The emperor always wants to promise himself

Chapter 118

Ning Zhao truthfully told what happened that day, without embellishment, but she did not hide her dislike for Zhen Xuerou at all. Now that her face has been torn apart, it would be too ridiculous and hypocritical to pretend to be sisters.

However, her frank attitude made Zhen Mu appreciate her even more. She hooked Ning Zhao's face with her fingers, "I appreciate your daring to love and hate, just like me. Every time I see you, I feel like I saw myself when I was younger."

Ning Zhao paused, she looked up at Zhen Mu seriously for a moment, then shook her head: "My aunt is not old now."

Which woman does not like to hear this kind of talk?Especially for a beautiful woman like Zhen Mu, she withdrew her hands and covered her lips with a smile, "Don't compliment me, I'm already this age, how can I be young?"

Ning Zhao shook her head: "But I really don't think that my aunt is old. The beauty is not skinny, but my aunt is gray-haired and has her own charm."

"Okay, okay, I'll take it seriously."

Zhen Mu smiled and picked up the dessert on the table and stuffed it into Ning Zhao's mouth.

Ning Zhao was stuffed upright, chewing slowly.

Zhen Mu withdrew her hand, and said softly: "I don't know if Ding Guogong doesn't know how to educate the younger generation. The sisters who come out of the mansion are always eccentric."

Ning Zhao blinked, looked at Zhen Mu quietly after swallowing the pastry, "Why did my aunt say that, you and the old concubine..."

"Discord."

Zhen Mu gave the answer bluntly, then leaned on the couch, lowered her eyes halfway, as if recalling, "The old concubine Zhen Ru is my sister, I liked her very much when I was very young, but she is not very Like me, I didn't understand it at the time, but I didn't understand until I grew up."

"The daughters of the Duke of Ding are not raised in vain. They are destined to dedicate themselves to the family in the future. Who to marry is not up to us to choose. Duke Ding invited the best ceremonial mother to call our court when we were young. Etiquette, strive to walk, sit and lie down without fault, and become a model for noble ladies in Kyoto."

Ning Zhao slowly frowned: "When I was a child...how old was it?"

Zhen Mu paused for a moment, then said in a deep voice, "Four years old."

Ning Zhao's heart skipped a beat, and suddenly she didn't know what to say.

Zhen Mu didn't care either, she didn't need to respond, she just needed someone to listen, these words of hers had been kept in her heart for a long time, it was rare that someone could listen to her, she really wanted to tell the past.

"When I was four years old, my sister was seven years old. When I was learning etiquette, she had already started to learn piano, chess, calligraphy and painting. She was not practicing calligraphy or piano every day. Whenever I had free time, I would go to see her. By the time she's busy and never seems to rest."

Ning Zhao felt suffocated just thinking about it.

However, this is not over yet, Zhen Mu didn't know what she was thinking of, and a sneer appeared on her lips: "My sister doesn't want to talk to me, and I don't bother to talk to her. After a long time, we are busy with our own things, and our relationship becomes more and more indifferent until When my sister was 16 years old, I was already 13 years old. At that time, everyone said that I was more beautiful than my sister. When I went to the palace banquet, because His Majesty praised me, my sister hated me."

"Wait, hold grudges? Why?" Ning Zhao was young after all, and didn't understand the twists and turns.

Zhen Mu glanced at her, "Silly boy, what else could be the reason? Because I stole her limelight. It stands to reason that a woman should start talking about marriage after the age of 15, but my sister hasn't settled down yet, you know?" why?"

Ning Zhao shook her head: "I don't know..."

"Because it's for sale." Zhen Mu smiled: "Duke Ding is a person who has no profit and can't afford it. At that time, Dingguo's mansion was not as powerful as it is now, and it was the lowest in the four kilometers, so he racked his brains. I want to send my two daughters out so that I can help myself."

"My sister didn't marry because Ding Guogong was hesitating whether to send him to the palace or marry someone else. By the way, the regent was not so powerful at that time. He was just a relatively young general. He was considered a rookie in the court. The Duke took a fancy to his potential and wanted to marry one of his daughters to him."

Ning Zhao faintly understood: "At that time, the old concubine thought she would marry you to the regent?"

Zhen Mu nodded: "Because I am young, and she is at a good age, Ding Guogong told her before that he would send her into the palace, and she herself had a lot of affection for the handsome late emperor who was in his prime at the time. I have a good impression, I have met a few times, it can be said that both parties have a little bit of interest."

Having said that, Zhen Mu sat up straight and looked deeply at Ning Zhao, "But everything has changed since that palace banquet. To be honest, I didn't like the first emperor, but I had no choice. , wholeheartedly towards the family, although I objected when Ding Guogong told me about this matter, but was persuaded by him later, and was seduced by the beauty of being a concubine in his mouth."

"It's only natural for my aunt to agree. At that time, did you know that the old concubine was going to enter the palace?"

Ning Zhao feels that this is the crux of the matter.

Zhen Mu snorted softly: "If I knew, I would really disdain to compete with Zhen Ru. I have been better than her in everything since I was a child. She has disliked me for a long time, but I have never put her in my eyes." , after I agreed to Duke Ding to enter the palace, she soon decided to marry Xiao Heng, who is also the regent, and I heard that she lost her temper in her room at that time."

Ning Zhao pursed her lips, and could probably imagine the mood of the old concubine at that time, "So she hated you, and she was unwilling to get married, have you never contacted again?"

Zhen Mu touched her nails, "That's right, I was already in the palace when she got married, and she was quite favored by the late emperor, so I directly made her a nobleman."

"And after getting married, she and Xiao Heng entered the palace once, and she came to me on purpose, and she became very angry. If I hadn't been a noble person at that time, she might still want to do something to me. Since then, our sisters have been strangers. I'm too lazy to talk to her, but she competes with me everywhere, and she is better than me in everything, I think she is bewildered."

Zhen Mu picked up the teacup and took a sip of the warm tea, then snorted and said, "She always thought that she entered the palace to be a queen, because the queen was not in good health at that time, and she might live for a long time. She has entered the palace, and she can be a queen with her beauty and family background, so she has always been worried about me. Later, the first emperor married the second, and she is afraid that she is still watching me behind my back."

After a long while, Ning Zhao sighed helplessly: "How did it get to this point?"

"It's a pity that she has been working hard for so many years, and she finally ended up with a mother-child separation. I also can't figure out what is in her head that she is doing this to her own son! Now she is the regent, what about her? ? I’m afraid it’s because my intestines are full of regrets?”

Thinking of Xiao Yu, Zhen Mu suddenly turned to Ning Zhao and said, "He treats you very well."

　No one is born with intrigue, bad people are bad for a reason, but having a reason does not mean they can be forgiven
　　
　
(End of this chapter)