Chapter 215: The Princess
Chapter 215: The Princess
The first day of the new year in the capital is very lively.
Every household celebrates the New Year.
In the palace, court officials paid New Year's greetings to the emperor, and after that the emperor gave a banquet. All the officials from other places in the capital gathered in the palace, and the festive atmosphere of the first day of the new year finally began.
The wet nurse who was assassinated last night seemed to have never existed. The emperor entertained his ministers as if nothing had happened and did not even ask Prince Rui to stay for a discussion, as if nothing had happened.
The homes of the people in the city are also very lively now.
In addition to every household paying New Year's greetings, people like the managers of wealthy families' shops and the heads of the villages will also come to pay New Year's greetings. The hosts will also provide snacks and food, and everyone will pay New Year's greetings in a lively manner. The first day of the New Year is not considered over until then.
There was a banquet in the palace, and Marquis Yong'an naturally had to go. Gu Zhao did not bring his own son, but only brought Gu Zilu. At the banquet, the eldest princess Zhao Yingqiao broke a wine glass. Since then, the eldest princess became uneasy. She always felt her eyelids twitching and her heart was very uneasy.
Thinking of her frequently looking towards the northwest, his worries grew heavier.
Su Jin, who was staying at home to accept congratulations from the village head and the managers, also felt uneasy at this time.
This feeling was very strange and very strong, so strong that the first thing she thought of was Gu Zixuan who was in the northwest.
Didn’t they say that the war would resume in the spring? What happened?
After a busy day, Su Jin still felt uneasy. She walked back to the ancestral hall alone, took off the cover on the tablet, stared at the tablet of the original body and murmured: "Gu Zixuan is in the northwest, I can't take care of him, but fortunately you can, you have to protect your good son well."
After saying this, he lit incense, replaced the offerings with new ones, and then left.
As soon as she came out, she heard the doormaid coming to report that the Grand Princess had arrived.
Su Jin hurried to greet her. As soon as Zhao Yingqiao saw her, she bit her lip and pulled her into the house, drove away all the maids and servants, and closed the door. Then Zhao Yingqiao sat down on the chair with red eyes, covering her chest and said, "Su Jin, don't you feel anything?"
Su Jin's heart sank even more.
She looked at the eldest princess who had always been high and mighty, and now she was flustered and at a loss, with red eyes, and then she slowly said: "Yes."
"I felt uneasy, had trouble breathing, and felt like my whole body was not mine. I felt light and fluttery, and I couldn't sleep or eat well."
"Me too!"
Zhao Yingqiao stood up anxiously and walked around the room: "Something must have happened to Nan Ge'er. This good-for-nothing had to go to the battlefield just for your Gu Suiyu. Su Jin, you are a mother, I will not look for anyone else now, only you!"
Zhao Yingqiao is relying on Su Jin.
She was also getting mad with anxiety.
She was obviously a high-ranking royal relative, the eldest princess, and a noble lady, but now she had lost all her grace and dignity, and had completely turned into an ordinary mother, so ordinary that she lost her mind when she was anxious, and ran to her to question her without recognizing her relatives.
"Looking for me?"
"Yes, I'm looking for you!"
Zhao Yingqiao's voice was choked with sobs: "How did you educate your children? Do you think you are worthy of us? I am the eldest princess, are you all crazy about trying to get close to me? It's so shameless!!"
Zhao Yingqiao collapsed, but Su Jin became calmer.
She even sat down calmly, took a sip of hot tea to warm herself up, and then continued, "I don't like what the Grand Princess said. Wasn't it Yin Zhengnan who kept chasing our Fourth Miss? Wasn't it Yin Zhengnan who said outside that he would not marry anyone but Gu Suiyu, ruining our reputation? Wasn't it Yin Zhengnan who insisted on coming to propose marriage and even lied to his parents? Who is the shameless person, huh?"
"I……"
"The Grand Princess!"
Su Jin put down the teacup heavily and snorted coldly: "As for Yin Zhengnan's insistence on joining the army, this is not our Sui Yu's fault. If the princess had not been suppressing him with power, he would not have wanted to break free. Where there is oppression, there is resistance. Yin Zhengnan, the one you are resisting is not me, nor Sui Yu, but you, the Grand Princess!"
The moment the truth was revealed, the eldest princess finally collapsed.
In fact, she knew everything, but she was really panicked today, so she came to vent.
If it were someone else, they would definitely be respectful and careful to please him, but Su Jin has never been that kind of person.
Zhao Yingqiao understood. She knew Su Jin's temper. She brought this upon herself.
"That's my son, the flesh that fell from my body..."
"Gu Zixuan is also my son, born after a pregnancy of ten months. I remember Yin Zhengnan said that he would follow my son closely, and that even if something happened to Xuange, he would be fine. Is that right?"
The unreasonable and unreasonable Grand Princess:...
It became quiet in an instant.
Zhao Yingqiao looked away guiltily: "Ah, is there such a thing?"
Su Jin ignored her and just looked away indifferently: "If something happens to my son and Yin Zhengnan comes back alive, I will never let him go!"
"How dare you!" Zhao Yingqiao stood up suddenly and gritted her teeth: "I am the eldest princess!"
Su Jin calmly drank tea: "Oh, I'm his mother-in-law."
“…”
Ouch! She's so mad!
Zhao Yingqiao was almost mad with anger. This Su Jin really wouldn't let anyone get even a little bit of advantage!
"Su Jin, you are nothing now, don't show off in front of me!!"
Facing the Grand Princess who had lost all her composure, Su Jin still spoke calmly: "Oh, I'm your son's mother-in-law."
Zhao Yingqiao: ...
!!!
It really drives me crazy!!
"You, you'd better hope that my son is okay!"
"Yeah, you too."
Zhao Yingqiao couldn't stay there any longer, so she turned around and left angrily.
Although she was noble and arrogant, she was not completely unreasonable. She could not refute every word Su Jin said. She came to seek comfort, but was made to doubt her life. The eldest princess could only leave sadly.
But she didn't know that Su Jin started writing the letter as soon as he left the house. After thinking about it, he made two copies, one to be sent to Hexi Su's family and the other to Gu Zixuan.
However, early in the morning on the third day of the New Year, the bad news still reached the capital.
The express letter was delivered all the way from the northwest to the capital over a distance of 800 miles. In the places where the snow was the thickest, the horses were stuck in it and couldn't get out. The soldier who was delivering the letter climbed out by himself and continued to move forward, stumbling forward.
This letter was stained with the war and blood of the northwest, waded across the surging and majestic Yellow River, and finally passed through the festive and peaceful streets of the capital and fell into the hands of Zhao Jingcheng.
Prince Rui asked anxiously, "Brother, is there something wrong with the war in the northwest?"
Zhao Jingyu had more things to ask, but he couldn't. In fact, there was only one thing he wanted to ask the most.
Gu Zixuan, dead or alive?