Chu Mingzhu returned to her room, sat at the dressing table, and asked her confidant Taohong to undo her bun.
"Why haven't the people sent to the north come back yet?"
Green willow path to cleanse her hands
"I heard that it often snows heavily in winter in the north. Maybe the road is difficult and we were delayed.
As for the slaves, she is just a village girl, and those four are domestic slaves specially trained by the old general. It is really a small amount of talent to deal with a village girl! "
"Furthermore, General Xiao and the princess have been friends for many years. I heard that the village girl was bought by General Xiao when he went out to look for water during the severe drought and took care of the young marquis. To put it bluntly, she was just a slave. Princess, you can Don’t take it to heart!”
After hearing this, Chu Mingzhu felt slightly relieved and still said
"Having said that, I feel disgusted when I think that brother Xiao Yi has lived with that woman under the same roof for half a year."
How could the two maids not know what their master was thinking, so they could only coax him?
"In total, those four people have been gone for almost a month. It is estimated that the eyesore will be buried by now!"
Chu Mingzhu nodded after hearing this, looked at the face in the mirror and said, "Do you think that person can be as beautiful as me?"
The person in the mirror has fair skin, eyebrows and almond-shaped eyes, but has experienced ups and downs. Now he can't wait to return to his former glory, and his temper has become more and more irritable. Sometimes he frowns, sometimes becomes irritable, and sometimes stands on his eyebrows. He has a beautiful face. A bit angry.
The two girls carefully observed their master's face and replied.
"How could it be? I'm just a village girl. How can I be compared with you, the princess? On weekdays, when we go to the streets, the women we see in the market are not all ordinary and vulgar. Even if there are a few who look decent, which one She's not a rough-and-tumble person, but she smells of poverty and sourness, let alone a village girl from the countryside!"
"No, the princess was born rich. You haven't seen it before, but I did know it when I was a child in Zhuangzi.
People's lives are difficult. Every family raises chickens, ducks, geese, dogs, and pigs. The whole yard is stinky. The girls in the family have been working since they were young, cooking, feeding pigs and chickens. We are not as good as the rough ladies in our house. How can we look so good if we work so hard? I am afraid that I will not be able to keep up with the third-class girls in our house! "
Chu Mingzhu thought of the common women she saw on the street and the third-class little girls in the yard in the past, and she felt like a shrinking servant. She also felt that Xie Yushu was not much better, and maybe Xie Yushu was dead now. , and finally went to sleep peacefully.
It should be said that this Chu Mingzhu was originally a noble eldest lady. When she was born, her father Chu Wei had just been awarded the title of General Pingxi. He was a first-rank official and had unlimited scenery. No one was allowed to bend down and kowtow when he saw her!
As for General Pingxi, the young daughter Chu Mingzhu was naturally raised with great love and affection.
It's just that Chu Mingzhu also has an older sister named Chu Minghui, who is also a beautiful woman with beautiful appearance and wisdom. She was selected as a noble concubine when she was just sixteen years old, and she also gave birth to a son, who was the emperor's third prince.
As General Pingxi made great achievements in battle, his prestige in the capital became higher and higher. Within three to five years, he had a faction of his own in the court.
As this man stood taller, his heart also grew taller. Gradually, he lost a little respect for the Holy One. I wonder if he aroused the Holy One's suspicion. Suddenly, someone accused him of having confiscated people's land at the border and embezzled money. A series of crimes including military pay, indulging subordinates in robbing civilian women, forming cliques in the government for personal gain, etc.
The Chu Mansion was already in a state of turmoil at this time.
It happened that a young prince died in the palace, and a series of evidence pointed to Concubine Chu. What's even more terrible is that during the search, they actually found a child with nine embroidery needles stuck in it under the concubine's bed, and the birth date of the Holy Emperor was written on it. A witchcraft doll with eight characters, and the eldest maid next to the imperial concubine took the initiative to identify it. The needlework on this witchcraft doll was made by the general’s wife!
It has always been a capital crime to use witchcraft to harm others, not to mention the birth date written on this doll is that of the Holy One. This is simply treason, and according to the law, the entire family will be executed!
In anger, the Holy Emperor imprisoned the entire Chu family in a prison. The imperial concubine was deprived of her title and imprisoned in the cold palace!
When Chu Wei was in trouble, he secretly asked someone to beg for mercy, but the officials who interceded for him were either demoted or reprimanded. After waiting for four or five days, Chu Wei gave up.
He admitted to all other crimes, but the witchcraft doll had nothing to do with him. He believed that his eldest daughter would never make such a thing, but it just appeared!
Only then did Chu Wei understand that this meant that the king wanted his subjects to die!
After thinking about it and accepting their fate, Chu Wei and his wife committed suicide in the prison in order to save their children.
The Holy Spirit sighed after hearing the news.
"Chu Qing is confused!
That’s it! Remember that he spent his whole life as a soldier, protecting his family and country, so his children will be exempted from death penalty, the men will be exiled to Youzhou, and the women will be put into the treasury of Xin Zhe! "
Once the big trees of the past were gone, all the men of the Chu family were killed by bandits on their way into exile, leaving only Chu Jinyu who was rescued by Xiao Yi, who was secretly guarding him!
As for Chu Mingzhu, her nanny replaced her with her own daughter and secretly raised her in a small town a hundred miles away from the capital.
The Chu family fell, and military power was taken back by the emperor.
But things are so dramatic.
Three years later, Concubine Chu, who was imprisoned in the cold palace, regained her favor with the sound of a piano song, became Concubine Chu, and gave birth to a pair of twins!
It happened that the twins of a boy and a girl were born, and the cough that had been bothering the saint for a long time was cured without medicine!
The Imperial Supervisor calculated that the twins had a prosperous father, and the Holy One was delighted and wanted Concubine Chu to be promoted to a noble concubine. However, Concubine Chu said that the fact about the witchcraft doll was framed, and there must be a traitor who deceived the Holy One, and asked the Holy One to conduct a thorough investigation!
The final result was that a scapegoat was found and sentenced to exile. Even so, Chu Wei violated the holy taboo by forming a clique for personal gain. But now that Concubine Chu had meritorious service in giving birth to twins, in order to compensate, the still-living Chu Mingzhu was made an exception and made Rongan County. host.
Chu Jinyu was still young and could not command the military power, and in line with the holy will, he was granted the title of Anlehou. Moreover, Princess Rongan and Anlehou only had names and no fiefdoms. They just received annual salary and salary. Now the military power has been taken away. , Chao Gang is stable, which just enhances the saint's good reputation for benevolence.
This time, the Xiyi Fan Realm captured two cities in the Western Realm. Xiao Yi was originally a third-rank Mingwei General under Chu Wei. He was very popular with the military. Now that the Chu family has been rehabilitated, in order to win over the military's morale, Xiao Yi was reinstated. Rush to the west to meet the enemy!
Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Chu Mingzhu, the princess, only has an empty reputation. She once worked as a slave in Xinzhe's Treasury. Although she has a concubine sister who has regained her favor, there is no doubt whether she can benefit from marrying her, so she was excluded. It’s definitely the Three Princes Faction.
The emperor was only in his early fifties and in good health. It was too early to take sides now, so even the children of officials of the third and fourth grades did not bother to marry her, let alone those from a high family background.
The best husband she can get is Xiao Yi, who has some friendship with her!
So when he heard that Xiao Yi had married a wife in the countryside, he immediately sent people to rob and kill Xie Yushu.
Xie Yushu is simply the unjust one who suffered such a disaster!
