Resourceful beauty

Chapter 160 Mingzhi
"Father, what did mother do that you want to treat her like this?"

In Nuanxiang Hall, Concubine Shen led the maids to set dishes, King Qi was sitting behind the desk writing something, there were hurried footsteps in the yard, and then Fang Ruhui opened the curtain and rushed in, looking at Qi After Wang's direction, he ran over and asked unhappily.

The matter was only halfway through the trial, and Su Yuan passed out, and King Qi had no choice but to give up.

In the afternoon, Fang Ruxuan summoned Lv Lan and others to Hanwu Hall and asked them if they would like to come back to Prince Qi's Mansion. After all, most of those people were loyal servants who had served their mother back then, and Prince Qi's Mansion had the responsibility to take care of them until their death.

Lulan used to serve Concubine Fang. After escaping from Prince Qi’s Mansion in Jiangbei, she was found by the Bai family not long after. She was taken care of by her subordinates. In the past few years, she married and gave birth to a child, and she lived a happy life. Yes, she didn't intend to come back.

Some of the other people were expelled from Prince Qi's mansion after Su Yuan became Princess Qi, and some were dealt with when Prince Qi's mansion in Jiangbei was killed and moved to the capital. The pursuit after realizing it was really hard work, and now that I can come back to serve the old master, I am naturally grateful to Dade for agreeing.

Fang Ruxuan made a special trip to the Su Mansion for this reason.

Naturally, the Bai family sent people to find these people, and after finding them, they quietly arranged them in the Zhuangzi on the outskirts of the city, only waiting to come out to testify today, making Su Yuan irrefutable.

He was originally a servant of Prince Qi's mansion, and now that Prince Qi's mansion is willing to take over, the Bai family is naturally not unwilling, and immediately took out the deeds of those people and handed them over to Fang Ruxuan, and then returned to the palace, Fang Ruxuan gave them all. Chen Mei.

After coming out of the Yixin Hall, King Qi personally said that no one was allowed to enter and leave the Yixin Hall, which meant that Su Yuan was completely put under house arrest.

Released from the Yixin Hall in the morning, Fang Ruhui thought that if King Qi lost his temper, the ban on Yixin Hall would be lifted at the latest in the afternoon. Unexpectedly, in the end, this was the result.

King Qi put down his pen, looked up at Fang Ruhui, and didn't speak for a long time.

Fang Ruhui felt that her father's gaze was like a whip that was swung silently, hitting her heart one after another.

But what did mother do wrong to pay such a high price?The father just indulged the eldest brother and Fang Ruxuan, allowing them to trample on the dignity of the mother?
In Fang Ruhui's heart, there was a small voice protesting.

King Qi felt from the bottom of his heart that he was not a qualified father. During the years when the children were born, he devoted himself to the complicated and trivial government affairs in Jiangbei, so he never told the children stories, nor did he take care of the children. They went out for spring outings, and even the children's enlightenment education was arranged by Su Xin to find a highly respected teacher.

However, after so many years, isn't Fang Zhengjun still upright, and Fang Ruxuan is also gentle and intelligent?Even Fang Rulan, who didn't dare to speak loudly when she saw her, was as shy and cute as a little Zouju. How could the three children born to Su Yuan be like this?

Before getting married, Fang Ruyu was gentle and generous, but now, she only knows how to complain.

Fang Zhengru was timid and cowardly, greedy for enjoyment, while Fang Ruhui in front of him, who was self-willed and savage in the past, experienced being locked up in the Yixin Palace these days, but still did not become a high-ranking official at all, and still felt that everything was someone else's fault.

Sighing with some sadness in his heart, King Qi put down the pen in his hand, looked at Fang Ruhui and asked softly: "Have you ever thought about why your brother and sister didn't help you when your mother was locked up in the Yixin Palace these days? Mother is coming?"

No matter whose family it is, it is a concubine who has been locked up by the mistress for a few days. Even if the concubine's child dare not confront his aunt face to face, he will find his father or grandmother in a roundabout way. But Su Yuan is Princess Qi, On the day Fang Zhengjun ordered her to be placed under house arrest in the Yixin Palace, she did not resist, and Fang Zhengru, who had been in the mansion all along, seemed to be ignorant.

In the past one and a half months, Fang Zhengru had never even shown his face in front of the gate of Yixin Hall, except for Fang Ruyu who came to visit once.

Why?Why?
Fang Ruhui lowered her head and thought carefully, but she still couldn't figure out why. When she came back to her senses, King Qi had already walked to the door from behind the desk, and called the butler, "Send Fifth Miss to the door. Go back to her room, and in addition, send a note to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, asking them to send a foster nun to come over and teach Fifth Miss the rules, when she has learned the rules, when will she be allowed out of the yard."

This is, to put her under house arrest?

Fang Ruhui yelled, wanting to jump up and hug her father's leg to ask him why, but the two women's hands holding her were like cast iron, making her unable to move at all, Fang Ruhui was just pulled out of Nuanxiang temple.

In Qingfengzhai, Chen Mei took a silver fork and ate the apples and pears that were cut into small pieces and placed on the plate, and said with a helpless smile: "The old man often said that dragons beget dragons and phoenixes beget phoenixes, it is indeed true. The mother-in-law is very upright, so you and Zhengjun are both good, the one in the main hall is full of bad intentions to harm others, and now, none of the three children are harmed, isn't it her fault?"

Fang Ruyu and Fang Zhengru, no matter how bad it is, now that one is married and the other is also married, if they restrain their temperament from now on, life may not be bad.

But Fang Ruhui, it's hard to say.

It is common for aristocratic families to ask girls to teach them to raise them. The purpose is to hope that the girls will grow up to be gentle and virtuous, to be liked by the elders, and to form a good marriage.

But Fang Ruhui has already reached the age of Ji, and now that she has hired a foster mother, doesn't it mean that she has a stubborn temper?Let me ask, who is willing to marry a girl of this character as a wife?
Fang Ruxuan vetoed it with a smile, "No matter how disappointed my father is with Su Yuan, Fifth Sister is his daughter after all, he won't be so cruel as to do anything to Fifth Sister. I asked the foster mother to restrain Fifth Sister's temper. Let her get rid of her bad temper in the past, and secondly, it may be that my father has already made plans for Fifth Sister's marriage, so he arranged it like this."

Fang Ruxuan had always seen things thoroughly, but at this moment, Chen Mei really couldn't think of what kind of family Fang Ruhui could marry.

However, anyone with a discerning eye knows what will happen to Su Yuan. If King Qi is really for Fang Ruhui's benefit, it may not be impossible to marry Fang Ruhui before disposing of Su Yuan.

Chen Mei smiled and turned her head quickly, "Since that's the case, it's time to prepare the dowry."

In the evening, King Qi took a walk for a while, sent Fang Zhengjun and Fang Ruxuan away, and entered the Yixin Palace alone.

Su Yuan had already woken up, sitting on the footrest with her back leaning on the bed like a puppet, until King Qi came in and sat in front of her, she was still in a daze, not knowing what she was thinking.

After hesitating for a long time, King Qi finally asked "why".

The question was thoughtless, but Su Yuan immediately understood what King Qi meant.

King Qi was asking her why she wanted to unite with outsiders to frame him as treason and collaborating with the enemy, and this time, why did she put a voodoo on herself.

After all, they were husband and wife for many years and had three children. No matter how many unbearable things Su Yuan did, King Qi still took care of them.

But Su Yuan misunderstood what King Qi meant.

Seeing that Fang Zhengjun and Fang Ruxuan didn't come together, Su Yuan thought that King Qi didn't believe their words, so she cried bitterly and grabbed King Qi's clothes and said, "My lord, why would I do such a thing? And the princess, it's them. They planted Gu in the body of the concubine, and threatened the concubine, saying that if the concubine did not say so, the Gu insect would break out of the body, making the concubine's life worse than death."

Seeing King Qi's cold face and silence, Su Yuan poked her neck and said, "If the prince doesn't believe me, I am willing to die to prove my innocence."

Until this time, Su Yuan still refused to admit it, King Qi's heart was completely cold.

Immediately, he felt that his behavior at this moment was a bit ridiculous: even if Su Yuan admitted that she had done these things, would he feel that she was at least daring and would let her go?
If not, why bother?

Shaking his head helplessly, King Qi got up and left the Yixin Palace without looking back.

In March of Yangchun, when the spring is warm and the flowers are blooming, the Yixin Hall, the most magnificent main hall in Prince Qi's Mansion, is as cold and silent as an isolated city.

Inside Shanshui House, King Qi flipped through a stack of directories. In the directory, there were a group of students selected in the Spring Festival. Each name was marked with the person's rank, age, native place, and the status of the students of the three generations of ancestors.

At the end, King Qi fixed his eyes on the two people.

What the two of them have in common is that they both come from Jiangbei, their family background is poor, and their ancestors are innocent, and this time, their ranking in the exam should be in the top two after the palace exam.

Most of the top rankings in the second-class middle school are mostly taken a idle position in the Imperial Academy, and I mediate one or two from it, and send them to Jiangbei to be a small county magistrate. It is an easy task. The place where I grew up is familiar and kind, and I think the future will be smoother.

The difference is that one of them has both parents, while the other has both parents and is an orphan.

For those who have both parents, the character of the child will definitely be better. Fang Ruhui married in the past, and it will be easier to have the old man and the husband's family to help in the future.

A person whose parents are both dead can be the master of the family after marriage, and there is no need to set rules in front of the mother-in-law. He can decide on his own when he is young, but he must consider everything by himself, and no one will help him.However, children who grew up as orphans are more sensitive and aloof than others, and Fang Ruhui is not a master who can be softened.

The two have their own strengths and weaknesses, and King Qi was a little uncertain for a while.

After hesitating for a while, King Qi sent someone to invite Fang Zhengjun and Chen Mei over.

Both Fang Zhengjun and Chen Mei naturally think the former is better, and their considerations are the same as those of King Qi. Growing up with their parents, they have been influenced by their ears and eyes, and a man's character must be much better, and with the help of relatives, as long as Fang Ruhui doesn't rely on her mother's power There is a lot of pressure on people, and life must be much simpler and smoother.

After confirming the candidate, King Qi planned to ask someone to finalize the marriage after meeting the student.

After the palace examination, the news that the marriage has been decided is released, which can be regarded as the icing on the cake.

The news reached Fang Ruhui's ears, and that night, she twisted her hair with a pair of scissors, saying that since her father hated her so much, she might as well die, or twist her hair and become a sister-in-law.

(End of this chapter)