"Your Majesty, your Majesty sent someone to deliver the news that your uncle has requested to see you. The emperor asked you if you can stand it. If you are tired, please ask your uncle to come back tomorrow."
Yifang was indeed a little tired at this time. She had experienced so many frightening and uneasy days. Such a night's rest was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for her. But Yifang, thinking of being captured for so many days, plus that day
What he heard in Mrs. Dou's room, and how she was later taken away from Dou's house, Yifang couldn't help but feel weak in his heart.
Brother, you must have a lot of pressure and self-blame in your heart. Failure to protect your sister is a huge blow to the arrogant brother.
Yi Fang twitched the corners of his lips, waved his hand and said, "Invite Uncle Guo over."
"Yes, empress."
The palace maid who delivered the message only went down for a while, and then Yifang heard the sound of rapid footsteps stepping on the blue and white stone slabs of the palace.
"Empress..."
"I, the humble concubine, pay my respects to the empress with flowers and snow. She may live a thousand years, a thousand years, a thousand years."
Yifang looked at the young woman who had followed Dou Zunian. If it was not clear at first, then when he heard her name, he suddenly understood.
Hua Piaoxue, the youngest daughter of her maternal grandfather, was not born by his legitimate wife, but by a common wife whom he adopted in his later years. Her mother was also born into an extremely noble family.
She is the legitimate daughter of the family. And the legitimate daughter of this ordinary wife is the woman who will be married to Douhou Mansion and married to her father as her stepmother. She is both her aunt and her stepmother.
When Yifang thought of this, he couldn't help but sneer, and even felt a strong sense of disgust!
She doesn't hate Hua Piaoxue, but she hates what the Hua family does!
When she was still living a hard life in the Dou family, the Hua family did provide a lot of secret help to her, her brother and her mother, and she followed her husband when she got married, but the Hua family still tried their best to spend money.
They bribed the wives and maids of the Dou family to help secretly. Otherwise, under the abuse of the Dou family, they might not even have leftovers!
So at that time, her mother was critically ill and needed good medicinal materials and a good doctor, and because of a corruption case, the Hua family was facing a life-or-death situation from sunset. But for her mother and the Hua family, she did not hesitate to choose
She took the opportunity and took advantage of Xia Yunshen's visit to the Dou family to take risks. Otherwise, she could have had a better chance.
However, now her feelings for the Hua family have gradually become thinner to the point where nothing is left.
Because her mother's words before she died told her that her mother's marriage to the Hua family was not just for love as she thought at first. The Hua family had been planning it from the beginning. She even suspected that back then,
The Hua family made the decision to marry her to Murong Yi because they already knew about Murong Yi's life experience, and also because they wanted to be like Mrs. Dou, and have a bargaining chip in the fight between Xia Jie and Xia Jue!
Now that her heart has become cold and she has doubts, it is difficult for her to feel any closeness to this aunt!
An aunt and stepmother who were one year older than her. When she thought about it, she felt like she had swallowed something astringent in her throat, which made her feel sick! But these people, for the sake of power and benefit, still take it for granted!
Yifang glanced lazily at Hua Piaoxue and shouted. At the moment when Hua Piaoxue thanked her, Yifang discovered that this woman, who looked as delicate as a willow branch, had twinkling eyes in her slender eyebrows.
After getting rid of the anger and dissatisfaction, Yifang smiled in his heart...
It seems that her aunt is not as weak and kind as people say, on the contrary, she is very strong and ambitious!
Angry, dissatisfied, directed at her?
But why, because she didn't wake him up in time, or because she didn't treat her brother as affectionately as she did!
However, my brother is the person I have grown up with and relied on, so he is naturally exempt from the courtesy, while my aunt has only heard about her and is meeting her for the first time today. It is very clear how close she is!
Dou Zunian didn't notice the unusual surge of air between Yifang and Hua Piaoxue. He brought Hua Piaoxue over today, but he just couldn't refuse his elderly grandfather Hua Zhui.
Yifang saw Dou Zu's eager expression, as if he had many things to tell her. Yifang immediately smiled and asked someone to take Hua Piaoxue to the side hall for tea. Yifang noticed Hua Piaoxue.
When Xue was taken out, her expression was quite resentful, and Yifang couldn't help but laugh.
When Dou Zunian saw Hua Piaoxue leaving and everyone else in the palace gone, he immediately scolded him: "Yifang, why are you laughing? Do you know how my elder brother has spent these days!"
Yifang took a sip of tea and felt warm in her heart. No matter what her mother said before she died, she always believed that her brother, who grew up together, would never abandon her.
Yifang said: "I have come back well, brother, don't worry."
How could he not be worried? Dou Zunian opened his mouth and was about to say this, but when he saw Yifang's rosy complexion and calm look, he couldn't say anything.
As an elder brother, it was a great shame and humiliation to watch his sister being taken away from his own home. The person who should complain and blame was himself. He was qualified to blame Yifang for something!
What's more, Yifang is right, everyone has already returned, and it is useless to talk about these things anymore, so it is better not to mention it.
Dou Zunian exhaled the turbid air that was held in his chest and said in a depressed tone: "If you don't want to talk about this, let's talk about something else. Did anything happen during the time when you were taken away by Xia Jue?"
Yifang knew that Dou Zunian must ask this question. About Xia Jue, almost everyone in the Dou family except the younger generation knew about it. She did not intend to hide it from her brother, but there were some things that she still couldn't tell. For example, Li Huaizhi
Things, such as Xia Jue’s powerful influence in various state capitals! Such as the arrangements made by the late emperor!
It's not that she doesn't trust her brother, it's just that a minister is a minister after all. Xia Jie's unprincipled love for her does not mean that it will extend to the entire Dou family and her brother. Even now, she believes that her
My brother really knows too much about Xia Jue. Xia Jue is a festering wound in Xia Jie's heart, and it will never be scarred. Moreover, this wound cannot be shown to others. Xia Jie wishes he could not keep it in his heart.
Poke the hole, then throw the rotten flesh in the wound and bury it so that no one can see it again! Even if Xia Jue is already dead! That won't work!
Therefore, Yifang always thought that Dou Zunian was too involved in Xia Jue's issues. There was no guarantee that one day after Xia Jue left, Xia Jie would not think of those embarrassing things when he saw Dou Zunian. Once Dou Zunian became the one to remind Xia Jie of his wounds,
, then the crisis has arrived.
There should be another update. I will finish this one and then rush to write about the killer princess. Try to stick to it!