Chapter 144(1/2)
Zhou Qian had an errand and could not stay in Lingxiao Palace for a long time. He stroked Chen Jiao's face with his palm. Seeing her scared to death, Zhou Qian sneered and left.
Chen Jiaoru received an amnesty.
I had heard that Zhou Qian was ruthless and had never experienced it after Chen Jiao came over, but just now, Chen Jiao almost thought that Zhou Qian was going to kill her.
However, if he avoided the day, Zhou Qian would come back in the evening. What means would he use to punish her for the whole night?
Chen Jiao was worried.
But Chen Jiao was not particularly afraid. The seniority of the eldest princess Yongchang was there. Since Zhou Qian had promised to let her go, he would definitely not take her life. As long as he could live, he would be given some invisible injuries by Zhou Qian and endure all night's physical pain. Chen Jiao could bear it.
In the backyard, Chen Jiao had nothing to clean up except for a few clothes. Zhou Qian gave her a few jewelry one after another, but Chen Jiao would not take it away. However, the oriole that Zhou Qian sent her when she was in the yard was getting more and more beautiful. Chen Jiao was a little reluctant to let it go. But if she really took it away, would Zhou Qian misunderstand that she still had concerns about him and used the oriole to see things and think of others?
He was thinking randomly and feeling uneasy. This is how Chen Jiao came here this day.
Zhou Qian, who worked as a servant in the Ministry of War, was also in his own palace.
He thought of many things.
"I am innocent. I hope your highness will be pity and don't give it up easily."
Very well, he didn't abandon her, she climbed onto Gaozhi first and wanted to leave him without hesitation.
"As long as I can see Your Highness every day, I will be happy even if I don't do anything."
It sounds so nice. Now that I think about it, it’s all sweet words of invitation, and I’m not sincere.
"I am already your Highness, so naturally I only have your Highness in my heart."
If this is true, why didn’t she want to be his concubine? With her identity, being able to be a prince’s concubine is already a ancestral tomb!
Zhou Qian punched the table with a punch.
There are so many princes, I'm afraid only the concubines around him feel wronged?
On this day, Zhou Qian's face was all black.
In the evening, Zhou Qian rushed back to Lingxiao Palace.
After changing his clothes, Zhou Qian walked to the door of the inner room. The man retreated and sat on the bed motionless.
Just a palace maid, why should he care too much about her stay or not? He is a prince, can't he still lack the service of a beauty? Although she is beautiful, she may not be even more beautiful than her. If you talk about her figure, the two whom the Virtue of Concubine wanted to give him last time were not much thinner than her. As for the cuteness she showed, they were all fake.
Thinking of this, Zhou Qian suddenly understood why he was unwilling to accept it. It was not that he was reluctant to let her go, but that he was unwilling to be deceived and played with by her!
Don't want to be a concubine?
Zhou Qian sneered and got up and went to the backyard.
Chen Jiao came out to greet him tremblingly, secretly observed, and found that Zhou Qian looked calm and seemed to be in a good mood.
Chen Jiao was puzzled.
"Set up the meal." Zhou Qian sat down in the hall and ordered.
Lichee and Longan immediately went to pass the meal. Chen Jiao lowered her head and stood next to Zhou Qian, extremely regular and well-behaved.
Zhou Qian glanced at her and smiled faintly.
The dining table was very silent, and the sound of swallowing was clearly heard. After dinner, Chen Jiao followed Zhou Qian to the inner room and stood in front of the clothes hanger to dress him.
Zhou Qian looked down at her and sighed with regret: "I originally thought that when the princess passed by and when you gave birth to a son and half a daughter for me, I would invite you to be the concubine's position, but I did not expect that you would not be here."
Chen Jiao paused the movements in her hands.
In fact, if she was just a palace maid, Zhou Qian would have been pretty good to her and was actually planning to let her be a concubine. It would be a blessing for any palace maid to encounter such favor. But, as Zhou Qian said, she would not be here.
"I am very blessed and I can't stand the prince's hard work." Chen Jiao continued to dress him up, with an appropriate sadness on her face.
Zhou Qian held her little hand, looked at her moist eyes, and asked in a low voice: "It's really better to stay by my side to accompany the eldest princess?"
This is said with a deep affection, as if she was a unfaithful woman, but Chen Jiao was alert. Could it be that Zhou Qian wanted to persuade her to change her mind in this way?
Her eyelashes trembled, and Chen Jiao leaned gently into Zhou Qian's arms and said sadly: "The prince treats me sincerely. I also want to be with the prince forever, but the prince will marry the princess sooner or later, and there will be more beauties in the backyard. The more I care about the prince, the more painful I will be when the prince spoils others. Instead of becoming a jealous person who doesn't like even myself, I would rather bear the pain and leave the prince."
Zhou Qian touched her long hair and didn't say anything.
The two of them snuggled up to each other, and the sky became darker and darker. Zhou Qian suddenly picked up Chen Jiao and entered the tent with her.
On the last night, Chen Jiao tried hard to play a concubine who wanted to leave him because of her sadness.
When the love was deep, Zhou Qian pushed away the messy hair in her ear and asked, "Giao, in the future, you will be alone and unable to sleep. Is it sure you will not regret it?" As he said, he made her understand what she was about to lose and tried all her skills, "If you regret it, it is still time."
Chen Jiao's mind flashed, and she climbed on his strong shoulders and used the sounds of "prince" to hide what she thought in her heart.
If a husband and wife are loving, it is indeed greedy at night, but after leaving him, Chen Jiao will find a good husband for herself, so how can she be alone and unable to sleep? Could it be that Zhou Qian thought that only he, the prince in the world, could give her the joy of husband and wife?
Zhou Qian looked at her blushing face and looked at her charming charm that only he had seen before, but he began to feel reluctant to leave. He would not be able to meet such a beauty in a short time.
The more reluctant I am to give up, the less I am willing to stop. This night, Chen Jiao may have been asleep for less than two hours.
She didn't understand why the seventeen-year-old Zhou Qian was so energetic. Fortunately, she was about to be relieved.
The next day, when Chen Jiao got up, her eyes were covered with blue. In order not to be embarrassed, Chen Jiao ordered several eggs to apply her eyes, and then put on makeup that was a little thicker and brighter than usual. When she was busy, Zhou Qian sat aside and watched. After Chen Jiao finished her work, Zhou Qian also ordered lychees and longans to bring him the jewelry that Chen Jiao gave him, and the oriole.
"After the Marquis' Mansion, you are an outsider after all, so you can take these." After the maids withdrew, Zhou Qian took Chen Jiao into his arms and stuffed her a small box. Chen Jiao opened the box and found a stack of silver notes inside. The top one was a denomination of 100 taels. Looking at the thickness of the silver notes, Chen Jiao guessed that there would be thousands of taels here.
She looked at Zhou Qian in shock.
Zhou Qian pinched her delicate chin, kissed her lips gently, and murmured: "Please accept it, so that you won't think I don't have you in my heart."
Chen Jiao was full of goose bumps all over her body. No, even if Zhou Qian was broad-minded and didn't mind her leaving, he shouldn't have been so generous!
"This, this is too heavy, I can't accept it." Chen Jiao covered the box and stuffed it back into Zhou Qian's hands.
Zhou Qian looked at her and put away the box for the time being. Then when Wuping Hou came to pick Chen Jiao up, Zhou Qian accompanied her to the front yard, Zhou Qian stuffed the box into Chen Jiao's bag and glared at Chen Jiao with warning.
Chen Jiao pursed her lips, feeling more and more uneasy.
"My cousin came very early." The autumn was bright, and Zhou Qian smiled and greeted Hou Wuping.
Marquis Wu Ping looked at Chen Jiao who looked like a flower bud and smiled and said, "Your grandma is urging me to hurry, and I can't do anything about it."
Zhou Qian nodded, pointed to Lizhi, and said, "They have been serving Ah Jiao. Let's take her with me together. After Ah Jiao left, I can't use them."
Wu Pinghou nodded, he just took it seriously.
Zhou Qian looked at Chen Jiao and said, "It is A Jiao's blessing to be attracted to by her aunt. But A Jiao is the one whom she gave me by her mother. I can't let my mother down for her hard work. In this way, I will send A Jiao to her aunt to be filial. If she makes a mistake in the future and offends her aunt, or her aunt does not need A Jiao's company, please ask her cousin to send A Jiao back to the palace."
When Chen Jiao heard this, her head lowered, but her hands in her sleeves clenched into fists!
Last night, she realized that Zhou Qian was wrong, and it turned out that she was waiting for her here! According to Zhou Qian's intention, although she lived in the Marquis of Wuping, her identity was always his concubine. When Princess Yongchang passed away, she would have to return to the Ding Palace and continue to be his concubine?
Chen Jiao gritted her teeth and looked up at Zhou Qian.
Zhou Qian seemed to have been waiting for her, with eyes facing each other. Zhou Qian immediately smiled back to her, but there was a sarcasm in his eyes.
Zhou Qian said politely, and the man from Wuping Hou was a rough man, but he didn't think anything was wrong and responded in one go.
In Zhou Qian's meaningful gaze, Chen Jiao followed Marquis Wuping out of the palace.
Chen Jiao was in a very heavy mood. The two maids Zhou Qian gave her, one thousand taels of silver notes and those jewelry, all became shackles that bound her.
But, things have happened, and it is useless to worry just by taking one step.
The carriage was parked in front of the Wuping Marquis' Mansion. When he got off, Chen Jiao's face was only nervous and excited about coming to the new place.
Princess Yongchang warmly received Chen Jiao.
The population of the Marquis of Wuping is simple. Apart from the eldest princess Yongchang, the Marquis of Wuping and his wife, there are only two sons of Marquis of Wuping. The prince is 25 years old this year and has two children with the wife of the prince. The eldest son Fu Ge'er is four years old and the eldest daughter Xiu Jie'er is only two years old. Chen Er and his wife are even younger and have the only son Lu Ge'er.
The whole family is very kind to Chen Jiao.
Chen Jiao was arranged to live in the yard of Princess Yongchang, and stayed with Princess Yongchang all day long. Princess Yongchang really loved her. Chen Jiao was also sincerely grateful to this elder who was destined to be her, so she simply treated Princess Yongchang as her grandmother and respected her.
After being filial to more than a month, Princess Yongchang liked Chen Jiao more and more, and decided to give Chen Jiao a name.
"Giao, we have a great fate. I want to accept you as my adopted daughter. Are you willing?"
At dusk that day, the eldest princess Yongchang asked Chen Jiao kindly.
Chen Jiao was stunned for a moment, then knelt on the ground, and swallowed: "You are attracted by it, save me from the sea of suffering, how can Ah Jiao be your daughter again?"
Princess Yongchang expected that the child would be happy and humble, and even expected that Chen Jiao might cry, but she did not expect that Chen Jiao would say something.
"Save you from the sea of suffering?" Princess Yongchang repeated, and then came over to understand. While helping Chen Jiao up, she asked, "Why, King Ding treats you badly, don't you want to be his concubine?"
Chen Jiao red eyes and said sadly: "A Jiao was born in a farmhouse. Although her family is poor, her parents are loving. A Jiao is influenced by her. She wants to marry a husband who is old with me in the future. She doesn't want to be a court show. I went into the palace and was given to the prince by the concubine. The prince is noble, and others envied me for being able to serve him. I also know that it is my blessing to be favored by the prince. Yes, but if I have chosen, I would rather be a poor wife than be a concubine with others..."
She was in tears. Princess Yongchang looked at this familiar tears, but thought of her daughter who died prematurely.
Her daughter Ajiao is as beautiful as a flower. All the nobles who have seen her daughter in the capital are admiring her. Even Emperor Huiyuan wanted to take her daughter into the palace to be a concubine. Emperor Huiyuan first asked her what she meant, and Princess Yongchang then asked her daughter. She thought her daughter would be attracted by the power of the emperor, but her daughter pouted and said, "The concubine is not a concubine yet, so I don't want to be a concubine for my cousin."
So she refused Emperor Huiyuan's proposal.
Now, this poor girl who looks very similar to her daughter doesn't want to be a concubine.
Princess Yongchang thought of the polite words of King Ding when her son went to pick up Ah Jiao, and it was obvious that she was reluctant to let him go.
Others may not dare to offend a prince, but the eldest princess of Yongchang is not afraid. She treats Ah Gillian as her daughter, so how could she call the little girl wronged?
"Jiao Jiao, don't cry. When you become my daughter, even the emperor is your cousin. Who dares to force you to be a concubine?" He took out a handkerchief to wipe Chen Jiao's tears. Princess Yongchang said with a smile.
Chen Jiao blinked in surprise and asked blankly: "I, should I call the emperor a cousin?"
To be continued...