Yun Fenghuang asked uneasily: "What to do?"
"Join the army." Gong Xiangxiao sneered, "Jieyu knows the situation in the north better than this prince: it was peaceful in the past, but Wei He has often made changes in the past few years. Although the Dingbei army is elite, after all, swords and guns have no eyesight. Over the years, in general, There are also losses. With Brother Xinyun's family background and talents, he will definitely start as an officer after joining the Dingbei Army, and there is no need to put himself in danger... But if he decides to go into battle in person and make contributions, Uncle Zhaowu cannot stop him by force. Give the eldest son of the Qi family this little face..."
"..." Yun Fenghuang was silent for a while and said, "Why didn't the prince stop him? After all, he is also yours, isn't he?"
If Qi Jiulu makes a mistake before the formation, what good will it do to you, the Prince Regent
Gong Xiangxiao said: "How can I stop this? Brother Xinyun wanted to be an official in the Imperial Capital before, but I asked my father to handle this matter for him. Now the Imperial Capital has become a place of sadness for him, and he is not willing to stay any longer. I The Crown Prince couldn't bear to force it, but wanted to give him a place to relax, but he insisted on joining the army... Before the Crown Prince opened his mouth, my father gave his approval... After all, whose fault is this?"
Yun Fenghuang was speechless.
"What's going on with you?!" Gong Xiangxiao refused to let her remain silent like this. After a pause, he asked in a cold voice, "If you really changed your mind, why did you bother Qiao Zhang to meet and take photos with him so deliberately? After meeting, he still flirted more confidently than his serious married wife?!"
"If you haven't changed your mind, you won't leave such a good opportunity this time. What are you waiting for?!"
"… Then what?"
Just as a gust of wind passed by, the silver leaves were rolling like waves, undulating and whistling. Gong Xiangxiao didn't hear clearly for a while, and frowned and asked: "What?"
Yun Fenghuang's eyes followed the reed leaves not far away, and his tone of voice was wandering as if he didn't know where he came from: "If I go with him this time, what will happen next?"
Before Gong Xiangxiao could speak, she raised her head slightly with a slight sneer, "Then the royal palace will decide the life and death of the whole life. When will the regent need to deal with the Yun family and the various tribes in the north, and can he be used as a chess piece anytime and anywhere? Or? Abandoned son?"
"Or does the prince want to say that the palace's efforts behind the scenes to help me and Ah Lu go hand in hand are purely out of good intentions and do not require anything in return?"
Gong Xiangxiao was young after all, and was suppressed by the regent for various reasons. He had been with the emperor since he was a child. If he were a serious emperor's companion, he would have a lot of experience, but the emperor himself had been a few months ago. He had just started to take charge of the government, and after all, he had insufficient experience. When Yun Fenghuang asked him, although he looked embarrassed, he could not nod without conscience, and he felt a little stiff for a moment.
I heard Yun Fenghuang continue: "A'lu felt that we felt like old friends at first sight, and he was very willing to believe in the palace, but I didn't believe it. I thought that after I came to the imperial capital, I had contact with the Duke of Yiguo's palace because of my aunt and uncle. But I got a little bit of the spotlight from the fourth lady of Duke Yun Ronghua’s palace and showed up a few times in the circle of noble ladies in the imperial capital, but I ended up entering the palace in a daze!”
"In my opinion, you high-ranking people are very shrewd."
"I want to take advantage of you. I'm afraid I'll have to help count the money even if I'm sold!"
"If I don't go with Ah Lu this time, I'll just die alone in the palace with my reputation ruined. But if I go with him, who knows what he will be dragged into in the future? I've already suffered in the hands of people like you. After losing money once, I can’t let Ah Lu continue to be fooled by you!”
When Gong Xiangxiao heard this, he couldn't bear it, and sneered: "You are so quibbling, as if the palace is preventing you from being reunited! I don't say I feel sorry for Brother Xinjun, but I have a clear conscience! As for my father, The king has always been famous for his love of talents! Brother Xinyun is not an indispensable talent in the palace now, but with his age, given time, how could the father be willing to abandon him?! In the final analysis, it is you who do not care about him?! If you are willing to leave, why bother using the palace as a fig leaf?"
Yun Fenghuang said coldly: "You can use this to prevaricate Ah Lu. Tell me this... Haha, at this moment, I am willing to believe that the prince's feelings for Ah Lu are true. But once it comes The prince is not the one who makes the decision in the palace. Secondly, the prince is still young. Now he is stabbing Ah Lu in both sides. Who knows if he will stab Ah Lu in the opposite direction in the future?!"
"You think you are the heir apparent?!" Gong Xiangxiao looked angry as he listened, and laughed angrily, "Mao Jieyu, if you just let down brother Xinjun's deep love and righteousness, that's all. After all, the emperor's concubine is Your Majesty, it is indeed something that Brother Xinjun cannot give you - it’s just that you coaxed Brother Xinjun into being devoted to you, but then turned around and trampled on his sincerity as if it were child’s play; at the same time, you acted coquettishly and foolishly with His Majesty in order to win. Wealth and honor are a bit disdainful!"
Yun Fenghuang sneered and said: "Didn't the regent love Concubine Yuan very much back then? Before Concubine Yuan passed away, the palace did not even have a concubine. But when the late Emperor Xiaozong fell seriously ill, Concubine Yuan was not By chance, it's gone so that the step-concubine from the Qingping Hou Mansion can pass by?"
Seeing Gong Xiangxiao's face turn pale for a moment, she didn't care and kept talking to herself, "Your Majesty, people's hearts are fickle. If you love me like a treasure today, you may not abandon it like a piece of grass in the future. Even if you still regard it as a treasure in the future, at the critical moment , How can I leave my wife and children, let alone the things outside my body? No matter how nice the promise from the palace is, it is just a promise."
"The Xie family from which I was born and the Qi family from A'lu, if they join forces, can't do anything when the palace breaks their promise, so I won't believe your promise, do you understand?"
Gong Xiangxiao calmed down and sneered: "You keep saying that you don't trust the palace, but in fact, you also don't trust brother Xinyun? You don't believe that he will always treat you like this in the future, so you would rather stay and continue to be the palace concubine and let him Do you have such a regret in this life that you will never be forgotten?"
"How does the prince know that he can't forget me?" Yun Fenghuang asked coldly, "I said, people's hearts are fickle. I don't know what kind of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy tomorrow will bring today. It would be too unrealistic to stand in the present and talk about it for a lifetime... Moreover, even if I leave with him this time, don’t you think we have no regrets? Ever since the nobles of the Imperial Capital paid attention to Beidi, ever since my sister was accused of cheating on Hongxing, ever since the Xie family and the Qi family The two families have broken off their engagement. It’s a pity that it’s already set in stone and it’s already doomed!”
"If I had never come to the Imperial Capital, but was sent to the family temple like the sisters in the clan, or was hastily betrothed to another family. Maybe I would never know until my death how my childhood sweethearts and childhood sweethearts were not married; I was originally How can a life destined to be smooth sailing turn desolate?”
Seeing what Gong Xiangxiao wanted to say, she smiled sarcastically, "Your Majesty, do you want to say that even if you have all kinds of regrets before, if you go far away with Ah Lu this time, you can at least make up for it?"
Gong Xiangxiao said coldly: "It's a pity that the wealth and honor in the palace are beyond the reach of ordinary people."
"The wealth in the palace is indeed not something ordinary people can have." Yun Fenghuang laughed and said, "It's just that in the final analysis, only a few people can enjoy this wealth. Today, as a concubine, I am proud of everyone, and I am noble. He Once the Japanese are demoted, for example, the Cui family, how can they know where their future is? I know this truth very well. "
"If that's the case." Gong Xiangxiao sneered, obviously not believing it, and said, "Why did Jieyu make Brother Xinyun go away sadly? Is it possible that Jieyu felt that she had already slept with His Majesty and was not worthy of Brother Xinyun? Is this why you refuse?"
When he said the last sentence, he laughed coldly, his sarcasm palpable.
Yun Fenghuang didn't care and said quietly: "Because I have compromised several times."
Seeing Gong Xiangxiao frowning, she said lazily, "It was the first time to break off the engagement with the Qi family; it was the second time to refuse to elope with A'lu in Kongque Slope; it was the third time to restrain one's nature after coming to the Imperial Capital and go around seeking flattery... Since then... Since the unexpected incident happened three years ago, I have endured it again and again, until my heart bleeds. I just want to live in a kind and kind family, a husband and a child. Considering my background and talent, is such a wish too much? What? Isn’t it a matter of course and right?!”
"The results of it?"
It turned out that Ms. Xie was already writing a letter to discuss matters A, B, C and D with Mr. Jiang, and she was ordered to enter the palace directly!
"That day when my aunt came home crying and told me about entering the palace, I suddenly understood." Yun Fenghuang said seriously, "The ancients said that learning is like sailing against the current. If you don't advance, you will retreat. Sometimes life is like this, If I had known better, it would have been better not to take a step back, not to withdraw from the engagement, not to leave the North, and to directly seek refuge in the Regent's Palace... Your Majesty, tell me, compared with the result now, which one is better?"
Gong Xiangxiao was silent.
Yun Fenghuang didn't ask him to answer, and sneered, "It's a pity that I didn't know earlier - back then, the Qi family and the Xie family just clung to the ancestral precepts and didn't want to rashly get involved in the fight between the nobles of the imperial capital. They would rather let the legitimate sons The legitimate daughters suffered a little loss, after all, they were not the ones who fell in love with each other. After Alu and I broke off our engagement, it was not like we couldn’t find anyone else to marry. This was a small price to pay for avoiding the trouble of going through troubled waters. For the family Of course it’s worth it.”
"But now that I am in the palace and Ah Lu has entered the regent's palace, none of the two families' previous plans succeeded. The situation has become even worse."
"At least if I had resisted in the first place, I might not have formed a deadly feud with Duke Yi!"
"Alu and I don't need to separate!"
She breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly, "Whether my family is willing to continue to tolerate it or not, I don't want to anymore. It's hard for me that I haven't seen enough of Yun's face in the past three years. I know that there are many traps in the future, but I still have to continue to see it. What's the attitude of your regent's palace? Frankly speaking, if I hadn't made a name for myself in the palace, I wouldn't have been able to gamble on my friendship with Ah Lu and just go with him."
"But now that I have a plan, why should I leave the future in the hands of people like you who I can't trust at all?"
Gong Xiangxiao said forcefully: "Your plan? What's going on in the harem now? With your background, what can you do? It's just making people laugh!"
"Your Majesty, you don't have to lie to me." Yun Fenghuang snorted and said, "Ah Lu relies on you to take care of me these days, and I appreciate this. Now that he has gone to the army, I asked the Crown Prince to continue to take care of him, as a In return, if the prince has any instructions from now on, I will do my best and I will not refuse."
Gong Xiangxiao laughed angrily: "You can do what you can? How many benefits and benefits have you received from me these days? Isn't it right to pay back something?! I am really curious, how much weight does Brother Xinyun have in your mind?"
"First of all, I must ensure that I take good care of myself, so that I can work for the Crown Prince for a long time." Yun Fenghuang looked at him, with a slight curl in the corner of his mouth, but no smile in his eyes, and said, "Secondly, I also You must ensure that you take good care of yourself, so that you can have a chance to reunite with Ah Lu in the future. Right?"
The implication is that as long as I am here, if your palace does not take good care of Qi Jiulu, I will write it down for you!
At that time, everyone will wait and see!
Hearing the euphemistic threat in her words, Gong Xiangxiao's face became angry, and he opened his mouth to curse, but when the words came to his lips, he looked at this person's rock-like unshakable expression, but felt it was boring, and finally became sullen. Said: "My prince does not dare to expect anything from Jieyu!"
Then he was not in the mood to stay anymore. He hurriedly handed over his hands and was about to leave, but Yun Fenghuang called him and asked him: "Why is Xile at His Majesty's place?"