Chapter 10 The Widow
Suddenly it started snowing. Outside the Bifu Pavilion, it was snowing like shreds and salt. To the south was Wanchun Pavilion, and then it was Jiangxuexuan. There were ancient cypress and locust trees planted along the way, and bonsai stones were dotted on both sides of the road. A cold wind poured into the pavilion, blowing the cloak on Xiao Yuzhi's body, and the hanging tassels swayed gently.
The girl who is young and beautiful, has a bright appearance, and is also slender and graceful. However, this was an emperor who was looking forward to it, but there was no warmth on her face at this moment.
Xiao Huai frowned.
As a father, he naturally felt that his daughter was born the best, but to be fair, Xiao Yuzhi's appearance was also excellent... It shouldn't be the reaction. Suddenly he thought of something, Xiao Huai felt that if the matter of the founding queen was invalid, there would be nothing. He did not want the Xiao family to have any connection with the royal family.
Xiao Huai wanted to speak, but saw the emperor glance at him.
Then he bent his lips and said slowly: "I don't know when Xiao Aiqing has another daughter?"
Xiao Huai bowed and replied, explaining: "I have only one daughter, this... is my niece."
Xiao Yuzhi stood there and felt cold all over. She didn't quite understand what the emperor meant, but she could clearly feel that he didn't like her very much. He couldn't squeeze out a smile on his face, and didn't know what to do. He stood at a loss and looked at the uncle in front of the emperor... But her uncle didn't say anything else.
The emperor lowered his head and continued to play with the bird. It was not as he had said before, and he wanted to personally give the bird to Miss Xiao.
Xiao Huai didn't quite understand, but he was not without eyesight. He asked the emperor what he meant: "Will that minister... take his niece back first?"
"Um."
Seeing the emperor nodding, Xiao Huai went to see Xiao Yuzhi. However, Xiao Yuzhi looked at the cold emperor who was cold to her in tears, and was quite reluctant to leave. It was Xiao Huai who said to her side that she slowly followed her out of the Bifu Pavilion.
On the corridor, Xiao Yuzhi had red eyes and whimpered, "Uncle, I..."
Xiao Huai is a strong man, and he is the one who can't stand the girl's tears. In this world, the only one who can turn his awesomeness into tenderness is the only young daughter who is so beloved in the family. He frowned and said, "Don't cry. Go back first."
Xiao Yuzhi didn't have the courage to cry in front of her uncle, so she had to nod and follow her entourage back to the banquet.
Xiao Huai turned around and looked at the young emperor in the pavilion in the distance. Seeing a figure coming out from the pavilion, he walked towards him, as if he was coming to find him.
When Xiao Huai saw the man, he waited in the same place. After he came over, he saluted respectfully to himself: "Mr. Xiao."
It was He Chaoen, the eunuch who was around the new emperor.
The seventh-rank official in front of the prime minister's sect, let alone the emperor? Even if he is an internal supervisor, even a rank like Xiao Huai must give him some thin face. He Chaoen stood up and was fair and elegant, and looked even younger. He looked gentle and respectfully stayed with Xiao Huai.
Xiao Huai had some questions in his heart. When he saw He Chaoen, he asked, "What does the emperor mean just now?"
He wanted to see Yuzhi without any etiquette, but when he saw someone, he was cold and said nothing. Not to mention that he was to his fiancée, even to the daughter of ordinary ministers, he should not be so.
Seeing Xiao Huai's burly and calmness, He Chaoen knew that he was confused, so he smiled and said, "Does Lord Xiao still remember that when Miss Xiao Liu was the empress dowager, she fled with the young emperor and hid outside the palace for half a month?"
Of course he remembers this.
Xiao Huai nodded, thought of something in a trance, and looked at He Chaoen suddenly. He Chaoen continued, "That day, the emperor caught Miss Xiao on the back of the horse and brought it back to the palace in person..."
Xiao Huai's face turned pale immediately.
...
Xiao Yu talked to Xiao Yujin on the mat. Xiao Yujin saw her smiling sweetly, as if she was not feeling uncomfortable because of the gap. She still admired her a little bit of admiration. She thought that the sixth sister was so cute that she couldn't stand the grievance. Now she thought that she underestimated her. Since she was able to rule the country from behind the curtain, she was naturally not just an ordinary girl.
Xiao Yujin felt ashamed of her. She also took great courage to be able to mourn her husband. At first, there was nothing, but then she heard some people talking about her privately, and sometimes she felt sad.
It turned out that the noble girl who gathered together in groups of three or three suddenly made a noise. Xiao Yu looked up—
Sure enough, Xiao Yuzhi was back.
Someone surrounded him and talked to Xiao Yuzhi enviously, but Xiao Yuzhi's face was not as happy as before, and his face was stiff and he looked very bad. After asking a few questions, when he saw Xiao Yuzhi's cold answer, the noble girls naturally looked at each other and dared not ask any more questions.
Xiao Yujin looked at it and turned her head to say to her, "Sixth sister, look something is wrong with the fifth sister. Should we go over and take a look?"
She didn't go. Xiao Yu said, "I can't. You know that my fifth sister and I have always had something wrong with each other. If I leaned over when she was unhappy, I would definitely think I went there to watch her joke."
This is indeed the truth, so Xiao Yujin didn't say much. After hesitating for a moment, she went over to see Xiao Yuzhi himself. After all, she was an older sister and always had to protect her younger sister.
Chun Ming whispered beside Xiao Yu: "Girl, you said... Miss Five was fine just now, smiling like a flower, why did she become wilted in a short while?"
Xiao Yu spread his hands and said, "I don't know either."
How could she know about this? But it wasn't that the rude new emperor bullied Xiao Yuzhi, right? It's unlikely that he was about to make Xiao Yuzhi the queen. According to Xiao Yuzhi's temperament, if the new emperor bullied her indecently, she probably didn't have the same expression. And it would take a while to do so?
When he entered the table, Xiao Yuzhi sat next to Xiao Yu.
Because she had a dark face, other noble girls dared not talk to her. It was almost the same for them to get close to Xiao Yuzhi to be the queen, but they were also petite ladies from precious backgrounds and could not do too much money.
Xiao Yu took a casual look at Xiao Yuzhi.
Seeing her take off her cloak, all the gorgeous dresses on her body were revealed. The color of the dress made her skin look fair. If you look closer, you can see that her eyes are slightly red. Xiao Yu didn't look at her much. She never liked that when she saw her sadness, she was about to withdraw her gaze, but she accidentally glanced at her waist.
Xiao Yu was stunned.
She has worn countless beautiful clothes since she was a child, and she naturally has some understanding of clothes. The peony flowers on Xiao Yuzhi's body are exquisitely embroidered, as if they were real flowers, but they are far less than one on her waist. The layers of petals bloom slowly, and the goose yellow stamens can be seen vaguely. It is the most beautiful of all peony flowers in this palace.
However, there are spaces in the middle of the two sides of the peony flower, and they are not combined into one... This is obviously not suitable.
Xiao Yu was suspicious, but Xiao Yuzhi beside him looked at Xiao Yu vigilantly. When Xiao Yu had dinner, she took a deep breath, quietly placed one hand on her waist, and pulled her skirt a little.
Xiao Yuzhi didn't eat well these three days, just to look more fit when wearing a dress. But it's not a day when the ice is frozen, and Xiao Yuzhi is already slim, so how can she make her waist so thin in a short time?
...
It was already very late when she left the palace. Xiao Yu followed his mother Luo to the carriage, and Zhao Hong, who was there at some point, made a special trip to her. She smiled and touched his head, then nodded slightly to Zhao Xuan beside him, and then turned around and returned to the house with Luo.
At this moment, Xiao Yuzhi did not ask her to go over and have the same carriage as her, so Xiao Yu could be with Luo.
When the mother and daughter were sitting together, Luo lifted up the side curtain of the carriage and looked outside. When he saw that King An of Zhao Hong waved his fat hand, he watched them walk there. The King Qi beside him... Luo put down the curtain and said to Xiao Yu: "You can also worry if King Qi takes care of King An."
Otherwise, I would be afraid that she would think of Prince An and run to Prince An’s mansion.
Xiao Yu also felt something in his heart. There were many people who added icing on the cake in this world, and there were very few people who helped him in time, let alone taking such a big risk? King Qi had underestimated him before.
Xiao Yu said: "If the Great Wei royal family was like this, then the country would not have been destroyed so soon."
The royal family of the Great Wei Dynasty was full of playboys, with a bag of wine and food, and the officialdom was in chaos. It was so riddled with holes that the Xue thief took advantage of the situation.
Xiao Yu said this, and when he saw Luo's words, she smiled and said, "My daughter knows that she won't say this outside."
Luo smiled and felt that he was really thinking too much.
Her daughter Bingxue is smart, and she is not a daughter who is only arrogant. She doesn't talk about this and talks with Xiao Yu about the King of Qi just now. After all, King of Qi is gentle and elegant, without the airs of a prince, and also respects her, a woman. Elders always like polite children.
Luo said: "Looking at King Qi's age, I'm not young anymore, I don't know if I have married?"
King Qi Zhao Xuan and Zhao Yu are the same age as Zhao Yu, and they are nineteen after the New Year. Xiao Yu thought for a while and said, "I don't know this..."
Her aunt didn't like Zhao Xuan very much, so the late emperor was very disliked by Zhao Xuan, the prince. When he was a young man, he sent him alone to Tongzhou. He had never cared about marrying a wife. "...But, at the age of King Qi, he should have married."
Luo also nodded, agreeing deeply.
...
Xiao Yuzhi returned to her residence, and Liu took her to ask her about what happened today. She clearly accepted the emperor's summons happily, but after she came back, she completely changed.
Xiao Yuzhi was hesitant and refused to say it, after all, this was too embarrassing.
But after thinking about it, if she can't even tell her mother, who else can she tell her? You can't let her just hold it in this way, right?
Xiao Yuzhi drooped her face and told Liu about the matter at Bifuting. After hearing this, Liu said suspiciously: "Your Majesty... really said that?"
Xiao Yuzhi nodded. It was strange. She was obviously going to see her, so why did she talk to her uncle about Xiao Yu? Xiao Yuzhi suddenly thought of something, grabbed Liu's hand in fear, and said with a sad face: "Mother, do you think...will the emperor want to marry-"
“No.”
Liu's heart suddenly jumped, and he quickly denied Xiao Yuzhi's bold idea. She said seriously, "Although your sixth sister is the only legitimate daughter of the eldest son, she has never married anyone. If you marry a widow, even if you are other men, you must be a taboo, let alone an emperor?"
Chapter completed!