Xie Wangzhi never expected to hear Xue Geshu say this behind her back. She was a little annoyed instinctively, but more of an embarrassment for accidentally catching someone talking behind her back. Hearing someone say bad things about her behind her back was like catching them coming out of the bathtub. She lowered her head and thought about retreating, but Li Qishen reached out to stop her.
Li Qishen met Xie Wangzhi's surprised look, smiled silently, and gestured for him to continue listening.
"There's a daughter of an official in my room, that's okay, but she's boring, from a small family, no rules, I look down on her anyway." Xue Geshu continued, "The other two are even more annoying, probably from the common people, no rules, quarreling makes me upset every day. One of them is talkative and insists on getting close to me, without even considering her background. If she wasn't in the Shangshi Bureau, would she be qualified to talk to me?"
She tutted, her tone showing obvious disgust. Xie Wangzhi couldn't believe that this was the woman who had insisted on giving her the hairpin before. "The other one is even more annoying than this one. She first ran to Qingsi Palace and then ran back anxiously, leaving me with no place to put my suitcase. She's also short-sighted. She was so happy to get two silver hairpins that I don't like to use, as if she had never seen anything good in her life. Tsk, people from the common people are so ignorant. It makes me annoyed to see her."
Hearing her say this, Xie Wangzhi was stunned at first, then he felt a little funny and a little sad.
She did accept the two silver hairpins, and she thanked him with a smile at that time, but she actually had no shortage of such things. From childhood to adulthood, all the jewellery in her dressing box came from famous shops in Chang'an City. Even if she was not knowledgeable about this, she could tell at a glance that the workmanship of the two silver hairpins was average, and the materials were not pure.
To put it bluntly, if she wore this hairpin to see her brother, with Xie Yunzhi's personality, he would definitely scream and hug her, and pretend to say something sarcastic like "Sister, why are you like this? You have to wear something like this? It's my incompetence that makes you suffer."
But Xie Wangzhi still accepted it. She thought that she couldn't just go against other people's face for nothing. It was her own business if she didn't wear it. What was rare was the thought. However, she didn't expect that her thanks were just four words in Xue Geshu's mouth.
—“short-sighted”.
She lowered her head dejectedly. Li Qishen could not quite understand what this young lady was thinking. He guessed that she was feeling upset, so he naturally raised his hand and rubbed the top of her head twice, then patted it gently.
Xue Geshu was talking about some random things, mostly complaining about his roommates, from Sun Shuirong to Xie Wangzhi, and scolding them one by one. The woman in the room listened patiently and asked, "Qingsi Palace? Where is that?"
"There's nothing to say. It's just where the Seventh Prince lives. It's very remote. I guess she's not in the right place. She actually wanted to hook up with the Seventh Prince. It's a pity that even that Xianbei bastard doesn't like her." Xue Geshu sneered again, "Why don't you look in the mirror and see what you look like? I'm annoyed by these shameless people. They want to be phoenixes even if they are sparrows."
"Hey..." The woman hesitated when she spoke again, as if she felt that Xue Geshu's words were not good, but she didn't know how to persuade her. "This is in the palace, you should keep some things to yourself. Didn't Madam Li hear it before at home? She went to complain to the master, which made the master..."
"Okay, I know." Xue Geshu was annoyed when he thought about it, and he interrupted the nurse directly. After a while, he felt something was wrong and softened his tone, "Don't worry, there's no one here right now. Besides, what if they hear it? I'm not afraid of the one from the Sun family, so why should I be afraid of others? Besides, it's like this. Those people are blinded when they come to the palace, and they can do anything. Wasn't there one in this room before?"
"… This is… "
"It's nothing to say. It's just that a palace maid who used to live in this room moved to Hanxiang Palace. She has ambition but no brains. Who is Concubine Xiao? How dare she do that under Concubine Xiao's nose?" Xue Geshu paused and lowered his voice. "To seduce His Majesty?"
Xie Wangzhi was startled and turned to look at Li Qishen in surprise.
Li Qishen frowned and just shook his head.
"In short, they failed. They didn't make a future and even lost their lives." Xue Geshu sighed, "Ah, that's why I'm annoyed with them. They don't know who they are and just want to climb up. In the end, they end up wrapped in a tattered straw mat. This is fate."
Forget about what happened before. Human hearts are unpredictable and there will always be conflicts. But when hearing this, Xue Geshu downplayed the mention of Yao Yupan. Every word he said was full of condescending contempt. He determined Yao Yupan's guilt based on speculation and said that she deserved to die.
Xie Wangzhi gritted his teeth when he heard this, reached out, pushed open the door, and walked straight to his couch.
The noise was so loud that Xue Geshu's pupils shrank slightly. She didn't know whether she heard it or not. If she heard it, how much she heard. She thought about it, put on a sweet smile on her face, and pretended to be a little surprised: "Oh, Wangzhi, you are back? My wet nurse came to see me today, so she is in the room..."
Xie Wangzhi didn't want to pay attention to her. He rummaged through the low cabinet beside the bed and pulled out a notebook with the recipes of snacks.
"… What are you looking for?" Normally, Xue Geshu would have been annoyed by being ignored like this, but now he felt guilty, so he smiled and moved closer, "I'll help you…"
"Don't pretend, I'm disgusted." Xie Wangzhi straightened up, holding the book loosely, "Since you look down on the people in the same room, if you can say it to their faces, I respect your straightforwardness. But you only dare to slander them in front of the wet nurse, and you show another face in front of others. Do I need a smile from you, or these two hairpins?"
She raised her other hand, took out the silver hairpin and threw it back onto Xue Geshu's couch accurately, turning it over on the quilt. "I accepted this hairpin only because it was a rare gift, not because I liked it. Now I know you didn't have this intention, so I will return it as it is. From now on, we can go our separate ways and don't say another word to me."
Xue Geshu didn't expect Xie Wangzhi to be so hard, and was stunned for a moment. Or the wet nurse saw something wrong, fearing that Xie Wangzhi was doing something bad behind her back, and hurriedly said: "This... Madam, calm down. Our madam is the legitimate daughter, and the master usually dotes on her, so this is..."
Xie Wangzhi just hated Xue Geshu's behavior. He had no problem with the wet nurse, but he didn't want to pay attention to her and avoided her, so he moved aside.
"I think the lady is about twelve or thirteen years old. My wife is a little older, but she is no more than fifteen. She is still a young lady, so how can she be angry?" The nurse continued, "The lady is not feeling well, so she expresses it..."
"Come back!" Xue Geshu interrupted her.
The nurse was startled and looked back at her: "Madam..."
"I said come back!" Xue Geshu was annoyed, and pulled the wet nurse back, and said directly to Xie Wangzhi, "You are so tough now, but you usually don't try to please the female officials above you? What did I say wrong? Saying that you are from a humble family is considered to be a compliment to you. Are you qualified to show disrespect in front of me, the Xue family?"
"Oh, Xue?"
Xue Geshu was just about to continue humiliating Xie Wangzhi when she heard a young boy's voice. It was clear and loud, but a little hoarse when she listened carefully. She was stunned and looked towards the door, just in time to meet Li Qishen's gaze.
Li Qishen lazily leaned against the door and said slowly, "The Xue family started their career when Emperor Pingxing was about to pass away. It has only been more than 20 years. Do they deserve to call themselves a noble family?"
"you… "
"The Xue family hasn't produced an official of the fifth rank or above for so many years. They just cling to the aristocratic families, and have been switching between the Taiyuan Wen family and the Boling Cui family. Unfortunately, they can't cling to any of them." Li Qishen didn't like to use his power to pressure others, nor did he think that the Longxi Li family's blood was noble. But since Xue Geshu didn't speak human words, he was too lazy to be a human either, and spoke even more harshly than her, "Saying that you are a slave of two surnames is giving you face. You have reduced a few families, and you still dare to call yourself a noble family?"
"What nonsense are you talking about! This is the Imperial Food Bureau, and my father is the Left Assistant Minister of the Ministry of Personnel," Xue Geshu was so angry that his face turned red. "Who do you think you are? You come here to talk nonsense and bark wildly!"
"Then you can go back and ask your father," Li Qishen was not angry, but just smiled and said softly, "Do you dare to stand and speak in front of a Xianbei bastard like me?"
The next moment, his smile disappeared, his pupils suddenly turned cold, and his brows were cold, "Kneel down!"
Xue Geshu's face turned pale instantly, and his legs were shaking a little as he looked at the young man at the door.
It was true that she looked down on the three people who shared the same room with her, but she had no intention of really tearing them apart. She was just arguing in front of the wet nurse for a while, and she would have to eat and live with them in the future. As for the Seventh Prince of Qingsi Palace, Xue Geshu didn't know him at all. She just heard people say behind his back that he was a "Xianbei bastard" and said it casually.
However, he never expected that Li Qishen would hear it right away.
Xue Geshu's lips trembled. She froze for a while, then she knelt down slowly and bowed her head to admit her fault: "Your Highness, please forgive me. I am blind and blind. It is my fault."
As aggressive as he was just now, he is so humble now. He is really a strange man. Li Qishen thinks that he looks very much like some hunting dogs he has seen before, which can't even catch a rabbit in the hunting ground, bark at women and children, and whimper with their tails between their legs when they see a slightly older man.
"You look like a member of the Xue family." Li Qishen was too lazy to say more. He turned his gaze to Xie Wangzhi and said softly, "Did you find it?"
Xie Wangzhi responded, showed the notebook in his hand to Li Qishen, walked around Xue Geshu who was kneeling on the ground, and went out to the small kitchen.
Seeing the two people go out, the wet nurse hurriedly tried to help Xue Geshu, but was pushed away by Xue Geshu.
The wet nurse was stunned: "Madam, what are you doing..."
Even though she had Xianbei blood and was not favored, Li Qishen was still a prince and a monarch. It would be easy for him to torment a palace maid. He did not say how to punish her or when she could kneel before getting up. Xue Geshu really did not dare to get up. No matter how resentful she was, she could only grit her teeth and endure it.
But this time she didn't dare to say anything, she gritted her teeth and said, "Don't bother me."
Let’s not worry about the Seventh Prince for now. Thinking of the way Xie Wangzhi went out just now, Xue Geshu felt so angry that his teeth were itching. He folded his hands tightly on his knees, rubbed his skirt with his fingertips, and pulled it with his fingertips. He wished that this skirt was not made of cloth, but human skin peeled off from Xie Wangzhi's body.
But apart from rubbing her skirt, she had no other choice. It seemed that Xie Wangzhi really had an affair with Li Qishen, and Xue Geshu could only endure it.
After enduring for a while, she suddenly looked up and saw a black shadow rushing past the door, like a dark cat.
The author has something to say: The tool person will not be offline for the time being, but it will be offline soon. The plot requires her to stay behind the scenes for a few more chapters (.) It's too abrupt to start the plot from the next chapter.jpg
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