Rebirth's Charm

Chapter 25

Zhilan recounted the situation just now: "After the madam went to the courtyard, the servants and Hsinchu each chose a suitable place to pay attention to the movement between Xici. When the madam and Lord Hou talked in a low voice, Miss Feng Wu walked Stepped to the window and looked outside. The servant could only see a side face. Miss Feng Wu smiled in a trance, a little lost, and seemed a little lost...but it was more sad than this, as if she was smiling and crying in her heart " She frowned, annoyed that she couldn't find the right words to describe it, "I can't explain it clearly, but I have seen that kind of smile before, like... like the young lady of Xiangfu. Look like an old man."

The last sentence was enough for Ye Xizhao to understand.

Ye Xihan had a love affair with a woman before he got married, and later that woman died of a serious illness, which became his deepest love.After that, Ye Xihan became depressed and gave up on himself for a while. After getting married, he guarded his first wife but was still promiscuous, and even added three concubines. No one knew what he was thinking.One can imagine Xu's state of mind when he married such a person, but it is clear that he loves Ye Xihan from the bottom of his heart.That feeling is the heartache that you can see a person, but you can't really get it.

Ye Xizhao patted Zhilan's hand reassuringly, "It's hard for you, I already understand."

Zhilan was a little worried and said: "Ma'am, since Miss Feng Wu has such thoughts about Lord Hou, why don't you let her come to the Hou's mansion in the future?"

Ye Xizhao said with a smile: "Others covet Master Hou, why should I stay away? Let her get her long-cherished wish through the help of others?"

Zhilan thought for a moment, then smiled happily, "I understand!"

Ye Xizhao then returned to the room, entered the door and said apologetically, "There are so many trifles that made you wait so long."

Naturally, Feng Huixuan had already returned to the original place to sit quietly, and she smiled considerately, "I'm the one who bothered you, and it's me who should pay for it."

Ye Xizhao saw the far-fetchedness in that smile.She thought she had never really known this man.In the past, I only thought that he was a lively and cheerful person, but now it seems that there are many times when he forced a smile.Especially when you come to Houfu.

Feng Huixuan took a sip of tea, and said casually: "In the past, I never imagined that Master Hou also likes to read poetry."

Ye Xizhao said with a leisurely smile, "Aren't there too many unexpected things in this world?"

"Indeed. Just like me, I never thought that my family would be in decline." After Feng Huixuan smiled wryly, she quickly adjusted her mood and said with a smile, "Let's talk about something happy—when you go back to your mother's house, Mrs. Have you ever told you about a new poem by his favorite student? Many literati and poets have been scrambling to read it, full of praise."

Ye Xizhao almost responded with a cold face, what kind of happy thing is this?Raising his hand to caress his temples, he used the gap to restrain his emotions, turned to look at Feng Huixuan with a smile on his face, but didn't answer.

"I was naturally amazed after reading it. Although I felt disappointed after reading it, I had to be impressed by the exquisite and gorgeous rhetoric." Feng Huixuan asked after praising, "I will help you transcribe it. How about bringing it next time?"

"In a peaceful and prosperous age, where are those melancholy and melancholy coming from?" Ye Xizhao politely declined, "I no longer have this kind of leisurely mood."

Feng Huixuan's eyes became more cautious and solemn, "Xi Zhao, why do I feel that you have changed a lot?"

"Although we have known each other since we were young, I have already been married, and you are still a daughter - it is reasonable for you to remain unchanged, but if I remain unchanged, it is a strange thing." Ye Xizhao narrowed his eyes. Smiling lightly, "What I care about now is to serve Mrs. Tai and Master Hou wholeheartedly. I don't leave home affairs in my thoughts. If you feel that chatting is boring, I can't help it."

Feng Huixuan pondered for a moment, "Everything you said makes sense, and it should be so. I'm just a bystander, and I can't help but sympathize with someone who is infatuated..."

In the past, Ye Xizhao would concentrate on listening with his eyes closed, let Feng Huixuan sigh freely for a while, and then became more depressed.It is different now, now she hates Tang Hongxiao, and what follows is that she also hates herself who was obsessed with obsession.The latter emotion actually made her feel even more uncomfortable.

As a result, Ye Xizhao's eyes brightened for a moment, and he had the heart to drag it out and slap his mouth, and asked seriously: "Who are you talking about? Who is infatuated with whom?"

Feng Huixuan was trying again to see if Ye Xizhao was really indifferent to the past.When I got such a response, I hurriedly apologized, "Look at me, I am already insane because of the right and wrong in my family, and I don't know what I said, so bear with me."

Ye Xizhao also regained his gentle demeanor, "If you worry too much, take some sedatives and recuperate for a while."

"I know." Although the unhappiness was invisible, Feng Huixuan couldn't say what she wanted to say, she sat for a while, got up and said goodbye, "I'll go and inform the third lady, I should go back."

Ye Xizhao pretended to be surprised: "Are you leaving so early?"

Feng Huixuan got up and looked at Ye Xizhao earnestly, "Xizhao, can I come again tomorrow? Talk to you and open your heart. You also know that I have nowhere to go but you. And there are some things, although it is hard to say , I still want to tell you in detail."

Ye Xizhao went over to take her hand, and said softly: "I am willing to listen to your difficulties, and it would be great to help you share them."

Feng Huixuan was overjoyed, "Xi Zhao, I knew that you are the most kind and generous."

Ye Xizhao smiled and said nothing, and instead ordered Hsinchu to see off the guests.

After Feng Huixuan left, Ye Xizhao went back to his room to rest, sorting out his complicated thoughts.

In the past, the third lady implied in and out of her words that she knew some private things about her.It turned out to be just a groundless guess.Only now did I know that the third wife must have heard some words from Feng Huixuan, some right and wrong about Tang Hongxiao.

As for Feng Huixuan, a girl from a daughter's family who adores her close friend's pillow and wants to enter the Hou's Mansion regardless of her status, she may have unconsciously felt jealous of Ye Xizhao marrying into the Hou's Mansion.Under this premise, if you talk to the third wife about Yu Shaoheng's forced marriage at the beginning, if you don't want to slander their husband and wife's character, I'm afraid the third wife will make random guesses and will not comment.

Therefore, the third wife has already determined that she seduced Yu Shaoheng, and also believed that Yu Shaoheng had already regretted it after marrying her in his head.In the eyes of the third lady, it wasn't that they had a disagreement before, but that after Yu Shaoheng woke up, he began to dislike her in every possible way and thus neglected her.

Therefore, sometimes the third lady looks at her with contempt.

The daughter-in-law of the Xiangfu and the eldest daughter-in-law of the Hou family, thanks to her friends, she has become a coquettish and dissolute person in the eyes of her sister-in-law.

Without today's events, she would have no way of knowing that the two met and communicated.It was Feng Huixuan's idea that the two tacitly kept this from her.

Feng Huixuan is scheming and resourceful, as can be seen from the events in her previous life.On the day of entering the door, in such a situation, if she were an ordinary woman, she would probably live her whole life in obedience and be trampled upon by others.But Feng Huixuan has gradually gained Mrs. Tai's attention. Even if a mother is more expensive than a child, if she is not good-looking, she will not be able to achieve it.

Naturally, the third wife also contributed to this.

The third wife helped Feng Huixuan gain a firm foothold in the Hou's mansion, and the third wife could benefit from big things and small things, so why not do it.As for Feng Huixuan, a concubine, if she wanted to gain the favor of Mrs. Tai, she could only show her favor through the third wife, and she would definitely agree to some requests from the third wife.The two complement each other, and she turned a blind eye to everything at that time, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the flames.

Ye Xizhao couldn't help but guess what happened to the two of them after his death in the previous life.Presumably, she was crying for her death on the face, but she was overjoyed in her heart, and her life was prosperous afterwards.Because she doesn't even have any opponents, the second wife never fights with others, and there is no need to fight. The second master's official career is stable, which is enough for the husband and wife to live a comfortable and stable life.

Although he didn't end up depressed because of these things in his previous life, he is still extremely annoyed when he wakes up now.When thinking of passing away, I wish I could slap myself for what Yu Shaoheng said about Aunt Feng.

Ye Xizhao took a deep breath, his face was calm, but his heart was full of anger.

After taking a break at night, he sighed unconsciously.

When Yu Shaoheng came back from washing, he just heard, "How uncomfortable?"

"No." Ye Xizhao turned around and helped him remove the brocade quilt, and when he lay down, he smiled, "Although the medicine didn't work immediately, it relieved a bit, and I felt much more relaxed."

"That's good." Yu Shaoheng stroked the hair on the top of her head with his lips, "Why are you sighing?"

Ye Xizhao thought for a while, looked up at him, and put his hand on his cheek, "It's for you, do you believe me?"

"For me?" Yu Shaoheng thought for a while, "I don't remember provoking you." He smiled wickedly again, "Or, I didn't provoke you, but you got angry instead?"

The meanings of the two provocations are naturally different.

Ye Xizhao laughed angrily, and pushed his hand away, "Who said that?" His eyes locked on his handsome face, and he said, "It's a bit unpleasant, there are always so many women from prominent families thinking about you..."

Yu Shaoheng seemed to have a headache, "Then what should I do? In the future, I won't step out of the door, and I will wear a veiled hat like a woman when I go out?"

Ye Xizhao laughed, and scratched his palm, "I'm not in shape, what I said was not a lie, and the people who miss you didn't start from now."

"Ye Xizhao." Yu Shaoheng suddenly called her by first and last name.

Ye Xizhao was slightly surprised, "What?"

"Don't tell me, you're jealous."

Ye Xizhao was stunned for a moment, and then argued: "Could it be that someone covets you, and I still have to beat gongs and drums to celebrate and show off? That's really heart-warming—it's too high on me."

A smile spread across Yu Shaoheng's lips, "It's useless for anyone to think about it except you, don't think about it."

Ye Xizhao's mood really cleared up, and he leaned close to his lips, kissed him, and said softly: "Then you can think I'm jealous—I was just afraid of getting the name of being jealous."

Yu Shaoheng smiled heartily.

Afterwards, Ye Xizhao asked about the affairs of Duke Anguo's mansion.

When Yu Shaoheng talked about the Feng family, his tone turned cold: "The mother of Miss Fifth you know is a step-wife, you should be clear about it."

"When I was young, I heard Miss Feng Wu say that her mother was originally a concubine, and after the death of the first wife, her mother was promoted to the second wife because she had a son... It's been so many years, it's not mentioned today, and I forget it on weekdays This matter." As he spoke, Ye Xizhao realized a series of problems, "But she was told by her nurse about that matter, and she was not yet born when it happened. How do you know about old things?"

"I have my own way." Yu Shaoheng said in detail about the affairs of Duke Anguo's mansion, "Just say that Mr. Anguo is a pedantic and rigid person, and there is no major fault. The emperor sent him off now because of his family affairs. He left a son in the royal family, who is the eldest son of the Duke's mansion. The eldest son must have been treated harshly by his stepmother all these years, and Duke An intends to pass on the hereditary title to his stepmother's heir recently, so he is naturally full of resentment."

Even if the stepwife is sitting in the position of mistress, her status is still lower than that of the main wife.The one who should inherit the duke is the heir left by the main wife, and this rule can only be broken unless there is a big reason.An Guogong was too confused to have such an idea.Ye Xizhao couldn't help shaking his head slightly.

Yu Shaoheng continued: "At this time, the old servant told the eldest son that his biological mother's death was very strange, and she was suspected to have died of poisoning. He naturally wanted to investigate in secret. After a friend of mine heard about it, he beat up the injustice and came to help , arrange to open the coffin for an autopsy, and want to check the bones for signs of poisoning."

Ye Xizhao couldn't help but widen his eyes, "There is such a thing?"

Yu Shaoheng nodded, "Naturally, this was done in secret, and Duke Anguo's government didn't know about it. The strange thing is that when the coffin was opened for autopsy, the inside and outside of the coffin were empty."

(End of this chapter)