After traversing more than half of the Ding capital, the sedan chair was finally carried into the residence of Prince Yu.
There were already many guests at the gate of Prince Yu's mansion. Although Prince Yu was usually ruthless and cruel, he was a member of the royal family, and all the ministers still wanted to come. Emperor Wenhui and the princes were the future, but the palace also sent congratulatory gifts.
Around these days, Emperor Wen Hui's attitude made Prince Yu very dissatisfied. When people came to the palace today, they didn't show any gesture of asking them to drink a glass of wedding wine or thank them. When the father-in-law sent from the palace saw this scene, he sneered in his heart. Maybe to others, they are just eunuchs like weeds. In fact, these people are probably the people closest to the emperor. There must be something wrong between Emperor Wen Hui and Prince Yu, Prince Yu still acts as before, but Emperor Wen Hui is no longer as tolerant as before. Prince Yu's actions today will only make Emperor Wen Hui even more annoyed.
After the people in the palace left, Prince Yu turned around and ordered his servants to continue to welcome the guests. Today, Prince Yu is wearing a bright red wedding robe. The fabric and embroidery of the robe are undoubtedly very fine, but when he wears it on his body, one of the trousers is empty, which makes it a bit awkward. And he was born with some fierce looks. Today, he has to smile all over his face, and he doesn't know who to laugh at. After all, everyone who sees his smile has a layer of goosebumps.
The Shen family also came here. Shen Gui and Shen Wan had already gone to chat with their acquaintances. Shen Gui is now broken. Anyway, Shen Qing's scandal has been known to everyone. It would be better to take advantage of Shen Qing to marry into Prince Yu's mansion, and to have sex with him. The marriage relationship of the prince's mansion is to add some bricks and tiles to his career. As for Shen Wan, needless to mention, both of them are ambitious people, and naturally they will not miss the opportunity.
Shen Xin and Luo Xueyan were sitting at one end, the bride's family was hot, they couldn't despise Shen Gui's behavior. On the other hand, Ren Wanyun also came and sat on the side with Shen Yuan. She carefully put on makeup to cover up the red circles under her eyes. She was afraid of angering Prince Yu and forced a smile. Shen Yuan showed no expression and occasionally glanced at Shen Miao, all of which were meaningful.
Shen Qiu noticed Shen Yuan's gaze, and every time he blocked it angrily. Being discovered by Luo Xueyan, she asked thoughtfully, "Stinky boy, what happened to you and Shen Yuan?"
Shen Xin and his wife did not know the grievances between Shen Qing and Shen Miao, so Shen Qiu hesitated: "Well... he is not pleasing to the eye, it is a little friction."
"You really can." Luo Xueyan glared at him: "Do it with someone without martial arts, Shen Qiu, how old are you this year?"
Shen Qiu turned his eyes to Shen Miao for help, Shen Miao just did not know, looked at the tea cup and did not speak.
The guests in this room complimented each other and looked peaceful. In the blink of an eye, it was time for Shen Qing and Prince Yu to go to court and marry.
Shen Qing covered his head and was supported by the maids Chuntao and Xue Li beside him. Shen Gui's expression was very embarrassed when he worshipped heaven and earth and worshipped Gaotang. Prince Yu looked at him with gloomy eyes, and asking Prince Yu to salute their couple was a scary thing to think about.
Sure enough, the steward of Prince Yu's mansion said arrogantly, "His Royal Highness is inconvenient, so this high-level ceremony should be avoided."
As soon as these words came out, the hall was silent for a moment. Ren Wanyun gritted her teeth, the muscles on her cheeks were trembling with anger, the heaven and the earth were worshipped, how could it be that Prince Yu was inconvenienced when it was his turn to worship Gaotang? Ren Wanyun was embarrassed.
Although Shen Gui also felt that his face was hot, but he has always been a person who bullies the soft and fears the hard. For fear that Prince Yu would blame him, he immediately said, "Since Your Highness is uncomfortable, let's avoid it."
There were younger guests who couldn't help but sneer, and the laughter didn't hide too much, only that Ren Wanyun almost rushed forward to make a theory. Just when she couldn't bear it any longer, Shen Yuan suddenly reached out and grabbed her arm, shaking her head gently at her. Only then did Ren Wanyun calm down, Shen Yuan retracted his hand, and his eyes fell on Shen Gui who was smiling flatteringly in the distance, with a hazy expression on his face for a moment.
"What the second child did is too embarrassing." Luo Xueyan said contemptuously, "You just recognize someone bullying your daughter like this?"
"I thought he was just greedy for wealth, but I didn't expect to be so mad." Shen Xin shook his head, his tone disappointed: "How did the second child become like this?"
"We are so good, it's really unfortunate to be rejected together." Shen Qiu said glumly.
On the other side, Shen Yue's family was also a little embarrassed. Although Shen Wan was also extremely ambitious in his career, he was not as open-minded as Shen Gui, and Chen Rou Qiu insisted that he came from a scholarly family and demanded himself lofty. After all, it was the Shen family, and Shen Gui's behavior made them very shameless.
After Prince Yu humiliated Shen Gui like this, he seemed very satisfied with the contempt of the Shen family. When the husband and wife bowed to each other, they deliberately prolonged the time, and it was not because of Shen Miao's dazzling eyes, at least the bride walked past them. At that time, his body seemed to be shaking.
The prince married, and even the bridal chamber was saved. Shen Qing was pregnant, and if there was an accident in the bridal chamber, the crime of murdering the heirs of the royal family could not be afforded.
"Congratulations, His Royal Highness." The ministers came up to make a toast.
"Happy and happy together." Prince Yu also replied. On the surface, it seemed that Prince Yu was really happy today that he was actually having fun with the other ministers, but Shen Miao did not ignore the gloomy expression he occasionally swept over.
Prince Yu had a fight with her, and he always wanted to get it back. With his eyes approaching in the air, Prince Yu raised his glass at him, suddenly reached out and made an obscene gesture, licking his lips.
With such a malicious expression, Shen Miao just looked at it calmly, but Shen Qiu on the side, seeing her staring into the distance, followed her gaze and said, "What are you looking at, sister."
Prince Yu had already turned his head to drink with others, but Shen Qiu didn't see anything. Shen Miao stood up: "It's a little boring, I will go to the door to get some air."
"I'll go with you." Shen Qiu said quickly.
"No need. There are Mo Qing and they are guarding outside, I will not go far, just at the door." Shen Miao rejected him and got up and left the seat.
Prince Yu's mansion was very large, and Mo Qing stood guarding in the garden outside. When he saw her coming out, he immediately followed. Shen Miao did not go far, but just stood on the spot and looked at the southwest corner of Prince Yu's residence in a trance.
Until a voice came from behind: "Fifth sister."
Shen Miao turned her head, Shen Yuan also followed at some point and looked at her with a smile.
Shen Yuan's smile was different from Fu Xiuyi's gentleness, it was also different from Shen Qiu's simple and honest, and it was not as mischievous as Ji Yushu's. His smile always seemed to contain other meanings, which made people very uncomfortable. And when he stared into other people's eyes, it was like a poisonous snake sizing up its prey, and the gloomy aura couldn't be entangled.
Shen Yuan was the most feared opponent in the second room of the Shen family.
"It was only halfway through the banquet, and the fifth sister came out by herself. I thought that the fifth sister had some secrets and wanted to play with the brothers behind her back." There was something in his words.
Shen Miao looked at the flower branches in the garden, it was the cold winter and the twelfth month, the flowers that used to be prosperous had already withered away, the branches were bare and nothing was left, only the heavy snow was pressing on the branches, showing a feeling of coldness and desolation. She said, "So what is the second brother doing here, peeping at my secrets?"
"I have the intention to peep." Shen Yuan said, "Even if my sister hides too tightly, I can't do anything about my brother. But I think you and I are brothers and sisters, and if there is a chance, I should give you a few words of advice. ."
Shen Miao turned her head and stared at him without blinking, “I would like to hear the details.”
"Actually, when I returned to Beijing this time, I found that the fifth sister has changed a lot, and it seems like a different person. Maybe the fifth sister has grown up, or maybe someone taught me. But the second brother, I have traveled more than the fifth sister, some You can see things more clearly than you." He paused, then looked slightly towards the wedding hall, where the voices of the crowd clamoring for each other, the voices of pushing the cups and changing the cups, the voices of congratulations and thanks, and the voices of applauding and patting horses seemed far away. can hear. Shen Yuan said: "Qing'er is getting married today, does the fifth sister feel happy?"
“To be honest, it is very pleasing.” Shen Miao smiled slightly.
A stern look flashed in Shen Yuan's eyes, and then he smiled again: "The fifth sister really doesn't know how to restrain. Your grievance with Qing'er has reached the point of never ending, and now you have sent Qing'er to the Prince's Mansion, thinking that this is victory, Therefore, Fifth Younger Sister is still a child after all.” He patted Shen Miao’s head as if he was really a kind older brother, “But when Qing’er entered Prince Yu’s residence, there may not be a chance to turn over. It's hard to say what will happen in the future, but you, Fifth Sister, I'm afraid it's going to be difficult."
Shen Miao did not say anything and only listened to Shen Yuan say again, "If I were the fifth younger sister, I would not have left a chance for Qing'er to remove the opponent early and take her life, the so-called pranking, the so-called letting the opponent go. How painful it is, it only adds to future troubles for oneself.” He looked at Shen Miao and smiled kindly, “Thinking that you are still young and do not understand the principle of condoning and raising traitors. If you are an opponent, you must kill the other party before you can be the best.”
Shen Miao looked at Shen Yuan in front of her quietly and was slightly touched. Shen Yuan was indeed the smartest person in the second room. He didn't look at the process, only the result. If he offends him, he will directly use the simplest method to take the opponent's life. The method is ruthless and direct, but there is no trouble. Such a person is calm and rational, and will not have other emotions because of external things. It is impossible to be provoked to deal with such a person.
She smiled and said, "Second brother is right. After all, I am young, so I am not as cool as my second brother." Such sarcastic words fell in Shen Yuan's ears, and Shen Yuan smiled indifferently, but then, he heard Shen Miao's indifferent voice sounded: "Although I am not as cool as the second brother, there is one point between me and the second brother, I also... do not like to leave troubles behind. Guess, will the elder sister marry into the Prince's residence? How about turning over?"
Shen Yue stared at her: "Don't you think so?"
“Will it be?” Shen Miao asked back. She has always spoken calmly, obediently and deftly, but this sentence "will you?" is full of provocation and ridicule, and that kind of high-level ridicule makes Shen Yuan, who has always been happy and angry, indifferent. The pupils shrank suddenly.
After Shen Miao finished saying these words, she chuckled lightly and did not look at Shen Yuan again, turned around and left the garden and walked back to the wedding hall.
Will Shen Qing turn over? The corners of her lips were slightly raised, and the joy that came from her heart made Mo Qing who followed behind him stunned for a moment. After being by Shen Miao’s side for so long, Mo Qing gradually became clear. He has seen Shen Miao being ruthless and more often Shen Miao gave orders calmly, she would occasionally laugh, but even her smile seemed to carry a touch of majesty. However, at this moment, her eyebrows were curved, as if she was extremely happy, but she didn't know what could make her so happy. Mo Qing glanced at Shen Yuan who was still staying in the garden and wondered in his heart, after a few words with Shen Yuan, could Shen Miao be so happy
No matter how grand a banquet is, there will eventually be a time for it to end. When the wine was hot and the guests left in twos and threes, Shen Miao also set foot on the horse returning to the residence.
In the middle of the horse, Luo Xueyan remained silent. Not knowing what to think, he grabbed Shen Miao's hand and asked, "Jiaojiao, what kind of man do you... like?"
This is actually a bit out of line for the mother to ask the daughter who has not left the cabinet. However, it was probably today that Shen Qing got married, and it finally touched Luo Xue Yan's mind. She has been fighting outside for many years, but now that she thinks about it, she has no idea what Shen Miao was thinking. I only know that Shen Miao once fell in love with King Ding, and that person Luo Xueyan has also met, he is indeed a dragon and a phoenix, and he is quite graceful, but such a person must not be short-hearted, and he can see things with affection. How much? If you marry someone like that, you may not be happy.
Shen Miao was stunned for a moment, then looked at Luo Xueyan with a smile: "What kind of person does Mother want me to marry?"
Luo Xueyan did not expect that Shen Miao would ask herself, and for a while ignored Shen Miao when she faced this question without a trace of embarrassment, as if asking another simple question. Luo Xueyan thought for a while before saying, "Mother hopes that you can marry a person with integrity. It is best for him not to be too big in office, not too rich, not too ambitious, and not too complicated in the house. Power and wealth, mother and Your father will give it to you. If you have smaller ambitions, you will truly love you. The house is simple, and you can live quietly after you get married. In short, you must respect you sincerely and love you.”
Shen Miao lowered her eyes and smiled, Luo Xueyan and Shen Xin's hope seemed to have not changed all the time, they hoped that Shen Miao could marry an ordinary person, the most requirement was to love her and love her. It's a pity that she was blinded by lard in her previous life. There are thousands of men in the world, but they chose the one who didn't love him the most.
"However," Luo Xueyan said, she also smiled, "Mother knows, girls your size don't like this kind of people the most. You probably like those people you can see at a glance in the crowd. When you were so old, my mother also adored the young and handsome hero Erlang, but after marrying your father, my mother will not regret it."
“In this case, I will just listen to my mother.” Shen Miao said softly.
Luo Xueyan was stunned: "What?"
Shen Miao looked at her and said word by word, "Isn't it my mother's hope to marry an ordinary and ordinary person who can love and respect me. In this way, when the age of marriage is reached in the future, it will be good for me to marry such a person. "
Luo Xueyan held Shen Miao's hand and felt strange in her heart. The girl in front of her was well-behaved and had a docile temperament. Shen Miao should do whatever she said, she should have been very happy to have such an obedient daughter, but for some reason, Luo Xueyan was not happy at all. As if the face in front of her should not have such a docile expression, she should be a little arrogant, a little rebellious, and a little bit lively, instead of being so obedient and calm at the moment, which makes people feel inexplicably sad.
Luo Xueyan pulled Shen Miao into her arms and said in a low voice, "Even so, but at your age, it is not too much to like any kind of person. Mother knows that the person who can be put in our hearts by Jiaojiao must be the one. It's good. We Jiaojiao are so good, he will love and respect Jiaojiao. If Jiaojiao likes it, he is not an ordinary person. As long as he is good to Jiaojiao, mother will not stop you. ."
Shen Miao buried her head in Luo Xueyan's arms and her voice was indistinct, "Thank you mother."
…
On the night of the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, it started to snow again.
It was the end of the year, and the weather was getting clearer, and it was sunny for several days in a row. Who knew that there was a rare snowstorm that night.
There were almost no pedestrians on the streets of Dingjing City. The doors of the merchants were closed, and only the north wind, which was as cold as a knife, could be seen whistling and dancing in the air with large swathes of rough snow particles.
The red lanterns hanging in front of Prince Yu's Mansion in Ding capital were blown up and down, and the fireworks that had been set off at the door earlier were covered by snow particles. After tearing half of it away, the other half is full of potholes, which looks a bit weird.
The two guards guarding outside also got wedding wine today, and they were a little drunk. One held the wine gourd in his hand and said with a smile: "I didn't expect that there would be another princess in our palace. I didn't expect it back then. There will be people who will marry their daughters in."
"Hey, you're not talking nonsense. What do you mean by marrying in? It's clearly selling in. What about the princess?" The speaker glanced inside and shook his head: "I don't know how long you will live."
"Maybe it can be cheaper for us." The former laughed, his words quite malicious.
"That's pregnant with the child of His Royal Highness. If you don't want your life, go ahead." Another person said.
The sound of "chi" seemed a little vague in the wind and snow. The person holding the wine gourd asked, "There seems to be some noise just now, did you hear it?"
"What's the sound?" The latter waved his hand drunkenly: "The wind, don't be surprised."
"Today, the prince is overjoyed, it's better not to make any mistakes." The man's sense of drinking was a little awake, he stood up straight, turned his head and looked around, but he didn't see anything.
"Worry about it," another guard laughed at him: "What place are we, Prince Yu's Mansion! Whoever dares to come here to play wild things is boring! Don't think too much. Hey," he noticed something dripping on his own. He wiped his face and said, "Why is this snow hot?" When he spread out his hand, he looked at Huo Zhezi next to him to see clearly, where is the snow, it is clearly blood!
Warm blood!
The man was so frightened that he hurriedly raised his head to look up, only to see the body of a guard on the eaves staring at him with wide eyes, blood dripping from his throat.
"Come on—" He just opened his mouth, and saw a silver light flashing before him, only to feel something hot spray out from his throat, and he lost his strength and fell limply.
When he fell to the ground, he saw the companion who was talking to him lying down on the snow, his chest was red, and there was a shocking trace in the snow.
Dozens of people jumped down from under the eaves, all in black and masked, almost blending into the night. Two people jumped out from the other end and dragged the two corpses in front of the door. After a while, the new "guard" stood in front of the door.
The leading man in black made a gesture, and the group quietly sneaked into the palace.
In Prince Yu's Mansion, in the bedroom of His Royal Highness, Shen Qing sat beside the bed, his body shivering.
Prince Yu was lying on the soft couch, and two beautiful maids, who were not even an inch, were pressing their legs to feed him tenderly and timidly. Shen Qing bit his lower lip, an indescribable shame pouring out of his heart.
She was originally the daughter of a noble family, and she should have married a handsome and handsome man like His Royal Highness Prince Ding, but who knew that it was now in the hands of Prince Yu. Now that she is the wife, she will be humiliated by these lowly women who do not know where they came from, looking at these lewd and shameless pictures, Shen Qing felt both fear and anger in her heart, but she hated Shen Miao completely.
"You should be glad that you are pregnant with this prince's son," Prince Yu noticed her expression, and his face sank: "Otherwise, you wouldn't have been so easy to spend today." He admired Shen Qing's somewhat frightened eyes, and his mind sank. However, he remembered another pair of clear and calm eyes, and suddenly a surge of anger surged in his heart, Prince Yu looked at Shen Qing, and said slowly: "However, when you give birth to this prince's son, this prince will not treat you badly. There are many guards in the palace of this king, these guards are born and die for the king, since you are the wife of this king, you should comfort them for this king…”
Shen Qing's brain "buzzed" and he almost fainted. The terrifying words in Prince Yu's words made her think that when she thought about the future, she lost the courage to live.
"Heh, this prince will definitely treat you well." The gentler Prince Yu's tone was, the more frantic his eyes became, and even the two maids in front of him trembled.
"What are you shaking?" Prince Yu frowned suddenly in displeasure, and was about to speak when the maid on the left suddenly staggered and fell onto Prince Yu. A pair of jade arms just held Prince Yu's head in her arms. In order to have time to move, the other maid suddenly pulled the hairpin from her head and stabbed it into Prince Yu's throat.
Prince Yu screamed, but he wasn't a vegetarian. With a "bang", the two maids were knocked to the ground by him. He also had martial arts skills, and this attack was also very ruthless. The two maids struggled on the ground. After a few moments, he was out of breath.
Shen Qing, who was on the side, was stunned and stunned. He hid under the table in a panic. Prince Yu pulled out the hairpin from his throat. Although the hairpin was not inserted deeply, there was a lot of blood. Prince Yu cursed and said loudly, "Guard! Guard!"
A guard hurriedly came in, and Prince Yu kicked the two corpses on the ground: "What is it, check who it is."
"Yes." The guard bowed his head and said yes. Prince Yu just turned his head and heard a "chi". He lowered his head, and there was blood on the tip of a silver knife on his chest.
Kankan passed through his chest.
Just now, Nuonuo's guard pulled out the knife, and Prince Yu was unsteady. He seemed to want to call someone, but after taking a few steps, he fell down with a "dong".
The tip of the knife was shining brightly, reflecting large bloodstains, and the technique was extremely skillful, as if slaughtering a pig or sheep, killing him with one knife without even any extra movement.
The guard glanced at the corpse of Prince Yu, then looked at Shen Qing who was hiding under the table and shivered: "Are you Shen Qing?"
"Yes, a strong man... Are you, the second brother sent me to save me?" Shen Qing's eyes lit up and he looked at the other party.
The guard didn't say anything, turned around and walked out.
Shen Qing had some doubts in his heart. He wanted to go out. After thinking about it, he was finally afraid of facing the body of Prince Yu in the house. He picked up some fine gold and silver from the table, wrapped it in a cloth and was about to go out.
As soon as Fang opened the door, he almost tripped over. Under the weak light of the lantern, the bodies of the guards lying across the door looked particularly startling. Shen Qing exclaimed "Ah" and looked outside.
In the darkness, there seemed to be a solemn figure passing through quickly, and the sound of a heavy fall to the ground sounded, and each sound made people feel chills. Prince Yu's Mansion was like a gloomy hell. The blizzard made it difficult to see the outside scene, but the strong smell of blood was like a big net, firmly covering people's heads.
It seems that even the snow has turned into an overwhelming scarlet.
…
Shen Mansion West Garden.
Bai Lu closed the window again and said, "The wind and snow outside is really big. The window has been blown open several times. It's scary."
"That's not it," Shuang Jiang smiled, "I heard the old man say that God is here in such weather, and those sinners are going to be punished. It seems that the sinners must have done something wrong this time. Such a big snowstorm, but Haven't seen it for many years."
"What are you looking at, girl?" Jing Zhe asked, "But you are still thinking about the wedding banquet in the daytime?"
After returning to the mansion in the evening, Shen Miao sat at the table and did not know what she was thinking, she sat down until it was dark. For some unknown reason, Jing Zhe always felt that Shen Miao was waiting for something.
What are you waiting for
Shen Miao shook her head, "Look at it again."
Look? Gu Yu and Jing Zhe looked at each other, it was pitch black outside and could not see anything clearly, what could Shen Miao see
Shen Miao lowered her eyes, the lights in the house were quiet, the wind and snow were fighting outside, how many people in the world lost their lives overnight
Shen Yuan is right, she never leaves a way out for herself, so she never leaves a way out for others.
The slender fingers tapped the eaves of the table unhurriedly, like a pleasant rhythm, reminiscent of the strange songs sung by sinners in the cold palace.
What song do you sing
It sings that good and evil will be rewarded eventually, and the way of heaven is good for reincarnation.