The carriage was swaying, and Shen Que felt very depressed. The feeling of being betrayed by a loved one was really terrible. She couldn't figure out why Lu Sheng did this. She had been dubious since she received Li Luansong's letter. He showed her the evidence and she still felt lucky. Maybe it was a misunderstanding, maybe he had a reason... However, nothing in front of him could deceive anyone. Shen felt very powerless. Angry, aggrieved, wanting to cry but without tears.
The drizzle was beating on the car window, and Li Luansong sat quietly with her, watching her frown, sigh, and pinch her fingers until they turned white... He stretched out his hand, gently opened her pinched hands, and said distressedly:
"Yu Yuan is a girl. Laugh when you are happy and cry when you are sad. Don't hold it in."
Shen Que came back to his senses and looked at him. Seeing the worried look on his face, he sneered: "I'm fine. I don't want to cry. I'm just a little confused, a little disappointed, and I don't know how to deal with him."
She sighed and felt helpless: "Now I can truly understand His Highness's situation. You are not as good as me when you are deceived by your relatives. I was just deceived. As for you, your life was taken. Your Highness is really It’s not easy, now you have to help me deal with this mess, thank you very much.”
At this time, you can still have such delicate thoughts, put yourself in his shoes, and it doesn't look like you are not interested in him, right?
Li Luansong felt happy, waved his hand and said: "We are all one family. The troubles in our family make you worry more. Now that the second child is out, you have to be more careful."
Shen Que said he knew, "My father is not here right now. I want to go home and have a look and ask where Liu's father has gone."
Li Luansong said yes, "I'll go back for you. Do you want to go in person?"
Shen Que nodded. It was true that it was not convenient for her in her current status.
Li Luansong thought for a while and said it didn't matter, "When the time comes, you can dress up and follow me, and say that you are the new nurse of the Zhang family."
The matter was happily decided in this way. The carriage arrived at the street entrance. In front of it was the palace of the wise prince. There were guards guarding the door, and pedestrians passing by walked around.
The light rain gradually stopped, and a canopy carriage stopped at the door of Prince Xian's Mansion. A graceful and luxurious woman got out of the carriage. They recognized her as the noble concubine Zheng Wanren, and she came to see her son.
Sure enough, a sharp voice came, and you didn't need to guess to know that it must be the guards who were not allowed to enter, and the imperial concubine was bullying others and trying to force her way in.
The two looked at each other for a while, and Li Luansong sighed. The next moment, he squeezed into Shen Que's arms, wrapped his arms around his waist, and pressed the side of his face tightly against her chest, "The two of us We really feel like we are in the same boat, why are we all so frustrated?"
Without waiting for her to speak, he said to himself: "I know you feel uncomfortable, let me warm you and give you strength."
He squeezed into her arms and squeezed her tightly.
Here it comes again, here it comes again, this person is really good at it, Shen Zhen is helpless, sometimes he wonders, obviously he is a high-ranking prince, shouldn't he be aloof, indifferent, and unattainable? Why did he develop this habit? What about this flexible nature?
Shen Que pulled his hand hard, but unfortunately she couldn't pull it. She was discouraged: "Your Highness, don't do this. If people see it, you can't argue."
Li Luansong said no, tightening his grip like iron pliers with his hands, and said: "No need to argue, I am hugging my own wife, who dares to say a word. And this is my ancestral inheritance. Look at the father's behavior behind the mother's back." Like, who dares to say anything? There is no shame in being submissive to your wife."
He said it very graphically, and Shen Que thought of Emperor Xiaochun's shameless look in front of the queen, and found it very cute.
She laughed out loud, and immediately, most of her gloomy mood was swept away.
Li Luansong continued: "Besides, you are dignified and unattainable enough. If I don't take the initiative, my wife will be abducted."
Who can stand this person who keeps saying "my wife", who can change his face faster than turning the page in a book, who is clingy to others, and who is like a dog-skin plaster.
Shen Que was speechless, and the rest of the way was spent with the two people pushing and fighting.
*
The imperial concubine here put a lot of pressure on her, and finally forced the imperial guards to let her in, and rushed straight to the main hall with her anger suppressed.
There was no one in the main hall. When the servants were talking about lunch, His Highness and Madam Zhou went up to the viewing platform at the back to watch the scenery. When Zheng Wanren climbed up to the nine-story platform, Li Luanfeng was already drunk and fell unconscious. Zhou Xueying accompanied them. The clothes beside him were disheveled, the room was in a mess, and the charming and ambiguous smell mixed with the smell of food and wine went straight to Zheng Wanren's head.
"The concubine is here."
Seeing the imperial concubine enter the door, Zhou Xueying stood up slowly, packed her clothes and walked to her in a leisurely manner, "I didn't know that my mother and concubine were here, so please forgive my daughter-in-law for not being so far away to greet her."
She lightly rubbed her waist as a salute.
The imperial concubine didn't like Zhou Xueying to begin with. Ever since she heard about her son's plan, she even ignored her. However, the sight before her made her furious.
"Zhou Xueying, I let you come in to protect the child. What are you doing? If something happens, can you afford it?"
"My mother and concubine have been wronged. It's Your Highness. If he insists on doing this, my daughter-in-law can't handle him."
Zhou Xueying took advantage of the fact that she was pregnant and the child in her belly was the mother and son's support, so she was not afraid of Zheng Wanren at all.
Only then did Zheng Wanren look at her carefully. She looked gorgeous and noble all over, and her hair was covered with pearls. She stood on the corridor, holding on to the railing, and looked down. The sunlight after the rain shone on her, and she looked even more graceful than the noble concubine she was. .
"Zhou Xueying, don't call her mother-in-law and daughter-in-law. You haven't married into the royal family yet. You can't call her mother-in-law, let alone daughter-in-law."
The concubine's words obviously stimulated Zhou Xueying, and she turned to look at Zheng Wanren in front of her.
"What does this mean? Do you still want to wait until I give birth to a child?"
She snorted coldly, "You don't know your son very well, and you don't even see that he can't live without me now."
The same arrogance and rudeness, the same aggressiveness, Zheng Wanren said angrily:
"What is your identity and origin? Will Feng'er offend his father because of you and ruin his future? You are simply too naive. Man, what I can't live without is your body, but then who doesn't? ?”
These words were so irritating that Zhou Xueying's chest heaved with anger. Her hands holding the railing were clenched tightly, and her nails turned white.
Zheng Wanren walked to her side and stood on the corridor, looking down at the prosperity of Jin'an and said:
"If you are smart, keep your tail between your legs. Maybe you can be a wet nurse when the child is born, so that you can watch your son grow up."
Zheng Wanren took a step forward and looked at her: "As for whether this child can sit in that supreme position, don't think about it. If he is not of the blood of our Li family, how can we allow you to confuse the dragon species?"
Zhou Xueying was horrified: "What did the empress say? You...this child belongs to His Highness."
Zheng Wanren said forget it, "If you don't tell secrets, you won't be able to hide who this child is for a few months. If you want to test it, you can do it now. Do you dare?"
Seeing her pale face and frightened look, Zheng Wanren felt physically and mentally comfortable:
"Zhou Xueying, we know very well what you have in mind, and I won't hide it from you. We also have our own plans. If you are obedient, maybe there will be a place for you in the future. If you dare to make mistakes, then Don’t blame us for being cruel, there are thousands of ways to do this in the royal family.”
At that moment, Zhou Xueying realized that she was really trapped in a cocoon. She was really scared. She stretched out her hand in panic and desperately grabbed Zheng Wanren's wrist:
"Is this your Majesty's idea, or... His Highness's intention?"
Zheng Wanren's wrist was so painful that she clutched it, and she shouted: "What's the difference? Mother and son are of the same mind."
Zhou Xueying was stunned, her whole body was trembling, and her hands were clenched tighter and tighter. Zheng Wanren struggled to slap her hands, but she felt nothing. Her mind went blank. She never dreamed that she had jumped into a deep pit.
"Zhou Xueying, let go."
Zheng Wanren slapped her hard, and Zhou Xueying staggered and stumbled. Just when she was about to let go, Zheng Wanren suddenly swung her arm hard. The force was so strong that Zhou Xueying staggered a step, and with her hands Being lifted high, the whole person lost his center of gravity, like a graceful butterfly leaping out of the nine-story high platform...
*
Shen Que's natal family is on the auxiliary street of Xuanwu Street. Although it is off the main road, it is a five-story mansion.
When the father and daughter came to the capital, Shen Que was just a little baby. Considering that his daughter was growing up and no longer suitable for traveling around, Shen Fu decided to settle down in Jin'an for the sake of his daughter's life and future.
Therefore, this house was his first choice. It was not too far from a high-ranking officialdom, but it would not make a fuss about the house. Moreover, Shen Que took a fancy to this house at first sight because there was a big man. The garden and a three-story library were the happiest days of her childhood.
Thinking that the last time he went back to his parents' home was a year ago, Shen Que felt a little excited.
Today she dressed very low-key, wearing plain clothes and a beard on her face, just like a capable domestic slave.
Li Luansong walked in front, and Shen Que followed him, but the boy at the door didn't recognize them.
Shen Que took a closer look at the boy. He looked unfamiliar. If it weren't for the big word "Shen Mansion", she would have thought she had gone to the wrong door.
After waiting for the concierge to send the message, the maid next to Mrs. Liu came out to welcome them in.
In the season when the grass grows and the orioles fly, the flowers in the yard are still blooming so vigorously. The home that has been away for a long time suddenly makes Shen Ye feel close and familiar.
Stepmother Liu stood in the main courtyard. She had a cold temperament and never had any expression on her face. She just said lightly "Here we come" and ushered people into the main hall.
Li Luansong saluted and said, "My family is busy during the Chinese New Year, so I didn't come to visit my mother and father. I hope my mother will forgive me."
Mr. Liu nodded, lowered his eyelids and said some innocuous polite words, and the two of them could only sit awkwardly.
Shen Que followed them step by step, and while listening to Mr. Liu's lies, he looked at the house.
The calligraphy and paintings that Dad liked placed in the main hall have been replaced, and the antiques have been removed, making it look particularly empty.
While Li Luansong was dealing with Mr. Liu, Shen Que quietly left and walked around the courtyard. Shen Que felt more and more something was wrong.
The door of her father's study was locked. I leaned on the crack in the door and looked in, but there was nothing there. Moreover, the yard where she lived before leaving the cabinet now had no belongings of hers and was piled with debris. But her father had said not to allow anything. The place where people move is just so that she can get used to it when she returns to her parents' home.
how so? Shen Que's heart was pounding and his eyelids were twitching fiercely.
Returning to the front yard, he met a middle-aged man on the porch. The man was wearing a brocade robe and soap boots. Shen did not recognize him.
When the man passed by Shen Que, he was talking to the boy next to him. Shen Que stopped to salute and heard the man say: "The price is not important, but it must be done as soon as possible. Let's just settle the matter like this."
The boy said: "Yes, sir."
master?
Shen Que was startled and almost fell down.
