The little lady in the palace

Chapter 131 Disputes
Yuyin's eyes panicked, and You Zexu subconsciously turned his head when he saw this, and he also froze immediately.

His expression was tense, his heart became more and more heavy, and he hated himself for being reckless, but he said this at this moment.

The original promise to keep Xizhen from knowing was the only room for change, but now he himself has cut off this way.

"Princess, I..." You Zexu's voice was hoarse, and he restrained his emotions to force himself to be calm, "I'm going home today, I'll take my leave first."

After he finished speaking, he walked out, Yuyin hesitated and called him: "Wait a minute."

Now that the matter has come to this point, she doesn't want to let You Zexu leave, and forcefully hide it from Xizhen Xiyao.It is serious to solve it well, and the way of whitewashing peace is all self-deception.

Yu Yin took a breather: "Sit down, let's talk about it."

You Zexu who just took two steps back looked at Xie Jiqing hesitantly, but Xie Jiqing only looked outside: "Since you all heard, come in and sit down."

Xizhen Xiyao entered the room, Xiang Yuyin greeted him first, Xizhen called Xie Jiqing Fu's uncle again, Xiyao naturally got closer, walked over and leaned on him: "Father."

"You're a big girl now, sit down." Xie Jiqing patted her on the back, Xi Yao stuck out her tongue, and sat next to Xi Zhen.

Yu Yin still stared at You Zexu: "Yesterday I was so shocked that I didn't count what I said. If my words hurt you, it's my fault, please forgive me."

"Princess, don't say that..." You Zexu seemed a little flustered.

"I don't care about whether you can stay in Jinyiwei or not. Let Your Highness and your master decide." Yu Yin said, seeing You Zexu's happy face, she also smiled, "But I have to take care of another matter. .Here, Xizhen is here now, let's explain."

The two girls who were nervous together just now suddenly changed into different appearances—Xi Yao was visibly relieved, while Xi Zhen froze completely.

Yu Yin said sternly: "Don't say anything about whether you are worthy or not. My reaction like yesterday did not mean that." She said while looking at Xie Jiqing, "The reason why I invited my brother here today is to ask about this matter." I don't have much time to go home, brother, you know the situation of Xie's family better than me, do you think this kind of marriage is also possible, or is it not possible at all?"

"You are worried about the concubine in your mansion making trouble." Xie Jiqing didn't go around in circles, and after pointing it out, he thought for a while and said, "That's not the case. The elders are thoughtful and have their own sense of proportion in such matters."

"It's not just this." Yu Yin said seriously, "For marriage, it's always important to be well-matched. Brother, look..."

"Oh, this." Xie Jiqing pondered for a while, then heaved a sigh of relief, "The Xizhen clan, after all, is a bit off. Although it is not difficult to marry a top-ranking family in the local area, but having said that, those top-ranking families Putting it in Beijing may not be much better than the You family, so you don't have to worry too much about it."

As he spoke, he rolled his eyes at Xizhen: "What does Xizhen think? It's a lifelong event, and you still have to like it."

Xizhen with her back stretched straight: "..."

Her mind was in a mess, she didn't expect to hear such shocking news when she walked to the door, and she didn't expect that he was referring to herself.

Now she is asked to talk about her thoughts out of the blue, she doesn't know that...

Xizhen looked at You Zexu, then at Yuyin: "Auntie, can I... talk to you in private?"

"Well, fine, there's no rush. Even if you are willing to agree, it will take another two years." Yu Yin responded easily, and then looked at You Zexu, his expression was already complicated.

You Zexu was also a little confused, not knowing how things got to the level of talking about marriage.After clearing his mind, he nervously argued again: "Princess, I didn't dare to think about this, I just wanted to..."

"You just want to stay in Jinyiwei, I know." Yuyin smiled, "But I can't pretend I don't know about it. You are a sensible child, and I'm not afraid to talk to you like this. Whether the marriage will succeed or not Let's say otherwise, it has nothing to do with whether you stay in Jinyiwei or not."

The tension on You Zexu's face finally relaxed for the most part, he stuttered for a while, then nodded in thanks.Yu Yin said again: "You have been raised in the mansion since you were injured in the palace, you should go home. Let's go back and raise your hands before talking about other things. Even if you are in a hurry to help the prince, you can't Go with your wounds."

"Yes." You Zexu was completely relaxed, "I'm going home today, I'm going to do some errands, and I'll wait for Master's orders."

So far, the direction of this matter is somewhat beyond Yu Yin's plan, but at least it is not bad.

But at this moment, it still made her feel a little confused. The more she thought about it, the more she felt that she almost did something evil.

You Zexu is quite an excellent person, and she was so frightened when she said a few words.This was not what she wanted to see, it was indeed her mistake.

Yu Yin was bored in the bedroom all afternoon, and Ming Jing sat beside her and babbled with her, but she didn't get excited.After dinner, Xizhen came, and after saying a few words, Xizhen murmured to her: "Auntie...you...don't want me to marry, so I won't marry. Why make him feel so uncomfortable?"

Yu Yin hesitated for a while, didn't explain much to herself, just asked her: "Is he hurt badly?"

Xizhen frowned tightly, and nodded: "I didn't go to see it, but Ah Li went. After Ah Li came back, he cried and said that his fingers were scratched in lines, full of blood, and the deepest part could see the muscles and bones... ..."

Her voice became lower and lower, she sat beside Yuyin and tugged at her sleeve, and said: "I know you don't like Concubine You, and I don't like Concubine You, she hates her the most. But You Zexu and her Not the same... he's a nice guy."

Yu Yin looked at her: "Do you like him?"

"...No." Xizhen shook her head, "I didn't like him, but I didn't hate him either. I never thought of marrying him, and I thought it would be great if he and Princess Duanrou could get married. Today I heard about this It's okay, I too..."

She curled her lips: "I don't know what it feels like... I just haven't thought about it at all. Do you know how I feel?"

Yu Yin nodded: "I know."

She didn't think about it at all.Oh, she is the main concubine in the palace, and the You family's daughter is the side concubine. The two have been at loggerheads for seven or eight years, and You's nephew likes her niece... Who cares about this?

"But what do you want to do about it?" She embraced Xizhen and patted her on the shoulder, "Tell me what you think, aunt will listen to you."

"I think...just let it go." Xizhen said and sighed, "Oh, I will definitely pay more attention to him in the future. If I like it, then I like it. If I still don't like it, then I really don't like it."

What she said seems to be not a solution at all, but it is actually the best way.

They never cared about You Zexu before, so it was natural that they had no affection at all.Now I suddenly realize that it’s actually quite good to pay more attention and follow fate.

Xizhen leaned against her arms and lay still for a while, then suddenly raised her head and asked her, "Auntie, can I really make my own decisions about my marriage?"

Yu Yin was taken aback for a moment, and she said again seriously: "I know, you didn't even make up your own mind about your marriage. You married in after the first emperor ordered. Before that, you and your uncle had never met."

"Well... yes." Yu Yin smiled and admitted, "So it's a very lucky thing that your uncle and I can live well. As for you...have the opportunity to let you decide for yourself, I will Do my best to help you."

When she said that, 13-year-old Xizhen still looked worried, with the melancholy of an ignorant girl trapped by love affairs written all over her face.

In the evening of that day, the You family.

You Zexu has not been home for a long time, or in other words, since he was expelled from the palace by his aunt last time and rejected by the family, he has not been back.

He would rather sleep in Jinyiwei's Zhenfu Department and make do with it than come back, sometimes he can't tell what he is fighting for, it seems that he just feels ashamed for no reason.

The reason why he will come back this time is because after the news about Princess Duanrou spread, the family wrote no less than ten letters to the palace asking him to come back.He thought it was time for him to go home and have a look. After all, he was a Jin Yiwei, so he had no time to go home during the holidays, and it was really not filial.

After entering the mansion, he was hugged by his mother: "Zexu!"

His mother was no longer taller than him, so she hugged him like this, with her head stuck in his arms.Her voice trembled, and she was so excited that she just said repeatedly, "It's good to be back, it's good to be back."While stroking her back, You Zexu nodded to the person a few steps behind her: "Father."

"Yeah." Father nodded, "Just come back. Last time you came back, I wasn't there. Go, go say hello to your grandfather, and turn over the article last time."

"Yes." You Zexu agreed, letting go of his mother, who then noticed his fingers wrapped around Bai Lian, and grabbed hold of him: "Are you... haven't you been in the palace lately? Why are you still..."

"I injured myself by practicing shooting. It has nothing to do with the palace." You Zexu withdrew his hand with a smile, and said in a relaxed tone, "Don't worry about my life in the palace. My aunt is the side concubine and eldest son of the palace. Mother, who would dare to wrong me?"

——He could calmly say these words to comfort his mother, but in fact, he felt a little chilled when he said them.

The princess was not related to him, and she had such a relationship with his aunt, but the princess saw that he was wronged, so she even apologized and asked him to forgive her.

And that time my aunt beat him and then drove him away, and when he went back to the house, a soft word from my aunt was useless.

That's fine, he felt that it was reasonable for his aunt to be angry, as a junior, he shouldn't have expected his elders to apologize to him in turn.But this time, the story of Princess Duanrou became known to the whole family overnight, and the whole family was excited about the happy event. If it wasn't the aunt who told the family, he couldn't think of anyone else.

This made You Zexu suddenly feel very ironic.He respects his aunt as an elder, but it's hard to say whether his aunt treats him as his junior.Maybe it wasn't because she was still angry that she didn't come to comfort him, but because she didn't care at all.

But she cared about his princess Shang, so she immediately told her family.

You Zexu abruptly cut off this idea, and said to his mother with a smile: "I will go to say hello to my grandfather first, and I will talk to you later."

"Hey, good." Mother nodded repeatedly.At that time, You Zexu did not expect that what made him even more chilled was yet to come.

"What did you say?" Three or five days later, Yu Yin was dumbfounded after hearing Zhao Chengrui's report, "You're not mistaken? He hasn't been home for more than half a year. What's the matter at home?"

"Your slave is absolutely right, Mr. You really said it himself." Zhao Chengrui frowned as he spoke, and said in his heart that he had never seen such a renegade family.

Yuyin asked him to explain in detail, and Zhao Chengrui explained the whole process in detail.He said that he was not on duty yesterday, so he went out for a walk with a few familiar eunuchs, isn't it almost Mid-Autumn Festival?Various shops have a lot of gifts for the Mid-Autumn Festival, related and irrelevant people like to take this opportunity to sell things like moon cakes, crabs and sweet-scented osmanthus wine.

"Xia Nu went to the cheap shop at the front door to see what kind of crabs they brought in. The cheap shop is diagonally opposite to a medicine shop. When Xia Nu came out of the cheap shop, Mr. You happened to be from the medicine shop. Come out."

As Zhao Chengrui said, he raised his hand and made a gesture of about a length: "Young Master You has a wound on his neck, so it must be this long. When I think about it, I feel that he has been resting at home these days and has not done any work for Jin Yiwei. The injury was strange, so I went up and asked a few words, and asked a few times before I asked."

He paused and sighed: "Young Master You said that he had an argument with the elders of the family about Princess Duanrou, but his grandfather was angry and refused to say anything else. The servant looked like a whip, I guess it's more than that."

This You family...is there something wrong?
Yu Yin was angry when he heard that.How should I put it, the matter of Princess Duanrou is indeed a great surprise for the You family - talking about the You family, it is a great surprise for many high-ranking officials and noble families in Beijing to be able to become the Lord.

But no matter how surprising this matter is, it wouldn't be this far, right?
What can You Zexu say after returning home?It's definitely not saying that Princess Duanrou is not good, or disrespectful to Princess Duanrou in words, at best, that he doesn't like Princess Duanrou and doesn't want to marry her... Can this cause trouble? !
If Yu Yin wanted to see it, she felt that if she was the senior of You's parents, she would rather You Zexu be a royal guard than let him be the princess.

It is true that the titles of this court are hereditary, but I have never heard of hereditary consorts. How can this be better than the real power in Jinyiwei?Based on You Zexu's current aggressiveness, he will probably be able to get into the township envoy in the future.

Isn't this better than being a son-in-law and eating your salary?

She frowned and shook her head, and asked Zhao Chengrui: "Then where does he live now? He will go to buy medicine by himself, so it can be seen that he doesn't live at home."

"He didn't live at home. He said he found an inn nearby, and his parents would take care of him. But he didn't tell Xianu which one it was exactly." Zhao Chengrui said.

Conversations in the room flowed out.On the other side of the screen, Ah Qi blushed with anger, and was about to walk into the house, but was dragged back by his brother.

"Don't make trouble, don't cause trouble for the aunt and concubine!" Ah Li dragged him outside, and A Zuo Ayou, who was lying under the window and was also eavesdropping, also ran over: "Brother!"

"Did you hear that too?" Ah Li rolled his eyes, and ran into his sister's house with his younger brothers.

"A Li?" He Jing who was practicing calligraphy raised her head, and Xi Zhen Xi Yao also looked at them.

A Li stood in the room with his hips akimbo: "My mother's concubine's house bullies my cousin! Sis, will you help me?"

"Ah...?" He Jing glanced at him, "How can I help? Are you going to fight?"

"...What are you fighting for?" Ah Li was exhausted after being asked by his sister, and he regained his strength and continued to put his hips on his hips, "Sister, didn't the concubine mother say that you can also take care of the affairs of the back house? Then you can adjust the affairs of the mansion." Can't the guards? I'll just take someone to help my cousin reason, so don't bother others!"

"..." He Jing felt that this matter was unreliable, but seeing Ah Li's arrogance and arrogance, he didn't have the heart to destroy his prestige, so he pointed at Ah Zuo, "He is the eldest son, ask him."

She thought that such a little kid like A Zuo would definitely refuse, but she didn't expect that the little kid walked over and patted her elder brother on the shoulder, and said very loyally: "Okay! I will help you!"

He Jing: "..."

(End of this chapter)