07
For seven days in a row, Chu Wuxiao rested in Su Yao's courtyard, and he never even met me.
The people in the house, looking at my nose and nose, and their attitude towards me has become lazy from the initial respect, and they even dare to chew the root of my tongue behind my back.
I just didn't know, so I just threw myself into the concubine's courtyard and took over all the matters of learning the house.
There are many industries in the palace, and it is not easy to take care of them.
Fortunately, the dowry maids I brought were carefully selected by my mother and grandmother, and with their help, I soon finished the accounts of the palace.
Su Yao mocked me and said:
"The princess is just like this, she is still an empty shelf that can't hold the husband's heart."
I didn't bother to pay attention to her, I only held the power of the palace and did my part as the housewife.
Anyway, it's just a marriage, I just need to be dignified.
At this time, the concubine suffered from the wind cold and couldn't afford to get sick.
I was taking care of my sick at the bedside every day, and within three days I was exhausted.
This time, Su Yao wanted to stop Chu Wuxiao from coming to see, and I couldn't say it.
She was not at ease, and followed Chu Wuxiao over defensively.
"My sister was born in Jiangmen, how can her health be so bad? Didn't you want to take care of the concubine and deliberately lied?"
The doctor of the Tai Hospital, who was writing the prescription on the side, was displeased and said, "This little lady is really very eloquent, and His Majesty and the Queen Mother all trust the old medical skills. If the little lady doesn't believe it, the prince should ask another imperial doctor to come and see it."
Chu Wuxiao reprimanded her in a low voice, "What nonsense are you talking about! This is Imperial Physician Zhou, who is usually only responsible for Her Majesty's pulse case."
Imperial Doctor Zhou said coldly: "The family of the Guogong Mansion are working hard for the country on the front line, the Queen Mother heard that the princess was sick, and specially sent me to diagnose and treat her, no wonder the princess is depressed, the princess has such a powerful little lady here, it is strange that the princess can be good!"
After he wrote down the prescription, he left unhappily, and Chu Wuxiao chased him out and sealed a thick piece of silver for him, and then sent the person away.
As soon as Chu Wuxiao came in, Su Yao pursed her mouth and snorted: "What is he, just a broken imperial doctor, you are the prince!" He looks down on me like this, he looks down on you!"
I coughed and said weakly, "Ah Yao, that's not what I said, Imperial Physician Zhou is a popular person next to His Majesty and the Queen Mother, and a close minister of the Son of Heaven, if such a person wears small shoes for the prince in front of the emperor, the entire palace will be suspicious of His Majesty."
Chu Wuxiao, who now serves as a bachelor of the Hanlin Academy, is an idle civil official, far from the center of power.
I heard that he took the initiative to ask to enter the Hanlin Academy.
He can have such a brain to avoid His Majesty's suspicion and Mingzhe to protect himself, how can he not be a stupid person.
Chu Wuxiao came over to help me up: "You are not well yet, you have to rest."
He turned his head to look at Su Yao, and said with some seriousness: "I can indulge you with anything else, but it has something to do with the palace, A-Yao, you have to be cautious." We are all one family now, and the palace is your refuge, and there is no room for error."
I smiled in my heart, and it would be much easier for me to say such things.
Fortunately, he is not a mediocre person who wants a beauty and not a country.
Su Yao pouted and snorted, and accepted it when she saw it: "I know."
I smiled softly at Chu Wuxiao: "The concubine doesn't like Ah Yao, but after all, she is also the biological mother of the prince, and now that she is sick, she is in a lot of emotions during her illness, if Ah Yao takes care of the concubine at this time, I am afraid that she can make the concubine change her opinion of her, and the house will be more harmonious in the future, and the prince will no longer be trapped in it and difficult to behave." Besides, it is better for a slave or maid to take care of her than for her own daughter-in-law."
Su Yao instantly exploded: "No! I'm not going!"
A trace of panic flashed in her eyes, since she entered the mansion, because of the hurtful things she did, the concubine did not punish her less.
Although Chu Wuxiao loves her, filial piety is greater than the sky, and he can't always relieve her.
Even if Su Yao was wronged, he could only make up for it in gold and silver treasures, after all, it was his own mother.
There's no way he would kill his own mother for a woman.
What's more, it's still a mother who is dedicated to him and has eyes full of him, how can he choose?
I grew up with Su Yao, and I clearly understand her nature of bullying the weak and fearing the hard.
She knew that Zhou Shilang's family was just a poor family and completely under the palace, so she dared to instigate Chu Wuxiao to exile his family on fabricated charges.
The concubines in the house were all born as maids and carried their masters, so she dared to hurt and sell.
But when she met Imperial Doctor Zhou, who was close to the Son of Heaven, she didn't dare to say anything even if she was blamed by Chu Wuxiao.
In the face of the concubine's beating, she only dared to pretend to be aggrieved in front of Chu Wuxiao, and did not dare to quarrel with the concubine.
She knows how to see people put on dishes.
Chu Wuxiao frowned slightly when she heard her words.
Su Yao hurriedly made up for it, "I'm afraid I won't be able to take care of the concubine."
I smiled and gently comforted her, "There is a servant girl in the house, where do you really want to do the menial work of decocting medicine and burning fires? It's just that the medicine is ready and fed to the concubine to drink, and when she is bored in bed, you read some books or embroider something to pass the time with her, and there is nothing else for you to do."
Su Yao's intestines were all repentant, and she hated herself very much why she followed Chu Wuxiao to see me.
She bit her lip, and in Chu Wuxiao's expectant gaze, she nodded reluctantly, "I know."
Mama brought my medicine, and I sighed, "A-Yao, go to the concubine's side, it's time for the concubine to drink the medicine for the second time, you can't delay."
Su Yao looked at Chu Wuxiao as if asking for help, and Mama handed him the medicine in a timely manner: "Lord, you came just in time, our princess is not good at taking medicine, saying that she is afraid of hardship, you have to treat her well!"
My cheeks flushed with shame and glared at my grandmother, "Don't talk nonsense."
I knew my beauty, but I never thought that one day I would take the initiative to serve others.
Chu Wuxiao's Adam's apple rolled: "If you don't behave like this, how can you get better?"
Mama blocked Su Yao's aggrieved gaze at Chu Wuxiao, and said with a smile: "Why is the little lady still here? I'm afraid I don't know the way in the concubine's courtyard, I'll accompany the little lady."
The concubine knew the significance of the marriage between me and Chu Wuxiao, and after seeing Su Yao go to her to serve her, she directly made the decision, moved Su Yao's things to her yard, and ate and slept with her.
She summoned me to her and explained: "You are a smart child, I will take good care of this little cheap hoof during this time, you must be pregnant with a child of Wuxiao during this time, that Su Yao's life experience is not clear, and the son of the palace must not come out of her womb, otherwise one day her life experience will be stabbed out, and the spittle of the people will drown the entire palace."
08
That night, when Chu Wuxiao came, I was wiping my scorched tail.
I waited for him to pluck the strings before he could enter the door.
My piano sounded perfectly, and every string was soaked with my sweat.
My mother had already investigated all his preferences and wrote to me to tell them.
If he had really mastered the rhythm, he would have stayed for me.
I deliberately played a wrong note when he entered the door.
He stopped.
There is a mistake in the song, Zhou Langgu.
He looked up at me, and the amazement in his eyes was hard to hide.
Yes, my outfit today, from clothes and jewelry, to makeup and music, big and small, are all decorated according to his preferences.
I was like a picture of the lady he had always dreamed of.
And now, I'm standing in front of him.
"You've made a mistake."
I even smile just right.
"I hope the prince will see you."
He thought of Su Yao, who was originally a little hesitant, but his eyes lit up when he saw Jiao Weiqin, and he walked over without the slightest hesitation and stroked the body: "Jiao Wei! I've been looking for it for years and I haven't found it, but I didn't expect it to be with you!"
For the whole night, I didn't say anything else, except to talk to him about music.
The more we talked, the more we agreed.
When he came, he couldn't help but praise from the bottom of his heart, "If you hadn't married me, you would have been my confidant! I haven't had such a hearty discussion with people about the piano for many years, your piano has an open sound, and there is the sound of Jin Ge Iron Horse, which is a rare good piano sound in Beijing!"
After saying that, he realized his gaffe and got up and left in a panic.
He didn't come to me that night, and he didn't come back to me for days.
The people in the palace are all high and low, different from the courtesy of that day, and in recent days they have begun to be lazy again.
My grandmother asked me what to do.
I plucked the strings and smiled softly, "Wait."
Men are like dogs, and women are born dog trainers.
09
The maidservant came, and Su Yao broke in.
My grandmother and I looked at each other, and I deliberately put the scorched tail violin out.
She picked up my piano and fell to the ground, breaking the piano with one foot, and was furious: "You used this set to seduce Shen Bi at the beginning, and now you are coming to rob my prince again, I tell you, don't even think about it!"
After she left, I glanced at my grandmother, and soon the fastest subordinate "unintentionally" told Chu Wuxiao about Su Yao's breaking into my courtyard and smashing the piano.
For those who know how to appreciate, there is nothing more infuriating than destruction.
Even if Chu Wuxiao doesn't like me, he will never look at my piano coldly.
He was an elegant man who called himself a man of letters.
Such a person is better handled.
When he hurried over, I was holding my torn piano and crying, and the discomfort in Chu Wuxiao's eyes didn't seem to be fake.
"How so!"
I wiped my tears, "It's me, I didn't protect it."
Mama couldn't help crying and hugged me upright: "How do you want our princess to protect, she is going to kill our princess!"
Only then did Chu Wuxiao see the footprints on my shoulder, and I held the piano and cried choked, as helpless as a bullied child: "I want to go home, this is what my father found for me, I want to go home......
Chu Wuxiao hugged me and comforted, "Ah Qiong, don't cry, I'll find someone to repair, I'll find someone to repair for you."
I shook my head, tears streaming down my face.
When I woke up, Chu Wuxiao was looking at my paintings.
"Your handwriting is good, and your drawing is good."
The admiration in his eyes was hard to hide.
I know we're halfway there.
"I've found the best master, he can fix Scorchtail, but it will take some time."
My eyes lit up, and I made the excited appearance of my elated little daughter: "Really! Great!"
Seeing me like this, Chu Wuxiao couldn't help laughing: "If there is something in the future, I can also solve it for you, don't always think about going home to find your father, you can also find me."
Looking at my hesitant gaze, he paused, "I've already punished A-Yao."
For several days, he came to see me.
I deliberately left the unfinished meal in the room, and he frowned and asked, "This is your meal?!"
Mama cried and poured out all the beans of her subordinates who were disobedient to me.
He was furious and demoted the steward's staff and replaced him with the deputy steward.
Su Yao wanted to come to intercede for the steward, that was her person.
However, he was confined to the concubine courtyard and was powerless.
On the second day, the deputy steward brought me a box of gold ingots.
"In the future, I will only look forward to the princess."
I tossed the gold ingots and told my mother to distribute them to the other stewards in the yard.
If you want to gain a foothold, you must win the hearts and minds of the people.
If you want to win people's hearts, money must be indispensable.
Otherwise, even if I hold the stewardship of the palace, it is better than nothing, because it is always Chu Wuxiao who has the final say here, and he can take back my stewardship at any time.
But what if I use Chu Wuxiao to clear the way for me?
In the Art of War, it is said that killing people with a knife is used in the inner house, and it is the same as killing people to see blood.
This is the battlefield of the women in the boudoir, and it is not much worse than the strategy of the two countries on the front line.
If the ladies in Shangjing can one day go out to kill the enemy, or sit upright in the court, their talents and intelligence may not be worse than men!
10
On Chu Wuxiao's birthday, he was singled out in the house.
A few months ago, Su Yao worked hard for this and practiced a period of "light in the palm".
Since the last time Su Yao broke my piano and Chu Wuxiao punished her for confinement, she has been throwing a temper.
Chu Wuxiao coaxed her for several days, and was stimulated by her cold words every time.
Several times when Su Yao was about to reconcile with Chu Wuxiao, the people I placed next to her pretended to complain and told her again about Chu Wuxiao's coming to me.
She was so angry with Chu Wuxiao that she even smashed the things that Chu Wuxiao gave her in front of her.
After half a month, Chu Wuxiao also lost his patience, and recently he would come to me every day after the next dynasty to watch me mix incense, cook tea, play the piano and paint.
"I don't know why, the palace is so big, but only when you're here, I can feel comfortable."
I smiled, "If you like it, just like it."
In this courtyard, from the small grass and trees, to the large everyone, they are all arranged according to his preferences and habits.
This is a gentle township specially prepared for him, how can he not feel at ease?
The self-esteem that was lost in Su Yao's place was picked up by me, and he was naturally willing to stay longer.
After the birthday banquet began, I said to Su Yao in Chu Wuxiao's expectant gaze, "Ah Yao, it's time for you to go on the stage and dance 'Palm Light'."
She snorted coldly and said stiffly, "Unfortunately, my leg is broken today, and I can't jump."
Chu Wuxiao's expectant eyes dimmed, and he didn't show a smile again during the whole banquet, just blindly drinking.
After the banquet, I helped Chu Wuxiao to leave.
Su Yao was furious and threatened in front of her subordinates, "If you dare to go to her room, don't set foot in my door in the future!"
I let go of his hand nervously, "Lord Wang, you go to A-Yao's room."
Su Yao hated me the most, but she didn't know that I learned this from her.
She came to hit me angrily, and I fell down unsteadily, worryingly, "A-Yao, your leg is not good, be careful of falling."
Chu Wuxiao supported me, looked at her intact legs indifferently, and left with me in her arms without saying a word.
Let Su Yao cry angrily behind him.
When I arrived in my room, my grandmother brought me safflower oil for bruises, and he personally rubbed the medicine on my knees and rubbed the redness and swelling on my knees.
Suddenly, he burst into tears, slightly drunk, and at this moment he looked dazed and vulnerable, like a puppy abandoned by his owner.
"Why, Arjun, why does A-Yao keep treating me like this? I've been chasing her since I was a kid, and over the years, I've gotten used to her bad temper, but I'm also tired."
I wiped his tears, avoided answering, and instead removed the sword hanging from the wall, and smiled at him:
"Today is your birthday, once a year, let's be happy, I won't 'light in the palm of my hand', only some unpopular sword dances, don't dislike it."
I pulled a sword flower in my backhand, and sang crisply:
"In the past, there was a beautiful woman Gongsun clan, who danced with a sword weapon and moved in all directions."
"The spectator is like a mountain and depressed, and the heavens and the earth are low for a long time."
「……」
My swordsmanship was taught by my father, who hoped that I would become the first female general of Great Chu, so he taught me what he had learned all his life.
If he knew, one day, the Clear Frost Sword in my hand that killed thousands of enemies would actually become a tool for flattery, and I was afraid that I would be angry to death.
The sorrow in my heart ran through my sword qi, and I couldn't feel the pain in my knees, I only knew that my heart was depressed, and I needed a dance to pour it out.
After a dance, I fell to the ground uncontrollably, and Chu Wuxiao hurriedly came to help me up.
He carried me to the couch and rubbed the medicine for me, his eyes were red: "You are injured, and you are willing to endure the pain and dance in order to make me happy."
He wiped away his tears, and his medicated fingers trembled: "I was blind in the past, don't let a good girl like you go."
He lifted his wet eyes and said to me word by word, "This is the most beautiful dance I've ever seen, and it's fierce and beautiful."
I stroked his sideburns, tender as water.
The time has come.
After learning that there was water in the yard on my side, Su Yao threw a lot of things in a hurry.
She knew that Chu Wuxiao and I had a round house.
Looking at the man sleeping heavily beside me, I indifferently pulled out the golden hairpin in my hair and gestured to his fragile Adam's apple.
Before I knew it, I had already thought of hundreds of ways to die for him.
But I still love to kill people the most.
They have also been merciless in my heart.
Let me and my beloved little general never meet again.
11
When the concubine learned that Su Yao and I were doing something, she was furious and locked her up again.
This time, Chu Wuxiao didn't intercede, and didn't even go to see her.
Just because I told him, "In the past, you chased after Ah Yao for too long, so long that you went to the official account 'Hu ^ Bus' to see more of her, she is used to your dedication. Something, once you get too much, it's not worth much, and you have to make your efforts look worthwhile, not cheap and on call."
Under the deliberate humiliation of the concubine, Su Yao was a lot haggard.
Every night, the concubine deliberately found something for Su Yao to do and didn't let her sleep.
During the day, he called her all kinds of things, and the meals she was given were big fish, big meat, heavy salt and heavy oil.
In less than half a month, Su Yao has grown a lot, and even her back is much stronger.
Mama whispered to me, "Didn't the concubine use something in her meal?"
I smiled and said, "If the concubine is useless, Mama is proficient in medical skills, and she should know how to use it."
After Mama left.
It didn't take long.
Su Yao gained some weight again.
After Su Yao hadn't seen Chu Wuxiao for almost a month, she finally panicked and didn't dare to lose her temper anymore.
She waited for Chu Wuxiao to cry on the way back, and Chu Wuxiao's heart softened.
That night, in order to please Chu Wuxiao, Su Yao put on a dance costume and danced "Light in the Palm" charmingly.
Chu Wuxiao was not satisfied.
The dance of "Light in the Palm" comes from Feiyan Hede, and the essence of this dance lies in the slender waist of the woman.
But Su Yao is no longer slender.
Even when she turned her head and looked back at the end of the dance, she could still see the fat squeezed between her neck.
Chu Wuxiao lacked interest, he had already seen my sword dance in a weak style that was different from Shangjing, and now he saw the same dance that could be seen everywhere, which was naturally boring.
Su Yao was keenly aware of the loss of Chu Wuxiao's love.
She restrained her temper and began to be gentle and considerate of Chu Wuxiao.
But she was used to being arrogant in front of Chu Wuxiao, and such gentleness would only make Chu Wuxiao feel abrupt.
Especially, she always likes to ask Chu Wuxiao, "Do you love me, or do you love Gu Qiong?"
"Am I beautiful, or am I Gu Qiongmei?"
"Is the soup I made delicious, or is the soup made by Gu Qiong delicious?"
「……」
Chu Wuxiao didn't get tired of it, he didn't know what was wrong.
Today's intimate and clingy Su Yao is what he wants.
But why can't he mention any liking in his heart, but feels bored.
12
On the day I became pregnant, Chu Wuxiao was very happy, but Su Yao was not happy.
I deliberately let people wear Chu Wuxiao's official uniform and leave the house, and after a while, Su Yao killed him.
She gained weight again, and the flesh on her face was faintly piled up.
I lowered the curtain outside the bed to block the sleeping Chu Wuxiao inside.
I sat at the dressing table and waited for Su Yao, and as soon as she came in, she grabbed my hand and threw it to the table, with a vicious hatred in her eyes:
"Gu Qiong! It's not enough that you snatched Shen Bi! Chu Wuxiao, who still wants to snatch me! You're not cheap!"
I saw the curtain move slightly, and said weakly, "You don't love Chu Wuxiao at all, you drugged me and him when you were saluting!" If you love him, how could you do such a thing!"
She said viciously, "I don't love him, he's my dog too!" I can't let you touch it!"
She grabbed the scissors on the table, aimed them at her heart, and sneered at me, "You say, if he comes back and sees the wounds on my body, will he leave you and the evil seed in your stomach?"
"You're trying to use him again!"
She mocked, "Do you think Chu Wuxiao loves you? If you ever saw him love me, you would be ashamed of yourself. In the middle of winter, I said I want to eat fish, he was stupid enough to dig ice and catch fish, and almost froze himself to death, has he ever done this to you?"
"I know, you made a bet with Miss Zhang's family at the time, betting that Chu Wuxiao would go to chisel ice and catch fish for you. He's just a bet on you, and you don't care about his safety."
Su Yao snorted, "He volunteered, he did many stupid things for me, which is enough to prove that he loves me to the core!"
I lamented, "If he didn't love you, he wouldn't have spent so much effort to get you out of the barracks and still treat you as before."
She triumphantly said, "It's good that you know, but soon, you won't have a chance to stand in front of me and speak."
In this way, in front of me and Chu Wuxiao, she stabbed the scissors into her heart.
The moment Chu Wuxiao lifted the curtain, Su Yao's face turned pale, and the scissors in her hand had been inserted into her heart due to inertia.
She sat down on the ground and muttered, "Why are you here?"
Chu Wuxiao's eyes were cold, but a smile appeared on her lips: "Then where should I be?"
He walked up to Su Yao, squatted down, and looked at her without any warmth: "Ah Yao, am I treating you badly?"
"No! Me, that's all my nonsense!"
Chu Wuxiao lowered her eyes, hiding the grief and sadness in her eyes, and asked her gently, "Is the drug fake?"
Su Yao was speechless as if she had been choked by her throat.
Chu Wuxiao was sad and angry, and actually laughed in a low voice.
He burst into tears with laughter, and little by little broke off Su Yao's fingers holding his clothes: "A-Yao, I don't want to see you again."
No matter how Su Yao cried, he couldn't make Chu Wuxiao change his mind.
She was sent to Zhuangzi, but because there was no one to treat her, her wounds quickly became infected and she died.
13
After that day, as if there was no longer any obstacle, Chu Wuxiao treated me very well, and released all the good that had been suppressed before.
After the court every day, he never stayed in the Hanlin Courtyard for long, and hurried back to accompany me.
He gave money to the prince's house, and inquired about my preferences, and found out what I liked to eat.
After hearing that I like to eat osmanthus cakes, he took the initiative to go out of town to learn from small vendors.
In the middle of winter in December, somehow I wanted to drink fish soup.
I just mentioned it to him, and he was going out and get it for me.
I held him down, "Don't make a noise, if the concubine knows, I'll be scolded."
He smiled and said, "I'll go secretly."
I went and never came back.
He chiseled ice to catch fish, but because of leg spasms, he froze to death in the lake.
When the body was scooped up, a fat white fish was popping out of his chest clothes.
The concubine was so sad that she didn't recover from a mouthful of phlegm, and she choked to death.
I handled the funeral for them in an orderly manner.
After the birth of the child, she was a well-behaved daughter, and His Majesty was completely relieved, and made an exception to make her a princess, and gave me countless treasures.
During the New Year's holidays, it is a constant reward.
I became the youngest and richest widow in Shangjing.
When my daughter grew up, she didn't like embroidery, but loved to dance swords.
At this time, the border was initially decided.
Brother and Shen Bi are back.
As soon as this kid saw Shen Bi, he shouted to learn swords, and he wanted to be a female general in the future.
Shen Bi smiled and hugged her, "Okay! We learn!"
When I was thirty years old, Shen Bi was not married. My daughters are almost 10 years old, and everyone dislikes them, and they get into trouble every day, which gives me a headache.
Every time I beat her, a bunch of people stopped me, and my father and brother took the brunt of it, pointing at me and saying that I was not as good as her when I was a child.
It's really annoying to me.
At this time, Shen Bi sneaked out with her daughter in her arms, riding a horse and shooting arrows, throwing pots and pounding pills, even if the little girl became more and more bold, she dared to squat on the street to catch thieves and bullies.
Two months later, Kyung Zhao-yin's cell was no longer empty......
On Chinese New Year's Eve, after Shen Bi and I set off the fireworks, I advised him, "Hurry up and decide on a family affair."
He smiled disappreciatively: "Arjun, in this world, not only two people who are married are husband and wife, even if people who truly love each other are not married, even if they are thousands of miles apart, even if they are not seen each other, they cannot erase their affection."
"I've already married you, Arjun."
"You're the only wife in my life."