Chapter Twenty-Three: Bai Ying
Zhou Yanan sat on the sedan chair entering the palace, still having an unreal sense of waking up from a big dream. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
She was still wondering if yesterday's dream was real. If it is true, why didn't Lou Wangshu admit to giving her a dream? If it was false, why was there still a faint pain where her palm was pinched?
It should be possible to pinch my hand in my sleep! Now, I have to think so.
Her eye sockets were still a little black, probably because she woke up too early. Her face was so pale that it looked like her peach blossom eyes were bigger.
When the maid wearing a begonia color dress and the palace lady with a bun saw her sedan chair, they all held their breath one by one and knelt down to salute.
But from a distance came the woman's roar. The sedan chair stopped, Huizhen poked her head in, and said cautiously, "Zhang Wenxiu is in front." ”
In the past, Zhang Wenxiu, the charming Shun concubine, has become a concubine, and now she is only in the cold palace to "cultivate her self-cultivation". It stands to reason that there should have been two eunuchs watching her, and they didn't know how she escaped.
There was a sneer on the corner of Zhou Yanan's mouth, presumably someone with ulterior intentions released it to block her.
Now that Ling Yu's hand is stretching out longer and longer, he doesn't know how the Queen Mother Zhou Hui will fight back against her.
Zhang Wenxiu had already been pressed and knelt down by two powerful palace maids. She had come all the way, her hair scattered, and her shoes were missing.
"Zhou Yanan, I kept to myself in the palace, and I didn't have any bad intentions. Why did the Queen Mother ask someone to take away my treasure?, why didn't you let me go?" Since Zhou Yanan beat the concubines in the palace last time, her unknown thoughts in the past have finally been put down. She really didn't poke out any more baskets, either to recuperate her body, or to play the basket.
"Of course not that I won't let you go. Zhou Yanan's eyes were like black stones at the bottom of a daffodil jar, with water on the top, and a cold expressionless underneath: "I'll ask you." How did you sit in the position of Concubine Shun?"
Zhang Wenxiu was stunned when asked. She never thought about it. Yes, there are so many women in the palace. Why are the high-ranking concubines, besides her, only Concubine Xie and Jieyu Xu?
Is it because he has always been loved by Ling Heng? No. The little hooves of the pampered ones lifted their tails to the sky one by one, and they did not see their rank improve.
So......
"Could it be because the Zhang family is planning to give up on me?" Zhang Wenxiu stopped crying and asked very calmly. She knew how many catties and taels she had, and she also understood that she could be a concubine because of the Zhang family.
It's hard for her, it's not too stupid.
Zhang Wenxiu saw that Zhou Yanan acquiesced, so she lay on the ground and didn't want to stand up.
It was very rude for her to do this. Immediately, the accompanying female officer wanted to reprimand her, but was stopped by Zhou Yanan.
"I was fifteen years old when I entered the East Palace, and it has been seven years since then. She seemed to mumble to herself, her pretty eyes large and blank.
"I always felt like I was dead when I was fifteen. Now there is a shell left to walk around in this world, and it is not buried in the earth until it is forty or fifty years old. If I hadn't been killed. ”
"According to the rules of the palace, I saw you, Zhou Shizhong. I'm going to bow three times and bow nine times. ”
She looked at Zhou Yanan and said lazily, "You can cure my crimes." I'm getting impatient anyway. If you are Zhou Yin's sister, give me a good time. ”
Zhang Wenxiu was brought into the palace so that Ling Heng could have a child of Zhang's blood.
She's had enough of being manipulated, and she doesn't want to live according to someone else's will anymore.
"Zhang Wenxiu, have you ever thought that you can actually have a different life?" Zhou Yanan is a demagogic demon at the moment. She was bold and bold, and pulled Zhang Wenxiu up from the ground. Zhang Wenxiu is still useful to her.
"You can think about it. In a few days, I will come to you. ”
Zhang Wenxiu listened, smiled and took out a dagger from somewhere on his body and threw it on the ground. The blade was pointing downward, and it suddenly sank into the floor tiles, and a puff of green smoke came out.
The faces of the surrounding palace people changed. The dagger was obviously quenched with poison, and I was afraid that it would seal the throat with blood.
"Well, the Zhang family asked me to find a way to assassinate you. Still, I think you're better alive. ”
Only by living can you add blockage to the Zhang family!
Zhou Yanan's face remained unchanged: "It seems that I have to find a few more people to protect you." ”
Zhang Wenxiu looked at her palm print intently, as if there was really her future on it, and said lightly: "Anyway, I'm not afraid." ”
A person who has no future, will he still be afraid of death?
A few smiles appeared in Zhou Yanan's eyes: "In short, you must think about it." She got back into the sedan chair and left.
However, Zhang Wenxiu didn't have time to think about anything. That night, she was poisoned. The eunuch who delivered the meal found that the food had not been touched the next day, and pushed the door in to find her body, which was no longer recognizable.
At this time, Sister Last was practicing for Zhang Wenxiu.
The dead Zhang Wenxiu was pretended to be a spy found in the Zhou Mansion. The real Zhang Wenxiu had already left the palace in Zhou Yanan's sedan chair.
Zhou Yanan didn't restrain her, invited two bodyguards, and bought two girls for Zhang Wenxiu, and asked Sister last to send her away. I was in a hurry to go to the study.
Zhang Wenxiu looked at the four newly added subordinates, as if he took it for granted, and did not thank him.
She frowned while drinking Sister Last's osmanthus wine: "Osmanthus, it's better to use it back then." ”
The corners of Sister Last's mouth twitched. She had never seen such a brazen person in her life. Zhou Yanan saved Zhang Wenxiu, and then gave the servant and coiled, she didn't say thank you, she didn't forget it, but she still didn't think the wine was delicious.
Could it be that none of the people who came out of Zhang's Mansion were educated?
Thinking of this, she quickly snorted twice. Her mother came from Zhang's house, although they are not from the same house, but they are of the same clan. Mother is the best woman in the world.
Zhang Wenxiu slumped comfortably in the chair, since she came out of the palace, she had lost her rules in everything. Can sit but never stand, can be paralyzed and never sit upright. Zhou Yanan didn't talk about her, but she didn't allow Sister Yan to follow her example. I saw Zhang Wenxiu half-closed his eyes and said, "Your sister is not like Zhou Yin." ”
She originally thought that Zhou Yanan followed Zhou Yin's temperament, but later found out that the two were different.
If Zhou Yin is dead, she should be the same as a cat and a dog dead. Zhou Yin will not feel schadenfreude, nor will he grieve for her. She would only be like a god, standing high up and watching them kill each other with cold eyes, and take pleasure in it.
Sister last didn't speak, she only thought in her heart: nonsense, who will let herself live like someone else!
Zhang Wenxiu closed his eyes, opened them again, and asked, "Is there a Konghou?"
She had been in the palace for too long, and her only pleasure was playing the gonghou. She didn't bring out the Xianfu Palace, but now she wants to play.
Sister last hurriedly called someone to find it in the library.
Zhang Wenxiu casually played the song "Spring River Flower Moonlit Night". The gong hou is like a piano like a zither, and it is like the sound of a clear spring in a snow-capped mountain.
Sister last laughed at her: "It's not spring and it's early morning, where does the spring river flower moonlit night come from?"
"I was happy in my heart. ”
Sister last was speechless for a while. When she plays the guqin, she not only pays attention to the season, but also considers what mood she is in at that time. Where would it be like Zhang Wenxiu.
"You will be walking outside in the future, but do you plan to change your name, so that the people of Zhangfu will not find you?"
"Well, your sister arranged the paperwork for me. From now on, I will only be called Bai Ying. ”
Sister last was speechless for a while. A few days ago, Zhou Yanan set the name of the female school, and called it Shenying Palace. At that time, Sister Han asked her why it was this name. Zhou Yanan said that this is a homonym for Zhou Yin's name. The reason why Zhou Yin's name is used is because Zhou Yin was really blessed during his lifetime, and he wants to be a little happy.
Now, even Zhang Wenxiu has changed his name to Bai Ying. You are also Ying, I am also Ying, why don't you change Sister Yan to Zhou Yaying! She looked angry and asked Bai Ying: "Do you know that my sister is going to run a girls' school?"
"She hasn't told me yet. ”
Sister last rolled her eyes: "You play Gong Hou so well, why don't you go to the female school to be a female gentleman!"
Bai Ying knew that Zhou Yanan got her out, most likely because of this idea.
She didn't agree, she didn't refuse: "I want to go out for a walk first." ”
The days in the Forbidden City were so depressing that she even disliked the entire capital because of this, and just wanted to leave quickly.
Sister last suddenly showed a look of disappointment. However, she also knew that this matter could not be forced.
Bai Ying didn't want to owe the Zhou sisters a favor. She kicked the girl out and whispered, "Your eldest sister is indeed not an ordinary difficult birth. ”
"I don't know much about this. But I know that it wasn't Zhou Hui who did it, and it didn't look like someone from Zhang's mansion did it. Her eyes drifted to the left as she spoke. Sister last has just learned the surface of behavioral psychology from Lou Wangshu, and knows that it is a lie to float her eyes to the right, and to float to the left is to tell the truth. I don't think Bai Ying should be lying.
But how can Bai Ying guarantee that her source must be reliable? After all, what she has seen with her own eyes may not be true!
Sister last is actually not interested in Zhou Yin's affairs. Zhou Yin is just a person living in rumors for her. Therefore, he didn't ask any more questions, but only planned to relay Bai Ying's words to her after Zhou Yanan came back.
Bai Ying wore a soft green robe with dark bamboo leaf patterns, dressed as a son-in-law. This is what Zhou Yanan dressed up for her. At that time, Bai Ying also glanced at Zhou Yanan in great surprise.
She drank the last sip of osmanthus wine, two red clouds floated on her cheeks, and said to the angry sister Last: "Your sister instructed me not to leave wine for you to drink." ”
"I made this wine!" Why can't I drink it?
Bai Ying just nodded coldly and stood up. She asked one of the girls to bring a change of clothes, and the other hugged Gong Hou and floated away, leaving without looking back.