Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

Chapter 13 That girl is not kind
"Oh?" The emperor raised his eyelids, not very interested, as if he was just being forced to cheer, "Who can win the favor of your third master of the Ning family?"

"A girl."

"Which family's girl?" The emperor finally got a little excited, and joked, "If there is a girl in this city who can win your favor, I will order the old prince Rong to accept her as a righteous daughter and make her a princess. I don’t mind marrying her to your Duke Ning’s mansion, if you think it’s not enough, I don’t mind accepting her as my righteous sister..."

"Her surname is Ji."

"What's the matter with the surname Ji? I don't care what her surname is if I accept a righteous sister? It's not a difficult problem to give a royal surname to the left and right. It's easier than trying to fight against everyone's opinions and designate you as the emperor..." The more the emperor said, the more he thought However, he wished he could go out of the palace to meet the girl right away, he was stunned after he finished speaking, "Say, what's your last name?"

"Ji."

"Which girl?"

"Ji, concubine Ji."

"..." The emperor slowly sat up straight, his movements were very light and slow, as if he was afraid of disturbing something, "That Ji?"

"Ah."

"are you sure?"

"There are still some details to be determined, but there should be no mistakes."

Communication like charades is incomprehensible even if there are ears in the partition wall.The subconsciously tense body slowly relaxed, and the back was hunched. After a long while, the emperor sighed softly, "You have always been strict in speaking and not telling the whole story. Now that you have said this, it must be close... Finally it is here... I thought they really didn't intend to take care of it."

"This is not a good thing." Ning Xiuyuan was not optimistic, "That family has always favored women over men, even though Shangguan Yuan was not given a surname, but after all, it is the blood of that family... Besides, I look at that family. girl……"

"Not kind."

"At that time..." Ning Xiuyuan took the tea, took a sip, and suddenly thought of the eyes that looked straight at the door of Fengchenju. They were as dark as night, without any starlight, and as sharp as a blade... just such a pair of eyes My master is not a good person, I am afraid that under the soft surface, there should be an unruly soul.

interesting.

The thin lips were not hooked, and she smiled, "I'm afraid it's your palace, which will be turned upside down."

"It's not me..."

"But she is your royal daughter-in-law."

Opening his mouth, the emperor couldn't utter any excuses, after all, it was indeed the case.He waved his hands in frustration, with his palms facing inwards - driving people away impatiently.

Without saying a word, Ning Xiuyuan got up and left, and Zhenzhen came and left as soon as he was called.

The chief eunuch, Zhang Dexian, was already waiting outside. He bent down and lifted the lamp to send Ning Xiuyuan to the carriage. He waited until the carriage disappeared from sight, then he rubbed his back, straightened up and walked back. The little eunuch beside him took the light On the way, "This master is extremely honorable. If he sees the king, he will not kneel or say anything. This carriage can still drive straight into the imperial study..."

"Shut up!" Zhang Dexian turned around and yelled, "You, a little eunuch, can talk about this lord's affairs? If you don't want to be punished, go to the imperial court and serve him carefully!"

"Yes……"

Zhang Dexian kept a straight face and didn't speak again. How could this group of boys know that the man... looked gentle and clear, spoke in a leisurely manner, occasionally smiled, and was very close to the people... In fact...

Killing without blinking.

……

When Ning Xiuyuan returned to the mansion, he saw his elder brother Ning Xiuxian who had obviously been waiting for a long time in his yard.

A tall man with a face similar to Ning Xiuyuan's. He has passed his forty years. Although he has often experienced in the army, he looks elegant like a scholar. There is not much wind and frost and killing, only a little more The precipitation of the years.He shook the small package wrapped in kraft paper at the third brother at the door, "I got a good thing, I'll give you a taste."

Ning Xiuyuan glanced at him, and spoke a little more casually, "At this hour, you should go to bed."

"Oh yes...Your elder brother, I belong to Madam after all..." He kept saying that it was a good thing, but he threw it away from a distance. He didn't care if it hit the door frame. He clapped, "Your sister-in-law has been looking for an in-law for your nephew in the past few days. If it goes well, maybe the fourth generation of our family will be born by the end of next year."

Ning Xiuyuan picked up the package on the ground, weighed it lightly, and reckoned it was tea.Elder brother has been working and resting very regularly in the mansion all these years. He should have gone to sleep at this time. Now he specially picked up some tea leaves as a stepping stone to say something, and he immediately understood, "Father asked you to come over to find out?"

"It's not entirely true. These days there is a girl jumping over the wall of our house, trying to cover up... My subordinates feel provoked when they look at it. Let me come forward and tell you. From now on, be generous. Just go through the side door, it's not conspicuous."

"Yeah." Casually, his expression was a little pale.

Ning Xiuxian remained silent and did not leave.

Ning Xiuyuan didn't urge or ask.

After all, it was Ning Xiuxian who couldn't bear it first, coughed, and Xiaozhi said emotionally with reason, "Father is also worried. He is getting old, and because of that incident a while ago... his heart was depressed, mother Said that he always tossed and turned at night, and sometimes woke up in the middle of the night to find him standing at the window in a daze and sighing."

Ning Xiuyuan was slightly taken aback, and his voice was careless and cold, "What does this matter have to do with him."

"After all, he is an old friend..." Ning Xiuxian sighed, not knowing the meaning of his younger brother's cliché, he took two steps forward with his hands behind his back, and stood under the steps to look at his younger brother, "You were born late, when Shangguan's family The whole family has already moved south, so we are estranged from them. But in the early years, our four families have a very good relationship. Mr. Shangguan is older than his father, and his son is about the same age as me. I want to call him uncle, of course. I don't want to, because of this, I fight every now and then... Now that I think about it, it seems like it happened in my previous life."

Ning Xiuyuan had heard a little about the Shangguan family. It seemed that the descendants of the Shangguan family offended the noble concubine who was in the palace at that time, and their vitality was severely injured.

If it wasn't for the daughter of the Shangguan family marrying into the East Palace this time, no one in Yanjing City would have mentioned the word "Shangguan"... In this way, the crown prince must have really suffered a lot if the imperial concubine could finally open her mouth to agree to this marriage effort……

"Shangguan's family..." Ning Xiuyuan paused, thought for a moment, and then said, "At that time, it was only said that Shangguan's junior offended the concubine and caused the disaster. Do you know which junior it is?"

"I don't know. At that time, the palace kept this secret. Both my father and I felt that there was something hidden about this matter... Why do you ask this?"

Ning Xiuyuan twitched his fingertips, "It's nothing, I'm just curious that my daughter is gone, the Shangguan family can hold their breath, no one has come to Beijing so far, I'm just feeling a little bit. It's getting late, sister-in-law should be waiting for you .”

"Hmm." Ning Xiuxian yawned lazily, "You should also rest earlier... Speaking of which, there is a person in Shangguan's family who I admire a lot in the early years, and I can occasionally hear it in recent years. His reputation... seems to have become a giant of a wealthy country."

He waved his hand, sighed, didn't want to say any more, turned around and left.

Ning Xiuyuan watched his elder brother go out, and suddenly asked, "Why have I never heard of it?"

(End of this chapter)