The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort - 169. affection

The weather is getting colder.

It rained all night, and the air was much fresher the next day. Bai Zhi opened the window, and the branches in front of the window still had the raindrops left by last night’s rain. They were crystal clear, and they fell into the mud underneath. The room was suddenly filled with a fragrance peculiar to the soil after the rain.

Jiang Ruan freshened up and used premature food, let it go to the window, dewdrop hurriedly walked into the room, put the rose crisp tea in his hand on the table, blinked and looked at Jiang Ruan, suddenly whispered: ” Girl, the lady is gone.”

Jiang Ruan gave an “en” and sat down on the chair by the window. The rose pastry brought back by the dewdrops looked very delicious, with a faint pink color. Under the morning sun, it became more and more moist and lovely. She slowly twisted a piece, her snow-white fingertips pouted with a snack, and she showed a bit of unique coquettishness.

Dewdrop continued: “The second lady is gone, and the fifth sister-in-law is gone.”

Three people died in succession, but Jiang Ruan’s expression did not change at all, as if the end had already been predicted. There seemed to be a flash of boredom in his eyes, but this expression was too short, and no one noticed it.

“The spies under the prince saw it with his own eyes,” Luzhu was a little anxious about Jiang Ruan’s reaction, and said very quickly: “It was the second young master who took the troops to find the second young lady, but somehow killed the second young lady. Said that the second lady was kidnapped by the bandit and committed suicide. As for the fifth sister-in-law, she swallowed gold by herself.” Luzhu thought for a while: “The lady is a bit strange. I heard that the second young master went to the village last night. Visiting Madam, in the middle of the night it was discovered that a white silk had committed suicide. However, for the time being, the master did not let the matter go, and he didn’t know why.”

Jiang Ruan said indifferently: “It’s not surprising that three people died in the mansion nowadays, and Hong Ying is nothing more. There is only one aunt on the left and right. The second daughter of Jiang Mansion and the wife of Jiang Mansion died violently together, which will inevitably lead to thoughts. People’s guess is that Jiang’s Mansion is already rumored in the middle of Beijing. My father is so cautious, so naturally he won’t add fuel to the fire at this time.”

Dewdrop suddenly realized: “That’s the case. But why did the elder lady commit suicide? And the second young master, who hurt the killer just to get the second lady to get rid of it, is really too much.”

A trace of sarcasm flashed in Jiang Ruan’s eyes, and his tone was shockingly cold: “He didn’t do this for Jiang Susu to get free soon. He just didn’t want Jiang Susu to be a stumbling block in his career. Jiang Susu is alive. One day, it may become evidence that he was criticized in the future. My second brother wanted to climb up, of course, he had to destroy this evidence with his own hands.”

Dewdrop took a breath, she didn’t expect so much. Regardless of how Jiang Chao’s brothers and sisters treat Jiang Ruan, they always stand on the united front, and the relationship between brothers and sisters is not fake. Who knows that Jiang Chao can abandon his sister and kill him for his own selfish desires, it is really not terrible.

Although Luzhu was born in the market and had a broader knowledge than Angelica dahurica and Forsythia, but in the end he was naturally kind and could not think of these dark and salty things, and he always held the point of view of human nature that is inherently good. Jiang Ruan is different. To some extent, she is extremely suspicious of human nature and firmly believes that human nature is evil in nature. Things that are difficult for others to think about are naturally thought of by her.

She continued: “As for Madam’s death, it was nothing more than the second elder brother’s provocation. The second elder brother is now broken. He is so careless about the future, he obviously wants to let go. I’m afraid it will be soon, so he will do it. It’s a big deal.”

Dewdrop was startled when Jiang Ruan said this, and said, “Then they are ready to deal with the girl?”

“I’m afraid they didn’t move.” Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, but the smile looked a little bit cold in Luzhu’s eyes. She said: “I also want to see who is the winner in this game.”

Dewdrop did not speak. After a while, she suddenly seemed to think of something, and said: “Girl, the servant maid listened to Jin Er’s words, Prince Xiao will be on the expedition in ten days.”

Jiang Ruan paused slightly, lowered his eyes, ten days, is this fast?

Xiao Shao was looking at Zhezi in the study, and the military situation passed by the frontier Kuima was full of crises. Just looking at it made people feel the tension of the situation. Jiang Xinzhi’s whereabouts are unknown, and Guan Lianghan was wounded again. The morale of the army was low. The army of the Tiantian Jin country somehow changed tactics several times, and hit unexpectedly. If this continues, the remaining army will be wiped out.

On his left hand is a marching pattern, even if he is thousands of miles away, he must control the overall situation. Everyone in the world is the king of Jinying, the young hero, who is in charge of 300,000 Jinyiwei, but no one has seen his wise strategizing and strategizing in a decisive victory thousands of miles away. It takes more than a month to come and go from the capital to the border, and now I can only write down the defense method for the time being and send it to the border.

There was no sound in the room, Jin Yiwei all retreated out. He hasn’t closed his eyes for a night, and he has studied the enemy’s line carefully and hasn’t eaten anything up to now.

The door was suddenly pushed open. Xiao Shao frowned. He smelled the scent of food on the tip of his nose, but was slightly taken aback when he saw the person coming. Jiang Ruan came by himself with dim sum and porridge.

These days, even though she lives in the Jinying Palace, the two abide by etiquette and never do anything beyond. What’s more, Xiao Shao usually sees the dragon without seeing the end, and runs away in the daytime. When he comes back at night, he is studying military formations. The two rarely meet each other. Jiang Ruan is even more deserted. He spends his days at Jinying Palace in a comfortable way, but he doesn’t even want to leave the courtyard.

I don’t want Jiang Ruan to come in person now. Xiao Shao was startled, Jiang Ruan already walked to him, put down the dim sum and porridge, and said: “The sweet-scented osmanthus cake and chicken porridge made in the kitchen are not too sweet. I have tasted it. , It tastes good.” She did all this naturally, as if she had done it thousands of times. Xiao Shao glanced at her without moving.

“You haven’t eaten anything for a day.” Jiang Ruan said: “Do you want to starve to death in your own house?”

Jiang Ruan always treats people gently, and always maintains a smiling expression on her face, which makes her facial features appear vivid and bright. However, when I looked closely, the smile did not reach the bottom of my eyes, as if it was just an excellent mask, which made people feel a little alienated. And she rarely vents her emotions. Except for those close to him, even when facing Jiang Xinzhi, she has mostly comforting expressions, and she has never had any particularly unpleasant expressions.

In her bones, she is a person with distinct love and hatred, but whether it is love or hate, they are all hidden under a smiling face. This made her smile a little intriguing. The same is a smile, and the meaning of expression is quite different. For example, at the moment, it is clearly smiling, but the anger and discomfort in the eyes are finally caught by someone. .

Xiao Shao let out a “huh”, silently took the spoon in Jiang Ruan’s hand, and slowly took a bite of the porridge and tasted it. On weekdays, I don’t think there is anything special to eat. I don’t know why, but today I feel very delicious. Xiao Shao was in a happy mood and quickly finished the porridge. Even the pastries that are not eaten in the usual days have been eaten.

Jiang Ruan was very satisfied with Xiao Shao’s knowledge, and sat down opposite him and said, “I heard that you are about to go on an expedition?”

She asked so bluntly, but Xiao Shao didn’t think anything was wrong, and replied, “Yeah.”

“You…be careful.” Jiang Ruan thought for a while, but he ordered. In the future, he still has to marry the person in front of him, no matter what he is, now it seems that Xiao Shao has been helping her unconditionally. In this life, she no longer trusts people easily, but Xiao Shao is an exception. She paused and said, “I will keep Jinying Palace for you.”

Xiao Shao was shocked by her words again and couldn’t help but raise her eyes to look at her.

What kind of person is Jiang Ruan Xiao Shao knows herself. Xiao Shao has seen it clearly since the first time she met her. This girl is calm and decisive, cruel, and full of hostility. She seems to have a lot of secrets. The heart is stubbornly sealed in a corner. It looks like a heartless person, but in fact it is not. She spared everything for Jiang Xinzhi’s life, and she did not hesitate to alienate herself in order to protect the Zhao family, even Xuan Pei, who was only in the palace, would help. She is actually a very short-term person, but there are too few people who can let her protect her.

What she said today was actually a promise. This is a promise to him. She is saying that Jinying Palace will become part of her responsibility from now on. I will guard it for you…

The girl in front of her with bright eyes and zirconium teeth, her original eyebrows are picturesque, different from Jiang Susu’s beauty, and her facial features are not exquisite for a lifetime. Now she has gradually shed her childishness, showing a bit of peerless elegance. Those lustrous eyes, like the clear spring of a mountain stream, if there is a tick at the end of the eyes, they will become an excellent beauty of their own. When she smiled lightly, it seemed that all the clouds in the sky were reflected in her eyes.

Xiao Shao admitted that she had seen countless beauties in this life, and at this moment, she couldn’t help but admit that the girl in front of her could indeed bear the four words “the evil girl”. If she has the ambition to seduce her, and run into the emperor who loves beauty, she is afraid that she will really overthrow the country because of her.

“You don’t need to do this.” Xiao Shao looked at her and said, “The Jinying Palace will protect you. If you can’t protect it, you don’t have to bother about it.”

Jiang Ruan is a person who protects shortcomings in his bones, and Xiao Shao is even more so. At the beginning, the three hundred thousand Jinyiwei had no head, and Xiao Shao was still young, and the emperor did not dare to hand over power to him easily. Jin Yiwei became a hot potato. At that time, everyone said that such an elite man was only loyal to the Jinying Palace. It was too difficult to truly conquer. Everyone guessed that the emperor regretted disbanding this group of troops. With such rumors raging up and down, Jin Yiwei’s life has become extremely difficult. The soldiers in the army who had been suppressed by them in the past raked down one after another and fell into trouble. At that time, Xiao Shao stood up and saved Jin Yiwei on the condition that he went deep into southern Xinjiang and planned to kill the leader of southern Xinjiang. He could overthrow a palace for a small guard in Jinyiwei, and he could endure the death of one of his subordinates and the rich and powerful. Xiao Shao’s protection of shortcomings is well known, and for this reason, the Jinyi guards respect him, love him, and are willing to go through fire and water for him.

With Xiao Shao’s temperament, Jiang Ruan is now his future wife, and he naturally put Jiang Ruan under the wings he wants to protect. He didn’t want Jiang Ruan to be hurt for some imaginary things. She was able to make this promise, which surprised him very much.

“No, Xiao Shao.” Jiang Ruan refused: “This is not a dispensable palace. This is the palace of Jinying, where your father and mother live. It is the contribution and pride of King Jinying. It is the dignity of the Xiao family. Even if this dynasty falls, it cannot be trampled on.” She said softly, “I will not let it be trampled on.”

Xiao Shao was shocked, and an unexplainable complex feeling suddenly surged in his heart. Jinying Palace, when the world talks about Jinying Palace and King Jinying, they will only think of the old King Jinying’s rebellion. A bad person has done a thousand bad things. As long as he does one good thing, he is a good person. If a good person does a thousand good things, if he does one bad thing, all the good things in the past will be wiped out. For so many years, he has guarded the Xiao family and Jin Yiwei. The world is afraid of his power, but he has never respected him with heart. People are always forgetful. They forget who in the past years took these Jinyiwei who were scolded as thieves to fight against foreigners and maintain the balance of this dynasty. The hard work done by the ancestors became more and more prosperous among the flowers, but those who charged on the battlefield gradually disappeared.

And she said that the honor and pride made by King Jinying was the dignity of the Xiao family. Even if this dynasty falls, it cannot be trampled on. At this moment, the shock in his heart was beyond words, and he acted faster than rationally. He grabbed Jiang Ruan’s hand and pulled her into his arms.

Jiang Ruan was taken aback for a moment, and Xiao Shao was already in her arms. She was lying on Xiao Shao’s chest, feeling inexplicably, Xiao Shao’s chin resting on top of her head. The young man’s voice was low, with a hint of sigh, “Thank you.”

Jiang Ruan moved in his heart, thought for a while, hesitated, and stretched out his hand to hug his waist. She said: “Don’t thank me, since I will marry here, this is my responsibility.”

Xiao Shao slowly let go, Jiang Ruan broke free from his arms, before he stood up, Xiao Shao pinched his chin. She was taken aback and looked up at Xiao Shao. But found that the other party is also staring at her closely.

This young man was originally beautiful, and even more rare and heroic. However, in weekdays, there is always a slight indifference, which gives people a sense of alienation that is thousands of miles away. However, when the eyebrows are softened, the whole person is three-point warm and gorgeous, and his eyelashes are long and straight, and when they hang down, they draw a graceful arc. And the most touching thing is a pair of black eyes, if the starry sky of broken diamonds is spilled, endless brilliance suddenly appears in the deep night, almost dazzling people’s eyes.

At this moment, he squeezed Jiang Ruan’s chin, leaned forward slightly, and his thin lips raised slightly. Suddenly, endless winds were born, and he felt that this cold deep autumn day suddenly had a compelling spring. The picturesque youth has a peerless appearance, but has slowly leaned forward in a firm and irresistible posture.

Jiang Ruan was taken aback for a moment, only to feel that his body was a little stiff, and he wanted to avoid it. When he met the black star pupils, somehow, he did not move.

This young man, he seems indifferent, but in fact it is affectionate. The face is cold, but the heart is hot. He is strong, so he lives his life unscrupulously. She was too far away from him in her previous life, and she went so close again in this life. He did not put pressure on, like a drop of water, a cloud, surrounded her step by step, and walked into her life. She tried to resist but found helpless. She has a tough mind, but the other party is not a fragile person.

In this life, he silently helped her and refused a mutually beneficial cooperation method. He… is not a purely exploited person.

Jiang Ruan slowly closed her eyes, but she did not refuse.

The kiss fell on her lips, a little bit of water, and then quickly backed away-he was a gentleman after all.

Jiang Ruan slowly opened her eyes, and she saw a little joy in the young man’s eyes, as well as the affection that could not be concealed. The superficial affection made her heart ripple slowly, and then it slowly grinds on her heart like a short knife.

He is such a good person, he has such a sincere, not hypocritical affection. But why is it in this world?

If she had changed her previous life, she would still be that simple, almost stupid girl with endless hope for love. When she faced Xiao Shao, she could love with all her heart and return this sincere love. But God is always wrong. Xiao Shao happened to encounter her in this life who was cold-blooded and ruthless, who was bent on revenge and would not love her.

In her heart, a little bit of disgust and despair of self-defeating arose suddenly appeared in her heart. Xiao Shao noticed her expression and was taken aback for a moment. He raised her chin again, forcing her to raise her face to face him.

“What’s the matter with you?” he asked with a frown.

Jiang Ruan looked at him and suddenly smiled: “Xiao Shao, ask the Queen Mother to marry him, can you regret it?”

“I don’t regret it.” Xiao Shao looked at him, no matter how calm he usually is, facing the girl he likes, he is always like all the young guys who are in love. He couldn’t guess the complicated thoughts of women, and he hadn’t bothered to guess before, so he didn’t understand why Jiang Ruan’s sudden decline was exactly what it was.

His fiancee has always had an excellent way to hide his emotions. For example, at this moment, he clearly felt Jiang Ruan’s flash of depression and disgust, but after a while, she returned to her former smile and calm appearance.

Jiang Ruan suddenly stretched out his arm around his neck, drew him close to him, and hugged him tightly.

Xiao Shao was slightly startled by Jiang Ruan’s sudden initiative, and he hesitated for a while before reaching out and patting her back gently, as if to comfort a frightened little animal.

Jiang Ruan put his head on his shoulders, he couldn’t see Jiang Ruan’s expression, and naturally he couldn’t know what decision his fiancee made in his heart at this moment.

This man is so good, Jiang Ruan closed his eyes, so good that he can’t bear to hurt him. Since he said no regrets, there will be no chance to regret again in this life. She is willing to let go of her heart knot and try, no matter whether it is affectionate or ruthless, naturally, she will not make him regret it.