The sky turned pale the next day, and Wei Changjuan stood up to see off Liu Ruoye, who had been chatting with her all night, and had just prepared to leave while there were few people around: "Sister Liu, now I know what 'Fengzhijincao' is. I used to I always thought that all the ladies in the imperial capital were my friends, but unexpectedly, in the past few months, except for Sister Min and you, no one has paid attention to me. "
Liu Ruoye said softly: "It's really sad for everyone to hear what you said. In fact, it's not just me and the Min sister who came to see you, it's just the two of us who remember you - you know that now that we're at your house It's not very convenient to come. Firstly, there are elders at home who are afraid that they will disturb your home; secondly, they don't know how well you are doing here, and they all heard the message on the door saying that you are sad and don't want to see outsiders, otherwise everyone will definitely rebel! The elder wants to come see you."
Wei Changjuan couldn't help but feel embarrassed when she thought that Liu Ruoye had been sent away several times when she came here, and even to the point where she had to bribe the disciples from the corner door and pretend to be a maid to sneak in. She also complained about Wei Changwan in her heart: "I just said that Sister Liu is a Good person, why does the eldest sister think that she led me wrong? How can I be so stupid! Besides, I just said something to the others, and there is no one else here, so Sister Liu has to explain to them. She treats people with sincerity, but her eldest sister is always suspicious of her, alas!”
It's just that Wei Changwan is her sister-in-law after all. Wei Changjuan doesn't want Liu Ruoye to know that it was Wei Changwan who refused her visit. After thinking about it for a moment, she puts the blame on the Min family and Zhou family: "I have never I told the door to say no to you or anyone else, Sister Liu. I don’t think he would have the guts to do this! It must be that the Min and Zhou families are treating me badly and are afraid of letting others know, so they went out of their way to do this. I told them this on the door, just in case someone came to see me and found out the truth. It would make them shameless... Oh, I'm sorry to say that I have such a sister-in-law!"
Liu Ruoye sighed softly and said: "Don't hate them too much. Maybe they have never been in charge of the family before. Now that they have taken charge of it all of a sudden, they are a little busy and can't take care of you for a while. Besides, they are in a hurry." I can't help but feel depressed, so when I see you, my words become a little irritable. After all, you are living under their hands now. It's better to be tolerant in everything, otherwise, you will become angry and get angry. But what? manage?"
Seeing Wei Changjuan's expression of hesitation, she changed the subject and said, "Of course, if Sister-in-law Min and Sister-in-law Zhou go too far, don't wrong yourself too much! After all, you are also the direct blood of your father and brother. , your father and brother are definitely not towards your sister-in-law and not towards you. Besides, I heard you say that Sister-in-law Min and Sister-in-law Zhou are really too much, and they are not the conduct that a woman should have. It is a pity that the relationship between our two families has taken many turns. I thought about it all night and couldn't think of anyone who could help you talk to the two sisters-in-law... But I will discuss it with my mother when I go back and see if she has any good ideas. "
Wei Changjuan was so moved that she almost shed tears again and said, "Sister Liu, you are so kind to me."
"I don't like hearing what you say, it's too outrageous." Liu Ruoye scolded her, "Do we two still need this?" He repeatedly told her not to wrong herself too much.
Wei Changjuan was so sad that she held the handkerchief to the corners of her eyes and said with emotion: "It doesn't matter whether others are really nice to me or just perfunctory, I have two close friends in this life, Sister Liu and Sister Min, so it's worth it for me. Although what Sister Min said to persuade me is different from what you said, I know that you are doing it for my own good. However, speaking of it, I prefer what Sister Liu said to me. Sister Min is good at everything, but she always likes to persuade me and Feng. Zhou, bow your head to Wei Zhangying... I really can't swallow that breath!"
Liu Ruoye was still dressed as a maid. When she heard this, she smiled lightly and said, "Sister, you are feeling worried now, so I won't tell you some things to avoid making you feel even more uncomfortable."
When Wei Changjuan heard this, she quickly grabbed her: "Sister Liu, what else do you know? Why didn't you tell me?"
"Sister Wei Qi, listen to me this time. There are some things that would be better if you didn't know." Liu Ruoye said gently, "Especially if you feel uncomfortable now, why add to the worries?"
The more she said this, the more Wei Changjuan wanted to pull her to ask for more information. However, this time Liu Ruoye's attitude was surprisingly firm, and she only said: "Usually I can't stand your grinding, and I know I shouldn't tell you." I also told you, but it ended up harming you. Now I can’t do that anymore, just listen to me and don’t ask any more questions.”
In the end, Wei Changjuan was left behind.
Back at the Liu Mansion, Zhang Shaoguang was in his room. When he heard that his daughter was back, he came out from the inner room to greet him. When he saw Liu Ruoye wearing the same clothes that he had gone out yesterday, he muttered: "It took such a little time to change clothes." Yes? I thought you came directly."
Liu Ruoye said: "My daughter changed it on the carriage to prevent others from looking suspicious when she got off the carriage."
"What's going on with that little thing in the Wei family? She asked me not to see you? But since you spent the night at the Wei family, I guess she was persuaded by you?" Zhang Shaoguang asked the left and right to step aside and poured the wine for his daughter with his own hands. Bowl of hot tea, asked with a smile.
Liu Ruoye took it, sipped it, and said with a smile: "If she had the foresight to guard against her daughter, she wouldn't have been able to get in yesterday. My daughter guessed that the door wouldn't let her in, so it must be Wei Changwan's. The idea, or someone else from the Wei family."
He added, "What we guessed earlier was indeed correct. Mrs. Duanmu was indeed forced to death by Mrs. Song."
Zhang Shaoguang said: "Ever since the third lady of the Wei family married to the imperial capital, Wei Changjuan has been having trouble with her again and again, so I knew that Wei Shengyi's house was going to be in trouble. That old lady of the Wei family, mentioned Everyone said she was strict with rules, but actually what everyone really wanted to say was that she was ruthless! Back then, she had nothing to do with me when I was in the imperial capital, but I didn’t dare to neglect her when I saw her. She is still alive now, Wei. Changjuan actually dares to provoke her only legitimate granddaughter. Isn't this asking for her own death? "
He muttered, "This seventh lady is also young. She has never seen her aunt's grandmother, so she doesn't know how to be afraid! Think about how well-behaved, considerate and sensible I was under the hands of my aunt's mother when I was a concubine? Even like this, I can't be with my aunt. Sister, if my aunt hadn't passed away early..."
Liu Ruoye laughed and said, "My mother was too flattering when she compared Wei Changjuan to you. She is a person who is so pampered by her parents that she doesn't know how high the world is. How can she compare with my mother?"
After talking about Wei Changjuan for a while, Zhang Shaoguang started talking to his daughter: "You have been winning over this little thing for some time, but now she really has no doubt about you? She and the daughter of the Min family The relationship between the children is also very good. Don’t let the Min family’s children find out that it’s a small thing to dissuade her, and it will be bad for us to become suspicious.”
"How can my daughter not be wary of Min Yinuo? She even reminded Wei Changjuan when she left today!" Liu Ruoye said with a faint smile, "Although she is keeping her filial piety now, she doesn't hear much news from the outside. It's lovely Everyone knows that she has a good relationship with Min Yino. When the day comes, her two sisters-in-law will give her separate gifts just to make the scene look good. Can you not tell her? "
Zhang Shaoguang said: "You just reminded her, but didn't tell her?"
Liu Ruoye smiled and said: "What did my daughter tell her to do? The day has not come yet, so I told her, and she made a fuss after hearing this. Min Yinuo is not there. Min Yinuo will go there in two days, maybe she can still explain What about the past? My mother also knew how easy it was to coax Wei Changjuan. When someone told her, how could Min Yinuo get away? She wanted to tell Wei Changjuan who was really good for her. "
"My son is really smart." Zhang Shaoguang praised his daughter with satisfaction and added, "With such attacks from inside and outside, I'm not afraid that she won't obey your words. I'm just afraid that she will drag you into trouble later, which will be troublesome."
Liu Ruoye pursed her lips and smiled: "If she wants to drag her daughter into the water, she must be able to do so!"
While the mother and daughter were talking, a servant who was waiting in Zhang Shaoguang's yard quietly went out and went to a house in the alley behind the house where the children lived to explain a few words. After a while, the servants went back to continue waiting. Someone came out of this family. They wandered through the streets and alleys. When they saw no one was following them, they went straight to the house that the palace people bought near the palace.
At noon that day, Crown Princess Liu Ruoyu served the Queen for lunch and returned to the East Palace. As I passed the main hall, I could hear endless sounds inside, and there seemed to be many women laughing, and there were charming and passionate words in the laughter. The accompanying palace attendants did not dare to say anything, but Liu Ruoyu just smiled, kept walking and walked over without changing her expression. All the joys and pleasures in the main hall were like spider threads to her. With just a flick of her finger, there was no trace left.
After taking a breath in his bedroom, he felt that life like this was boring, when a palace servant came in from outside and said softly: "Ju Zhong asks to see the empress."
"Let him come in." Liu Ruoyu narrowed her eyes: This Ju Zhong was originally a servant in the East Palace. After she married into the East Palace, she tested him several times and felt that this person was worthy of promotion, so she transferred him to her yard. Specially serve a few peony flowers.
In fact, Liu Ruoyu doesn't like flowers and plants. She doesn't care how to maintain a few peonies, whether they are maintained to death or lingering... What the servant really does is to convey the news inside and outside the palace for her - even the ones bought outside the palace. The house was also given by Liu Ruoyu.
Liu Ruoyu had no other news to convey in a secretive manner: except to inquire about Zhang's mother and daughter.
Everyone around here knows this.
Ju Zhong came in and saluted. He knew that the Crown Princess did not like to be wordy. After being called up, he reported directly: "... I came back at dawn and said I was going to stay one night in Zhuangzi outside the city. But Zhang Ping said that there was nothing on the carriage. The traces of grass blades were as clean as if they had never left the city. The empress knew that now was the time when the vegetation was lush and green, so she said that no matter which village she went to, there would always be grass blades growing by the roadside. It's not as clean as hitting a wheel or something, so Zhang Ping guessed that Liu Ruoye must have gone somewhere else, just hiding it from the master."
Now that they know that Liu Ruoyu hates her half-sister, Ju Zhong and others naturally want to follow their superiors' wishes and only mention Liu Ruoye's mother and daughter by their first names.
Sure enough, Liu Ruoyu wasn't angry at all. Ju Zhong directly said Liu Ruoye's maiden name, concentrated for a moment and said: "Where can she go? Does Zhang Ping know?"
"Zhang Ping slipped out while Liu Ruoye was talking to Zhang Shaoguang, reported a message and went to wait on her. She said that Liu Ruoye had been to the Wei Mansion several times before, and it was unknown whether he was related to the seventh lady of the Wei family." Ju Zhongdao said, "The Wei family has always used the excuse that their seventh lady is in poor health to refuse to see Liu Ruoye. However, another young lady who has a good relationship with the seventh lady of the Wei family, Miss Min, seems to be unrestricted and has come and gone several times. In order to Well, Baihua who was waiting in front of Liu Ruoye even scolded the Wei family in private for not knowing what is good and what is good. Miss Min was just the daughter of a noble family and the granddaughter of the Duanmu family. The Wei family welcomed her in and entertained her, but locked Liu Ruoye out. .”
After hearing this, Liu Ruoyu sneered and said: "Is there anyone in the Wei family who has the brains to know how to avoid this disaster? How pitiful! Even Duanmu lost his life, but her daughter is still so confused! Liu Ruoyu Since Ruoye didn't go back until the night, he must have gone to the Wei Mansion the day before, used a covert method to meet Wei Changjuan, and coaxed Wei Changjuan into staying overnight! "
After pondering for a moment, he said, "If she is staying the night in the Wei Mansion, even if Wei Changjuan takes her in and covers her, it would be extremely risky. After all, other people in the Wei family may not be as confused and easy to coax as Wei Changjuan. Once discovered, Liu Ruoye will definitely not be able to step down! It’s not an urgent matter, Liu Ruoye will definitely not take the risk! But what is she trying to do?”
Ju Zhong said cautiously: "Your Majesty, are you wondering if you are related to Liu Ruowo?"
"The mother and daughter have been calculating and hoping that Liu Ruowo will replace him with a brother from the Sixteenth Clan." Liu Ruoyu lowered her eyelashes and said, "Normally there will be some relationship, but... what exactly are they going to do?"
Ju Zhongke didn't dare or couldn't answer this question. There was silence in the palace for a while. Liu Ruoyu bit her lip and thought: "Normally, Wei Changjuan is young and ignorant, and there is not much she can do. She is the daughter of the Wei family. She deeply hates the people of Fengzhou and Wei Zhangying. If Liu Ruoye wants to instigate her to harm these people... But these two people are not stupid. How can they let her get close to them? What if she is asked to deal with others? , Wei Changjuan really doesn’t have much role to play, but Liu Ruoye has spent so many years making friends with Wei Changjuan, so he naturally has something to like about her... What is it?"
Just as he was thinking about it, the palace door was suddenly pushed open, and Prince Shen Xun walked in wearing crimson silk trousers, with his upper body exposed, and an apricot-colored spring shirt loosely wrapped around his head. He seemed to be having a little too much fun with his concubine in the main hall just now. Now his golden crown is half crooked, his handsome face is flushed, and there are several very obvious rouge marks on his face.
With such a charming, lustful and extravagant air all over his body, he casually and a little jokingly watched Ju Zhong and other palace attendants looking at him in panic. He was stunned for a moment before he bowed down in fear and saluted.
Seeing that Liu Ruoyu also stood up to greet him a little unnaturally, Shen Xun looked at Ju Zhong, who was standing several steps in front of her, sneered, and waved his hands to tell the palace people to step back. When there were only two people in the dormitory, Shen Xun touched his chin, looked at Liu Ruoyu playfully, and said, "I thought you called the chamberlain in secretly because I haven't come to your place for several days. You can't hold it back." I live in loneliness, and find a waiter to play some tricks to relieve my loneliness. It turns out that there is something else going on?" (To be continued)