businesswoman's wife

Mrs. Su's illness has worsened in the past few days. It seems that she has insomnia every night. She has to hold Guanyin in her arms to fall asleep. Soothe the nerves, and asked Mrs. Su to take it first to see the effect.

In Su Jinye's room, Li Huanhuan and Xu Xiuyi had also met. It was two days ago when Su Li brought Li Huanhuan over to see her in the morning.

This Li Huanhuan is not as ugly as Jin Yu said. He is still delicate, and his mouth, nose, mouth and ears are very small. If he is ugly, it is probably because these small things are irrelevant. They are placed on a somewhat large face, and they look like A bit discordant.

Li Huanhuan is well-behaved in front of Xu Xiuyi. Li Huanhuan's mother's family is quite poor. She is a girl from the countryside. She was taken to Beijing by Su Li's father when she was 12 years old. There is still an inescapable smell of a wild girl on her body, and her actions are lavish.

Xu Xiuyi does not reject these, she cares about Su Li's "enlightenment" and "virtuousness".

In the past few days, Su Jinye came back from the store more and more late, Xu Xiuyi asked, the store was not so busy, apparently Su Jinye was avoiding going home.

This matter, Su Li's always want to wishful thinking, but this wishful thinking is really funny.

The grandmother of the Su family, Su Yalan, who was returned to the family, had to go out on a rare trip. Thousands of Buddhist temples went to the old lady to ask for an amulet of well-being.

The day before yesterday, I started to call the kitchen to prepare fast food, and today I told Xu Xiuyi that I wanted to add some sesame oil to Qianfo Temple.

Ever since Xu Xiuyi asked Jin Yu to instruct the cashier not to allow any room to take change without her permission, the cashier has followed the rules. Now everyone knows to use money, unless they use their own monthly silver. If you want to use it, you have to get Xu Xiuyi's approval.

What Su Yalan wanted was not a small sum, 300 taels of silver.

She came to Xu Xiuyi in person, probably because she was afraid that Xu Xiuyi would be worried that she would swallow money, and she invited Xu Xiuyi to go up the mountain to worship Buddha together.

It is difficult for Xu Xiuyi to refuse because of affection, reason and face.

The old lady of the Su family believed in Buddhism. Seeing her ill appearance, Xu Xiuyi did not say much and agreed to Su Yalan.

On the morning of the third day of June, the Su family's two sedan chairs slowly went up to Qianfoshan. Su Yalan was dressed in a simple and elegant suit. After all, she was kicked out of the palace. Today is to come to the pure place of Buddhism.

Xu Xiuyi was also wearing a long pink dress with a tulle jacket on the outside. Purple orchid flowers were embroidered around the skirt of the long pink dress, and only a thin layer of powder was applied on the face. The whole person was as elegant and noble as a hibiscus.

That Su Yalan was also a beauty. The two beauties went to the Buddhist temple to stop at a clean place, which also attracted the hearts of the young monks. Usually, they were not as enthusiastic about pilgrims as they were toward her.

When I heard that it belonged to the Su family, and I had to donate sesame oil money, I warmly greeted the two of them, saying that they were going to invite the abbot.

He is a smart person, knowing that the Su family's sesame oil money is not a small amount.

Su Yalan always worships the Buddha all the way. As the name suggests, this Thousand Buddha Temple has many bodhisattvas, big and small. Seeing Su Yalan rise and fall, kneeling and bowing, Xu Xiuyi only felt it was hard.

But she pretended to put her hands together and prayed for a few times. She really found it boring. She didn't oppose other people's beliefs, but she herself was an unbeliever. Looking at the golden body of Bodhisattva, she thought if there were any gods and ghosts. Bodhisattva, there will not be so much injustice in the human world.

After a few more bows, she told Su Yalan to go for a walk in the backyard, and Su Yalan nodded.

Xu Xiuyi walked to the backyard of the Buddhist hall alone. The backyard of the Buddhist hall was a dining hall for people to eat fast food. From a distance, she could smell the aroma of vegetarian steamed buns.

Xu Xiuyi picked up a secluded place and casually folded a flower to play with the boring pieces.

There were footsteps behind her. She thought it was a little master from the Thousand Buddha Temple, but she didn't look back. Anyway, she just spent enough time on Su Yalan to worship the Buddha, donated sesame oil money, and presented a vegetarian meal before leaving.

The footsteps stopped a few steps behind her, and there was a fragrant breath sent by the wind.

She turned her head, startled.

Then he hurriedly bowed his knees and went down: "Five lords."

"I saw your Su family's sedan chair, and I saw someone stupid here from a distance. I looked at you from the back, and it really was you. What's the matter? You also came to worship Buddha, what's the trouble?"

Xu Xiuyi has always been curious about what happened to the fifth prince and Xu Lanqing in the backyard that night when Xu Lanqing got married, but it has been a long time since her incident. I heard that his brother and sister-in-law are doing well now, so she put that incident in her stomach. .

Besides, she couldn't ask Wu Mo directly.

"I don't have anything to worry about. As long as our old lady is seriously ill, my aunt and I will come to ask for a peace spell."

"Auntie, you still give her some face. People who are kicked out don't even have an aunt, so they can still be called auntie."

It's true, but when Su Yalan came back, everyone called her auntie, and Xu Xiuyi didn't bother with a single title. Now that she thinks about it, married people are qualified to be called auntie. It's really inappropriate to call them auntie after they have been divorced.

However, it would be even more inappropriate to call Su Yalan a Yalan girl.

It's just a name, and I call it at will.

Then she changed the subject and said, "The fifth prince came alone?"

The corner of Wu Mo's mouth raised a cynical and mischievous smile: "Could it be that who else do you want to see?"

Xu Xiuyi blushed, thinking about the friendship between Yi Wu Mo and An Chengshao, thinking that Wu Mo already knew that she and An Chengshao were together, so she didn't hesitate.

"How is he these days?"

"It's not good." Wu Mo sighed, the seriousness in his expression startled Xu Xiuyi.

But when Wu Mo burst out laughing, Xu Xiuyi realized that she had been fooled, and was a little embarrassed at the moment, but she had a different opinion on these five princes.

Originally, I only thought that he was a high-ranking and indestructible royal nobleman, but now it seems that he is also a lively person.

Compared with An Chengshao's calmness and restraint, his words are too naughty.

"Xu Xiuyi."

"kindness."

"Your brother..." Wu Mo opened his mouth, but finally smiled sadly, "... why are you sitting in my house, I got a lot of fun little things from the royal brother, and some from my daughter's family. Rouge gouache, I don't need it either, it's a pity, you come and I'll give it to you."

Xu Xiuyi hurriedly said, "Thank you so much, Your Highness. Your Highness likes to eat tea. When I asked someone to collect the medicinal materials from Guixi, I also brought back some tea leaves. If I come to visit you next time, I will bring it to Your Highness."

She still dare not speak too presumptuously, after all, this is ancient times, and the distinction between superior and inferior is so clear.

Although Wu Mo doesn't seem to be at all dangerous, it is not easy to provoke someone who can make her protect the country's government for so many years.

Wu Mo looked at the sky and said, "It's time for a vegetarian meal, why don't we have a meal together. I'm a lay disciple of Qianfo Temple. I occasionally go up the mountain to practice. I have my own meditation room.

Xu Xiuyi did not expect Wu Mo's temperament to actually practice Buddhism.

However, Xu Xiuyi couldn't refuse such an invitation, she just said, "Then I'll have a word with my aunt."

"No need, let me tell you. The vegetarian chicken here is delicious. You must try it."

Xu Xiuyi smiled and nodded.

This was the first time to have dinner with Wu Mo. During the meal, Wu Mo occasionally said a couple of jokes, which made Xu Xiuyi giggled. It was no pressure to get along with her.

Xu Xiuyi gradually let go, and told Wu Mo some fun things. She was never a joker, but when a few jokes came out, they all made Wu Mo laugh out loud.

"Xu Xiuyi, that guy Su Jinyuan really spared no expense, but he asked our family to take a big advantage of Cheng Shao. A woman like you, whoever marries you, will be blessed."

"Your Highness is joking."

Wu Mo put down his chopsticks, a look of ecstasy appeared on his face, and his eyes were bright and clear: "This king really envy you."

His expression seemed to hide a lot of thoughts and melancholy, but he wanted to pretend to be free and easy.

Xu Xiuyi thought that his words had nothing to do with her brother.

Sure enough, she just wanted to ask, but she pretended to change the topic easily, and this time, she asked again.

"Your brother and sister-in-law, how are you?"

Xu Xiuyi seemed to be able to feel that a deep sadness began to fill the room instantly. This sadness choked the word "good" in her neck, and she couldn't say it.

She remembered that when Wu Mo left that night, her eyes were red.

Although it is a love with a broken sleeve, but love does not distinguish between genders, if Xu Xiuyi is to watch An Chengshao marry another woman...

She couldn't imagine how painful it was.

"Hehe, forget it, you don't need to come back to me, in fact, I know that they are doing very well, and this king should go back. I haven't been to court for some time, and the emperor is probably going to tell me that I'll have a meal again, and we'll go down the mountain together in a while. Bar."

Xu Xiuyi and Wu Mo went down the mountain together, and their Su family's aunt Su Yalan naturally accompanied them.

Su Yalan saw Wu Mo with a humble and embarrassed look on her face.

Wu Mo didn't take Su Yalan so seriously, he just nodded as a greeting.

When the three sedan chairs reached the bottom of the mountain, they parted ways. When they returned to Su's house, it was just dark, and Xu Xiuyi and Su Yalan entered. Su Yalan's eyes were obviously red, and the handkerchief was still in her hand, thinking that she had cried.

Also, she, a woman who was kicked out of the palace, was naturally very humiliated in front of Wu Mo, and when she recalled the past scenery with sadness, Xu Xiuyi didn't comfort her, and she didn't ask anything.

In such a time, Su Yalan will eventually have to get used to it.

*

Wu Mo went down the mountain. From the night Xu Lanqing got married, he went up the mountain. For the past ten or so days, he ate fast and chanted Buddhist scriptures. He only went down the mountain once, and got drunk with An Chengshao. After waking up, Come back obediently and continue to practice.

The days are getting calmer day by day, and the heart is gradually calming down.

The Buddha said, what cannot be obtained cannot be obtained.

Xu Lanqing is the one that he can't get, can't get.

She was willing to live for a few more days, but when she saw Xu Xiuyi today, she finally understood that it was impossible for her to live with Xu Lanqing even if she lived on the mountain until the end of the world.

That was a little bit of hope gone. She confessed her identity to Xu Lanqing. With Xu Lanqing's disgust for her, if she stalked her again, Xu Lanqing would shake her identity out. She already had the handle in Xu Lanqing's hands. This handle was sent to the door by herself.

She wasn't drunk that night, and she personally sent this handle, just to completely cut off her thoughts and give herself a reason to not dare to approach Xu Lanqing again.

She is destined to be lonely like the ancient Buddha with a blue lamp.

After going down the mountain and returning to the palace, the eunuch Yan Jing sent a bunch of letters in, saying that they had received them these days.

She didn't look at it, she just said to Yan Jing, "Put it aside."

"My lord, in one month, it will be the emperor's birthday. What kind of gift do you want to prepare for the emperor?"

"Brother Huang doesn't lack anything, and the gift is the same. Just like in previous years, pick some rare things from the library and make a beautiful box."

"My lord, the third prince said that this year is different. The emperor has not been very happy this year. It is best to send some good things to the emperor to make him happy."

Wu Mo and the third prince are siblings of the same mother, but in the year when the third prince was born, her mother's concubine's family committed a serious crime and was almost beheaded by the whole family. Keep by your side.

And her mother-in-law's family is proud to be excused, but also because her mother-in-law's belly is very good, she gave birth to her third brother in March, and got pregnant with her once in September. The sin of her mother-in-law's family was postponed. After diagnosing that her mother-in-law was carrying a dragon child, the emperor was overjoyed and only pardoned her mother-in-law's family.

Therefore, her existence, from the moment she was in her mother's womb, tied the lives of many people, and she was used to pretending to be a man. It was Xu Lanqing who made her feel strongly about restoring female red makeup.

Now, this mind has also disappeared, so I have been dressed as a man for the rest of my life, wearing the reputation of broken sleeves, not marrying, not accepting, and being alone until the end of my life.

But time passed so slowly, she wished that she would be gray-haired and old in the blink of an eye, but now, she is only 22 years old, and her emperor brother is only 34 years old.

Next month will be her brother's 34th birthday. The brother's body has been seriously injured, and he has suffered from an unspeakable illness all his life. This is to make him happy. After all, the brother has never been kind to her.

"Then let me think about it and prepare my court clothes for tomorrow."

After being decadent for too long, it is impossible to grow old in an instant, and life still has to pass slowly.

*

In the court hall, there was a memorial to the court, nothing happened, and the hall was quiet for a while, and then the Minister of Rites published a memorial, which was referred to the revision of the Hanlin Academy.

The revision of the Hanlin Academy was not someone else, but Xu Lanqing's father-in-law.

Wu Mo was originally wandering Taixu, and heard from the Minister of Rites that the revision of the Hanlin Academy had privately copied the books of the Hanlin Academy out of the palace for the students to browse and read, and even leaked all the previous science examination questions to profit from it.

Wu Mo's eyes instinctively fell on the wishing face.

Seeing the wish, but his face was blue. He didn't expect that his in-laws, his subordinates, would do such unworthy things. He only felt that his face was scratched, and his fists were tightly squeezed.

The Hanlin Academy corrected Lord Zhong, because what the other party said was true, so he was sweating in bursts, and his face was bluish, purple and white.

The emperor frowned. Many of the books of the Hanlin Academy are history books. Once these history books are spread outside the palace, people outside the palace will compile them into small storybooks, and treat the serious things in the palace as entertainment jokes. .

Moreover, the answer sheets of those scientific examinations over the years are all sealed and preserved, and must not be leaked.

This revision of the Hanlin Academy, looking at an honest person, actually did such a shameless act of throwing in the imperial book and selling the imperial book.

Is he really poor?

"Zhong Huafeng, what the Minister of Rites said is true?"

"emperor!"

That Master Jiu threw himself on the ground trembling, his whole body trembling like chaff.

The emperor immediately understood, and said coldly: "Wish, that's how you take care of your subordinates, or because their family is married to your family, you dare to tolerate it like this."

"Brother Emperor!" Wu Mo knelt down before making a wish.

Everyone's eyes fell on Wu Mo. Everyone knew that Wu Mo couldn't win his love these years, so he had a grudge with the Xu family. Everyone thought that Wu Mo must be down to earth as usual.

But he didn't want Wu Mo to say: "This matter is seen by the younger brother, that Zhong Huafeng and Duke Huguo's mansion have climbed up their relatives, so they have the courage to do such a thing. Lord Xu has been in charge of the Hanlin Academy for many years, and the Hanlin Academy has always been It is well-organized and has not made any mistakes, Mr. Xu is a human being, and his character is precious, how can he know that his subordinates can condone this kind of thing."

Everyone, including Wish, lost their eyes.

Wishing to think that this is a good opportunity to get down on the ground. This matter can be big or small. Although Zhong Huafeng is participating in the performance of the Minister of Rites, if his family is to be implicated, the emperor is in a very bad mood recently, and he has to suffer more. crime.

When Wu Mo knelt down, he panicked. He didn't expect Wu Mo to say something like this.

I don't know whether to be grateful or happy.

The emperor always looked at Wu Mo, and Wu Mo's words also had a heavy weight in the emperor's heart.

He thought that the person who made a wish was not such a person, it should be that Zhong Huafeng climbed up to the relatives of the Xu family, and began to be unscrupulous.

He would not wrongly wrong a good person for no reason, and said to Zhong Huafeng, "Your teacher explained, how long have you been doing this kind of thing, but is there someone with you?"

Zhong Huafeng knew that the death penalty was not possible, but he was unavoidable to cut officials and demotion, so he became magnanimous: "I am the only one, the emperor can investigate if he doesn't believe it, and it has nothing to do with Mr. Xu."

Even if he said so, the expression on the wish's face was still ugly.

The Book of Rites of the Shangshen Book also came out: "The dog was also on duty at the Hanlin Academy. At this time, it was the dog who reported to Wei Chen. Wei Chen felt that it was inappropriate and then reported it to the emperor. The dog said it in detail, saying that Lord Zhong secretly transcribed it. When I was there, I always avoided Master Xu, and I saw Master Xu come in a few times, and even hid things under the desk."

The Minister of Rites didn't want to be involved in Wishing. Although he and Wishing had no friendship, he didn't want to have bad relations, but now he is just telling the truth.

This matter, it seems, is now completely separated from making a wish.

The emperor didn't want to take his anger out. After all, the three generations of the wishing family were loyal and good, and he also looked at the achievements of the wish's character.

A pair of black men looked at Zhong Huafeng on the ground coldly. He hummed: "Drag this man out to me, steal something with both hands, and the ten fingers are crippled, cut off the official and exiled back to his hometown."

The emperor was really in a bad mood. This Zhong Huafeng didn't have a good time. He thanked him sadly and was extremely annoyed by his behavior.

A pair of eyes looked at the wish, full of pleading, but not wishing to help him, but to make the wish not to take anger on his daughter.

It's a bit difficult to make a wish.

When he got home, he asked someone to call his daughter-in-law to him. Before the matter in the palace was passed on to the house, Zhong Yaqin looked at her father-in-law's dark face, wondering what happened, and asked carefully, "Dad, what's the matter with you? "

"Your Majesty!"

Wish had never been so humiliated in his life. He was full of anger. Although he knew that he shouldn't shoot at Zhong Yaqin, he couldn't be more angry when he thought that it was Zhong Yaqin's father who made him fall into such an embarrassing and humiliating world.

Zhong Yaqin was startled, her mouth was slumped to cry, and she knelt down aggrieved, not knowing what she had done wrong.

"Do you know how embarrassing your father made me in the court today."

Wishing angrily, Zhong Yaqin's shoulders shrank for a while.

"My father."

"I really can't relieve my anger if I leave you alone."

"Daddy!" Two big tears fell in Zhong Yaqin's eyes, and she cried with a blushing makeup.

The door was gently pushed open, Xu Lanqing saw this scene in the room, her brows knitted tightly: "Dad, what's wrong?"

"Xianggong, Daddy wants you to divorce me, Xianggong, Xianggong, I can't live without you."

Zhong Yaqin has lost all her restraint now, knelt down and hugged Xu Lanqing, crying, crying so hard that it hurts people.

Wishing to see her like this, I finally felt that I was going too far, sighed, and said to Xu Lan: "Your father-in-law's hands and feet are not clean, you stole something from the Hanlin Academy, and the emperor is angry. What is the wrong medicine to ask for mercy, I don't know if I can come back to this house today. I have lost all my face. I have made a wish for so many years, and I have never felt so humiliated. "

Zhong Yaqin heard the words and fell to the ground.

Xu Lan froze in place: "The fifth prince is back?"

What he asked, shouldn't be the sentence, shouldn't it?

But that was the only thing that came out of his mouth.

He didn't care what happened to his father-in-law, nor did he care about what happened next. He just wanted to know that the Fifth Prince, who disappeared like the wind, had returned.

Wishing didn't hear anything else in his words, but just said to himself: "If the fifth prince falls into trouble today, I will become an accomplice of your father-in-law, and my hands will definitely be abolished at this moment. "

"Abolish, Daddy, my Daddy he..."

Zhong Yaqin cried so hard that he made a wish and sighed deeply. After all, it had nothing to do with the child. He was really in a hurry before he poured that anger on Zhong Yaqin. Looking at Zhong Yaqin's appearance, he softened his tone.

"Get up, your father's hand probably can't hold a pen anymore. Fortunately, the emperor didn't say that he lost his property. Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow, your father will leave Beijing and return to his hometown. You can go back and live for two days. See you later. It's going to be difficult."

Zhong Yaqin cried and trembled, as sad as the sky was about to fall.

However, Xu Lanqing didn't want to comfort the crying girl who had been in the past. She just said, "I'm going out for a while", and went out without saying where to go.