Chapter 171: Brother and Sister-in-Law

Chun Jia had always been very indulgent towards Yun Fenghuang, but now that the imperial concubine is pregnant and the family is reunited in the first lunar month, naturally she readily agreed.

Xie Xiaoyu immediately went to look for Xiao Jiang after receiving the news of entering the palace for an audience, and asked if she had sued her?

"So what if it's me?" Others were afraid of Xie Xiyu's honorable status from being a son of a country gentry to a brother of a noble concubine, but Xiao Jiang was not afraid. She gestured a few hairpins in front of the bronze mirror, and said without looking back, "Just allow you to be promiscuous outside, and I'm not allowed to say a few words of sadness to the empress? Don't forget, how did Brother Eleven suffer such a big loss? Didn't it just fall on the beauty! I'm doing this for your own good! "

Xie Xiaoyu strode over, gave her a slap on the ear, and screamed the unsuspecting Xiao Jiang. If she hadn't held onto the cabinet next to her in time, she would have almost fallen to the ground!

"Are you crazy?!" Xiao Jiang turned her head in disbelief, forgetting to cover her red and swollen cheeks, "I'm still pregnant, you... you just hit me?! Just enter the palace for me... "

"It's fine for you to go into the palace to look for the empress without any trouble, but you dare to go now?!" Xie Xiaoyu said with a cold face, "The empress suffered a lot when she first entered the palace, so she has been recuperating for many years. It took a lot of hard work to conceive this child, Mr. Chen and Aunt Qingren waited on them carefully, even if your Majesty is going well, you are afraid that something will happen, and you still want to disturb your mother with such a non-existent thing , what are you thinking about!?"

"You also have the face to say that you spend more time with your empress than me? Then why don't you think more about your empress?!"

"In your mind, your own status is more important than your mother's child?!"

Xiao Jiang was dumbfounded, she had nothing to say when she was questioned, she was also dizzy with anger, and in addition to the fact that her family has been relying on clouds and winds for the past two years, Xiao Jiang couldn't help but feel that she could ask this concubine's cousin to help solve everything. .

As for the imperial concubine's pregnancy... She had no problem with her own pregnancy, and she never thought that the imperial concubine was pregnant after many years of infertility, so she naturally had to be extra cautious.

For a while, he bowed his head and remained silent.

Xie Xiyu sneered to herself: "You cannot refuse the palace summons, I will go to see the empress first, and then I will settle accounts with you when I come back!"

That's when he saw Yun Fenghuang, and told the whole story: "...The original intention of my minister is to let her stop doing things in the imperial capital with the same way as at home, and learn from those mistresses of high-ranking families. Madam, what’s wrong with this? But she’s fine! After arguing with the minister at home, it doesn’t matter, but she still comes to the palace to disturb the empress! If I had known that she was so unvirtuous, I shouldn’t have married her! What is Ning? If it disturbs the concubine's pregnancy, then ten thousand deaths cannot atone for the sin!"

In the past two days, Yun Fenghuang has actually let Chen Jing find out that Xie Xiaoyu has two lovers outside. Although these two lovers do not seem to be qualified to replace Xiao Jiang, after all, they are both prostitutes, but who Know what Xie Xiaoyu thinks?

Maybe he was coaxed into a daze by those two whores, and desperately wanted to divorce Xiao Jiang and marry them in?

Yun Fenghuang himself was tired of Chunjia, and often asked the emperor to do things he was unwilling and would not do, and of course he did not underestimate the ability of other Xie Yuhuas.

So she was ready for Xie Xiaoyu to throw out the evidence and go crazy when he came, but it turned out that this brother just came with a lot of heartbroken self-blame and concern, and the words that were originally on the lips were a little bit speechless.

After a pause, he snorted softly and said, "Brother Shiba, don't just say that Sister-in-law Shiba is wrong, what happened to those two in Mingyu Lane? If you hadn't been messing around outside, Sister-in-law Shiba would have made a fuss." Come to this palace?"

"Your Majesty, I'm going out to socialize, so it's inevitable that I'll act on occasion. Those two lowly maidservants were sent by others, and I really can't refuse." Xie Xiyu was embarrassed for a moment when she heard the words, and then said, "Because your eighteenth sister-in-law is pregnant, I'm afraid To worry about her, the minister was placed outside... And when you first got married, your eighteenth sister-in-law knew that there was a roommate in the minister's house, and she never said anything about being jealous. Now it's What are you bothering about? You even made a fuss in front of the empress! I was really shocked when I was summoned by the palace just now! I am not afraid of anything else, but I am afraid that the empress will be angered by this ignorant woman!"

Yun Fenghuang said: "Sister-in-law Eighteen came to Bengong because she had no choice. What is Bengong angry with her for? If I want to be angry, you will be angry with me!"

Xie Xiyu grew up with her and is the closest brother to Yun Fenghuang, why didn't she know that the imperial concubine said so, but she didn't blame him, she made up her mind, and said: "Actually, I am a little suspicious, Your Eighteenth Sister-in-law is the wife candidate chosen by our mother personally, even if she is a bit jealous, she shouldn't be so foolish and make fun of her pregnancy! I am worried, did she listen to some instigation outside?"

Needless to say, Yun Fenghuang had already begun to doubt it.

After all, there are too many people who don't want her to give birth to this child, whether they are enemies or most of their allies.

However, Yunfenghuang has been running the Xuanqing Palace for many years, coupled with the emperor's preference, he was able to protect the Zhao family who gave birth to the King of Qin, and the Yi family gave birth to Zhaoqing.

These people had no choice but to set their sights on the outside of the palace, especially the brothers and sisters-in-law who were the easiest to contact with Yun Fenghuang and the least likely to be suspected.

She pondered for a while, and said slowly: "I will ask people to investigate this matter, but the eighteenth sister-in-law is our first cousin, and the broken bones are connected to the tendons. I don't believe that she will intentionally harm me. It is probably because Yi Duosi was pregnant, and you made her feel sad when you spoke, so she got angry and looked for this palace. You don’t look at other things, but let her take care of the mother. After the child is born, eighteen If sister-in-law is still unreasonable, you can tell me again, and I will help you persuade her a little bit."

"Your Majesty, don't worry, I didn't expect it this time, and I definitely won't do it in the future." Hearing this, Xie Xiaoyu didn't argue with her, he knew that this younger sister was copying Jiang's way of handling housework.

Jiang's conflicts with his son and daughter-in-law, as long as they don't make unreasonable troubles again and again, they usually say that their son is wrong. The daughter-in-law is also in peace.

But if the daughter-in-law pushes her nose on her face, she will not be polite.

Now Yun Fenghuang is doing the same thing. After hearing what her brother said, she actually feels that Xiao Jiang is too impulsive and doesn't think about herself at all.

At the critical moment, it turns out that my brother is more reliable than my sister-in-law and cousin.

Xiao Jiang is also pregnant, and it is Xie Xiaoyu's child, but Xie Xiaoyu is most concerned about her sister...

Even if he is related to his glory and wealth, why is he not the source of Xiao Jiang's confidence? Regardless of whether it was Xiao Jiang's own ideas or being used by others, in the final analysis, she didn't think so much at all.

Yun Fenghuang then slowed down his tone, and asked about Xie Xiaoyu's recent situation: "We haven't seen each other for quite a while, but I don't know if Brother Eighteen's errand is going well?"

Xie Xiyu said that everything was going well, so she didn't have to worry: "Your Majesty has suffered a lot of grievances in the past few years since she entered the palace. It's all because of my incompetence as brothers. I have never helped you, but I have made you worry less. Now God has mercy on me. , Your Majesty is happy, so it's time to take good care of her. Don't worry about other things, Your Majesty, and we'll talk about everything after the emperor's wife lands peacefully."

After he resigned, Chen Jing said in a low voice: "Mother, the Eighteenth Young Master has not been very smooth recently. There are a few children in the Cui family who hate him for being supported by Cui Shangshu, and they have found fault several times by beating around the bush."

"You are confused." The Qing people frowned, "Didn't you listen to the eighteenth son? The eighteenth son didn't say anything himself, so you want to talk more?"

Yun Fenghuang said indifferently: "You are from my palace and not from Eighteenth Brother. For what Eighteenth Brother said, you disobeyed my order. Who taught you this?"

The Qing people fell silent immediately.

Only then did she glance at Chen Jing, "I know about this matter, Brother Shiba has good intentions, but I am not just paper. Some things can't be called Bengong."

The imperial concubine is not really the kind of master who always cares about her natal family.

She is most concerned about herself, even if she finds out that her brothers are in trouble at this moment, needless to say Xie Xiaoyu, Yun Fenghuang will protect herself and her children first, instead of worrying about her brothers so that she can't sleep.

"Go and find out what happened to the Eighteenth Sister-in-law." The noble concubine ordered quietly, "I remember that after she became the adopted daughter of Cui Wan and his wife, she also had contacts with the circle of noble ladies in the imperial capital... Could it be that she was confused in a daze? Take it away, and you still can't wake up?"

After thinking about it, he said, "Quietly check, sister-in-law Shiba is about to give birth, and this is brother Shiba's first child."

Although I feel that Xiao Jiang's sister-in-law and cousin are separated by a layer, and they don't care about her as much as Xie Xiaoyu, but after all, they are related by blood, and they got along well when they were young. Shi can't make it through.

So he planned to wait for Xiao Jiang to give birth, regardless of the outcome, before talking to her.

She put the matter aside for the time being.

At this time, the Lantern Festival was approaching, and a group of people headed by the son-in-law Yunxike finally arrived in the imperial capital.

The emperor specially hosted a banquet in the palace to wash them away, and Yun Fenghuang took advantage of the opportunity to call Jiang Zhu out to meet them during the banquet, and to learn about the situation by the way.

Jiang Zhui has darkened a lot and lost a lot of weight. At first glance, he almost didn't recognize him.

Yun Fenghuang was very distressed: "I went out this time, but I suffered a lot."

"Thanks to my cousin." This cousin went out for a trip, and his demeanor has changed a lot. He used to be a bright and cheerful young man, but just now at the banquet, watching from behind the curtain, he was silent for a while, showing a stern look. .

But when Yun Fenghuang said this, he scratched his head and smiled embarrassedly, the feeling of a bright and youthful boy returned a lot, "Actually, he didn't suffer seriously, but there were many brothers in the family, and cousin Xie's cousin With cousins..."

He felt a little dejected, "A lot of them are already... Sigh!"

Yun Fenghuang knew the news a long time ago, and she wasn't too excited, but at this moment in front of Jiang Zhui, she still felt very sad for a while, and Jiang Zhui comforted her for a long time before she sniffed and calmed down, and asked Something related to Uncle Zhao Wu.