slave like jade

Chapter 88
"The slave does not agree!"

Yu Ruyan's cold voice resounded in the slightly noisy hall, and everyone focused on her again. Compared with Mu Lingzhi's making her a side concubine, her words shocked everyone even more!
Mu Lingzhi shook the hand holding the teacup, and looked at her in disbelief.

Ignoring the gazes looking around, she calmly looked at Mu Lingzhi who was stunned by shock with her clear and cold eyes, and sneered: "Although this servant is just a lowly military prostitute, this servant also knows that the conferment and promotion of the back house is also a reward. If there are rules, let alone a side concubine with the background of a slave, I am afraid that even a concubine cannot afford it."

The hall was so quiet that a rust needle could be heard falling to the ground. Everyone stared at her in a daze, unable to believe that she said these words by herself.

I saw her with a gloomy wry smile on her face, she didn't care and continued to say:

"This servant comes from a humble background and cannot afford the position of side concubine. This is the first; secondly, the servant is not good at raising children. After staying with His Highness for so long and failing to give birth to a son and a half for His Highness, how can he have the face to occupy a high position? Third, slaves are naturally free and loose, and they don't like too much restraint. So please take it back, Your Highness."

She knelt down respectfully and lowered her eyebrows so as not to look at Mu Lingzhi's pale face, but it was as if a blunt knife was scraping fiercely in her heart, causing her whole body to twitch in pain.

As smart as she is, she already understands that Mu Lingzhi wants to take Chen Yanfei as a concubine today to give herself a higher status. She knows how guilty he feels towards her, and she also knows how much pressure and pressure he will have to bear to do so. Public opinion, not to mention that his father, queen, mother and concubine would not agree to him making a military prostitute a side concubine, even the ridicule and sarcasm of the world will drown him out!
If it was because of Chen Yanfei's guilt yesterday that he wanted to make up for her, she didn't want it;

If for her alone, he wants to be an enemy of the whole world, and his father, queen, mother and concubine who love him so much, she doesn't want such a result even more.

After hearing her words, An Lirong recovered from the shock, stepped forward and knelt down in front of Mu Lingzhi and said eagerly, "Your Highness, Miss Xiaoqing is right. Although you love Xiaoqing, your ancestor The family law still needs to be taken into consideration. She was not born as a military prostitute, so how can she be named a side concubine? The royal side concubine is going to make a jade dish and put it in the ancestral temple! If the emperor and the imperial concubine find out, I'm afraid it will cause another wave of trouble. Ministers in the court and ordinary people will laugh at His Highness's wisdom. I implore Your Highness to think twice!"

On the side, An Lan led Huaying Kuang Qinqin and knelt in front of Mu Lingzhi. An Lan followed An Lirong's words and persuaded: "Your Majesty is right. Your Highness's love for military prostitutes has already spread in the public. I'm afraid that the concubine... I'm afraid it will become everyone's laughing stock, Your Highness might as well raise the girl as an aunt first, and wait for her to give birth to a boy and a half girl for His Highness..."

"Shut up! Don't talk anymore!" Mu Lingzhi's yell made the women kneeling on the ground tremble in fright. His eyes swept across the crowd sharply, and finally stopped on Yu Ruyan. One word said: "No matter how miserable her background is, I just like her. I don't care about the rumors outside, let alone the rules of the ancestors. I have made up my mind, so don't talk about it!"

Hearing the decisiveness in his words, even though An Lirong and the others felt dissatisfied, they did not dare to say another word. They all knelt there with pale faces, thinking that they would be oppressed by a girl who was born as a military prostitute in the future. They couldn't help feeling angry and hated one by one!

Hearing Mu Lingzhi's resolute words, Yu Ruyan's heart ached, but she knew in her heart that what happened last night had become a scar between her and Mu Lingzhi's heart, it was an eternal pain in her heart, and she couldn't bear it anymore. Standing by his side without any problems, the images of last night always appeared in her mind involuntarily, and she couldn't control the demons in her heart.

She smiled slightly, and said slowly to Mu Lingzhi: "Does your Highness still remember the oath you made to your servants?"

Hearing this, his face turned pale, and before she could speak, she sneered and said: "His Highness made a promise to the servant at the pillow that day, from now on, he will only favor the servant and the palace will not add new people, but in a blink of an eye, Aunt Chen was accepted into the residence. Since His Highness doesn’t count on words, slaves don’t have to abide by the white-headed covenant, and they don’t care about the position of side concubine, so it’s better to continue to be a garden maid to be more comfortable.”

If she hadn't promised him to be his servant for the rest of her life, she would have gone far away and never seen the people and things here again!

She mercilessly rejected Mu Lingzhi's kindness in front of everyone, and even accused him of betraying his promise, and undoubtedly gave him a slap in the face in public. —

Withstanding the public opinion and pressure, and under the censure of his father and mother concubine, he made her a concubine. He agreed to Chen Bo's request this morning to accept Chen Yanfei as a concubine because he wanted to take this opportunity to give her a better status, but he didn't expect that he would After all the hard work, she was so spoiled and disliked by her - she would rather be a cleaning girl than his concubine.

Knowing that what happened yesterday was someone else's conspiracy, and he was just one of the victims, yet she wanted to embarrass him by exposing his scars in public...

But even so, he was still unwilling to give up. Since yesterday, he always had a premonition that she would eventually leave him, so he panicked and tried every means to keep her...
Suppressing the pain in his heart, Mu Lingzhi said with a weakened tone, "What do you want me to do to agree to be my side concubine?"

While speaking, he had unknowingly crushed the celadon jade cup in his hand, and the broken pieces of porcelain pierced into his palm, and the blood dripped from his palm, which shocked An Lirong and the others to panic, and rushed to help him one by one. He examines the wound.

Yu Ruyan stood motionless on the spot, even though the bright red blood hurt her heart, she still gritted her teeth to calm herself down, raised her hand and casually pointed at the women who were busy and worried around him, and said with a shallow smile: "If His Highness takes them all out of the palace, the slaves will agree to be His Highness's side concubines!"

As soon as such arrogant words came out, the audience fell silent again. An Shi and the others looked back at the haughty Yu Ruyan in disbelief. They didn't expect a little maid to say such incredible words.

An Lirong couldn't bear it any longer, pointing her finger at her and scolded sharply: "You... are too arrogant. Although His Highness dotes on you, I didn't expect you to be so arrogant. We have followed His Highness for many years and have no credit for it." There is also hard work, and a little military prostitute threatens His Highness to divorce us, it is really abhorrent!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became, and she couldn't control the anger in her heart and rushed forward to tear Yu Ruyan, but Yu Ruyan avoided it sideways, but she couldn't keep her feet steady and threw herself on An Lan who was on the side, pushing An Lan to the ground. ·····

A scream resounded in the chaotic hall. An Lan was pushed down and touched her stomach. She broke out in cold sweat and groaned in pain while hugging her stomach. Her maid, Yuan'er, turned pale and cried: " Call the doctor quickly, the master is pregnant, nothing can happen!"

The scene suddenly became chaotic!

Across the panicked crowd, Yu Ruyan took a deep look at Mu Lingzhi, but after hearing An Lan's painful groans, he finally withdrew his gaze from her and went forward to check on An Lan's situation.

Yu Ruyan smiled bitterly, turned around and left silently...
Fortunately, the fetus in An Lan's womb has passed the most dangerous first three months, so under the doctor's treatment, there is no serious problem, and the baby is well preserved.And she herself was promoted to be a husband, which was a blessing in disguise.

When Tong Qian told Yu Ruyan the news, she completely let go of her worries, drank the last pot of wine, and fell asleep with her head covered with a splitting headache...

I don't know how long I slept for this sleep, and I don't know how many days have passed since she fell asleep. When she looked down, she found that she had put on clean clothes, and there was still a faint scent of ambergris in the room.

She felt sore, it turned out that everything she dreamed in her sleep was true, and the person who was always by her bedside in her sleep was really him...
The door was pushed open with a "squeak", and she looked up with a shock all over her body, but it was a knife that came in with a bowl of rice porridge.Seeing her waking up, he hurriedly stepped forward and said happily: "My sister finally woke up, come, drink this porridge."

Yu Ruyan guessed that Mama Chen must have helped her cook the porridge. She didn't know how long she had slept, but after smelling the porridge in the knife's hand, she started to feel hungry. She sat up and drank the porridge in one go. Congee, wiped his mouth and asked Xiaodao: "Why did you enter the mansion again? But what happened?"

Xiaodao took the empty bowl in her hand and said with a long face: "You promised to come to the yard the day before yesterday, but you haven't seen a single figure of you after waiting for a whole day. I was afraid that something would happen to you, so I sneaked into the house. I didn't expect... ···Chen Ma told me everything about her daughter and the palace. My sister did the right thing. Who cares about the position of side concubine? The people in this mansion are cunning and there are not many good people. Waiting to avenge brother An's revenge Now, the three of us should go back to Qi Kingdom, and we don’t have to go back to the palace, just go to Putuo Temple to stay, where the green mountains and green waters are like a paradise, the most happy..."

If it was before, Yu Ruyan would definitely not want to leave, but now listening to Xiaodao's description, she felt a little yearning in her heart, she looked at Xiaodao with a wry smile, and said angrily: "You used to hate the sound of wooden fish in temples the most, every time Taking you to Putuo Temple seems to kill you, why do you take the initiative to go back there to live now?"

Speaking of this, her eyes flashed, and she suddenly thought of something, fixedly looked into Xiaodao's eyes and asked: "Xiaodao, did you hide something from sister?"

Xiaodao's expression became flustered in an instant, he turned his back to Yu Ruyan, and said in a muffled voice: "What's the matter with me? It's just that you and Brother An are not happy, and I want to take you away from this troublesome land, but the quiet It's just a place to live!"

The panic in his eyes did not escape Yu Ruyan's eyes, she asked suspiciously: "Xiaodao, do you know Uncle Chen? Did he say anything to you?"

Xiaodao froze with her back facing her, and said in a flustered voice, "I don't remember anything from the past, how could I know him?"

"Then why did he help you regardless of his life?" Yu Ruyan turned his body to let him look into her eyes, and asked seriously.

A stern look flashed in Yu Xiaodao's dark eyes, and he said coldly: "Sister, I'm worrying too much, I just help me because I look a little like Uncle Chen's dead son, my sister is thinking too much. "

"Uncle Chen still has a son?" Yu Ruyan always thought that the Chen family had only one daughter, Chen Yanfei, and never heard that his family had a son.

"I heard that he had a son, but died in..."

After Yu Ruyan woke up, Mu Lingzhi never appeared again, and no one in the palace mentioned the matter of setting up a side concubine again, as if the unhappiness of that day was just a dream that everyone had, and everything disappeared after waking up from the dream. .

She no longer goes to Yunsong Courtyard, but stays in the small bungalow every day, cleaning the South Garden twice in the morning and evening, and finds a quiet place alone for a daze at other times.

The sun was just right that day. She climbed to the top of a rockery and lay down in the sun, but she heard voices coming from the bottom in a daze. She continued to close her eyes, but the voice in her ears became more and more clear.

"Help me one more time, and I won't bother you again." The female voice was very familiar, who else was it but the new Aunt Chen?

The other person seemed to ignore her, and she continued to beg: "There are rumors outside that His Highness is going to marry Miss Mufu as his concubine. This princess is about to enter the mansion, and His Highness has neglected me for a long time. body, from now on... from now on, I want to gain a foothold in this palace?"

Chen Yanfei's voice was full of tears, and Yu Ruyan's eyes suddenly opened after hearing Miss Mufu's words!

Did he actually want to marry Mu Ziyue as his wife?
Heh, I didn't expect that after going around in circles, he still returned to her side!

A wry smile escaped from the corner of her mouth, Yu Ruyan closed her eyes again.

"Don't talk nonsense, Your Highness only thinks of Miss Xiaoqing. How could she marry Miss Mu? Hmph, if you hadn't used those shady tricks among them, the girl would have been more than angry with His Highness? How good were they before?" Very good!"

The man turned out to be a copper coin, Yu Ruyan couldn't help being curious, she turned sideways and quietly looked at the two people below from above.

"Also, didn't your Highness just visit your yard yesterday, why did you neglect you?" Chen Yanfei, who was dressed in jewels and emeralds, coldly looked at the copper coin, his eyes were full of disgust.

Chen Yanfei's face turned pale, and a flash of embarrassment flashed across his face, he gritted his teeth for a long time before saying: "Although His Highness went to my room, he didn't even look at me, I slept in the main room and he slept in the east room, and he didn't even have a meal. Had dinner with me at the same table. This... what is this? If not, why would I have the cheek to beg you, I also know that now you hate me as much as your sister!"

Yu Ruyan pursed her lips into a smile, it was all like this, her elder sister who still had the guts to talk and keep her mouth shut shouted, she would be ashamed even if she wasn't ashamed!
Copper Coin smiled coldly and said, "You deserve this, so just bear with it."

After that, he lifted his legs and left.

Chen Yanfei is smart after all, she sensed something sensitively from the words of the copper coin, reached out her hand to stop the copper coin, gritted her teeth and said, "Tell me, why does His Highness dote on me on the surface, but secretly hates me so much, why would he do this? If you hate me, just throw me in the yard and ignore it, but you come to my yard every day, and don't even look at me when you come. Tell me, is there something I don't know? "

Tong Qian turned her head and gave her a look, and said coldly, "What does your mess have to do with me? I have other things to do, so I don't have time to talk to you!"

"Wow!" Chen Yanfei suddenly messed up the bun on his head, put his hand on his belt, forced the copper coin and said: "If you don't make it clear today, I will call someone and say that you raped me !"

Seeing the blushing face of the copper coin at a loss, Yu Ruyan's eyes froze and she was about to go down, but she heard the copper coin said in a panic: "Get away from me, I'll tell you."

Yu Ruyan stopped moving, and continued to stay on the top of the rockery to watch with cold eyes.

"Eight years ago, your elder brother, Major General Chen, sacrificed his life to save His Highness. His Highness didn't know that you were Major General Chen's younger sister before. His Highness didn't know until your father came to beg His Highness... His Highness owes you the Chen family One life, your father said, this life, His Highness, please keep it with you, so His Highness will take you back into the mansion and accept you as a concubine."

Hearing this, Chen Yanfei's complexion darkened little by little, and only then did he understand why His Highness suddenly picked her in after driving her out of the mansion that day, and even accepted her as his aunt. It turned out that there were such twists and turns... ···
Although she is now an aunt, the other wives and concubines in the mansion secretly laughed at her for using dirty tricks to climb into His Highness's bed, and even the servants in the mansion looked down on her, how many gossips have they heard in secret?

If she had known that His Highness owed them the Chen family's kindness, why would she have put so much thought into doing these things, she has a better way to let Mu Lingzhi accept herself!

Seeing her despondent look, Tong Qian still couldn't understand her hatred, and said coldly: "Don't think that His Highness liked you when he brought you back, but he gave you this title for the sake of your elder brother and your parents. Do it for yourself. Be your Aunt Chen honestly, and don't have any extravagant thoughts."

The two left one after the other, and Yu Ruyan suddenly felt very blocked. After learning about Mu Lingzhi's difficulties in accepting a concubine, her silent heart became turbulent again.

The sun was in the west, she climbed down the rockery, and walked to the flower garden without knowing it, but there was already a person standing there, and that lonely figure was Mu Lingzhi whom she hadn't seen for many days.

I saw him standing on the edge of the flowerbed with his hands behind his back, his expression was very lonely, his eyes were empty and dull, and he was far from the previous third prince with sharp eyes.

Yu Ruyan hid her body behind the tall trees, looking at his hands wrapped in white gauze, a trace of sadness welled up in her heart for no reason——

When did she and him meet and never see each other again!
The copper coin came from the side and invited him back to the yard for dinner. He sighed and asked, "What did she eat today?"

The copper coin replied earnestly: "According to your instructions, Mother Chen cooked a crucian carp, stewed mushroom soup, and scrambled eggs for the girl. She ate a little of each."

"Where's the meal?"

"The rice... I only took a few mouthfuls of the rice, but I drank... I drank three glasses of wine!"

Mu Lingzhi frowned, and said, "Recently, she has been drinking more and more, so she asked Chen Ma to secretly put away the wine in her room. If she really wanted to drink, she would pour some water into the wine."

"Your Highness, will this make her find out that you are secretly arranging the arrangements?" Tong Qian whispered.

"No!" Mu Lingzhi's voice was filled with deep melancholy, "She resented me in her heart. I kept my promise and accepted Mrs. Chen regardless of her feelings. She hated me in her heart, so she found so many An excuse for not wanting to accept the status of side concubine."

When talking about her, his empty and dim eyes sparkled again, "Although she is only a maidservant, she has a very high spirit. Don't look at her usual submissive appearance, but she actually has her pride. She She is different from other people, and she is not like ordinary women who love vanity and are strong and unyielding. Many times, I forget her status as a maidservant, but think that she is a bit better than those noble girls in Dongdu!"

Speaking of Yu Ruyan, Mu Lingzhi's face was covered with a soft light.Seeing him like this, Tong Qian whispered to the side: "Your Highness, what are you going to do in the future? Have you been stuck with the girl all this time? Last time when the news about the establishment of a concubine was reported to the imperial concubine, she made it clear... "..."

"Stop talking, go back!" Mu Lingzhi stopped him annoyedly, turned around and went back.

Yu Ruyan leaned helplessly on the branch, her heart was churning in layers of waves, it turned out that Chen Ma didn't atone for her sins and served her every day with delicious food, all of this was actually arranged by him!
There was a big stone in her heart. She thought that after falling out with him in public like that last time, he would no longer take her into his heart, but unexpectedly...

Eyes can't help but swell again...

Back to her small one-story house, it was already dark, and when Yu Ruyan entered, Xiaodao was waiting for her anxiously inside, his face turned pale, as if he had encountered some embarrassing thing?
Seeing her coming back, Xiaodao rushed forward and said in a panic, "Sister, something is wrong!"

Although Xiaodao is not very old, she is a bold person. It was the first time she saw this uneasy expression on his face, and she couldn't help frowning: "What happened that made you so panicked?"

After thinking about it, she blurted out: "Is there something wrong with Su Niang? She was discovered?"

Xiaodao swallowed his throat and shook the head of the cradle and said anxiously: "It wasn't her, it was the news from her that Mu... Mu Ziyue quietly sent someone to the Qi Palace to inquire about your situation. Unexpectedly, no Thinking of letting her find the real Xiaoqing, I brought her back to the Prime Minister's residence!"

My heart sank with a 'click'...

I thought that Mu Ziyue finally learned how to restrain herself after the last house search, but she never thought that she went to Qi country to dig her secrets during these days of silence!

She just knew, how can a vicious person like her who can't suffer a little bit be so easy to take care of?
A trace of cold sweat dripped from her forehead, Yu Ruyan didn't know if Mu Ziyue had already guessed her true identity, but she knew that before long, Mu Ziyue would definitely bring the real Xiaoqing to 'visit' her, and let them face to face Confront!
Xiaodao also broke out in cold sweat. He was afraid that Mu Lingzhi would kill her again if he knew Yu Ruyan's identity.But now, he knew that he was definitely reluctant to take her life, but he didn't want Mu Lingzhi to know Yu Ruyan's identity even more!

If he knew that she was the Qi Guohe princess he really wanted to marry, he might use this name to keep her by his side and never let her leave again, but this is the last thing Xiaodao wants to see... ····

Ever since Yu Ruyan rescued him and took him into the palace to protect her at the risk of danger, Yu Xiaodao's blank heart had an irresistible affection for her.

When he didn't know about men and women, he always regarded her as a relative. He didn't know the so-called love between men and women. He only knew that there was always a thought in his heart that Yu Ruyan could only belong to him, Yu Xiaodao, in this life.

Now that he has grown up, he realizes that Yu Ruyan has been deeply engraved in his heart, and he has fallen in love with his 'sister' unknowingly.

However, by mistake, she became...
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