The maid's road to success

The official examinations were about to begin, and students filled the inns, restaurants, streets and alleys of Kyoto, and some even had to stay in dilapidated temples.

An Wenniang and Su Niangzi cooked different kinds of meals for An Zizhong every day. On the day of the exam, they watched An Zizhong go into the examination hall from the door before going home.

Simian asked someone to tell her that the three girls she was looking for were all alive, but one of them was disfigured and the other two were not in good health. She settled them in a small courtyard not far from Zhiyuxuan. The people from the Jiaofangsi could not be redeemed, but the brothels could be bought. Simian had no choice but to buy them back and settle them down.

An Wenniang nodded. It was enough as long as they were alive. As long as they were alive, she would think of other ways slowly. When the ancestor came back and the young master had his revenge, she would definitely be able to free Bihe and the others from their status as slaves.

It was not a good time to meet Bihe and the others, so An Wenniang could only give them rings to let them know that she was still alive.

Bihe and a few others looked at the ring sent by Simian, hugged each other and burst into tears. The Huaiyuan Marquis' Mansion was raided, and they were all thrown into the Music Bureau to suffer. They were almost unable to survive. Sometimes, Bihe would become so depressed that she would wonder why An Wenniang didn't come to save her?

Fortunately, they waited until An Wenniang did not give up on them. Bihe blamed herself for not saving her. An Wenniang had to escape for her life at that time, and a twelve-year-old girl had no ability to save them from the Jiaofangsi.

Although they have suffered a lot, at least they are still alive. Wen Niang still remembers them. So many sisters did not survive, but they finally escaped from that wolf's den.

"It's not convenient for An Wenniang to see you now. Let me settle you in the farm outside. It's quiet there, and you can recuperate there. She will come to see you when she can."

Simian didn't give them a chance to speak and asked the old women to take them to the farm outside the city. This was also An Wenniang's idea. Now that they were living in Kyoto, it would be bad if they met him. Besides, An Zizhong wanted to muddy the waters in Kyoto, so it would be safer for them to stay away.

An Wenniang looked at An Zizhong riding on a horse with flowers on his head, and the streets were filled with people watching. An Wenniang's eyes reddened. Finally, she passed the exam and safely passed the first level.

You have to know that during the palace examination, An Wenniang was so worried that she couldn't eat or sleep, for she was afraid that someone would discover An Zizhong's true identity, or that An Zizhong would see the blood feud between Duke Cheng'en and the emperor and couldn't control himself and take action.

An Wenniang was relieved when the results came out. The second place was indeed a good ranking. The first place was a thin man in his forties, the second place was An Zizhong, and the third place was Li Changan.

When An Wen Niang was still waiting for An Zi Zhong to come back to celebrate, the imperial edict suddenly came like a bolt from the blue, and the emperor granted marriage to An Zi Zhong and Princess Baozhu.

An Zizhong staggered back to the room, yelling at everyone to get out. An Wenniang knew that he couldn't stand it, so she asked everyone to get out and give him a quiet space. Unexpectedly, An Zizhong pulled An Wenniang back and closed the door.

"Mm~ Master~ Mm~"

An Zizhong hugged An Wenniang like a wild beast out of control, pushed her into a corner and bit her lips. An Wenniang kept struggling, but An Zizhong had gone mad. He bit An Wenniang's tender lips, her chin, ears, and neck, and tore off her clothes, leaving shocking marks on her shoulders and neck.

An Wenniang was frightened. She was terrified by An Zizhong's current appearance and struggled violently. After all, An Zizhong was reluctant to really hurt her.

He fell to the ground holding her, burying his head in her exposed shoulders. His tears wet her skin, and An Wen's mother froze.

She knew what An Zizhong was thinking. Princess Fu'an was not the direct murderer of Marquis Huaiyuan, but she must have been involved. Now that he had passed the imperial examination and became a Jinshi, he still wanted to involve her.

An imperial decree made An Zizhong the son-in-law of Princess Fu'an, and asked him to watch over that woman day and night and call her mother. How could he not hate her?

His grandmother, mother and sister were indirectly harmed by her and suffered in Liangzhou, and Princess Fu'an actually became his mother-in-law.

An Wenniang reached out and patted An Zizhong's back to comfort him. Her torn outer shirt hung loosely at her arm, revealing her pink bellyband and fair skin underneath.

An Zizhong hugged the person in his arms tighter, as if he wanted to carve her into his bones and blood.

"Mrs. Wen, wait for me. Wait for me to marry you. Wait until I kill all those traitors. Then I will marry you, okay?"

An Wenniang did not agree. No matter she had escaped slavery and had money, she was still a former servant of the Huaiyuan Marquis Mansion. An Zizhong was her former master. How could the master and the servant get married?

An Zizhong raised his head and looked at An Wenniang with bloodshot eyes. He held her face with both hands and forced her to look at him.

"You are mine, you are destined to be mine. Don't try to escape, okay, Wen Niang? Don't force me to do anything to hurt you."

An Zizhong felt like he was going crazy the moment he saw the imperial edict. What he wanted was to regain Chen Luoxi's identity after revenge and marry An Wenniang openly. He didn't expect that Princess Fu'an would plot against him.

At that moment, he just wanted to find An Wenniang, hold her in his arms, make sure she couldn't escape, and immediately become his woman. Unfortunately, he couldn't do that before he could do it.

An Wenniang was frightened by the paranoia in his eyes. She knew that if she resolutely disagreed and ran away, An Zizhong would take her on the spot and trap her in a place where she could never escape. Chen Luoxi was no longer the unruly young man he used to be. Hatred had already destroyed his good nature.

An Zizhong held An Wen Niang in his arms again, and bit a deep mark on her shoulder with his teeth. He stopped only when he tasted blood. An Wen Niang cried out in pain even though she was holding her teeth.

"Mother Wen, don't force me. I will go crazy without you. Please, don't leave me."

Chen Luoxi tried hard to restrain himself from going crazy, so that Wen Niang would be afraid and flee, but after the tragic death of Huaiyuan Houfu, he and Wen Niang depended on each other for survival. They fled to Gongzhou and fought back again. Every step of his plan was for Wen Niang's protection. He always used the revenge that would allow him to marry Wen Niang openly and live together for the rest of their lives as the final reward.

If he did all this and An Wen Niang was no longer around, what would he become? Chen Luoxi didn't dare to imagine what he would become?

"Master, can we talk about this later? I'm scared."

An Zizhong wiped away her tears, looked at the bleeding place where he had bitten her, with a look of heartache, put her clothes on, and they both held each other in their arms and sat on the couch.

"Princess Baozhu and her friends were there when we were parading. Princess Fu'an had long planned to choose a suitable husband for Princess Baozhu in this year's spring imperial examination. The top scholar is old, Li Chang'an and Qi You have been engaged since childhood, and the next four or five are either married or children of officials. I am the most suitable, so I simply asked around with the people in Gongzhou and then went to ask for the imperial decree."

An Wenniang sat stiffly in An Zizhong's arms and realized something was wrong.

"Why are they so hasty? Not to mention that the princess had to carefully select a young man from an aristocratic family for her marriage, they didn't even have time to go to Gongzhou to inquire, and they just asked for an imperial decree?"

An Zizhong's eyes were full of disgust, but he lowered his head and looked at An Wenniang's face, then became gentle again.

"Princess Baozhu is one year older than me. She is eighteen years old this year. She once kept two handsome servants in her boudoir. She had a very bad reputation. Two years ago, she finally got married to a son of a noble family. That family only wanted wealth and did not care about her reputation. Who knew that the son of that family suddenly died right after the engagement. She was also known to be a husband-killer. It has been delayed until now. In the past two years, she has been unscrupulous and directly kept a lover. Princess Fu'an has been covering up for her."

An Wenniang nodded. No wonder Princess Fu'an chose An Zizhong so hastily.

"I think there may be other reasons. Even if Princess Baozhu has a bad reputation, she wouldn't just find someone randomly. She would at least find out your background and character carefully. She is so anxious, maybe she is trying to cover up something?"

Seeing that she was smart, An Zizhong smiled and pinched her hand, which immediately made An Wenniang blush.

"An Qing said that he saw Princess Baozhu's face and she seemed to be pregnant. I became a cheap father."

An Wenniang slapped the table, and An Zizhong pulled her hand back and rubbed it with concern.

"Okay, don't be angry. I can't resist the imperial edict. I am now a Jinshi from Gongzhou. If I disobey the imperial edict, I won't even be able to leave Kyoto or I will be beheaded. Since this is the case, I will do as they wish. Anyway, I can start with Princess Fu'an. But the plan may have to change."

Previously, An Zizhong planned to start with the Sixth Prince's faction, but now it provides an opportunity to join the Fourth Prince's faction, which will make it easier to stir up trouble in Kyoto.

"Niang Wen, I'm afraid Princess Baozhu will hold the six-ceremony wedding ceremony soon. You'd better be careful here and try not to contact those people in the Princess's Mansion. I have to take An Qing away, and you should keep An Yun. The Princess's family has made many enemies, so you still have to be on guard."

An Wen Niang carefully memorized what An Zi Zhong told her and had to pretend to be happy to others. In the eyes of the students in Gongzhou, they had now stepped into a blessed nest. After all, being a princess had many advantages, but she did not have to be like a prince consort who could not hold real power. Only they and the real clans in Kyoto knew that they had swallowed a fly. It would be disgusting if they swallowed it, and it would also be disgusting if they didn't swallow it.

An Wenniang went out to buy some good seedlings sent from Xishan, and openly asked An Zizhong to bring them to the new government office. The eldest princess was generous and specially gave An Zizhong and his family a large house with five courtyards as a place for An Zizhong and Princess Baozhu to live after their marriage. However, An Zizhong still bought a small courtyard with three courtyards for himself, so that he could take Princess Baozhu there on the day of the wedding.

Princess Baozhu was arrogant and unrestrained, and An Zizhong had no plan to let An Wenniang live with her. An Zizhong offered 68 sets of betrothal gifts, most of which were sent in advance by Princess Fu'an. After all, An Zizhong was known to the outside world as a poor student without parents.

In order to make the marriage less shabby, Princess Fu'an even thought about preparing the betrothal gifts. Fortunately, An Zizhong had some family property and bought a house with one thousand taels, and also more or less raised some betrothal gifts, which made Princess Fu'an feel better. She finally found a family that Baozhu could rely on. Most of the students from Gongzhou had a good opinion of him. He had good character, great talent, was humble and polite, not arrogant or impatient, and was a good boy, but his appearance was not very outstanding and his family was not good.

In a blink of an eye, she saw her daughter eating sour plums. She felt a little uneasy. Her daughter had been keeping three or five lovers and was pregnant. She originally wanted to have an abortion with a bowl of abortion pills, but she insisted on giving birth to the child. No prominent family would be interested in her now, but after all, she was her own flesh and blood, and they couldn't bear to let her marry a poor commoner. It was the prince consort who made her decide. At the beginning, she chose the prince consort who passed the palace examination and ranked third in the imperial examination. Now it was the spring examination, and she had three options and two to choose from. An Zizhong was the most suitable one. He had no background and was easy to control, but he was talented and capable, and could be supported to work for her. It was not too unfair for Baozhu, a princess, to marry an ordinary student.

Thinking of this, Princess Fu'an finally felt that she couldn't bully An Zizhong too harshly, so she asked someone to arrange a good position for An Zizhong. Firstly, her son-in-law couldn't be too bad, and secondly, she wanted to give An Zizhong some compensation.

It was a fine day in mid-April when An Zizhong rode a tall horse to pick up Princess Baozhu from the Princess's Mansion. They got married in the bridal chamber. Sitting in the new room, he walked to the bathroom at the back, where An Qing helped him sort out his clothes.

"Something was added to the incense burner in the room today. It's a common drug. There's also some in the wine. You should take the antidote pill first."

An Zizhong didn't expect that Princess Baozhu would give him a surprise on the first day. He swallowed the detoxification pill, had his veil lifted, had his long hair cut off, drank the wedding wine, and fainted on the ground a moment later.

"The master is drunk, go to the front and explain."

A maid arrogantly ordered An Qing to go out. An Zizhong lay on the ground, carefully clutching the dagger in his sleeve. The servants simply carried him to the couch. The room was quiet for a while, and then the sound of the door opening was heard. It sounded like a man's footsteps, and Princess Baozhu hurriedly walked up and hugged him.

"Why did Fourth Brother come just now? I had him knocked out for quite some time."

The man was somewhat unhappy after hearing Baozhu's words and accused her of being reckless.

"You are getting married today, and there are so many people. Why did you ask me to come to a place like this? What if I get discovered? I was accidentally seen by that young master from the Bo Mansion before, and it took me a lot of effort to resolve it. How dare you be so reckless today?"

Princess Baozhu acted coquettishly and pulled the man's belt to prevent him from leaving.

"I don't care. I don't want to spend my wedding night with that man. If I have to spend my wedding night with him, it can only be with you. Fourth brother, don't worry. I have drugged him a long time ago. He won't wake up all night. There are confidants watching outside. If you don't agree to me, I won't get married."

The man was so pestered by her that he was finally pulled onto the wedding bed by Princess Baozhu. The two of them undressed and entangled with each other. An Zizhong opened his eyes and was surprised to see that it was the Fourth Prince. It seemed that Princess Fu'an did a good job. Did she know that the Fourth Prince she supported was having an affair with her daughter? She also said that which man was not afraid of death and dared to make the unmarried Princess Baozhu pregnant? It seemed that the Fourth Prince was the real father of the child in her belly.

An Zizhong did not expect to receive so many surprises on the first night. He happily lay on the couch pretending to sleep. The man quickly satisfied the lustful woman, put on his clothes and left quickly. The servants moved An Zizhong to the bed. It was obvious that Princess Baozhu was planning to cuckold the Fourth Prince right after serving him, and have sex with him as well. Then, she could find a presentable father for the child in her belly.

An Qing and the newly brought in Zhuhe who were waiting on the roof saw that this shameless woman had just shown them a live sex show and yet dared to covet their master again, so they immediately blew the Yunmeng incense. Princess Baozhu and the two maids had already taken off An Zizhong's wedding dress, leaving only his inner garment. They were just marveling at An Zizhong's great figure when they felt drowsy and fainted.

An Zizhong pushed the three women away in disgust and threw them on the ground. Zhushan, Zhuchuan and Zhuhe jumped in from the back window, put them on the bed, and asked the servants to have sex with their master. Who could believe this? They also disliked a woman as dirty as Princess Baozhu, but unfortunately An Qing gave them aphrodisiac spices to smell directly, so they had no choice. Zhushan and Zhuchuan could not beat Zhuhe, so they could only hold Princess Baozhu one while the other held the other fat girl.

This was also arranged by An Zizhong. The two maids of Princess Baozhu were very loyal to Master Baozhu and did a lot for her, which made the two maids think that they were taken in by the princess' husband. How could they dare to let the princess know, for fear that they would be controlled by herself.

An Zizhong was sitting in the clean room writing a letter. Thanks to Princess Baozhu, who sent people to guard the backyard strictly in order to hang out with the Fourth Prince, and also ordered no one to come in without being asked, it was convenient for An Zizhong to let Zhushan and the other two serve Princess Baozhu. He brought five servants with him when he got married. An Qing was a book boy, Zhushan, Zhuchuan, Zhuhe and Zhuhai were the most skilled in martial arts, and the three of them could not beat them, so this hard job was done by the three of them. Zhuhai was in the front yard, staring at those who came to drink.

A few people were like they were covered in stinky dog ​​shit. They hurriedly got up, put on their clothes and left. They had to find a place to wash.

An Qing found it funny. Princess Baozhu has now become a rat in a stinking ditch. This man should have been very happy to have such a romantic encounter, but look how disgusted he has made the people he had carefully trained.