Raiders of the Duke and Duchess

The old lady was silent all the way.

Her energy level seemed to be so low that it was really uneasy. Grandma Wang wanted to ask about the situation in the house, but she was worried that she would make the old lady feel even more uncomfortable by asking something she shouldn't have asked. So she opened her mouth several times, but never asked. She just thought about it. He kept urging, "You can't do this anymore in the future. You have to be more careful as you get older. Besides, the winter in Yanjing City is not as good as that in Yunzhou. Go to bed early and get up early to keep your health good."

The old lady responded one by one, with a low voice and no expression. She didn't seem to be perfunctory, but she seemed to be wandering.

It was obvious that his thoughts were not here, but probably still focused on the person in the tower.

Grandma Wang didn't speak anymore, she just sighed softly... The old lady turned her head and glanced at the other party. After a long while, she said vaguely, "Why are you sighing? I'm really fine. I just heard some things, and my heart Weighing it, I just sigh that fate is playing tricks on people..."

A good woman's body, for those old rules, for that ambition higher than the sky, it's okay to hide her gender and turn into a man, but she fell in love with another man as a man, and stepped into it. After half a lifetime of sinking, at the end, the man flicked his sleeves and said, "Since you don't want to return to being a woman for me, do you want me to be criticized by thousands of people and be despised by all the people?" Then he turned around and took another beautiful woman's hand.

The Fifth Elder was so proud that even though he was in great pain, he did not cry or make a fuss. He just held his breath and waited for the day when he would hold the power of the First Elder and show favor to that "bad guy and girl".

However, not long after, the Council of Elders was disbanded, and the elders were placed in remote mountains and forests where no one was around. As a result, I suddenly couldn't lift up this breath, and couldn't put it down. It was stuck in my throat all day long. Countless times when I dreamed back at midnight, I vaguely dreamed of the scene of the other party's children and grandchildren, and the family happiness—— The fifth elder felt as if all his pride had been crushed into mud.

So, she tried her best to feign death and escaped from the deep mountains and forests, stumbling and wandering all the way to Yanjing City, thinking about seizing power and practicing witchcraft, just to hold the power, return home in fine clothes, and feel proud. Of course, they also hope that the news of their death will be returned to the Ji family, making them sad, self-blame, and disheartened, or they may hold a funeral, open the coffin in public, and find that no one or body is found, and they will feel uneasy for the rest of their lives. .

In short, no matter what the situation is, she wants to use her own death to prove that the person has her in his heart.

"This is not pride, but unwillingness." The old lady told the fifth elder in the tower at that time, but the fifth elder did not expect that the news of her death would be transmitted back to the Ji family and her tablet would be placed in the ancestral hall, just like a gust of wind blowing across the lake. The water rippled and the waves were calm again, nothing happened at all.

What the old lady didn't tell her was that whether it was pride or unwillingness, it was meaningless. Whether that person had her in his heart or not, there would never be an answer. That man was already dead. However, when the other party passed away, the husband and wife were in harmony and the family was full of children... It can be seen that the fifth elder was probably the only one who kept thinking about this matter from beginning to end.

She did not hesitate to travel long distances, but she was trapped in the same place from beginning to end.

It’s true that fate plays tricks on people.

It's just that the old lady didn't mention these things to Grandma Wang. The old man didn't have a good impression of the people of the Presbyterian Church. If he talked to her, it would just be a waste of time. There was no need. So in the end, the old lady just patted the old man next to her on the back of her hand and sighed softly, "This is the last time... I talked to her about some things and talked about things that should have been said but not said before. It was finally settled... I don’t need to visit him anymore.” I was young at the time and did not think things through carefully. I just wanted to cut the knot in a hurry and end the Presbyterian system, which caught everyone off guard. Although this prevented all potential changes from happening, it also caused some obsession and unwillingness to stop at the moment of system change.

So that now that we have reached this point, the old lady thinks that she also has some responsibility - when times have passed and she looks back at herself at that time, she is indeed a little careless. Grandma Wang didn't know why, but she saw that the old lady's expression was a little more relieved, so she stopped asking, nodded frequently and said, "Okay... we won't go any further. We'll leave these matters to the girl to deal with. Yeah, just take good care of yourself..."

"Okay... let's take care of ourselves... You can't keep up with your temper. After worrying about this and worrying about that, now that the children are here, there is Luo Xin, and it's your turn to worry about it, Grandma Wang. There’s more going on?”

"The old slave likes this kind of excitement. For the old slave, worrying about the children is the best way for the old slave to take care of himself. You are different. Just go to bed early and get up early. Don't worry about it. Just roll up your sleeves and bask in the sun. alright……"

"I am a mascot for the emotional old lady?"

"No way! You are the ancestor of the Ji family and the treasure of the town!"

The sound gradually faded away, and soon the rain became heavier.

Half an hour later, heavy rain poured down, as if a hole had been broken in the dark sky, and gods were pouring water on the world from above the clouds.

The Imperial Guards guarding outside the East Palace Gate were all wearing coir raincoats and bamboo hats, hiding under the eaves that were not very wide. Some were leaning against the wall without fear of getting their clothes wet, and some were squatting on the ground with straw poles in their mouths and picking their teeth. Most of them were talking in twos and threes. In other words, he is not very prepared.

Such an errand can't be done without being careful, and it can't be done too carefully. After all, Bian Xiang has not been convicted yet, the imperial concubine is still an imperial concubine, and the prince of the East Palace has only been banned, but is still the heir to the throne. Now that His Majesty is seriously ill, no one can tell what will happen tomorrow. Who would offend a prince at this juncture?

So in the past two days, the maids in the East Palace secretly stuffed some pieces of silver into her and said a few nice words in a whisper, and they turned a blind eye and let her go.

As long as the prince is still inside, who knows whether those palace ladies will leave? Even if you know, what can you do? Is it possible to read their book and let the emperor stand up and issue an edict to punish them?

They felt at ease and hid in the corner, chatting like market women about the trivial matters of the East family and the West family. Most of them were matters related to the inner chambers of the imperial officials' homes. They laughed and exchanged words that everyone understood. The lewd look... So, naturally, he didn't notice that a thin black figure jumped in from the wall, landed within the wall of the East Palace, and headed in a certain direction at an extremely fast speed.

Familiar doors and familiar roads.