Graceful spring color

Chapter 108 Private Army

Seeing that she was self-conscious, Xie Rong didn't dwell too much on this topic.

He just thinks that a daughter from an aristocratic family should look like a daughter from an aristocratic family, humble, courteous, gentle and kind. If she really becomes that executioner, taking people's lives indiscriminately, wouldn't she lose her grace?

"Several medical clinics all say the same thing. If you take good care of yourself, it will be fine."

When Xie Fengyue heard this, a smile appeared on her face. There were still wet tears on her face at this time, and she looked not far different from Xie Rong's impression of her.

"Yue'er, I heard you say that before." Halfway through his words, he looked at her with a strange expression.

Xie Fengyue stood up without knowing why, got closer to him and asked, "Father, just ask whatever you want to ask."

"The Xie Mansion arranged your marriage, why are you here in Lingnan now? This place is thousands of miles away from Chen County, let alone Wu Palace." Xie Rong still asked his doubts.

Xie Fengyue was silent for a long time.

She didn't know whether she should tell her father the truth. He was a very noble man. If she knew that he was escaping from marriage, it would definitely be a lesson. But if she didn't tell her father, her father would not be completely stupid. He would always find out from clues. come out.

She was in a dilemma when she asked this question.

"Are you running away from your marriage?"

Before Xie Fengyue could think of a countermeasure, Xie Rong asked with a stiff face.

Xie Fengyue hurriedly explained: "What did my father say? It's just that the wedding was postponed, so I had the opportunity to go south to find you. How could I escape from the marriage?"

Xie Rong twisted his fingers around the washed-white gown and lowered his head sadly.

"You are deceiving me as a father. The date of the royal wedding was reported to the Emperor of Zhou. He consulted the star officials and looked at the stars. The auspicious date was determined by the astrological officials. How could it be postponed just because it was postponed? Tell me honestly, are you unwilling to get married? Are you going to Wu Palace to run away from your marriage?"

Xie Fengyue didn't know how to argue for a moment. He asked these words sadly and calmly, instead of questioning her at the top of his lungs.

"Since the master has arranged this marriage for you, it must be beneficial to the Xie family. You only care about yourself and abandon the interests of the Xie family. Is this what I taught you at the beginning? The honor and disgrace of us Xie family members all come from The confidence given by the family, but now that you have benefited from it, you actually go out of your way to take care of the interests of the family just for your own little selfish desires. Do you still look like a girl from an aristocratic family?"

Xie Fengyue had goosebumps on her body for no reason. She looked back at her father's questioning eyes: "Does father know that Wu Palace is in chaos now? When I was married, I was a woman serving two husbands, and I might even die during the change of power. Do I think that it is only through death that you have the character of a girl from a noble family?"

Xie Rong was silent for a moment and immediately retorted: "So what? In ancient times, Empress Deli married her stepson for the second time, creating a precedent in the prosperous age. Why didn't you agree?"

"Queen Deli has a lot of troops at her disposal. She has the confidence and ability to survive the struggle of the imperial power. If I marry to the Wu Palace, can I have this fate?"

Xie Fengyue's questioning made Xie Rong feel cold. How could her daughter be such a greedy person regardless of the interests of the family? She actually escaped from the marriage just because she was worried about her own life, causing Xie's face and interests to be lost. If it was damaged, wouldn't the Xie family of Chen County be embarrassed in front of the nobles in the world?

The more he thought about it, the more he felt chilled. Xie had provided her with food and drink for so many years, but when it was her turn to dedicate herself to the family, she behaved like this. Looking at her words today, she didn't even feel that she Wrong.

"Hurry back to Chen County with me. I will personally take you to admit your mistake in front of the clan elders. You will then handwrite a letter of apology and send it to Wu Palace in person. You must be sincere and let them keep you and try to restore the damaged family interests. "

Xie Fengyue looked at her father who said these words in disbelief. Her throat tightened and she asked: "Father really doesn't care about his daughter's life or death?"

Xie Rong turned his head away and no longer looked at her expression: "If there is no family protection in this world, how can we live with dignity?"

Xie Fengyue smiled coldly. She didn't understand where her father's idea came from. There are many people in this world who don't have family protection. Aren't others living well? Do you have to be like him and value your family's character more than your life to be considered alive?

However, when she thought that her father had just received a letter from the clan and went directly to the Yamen to confess to the crime of corruption, she felt a sense of powerlessness that she had never felt before. A father can allow his family to be confiscated and his relatives to be exiled for the sake of the family. Now why not let his daughter go back and make her a concubine for the benefit of the family?

Xie Fengyue lowered her face coldly, stroked her brows, and forcibly calmed down her irritation: "Father is tired today. Go to bed early. I will consider what you said."

After saying that, she shouted out without giving him any time to refute: "Li Xiaobao, take the master back to his room."

After listening to Xie Rong's eloquent educational voice gradually became quieter, Xie Fengyue sighed: "Forget it."

She lowered her head and looked at the few ink balls on the rice paper on the table again, and started to pick up the pen again.

Sort out the situation you know now bit by bit.

The matter between the Xie family and Wu Palace can be put aside for the time being, but Mrs. Xihua cannot let it go.

First of all, she has children, and secondly, she is favored. Why would she join forces with the Xie family to covet that little money?

An idea seemed to flash through my mind.

Xie Fengyue scrawled one word on the paper: "money"

What use does money have to her?

She was in the palace. Although the aristocratic family concentrated power and enclosed the land, the royal family had hundreds of years of foundation, and the aristocratic family had made regular contributions to the country. They had always lived extravagantly. Since she couldn't use it, it could only be used by others.

A very bold idea formed in Xie Fengyue's mind.

Could it be that she is raising an army privately?

As soon as this thought came out, it seemed like a rope connected all these scattered things.

Only to support the army will endlessly require large amounts of money to be invested. Food, grass, baggage, and military pay are all bottomless pits that swallow gold.

One hundred thousand taels is not much, but it does not mean that Mrs. Xihua just embezzled this one hundred thousand taels. There is also the paper forgery of the Beihai Tang family that Gongzi Yan investigated when he first came to Chenjun. Even converting her dowry into silver is a horrifying matter. number of people.

The more Xie Fengyue thought about it, the more frightened she became. It was not that Xie wanted to cooperate with Wu Gong! It was the Xie family and Wu Gong who were all working for Mrs. Xihua.

The answer was about to come out, but Xie Fengyue stopped writing.

If this is true, then she and Gongzi Yan were misled before, mistakenly thinking that it was just the head of the Xie family who wanted to unite with the Wu Palace, but in fact it was Mrs. Xihua who was behind the plan. No wonder Princess Shuyi came to Chen from Shengjing. County, she did not necessarily only come to Chen County.

Xie Fengyue quickly wrote on the paper with a pen, and after sealing it with fire paint, she said with a heavy expression: "Come in with Zhe Zhi."

"You personally go to Baozhuang Pavilion and Huiji Bank in Lingnan City, take the piece of jade given by Gongzi Yan to the head shopkeeper, and be sure to ask them to deliver this letter to Gongzi Yan immediately."

(End of this chapter)