Chapter 139: Watching the Fire from the Other Shore
Pink satin quilts were neatly folded, crimson cocoons hung down like bed curtains, and the room was filled with gold and jade knick-knacks. There was a girl sitting by the window, wearing a brocade dress with dark purple moire patterns, and her hair could not hide her pretty face.
A few girls stood in front of the door and quietly looked in, looking at each other but not daring to go in, when you pushed me, suddenly a girl outside the door came in and asked, "Is the princess up?"
A few girls at the door hurriedly turned their backs and replied, "Sister Jingyi, the princess has been sitting on the edge of the bed for almost an hour, and she doesn't need breakfast, what can I do!"
Fu Nanqiao has been promoted to princess since she was selected as a candidate for harmony, and because of the loyalty and courage of her father Yiyang Hou, she gave the title of Princess Yiyang. On that day, Fu Nanqiao entered the palace to thank Queen Xie as usual, but was announced to the Chongxi Palace of the concubine.
Although Fu Nanqiao has been in and out of the palace since he was a child, he has never entered the Chongxi Palace. Chongxi Palace is the residence of the noble concubine, I only heard that it is full of pear blossoms, it seems that the people of the vegetarian family are particularly fond of plain color, like to wear plain color, and the pear blossom is also white. I have always heard that Chongxi Palace is the West Palace, which is more majestic than the East Palace. When you really come here, it is like a fairyland on earth, with carved beams and painted pillars, and a stone and a mountain are all handwritten by famous artists. In the previous dynasty, the Chongxi Palace was the residence of the queen of the middle palace, and later the founding emperor built the middle palace newly, and then the Chongxi Palace was made the west palace. Generations of concubines have piled up with holy favors, and finally become a scene among ghosts and gods.
The concubine still had a clear and cold look, and she didn't greet her when she saw her, but only asked her to look up, "Nanqi is far away, Ah Chi wrote a letter to ask the palace to take care of you, and they must not be short of preparations." Is there anything else you want?" the concubine was arrogant and cold, and the gorgeous palace was also cold.
It's been a long time since I've seen Su Chi, Nan Qiao can't remember that they have been best friends for many years, but since the marriage was decided, it has been difficult to be as carefree as before. Fu Nan Qiao Yingying bowed, "Don't dare to bother the mother and the county lord, Nan Qiao's marriage, the county lord has made great contributions!" That day, Yueyinfang learned from Jin Lanque that Su Chi personally matched Lan Qi's marriage, so she secretly vowed never to have anything to do with her again.
In the past few years, the concubine has become more and more unable to listen to such rebellious words, and only mocked when she heard the words: "Don't be forced by the situation you said, the cow can't do this kind of thing if he doesn't drink water and force his head to press his head." Zuo is just an unrequited love for you, and you have to feel that others beat the mandarin ducks. If it weren't for the eldest brother's insistence, the son-in-law of my Su family would not have been able to turn a white body like Jin Lanqi. Ah Chi picked a few girls who know Nanqi official dialect for you, their identity and background are clean, you can use them, go out!"
When Fu Nanqiao came home, it would be difficult to send them away, firstly, the people given by the concubine were not easy to assign casually, and secondly, the mother really felt that the Tujia county lord Su Chi was thoughtful. Although it is only a few subordinates, Nanqi and Beiwan are in the preparation period all the year round, and there are few contacts between the two sides, and Jinling is even less. So Fu Nanqiao had no choice but to cope, and chose a girl named Jingyi to be a first-class girl.
But I didn't expect that in just half a month, Fu Nanqiao's original maid was already the only one who was in this quiet clothes.
Jingyi buttoned the door before entering, and curtstoyed: "Princess, Jin Gongzi asks to see!"
The handkerchief in Fu Nanqiao's hand tightened, and he asked in surprise and disbelief: "Which Jin Gongzi?"
Jingyi lowered her eyelids, looked at the silk handkerchief that was tightly stirred in Fu Nanqiao's hand, and said in a deep voice: "The slave maid has never seen it, but he said that it is the princess's old acquaintance." Jin Gongzi has a Jinling accent, slave guess, maybe it's really the princess's old acquaintance?"
Fu Nanqiao was about to get up as soon as he threw it, and Jingyi curled the corners of his mouth: "Princess, let the slave maid dress up for you." ”
Fu Nanqiao then remembered that he hadn't dressed up yet, so he hurriedly let Jingyi take people to change his clothes and groom, while worrying that Jin Lanqi wouldn't be able to wait for him. He was always the most impatient, Volnanjo couldn't help but complain.
Jingyi kept her eyelids down, remembering that when she was in the Su family before, Jin Lanqi often went in and out of the girl's yard. But the girl had never been so messy as the princess.
Fu Nanqiao just complained vigorously, the girls who were fairly quick on weekdays were extremely clumsy today, and they couldn't fix their hair well, so that they dismantled and tied it many times, and when they saw Jin Lanqi, half an hour seemed to be as long as a day.
Fu Nanqiao was crowned the princess, and the costume and hairpin were naturally more gorgeous than before, and the fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl was already in her prime, and there was a gradual growth of atmosphere and beauty on her body.
Jin Lanqi seems to be looking at her so seriously for the first time, he has always been chic and uninhibited, and his temperament is bold, it is indeed the first time to look at her so seriously and carefully.
Jin Lanqi looked at Fu Nanqiao from head to toe, and forcibly suppressed the faint melancholy in his heart before he said: "Princess Jin'an!"
The air seemed to freeze, and the words that Fu Nanqiao had prepared were swallowed back into his stomach.
The person in front of him is a proton from Nanqi!
She is the princess who will go to Beiwan!
Thinking of the career he was about to start as a relative, Fu Nanqiao looked at Lan Qi with trembling lips, "I knew that you would definitely come!" Jingyi quietly led people down and closed the door. Tell the girls to keep their mouths tighter, although it is Beiwan who is open to the people, for Fu Nanqiao, who is about to marry Nanqi, the reputation is still better.
Jingyi saw that the window was a little unclean, so she found a cloth, and did not instruct anyone, but only wiped it herself, very diligent!
In the room, Jin Lanqi no longer looked directly at Fu Nanqiao, his eyes only fell to the ground, and he slowly spoke: "The princess shouldn't be willful! Nanqi is thousands of miles away from here, far away from her hometown and homeland, leaving her relatives and friends, the princess has never experienced it, so naturally she doesn't know what kind of bitterness and suffering this is?"
"I'll know right away, I'm going to try whatever you've tasted. Although she is often willful, but the girl in the boudoir is also a deep boudoir of the Houmen, so she naturally knows etiquette and abides by the rules, even if she sometimes ignores etiquette and indulges for a while, it is not out of line. Only this time and kiss, this is something she never thought of. It turned out that he had the courage to go to a strange country and face an unprecedented new situation.
There, there are no relatives, no friends, but there is his past.
"I don't deserve this from you, you'll regret it. Jin Lanqi looked at her deeply.
"I wouldn't, I just did what I wanted to do and had to do. ”
"What do you want to do? Do you want to get married? Marry a man you have never met? He may have a group of concubines, he may be old and infirm, which one do you want?"
"My daughter-in-law told me that my father was at home, but my father was dead. I don't have a home anymore, I just want to be closer to your hometown. Lan Qi, I want to do something for you, don't refuse me, okay? I'll go and beg the concubine Niangniang, let you send me to marry, and go home, okay?"
"How could the concubine listen to you? No one can decide whether I will go or stay except Your Majesty. ”
"How do you know if you don't try? Su Chi is not willing to do it for you, I am willing. As long as you want, I want you to get it. ”
"Don't be stupid anymore, pretend to be sick, or pretend to be stupid, find a way to get by, don't get along. ”
"No, I've decided. No one can change me."
"One day, you'll find that everything is not what you imagined. Even if I go back to Nanqi, we won't be together, do you know where Nanqi is?"
"Ah Chi······ The lord of Tujia used to like to read about the experiences of the Southern Qi Dynasty, and she told me that the Southern Qi had the gentlest gentlemen, the most virtuous women, the most exquisite handicrafts, and the best silk and operas. ”
"She's only read a few books, and it's just on paper. Nanqi is a dirty and messy place, have you ever heard of the allusion to the jade body on the court?" Jin Lanqi raised his head and smiled, there was no gleam in his eyes.
"What does that mean?" Even if you haven't heard it, Fu Nanqiao has a natural resistance to the word, and you can imagine what a lewd scene it was with the literal meaning.
Jin Lanqi tilted his head, "Is there any wine?"
Fu Nanqiao frowned, "Don't drink it, drinking hurts your body." Let's get down to business!"
Jin Lanqi didn't insist, "Then you've always heard of concubines, right?" This Fu Nanqiao knew that the Beiwan royal family was a nomadic people in the Yan Kingdom in the early days. Men hunt and kill, women give birth to children, and men treat women as the property of the tribe. In order for the descendants of the tribe to prosper, once a man dies, his younger brother or son inherits his woman. The status of women is very low, even in today's Yan Kingdom. Later, Beiwan was dedicated to learning the etiquette of the Southern Qi in the south, so he resolutely abandoned this custom, but produced a new product, concubines.
The so-called concubine is a nobleman who gathers prostitutes at home in order to entertain guests, and later it slowly becomes an item used by the men in the family at will. Regardless of brothers and sons, as long as they don't make trouble on the table, most of them will be directly executed if they are pregnant. Fortunately, there were few male masters in the Shen family's Shen Chaoye family at that time, otherwise Shen Chaoye would definitely be stillborn, which is why King Yu looked down on Shen Chaoye's identity so much.
Fu Nanqiao didn't know what Jin Lanqi meant by suddenly mentioning this, so he listened to him explain: "In Nanqi, this is just one point out of many filth. If you look at King Ke, you can see that there are many in Jiankang City with such a description and demeanor like him? ”
After hearing this, Fu Nanqiao went out, stopped at the door, and waited for a while for a servant girl to bring two jugs of wine. Fu Nanqiao took it and gave Jin Lanqi a pot, and the two drank to each other, but Nanqiao didn't speak. King Ke's indulgent body, his swollen and pale face almost looked like a dead man.
When the small half pot of wine was poured down, Fu Nanqiao was a little confused: "That's it, I have to get married." A few days ago, I had offended King Yu. They all said that he would be my Beiwan in the future······ Emperor. My father is dead, and my mother can't control my marriage, King Ke······ He said he was going to marry me. He called me a slut, he said······ But why? I didn't do anything. He said that as long as I stayed in Jinling for one day, he would humiliate me for one day. Someday he's going to turn me into a ······ Thousands ······" A prostitute who rides thousands of people. Fu Nanqiao's aggrieved tears fell all at once, what did he do wrong?
Although Fu Nanqiao was a little drunk, Jin Lanqi could hear it clearly, and he had always felt that Fu Nanqiao would say that he wanted to be friendly in the palace because he was willful and ignorant for a while. didn't expect her to be afraid of marrying King Ke.
This scumbag beast!
Looking at the beautiful and lovely girl in front of him, Jin Lanqi had a trace of sorrow between his eyebrows, he had always regarded Su Chi as a friend. Although he has always looked down on the behavior of the Su family, he did not involve Su Chi. It wasn't until Qinghe Wang Chongyao said that he wanted to explore the Su family's family in Daoge Village, and he couldn't help but think about the letter from his grandfather. So he took advantage of the situation to rob the good friend of the Gezhai in Yueyinfang, a Persian dancer. Sure enough, he was begged by the owner of the village, and he deliberately provoked him to be taken back to the village. originally planned to find a way to find out if the Su family was really there after going up the mountain, and I didn't want to be thrown directly into the Su family's cell on the stockade.
But he didn't want to be told to Su Chi by Fu Nanqiao, so he implicated Su Chi's situation in the Yasukuni Mansion, and Su Chi also misunderstood that he was conspiring with Chongyao, and all this really jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't be washed away! Su Chi was sincere, but he was afraid that even if he said it in the future, he would not return to the past. If it was Su Chi in the past, if she wanted to follow the order of the Duke of Yasukuni to arrange her marriage with Su Jing, she would never cut it first and then play!
Hey, Fu Nanqiao in front of her has a bigger headache! Even though Su Chi is in trouble, she has a brother who loves her and protects her, and someone will stand up when the sky falls. But what about Nan Qiao? She didn't know that his father was still alive, maybe she should go to Nanqi.
What if Xiao Jing can keep her? But what if······
Jin Lanqi didn't think about it anymore, he carried Fu Nanqiao to the couch in the inner room, covered it with a blanket and walked out.
Jingyi hurriedly stood at the door waiting, Jin Lanqi sneered: "The legs and feet are very sharp!" Su Chi is not in Jinling, who is not sure who will give this girl?
Jingyi still didn't understand, "Childe go slowly!"
In the middle of the night, the general's mansion has been crowned.
"What does Your Highness think of these reports?" Qu Zhixin, who is the governor of the Yuwang Mansion, is naturally not difficult to get the report sent by Jinzhou Sucen to the imperial court. The city of Jinzhou is close to Yuzhou, the fief of King Yu. In order to infiltrate influence and pick out the best soldiers, King Yu was quite familiar with the officials in the Jinzhou area. In the past few years, he has taken almost half of Jinzhou's military transfer power.
Chongyao sent someone to keep an eye on Jinzhou early, and naturally knew that Su Cen was severely punished in Jinzhou, which put everyone in danger, so he asked: "What did the second brother say?"
His Royal Highness King Yu was full of praise for Su Cen, if it weren't for his surname Su, I was afraid that the excerpts that would ask for merit would be handed over. Out of Chongyao's consistent hostility towards the Su family, coupled with the fact that he was already supported by General Shu, Qu Zhixin also hated the Su family.
Chongyao fell into deep thought, King Yu was strict in governing the army, and it was not surprising that he deeply agreed with Su Cen's approach.
"Su Cen has moved all the people in the military, and the second brother doesn't care?"
"Your Highness doesn't know that although there are many people in Jinzhou who serve King Yu, they have only been in and out of Jinzhou over the years. His Royal Highness King Yu still paid out of his own pocket in order to pay his salary, so how could he take care of these hungry wolves? After a long time, people's minds have changed. Su Cen made such a move, but they became down-to-earth, and one by one they rushed to the Yuwang Mansion to show their loyalty. King Yu expected that the Duke of Yasukuni would not let Su Cen offend people like this, and when the limelight passed, His Royal Highness King Yu would write to His Majesty for leniency. A little kindness, these people must be grateful, and it is difficult to have two hearts in this life. ”
"But this king sees that the fire of the eldest prince is burning very strongly! I am afraid that the second brother will not be able to extinguish it. Chongyao sneered, remembering Su Cen's decisiveness, but her face appeared in his mind.