First Concubine

Chapter 122 Secrets of the Royal Palace (3)

Shui Linglong sat down and picked up the tea cup. To borrow Shui Minyu's words, a crow is a crow, and even entering the phoenix's nest cannot change the fact that she is a crow! Even though Shui Lingxi had been forced to pretend to be noble and virtuous for a period of time because of her title as quasi-Crown Princess, once she was separated from that title, she immediately began to devalue herself! Look at her uncontrollable petty attitude now, she feels ashamed for her!

Shui Linglong withdrew her gaze from Shui Lingxi's face and turned to Liu Lu, with a hint of sternness in her tone: "You really can't even hold a cup of tea! Didn't the house give you food? ? Are you hungry or sick? You are so incompetent! You will be fined one month. If you do it again, you will not be punished lightly!"

Liu Lu was quite happy at first, but suddenly she was also punished. She couldn't help but become more and more afraid of Shui Linglong: "Yes, I will remember the teachings of the Crown Princess."

 The word "Prince's Concubine" is emphasized too much!

Shui Lingxi felt mixed emotions in her heart and looked at Shui Linglong: "I have something to tell you!"

Shui Linglong gestured to Liu Lu, who understood and bowed out.

Thinking of what she was going to talk to Shui Linglong next, Shui Lingxi straightened her back again: "Sister, let's not talk secretly. I'm here today to bring you good news and bad news. , I wonder which one the eldest sister would like to hear first?”

Shui Linglong would not let her lead her: "You like to talk about being fucked, but you don't want to be dragged down."

Shui Lingxi's sense of superiority that she had finally raised disappeared for the most part in an instant, and she lost interest in whetting her appetite: "To be honest, your mother is from Mobei!"

Shui Linglong’s hands buried under her wide sleeves slowly clenched. How did Shui Lingxi know about such a confidential matter? But her expression was very calm, like a lake of unwrinkled water, so much so that when Shui Lingxi looked at her, she almost thought she had misheard that night! Shui Lingxi glanced sideways at Shui Linglong and smiled meaningfully: "Sister, if you don't believe me, you can ask your grandmother and father. If I tell a lie, I will be struck by lightning from the sky!"

Shui Linglong said calmly: "Then what? Tell me what are your intentions?"!

Shui Lingxi turned her beautiful eyes and said, "Intermarriage with Mobei is prohibited in Dazhou."

Shui Linglong took her words and echoed: "Yes, so if you reveal this matter, the first one to suffer is the father! Then the Prime Minister's Mansion, who is related to the father by marriage! Then the Prince's Mansion! Cut it off! The head is light, and it may not be necessary to confiscate the family and exterminate the clan!"

Shui Lingxi felt a sudden change in her heart.

“Second sister is not stupid enough to push herself into a desperate situation, right?” Shui Linglong asked with a half-smile.

Shui Lingxi swallowed her saliva and stuffed the fear that had slipped out unknowingly back into her heart: "I don't know how to spread the word. After all, we are sisters, and I can't bear to see you suffer."

Shui Linglong smiled and said: "It turns out that I misunderstood the second sister. The second sister simply told me a piece of news. I thought the second sister had an agenda! It's me, the elder sister, who is jealous of the gentleman with a villain's heart. I’m pregnant, second sister, your prime minister’s belly can support a boat, don’t argue with eldest sister!”

　　What he said was so watertight that it made Shui Lingxi unable to tell her her plans!

"Second sister, if you have nothing to do, please come back. I'm tired and want to rest." Shui Linglong gave the eviction order without any politeness.

Shui Lingxi looked unwilling. She finally caught Shui Linglong's weakness. She hadn't used it to blackmail Shui Linglong, so why was she about to leave?

Seeing her hesitating, Shui Linglong asked again, "Is there anything else?"

Shui Lingxi's beautiful eyes flashed with a stern look, but she smiled bitterly and said, "Sister, I'm not afraid of your jokes. I'm actually here today...to discuss something."

"We have something to discuss?" Shui Linglong raised her voice, and her eyes became a little colder. With the warmth of the snow and the thickness of the black iron, the pressure of Shui Lingxi was almost suffocating, and she changed her words accidentally, " I have something to ask for.”

Shui Linglong said lightly, "Yes", "What are you asking for?"

Shui Lingxi didn't understand that she had originally grasped Shui Linglong's fatal weakness and could threaten Shui Linglong into agreeing to any of her requests. Why did she now have something to ask for? Shui Lingxi paused and said, "I...I don't want to...marry Prince Xun. Sister, please...please...please help me break this engagement."

Shui Linglong laughed: "You have been divorced by the crown prince, and now you are breaking off your engagement with Prince Xun. Do you think you will never get married?"

Shui Lingxi and Xun Feng were as sticky as a fly in her previous life. In this life, she can give her perfect body to him but she doesn’t want to get married!

Shui Lingxi blushed slightly and whispered: "I...I have someone I like. Please let me do it, eldest sister!"

This "complete" was a pun, but Shui Linglong didn't understand the second meaning. She just thought that Shui Lingxi was asking her to help break the engagement. Shui Linglong rejected her request without thinking: "I can't do anything."

Are you kidding me? Shui Lingxi and Xun Feng are a match made in heaven. How could she be willing to break up this pair of misfortunes in their previous lives?

Shui Lingxi was so angry that she was so humiliated, but Shui Linglong still didn't help her! According to her original character, Shui Linglong was destined to be repaired, but thinking of having to "visit" her often in the future, she desperately forced herself to suppress her anger until her head hurt!

After Shui Lingxi left, Zhi Fan opened the curtain in the inner room and came out, with a worried look in his eyes: "Miss, I think the second lady is weird."

Shui Linglong continued to walk behind the desk, picked up a pen and practiced calligraphy. Instead of repeating what she said, she asked: "Is there any news from Anping?"

Zhifan replied truthfully: "No, the waterway the prince took is not easy to send messages. It is estimated that the news can only be sent back to the south of the Yangtze River, which will only take the next two days."

Shui Linglong said with an indifferent expression: "The weather is getting colder. Bring a gift and go back to say hello to the old lady for me. By the way, tell her that Fifth Miss is fine here with me. Please don't worry about her. Also, say hello to Mrs. Wang. ”

Zhi Fan understood: "Yes, I understand."

But she said that after Shui Lingxi hit a wall in front of Shui Linglong, she walked angrily towards the gate. As she walked, she secretly cursed Shui Linglong a thousand times. How could she be blinded by the title of Crown Princess in the first place? , to stop her mother and brother from dealing with Shui Linglong? This ignorant white-eyed wolf deserves to be beaten to death in the house!

"Who is it? You don't have eyes?" Zhuge Shu was knocked down and sat on the ground, crying in pain, "Are you blind? Can't you see a living person like me?"

Shui Lingxi was also angry. Now that she heard the other party's unbridled words, it was like burning oil cooking oil, and the anger in her heart was triggered: "Why didn't you hit me? I can't see you, can't you? I You are a blind man, you are no better! You..."

At this point, Shui Lingxi saw the other party's appearance clearly, and the next words were stuck in her throat...

This person is not Zhuge Yu's little cousin, so who is it?

Zhuge Shu has never been scolded by anyone in her whole life. She stood up, patted the dust on her **** and said sternly: "Oh! The daughter-in-law of Shangshu Mansion is amazing, isn't she? She dares to run rampant in Zhuge's house, it's offensive. Not only did the master not admit his mistake, but he slapped him! My uncle is the prince! My second brother is the prince! Your eldest brother is a broke man who was expelled from the academy! Xi is a **** that no one wanted after the prince rejected her! Why don’t you apologize to me now?”

Shui Lingxi was so angry that she lost all reason. She raised her hand and slapped Zhuge Shu hard!

Snapped!

The crisp sound was like exploding green bamboo, suddenly ringing in the quiet world, and exploding in the heart of Shuilingxi. Shuilingxi suddenly changed color, oh my God! What did she just do? She...she beat Zhuge Yu's little cousin?

“Miss Fourth, I...”

Zhuge Shu gritted her teeth and happened to see a car passing by not far away. She smiled coldly and stretched out her hands to push toward Shuiling Creek!

 A "pop" sound!

Shui Lingxi fell upside down into a bucket full of feces!

 The woman pushing the cart turned her face away, not daring to look directly at the young master's mischief...

The first one to get the news was Prince An. He first reprimanded Zhuge Shu severely, then ordered his servants to wash up the unconscious Shui Lingxi and put him into clean clothes. In the meantime, he went to Mohe Courtyard to report to Zhuge Shu in person. Shui Linglong apologized. Shui Linglong almost loved the little devil Zhuge to death, but she said solemnly: "If something like this happened... it is really difficult for our palace to explain to the Shangshu Palace. In this way, I will repair the book to my grandmother and ask her to keep it in mind." For the sake of my young sister, we will turn our hostility into friendship, but whether it will work out or not...I can’t guarantee it.”

Prince An was almost moved to tears of gratitude: "Whether it succeeds or not, I will thank you! I will go to the palace in person to apologize to the old lady, so please pass this letter on to me!"

Shui Linglong suppressed her laughter and wrote a letter to the old lady.

That night, Prince An came to apologize in person. The old lady had already asked for help from the Zhenbei Prince's Mansion, but she felt sleepy and gave her a pillow. She got a little angry in a symbolic way, then turned around and scolded her granddaughter: " Actually, Miss Fourth can’t be entirely blamed for this! What kind of temperament does my own granddaughter have? How can I not understand it as a grandmother? Children care about..."

The old lady pointed out Shuilingxi's faults one after another. Prince An felt very frightened in his heart as he listened. Then he heard the old lady say pleasantly, "...Her capacity for tolerance is a bit lacking. Later, I will strictly discipline them, and I hope our two families will not have a bad relationship with each other because of these small misunderstandings!”

Prince An nodded dullly: "What the old lady said is absolutely true."

As soon as Prince An left, the old lady called Shui Lingxi to her courtyard and cursed her: "You are so capable, you dare to hit even the prince's daughter! Do you really think that you are still the unofficial crown prince?" ? She is just a concubine of the prince! She is not married to the prince of the palace, but to the prince of the Hou family! If you dare to be disrespectful to the people of the Zhenbei Palace in the future, I will give you a discount! "

In Tian'an Residence, Zhuge Shu lay in the arms of the old lady and burst into tears: "Grandma, look, she made my face swollen! It hurts! Wow... my second brother even scolded me..."

 Avoid pushing Shui Lingxi into the bucket!

The old lady's heart throbbed. She touched Zhuge Shu's face, which had already subsided, and looked left and right, "Oh, why is it so swollen? Does it hurt? Grandma, give it to you!"

 The old lady held Zhuge Shu's right cheek and blew it.

Ms. Zhen cleared her throat, lowered her head and said nothing, "Mom, you called the wrong voice, Shui Lingxi hit the left side of the face..."

 When Prince An returned to the palace, Zhi Fan, who had gone to inquire about the news, also returned.

Zhifan told the truth what he learned from Mrs. Wang: "That night, the old lady proposed to make my wife an equal wife. The master didn't agree, so he argued with the old lady. Specifically, what was the dispute about? All I know is that the old lady has never said anything about flattering my wife. Mother Wang also said that the old lady seems to have a gentle personality, but is actually very stubborn. If you can't pull him back, the excuse he gave you for recalling it must be very important. As for the second lady, she happened to enter the yard when the master and the old lady were arguing, and I don't know if she heard something!"

It seems that Shui Hangge told the old lady that her mother was from Mobei, but Shui Lingxi happened to hear it!

Zhifan then asked: "Miss, what are you going to do? What if the second lady exposes the identity of the wife..."

Shui Linglong peeled an orange and her eyes turned cold: "It depends on whether she has this ability!"

In the evening, Shui Linglong wrote a letter to Shui Hangge, telling Shui Hangge exactly what Shui Lingxi had said to her, and asked Shui Hangge to give her a definite answer: Is her mother from Mobei?

Soon, Shui Hangge replied to the letter, repeatedly stating that Shui Lingxi was talking nonsense. Her mother did indeed say that she was Dong Jiaxue when she was with him. If she was not Dong Jiaxue, then who was she? If your daughter finds out about her, please let him know as soon as possible!

 This is kicking the ball to someone who has passed away!

Shui Hange probably wanted to continue to lie to her mother that she was Dong Jiaxue, but Ajue became Jieyuan and had the same surname. He must have some relationship with the Dong Jia family in Jiangnan. Shui Hange couldn't hide it even if he wanted to.

Shui Linglong left a candle and asked Zhifan to go to Baoxia to rest, while she lay on the bed and prepared to fall asleep.

 Suddenly, the window was opened and a figure came in.

Shui Linglong alertly took out the dagger under the pillow, and Guo Yan hurriedly whispered: "Shh-it's me, Guo Yan!"

Shui Linglong felt a little relieved, but she sat in the tent and asked in surprise: "Why are you here?"

Guo Yan didn't dare to go any further, so he stood three feet away from the bed, quietly looking at the figure inside the curtain, as embarrassed as a child who had made a mistake, and didn't even know where to put his hands: "I'm sorry, last time... I was negligent and almost hurt you..." He heard Zhuge Yu mention what happened next. Although it was a near miss, he couldn't help but be afraid when he thought about it!

"It's not your fault, and I didn't see any flaws. It's because Xun Feng is too cunning. We just need to be more careful in the future." Shui Linglong comforted him a few words, then changed the topic, "The clothes and shoes I made for you Does it fit?"

Guo Yan's attention was successfully diverted, and he couldn't hide his joy and said: "It fits! I'm wearing it now! If you don't believe it, look at it!"

Shui Linglong really opened a small slit in the curtain and glanced at him: "How do you get along with the third princess?"

"It's... not bad..." His face was red. He had never experienced human affairs before and did not study this information in advance. As a result, he was embarrassed and was thrown into his grandma's house. The strange thing is that the third princess seems to be very happy...

snort! That woman just likes to see him embarrassed!

Shui Linglong couldn't see his expression clearly through the curtain, but listening to his hesitant words, she could guess that he was probably shy. According to the memory of his previous life, the third princess would soon spread the good news. And Guo Yan...

Guo Yan touched his hot face and was extremely embarrassed. Fortunately, Shui Linglong was sitting in the tent, otherwise he would have to find a hole in the ground to crawl in!

　　“Well…I came here to say goodbye to you today.”

Upon hearing the word "farewell", Shui Linglong's eyelids twitched fiercely. In this life, Mobei intended to talk to Dazhou and presented a treasure map. The two countries would not fight again like in the previous life... She To comfort himself like this, he suddenly heard Guo Yan cough slightly and said: "Prince Mobei and Princess Taj left the capital overnight. The two countries are going to war again. The emperor ordered me to be the marshal of the expedition to the north. I will go there tomorrow." We must lead the three armies out of the city."

 It’s almost the same as in the previous life!

The reason why I say it is because Shui Linglong was not too concerned about government affairs at the time. She didn’t know who Mobei sent to come for peace talks. She only knew that the two sides broke up in the end, but what was the reason for the breakup?

Shui Linglong clenched her fists and asked tentatively: "Isn't Mobei quite sincere about peace talks this time? How come...it's not settled?"

Anger flowed in Guo Yan's eyes, like the cold wind frightening the dead branches, as if he could see mottled shadows: "The "Guanyin Buddha Lotus" presented by Mobei this time is fake! How dare they Taishi How big! Using a fake treasure map to exchange for 100,000 tons of grain every year! The emperor is really angry this time, and he will never stop until Mobei is beaten!"

 So, Concubine De took action!

There is no one who can identify the authenticity of "Guanyin Buddha Lotus" except the descendants of the Dong royal family. It should be that Concubine De found out after stealing the treasure map that it was not authentic, so she took the opportunity to tell the emperor. And since the "Guanyin Buddha Lotus" presented by Prince Mobei is fake, does it mean that the one in his hand is real?

Shui Linglong was thinking about the ins and outs of the whole thing in her mind. She always felt that she had overlooked some key factors. While thinking about it, she casually asked: "What kind of treasure can I find in "Guanyin Buddha Lotus"?"

Guo Yan thought for a moment and said, "I heard there is a secret recipe for immortality."

Shui Linglong smiled disapprovingly. She originally had some respect for the emperor, but now after hearing the news, she felt that he was no different. Who in the world can escape the cycle of life and death? Immortality is just a legend!

 (End of this chapter)