Until the end of the play on the stage, Tang Junyao could still hear the angry curses from the audience who dispersed one after another, and then looked at the window of a certain room, the corners of his mouth curved slightly, but his mood became better and better.
He Shaoting looked at her with a smile, his eyes filled with tenderness.
When the crowd downstairs gradually dispersed, he got up and was about to get up and leave while holding Tang Yunyao's hand, when he suddenly heard the voices of Lan Chun and a young woman coming from outside the door.
"Hey girl, you can't come in casually, here..."
"Step aside!"
Immediately after the door was pushed open from the outside, Tang Junyao looked up and saw Du Xingchang who broke in.
Du Xingchang's face was a little anxious. Xu didn't expect that he would suddenly bump into their line of sight. She was obviously stunned, and stammered: "He... brother."
Tang Junyao looked at her in surprise. Seeing that she was so thin that she was completely different from her previous appearance, she couldn't believe it for a while.
She hadn't seen Du Xingchang again in the past few years. In fact, since the Feng Weiliang incident, Yun's and Du Xingchang's mother and daughter have almost disappeared from social occasions in Beijing, and Tang Junyao will naturally not pay attention to General Zhenyuan. government affairs.
He Shaoting frowned, but didn't say much.
"Miss Du, please borrow it, our husband and wife are going back to the house." She happened to be blocking the door, Tang Junyao said helplessly.
Du Xingchang ignored her and looked at He Shaoting with a complicated expression.
"What are you doing?" He Shaoting's brows furrowed even tighter, and his expression was already a little unhappy.
Du Xingchang opened her mouth and seemed to want to say something, but in the end she just bit her lip lightly, gave him a deep look, turned and ran away.
Tang Junyao looked inexplicable, the girl suddenly wanted to break in, and ran away without saying anything, so what was she planning to do
"Go back!" He Shaoting shook her hand and whispered, as if he was not disturbed at all.
Tang Junyao smiled at him, and didn't say much, but mentioned Du Xingchang casually when he returned to his mother's house the other day to visit the fifth princess and Wei Yingzhu who were pregnant.
"I saw her once a month ago, and I can see that she has not been doing well in the past few years, because of her parents' affairs, and now that the General Zhenyuan's mansion has not been as good as before, even her marriage is a little different. It's not going well. People from a good family look down on her, and those who come to ask for marriage can't get into Mrs. Du's eyes, so the marriage has been delayed again and again. "
"Especially after the rumors of what General Zhenyuan had done earlier spread, her marriage became more and more difficult. I heard that General Zhenyuan wanted to divorce his wife a few days ago. If it is true, she will find you that day. , Xu is hoping that my brother-in-law can come forward to persuade General Zhenyuan, but in the end he didn't speak, and I feel ashamed when I think about it."
Wei Yingzhu sighed.
"In this way, this girl Du is still a bit ashamed, not like her parents." The fifth princess squeezed a piece of dessert and sent it into her mouth, lazily and authentically.
After a while, he told Tang Junyao: "You can't get involved in the Du family's affairs, and don't allow Xiao He's brother-in-law to intervene. No matter what happens to their family, it has nothing to do with you."
Tang Junyao replied with a smile, "Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who likes to meddle in other people's affairs, so naturally I won't interfere in other people's affairs."
As Wei Yingzhu said, Du Xingchang approached He Shaoting that day, hoping that he could persuade Du Chengzhong to let him not abandon his mother Yun, but when she saw the pair of jades standing hand in hand in front of her. People, thinking of what Du Chengzhong had done to their mother and son, they couldn't say those words.
She ran out of the Chang Ting Building and walked dazedly on the bustling street. All she heard was the swearing of the villain in the play by the people who had watched the play. After listening to it, she felt that these words were scolding. like her father.
Over the years, the family has not been married, and my father is addicted to alcohol. When a little inconvenience, he yells at his mother, or runs to his brother to beat and kick. From the initial pleading, she gradually became numb, and then So many years have passed in the blink of an eye.
She didn't dare to see her former boudoir sisters again, she didn't dare to see any outsiders again, for fear of seeing those shameless eyes and hearing those ugly words.
Her family has changed beyond recognition, and so has she.
"Where have you been? Go and beg your father, let him change his mind and go!" She didn't know when she returned to the mansion, and as soon as she entered the door, Yun shi grabbed her arm.
She stared silently at the thin and protruding cheekbones in front of her, looking at the woman who was even a bit mean, trying to find the familiarity of the dignified and gentle mother in her face, but she was disappointed.
"Father has treated you like this all these years, isn't it good to separate? Why stay..."
"Crack!" With a crisp sound, she was slapped by Yun's before she could finish her words, and then she heard Yun's angrily saying, "What do you know?! Once I am abandoned, I will have nothing. I It took so much thought to get everything in this mansion, and I will never allow myself to end up with nothing!"
After a while, he said in a mournful voice: "Chang'er, you help your mother to beg your father, if your mother is abandoned, your reputation will also suffer, and you can negotiate any good marriages in the future!"
Du Xingchang covered the half of her face that was beaten, and hooked the corners of her mouth in a self-deprecating manner: "Mother, do you think I still have a good reputation?"
Seeing that Yun's eyebrows are upside down, she seems to be scolding again, she said lightly: "Don't worry, no matter what the price is, I will persuade Daddy."
"That's good, that's good. Your father hurts you the most. No matter what you say, he will agree." Only then did Yun Shi feel happy.
Du Xingchang only felt sad.
A few years ago, my mother would quarrel with my father for the sake of my brother, but since my father made up his mind to divorce his wife, her attitude has changed. half sentence.
Flesh and blood, in front of vital interests, has become so fragile.
A few days later, Tang Junyao heard the news that General Zhenyuan would recruit his only daughter, and was stunned for a while, but on second thought, this was indeed the best way for Du Chengzhong to pass on the incense of the Du family.
This day is the birthday of Concubine Hu Li in the palace, and I don't know how she coaxed the emperor's consent to set up a feast of flowers in the palace, inviting the ladies of various governments to enter the palace to participate in the banquet.
Tang Junyao was not surprised. After all, this Hundred Flowers Feast was held by this concubine Hu Li in her previous life. Now it seems that this concubine Hu Li in this life still firmly grasped the emperor's favor as soon as she entered the palace, and favored the harem, forcing the queen Liang Yuyan to repeatedly avoid her edge.
Now in the harem, when it comes to favoring, this concubine Li is naturally the first one, and none of them dare to compete with her. Except for the two days of the first and fifteenth day of the first month, Emperor Jingchang has to return to the empress. He was staying in the Li Fei Palace.
Tang Junyao was sitting in the soft sedan chair in the palace. Inadvertently, she looked out of the sedan chair, but found that the road did not lead to Yunfang Garden, where the Feast of Flowers was held, and immediately became vigilant.
Without a trace, she pulled out the golden hairpin on her bun and held it firmly in her hand until the soft sedan stopped, and she heard a somewhat familiar voice from outside - "Mrs. He."
She lifted the curtain and got off the sedan chair, and suddenly saw a beautiful woman in palace dress standing in front of her. This person was not another person, but Xu Tingwan, who had risen from beauty to Jieyu not long ago.
"Miss Jieyu, what does this mean?" She froze.
"Mrs. He, don't be annoyed. I also have good intentions. I specially invited my wife to give her a wake-up call, so that she won't know if she is caught in a trap." Xu Tingwan said, "I am also kind." expression.
Tang Junyao frowned slightly, but waited quietly for her next words.
Seeing her unafraid appearance, Xu Tingwan was very different from the panic he imagined, and was a little disappointed, but she didn't dare to waste time, she could only directly say: "Madam knows, because Your Majesty thinks about you, you It has already attracted the envy and hatred of the Empress and Concubine Li at the same time, and has become their common enemy."
Tang Junyao was slightly startled, but a little funny.
His Majesty's thoughts on her? What can His Majesty think of her? She had never seen half the love for her men and women in his eyes, and they were even more innocent, and there was nothing that could not be told to others.
And in the past few years, especially after Zhao Yuanyou got married, they haven't even seen each other a few times, only occasionally, and there are a large group of people around, but they are just following the rules, what can they do? To make the Queen and Concubine Li misunderstand, or even hate it
"... This time when Concubine Li was holding a feast of hundreds of flowers, the Queen Mother planned to use you as a raft to deal with Concubine Li, so that Concubine Li would fall out of favor with Your Majesty, and Concubine Li would definitely target you everywhere because of her jealousy towards you. The Queen's Concubine."
"Therefore, in this round, the Empress is sure to win. Even if Madam retreats, her reputation will be damaged."
Tang Junyao said calmly: "In this way, the concubine will thank the concubine Jieyu for her kindness, but compared to the trouble that will arise later, the concubine wants to know the purpose of the empress. Without friendship, the concubine is inevitably a little uneasy."
"I'm not afraid to tell the madam honestly that although madam is of noble birth and backed by Tang and He, she has offended the most powerful two people in the harem at the same time, and the future will definitely not be easy. , Madam, rather than trembling in the future, it is better to cooperate with me. I am different from the two of them, they want both power and His Majesty's heart, and I, as long as power, will not care who is in His Majesty's heart! "
"Moreover, there is no one behind me, and I will have to rely on the support of my wife everywhere in the future. If I can enjoy the country one day, I will definitely protect the wealth of Tang and He in my lifetime." Xu Tingwan confidently expressed his intentions.
Tang Junyao finally understood now, and laughed in anger.