Concubine like a house

Chapter 54
"It's my fault that I failed you." Qian Yun sighed again, looked in the direction where Dan Xin left, and said, "I can see that Dan Xin likes you. Even if there is no master, it is for me and her This sisterhood, it is impossible for me to marry you and make her sad."

"Then you are going to push me to Danxin?" Zhu Ying was a little annoyed, and asked with a frown, "For the sake of your sisterhood, are you going to push me?"

Hearing this, Qian Yun lowered her eyes, as if she had been drawn into tears by the wormwood in her arms: "Sisterhood is just one of them, the key is that I don't like you."

With a wry smile, Zhu Ying gently shook his head and sighed: "Do you know what Dan Xin came to see me for today?" He spread out the palm of his left hand, and showed a concentric knot woven with red rope to Qian Yun's eyes: "She put this Give me something, I wish you and I will be together forever."

"Be indifferent to her..." Qian Yun looked at the unusually beautiful concentric knot in front of her, and felt her throat dry up, unable to speak.

Zhu Ying sighed again: "You and her sister are deeply in love, why is she not? You treat people coldly, how can she not be proud?" Zhu Ying said while slowly clenching her fist, tightening the concentric knot in her palm, "I won't accept your love with a light heart. You two sisters don't have to push back and forth... Actually, I'm very happy. I hope you will always be good sisters."

Zhu Ying's words were both gratifying and bitter, Qian Yun never liked to cry, but at this moment she couldn't stop wanting to cry.But just as his eyes were sour, he suddenly heard a faint greeting: "Bamboo Shadow."

The two followed the prestige and saw that it was the new female guard Zhu Yang.In fact, Zhuying and Zhuyang have known each other for a long time, they used to learn martial arts together, but... after several years, they have not been very familiar with each other.Zhu Ying looked at the heroic figure in black and asked her: "Aren't you on duty today?"

Zhu Yang glanced at him casually, and said: "I'm not here to look for you, I'm here to look for Qian Yun. Madam wants to see her." Just now Zhu Yang went to look for her in Qian Yun's room, but the maids said that she came out to insert moxa leaves.Helpless, Zhu Yang had no choice but to search for Zhiyanxuan's rooms one by one, until he found this one, and finally caught him.

"Let's go, don't delay any longer." Zhu Yang urged Qian Yun meaningfully.

Zhu Ying was a little embarrassed at the moment, took the calamus and mugwort leaves in Qian Yun's hand, and said: "Go with Zhu Yang, don't tell Madam to wait, I will finish the rest of the room for you."

Qian Yun didn't want to get entangled with Zhu Ying in front of outsiders, so she went to see Chuxiu with Zhu Yang, and couldn't help asking on the way: "Why does Madam want to see me?"

Zhu Yang didn't hide much, and replied truthfully: "The punishment hall just sent a message that Zhuo Yan is pregnant. It's probably because of this."

"Pregnant?!" Qian Yun was surprised, but suppressed her doubts in the end, and went to see Chuxiu in silence.

I haven't seen you for more than forty days, Chuxiu's lower abdomen has slightly bulged, counting the days, the pregnancy will be more than four months, the figure is indeed much rounder, but the beautiful face has not changed, it is still pointed melon seeds The face is white and clear.Qian Yun stepped forward and bowed to salute: "This servant has seen Madam."

Chuxiu took advantage of the situation to back away from the left and right, and then said to Qian Yun: "I have wronged you these days...you have done a good job."

Qian Yun replied lightly: "I am for Lord Hou."

Chuxiu Wenyan only sighed lightly, and then got straight to the point: "That night I deliberately went to the inner garden to scare Zhuoyan, I thought she would give away the clues with nonsense, but her mouth is very tight, now I can only If you can tell the outside world that she is crazy, first put her in the torture hall."

"It turns out that Zhuo Yan is not crazy." Qian Yun murmured, not knowing whether it was disappointment or something, "What else can I get out of her?"

Chuxiu shook her head, expressing that there was no progress: "What is even more unexpected is that she announced that she was pregnant this morning, and the doctor went to the Xingtang to check her pulse, which is indeed true."

"Whose child is it? Do you have a clue?" Qian Yun asked again.

Only then did Chuxiu's face darken: "She insisted that it belonged to Lord Hou. But it just so happened that Lord Hou passed away for more than two months, and she was pregnant for exactly three months..."

"How could it belong to Master Hou!" Qian Yun immediately scolded angrily, "How could she slander Master Hou's name? Master Hou... how could Master Hou fall in love with her!" Qian Yun couldn't believe it in her heart.Even though she had some resentment towards Chuxiu, she still had to admit that Yun Ci only liked Chuxiu.Even if Xia Yanran was pregnant in the past, it was just a cover to divert everyone's attention.

Don't say that Qianyun doesn't believe it, and of course Chuxiu doesn't believe it either.But Zhuoyan is Xia Yanran's dowry maid, if it follows the old rules, it would be very common for her to be a housemate.Although he knew that Yunci would never touch Zhuoyan, but now Zhuoyan insisted that there was no proof, and no one could deny it...

Thinking of this, a rare cold look crossed Chuxiu's face, and he lowered his voice and said, "I originally thought about letting her off for Master Xia's sake. Now that she dares to damage Lord Hou's reputation, I There is no need to be merciful to her anymore."

"How does Madam want to unmask Burning Face?"

Chuxiu didn't answer right away, but kept his face sullen, with his hands folded on his lower abdomen, wondering what he was thinking.After a long while, he replied coldly: "Since she said that she is the child of the Marquis, then she can't be locked up in the torture hall. I not only want to let her out, but also serve her with good food and drink..."

An inexplicable cold light flashed in Chuxiu's beautiful eyes, and Zhijiao Qianyun shivered.

On the same day, Chuxiu reported Zhuoyan's pregnancy to Mrs. Tai, and Mrs. Tai made the decision to release her from the execution hall and allow her to return to Zhiyanxuan for recuperation.Zhuoyan stayed in the punishment hall for a few days, feeling a little timid, let others help her back to Zhiyanxuan.

At that time, Chuxiu was reclining on the beauty's couch drinking the morning dew among the flowers. When she saw Chi's mother inviting her burning face in to say hello, she lazily raised her eyelids and asked leisurely, "You're back?" And the tone of voice, quite similar to Xia Yanran.

Seeing this, Zhuoyan fell to his knees with a "plop", and said urgently as if shocked: "Madam, please forgive me... I didn't know you were there that night, so I offended you..."

A soft "click" interrupted Zhuoyan's words, it was Chuxiu who put the teacup on the table, and she chuckled lightly: "I had insomnia during pregnancy that night, so I went for a walk in the inner garden, why did you see me?" I, like seeing a ghost?"

"Madam..." Zhuo Yan bit her lip, remembering the feeling when she saw Chuxiu behind the rockery in the inner garden that night, it was really extremely weird.Chuxiu was wearing a plain dress and a cloak without makeup. She had a tear mole on the corner of her eye, and she was holding a dagger in her hand... At that time, she was blinded by the ruby ​​on the dagger, and saw the tear mole again. His legs went limp in fright, and he fell to the ground and couldn't get up.

At that time, she was really frightened, like a lunatic, she didn't know what to say, and then she was thrown into the torture hall.But these days in the torture hall, Zhuo Yan has already thought through it thoroughly, this is clearly a trap set by Chuxiu, to trap her!Thinking of it this way, Zhuo Yan calmed down.As long as there is no real evidence, even if she said some nonsense, what can Chuxiu do to her?Besides, she still has a child in her stomach!This child is the key to her turning things around!

In the past few days in the torture hall, Zhuoyan had already thought up his words, and now he pretended to be cowardly and said: "That night, the slave girl missed my young lady, so she ran to the inner garden to pray for her, but she bumped into Madam... At that time, the servants were frightened, so they would speak unscrupulously, and hoped that Madam would forgive her."

As soon as Zhuoyan finished speaking, he heard a chuckle, looked up and saw Chuxiu getting up slowly from the beauty's couch, moving lightly in front of her with lotus steps, and personally helped her up.Zhuo Yan pretended to be flattered: "Ma'am...you can't..."

"Why not?" Chuxiu smiled lightly, "It's my fault that I wronged you these days. Now that you are pregnant with the posthumous son of Lord Hou, and we were born as slaves, I naturally know your difficulties. I have ordered someone to The south wing of Zhiyanxuan has been cleaned up, you can live in it for now, so that we can raise the baby together."

Raise a baby together?For some reason, Zhuoyan's eyelids twitched when he heard this, and subconsciously protected his lower abdomen: "Madam..."

Chuxiu's cherry lips curled into a charming smile: "Don't be afraid, Mrs. Tai ordered that your baby be taken care of by Mother Chi. If there is an accident in Zhiyan Xuan, she will be the only one to ask questions! "

Hearing this, Zhuo Yan was finally relieved.Mrs. Tai valued her offspring the most, since she ordered Mama Chi to come and carry her a baby, and she issued a "warning" like this, Chuxiu must not dare to act rashly.After such an analysis, Zhuo Yan also smiled: "Thank you Madam for your understanding."

Chuxiu smiled and waved her hands: "Go and rest! When this child is born, no matter whether you are male or female, your identity will not be obscured."

The meaning of these words is... the burning face was overjoyed, and he thanked again and again: "Thank you, madam!"

"You don't need to thank me, it's your own stomach." Chuxiu smiled again, "It's getting late today, you should rest and rest, let the kitchen do whatever you want to eat. Go to Rongjin Hall tomorrow morning to thank her old man! "

Zhuoyan bowed low to accept the order, and was about to say goodbye, but Chuxiu seemed to remember something, and added: "By the way, I see that you are getting close to Qianyun recently, so let her serve you full-time."

Let Qian Yun serve her?This is a warning?Or surveillance?Or do you intend to plot wrongdoing?Zhuoyan became nervous again, pursed her lips and looked towards Chuxiu.

Chuxiu pretended not to know her resistance, smiled like a flower and said gently again: "Qianyun is the best seedling of Zhiyanxuan, at least she has served Lord Hou before, and she has some skills... Now she has been relegated to do it for almost two Yue’s fire-burning girl has learned a lesson, and if she is transferred back this time, she will be grateful to you and serve you wholeheartedly.”

Zhuoyan just wanted to sneer when he heard the words.Just imagine if Qianyun really got close to her, how could the person who appeared behind the rockery that day be Chuxiu?This is clearly a trick!Qian Yun has always been a native of Xiu!But now that she is under the eaves, she has no way to refuse the arrangement of Chuxiu!

With a sound of "thud", Zhuoyan seemed to have been beaten to a drum in his heart.Chuxiu's trick was false and real, seemingly good and sometimes bad, it really made her gnash her teeth with hatred!Zhuoyan slandered secretly, but with a smile on his face, he thanked Chuxiu a lot: "Madam is so considerate of slaves, slaves are very grateful."

"You're going to be the master soon, why do you still call yourself a 'servant'?" Chuxiu scolded softly, then waved her hand and said, "It's a bit wronged you to live in the wing room. When the child is born and has a status, you will have It's my own garden... Hurry up and go back and rest!" After leaving the Xiu, Mama Chi sent Zhuoyan to the South Wing.

"Ma'am, what you said is both kind and powerful, I see that Zhuoyan is already frightened." Seeing that the person had gone away, Dan Xin covered his face and smiled.

There was still a bit of a hypocritical smile on Chuxiu's face, after listening to Danxin's words, he slowly restrained his face and turned expressionless: "You go to find the young master yourself, and ask him to find someone within half a month. A stillborn baby." She Youyou commanded Danxin, and added at the end, "It's better to be a boy."

(End of this chapter)