Since leaving the capital, this is the first time Zhou Yunshu has seen her mother so panicked.
"Mom, what's wrong?"
Li Jialan grabbed her daughter's hand as if grasping her own life-saving straw. She said quietly and urgently: "Shu'er, let's go, let's go now!"
"Mom, what happened?"
Didn't they agree to stay in Tongcheng for three days yesterday?
Anyway, there are so many people in Dujia Village and they can't walk fast. Even if they set off three days late, Zhou Yunshu is confident that she can catch up.
But now why did my mother suddenly change her mind?
Especially Li Jialan's current mood is really strange.
"I took Chunque to the city gate this morning to wait and see if I could meet your grandmother and the others. Who knows." Li Jialan swallowed, looked at Zhou Yunshu with nervousness and fear in her eyes and said, "I actually saw Cao Zhengxing! "
Zhou Yunshu clenched her fists in surprise, "Eunuch Cao?"
"How could he leave the capital?"
Eunuch Cao's name is Cao Zhengxing, which is the name given to him by the current emperor. He is also the most favored eunuch of the current emperor.
Cao Zhengxing is now not only the emperor's eunuch who holds the pen, but also the eunuch who holds the seal of the royal horse supervisor. He is the commander-in-chief of the 12th regiment of the Beijing Army. He is the first inner court official in charge of the imperial army since the founding of the Zhou Dynasty.
When the Prince's Mansion in Zhenbei was ransacked, it was Cao Zhengxing who sent people there, and Zhang Qinglai was one of his generals.
It can be said that Cao Zhengxing is half responsible for the decline of the Zhenbei Palace to what it is today. This is why Li Jialan is so afraid of Cao Zhengxing.
At least that's what Zhou Yunshu thought. As for the real reason, Li Jialan didn't say.
In other words, only she, her husband-in-law Zhou Jianzhang, and her mother-in-law Ji Mingzhu knew the real reason.
The relationship between Cao Zhengxing and the Zhou family is not just a simple political enemy. Li Jialan was also Cao Zhengxing's fiancée before she entered the palace.
It's just that things in the world are unpredictable. In the early years, the Li family fell into decline. The Cao family offended the powerful and ransacked their homes and ordered them to be executed. The engagement between the two was naturally annulled.
But who knew that many years later, when Li Jialan followed her husband into the palace to receive the reward, she actually saw Cao Zhengxing, who should have been dead for many years, but turned into a close confidant of the emperor.
The Zhou family and Cao Zhengxing have been tit-for-tat in the court. Zhou Jianzhang often said in front of Li Jialan that Cao Zhengxing was a cunning, sycophantic minister who spoke secretly but was secretly armed.
When the gentle fiancé in her memory turned into a treacherous minister that everyone reviled, Li Jialan froze on the spot.
The worst thing is that not only did she recognize her fiancé, Cao Zhengxing also recognized Li Jialan.
When Cao Zhengxing stopped her and said that he wanted to fulfill his engagement with her, Li Jialan was scared out of his mind.
At that time, Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunqi had just turned three years old. Cao Zhengxing said that he liked her twins very much and would not mind being the stepfather of their two children. Anyway, he would not have any children of his own in this life.
This sentence frightened Li Jialan so much that she developed a high fever that night. When she recovered and heard that Cao Zhengxing came to the house on behalf of the emperor, she was so frightened that she did not dare to leave the room for fear of hearing something scary from Cao Zhengxing's mouth again.
But Cao Zhengxing always had a way to see her. When she heard the maid saying that Zhou Yunshu and Zhou Yunqi were having fun with Cao Zhengxing in the garden, Li Jialan was so frightened that she immediately ran to the garden, fearing what Cao Zhengxing would do to her children.
Cao Zhengxing had done so many evil things for the emperor and himself, and the evil aura in his body could not be stopped.
Zhou Yunqi was unwilling to get close to Cao Zhengxing, but Zhou Yunshu had never known fear since she was a child.
When Li Jialan rushed to the garden, Zhou Yunshu, who was only three years old, was thrown into the air by Cao Zhengxing. While laughing, he asked Cao Zhengxing to throw her higher. Li Jialan almost fainted from the fright.
Zhou Jianzhang also saw that Li Jialan was too abnormal that day, so he asked about her and Cao Zhengxing.
Since that day, Li Jialan has never attended any palace banquets.
She could still take care of her younger son, but Zhou Yunshu had been raised by Ji Mingzhu's side since she was a child, and it was common for her to attend various palace banquets and banquets for princes.
Even though Li Jialan deliberately stopped her, Cao Zhengxing still contacted Zhou Yunshu again and again, as if he regarded Zhou Yunshu as his own child.
Li Jialan was really scared, especially after she and her daughter and son went to the mountain to worship Buddha and were almost kidnapped. She finally couldn't help but told the story between herself and Cao Zhengxing at the risk of being divorced. My own mother-in-law.
There is no way, Cao Zhengxing acts more and more without scruples and becomes more and more crazy, and it seems that he has become Li Jialan's nightmare.
Fortunately, her mother-in-law was indeed the most powerful person in the world. From the time she confessed to her mother-in-law until Zhou Yunshu got married, she never saw Cao Zhengxing again, and Zhou Yunshu never had any personal contact with Cao Zhengxing.
Not to mention that after Zhou Yunshu became more sensible and knew about Cao Zhengxing's reputation and the relationship between the Zhou family, she consciously stayed away from Cao Zhengxing.
There was just one thing that Zhou Yunshu didn't know. When she married King Jisheng of Wei, Cao Zhengxing had given Zhou Yunshu makeup.
A total of eighty-eight dowries were added. Those who didn't know it thought it was Cao Zhengxing who was marrying his daughter.
Of course the Prince of Zhenbei would not want this dowry. After exiting, who would have thought that this lunatic Cao Zhengxing would actually get into the dowry paraded on the street on Zhou Yunshu's wedding day. Li Jialan was so angry that she trembled after hearing the news.
So Li Jialan was really scared when he saw Cao Zhengxing, whom he hadn't seen for a long time, in Tongcheng.
She was afraid that Cao Zhengxing had followed them to Tongcheng, that she and her daughter would be kidnapped by him and kept in captivity, and that her nightmare for many years would come true.
So at this moment she just wants to escape, as far away as possible.
Li Jialan grabbed her daughter's hand and said urgently: "Shu'er, do you think he followed us and wanted to take us back to the capital?"
Zhou Yunshu looked at the panicked Li Jialan and comforted him: "Mom, if he really came after us, he would never pick on Tongcheng. Today should be just a coincidence."
But Li Jialan couldn't listen to Zhou Yunshu's words at this time. Her mind was filled with the scene where she was almost captured by robbers.
Li Jialan shook his head, go, must go!
"Let's go, Shu'er, let's go!"
Li Jialan's attitude was resolute. She could not stay in the same city as Cao Zhengxing for a moment.
Zhou Yunshu sighed helplessly, "Okay."
"We almost bought everything yesterday, but there are still some trivial medicinal materials that we haven't bought yet. We..."
Fang Huiwen stood by the screen holding Yuan Ruo and said, "When mother comes back, I have already asked Chunque to take care of it."
Yesterday, after she counted the things Zhou Yunshu and Chunque bought, she made a note of the things she hadn't bought yet and started buying them together today.
"Okay, thank you for your hard work, sister-in-law. Let's pack our things now."
"good."
Fang Huiwen left with the child in her arms, and Zhou Yunshu looked at Li Jialan, who had calmed down slightly but was still confused.
Zhou Yunshu intuitively felt that she was hiding something from her, but she was too emotional at the moment and it was not a good time to ask.
