Chapter 101 If You Don't Advance, You Will Retreat

Yun Fenghuang was restless and said, "What are you doing?"

"Join the army." Gong Xiangxiao sneered, "Jieyu is more aware of the situation in the north than this son: it was relatively peaceful in the past, but Weihe has often changed in recent years. There are also losses. With Brother Xinyun's family background and talents, he must start as an officer after entering the Dingbei Army, and there is no need to risk himself... But if he wants to go to battle in person and make contributions, Uncle Zhaowu can't forcefully stop him. Don't give Qi's eldest son this little face..."

"..." Yun Fenghuang was silent for a while, and said, "Why didn't your son stop him? After all, he is also yours, isn't he?"

If Qi Jiulu made a mistake before the battle, what good would it do you, the Prince Regent's son?

Gong Xiangxiao said: "How can I stop my son? Brother Xinyun wanted to be an official in the imperial capital before, but this son asked his father to handle it for him. Now that the imperial capital has become his sad place, he doesn't want to stay longer. The eldest son couldn't bear to force it, but wanted to give him a chance to relax, but he insisted on joining the army... Before this eldest son said anything, the father first agreed with his palm... After all, whose fault is this?"

Yun Fenghuang was speechless.

"What's the matter with you?!" Gong Xiangxiao refused to let her stay silent, paused for a while, and asked coldly, "If you really changed your mind, why did you have to meet him face-to-face and take photos with him so pretentiously?" The one who flirts after meeting is more confident than his serious married wife?!"

"If you haven't changed your mind, you won't take such a good opportunity this time. What are you waiting for?!"

"……Then what?"

A gust of wind passed by, and the silver leaf waves rolled like waves, turbulent and whirling, Gong Xiangxiao couldn't hear clearly for a while, and asked with a frown, "What?"

Yun Fenghuang's gaze followed the reed leaves not far away, and his tone drifted as if he didn't know where it came from: "If I leave with him this time, what then?"

Before Gong Xiangxiao could speak, she raised her head slightly, showing a little sneer, "Then life and death, honor and disgrace will be decided by the royal family. When will the regent need to deal with the Yun family and the tribes of the Northland, and take them out anytime and anywhere as chess pieces? Or Abandoned?"

"Or the prince wants to say that this time the palace is behind the scenes to help me go hand in hand with Ah Lu. It is purely out of good intentions and does not need anything in return?"

After all, Gong Xiangxiao was young, and was oppressed by the regent for various reasons. From childhood, he accompanied the emperor as a companion to read—if he was accompanied by a serious emperor, he would have a lot of knowledge, but the emperor himself He just started to take charge of the government a few days ago, so he didn't have enough experience. When asked by Yun Fenghuang, although he was embarrassed on the face, he couldn't nod against his conscience, and he was a little stiff for a while.

Just listen to Yun Fenghuang continuing: "Ah Lu feels like old friends at first sight, and is very willing to believe in the palace, but I don't believe it. I think that after I came to the imperial capital, I had contacts with the Duke of Yiguo's mansion because of my aunt and uncle. However, after gaining some fame from the Fourth Miss of Duke Yunrong Hua's Mansion, and showing her face in the noble ladies' circle of the imperial capital a few times, she ended up entering the palace in a daze!"

"It seems to me that you high-flying families are very shrewd."

"I want to take advantage of you, even if I'm sold, I'll help you count the money!"

"If I don't go with Ah Lu this time, I will die alone in the palace and lose my reputation. But if I go with him, who knows what will drag him down in the future? I have already been eaten by people like you I lost money once, and I can't let Ah Lu continue to be fooled by you!"

Hearing this, Gong Xiangxiao couldn't bear it any longer, and said with a sneer, "You will argue, as if the palace prevented you from being reunited! I don't tell Brother Xinyun, but I have a clear conscience! As for the father Wang, he is famous for his love of talents! Brother Xinyun is not an indispensable talent in the palace now, but given his age and time, how could his father be willing to abandon him?! In the final analysis, it is you who don’t care about him. If you are willing to leave, why use the palace as a fig leaf?"

Yun Fenghuang said coldly: "You can use this to prevaricate A Lu, tell me this... Hehe, at this moment, I am willing to believe that the prince's feelings for A Lu are true. But once It’s not the son who came to the palace to make the decision, secondly, the son is still young, and now he stabs Alu in both sides, who knows if he will do it in turn in the future?!”

"You think this son is you?!" Gong Xiangxiao listened, with an angry look on his face, and he smiled back, "Mao Jieyu, it's fine if you just live up to brother Xinyun's deep love and righteousness, after all, the emperor's concubine's relationship with you is fine." Your Majesty, it’s true that brother Xinyun can’t give you—it’s just that you coaxed brother Xinyun to give up on you, but then turned your head and trampled his sincerity like a child’s play; Winning riches and honors is despicable!"

Yun Fenghuang sneered, and said: "The Regent loved Concubine Yuan so much? Before Concubine Yuan passed away, the palace didn't even have a concubine. But when His Majesty Xiaozong was seriously ill, Concubine Yuan was not." Coincidentally, it's gone, so that the second concubine from the Qingping Hou's mansion can pass by?"

Seeing that Gong Xiangxiao's face turned pale in an instant, she didn't care, and continued on her own, "My son, people's hearts are fickle. Love is like a treasure today, but it may not be abandoned as worthless in the future. Even if it is still regarded as a treasure in the future, the critical moment , wife and children, let alone belongings? No matter how sweet the promise of the palace is, it is just a promise."

"The Xie family from me and the Qi family from Alu's background, together, it is impossible to do anything under the circumstances that the palace broke the promise, so I will not believe your promise, understand?"

Gong Xiangxiao settled down, and said with a sneer: "You keep saying that you don't trust the palace, but in fact, you don't trust Brother Xinyun, right? You don't believe that he will always treat you like this in the future, so you would rather stay and continue to be a concubine and let him There is such a regret in this life, and I will never forget you in my life?"

"How does the prince know that he can't forget me?" Yun Fenghuang asked coldly, "I said, people's hearts are fickle, today I don't know what kind of joy, anger, sorrow, and joy will be tomorrow, it is too unrealistic to stand in the present and talk about a lifetime... ...Besides, even if I leave with him this time, do you think we will have no regrets? From the attention of the nobles in the imperial capital to Beidi, from my sister being accused of cheating, from Xie's relatives It's a pity that the two families have retired, it's already been branded, it's already doomed!"

"If I never came to the imperial capital, but was sent to the family temple like the sisters in the clan, or betrothed to others in a hurry. Maybe I will never know until I die in this life. How did I not have the marriage of childhood sweetheart and childhood; How is the doomed smooth sailing life so desolate?"

Seeing what Gong Xiangxiao wanted to say, she sneered, "Does the prince want to say that even though he had all kinds of regrets before, if he and Ah Lu go far away this time, at least he can make up for it?"

Gong Xiangxiao said coldly: "It's a pity that the palace is rich and honored, which is something that very few people can have."

"The wealth and honor in the palace is indeed not something that ordinary people can have." Yun Fenghuang laughed and said, "It's just that this kind of wealth, in the final analysis, only a few people can enjoy it. Today, I am a concubine, and I am proud of everyone. I am honored by gold and jade. He Once the day is degraded, such as the Cui family, how do you know where the future lies? I am very clear about this truth."

"If that's the case." Gong Xiangxiao sneered, obviously not believing it, and just said, "Why did Jieyu make Brother Xinyun go away? Could it be that Jieyu felt that she had served His Majesty before and was not worthy of Brother Xinyun, Is that why you refuse?"

Speaking of the last sentence, he laughed coldly a few times, the irony was beyond words.

Yun Fenghuang didn't care, and said in a low voice, "Because I have already compromised several times."

Seeing Gong Xiangxiao frowning, she said lazily, "It's the first time to withdraw from the Qi family; it's the second time to refuse to elope with A Lu in Kongque Slope; it's the third time to restrain your nature and seek flattery everywhere after coming to the Imperial Capital... Since the sudden accident three years ago, I have endured it until my heart bleeds. I only ask for a kind family, a husband and a child. For my background and talents, is such a wish? Is it too much? Isn't it a matter of course?!"

"The results of it?"

As it turned out, Mrs. Xie was already writing a letter to discuss with Mr. Jiang about A, B, C, D, and a decree made her enter the palace directly!

"The other day when my aunt went back crying and told me about entering the palace, I suddenly figured it out." Yun Fenghuang said seriously, "The predecessors said that learning is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. Sometimes life is like this, If I had known later, it would have been better not to withdraw one step, not to withdraw from the marriage, not to leave the Northland, and directly join the Prince Regent's Mansion... My son, tell me, which one is worse than the present result?"

Gong Xiangxiao was silent.

Yun Fenghuang didn't ask him to answer, and sneered, "It's a pity that I didn't know earlier—the Qi family and the Xie family back then just followed the ancestral precepts and didn't want to rashly get involved in the battles of the nobles in the imperial capital. The legitimate sons and daughters suffer a little bit, after all, they are not the ones who fall in love with each other. After Alu and I resign, it doesn’t mean that we can’t find other people to marry. Of course it’s worth it.”

"But now I am in the palace, and Ah Lu has entered the Prince Regent's Mansion. None of the previous plans of the two families succeeded. Not to mention, the situation is even worse."

"At least if you insisted on it at the beginning, you might not have a death feud with Duke Yi's mansion!"

"I don't need to be separated from Ah Lu!"

She breathed a sigh of relief and said slowly, "Whether the family is willing to continue to endure it or not, I don't want to anyway. It's hard that I haven't seen enough of Yun's face in the past three years. I know that there are many traps in the future, but I still want to continue watching." The face of your Prince Regent's House? Frankly speaking, if I don't make a name for myself in the palace, it's not that I can't take a gamble and just go with him just because of my relationship with Ah Lu."

"But now I have a plan, why do I want to leave the future in the hands of you people who I can't trust at all?"

Gong Xiangxiao insisted: "Your layout? What's the situation in the front court and harem now, what can you do with your background? It's just a joke!"

"You don't have to talk to me." Yun Fenghuang snorted, and said, "Alu depends on you to take care of me these days, and I also accept this kind of love. Now that he has gone to the army, I ask the prince to continue to take care of him as a In return, if the son has any orders, I will not refuse if I can do what I can."

Gong Xiangxiao laughed angrily: "Do what you can? These days, how many benefits and benefits have you gotten from this prince, shouldn't you be rewarded?! This prince is really curious, how much weight does Brother Xinyun have in your heart?"

"First of all, I must ensure that I am doing well, so that I can do things for the son for a long time." Yun Fenghuang looked at him, the corners of his mouth slightly curled up, but there was no smile in his eyes, and said, "Secondly, I also You must ensure that you are well, so that you will have a chance to reunite with Ah Lu in the future, right?"

The implication is that as long as I am here, if your palace doesn't take good care of Qi Jiulu, I will write you down!

When the time comes, everyone will wait and see!

Hearing the euphemistic threat in her words, Gong Xiangxiao's face became angry, and he opened his mouth to scold, but when the words came to his mouth, he looked at the rock-like unshakable expression of this person, but felt dull, and finally his face became sullen, Said: "My son dare not expect anything from Jieyu!"

Then he didn't feel in the mood to stay any longer, he hurriedly cupped his hands and was about to leave, but was stopped by Yun Fenghuang and asked him, "Why is Xi Le at His Majesty's place?"