Chapter 29: The Eve of War
Approaching the end of the year, every household began to get busy, of course, Jinbi City is no exception, Ni Caiyuan also began to arrange personnel to give the beauties of each hospital, Niangniang tailor-made.
"Mo Yuxiu, the size is good, please go to Ni Caiyuan with the slave maid to choose silk," the female official arranged by Ni Caiyuan respectfully saluted Mo Chenghuan, and said softly.
"Okay, Yuliu, Jinsu, you two go with me," Mo Chenghuan has been deliberately hanging Ling Xue and Ning Xiang when she confessed things recently, she was thinking, since she already knew that explosives were arranged around her, she should investigate it well, otherwise it would be too late to wait until she exploded and then think about stopping it.
"Master, I'll go too!" Lin Yuheng could also feel Mo Chenghuan's preference for Yuliu and Jinsu, and he couldn't help but feel a little lost in his heart.
"It's okay," Mo Chenghuan didn't refuse, and took the three of them to Ni Caiyuan without hurrying.
"Why are you here like this," Qi Yu saw Mo Chenghuan from afar, and immediately greeted him with a smile.
"I thought I was early," Mo Chenghuan saw Qi Yu before he entered the door, and as soon as he saw Qi Yu, a trace of joy immediately rose on his lips.
"You, I just called Huanchun to call you, didn't you think that you had already arrived, didn't you meet her on the way?" Qi Yu took Mo Chenghuan's hand, gossiping about homely things, and walked into the house again.
"Concubine Lingniang," as soon as everyone saw Qi Yu appear, Qi brushed and gave Qi Yu a big salute, and there were many familiar faces among them.
"Get up, you don't have to be so restrained," Qi Yu's every move was dignified and virtuous, and he smiled and smiled.
"Concubine Lingniang, look, this is the Fenglan silk satin that has just been sent by the Good Deeds Workshop, this lotus flower is very charming, and it is lining the Lingfei Niangniang!" Ni Caiyuan's female official clothes flattered her face, holding a fine silk and offering it to Qi Yu.
"Do you mean that our peerless concubine still needs your broken silk to set off?!" Fu Yijia couldn't see the annoying face of this female official, and said sarcastically and harshly.
The female officer was startled, and immediately explained in a panic: "The lower official didn't mean this!"
"This palace knows that Fu Miao's people don't blame her for a large number of people, they all have to survive in kilometers, and everyone doesn't have to fight-for-tat," Qi Yu smiled and resolved the incident provoked by Fu Yijia.
Mo Chenghuan let go of Qi Yu's hand and walked to He Qingxue, who was unknown in the corner.
"He Changxuan has been doing well lately," Mo Chenghuan said in a friendly greeting.
"Tomo Mishu's blessings, all is well. He Qingxue's face was cold, and she was full of hostility towards Mo Chenghuan.
"He Changxuan doesn't have to be like this, we are not enemies, everything still has room to turn around," Mo Chenghuan hinted at He Qingxue, and now the royalists can still accept He Qingxue.
When the people next to him heard Mo Chenghuan's words, they all gasped, how tolerant this royalist is to the He family, and they can actually give He Qingxue a second chance, aren't they afraid that the He family will beat him up?
"Thank you Mo Yuxiu for your kindness, no," He Qingxue rejected Mo Chenghuan indifferently.
"He Changxuan doesn't need to refuse in such a hurry," In the face of He Qingxue's indifference, Mo Chenghuan was still like a spring breeze, smiling very warmly.
"Although Prime Minister Xue Cheng is not as good as before, but the grace of dripping water, when the spring reciprocates, our brothers and sisters still understand, Prime Minister Xue Cheng can support us in the most difficult time for my brother and sister, and now that Prime Minister Xue Cheng is in trouble, we can't be ungrateful. He Qingxue completely ignored Mo Chenghuan's kindness and remained indifferent.
"He Changxuan, Mo Yuxiu is also well-intentioned, you don't have to be like this," Liu Zhifang couldn't look past it, and stepped forward to help Mo Chenghuan say a good word.
"Have you received her favor too, why do you even speak for her?" He Qingxue also had a good impression of Liu Zhifang, who had nothing to do with the world, but everyone was in a different situation, and if she showed favor to Liu Zhifang, she was afraid that it would affect Liu Zhifang.
"I haven't suffered it before, but I will be rewarded soon for helping her to speak today," Liu Zhifang did not take He Qingxue's sarcasm to heart, and responded to He Qingxue's aggressiveness with a joke.
The condensed atmosphere instantly disappeared because of a joke by Liu Zhifang.
"What are you talking about so happily?" Qi Yu saw that the atmosphere here was a little weird, so he walked over.
"It's nothing, have you picked it out?" Mo Chenghuan responded to this and turned his gaze to the satin again.
"Feng Lan's batch of silk is too gorgeous, I don't like it," Qi Yu turned around and pointed to the Feng Lan silk presented to her by the female official, and said leisurely.
Mo Chenghuan picked up the silk produced by Fenglan and looked at it and said: "It's nothing, it's not so gorgeous, the one produced by Jingde is called a dazzling, you are now a three-grade Zhenggong Niangniang, and only silk with such a pattern can be worthy of you." ”
"You laugh at me again," Qi Yu said Mo Chenghuan with disgust, but he also honestly took the silk that Mo Chenghuan said good things about.
Mo Chenghuan rummaged in the silk pile for a while, and finally picked out a red silk embroidered with golden pinlan to replace the fuhua silk in Qi Yu's hand, and said with a slight smile: "This is the most suitable for you, as a mother, you should have the appearance of a mother, don't let people think that you are really like water." ”
"Got it," Qi Yu turned around and handed the silk that Mo Chenghuan had picked out for her to the female officer of Ni Caiyuan.
"The concubine has seen Concubine Jing. ”
At that time, there will be another sound of welcome outside the door.
Mo Chenghuan hurriedly followed the salute when he saw it, and the level of Qi Yu was on par with Concubine Jing, so naturally he didn't have to bow like everyone else, but he owed slightly.
"Yo, Concubine Ling is also here, what kind of satin did Concubine Ling choose?" Lu Yuchan walked towards Qi Yu when she entered the house just now, making people look at Qi Yu at a glance.
"It's nothing, it's just that I saw that the New Year was approaching, so I found a horse with a more beautiful color," Qi Yu said, pointing to the silk in the female official's hand.
Lu Yuchan glanced at Qi Yu's silk with disdain, walked to the table where the silk was placed, took a bright red silk and put it in Qi Yu's arms, and while reaching out to snatch the silk that Mo Chenghuan selected for Qi Yu, she said: "Now that you are the mother of the main palace, how can you be like before, you have to dress more brightly to attract the emperor's favor." ”
Everyone looked at the bright red satin that Lu Yuchan picked for Qi Yu, and their hearts sank involuntarily, not to mention the style, the color of the face was also very ugly, Lu Yuchan asked Qi Yu to wear the clothes made of that silk, which was simply deliberately teasing Qi Yu.
"Concubine Jing, this silk is too gorgeous, it's really not suitable for me, it's better to return my cloth to me," Qi Yu knew that Lu Yuchan deliberately found fault, but it was not good to attack on the spot, but he didn't let Lu Yuchan bully.
Unexpectedly, Lu Yuchan not only did not flinch, but reached out and threw Qi Yu's cloth to the ground.
When everyone saw this scene, they were in an uproar, especially some beauties who belonged to the Xue family for some reasons, and when they saw this scene, they couldn't help but feel a pain in their hearts, when did they suffer such humiliation when Prime Minister Xue was in power.
Qi Yu's face changed slightly, but he was still angry: "This silk is really not suitable for me, or the cloth just now foils me," Qi Yu said and handed the silk in his hand to the red eyebrows beside him, and asked the red eyebrows to put the silk away.
Mo Chenghuan silently picked up the silk that was thrown away by Lu Yuchan and gently came to Qi Yu's side.
"Concubine Ling, in this situation, you are still inconvenient to show off, I advise you to use this silk obediently," Concubine Jing stepped forward and snatched the silk from Hongmei's hand, and returned to Qi Yu.
"No," Qi Yu rejected Lu Yuchan again simply and clearly.
When Lu Yuchan heard this, her face immediately darkened: "Qi Yu, do you think you are still the proud daughter of the sky now? Even your father Qi Long managed to save his life, do you think Xue Shizhang can continue to support you?!"
"Xue Shijing is a rat crossing the street does not mean that Prime Minister Xue Cheng is also down, I believe that keeping the green mountains is not afraid of no firewood," Qi Yu still showed a calm look in the face of the arrogant Lu Yuchan, giving Lu Yuchan a face.
"Che, do you think we'll give him a chance to make a comeback?" Lu Yuchan said in a deep voice through gritted teeth.
"We are willing to give," although Lu Yuchan's voice was not loud, Mo Chenghuan, who was standing beside Qi Yu, could indeed hear it clearly.
Lu Yuchan bit her cheeks fiercely and glared at Mo Chenghuan viciously.
"I don't know where you got up, Concubine Jing, but Concubine Jing doesn't have to embarrass me, after all, whether we are doing well in the palace or not has nothing to do with people outside the palace, everything is the emperor's favor to us," Mo Chenghuan handed over the silk in his hand to Qi Yu.
"Mo Chenghuan, who do you think you are, and you dare to speak to this palace like this?!" Lu Yuchan's silver teeth gritted and "gurgled", and a pair of angry eyes almost wanted to burn Mo Chenghuan to ashes.
"I only know that as long as the emperor is here, I will have enough confidence to talk to you," Mo Chenghuan didn't want Lu Yuchan to be too self-righteous, not to mention that it was Mo Chenghuan's nature to dare to say and do.
"Do you think you will always favor the harem? You are just a flash in the pan, you are as favored as you are now, you should be more careful, don't end up as miserable as Qiu Shengxi," Mo Chenghuan didn't speak at first, she didn't react so much, but now that Mo Chenghuan mentioned the emperor's favor to her, she was furious.
"It is much better to be favored by the emperor vigorously, and it is much better than not being in the cold palace for the rest of your life," Mo Chenghuan was not ignorant of advancing and retreating, she was just deliberately provoking Concubine Jing.
"You!!" Lu Yuchan was angry for a while.
"You are already an old man, now I am afraid that you can't even compare to Chu Luoluo's status, you still dare to shout here," Mo Chenghuan said more and more, and deliberately compared Chu Luoluo with Lu Yuchan, and then aroused the suspicion between Lu Yuchan and Chu Luoluo.
"Mo Chenghuan!" Lu Yuchan was so angry that she trembled all over, and wanted to step forward to hit Mo Chenghuan.
"Do it, do you think you can beat me? Do you think this matter is a big deal, does the emperor help you or help me?" Mo Chenghuan also deliberately took two steps closer to Lu Yuchan.
"Mo Chenghuan, count you ruthless!" Lu Yuchan argued, but her heart was afraid of Mo Chenghuan, and she left with her wisdom.
"Mo Yuxiu, you are so kind to Concubine Jing, are you afraid that she will be unfavorable to you in the future?" Liu Zhifang was worried about Mo Chenghuan's future situation.
"It's okay, I have my own plans," Mo Chenghuan didn't care at all, what Liu Zhifang was worried about was not what she was worried about.
"You are too reckless today," even Qi Yu felt that Mo Chenghuan's behavior today was a little reckless.
"Have you chosen? Chosen, let's go," Mo Chenghuan smiled and pulled Qi Yu out of Ni Caiyuan.
"Are you deliberately trying to provoke Concubine Jing?" Qi Yu had never seen Mo Chenghuan bump into anyone like this, although it was for her to tell the truth, but this was too much.
"What do you think I mean?" Mo Chenghuan felt that with Qi Yu's intelligence, he should be able to guess her thoughts.
"Who do you want to use her against?" Mo Chenghuan's reaction was the best hint to Qi Yu.
"Who is our biggest enemy now?" Mo Chenghuan smiled contentedly and continued to give hints.
"Chu Luoluo?" Qi Yu can also understand that although Sima Yi is their biggest enemy, Sima Yi now listens to Chu Luoluo, so their biggest threat now is not Sima Yi, but Sima Yi's think tank, Chu Luoluo.
"That's right, now Sima Yi must listen to Chu Luoluo, Concubine Jing with Sima Yi's gradual colding, she must have a long-standing grudge in her heart, if I can provoke her hatred for Chu Luoluo, then there will be a good show between them," Mo Chenghuan is not as merciful as before now, maybe she could still be merciful in the past, but now she just wants to end this endless torment as soon as possible.
"But what if she wasn't fooled and didn't turn her anger on Chu Luoluo, but on you?" I believe that many people can expect such a loophole, and if she is as smart as Mo Chenghuan, she should not ignore it.
"That's better, don't bother Chu Luoluo, Concubine Jing can only clean up by me, it's a pity, if Chu Luoluo makes a move, maybe it will leave Concubine Jing's family a way to survive for the sake of the same camp, if I make a move, Concubine Jing is afraid that she will have to connect the nine clans," Mo Chenghuan's smile had a hint of bloodthirsty cruelty, which made Qi Yu shudder when he saw it.
Qi Yu looked at Mo Chenghuan, and a sense of strangeness arose in her heart, she actually felt in an instant that this person in front of her was not the Mo Chenghuan she knew.
"What's wrong?" Mo Chenghuan didn't realize that his expression frightened Qi Yu at all.
"Lou Yuyu's incident, is it a big blow to you," so big that the kind and upright Mo Chenghuan has changed.
"That's right," Mo Chenghuan replied without hesitation.
Qi Yu wanted to say something, but opened his mouth and didn't know where to start.
"I just want to end this as soon as possible, before the world I know has changed much," Mo Chenghuan has already begun to the future, naively thinking that as long as she works hard to move forward with the plan, she will be able to face less real pain.
Qi Yu had something to say to Mo Chenghuan in her heart, but the words came to her mouth and swallowed again, she was afraid that her reality would hurt Mo Chenghuan.
In fact, maybe Mo Chenghuan himself also understands in his heart that it is useless to just run away from some things, and the things you should face, no matter how hard you try, you can't change them.
Mo Chenghuan saw Qi Yu's desire to speak and stopped, but she still didn't see what she should do, she knew what Qi Yu wanted to say, but now she still can't face it, she needs time.