The Rebirth of an Ill-Fated Consort - 84. Return home

The floods made the people in the capital exhausted all day long, and the spring rains continued to patter. However, in the past few days, the eighth prince and the second son of the prime minister’s house have achieved initial results in the continuous water management. With more and more people joining the porridge team, the situation is stable. A lot. In the capital, the order of the past was gradually restored.

For example, this afternoon, Guan Jiajun, who triumphed from the frontier, returned to Beijing ahead of schedule. The neat and serious army almost covered the entire street, and the headed one was full of spirits, burly and powerful, and it was Guan Lianghan. A young man who went hand in hand with him was extremely handsome. Although he was a martial artist, he did not appear rude, but had the elegance of a child of a nobleman in Beijing. The young man was unfamiliar, and there was a carriage behind the line, but he didn’t know who was sitting in the carriage.

Uncle Zhao Yuanfeng and Xiao Shao have already left. Jiang Xinzhi, according to what Jiang Ruan said, rode around the streets of the capital. He didn’t think much about it. It was just Jiang Ruan’s little girl’s heart and desire to show off. . Jiang Ruan was sitting in the carriage, and Forsythia secretly lifted the corner of the carriage curtain to peep out, and said in surprise: “The young master is so majestic. The people are watching.”

Bai Zhi also smiled and said, “Young Master comes back this time, and the girl will have a good life.”

Forsythia rolled her eyes, and a sly flicker flashed in her eyes: “This person in Yanhua Garden is going to be so angry.”

Jiang Ruan smiled slightly, not commenting, Xia Yan saw Jiang Xinzhi’s return intact, but he was not only angry. This matter is not that simple to end. If you want to calculate Jiang Xinzhi, don’t want to get out of this game. Xuan Li, Li Ang, there is still a big gift that hasn’t been given to both of them.

Jiang Xinzhi is now young and promising. Seeing his and Guan Lianghan’s posture, it is not difficult for everyone to guess that he is the deputy with military merits, but he did not expect to be so young. Many big girls and young wives who were watching on the street blushed and threw silk flowers at the horses one after another. Jiang Xinzhi smiled at the corner of his mouth. After so many years of experience, his emotions were also very restrained. At first glance, Confucian generals are generally chic.

There was also a lady who came from an official family in Beijing. Seeing this, she began to inquire about the identity of the lieutenant. At this moment, someone in the crowd suddenly yelled: “This is not the eldest son of Jiang Shangshufu.” Huh? I heard that I joined the army five years ago, but I didn’t expect to have made military service and returned to Beijing!”

One stone caused a thousand waves of waves, and when this word came out, everyone was talking about it.

“I’m just talking about how I’m so familiar. It turned out to be the eldest son of the Jiang family. Hey, he hasn’t even heard from him for so many years. Now he can be regarded as proud.”

“It turns out that there is a big young man in the Jiang family, who seems to have never heard from the Jiang mansion.”

“Hey? What’s not clear about this. The Jiang family is now the stepmother. After all, she is not her own. Didn’t the Jiang family miss the news for more than five years? I wanted to come to Master Jiang to leave home. I was afraid that it was not voluntary. Right.”

“It’s all right now. Young Master Jiang has made military merits. Miss Jiang is also a jade-like person. By comparison, Young Master Jiang is much better off than Young Master Jiang. I don’t know what Jiang Shangshu thinks. Such an excellent eldest son doesn’t feel distressed, but he deviates from the second young master.”

“You don’t understand this, man, what is there to say about the set of petting concubines and destroying their wives? When the original mistress was still there, the current Mrs. Jiang was just a concubine.”

The crowd talked and talked about everything, most of them praised Jiang Xin’s brothers and sisters and belittled Xia Yan’s family. Jiang Ruan smiled faintly on the carriage, stepped on the low and held high, which has always been popular. Now that Jiang Xinzhi is young and promising, he has a promising career, naturally there are countless praises, and the more outstanding he is, the more incompetent Jiang Chao appears.

In the Yanhua Garden, Xia Yan is leaning on the soft couch and slowly drinking tea. Today, everything is set up. The Xia family and the Li family help each other. If you don’t believe that Jiang Xinzhi can escape. She took a sip of tea, so Jiang Xinzhi was dead, Jiang Ruan was not enough, and there was time to clean up. But somehow, when she woke up early this morning, she felt a sense of unease in her heart, and her expression unconsciously revealed a trace of anxiety.

Upon seeing this, Jade comforted: “Madam, don’t worry, this matter is foolproof, just wait for the good news.”

Xia Yan didn’t speak, and saw that the curtain in the room was knocked up. Lin Lang hurriedly walked in, looking a little panicked and said: “It’s not good, madam, the eldest master is back!”

“What are you talking about?” Xia Yan stood up suddenly, her beautiful face full of hideousness, and grabbed Lin Lang’s shoulder: “Jiang Xinzhi is back? How could it be that you read it wrong?”

“Madam, this is a very real thing.” Lin Lang said: “General Guan and the young master led the army on the upper street of Jingcheng Street. Everyone has seen it, and the people are talking about it. It is indeed the young master that is right.”

Xia Yan’s body shook, fell into the soft couch, and muttered: “How is it possible? Is it possible that he Jiang Xinzhi has a god to bless him, and he simply refuses to do it!”

As he was talking, a small servant hurried in from outside, and opened his mouth and said: “Madam, the eldest master is at the gate of the mansion, and the army and General Guan are also there. Madam still hurried to welcome him, and she didn’t get uttered. ”

“Shall I welcome him?” Xia Yan screamed out of control. God knows, she can’t wait to kill Jiang Xinzhi now, but she has to greet him with a smiling face and pretending to be a mother! If she doesn’t meet her, she is already on the cusp of the storm, and she really falls in the eyes of the people, and she doesn’t know what vicious stepmother’s nonsense will be arranged again!

“Okay, I’ll welcome it!” Xia Yan gritted his teeth: “I’ll go to meet my good son!”

Lin Lang and Jade stood on the side, both of them dare not come out.

As soon as Xia Yan brought her maid to the door, she heard Guan Lianghan’s laughter: “Believe it, since you return to the house, I won’t stay long, so I’m leaving. When I turned back to the emperor, this general must do a lot for you. A few good words, let your majesty make you a high official and go.”

Xia Yan walked to the door. Guan Lianghan had already turned on his horse. He just stared at Xia Yan coldly. Xia Yan was stared at by his eyes, and he couldn’t help but fight a cold war. Before he spoke, Guan Lianghan pulled his whip and “drove”. With a sound, they left first, and the army behind them hurriedly followed.

The gate of Jiang’s mansion was surrounded by the crowds, and Xia Yan walked quickly to Jiang Xinzhi. The boy who was weak in the past and was not as tall as her is now a tall hero. When she looked at her, the blood in her eyes was frightening. . Xia Yanqiang suppressed the uneasiness in his heart, looked at Jiang Xinzhi, and smiled gently: “Believe it, but I have waited for you back. For so many years, how can you not even give the letter to your family? Your father misses you very much, father and son. If there is anything you can’t make it through, why bother to run away from home? It’s only five years after leaving. He is your father.”

Her words were gentle and kind, and her eyes were very loving, but every word was saying that Jiang Xinzhi was not filial and left home in anger with his father, cold-hearted and cold-hearted. The Dajin dynasty’s filial piety is bigger than the sky, and even if the big things happen, you can’t do unfilial things.

Jiang Xinzhi didn’t even look at Xia Yan, walked to the carriage parked aside, opened the curtain gently, and said with a smile: “A Ruan.”

When the man in the carriage was helped down, everyone knew that it was Jiang Ruan.

Xia Yan was taken aback, and smiled: “Niang Ruan, why are you here? Didn’t you go picking jewelry with Miss Wen?”

Jiang Ruan smiled apologetically: “It should have been so, but I saw my eldest brother leading the soldiers in the middle of the way. I was excited for a while and came back with my eldest brother.” She walked up to Xia Yan and smiled: “If my mother asked me, I was just a moment ago. I have already asked my eldest brother. My father always knew that elder brother was not a material for writing, so he carefully taught the second elder brother. Jiang’s family knew that when the mother was still there, my father taught the second elder brother to read and write since he was a child. , But he didn’t want Wu to fail. When his mother died, he was reckless, thinking that he went out and rushed for the future. He didn’t expect it but brought a lieutenant back. Don’t blame him, mother is a blessing in disguise, let’s talk about the frontier Because of the bitter cold, the eldest brother didn’t want to worry about his family, so he refused to write back. My father didn’t think so too, so he never wrote to ask about elder brother’s situation. This is to hone the eldest brother’s temperament!”

Xia Yan’s words are vicious and vicious, and Jiang Ruan’s words are also right. Look, when the original wife was still there, Jiang Quan carefully taught Jiang Chao and ignored his eldest son. The eldest son of the mansion will inherit the family business no matter what, what is the meaning of the eldest son of Jiang Ruan who wants to go to the barracks and fight for a future? The meaning in Jiang Ruan’s words is really thought-provoking. I don’t really miss my eldest son when I want to come to Jiang Quan. Otherwise, after five years, how can I find out where Jiang Xinzhi is going, and why would I not even send a letter from the family? Everyone looked at Jiang Xinzhi and started talking again. What about Jiang Quan’s careful guidance? In the end, he still fell behind. On the contrary, he is not as good as the young master who has to rely on himself for everything. Now he is a real military exploit.

Xia Yan naturally noticed the change in everyone’s eyes, almost exploding his lungs. But at this moment, I heard a low voice: “Believe it.”

Jiang Ruan raised his eyes and saw that it was Jiang Quan. Behind him was Jiang Chao brothers and sisters, Jiang Li Jiang Dan and several aunts. Except for Mrs. Jiang, who was not in good shape, all Jiang’s family had arrived.

When Jiang Xinzhi met Jiang Quan, he just nodded his head very politely and strangely: “Father.”

Seeing him like this, Jiang Quan felt a sense of depression in his heart. This son is so good now, but he is even more uncontrollable. He watched Jiang Ruan standing next to Jiang Xinzhi. Both of these sons and daughters had outstanding looks and temperament, but it happened that they crawled out of Zhao Mei’s belly!

Jiang Susu’s expression couldn’t see anything, but Jiang Chao, with a tense face, staring at Jiang Xinzhi, his eyes looked like a poisonous snake. When Jiang Ruan noticed his eyes, he looked at him and smiled slightly at Jiang Chao.

This smile fell in Jiang Chao’s eyes, it was a naked provocation. He slowly squeezed his fists and curled up his broken little finger. He only felt that the eyes of everyone around him were a joke.

Jiang Ruan’s smile remained unchanged, and compared. When two people of the same identity appear in a mansion, the most popular thing to do is to compare. In the previous life, people compared her with Jiang Susu. The better Jiang Susu was, the more unbearable she appeared. Such a comparison can completely destroy a person. And the object is changed to Jiang Chao, who has always been held in the hands of Jiang Quan, and the arrogant Jiang Chao, let him taste this kind of inferior product, will he do something on impulse?

He is locked in the room and cannot start. What if he takes the initiative?

Jiang Li and the second aunt stared at Jiang Xinzhi bitterly, jealous and hated in their hearts, Jiang Xinzhi came back, at least no one in the house dared to bully Jiang Ruan. Why did Jiang Ruan have such a good fate? At this point, there is such a big brother who has made a name for her to rely on.

Hong Ying secretly breathed a sigh of relief, and felt fortunate that he was not an enemy of Jiang Ruan. One of Jiang Xin came back with the status of deputy general. At least Xia Yan’s days in the mansion would be less relaxed. I don’t know if Jiang Ruan will fulfill her promise and really make her sit as the mistress of the house? Hong Ying was excited secretly in her heart.

Standing at the gate of the mansion and a few words with the Jiang family, Jiang Xinzhi showed a trace of fatigue: “I am very tired, and I want to go back and say a few words to A Ruan. I’ll talk about it later in the evening.”

The two brothers and sisters met again, and when there was a lot to say, they were not easy to stop. Just as Jiang Xinzhi was about to enter the door, Xia Yan finally couldn’t help but ask: “Xinzhi, have you encountered anything on your way back…?”

“What does my mother think I should encounter?” Jiang Xinzhi asked back. The tone is as gentle as always, and mixed with a touch of killing intent. Xia Yan stiffened and said with a smile: “I just ask casually.”

Jiang Ruan said with a smile: “My mother really got it right. My eldest brother met a group of rebels on the way back.”

“Rebellion?” Xia Yan cried out: “How could it be a rebellion?” Those people were just ambushing Jiang Xinzhi. How could they become a rebellion? The crime of rebellion is not trivial, and accidentally it would be the end of the nine tribes.

Jiang Ruan said softly: “Isn’t it? Many archers were ambushed, but it happened that General Guan and Prince Xiao arrived and arrested all of them. It is estimated that they will need to be interrogated carefully. People.” She smiled at the uncertain Xia Yan: “The person behind that is caught, will definitely be divided by your Majesty’s five horses.” After that, she ignored Xia Yan and walked through Jiang Xinzhi’s court door.

Jiang Xinzhi came back in a hurry, and he went to Jiang Ruan’s courtyard before the yard was vacated. Dewdrop and Mother Zhou were waiting anxiously. Seeing a few people come back safe and sound, they were overjoyed and hurried to make tea for them.

Jiang Xinzhi and Jiang Ruan were sitting by the window. Jiang Xinzhi looked at Jiang Ruan and said, “A Ruan, do you suspect that Xia Yan did it?” He is not a thirteen or fourteen-year-old ignorant and reckless boy. Jiang Ruan only met Xia Yan. The attitude is thought-provoking, but how did Jiang Ruan know these things? And… “Xia Yan can’t mobilize so many archers. Those people are clearly well-trained soldiers.”

“Xia Yan can’t do it, it doesn’t mean that the Jiang family can’t do it. Moreover, there is also a Li family, and perhaps the eighth prince.” Jiang Ruan looked at him and said, “Big Brother, you are the one who went to the battlefield to kill the enemy. These are. Let me take care of the secret calculations of the back house woman.”

“How old are you to deal with these things?” Jiang Xinzhi frowned and looked at her, feeling both distressed and angry: “A Ruan, I don’t want you to participate in these things. Give these to me. If you don’t like Jiang Mansion, We move out.”

“You are the son of Jiang’s mansion. What do others think when you move out? There are so many imperial histories in Beijing. Once you have a place that can be criticized, they will not hesitate to take part in your book. Your future official career will return. What to do?” Jiang Ruan said: “I will not move out of Jiang’s mansion.”

“I don’t care about being an official,” Jiang Xinzhi said: “A Ruan, as long as you are safe and happy, the eldest brother will be satisfied.”

Safe and happy? It’s just four words, but there are a few people who can really do it. She has lived for revenge all her life, peace and happiness, and is already an unattainable mirage.

“You should be an official, brother,” Jiang Ruan said: “Only in this way can they all step on their feet and let them respect you, afraid of you, and dare not bully you, so that they won’t bully me. Brother, don’t worry. I, I have been here for so many years, I can protect myself, and I can protect you.”

Jiang Xinzhi looked at her: “A Ruan, are you hiding anything from me? Why do you have to live in Jiang Mansion?” Why did his sister have a big change in temperament, and why is it involved in the affairs of the court? Jiang Xinzhi is now As soon as I returned to Beijing, my mind was in a mess, I only knew that something must have happened in it.

Jiang Ruan said calmly: “It’s nothing.” We cannot tell Jiang Xinzhi about Zhao Mei’s murder. Jiang Xinyi is impulsive, and it is inevitable that something will go wrong. Moreover, in this life, there is only one villain with a rotten heart. Jiang Xinzhi must live cleanly. These dirty transactions and conspiracies have not broken his heart.

“I won’t force you.” Jiang Xinzhi said that Jiang Ruan didn’t talk about it, he also found it. He patted Jiang Ruan on the head: “It’s just that since you refuse to move out of Jiang’s mansion, I will not move out. I stay in the mansion and no one dare to bully you.”

Jiang Ruan nodded slightly.

Bai Zhi, Forsythia and Luzhu couldn’t help crying when they saw their brother and sister reunited. Jiang Ruan has survived for so many years.

And everyone is happy here, but in some places it is about to turn the sky upside down.

“What are you talking about? Jiang Xinzhi returned to the mansion?” Xia Cheng carried his hands back and looked at the incoming person in disbelief: “Nonsense, he can’t escape even if he has nine lives! There is nothing wrong with this, unless the gods and ghosts help!”

“Not only that,” the visitor said cautiously: “All the people who were sent have been caught and are being interrogated in prison.”

“Isn’t it the dead soldiers sent? Why are they still alive? But,” Xia Cheng coldly snorted disdainfully, “Those dead soldiers are all trained, and they don’t even speak. Check where the people are. , Tonight you go find a few people to deal with it, I don’t need to say what to do.”

“But… the interrogator was Prince Xiao.”