The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 459: The Truth About the Fire (Part 1)

After Gu Jiao left the palace, she went directly to Zhuque Street.

The first course of treatment for Princess Xinyang has ended, and the curative effect is not bad, and the second course of treatment will start next.

Gu Jiao put the medicine from the small medicine box into a small porcelain bottle and handed it to Princess Xinyang.

Neither of them mentioned anything about the palace.

In fact, Princess Xinyang has heard about it, after all, she also has some old people in the palace, and they will send her news when necessary, for example, the last time the imperial guards arrested Long Yi, it was her old department who tipped her off.

It's just that she was drunk at that time, it was Xiao Liulang who entered the palace to appease Empress Xiao's anger.

How to calm down needless to say, he must have confessed his identity to Empress Xiao.

More and more people know his identity, and this ball of paper will not be able to contain the fire after all.

"What is the princess thinking?" Gu Jiao noticed that Princess Xinyang was distracted.

"It's nothing." Princess Xinyang returned to her senses, and looked at the medicine bottle on the table, "Is that all? It seems that there is one bottle less than last time."

Gu Jiao explained: "Princess's heart disease has improved, so I don't need to take another medicine."

Princess Xinyang nodded.

Yujin came over and took the medicine bottle away.

Gu Jiao was about to stand up and leave, but Princess Xinyang hesitated and called her back: "What's the matter with his legs?"

Gu Jiao looked at her and said, "Princess, do you want to ask how his leg was injured? Or do you want to ask if his leg can be treated effectively?"

Princess Xinyang said: "Ask them all."

Gu Jiao put the small back basket she lifted back on the table: "He was injured to save others, about two years ago, he didn't get proper treatment at first, which made his right foot disabled, every step, pain Like a cone."

Princess Xinyang tightened her hands.

Gu Jiao continued: "It took about a year for him to undergo surgery to correct the injury of his right foot, but due to his long-term lameness, the muscles in his right leg were weak, and he was still unable to walk, and he spent more than half a year to recover. The recovery process has been tough."

Princess Xinyang's eyelashes trembled slightly: "Then why is it still not good?"

"The wounds on my body are already healed." Gu Jiao pointed to her heart, "The wounds here, even my scalpel can't do anything."

...

The fact that King Ning was deposed caused an uproar in the capital. Taifu Zhuang deliberately manipulated the hearts of the people and tried to have a fight to make money, but Empress Xiao was not a vegetarian either.

How much money did your Taifu Zhuang give you?

I give triple!

–––– Finally, she is not as picky as her brother.

The ultimate beneficiary of manipulating people's hearts is Lao Jijiu, who writes whitewashing stories for whoever takes the money, and sells them to the waiters and storytellers in the teahouse.

The lines he wrote are logical, easy to understand, well-chosen and well-chosen, with a strong sense of substitution, and are well received by teahouse buddies and storytellers.

Empress Xiao successfully defeated Zhuang Taifu by virtue of her big spender temperament, which was completely different from her elder brother, and won the ultimate whitewashing package for the old Jijiu.

Of course, Lao Jijiu did not use his real name to contact the two forces. The three parties used the study as the contact point, and Lao Jijiu played two roles, contacting the two forces as two book writers.

Empress Xiao thought that the book writer she had found was more powerful, but in fact it was just that the money was in place.

The old Jijiu made a small fortune.

He patted his bulging purse containing the bank notes, and he no longer worried about Zhuang Jinse coming to rob his private house of money!

Then as soon as he entered the house, he was robbed.

Old Jijiu: Hey, he hasn't warmed up the banknote yet ------

The case of King Ning was full of turmoil. In contrast, the news that the princess was suddenly ill and went to the palace to recuperate seemed a little calm. In fact, neither King Ning nor Wen Linlang had much to do with Bishui Hutong. It was the child Liu Lang.

Recently the child seems to have lost weight again.

Aunt Liu came to ask: "Aunt Huo, what's the matter with your Liulang? I have seen him look preoccupied several times when I came to the door."

Empress Dowager Zhuang sighed: "Oh, I miss my mother."

"Ah, he has a mother." Aunt Liu and the neighbors in the neighborhood have never met nor heard the family mention it, and they still think Xiao Liulang is a child without a mother. "Is his mother good-looking?"

His dad is pretty good-looking anyway.

Aunt Liu thought of Marquis Xuanping, and thought she was prettier than Aunt Huo's son.

In fact, no one told her that Xuan Pinghou and Xiao Liulang were father and son, but when they stood together, no one thought they were not father and son.

"It's okay." The Empress Dowager Zhuang thought for a while and said.

Princess Xinyang inherited the beauty of the late Emperor and Concubine Yu, and even Ning An can't compare to her.

"Then Aunt Huo, what do you think of me?" Aunt Liu put on a pose, "I'm not bad, am I?"

Empress Dowager Zhuang glanced at her, you are the first person in the capital who dares to compare her beauty with Princess Xinyang.

Empress Dowager Zhuang admired her courage very much, and nodded: "Well, not bad."

Aunt Liu straightened her back and snorted, "If his mother doesn't want him, I'll be his mother! If she dares to come, I'll compete with her!"

As soon as she finished speaking, a carriage stopped in front of her, and a woman in a green cloak slowly stepped out of the carriage.

Aunt Liu always only looked at the man's face, but now she was surprised by the man's appearance.

How can someone be so good-looking?

If Aunt Liu was dumbfounded by Yujin's appearance, then when Yujin stood still and helped Princess Xinyang off the carriage, Aunt Liu was petrified on the spot.

The all-powerful Empress Dowager Zhuang looked calm, and patted Aunt Liu's arm: "Here, here comes the person you want to compare."

Aunt Liu: "..."

When Princess Xinyang saw Empress Dowager Zhuang, she was a little stunned, not because she was shocked why she appeared here, but because she was dressed like an old folk lady here.

She was still crossing her legs, eating melon seeds leisurely, and she didn't show any restraint when she saw her.

At first glance, it is old Jianghu.

This is the Empress Dowager Zhuang whom Princess Xinyang has never seen before. She always believed that the high-ranking people have two faces, but she was really surprised that the appearance was so different from the inside.

Princess Xinyang quickly put away the surprise in her heart, stepped forward and bowed slightly, and she did not reveal the identity of the Empress Dowager Zhuang in the presence of her neighbors.

She opened her mouth: "I..."

"Westinghouse." The Empress Dowager Zhuang said without raising her eyelids while eating sunflower seeds.

Westinghouse is still easy to find.

Princess Xinyang thanked Empress Dowager Zhuang, walked into the main room, turned around and went outside the west room.

The door of the Westinghouse was ajar, and Xiao Liulang was sitting behind the desk studying the arithmetic book of Yan Kingdom. At first, Gu Jiao thought that the book contained high numbers, but after looking through it carefully, she found that it was not only high numbers, but also covered a very wide range of fields. Widely, some are the contents of the book, and some are like small notes written down by the owner of the book.

Xiao Liulang didn't go to the Hanlin Academy these days, so he was studying this in the study.

He was so absorbed in the research that he didn't even notice that someone was coming.

Princess Xinyang walked into the house gently, and looked at the furnishings in the house. Compared with Zhuque Avenue and Princess Mansion, it is not worth mentioning, but it is clean and concise, revealing a faint warmth and book fragrance.

The warm feeling comes from the messy little boxes on the ground.

––––Xiao Jingkong has troubled his own things again, he has no place to put things, and he has to rummage through boxes and cabinets to find them.

However, it is this seemingly incompatible mess that gives this quiet and cold room a sense of home.

Xiao Liulang's desk is now divided into three parts.

The largest part is occupied by Xiao Qingkong, and the remaining two parts, one belongs to Xiao Liulang's private area, and the other belongs to his common area with Xiao Qingkong.

The little guy also drew lines on the desk.

Just looking at the lines on the table, Princess Xinyang's mind involuntarily came up with images of one big and one small staring at each other in order to compete for territory.

An unconcealable sourness welled up in Princess Xinyang's heart.

Little Hou Ye, who could buy desks all over the world with just a lift of his finger, would be wronged to share a desk with a little Douding in this kind of place.

But perhaps because of his experience in cooking, her acceptance was higher than before.

Xiao Liulang didn't raise his head until he finished the arithmetic problem in his hand, and at this time, a full two quarters of an hour had passed since Princess Xinyang entered the room.

Xiao Liulang looked at Princess Xinyang, who was quietly watching him across the desk, a trace of astonishment flashed in his eyes.

"Can I... have a few words with you? I'll leave after I finish." Princess Xinyang said with a normal expression.

Xiao Liulang's eyes flickered slightly, he paused, and said, "Okay."

Princess Xinyang turned around and closed the door before sitting down opposite Xiao Liulang.

The afternoon sun was shining quietly outside the window, and in the courtyard, the voices of neighbors gossip about whose daughter-in-law was about to give birth to whose cat and lost their cat, which made Westinghouse extraordinarily quiet.

They haven't sat together like this for four years. Both of them feel a little uncomfortable, but this kind of discomfort comes more from the rupture of the relationship between mother and child. Neither of them knows what the other is thinking, let alone whether it should be possible or not. To continue to maintain.

In the end, it was Princess Xinyang who spoke first: "Tell me about your experience, where did you go after you left the capital?"