The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 332 Misunderstanding resolved (two more)

The old Jijiu continued: "There are not many people who know about this matter. The outside rumors are that Concubine Jing invited her to go to the nunnery. I also heard His Majesty mention it, only then did I know that Zhuang Jinse expelled her closest friend from her place in order to monopolize power. palace."

Xiao Liulang frowned and said: "Your Majesty must think that the Queen Mother's goodwill towards him and Concubine Jing in those years was a well-planned scheme, and the Queen Mother only wants a puppet."

The old Jijiu took it very seriously: "Yes, Your Majesty does have this idea. In fact, not only Your Majesty, but everyone in the world thinks so, even the Empress Dowager's mother's clan thinks that the Empress Dowager has been acting for so many years."

Everyone in the world was complaining about Concubine Jing and the emperor, and no one cared about Zhuang Jinse's gradually getting colder.

No one asked Zhuang Jinse if there was something hidden behind her betrayal of her best friend.

Whoever is weak is right.

Zhuang Jinse's strength is destined to make people fear her, hate her, fear her, and wish to destroy her, but no one will cherish her.

All bad things will be easily blamed on her, who made her ignore the rules? Who let her hold on to the imperial power!

Twilight slanted westward.

In the evening, the rays of the sun fell on the cornices of the bucket arches of Renshou Palace, casting a layer of dazzling golden light.

The Empress Dowager Zhuang finished handling nearly half of the government affairs, and she was exhausted without words.

The life in the palace is not as leisurely as outsiders imagined. There are piles of documents, endless political affairs, endless disputes...everything ruthlessly destroys people's will.

"Queen Mother." Eunuch Qin walked in slowly, and offered a cup of scented tea distressedly, "Take a break and have a meal first. It's the same when I read these brochures tomorrow."

"There will be tomorrow's brochure." The Empress Dowager Zhuang cheered up again and picked up another brochure, "Aijia is not hungry."

Eunuch Qin said earnestly: "If you are not hungry, you have to eat something. If you are exhausted, Ms. Gu will feel distressed again."

When mentioning this, the Empress Dowager Zhuang became angry and gave him a cold look: "In the future, don't go to her for any trivial matter! Don't think that the Ai family really dare not cut off your head! The four confidant eunuchs around the Ai family, don't forget How did the first three die!"

It's all about beheading you...

Eunuch Qin touched the neck on his shoulder, and said resentfully: "Yes, the servant will not dare anymore."

"The Empress Dowager!"

The little maid Fei Cui rushed in excitedly.

Empress Dowager Zhuang is annoyed, anyone who provokes her will die!

Empress Dowager Zhuang is not a good person, she has killed people who don't need to be killed, she is so vicious!

"Pull out—"

As soon as the word stick dead came to my lips,

Fei Cui panted and said, "Lord Xiao is here!"

The two characters of stick and death have their own thoughts, and they slid into the belly of the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes: "Let him in."

Eunuch Qin secretly smiled.

Xiao Liulang entered the study in the side hall, and the Empress Dowager Zhuang asked casually while reading the booklet, "Didn't you leave? Why are you back?"

Listen, listen, what kind of angry little tone is this?

Eunuch Qin laughed so hard that he almost convulsed outside the door. Could it be that Xiao Xiuzhuan came to deliver things in the morning, but left without seeing anyone?

Xiao Liulang said, "Come over and have a meal."

Empress Dowager Zhuang snorted: "Is there no food at home? You must come to Ai's house to eat."

Xiao Liulang nodded frankly: "Well, there is no food."

Become shameless, it looks like he was led astray by that old fellow Huo Xian!

Empress Dowager Zhuang narrowed her eyes angrily.

Eunuch Qin coughed lightly, and said, "Queen Mother, is this slave letting someone set up a meal?"

"Thank you, Eunuch Qin." Xiao Liulang turned to Eunuch Qin.

"Hey!" Eunuch Qin responded happily, and went happily.

Empress Dowager Zhuang gritted her teeth: "Okay, everyone eats inside and outside, Renshou Palace is no longer named Zhuang, is it?"

Dinner is served in Lingxiang Pavilion, which is in the same side hall as the study.

Empress Dowager Zhuang didn't intend to go to dinner.

Xiao Liulang said helplessly with a little grievance: "I'm hungry, aunt."

Empress Dowager Zhuang rolled her eyes again, then reluctantly put down the booklet, and went to Lingxiang Pavilion with Xiao Liulang.

Eunuch Qin didn't know that Xiao Liulang was coming, and some of the dishes were freshly fried. He had been to Bishui Hutong so many times, so he knew Xiao Liulang's taste.

Empress Dowager Zhuang shunned the palace servants who served the food.

Xiao Liulang picked up a chopstick of green vegetables for the Empress Dowager Zhuang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang frowned: "The Ai family doesn't eat this!"

"I want to eat." Xiao Liulang sandwiched another piece of pork belly for her, but removed the fat part.

Empress Dowager Zhuang's face was as black as charcoal.

Are you here to eat with me? I think you are looking for death!

Empress Dowager Zhuang was very angry! Very serious consequences!

Xiao Liulang said in a low mood: "I never had dinner with my grandmother when I was a child. She doesn't like my mother, so she doesn't like me either."

Empress Dowager Zhuang's anger was half-burned, and she extinguished it.

Empress Dowager Zhuang had also heard a little about the relationship between Princess Xinyang and Mrs. Xiao. Mrs. Xiao originally fell in love with the daughter of a wealthy family, who was gentle and gentle.

But who would have thought that the one Xuan Pinghou would marry back home would be a big Buddha, who could not be beaten or scolded, and would have to salute her when they met.

Mrs. Xiao was very angry, and it was said that she didn't like Princess Xinyang's son very much, but she loved the two grandsons of the family.

Xiao Liulang didn't mind this at all, he was just playing the sympathy card by saying it.

Sure enough, the Empress Dowager Zhuang felt that someone was pitiful, and she couldn't please him anymore, so she ate that vegetable leaf with a dark face, disgust and aggrieved expression.

The corners of Xiao Liulang's lips twitched imperceptibly.

After that, Xiao Liulang made up a lot of miserable days under Mrs. Xiao's hands on the spot, and successfully coaxed the Queen Mother to eat all the meals he didn't want to eat.

After the Empress Dowager Zhuang came to her senses, she realized that she had eaten half a bowl of rice more than usual.

This is her normal appetite in Bishui Hutong, but after returning to the palace, her appetite has been reduced by more than half.

She is all thin.

With a simple meal, the idiot can also see that the Empress Dowager Zhuang eats more comfortably than in the past.

After dinner, Xiao Liulang was not in a hurry to go back, but went to the library pavilion built by the queen mother for himself.

Zangshu Pavilion is just opposite the study of Empress Dowager Zhuang, across a small garden.

Eunuch Qin opened the window very thoughtfully.

As long as the Empress Dowager Zhuang turned her head, she could see Xiao Liulang studying hard by the window of the Cangshu Pavilion.

Empress Dowager Zhuang's irritable mood suddenly calmed down.

The deep palace is lonely, and the deep palace at night is especially lonely. It is the loneliness that can make people go crazy, helpless, desperate to escape but can't escape at all.

Empress Dowager Zhuang has lived in the deep palace for decades, and never felt that this was her home.

However, at this moment, seeing the young man's figure and feeling his silent company, Empress Dowager Zhuang felt an unprecedented tranquility and peace.

Empress Dowager Zhuang read the booklets again. It was getting dark, and she still had a small stack to read, but she didn't plan to read it.

She said to Eunuch Qin: "You tell him that Ai's family is going to rest, and he should go back too."

Eunuch Qin responded with a smile: "Yes."

He put here a thousand persuasions, but the Queen Mother refused to listen, Master Xiao still has a solution.

"Wait a minute." Empress Dowager Zhuang called to Eunuch Qin, "Send two secret guards to secretly escort along the way. Be careful sailing the Wannian Ship, he is too close to Ai's family, and Ai's family is worried that someone will harm him."

The moon is dark and the wind is high.

As for returning to Bishui Hutong, there is no need to worry about Jiaojiao and Gu Yan's two hidden guards.

"Yes."

Eunuch Qin asked someone to prepare a carriage, and personally sent Xiao Liulang to the gate of the palace, and pointed out two big insiders to follow along the way.

In the woods not far away, several figures flashed by.

A quarter of an hour later, in the dark room, I couldn't see my fingers.

A man in black said: "My lord, there are experts from Renshou Palace following along the way, and the subordinates are unable to succeed."

The figure in the darkness waved his hand lightly: "Back off."

The next day Xiao Liulang took a rest, and the Imperial Academy had no classes.

Because Xiao Liulang slept late at night, he woke up a little late in the morning, and the small clean room was already up, so he went to the backyard to wash and water his kiss.

When Xiao Liulang dressed up and came to the backyard, he was surprised to find that there were two marquises standing in the yard——Xuanpinghou and Ding'anhou.

Xuan Pinghou came to accept Xiao Jingkong as his apprentice. He had thought about it, as long as he accepted him as an apprentice, he would be able to break into the alley openly. At that time, it would be no problem to investigate Xiao Liulang's life experience and please his daughter-in-law. .

But by coincidence, Marquis Ding'an also came to accept Xiao Qingkong as his apprentice.

In fact, he didn't leave last night, because he fainted from fright, and it was a blessing in disguise to live in Bishui Hutong overnight.

After waking up, he already knew that the child was his seed, and had nothing to do with Xuan Ping Hou. The reason why Xuan Ping Hou appeared here was only because he fell in love with the little monk and wanted to accept him as his disciple.

In the past, Master Gu would not have dared to compete with Marquis Xuan Ping, but this is related to whether he can live in Bishui Hutong.

That's right, he thought about it, Yao Shi was pregnant, the situation was special, she really didn't want to go back to the Hou Mansion, so he stayed with her temporarily.

Everything will be planned after the baby is born.

For the sake of his wife and children, Master Gu worked hard!

Even if you are a first-rank Marquis Wu, and your status overwhelms me several times, I can't back down!

Xuan Pinghou put his hands in his sleeves, and he was able to withstand the hot weather, which was really admirable. He said casually: "If that's the case, let's compete fairly and see who has the ability. Little monk, what do you think?" "

Xiao Qingkong thought about it seriously: "Okay, okay!"

He brought two small cards, wrote a few words in a swish, then moved a small bench, sat on the bench cutely, and began to observe by himself.

Master Gu Hou snorted coldly and asked, "I don't know what Xuan Pinghou wants to compare with me?"

Xuan Pinghou raised his eyebrows: "Face."

Gu Houye who almost choked to death: "...!!"

Is it okay to be so shameless?

Xiao Jingkong raised the small card on his right hand: "Master Xiaohou wins!"

Obviously, the bad brother-in-law's father looks better than the Jiaojiao's father.

But Jiaojiao is the prettiest, and she doesn't accept objections!

Gu Houye started before he could react, and then he lost, where can he go to reason?

He gritted his teeth and showed his ultimate move: "Compare poetry!"

Xuan Ping Hou: "..."

Fuck!

So ruthless!

Although Master Gu's calligraphy and painting are not satisfactory, the ink in his stomach is still slightly more than that of Xuan Pinghou.

Xiao Jingkong tested five poems, Master Gu recited two, and Hou Xuanping couldn't recite a single one.

Xiao Jingkong raised the card in his left hand: "Gu Hou Ye wins!"

But then Master Gu was not so lucky. Apart from lack of knowledge, Xuan Pinghou was not good at other skills. Master Gu was crushed miserably.

Even in the martial arts competition, Xuan Pinghou suffered a back injury, and he was still ineffective when he beat Master Gu.

Master Gu Hou lost a lot!

An hour later, the ambitious Gu Hou Ye was finally spoiled by playing. He arranged himself in big characters, rolled his eyes, stuck out his tongue, and collapsed on the steps helplessly.

"Great, great!" Xiao Jingkong sat on the small bench, straightened his back, and clapped his little hands.

The corner of Xuan Pinghou's lips twitched, and he said proudly: "Okay, Ben Hou won, you can worship Ben Hou as your teacher."

Xiao Jingkong tilted his head, and said seriously: "But, I already have a master! I can no longer worship you as a teacher! A good student does not serve a second teacher!"

Isn't it true that a good woman does not serve her second husband?

Xuan Pinghou frowned handsomely, and began to doubt life.

Because he is not very knowledgeable, so maybe he remembered it wrong, the original words are indeed good apprentices do not serve the second teacher.

That's not the point, the point is that this brat is playing with him again!

Xuan Pinghou gritted his teeth: "You can't be a teacher, why are you so excited just now?"

Xiao Jingkong spread his hands and said innocently: "I just said to watch you compete, and I didn't say that I would apprentice after the competition. You said it yourself, and I didn't agree!"

Xuan Pinghou has a toothache!

Stinky little monk, I owe you so much!

Xuan Pinghou can't always stumble in one place, the little monk wants to fight him, let's wait another five hundred years!

He snorted coldly, and said mightily and domineeringly: "I don't care about it, you have to agree if you agree, and you have to agree if you don't agree. Chang Jing!"

Chang Jing dashed in, grabbed Xiao Qingkong and carried it on his shoulders.

Xiao Qingkong's small arms and legs fluttered: "Oh, what are you doing!"

Xuan Pinghou brushed off his wide sleeves smartly: "Take it away!"

Go to worship the ancestors!

"Oh, don't, don't, I don't want to!"

A certain little monk was chattering for a while, but he was still mercilessly captured by a bad monkey!

There was a class in Qinghe Academy today, Gu Yan didn't know what happened at home, Liu Quan came to take Gu Xiaoshun to learn art with Master Lu and Nanxiang, he didn't go.

He is lazy again.

On the one hand, he didn't have much interest and ambition, and on the other hand, it was true that his body was worse than ordinary people. Sitting in the carriage in the hot summer made him unbearably bored.

He leisurely walked back, and within a few steps, an old man who was aged but hale and hearty, with a sword that was not old, walked towards him.

"What a coincidence." The old man said with a smile.

"Well, what a coincidence." Gu Yan knew who he was, his grandfather Gu Chao.

The first time he came to see him outside the academy, he recognized him.

He was only four years old when he left the capital, and he hadn't seen him for another eleven years. Old Hou thought he didn't remember him.

In fact, Gu Yan really didn't remember it, but the face of the old Hou Ye was too representative, and the three generations of their grandparents all looked alike.

Furthermore, he found that as long as the old master approached him, his hidden guards would stay far away.

Gu Yan may not be able to study, but he is a down-to-earth villain.

Old Hou Ye wanted to see his grandson, but couldn't let go of his face, so he had to "encounter" with Gu Yan a few times.

He thought Gu Yan didn't recognize him.

"Aren't you going to learn art today?" Old Hou asked.

"It's hot." Gu Yan said, "Are you visiting your grandson again?"

Old Hou Ye said awkwardly: "Ah, yes."

Gu Yan knew the reason and asked: "Then did you see him?"

Old Hou Ye looked at Gu Yan and laughed dryly: "I see."

"Oh." Gu Yan raised his eyebrows, "Then do you want to eat jelly today?"

Old Hou Ye was taken aback for a moment, then quickly nodded: "Yes, yes!"

The two had eaten jelly earlier, and Gu Yan found that the old Hou Ye liked it very much. Gu Yan's impression of this grandfather was not too bad.

In my impression, my grandfather treated him well, and his mother was also good. When he and his mother moved to Zhuangzi, my grandfather gave him two secret guards.

He fell ill several times in the middle of the night, and everyone fell asleep. If the dark guards hadn't noticed the anomaly in time, he might have died long ago.

After eating the jelly with mint, Gu Yan felt refreshed, patted his stomach with satisfaction, and said, "You invited me last time, and I will treat you this time! Reciprocity!"

Old Hou Ye said: "No need."

Gu Yan waved his hand: "It's okay. Although I don't have much money, I can still earn some pocket money by working part-time for others every day. I can still afford a meal of jelly."

Old Hou Ye frowned when he heard the words, his grandson has actually been reduced to the point where he works as a day laborer to earn money?

How did that bastard Gu Chong become a father!

Don't you give your son monthly money? !

"Where's your father?" Old Hou Ye asked.

Gu Yan sighed: "My father, he forced me to move back every day. If I didn't want to, he cut off my monthly payment. As I mentioned to you, I was born prematurely, my body was weak, and I suffered from heart disease. My sister has worked really hard to support me."

Could it be that the girl became a medical girl for her own brother?

But he was wrong to blame her.

Good night, sweet dreams.