Rebirth's Charm

Chapter 164

Yongping Hou Mansion.

Concubine Hui entered the study, saw the handsome man behind the large desk, stopped in her footsteps, bowed her knees and saluted, "I've seen Lord Marquis."

Yu Shaoheng is watching Concubine Hui's life experience: she was born as a concubine, her mother died of illness when she was eight years old, she entered the palace at the age of 17, she has always been humble and cautious...etc.

Putting down the paper in his hand, he looked up at Concubine Hui.The woman he saw had a pretty face, her demeanor was neither humble nor overbearing, her eyes were firm, as if she had made up her mind.

Yu Shaoheng raised his hand as a gesture of excuse.

Jia Nian brought in chairs, invited Concubine Hui to sit down, and served refreshments.

While Concubine Hui was thanking, a trace of surprise flashed in her eyes.I have always heard that Hou Jie of Yongping is self-conscious, but I don't know that he has reached this point - from outside the courtyard to indoors, there is no maidservant, and even the service of tea is done by the servants.

Taking a sip of tea, Concubine Hui looked at Yu Shaoheng, her gaze fixed on his face for a moment, and she drooped her eyelids before saying, "Your Majesty already knows everything about my life; why do I insist on seeing You, Your Majesty?" Have you guessed it?"

Yu Shaoheng said slowly, "Let's listen."

Concubine Hui stared at Yu Shaoheng, "My biological mother was poisoned by my aunt. In order to avenge my biological mother, I can only wait and wait for a chance to avenge my biological mother. I have not married until seventeen , because the Qin family thinks that I have always been humble and cowardly, and that I can be used by them. In addition—" She lowered her eyelids and looked at her toes, "I have been looking forward to leaving since the day I entered the palace. Because I already have someone in mind."

Yu Shaoheng didn't speak, because this was not what he cared about.

Concubine Hui began to talk about what happened after entering the palace: "After entering the palace, the emperor ignored me for a while and went to bed with me, but he didn't want to lose the reputation of being a favorite. After all, it was for the queen's sake. Until recently , the women who lingered around the emperor were all reduced to singers and dancers... After the emperor fell ill, the situation finally got better, and the emperor no longer wants women to accompany him."

Yu Shaoheng frowned slightly, "Tell me what I want to hear."

Concubine Hui smiled and nodded again, "Hou Yiyong found me last night and asked if I poisoned the emperor—I did it. As for the reason, the Marquis should be able to guess half of it. I did this to retaliate against the Qin family, and at the same time, it is also beneficial and harmless to Lord Hou. The Qin family has never treated me and my biological mother as human beings, and I have treated them the same way." She paused slightly, and looked at it again Xiang Yu Shaoheng, "Because of the humble and cowardly behavior these years, the Qin family still trusts me. I know what they plan to do in the future——If I want to tell the truth, I have to ask Lord Hou to agree to my request."

After hearing this, Yu Shaoheng's eyes flickered slightly, and then he smiled, "You poisoned the emperor, did you never think about one thing - the emperor actually knew it from the beginning, but just ignored it because of depression? "

Concubine Hui thought for a while, and felt that his inference was unlikely—how could it be possible?Since ancient times, which emperor did not spare his life?How could the emperor not cherish his body?She pursed her lips and smiled, and asked, "I haven't thought about it that much. Doesn't Lord Hou want to know the Qin family's plan?" She was also asking him cryptically if he wanted to know her request.

"..." Yu Shaoheng was silent.In fact, he had already guessed the outline of the matter at this point, and he didn't care what her request was.

Seeing that he didn't speak, Concubine Hui bit her lips and said: "My request is to ask Lord Hou to help me leave the palace and come to the Hou's mansion to settle down. Even if it's just to be a maid, I am willing."

Yu Shaoheng reluctantly gave her a reply: "You are willing, but I have no intention of doing so. I don't even want to see this side of you."

Concubine Hui couldn't help shaking her figure, and then smiled sadly, "I was lucky to see Lord Hou when he returned to Beijing in triumph. I just want to see Lord Hou occasionally."

It sounds insignificant, but if you connect her words from entering the door to this time, it will be very meaningful - since Yu Shaoheng returned to Beijing after the victory, he has become her favorite person; since she entered the palace, What she did was to avenge her biological mother, but it was also to do a little bit of power to him; in the future, what she wished, even if she was a slave, was to see him more often.That's all.

If it were an ordinary man, he would probably take advantage of the situation and use her to make her wish come true.

It's just a pity that she met Yu Shaoheng.

Yu Shaoheng was indifferent to this, and told Jia Nian: "See off the guests."

Concubine Hui's eyes became bewildered, but after hearing the words, she was still blessed, and finally asked, "Master Hou wanted me to come, is it just for me to admit that I poisoned the emperor?"

"Not really." Yu Shaoheng told her truthfully, "Just to see if there is any possibility of saving time and effort."

Concubine Hui smiled sourly, turned and left.She knew that he could only half-believe her words, and if he wanted to verify them, he needed evidence from what he saw, heard, and verified in the future.The fundamental reason was that he didn't take her seriously, and he didn't want to use a woman to take a shortcut.

Thinking about it this way, she felt that her affection was not in vain, and she felt that it could only become more and more desolate.

After Ye Xizhao learned about the process from Jianian, his thoughts coincided with Yu Shaoheng's. He felt that the emperor should have known about it in advance, and that the emperor just chose an appropriate time to fall ill, and then used this time to leave the palace. .

Yu Shaoyun got up and dressed tiredly, and called the maid: "Prepare me a bowl of medicine."

The court lady looked at the messy and ambiguous situation in the bedroom, she understood what Yu Shaoyun said, and respectfully claimed it was right and left.

Zhong Liye's reaction to this was flat, and he even agreed from the bottom of his heart.If she was happy because of this time, but he was thousands of miles away at that time, it was completely unnecessary.

He sat up and stroked her thick, dark hair.

Yu Shaoyun tossed her long hair in protest, thinking of what happened just now, she hated herself and him even more.No matter how firm the mind is, the memory of the body will not dissipate, and it cannot withstand his deliberate teasing and domineering capture.what is this?The tenderness before parting?She smiled sarcastically.

Zhong Liye took her into his arms gently, and then confessed: "Call the eunuch to come later."

"doing what?"

"Concubine Hui, sent to the cold palace. Concubine Jing, grounded."

Yu Shaoyun couldn't help turning around and staring at him, "Concubine Jing grounded her feet, I can imagine that you wanted to let the fetus in her womb be born safely, but what happened to Concubine Hui?" She was obviously a very cautious and humble woman.

"I was poisoned because of Concubine Hui." Zhong Liye looked at her, "You really don't know. In this way, you really don't care how I spend my days."

Yu Shaoyun was extremely helpless.In this palace, he has someone to take care of his daily necessities, so why should others bother?Thinking of this, his eyes flashed, almost admiring him, "You are really... you are so calm about this."

Zhong Liye said with a smile: "What's the matter of being calm. At first I didn't realize it, the servant who served me was bought by Concubine Hui. Later, I felt that something was wrong, so I asked the imperial doctor to take the pulse in private, so I became more careful. According to Concubine Hui's method of using poison, I would have died long ago."

"...I was negligent about this matter." Yu Shaoyun was a little annoyed.Even if she annoyed him occasionally and wanted him to die, she would not want him to die inexplicably.But in normal times, she has long been indifferent to his affairs.

"Anyway, you go on as I say."

"I will."

Therefore, on this day, Concubine Hui was thrown into the cold palace, and Concubine Jing was grounded.

These two incidents did not affect Yu Shaoyun - after the eunuch Xuanzhi came, Zhong Liye personally gave orders, and then went to the Hall of Mental Cultivation - the queen mother asked for an explanation, so she had to go to the Hall of Mental Cultivation to find the instigator.As for what the mother and son said, no one knew, Zhong Liye found a group of guards to guard outside the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and no one was allowed to approach.And none of this group of guards is her confidant or that of Yu Shaoheng, Xiao Xun, and Qin Anhuai.

At this point, Yu Shaoyun is not without sentimentality - who dares to say that Zhong Liye did not have the ability to protect himself and prevent any news from spreading before and after this?He has, but he has never been so defensive before except this time.

His mind is really not something anyone can guess.

His intentions, you can't guess until the last step.

In the evening of the next day, Zhong Liye left the palace and went on a tour in modest clothes. All he left for the Queen Mother was a letter, to the effect that the government would continue to be handed over to Yu Shaoheng, Ye Shuxuan, Qin Anhuai, and Luo Yuanhua, and he wanted to observe the people's sentiments.

The queen mother was furious, her teeth itched with hatred, and she showed unprecedented panic.

Yu Shaoyun understands such panic.The Empress Dowager may not believe that Zhong Liye voluntarily left the palace in subdued clothes - dragging his unhealed body to leave the palace, this is something only a lunatic can do.The Queen Mother just never understood the fact that her son was sometimes, in the eyes of some people, a madman.

While the queen mother was busy looking for someone to verify the authenticity of Zhong Liye's handwriting, Xiao Xun received Zhong Liye's secret order.

The secret decree was brought to him by Eunuch Wei, and after Eunuch Wei handed the secret decree to him, he said: "The emperor has another order: If Marquis Yiyong doesn't like the concubine's room, he can arrange another concubine as he likes."

Xiao Xun didn't expect this happy event, and nodded when he heard the words, "The minister leads the order to thank you."

Eunuch Wei said his goodbyes with a smile and left.

Xiao Xun unfolded the secret decree and looked at it. The emperor actually wanted him to investigate Qin Anhuai and Luo Yuanhua's dereliction of duty in detail, and there would be an explanation within a year.

"Since you feel that these two people are wrong, you should bring them to justice before going on tour..."

Putting away the secret decree, he took the mobile game and walked to the inner house, outside the courtyard of the main house, stood there for a while, then turned and left.

It had been a long time, he was depressed, and he didn't know what to say when he saw Joan.And Qiao An didn't know what to say to him.

What can be said?

The loss of the three brothers who caused him and her a headache, on the contrary, made the two of them lose the topic of discussion or debate.

The three brothers were brothers from the same mother...all of them were kicked out by him, and Xiao Mo even had his tendons broken...

Some things, some memories, he can't actually bear, but no one knows.

When walking back to the front yard slowly, Jixiang ran up to him panting and said: "Master Hou, it's not good, it's not good..."

Xiao Xun frowned, looking at Ji Xiang patiently.

Ji Xiang hurriedly said again: "Madam is going back to her mother's house, Lord Hou, please go and stop her."

Xiao Xun's thick eyebrows frowned even deeper, "Why are you here?"

Jixiang pursed his lips, and because of his straightforward temperament, he said truthfully: "Master Hou, you haven't gone back to your room to rest for a long time, and you haven't seen the young master for more than a month... Speaking of which, you snubbed Madam this time. , Young master has too much time."

When Xiao Xun heard this, he almost lost his temper, and said patiently: "Where do these words come from? I lost three siblings. Is it possible that I should still celebrate with drums and gongs every day? At this time, I can still have What are you thinking!? Does she really think of me as a person who is invulnerable to all poisons?"

Jixiang was terrified when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt down on the ground, "Your servant, your servant also knows that it is not easy for the Marquis, but, but... but Madam may think differently... Madam thinks that children are more important than siblings, and it is also reasonable. right?"

"Get angry with me at a time like this?" Xiao Xun sneered, and then raised his voice to call out, "Look at the main house, if Madam and Brother Yu step out of the inner house, you - kill without mercy!"

When Jixiang heard this, cold sweat broke out on her forehead, but she couldn't say anything when she was asked to defend Joan.

This time, Joan was obviously fed up with Xiao Xun's drinking, staying out at night, and ignoring his children - the first two points were clearly the situation before the husband and wife reconciled.And the child... Xiao Xun's love for sister Xin before, who in the Xiao residence doesn't know?Now that brother Yu is neglected and ignored, how can Qiao An, as a mother, be indifferent to him?
Jixiang thought and thought, but still didn't know how to express his thoughts in a tactful way.

(End of this chapter)