swear not to be concubine

Chapter 132

The moment Li Nianlan saw Nie Qingniang, she began to feel apprehensive.

Even though Nie Qingniang is the most kind person, she rarely has any interaction with Nie Qingniang on weekdays, but no matter how they all belong to the aunt.

If the aunt really wanted to embarrass a concubine, there were various ways.

So Li Nianlan immediately suppressed all the smug smiles on her face, bowed her knees to salute Nie Qingniang, and called out respectfully, "Ma'am."

Nie Qingniang didn't care about her superficial efforts, she just supported Wei Wei's hand, walked over quickly, stood still in front of her, and asked anxiously: "You just said, your sister Is it true that you went to the Empress Dowager and told Yan'er to marry Prince Xingping instead of Wen'an county head?"

Li Nianlan felt her scalp tingling, and her hands and feet began to tremble.

It was she who was stunned by Jian Yan's anger just now, so she said all those words regardless.But who would have thought that Nie Qingniang was here, and she listened to all these words.

Nie Qingniang saw that Li Nianlan's face turned green and pale, but she didn't deny it, so she knew that what she said was true.

She was furious at the moment, no matter how good-tempered she was usually, she couldn't help it this time.

There was only a snapping sound.It turned out that it was Nie Qingniang who raised her hand high in anger, and slapped Li Nianlan hard with her hands.

This scratch seemed to exhaust all the strength in Nie Qingniang's body.There were five bright red finger prints on Li Nianlan's tender face, and her head was tilted to one side.A butterfly love flower hairpin inlaid with rubies in golden silk that was originally on the hair bun was also beaten to the ground. With a crisp clang, the inlaid rubies fell down, rolled a few times, and sank into the grass next to it. from inside.

Li Nianlan was directly stunned by Nie Qingniang's slap.

She raised her hand to cover the side of her cheek that was beaten, opened her eyes wide, and looked up at Nie Qingniang in disbelief.

And Nie Qingniang was already flushed with anger, and now she stretched out her hand again, pointed at Li Nianlan, and cursed in a trembling voice: "I ask myself how kind I have been to your mother and daughter all these years, and even more so to your sister. When she served King Ning as a concubine, I gave her 2000 taels of silver and two sets of hair masks for makeup, but I didn’t want you all to be a bunch of Zhongshan wolves. How were you doing in this back house in the past? I'm too lazy to bother about being domineering, but now you're putting this idea on my daughter's head. I want to ask, where's your conscience? Have you given it to the dog, huh? Yan Isn't she the younger sister of you and your older sister? But you have such vicious thoughts to plot against her?"

Speaking of this, she was so angry that she couldn't stop coughing.

Jian Yan hurriedly stepped forward to support her, and said in a low voice: "Mother, getting angry with such a person will only lower your status. Forget it, I'd better help you go back and rest first."

He turned his head again, looked at Li Nianlan, and said coldly: "These people have a conscience, even if they throw it to the dog, the dog will not eat it. They think it is dirty."

Then she ignored Li Nianlan's angry and hateful eyes, helped Nie Qingniang to turn around and went back to Ya'anju.

Nie Qingniang's body was trembling slightly along the way.But she still stretched out her hand, held Jian Yan's hand tightly in her palm, and comforted her in a low voice: "Yan'er, don't worry, mother will not let you marry that Xingping king of the world."

She kept repeating such a sentence all the way to Ya'anju, like a repeater, as if comforting Jian Yan, but also comforting herself.

Jian Yan only felt sour in her heart and hot eye circles.

In fact, she also clearly knew in her heart that she was such an insignificant person, how could the emperor and empress dowager, who had been in high positions for a long time, put her in their eyes?Naturally, the emperor would not offend the empress dowager because of her, so as long as the empress dowager spoke to the emperor about it, it was basically a matter of certainty.And what could she do?What can Nie Qingniang do?

Escape again?Last time, even if she escaped from Mrs. Jane's hands, it wouldn't hinder anyone.But this time, the imperial power was at the top and offended the emperor, so she ran away. The other people in Zheng Guogong's mansion loved to die, she didn't want to and would not care about it, but what about Nie Qingniang and Li Xin?
She can't do anything now to make the two of them suffer any harm because of her.

Or maybe she can do something on the way from the capital to the northwest?After all, the sky is high and the emperor is far away, so it is quite normal to have a robber or something.It's just that for such a thing, you have to communicate with someone in advance.But now she is trapped in this deep house, and it is difficult to get out.

In addition, I don't know if Xu Zhongxuan knows about this, will he get mad and do something terrible?Then it will be really difficult.

Jian Yan's heart was in a mess, and she still couldn't calm down after arriving in Ya'anju.

At this moment, Nie Qingniang tried her best to calm down.

Although she has always been a coddled and weak-tempered person, as the saying goes, being a mother makes her strong. Compared to her previous feeling of being at a loss and being helpless, she now appears much calmer and calmer.

She first comforted Jian Yan, saying that as long as she was there, she would never let Jian Yanyuan marry the prince of Xingping as his concubine in the northwest, and then she sent Qin Xin to escort Jian Yan away. go back.

Seeing Jian Yan's slender back disappearing at the door, she sat up straight, called Lan Xin to come forward, and ordered her to invite the Duke over.

And when Li Yi came over, he saw Nie Qingniang sitting on the Arhat's bed with a rare serious expression on his face, looking at him sharply and calmly.

Li Yi felt a little guilty and didn't dare to meet her eyes directly.So he lowered his head slightly, sat down in the first armchair on the left, and asked others: "You asked the servant girl to find me and said that you have something important to say to me." , what kind of important words?"

Nie Qingniang's first important sentence was: "Why did you reject Xu Shilang's marriage proposal yesterday?"

Li Yi's answer was exactly what Li Nianyi said to him yesterday that he could not marry Jian Yan to Xu Zhongxuan.

Nie Qingniang sneered when she heard the words: "You are an imposing seven-foot man, and you don't have any success in your stomach. Instead, you want to listen to your own daughter. I feel ashamed and flustered for you."

Then she said in a daze, "You are nothing more than looking at it. After King Ning succeeds, Li Nianyi is at least a concubine, and then he can lead the whole Zheng Guogong's mansion to heaven? But why don't you think about it?" , King Ning has lost power now, and King Liang is growing up on his own. If King Liang succeeds, what will happen to King Ning? What will happen to Li Nianyi? What will happen to Zheng Guogong's mansion? He is also capable, and joined the cabinet at a young age. If Yan'er can be married to him, even if King Ning falls in the future, with Xu Shilang mediating in the middle, Zheng Guogong's mansion will be unharmed. But you are lucky, you cut off this road abruptly with your own hands."

Li Yi only got no temper after being scolded by Nie Qingniang's words.

In fact, after driving Xu Zhongxuan away yesterday, he calmed down and thought about it, and he also felt that he should have agreed to the marriage at that time.But at that moment, Li Nianyi said that, he just didn't agree.

He thought about it for a while, and then said: "We still have Lan'er. It's the same if Lan'er is married to Xu Zhongxuan."

When Nie Qingniang heard this, she shook her head in anger.

At that moment she sneered and said: "Don't say that the person Xu Shilang came to ask for is Yan'er, but that Li Nianlan is just a concubine, how can Xu Shilang take a liking to her? Lord, what is your plan?" It’s probably a bit too miscalculated.”

Li Yi naturally knew what she said was right.

In the past, when Xu Zhongxuan was not sure that he belonged to Liang Wang's party, he had thought of marrying Li Nianlan to him.So I have said it several times, both overtly and secretly, but Xu Zhongxuan tactfully dismissed it.And now Xu Zhongxuan has a high position, which noble daughter in the capital is not worthy of him?I'm afraid they really look down on Li Nianlan who was born as a concubine.

So Li Yi didn't speak, but just lowered his head, holding the tea that the little maid brought up just now, and slowly drinking it.

At this time, I heard Nie Qingniang asking again: "Li Nianyi went to see Princess Tong'an and the Queen Mother, and said that Yan'er was to replace Wen'an County Princess and marry far away to the northwest to be the concubine of Prince Xingping, do you know?"

Li Yi's hand trembled, and a few drops of tea splashed out and landed on the back of his hand.

The scalding hot water just poured out is naturally hot when it falls on the back of the hand.Li Yi felt that the place where the tea was splashed was scorching hot.

But he didn't dare to complain of pain, he just sat there silently without speaking.

Nie Qingniang was just guessing, but seeing Li Yi's current reaction, she was sure that Li Yi knew about it.

He even knew?When did he know?Why don't you tell her when you know?
Nie Qingniang felt that her heart was slowly cooling down.

It's just that now, she doesn't bother to ask why he didn't come to tell her about it.She just asked: "How do you plan to do this? If you call Xu Shilang over now and just say you agreed to his marriage proposal, then even if the emperor comes back tomorrow and the mother begs and intimidates you, you will definitely not marry someone who has already been engaged." The reason why the daughter of the daughter of the Wen'an County is married to the son of Prince Xingping in place of the Wen'an county head."

So far, this is the only way Nie Qingniang can think of to solve this matter.

But Li Yi sat there without moving, or even speaking.

Nie Qingniang didn't speak either, and of course Nanny Wei and the maidservants standing in the room were even more afraid to speak, and the sound of the breeze blowing the leaves outside the room could be clearly heard.

After a while, Li Yi's voice sounded low.

"If I call Xu Zhongxuan over now and say that I agreed to his marriage proposal, what will Yi'er do if the queen mother and the emperor pursue this matter tomorrow? It is estimated that King Ning knows about this matter. The queen mother, the emperor, Princess Tong'an, and King Ning What will they think of Yi'er? If Yi'er falls out of favor because of this incident, and King Ning will inherit the throne in the future, then our Zheng Guogong's mansion will have no room to turn around. Jing'er and Xin'er's future is still up. ?”

"So you are going to trade my Yan'er's life for the future of your Zheng Guogong's mansion?" Nie Qingniang's voice was astringent and cold, "They are your children, isn't my Yan'er your daughter? ?”

"Because she is my daughter and her surname is Li, she should make some sacrifices for our family." Li Yi's voice became two points louder, "This is her life. Qingniang, you understand Yes, we can’t lose the big with the small.”

Nie Qingniang stared at him closely, and suddenly couldn't help laughing.

"Fate? Come and tell me, what is Yan'er's fate? She was lost as soon as she was born. She spent 14 years outside her control and suffered so much. At that time, those children of you and Aunt Wan What are you doing? Every day is full of rich clothes and jade food. The heavens are pitiful now. She has finally come back to me. She has not lived a comfortable life for two days, but you want her to do it for your children's future and for Zheng Guogong's family. Qian Cheng is married to the Northwest. Who doesn't know that the emperor's name is to give marriage, but it is actually just throwing a chess piece out. When the two armies face each other in the future, who will take care of the life and death of this chess piece? Why, this is my poor The life of your daughter? Li Yi, ask yourself, can you be worthy of Yan'er?"

Li Yi's voice was also a little rough: "I know I'm sorry for Yan'er. But what can I do? This matter was not discussed with me at the beginning. When I knew about this matter, it was already over."

"But now there is obviously room for redemption, but you still insist on refusing to do so?" Nie Qingniang asked tightly, "Are you still afraid that Li Nianyi will be damaged after redemption, and in turn, the future of the so-called dukes?"

Li Yi remained silent.After a while, he just said in a low voice: "Qing Niang, don't blame me. I, I can't do anything about it."

Where in the world do so many helpless things come from?It's just that you think those so-called futures are more important than her Yan'er.

Nie Qingniang stopped talking.

The two of them sat quietly like this, and the sunlight slanting into the room moved slowly.

After a while, I heard Nie Qingniang saying calmly: "There is something I want to tell you."

Li Yi knew that he owed Nie Qingniang a lot on Jian Yan's matter, so when she heard her say this, he hurriedly said, "What's the matter? Tell me."

"Due to my poor health these years, Aunt Wan has been in charge of the house. It's just that I want to take back the right to head the house now. While the Duke is here, we sent someone Go and tell Aunt Wan about this matter, and ask her to hand over all the account books, matching cards, and keys to me."

"This," Li Yi hesitated.

Aunt Wan hasn't made any big mistakes in the housekeeping these years, and she is Li Nianyi's biological mother after all, so if she doesn't look at her face, then she has to look at Li Nianyi's face. If the rights are taken back...

Seeing Li Yi's hesitation, Nie Qingniang couldn't help but sneered: "Why, I don't know, but there is a family of high-ranking officials in this capital whose aunt is the housekeeper and the wife is idle. It used to be It's fine if I'm not in good health, but now that I'm in good health, why shouldn't I be the housekeeper? Or, should I invite some of my father and brothers to come over and talk to the Duke?"

Although Nie Qingniang's father is old and retired, he only has a free Marquis, but her two brothers are in official careers, and they still have some real power in their hands.

Hearing what Nie Qingniang said, Li Yi knew that Nie Qingniang was really angry.

She is an arrogant person, no matter how much she quarreled with him in the past, she never said that she would invite her father and brother to support her.

So Li Yi immediately said: "Look at you, you like to think too much. I'm not worried about your health. The housekeeper's affairs are complicated. I don't want you to worry about these trivial things all day long. Have you taken care of your body? Since you said so, well, now I will send someone to Aunt Wan to get the account books, cards and keys, and that’s all.”

Nie Qingniang only sneered when she heard the words: "No matter how bad my health is, there is still Yan'er, my daughter-in-law who can take care of the house. No matter how bad it is for a few years, if Brother Xin marries a wife, she can also let her daughter-in-law take care of her." Come to the housekeeper. In short, no matter who is the housekeeper among my two children, it will not be her turn to Aunt Wan to be the housekeeper, and let my children live in her hands."

These words are a bit heavy.

Li Yi's face sank immediately, and he said with some displeasure: "What are you talking about? But as long as there is a father like me, how can there be Brother Xin living in other people's hands?" when?"

The reason why he didn't talk about Jian Yan was because he was thinking that Jian Yan would soon marry and go to the Northwest.

When Nie Qingniang heard this, she just sneered and stopped talking.

After a long time, Mother Wei who personally led Qin Xin and Lan Xin to Aunt Wan's place came back.

Nie Qingniang asked, "How is it? Did you get back the account books, cards and keys?"

"It's back." Wei Mama nodded, then glanced at Li Yi again, and said, "Aunt Wan refused to hand over the account books, cards and keys no matter what. Later, the old slave said that this is She just didn't believe what Grandpa Guo meant. In the end, she handed over all of this because she had something to say."

Qin Xin and Lan Xin stepped forward to show Nie Qingniang the ledger, pair of cards and keys they were holding in both hands.

Nie Qingniang picked it up, and seeing that there was nothing wrong with it, she raised her head to Li Yi and said, "Master Guo, I'm afraid Aunt Wan has already gone to look for you, so you should hurry up and explain this to her. "

Naturally, there was a sense of ridicule in the tone.

Li Yi felt a little displeased.

He is also a very face-saving person.A few days ago, I only thought that Nie Qingniang's temper had been restrained, and the two of them could get along as they did when they first got married.But what Nie Qingniang said just now, with a gun and a stick, but it lost all his face and liking.

So he didn't say anything anymore, and he didn't want to stay here any longer, so he got up and was about to leave.

It's just that he just walked to the door when he suddenly heard Nie Qingniang saying: "Master, I hope you will never forget what you said just now. As long as you, my father, are here, my pair of Children will never have a time to live in anyone's hands."

Li Yi felt even more displeased for a moment.

He snorted heavily, stopped talking, and walked away.

(End of this chapter)