Liu Chaoyan noticed this small detail and her heart tightened. She stood next to Zhou Xing and asked, "What is Brother A Xing looking at?"
Zhou Xing came to his senses when he heard Liu Chaoyan's voice, but his expression was very ugly: "Nothing."
He suddenly remembered Zhou Mu's face, and when he saw the picture on the cover of the booklet, the picture turned into an intimate scene of Zhou Mu and Gu Xiyan overlapping each other.
His thin lips pursed tightly, and his face became even more ugly.
Liu Chaoyan vaguely felt that Zhou Xing's mood was related to the small wooden box His Majesty gave to Gu Xiyan. She asked in a low voice: "Brother A Xing, have you seen the contents of the small wooden box? What's inside?"
Zhou Xing thought of the pamphlet inside and said with a dull face: "I didn't see it clearly!"
Liu Chaoyan still wanted to ask more questions, but Zhou Xing said: "I still have something to do, so I will go back to the palace first and see you next time."
"Brother A Xing..."
Liu Chaoyan took two steps to catch up, but Zhou walked too fast and quickly disappeared without a trace.
On the way back to the palace, Zhou Xing was always thinking about why Emperor Cheng De gave such a thing to Xi Yan. Why did Chao Yan only have one box of rewards, but Xi Yan had four boxes?
It can be seen from the rewards that the father likes Xi Yan more.
Zhao De could tell that Zhou Xing was not in a good mood. It was clearly not like this when he came to Wanqinghou Mansion. It seemed that after seeing Gu Xiyan, his mood was not quite right.
He was only worried that Zhou Xing still had his old feelings for Gu Xiyan and something would happen again. The most important thing at the moment was not the love between his children, but winning the crown prince's position.
He didn't dare to ask His Highness if it was because Gu Xiyan was unhappy.
When he was approaching the palace, Zhou Xingcai gradually returned to normal. He told himself that Gu Xiyan was just an insignificant woman to him, and that anything his father might reward Gu Xiyan had nothing to do with him.
The most urgent task is to wait for him to get married and then ask the courtiers who are attached to him to report the establishment of the crown prince.
His father didn't want to establish a queen because of his long-term love. He didn't care about this matter, but the position of crown prince could not be delayed forever. Even if his father was in his prime, he would win the position of crown prince as soon as possible.
These days, he can no longer make any mistakes. He can only wait until he gets married and becomes the master of the East Palace, and he will be one step closer to the throne.
With this thought, he naturally left behind Gu Xiyan, an insignificant person.
On the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month, Gu Xiyan got up early in the morning. As soon as she opened the window, she saw that the world had turned silvery white, and the branches were covered with snow, wrapped in silver, as if they were placed on crystal.
world.
The heavy snow was still falling, and she shivered. Qiushi hurriedly found a fur coat to wrap her up: "Girl, hurry up and close the window, put on your clothes first, don't freeze."
Gu Xiyan got back into bed, too lazy to get up.
"I have to say hello to the old lady. It's best for the girl to get up early." Qiushi looked at the snowy color on her girl's chest and couldn't help but blush.
It can only be said that the girl's body is so well developed. Her skin is as white as snow and as smooth as gel. A girl like her can't take her eyes away. If she really wants to marry Mr. Zhou, why should he be obsessed with the girl?<
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After Gu Xiyan was dressed and had breakfast in a hurry, she went to Zaohui Hall to say hello.
In the evening, the Liu family went to worship the Kitchen God one after another.
As soon as Liu Junyan saw Gu Xiyan, she immediately hid beside Little Gu, letting Little Gu block her.
Seeing her panic, little Gu asked doubtfully: "What are you hiding from?"
Liu Junyan didn't dare to look at Gu Xiyan and said without squinting: "I'm not hiding."
At this time, Mrs. Li appeared with the support of Liu Chaoyan.
Li's abdominal pain has improved a little recently, but she is still in low spirits. She looks very haggard. She looks ten years older than before she went to Zhuangzi.
Mrs. Li sensed Gu Xiyan's gaze and looked up. When she met Gu Xiyan's meaningful eyes, she lowered her eyebrows coldly: "What are you looking at, young lady?!"
Gu Xiyan walked slowly to her side: "I just discovered that time makes people grow older. My wife has white hair and wrinkles at the corners of her eyes. She is old."
Li's face turned green and red, but she couldn't refute.
She also knew that her complexion had been bad recently, her hair had grown white, wrinkles had appeared, and she was getting thinner and thinner, like a terminally ill patient.
But hearing these truths from Gu Xiyan's mouth made the irony even more intense.
"You can tell whether a woman is living well by looking at her face. It seems that the wife is not living that well after marrying an uncle..."
"Sister, are you looking for trouble?!" Liu Chaoyan couldn't bear it anymore and asked in a deep voice.
The light in the evening was dim, and a heavy shadow fell over Gu Xiyan's eyebrows: "I just told a few truths, why should my sister be angry?"
She wanted to let Mrs. Li taste the feeling of being betrayed and separated from her relatives, and she wanted to make Mrs. Li unable to live or die!
When Liu Chaoyan saw Gu Xiyan shrouded in shadow, he suddenly felt that this woman looked very much like a life-threatening Shura.
A coldness spread from her palms to all her limbs, and she shivered inexplicably: "Gu Xiyan, shut up!"
At this time, Marquis Wan Qing came. Gu Xiyan saluted Marquis Wan Qing and said, "I just saw that my wife didn't look good, so I said a few words that she didn't look good. I didn't want to make my wife and my second sister unhappy.
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Wan Qinghou looked at Liu Chaoyan and Li, and subconsciously felt that the two mother and daughter were bullying Gu Xiyan.
He frowned coldly: "Ignore them!"
Liu Chaoyan didn't know that Gu Xiyan had filed a complaint first. Seeing Marquis Wan Qing coming, she stepped forward and said, "Uncle, sister just now said something bad about my mother when she saw her——"
"Sister Xi is telling the truth. My sister-in-law's face is indeed not good-looking. Is it wrong to tell the truth?!" Wan Qinghou impatiently interrupted Liu Chaoyan's words.
Liu Chaoyan's face suddenly darkened and he looked at Gu Xiyan coldly.
Gu Xiyan gave her a mocking look and stood next to Liu Junyan.
When Liu Junyan turned around and saw Gu Xiyan, she was immediately startled, and her subconscious reaction was to run away.
Gu Xiyan seemed to know what she was thinking, "I will respect the Kitchen God later. Sister, please stand still and don't walk around."
Liu Junyan felt aggrieved in her heart, but when she thought of Zhou Mu's duplicitous devil, she decided to bear the humiliation and gritted her teeth to avoid Gu Xiyan complaining to Zhou Mu and Zhou Mu yelling at her to kill her again.<
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After paying homage to the Kitchen God, Gu Xiyan braved the wind and snow to return to Xiyuan.
Mrs. Li also returned to Fenghetang. She didn't know if it was stimulated by Gu Xiyan, but she only felt a dull pain in her abdomen.
She was fine during the day, but at night, she always couldn't sleep well all night long. It was precisely because she couldn't sleep well that her complexion became worse and worse, and her hair started to appear early.
She looked at her belly and thought, what's the use of having such a thing? Liu Shuzheng hugged her from left to right, getting farther and farther away from her. Even if she was pregnant with a child, she couldn't win back Liu Shuzheng's heart.
If this pregnancy is still a daughter, Liu Shuzheng must be even more disappointed with her, right?
She even had the illusion that her life was being taken away by her child. The more she thought about it, the more frustrated she became, so she simply said to Liu Chaoyan: "Go find your father and let him accompany me!"
