After leaving Changxin Palace, Song Wan still felt that his cheeks were hot and he was quite cautious.
And Jiang Xingjian didn't know whether she had forgotten it or something, but he held her hand and never let go.
Song Wan knew what his aunt meant. Jiang Xingjian took two concubines, but they never consummated their marriage.
If the eldest son of a concubine appears in the Hou family, there will be chaos in the future. My aunt feels sorry for her and doesn't want her or her children to be wronged.
only……
Song Wan lowered his head and looked at the hands held by the two of them, feeling confused.
If he had never been to the frontier, or if he had never met Lin Jiayue, they would have been a respectful couple. But now, I don't know what the situation will be like in the future.
The tip of Song Wan's nose felt sore, and he tried to pull out his hand with slight force.
But as soon as she moved her fingers, Jiang Xingjian held her tightly.
The man neither looked back nor spoke, but held her hand tighter.
"Husband..."
Jiang Xingjian stopped, followed by Heng Zhi Heng Wu and the eunuch sent by Concubine Yun to take care of Song Wan.
"The place where the smoker cage is placed on the east side of the main courtyard is empty?"
Song Wan nodded blankly.
Jiang Xingjian stiffened his face, pursed his lips and said, "It would be a good time to hang a masterpiece."
Song Wan's eyes were flustered, and he didn't know how to answer him for a moment. The girl's face was shy, and her dazed look looked a bit silly. Jiang Xingjian suppressed the joy in her heart and took Song Wan to Concubine Jiang's Yanqing Palace.
After entering the Yanqing Palace gate for the first time, Song Wan came back to his senses a little.
The Yanqing Palace was quiet, without the warm and lively atmosphere of the Changxin Palace.
"My queen has been waiting for you for a long time."
The eunuch in charge of Changxin Palace arrived late. Jiang Xingjian took Song Wan and was about to go see her sister, but she heard the eunuch say: "Mrs. Jiang, please be slow."
"A few days ago, the Imperial Supervisor said that the queen has been ill recently. If someone is born in the year of Rabbit, Snake, Sheep or Dog, it would be offensive to the Queen. You should wait in the small garden."
Jiang Xingjian frowned, but Song Wan sighed silently, and the eunuch of Changxin Palace following behind him also narrowed his eyes.
"Husband, go ahead and don't keep your wife waiting."
Song Wan let go of the hands they were holding and stood outside Yanqing Palace with a smile.
Jiang Xingjian was worried and asked the eunuchs around her to take good care of her, and then went to see Jiang Man alone.
In Yanqing's palace, Jiang Man was wearing a crescent White House satin brocade dress, with only a silver bat and pearl hairpin on her head. Although she was not as plain as Song Wan when she was a widow, she was still very rare in the palace.
In the palace, only a few of Jiang Man's confidants were present.
"Sister."
Jiang Man's eyes were slightly red: "I have worked hard for you these past few years."
"It's my brother who is incompetent and failed to relieve my sister's worries."
Jiang Man stretched out her slender fingers, and her cherry-pink nails looked extremely moist and shiny. The maid next to her supported her hand and brought her to Jiang Xingjian.
"Can the firearm in that woman's hand really move mountains and seas as said?"
"My brother has seen it before, it's quite powerful."
Jiang Man covered his lips: "It's not in vain that you have been planning at the border for many years. With this person and this thing, dad's great revenge will definitely be avenged."
“……”
Jiang Xingjian pursed his lips and his face turned slightly pale.
Jiang Man has sharp eyebrows and a heroic appearance that is rare among women. If we just talk about the facial features, she is three points less charming and two points less gentle than the gentle Song Yuning, but Jiang Man has eyes that are unparalleled in the world.
Those eyes are bright and passionate, even when they look at people coldly, they still have a flirtatious charm that makes them want to talk.
If such a pair of eyes were born on an ordinary woman, it would only make people feel frivolous, but in her case, they added a bit of desire to conquer for no reason.
Having lived a life of intrigue in the palace for a long time, she has become more and more aware of human nature, not to mention her younger brother who has grown up under her watch.
With one look, she knew what Jiang Xingjian was thinking.
"You want to ask me, why didn't I tell you about Song Wan's marriage to the Marquis Mansion?"
Jiang Xingjian straightened his head and back, and his hands and feet were slightly stiff.
"You come with me."
The two walked to the ear room in the hall. Jiang Man moved away the white jade Guanyin enshrined in the small Buddhist hall, revealing the tablet behind it.
"Kneel down."
Jiang Xingjian looked at his father's name and knelt down without hesitation.
"When I was pregnant with my son, you and your father were immediately sent to the border detention center to deliver food and grass. This job shouldn't have fallen on you two, right?"
"yes."
"Father is dead, the Hou family is rapidly declining, the eldest prince's moral character is lacking, and the prince has been paralyzed for many years. Qian Shu's third prince, Shen Qianbai, is the most threatening, right?"
"yes."
Jiang Man's eyes turned red: "You and I both know very well that a prince without the support of his family is like a boat in the waves, and it is difficult to sail without wind. Don't tell me, you can't see Song Lan'an's ambition, Song Yuning's intention, you can't see Who was behind the murder of you and your father!"
Jiang Xingjian pursed her lips, and the light in her eyes slowly dissipated.
"Yi'er, I know you are very fond of Song Wan."
"The palace lanterns, wood carvings, and bracelets you gave her when you were young were all made by my sister with you, and she also knows that you have been waiting to marry her since you were a child.
"But so what?"
"The hatred of killing my father cannot be forgotten. If you want to complain, blame her for being reborn into the Song family because she had no way to be reborn. If you want to complain, blame Song Lan'an and Song Yuning for her ambition."
Jiang Man grabbed Jiang Xingjian's shoulders so hard that he broke his index finger nails without even noticing.
The maid next to her stepped forward, but was waved away by Jiang Man.
"If the Song family is destroyed in the future and only Song Wan is left, I will allow you to come with her. But if Song Lan'an and Song Yuning are still alive, I won't mind having her operated on if necessary."
"I……"
Jiang Xingjian closed her eyes in pain, and after a moment she said in a deep voice: "Sister, I know what to do."
Jiang Man saw that he seemed to have made up his mind. Although he couldn't bear it, he patted his shoulder gently. The two siblings slowly reminisced about their past, but they seemed to have deliberately forgotten about Song Wan, who was still waiting outside the palace.
Song Wan stood outside the Yanqing Palace and felt dizzy from the sun. The little eunuch who came to take care of her stamped her feet anxiously.
"Mrs. Jiang, please go back to Changxin Palace with me."
"No."
Song Wan smiled and said, "If I leave on my own without the Queen's notification, I'm afraid I will be accused of disrespecting the imperial concubine. Wan'er knows my father-in-law's benevolence and can't bear to expose me here."
Looking up at the garden of Yanqing Palace, Song Wan pointed to the rockery and said, "How about you go there with your father-in-law to take a stroll to escape the summer heat?"
How could the eunuch not agree? He hurriedly called Song Wan to the shade of the garden, but before he walked in, he heard rustling in the corner, and a group of young eunuchs were bullying and playing around the injured eunuch Sasou.
Song Wan looked at the backs of the people on the ground and frowned slightly.
