Beauty is poisonous

Chapter 43 Shame on Tao Hanrui
"You clearly...obviously..." Lian's eyes wandered and she didn't dare to look into Tao Zhizhang's eyes. Seeing the expressions of the ladies who seemed to see everything, she felt embarrassed for a while.

Seeing that something was wrong, Tao Hanrui quickly interjected: "Second sister, you obviously didn't have Shougong sand just now, how did you know that your Shougong sand would be on your right arm? It's really funny to say, which lady from a rich family doesn't order it?" The one on the left arm? How would you know that you, like a small family, don’t know how to order it on the right arm, so I can’t blame the ladies for misunderstanding.”

Tao Hanrui not only secretly ridiculed that Tao Zhizhi grew up in the village, ignorant of etiquette and vulgarity, but also tied everyone together with Lian Shi, so that these people would not say that Lian Shi deliberately slandered Tao Zhizhi.

Although the ladies were not happy with Tao Hanrui's statement, but thinking that they really thought that Tao Zhizhang had lost her virginity just now, they could only admit it embarrassingly.

Tao Zhizhang said: "Elder sister said that I was like a small family who didn't know the rules and put Shougong sand on my right arm. This really wronged me. I believe everyone here knows that there is a girl born in the mansion. This matter of Shougongsha is handled by my aunt, right? So why my Shougongsha is on my right arm, my eldest sister has to ask my wife.

Mrs. Xu thinks that I am not worthy to be the lady of the Marquis Mansion and gave me a spot on my right arm? "

After speaking, he covered his lips and smiled pretending to be joking.

Tao Hanrui's face darkened, she was very embarrassed, she was not married yet, she didn't know this rule, but she was caught by Tao Zhizhang instead.

Then he hesitated and said: "My mother takes care of the whole waiting mansion. She is so busy every day that she doesn't even have time to drink saliva. It seems that the woman who ordered sand was negligent and ordered the wrong place. Speaking of which, the sand ordered Your mother-in-law is really hateful, and almost made everyone misunderstand the second sister."

Tao Zhizhang smiled lightly, and ignored her desire to cover up, but bowed to the ladies, "Ladies, I'm really sorry, the lady forgot where I put the sand, and you all misunderstood me." I, I am here to apologize to the ladies."

As soon as these words came out, all the wives immediately fell in love with Tao Zhijuan. This Tao Zhijuan is too good at being a man. It is all their face to apologize to them for being wronged by him!
One must know that they came to participate in Tao Zhizhang's reception banquet, but they even doubted Tao Zhizhao's chastity. If this spread, wouldn't the world criticize them for being inappropriate?With a little bit of doubt about their character, Taozhizhang has given them an excellent step down, why should they not be happy?
But this step is not easy, that is, all the faults must be pushed to Lian Shi.

So these wives, in order to make up for their mistakes just now, said in a hurry: "Yeah, we thought that the second lady didn't order Shougong Sha, but it turned out that she did, but only in another place."

"That's right, Mrs. Tao, this is your fault. You obviously helped Second Miss Tao touch her right arm. How can you say that she lost Shou Gongsha because of her lack of self-respect?"

"That's right, thanks to Second Miss Tao remembering clearly, she exposed her right arm, otherwise how would she have such a bad reputation?"

Mrs. Chen's words were even more distasteful: "After all, Mrs. Tao is not Miss Tao's biological mother. How can she remember it so clearly? Everyone agrees?"

Her words actually saved Lian Shi some face, it would be nice not to say that Lian Shi intended to frame Tao Zhijian.

The people here are all human beings, and they would never believe that Lian would make such a low-level mistake. He misremembered the position of Shougong Sha on Tao Zhijuan's body, and he must have eaten something to hide Shougong Sha The thing, but it was seen through by Tao Zhijian, and the focus was on the right arm.

It's just that you Lian Shi did such a wicked thing, but it's wrong to involve them as her witnesses!This time, fortunately, Tao Zhizhang fought back immediately. If Tao Zhizhang was more ruthless, he might as well admit it this time, and find an opportunity to cry to the emperor in the future. Wouldn't it be that they were plotted by Lian Shi and couldn't tell?

After all, if you know this kind of thing, you will always go back and talk about it. In the end, you find that Tao Zhizhang is innocent. How can the emperor forgive those who have said Tao Zhizhang right and wrong?
For a while, these wives were even more angry with Lian Shi, but they were even more enthusiastic about Tao Zhijian who knew how to advance and retreat.

This woman is not only smart, but also knows how to get the most benefits. If this kind of woman enters the palace, she will be like a fish in water in the palace.

However, although they hate Lian's schemes, they also know that eggs cannot be put in one basket. After all, there are Lian and Tao Hanrui, the daughter of the quasi-fourth concubine, so they can't be offended. No one can tell what they are doing, leaving some leeway for people when they speak and do things, this is the rule for people like them to deal with things.

Lian's face was turned green and white by what they said, embarrassing, he glared at Tao Zhizhang bitterly, and then forced a smile: "Look, I'm so confused, I forgot that the second girl's Shougong Sha is on the spot. You don’t blame me for being so strict to you just now, right arm? You also know that love is deep and responsibility is severe. I also think about the Houfu and your future. I’m afraid that you will be deceived. You are so impatient, can you understand my heart?"

Tao Zhizhang ridiculed secretly, this is really better than singing, why worry about her future? !It's to ruin her future!
But Lian Shi has said that, if she refuses to let her go, she will be inferior, so she smiled slightly and said: "It is obvious to all that Madam works hard for the waiting house. Many aunts are doing their best to arrange them, all of them are well-raised and well-served and serve my father very well, I naturally understand Madam's thoughts, so how can I blame Madam."

Everyone covered their lips secretly when they heard this, and they looked at Lian's eyes jokingly, laughing that Lian's life was really unlucky, at the beginning, he chose Tao Hou Ye after thousands of choices, who knew that Tao Hou Ye had nothing to do He has a good skin, but he is a lustful master. He hasn't stopped since he got married. On average, he accepts two or three concubines every year. These concubines almost fill up the entire waiting mansion. This is not considered being slept by Lord Tao After passing the maid.

Lian's liver ached from Tao Zhizhuan's words, and his face was swollen redder than a red cloth, so he couldn't say anything!
Tao Zhizhang praised her for her generosity. Could it be that she still turned her face?
My heart was bleeding, but I still had to smile on my face and said: "This is what I should do. A wife should be the first to settle down in the backyard. In the future, you will understand the truth when you get married. As it is."

These words are cursing Tao Zhijian to marry a man with a heart and a heart.

Tao Zhizhang smiled slightly and said: "Ma'am is very true, the eldest sister is an extremely virtuous person, the fourth prince will accept one concubine and four side concubines according to the rules in the future, and there will be eight concubines, sixteen aunts, I believe that with my wife's teaching since childhood, the eldest sister will be able to manage the fourth prince's backyard properly, so that the fourth prince will not have any worries."

Lian Shi was so angry that she almost vomited blood. She has married such a man with a heart, and dealt with these aunts and concubines every day. Tao Zhijuan, a vicious woman, dared to curse her Ruier to follow her Same fate!It really pissed her off.

Tao Hanrui couldn't hold Huo in her arms and scolded directly: "Tao Zhizhang, what nonsense are you talking about? How could the Fourth Prince marry so many women?"

Tao Zhizhang said in surprise: "Why is eldest sister so angry? Did my sister say something wrong? As a lady, it is my duty to be a minister, so it is also my duty to accept concubines for my husband. What's wrong with sister? Could it be that you don't want the fourth prince to have more children?"

"you……"

Tao Hanrui's eyes were burning with anger, she wanted to shout: Yes, she just won't let the Fourth Prince take concubines, not even one!The fourth prince belongs to her alone, and if she becomes a queen in the future, she can no longer take it into the harem!
But even if she thought so again in her heart, she didn't dare to say it out!
If she dared to answer like that, she would not let the fourth prince have more children and more blessings!Because Tao Zhizhang said that the fourth prince took in so many women just for the sake of having more sons and more blessings!

If she dared to say that, the marriage should be annulled immediately, even the fourth prince would not spare her!

She blushed, stared at Momozhizao viciously, her chest was heaving with anger but she couldn't say a word.

At this time, Tao Zhizhi suddenly smiled and said, "Oh, I understand. Is it because the eldest sister is afraid that the Fourth Prince's backyard will be out of favor if there are too many people? In fact, the eldest sister doesn't have to worry so much at all. Talent and appearance, the fourth prince will definitely respect you, you can see Madam, you see Madam has worked so hard to accept so many aunts for Daddy, how much Daddy respects Madam! Of course Madam's painstaking efforts were not in vain, see These aunts are very upbeat, and they have made great contributions to the succession of the family in the Hou Mansion."

All the ladies covered their lips and smiled when they heard this, this peach tree is really capable of pissing people off!Ming Zan sarcastically ruined Lian's family.

Who doesn't know that Taofu has the most aunts among all the third-rank officials, how can this respectful wife keep raising aunts so much?This clearly does not take the main wife seriously!
He also passed on the family line and made great contributions to it.

The descendants of Taohou Mansion are the fewest of the senior officials above the third rank. Except for the four concubines, there are only two males in total, and one of them is Tao Zhijuan's younger brother who was born in Zhuangzi.

Isn't this clearly scolding Lian Shi for being jealous and vicious?Whose family has so many aunts who can only have these few children?Didn't the children in those aunts' wombs have been dealt with by Lian Shi?

Lian Shi can now see that this Tao Zhifang is pretending to be a pig and eating a tiger, and now the fight with Tao Zhifang will only get darker and darker.

Immediately, she tugged at Tao Hanrui, and nudged her lips towards Tao Hanrui's sachet.

Tao Hanrui's face was ashen all the time. After understanding what Lian Shi meant, her heart moved. Although she was a little reluctant, she knew that this was the only weight that could turn things around.

Then he pretended to be shy and spat at Tao Zhizhi and said: "Look at what my sister said, she spreads branches and leaves and has many children. It's really embarrassing. If my sister didn't have that Shougongsha as a witness, I thought my sister was right. These things are so familiar.”

This is not to forget to slander Tao Zhijian for being unclean.

Tao Zhizhang smiled, but stopped bickering with her, and if the fight continued, it would seem that she was being unreasonable.

At this time, Lian smiled and said, "Come on, come on, come on, ladies, the banquet has been set up long ago, let's take our seats quickly, if you don't eat anymore, I will starve you to death, when your husband will come to see you." I'll settle the score, I can't afford to pay off so many beautiful wives!"

The wives spit after hearing this: "It's still like flowers and jade, and they are all yellow-faced women."

"How can there be such a beautiful yellow-faced woman? I also want to become such a yellow-faced woman!" Lian joked.

The group of people laughed out loud when they heard this, and took what happened just now as if it never happened.This is how ladies behave.

As a princess, Tao Hanrui is naturally very familiar with these daughters, so she asked Taohua to bring up the sachet with chrysanthemum and peach petals, and said to the influential daughters Jiao Didi: "I see you on weekdays. It's not easy, I got a few good things these days, it's not just a good time to choose the one you like while you are all here."

Ms. Wu glanced at the sachet and said with a smile: "Where did the princess get such a good sachet? This is Jin Yunfang's sachet, 100 taels of silver each, and these twenty or so cost more than 2000 taels of silver." ! Did you pick up the gold?"

Taohua smiled and said: "I want to teach Miss Wu that the 100 taels of sachet is nothing, but the valuables are the things in the sachet."

"What's in the sachet?" Ms. Wu said in surprise, "It's nothing more than flower petals, how could it cost more than 100 taels of silver?"

Taohua said: "Miss Wu really hit the nail on the head, the petals inside are indeed much more valuable than the sachet!"

Ms. Li chuckled and said, "Is the daughter of the princess out of her mind? How can there be any petals worth 100 taels of silver?"

Tao Hanrui pursed her lips and said with a smile: "Miss Li, don't say it first, maybe it is true?"

"Really?" Miss Fang approached excitedly and said, "Princess, open it quickly, let us open our eyes to see what kind of petals are so valuable?"

Tao Hua and You Rong said: "I want to teach you ladies to know that the petals are worth one or two gold per flower, and the value of the sachet is really nothing!"

"What? Such an expensive petal, hurry up, you have to take a good look at it!"

"Then take a look..." Tao Hanrui smiled proudly and opened the sachet, revealing the chrysanthemum and peach petals inside.

"Oh my god, isn't this a chrysanthemum peach petal? I saw this petal once at Concubine Xu's peach appreciation feast! Didn't it come from Empress Xu?"

"Miss Fang, how is this possible? Madam Xu has so many petals in just one peach blossom?" Taohua denied it with a smile.

"Where did Princess Tao get the chrysanthemum and peach petals?"

Tao Hanrui was extremely pleased with what she heard, but she pursed her lips and just smiled without speaking, signaling Taohua with her eyes.

Tao Hua smiled and said, "I want all ladies to know that this peach blossom sachet was given to our lady by Mr. Zhuo! There are more than 20 sachets. This son is really a big hand!"

"What? Did Prince Zhuo give it to the princess? Is it true?"

Tao Hanrui glared at Miss Wen who said this in displeasure, what does this mean?Couldn't she get what Zhuo Shizi gave her?
Miss Wen immediately knew that she had said something wrong, how could she doubt Princess Tao?Isn't this disrespecting Princess Tao?
Quickly laughed and said: "I mean the emperor loves this chrysanthemum peach like his life, how did this son get this peach petal?"

Miss Lin is the granddaughter of the grand master, so she naturally knew the farce of the officials watching peach blossoms, so she smiled and said: "Miss Wen, don't you know? The emperor really loves his son, that day the emperor took all the officials to the back garden , His face turned green when he saw the bare peach blossom branches, but when he heard that Prince Zhuo had picked all the peach blossoms, he asked if there was enough for Prince Zhuo.

"Really? What does the prince mean by sending so many sachets to Princess Tao?"

"You asked this question, do you still need to say it? Of course you like our Princess Peach!"

"Ah, is this true? Zhuo Shizi actually fell in love with Princess Tao? Ah, that really hurt my fragile heart." At this time, Miss Zhang, who had a good relationship with Tao Hanrui, exclaimed exaggeratedly , After finishing speaking, he said: "That's right, only someone like Princess Tao can be worthy of a man as handsome as Zhuo Shizi!"

The hearts of all the daughters were sour, and they looked at Tao Hanrui with envy.

Tao Hanrui felt a sense of superiority rising, even when she was married to the fourth prince, she did not see envy in the eyes of these proud daughters.

But now that she saw it, seeing their envious and jealous eyes, that feeling was really wonderful!
His heart was trembling with excitement, but he pretended to be shy and said: "Miss Zhang, don't talk nonsense, maybe Zhuo Shizi is just reciprocating courtesy."

Ms. Zhang laughed and said, "Why don't you reciprocate with other ladies, but with Princess Tao? Isn't it obvious that the prince is trying to curry favor with Princess Tao?"

Tao Hanrui blushed even more, and spat: "Little girl, stop talking nonsense, you're so ashamed."

This is to admit that the prince Zhuo has a good impression of her.

"That's right, the fourth prince will feel a sense of crisis now. You must let the fourth prince know about this, and let him know that Princess Tao has a family with hundreds of daughters."

"Yes, yes, the fourth prince must show sincerity to marry the fourth prince, by the way, let the fourth prince invite us to the banquet upstairs, otherwise we will persuade Princess Tao to like Zhuo Shizi, Hahaha."

"Okay, okay, that's it, Princess Tao, you can't feel sorry for the fourth prince! Otherwise, we will be in a hurry with you!"

Tao Hanrui shyly said: "Stop talking nonsense, why do I feel bad!"

"Do you love the fourth prince's money? Who doesn't know that the fourth prince loves you like life, and the fourth prince's money will not be yours in the future! It's agreed, you are not allowed to save money for the fourth prince! If you want to save it, you have to marry it Save it!"

"Go, go, go, the more you talk, the more outrageous it is!"

Tao Hanrui was happy in her heart, but she was spitting angrily.

A group of young ladies chattered and chattered enthusiastically.

Tao Hanrui listened contentedly, with a decent smile all the time on her face, without giving off that haughty feeling.

The group of daughters were talking here, and the ladies over there naturally heard the truth, clearly, and each had their own calculations in their hearts. Unexpectedly, Tao Hanrui not only won the eyes of the fourth prince, but also the heart of Zhuo Shizi !

Ever since Shizi Zhuo made such a fuss in the back garden, all the wives knew about it, and they were all curious about what Shizi Zhuo had done with the peach petals. Now they finally found the reason, it turned out to be to please Tao Hanrui. up.

It is well known that the fourth prince took a chrysanthemum peach branch to Tao Hanrui. This time, Zhuo Shizi actually picked the flowers from the two peach trees and gave it to Tao Hanrui. ?
It's just that whether this is fighting against the fourth prince, or really liking Tao Hanrui in order to win Tao Hanrui's heart, still needs to be considered.

This is the difference between wives and young ladies. As politicians, wives think more about political factors than the little love of their children.

"The fourth prince is here!"

"Master Zhuo has arrived!"

While all the ladies were thinking about it, they heard singing and drinking from outside the door.

Immediately, everyone left their seats and greeted them outside.

"Meet the fourth prince! Fourth prince Wanan."

All the people respectfully saluted Zhuo Lingyun.

Zhuo Lingyun smiled warmly, and said with a little help: "Everyone please get up quickly, this palace is just a whim, and it disturbs everyone's interest, I hope everyone will not be blamed."

Tao Juzheng said with a smile: "Fourth Prince, you are very polite, please invite the distinguished guests who can't even come, please come in quickly."

Zhuo Lingyun pursed his lips and smiled, and when he was about to speak, Zhuo Qihua said in a strange way: "Oh, everyone only sees the fourth prince, and there is no real son. It seems that this son is really annoying."

Tao Juzheng's heart skipped a beat, and he said hastily: "Your Excellency is really joking, isn't this about to salute you after saluting to the Fourth Prince?"

Zhuo Qihua straightened his face and said, "Are you blaming me for being too anxious?"

"No, no, how could it be, the prince misunderstood."

"Misunderstanding? My son will also misunderstand such a simple matter. Is the Lord Hou saying that this son's brain is not enough?"

Tao Juzheng was dripping with sweat. He always knew that Zhuo Qihua's temperament was unstable, but he didn't expect it to be so unreliable!
He looked at Zhuo Lingyun, hoping that Zhuo Lingyun would smooth things over for him. He really couldn't figure out his pulse about this ancestor, and he was afraid that he would be wrong no matter what he said.

Zhuo Lingyun smiled slightly, he deliberately didn't accept this fault, just to let Taoju take it seriously, don't think that Zhuo Qihua is such a big tree that is so easy to climb, and give him half-hearted!

On the other hand, it is also to let so many people see Zhuo Qihua's uncertain character more clearly, to set off his gentlemanly demeanor.

Seeing that he had achieved his goal, he said to Zhuo Qihua: "Cousin, if you want them to salute you first, then I will let you go."

Zhuo Qihua sneered and said: "Is the fourth prince helping them or harming them? Or is he trying to frame this son? Everyone knows the order of superiority and inferiority. Could it be that you let them violate the ancestral system? Or do you want to To trap this son in injustice?"

Zhuo Lingyun's face froze slightly, his heart was full of anger, but a gentle smile appeared on his face: "Isn't this cousin angry just now? I am the elder brother, so what if I let the younger brother?"

Zhuo Qihua said mercilessly: "Don't tell me what brother you are, since you are the younger brother of this son, why do you have a brother?"

At this moment, Zhuo Lingyun couldn't even hold on to his hypocritical smile, and stared at Zhuo Qihua with an unkind expression.

Everyone looked at each other, neither of these two people was easy to offend, it was wrong for them to help anyone.

At this time, Zhuo Qihua's cousin Yu Fuyu pouted and said, "Cousin, you gave Princess Tao so many sachets, why didn't you give me one?"

Zhuo Qihua narrowed his eyes and said, "What sachet?"

"It's your sachet with chrysanthemum and peach petals! You are really too much. You got so many chrysanthemum and peach petals from the palace and made so many sachets, but you didn't leave one for me and gave it to Princess Peach. , I want to break up with you!"

Yu Fuyu glared at Zhuo Qihua angrily, her face flushed red.

Yu Fuyu is the youngest daughter of Uncle Zhuo Qihua, she has always been very fond of Zhuo Qihua, he rubbed Yu Fuyu's hair and said: "It's all nonsense, who is this son, how can he give a sachet to a woman?" Ah? It must be some woman who has a crush on this son and puts gold on her face!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone looked at Tao Hanrui in unison, with contempt in their eyes.

Tao Hanrui's face was as white as paper, crumbling.

She didn't believe it, she didn't believe that Zhuo Qihua said that about her, how could she behave like that?
Especially the fourth prince was still watching.

Yes, Fourth Prince!
She looked at Zhuo Lingyun in horror, only to see that Zhuo Lingyun was still smiling like a spring breeze, his expression was as calm and elegant as usual, but his eyes were covered with thousands of miles of ice and snow, which made her terrified.

That's right, which man was told his woman in front of so many people would think that other men would not react at all?

Regardless of whether this man loves this woman or not, in terms of self-esteem, he will never allow this to happen!

Zhuo Lingyun already wanted to cut this shameless woman Tao Hanrui into pieces, but in order to show his demeanor, he still had to keep such a warm smile.

(End of this chapter)