Bend Over [ 折腰 ] - Chapter 80

[Chapter 79 12]

Out of Yuyang, two hundred miles southwest of Zhuo County, there is a city called Yi.

Emperor Su’e left Yuyang’s car and walked all the way without hurry, and this day he arrived at this city, because people were sleepy and unwell, and the group rested in the city for several days.

She was the widow of Liu Li, the former brother of Emperor Xuan, Zuo Fengyi, and was born into the noble family of zhongshan, and was related to the Wei family, and her status was noble, and Yi Chengling learned that she was unwell on the way back to Zhongshan and stopped to treat her with courtesy.

The next evening, her nephew Su Xin caught up. At the first sentence of the meeting, Su Xin said, “I did not wait for the news to be delivered as agreed, so I quickly left the city according to my aunt’s previous instructions.” Presumably, Jiang Mi was defeated. Su Xin’s

expression was very frustrated.

Emperor Su’e’s eyebrows furrowed, and a deep disappointment swept through his eyes, but soon, his expression returned to normal, and he said lightly: “Defeat is defeat, why be so depressed?” Most of the world’s affairs are not satisfactory. When I planned, I was ready to fail. When Su Xin saw that she was so indifferent, his frustration was swept away, and he said, “I will do as my aunt tells me.” Mrs. Xianghou was fed bodhisam by me in her sleep, and I quietly left before dawn. Thinking

of the woman who would die whether it was successful or not, he finally felt some pity. I couldn’t help but add, “I saw that she was very flattering to her aunt, and I was cautious with her, and I expected that I would not fall into the eyes of outsiders.” Mo said that if things are successful, it is now a failure, and I expect that she will be fine here. Why did my aunt want me to kill her?
Emperor
Su’e said, “How do you know that your dealings with her have not fallen into the eyes of the people?” How do you know that if things fail, she won’t confess to me? What happened to killing a few people? Men plot for hegemony, lay down millions of corpses, bleed and drift pestles. I thought, kill a few people, how can I not? How can you be such a woman’s benevolence when you are a man?

Su Xin was ashamed of her lesson and gritted her teeth, “What my aunt said is.” Nephews are taught. Only hate Jiang Mi’s incompetence and waste her aunt’s efforts.

He suddenly seemed to remember: “How did my aunt know that Jiang Mi would keep her mouth shut for her aunt?” If you can’t stand the coercion of confession, how is it good to tell your aunt?
Emperor
Su’e said, “The most difficult thing in the world to control is the human heart.” The easiest to control is also the human heart. If you can recognize what a person really wants and wants, you can manipulate others like puppets. “This

Jiang Mi, not only will not confess to me, I expect that she should have also self-determined at this moment, in order to repay my kindness to her.”

Emperor Su’e smiled slightly and said.

Su Xin looked at Emperor Su’e sheepishly and asked, “My aunt has always been very respectful, and my nephew is extremely obedient.” But there was one thing that the nephew did not understand, and hoped that his aunt would teach him. Although the incident was defeated this time, it was a pity that the old woman of the Wei family could not be removed. Only I don’t understand, my aunt wants to win the heart of Yan Hou, why didn’t she borrow Jiang Mi’s hand to directly remove Qiao Nu this time, but instead took great pains to get rid of the old woman?
Emperor
Su’e said, “Who is Lady Qiao?” However, the Wei family is only an enemy and a daughter. Zhonglin married her, but it was also the land of Yanzhou, why be afraid? The old woman was different. She was extremely prejudiced against me, and Zhonglin obeyed her and never objected. She was by her side for a day, and even if Zhonglin had a heart for me, she didn’t dare to come near it. You’re good at riding and shooting. Shoot people first to shoot horses, this reason should not be said more than I said.

Su Xin looked respectful and complimented: “My aunt is indeed not an ordinary vulgar woman, and my nephew is thrown to the ground!” In the future, I swear to serve my aunt to the death, hoping that one day I will be rich and wealthy, revitalize my Su family lintel, and comfort my ancestors!
Emperor
Su’e smiled and said nothing.

Just now Su Xin asked her why she didn’t get rid of Qiao Nu first, except for her answer, she didn’t tell her nephew that the reason why she didn’t want to move Qiao Nu now was actually out of a delicate, unwilling woman’s heart.

In zhongshan, Emperor Su’e met Qiao Nu for the first time.

At the first sight of Qiao Nu, Emperor Su’e, who had always been conceited, had to admit that Wei Zhonglin’s wife was not only younger than herself, but her beauty was even more than her own.

As for the special temperament that Qiao Nu carried on her body that made it difficult for her to describe in words, as long as she entered the eyes, she could deeply feel similar to the special temperament that was beautiful to the bone, and it was even more impossible for her to cultivate in this life.

At that time, Emperor Su’e’s heart was planted with jealousy. Not long ago, she came to Yuyang, under the Luli platform, and looked up to see Qiao Nu ascending to the high platform under the eyes of all the soldiers and beating the shrew drum.

At that time, the wind on the stage hit her clothes, and the crowd of people in the audience responded to her call.

That scene was deeply imprinted into Emperor Su’e’s mind, and it could never be left again.

If the previous jealousy was only out of nature, then from that moment on, she knew exactly what she wanted to do to this joe girl.

If Zhonglin didn’t like her, she wanted Qiao Nu to see that she not only had to spoil her husband, but also take away the status and glory that should have belonged to her.

If Zhonglin liked her, she would take Zhonglin out of her hands, so that she could also taste the great torment and pain of being eaten by loss and jealousy.

From birth, Emperor Su’e was saddled with the Quaker numerology of “unspeakable nobility”. She herself has always been convinced of this. In order to make the noble unspeakable come true, she personally cut off the last trace of innocence of the girlhood. From the first day of marriage, he was exhausted and exhausted, and even a fly camp dog. I don’t know how much wrongdoing I have, or I don’t know how much I have a heart. However, after ten years of dreams, she found that her hard work was in vain, and everything returned to the original point, and even, far worse than the original point.

She lost her youth, her dreams fell short, and the whole family pinned their hopes on her alone.

What could be more frightening to a woman than this?

But this Qiao girl, as the daughter of the enemy family, easily had what she wanted most now: youth, beauty, and the status of Zhonglin’s wife.

Emperor Su’e had always felt that in Wei Shao’s heart, he was two years older, like the eldest sister, and like the influence that inspired his youthful ignorance, it was absolutely unique.

Wei Shao always had nostalgia for himself. Even at that time, the seventeen-year-old himself had bid farewell to the fifteen-year-old and resolutely married luoyang.

It’s just that he is a person, since he was a child, his personality has been stoic, and he is used to hiding his mind under the heavy heart. And at least years after the great double blow of the loss of father and brother, the personality has become deeper, and even the clouds are uncertain, which is also a matter of course.

This time, she took the opportunity of the Luli Conference to finally step into Yuyang, and after exploring his daily schedule to and from the Office, she created the chance encounter that day.

It was also that encounter that made her more convinced of her own ideas.

Although at first, wei Shao was a little frustrated that he had been in Yuyang for so many days, and he didn’t even know about his arrival.

But this frustration soon passed.

When she offered to visit Lady Xu, Wei Shao initially refused.

But when she spoke of him again in the old days, she observed him, saw him hesitate, and then let go and granted her request.

It was this that made Emperor Su’e feel excited, and he was more certain that in Wei Shao’s heart, he still had a place in his heart—perhaps he had not yet come out of the shadow caused by his own other marriage to him. Otherwise, after so many years, before he married his wife, with his position, why didn’t he even have a concubine around him?

As long as she can get her close to him, she can grasp the man’s weakness and then attack it.

No one was better at doing such a thing than she was.

That’s why she got rid of Mrs. Xu.

In her originalIn Ben’s design, if Lady Xu died as she wished, Jiang Mi redesigned to bring the matter of Zhu’s suppression of her mother-in-law to Wei Shao. With Wei Shao’s feelings with his grandmother, there will be no possibility for Zhu to turn over from now on. No matter how much she hated herself, she was just a poor worm who had completely lost her mother’s dignity in front of her son, and it was impossible to stop her steps.

By the way, you can also take revenge on Zhu Shi’s successive humiliations of himself that day.

But now, her elaborate plan has failed. Not only that, but it also damaged her eyes and ears in the Wei family. It was a huge loss.

If you want to borrow the Wei government’s unpreparedness and remove Lady Xu, I am afraid it is unlikely. Moreover, for the next period of time, she probably had to avoid the limelight for a while.

But she wouldn’t give up.

What she needs to do now is to adjust her mood, Taoguang and obscure, and then make a good plan.

She had seen people as a teenager, and she had seen people once.

In the past ten years, although the bamboo basket draws water, it is not completely unharmed.

At least, she has developed a more accurate vision than before. She believed that Wei Zhonglin would definitely make a big difference in the future in the current chaotic world.

This time, she wouldn’t look away again.

……

Yuyang Ling took Leling Doctor and personally came to wei mansion to inform Lady Xu about the case of Lady Xianghou.

Mrs. Township Hou died last night.

Le Ling doctor said that when he was diagnosed and treated, he felt that the symptoms of Mrs. Xianghou looked like a stroke, but the nails were cyanosis, the lips were swollen, which was slightly different from stroke, and the illness was far more ferocious than that of stroke, plus Mrs. Xianghou was not in line with the age of the usual stroke, so she took the residual liquid attached to the tongue by Mrs. Xianghou, and after smelling it carefully, she felt that it should be poisoning. And the dose is not small, so the attack is rapid, there is no medicine to save.

As for what poison is in the end, it is difficult to make a conclusion for a while.

Yuyang Lingxun Li family servants, only to know that the name of the Township Marquis’s wife is widowed, and it is really popular. Secretly having an affair with several male servants in the family. He tortured him to extract a confession. But these few male servants should have nothing to do with the death of the marquis’s wife.

Because the progress of the case was fruitless, Yuyang Ling was very ashamed. Madame Xu comforted her a few times, and after sending them away, she said to herself, “It seems that I, the old man, is not dead, and I am blocking the way of someone.”

Zhong Mi glanced at her and did not say a word.

“This township marquis is said to have lived in Luoyang for some time before?” Mrs. Xu asked again.

Zhong Mi should be.

“You sent someone to Luoyang to carefully check her former friends.” The finer the check, the better.
Madame
Xu groaned and finally commanded.

……

Xiao Qiao originally thought that this incident would bring a great blow to Madame Xu. Just like the last time Wei Yu happened, she couldn’t afford to be sick. Therefore, although the danger was temporarily cleared, at first she was still very uneasy, lest her illness worsen, and she would be with her sooner or later.

But soon, Xiao Qiao found that the blow caused by this incident to Madame Xu seemed to be far less serious than she thought.

After a few days, her spirit seemed to be almost as good as usual, and she often walked around the ground.

After a while, Dr. Le Ling came to the clinic and said that the medicine could be stopped, and that the body would be healed after just a few more resting periods.

Little Joe was overjoyed. The heart finally settled. After that, taking care of Mrs. Xu, managing things, socializing, busy, having to hug cats, basking in the sun, thinking about their own hearts, in the blink of an eye, the season entered November.

On this day, Little Joe received a family letter from East County.

The letter was written by Adijoci. Saying that he had arrived home safely, he also transferred sister’s handwriting to his father. The uncle heard from the messenger that the trip to Yuyang was smooth, and he was greatly treated with great joy. Everything was fine in the home. It was the aunt who had a medical condition and had been bedridden for half a month. And some of the rest of the bits and pieces, and so on.

The date of payment for the letter was written immediately after Qiao Ci left Yuyang and arrived in Dong County. It was only the time it took to pass on the road, and only now did it reach its own hands.

Little Joe finished reading the letter and pondered for a long time. The thought that had been circling in her mind all these days had become even stronger.

She finally made up her mind. After changing his clothes, he went to the North House.

After Mrs. Xu’s illness some time ago, Xiao Qiao’s status in the North House was almost equivalent to that in the West House.

When the servant saw her coming, she was very respectful. Xiao Qiao went to Mrs. Xu’s room, and at the door, she heard Mrs. Xu talking to Zhong Mi about Zhu Shi.

After the incident, Zhu was sent back to her own East House. It’s just that all the servants in the original East House were sent, leaving only a few servant women sent by the North House. It is both a ministry and a steward.

Yushan Grand Witch and Zheng Shu have been captured by Yuyang Ling and imprisoned. Because the matter concerned Lady Xu, it was not disposed of for the time being, only waiting for Yan Hou to return and personally decide.

Madame Xu was asking Zhu about the situation in the past few days.

Zhong Miying said, “In the morning, we went to see it.” Madame did not cry out as she did at the beginning, and was quite quiet, looking a little sluggish. After a pause, he asked, “But the old lady is waiting for the male prince to come back and then break it?”
Lady
Xu said, “After all, she is Shao’er’s birth mother.” How to deal with it, or wait for Shao’er to come back. But a confused person, just look at the prison. Now that the weather is cold, she has supplies there, you pay attention, don’t be short. Zhong Mi

said, “The maid knows.” He said, “When the male prince returns, he should be soon, right?” A

few days ago, he received news from Wei Shao reporting to Lady Xu that he was safe. It is said that the war is going well and should be able to return before the end of the year.

The servant woman outside reported that the lady had arrived. Xiao Qiao was invited by Madame Xu to sit down next to him.

After a few words of gossip, Xiao Qiao said, “Grandmother, I want to go back to East County.” I wonder if my grandmother will allow me to make the trip? ”

[End of This Chapter]