Chapter 481: Not Close to Women
After Ji Sheng arrived at the flower hall and briefly greeted the women of the Zhou family, he prepared to go to the study to meet Zhou Jianwu.
Now that the Zhou family has been rehabilitated, Zhou Jianwu and others in the Zhou family must also be reinstated.
Especially Zhou Yunzhi, if he inherits the title of King of Zhenbei, he needs to return to the capital from Haizhou.
Ji Sheng originally thought that Zhou Yunqi would follow him to the study, but after Zhou Yunshu sat down, Zhou Yunqi sat down with her as if he had grown up beside her.
That would have been fine, but when Ji Sheng turned around and looked at Zhou Yunqi, he even tilted his head in pretending confusion.
They have such similar faces, why is he so naughty?
After Ji Sheng left, the atmosphere in the flower hall suddenly became relaxed.
Although Li Jialan, Wu Yue and others should have gotten used to Ji Sheng's presence over the years, they really couldn't get used to it.
In particular, they all knew very well that Ji Sheng was only able to speak to them politely out of respect for Zhou Yunshu and Xixi.
After all, he is someone who even Ji Mingzhu doesn't give face to.
Yes, Li Jialan and others had heard something about how Ji Mingzhu had spent his time in the capital and the palace during this period. The more they knew, the more afraid they were of Ji Sheng.
If possible, they hope to keep a distance from Ji Sheng in the future and have no intention of treating him as their elder.
"Third sister, are you two... together again?" Zhou Yunxia glanced at the direction where Ji Sheng left and asked Zhou Yunshu curiously.
When Zhou Yunshu and Ji Sheng got married, Zhou Yunxia cried for a long time because Ji Sheng had a very bad reputation and she was afraid that Ji Sheng would beat people after Zhou Yunshu got married.
Zhou Yunxia still remembers the joke she made when Zhou Yunshu came home.
When Zhou Yunshu returned home that day, she was wrapped so tightly that even her neck could not be seen. She became even more convinced that Ji Sheng must have attacked Zhou Yunshu.
Who would have thought...
There were marks on Zhou Yunshu's neck, but they weren't caused by beatings...
Thinking back now, Zhou Yunxia's hands and feet are numb with embarrassment...
"I guess so."
Zhou Yunshu felt that her current relationship with Ji Sheng might be more like that of a boyfriend and girlfriend in modern society.
Well, boyfriends and girlfriends who have children together.
"That's great." Zhou Yunxia suddenly sighed, "Although people outside have mixed opinions about Your Highness, there's one thing I think is excellent."
Zhou Yunqi asked curiously, "What is it?"
Could it be because Ji Sheng is pretty?
In Zhou Yunqi's eyes, the only thing that made the young lady like Ji Sheng was probably his stunning appearance.
But considering Ji Sheng's personality, no matter how good-looking he is, people will be discouraged.
"Don't be interested in women."
Even though everyone knew that Regent Ji Sheng was cold-blooded and ruthless, he was also famous for his apathy towards women.
Before Ji Sheng and Zhou Yunshu got married, some people speculated whether he had a homosexual tendency. After all, all the people around Ji Sheng were men, and there were many handsome men.
But after Ji Sheng and Zhou Yunshu got married, and after Xixi was born, the rumors about Ji Sheng's homosexuality disappeared instantly.
It was also from that time that many people appeared around Ji Sheng and offered him beautiful women.
He took in all the beauties, but in the blink of an eye he gave them away as rewards to his subordinates, without them even entering the palace.
Compared with the powerful Ji Sheng, Zhou Yunxia's husband Ma Yongxian is a romantic man.
The two had a grand wedding and were very loving in the first year of their marriage, otherwise they would not have had their first child so soon.
When she was newly married, Zhou Yunxia always felt that she had found the right person for her life, because Ma Yongxian dismissed his two concubines in order to marry her and promised to be with her alone in the future.
But most of the men's vows are very unreliable.
When the news came that Zhou Yunxia's grandfather had committed treason and collaborated with the enemy, and when the news came that the Zhou family had been confiscated and exiled, the so-called oaths of love were less reliable than sand.
The mother-in-law who always claimed to love her like a daughter changed her face in the blink of an eye; the considerate sister-in-law became sharp and mean; even the servants became hateful.
But the changes in these people were not as sad as the changes in Ma Yongxian, which made Zhou Yunxia sad.
Ma Yongxian, who had promised to be with Zhou for the rest of his life, took his cousin, who was said to be alone and helpless, back home the day after the bad news came from the Zhou family.
Not only his cousin was taken home, but also the baby in her belly.
Zhou Yunxia would never believe that someone like Ma Yongxian would raise a child for someone else, so it was easy to imagine whose child the cousin's belly was.
When Zhou Yunxia saw Hu Feiqin holding her belly and appearing in front of her, she felt both sad and relieved at that moment.
The sad thing is that the lover in my eyes is just an ordinary mortal; the fortunate thing is that I finally see the true face of Ma Yongxian and the Ma family, and am no longer deceived by them.
So even when the Ma family changed her from the main wife to the secondary wife and married her to the daughter of another sixth-rank official, Zhou Yunxia was not sad at all.
Ma Yongxian's infatuation is even more despicable than straw, just like that childhood sweetheart and cousin who didn't even get a co-wife in the end, and ended up being just a concubine.
Once something starts, there is no way to stop it.
Zhou Yunxia could no longer remember how many concubines he had, but she only knew that even the air in the backyard was filled with the smell of rouge and powder.
There were too many flowers at home, and Zhou Yunxia hadn't seen Ma Yongxian for a year until the news of the Zhou family's rehabilitation came.
Just like when the Zhou family was confiscated and exiled as criminals, Zhou Yunxia once again admired the Ma family's excellent face-changing skills.
In fact, when Xixi ascended the throne, Zhou Yunxia's situation in the Ma family had become a little better. However, this time when the Zhou family was rehabilitated, the Ma family was flattering Zhou Yunxia, fearing that Zhou Yunxia would bear a grudge because of the previous difficulties and then retaliate against them.
But Zhou Yunxia no longer wanted to play along with this group of people, she wanted to go home.
"Did the Ma family say anything when you came back this time?"
When Zhou Yunqi asked this question, Wu Yue, Li Jialan and others in the flower hall looked at Zhou Yunxia.
When Zhou Yunxia came back with her child today, besides her dowry, there were two maids given to her by the Ma family.
The two maids were taken away after they entered the Zhou family, and the one who stayed with Zhou Yunxia was her confidant whom she had relied on since childhood.
Ma Yongxian was not with Zhou Yunxia, but Wu Yue and the others understood that a general could not leave his territory casually.
This was the second time Wu Yue saw Zhou Yunxia since she got married.
During this meeting, even though Zhou Yunxia didn't say anything, Wu Yue knew that she was not doing well. But before she could ask her daughter how she was doing recently, Zhou Yunshu and Ji Sheng arrived.
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