slave like jade

Chapter 105
While thinking hard, suddenly Yuan Bao came in from the outside, rushed to Chen Yiqing and gasped, "Young master is not well, the eldest princess heard that your leg was injured, so she came to visit you in the mansion, the sedan chair passed the long street, We will be entering the palace soon."

Hearing this, Chen Yiqing was stunned for a moment, and the next moment he couldn't help jumping his feet and said: "Oh, how much does this eldest princess like me? My son has rejected her so obviously, why are you still here?"

Suddenly thought of something, he gave an evil smile, leaned against the side of the bed, swayed his unbroken right leg proudly, and said slowly: "However, think about it, although this eldest princess is not as charming as my sister-in-law, she still has a good appearance." Ah, it’s not bad to marry as a wife. The most important thing—”

He took a leisurely glance at Mu Lingzhi, who was drinking tea with his head down and ignored his words, proudly said: "I'm younger than you, and I can't beat you, so I'm always under your pressure. Now it's good, as long as I marry After seeing the eldest princess, do you have to follow the fifth princess to call me big brother-in-law, tsk tsk, just by this word 'big brother-in-law', this eldest princess must marry."

"If you want to lose both legs, you can marry that woman. However, I won't strike lightly like Chen Xiang, and I can still connect them if I break them. If I strike, I will directly smash your knees and thigh bones At least—break it into three sections, it will definitely not connect well.”

Mu Lingzhi slowly closed the teacup, and raised his eyelids to look at Chen Yiqing, who didn't even look at the horrified expression. He turned his head and said to the copper coin, "Tell the people who escorted the sweaty BMW to go back. Just say that General Chen's legs are dead. become disabled, and will not be able to ride a horse for the rest of his life."

"Oh, don't, don't, I'd rather have a horse than a human. If you can't ride a horse in this life, what's the fun?" Chen Yiqing hurriedly asked Yuan Bao to hold the copper coins going out, and looked back at the smug Mu Ling Zhi couldn't find his anger, and said sadly: "It's really a wolf, just after saving you, the wolf came to bite Mr. Dong Guo, ah bah, if I knew it, I should have said congratulations to Lu Rong when he proposed to marry him Alright, I wish him and the fifth princess a happy life together, early birth is precious..."

Mu Ling killed him with a sharp knife, Chen Yiqing shrank his neck and lay down on the edge of the bedpost, and said pitifully: "Now you have found the one you love, but left me alone, it's unreasonable, miss me, the Chen family The pulse is passed on, but because you cut off the incense..."

"When you first met me two years ago, that cute little soldier in the barracks, do you still want to see her again?"

Chen Yiqing's face suddenly turned red when she heard the words, her expression was uneasy, and she was stunned for a moment before asking anxiously: "Do you know who she is?"

Mu Lingzhi smiled knowingly, and said unhurriedly: "I have a cousin, eighteen years old, surnamed Xie, named Yuhan, named Princess Feng Yuhan, she doesn't like women's clothes but men's clothes, and she is better than men in horseback riding and archery. Two years ago He sneaked into my barracks and followed the army to catch bandits..."

"Uncle!"

Before Mu Lingzhi could finish his words, Chen Yiqing's brother-in-law shouted his heart out!
"Why, don't let me call your brother-in-law?"

"Brother-in-law, hurry up and help me find a way to get rid of that big Buddha outside!"

Ever since Mu Lingzhi heard what happened to Yu Ruyan from the little palace maid, thinking of Yu Mingzhu's bullying of Yu Ruyan, he hated the eldest princess to the extreme. If she became Chen Yiqing's wife, I'm afraid He and he couldn't even be brothers, so he couldn't help but said coldly: "Since she likes to take the initiative to post up, you might as well let her stay here and take care of you, so that she can see your 'true face', if Let her know that the person she is going to marry is... Cough!"

"Pfft..." Before he could say anything, Chen Yiqing understood what he meant and couldn't help laughing. He pointed to Mu Lingzhi who had a serious face and said, "Tsk tsk, my dear, I really didn't expect that." You are more wicked than me when you think about it. However, this method works, I like it!"

After learning about Chen Xiang's intentions, Yu Mingzhu once again gritted her teeth and came to Chen Yiqing, just because, no matter what, she couldn't lose to Yu Ruyan!
Now, in her opinion, whether she can win Chen Yiqing is not just a matter of finding a good son-in-law, but a battle between her and Yu Ruyan!
Yu Ruyan slapped her face yesterday and her face was swollen, and it took a night of ice packs to subside the swelling.This time, Yu Mingzhu deliberately made her appearance simple and elegant. She changed her previous luxury and came to the Prime Minister's mansion with trepidation. Unexpectedly, this time, Chen Yiqing went to the gate of the courtyard in person with a limping leg, and respectfully invited Yu Mingzhu into his house. yard.

Yu Mingzhu was flattered by his sudden change, and the elders of the Chen family were even more pleased. Chen Xiangyi felt that his stick was really useful.

Chen Xiang and his wife sent Yu Mingzhu to the gate of the courtyard and retreated tactfully, hoping that their relationship would deepen day by day after being alone, and finally they would forget the fifth princess as a matter of course, and marry the eldest princess willingly.

However, Yu Mingzhu happily followed Chen Yiqing into the house, and within an hour she went back to the palace with a gloomy face, and after returning to the palace, she ran to the king of Qi and had a good meal, saying that she could not marry Chen Yiqing anyway. Let Qi Wang refuse Chen Xiang's marriage.

King Qi and Concubine Lian were at a loss. They didn't understand why she wanted to marry Chen Yiqing, who was determined to marry Chen Yiqing.

However, no matter what King Qi and Concubine Lian asked, Yu Mingzhu just gritted her teeth and didn't say a word, only saying that she and Chen Yiqing had nothing to do with each other and could not be husband and wife.

After returning to Chunlan Palace, Concubine Lian dismissed all the palaces and closed the door to ask Yu Mingzhu what happened?

The grievances in her heart were full of grievances and she couldn't say it. Now that she saw her mother and concubine asking about it, Yu Mingzhu couldn't help crying out with a 'wow' anymore.

"Mother Concubine, that General Chen...General Chen is actually a broken sleeve!"

"What is broken sleeve?" Concubine Lian, like Yu Mingzhu, didn't understand what broken sleeve meant at first.

"Mother Concubine, Duanxiu...Duanxiu is, General Chen doesn't love women...he likes men!" Yu Mingzhu remembered what Chen Yiqing said and everything she saw after entering the house, and her heart was completely cold.

It turned out that after Yu Mingzhu entered the house with Chen Yiqing, she wanted to have a good chat with him to deepen their relationship, but she didn't expect that there were other people in the house when she entered the house.

It's fine if it's just a servant girl, but the other three people in his room are all men, and they are all dressed in red and green, and they are more enchanting than the other.

One sat in front of the bronze mirror to apply makeup, the other posted it up when she saw Chen Yiqing, and the handsome young man who had dinner with her at the table last time lay leisurely on the bed and slept soundly.

"Princess sister, please sit down."

Before Yu Mingzhu recovered from the shock, Chen Yiqing's "sister" gave her goosebumps all over her body. She turned around and asked in a daze, "What is your name, princess?"

"Sister, in my eyes, you are like my own sister, I am my elder sister and you are my younger sister!" Chen Yiqing's charming peach eyes blinked non-stop, looking at Yu Mingzhu's incomprehensible She looked ignorant, but in the end she sighed heavily and said, "Does the princess know about the habit of breaking sleeves?"

The princess who grew up in the deep palace of Yu Mingzhu, who had heard such a thing there, shook her head blankly. Seeing her confused look, Chen Yiqing broke her heart and said: "To tell you the truth, princess, I am a seven-foot man on the outside. But I have a woman's heart. Therefore, all I like are men. I, like a princess, need a man's care and love. As for women, they are like sisters. Therefore, if the princess really wants to marry me, she will have to go through To bear the pain of being alone in an empty room day and night, year after year, apart from giving you the status of husband and wife, I really can't give you the reality of husband and wife. Princess, have you made up your mind?"

Yu Mingzhu couldn't believe her ears, it was the first time she heard of a man liking a man at such a young age, she couldn't help being dumbfounded.

Gazing at the four bewitching men in the room, Yu Mingzhu felt uncomfortable and sick all over her body, but the next moment she couldn't take it anymore and went back to the palace as if fleeing.

After she heard these words to Concubine Lian, Concubine Lian was also shocked, and said in disbelief: "How could such a good man... Sigh. If he likes men, how can he marry a wife."

But Concubine Lian thought about it, and said: "No, since he doesn't like women, why did he suddenly think of marrying that bitch yesterday?"

Yu Mingzhu felt bitterer than eating Coptis chinensis, and said sadly: "It is precisely because he likes men, but he can't resist Chen Xiang's urging him to marry and have children, so he thinks of marrying that bitch and going back to cover up people's eyes and ears. Anyway, anyway, he won't. With the reality of husband and wife, he doesn't mind even if she is not innocent anymore."

Upon waking up, Yu Ruyan vaguely felt that the room smelled of ambergris, she suddenly opened her eyes, and when she saw the person next to the bed, she was taken aback for a moment, with a faint disappointment in her eyes— —

He must be dreaming again, how could he come here!

The next second she sat up and took the young man's hand and said in amazement: "Xiao Dao, why did you enter the palace? When did you come here, but was it discovered?"

The flash of disappointment in her eyes did not escape Xiaodao's eyes. His expression darkened slightly, and he was about to tell her that he came last night, but when the words came to his lips, he just said softly: "I will follow the master in the temple in the morning." Going to the city to buy food, I... I will drop by to see my sister."

In fact, it has been two days since Xiaodao entered the city, and he didn't want to take the risk to come in to see her, but after hearing about Chen Yiqing on the street yesterday, and knowing that Yu Ruyan was married again, he couldn't help sneaking in anymore, but ...

Thinking of Mu Lingzhi who had been guarding by the window all night, Yu Xiaodao felt uncomfortable and remorseful. He hated himself for thinking of everything, remembering that he was Mu Chenzhi, his younger brother...

In this way, how can he compete with him for Yu Ruyan!

He could compete for Yu Ruyan with everyone in the world without any taboo, but he couldn't compete with Mu Ling, because that was his elder brother, someone he respected equally.

He knew that his feelings for Yu Ruyan were really inappropriate, because she was already his brother's woman, if he didn't let go, it would be a love affair against humanity, and he could no longer hug his own sister-in-law Have evil intentions...

He clearly understands these truths, but when he sees Yu Ruyan and her warm eyes, Yu Xiaodao can't stop sinking. He has a very clear love and hate, and he is paranoid that he fell in love with Yu first. For Ruyan, it wasn't that he was robbing his brother, but Mu Lingzhi was robbing his beloved woman...

He also deceived himself into thinking that as long as he was a small knife and not Mu Chenzhi, he had the right to continue to like Yu Ruyan. Therefore, even though he knew his identity when he was in Daliang, he did not go to see Concubine Xie and his mother. The concubine recognizes each other.Even though his own brother stood in front of him all night last night, he was still unwilling to go out to meet him...

But no matter how many excuses he finds to continue liking Yu Ruyan, the guilt hidden deep in his heart still hurts his heart deeply, making him ashamed to the point of embarrassment...

As usual, he buried his face deeply into Yu Ruyan's shoulder, desperately absorbing her body fragrance, and said in a trembling voice: "Sister, I heard that the dog emperor is going to marry you again, sister, come with me Come on, I will take you out of the palace now."

Thinking that Mu Lingzhi already knew Yu Ruyan's identity, Xiaodao knew that he would find a way to get her back to him again, so he eagerly wanted to take her away.

Yu Ruyan still coaxed him like a child, and said softly: "You don't have to worry about my sister, my sister has already figured out a way, just wait for the Queen Mother's birthday to pass, and I will take Brother An to leave the palace quietly to find you, never again. came back."

When Xiaodao heard her words, he was very anxious but he couldn't say anything more, he was afraid that if he was too anxious to rush her, it would make her suspicious.

Brother An came in from the outside and was also very surprised to see the knife. Fortunately, the two little girls outside were borrowed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs to help Yanghua Palace because of the Empress Dowager's birthday, and they were not in the palace.

With breakfast in her hand, she went to help Yu Ruyan get up, and called Xiaodao to have breakfast together, but seeing that he was still lying on Yu Ruyan's body and refused to get up, Brother An couldn't help laughing: "Xiaodao, although I don't know When and what month were you born, but judging by your stature, you should be about the same age as me. It is estimated that you are fifteen or sixteen years old. At this age, ordinary young men should get married and start a family. You can’t If you keep clinging to the princess like this every day, your future little lady will know, so why would she be jealous!"

Brother An started laughing and giggling, and Yu Ruyan also joked to Xiaodao after hearing what she said: "Yeah, you are a big man now, you can't just think about mixing with sister and Brother An in the future, You have to think about how to start a family and property, and my sister still expects you to marry a beautiful little daughter-in-law and give birth to a bunch of small knives."

"Crack!" Xiaodao had just sat down at the table, and when he heard Yu Ruyan's words, he suddenly became angry and broke the chopsticks in his hand into two, angrily said: "Who said I must marry a wife, how many times have I said that?" Now, I will only be with my sister in this life, and I don't want to go there, let alone get married and have children. Don't laugh at me again in the future."

Yu Ruyan was taken aback, thinking that Xiaodao must have misunderstood that she didn't want him anymore. She knew that Xiaodao had always felt insecure in her heart, so she hurriedly stepped forward to comfort him and said, "Fool, why do you get angry at the slightest joke? you separate..."

Seeing him hanging his head in annoyance, Yu Ruyan couldn't bear to say anything more about him, but asked him concerned about how he was doing in the temple and whether he was lonely.When he saw his ruddy face, he couldn't help being surprised and said: "I didn't expect you to take good care of yourself. I was worried every day that you would lose weight if you ate vegetarian meals with the masters. I didn't expect you to be fatter than when you were in the palace." I feel better, and my complexion is good, so I feel relieved."

Xiao Daojun blushed, suddenly remembered something, his expression flashed a little awkward, and he buried his head even lower.

After eating too early, Yu Ruyan urged him to leave the palace, Xiaodao looked at Yu Ruyan reluctantly and was very reluctant, and told An Ge over and over again, saying that summer is here, snakes, rats, rats and ants start to appear, so that An Ge must be sure before going to bed. You must close the door and window of Yu Ruyan's bedroom firmly, and you must not relax.

As for Chen Xiangfu, after successfully sending away the big Buddha of Yu Mingzhu, Chen Yiqing felt relaxed all over, without any scruples in his heart, and was about to pull Mu Lingzhi to ask him about Xie Yuhan with great interest, but Mu Lingzhi quickly took off The green clothes on his lower body were returned to him in disgust, and he waved for copper coins and went out.

Chen Yiqing was so bored staying in the room by himself. He was thinking of letting him talk with him. If he didn't want to talk, it would be fine to play chess with him. Seeing that he was going to leave, he quickly stopped him and pretended to be pitiful: "Look at me For the sake of being injured, you don't spend much time with me."

Mu Lingzhi didn't bother to talk to him: "If you want someone to accompany you, I can call you all the girls from Wanhualou in Kyoto. I have something urgent to do, so I won't accompany you."

"Ah, are you trying to kill me by calling me a girl now? First of all, if my father finds out, he will definitely break my other leg, and he will also throw those girls into the pool in the backyard one by one by him. Said that it was hard for me to scare Yu Mingzhu away, let her know that I turned around to find a prostitute, otherwise I had to come to let me marry her, really... Now that you have found someone, and you spent a night with her, what is the important thing something to do?"

Mu Lingzhi looked back at his pitiful appearance, and couldn't help but said angrily: "Didn't I tell you before that I have a younger brother who was killed three years ago, but now someone has seen him alive, And... and have been with the fifth princess all the time, but she left the palace recently. I heard from the palace people that the fifth princess lived in Putuo Temple when she was a child, so I am going to visit Putuo Temple. How are you doing? Rest, wait for me to find my eighth brother and bring him back to drink with you!"

Hearing what he said, Chen Yiqing no longer shamelessly kept him, but hated that her leg injury was not healed, otherwise she could go to Putuo Temple with him and meet the rumored Eighth Prince of Liang!
Xiaodao didn't know that Mu Lingzhi came to Qi country this time not only to find Yu Ruyan, but also to take him back under the entrustment of his father, mother and concubine.

He had just returned to the gate of the temple when he heard a young monk from the temple running to tell him that two benefactors had been waiting for him in his room for a long time.

He was startled, and suddenly remembered something, and hurriedly asked the little monk about the person's voice, appearance and appearance. After hearing the little monk's description, his heart sank with a 'thump'. Seeing him come back, he turned around and walked towards Kyoto again.

After walking a few steps, he couldn't help feeling sour and uncomfortable again——

When he was young, his favorite thing to do was to follow Mu Lingzhi, learn horseback riding and archery from him, and learn martial arts from him. From childhood to adulthood, his elder brother has always been obedient to him, and he is used to him in everything. The matter also let his elder brother help him to take the blame and be punished, but now, will he let himself return Yu Ruyan to him?
Xiaodao's heart was in pain and confusion, he knew very well that his brother could give him anything, even if it was Daliang's thousands of miles of country, he could give it to him, but Yu Ruyan, he would definitely not give it up, just like him the same as myself.

Xiaodao quietly walked back to the back of his house from the back mountain, hiding away and watching the people in the house.

I saw Mu Lingzhi sitting by his bed, looking at the simple furnishings in the house one by one, with a heartache on his face, and he kept asking the master in the yard what he seemed to be asking for news about him.

Yu Xiaodao outside the house was filled with soreness, he really wanted to enter the house to meet his brother, but when he thought of Yu Ruyan, he let Mu Lingzhi wait anxiously inside the house.

And Mu Lingzhi in the house was equally sad. Looking at the simple furnishings in the house and the desolation and silence around him, he thought that Chenzhi had been rich and well-clothed since he was a child, and he liked to be lively. .

Yu Xiaodao was kicked out of the palace and left Yu Ruyan's side because Mu Lingzhi heard the little palace maid, so he was even more guilty and sad——

Yu Ruyan stayed by his side for so long, yet he didn't find the knife. If he had known all this earlier, Yu Ruyan would not have left him, and the two brothers had already gathered together, so that Chenzhi would not suffer so much... …

Mu Lingzhi, who had waited for a day until the sun set, left the temple and went back. Before leaving, he wrote a letter to the monk in the trust temple and handed it to Xiao Dao, letting him see the letter and leave the letter to look for him in Chen Xiangfu. left.

Seeing him go, Xiaodao outside the house silently turned and walked out. Unknowingly, he came to a small farmhouse under the temple. Asleep by the stove...

Hurrying back to the capital, Mu Lingzhi sent the copper coins back to Chen's mansion to rest, then turned around and went to the palace.

Tong Qian saw that he hadn't closed his eyes for a moment since yesterday, and hadn't eaten anything, so he couldn't help but want to persuade him to go back and rest, but before he could speak, Mu Lingzhi couldn't wait to enter the palace.

He came to Jinying Palace familiarly, it was still early, and Yu Ruyan in the palace was still asleep, so he didn't dare to get too close, so he had to jump up to the eaves to remove a piece of roof tile, and carefully slipped through the crack. He looked at Yu Ruyan below with infatuation.

However, the weather was not good, and it rained heavily after a while. Mu Lingzhi was afraid that the rain would pour in through the gaps in the tiles, so he reluctantly covered the tiles, and waited on the eaves under the rain, looking forward to the next day. Only dare to go down after turning off the lights.

Finally, in the middle of the night, everyone in the palace was sound asleep. Mu Lingzhi jumped down from the eaves, just about to take a good look at Yu Ruyan, and couldn't help being stunned.

It turned out that after listening to Xiaodao's order and not trusting the two little girls in the yard, Brother An really closed the doors and windows tightly, leaving him nothing.

He really wanted to open the door and go in, but he also knew that Yu Ruyan was a light sleeper, if he disturbed her, how would he face her?
Mu Lingzhi didn't dare to appear in front of her before he thought about how to make amends to her.

For some reason, the third prince of Daliang, who has always been confident and invincible, flinched for the first time. In front of her, he didn't even have a shred of courage. He only dared to look at her secretly...

In desperation, Mu Lingzhi jumped onto the roof again, but was suddenly shocked——

At some point, there was an extra person quietly on the eaves, and the mask with a cold light on his face was the masked assassin who had fought against him many times in Daliang!

(End of this chapter)