Resourceful beauty

Chapter 24
The Lantern Festival is held every year, but it is rare for the young master of the Qiu family to throw down the young lady of the Wang family. In two days, several versions of the script have been circulated in the capital.

Su Yuan was in a hurry, but there was nothing she could do, her brows were frowning, forming a deeply lined "Chuan" character between her brows.

But Fang Ruyu burst into tears at the slightest disturbance, and the whole Lishui Pavilion was not at peace for a moment.

Concubine Shen was originally a reclusive person. Knowing what happened in the mansion, she even restrained her daughter Fang Rulan and the servants of Nuanxiang Palace not to move around recklessly. Concubine Wu also followed the gourd. A little quieter than before.

On the eighteenth day of the first lunar month, King Qi, who had gone to Northwest Daying to report on his duties, came back.

Xu Shi had already heard the rumors in Beijing on the way, King Qi's expression was worried, and there was a trace of reproach in his eyes when he glanced at Su Yuan and Fang Ruyu.

After entering the Yixin Palace, Su Yuan knelt down and cried, "My lord, you are all concubines, and you didn't teach your daughter well. But when the incident happened suddenly that night, Yu A girl's family, how can I avoid being calculated like this? Prince, you have to make decisions for the concubine and her daughter."

He ordered his servants to check, and checked again and again, no matter whether Fang Ruxuan or the people from the Qiu residence, there was no trace of any tampering.

Even Su Yuan was a little uncertain: Could it be a coincidence?

However, Fang Ruyu, her daughter, is the one who is ashamed now. Even if it is really a coincidence, she will drag the person she dislikes into the water.

If we don't let our mother and son be happy, no one should want to be happy!

Thinking hard, Su Yuan cried more and more miserably.

The unattractive face turned even paler, King Qi didn't ask Su Yuan to get up, and asked rather helplessly: "It doesn't matter if it's a coincidence or someone plotted against it, it has already happened, so we have to think about how to fix it. Let me ask." You, what have you been doing these past few days?"

Thinking that King Qi was complaining that she didn't do anything, Su Yuan excused aggrievedly, "There are so many people talking about it, almost everyone is talking about this matter, I can't explain to them one by one, saying that things are not what they heard. "

With a face full of disappointment, King Qi sighed, shook his head and said, "Su Yuan, you and your sister are far apart..."

In a word, Su Yuan's eyes were wide open, and she even forgot to cry.

King Qi continued: "If the concubine is still there, the night she finds out about this, she will send someone to send Ruyu out of the mansion first, and let her stay away from this place of right and wrong. As long as she is not around, what is said in the capital will be ignored." No matter how unbearable it is, it can't hurt her. You are also a mother, don't you know who is hurt the most by this incident? "

"me……"

Whispering, Su Yuan didn't know what to say, and King Qi continued to say in his ear, "People's words are scary, but you didn't do anything, you just thought about who plotted against you, hey..."

Her heart was full of remorse, Su Yuan smiled wryly, and raised her head unwillingly to ask King Qi: "If it's my sister, what can I do if I send Yu'er out of the house? Can the rumors be put to rest? If not, what about Yu'er? Living outside forever and not being able to come home?"

Unexpectedly, when I mentioned this, Su Yuan didn't know what to do. Qi Wang sighed: "Ruyu is so old, and he has only been back to the capital a few times? Except for the people around him, who knows what to do?" Is she the lady of Duke Qi's mansion?"

"Put out your concubine Qi's demeanor, pick a girl from the palace who is about the same size as Ruyu, and has an outstanding appearance. The master's face is sent to Qiu's mansion, and the person who was knocked down by the young master is served by Ruyu's side. Give it to his young master as a concubine or as a maid, let them handle it. In this way, before the rumors spread outside, this matter has already been dusted between the Wangfu and Qiufu It's settled, how dare the Qiu family say anything wrong?"

"The ladies who were with Yu'er when watching the lanterns at night are also from rich families. They are well-mannered and educated. If you send someone over to give some advice, who will gossip outside?"

After King Qi finished speaking, Su Yuan's face was ashen.

It was her inaction as a mother that led to the current situation.

Sighing one after another in his heart, King Qi was disappointed and helpless in his heart, but looking at Su Yuan's distraught appearance, he obviously blamed himself to the extreme. King Qi didn't say anything more, and comforted him, "You rest!" Come on, I'll go take a look at Ruyu." Then he got up and left the Yixin Hall.

The rest of the people in the hall followed immediately, and went back to their houses.

In Lishui Pavilion, Fang Ruyu stared blankly at the red charcoal fire in the charcoal basin, and didn't even notice when King Qi entered the house.

"Ruyu..."

A kind voice sounded, Fang Ruyu raised her head in a daze, and when she saw that it was her father, she cried aggrievedly, got up and threw herself into his arms, "Daddy, my daughter don't want to live, don't live..."

"Silly boy……"

Patting Fang Ruyu's head with a smile, King Qi scratched her nose and said, "You're a big girl, and you still say such childish things."

I looked around and saw that Fang Ruyu had already lost a lot of weight in ten days. It can be seen that she didn't think about eating and drinking these few days. King Qi coaxed: "You go to wash and clean up, and come to have dinner with Daddy. good?"

Fang Ruyu nodded, turned around and went to the inner room. In the main room, a few maids hurriedly went to the small kitchen to bring the prepared lunch.

Chatting while eating, after dinner, all the haze in Fang Ruyu's heart dissipated.

"Don't worry, Daddy will deal with it, the Qiu family dare not do anything to you, huh?"

Before leaving, King Qi patted Fang Ruyu's head.

In the Shanshui Pavilion, Fang Ruxuan was sitting behind the desk, concentrating on her calligraphy, while Su Ye rubbed the ink gently.

When King Qi opened the door and came in, he saw such a scene.

Seeing King Qi coming in, Fang Ruxuan put down the pen in her hand, stepped forward to please King Qi, and brought the brewed tea to King Qi, "Daddy, why didn't brother come back with you?"

Sitting in front of the couch, King Qi took a sip from the tea bowl, nodded with satisfaction and said with a smile: "Miss him? I'll be back in a few days. A good man is on the battlefield. Now that he's in the camp, he should concentrate on it."

Fang Ruxuan wrinkled her nose playfully as if she knew what her father would say.

Concerned about what Fang Ruxuan had read in the past few days and what he learned, King Qi turned to ask what happened on the night of the Lantern Festival.

"What do you think about this matter?"

He always suspected that Qiu Zongde had something to do with being framed. Now that Qiu Zongde's stupid son threw Fang Ruyu down in full view, King Qi immediately suspected that the Qiu family had ulterior motives.

When he asked the words, King Qi himself was a little surprised.

In the past, he used to talk about this kind of thing with the former princess Su Xin. The two people always had the same views, and they felt like heroes saw the same thing. Later, Su Xin passed away. , When talking to her about the outside world, they always talk like chickens and ducks.

Speaking to his daughter at this moment, he actually took it for granted.

"Daddy suspects it's a conspiracy by the Qiu family?"

Fang Ruxuan explained her father's thoughts in one word.

King Qi nodded, and told her the news he had checked these days, "You said that King Lu was suspicious. I have been checking after the new year. He returned to Beijing in November last year. He and Qiu Zongde are the most suspicious of the people who reported on me. However, these two people have always been at odds, so there are not enough clues as to who among them designed such a thing. However, what happened on the night of the Lantern Festival, It's too coincidental, that's why I have such doubts for my father."

Fang Ruxuan knew Qiu Ming was a human being. Where Qiu Ming was, such and such things would always happen. Compared to that, that night was still a trivial matter.

"Although I didn't see it with my own eyes, I did inquire about it afterwards. The young master of Qiu's mansion is as intelligent as a child. Before the incident, he followed the second sister at every step, and the second sister wanted to avoid him wholeheartedly. Then he walked away in a panic. Later, someone bumped into the second sister, and the second sister stopped a step, and then her skirt was stepped on by the young master of the Qiu Mansion, and both of them fell down. The second sister got angry, and immediately, the group returned We went to Huixian Tower. Even though it was a lantern festival that night, there were not many people who wanted to see what Second Sister looked like."

Fang Ruyu finished speaking in one breath.

Already having an idea in his heart, King Qi nodded, but still said with some headache: "If your mother and concubine were here, things wouldn't be where they are today."

After all, concubine and concubine are different, concubine's vision and handling of affairs are always very different from concubine's daughter.

King Qi thought about this sentence in his heart, but he didn't say it.

Looking up at Fang Ruxuan who was standing beside him, King Qi thought about taking the school exam, teasing her and asked, "Put yourself in the same place, if the young master of Yeqiu Mansion stepped on your skirt and threw you down, what would you do?"

Fang Ruxuan was taken aback.

If Qiu Ming had been following him that night, maybe there would be such a possibility.

Thinking to herself, Fang Ruxuan thought for a while, and replied playfully: "If that's the case, I'll wrap my hat up and run away so that everyone can't see me. When I get back to Huixian Tower, I'll threaten that Ladies, whoever dares to tell what happened at that time, I will tell the emperor's cousin, saying that they have ruined my reputation, and ask the emperor's cousin to punish them severely."

Putting on a fierce look, Fang Ruxuan continued: "I want to focus on frightening the lady of the Qiu Mansion. If the Qiu Mansion dares to use this incident to spread rumors and cause trouble, I will hang myself at the gate of the Qiu Mansion, and I will haunt you even if I am a ghost." They. Then, after death, entrust a dream to the father and the emperor's cousin, and let them severely punish the Qiu family."

Seeing Fang Ruxuan's delicate and naive face, with a ridiculous look of a villain's success, King Qi laughed happily, and the unhappiness accumulated in his heart since entering the mansion immediately disappeared with the laughter.

Su Yuan and Fang Ruyu soon knew about the conversation between King Qi and Fang Ruxuan's father and daughter.

King Qi's assumption about how the former concubine Su Xin would respond, and Fang Ruxuan's conjecture about putting herself in the situation, caused the mother and daughter to have a brief silence.

(End of this chapter)