Sheng Weiqiao bit her lip and stared at him blankly. Scenes from the time the two met seemed to be flashing before their eyes: the mutual disgust when they first met; the battle of wits and courage in getting along; the rescue and protection in times of danger; unknowingly The good feelings gradually arise; the sweetness and sadness in the hazy moment; the considerations and conflicts of identity and position after clarifying...
It finally settled into the unfamiliar despair and sadness of the man with familiar features in front of me.
The girl's defense and resistance collapsed in an instant, and she suddenly threw herself into his arms!
Sheng Suihe immediately stretched out his arms to hug her, kissing her gently on her temples, cheeks, and top of her hair, and slowly and slowly raised a proud smile at the corner of his mouth.
Sheng Weiqiao didn't know that he had been deceived again. After hugging him for a while, he felt a little calmer and worriedly suggested: "Since everyone in the Gaomi Palace is unkind, even the people below dare to look at you, this kind of It’s better not to stay here! Why don’t you find an excuse to move out of the palace? Or find a job to stay away from them? "
"I am taking the first prize in the examination. The imperial court has its own regulations to enter the Hanlin Academy. It is impossible to be released outside." Sheng Suihe continued to take advantage while pretending to sigh, "The Hanlin Academy is separated from the palace. Not far away, the princess fell ill two days ago, where do you think I can find a reason to move out of the palace?"
"What do they want to do?" Sheng Weiqiao frowned and said, "After all, you are also our own flesh and blood. If I really didn't like you, why would I recognize you back in the first place? If I recognize you back, I won't treat you well... What does this mean?! "
She suddenly thought of Princess Deping, and then thought of Princess Mo from Princess Deping, and hurriedly pushed Sheng Sleeping Crane, "By the way, have you seen your grandmother?"
"No." Sheng Suihe Xin said that I went back to the Gaomi Palace just to marry you. Naturally, it is better to do less than to do more.
I don’t care about the old concubine’s life or death!
Not to mention that no one in the palace asked me to go see her. Even if they did, I would not even bother to go.
But there was a look of self-deprecation on his face, and he said, "Didn't I tell you? After I went to the palace, in addition to the prince, the princess, and the crown prince and his wife came to see me, the two princesses and Rong Qingzui did not formally follow me. The way I greet each other shows how casual these so-called relatives are! In this case, who would think of taking me to see my grandmother?"
Sheng Weiqiao said hurriedly: "Why don't you bring it up yourself? After all, Concubine Mo is your biological grandmother. It is only natural that you want to pay her respects! I think Concubine Mo will definitely like you!"
For example, "Today at the flower viewing banquet, after Princess Deping arrived, Her Royal Highness Princess Wuyang specifically mentioned that her ribbon ring was given to Concubine Mo by the late emperor. Princess Deping said that it was the concubine who knew that she wanted to Attending a flower viewing party, I specially found someone to reward her. You think Princess Deping had never been cared about or taken care of before, otherwise she wouldn't have grown up to this age and still stayed in the boudoir! Concubine Mo suddenly rewarded her with something, Eighty percent success is because I know you are back!"
"How is that possible?" Sheng Suihe immediately denied, "Do you think the concubine doesn't know that I was recognized by the palace? She hasn't summoned me until now, so she must not care about me! Even if she The old man has lived in a deep palace for a long time, and he doesn’t want to be disturbed in his purity, so he has given Deping something as a reward. Why haven’t I seen anything yet?”
Sheng Weiqiao thought about it and couldn't help but wonder: "But Concubine Mo has been waiting for Princess Deping for several years. Why did she suddenly forgive her now?"
"My dear girl, don't you think this is a sign that the concubine doesn't like me?" Sheng Suihe spared no effort to exaggerate his dire situation in the Gaomi Palace, "Prince Princess Deping may have done something before that greatly annoyed the concubine. Concubine, but as soon as I came back, the concubine immediately eased the relationship with Princess Deping. She would rather give this concubine her granddaughter’s things and worry about her attending the flower-viewing banquet. She didn’t even ask me a word! This was obviously a deliberate attempt to make me lose face. , well, 80% of it is also for the princess to see?"
He sighed, "I just ask that their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law will never use me as a raft in the next battle!"
Sheng Weiqiao felt that he was so miserable, so he sniffed before continuing: "It's not a problem to be like this all the time... If I had known better, my grandfather shouldn't have agreed to your return so easily!"
"Grandfather has no choice. Blood recognition proves the kinship. If grandfather tried to stop it, how could the Sheng family be the opponent of the Gaomi Prince's Palace?" Sheng Suihe said softly, "But don't worry too much. After all, the Gaomi Prince and his wife They still want to be shameless. Even if they are shameless and don’t want to be criticized by Meng, they don’t dare to be harsh on me openly! So they won’t pretend they didn’t see what they should fight for me on the scene.”
"The prince told me before that because of the rules of the dynasty that clan members are not allowed to participate in the imperial examination, I am afraid that I will not be able to keep the number one scholar."
"But he plans to use this in exchange to win a knighthood for me."
"No matter what kind of title you are given by then, there should be a mansion to give it to you."
"In this way, I have reason to strive to live in my own mansion. Although it does not mean that I am completely free from the control of the Gaomi Palace, I can somewhat take a breath..."
He sighed, "As for some grievances and feelings in private, including the contempt of people under management, these are nothing."
"How can this be nothing?!" Sheng Weiqiao said angrily, "The servants in charge are just slaves! A master is always a master after all! Don't say that you are a legitimate son, even if you are a concubine, you are not the kind of thing that can serve others. What a surprise! The palace would actually allow the people below to despise you. I really don’t know if the princess and the prince have any brains?! Isn’t this a slap in their faces?!”
Thinking of the scene when Sheng Suihe first entered the Sheng Mansion, he couldn't help but shed tears of distress, and said bitterly, "When you first entered the Sheng Mansion, you were still carrying the title of a foreign concubine! And I, the legitimate young lady, Keep looking for trouble! That's it, the people below are just watching indifferently when I torment you, and they don't say they bully you in private! This palace... This palace is simply too bullying!"
"So I said that being a good girl is the best for me!" Sheng Suihe said with a smile, "I would have divided most of your family property back then, but you even drove me away openly, and you didn't do anything like my brothers now. Just like a sister, she would be affectionate to me in front of others, and when she turned around and saw no one was there, her face would suddenly change, showing all kinds of yin and yang auras! Not to mention those private methods!"
Sheng Weiqiao said nervously: "They plotted against you in private? What have they done? Are you okay?"
"It's okay, my dear girl, have you forgotten? I am also from Tortoiseshell Island after all. How can it be so easy to trick me using ordinary means?" He secretly thought that at this moment, he let this good girl preconceive and believe that the Gaomi Palace is different from what it looks like. , in the future, even if Sheng Weiqiao sees people in the Gaomi Palace treating him well, he will definitely feel that this is done for everyone to see, but in fact it is not sincere at all.
In this way, this girl will not think that he is lying to him hahahahaha...
Sheng Suihe suppressed his smile and sighed, "I just wanted to live a peaceful life in Sheng Mansion. Even if you and the eighth sister are naughty, it's just a trivial matter and harmless! I didn't expect to return to my blood relatives. , on the contrary, you have to be cautious at all times and everywhere.”
Sheng Weiqiao felt very sad for him when he heard that. He temporarily forgot that at that time, he and Sheng Weiwu even made trouble for their grandfather's birthday by paying a prostitute's daughter to come to their house. This meant that the Sheng family loved their children. The key was that the two of them were still favored by the best. , How could a normal person regard it as an innocuous trivial matter... He asked with concern: "Then when will your ennoblement be completed? Such a palace, it would be better to move out a day earlier!"
"The prince is still talking to the Meng family!" Sheng Suihe thought for a while and said, "It involves the little prince and other matters from more than ten years ago... I'm afraid we won't be able to talk about it in three to five days. But it's always good to have hope. ... Stop talking about me, let’s talk about you, my dear girl, what happened to the flower viewing party you attended today?”
Sheng Weiqiao was about to answer, but suddenly doubted: "My wife didn't tell you? Then why did you come to find me?!"
Didn't he say that the prince and his wife had no good feelings towards him and were very ostracizing him because they thought he came out to snatch the family property? After that wife went back, it shouldn't be possible for her to take the initiative to find him and tell him about the flower viewing feast, right
And since everyone in the Gaomi Palace was not good to him...
It's impossible for someone to take the initiative to deliver news to him, right
"Good girl, didn't I tell you that?" Sheng Suihe was experienced in telling lies. His face did not change when he heard this, and he opened his mouth without blinking, "I have been attacked by some secret hands recently, and it is inevitable that all the trees and grass will be attacked! So for the past two days, Ying Dun and Ah Xi had been keeping a close eye on the princess and the prince's wife. However, shortly after noon today, they heard that the prince's wife had hurried out of the house, and immediately went to spy on the princess after she came back... I went to steal it myself. After listening to their conversation, I realized that something happened at the flower viewing party!"
"It's just that their focus is not on you, and they don't mention you much."
"So I want to hear what happened from your own words?"
Sheng Weiqiao imagined how he would be ostracized and neglected in the Gaomi Palace, and sighed to himself, saying, "Actually, I was careless. I didn't realize anything was wrong until the maid came in front of me. I wanted to stay away from her, but it was already too late..."
She recounted how she was attacked on the rockery, and finally said, "When I woke up, Princess Wuyang and the others were guarding the bed. Juli was also there, saying that it was Ying Jiang who saved me."
Knowing that Sheng Suihe had always been strict with Gongsun Yingjiang, he hurriedly warned him, "Although Ying Jiang followed him to find Xu Baomo, without her, even if Juli was nearby at the time, she would be just an ordinary maid. , you may not be able to save me from the maid who attacked me. So don’t be too harsh on her when you turn around!"
Sheng Suihe said softly: "It's all up to you."
Well, anyway, he didn't have much time to preach to Gongsun Yingjiang at the moment. He planned to directly help his niece improve her memory! ! !
Not knowing that he was being fooled again, Sheng Weiqiao continued, "A group of people gathered around me to express condolences for a while. At this time, a mother-in-law came over and told Her Royal Highness the Princess... The Meng sisters invited a group of people to the Snow Pavilion. Just in time to hit Xu Baomo and Ying Jiang..."
She stopped talking with an ugly expression on her face.
And the murderous intention in Sheng Suihe's heart could hardly be concealed: If Gongsun Yingjiang hadn't rescued Sheng Weiqiao and then took the opportunity to sleep with Xu Baomo, according to the plan of the person behind the scenes, the large group of people invited by the Meng sisters would have The wild mandarin ducks seen at Saxue Waterside Pavilion were probably Xu Baomo and Sheng Weiqiao, right? !
He thought that when he heard that Sheng Weiqiao was attending the flower viewing banquet, he planned to accept the invitation because Rong Qingzhu and his wife, Princess Qingfang and the King of Gaomi jointly persuaded him to stay at the bedside of Princess Gaomi so that the princess could watch him recover. Hurry up; he also thought that Gongsun Yingjiang was following Sheng Weiqiao anyway, and Wuyang Princess Mansion had always been kind to Sheng Lanci's bloodline because of its chief minister, Tu Ruchuan... Sheng Suihe only said that nothing would go wrong, so he left Playing the role of a dutiful son in the palace.
At this moment, Sheng Suihe was so frightened and hated everyone in the Gaomi Palace!
If something really happened to Sheng Weiqiao...
Then even if he personally massacred all the members of the Gaomi Palace afterwards, how would he resolve his hatred? !
The man buried his head in Sheng Weiqiao's hair. The sweet and warm breath of the girl calmed down his anger. After a long time, he straightened up as if nothing had happened and said in a deep voice: "By the way, good girl, what are you doing?" Got separated from Juli? You brought her a personal maid to the table... How could you rush her away?!"
Sheng Weiqiao was shocked when she heard this, and her body stiffened. Sheng Suihe, who was still hugging her, immediately realized how smart he was? After thinking about it for a while, I felt confident. Staring eyes were half-squinted, half-smiling but not smiling: "Good girl, you...did you do something bad and hide it from me?!"