In the main courtyard, Mu Qingling was sitting beside the bed with a white face, drinking the medicine bowl in his hand one by one.
Her appearance is not as stunning as Mu Qingrong's. If Mu Qingrong is a slim peony, then she is an elegant little lotus. Although she is also a beauty, from childhood to adulthood, as long as she is standing beside Mu Qingrong, Mu Qingling was always the one who was ignored.
Mu Qingling didn't mind this. Although her father died when she was a child, she was treated like a standard lady, and she was taught by her mother, so she developed an open-mindedness.
She has never liked to do things like competing with her sister.
I don't like to do things, but I don't like to do things. When I learned that my sister Mu Qingrong had openly proposed that the servants beside the prince should retire, and there were whispers to talk to him alone, Mu Qingling was still stimulated.
This excitement is not much because of the sadness that her husband may be tempted. After all, on the day of the wedding, Mu Qingling already knew that the person her husband, King Linjiang really liked, was the second daughter, Mu Qingrong.
King Linjiang never concealed this, and in his words there was still displeasure that Mu Qingling had married instead of Mu Qingrong.
She was rejected by her new husband just after she got married. It would be a lie to say that Mu Qingling was not sad, and she could vaguely guess why she, who had never met King Linjiang that day, would marry her sister in place of her sister, even though she was the daughter of the eldest house. , But having lost her father, in the Hou Mansion, she was nothing but an orphan without the protection of her father.
Although Mu Qingling seldom went out for activities since his father's death, he lived in the mansion and knew more or less about the character of his third sister, Mu Qingrong.
She must have looked down on King Linjiang.
Then, the best solution is to push out the third sister, who is also the direct daughter of the Hou Mansion, without the protection of her father, to marry King Linjiang instead of her.
Neither will King Linjiang be angry and blame the Houfu, nor will Mu Qingrong be wronged.
Mu Qingling has already recognized it.
Hearing that King Linjiang likes to play, he doesn't know how to learn, he is an out-and-out playboy, she comforts herself, she is now a younger brother, and has the identity of a prince. Although he likes to play, there is no cruelty. 's reputation.
The rule in the Hou's mansion is that every daughter who gets married must pay a dowry from the public treasury. The specifications of the daughter and the concubine are naturally different, but it is Mu Qingling's turn to get married. Now the second aunt, who is in charge of the Hou's mansion, has had a hard time in the mansion. The shop has also lost a lot of money. The silver taels and other items are strictly followed by the rules. Only the dowry, which looks good, and when you open the box, you can see that it is something that cannot be taken out.
The second aunt did this because she was sure that Mu Qingling’s mother and daughter were unreliable, and her younger brother was young. She was a married daughter. If she made trouble with the name of a bad dowry purchased by the mansion, she would suffer in the end. Herself.
The Hou Mansion is her only support on the face. Although a woman is married to her husband, if she wants to live well in her husband's family, it is not necessary to rely on her mother's family for support. Based on this, Mu Qingling can only swallow the bitterness. in stomach.
The mother wanted to sell her dowry as a dowry for her, but was stopped by Mu Qingling. No matter how bright her dowry was, as a princess in the future, no one would dare to question her, but her mother's dowry had to be kept, waiting for her younger brother to grow up. When they are older, they can be separated from the government and buy family property later.
If she is a married daughter of a Hou's house, she can deduct it if she is married to a second aunt. In the future, the Hou's house will be divided up, and she also knows that the second uncle and the second aunt will not be able to give much to the big room.
Being pushed out to marry on her behalf, and being deducted from her dowry, these Mu Qingling could bear it, but Mu Qingrong openly had an affair with her husband after she got married, and she couldn't bear it.
If he liked King Linjiang, why did he push her over to marry him
Now Mu Qingling is already the princess, and Mu Qingrong, as the second-in-law's daughter of the Hou's mansion, does not care about her identity at all. In front of so many servants of the mansion, she wants to get along with the prince alone. If King Linchuan was not there at the time, she took the initiative to follow him. Go, I am afraid that before tomorrow, the entire capital will be able to spread the gossip of the prince and Mu Qingrong.
A woman has a relationship with a man before she gets married. Is there any other way for her to marry him
When that time comes, can Mu Qingrong be the concubine, who is also the direct daughter
She became a concubine, where would Houfu's face go? The remaining sisters who have not married will be inferior to their in-laws in the future!
Even the prince of Fuzhong, with such a shameless sister, might not be able to find a wife.
Mu Qingling became seriously ill on the second day after she got married. She was in a coma and just woke up today. As soon as she woke up, she found out about such a thing. There, he just said that he just woke up and thought he was going to die soon, so he asked the third sister to help him speak to the prince.
No matter how anxious she was, for the sake of her mother, brother, and innocent sisters who were still in the Hou residence, she had to bite the bullet and help Mu Qingrong save her reputation.
The people were sent out, but Mu Qingling did not feel relieved at all, but more worried.
For some reason, she felt powerless a few days before her marriage, and after she got married, she fell into a coma after the wedding night, but even so, Mu Qingling was able to get to know a little about him through the short time she spent with her husband. 's character.
Lin Shiheng, the king of Linjiang, the youngest son of the empress dowager, when he was born, he has been named the prince today. It is said that there were seven princes of the first emperor at that time. Among them, the dragon and the phoenix had already begun to fight before they were crowned the prince. The emperor was named a prince, and these princes unanimously pointed their finger at him.
He has been able to get to where he is today. I don’t know how many guns and arrows he has escaped. Perhaps it was because he was deeply wounded by those half-brothers. It is very forgiving, especially his younger brother, King Linjiang, who is even more fond of him.
King Linjiang was still young when he ascended the throne today, the queen mother was his biological mother, and the emperor was a brother. The high-ranking prince, this little child's temperament has turned into a playful reputation.
In other words, it is a giant baby version of the bear child.
On the night of the bridal chamber, Mu Qingling only had a brief conversation with her arrogant husband. Obviously, although her husband was too domineering and domineering, his heart was not bad, but he may have never suffered any hardships. With just a few words, he can take it seriously and do everything.
Although he was not satisfied with his own princess, it could be regarded as respect. He handed over the palace to Mu Qingling that night. Mu Qingling didn't expect her husband to fall in love with her when he saw him. He just wanted to treat each other like guests. .
Since the prince trusted her and handed over the entire palace to her, she would take good care of the palace and give back this trust.
Who would have thought that her dilapidated body had reached such a point that she fell into a coma the next day.
Mu Qingling sighed, she didn't want to die, she wanted to live well, to live to see her brother grow up, get married and have children, move out of the Hou Mansion with her mother, and also want to see her mother take care of her old age.
Therefore, even though Mu Qingrong's heartache was hurt by Mu Qingrong's death-defying behavior, which was likely to bring down the entire Hou Mansion, Mu Qingling still stood up to drink the medicine and tried to save herself again.
It's just that her body is too weak and her hands are weak. After taking a few sips, she slowly put down her hands and said softly, "Nanny, feed me."
Seeing this scene, the nurse who had been guarding carefully by the bed, her distressed tears fell, and she quickly took the medicine bowl and scooped the medicine to Mu Qingling's mouth. Seeing that she just fed a tablespoon by herself, she drank a tablespoon. , seems to be completely unaware of the bitterness of the medicine, and more and more tears fall.
"Girl, the servant will send the letter back, and let the lady come to see you."
"No need."
Mu Qingling shook his head and said with a wry smile: "My mother must cry when she sees me like this. Since the imperial doctor said it was saved, why should I make my mother sad?"
When the nurse heard her say that, her heart hurt even more, and she couldn't help crying bitterly.
Her family's girl is such a good person, why is her life so miserable? It's just that she lost her father since she was a child. She is obviously the eldest daughter of the Hou's house, but she has to avoid her sister. He took a step out of the door, but was married in such a confused way.
Originally, when her dowry was manipulated and she was very angry, the girl comforted her. After all, she would be a princess in the future, what a noble status. Who would have thought that before the good days of being a princess began, she was first destroyed by a strange illness. Got a clean!
Seeing that the medicine in the soup bowl was finished, the girl closed her eyes slightly with a pale face, looking very tired, but she still insisted on asking, "Is the girl I sent back?"
This girl naturally meant the girl who was sent to the bamboo forest to find an excuse for Mu Qingrong to get along with the prince alone.
The nanny thought of the undisguised publicity on Mu Qingrong's beautiful face.
When she was in the mansion, the girl in her family kept avoiding it. Now they are all married. It was clearly a marriage that the three girls didn't want. Why did she come to disrupt the situation again? Even if she doesn't want to be shameless, there are still unmarried girls in the mansion!
The nanny was so angry that her teeth were itching, and she spoke with anger: "You haven't come back yet, girl, if you want the servant to tell you, you should tell the mansion what the three girls did today."
"The mansion."
Mu Qingling seemed to have thought of something, and there was a bit of ridicule in his eyes, and he said softly: "I'm afraid it won't work, the second uncle and the second aunt have always been on the same mind, even if they told them, they would only think that I was deliberately smearing the three. sister reputation."
"Then you can't just let the three girls seduce the prince!"
There are only the two of them in this room, and the nanny is not afraid of being taboo when she speaks, she only hates: "It was clear that she looked down on the prince and refused to marry her, so she pushed the girl to replace her, but now that the girls are married, she is bumbling again. It's the poor girl who can't get enough food to post, and she's not as shameless as her!"
"No matter how shameless she is, even if it's for Ning'er's reputation, I'll take care of her."
Ning'er is Mu Qingling's concubine Mu Ning. Back then, when her father returned to his hometown to worship his ancestors, he fell seriously ill on the way back to the hometown. Before returning to the capital, he died. The concubine who followed him was shocked and gave birth to a child. Son followed.
When the group returned to Beijing, the eldest lady, who suddenly knew the news of her husband's death, almost fainted from crying, but the fact was in front of her eyes, and she could only put away her grief and keep her concubine under her knees.
After so many years of teaching, although he is a concubine, he is no different from his direct son. In Mu Qingling's heart, his younger brother Mu Ning and his mother are the only people she cares about in the Hou Mansion.
Now Mu Qingrong's big move will drag down the whole house. Mu Qingling doesn't even have the strength to get angry. She has long been accustomed to the temperament of the third sister, as long as she is cool, she is the second uncle and the second aunt. , Haven't I never considered the reputation of Fuzhong
Now, she just wants to survive until her younger brother grows up and can take her mother to separate the family. At that time, the messy affairs in the Hou's mansion will no longer affect their family.
Mu Qingling felt a little sleepy after drinking the medicine, but she had to wait for the girl sent out to come back, so she could only force herself to let the nurse take a book to show herself, but after reading a few pages, she heard the door The voice of a woman crying and the girl beside her scolding came from outside.
She was already ill, and after such a quarrel, Xiu Xiu's brows could not help but wrinkle tightly together, and she asked with a white face, "Who is outside?"
The nanny looked at her own girl in distress, and stood up in a hurry: "Slave, go take a look."
After a while, the person who was arguing outside was brought to Mu Qingling's bed.
She was dressed in coarse cloth. Even so, it did not hinder her beautiful appearance. As soon as she entered the room, she knelt on the ground. Seeing Mu Qingling who was still leaning on the bed, it was as if she had seen a savior. to the bedside.
When she got to the bedside, she kept kowtowing, and while kowtowing, she begged: "I beg the princess to save the people's daughter, and I beg the princess..."
Mu Qingling was disturbed by her cries and had a great headache. She couldn't help pressing her eyebrows and asked the girl who came in with the woman, "What's going on?"
The girl's face was embarrassed. After hesitating for a while, she still knelt on the ground and said crisply: "This is... the concubine of the prince."
"I originally lived in Xiyuan, but I heard that the princess woke up today, so she made a noise to come to find the princess, but the guards in the mansion dared not stop her, which disturbed the princess."
"No! I'm not a concubine!!"
The woman was provoked by this sentence, raised her bloody head and begged: "The girl is from Longxi, and she went to Beijing with her father a few days ago. When she met the prince on the way, he tied the girl back to the mansion. Said... Said to accept the people's daughters as the common room, and beg the princess for mercy! The people's daughters still have a marriage contract, so I really can't serve the king!"
"The girl originally wanted to die, but in the past few days, the prince has never touched the girl because of the illness of the princess. Now that she is still innocent, the girl wants to ask the princess for mercy..."
After she finished speaking, she continued to kowtow to Mu Qingling as if not afraid of the pain, and she kept begging: "I beg your concubine's kindness to put the people back, and I beg your concubine's kindness..."
Mu Qingling heard a burst of blackness in front of her eyes, and almost did not faint. The nurse saw that her face was white and transparent, she stepped forward to help her, and asked worriedly, "Girl?"
"I'm fine."
Mu Qingling took a few breaths with white lips, and finally calmed down before he let out a sigh of relief, "Send this girl out of the house, and then transfer fifty taels from my private bank to suppress her shock. If the prince asks, just let her go. He came to find me!"
The last sentence was full of anger.
She originally thought that although the husband she married was not an unparalleled hero, and he was not a little ignorant, he was not a villain anyway, and treating her as a princess could be regarded as respect.
result! He actually robbed the civilian girl! Still at the foot of the Imperial City!
There are no rules at all in this mansion. Leaving aside the matter of this girl, just because she can run all the way to the main courtyard of the princess as a passerby, you can see how unruly there are in the palace.
The guards can't stop it, and the girl can't stop it!
To put it in a bad way, if it wasn't this poor girl who broke in today, it was an outsider.
Mu Qingling made up her mind to take care of her body a little, and then she began to take care of the affairs of the mansion, and the prince, even if she would anger him, she had to make it clear to him that it was okay to have a concubine, but not a concubine. It's a girl who is forcing others to be unwilling. What's the difference between that and a beast.
As soon as she thought about it, she heard a short exclamation from the poor girl who was helped by the girl to stand up, and then, as if she had seen a beast, she quickly threw away the girl's hand with blood on her head and hid by the bed. Eyes full of despair.
"Princess... Princess save me..."
Mu Qingling propped himself up and looked over, and as expected, seeing that it was his husband, Lin Shiheng, the king of Linjiang, opened the curtain and walked in.
She held her weak hand slightly, and said softly to the poor woman, "Don't be afraid."
As a woman, the most fearful thing is to be a concubine and be defiled. If she doesn't care today, this poor woman may not escape death in the end.
Even if she angered the prince today, she must protect this woman!
Lin Shiheng looked at Mu Qingling, who was staring at him with a white face. She was only sixteen this year, and she was beautiful. Because of her serious illness, she looked very weak, but the almond eyes were not as calm as water in the memory of the original owner, but with a smile on her face. Thin angry.
He frowned and looked up and down at the shivering woman hiding beside the bed, "Who is this? How did you get blood on one head?"
Saying that, she looked at Mu Qingling who was leaning against her weakly: "Is it the princess of yours?"
Mu Qingling did not relax, but asked, "Your Highness doesn't know her?"
"This king has seen so many people back and forth every day. If I saw one and knew one, wouldn't I have been exhausted long ago."
Lin Shiheng didn't care about the coldness in her tone at all. After speaking, he swaggered and sat on the edge of the bed. He looked at the woman standing beside the bed with a look of disgust. , the disgust in his eyes suddenly became heavier.
"It's bloody, it's an eyesore, so don't hurry up and clean it up." After he said this with a look of disgust, he turned to look at Mu Qingling again, and his tone was quite puzzled: "The man beside you Girl, how can you still look so ugly? It's not unpleasant to have such a bloody face."
"ugly?"
Mu Qingling almost didn't get annoyed by him: "If the lord thinks she is ugly, why did he force her to come back?"
"This king robs someone?"
King Linjiang, who was wearing a fancy dress, was stunned for a moment, and his eyes showed a look of sudden realization: "This king drank too much wine that day, and he grabbed a beautiful woman and came back to enjoy it. Isn't this the princess, are you sick? Just put it in Xiyuan first. already."
"Now that the princess is getting better, this prince should enjoy it."
After he finished speaking confidently, he turned his head and glanced at the woman who was standing tightly clutching the curtain of the bed and shaking non-stop. His brows gradually frowned, and he looked at her up and down in confusion.
"This king... robbed such an ugly person and came back? It seems that he drank too much alcohol, and he can't see who he is."
King Linjiang, who has high requirements for appearance, directly forgot what he said just now that he wanted to enjoy beauty, and directly ordered:
"You guys, throw this one out of the palace, don't sully the eyes of this king!"
Several girls in the house looked at each other in dismay, and didn't dare to move for a while, Lin Shiheng kicked directly on the corner of the bed: "Hurry up! What's wrong with not eating!"
Mu Qingling, who was leaning weakly by the bed, carefully observed his expression, and found that he was really disgusting the ugly of the commoner woman. Although he was puzzled, he still nodded to those girls and said: " Send her out of the house, give her fifty taels, and then ask a doctor to look at the wound for her."
"Yes… "
Several people were blessed, and the woman hurriedly exited the house with a face full of "Thank God, thank the princess, thank you".
Lin Shiheng first smiled at Mu Qingling, then looked at the nurse who was standing beside the bed with a face full of "I want to protect my girl".
"You all step back, this king has something to tell the princess."
He is the prince, the biggest person in the palace, so no matter how worried the nurse is, she can only bow and retire.
There were only the couple left in the house.
"Princess, don't worry, this king just asked the imperial doctor, and he said that it will take only three days to make you completely healed. I even missed the door."
Mu Qingling looked at Lin Shiheng, who had a normal expression in front of him. He wasn't sure why he was so kind to him all of a sudden. Could it be that he was guilty, but just now he didn't see any guilty expression in front of the girl who was robbed.
She hesitated for a moment and asked, "I wonder if the lord has robbed other women before?"
"No, she's the only one. The queen mother was afraid that this king would be obsessed with female sex, and she specially instructed this king to marry a concubine before he could accept a concubine. Didn't this king just grab someone back, and I haven't had time to enjoy it yet."
His face was taken for granted, as if he was not talking about robbing civilian girls, but saying "I went to the street to buy a Chinese cabbage", Mu Qingling wanted to be angry but didn't know where to start getting angry. White again.
However, this is her husband, and she can only use a gentle tone to persuade her.
"My lord, that woman is clearly unwilling. You will not only have no fun with her, but you might even force her to commit suicide. If you like beauty, you can find some women who are willing to serve in the palace, and give her a serious name. I wish you could use it too."
Lin Shiheng: "But this king likes people who are not willing to serve."
Mu Qingling was stunned, took a few breaths, held back his anger and saw that Lin Shiheng was listening to himself, and forced a smile:
"But like this, forcibly robbing a girl from a good family is a violation of national law. Even if you are a prince, breaking the law is breaking the law."
Mu Qingling tried her best to recall the books she had read, and planned to use a long speech today to break up the illegal thoughts of her husband who likes to rob civilians.
As a result, she had just raised her head, and the handsome prince, who was about her age, had already nodded her head in surprise.
"So this is ah."
"Then the king won't rob it next time."
Mu Qingling, who was ready to persuade her husband, paused.
She was a little confused and a little overwhelmed.
He agreed so swiftly.
That's it... simple