Chapter 256 Angelica
Thinking of the original horse galloping, Shaohua was so bumped that he didn't know where it was. When she woke up, she found that the village she was in was actually in the valley. It was easy to get in and out alone, but she had to take a long detour if she wanted to ride a horse and a car. She couldn't imagine how the stake carried her back at the beginning. It was almost isolated from the world and she had to climb mountains in and out.
The only ox cart in the village is used to bring food out for money. It will take half a month to go there, and it will also increase a lot of labor, so there is not much access in the past.
The wooden stake went to Beijing for her this time, which was worth a month's ration, and the village agreed to take the ox cart out. When Shaohua knew about this, the rice jar of the wooden pile family also bottomed out, and the wooden pile daughter-in-law made Shaohua not have to worry. She could go out to borrow rice. Although for Shaohua, a bowl of porridge and an egg can only be full every day, not to mention nourishing, she clearly saw that every time the wooden tree hid at the door and secretly watched her eat.
She didn't know what made them so unconditionally empty themselves to serve a stranger, but this kindness made her feel warm.
So, when the wooden stake came back with Youning, her first reaction was to ask Youning to go to the town to buy all the rice noodles and meat dishes. Youning's original excitement was extinguished by her words and thought she was hungry.
"I'll take you back. My mother has already prepared delicious food for you." Looking at Shaohua's face without the rosy color that pregnant women should have, she can't help but feel a little distressed.
Shaohua stopped his hand and said, "It's not that I'm hungry, but for Zhuang'er's sister-in-law." Shaohua showed a trace of shyness. She couldn't say that she had eaten all the grain of the wooden pile house, and it was too unhuman to leave like this. She looked back at the wooden pile daughter-in-law and Mu Xiaoshu. Both of them were scared by Youning's appearance. Obviously, they had never seen such an amazing face. They stared at Youning with their own eyes open mouths and looked straight at Youning.
Youning glanced around, which could be said to be a poor room. The simplicity and shabby made him frown. Some people couldn't imagine how Shaohua lived in this environment. He touched his clothes and came in such a hurry that he did not bring silver on his body. He only took out a 500 taels of silver ticket. Without thinking about it, he handed it to the stake. The stake inexplicably took the silver ticket and opened it to look at the denomination. He was so scared that he immediately knelt down and handed it back to Youning with trembling hands.
"Take it. I don't have silver with me. That's it." Although he was also a little distressed, it seems that they saved Shaohua's life, not to mention 500, that is, 1,000 taels or 5,000 taels.
"Master, I, we dare not take it. It's too precious." Although the wooden pile has not seen much in the world, he still recognizes the silver ticket, 500 taels is enough for them to live for several lifetimes.
"What's the dare not to do? Do you think it's too little?" You Ning muttered. However, the stake refused to accept it anyway, so he had to look at Shaohua helplessly.
Shaohua rolled his eyes angrily. In the situation of this village, not to mention five hundred taels, they have nowhere to spend even giving five taels.
"Brother Mu, Zhuang's sister-in-law, I've been bothering you these days." Shaohua saluted the wooden pile couple with the child in his arms, and the wooden pile daughter-in-law hurried to help her.
"What nonsense, this is God's arrangement." When the wooden pile daughter-in-law heard that the grain they pulled into Beijing was bought by Youning, and she also gave a good price, she was more sure that Shaohua was a noble man. However, she looked at Youning again and again and carefully pulled Shaohua aside. "Mo Niang, is he really your man? Didn't you say that the Hou Mansion was on duty? If you go back with him like this, nothing will happen.
Shaohua was embarrassed and couldn't explain too much to her wooden pile daughter-in-law, but she was still grateful and said, "Sister Zhuang'er, don't worry, I'm fine. I really have nothing to give you, but if you need it in the future, just go to Houfu and tell me, and I will definitely help you to the end. Shaohua looked at the awkward wooden tree standing next to him and smiled, "When the little tree is bigger, you can come to me if you want to go to Beijing."
The wooden pile daughter-in-law is not rare. As soon as she heard that her son's future can rely on Dingxihou Mansion, the wooden pile daughter-in-law's whole eyes lit up.
After Shaohua was grateful again and again, Youning finally couldn't help pulling her away and couldn't stand it since he entered the village. Although he knew that his appearance was different from that of the people in Beijing, they stared at him one by one, as if they had seen a monster, making Youning feel uncomfortable. And this environment is too beyond his imagination. He can only be glad that God has eyes, at least let Shaohua survive safely and bring a ball of fans.
As soon as he got on the carriage, You Ning couldn't wait to drive away and bypassed the mountain before he slowed down.
Youning threw the reins of the carriage to Ziying, got into the carriage and watched Shaohua shake his hand and coax the baby in his arms to sleep. Youning felt that the atmosphere was a little subtle. The words that originally came to his mouth were all because his eyes touched the pinky soft cheeks, and he swallowed them back to his stomach in an instant. He rubbed curiously and looked at the child, with indescribable strangeness in his heart.
"How did you give birth to him?" You Ning hesitated for a moment and still poked the pink ball's face with his hand. As expected, his fingertips felt good. However, the little fan ball didn't seem to like to be disturbed by him like this. He waved his little fist, covered his face, and turned his head to hide in Shaohua's arms.
Shaohua was stopped by his words, "You will know if you marry a daughter-in-law by yourself."
Youning rolled her eyes and her eyes fell on the baby powder ball, which seemed a little incredible. "I mean, is this child really not one month old?" From the first time he saw it, he had never seen the child cry. Even if he was asleep, it was too quiet.
Shaohua looked up at him and frowned and asked, "What do you want to say?" I'm afraid that You Ning will also give her a saying that she is born noble.
"No, nothing." You Ning shook his head.
In fact, Youning wanted to say that the child seemed to catch up with the strange thunderstorm. Xin Maoshan also said that Qin Tianjian reported two or three times and asked the emperor to send someone to search the child born that day, for fear that it would be a disaster. Youning looked at the sleeping child and thought that this was what they called a different person.
But on second thought, there seems to be nothing wrong with a heretical mother like Shaohua to give birth to a little strange person. At least he is his nephew. What if he is the demon king of the world? You Ning inexplicably feels a little proud. Maybe this child will really be a great figure in the future.
After a while of silence, You Ning asked, "Why did you think of looking for me? I don't know how anxious your marquis is." However, Youning was glad that the first person she met on the stake was him, otherwise it would be strange to say that a woman named Zimo would come to find them and not scare Xin Maoshan to death.
"What's wrong with him?" Hearing Yan Kaizhi, Shaohua immediately became nervous.
Youning comforted her, "It's okay. I heard that there was a disturbance in the palace. Now I'm locked up at home and can't get out. I can't find you. It's strange that I'm not in a hurry." But after thinking about it, I felt so angry that I couldn't help counting Shaohua. What's wrong with you? Didn't you raise the fetus at home for no reason? Why did you run into the palace and fall to the point of giving birth to a child in the deep mountains and forests? You just don't scare people to death, don't you?
When they knew that Shaohua was missing, Youning was no better than Yan Kaizhi. Because he knows in his heart that Shaohua is a person who has escaped a disaster. He really can't imagine whether Shaohua can be as lucky as last time if there is another accident.
"You think I'm willing." Shaohua said angrily.
In the face of Youning, his mood, which had been aggrieved for a long time, was finally vented. Shaohua told Youning everything before and after. From Rouwan's unreasonable door to look for trouble, until she entered the palace, and even told Youning the secrets she heard. Then she met Concubine Yi, who was not human or ghost in the secret road. She finally escaped, but she was sent out of the palace as a sinful maidservant and abandoned halfway.
When she finished speaking, she sighed for a long time and felt that what she had encountered these days was far more wonderful than many people's lives.
You Ning's mouth has never been closed from the beginning. Listening to Shaohua's words, he only felt that things were a little mysterious and terrible. It seems that any mistake will make them miss each other and then look at the unscathed Shaohua. Youning believed that the fox fairy on White Mountain existed at that moment, otherwise how could Shaohua escape again and again?
After a long time, he found his voice, which sounded dry and difficult. He hesitated and said, "You mean that the He family has had different intentions for a long time?" He also heard from his father that since Hongyi ascended the throne, the power of the He family in Beijing has become brazen, especially those of the He family's in-laws are even more arrogant and domineering. Fortunately, with several of their powerful old ministers, they will not let the He family overturn the whole capital, but he is afraid that once the queen gives birth to the eldest son of the emperor, in the future It's hard to say.
Youning also foolishly said that as long as the queen was not allowed to give birth to the eldest son, Xin Maoshan sneered and said, "Why do you think the former emperor's son is so thin?" You should know that before Hongwen Hongyi was born, there were many princes, but they either miscarried or died.
There will be such a coincidence in the world that the eldest son can only be the queen.
Xin Maoshan doesn't understand the scheme of the deep palace backyard, but he also knows that it is definitely not a coincidence. It's just that the emperor himself doesn't care. Even if the ministers know it, they have to close their eyes.
The act of the Empress Dowager He shows that the He family has a conspiracy. Judging from Hongyi's attitude, it is obvious that he is also aware of it, but it is not easy to point out on the table. Youning thought about it for a week and immediately realized that today is not what it used to be. No matter how many 22 commanders there are, except for the old ministers left by the former emperor, the original great princes have long been scattered, and many of the second princes are He family.
If Hongyi wants to eradicate the He family, Yuqing is a relative of his mother's family, and Yu Li is also a Qin Wangjun, and he has no way to do it.
In the past few days, Shaohua himself has also cleared a lot of clues. She rubbed her temples and said weakly, "I don't know that Kaizhi knows about the Empress Dowager and me. It seems that the death of Xing Yongbo was not that simple at the beginning." Perhaps because the other party was Youning, Shaohua boldly spit out all his doubts.
"Maybe Dad will know the inside story." You Ning squeezed his lips, and his face also showed rare seriousness.
Shaohua frowned at him, as if asking silently.
You Ning thought for a moment and had to tell the truth, "I once heard my father say that the most sorry thing in his life is you and your eldest sister. He knows that Beijing is dangerous, but he has to marry you. But with the lesson of the past, he has no choice." Seeing Shaohua's serious expression, he said again, "The lesson of the former car mentioned by Dad may be the matter of Xing Yongbo. Do you remember that there was a time when there was a rumor in Beijing that Dad wanted to rebel? Later, my father and mother took my eldest sister to Beijing. Not long after, the eldest sister promised the Li family.
Wake up by Youning, Shaohua seemed to remember that there was indeed such a thing, but at that time, they were too late to be happy when their parents were not around. How could they think so much? It seems that Xin Zixuan and they have never quarreled together since then, and they have focused on learning everyone's etiquette.
"One more thing, I don't think you can remember." You Ning said again, "When Yan Kaizhi came for help, his father's attitude towards him was very strange, and he was cautious and a little guilty."
With the friendship between Xin Maoshan and Yan Su, it is at most a gentleman's friendship, and there is not much intersection at all. And the matter between Yan Kaizhi and Xin Zimo is something that everyone in the Xin family knows. If Xin Maoshan has objected, Xin Zimo would not have thought about it for so long. But later, I don't know how he would turn around marrying her to Hongfang, and Xin Maoshan's attitude towards the matter of recognizing Shao as a righteous daughter was also a little too cheerful.
Yan Su's death should have nothing to do with Xin Maoshan, but Xin Maoshan's attitude vaguely shows that he has a shame in his heart.