It was quiet all around, no one said anything, and no one wanted to be the one who stood out for no reason.
It is human nature to bully the weak and fear the strong.
Mingru is a smart person. Logically speaking, she should not stand up and speak at this time, but should pretend to be deaf and dumb.
But once the emotions surged up, it was difficult to control them.
The fact that Mingzhu was still alive obviously made her confused.
Mingru laughed forcefully, "Your Highness, how dare you say harsh words? We always care about sister Mingzhu's mood when speaking, lest she become sensitive and shed tears easily when she feels wronged."
She spoke in a calm and relaxed tone, but her words sounded strange and sinister, but there was no way to criticize her.
Zhao Shi glanced at Mingru with a cold gaze, and he suddenly remembered that during the two days when he was seriously injured and unconscious, Mingzhu thought he couldn't hear anything and kept mumbling those words in his ear.
She said she didn't like her sister at all.
I hate having to do her laundry in the winter.
If someone makes things difficult for them, they still have to look at their eyes and act accordingly.
Zhao Shi sneered, the emotion in his eyes unclear, and asked slowly word by word: "Don't you dare?"
The man looked at her coldly, his eyes like cold arrows, with a rare and strong murderous intent coming towards her face.
Mingru had never seen the always gentle and good-tempered His Highness the Crown Prince so angry. She shuddered and the handkerchief in her hand was pinched out of shape. She could no longer keep the smile on her face and she kept silent.
Zhao Shi stared at her coldly, "I want to ask you something."
A chill ran down Mingru's back. She really regretted that she shouldn't have said anything just now. She was annoyed and hated at the same time. Why did His Highness the Crown Prince protect this bitch like this? She couldn't even say a word, and when she got upset, she would attack them.
The timid girl was so frightened that she couldn't bear it any longer and took the initiative to speak: "Mrs. Crown Prince, I want Miss Mingzhu to be a concubine. She has no... no qualifications..."
She was trembling when she spoke, and she only dared to say half of the original words, and the remaining half was left.
…
What happened at the flower banquet spread everywhere soon.
The concubine that His Royal Highness once loved was not burned to death. Not only that, this girl of low status, whose mother was rich because of her son, suddenly transformed into a princess.
His Royal Highness the Prince got angry at the flower banquet and punished many people.
Mingru was so humiliated in public that she couldn't help but sit on the carriage back home. When he arrived at the Hou Mansion, he was beaten again by Madam Hou.
When Mingru first married into the Hou family, her life was pretty good. But after more than a year of marriage, there was still no movement in her stomach. Mrs. Hou gradually became dissatisfied and asked her several times to ask a doctor to take a look.
Mingru herself was worried and asked several famous doctors in the capital, but they couldn't figure out what was going on.
She didn't dare to let her husband check her pulse, so she had to swallow the bitter water by herself.
Mrs. Hou's dissatisfaction is getting deeper day by day. She doesn't like anything about her. She has to find faults when eating or drinking. Mingru swallows her anger. She couldn't bear it some time ago and said back: "The doctor said I am in good health."
After hearing this, Mrs. Hou became furious and glared at her, "What do you mean?"
Mrs. Hou's face was full of anger and she continued: "I can't get out, and I have to pour dirty water on my son. I will add two sensible girls to his room tomorrow."
Mingru was so angry that she hated crawling on the bed as a slut.
But Mrs. Hou really sent two beautiful and charming little girls to her husband's tent. What's even more annoying is that a few days ago, that wretched maid was diagnosed with a happy pulse.
Mingru was distraught, and now that she knew that bitch Mingzhu was still alive and that the pheasant had become a phoenix, her mood became even worse!
Both of them wanted to climb on top of her.
Mrs. Hou said: "It doesn't matter if you offend others, but don't offend the prince and delay your son's future. I won't spare you."
Mingru gritted her teeth and said yes.
Mrs. Hou looked at her deeply and said, "Your sister's status is very different now. No matter how you bullied her in the past, when you see her in the future, you will be polite to her. You shouldn't say anything." Swallow all your words, everyone has his or her own destiny, and there are certain fates that you can’t accept even if you don’t accept them.”
Mingru was about to faint from anger, she felt even more humiliated than just now when His Highness the Crown Prince punished her to copy the female commandments in public.
…
Mingzhu vaguely realized that Zhao Shi was supporting her at the flower banquet. She didn't feel any fluctuation in her heart. She just found it interesting that the faces of the girls who looked down on her changed.
Usually when looking at people with their nostrils, they would turn around and tell them that the elder sister is the elder sister and the younger sister is the shorter one. They call each other closer than their own sisters.
She sat on the incense stick for less than half a day before she felt so bored that she felt sleepy. While chatting with them here, she might as well go back and spend more time with her daughter.
Her enthusiasm waned and she yawned, sat there for a while, and then slipped away to the lakeside outside the side hall.
In summer, Mingzhu liked to stay in the water the most. The palace maid following her saw her taking off her shoes and did not stop her.
"Princess, you must not go into deep water."
"I know."
Mingzhu picked a lotus leaf, made it into a hat, and put it on her head to block the dazzling sunlight.
The lotus leaves swayed in the wind, her trouser legs were already wet with water, and the ice-cold lake water covered her calves.
Zhao Shi didn't know when he came, and watched her stay in the water quietly, "Don't soak for too long."
Mingzhu turned around and saw him standing on the shore, with no expression on his face, and said "hmm" in a low voice.
Zhao Shifang thought she was going to sink into the water, but he broke into a cold sweat. Standing in the sun, his hands and feet were cold and he didn't feel hot at all.
Mingzhu walked ashore slowly, her trouser legs and skirt were soaked, and she felt heavy when walking.
Mingzhu bent down and was about to put on her shoes when her body suddenly flew into the air. Zhao Shi picked her up and said, "Go and change clothes first."
When Mingzhu raised her head, she could see his perfect jawline, as well as his delicate and cold profile. The end of his eyes was a rare watery red, and the thin red outline of his eyelids added a touch of color to his solemnity. gas.
His knuckles were so hard that it hurt a little when he squeezed her soft waist.
No one on the road dared to look up.
Mingzhu was carried back to the bedroom by him. She changed her clothes and looked up outside. It was getting late and it would be dark in a while.
Mingzhu had her child in mind and didn't want to spend the night in the palace.
Zhao Shi asked her to relax, "It's too late to leave the palace later."
Mingzhu nodded lightly, poured herself a glass of water on the bed, and caught a glimpse of the green bamboo outside the hall. She suddenly lost her mind, her wrist lost its strength, and she held it in her hand. The water glass fell to the ground and broke into pieces. Porcelain tiles.
The hall was paved with exquisitely embroidered carpets. When she got out of bed, she didn't wear shoes. Her bare feet stepped directly on the ground. She was frightened by the breaking sound and took two steps back to the side.
Mingzhu hissed, stepping on broken pieces of porcelain on the soles of her feet, and she frowned in pain.
Zhao Shi told her not to move and carried her back to the bed. The expression on the man's face was not very good, and his eyebrows were cold and cold. He put his hands on her leg sockets, raised her legs up, and carefully He looked at it and said, "It's bleeding."
The fragments dug into the flesh, causing injuries.
Zhao Shi looked attentively and gently picked out the crumbs from the meat with his fingers.
Mingzhu felt pain, but it was not unbearable.
Zhao Shi used a wet handkerchief to clean the soles of her feet, and then began to apply medicine to her. He applied the cold ointment to the wound. It didn't hurt at all.
He lowered his head slightly, his expression focused and his movements gentle.
After applying good medicine to the wound, Mingzhu couldn't wait to move her legs away from him and hid under the quilt.
Zhao Shi took the trouble to tell her over and over again, don't leave your feet bare.
But she always refused to listen, which gave him a headache.
He knew that she found it too hot in summer and didn't like to wear socks.
Zhao Shi couldn't do anything to her. He sighed helplessly, then stood up and poured her another glass of water, "Drink slowly."
Mingzhu held the cup and sipped the water in small sips.
At this time, the key to the palace gate has been released.
Zhao Shi was afraid that she would be unhappy, so he took her out of the palace.
After getting off the carriage, Mingzhu rushed to see her daughter. Zhao Shi easily grasped her wrist and pulled her back into his arms, "The child has gone to bed long ago."
Mingzhu thought for a while, "Just go and have a look, it won't wake her up."
Mingzhu quietly entered her daughter's room and saw her sleeping in the crib with her limbs spread out. She couldn't help but smile, covered her with a quilt and went out.
Zhao Shi was still in the study.
Mingzhu was not at ease in her heart. She knew that Zhao Shi's injury was almost healed, but there was always something pressing against her waist when she went to bed these days.
Some things have to be faced sooner or later.
But she subconsciously wanted to escape.
Seeing that she was worried, the little maid asked, "What's wrong, girl?"
Mingzhu felt that the voice was a little strange, and when she looked up, it was another little maid whom she had never seen before.
She looks very good, fair and clean, with bright facial features, and there are pear dimples on her cheeks when she smiles. She wears a figure-flattering coat and skirt, and has big breasts and a thin waist. She is a girl who can make people's eyes shine.
But her eyes were evasive and not innocent.
Mingzhu guessed that she might have some evil intentions and wanted to crawl into bed with the maid. She had seen her before in the Ming family.
She lowered her eyes, pretending not to see anything.
After a while, Manager Lin came over and sent a message, "His Royal Highness is thirsty and would like to drink some tea made by you."
Mingzhu lowered her eyes and thought, "Okay."
Manager Lin didn't expect that she would go so smoothly, so he happily went to the study to return to work.
Mingzhu raised her eyes and glanced at the little maid, and she asked: "Do you want to deliver tea to His Royal Highness?"
The little maid concealed her joy and said, "Of course I am willing."
"Yes." Mingzhu continued: "Go and brew a pot of Longjing and bring it to His Highness."
Zhao Shi was at his prime age, and he was not someone who would wrong his own people. She didn't want to wait on her, so letting those who were willing pass was the best of both worlds.
The little maid accepted the love happily, and ran to the kitchen with the wind on her feet, boiling hot water, brewing Longjing tea, carefully arranging her appearance, putting rouge on her lips again, and applying perfume to her neck. Then she took the tea and knocked on the door of His Royal Highness the Prince's room.
Zhao Shi thought it was Mingzhu who was coming, so he let people in without raising his head.
Suddenly, a strange and cheap fragrance reached the tip of his nose.
Zhao Shi raised his head and said in a very cold voice, "Where is the Crown Princess?"
The little maid was frightened by this question. She was still not brave enough. The prince only said a few words and she was so frightened that her legs weakened.
She lowered her head and answered: "The Crown Princess asked the slave to come and serve you."