Yan Xiu led two young men to leave the palace overnight and led 10,000 elite troops south to suppress the bandits. Zhu Sijia was worried for several days.
He plausibly promised Zhu Sijia that he would be back within half a month.
Zhu Scarlett has never felt that half a month is so long.
She had nightmares one after another, but they were no longer related to her previous life; yesterday she dreamed of a dragon falling into the Qinling Mountains, and today she dreamed of Zhu Yuancun and Ren Huai falling off a cliff without a trace.
During this period of time, she was left unable to eat and depressed due to these bad dreams.
The invitation from the eldest princess's palace was sent to Changle Palace. She was the only female family member in the palace who received the invitation. Zhu Sijia just woke up from a dream. Was she too worried?
Instead of worrying about things that are hundreds of miles away and cannot be sensed, it is better to deal with each day in the present.
Three days later, Princess Zhaohua will hold a birthday banquet for her husband-in-law at the Princess Mansion.
Although Princess Zhaohua married Marquis Guangping, she did not move into the Marquis's mansion. On the contrary, the consort had always lived with her in the Princess's mansion. The two are in love with each other and respect each other as guests. In the eyes of outsiders, they are like a couple of gods and immortals.
Is it?
Zhu Sijia stared at the invitation on the table with mixed feelings.
After the death of Yan Xiu in her previous life, the young emperor came to the throne, and Princess Zhaohua lost Yan Xiu, her biggest supporter.
The prince-in-law exposed his true nature and arrogantly brought the foreign wife who had been raised outside the palace for ten years back to the princess's mansion, asking Zhaohua to give the foreign wife a title.
The outer room is a distant cousin of the Marquis of Guangping in the countryside. When he was a child, he went to Beijing and lived in the Marquis's mansion for a few days. It is believed that he met the consort at that time.
The old Guangping Marquis was born in a mud-legged family. Compared with gold, silver and jewelry, the most important thing in his family was poor relatives that he could not count on his ten fingers.
In anger, Zhaohua drew his sword and slashed at the two of them in public. He failed to injure the outer chamber, but seriously wounded the prince-consort who had become an important minister in the court.
The old lady of the Hou Mansion was so angry that she went to the palace to complain to Yan Xing, the regent, demanding severe punishment for Zhaohua.
Zhaohua had a good relationship with all the princes. During that time, Yan Xing was also troubled by this matter.
These trivial matters were told to her personally by Yan Xing when he returned home, and she didn't know what he meant by them.
Did he think that the two of them could talk to each other like an ordinary couple?
Zhu Sijia stood up and left without listening. She, an outsider, had nothing to do with their Yan family's family affairs.
But it's different now. She herself is on good terms with Zhaohua, and she can't turn a blind eye to Zhaohua's affairs.
Ten years... ten years later, when the incident broke out, Yan Huan was the Emperor of Qin.
This means that the consort has not yet started to raise an outside wife.
There is no basis or evidence. Even if she takes the opportunity to remind Zhaohua, it is groundless.
This put Zhu Sijia in trouble.
Three days later.
After not leaving the palace for a long time, the ice on the road had not yet melted after the snow stopped. The moment the carriage slowly drove out of the palace gate, Zhu Sijia gently opened the window and breathed in the air outside the palace.
It's the taste of freedom.
The eldest princess's mansion is not far from the palace. Zhu Sijia asked people to prepare birthday gifts in advance. She also woke up early and made some snacks and milk tea with Zhu Ya to bring to Huaijin and Huaiyu.
It was already noon when we set off from the palace, the busiest time of the day.
In the past few days, Zhu Sijia couldn't figure out that Zhaohua was not only noble and beautiful, but also gave birth to a pair of lovely children for the prince-in-law. Why on earth did the prince-in-law empathize with her country cousin?
When she thought of Huaijin and Huaiyu, Zhu Sijia suddenly realized.
Zhaohua has a strong personality and has had everything she needs since she was a child. These two little guys did not follow the consort's surname of Liu, but her surname of Yan.
Yan Huaijin, Yan Huaiyu, one is the eldest son of Yan Xiufeng, and the other is the county head of Yan Xiufeng.
Although the Prince Consort of the Qin Dynasty is not like the Prince Consort of other countries who cannot enter the officialdom, his current position in the court is not high. Looking at the entire Princess Mansion, it seems that he is the only one who needs to stay low and be small.
Even his birthday banquet could not be held back at the Marquis Mansion, but had to be held at the Princess Mansion.
A good-for-nothing man who has been suppressed by his wife's family for many years, the biggest way to get revenge is to have an illegitimate wife.
"Jieyu, the eldest princess's residence has arrived, please be careful."
After the carriage stopped, Zhu Ya got out of the car first and opened the door for her.
The princess's mansion was built on a slope. Although the ice and snow in front of the door had been swept away by servants, the weather was too cold. The melted snow flowed from it to the square where the carriage was parked, and within a short time it would be covered with a thin layer of ice.
Today's grand banquet would be attended by all the powerful people in Xijing. When everyone learned that Zhu Sijia would also be invited, they all changed into the less conspicuous carriages in the mansion.
Therefore, Zhu Sijia's carriage stopped in front of the gate and became the most conspicuous one.
As soon as Zhu Sijia got out of the car door, the carriage was hit hard from behind. Before the newly formed thin ice on the ground could be cleared, Zhu Sijia and the car were knocked forward.
"Jieyu, be careful!"
"ah!"
Zhu Sijia fell off the carriage face-first. When she saw the ground getting closer and closer to her, Zhu Sijia closed her eyes in despair, but fell into a slightly cool embrace.
"My brother has offended me, and my wife-in-law forgives me."
Yan Xing's voice made her tremble instantly.
Why do you always meet him at this time? Opening her eyes, she faced Yan Xing's pair of passionate and ruthless peach blossom eyes, looking at her without any hesitation with indescribable tenderness.
Zhu Ya helped Zhu Sijia from Yan Xing's hand:
"You are that, that king, right? You don't have eyes! With such a big carriage in the palace parked here, your palace's carriage has to park next to Zhu Jieyu's carriage, right? You can't do it while His Majesty is out suppressing bandits. Went to the banquet, you did it on purpose, right?"
She had heard about the grievances between Zhu Sijia and Yan Xing and others, and she was most disdainful of irresponsible men like Yan Xing.
In her opinion, Yan Xing, Zhu Siyi and others were bullies who used their power to bully others. In the past, those who bullied Zhu Sijia spoke lightly, but now they bully Zhu Sijia and there is currently no one to support them.
Yan Xing continued to apologize: "There are many carriages today, so I have no choice but to stop here. Please don't misunderstand me, girl."
Zhu Ya rolled her eyes and almost rolled her eyes to the sky: "Misunderstanding? I think you are a bastard who eats weights and is determined to disgust others. You look like a human and act like a dog. If His Majesty is also on the carriage today, how can you still Do you dare to hit me?"
"Zhu Ya! Don't be rude." Zhu Sijia's face turned pale, "The eldest princess has been waiting for a long time, let's go in first."
Yan Xing was not annoyed when someone pointed his nose at him and scolded him. He saluted Zhu Sijia's back: "The emperor's sister-in-law goes first, and my brother will come later."
Watching her enter the gate, Eleven frowned and said, "Your Majesty, that familiar maid next to Jieyu is so mean! But I heard that she is a popular person in front of His Majesty, so I don't dare to scold her back."
Yan Xing slowly put a pendant into his sleeve: "It's okay, Scarlett is angry with me, you can just scold me a few more times."
The pendant he had just passed on from Zhu Sijia.
When she first returned to Xijing, the other thing was the waist pendant sent by Prince Yi's Mansion, which could be combined with the waist pendant on Yan Xing's body.
When she entered the palace, she changed into the waist pendant given by Yan Xiu.
The waist pendant given to her by the royal brother was an eyesore.
