Celebrating the Year of the Fish: A Princess is Not a Concubine[GL]

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Zhou Jinyu came out of the imperial study, feeling a little joyful in her heart. As soon as Emperor Tianshun opened her mouth, she gave her mother Liu a fifth-rank imperial order. No matter what that old man Feng Boyang knew, this test was over for the time being.

Speaking farther away, now that Liu's identity is here, Feng Boyang must not dare to act rashly for the time being. As for the future, she has other plans, so don't be in a hurry.

It's just that there is still a faint disappointment in her heart. She originally thought that Emperor Tianshun would give her a promotion this time, but Emperor Tianshun kicked her out directly, and said that she should be at ease in the official department. Serve the princess well.

But if you think about it, in the previous dynasty, concubines rarely served as officials, unless the officials in the court were married by the princess after being favored by the princess, but the consorts of Emperor Tianshun in this dynasty all had official positions Although they are not big officials, they can all be regarded as Beijing officials.

Now she can be an official in the official department, and she has just been appointed as an imperial envoy. Although the status of imperial envoy is gone now, it is different from before.

If there is no promotion, there will be no promotion. She is not in a hurry for the time being. After all, the old grandson once told her that there will be major changes in the court soon.

Although she didn't know what the change was, since the old grandson said so, she couldn't be aimless.

Zhou Jinyu boarded the carriage back to the mansion, and after returning to the son-in-law's mansion, she didn't need to work in the Ministry of Officials today, and it was rare for her to have a free day.

So she ordered someone to set up a small wooden table under the big tree in the yard. A few small benches were placed beside the wooden table, and teacups and tea bowls were placed on the wooden table. She sat under the wooden table and drank leisurely. Tea, the mood is extraordinarily comfortable and comfortable.

Zhou Jinyu has not been so leisurely for a long time. She has been living cautiously before, her heart is always filled with hatred, and her heart is full of depression under her carefree appearance. She has complained countless times about the injustice of the sky. She goes through these things.

But since she had a serious illness a few days ago, some things, or some obsessions, suddenly began to figure out.

Life is alive, and you can't live with these burdens all the time.

If there is only hatred in her heart, then she will ignore the many good things around her, although she has always said that her biggest dream is to be a salted fish, bask in the sun for a while every day, and then be a grilled fish, turn over and burn on both sides.

But she has never done it, and now that she is seriously ill, she has completely figured it out.

She can't ignore the things in front of her, and then think about some things, or, to be more precise, she can't ignore the people in front of her.

She closed her eyes, hummed a little tune, and held a teacup in her hand, like an old man basking in the sun at the gate.

"Master, look at the son-in-law, does he look like a grandpa?"

A brisk laugh suddenly reached Zhou Jinyu's ears.

Zhou Jinyu quickly opened his eyes, and saw that Wan Qiu was pointing at her, laughing uncontrollably.

And Wei Huanian, who was in front of her, was also looking at her with those beautiful eyes, his eyes fluttering, a smile that was not a smile.

Zhou Jinyu immediately sat upright, quickly pulled away the small bench beside him and said, "Princess, come and sit down."

Wei Huanian approached her, glanced at the big sun above his head, and said, "It's almost noon, it's time for lunch."

Zhou Jinyu chuckled: "Don't be busy for lunch, princess, I just met Lord Long Live."

Wei Huanian sat down on the small bench she had pulled out, and asked casually, "What did your father say to you?"

Zhou Jinyu thought for a while, and felt that Emperor Tianshun hadn't said anything important to her, so he said, "It's nothing, Lord Long Live sealed my mother's sixth-rank order, and the family is probably overjoyed."

Wei Huanian thought for a while, and said, "I should go to the mansion for such a happy event, and congratulate my mother-in-law."

Zhou Jinyu smiled and said, "You can figure it out."

Wei Huanian nodded lightly, then looked at Zhou Jinyu and asked, "I asked you to tell Ah Jing about going to the study, is there anything?"

Zhou Jinyu was startled: "Uh... not yet."

Wei Huanian's face became very ugly, and he gave her a bad look.

Zhou Jinyu quickly poured Wei Huanian a cup of tea, pushed it in front of her, and said with a smile, "I'm not too busy. Look, I don't have a moment to spare."

Wei Huanian raised his eyebrows to look at her. How can she not be idle when she looks so leisurely?

Zhou Jinyu coughed lightly, knowing that he was wrong, and said repeatedly: "Then I will talk to him later, but I don't know if it makes sense, you know Xiao Baozi's temper, and you lose your temper Come on, no one's words will work."

Wei Huanian said: "You can do your best on this matter, if he really refuses to go, I..."

Zhou Jinyu looked up, listened quietly, looked at her and asked, "Huh?"

Wei Huanian sighed helplessly: "I can't help it either."

Zhou Jinyu: "Pfft!"

She couldn't help laughing, seeing Wei Huanian glaring at her, she quickly choked back.

But there was a snicker in her heart. It turned out that the eldest princess, who said that one thing is omnipotent, sometimes suffers from depression, which made her feel overjoyed.

Wei Huanian sat for a while, drank some tea, and said to Zhou Jinyu: "After lunch, you can accompany me to pay my respects to my mother-in-law."

Zhou Jinyu responded, "Hey, okay."

After lunch, Wei Huanian went to the warehouse and rummaged for a while. Zhou Jinyu looked at her and muttered, "Princess, you don't have to prepare things for your mother. She will be very happy if you can go to congratulate her."

Wei Huanian didn't stop, his hands kept moving, and he continued to search for gifts in the warehouse.

Zhou Jinyu had no choice but to wait on the sidelines. In the end, Wei Huanian found an exquisite hairpin made of white jade and a bracelet, and he was satisfied.

She ordered these two things to be packed in an exquisite box, and then she held them in her hands, and said to Zhou Jinyu, "It's done, let's go."

Zhou Jinyu immediately approached her: "Alright."

The two went to Zhou's house. The Liu family had just received the imperial edict and put it away when Zhou Jinyu and Wei Huanian arrived.

Everyone in the Zhou family was elated because of the canonization of the Liu family. Although it was a sixth-rank imperial order, Zhou Jinyu was only a mere official of the seventh rank.

The Zhou family naturally knew that this was the emperor Long En, so how could they be unhappy?

Now the princess and the son-in-law brought gifts to congratulate, and the servants of the mansion became more and more considerate.

When Wei Huanian met Liu Shi, he presented the congratulatory gift. Liu Shi's face was full of joy, she accepted Wei Huanian's gift with a smile, and said with a smile: "My daughter-in-law has a heart."

Wei Huanian smiled and said, "The son-in-law has done a lot of work outside this time, and you deserve it, mother-in-law."

Her words gave Zhou Jinyu enough face, and Liu was happy to hear that, so she could tell that Wei Huanian was defending Zhou Jinyu.

The old lady Zhou was also helped out by Zhou Linger, and the family sat together, talking happily. Zhou Linger tried several times, but she couldn't get in the conversation, and then she simply refused to talk.

She felt a little unwilling in her heart, ever since Zhou Jinyu became the son-in-law, she became more and more speechless in this family.

But Mrs. Liu and Mrs. Zhou saw that she refused to speak, and instead looked depressed, they didn't think much about it, and continued to gossip.

But Zhou Jinyu noticed Zhou Linger's abnormality, and asked, "Sister Linger, what's wrong? Who made you angry?"

The old lady Zhou said with a smile: "Who else can it be? It must be because of the quarrel with the little prince. They are all people who are about to get married, and they are still like children."

Zhou Ling'er said angrily: "Who got into trouble with him? I didn't! Grandma, don't talk nonsense."

The old lady Zhou laughed again and again: "Okay, okay, if you say no, then there is no."

While talking, a servant came to report that the little prince Sun Hao had arrived.

Mrs. Liu hurriedly said, "Please hurry up."

Zhou Jinyu already knew about Sun Hao's going to marry Zhou Ling'er, if there were no accidents, it might only be within the past two months.

It's just that the old concubine never came to the Zhou family to discuss the marriage, so it has been delayed, but the news that Zhou Ling'er will soon become the princess of Guining has naturally spread throughout the Zhou family.

Under the guidance of his servants, Sun Hao strode into the room with his head held high. He first saluted Wei Huanian: "My subject, Sun Hao, pay my respects to the princess."

Wei Huanian said calmly, "Your Majesty, excuse me."

Sun Hao saluted Mrs. Zhou again, and shouted respectfully: "Mrs. Zhou," and then called Mrs. Liu: "Madam is well."

Then, he nodded to Zhou Jinyu, Zhou Jinyu naturally smiled and nodded to him.

But when she inadvertently raised her head and saw Shun Rong standing behind Sun Hao, she was instantly startled.

That follower has a big stature, it's hard not to notice.

But the most important thing is his appearance. At first glance, he is not from the Central Plains. He is taller than Sun Hao by half a head, and his nose is straight, and his skin is lighter than that of the Central Plains. He is undoubtedly from the Western Regions. .

And the more Zhou Jinyu looked at him, the more familiar he looked, but he just couldn't remember.

Seeing Zhou Jinyu staring at his guard in a daze, Sun Hao smiled and said, "Brother Jinyu, what are you looking at?"

Zhou Jinyu looked away, smiled and said, "Just now I heard that you made our sister Jialing angry again. If you are like this, I don't dare to rest assured that she will marry you."

Sun Hao hurriedly yelled wronged: "Who dares to make her angry, she is like a little tiger, if I make her angry, she will not scratch me to death."

As soon as he said this, everyone in the room laughed.

Zhou Jinyu also laughed, and tilted his head to look at Zhou Linger, only to see that Zhou Linger was a little absent-minded, as if sneaking glances at the guard beside Sun Hao from time to time.

Zhou Jinyu was slightly puzzled, and when he looked at the Western Regions man again, he was suddenly startled.

She thought this person looked familiar just now, but she just couldn't remember where she saw him.

Now she completely remembered, wasn't this the man from the Western Regions who followed Xiang Nantian when she saw Xiang Nantian in Baoxiang Pavilion last time?

Celebrating the Year of the Fish: [Second update]

People from the Western Regions?

If she remembered correctly, the man from the Western Regions should be sworn brothers with Xiang Nantian, and now that Xiang Nantian is dead, this man from the Western Regions appeared beside Sun Hao again.

No matter how she thought about it, she felt that it must not be a coincidence.

After all, Sun Hao probably wouldn't find a Western Regions man to be his bodyguard for no reason. Could it be that he is good-looking?Too handsome?

Zhou Jinyu couldn't figure it out more and more, and she was a little distracted. It wasn't until Wei Huanian called her that she came back to her senses.

Wei Huanian asked, "My son-in-law, what's wrong with you? Why are you absent-minded, but you're not feeling well?"

Zhou Jinyu covered her head and stood up: "Well, my head hurts, princess, I want to go back."

Wei Huanian responded, "Okay, let's go back home."

After Wei Huanian finished speaking, he said goodbye to Mrs. Zhou and Mrs. Liu. Mrs. Liu sent them out, but Wei Huanian hurriedly said that there was no need to see them off.

When Zhou Jinyu returned to the Concubine's Mansion, Wei Huanian wanted Wan Qiu to find a doctor, but Zhou Jinyu stopped Wan Qiu and said, "I'm fine, I just don't want to stay in the Zhou Mansion any longer, so I lied about being uncomfortable."

Wei Huanian felt relieved and asked, "But what's wrong?"

Zhou Jinyu shook his head: "I can't figure it out for now, I'll tell you when I figure it out."

Seeing that she was unwilling to say more, Wei Huanian stopped asking.

Wei Huanian was going to see Wei Jingrui in Wei Jingrui's room, probably because he still wanted to persuade him to go to the study, Zhou Jinyu didn't bother, but went back to the room first.

If she remembers correctly, the man from the Western Regions is named Sima Ye, and Zhou Linger once wanted to elope for a man, and that man was said to be a foreigner, seeing Zhou Linger's attitude towards Sima Ye now, could it be one of them? What's the connection?

In other words, could it be that the man Zhou Linger wanted to elope with back then was Sima Ye?

Thinking of this, Zhou Jinyu suddenly figured it out. No wonder Zhou Ling'er wanted to marry the young prince even though she obviously didn't like him.

Could it be the reason?

When she thought of this, she was secretly startled. Although she was no longer as close to Sun Hao as before, if Zhou Linger married him for another man, it would obviously be unfair to Sun Hao.

Thinking of this, she felt more and more inappropriate, and she was about to go out immediately.

Liu Mu followed closely behind her for two steps, and asked Zhou Jinyu, "My son-in-law, it's so late, where are you going?"

Zhou Jinyu thought for a while, and said, "There's no need to follow. I have some personal matters to attend to. If the princess comes back, just tell her that I'll be back as soon as I go, and let her go to bed first."

Liu Mu responded: "Okay, my son-in-law."

Zhou Jinyu nodded, stepped across the threshold, and left the mansion all the way.

She wanted to go to Zhou's house to talk to Zhou Ling'er about this matter. After all, although the young prince Sun Hao didn't have much power in the court, he was still the majestic King Guining. If she married Sun Hao just to meet Sima Ye, then There is still the old concubine in Guining Palace, so how could he let it go.

Thinking of this, Zhou Jinyu left the Concubine's Mansion, entered the Zhou Mansion and walked along the gravel road. Passing the back garden, he was looking at a few figures in front of him.

It was already late at night, and there were few people coming to the back garden, so Zhou Jinyu inevitably slowed down.

When she got closer, she found that the three figures were Sun Hao and Sima Ye, and there was another person who was Zhou Ling'er.

At this time, Zhou Ling'er was hugging Sima Ye, and then they separated again. Sima Ye was holding Zhou Ling'er's hand.

Because the distance was too far, Zhou Jinyu couldn't hear their whispers clearly.

But what was incredible was that when they were embracing each other, Sun Hao was watching from the sidelines, looking at his posture, apparently to give the two of them a break.

This thing is a little weird.

Sun Hao watched helplessly that the woman he was about to marry was flirting with other men and embracing each other affectionately, yet he was showing off to those two?

What is this called?

The two talked for a while, and Sun Hao said something else, Zhou Ling'er and Sima Ye separated, a little bit reluctantly.

Sima Ye suddenly stopped and looked in Zhou Jinyu's direction.

Zhou Jinyu was startled, and immediately dodged behind a short tree.

Zhou Jinyu bowed his waist, looked out through the gaps in the branches and leaves, and saw Sima Ye walking a few steps in this direction.

Sima Ye was already tall, Zhou Jinyu said silently: I can't see me, I can't see me.

Sun Hao raised his voice and asked, "Brother Sima, what's wrong?"

Sima Ye stopped and said, "It's nothing."

He walked back again and said, "Let's go."

Zhou Jinyu instantly felt relieved. Fortunately, he was not found.

After Sun Hao and Su Ma also left, Sun Linger still stood where she was, wondering what she was thinking.

Zhou Jinyu was puzzled, what kind of game are these people playing?

Sun Hao actually knew that Zhou Linger liked other people all along?

Not only did he know everything, but he also let Zhou Linger do this?

Zhou Jinyu suddenly felt that his brain was not enough, it was too messy, it was too messy.

Seeing that Zhou Linger was the only one left, she stopped hiding and came out from under the tree.

Seeing her, Zhou Linger yelled in surprise, "Ah, Zhou Jinyu, why are you here!"

The meaning of the question in this sentence is obvious.

Zhou Jinyu came to her and raised his eyebrows to look at her: "Then why are you here?"

Zhou Ling'er pretended nothing happened, pointed to Zhou Jinyu and said, "I'm from the Zhou family, I can go wherever I want, you don't care." She continued to explain: "I I came to the garden to digest food, what about you, what are you doing here?"

Seeing her talking nonsense, Zhou Jinyu stopped playing around with her, and said directly, "Zhou Linger, tell me, what is your relationship with that Sima Ye?"

Zhou Linger stopped talking.

Zhou Jinyu asked forcefully, "You married Sun Hao because of that Sima Ye, right?"

Zhou Ling'er suddenly rushed forward, and said viciously: "It's none of your business!"

Zhou Jinyu said angrily: "What cares about me? I said why did you suddenly agree to marry Sun Hao? So there are still these things in the middle? Zhou Linger, let me tell you the truth, Sun Hao wants to marry you , because of the eldest princess, what about you, you promised to marry him, what did he promise you?"

Zhou Ling'er bit her lip, and said angrily, "So what? Sun Hao promised me that as long as I marry him, he will let me hang out with Brother A Ye and never touch me!"

Zhou Jin was so angry that he couldn't speak: "You!"

Zhou Linger suddenly said aggrievedly: "I know why he married me, but what does it matter? Zhou Jinyu, grandma and mother only have you in their hearts. When have they ever taken care of me? They usually The only thing they talk about is the fourth child, the fourth child! Since they don't want to control me, why should they control my marriage?"

After hearing her complaint, Zhou Jinyu didn't know how to explain to her for a while. The old lady and her mother, Liu Shi, have always treated their children equally and never favored one another. She really didn't know why Zhou Linger would say Say something like this.

Furthermore, the elders intervened in her marriage because they were afraid that she would suffer hardship if she married someone who was not human.

Who would have thought that she would want to use the pretense of marrying Sun Hao, but in fact, Sima Ye was always on her mind?

Zhou Jinyu sighed, and said, "Sister Ling, ask yourself, did your mother and grandma treat you badly? The foreigner you fell in love with earlier, and the person you wanted to elope with is also him, right?"

Zhou Linger said bitterly: "Yes! So what? At the beginning, all of you said that he was lying to me, especially you, Zhou Jinyu, you said that he was out for our family's money. Mother went too far, she Locked me up directly, but now, I think about relying on my own method to pursue my happiness, is this wrong?"

Zhou Jinyu had nothing to say. It was obvious that she had held back her words for a long time now.

Zhou Jinyu turned around and left.

Zhou Linger shouted behind her: "Zhou Jinyu, we are getting married soon!"

Zhou Jinyu paused.

Zhou Linger threatened: "If you tell the story, I will show you to death!"

Zhou Jinyu stopped in her tracks, she just turned around, looked at Zhou Linger quietly and said, "I'm going back home, you can do it yourself." She said again: "That Sun Hao, and Sima Ye, absolutely Not a simple person."

Zhou Ling'er only said: "I don't need you to worry about it."

Zhou Jin smiled angrily and nodded, gritted his teeth and said, "Okay! Very good! I don't care, you can do whatever you like!"

Zhou Ling'er just looked at her like that, and suddenly panicked in her heart.

Zhou Jinyu usually has a good temper and never gets angry at others. This time, she was really angry.

Zhou Jinyu looked at her, then said coldly: "You don't need to call me on the day you get married."

Zhou Linger was startled.

After Zhou Jinyu had finished speaking, he flung his sleeves and left.

Zhou Ling'er was still standing where she was, but her body suddenly went limp. She lay powerlessly on the ground and murmured, "I'm sorry...I'm sorry..."

Zhou Jinyu returned to the house, holding back her anger. She felt that she would definitely see something from her current expression when she went back to the room to see Wei Huanian.

So she drank tea in the outer hall for a long time, and when her anger gradually subsided, she called Jinfeng to come in.

Jinfeng just came back from Yong'an County at noon, and now the affairs there are almost settled, and Zhang Lu also returned to the capital with him.

Zhou Jinyu planned to arrange for him to go to Qiulu Academy to help his grandfather Liu Xi, and then let him take the exam again when the autumn exam came. Of course, this is a later story.

Jin Feng came in and asked, "Master Consort, are you looking for me?"

Zhou Jinyu nodded, and asked, "Do you still remember the time when I asked you to check Zhou Linger's..." She considered her words, and continued: "You still have an impression of the man outside Zhou Linger. Is it?"

Jin Feng thought for a while, and said: "The villain remembers, I followed him to the Water Transport Wharf, and then lost him."

Zhou Jinyu said: "What happened later? What did you find?"

Jin Feng said: "Later, I heard people say that he went to the north."

Zhou Jinyu asked him: "North, where do you mean? Turkic or Khitan?"

Jin Feng was startled, then shook his head: "The villain doesn't know."

Zhou Jinyu nodded: "Oh, I don't know, it's okay. But by the way, are you really well informed? You can even find out about this."

Jin Feng was startled again, nodded, and said, "Thank you."

Zhou Jinyu didn't ask any more questions. Even if she had a guess about some things, it was just a guess and that was the end of it. In fact, there was no need to point it out.

For example, she could occasionally feel that Jinfeng's attitude towards Wei Huanian was obviously more respectful than that towards her.

It was a kind of respect born from the bottom of my heart.

It's not because Wei Huanian is a princess, nor is it because Wei Huanian is Zhou Jinyu's wife, there must be something else in it.

But she didn't want to delve too much into this matter. No matter whether Jinfeng is Wei Huanian's person or not, as long as this person is useful, he can handle the affairs assigned to him well. In fact, there is no need to go to whoever he is. Think more.

But the news that Jinfeng told her made her not think about it.

She always had a hunch that there was a big net wrapping her invisible.

But that net hasn't been put away yet, it's just hanging above her. Although it didn't cause any harm to her, this sense of crisis is always with her.

She felt that she should do something, but for such a situation, the best way was to wait and see what happened.

Early the next morning, Zhou Jinyu carried the little bun to the pond in the back garden to watch the fish.

I heard Wan Qiu chattering about Wei Huanian ordering someone to buy a pair of mandarin ducks and put them in the pond.

Excitedly, Zhou Jinyu took the little bun to see it. Zhou Jinyu stretched his neck, took the little bun's hand, and asked Wan Qiu, "I said, where is the mandarin duck you said the princess bought?"

Wan Qiu pointed at the two little creatures swimming in the water not far away and said, "My son-in-law, do you have bad eyesight? Isn't that right there?"

Zhou Jinyu took a closer look, and finally saw clearly that there was really something floating together not far away.

Zhou Jinyu curled her lips, and suddenly took out the mandarin duck handkerchief that Wei Hua gave her a few days ago, and whispered to the little bun, "See, the one floating there is called a mandarin duck."

As she spoke, she brought the mandarin duck handkerchief that Wei Huanian gave her to the little bun, pointed to the pattern on it and said, "This one, we need ducks, do you understand?"

Xiao Baozi nodded obediently, which means, he understands.

The ones swimming in the pool are called mandarin ducks, while the ones on the handkerchief are ducks.

Zhou Jinyu patted Xiao Baozi's head very satisfied, and then turned around to see Wei Huanian staring at her coldly.