Chapter 25: Breaking the Marriage
Early the next morning, Situ Ningbing was sitting in front of the dressing mirror and was combed by the big girl Suyun, when suddenly the curtain was lifted, and a bright yellow narrow-sleeved skirt walked in, and whispered a few words in her ear.
"Let's all go down. Situ Ningbing waved his hand and withdrew the maids and women who were waiting in the room.
After only the master and servant were left in the house, Jian Lian took out a letter sealed with fire paint from his coat pocket and handed it to Situ Ningbing. Situ Ningbing glanced up at the letter and did not reach out to take it. Seeing that he understood, he turned around and found a small paper cutter to open the letter, took out the letter paper that was folded neatly inside, unfolded it and handed it to Situ Ningbing.
Situ Ningbing finished reading the long letter that had written a full three pages at a glance, and couldn't help but bend his lips and smile, "This letter is written sincerely, even if General Ding is really dissatisfied with Tian Shaofu because he read Ding Yiqing's family letter first, it is not easy to regret the marriage for the sake of his old friend who is so low-voiced." Alas..."Situ Ningbing sighed slowly, "It's a pity, General Ding can't see this letter." As he spoke, he handed the letter in his hand to Jianlian, and lightly ordered: "Give the letter to Bingnu, and tell him to write another letter according to the notes on the letter, telling General Ding to break off relations with Tian Jin after he sees it." ”
Seeing that the mercy was heard and the words responded crisply, "Yes!" How did the tone sound a little gloating.
Situ Ningbing just quietly ruined the marriage of the Ding Tian family in the morning, and in the afternoon, he received a post from the Tian family, who was still in his bones and didn't know that he had been cheated, Tian Yuehua, who was also the new Naru of the King of Wei, inviting her and Ding Yiqing to go to the Wei Wangfu tomorrow to enjoy the flowers and drink tea. Because Mrs. Situ was taking a nap, the housekeeper of the inner courtyard directly led the grandmother sent by the Wei Wangfu to the Pearl Garden.
"Miss Ding also received the post?" Situ Ningbing continued to embroider yesterday's purse on the wall, and asked without raising his head while listening to Hongluan's report.
"Yes, Miss. Hongluan replied crisply, "Grandma Sun, who was sent by Tian Ruren to our house to deliver posts, repeatedly asked the slave maid to tell Miss that her wife Jiu Mu Miss Fenghua had long wanted to get acquainted, but not long after Miss returned to Beijing, it was the time to talk about her family with her family, and her wife did not dare to disturb rashly, and secondly, Miss Tian's status was precious, and Tian Ruren was also afraid of being abrupt. This time, I had the courage to write a post and think about Miss Ding being a guest in our house, and I wanted to be very close to Miss Ding, so I cheekily asked Miss to give her a face by taking advantage of the in-law relationship between the Ding Tian family. Hongluan's voice was crisp, and her words were crisp and neat, and her words of flattery were also pleasing to the ear when she relayed them.
Everyone loves to listen to flattery, but Situ Ningbing never takes it to heart, let alone changes his original intention because of a few nice words. So after listening to Hongluan's report, Situ Ningbing rarely put down the needle and thread in his hand, raised his eyes to look at Hongluan, and his tone was a little undisguised arrogance and disdain, "You go to sue her, although I have been away from home since I was a child, I also know the rules, I don't dare to accept this kind of post from unknown origin." ”
Hongluan is a clever girl, listening to Situ Ningbing's tone, she didn't understand, and responded with a cheerful "yes" and bowed and retreated, and went straight to a room next to the living room where Grandma Sun was waiting.
When Mama Sun, who was originally sitting and drinking tea, saw her come in, she hurriedly put down the tea cup in her hand and got up to greet her, and said with a smile on her face: "Miss Lao is going to go on this trip, is Miss willing to see the slave?"
Now that he knows the master's intentions, Hongluan's attitude towards Mama Sun is much colder than before, and Yibi handed the post back to Mama Sun and said coldly: "My young lady said, we are people who respect the rules, and we dare not accept posts from unknown sources like this, Mama, please reply." After speaking, no matter how ugly Grandma Sun's face was, she just stuffed the delicate gilded invitation into her hand and walked away without looking back.
Angry and embarrassed, Mama Sun returned to the Wei Mansion and relayed what Hongluan said to Tian word for word. After hearing her words, Tian was so angry that he trembled, holding his handkerchief for a long time and couldn't speak.
Seeing this, Mama Sun knew that her master was really angry, so she hurriedly motioned to the maid to pour a cup of tea and hand it to Tian herself, so that she started to drink a few sips, and patted her back to help her calm down. Seeing that Tian's face softened a little, he opened his mouth to persuade: "Don't be angry, madam, that Miss Situ is just putting on a show because of her good background, and she doesn't want to think about her appearance, no matter how good her background is, she can't marry a good family, and when you see Miss in the future, you can't tell who is higher and who is lower! If she doesn't take advantage of the fact that she is befriending you now, it is her shallow eyelids, and you will see that there is a time for her to regret it!"
Although Mama Sun's words are comforting, they are also speaking in Tian's heart. Tian Jin and his wife had some difficulties in finding medical advice in their early years in their children, and finally had Tian's sisters and brothers at the age of thirty, naturally they loved like a treasure, and Tian was talented, not only could write poems and lyrics, but also played a mandarin duck knife in one hand, three or four ordinary men could not enter her at all, it can be described as both civil and military, coupled with beautiful complexions, there was an endless stream of matchmakers who came to propose marriage when they were not out of the cabinet, but Tian's conceit was high and beautiful, and ordinary officials and eunuchs couldn't look down on it at all, but the son and young master of the really high-ranking family couldn't look down on the thin family of the Tian family, so the marriage of the Tian family was delayed, and there were fewer and fewer people who came to the door to propose marriage when they were about to pass nineteen, Tian was also anxious, and he wanted to find a similar family to marry, but he was unwilling, and it happened that at this time, King Wei appeared. The originally arrogant Tian family was unwilling to be a concubine, but King Wei was different. For her future glory and wealth, she is willing to gamble, she is confident that if she wins the bet, she will always be unable to run away from the position of the fourth concubine by her own means.
Tian's thoughts have not been mentioned to anyone, but Mama Sun happened to be right today. Thinking of the infinite scenery in the future, Tian's mood suddenly eased a lot. It's just that when King Wei returned to the house in the evening, she still told King Wei everything with red eyes about Grandma Sun's visit to Situ Mansion today.
King Wei has not officially married a concubine, although Na Tian is interested in the use value behind her, but Tian has a good appearance and gentle temperament, and she is now the highest status woman in the backyard of the palace. Now seeing that she looks like she wants to talk and has been wronged and has to take care of the overall situation, her heart can't help but soften, and she put her arm around her shoulder and comforted her softly: "It's the lonely king who is not thoughtful and makes Fang Qing feel wronged, and I remember that last year's New Year's festival when the mother's reward had a pair of blue and white glazed flowers with a Persian tribute, and I will ask the steward to find it out and send it to your yard later, which can be regarded as a lone family and Fang Qing's reparation." ”
He coaxed the Tian family with soft words on his lips, but in his heart he was quickly thinking that it was time to marry a noble family, and with Tian's background, he couldn't even see the face of the lady and lady of the family, let alone befriend them, and paved the way for himself. Thinking of the news he heard in the palace of the concubine today, King Wei unconsciously frowned and looked good-looking: Concubine Shu is planning to ask the emperor to make Situ Chengcheng the princess of Qi! If this marriage is completed, won't his years of planning come to naught! No matter whether Concubine Shu can succeed or not!