Only then did Ying Niang realize that the curtains in the pavilion had been tied aside by the maid at some point.
Yu Dalang was still kowtowing.
Yu Dalang raised his head, his face was covered with blood, and he smiled flatteringly: "Thank you, sir, for your cultivation. I will definitely..." The unfinished words died in his throat when he saw Lady Ying in the pavilion. Yu Dalang's smile froze, and then he smiled. Even bigger, he raised his hands and nodded: "I will definitely be a good official, thank you so much, Duke!"
The Yu family were also shocked when they saw Lady Ying. They knelt on the ground, their faces flushed, and then they became even more angry at Lady Ying.
"Here, didn't you say she was a rebel?" Yu Shitou did not dare to face Lady Ying and whispered. Miao Cui couldn't believe it and was furious: "Shouldn't the rebels be killed?"
Wei Yanshan chuckled lightly and approached Princess Youzhou: "The Yu family are ungrateful and motivated by profit. They first deceived you and betrayed you. After being discovered, they became angry and wanted to kill you. Is this the person the princess wanted to protect before?"
Yu Shitou and Miao Cui listened to Master Guan's words in panic and wanted to kneel forward, but were pushed to the ground by the guards. Xiao Yinzi and Xiao Jinzi cried together.
"I feel so worthless for the princess." Wei Yanshan sighed.
Ying Niang blinked her dry eyes and smacked away Wei Guogong's hand that clamped her chin.
Wei Yanshan looked at the red mark on the back of his hand, feeling a dull pain in his wrist.
What a peony with thorns, Wei Yanshan said: "I can help the princess and let them receive the punishment they deserve."
"Sir, she is a rebel!"
"Didn't you say she was a rebel? Shouldn't she die?"
"It's her who deserves to die, not us."
The Yu family was puzzled and frightened. To them, just two words from the superior meant the difference between heaven and hell. They knelt on the ground and kowtowed again.
Ying Niang looked at Wei Guogong who was playing with people's hearts and controlling everyone, and said: "A real man should keep his word."
After Wei Yanshan heard this, he was not angry. He looked at Princess Youzhou and said, "Wouldn't the princess be angry if the Yu family said and behaved like this? If you want, I am willing to go back on my word for the princess once."
Xiao Yinzi was held in her arms by her mother-in-law. She cried and begged Lady Ying not to be angry and to let them go.
Ying Niang looked at the vast lake and said, "I'm not angry."
She was just a little sad and a little disappointed, just a little bit.
Princess Youzhou's expression has always been calm, neither angry nor overjoyed.
Wei Yanshan watched Princess Youzhou drink the glass of peony wine, then got up and left Linyi Pavilion. When she walked to the Yu family, she bent down and touched the left side of Xiao Yinzi's face.
Xiao Yinzi hugged her mother tightly and kept crying. She thought about the bandits they encountered when their family took a boat to Luoyang. She was slapped by the bandits. Later, after they escaped, Lady Ying kept touching her left hand. face, wipe her tears clean.
Inside the pavilion.
There was no smile on Wei Yanshan's face. His malice toward people's hearts was like the bottomless mud in this ten thousand-acre lotus pond. However, Princess Youzhou never did what he wanted.
Under the glazed lamp, Princess Youzhou walked slowly on the water corridor. Perhaps she had drunk wine, and her cheeks turned a peach-blossom color. Her lips were smeared with wine, so she looked extremely red, and her neck was as white as snow.
So dazzling.
Chapter 301
At the end of March, the heat has set in.
After the female doctor's daily acupuncture treatment, Ying Niang's eyes were almost healed. After breakfast, while the weather was not so hot yet, Ying Niang walked along the pebble path of Hengwu Garden to the pond. Under the shade of the tree, I looked at a small lotus leaf emerging from the small pond. The tender small round lotus leaves were floating on the pond, and the koi carps were swimming under the lotus leaves.
This lotus leaf suddenly appeared three days ago. Because she was locked up here every day, Yingniang paid more attention to the little lotus leaf that suddenly appeared.
Ying Niang looked at the lotus leaf in trance. It had been seven or eight days since she last left Heng Wuyuan. According to Wei Guogong's vicious mind, what was he thinking?
At noon, Yingniang looked at the old housekeeper who suddenly appeared and got a new piece of news.
"You want me to move to Xiyuan?" Yingniang's first thought was who was there in Xiyuan. She pursed her lips. Could it be Master Cunzhen and two young monks? Or Tang Langjun? She knew very few people after arriving in Luoyang, and the Yu family had already met these few people.
"No need to clean up, Xiyuan has everything." The old housekeeper said to the maids.
When walking halfway, Ying Niang looked at the completely different route from the last time she went to Linyi Pavilion and Fuxian Terrace, secretly guessing what Wei Guogong's intention was this time.
"Ms. Ying Niang." A voice woke up Ying Niang.
She looked up at Ms. Ye who was standing in the middle of the road. If she remembered correctly, this person should be Wei Erlang's mother, right?
"Second Madam, please give way." the old housekeeper said.
Ye Yiru stepped aside a little, and walked to Princess Youzhou, her face extremely anxious. When she looked at Princess Youzhou, she could only suppress her resentment in her heart: "Rouxin, she was sent to the temple by the Duke. Qingxiu is not allowed to come back now. The weather is so hot, there are not many people around her to serve her, and there is not even ice in the temple."
Ye said and started to cry: "When Rouxin fell from the ladder, her leg was injured and she has been suffering in the temple."
Ying Niang listened to her cry and didn't understand her request: "Madam, what's the use of telling me this?"
Her current situation is little better than that of a prisoner in prison.
"If it weren't for you, Rouxin wouldn't have suffered so much." Ye said resentfully.
Ying Niang was silent for a moment, preparing to turn a deaf ear to Ye's words.
"The Duke of Guo sent Rou Xin to the temple just to vent his anger on you." Ye shook her handkerchief vigorously and hated Princess Youzhou so much that she pestered her: "You talk to the Duke and ask him to let Rou Xin go." Come back, Rouxin can't bear the hardship."
Ying Niang stopped and said to Mrs. Ye: "Madam, you have found the wrong person. Even if you want to find him, you should go to Mr. Wei Guogong."
Ye's eyes were already red with jealousy. Of course she knew that the order was given by the Duke, but she loved and feared that man, more fear than love. At any time, the Duke only asked them to obey. If they didn't Being obedient will result in being disgusted and discarded.
Rou Xin only disobeyed his order once and secretly met Princess Youzhou, and was sent to the temple by the Duke.
That man was so cruel and heartless, but why could he tolerate what Princess Youzhou did? The injury on the Duke's wrist has not healed yet. Not only was he not punished, but he also allowed her to live in Xiyuan.
The old housekeeper emphasized his tone: "We still have things to do. If the second lady is dissatisfied with the Duke, she can raise it in front of the Duke."
Ye Yiru took a step back unwillingly and watched them leave.
When Ying Niang arrived at Xiyuan, her steps hesitated.
She looked at the continuous palaces with carved beams and painted buildings in the Xiyuan, as well as the peonies blooming everywhere. There were many types and colors. It was not the best season for peonies to bloom yet, but because of the hot weather this year, many peonies were already in bloom. Various peonies sway in the wind, as bright as clouds in the sky.
Ying Niang looked at such beautiful scenery and did not feel any joy or relaxation.
Here, every gorgeous feast represents a trap. The blood on Fuxian Terrace and Linyi Pavilion has made Yingniang see clearly what kind of person Wei Guogong is.
Under his handsome skin is a colorful venomous snake.
After arriving at Xiyuan, the first thing Yingniang did was to check the route map of Xiyuan. When it got dark, she only sorted out half of it. The area of Xiyuan was a bit beyond her imagination.
Darkness gradually fell.
Ying Niang was resting in the Luhua Hall in Xiyuan. She kept her eyes open, listening to the footsteps of guards patrolling outside and the chirping of crickets in late spring.
When no one was around, she thought of many people.
I wonder if my daughter is okay? She missed her so much that she didn't dare to think too much. She recalled the speeches she heard from the generals on the Fuxian Terrace, and felt that the war effort of Sect Master Zhou must have gone smoothly. Unexpectedly, she thought of the Xun family and his son again. The originally peaceful heart became full of hatred. Later, Ying Niang thought of Shen Zhi, Jin Ben, A Mu, A Gu, Luo Jinhu, Dong Xue and others. She didn't know how Luo Jinhu's trip to Lingnan was going. The weather this year was not good. , it has not rained for a long time, which is not a good sign.
Ying Niang sat up, got out of bed and opened the window to let the moonlight shine down. The Luhua Palace was the same as the Hengwu Garden. Unless Wei Guogong came, the candlelight would be put away at nightfall.
Now only the light of the full moon flows down.
Only by blowing the night breeze can Ying Niang relieve her worries.
It was dark at night, and the door of the room was suddenly pushed open, and Ying Niang suddenly looked towards the door of the palace.
"The princess is so elegant? Are you admiring the moon late at night?" Wei Yanshan entered the Luhua Palace with a lantern, while Nuo Da walked leisurely in the palace with only one lantern.
Ying Niang calmed down and said, "I have changed my residence. I just can't sleep. I wonder why the Duke came here late at night?"
Wei Yanshan put down the lantern on the table and stood in front of the window under the moonlight. He looked at Princess Youzhou and said: "These days, I see that Princess has never given in. She always excuses herself by saying that she does not remember the past. If you and I are not hostile, to be honest, I still admire the princess very much."
Ying Niang smelled a faint smell of alcohol and said softly: "I was injured and I don't remember many things. The Duke should have known about it from the beginning."
Wei Yanshan looked at Princess Youzhou's face, which looked extremely coquettish and mature under the moonlight window. Even the light tone in her mouth seemed a little sentimental in the night.
But Wei Yanshan knew clearly that this was just his illusion.
He laughed softly: "Really? Then what was the princess shouting that night when she first arrived at Hengwuyuan and had a high fever?"
In fact, that night, Wei Yanshan had been sitting on the bedside of Princess Youzhou. At that time, Princess Youzhou was unconscious and kept talking nonsense.
Wei Yanshan looked at the plump Mrs. Xiao and found it hard to imagine that the Yingniang mentioned by the Yu family was Princess Youzhou.
For example, she washed dishes and laundry, cooked and swept the floor at Yu's house. She worked hard all day long and endured cold and hunger. In order to save some money on medicine, she drank the soup in two parts. She slept in the woodshed. People who would never get involved would go to the Night Ghost Temple. Princess Youzhou actually survived those hard days.
She didn't seem to care about her external possessions. In Hengwuyuan, she didn't have any makeup or jewelry. Her clothes were old-fashioned and her face was plain.
It can be described as a world of difference from the rumored life of Princess Youzhou that Wei Yanshan had heard.
The information he got was that Zhou Xu doted on this woman to the extreme, with rich clothes and delicacies on jade plates. Judging from how dizzy Zhou Xu was, she probably had all the treasures in the world. After all, he even had the dragon seal representing half of the mountains and rivers. All the remaining jade was given away.
And the two or three trials he tried all ended in failure.
Yingniang was shocked. She had forgotten about the high fever in Hengwuyuan, but in fact, from that night on, her previous memories continued to appear intermittently. She clenched her palms and said with a cold expression: "How do I know this? .”
Wei Yanshan approached Princess Youzhou, tilted his head, and inadvertently saw the tips of her ears hidden in her hair. He avoided the snowy color and said slowly: "What about Xiao Qingxue? Does the princess have any impression?"
"My lord, please respect yourself." Yingniang took a step back and said coldly.
Wei Yanshan stared at Princess Youzhou with deep eyes. In fact, Princess Youzhou had been talking nonsense that night. He could only vaguely hear the words "Go to college, my dear, I'm sorry, these are muddled words, and there is no useful information at all. What I just said" Mrs. Xiao's daughter's name was just to deceive her.
"Does the princess really want to keep pretending?" Wei Yanshan suppressed the smile on his face and said: "I didn't want to do this, why did the princess force me?"
Ying Niang frowned, her worst premonition coming true little by little.
Outside the door, there were noisy footsteps and scoldings of prisoners being escorted, as well as harsh curses in Youzhou dialect.
"There are some Youzhou soldiers outside. As long as the princess admits that she has recovered her memory, I will let them go." Wei Yanshan said.
"I don't have much time for the princess. If I count to three and the princess still doesn't say anything, they will be beheaded one by one, just like Zhou Youzhou treated the defeated prisoners." Wei Yanshan said in a cold tone.
"One." Wei Yanshan said softly.
Ying Niang looked at him, her whole body stiff. The Youzhou soldiers in her ears seemed to be resisting fiercely. Their Youzhou accent made Ying Niang particularly impressed.
"Two." Wei Yanshan looked at Princess Youzhou's pale face and continued without giving her any chance to think.
In the dim hall, Ying Niang closed her eyes lightly, then opened them, interrupting Duke Wei: "I admit it."
Wei Yanshan said with great interest: "Princess, don't you want to pretend anymore?"
"You can't just pretend for a while." Yingniang knew that she couldn't hide the matter of recovering her memory for a long time. Being able to delay it for so many days was enough for her. She couldn't just say whatever the enemy asked her from the beginning.
"I hope Duke Wei can fulfill his promise." Yingniang looked directly at Duke Wei.
Wei Yanshan was not in a hurry: "When did the princess regain her memory?"
