I have been married to Weiyuan Hou for four years and have not come out, and my mother-in-law asked me the reason and said that she would ask him to divorce me.
We have been married for four years and have not had a round house, so how can I have a child?
That night, my mother-in-law sent her big maid to listen to the corner.
「侯爷，给我个孩儿可好？」
"Get out!"
The man grabbed my hand and lifted me to the ground.
I looked at the angry face and rubbed my fingers.
Shinshu!
So, don't blame me for being ruthless.
Harmony for a year.
It's spring again.
The spring rain is pouring down.
Chunmei followed me with an umbrella, in fact, there was no need at all, this kind of rain was only enough to wet the hair at the corners of my clothes!
If I were to joke with Chunmei on weekdays and recite a few sour poems, I have no interest in joking today.
This is about the last time I will enter the gate of the Weiyuan Marquis' Mansion, right?
In the years I've been married, I've never considered this place a writer, and no one has ever welcomed me here.
The plaque on the door of the Marquis of Weiyuan's mansion had been taken off, and it was thrown into the ground at will, allowing the sergeants who entered and exited to trample on it.
The old marquis, who was once so powerful in the world, gave birth to a grandson who only wanted to rebel wholeheartedly.
If he had a spirit, he was afraid that he would have to crawl out of the grave and end the autumn with his own hands.
I bent down to pick up the plaque, it did carry some weight.
The plaque was covered with mud footprints that had been stepped on, and I held it in my arms.
Chunmei wanted to take it, but she was carrying a food box and holding an umbrella.
There are soldier handles everywhere in the Hou Mansion, and half of the courtyard has been burned, and the exposed ruins and broken walls are pitch black, and then they are drenched by the rain, which looks depressing and desolate.
The yard where I used to live is still intact, and Autumn is in the house where I slept.
Doesn't it seem like a joke to him that he rarely came into my house, but now that he is going to die, he can only die in my house?
The guard at the door had already been instructed, and when he saw that it was me, one of them reached out and pushed the door open.
咯吱.
咯吱.
The door opened and closed, and I don't remember how old it was, and I've never heard it make such a chilling noise.
The house is still the same room, but the furnishings in the house have long been emptied, and only the wardrobe of Nanmu remains.
This wardrobe is still my dowry, and it took me half a year to hire the best craftsmen to carve it.
The man leaned against the back window when one of the windows was open, and the rain outside the house wet his hair and shoulders on the window side.
He was dressed in a silk garment, but it was now so dirty that he could not see its original color, and his armor was now scattered everywhere he could reach.
Most of his hair had been burned by the fire, his arms hanging at his side were covered in froth, and his face was dirty.
His legs and arms were unnaturally twisted, and he was just alive!
Who would have thought that this was the mighty autumn rule who led troops to besiege Dongzhou City a few days ago and was in high spirits?
"Master Hou!"
I looked at him condescendingly.
He looked up at me, his eyes blank, as if he were looking at a stranger.
We're strangers to it.
I threw the plaque in front of him.
哐啷。
The piercing sound finally alarmed him, and he looked down and motionless, as if he wanted to see the old heavens and the earth.
Slowly, his shoulders began to shake, and a hoarse and maniacal laugh came out of his mouth.
"I have been familiar with the art of war since I was a child, and I think I am smart, but I don't want to end up today, people say that only women and villains are difficult to raise, this is honest, don't deceive me, hahaha......
If the woman that Hou Ye said was me, I would have to argue for myself, Hou Ye was raising a woman, but that person was never me!"
I took the food box in Chunmei's hand and put it on the ground, Chunmei found a spring stool, and I sat down slowly.
"At this point, you still haven't told the truth? I can be where I am today, but it's all because of you?"
He stopped laughing horribly, and stared at me with a pair of eyes like a ghost, as if he wanted to break me to pieces, but in an instant, those eyes slowly dimmed and became quiet, and there was even a helpless smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Hou Ye is wrong again, how can you be here today because of me? When I first married Hou Ye, I was also full of tenderness in my heart, looking forward to meeting my lover and being safe. 」
I brought the dishes in the food box to him one by one and looked at him with a grin.
This man was my husband!
"In the spring of that year, you returned from Xizhou to suppress the rebellion, white horse and silver armor, what a mighty young marquis? The big girl and little daughter-in-law of Dongzhou crowded Suzaku Street, and everyone just wanted to see you more.
"I was in the crowd with Yuanzhen, I was bolder than others, I wrapped the begonia fruit in a handkerchief and threw it over, I didn't want you to catch it, and I stopped the horse and looked back, raised my eyebrows and smiled slightly, which made me blush and heartbeat. Oh!"
Maybe it's spring, and the spring breeze is warm, right?
The young and proud Xu Ying also liked a young man Langjun, and he was full of expectations to spend the rest of his life with him.
"Is that you?"
"What does it matter who that person is? What you see in your eyes is just Yuanzhen! But I have never regretted it, and what I liked was the heroic and extraordinary young man at that time, and you are no longer him. 」
"Xu Ying......
He looked up at me with three smiles and three regrets in his eyes.
"I don't know how true you are to Yuanzhen, but today she has returned to you. This is what she personally prepared for you, called Spring and Autumn A Dream, and she told you to feed you with her own hands when I left. 」
I lifted the flask and poured him a glass of wine, and the wine was full of aroma.
"She is indeed the same person as me, but she is afraid that she still doesn't know, if I am gone, her good days are about to end, right?"
He looked down at the wine glass in my hand, his hair was dirty and unkempt, and he didn't look like the boy I used to like.
"She is not a few days away, and her mistake is that she always wants to manipulate people's hearts, but she doesn't know that the most volatile thing in this world is people's hearts......
2
Hongmeng three years of spring.
It is just when the wind and the sun are beautiful and everything recovers.
An old pear tree in front of the Hou Mansion was blooming just right, and the clusters were white and unstained with dust, and I looked up.
The groom came again and urged me to hurry.
I nodded, and let Chunmei take a closer look at my proper dress.
Chunmei looked at me again in great detail and said that there was nothing wrong.
I left her behind and got into the carriage with peace of mind.
Today, the Queen Mother summoned you.
Although the Queen Mother is the Queen Mother, she is actually only one year older than me, and she is really a stunning and gorgeous character.
The crown prince is only three years old now, and she is the one who listens to the regent.
She summoned me today, I think, for an old matter.
At that time, she and I couldn't have been better close friends, and finally turned their faces over getting married.
Naturally, it's not that I want to turn my face with her, it's my old Ah Weng, who said that she can't make friends with two faces.
I've known her for thirteen years, but how could I not know who she is?
She is the most arrogant person, and her heart is also very high.
However, her appearance and talent are worthy of her arrogance.
She is good at everything, the only bad thing is that her father is just a five-grade loose official.
I have known the prince since childhood, and when I am old, it is natural to be a princess.
It's just that when I was fifteen years old, when the prince came to my house, he saw Yuanzhen, and he was like a madman.
If he wants to die or live, Yuanzhen will not marry, and the first emperor can't take him, after all, he is the only son of the first emperor, and in the end, he can only let Yuanzhen be a side concubine and let me be a concubine.
My old man asked me if I would like to?
I shook my head and said no.
Even if it's a piece of gold, it's fallen into the dung pit, wouldn't it be disgusting to pick it up again?
I, Awn, rejected the marriage.
Later, Ah Weng carefully selected me to choose a new family business.
Weiyuan Hou Qiuze.
His family has a simple population, two orphans and widows, and Qiu Ze holds great power at a young age, and he is born handsome and neat, and he is the most sought-after son-in-law candidate in Dongzhou City.
My Ah Weng said that although he has a lot of power, he has nothing to rely on, if he is not doing well, he will find a good one after leaving.
Since then, I have been married to Qiu Ze, I thought that no matter how bad I was, I could respect each other and live until I was old, but I didn't want me to go around Yuanzhen with him.
Yuan Zhen and the prince married a year ago, the first emperor died, the prince became the new emperor, and when Yuan Zhen's child grew up to half a year old, the new emperor got smallpox and went.
The diaper-wrapped prince succeeded to the throne in his infancy, and Yuan Zhen became the queen mother, and listened to the government.
My Ah Weng resigned from the post of Taishi on the grounds of old age and illness, and returned to Yingchuan with my father, uncle and children in the family, and has never been involved in court politics since then.
When I left, Ah Weng said to me, "Dahong is afraid that his qi will be exhausted, so you will act cheaply then, and if there is any change, you will return to Yingchuan immediately. 」
Yuan Zhen was regent for three years, and he used tough methods, eradicating the opponents one by one, and wantonly promoting the Yuan family.
For a time, the people of Dongzhou only knew Yuan, but not Li.
But it didn't matter much to me for a while, until one day I discovered something.
A letter from Yuan Zhen to Qiu Ze.
After four years of marriage, Qiu Ze rarely slept in a room than me, and he mostly rested in the study, but he couldn't force his mother-in-law to urge him to reluctantly rest for one night.
But he never touched me.
I am also from everyone's background, and I will never be able to put down my body and take the initiative to fit a man.
One day he took a night off, and Chunmei picked up a piece of paper and handed it to me when she was cleaning up the house.
"Si Nian, I'm crazy about you, can I see you alone after today's court meeting?"
Thinking about the year is the autumn table.
3
Although I have never signed a payment, I am familiar with the handwriting.
Isn't it my Dahong's Empress Dowager Yuanzhen?
The note should be close to the autumn and accidentally fell out during the nightstay.
I'm not really uncomfortable, I'm just a man who treats me coldly!
I'm just a little puzzled, Ah Weng is also scheming, I'm not stupid, how can I find men who love to fall into the dung pit?
But in my eyes, they don't even like a cat I like, at least the cat can make me laugh.
What I can't bear is that these two people dare to play me like a fool.
I was Xu Ying, who had read Sun Tzu's Art of War and Dahong Criminal Law with Ah Weng at the age of seven.
Very good, very good......
However, a few days later, there was a quiet spread in Dongzhou City, and the Marquis of Weiyuan was the guest of the queen's mother.
This matter is about the face of the royal family, and for a while, Qiu became the target of public criticism.
I saw that he was in a hurry every day, and his already cold face seemed more and more cold.
So I immediately added an extra bowl of rice, and whoever made me feel unhappy, I always had to think of a way to return one or two.
Qiu Ze rarely participates in various banquets, and since there are such rumors, he has almost attended banquets.
When he went, he wanted to take me with him, and he treated me most considerately and thoughtfully in front of others, but a pair of peach blossom eyes looked at me with a lot of affection.
Others envy me for marrying a good man, and I echo it in front of him.
When he turned and walked away, and the others said again, I pinched the handkerchief and stopped talking, and even bowed my head and wept.
Isn't it acting?
It's good to play your own role!
As the months passed, the rumors not only did not disperse as expected by the autumn, but intensified.
The lady in the palace is anxious, the daughter-in-law of ordinary people is not chaste and wants to sink into the pond, she is the queen of a country, although she now has the sole power, but if this matter is confirmed, the Li family is not only His Majesty who can be the emperor.
Although the emperor wrapped in diapers did not have any close relatives, there were more than ten or eight distant relatives.
I have reasonable suspicions that she is now able to take over the power alone, one because she is scheming, and the other is afraid that she is also because of her beauty.
Niangniang was in a hurry to summon me to the palace.
I have entered the palace a lot of times, and I can walk to the Taiji Hall with my eyes closed.
The red walls and green tiles are grand and lonely.
Which one of the people who can survive in this lonely deep palace is simple?
I am deeply grateful to Yuanzhen for not falling into this abyss.
Yuan Zhen was waiting for me in the Taiji Palace, and a few peach trees were planted in the hall, which were transplanted later, and the flowers have bloomed densely this year.
Yuan Zhen did not redress, only wore a white gauze skirt, and sat on the stone table under the peach tree to flip the book.
Her eyebrows and eyes are already beautiful, her body is slender and charming, and she actually looks better in bright colors.
But she has been indifferent since she was a child, and she likes to do some elegant things such as reading, writing, playing the piano and painting.
She and I became close friends because she worked hardest when I was studying at Liyuan.
At that time, because of her father's low official position, she was bullied a lot, but she was very stubborn and never cried.
I deeply felt that although she was a woman, she did not lose her character, so I loved and respected her.
I don't know if the old Yuanzhen is true or not, if it is true, then she has abandoned the old Yuanzhen, right?
If it's fake, I can only blame it for having no eyes.
I'll give Autumn as a sacrifice to the old Yuanzhen!
Since then, she has deceived me, and I will definitely return them one by one.
I bowed to her uprightly and called the Queen Mother.
"Ah Ying, why do you and I need to be like this?"
She whispered.
The thin curved eyebrows frowned slightly, and the lips were a little.
Who doesn't say a beautiful woman when you see it?
It's just that this beauty has been sitting on the throne for a long time, and she looks at people with scrutiny and speculation.
4
"Rites must not be abolished. 」
She asked Yaoge, who was waiting for her, to bring a spring stool and ask me to sit down opposite her, and I glanced at the book in front of her, which was "Dahong Yutu" written by Liu Laosheng.
Yaoge brought refreshments again, and Yuanzhen told everyone to retreat.
The palace maid was silent when she withdrew, and for a while, there was only one song in the courtyard except me and her.
Yaoge has been serving Yuanzhen since he was a child, and he is heartfelt to Yuanzhen.
I picked up a piece of peach blossom cake and took a bite, and the taste was different from the old one, sweeter and more greasy.
It seems that the imperial kitchen has also changed, and Yuanzhen likes to eat sweet and greasy.
I didn't speak, waiting for her to speak first.
Seeing that I was serious about eating a snack, she smiled and looked very happy.
"Ah Ying hasn't changed at all, the most uninhibited, if it's someone else, who dares to pick up a heart and eat it?"
"Mrs. Hou and Niangniang, you have been in love since childhood, how can others compare?"
Yao Ge took Yuan Zhen's words and persuaded me to take a sip of tea.
"You don't like sweet, so you don't get tired of eating tea. Yuan Zhen said.
She held her chin with a book, and her thin cuffs slipped slightly, revealing a creamy stretch of her wrist.
I knew she had something to say, so I picked up another piece of mille-feuille cake to eat.
She is a very patient person, but today she seems a little more impetuous.
"Ah Ying, have you heard all the words from outside?"
She crossed her hands on her knees, staring at me with phoenix eyes.
"What?"
"Ah Ying really doesn't know?"
"Could it be that Niangniang is saying that Master Hou has something to do with you? But isn't this nonsense?"
I put down the mille-feuille in my hand and tilted my head to look at her with a smile.
Her eyes were scrutinizing and shining.
"You think that's all nonsense?"
"Niangniang and Hou Ye are both people who have read poetry and books and have noble status, how could they do such a thing?"
I looked at her closely, her cheeks stiffened, and I kept trying.
"Others don't know, don't I know? Niangniang has regarded self-esteem as more important than her life since she was a child, and she will feel dirty when she mentions such a thing. 」
She was silent for a long time, staring at me, and I just smiled and let her look.
I know her, and she knows me.
Since I was a child, I have been a person who can't stand half of the grievances, and the most important thing is to take revenge on the spot, never procrastinate, and there is no room for sand in my eyes.
She probably thinks that if I really think that her incident with Qiu Ze is true, I must turn the world upside down as soon as possible before I give up, right?
It's a beautiful idea.
"Baby, you have to help me. 」
She sighed, looking very sad.
"How do you want me to help?"
"Others said that it was enough, but King Liang held on to this matter, shouting in the court every day, I have to prove my innocence, how can I prove myself in this matter?
"But isn't he a friend of you? You may persuade him?"
King Liang is the youngest son of Taizu, and he is only five or six years older than me.
My Ah Weng is also his teacher, but he has been naughty since he was a child, and he doesn't like to read the most.
People are the most juvenile and righteous, and they can't play with anyone.
But I don't know where I got into his eyes, but I can say a few words to me.
He is now an idle prince, and he has no official position in the court.
Originally, he didn't go up to the court earlier, but now he can block Yuan Zhen in the court every day, which makes me a little surprised.
"Yes, it's just that the mother also knows his temper, and he won't necessarily listen to what I say. 」
"You just have to do your best. 」
I nodded, and my heart said I was going to do my best.
"I treat Ah Ying with all my heart, and I hope Ah Ying knows. 」
"How can I not know what kind of person Niangniang is? Niangniang has no plans for the northwest recently?"
It's just that the world has changed with time, and I have suffered more injuries, and I am afraid of pain.
Once a person is in severe pain, he will think of a way to protect him.
"What do you mean by that?"
"It's just that lately, there have been letters from the northwest in my house. 」
I picked up the teacup and looked up at Yuan Zhen, her face changed slightly, and her fingers unconsciously tapped on the table.
The superior is suspicious, not to mention that Yuan Bugui, who is guarding the northwest at this time, is still very likely to be reversed?
"How do you know that the epistle is from the northwest?"
She squinted slightly, and the scrutiny in her eyes was extremely meaningful.
"Once when I went out, a letter happened to be delivered to Huangshi, and I asked casually. 」
Huangshi is Qiuze's personal guard.
5
It's getting warmer.
The mother-in-law was afraid that the power would fall, and she held the power of the housekeeper to death.
There is no one in the family who is more idle than me.
"Yinzhi, I'm so idle, I see my mother-in-law busy every day, it's very distressing, why don't you go and talk to your mother-in-law, and tell me to learn from the housekeeper so that I can help her share one or two?"
The silver branch is the big maid who waits by my mother-in-law's side, and my mother-in-law sent her to beat me today.
She told me to put more of my mind on men, don't have a cold face all day long, who will be happy when they see it?
I didn't want my mother-in-law to immediately send my mother Hou to come and tell me to go to Baiyunguan to ask for a bodhisattva, and see if I could give her a grandchild as soon as possible.
I listened to my mother-in-law very much, and packed my package overnight, and in order to show my sincerity, I decided to stay for ten days and a half months.
It's just that before leaving, I still need to add some blockage to Qiu Ze.
He goes to court every day, and he gets up very early.
I never got up early to see him off once, but on this day I got up very early and asked the cook to make breakfast, and he rested in the outer courtyard at night, so I sent him myself.
When I went, he was already packing up and sitting at his desk reading a letter.
When he saw that it was me, he immediately folded the letter and put it in his bosom, frowning with thick eyebrows, and his eyes full of impatience.
"What about you?" said impatiently.
"You and I have been married for several years, and I haven't sent Hou Ye out once, Ah Ying feels guilty. 」
As I spoke, I laid out the breakfast on the plate one by one, but in fact, it was just a bowl of white porridge, a plate of green vegetables, and a few steamed cakes.
Qiu Ze was able to be the Marquis of Weiyuan, all because he Ah Weng was the founding minister.
Taizu was born as a mason, although he didn't let people talk about it, but this thing was really true.
Therefore, the brothers who rebelled with him were either ploughing the fields or striking iron, and Qiu Zeta'Aongcha was the one who struck iron.
He Ah Weng was a thirty-five-year-old high collar when he rebelled with Taizu, and his eldest son married a daughter-in-law, and the eldest daughter-in-law was Qiu Ze's mother.
Qiu Ze's mother was born in a farmer's household, and she values money more than her life.