Chapter 29 029(1/2)
The Xu family in the Marquis of Pingxi is a famous general among the noble families in the capital.
Xu Roujia's grandfather, the old Marquis, gave birth to two sons, the eldest son was Xu Roujia's father. He was steady and restrained. Unfortunately, he died young and had only one daughter under his knees. The title fell on Xu Roujia's second uncle, the current Marquis of Pingxi.
Unlike Xu Roujia's father, the second uncle is generous and impulsive. He often causes trouble when he was young. He did not make much progress when he became a marquis. He often argued with his colleagues who he disliked in the court. Fortunately, Emperor Yongxi appreciated his courage. He also remembered that the Xu family was the husband's family of the eldest princess with a poor life. He had not been skeptical about his second uncle for so many years.
Like the old marquis, Xu Roujia's second uncle had only two sons, among which the prince Xu Yao was like him, and he was brave enough to be incompetent in the country. The second son Xu Hui was handsome and mature, but he was quite similar to Xu Roujia's father.
People like Xu Yao have thick-skinned faces.
The cheeky Xu Yao thought he had greeted Lu Ding, so he walked directly towards Xu Roujia and Lu Yilan.
Lu Ding stopped him again: "What does the prince mean?"
No matter how stupid Xu Yao was, he knew he wanted to find an excuse. His tiger eyes swept over the maid of Jinxiufang who walked out with a box. Xu Yao had a sudden inspiration and smiled honestly: "The first time I gave jewelry to my elders, I'm not very good at choosing. I want to ask my two sisters to help me."
Lu Ding thought, both of them are my sisters, when will they become your sisters?
However, before he could speak, Xu Yao waved to Xu Roujia: "Atao, right? I am your Xu family's eldest brother, come here to do me a favor."
Looking at the cousin's clever smile, Xu Roujia wanted to laugh so much.
"Don't go, he doesn't look like a good person at first glance." Lu Yilan grabbed Xu Roujia's hand and said.
The stranger Xu Roujia would never go, but that was her relative. If she could reconnect with her relatives with her new identity, how could Xu Roujia give up this opportunity?
"I think he is quite friendly. Otherwise, my sister stays here and I will go there myself." Xu Roujia said to Lu Yilan in a low voice. The cousin's mind was too obvious, and Lu Yilan also made a clear attitude. Xu Roujia chose to respect Lu Yilan's wishes.
Lu Yilan wanted to stop Xu Roujia, but unfortunately she didn't stop her. She could only watch Xu Roujia walk to the side of Xu Yao brothers.
Xu Yao stared at Lu Yilan with regret, and was so angry that the other party turned his back.
Xu Hui politely explained the identities of the two brothers to Xu Roujia, with a trace of sadness in his beautiful eyes.
Xu Roujia nodded and said softly: "I have lived in the palace for half a month. The Empress told me a lot about the princess. She knows that the princess is a kind-hearted and kind person. I believe she has been reincarnated now, so I would like to ask the two princes to mourn me."
When talking, Xu Roujia recalled her previous life. Although she did not do many good deeds, she did not do evil. She praised herself in a small way. The Buddha shouldn't blame her, right?
The little girl spoke softly, not only Xu Hui felt that she was sensible and wise, but even Xu Yao's attention was shifted to her.
Xu Roujia did not dare to mention too many old things and quickly changed the topic: "Which elder is the prince going to give gifts?"
Xu Yao came back to his senses and smiled and said, "Mother."
Xu Roujia nodded: "Does that lady usually have a preferred material? For example, gold or jade ornaments?"
Xu Yao was ashamed, he didn't pay attention.
Xu Hui said in a gentle voice: "My mother usually wears more gold jewelry."
Xu Roujia laughed secretly. In order to cooperate with the reason for her cousin to get close to them, the second cousin lied without blinking. Her aunt was a tiger girl who was facing the sky all day long and didn't like to dress up. Even if she went to the palace to pay her respects to her grandmother, her aunt would just put a copper hairpin casually. In the words of her aunt, she didn't like to dress up, and her second uncle was also impatient to see her smearing in the mirror. Then why did she bother herself for others?
The three of them went to pick jewelry.
Lu Ding dared not act without permission and looked at Zhou Qi with instructions.
Zhou Qi lowered his eyes and drank tea, a trace of confusion flashed through his heart.
Is the little girl falling in love with the Xu Yao brothers again? She thought she was unlikely to marry the prince of the prince, so she hooked up with the prince of the prince of the prince as an alternative?
How long has it been?
Although Zhou Qi had long seen this cousin greedy and vanity, he still didn't believe that a thirteen-year-old girl would be like this...Shuiyan Poplar.
Perhaps, she just wanted to make more friends with powerful people, and when she saw the noble son, she would get into a relationship.
At the counter, Xu Roujia focused on helping her aunt pick jewelry.
Xu Hui also watched with her. Xu Yao looked at Lu Yilan with his head tilted. Lu Yilan threw a few eyes at him. Xu Yao smiled awkwardly and asked Xu Roujia quietly: "Atao, what's your sister's name? How old is she? Do you have a betrothal?"
"Brother." Xu Hui scolded.
Xu Yao glared at him: "Shut up, please don't get involved in my affairs."
The brothers stared at each other, and Xu Roujia gently turned the phoenix-headed hairpin in her hand.
She remembered that in her previous life, until Xie Jin rebelled, her cousin did not marry her. The prince of the Pingxi Marquis's mansion, who was 23 or 4 years old, stayed at the border for two years. At this age, the other wife had been in a hurry to urge her to get a marriage, and her aunt ignored her, and only asked her cousin to bring her a daughter-in-law home before she was thirty years old.
However, my second cousin has never let his elders worry about his studies and marriage.
Now, my cousin actually fell in love with Lu Yilan.
In the previous life, Xu Roujia must have felt that Lu Yilan was not worthy of her cousin. A girl whose parents both died and a niece of Tofu Xishi, who had to teach various rules first as a maid for her cousin. But now, Xu Roujia lives next to Tofu Xishi and feels that Lu loves her like her niece. Xu Roujia doesn't care much about the difference in identity and family.
What's more, her uncle can even spoil the Lu family who once showed up in public. What's so strange about her cousin's love for the young and beautiful Lu Yilan?
"The prince asked what my sister did?" Xu Roujia asked curiously.
Xu Yao touched his head, hey, why did he suddenly feel a little embarrassed?
When Xu Roujia saw her, she lowered her head and smiled, but she still gave her a suggestion to her cousin: "I can't reveal my sister's name. If the prince likes her, he can ask someone to go to the royal palace to propose marriage."
The two have a huge gap in identity. Xu Roujia hopes that the cousin will clarify the meaning of his aunt first. If the aunt agrees, then come to propose marriage seriously. If the aunt does not agree, the cousin should forget Lu Yilan as soon as possible and practice martial arts obediently.
After saying that, Xu Roujia took out the simplest golden hairpin and handed it to Xu Yao. Just as she was about to leave, she turned around, but almost hit someone's arms.
Xu Roujia raised her head in surprise.
Zhou Qi looked at her coldly.
Xu Roujia was shocked. How long has Zhou Qi been here? She just asked her cousin to propose marriage, and he also heard it?
Xu Roujia suddenly remembered that the Ruyi Man Lu Yilan was thinking about was Zhou Qi.
What if Zhou Qi was also moved by Lu Yilan, then she was actually under Zhou Qi's nose...
Xu Roujia was immediately frightened.
"Cousin, do you want to buy jewelry too?" Xu Roujia asked incoherently.
Zhou Qi said in a cold voice: "I'll call you back home."
When Xu Roujia heard this cold tone, his heart was cold. Oh no, he must have heard it.
Seeing Zhou Qi turn around, Xu Roujia didn't even dare to say goodbye to her two cousins, and followed Zhou Qi in shame.
Back at the royal palace, Zhou Qi signaled Lu Ding to send Lu Yilan back to Xiaoyueju. He led Xu Roujia to his yard like a prisoner.
The four princes in the royal palace are all in the same yard, with the prince Zhou Yu and the second master Zhou Jun adjacent to Zhou Qi's residence next to the third master Zhou Yu.
The two passed by Zhouyu Gate and met the little eunuch who was guarding Zhouyu Gate and were secretly happy.
The third master seemed to be concerned about Aunt Lu's two nieces, and told him that every time he saw the second girl coming, he would tell him that the two girls hadn't come for a while. The third master only asked him once yesterday, and finally had something to reply today.
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Let Agui guard the yard. As soon as he entered the hall, Zhou Qi shouted coldly: "Kneel down."
Xu Roujia was frightened by the cold voice, but she was more dissatisfied!
What did she do? Why did Zhou Qi let her kneel down?
Even if she is just A Tao, she is also the princess personally named by the emperor. Zhou Qi is the same as her, so why should she kneel?
She wanted to please Zhou Qi and win his trust, but that didn't mean she had to treat Zhou Qi as her master like a maid.
"What mistake did I make? I'm so angry that I must punish me to kneel down?" Facing Zhou Qi's eyes that were about to eat people, Xu Roujia was neither humble nor arrogant.
Zhou Qi warned her twice that he did not intend to show any mercy again this time.
He walked to Xu Roujia with a calm face, Zhou Qi's eyes were frozen, and there was no emotion inside: "It's just that you are trying to cling to the dragon and the phoenix, but you dare to take charge of Yilan's marriage without authorization. Who gives you the courage?"
Climb the dragon and attach to the phoenix?
Xu Roujia thought Zhou Qi was just blaming her for interfering with Lu Yilan's marriage, but she never expected that there would be such a crime waiting for her!
"Please tell me clearly which dragon I will attach to which phoenix I will climb." Xu Roujia said gritting her teeth. Zhou Qi didn't explain clearly today. She immediately went to the palace to find her grandmother and no longer cared about her uncle's family affairs!
Seeing the anger in her Apricot's eyes, Zhou Qi sneered: "You first touched me, and then you took Yilan to see me repeatedly and gave me food and begged me to take you out. Don't you want to seduce me? Later, the prince gave you a meeting gift, and you immediately missed him, thinking about two emperors and grandchildren. Are you trying to cling to the dragon and the phoenix?"
Xu Roujia:...
Zhou Qi actually misunderstood her because of such reasons?
Xu Roujia just wants to laugh.
She really smiled, and as she smiled, Xu Roujia explained calmly: "I tried every means to get close to my cousin. It was indeed impure to motives, but it was not like my cousin misunderstanding. Instead, I couldn't bear to see that my aunt obviously missed her cousin but was afraid of being disliked by her cousin. My aunt treated me well, so I wanted to repay her. I thought that if I got close to my cousin, I could help repair the relationship between you mother and son, but I didn't expect..."
Speaking of this, Xu Roujia laughed at herself.
It is indeed not appropriate for her to stick around Zhou Qi at this age, so Xu Roujia had already figured out the reasons and was ready to deal with the suspicions of Zhou Qi, Lu, his uncle and even Lu Ding brothers and sisters at any time.
As for Zhou Qi's statement that she was thinking about Zhou Yi, this was a false charge. Xu Roujia had no way to defend herself and sweared directly: "If I had any thoughts about the prince, I should have been a wife, a concubine or a maid, I would call me to be a thunderbolt and would not die well."
The little girl's voice is sweet but loud.
Looking at her firm gaze, Zhou Qi suddenly lost his words.
She dared to make such a vicious oath, that must have really been unintentional to the prince. She said she wanted to help them repair their relationship...
Looking back on the smile of my mother when she saw him recently, it seems that it is indeed related to her.
But, if this is true, then what is his interrogation?
I already feel regretful in my heart, regretting that I shouldn’t be so impulsive, and I draw a conclusion without conclusive evidence, but I am not concerned about my face...
To be continued...