Chapter 642: Cuscuta Cousin 5
"Brother, why are you here at this time?"
Fu Shirui didn't notice the weirdness between Sheng Huan and Fu Jinmo, so she asked casually.
Fu Jinmo glanced at the woman whose head was almost lowered to the ground and who looked like a saw-mouthed gourd after saying hello, then he withdrew his gaze and said concisely:
"Something happened."
Upon hearing this, Fu Shirui immediately said, "Then you go and do your work, big brother. Cousin Huiying and I will leave first."
When Sheng Huan heard this, she hurriedly followed Fu Shirui and bowed slightly, but when she squatted down, her body trembled almost imperceptibly.
Fu Jinmo was calm, but his eyes seemed to glance lightly, like an illusion.
The man finally left, and after he left, Sheng Huan breathed a sigh of relief that was not too obvious.
"Cousin!" Fu Shirui patted Sheng Huan's shoulder and said, "Why do you act like a quail every time you see big brother? Are you so afraid of him?"
"I..." Sheng Huan shook his head subconsciously, his almond-shaped eyes flickering. It was not right to nod, nor was it right not to nod. In the end, he didn't know how to explain it, and looked like he was about to cry.
"Okay, okay." Fu Shirui obviously didn't think too much about it, and even nodded in agreement: "Big brother does seem a little unkind, and sometimes I am afraid of him, especially when he is not in the mansion."
Sheng Huan was confused and didn't understand what she meant, but Fu Shirui didn't explain. She held Sheng Huan's hand and said, "Let's go back."
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Snowfall Pavilion.
Sheng Huan and Fu Shirui were embroidering handkerchiefs. While they were embroidering, Fu Shirui suddenly sighed.
"What's wrong, cousin?" Sheng Huan put down his needle and thread and approached her with concern.
Fu Shirui shook her head, her expression becoming sad: "Huiying, it may be difficult for us to meet in the future."
Sheng Huan was shocked, his eyes widened, thinking something bad had happened, and immediately held her hand: "Cousin, why did you suddenly say such a thing? Even if we are both married in the future, we can still meet each other."
As she spoke, she seemed to have thought of something, and her eyes turned red: "Cousin, has something happened? Don't scare me."
Fu Shirui sighed, shook her head, and waved her hand to dismiss the servants in the room.
After the servant left, she took the opportunity to hold her little cousin's hand, and after considering her words, she said, "I overheard my father and mother talking before..."
She paused, then pointed upwards: "My superiors...want to ask me to enter the palace."
Sheng Huan was startled, his eyes already wet: "...Are you sure?"
The current emperor is now over forty years old, and Fu Shirui is only seventeen years old this year.
Sheng Huan thought about it and indeed found some memories in the original owner's memory. Fu Shirui did enter the palace in the end.
Fu Shirui tapped her cousin's forehead and said, "It's confirmed. The Xiao family is now the only one in power in the palace. The higher-ups are trying to blackmail them. It's been two years since my elder sister's death. It's been delayed long enough. I'm the only daughter in the family now, and the higher-ups are tired of waiting."
She said weakly: "I can't not go to the palace."
Fu Shirou, the eldest daughter of the Fu family and the current empress, had no children, but passed away two years ago.
Speaking of the Fu family, it is a very glorious family.
The Fu family is one of the only two duke families in the Daqian Dynasty, and the other duke family is the current Xiao family.
The ancestors of the Fu and Xiao families had a life-long friendship with the founding emperor of the Daqian Dynasty. They fought together to conquer the world. After the world was initially settled, the two ancestors of Fu and Xiao were given the title of duke, which was hereditary. Not only that, they also had the red book and iron certificate bestowed by the founding emperor, which gave them certain power to command military forces. Unless they rebelled, no one in power could touch the descendants of these two dukes.
As time goes by, the status of the Fu and Xiao families as dukes becomes more and more solid, but they also become more and more feared. As the saying goes, the mind of a king is hard to predict. Now, perhaps it can be said that the Fu and Xiao families have become a headache for every person in a high position.
Therefore, women from the Fu and Xiao families basically do not marry princes, but only marry emperors, and basically one of them will have to enter the palace.
Fu Shirui lowered her voice and said, "I asked my father a few days ago, and he told me that the higher-ups promised me..."
She paused, looked around, and finally carefully poured tea with her hands and wrote the word "Imperial Concubine" on the table.
But when Sheng Huan saw these two words, his heart went cold.
She suddenly thought of the original owner's memory. Fu Shirui did enter the palace, but she was only a concubine, and a concubine without a title. After she entered the palace, she was laughed at by everyone in the harem for a long time. Not only that, from the perspective of the heroine Song Yuwan, it was pointed out the cruel ending of Fu Shirui who died of illness less than a year after entering the palace.
After her death, she remained a concubine.
Sheng Huan thought a lot at this moment. Why couldn't the Duke's Mansion suppress the rumors about the original owner? It wasn't because they couldn't suppress it, but because there was the biggest power holder in the world who was indulging him behind the scenes, and he wanted the Fu family to die! !
He used the original owner's stigma to undermine Fu Shirui's status in the palace. The only daughter of the Duke's Mansion became a small concubine!
[Host, it's not just that. The Fu and Xiao families were later accused of treason and all of their families were confiscated and exterminated.] 458 continued.
There was no winner between the Fu and Xiao families. Instead, the male protagonist, Ji Yunxiu, who made the whistleblower, rose rapidly to become a close and trusted minister of the current emperor, and later, he became a right-hand man of the new emperor.
Seeing her little cousin looking silly and not knowing what she was thinking, Fu Shirui smiled and said, "It's actually quite good to enter the palace. After I enter the palace, I'll have to trouble my cousin to accompany my mother."
"Cousin..." Sheng Huan looked at the vigorous woman in front of him... No, it should be the girl, suppressed his thoughts, and said seriously: "Aunt is good to me. To be honest, I have always regarded my aunt as my mother. Taking care of my aunt is also my filial piety."
The original owner's mother was the biological sister of Madam Fu Er. Their biological mother died that year. After Madam Fu Er got married, the original owner's mother was actually promised by her stepmother to a playboy who looked gorgeous but was actually rotten inside. The playboy offended a noble and died. The original owner's mother was in poor health and was kicked out of her husband's house because she only gave birth to a daughter.
Later, the original owner's mother held on to her last breath, entrusted the six-year-old original owner to her sister, and passed away.
"You, if I leave in the future, you have to be tougher in what you do. You are the daughter of our Duke's Mansion and the cousin of the future emperor..."
When Fu Shirui hurriedly suppressed those words, she couldn't help but hug Sheng Huan. She buried her head in Sheng Huan's arms and couldn't help but wet her eyes.
No matter how steady she is in her daily life, she is just a young girl after all. How can she not be nervous? If she does not enter the palace, with the status of the Fu family, she is the mistress of the family and no one dares to bully her. But if she enters the palace, even if she is a noble concubine, she is just a concubine.
"My elder sister didn't have any children when she entered the palace... I wonder if I can have one..." She sighed.
Sheng Huan remained silent and patted Fu Shirui's back to comfort her, but they both probably knew that the answer was definitely no.
After all, the Imperial Concubine Xiao who is now in the palace has been in the palace for almost ten years, and there is still no news about her. There has also been no news about the deceased empress dowager.
The current emperor is extremely suspicious. If the women from the Fu and Xiao families give birth to princes, he would probably not be able to sleep all night, or perhaps, not at all.
But Sheng Huan couldn't bear to watch Fu Shirui die.
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