Chapter 242: Step by step

The bronze mirror that occupies most of the tabletop, if it is placed on the ground, should be half a person's height, and now the light can be seen on the mirror, reflecting a beautiful girl dressed up.

Cloud clothes and colorful clothes, flowers and moons. The young girl's sideburns are covered with a delicate peony, and the morning dew on the petals is undulating with the girl's breathing, reflecting the starlight outside the window.

It can be seen from the festive red wedding dress that today is the girl's big day, the phoenix crown embroidered by Shu, and the high-quality clothing all show that the girl's unusual identity and family situation. The girl who cleaned up in the quiet room was sitting in front of the mirror with her back straight, her eyes looking straight at herself in the mirror.

The expression on the girl's face could not be seen clearly in the dimly lit room, but the light reflected in the eyes that were as bright even in the dark night could not be found in the slightest joy.

It seems that the look of a girl who is going to step into the battlefield is not a wedding for a while, but a resolute look like a girl is about to step into the battlefield for a while.

In addition to that ruthless look, there are more complex emotions hidden behind this strong feeling. It's just that it's so entangled that it's hard to tell.

At this moment the door of the inner chamber opened a crack from the outside, and the maid slid into the door like a fish.

Seeing that her young lady was still sitting in front of the mirror, the maid lowered her head and walked quickly to her side.

"Miss, although we don't have to walk so long like ordinary people today, but after all, you can't eat until the evening, so let's go to the couch for a while. Some of them were tired for a while. The maid persuaded softly, in a small voice, as if she was afraid of waking up something.

The girl did not turn her eyes away from the mirror, and spoke calmly in a crisp voice, but the content of the words was very different from what the maid had just said, and she didn't seem to hear the words at all.

"I heard that my father agreed?"

The maid paused for a moment, and then went to the nearby candlestick to light the lamp, avoiding making eye contact with the young lady beside her.

As he moved, he received, "Yes, Miss." The prince passed the word yesterday that this was the queen mother's good intentions. The fief of the king of Huaiyang and the fief of the prince are far away from the king, so even if the wedding is held in the courtyard of the capital, it is not as decent as holding it in the palace. Moreover, after the year, it is the first festival of the dynasty, if the young lady is married, she will be the new princess of Huaiyang Mansion, and it is understandable to participate in the festival, which is a rare event, so the wedding is better even if it is earlier. ”

The red candle with the thickness of the dragon and phoenix's arm in the mirror illuminated the entire room, and at this moment, after listening to the words of the personal maid, the girl finally showed a trace of expression on her face.

The sneering look, although it was not worthy of her demure appearance or her luxurious temperament, was surprisingly matched the emotions in those eyes that had not changed at the beginning.

"Decent, festival?" was also full of mocking words, pouring out of the girl's mouth.

The maid on the side turned her back to the girl's direction, but she couldn't stop shuddering even when she heard the simple words, even if the voice that pronounced them was so crisp and graceful. This is the tone that her young lady will only have when she is in an extremely bad mood, and she couldn't be clearer, sure enough.

"It's just a fig leaf, it's not as good as others, but you have to use your daughter to do things like you. Forming an alliance is an inevitable fate for people like me, but now it's nothing. The wedding in the most remote corner of the palace was a shame even if my father thought it was harmless. Jing Wen's emotions suddenly went out of control, perhaps because she has been under house arrest in the palace in recent days, so that the self-control and acting skills that she has always been proud of are also on the verge of collapse.

Or maybe he has finally reached the limit of patience, Jingwen's voice is shrill and harsh. And so loud in such a silent morning light, I don't know how far the sound can go.

The maid was frightened by the excited Jing Wen at first, and looked at the tearing Jing Wen for a while. When he reacted to the stinging pain in his ears, he immediately stepped forward and covered his young lady's mouth with all his might, just afraid that she would burn herself like this. Although Jing Wen was still under house arrest at this time, and there were few people around, who knew that such words would not be heard by the person who should not be here, and by that time her own young lady would have already been married, and there was no old prince to support her, I don't know how sad life would be.

Jing Wen, who was excited, couldn't vent because her mouth was blocked, and she struggled even more. The bun was also overwhelmed by too many intense movements, and the golden hairpin fell off the ground, and the delicate peony was also touched on Jing Min's skirt because it rubbed against the maid's arm.

I don't know if it's because the bright color is too dazzling, Jing Wen actually stopped all his movements without warning because of the flowers that suddenly appeared in his eyes.

The maid didn't know what was going on for a while, but she didn't dare to let go, just afraid that her young lady would have another seizure. Thinking of the mirror beside her, the maid immediately turned her head to look at the front of her own young lady there.

It's okay not to look at it, this time, the arms that were originally like iron hoops immediately turned into noodles and couldn't exert any strength at all, but Jing Wen didn't move again, so the two of them kept such awkward movements motionless.

And what the maid saw in the mirror frightened her was nothing else, but the smiling face of her own young lady, which could only see the smiling face of her eyes and half of her makeup, which made her hair stand on end.

After a stalemate like this for a moment, Jing Wen seemed to have finally come back to his senses, raised his hand and patted the maid behind him around his arm, Jing Wen gently broke free, and commanded in a voice that was no different from usual: "Come, dress me, someone will come to pick me up in a while." ”

The maid usually heard Jing Wen say this countless times, but she has never had such a lonely tone.

Don't dare to delay, the maid also knows that time is running out, if you don't be quicker, I'm afraid that I won't be able to pass the big clothes outside for a while, and the people who come to pick up the relatives will arrive. Therefore, there was no time to care about her own lady's emotions, and the maid immediately began to redress her own young lady.

Just when the maid was busy, Jing Wen seemed to be talking to herself, and as if she was talking to the maid, she opened the conversation softly.

"I like peonies the most, and I have them in the house at all times. Saying that, Jing Wen's eyes were focused on the white porcelain vase by the window, where a few peonies that had just been sent from the flower room were also placed today.

"I remember when I was a child, my father knew that I liked peonies, so he asked the flower room to set aside a piece of peonies for me to plant the world's famous peonies. A smile appeared on the corner of his mouth as he spoke, and in order to confirm the position of the headdress, he looked at the Jingwen maid in the mirror and happened to see the smile.

Different from the creepy smile just now, this smile is full of happiness, and anyone who looks at it will have the urge to protect this smile. It's just that the maid is still silently doing the work in her hands, and she doesn't stop a little, but she can't bear to leave her gaze.

“…… The Empress Dowager saw me standing next to the peony and praised me for being a rare beauty in the world, and only my appearance can be accompanied by peonies, so I am specially allowed to use fresh peonies as a headdress to decorate myself. At this moment, there was a touch of pride added to the smile.

After that, Jing Wen's eyes turned from the peony that had dropped several petals in his hand to the eyes of the maid who was staring at him in the mirror.

The sudden look made the maid breathe, and the next moment she felt that the young lady did not seem to be looking at herself, but the flowers in her hands that were being placed in the hair, which were sent together with the phoenix crown and other wedding supplies this morning, the peony that had just been picked, full of two large plates, all kinds of colors. I heard from the person who sent these things that this was the Empress Dowager's personal instruction to use the freshest today.

But the maid saw a look of resentment in her young lady's eyes, and stared closely at the one in the mirror that had been broken and dropped in place. At the moment when the maid saw the brightest light in Jing Wen's eyes, a crisp sound sounded in her ears at the same time, and she subconsciously went to see the source of the sound.

It turned out that the bright red peony that was held in Jing Wen's hand was crushed by his master, and the scattered petals were as dazzling as splashed blood in the eyes of the maid.