Chapter VII
Although it was March, there was no shade on the court, and it was the afternoon, with the sun shining brightly, so it was extremely hot.
Su Yiyun became angry and walked very fast. Su Yining followed behind her, trotting all the way, her forehead covered with sweat.
The eldest son of Weibei Houfu and Na Tongfang probably didn't guess that Su Yiyun was still interested in playing polo, so they no longer had any scruples and were chatting affectionately.
"Prince, look, this horse refuses to move, can you teach me some more?" Xiao Tongfang pinched his throat and said to Prince Lu delicately.
Lu Shizi smiled and held the reins for her, joking: "You are also stupid. You have been taught several times and you still can't learn it."
Although he said this, there was no hint of dissatisfaction in his words, and his eyes were full of doting.
Su Yiyun clenched her fists and said loudly: "Otherwise, I will teach you and see what kind of stupid tricks you are."
As soon as she finished speaking, the two people over there looked at her in panic.
Prince Lu did not expect to meet Su Yiyun here. The scene of being whipped in the study that day was still vivid in his mind, and the marks on his body were still there.
"Why are you here? Why don't you reflect on your mistakes at home?" Prince Lu asked him.
Su Yiyun was about to raise her whip on the spot, but Su Yining stopped her: "Sister, there are many people nowadays. If you take action first, even if you are reasonable, you will become unreasonable."
She has always been a straightforward person, but she doesn't know how to make twists and turns. She feels unhappy and immediately takes action to make others even more unhappy.
Upon seeing this, the young Tongfang jumped off the horse and almost fell down, but Prince Lu helped him up.
Jiaojiao said softly: "Sister, don't blame the Crown Prince. I begged the Crown Prince to come and see the excitement."
Comparing the two, Su Yiyun appears even more domineering and unreasonable.
"Madam, please don't call me sister in a hurry. My sister didn't drink your tea, and she didn't even nod to let you in." Afraid that Su Yiyun would get confused and fall behind, Su Yining stood up directly and left. When he arrived in front of Su Yiyun, he said with a smile on his face.
"Irrespective of your status, let's talk about today's matter. You know that the polo club is run by the eldest princess's house, and all the people who come here are real wives. You are not even a concubine, how dare you pester Mr. Lang? Come here?"
"Come on, come on. It's okay if you just sit back and cook tea and watch the excitement. You want to ride a horse, and you want the worldly master to hold the horse rope for you."
"The people who came today are all well-known and prestigious families in Jinling City. I don't know whether you want to slap my sister in the face or the prince in the face with your gesture?"
Su Yining's tone was calm, her voice was low, and she still had a smile on her face. She seemed to be well-intentioned and concerned about the reputation of the Weibei Hou Mansion. It was impossible to find anything wrong.
"If you really want to ride a horse, where can't you learn it? Why do you want to come to the polo club? The prince of the Weibei Marquis Mansion held the horse rope for a maid, and then he got up randomly and spread the news. It was a joke."
Lu Shizi didn't think there was anything wrong with this matter at first, but now that Su Yining had nudged him away, he suddenly felt humiliated and immediately let go of his arms around Tongfang.
Xiao Tongfang was still crying and wanted to say something, but he glared back.
What was originally going to be an eye-catching farce was resolved by Su Yining in a few words. Although Su Yiyun felt that this was not enough to relieve her anger, she did admire her approach of killing no blood.
Not only did they vent their anger, but they also saved the face of both parties.
More importantly, it allowed the prince of Weibei Houfu to see clearly the face of Xiao Tongfang.
Su Yiyun felt very happy, so she stopped caring about them, took Su Yining's arm, and walked back happily.
"Just wait, when I win the next round, I will give you a pair of bracelets."
She has always been like this, her temper comes and goes quickly. Su Yining looked at her heartless look and smiled helplessly.
"Sister, aren't you angry anymore?"
Su Yiyun waved her hand: "What's there to be angry about? If you get angry for a man who doesn't deserve it, you will die early."
Hearing her saying it wasn't worth it, Su Yining's face turned red for no reason.
But Su Yiyun didn't notice that once she started talking, she couldn't hold it back.
"It turns out that I don't disagree with taking concubines. I've seen it with the imperial doctor, and the Xinglin master has also seen it. They all said that my condition is a disease brought from the mother's womb, and it is extremely difficult to get pregnant."
"I didn't want to delay the family's heirs. I just wanted to wait until he passed this spring before taking up the matter. I also discussed this matter with my mother-in-law. Seeing that they agreed on the surface, I felt that it was wrong in my heart. I am jealous and unwilling to tolerate others, so I did this again behind the scenes."
"What are you going to do with this family?"
The more she talked, the more excited she became.
Su Yining couldn't say anything about her personal matters, so she could only say: "Eldest sister, just think about it yourself."
Su Yiyun took her hand and stopped: "Don't you blame me? If I divorce the Marquis of Weibei, your marriage to your third sister will be even more difficult."
After finishing speaking, she paused and added: "The third sister should not have much influence. She has been well-known since she was a child, and she is not like you and me."
Su Yining didn't take this matter to heart, and the situation would not be worse: "I don't care, the eldest sister can just think about it. We sisters will both prosper and suffer. If the eldest sister is good, I will be fine too."
When she said this, Su Yiyun's eyes filled with tears and she felt ashamed. She thought of all the harsh criticisms she had made towards her, her biological sister, and couldn't bear to recall them.
"Okay, just wait, I will go and win the pair of bracelets for you."
Su Yining looked at her and smiled helplessly.
Su Yiyun packed up, put on her collar, and went on stage again.
Su Yining sat alone in the banquet and took a walk around the place with nothing to do.
By chance, she met Qilang Chen and his biological sister, whom she had met a few days ago.
That day, Mrs. Su had already put her words into perspective, and after returning home, she cut off all contact between Zheng and them. Logically speaking, when they met again, they should just pretend they didn't know each other.
"Isn't this the second girl of the Su family," Miss Chen Jiu said in a sinister tone, "come to see someone again?"
Su Yining frowned, glanced at her, then at Chen Qilang, and replied: "I don't need to tell you what I do, right?"
"Hmph!" Miss Chen Jiu snorted coldly and said sarcastically, "Miss Su, aren't you tired of looking at each other? I'm afraid all the single young people in Jinling City have asked you to look at each other."
"No one likes you?" She walked forward and lowered her voice, "Or is it that no one likes the second girl?"
She deliberately lowered her voice, so only the two of them could hear her words. Su Yining raised his eyelids, glanced at her, and replied: "No matter how much we see each other, or whether we succeed or not, it has nothing to do with your Chen family."
Seeing that she still looked neither humble nor arrogant, Miss Chen Jiu was furious and complained about her brother: "For someone like you who broke off the engagement, you wouldn't even give it to my family for free. What are you proud of? "
Originally, Su Yining was a little tolerant and didn't want to argue with her too much. Now when she heard what she said, Su Yining raised her eyebrows and smiled contemptuously: "Then why did your brother ask my eldest lady to arrange for him to meet me? Do you think there are too few books and you don’t have enough to read? Or do you think the Chunwei exam is too simple and you don’t need to study the books?”
"Brother Ling has been in the exams for so many years and still has lost his reputation. Miss Jiu wants to quarrel with me here. Why don't you take your brother back to your home and review your studies? It would be better to ridicule me after taking the exams in the future than just using a sharp mouth now. Much more.”
In the past, Su Yining was unwilling to argue with others, and she was quiet and gentle, which easily gave people the illusion that she was weak and could be bullied. This is what Miss Chen Jiu thought. She originally thought that she was a gourd with a sawed mouth. Even if she was insulted, she probably didn't know how to refute.
Unexpectedly, she was eloquent and eloquent, and hit the nail on the head.
Miss Chen Jiu, who originally wanted to ridicule her and vent her anger on her brother's behalf, choked up and didn't know how to respond for a while.
After a while, she picked up the topic again and said it again like a wheel.
"You were just annulled by the Marquis of Yong'an, so why are you so arrogant? Now that the Marquis of Yong'an is back in favor again, do you think you will have a good life?"
It was probably because Su Yining really had nothing else to talk about. Over the years, whenever she had a disagreement with someone, the other party would always point it out that she had broken off her engagement with the Yong'an Marquis.
When she first heard it, she would be sad for a while.
Now that she has heard it more often, she feels no trouble in her heart and is no longer sad about it.
Not wanting to waste any more words with the siblings, Su Yining turned around and left.
"You are so shameless. Your engagement was annulled and you still have the nerve to live!" Miss Chen Jiu said angrily as she chased after her.
Su Yining stood there, and just when she was about to turn around, a familiar voice came from behind her.
"The man is unmarried and the woman is unmarried. If we can't reach an agreement, we can naturally terminate the engagement. I haven't said anything yet. Why are you anxious?"
"When will it be the turn of you, an unknown little character, to speak out about the affairs of my Yong'an Marquis Mansion?"
She didn't look back and still stood where she was, but she could already hear Xie Yu's voice.
When the two Chen brothers and sisters saw Xie Yu coming out to speak for her, they were so frightened that they fell to their knees and immediately began to admit their mistake.
It's really ugly to worship the superior and suppress the inferior.
Xie Yu was too lazy to pay attention to them and waved his hand to tell them to go away.
After the two left, Su Yining slowly turned around, saluted and thanked him: "Thank you, Your Majesty, for rescuing the siege."
"Oh." Xie Yu glanced at her, "Just a thank you?"
So what if? Have a banquet? Su Yining raised her head in confusion and looked at Xie Yu.
I saw the other person standing lazily under the tree with his arms folded, looking at her with his eyes slightly raised.
"That's all, I can't tell you clearly." Xie Yu lowered his arms and walked to Su Yining's side.
He walked to Su Yining's side, stopped, and said in a deep voice: "How good did you think you would be if you left me? Nothing more than that. Even these clowns can dance in front of you. "
Su Yining didn't speak, just lowered her head.
Seeing her look like this timid one again, Xie Yu laughed angrily: "Why, weren't you very eloquent in front of Prince Lu and the two brothers and sisters of the Chen family just now? But here, you are just mute?"
Su Yining replied: "No."
She is not mute, but when facing Xie Yu, she always has too many worries and too much baggage. She often swallows the words she wants to say when they reach her lips.
But when her appearance fell into Xie Yu's eyes, it was another story.
He looked at her, raised his eyes slightly, and spoke calmly.
"If you really want others to look up to you, you should live a better life and ask all those who look down on you to look up to you."
Breaking off the engagement is not a great shame or humiliation, it is just one more hardship than ordinary people face in marriage. It's just that this world is really unfair to women. After a man breaks off the engagement, he remains the same as before.
But if a woman breaks off the engagement, her reputation will be insulted, and it will be particularly difficult to discuss marriage again.
Su Yining stood there, listening to Xie Yu's words, and nodded. But wanting to live a better life is easier said than done?
After Xie Yu walked away, Su Yining still couldn't come to her senses. Wen Yuan, who hadn't seen her at the Su family's table, came over. Seeing Su Yining's appearance, he couldn't help but ask: "Who is the girl?" No, did you meet Prince Xie again?"
Su Yining nodded dullly.
"Young lady, please explain to the prince, what happened back then was not what you originally wanted." Wen Yuan felt worried as he saw how she lost her mind every time she met Xie Yu.
Su Yining shook her head: "How can I explain it clearly? Even if I explain it, he may not believe it."
"Then are you going to keep letting the prince misunderstand like this?" Wen Yuan was extremely anxious.
Su Yining glanced again at the direction Xie Yu had just left, and spoke calmly.
"There is no clear misunderstanding between me and him."
Wen Yuan came over, held Su Yining's arm, and asked, "Then what if he takes revenge on us?"
Su Yining turned her head, glanced at her, and shook her head: "No, he wouldn't do that."
I don't know when, people in Jinling City have spread the news that when Zhongqin's house was in trouble at Yong'an Hou's house, he added insult to injury and forced the prince to break off the engagement. Now that the Hou Mansion has revived, Crown Prince Xie has become a popular figure in front of His Majesty, and he will definitely take revenge on Uncle Zhongqin for adding insult to injury.
It is indeed not unreasonable for the world to speculate like this. When the family is in decline and someone forces someone to break off the engagement, and then the brother dies, people will feel resentful.
But Xie Yu is not.
He has been a gentleman since he was a child and cannot do such wanton revenge.
From this, Su Yining couldn't help but remember that when he was young, he and the Xie family's eldest son attended the Su family's school together.
The eldest son of the Xie family had a good relationship with her brother. She followed him every day and listened to his studies with him. As time went by, she became acquainted with the two sons of the Xie family.
The two elder brothers treated them generously. Whenever Su Yining had something she didn't understand in class, she would ask Mr. Xie about it after her husband left. Sometimes when he was not around, Xie Yu would help answer the question.
The two of them were almost the same age and had similar interests, so they often made appointments to play together. Their relationship was closer than that between her and her brother.
She was slow to learn and could not memorize things in order, and her handwriting was even worse. After every class, her teacher would always ask her to teach her because she had not completed her homework.
But then it happened that every time she couldn't memorize the text, Xie Yu couldn't memorize it either. She originally felt embarrassed when she was forced to stand alone after class, and cried several times because of this.
But since Xie Yu became like her.
Su Yining's face gradually became thicker. She couldn't memorize it anyway, and neither could Xie Yu, and she wasn't the only one with benzo melons.
She suddenly wasn't so unhappy.
I was punished to stand every day, but I also stood up straight.
Occasionally, Xie Yu would secretly bring some candied fruit snacks, stand quietly next to her, and then pass them under their wide sleeves. Occasionally, by chance, his fingers would scratch Su Yining's palm. one time.
When she was young, Su Yining had an active mind. Whenever her husband wasn't paying attention, she would secretly stuff snacks into her mouth, eating until her cheeks were bulging, and her whole face looked like a greedy squirrel.
It was also at that time that Xie Yu would always be punished by his teacher in class, saying that he was absent-minded and that his eyes always looked where they shouldn't.
At that time, Su Yining didn't understand. Later, when she was in her cardamom years, the Xie family suddenly came to propose marriage. She was talking about her relationship with Xie Yu, Erlang of the Xie family, and she immediately understood.
During those days, Xie Yu was frequently distracted in school and was punished many times, all because he secretly looked at her.
