The Grand Secretary’s Pampered Wife

Chapter 391 Life Experience (Part 1)

After returning to Bishui Hutong, Gu Jiao found a vase and planted crabapple flowers on her window sill.

Begonia flowers have no special smell, but there is an aftertaste from his fingertips, which makes her feel fragrant.

When Xiao Liulang came to the door of the east room, he saw Gu Jiao lying on the window sill admiring the crabapple, which was not at all stunning compared to her. She rested her chin on her hands and looked at it very seriously, as if she was looking at some rare treasure that she had never seen before. .

It's just a crabapple, do you like it so much?

There is also a crabapple tree at home, but the flowering period has passed.

Somewhere in the bottom of my heart was soft as if it had been poked again, Xiao Liulang tapped on the door with his fingertips, his voice was a little hoarse: "I'll go to my uncle's house."

Gu Jiao turned her head, the girl's face was soaked in the warm twilight, and she slightly bent her lips at him: "Okay, I'll call you for dinner."

"Um."

Xiao Liulang answered vaguely, and turned around quickly, as if something was chasing him behind.

Gu Jiao couldn't help laughing.

She took out a small notebook and wrote earnestly—it was the first time that Xianggong sent flowers.

Paused, then wrote, I went to the next door and said hello to her, my husband is really clingy.

After leaving the yard, Xiao Liulang also panicked with embarrassment, the two families have already opened up, and going to the next door is similar to going to the study, why did he go to the study by himself and explain to her?

She didn't even tell herself.

Xiao Liulang went to Laoji Restaurant to help him correct the papers of the Imperial College.

While the two were working hard, Gu Jiao also came over and knocked on the door.

"Jiaojiao is here?" Old Jijiu smiled happily.

"Grandpa." Gu Jiao greeted, glanced at Xiao Liulang, and said to the old Jijiu, "I'll take Xiao Qingkong to the orchard."

"Ah... let's go." The old Jijiu wondered, there is no need to come here to talk about this kind of thing, and he never talked about it before.

Gu Jiao looked at someone with a smile, put her little hands behind her back, and walked away with a special air.

The old Jijiu's eyes turned to Xiao Liulang.

Xiao Liulang corrected the paper seriously: "What do you see me doing?"

Something is wrong.

Something is wrong with two youngsters!

The old Jijiu came back to his senses, the little girl was not explaining to him, but to Xiao Liulang.

Is the relationship suddenly so good? Should they...

wrong,

The Shougong sand on the face is still there, and the room has not been consummated.

In fact, several of their elders have discussed this matter in private. The daughters of wealthy families get married at the age of sixteen or seventeen, and only start to conceive at the age of eighteen or nineteen. At that time, the risk of childbearing will be greatly reduced.

Jiaojiao is still young, it would be better to consummate the house later.

The old Jijiu looked at Xiao Liulang meaningfully: "You boy..."

Xiao Liulang said seriously: "No, no, I can bear it."

Old Jijiu: Oh, a man's mouth, a deceitful ghost!

The next day, Gu Jiao sent Xiao Liulang to the Hanlin Academy and then went to the palace.

Gu Jiao went to see her aunt.

Recently, the military situation at the border was in an emergency, and the Empress Dowager Zhuang and the emperor were discussing the war with the military ministers in the side hall of the Jinluan Palace, and they had not returned to Renshou Palace.

"Miss Gu, it's very sunny today, don't stay outside in the sun, and go to the Queen Mother's bedroom to rest for a while." Fei Cui said to Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao liked this clever little maid very much, and nodded to her: "Okay."

Gu Jiao went to her aunt's bedroom, and Fei Cui served her favorite melon and fruit snacks. Gu Jiao casually ate a mouthful of cantaloupe, but accidentally spilled the juice on herself.

It's sticky and uncomfortable.

"Oh, it's dirty, my servant will help you find a change of clothes."

"No, I brought clothes."

Originally, she was going to the underground martial arts field today, and her mask and men's clothing were in the small backpack.

She changed into men's clothes, and her hair was also loosened into a high bun.

Jade took her clothes down to wash and dry.

Gu Jiao had nothing to do in the bedroom, so she started admiring the treasures in the Duobao Pavilion. Anything in Renshou Palace was an antique, priceless. Gu Jiao didn't understand antiques, but it didn't prevent her from appreciating the taste of money.

Among a bunch of treasures, she was unexpectedly attracted by a boxy brocade box, probably because it was the least antique among all the treasures.

Gu Jiao looked at it curiously. She didn't have the habit of rummaging through people's things, but she didn't expect that the box would pop open with a light touch.

The things in the box quickly attracted her attention. It was a brand new pair of tiger-toe shoes, which were very delicate and beautiful. It seemed that no one had worn them, but the fabric and pattern did not seem to be fashionable this year.

"it's wired."

Was it prepared for the baby in Yao's womb?

"Miss Gu, the clothes are ready to be dried in the afternoon." Fei Cui walked in, seeing Gu Jiao staring at the box on the Duobao Pavilion, she stopped walking and opened her mouth, as if she wanted to say something.

"What's wrong?" Gu Jiao noticed something strange about her.

"Ah, no, it's nothing." She said so, but her eyes couldn't help but glance at the box in front of Gu Jiao. Finally, under Gu Jiao's puzzled gaze, she lost the battle and whispered, "We usually I will pay special attention to this box when cleaning the Duobao Pavilion. Eunuch Qin said not to touch it, let alone look at it. However, the Empress Dowager loves Miss Gu, so it shouldn't matter if Miss Gu takes a look."

There is nothing precious about the box, but the pair of shoes inside.

Gu Jiao asked, "Has the box been here all along?"

"Well, it was there when the servant came to Renshou Palace." Fei Cui thought for a while, and added, "The servant entered Renshou Palace three years ago."

My aunt hadn't come to their house three years ago, she didn't know Yao Shi, let alone expect Yao Shi to be pregnant with a child.

So this pair of shoes is not for the child in Yao's belly.

The military situation at the border was probably more urgent than imagined, and my aunt did not come back until noon, so Gu Jiao decided to come back next time.

She went to the underground martial arts arena.

She was going to see if King Ning came to her. She was not in a hurry to agree to his proposal, but it didn't prevent her from cutting his leeks.

A stick of incense costs fifty taels.

Lao He is also a fine man, he probably saw the possibility of this business, and directly marked the price - Xiong Batian fifty taels, chatting with you for a long time.

It kinda rhymes.

But her reputation is not that great, besides, fifty taels of pure chat is tantamount to a sky-high price, wouldn't it be nice to go to a brothel to find an oiran with such spare money?

Therefore, except for King Ning, probably no one will take the bait.

However, Gu Jiao was wrong, there are still a lot of fat fish in the big fish pond in the capital.

"A son surnamed Xiao wants to see you." Lao He said.

"Did you tell him the price?" Gu Jiao wrote.

"Of course I told, he frowned, as if he felt a little worthless, but he didn't say anything, and I paid all the money." Lao He said, and handed a fifty-two silver note to Gu Jiao. .

"Next time I ask him to ask for sixty." Gu Jiao put away the bank note, and then wrote, "Ten tael is yours."

You can't let Lao He be the middleman for nothing.

Green light bloomed in Lao He's eyes, and he nodded his head like a pounding garlic: "Hey! OK!"

Gu Jiao has already played five games without losing a single game. If she wins five more games, she will be promoted to a higher level.

There were still three matches today, one of which was against a character who was stronger than Dao Shan Ke, and the opponent was a swordsman, only this last victory was enough to advance to the third level.

Unfortunately, I met Gu Jiao.

But his kung fu is really good, forcing Gu Jiao to use the weapon - the red tasseled gun.

Her red-tasseled spear was misfortune by Xiao Jingkong, a big red flower was stuck on the end of the gun, and the body of the gun was also painted with red flowers, which was very eye-catching.

When such an ugly weapon came out, everyone's eyes were blinded.

I don't know if the swordsman was also blinded by the flash, and he was taken aback on the spot, and then Gu Jiao shot him, directly into his waistband, and threw him to the audience.

The swordsman sat on the ground in a daze...

He got poked by something?

Gu Jiao went to see that Mr. Xiao after finishing the fight.

The opponent's style is better than that of Ning Wangzu, and there is a screen in the room. He sits behind the screen and talks to Gu Jiao.

It's a pity, as soon as he spoke, Gu Jiao recognized his voice.

Who else is it not the Prince of the Eastern Palace?

She and Xiao Liulang met the princess and the prince when they went to Zhouji to eat, and their impressions couldn't be said to be good or bad. After all, they were not people she cared about, and good or bad had nothing to do with her.

However, he used the surname Xiao today to remind Gu Jiao that Prince Xiao's mother, Empress Xiao, is Xuan Pinghou's biological sister.

In other words, this guy is Xiao Liulang's cousin.

"Xiong Shaoxia is good at martial arts, young and promising, I really admire him, I don't know where Xiong Shaoxia learned from." The prince behind the screen asked indifferently.

He spoke words of appreciation, but his tone was a bit condescending.

This prince was not like this when he was doing business among the people as a prince. He paid great attention to his image in front of the people and did not easily put on airs. But now that he has concealed his identity, he no longer has to hide his true temperament.

Gu Jiao lightly twitched the corners of her lips, took out a charcoal pencil, wrote a sentence carelessly in the small notebook, and handed it to the prince's subordinates.

The prince had heard about it a long time ago, this Xiong Batian is dumb.

He wrote for so long, the prince thought he wrote a lot of flattered words, but he didn't know there were only two words - you guessed it.

Prince: "..."

Afterwards, the crown prince exchanged a few words with Gu Jiao, which was soulless flattery. Gu Jiao's reply was basically "um", "yes", "it's okay"... just not more than two words.

The prince was lost.

How slow is your kid writing? If this continues, the time for a stick of incense will be gone!

Also, this attitude is too perfunctory!

"Can you not always use two words?" the prince said holding back his anger.

Gu Jiao thought for a while and wrote, "Yes, yes."

three words.

Prince again: "..."

The prince reminded himself that it was Lin Lang who asked him to come, and he promised Lin Lang not to get angry at the other party, but to have a good conversation with the other party.

It's really depressing to say it, but his majestic prince actually wants to humiliate a Jianghu Xiaoxiao!

Forget it, in order to let Lin Lang go to Yan Country to meet Mr. Meng, he endured this tone!

The crown prince gathered himself together, looked at the screen and said: "Come back to business, I called you here this time, in fact..."

Snapped!

After he finished speaking, Gu Jiao closed the small notebook in her hand, stood up and pointed to the incense she lit as soon as she came in.

time up.

Prince: "...!!"

The crown prince gritted his teeth: "I add more money!"

Gu Jiao waved her hand without looking back, and threw out a note - make an appointment next time.

The prince was so angry that he vomited blood——

Did Gu Jiao deliberately embarrass the prince?

of course.

She didn't forget the prince's disdain for Xiao Liulang and bullying her husband-in-law when he was eating in Zhou Ji last time, ha ha.

Gu Jiao found Lao He, and wrote in the small notebook: "Next time this surname Xiao comes over, the base price is one hundred taels, including your ten taels, one hundred and ten taels."

Old He was dumbfounded, and thought to himself, do you regard yourself as the oiran of Xianleju? Such a wild asking price!

"W-why?" he asked.

The corner of Gu Jiao's lips twitched, and wrote: "Family love price."

Old He: "..."

It was still early in the morning, and the Hanlin Academy did not clear up so quickly, so Gu Jiao went back to Bishui Hutong to change her clothes.

Just as he was about to go out to pick up Xiao Liulang, Eunuch Qin came.

Eunuch Qin came to see Gu Jiao, he said with a smile: "The Queen Mother came back from the Jinluan Hall and found out that Miss Gu had been waiting in Renshou Palace all morning, why didn't she send someone to report to the Queen Mother?"

Gu Jiao said: "It's okay, my aunt is busy, and it will be the same when I see her next time."

Not relying on favors but being arrogant, and always being able to hold the measure, this is something that Eunuch Qin admires, and it is difficult for Concubine Zhuang and the young masters of the Zhuang family to achieve this step.

Eunuch Qin handed over the food boxes in his hand to Gu Jiao, there were two in total: "This food box contains ice-cold melons and fruits, and this food box contains desserts from the imperial dining room. The Empress Dowager asked the servants to bring them to Miss Gu."

"Thank you, Eunuch Qin." Gu Jiao reached out to take the food box, "Sit in Eunuch Qin's room, drink a cup of tea before leaving."

The weather is very hot, and Eunuch Qin is indeed thirsty.

He entered the main room together with Gu Jiao.

Gu Jiao poured him a cup of herbal tea.

"Thank you, Miss Gu." Eunuch Qin took it with both hands, gulped it down, put down the tea bowl, and said kindly to Gu Jiao, "I'm leaving, I have to go back and report to the Queen Mother."

"I'll send the eunuch off."

"no, I'm fine."

Gu Jiao still insisted on sending people to the door.

The moment Eunuch Qin turned around and got into the carriage, she suddenly stopped him: "Eunuch Qin."

Eunuch Qin turned his head and said, "Miss Gu, do you have any orders?"

Gu Jiao said: "There is something I want to ask."

Eunuch Qin said: "Miss Gu, but it's okay to say, the slave must know everything without saying everything."

Gu Jiao gestured and said, "What's the matter with the tiger-head shoes in that boxy box on Duobao Pavilion?"

Eunuch Qin's smile froze for a moment.

"It's okay, father-in-law, let's get in the car." She just asked curiously, if she couldn't tell, she didn't force it.

"...It's my little master's shoes." Eunuch Qin said in a low voice.

There are only two young masters that Gu Jiao can think of: "Princess Ning An or Your Majesty?"

Eunuch Qin sighed: "Neither of them, they are the Queen Mother's own flesh and blood, but it's a pity that they died when they were born."

"Aunt... had a child?" Gu Jiao had never heard this matter mentioned before.

Eunuch Qin nodded melancholy: "It's a pity that he was born a stillborn child. He didn't enter the genealogy, and he didn't have a place in the ranking of the emperor's heirs. If the little master survived, he would be the same age as His Majesty now. The birthdays of the little master and His Majesty Only three days away."

Gu Jiao fell silent.

Eunuch Qin opened up the chatter box, and couldn't hold it back for a while: "Actually, if this incident hadn't happened, Your Majesty might not have been taken to be raised under the name of Concubine Jing. At that time, the Empress was being favored, and the late Emperor was actually I want to hand it over to the queen to be raised after His Majesty is born."

Gu Jiao was puzzled and said, "Auntie was also pregnant at that time, right? Since Auntie has a child of her own, why does she need to raise one?"

Eunuch Qin said: "The imperial doctor took the pulse and said that the maid's belly was the prince, but the empress dowager's belly was uncertain. The late emperor thought that if the queen mother gave birth to a princess, then it would be good to give her a prince."

I've only heard of people who count their pulses, but haven't heard of people who can tell men and women. People in the palace are also very hardworking in order to survive.

"Then what happened next?" Gu Jiao asked.

"Later..." Eunuch Qin smiled bitterly, "Later, the empress had a seizure first and gave birth to a stillborn baby. A stillborn baby in the royal family is an ominous omen, and a villain provoked it. His Majesty Longyan was furious and angered the empress. Three days later, the court lady Sure enough, the prince was born, but His Majesty did not send the prince to Kunning Palace as promised, but gave it to Concubine Jing of the Millennium Hall."

My aunt had been deeply looking forward to the birth of that child, right? It's just that I didn't expect that when I was born, heaven and man would be separated forever.

What Eunuch Qin didn't say was that the queen at that time was still young, just a girl of seventeen or eighteen, she hadn't despaired of this deep palace yet, she longed for her first child.

When a stillborn baby was born, her whole body collapsed, and she cried heartbreakingly while holding the baby.

The crying of Kunning Palace lasted all night, she cried all the tears in her life, and also cried her fresh heart to death.

"What a coincidence, my aunt just gave birth to a stillborn baby, and the maid on the other side gave birth to the prince, only three days apart, no one suspected anything?"

"Miss Gu, do you want to say who the queen mother was plotted against? I can't tell." Eunuch Qin wiped away his old tears, "The queen was very pure-hearted when she first entered the palace, and she didn't pay much attention to it. When I went to be on guard, I couldn't find any clues."

Who is born so powerful?

It was just being forced to pick up a sword and fight a bloody path in the harem.

Gu Jiao felt very uncomfortable. This complicated emotion exploded in her heart without understanding: "That dead child...could it be His Majesty today?"

After all, it was only three days.

Eunuch Qin shook his head: "That's a baby girl."