"What living dead?" Jiang Honghao was displeased and frowned, "King Qiyang was just in a coma. I heard that he was awake for a long time a few days ago. It can be seen that the treatment is effective. If things go on like this, the day when King Qiyang recovers is just around the corner. "
Mu Mingtang was speechless. The year she came to Jiang's house, she was basically locked up for training as soon as she entered the house, and her understanding of the outside world was very limited. She was originally the daughter of an ordinary family in Xiangyang, how could she understand the circles of these high-ranking officials and nobles in the capital, and the Jiang family did not teach her at all, which led to Mu Mingtang nominally being the second Miss Jiang for more than a year. Know a few people.
Jiang Honghao in front of him, and Xie Xuanji sitting on the side, can be said to be all the men Mu Mingtang knew.
But her information is so obscured that she knows that King Qiyang is not a good person. Although King Qiyang is also a prince, he is not the biological heir of the current sage, but the former emperor's.
King Qiyang was the direct son of the late emperor, but his mental state was very unstable. He went crazy, and even his biological father, the late emperor, was almost killed by him.
With the appearance of King Qiyang, it was obvious that he could not inherit the throne, so the first emperor passed the throne to his younger brother before he died, that is, the current sage.
After Jin ascended the throne, King Qiyang's illness did not get better, but worsened. I heard that the people serving in the Qiyang Palace, no matter whether they were male or female, were spared, all of them were killed by the Qiyang King insane. Later, the person who took care of him was replaced by a sergeant, and just like this, it was necessary to add people to the Qiyang Palace from time to time.
According to legend, there is an unwritten rule in the army that as long as anyone can live in the Qiyang palace for six months, they will be promoted to rank and rank, and given a hundred taels of gold. However, even if the court made a heavy reward, no one was willing to take care of it, or look at King Aqiyang. It is said that King Qiyang used to join the army and was known as the God of Killing. Later, the killing was too heavy, so he turned back and turned into a half-dead, crazy appearance.
Mu Mingtang doesn't know if the rumor is true or not, but she at least knows that even a trained professional soldier can't escape from King Qiyang. As a pathfinder
I'm afraid that the princess's blessings will not be enjoyed, and she will die that day, so go to the King of Hell to report.
Mu Mingtang was a little anxious. She could endure insults, cold treatment and even harsh treatment, but it was absolutely impossible to let her die. No one desires to live more than someone who has actually experienced death.
Mu Mingtang couldn't help but take a small step forward and said earnestly: "Father, you and your wife rescued me from the hooligan, I am very grateful. I am willing to serve you all my life in return for your kindness back then. My daughter does not want to If you marry someone, you don’t have the luxury of being a princess. My life is cheap, and I can’t be a princess, so you can let me stay in the house, serve tea and water, and be a cow and a horse. As long as you don’t dislike it, let me be a maid. "
"How can this be possible." Jiang Honghao refused, "You are my adopted daughter, the second young lady of the Jiang family, and not a servant, so how can you be a maid? Don't worry, you have your father's backing in everything, since I let you be Concubine, you just need to marry with peace of mind and enjoy the happiness. No one will make irresponsible remarks behind your back. Besides, King Qiyang is the direct son of the first emperor, and he is also a serious prince. Noble daughters are vying to recommend themselves. You marry him, no matter what, it will be a humiliation."
Xie Xuanji, who hadn't spoken for a long time, sat beside him. He heard this and closed his folding fan, and said, "Father-in-law is right. Ever since he ascended to the throne, the emperor has been exhausted and sleepy at night, for fear of failing what the late emperor entrusted to him. In these years, seeing that the government is harmonious and harmonious, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the vitality that has been damaged by years of war has slowly recovered. The father and emperor are very relieved, but there is only one thing that I can't worry about, that is my cousin, the king of Qiyang. At the age of marriage, there is still no wife and concubines around. The father and the emperor are not at ease. Now the father-in-law has taken the initiative to say that he will marry the second young lady to the king of Qiyang, which is just the end of the father's heart. After you get married, you can take care of your cousin. If you can It is your credit for leaving blood to your cousin. In the future, the royal family will not treat you badly."
After entering the door, Mu Mingtang never looked in Xie Xuanji's direction. This was both to avoid suspicion and to draw a clear line. Mu Mingtang knew very well that Jiang Mingwei was his biological daughter no matter how nice Jiang Honghao said it. Look at Xie Xuanji, isn't this called father-in-law
If she expects her former fiancé to come forward and entangle with King Jin, then she will poke a nail in the eyes of Jiang Honghao and Mrs. Jiang, and she will definitely not get a good end.
Mu Mingtang was very self-aware and avoided Xie Xuanji far from the beginning. But hearing Xie Xuanji's words at this moment, Mu Mingtang couldn't help but glance at him.
It's ironic, the person who was her fiancé three or four days ago now tells her in front of her father, after you marry my cousin, take good care of him, and it's better to conceive his child earlier.
Mu Mingtang originally thought that even if Xie Xuanji had no feelings for her, but she played Jiang Mingwei for so long and had been his fiancée for so long, even if he met a stranger, after three months of being together, he should have some face. How could she helplessly watch as she was widowed or even buried with a living dead
Mu Mingtang gritted her teeth, the most valuable experience taught her in troubled times was shamelessness. Those who have no worries of food and clothing are qualified to consider their face. Mu Mingtang only wants to live, and only wants to live a long, safe and stable life.
She lifted her skirt and knelt down and kowtowed to Jiang Honghao: "Father, I am today all thanks to your kindness. You saved me once, so why not save me again. If it was someone else, if the father suggested the marriage, the daughter would not say a word. Married, but King Qiyang is not an easy-going person. Everyone knows that he is moody and angry, kills people like numbness, when he is mad, he can't tell the difference between the enemy and me, and even hurts himself. I heard that he has no maids by his side, all of them are in the army He's a good player. Even the carefully selected soldiers in the army can't control him. How can my daughter protect herself when she goes? I'm afraid he can't even get close to his body, so he will kill him as an ant. The daughter doesn't want to die, and the daughter still wants to live as a parent. Do your filial piety, ask your father to be kind and save your daughter's life!"
After Mu Mingtang finished speaking, he bowed deeply and put his forehead on his hand. Jiang Honghao's face flashed a little moved, but he immediately thought of the benefits that Jiang's family might get after giving away Mu Mingtang. That moment's soft heart immediately froze into ice, indestructible.
Jiang Honghao looked away, didn't look at Mu Mingtang, but sighed and said, "My father knows that you are afraid, but the rumors are not credible. Those words are just rumors spread by idlers. King Qiyang is a hero among people, although he is now sane. I don't know, I often attack others, but recently the treatment has begun to show results. After you get married, take good care of it, maybe you will be fine soon. You don't have to think too much, just get ready to marry."
Xu Shi saw Mu Mingtang raised his head and opened his mouth, showing that he wanted to refute, Jiang Honghao looked solemn, and categorically intercepted what she wanted to say: "You are not joking, the sage knows that the Jiang family is willing to share the worries for you, and you are willing to marry Long Xin was delighted to take care of Queen Qiyang in the past. Today, he specially praised him as a father in the morning court. Now that the decree has been spread throughout the court and the public, if you refuse to do so, wouldn't you be disobeying the decree? Not only will you die, but also your father. I will also be implicated by you. Raising you for your father is not for your kindness and revenge."
Kindness and revenge? Mu Mingtang's heart was cold when he heard such a kindness and revenge. She didn't want to die, didn't want to marry a living dead, and it was still her fault? She understood that Jiang Honghao was determined to sell her, no matter how much she begged and how low she was, Jiang Honghao would not change his mind.
King Qiyang was the direct son of the late emperor and the nephew of the current sage. The late emperor did not pass the throne to his son, but left it to his younger brother. And King Qiyang was still half-dead, and his life was hanging by a thread. No matter how you looked at it, the emperor was very suspicious.
Mu Mingtang didn't know whether King Qiyang's current appearance had anything to do with the emperor, and whether the previous emperor had anything to do with the succession of the throne.
Just at this time, Jiang Honghao stood up and said that he was willing to marry his second daughter to King Qiyang, which happened to relieve the emperor's confidant. The emperor did not give up on treating his nephew for many years, and he even married his nephew. Even if King Qiyang didn't do well in the end, he couldn't blame the emperor.
If the Jiang family pleases the emperor, the emperor will naturally give Jiang Honghao sweetness. Jiang Honghao has been in the position of the deputy envoy of the third division for many years, and maybe he will be able to become the top leader this time. The emperor got a name, the Jiang family got a benefit, Jiang Mingwei got rid of an unsightly double, and Xie Xuanji could also make Bai Yueguang happy, everyone was happy. The only one who sacrificed was Mu Mingtang.
The Quartet has benefited, and it is still a big benefit that soars into the sky. Even if an outsider in the Mu Mingtang district is blinded by tears, will Jiang Honghao give up the ready-made benefits for an adopted daughter
How is it possible, Mu Mingtang himself thinks it is impossible.
Mu Mingtang's blood was cold, and his heart was also cold. She was in the Jiang family for a year and a half. Although she was clumsy at first, she was trying her best to please everyone after she adjusted. Mrs. Jiang, Jiang Honghao, Xie Xuanji, and even the Jiang family's maid, she did her best to treat them well. She thought that even if the Jiang family's parents couldn't treat her as their biological daughter, but they had been together for more than a year, they would have more or less feelings. Even if a dog has been raised for a year, it is still reluctant to kill it.
But she is not even a dog.
In fact, she is not an elegant and gentle temperament. She had been tempered to be a philistine and pungent in the year she fled. But Mrs. Jiang liked it, so she tried her best to act. In fact, she doesn't like blue and green either. People from petty citizen backgrounds like cheesy but festive red and gold.
But Jiang Mingwei liked this high-level color, so Mu Mingtang cut his feet to fit his shoes and shoved himself into Jiang Mingwei's shell. She didn't dare to speak, laugh, or even take a big mouthful of food. All of this was just to live.
Live decently, as a person, and live.
But today, this reality is very clearly placed in front of Mu Mingtang, they have never regarded her as their own, or even regarded her as a person. Her only meaning is to be Jiang Mingwei's stand-in. Now that Jiang Mingwei is back, she should also get rid of this fake. It happened to be thrown into the Qiyang Palace to squeeze out the last bit of value.
Jiang Honghao saw Mu Mingtang kneeling on the ground and didn't speak for a long time, and he couldn't bear it after all. After all, she is a girl who looks like flowers. When Mrs. Jiang brought her back, there was still a bit of Jiang Mingwei's shadow on her face. Her name is the same, and there is a bit of a deep, delicate and beautiful shadow in the spring scene. If Xiangyang hadn't been destroyed, if she hadn't been exiled to the capital, Mu Mingtang would have been a darling who was raised in a deep boudoir, carefree, and held in the palm of his parents' hands.
What parent would want to watch their young daughter marry a half-dead lunatic? Jiang Honghao sighed in his heart, softened his voice, and said, "Your sister came back a few days ago, and there was no manpower at home, so you didn't properly organize your birthday banquet. After a while, I will give you a birthday gift for your father. "
Jiang Honghao felt that he, as an adoptive father, talked to Mu Mingtang in a good voice and even gave her a birthday present, which was really condescending and extremely charitable. Mu Mingtang must be very grateful, and Ru admiration. Jiang Honghao waited for Mu Mingtang to say something of gratitude, but Mu Mingtang didn't say a word and suddenly got up from the ground.
Jiang Honghao frowned. The folks really didn't understand the rules. When her father talked to her, it was fine if she didn't answer, and she still stood up on her own
Did he get her up? It is simply indecent, and rotten wood cannot be carved.
Mu Mingtang was not the same as before, Jiang Honghao's face changed slightly, she apologized sincerely and reviewed what she did wrong. She hooked her lips and smiled, looked at Jiang Honghao, then turned to look at Xie Xuanji, and said, "Pride and deceit, I didn't understand these two words before, but today I can see a living example."
Xie Xuanji's face sank suddenly, and Jiang Honghao was also furious: "Bold! Jiang Mingtang, what are you talking about, why don't you kneel down and apologize?"
"A birthday? A birthday gift? Put away your hypocrisy. My name is not Jiang Mingtang at all, and my birthday is not in June. On the third day of June, that is Jiang Mingwei's birthday, and my birthday is already over."
Jiang Honghao choked, Mu Mingtang's birthday is already over? Only then did Jiang Honghao remember that he didn't seem to have asked when Mu Mingtang's birthday was, not only him, but no one in the Jiang family cared. As it should be, they held a birthday feast on the third day of the sixth month.
On the third day of June, it was Jiang Mingwei's birthday.
"You keep saying that for my own good, I'm marrying King Qiyang is Gao Pan, then you let your own daughter go to Gao Pan! My life is cheap, can't it be that Gao Pan can't afford it?" Jiang Honghao was about to speak when he was caught by Mu Mingtang Interrupted, "I don't want to hear your hypocritical sophistry. If you want to flatter your boss, you flatter your boss. If you want to sell your daughter, you sell your daughter. If you have to make excuses for 'I'm doing it for your own good', you don't feel ashamed to say it yourself. Should you panic?"
Jiang Honghao was ranked as the deputy prime minister. He flattered each other with his colleagues in official circles, and played official words to each other. He was the head of the family at home. Mrs. Jiang did not dare to disobey Jiang Honghao by a word, and even Jiang Mingwei was afraid of Jiang Honghao. No one has ever dared to point at Jiang Honghao's nose and scold him for being hypocritical.
"Presumptuous!" Jiang Honghao was furious, slapped the table hard, stood up and shouted, "The Jiang family has adopted you to provide you with brocade clothes and jade food, and call you slaves. This is how you treat your savior? If it weren't for me, You can only marry a peddler for the rest of your life, how can you be a princess in turn?"
"Yeah, I'm not worthy. So, did I beg you to adopt me? Did I beg you to marry me to King Jin?" Mu Mingtang completely abandoned the disguise and stared at him without hesitation. With Jiang Honghao. This is her, the commoner woman who came to Chenliu from Xiangyang alone and dared to scold the owner of the pawnshop in the street.
Jiang Honghao made a stalk, but he didn't even pick up the words. Indeed, what he said was awe-inspiring, but from the beginning, this was the choice of the Jiang family. Mu Mingtang accepted their good or not, but owed them, but not enough.
Mu Mingtang had been pretending for too long, and he had already had enough of these bird anger. In order to repay her kindness and to keep her hard-won stable life, she tried her best to please the Jiang family. But now she found out that no matter how much she pretended to be a lady, the Jiang family would never treat her as a person, so why would she have to work hard and endure cowardly? Jiang Honghao was about to send her to the tomb of the living dead for promotion. Could it be that she was still grateful, thanking the Jiang family for making her a princess
Grateful to him. She, Mu Mingtang, is a vulgar businesswoman, a piece of mud, unable to learn the elegance of these high-profile families.
Mu Mingtang pulled off the hairpin that belonged to Jiang Mingwei's style, and threw it to the ground, saying, "My father said that in life, you can owe anything, but you can't owe kindness alone. The kindness you have received for this year. After that, we will cut it in two and never owe each other again."
The slender hairpin fell to the ground and shattered with a click. Bi-colored fringed beads scattered on the ground, bouncing back and forth on the ground. Jiang Honghao was so angry that Mu Mingtang dared to say no more in front of him. Some things he understands can be, but others say it, that is not good.
Jiang Honghao said with a gloomy face, "Don't owe each other again? How can you say that the Jiang family has so much kindness to you, and it still seems like a grievance. You haven't learned the same thing about benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, and letter, and you accuse the Jiang family in turn. It's unfair to you. The fault of the Jiang family in your mouth is that you didn't marry the best family. As expected, you are still coveting Mingwei's things."
Mu Mingtang planned to stop here today, but when he heard Jiang Honghao's words, his whole body exploded instantly. As a stand-in this year, in order to imitate Jiang Mingwei, she gave up her surname, gave up her origin, and even gave up all her personality. Everyone is qualified to say that she is greedy for glory and wealth, but the Jiang family does not.
Mu Mingtang couldn't bear it anymore, pointed at Jiang Honghao, and cursed angrily: "You bastard, I covet Jiang Mingwei's things? Do you really think your house is made of gold, and everyone wants to curry favor with you? You are nothing, you really think you are a clear and capable master of the sky, bah! I said those words, but I have to rely on the Jiang family to live, and I have to flatter you. What are you staring at? Don't you count? Do you really think Mrs. Jiang, your two concubines, and the servants of the Jiang family really think you are good when they praise you? But clean your eyes and look in the mirror, you are just a flattery , A hypocrite who sells women for glory, what a villain!"
Mu Mingtang scolded in one go, and finally found that he had used two idioms in a sentence, which was simply overflowing with literary talent. She finally scolded the anger she had been holding for the past year. Seeing that Jiang Honghao was too angry to speak, Xie Xuanji stood up and wanted to teach her a lesson. Mu Mingtang turned around immediately, with a very With an arrogant, very humble look, he glared at Xie Xuanji, raised his eyebrows and said, "What do you want to do? You really deserve to be the sage of love, and you have no regrets when your fiancee escaped from marriage. I really admire you. I wish you and Jiang Mingwei a long life together. , will never be separated forever!"
"It's unbearable, I don't know what it means." Xie Xuanji looked at her with a frown, as if seeing something unbearable dirty. Mu Mingtang used to treat him as his fiancé, so she naturally pleases him everywhere, but now she is about to be his sister-in-law, afraid of him
Mu Mingtang sneered and said, "I'm just vulgar, I'm just vulgar and ignorant, what's getting in your way? My mother wanted to say it for a long time, you look like a human being, and your eyes are really hard to use. Pretending and pretending to be elegant, you like these flashy things, who are you pretending to see? I treat you with sincerity, but you give me to other men, you can go! Look!"
Mu Mingtang said that he was about to go out. When had Xie Xuanji been offended like this, he would hug Mu Mingtang tightly as soon as he stretched out his hand. Mu Mingtang was suddenly pulled back, and immediately screamed and shouted, "Deng Tuzi, what do you want to do to your sister-in-law!"
Xie Xuanji's face was startled, and he immediately let go as if his hands were being scalded. Mu Mingtang withdrew his hand, rubbed his wrist in pain, and scolded without giving in at all: "His Royal Highness King Jin, you said just now that the emperor has opened his mouth wide and said about me in the morning. It's Princess Qiyang. I'm your prospective sister-in-law now, so treat me with more respect. If you move again, be careful I'll go to the Zongren Mansion and sue you for your frivolous sister-in-law!"