Shen Yi's Darkness and Depression

Chapter 464

Dugu Mansion is still full of festiveness and peace. It has been a month since the eldest daughter got married, and the mansion still retains the decorations from the wedding ceremony, and the bright red color that symbolizes auspiciousness is everywhere.

Aunt Jing felt very blinded, and tried to remove the tied ribbons and auspicious knots with her own hands several times, but was stopped by Dugu Ruyuan. He didn't know who said that keeping these mascots for a hundred days was good for the bride and would help the bride. The Yu family is prosperous.

"Imperial Concubine, what brought you here?" Dugu Ruyuan walked in with a smile on his face, it was rare for him to see Concubine Xuan so close, not to mention how happy he was.

"Master Dugu is okay?" Concubine Xuan frowned, she didn't expect Dugu Ruyuan to be so old and hobbled on a cane with one hand.

"Thank you, Ma'am, for thinking about it. The old minister accidentally sprained his foot a few days ago. He has been lying in bed for half a month and he is much better. Now he can walk normally with only a crutch." Please be safe, at this moment, he has no time to worry about his new clothes, even if the clothes are made of the crimson silk that the emperor bestowed on the prince and father-in-law.

"Your Excellency, you don't need to salute, take your seat quickly!" Concubine Xuan Gui didn't want to embarrass the person in front of her, and immediately signaled Xiao Luzi to help Dugu Ruyuan sit down and chat.

"Thank you, Ma'am, for your understanding. It's my honor." Dugu Ruyuan put his crutches aside, thanked Concubine Xuan, and offered a cup of tea to Concubine Xuan.

"My lord, you don't need to thank me, but you can thank your precious daughter if you want to thank me!" Concubine Xuan took the teacup and put it aside with a pleasant face.

"I understand Xiaomeng's temperament..." Dugu Ruyuan wanted to say something nice for his beloved daughter.

"The princess was raised by an adult, so naturally no one knows her better than an adult!"

Concubine Xuan Gui directly interrupted the polite words of the person in front of her, and looked at Dugu Ruyuan with a half-smile, "If the Crown Princess' words and deeds were not straightforward, frank and selfless, I would not have the opportunity to visit Dugu Mansion."

"The imperial concubine's ability to come to the mansion is the blessing of the Dugu clan in her previous life. The fact that the crown princess can serve by your side is also the cause and effect of her good deeds in her previous life. I thank the imperial concubine for her great love for the minister's eldest daughter." Dugu Ruyuan saw Xuan The imperial concubine was very polite, so she began to compliment her.

"Xiaomeng is not an ordinary child, but also has a personality and ideas. To put it bluntly, he is still young and full of vitality~" Concubine Xuan said while shaking her head helplessly, "You taught him well. There is such a princess in the harem. , is also due to good deeds."

Concubine Xuan didn't know that her beloved nephew was waiting for her to go back in the palace, so she kept praising Dugu Xiaomeng's straightforwardness in front of Dugu Ruyuan.

"The imperial concubine has won the prize. Xiaomeng has a straight temper. I am grateful that I didn't cause you any trouble." Dugu Ruyuan felt a little complacent, "But to be honest, Xiaomeng will have the demeanor of your concubine if he trains more... ..."

The Dugu family and the Ze Feng family are old acquaintances. Naturally, the two heirs have known each other since they were young. When Dugu Ruyuan saw Ze Fengchai for the first time, she was still a child who would cry when she saw a caterpillar. Da Yue is arrogant, maybe Zefeng Mansion only had this precious girl, so they pampered her to heaven.

So proudly that Ze Fengchai only wanted to be a queen, and clamored to marry into the royal family when she was young, which extinguished the ignorant feelings in Dugu Ruyuan's heart, so that he understood early on that what she wanted was his. I can't afford it.

"Presumptuous~" Concubine Xuan suddenly sternly reprimanded, "The first half of the sentence is quite sensible, I think you have no self-knowledge like your daughter, but the second half of the sentence is not intended to shorten my life?"

"Ah?" Dugu Ruyuan was so frightened that he quickly knelt down and waited for Concubine Xuan Gui to continue to reprimand him.

"What? Did you hear the meaning behind what I said?" Xuan Guifei glared angrily, "I shouldn't be here, do you understand?"

"I'm stupid, I hope the imperial concubine will enlighten me." Dugu Ruyuan gritted his teeth and said word by word, the woman in front of him was no longer the little hairpin who was happy when she ate cakes.

"If it wasn't for your paternal connivance, how could your Dugu family have cultivated such a domineering woman with your ability?" Concubine Xuan Gui forgot that she was once a savage woman with a full personality.

"If Xiaomeng offends the imperial concubine in any way, it makes the imperial concubine very angry. I have suffered on behalf of her. I hope that the imperial concubine will not be angry." The more Dugu Ruyuan spoke, his voice became deeper and lower, and his head was so low that he couldn't lower it even though his forehead felt the pressure of the ground. It was cold, but his heart was even colder.

"She went out of the palace privately, you don't know, right? You haven't heard of it after staying in the mansion for three days? Besides, I even came to the mansion to have a cup of tea, and I didn't even see the shadow of the princess. How is it proper?" Concubine Xuan Gui took a sip of tea while talking.

"I have sent someone to tell the concubine to come, maybe it is because she is dressing up to see the concubine." Dugu Ruyuan explained guiltily, he knew that his daughter was arrogant and did not want to come to see concubine Xuan.

"Don't make excuses with me, don't I understand what Dugu Xiaomeng is like?" Concubine Xuan angrily threw the teacup on the ground.

"Your Majesty, don't be angry, I'll bring Xiaomeng to see you." Dugu Ruyuan endured the pain in his ankle and stood up with difficulty.

"Lead the way, I want to see my daughter-in-law in person." Concubine Xuan Gui pushed Dugu Ruyuan, telling him to take two quick steps, but unexpectedly Dugu Ruyuan couldn't stand still and fell to the ground.

Concubine Xuan Gui's heart is also fleshy. She didn't expect Dugu Ruyuan, who was the same age as her, to experience such vicissitudes. She couldn't help but be concerned, "You... didn't you suffer in the underworld before?"

"Ah?" Dugu Ruyuan quickly got up, he didn't expect that he would be so embarrassed in front of Concubine Xuan.

"Haven't you been framed by the coachman and entered the underworld before, did you get angry inside?" Concubine Xuan Gui's attitude was much more amiable.

"No, no, the emperor knew that the minister was innocent at that time, and he specially asked the guards to take good care of the minister. It was just a show to send the minister to the underworld at that time." Dugu Ruyuan understood that the safety of a minister depends only on the Lord's words It can be decided.

"It's good that you didn't suffer, so how did you get this injury?" A trace of tenderness flashed in Concubine Xuan's eyes, perhaps because she recalled every little bit of her childhood.

"Maybe I'm really old, I can twist my ankle when I walk, I'm really ashamed to say it." Dugu Ruyuan was still embarrassed.

"You are only half a year older than me, why are you getting old?" Concubine Xuan Gui raised her eyebrows and smiled.

"Your imperial concubine, you will remain young forever, unlike the vicissitudes of old ministers." Dugu Ruyuan also smiled a little.

"Look at your sideburns, they have turned white a long time ago, so why bother?" Concubine Xuan Gui slightly reproached.

When I was young, I thought my mother was the best in the world, and I was obsessed with it, but now my dream is empty.

(End of this chapter)