Jiang Rao looked into his eyes and said faintly, "Do you know that my aunt is Concubine Yun..."

Her aunt, but if she were locked in the same room with the queen, they would surely pull each other's hair until dawn, and in the end, at most only one person could come out alive. If Concubine Yun wanted to eat a grain of rice in her aunt's Shuxiang Palace,

She had to help her aunt tear the queen's hair.

Rong Ting naturally knew this.

I was certain of this, and I roughly knew what she would answer, so I asked.

But she didn't know how heavy this problem was for both him and her.

He wanted to put a rope around her feet and drag her into the muddy mud where he had been.

From now on, we share weal and woe and our destinies are linked.

Either live together or die together.

"Noble Concubine Yun has no children so far. She is just an eyesore to the Queen, not the biggest threat. She won't want to take your life."

Rong Ting's voice was a little hoarse.

After all, she didn't want to, so I coaxed her, lied to her, or pretended to be pitiful to induce her to agree.

The sun at noon is poisonous, as is the human heart.

The octagonal canopy over the pavilion blocked out all the sunlight, casting a shadow on the young man's gloomy eyes.

"If you join my party, you will be the thorn in the Queen's side, and she will have to get rid of it. Behind the Queen, the entire Xu family is supporting her."

He spoke every word seriously.

The pros and cons are clearly analyzed.

His face was cold, and his tone was also extremely cold. Seems to push people out

"I am just a cripple, with the title of the Ninth Prince in vain. Not to mention the Queen, the maids, the eunuchs, anyone in the palace can trample me underfoot. Helping such a cripple in the eyes of others may cost you your own life. In this way, you will..."

"No, I'm not afraid of anything."

Jiang Rao interrupted him directly.

For these days, she has been watching from the sidelines how difficult his life is.

For the first time, listen to him.

He had a blank expression on his face, without any change of emotion, and he spoke in a tone as if the weather was nice today, about those hard days that sounded like they were not what human beings should live through.

There was even some self-loathing in his tone.

After just a few sentences, she couldn't listen any more.

The man in front of me suddenly overlapped with Jiu Ye in my dream.

She thought that it was the violent and capricious temper of the man in her dream that made him look so haggard and thin, but she never imagined that a similar expression had already appeared on his face when he was a teenager.

He is extremely manic and depressive, like a hedgehog with sharp spines all over his body. He will prick anyone who comes close to him and is very defensive.

Yes, if he wasn't so cautious, how could he survive in such a difficult situation.

Even without the dream, Jiang Rao still wanted to help him.

But if she hadn't had the dream, she might have only dared to help him secretly.

After all, she is the eldest daughter in the family, and her every word and action will be associated with the Jiang family by others.

It was because of the prophet's words in the dream that she dared to help without hesitation, without worrying that what she did alone would cause trouble for her family.

Just some sighs

This child really has no idea that she will be the golden thigh that many people want to hold but cannot hold in the future. Others want to hold her but cannot. She just took advantage of the opportunity to know about his future affairs first, and she was asked by him if she wanted to hold him?

I want it, I want it, I want it.

It was like a dream.

Jiu Ye will be extremely powerful in the future. If she can hold on to this thigh firmly, maybe the fate of her family being broken up in the future will be changed.

She not only wants to hug, but also wants to hug firmly and not let go. "Since I have decided to stand by your side, I will always stand by your side."

However, although he was extremely powerful in the dream, Jiang Rao sometimes wondered in her heart that since she had changed some things in the dream, would she also change his future outcome?

What if he becomes powerless because of her interference...

Jiang Rao clenched her fingers, she was also gambling.

She said earnestly and firmly: "From now on, we are like grasshoppers on a rope. We will rise together and suffer together."

A little light slowly fell into Rong Ting's dark eyes.

He suddenly raised his hand to support his forehead, and the shadow under his fingers covered his slightly red eyelids.

After a long time, my throat felt dry and my fingers couldn't stop shaking.

After a long silence, he finally let go of my hand.

His eyes were red and his voice was hoarse.

The wolf-like gaze grasped Jiang Rao's figure tightly in his eyes, "This is what you said."

There was an almost ferocious hoarseness in his voice, and a viciousness that forbade her to look back.

Jiang Rao nodded, very seriously.

…

For Rong Ting.

Every day that passes by, is a day taken away from their future lifespan.

But he has always been fighting for his life in the hands of God. Every day is a day of living.

Day after day, every tomorrow is twelve more hours that can only be gained if we try our best.

Those who were trampled into the mud

Day and night, his mind was filled with cruel and bloodthirsty thoughts. Even if he had to use whatever means necessary, he would step by step reach the position where no one could challenge him, and slaughter madly, killing all those who had bullied him.

But everyone bullied him, and he wanted to kill everyone he saw.

Now that she is willing to share his success and failure, she will continue to share his success and failure.

It seemed like when he was weak and alone, there was finally someone standing with him.

With someone who can show his weaknesses to you without any scruples.

When he asked her whether she dared to entrust her life to him, he was actually asking himself.

He used to be just a lonely man with only one worthless life, but now the meaning of his life is not just for himself.

With her timid nature, she would not be able to bear to see a river of blood and corpses strewn across a thousand miles.

He could suppress the bloodthirsty and violent thoughts in his heart and create a peaceful and prosperous world for her where she could feel at ease.

…

Huai Qing occasionally raised his eyes and glanced into the pavilion.

He had been serving this new master for several days, and he was often seen with a gloomy face, his two disabled legs tucked up, and curled up in a wheelchair.

During the day he is like a ghost at night, eccentric and aloof, always keeping to himself. He ignored people, and when others saw him, they really hid themselves as if they had seen a ghost.

Except for this Miss Jiang Si.

Today, it seemed like it was the first time he saw his master's eyes so lively.

——When I was with Miss Jiang Si.

This is also the first time I've seen the master get so close to someone else.

…

The banquet was over. Jiang Rao wanted to wait for her father, but the eunuch beside Emperor Zhaowu came and told him that her father was kept in the study by Emperor Zhaowu to discuss calligraphy and painting, and would be back later.

She didn't wait any longer and went back to Concubine Yun's Shuxiang Palace first.

Ming Shao, who had gone to inquire about Chen Xiuying, came back and said to Jiang Rao, "Miss, I found out that the girl who just ran away crying is the second daughter of Minister Chen Que. Although Chen Xiuying is a legitimate daughter..."

Ming Shao paused and whispered, "Chen Que had a first wife at first. She followed him when he was a poor scholar. Two years after Shen Que passed the imperial examination and rose to prominence, she died. And a concubine who was divorced a year before her death, that is, Shen Xiuying's mother, found a foster father and changed her status during this year. After the mourning period for the wife was over, she re-entered the Shen family as a second wife."

Jiang Rao felt a chill in her heart.

This sounds like a calculated plot.

"What was the cause of death of Minister Shen's first wife?"

"I told you, don't be afraid." Ming Shao said, her voice couldn't be any lower, "It is said that she was poisoned to death by Shen Que and Shen Qinying's mother."

"When the lady just passed away, her family came from the countryside to make a scene. They had evidence in their hands and wanted justice. However, Shen Que arrested them and beat them to death on the pretext of causing trouble."

Jiang Rao clenched her fingers anxiously and cursed in her heart, "You bastards."

In the future, she will either find a man who won't take concubines, or not marry at all.

Beauty alone prolongs life.

After cursing in her heart for a while, she asked Ming Shao, "Are there any grudges between the Shen family and the Jiang family?"

"I don't have any complaints, but Shen Que often flatters the Jiang family, and at home, the master and Shen Que have a closer personal relationship."

The Jiang family is a prominent family that has been rooted in Jinling for several generations. There are many people who want to have a good relationship with the Jiang family to gild themselves.

Jiang Rao would rather hear Ming Shao say that her Jiang family had a personal grudge against Shen Que than hear that a man who killed his wife and made his concubine his legal wife was close to her family.

But the current head of the Jiang family is Uncle Jiang, Jiang Xingchuan.

Jiang Xingchuan and her father have the same mother and father. When her grandmother passed away, her father was young, and it was her uncle who took care of her father all day long and raised him.

Jiang Xingchuan has a gentle and elegant temper. He doesn't like to fight. He is a good guy and has a good relationship with everyone.

But even if he had no favors towards her father, it was not her place as a junior to comment on his actions.

She looked sad.

At this time, Concubine Yun walked in holding a pomegranate.

As if she was afraid that people didn't know how thin her waist was, Concubine Yun hung two small bells on the belt around her waist. They jingled when she walked, attracting people's attention.

"Why are you so sad every year?" Concubine Yun walked up to Jiang Rao and pinched her face.

The little girl's skin is tender and smooth like white tofu.

She threatened her, "Be careful you'll get wrinkles when you're twenty."

Jiang Rao was pinched so hard that a faint red mark appeared on her fair face. "Just now at the banquet, I met the second daughter of Minister Shen's family. I don't know why, but she was very unkind to me."

Concubine Yun's eyes changed immediately, and her gaze was as sharp as a knife. "Did she bully you?"

It was as if she would rush out with a knife and chop people down as soon as she heard Jiang Rao say yes.

Jiang Rao said honestly: "She talked nonsense. So I taught her a lesson."

Concubine Yun put down her butcher knife.

Jiang Rao added, "I made her cry and run away in anger."

Concubine Yun clapped her hands and cheered.

However, she said: "If you encounter her in the future, be careful."

She pinched Jiang Rao's face and smoothed her hair. "Some people get upset when they see you getting better. Or even just because you're good-looking, they'll get jealous. But there's no need to get angry at such petty people."

As she spoke, she raised her chin slightly, "Otherwise, if you and I were born as beautiful as a country, and we got angry at those women who were jealous of our looks, we would have died seven or eight hundred times already."

"The more jealous they are, the more we will continue to be beautiful for the next ten years, just to piss them off to death."

Jiang Rao laughed. Concubine Yun was still worried and reminded him for the second time, "You must be on guard against others. You must pay close attention to Chen Xiuying."

"I have seen that girl a few times. She is so ambitious. Her family background and appearance are only slightly better than others, but she always wants to become a phoenix. Two days after her coming of age, she has been hanging around with men. I heard that she fell into the water and washed off her seductiveness. She has been much more well-behaved recently."

"Maybe she saw her mother pleasing a man and becoming his wife, so she wanted to climb a higher branch."

"But her mother must have used countless vicious and harmful methods along the way. What if she learns from her mother?"

Jiang Rao nodded, "I remember."

"Aunt." Jiang Rao called Concubine Yun hesitantly and mentioned another matter.

Although she agreed to Rong Ting directly, she did not tell her family. Now that she thought about it, it seemed like she acted first and asked for permission later, so she was a little hesitant.

But it must be said.

First, I have to tell my aunt, then my parents, they all have to be told one by one.

If they felt that she shouldn't help the Ninth Prince...

Jiang Rao wiped tears in her heart.

Then she could only let them throw her out of the Jiang family... endure hardships for a few years... and then go back to save them when they encountered trouble.

Once she agreed to Rong Ting, she had no way out.

Seeing her hesitating, Concubine Yun raised her eyebrows and said, "Hmm?"

Jiang Rao turned around and told all the maids in the room to leave, leaving only her and Concubine Yun, and said, "I want to help the Ninth Prince."

Concubine Yun was stunned for a moment, and remembered that Jiang Rao had told her before that Rong Ting’s leg injury was closely related to the Queen.

Her mind worked quickly and she laughed immediately, "Niannian is so nice to auntie."

This time it was Jiang Rao who was stunned. Huh?

"I never thought that since the Ninth Prince is being bullied by the Queen, if we help him, it will hinder the Queen. The Queen will be upset. Wonderful, wonderful."

Concubine Yun rubbed Jiang Rao's head and said, "Okay, it's settled. If it's hard to talk to your parents, I'll talk to them and tell them that it's me who asked you to do this."

Jiang Rao couldn't help but admire

He exclaimed, wow.

My aunt is worthy of being my aunt.

…

One day at noon, the sun was high and everyone was sleeping soundly.

Jiang Rao had a dream and frowned in the dream.

…

And at the corner of Shouhuai Palace, a bloody incident happened silently.

The evil cat Pomegranate cruelly killed the little mouse.

Before killing the mouse, he turned around and played with its tail without any cat-like behavior.

Si Ying walked in from outside the palace in a hurry and saw Rong Ting sitting in the yard, playing with a hairpin in his hand. But his eyes were cold and fixed on the mouse that was being teased by the cat by holding its tail.

Hearing the noise, it slowly moved towards him.

He looked at him with the same cold eyes that he had used to look at the rat.

Si Ying felt guilty, and felt as if cold needles were falling on his back. He suddenly felt a chill on his spine and his body trembled slightly.

He lowered his eyes, pretended to be calm, and went into the outer room where Huai Qing was.

He called Huai Qing out and asked him to drive the white cat away.

After Huai Qing caught the cat, Rong Ting called him and said, "Give me the cat."

The chubby body of the white cat was like a big fluffy snowball, filling Rong Ting's arms. Irritated by the bitter smell of medicine on Rong Ting's body, it wanted to escape with its fur standing on end.

Rong Ting only held it down with one hand, and didn't want to get even a strand of cat hair on his other hand.

He held the cat in one hand and controlled the wheelchair with the other, and said to Huai Qing: "If you see this cat in the yard in the future, you don't have to chase it away."

"This is the cat raised in Shuxiang Palace. Next time you see it, call me and I will personally send it back."

Shuxiang Palace...

Fourth Miss Jiang...

Huai Qing suddenly realized something.

He said, "Master, there are only enough mice in the yard for the cat to catch for three to five days. One day, the mice will be gone and the cat will stop coming."

What I meant was that you just wanted to use the opportunity of sending a cat to go to Shuxiang Palace, but it would only happen three or five times and not for long.

Rong Ting walked out without even turning his head.

But he never stopped until he said something shocking, so he just said "Oh" lightly.

"Then go and learn how to raise mice."