she greeted them familiarly: "I'm still thinking about when you will come, but I told you to catch up. Miss Yao brought something delicious. Come, if you don't come again, I'm afraid you will be eaten up by Baoying."
Zhou Baoying pouted in dissatisfaction.
Yao Rongrong, who was talking to the others with her head lowered, was stunned, she was fine when she saw Yao Xi, but she felt a little uncomfortable when she saw Jiang Xuening, and even forced a smile, but she still stood up and held the food box and handed it to them, saying: " What sister Fang said is, this is the peach cake I made myself, the two sisters will try it together?"
Yao Xi's mood today is obviously not much better than the last time she entered the palace, or even worse, with a hint of anxiety.
Seeing Yao Rongrong handing over the peach sliced cake, she was even a little impatient, she just said coldly: "Thanks, but I don't have much appetite today."
He went directly to Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi to sit down.
Yao Rongrong was immediately embarrassed.
Everyone's eyes fell on Yao Xi at once, secretly guessing whether there was any change in her marriage, which made her like this.
Jiang Xuening didn't want to eat this cake.
One is that her impression of Yao Rongrong is not very good, and she always acts pitifully as if someone bullied her; two...
In the last life, she almost got sick from eating this stuff.
So much so that I couldn't help but vomit even when I heard these three words.
But Yao Xi had already refused, it would be too embarrassing for her to refuse again, so she gave a face, took a thin slice from the food box, took a small bite gently, then smiled and said, "Thank you. ."
Just this reaction
Also too bland.
You must know that the peach cake made by Yao Rongrong is so delicious that even Zhou Baoying couldn't help but admire it. Jiang Xuening didn't say anything after eating it
For a moment, Zhou Baoying started to doubt her own sense of taste, and looked at her very puzzled, and said, "Don't sister Jiang family think it's delicious?"
good to eat
Jiang Xuening lowered his eyes and looked at the thin peach slice that had been bitten by himself with a small gap, and he was still thinking of Xie Wei.
The later famous Master Xie.
In the last two years when she became the queen, she had found many good cooks in and outside the palace, and tried to make many kinds of peach cakes, but in the end, the taste of the year was not restored.
Is Xie Wei doing too well, or is she not in the mood to taste it
Jiang Xuening really didn't know.
Thinking about it now, she felt like she was dreaming—
That's Xie Ju'an, who was born in a noble family and is the best in the world. The gentleman in the eyes of the world is a gentleman, a half-sage-like existence, how can he get close to the kitchen and enjoy the fireworks
Of course, the peach cake made by Yao Rongrong can't be said to be bad, but who has seen the bright moon in the sky and admired the brilliance of the pearl
Jiang Xuening glanced at Yao Rongrong, who was silently biting her lip beside her.
In the end, he curled his lips shallowly, made an excuse, and said, "It should be delicious, but I don't like sweet and greasy tastes, so don't be surprised."
Some people don't like the delicacies of mountains and seas.
Of course Jiang Xuening was right.
It's just that her relationship with Yao Rongrong is also a bit delicate, so it's hard not to let people think of something else with such words.
Zhou Baoying didn't think much of it, she just muttered: "I'll just say, my tongue is still very strong. Hey, it's okay if Sister Jiang doesn't eat it! The rest is mine!"
She felt happy at the thought of this.
Regardless of Yao Rongrong's expression, she directly took the food box in front of her and ate happily.
The eight companions who entered the palace this time, except for You Yue, have already arrived.
Jiang Xuening also sat down beside Fang Miao casually.
Everyone talked about what they had encountered after leaving the palace in the past two days. Soon, the focus of attention fell on Yao Xi, who had a bad face when he came in. After all, everyone here knew that she and Zhang Zana A marriage, seeing her like this is inevitably a little worried.
Xiao Shu asked her in a low voice, "But what happened to the marriage proposal?"
Yao Xiliu's eyebrows were lowered, and she was about to cry again: "I begged my father many times after I got home, but my father refused to answer. He insisted that Zhang Zhe was a good match, and even his mother couldn't persuade him. Now I don't know. What should I do..."
Xiao Shu frowned and glanced at Jiang Xuening subconsciously.
Jiang Xuening was indifferent, looking at his nose and nose and heart, and took a cup to drink tea, as if this matter had nothing to do with him.
Everyone may not remember anything else, but Jiang Xuening's ruthlessness when Jiang Xuening captured You Yue and pressed him into the water was still vivid in his mind.
At this moment, he was just like Xiao Shu, looking at her inexplicably.
Jiang Xuening thought it was funny: "It's not me who is discussing relatives, and it has nothing to do with me. What do you all see me doing?"
She has nothing to do with her appearance, there is no problem at all, but in Yao Xi's eyes, there is inevitably a little bit of schadenfreude irony, and her face is intertwined for a while, and for a moment she wants to stand up and reason with Jiang Xuening.
Unexpectedly, before he could speak, someone came outside.
It was a little palace maid who was serving in Yangzhizhai. She was in a hurry, and she held a letter in her hand. She saluted when she came in, raised the envelope over her head, and said, "Greetings to the girls. This is Mrs. Yao outside. The letter from someone said that it was to be handed over to Miss Yao."
Yao Xi was stunned for a moment: She just left home, why did her father write a letter
The envelope was handed to her.
Outside is the powerful handwriting of Mrs. Yao.
In the past, after reading the letter from home, she always felt at ease, but today, for some reason, she was a little flustered. Without even waiting to return to her room, she opened the letter in this hall to read.
The thin envelope contained only two pages of letterhead.
But when Yao Xi saw the writing on the letterhead, he was stunned: it was not his father's words.
My father was used to writing running script, and he was vigorous and powerful, and he was able to run smoothly. But this line is a thin, thin golden body with a thin and slender pen, and even shows a bit of a stern look, showing a little coldness and solemnity.
"I hereby entrust Yao Gong, the younger generation Zhang Zhe, who has been deeply loved, appreciated in the court, and promised to make love. I am in my arms, and I dare not forget it. However, things have changed, and Zha is reckless and upright as an official. First, guilty and traitor behind, we are already struggling..."
In just a few short words, the identity and the intention of the letter have been stated.
It's clearly just a thin page of letterhead, but through this simple line of words, it seems to be able to glimpse the coldness of the man named "Zhang Zhe" calmly writing and writing under the lamp.
Why is there a half-point of flattery
He was sober, even calm, and explained his situation to Yao's father. He didn't embarrass the Yao family, and he didn't covet the lintel of the Yao family. He actually offered to retire.
At this moment, Yao Xi's originally pale complexion suddenly became flushed, then turned pale again, as if embarrassed and ashamed, and tears filled her eyelashes at the end.
I didn't know it before.
But now, after reading the letter written by Zhang Zhe to his father, he knows what kind of person he is, and what a good person he has missed.
And he actually wanted to set up a frame up to force him to quit his relationship...
In addition to the guilt, there is actually a trace of unspeakable remorse welling up...
Yao Xi couldn't tell how she felt.
Only tears kept falling, she put the letter on the ground, buried her face in her arms, and cried loudly while lying on the desk.
Everyone was frightened by her.
Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi both walked up to her and hurriedly asked her, "Isn't that the letter from Master Yao? What did the letter say?"
Yao Xi just cried but didn't answer.
Jiang Xuening turned his gaze to the page of letterhead that Yao Xi's arm was holding down on most of it, and laughed silently when he saw the thin and rigid strokes.
It turned out that his words were like this so early...
She thought it was only later.
Zhang Zhe...
Don't bully the dark room, guard your mind like a city.
In her last life, what kind of luck did she have to meet such a good person
When Yan Lin was nice to her, she was too young and too stubborn, and didn't know how to cherish it at all; when she understood it later, no one was willing to be really nice to her.
There is only one exception.
Jiang Xuening lowered his eyes and looked at Yao Xi, who was crying at the desk, and suddenly thought to himself: He didn't want to involve others, so he took the initiative to withdraw from the kiss. So, Zhang Zhe now has no marriage contract, right