atypical prostitute

Chapter 41

Mrs. Fu has always been at odds with Mrs. Fu. Thinking of Mrs. Fu's forced smile that is so enthusiastic that it can kill mosquitoes, and her son's always absent-minded "good hospitality", the old lady feels that the slower the speed of the carriages and horses the better.

Therefore, Chang'an City was in sight, but the old lady excused that the sky was dark, and she was afraid it would rain, so she ordered the health servant to take the name card and go to the inn for the night.

The Xiechao posthouse belongs to the Ministry of War according to the law. It can only be used or rented in thirteen situations, such as passing military affairs, needing to be used by various divisions in Beijing, and reporting urgent major events in various states. Those who stay must bring the division certificate.

The consumption of post houses has always been huge. When there is no war, most post generals are held by wealthy local households. They are responsible for the management of post houses, building repairs, reception and communication work, as well as monthly reports, and they need to contribute funds to make up for the loss of post houses.Since the post general is a businessman, he is only interested in profit, so why can't he make good use of such resources?It is a common practice to set up inverse hotels and guest houses next to post houses, and those with quick minds can not only make up for losses with business, but also make profits.

Therefore, although the old lady does not meet any of the thirteen conditions for staying in a post house, she is a family member of the servant after all, and the post general is a lively person. Get out, crawl under the car, exchange greetings and flattery.

The carriage came to a stop, and the maids and wives got off first, put the drawers and stepped on the feet, and the old lady helped them down.The postman saw that the old lady used so much money, his bones were already weak, if he didn't have self-knowledge, knowing that it would be a cold butt to stick it on, he would have knelt on the ground and worshiped the old lady as a grandmother by now.The old lady is a sensible person, knowing that the filial piety of the post general is all because of Fu Shilang, but she accepted it because it sounded good to her ears.

After the old lady got out of the car, there was another burst of pearls and jade. The post general and the post Ding knew that they were ladies, and they both bowed their heads. They saw the soap gauze floating lightly and the faint fragrance floating. Step on the first floor.The job of the post house is to send people to usher for a living. The post office has a lot of experience and knowledge. Just by looking at the posture of this lady getting off the car, she knows that she is a great beauty. It is a pity that she is shameless, and she will not be able to brag about it in the future. It is a pity.

After Yujing got out of the car, Li Ci poked her head out, put her hand on the servant girl's arm, and was about to step on her feet, when she suddenly saw smoke billowing in front of her, horses neighing, and hooves clapping like thunder.

"Get out of the way! It's urgent!"

"What happened?"

The post general was also very surprised. Who is it that is so aggressive?But when he heard the word "urgent matter", he didn't dare to be negligent, and hurriedly complained to Mrs. Fu and his party, and ordered the postman to bring a new horse for a replacement.

There was a thunderous sound of horse hooves, and in an instant, dark clouds were within sight.They are all black-armored epees, with strong crossbows on their waists, serious temperament and thick armor. The leader holds a gold medal and shouts loudly: "Get out of the way! It is urgent!"

This group of people was unusual, although they ran all the way, they still maintained the posture of going hand in hand. The horses they used were all good horses from Dawan. Seeing that there were carriages and horses parked in front of the post house, they did not slow down and charged straight forward.In the middle is surrounded by a group of nobles in light robes, dressed in forbidden colors, with an elegant face, covered with a touch of sadness.

Seeing the postman leading a new horse, several people in the black cloud reined in their horses and rolled over, but more of them lightened their bodies and abandoned the galloping horses under them, which were almost exhausted, and floated into the air. On the new horse that came out, he took off his left hand to wipe his mouth, and fed ephedra pills with his left hand. His hands and feet were nimble, obviously he had formed a habit.

And the horse that Heiqi vacated, after running wildly all night, was already a strong bow. As soon as the rider left, the horse foamed at the mouth, fell to the ground with a loud crash, and twitched continuously.Some of the attendants were almost exhausted, their posture was unstable when changing horses, their mouths were covered with sand, and they groaned endlessly.Seeing this, the post general hurriedly ordered post Ding Duan Shui to feed these exhausted soldiers.

The leader saw his subordinates in a state of distress, and whispered to the man in the light robe at the center. The noble man was clearly preoccupied, seeing the horse and his followers fall, he just said indifferently: "Let's stay and rest!"

Seeing that they were well-trained, the old lady went straight to the capital, knowing that it was not easy, she had already ordered her servants to pull the chariots and horses aside, so as not to cause trouble.Unexpectedly, someone among the riders saw the strong horse of Fu's family and praised it: "This horse is not bad." Then he threw a gold medal and said: "It's requisitioned."

Without waiting for a reply, the man jumped on it, intending to let go of the rein and ride away.This horse is a fierce character, suddenly being ridden by a stranger, it immediately became mad, the person stood up, neighed repeatedly, and the two horseshoes kicked and beat wildly!

At this time, Li Cifang got off the car and happened to be standing within the range of the horseshoe attack. A sharp-eyed servant rushed forward with his sword drawn, but it was too late——

Seeing that the horse's hoof was about to hit Li Ci.

"Yifan!"

boom!
The horse's blood splashed, and the huge horse's head flew out together with two horse's legs, dragging its blood-red tail, and flew to Yu Jing's feet.

A half-foot-wide epee pierced into the yellow sand, but the hilt remained motionless.

Seeing such a bloody scene for the first time, Yu Jing was so frightened that her face turned pale. Even Li Ci was also weak all over. Fortunately, with the support of the maid, she barely stopped, and peach blossoms bloomed on the fence.

At the critical moment, the two domestic servants who cut off the horse's legs with their knives had already come to their senses. Together they pulled out their heavy swords and sent them back to the man in the light robe who carried the scabbard next to the man.The middle-aged man with a murderous aura around him took the epee, put it back into its sheath, and said nothing.

The nobleman reined in his horse, turned around, and said to Li Ci who was still in shock behind the carriage: "Young lady is frightened."

"Thank you... the prince drew his sword to help."

Li Ci answered carefully, but the [-]-year-old man nodded, and said to Mrs. Fu: "Xiao Wang is weak, hope Mrs. Fu is tolerant."

"If it wasn't for the prince's action, the fourth lady would have been seriously injured. The prince saved the lady's life, and the old woman should thank the prince."

The man was in a hurry, and seeing that the Fu family knew about it, he left behind a few followers to take care of the aftermath. He hurried on and turned into a small black spot on the post road in an instant.

"My lord? Could it be...the King of Changsha?"

Watching the black cloud go away, Li Ci murmured for a while. She had never met the man before, but she was inexplicably familiar with him.

Maybe it's because his appearance and temperament are similar to those of the eldest princess and King Runan...

While feeling emotional, Li Ci came back to his senses and found that his clothes had long been stained with horse blood, and his body was covered with a sticky stench. He had to find an elegant place immediately and take a good incense bath to dissipate the smell.

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Uncover the gilded lotus twig silver box, and take out two pieces of princess plum blossom fragrance, the elegant smell has already overflowed.

He took the incense chopsticks, flicked the frost ash lightly, poked more than ten exquisite orifices on the incense ash, and the suffocated little living fire became transparent again, so he put the mica back on the incense ashes, and the incense grains rolled into it. , Baked with refined charcoal, the aroma will become more intense.

However, everyone in Fuchun Residence is not in the mood to savor the elegance and leisure of the princess plum blossom fragrance.

The eldest lady rubbed her temples.

"Yulan, I'm so bored and flustered."

Yulan listened quietly, from the moment she entered Fuchun Residence, seeing that the entire lobby was empty, only the most caring maidservant was serving her, she knew that her mother was going to say something private to herself that must not be passed on outside.

"You also know what happened in the palace in the past two days."

"Yes."

In the past two days, the harem has been turned upside down, and everyone is in danger!
Firstly, Concubine Xian suffered a miscarriage, so the little prince could not keep it, and Concubine Xian was also bleeding profusely.Fortunately, the treatment was timely, and the bleeding gradually stopped after more than half an hour.When King Xu of Changsha entered the palace, Concubine Xian's complexion began to improve.Unexpectedly, at the time of Haishi, Concubine Xian collapsed again, and the imperial doctors went into battle again and again, but the bleeding still continued.Today, he was so anxious that even the Queen Mother couldn't care about her, she stayed with Guanju Palace all night, and even issued an imperial edict overnight to make her a noble concubine.Even so, the imperial concubine couldn't make it through after all, and Zishi screamed three times, and then the jade died and the fragrance disappeared.

The noble concubine passed away, and today she is devastated, and the morning court was avoided for two consecutive days.The villain in the palace also took the opportunity to set off a stormy sea.

First of all, some people speculated that the concubine's slippery tire and blood collapse were caused by witchcraft.Witches and Gu have always been taboo in the harem, but the person who spread them spoke so convincingly that there was a sudden panic.The queen made a decisive decision and punished a few people who spread rumors, thinking that the suppression would continue, but the rumors became more and more fierce, and the target was directed at the queen!
At this time, someone dug out a puppet with a bunch of hair tied to the imperial concubine from the garden of the queen's bedroom, causing a lot of waves!

Everyone in Guanju Palace knew that the empress was vicious. After digging out the doll, they thought that instead of being liquidated in the future, they simply risked it. They begged for death and asked the emperor to give the imperial concubine an explanation.

When the emperor was sad, he was furious when he saw the puppet with the concubine's hair tied up.Fortunately, even though he was outraged, he also knew the queen's tricks, the concubine's slippery tire and the bloody death in the middle of the night were most of the queen's actions, but this witchcraft doll was definitely not the queen's handwriting.

Because, with the Queen's scheming, even if she really used the technique of witchcraft, it is absolutely impossible for someone to get an ironclad proof.

What's more, today I like King Yuzhang.

In the end, the evidence of the witchcraft curse was conclusive, but the queen just didn't take good care of the noble concubine and thought about her mistakes behind closed doors.On the contrary, more than a hundred people in Guanju Palace, who insisted on a thorough investigation to the end, disappeared deep in the palace wall.

Surprisingly, the prince, who has always been indifferent to the world, heard that the matter of the imperial concubine was in the way of King Yuzhang, so he changed his previous posture and tried his best to defend the queen.Today, he was furious and punished the prince for thinking about his mistakes.However, today he appreciates the friendship and love for the prince, so he happily inscribed "Brothers, Friends, Brothers Respect" afterwards and sent it to the East Palace as a token of appreciation.

All these soul-stirring things were bought from the servants by the Fu family with a lot of money, and I don't know how many favors were involved in them.Ordinary officials only know that the imperial concubine passed away, and the emperor angered the queen and the prince. Those who are old-fashioned are now drafting a memorial, preparing to call for grievances for the queen and the prince.

"What's your daughter's opinion on the copybook of 'Brothers, Friends, Brothers'?"

Yulan didn't expect her mother's question, she hesitated for a long time and said: "The crown prince contradicted the sage, but the sage just closed his door and contemplated his mistakes. Today he specially wrote an inscription to comfort him, which shows that the crown prince's position is still as stable as a rock."

The eldest lady didn't think so, knocking on the fan and said: "Yulan, you are really...soft-tempered, you can't see the taste in it. Why did the saint reward 'brother, friend and brother respect'? Because the prince protects the queen, he protects the eighth prince! Think again , Why did the matter of the noble concubine be directed at the queen, but the saint lightly erased it because he didn't take good care of it?"

"Mother means—"

Yulan carefully swallowed the second half, which she didn't want to think about or mention.

"The sage really wants the Eighth Prince to inherit the throne."

The Xie Dynasty ruled the world with virtue and filial piety. If the empress was dealt with this time, when the eighth prince was appointed as the heir apparent in the future, those old officials would jump out to stop him because the eighth prince's biological mother had lost virtue.Therefore, knowing that the queen was guilty, he dealt with it lightly.

Give "Brothers and Brothers Respect" post, it will be more clear.After all, the crown prince is the eldest son, so even if the emperor doesn't like him, he can't dismiss him lightly.Therefore, today I hope that the prince will "be a brother and friend" and resign from the position of prince on his own initiative.

And this is exactly what the eldest wife does not want to see.

Originally, Yulan entered the East Palace as the Crown Prince Liang Di, and when the Crown Prince ascended the throne, she would be a concubine, and she was truly honored like no other.But if the crown prince really complies with Jinshang's thoughts and abdicates to the virtuous, the jade ring will be just an ordinary vassal king's side concubine!

Yulan can bear this gap, but the eldest wife can't.

What's more, Princess Runan once said that the eighth prince is quite fond of the fourth lady!

"Yulan, I will never let that aunt give birth to a better marriage than you!"

It's not partiality, it's just that there is a difference between closeness and distance.

Which mother doesn't like more biological daughters?Seeing that the bright future of the first lady is about to come to naught, the concubine's daughter, who has always been sick, may become the princess of Yuzhang, and even more likely to be the mother of the world!How can we not let the eldest wife's heart ache like twists and turns, gnashing her teeth!

Yulan handled it indifferently, and said gently: "Mother, you are wrong. If the crown prince really abdicates and the eighth prince really marries the fourth lady, it would be the best for me. The harem is originally a land of tigers and wolves, and the three thousand beauties, Is there any good fault? I never like to fight with others. Being a concubine of the emperor is far less comfortable than being a side concubine of a vassal king. At least... there are four ladies sitting in the central palace, and I can still find her when I am wronged in the palace Backed up and entered the palace gate, but——all depended on myself..."

As he spoke, he burst into tears.

The eldest wife suddenly felt distressed, hugged her and cried bitterly: "Yulan, what you said is indeed true, the harem cannibalize people without spit out bones. But... a mother, after all, is not reconciled!"

　Congratulations to Brother Yifan for his debut, sprinkle flowers, knock on bowls for rewards

　　
　
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