Concubine's true colors

Chapter 244 Visiting the Prince's Mansion at Night

Seeing her grandmother, gritted her teeth and nodded reluctantly, and handed over the power of housekeeping again, Xiao Jinxuan immediately smiled with satisfaction in her heart, put away her aggressive posture, and instantly returned to her usual harmless manner. gentle appearance.

Don't rush for quick success in everything. Xiao Jinxuan knows the truth of jumping over the wall in a hurry. She returned home tonight, and this first contest with Xiao Jinyu and others can be said to be a complete victory.

But don't look at her just now, and the old lady of the Bai family is competing against each other. In fact, it is obviously impossible to not care about the power of the Duke's mansion at all.

Therefore, Xiao Jinxuan felt that it was enough to just click on it, and now she regained the most important right to be in charge of the family, this gain is not small.

Although she did dislike Mrs. Zhao more and more, it was much easier for her to act when the other party was in power, and she didn't have to worry about the old lady stumbling her in the dark.

As for Mrs. Zhao's increasingly power-hungry temperament, Xiao Jinxuan also sees it all, but looking at the entire commander-in-chief, Mrs. Shen is in poor health and can support the position of the head of the family. Giving the power to the other party is her only choice now.

Seeing that everyone in the room was silent, and no one dared to question her, Xiao Jinxuan, who was satisfied immediately, bowed out respectfully. Although her attitude was polite, it gave off a sense of poise.

And until Xiao Jinxuan left the Taining Courtyard, Xiao Jinyu, who had been silent for a while, immediately had red eyes, got up and grabbed the old lady's sleeves, and said with a choked voice:

"Grandmother, you didn't believe Jinyu when she said that she was bullied by her concubine in the mansion, but now you have seen it for yourself, so Xiao Jinxuan used to make meritorious deeds by relying on snow, and went away with Prince Rui and Prince Yu." I'm so close, so I don't take my sister-in-law seriously at all. Now the emperor and the concubine Liang also pay attention to her. Look at me, my concubine, I am really even more insane now. I am afraid that the Xiao family will be more arrogant in the future. I have no place for my granddaughter."

As soon as these words were finished, Xiao Jinyu's tears were like beads with a broken string, ticking and dripping non-stop, and the old matriarch's heart wrinkled in pain as soon as he saw it.

Thinking of his youngest daughter who died early, leaving such a trace of blood in Xiao Jinyu, the old matriarch immediately looked annoyed and looked at Mrs. Xiao with a bad expression.

"I said how you are a grandmother. My precious granddaughter is suffering, and you don't know how to support her. The huge handsome mansion is now controlled by a concubine. Yuanxiang, your name is I said what's good about you, it's really useless."

Bai Yuanxiang is Mrs. Xiao's real name. Ever since she married into Xiao's family from Hua Guogong's mansion, this name has basically been called less and less.

And the old lady is the wife of Mrs. Xiao's elder brother, and she is her own sister-in-law according to her seniority, so there is nothing wrong with the other party calling her by her name.

Seeing that the old matriarch angered herself, Mrs. Xiao couldn't help but sighed. In front of her mother's family, she couldn't help showing a tired and helpless look:

"Sister-in-law, it wasn't Yuanxiang who didn't protect Yu'er. It was because my concubine granddaughter was too difficult to deal with. Originally, after sister-in-law personally sent Jinyu back, Yuanxiang should send you back to the Duke's mansion, but after learning that Xiao Jinxuan After I died, the reason why I left you was to help me, and to say that I am not afraid of my sister-in-law's jokes, I really feel powerless to deal with that girl by myself."

Seeing that the old lady who has been in charge of the commander's mansion for many years and has always been quite strong showed such a helpless expression, the old lady immediately frowned and snorted coldly and said:
"Yuan Xiang needless to say, you are from the Bai family of our Duke's Mansion, and that dead girl is really difficult to deal with. You are my sister-in-law. I will not stand by idly by reason or reason. Tonight I have some I have underestimated the enemy, tomorrow I will definitely make Xiao Jinxuan look good, and I made you and Jinyu angry!"

Because Xiao Jinxuan survived the fall from the cliff and miraculously returned safely, Mrs. Xiao had no choice but to invite the old Mrs. Bai from her mother's family to help while she was depressed.

In fact, because Xiao Jinxuan and Zhou Xianyu were not dead, Mrs. Xiao was not the only one who became nervous and busy. It can be seen that it is already [-] o'clock in the night, and the city of Changping has long been banned, and the imperial palace in the capital is even more restricted Closed, heavily guarded.

But all of a sudden, the palace door, which was seen to be insignificant and would not be opened without authorization, opened silently in this dark and quiet night, and then an inconspicuous small carriage passed by a man in a cloak. Under the control, it drove out of the inner courtyard of the palace with a very soft voice, and headed all the way towards Xiangning Lane.

Because the wheels of the carriage and the four hooves of the horses were all wrapped in cotton cloth, so although the carriage was not slow, when it stopped in front of the Prince Tai's mansion, there was no sound along the way. It didn't arouse anyone's idea.

When they arrived at the gate of the Prince's Mansion, the man wearing a cloak and driving the carriage immediately helped a woman with a veil on her face and a black cloak from inside the carriage, and then the two of them knocked on the vermilion gate of the Prince's Mansion.

Not long after, the guard opened the door, but before he could ask a question, the man in the cloak who drove the car just now took out a golden token engraved with the pattern of nine phoenixes and the rising sun.

As soon as the guard saw the token, his expression froze immediately, and he didn't ask any questions at once, so he hurriedly welcomed the two into the palace, and closed the gate of the palace cautiously.

As for the scene in front of his mansion, Zhou Xiantai, who still didn't know anything about it, was still sitting alone in the study room even though it was night. It was just that he didn't rest so late, but it wasn't because he was busy with some official business, but because he was leaning on the bed. Sitting on the back of the chair, his eyes were closed tightly, and he was thinking about something in his mind with a decadent expression.

Today Zhou Xianyu received the news as soon as he came back, and then Qi Bei was captured, Heishanzhai was destroyed, Yan Sibao was killed, and the Heitie incident was completely exposed. Such bad news was delivered one after another during the day Near his mansion.

And when he learned that Zhou Xianyu, the seventh younger brother, the first thing he did after returning to Beijing was to enter the palace to face the saint, Zhou Xiantai felt that he was finished.

And from that moment on, he locked himself in the study, even if Ji Lingfeng came over many times, he never saw each other.

Thinking that although he is the empress's son, he cannot compete with the prince born to the empress. He has worked hard for a long time, and now he has lost everything. If the royal family mines ordinary pig iron privately, it will be regarded as treason, and it is inevitable to escape the death penalty.

But now he mined more precious black iron, Zhou Xiantai couldn't even imagine how his father would punish him after knowing this.

And no matter what the result is, Emperor Ming must be afraid of his son in his heart. The prince who is suspected by the emperor will basically be sentenced to death, and he will never have the chance to be the crown prince in this life.

He couldn't help but sighed again in melancholy, just when Zhou Xiantai was so upset that he wanted to get up to find some drinks and get drunk, suddenly he heard a voice from a calm and pretentious woman coming from outside the study. sound:

"Prince, what is causing you to be so worried, don't forget that you are the empress's child, the most honored prince of the Great Zhou, and you have lost your fighting spirit. If you spread the word, you are giving your mother Shame."

As soon as the words fell, the door of the study was pushed open, and then the woman with the veil on her face walked in, and after she took the veil away, the person who appeared in front of Zhou Xiantai was astonishingly serious. It is Da Zhou's current national mother, Empress Xue Shi.

He never expected that Empress Xue would appear in his palace. After being stunned for a while, Zhou Xiantai realized that he quickly got up and immediately knelt down respectfully to greet his mother.

But Xue Hou glanced at Zhou Xiantai who was kneeling in front of him, but directly bypassed him, came to sit on the chair in front of the book case, and then did not ask his son to get up, but said in a very graceful manner:
"It seems that Yu Wang came back and sued you in front of your father. It really dealt a big blow to the emperor. Knowing the son is like the mother, and the queen knows that you will not be able to bear it. I didn't take the risk to come out to see you, but I didn't expect that the emperor would not only be unable to carry it, but now he is almost indistinguishable from that stray dog. The son of the dignified queen, like that coward, hid in the study and wailed Long sigh, you really disappointed the queen mother."

Since Zhou Xiantai could remember, Empress Xue had been extremely strict with him. Now seeing that the other party had annoyed him, the majestic Prince Tai who immediately did not get angry in front of others, did not even dare to get up, but hurriedly glanced at Empress Xue, and said He kowtowed and said:

"What the empress mother taught me is that the boy has disappointed you, but now that the black iron matter can no longer be hidden, and the seventh younger brother enters the palace, the emperor probably knows that the man behind the scenes is the boy. The guards, as well as the private soldiers in Heishanzhai, were all detained by Zhou Xianyu, and the boy was beyond debate, and there was no room for change."

But upon hearing this, Empress Xue suddenly laughed, and then murmured in a very soft voice with a trace of bewitching:

"Since you can't argue with anyone, then just don't ask anything, don't say anything, Qi Bei is loyal to you, your grandfather has sent me news that he will use his status as the prime minister to push all the faults to Qi Bei in the court. As for his identity from now on, he is no longer the captain of the guard of your prince's mansion, but the secret agent sent by the Beirong Kingdom to lurk by your side for many years, and your three hundred black armored guards and the private soldiers on the black mountain stronghold , all of which were arranged by Qi Bei using your name."

Ignoring Zhou Xiantai who was kneeling on the ground with a stunned expression, Empress Xue smiled at him lightly, and then continued to speak calmly and softly:

"As for you, the emperor, whether it is a joint interrogation by the officials or your father asking you, Xiantai just needs to say that you don't know anything about it. , all will be Qi Bei's secret work, in order to disturb my Great Zhou Dynasty, the insidious deeds, the emperor at most committed the crime of not being investigated by employing people, with me and your grandfather protecting each other, it is your father who knows in his heart, These are all lies, so what, we have already provided a reasonable explanation, and with the influence of my Xue family in the court, who would dare to touch you!"

(End of this chapter)