Chapter 516: Carved Lacquer Peony
"What the hell is going on to make you so powerless. ”
Tang Menglan leaned completely on the back of the mahogany carved lacquered peony chair, looked at Liang Cheng, who was lying on the soft couch with her whole body wilting at this time, and asked.
"Well, nothing. But Tang Menglan's question stopped Liang Cheng vividly, how should she tell her about Emperor Cheng's lack of health, whether she can say it or not, this is still a problem.
After Liang Cheng thought about it and thought about it, she finally gritted her teeth and said to Tang Menglan: "Menglan, there are some things I don't know whether I should tell you the truth or not, these are all things that my mother told me, and the stakes are very high, so I'm sorry, I can't tell you now." ”
treats a straightforward person like Tang Menglan, even if it is something that cannot be said, it cannot be lied, otherwise after she knows the truth, the consequences will not be ordinarily serious. Tang Menglan treats her with sincerity, so naturally he hopes that she will do the same. Therefore, although Liang Cheng gritted her teeth fiercely, she still didn't lie to Menglan in the end, she just told her the truth that she couldn't tell, and then looked at her quietly.
"Oh, then, don't talk about it. But unexpectedly, Tang Menglan's reaction was so bland that Liang Ming's apprehension before seemed to be a joke, so that someone couldn't be annoyed and angry.
"Miss Tang, wouldn't your reaction be too cold? Liang Cheng said unusually angrily.
"Then what do you want me to do, you must tell me the matter? Okay, or I'll start persecuting you now, okay?" Tang Menglan squinted at Liang Yuan, and said angrily.
Yes, she is rarely an opponent of others, and now it is better not to be overwhelmed. Liang Cheng turned her head angrily and stopped looking in someone's direction.
"Okay, you are less awkward, the people who should have been angry didn't get angry, you were unhappy first, Miss Liang San's temper is really not small. "To say that Liang Cheng can't tell the truth, Tang Menglan doesn't care at all, it's impossible.
But their backgrounds are different, and there are really a lot of secrets that can't be said in their respective families, so Tang Menglan can understand Liang Ming's words, and try to change the topic as much as possible, otherwise it will be very uncomfortable to care about her all the time.
After all, everyone has curiosity about the word "secret", but the difference is whether there is more or less curiosity.
"I have squandered the precious free time that my mother has allowed me to come to you today, not to come to you to make trouble. After walking to the couch and giving Liang Cheng a chestnut, Tang Menglan looked at her and asked, "Do you know that Mrs. Fu is going to have a banquet tomorrow?"
"Of course I do. ”
Fu Xiang is today's Zuo Xiang, one of the Three Princes, and has been a colleague with Liang Sixuan in Lantai for many years, the two not only have the same personalities, but what is even more rare is that their political views are also very consistent.
Such a like-minded two people have naturally become friends and have a very strong relationship, even the Shen family and Mrs. Fu respect each other, and most of the Shen family will not pay attention to the banquets of others, but Mrs. Fu's post, the Shen family will almost accept it.
Tomorrow, Mrs. Fu will set up a banquet in the Fu Mansion, and the Shen family will naturally go, but Liang Cheng may not be there.
After all, it is possible to send Yong'er to Heshouzhai on weekdays, but now she and Yong'er have to serve their grandfather, although he doesn't like it very much.
But anyway, if the time conflicts, then she can only stay in Heshouzhai, and their mother took Liang Xian and Liang Yi Liang Ji to the Fu Mansion for a banquet.
And the matter of Old Man Liang, although he can't tell Tang Menglan Mingming, but his old man has been unwell recently, and the fact that Liang Cheng and Liang Yong are serving is something that can be revealed to Tang Menglan, so she also understands Liang Ming's current situation.
"Mrs. Fu's banquet tomorrow, Aunt Liang will go to the banquet, what about you, will you follow Aunt Liang to the Fu Mansion to attend the banquet?"
But for some reason, Tang Menglan still asked Liang Cheng again.
"I don't know, we have to look at the situation tomorrow to decide, after all, the matter of serving the sick is the first, and my father and mother will not allow me and Yong'er to leave this matter to go to the banquet. Don't you know all these dreams, why did you ask them again?"
Liang Cheng looked at Tang Menglan quite puzzled, but the latter frowned slightly, although she had expected this answer, but when she heard it with her own ears at this time, she couldn't help but sigh and said: "There must be a reason to confirm it with you again, I also just learned the news yesterday, at the banquet in the Fu Mansion tomorrow, Mrs. Zhong may take Zhong Qing to the banquet together." ”
"What!" Liang Cheng sat up from the couch with a bang, looked at Tang Menglan in surprise, and said in disbelief: "Where did you get this news from, how accurate is it, will Sister Zhong really go to the Fu Mansion for a banquet tomorrow?"
"Naturally, the news can't be faked, but I inquired about it from Sister Yaohua, don't doubt it. Tang Menglan looked at Liang Cheng, shrugged his shoulders and said, "But this is only possible, not certain." ”
Then this is a bit of a headache, if Zhong Qing will really go to the Fu Mansion for a banquet tomorrow, she should follow her mother anyway.
Otherwise, what happened to Zhong Fu and Zhong Qing recently, why didn't they see the person she sent to deliver the message, this is really too concerning, if you don't figure it out, then Liang Cheng can't rest assured no matter what.
At this time, it is the last bit of sunlight outside the house, and it is the warmest when it falls. The wind, blowing gently, blew the rustle of the leaves of the willows, and gently echoed in the ears, like the clear water of the tinkling dong.
And the peach trees in the middle of summer, now the peach blossoms have long withered, at this time only the dry branches remain, swaying slightly in the orange sun and wind, and it is also in this street full of dry peach trees, a peach tree that is already very old, and life is about to come to an end, the peach tree is full of fog and flowers, as if the peach blossoms are colorful.
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During the juvenile reign of Emperor Wen, a great war broke out between Xiyin and Houshu, and it was this great war that made Liang Hu, the general of Zhendong in Xiyin, begin to show his edge and amaze the world - Liang Hu led the only 100,000 troops left in Xiyin at that time, repelled the wolf army of Houshu, and invaded Shu nearly thousands of miles away, forcing Houshu to take the initiative to negotiate peace.
At that time, although Xiyin was like a rainbow at that time, but in fact, the national strength was extremely weak, and it was really a fantasy to take advantage of this to annex Houshu. Emperor Wen knew this very well, so this war between the two countries provoked by Hou Shu first, and finally ended with Hou Shu's initiative to negotiate peace. After many unequal treaties were signed in Houshu and a prince was sent to Xiyin as a proton, the war was completely quelled.
As for the lord of Dongyu, it was at that time that he came with the proton.
Concubine Meng is one of the four concubines of the first emperor, and the queen of the first emperor has only one in her life, and that is Empress Yuan Houzhen. After Empress Zhen's red face and early death, the first emperor did not establish a new one, and took charge of the power of the six palaces, but in the end, she was the favorite concubine of Emperor Cheng, Li Guifei.
Li Guifei is a person who is authoritarian and domineering, and has great ambitions, and has always wanted to meddle in national affairs, and when the first emperor was critically ill, she conspired with the imperial doctor to falsely announce the edict, and deceived all the adult princes into the Guangming Palace, and poisoned them all.
In the end, Li Guifei and her father and brother also launched the Chengdemen Mutiny, wanting to establish his three-year-old son as the emperor, if it weren't for the fact that at the last moment, Concubine Meng risked her life to rescue the widow of Empress Yuan Houzhen - Emperor Wen and King Li, who were only eleven years old at the time, and King Li, so that the three princes had a reason to fight back, then it is estimated that Li Guifei's poisonous plan would have been successful.
It's just that after everything was settled, people suddenly discovered that Concubine Meng's eldest son and youngest son had all died in the conspiracy in Guangming Palace.
And these are also so profound and clear in Liang Cheng's previous life, on the eve of his father and mother being beheaded.
Emperor Wen died, Emperor Huai ascended the throne, and compared with Emperor Wen's name of Mingjun, Emperor Huai's cruelty and mediocrity are even more ugly.
All those who had offended him were dismissed from office and sentenced to prison within a month, and none of them were spared.
Among them, although the worst cannot be regarded as the Liang family, after Liang Sixuan was convicted of capital crime and imprisoned, and the Shen family was also convicted of insulting Emperor Huai and Shen Yunchong's secret troublemakers, Liang Sixuan used the last strength of the Liang family to save their lives, and she knew everything.
And speaking of this, we can't help but talk about the King of England, Liang Cheng's appearance at this time is not very good, that is the King of England! He is one of the only three kings with different surnames in Xiyin today, although the power is not comparable to that of King Li, but the King of England is also the overlord of the defense line of the Xiyin Sea with 50,000 sea divisions in his hands, and he has blocked countless invasions of the sea invaders throughout the year for Xiyin, and he is the greatest contributor to the preservation of peace in the western territory.
Such a hero, no matter who it is, will not ignore it and cannot ignore it, Liang Cheng is naturally the same, but she looked at Zhong Qing in front of her, but she began to worry about her a little, after all, the daughter of the king, that is, the girl who is now being surrounded in the center of the field, almost became Qi Xuan's wife.
The British prince has a lot of heirs, but what he loves the most is his youngest daughter Tang Menglan, and Tang Menglan, as the daughter of the British king, is already the proud daughter of the sky, not to mention that she has been loved by the British king, and her personality has been raised a little rough since she was a child.
But anything that Tang Menglan likes and wants, whether it is a person or a thing, there is almost nothing that cannot be obtained.
And it is such a proud daughter of heaven who wants to be windy and rainy, and her personality is still a little rude, but in front of Emperor Wen and even Concubine Meng, she is quite loved, and her Chinese emperor will put it aside, after all, there are too many things to consider in the emperor's heart, in terms of the importance of the British king to the Xiyin Sea Realm, that Emperor Wen's love for Tang Menglan is only because of the British king.
But Concubine Meng is different.
In addition to Chu Gu and Liang Cheng, the juniors who can get into the eyes of Concubine Meng, now Liang Cheng only knows a Princess Changping and a Qi Jue, and the rest is only Tang Menglan, the youngest daughter of the British King.
After all, if Tang Menglan is really as the outside world says, she is just a proud girl with a noble status and a brutal personality, then how can she be favored by Concubine Meng and her old man? How can she make Concubine De and her old man have the idea of marrying Qi Ling and Tang Menglan?
Although in the end, Tang Menglan almost made Jian'an into trouble because of the words of the third princess Yang, and her relationship with Qi Ling failed to take shape in the end, but it only made Concubine Meng have such an idea, which can show that Tang Menglan is not what outsiders say at all.
"Back then, the third princess said, 'This woman is a little rude', so that Tang Menglan, who had already nodded and agreed to have a relationship with His Royal Highness Qi Xuan, made Jian'an a storm overnight, not only ran to His Majesty to cry, but also 'coincidentally' met Princess Li, who has always been good friends with Princess Ying, in Xiaoyu Temple, and was so aggrieved that she cried bitterly on the spot, and then went into the palace with her mother, Princess Ying, to ask for peace to Concubine Feng, and she also cried in the palace of Concubine Feng......... It's just a short day, and the entire Jian'an is rumored that the third princess doesn't like Tang Menglan, and even bullies her as a mother-in-law, and finally makes Feng Guifei find a reason to have a seizure, and even Concubine Hui has been snubbed by Emperor Wen for a long time, and the third princess has not even taken another step out of the palace gate for a long time. ”
Liang Cheng looked at Zhong Qing, who was silent, and continued: "After that, if it weren't for the sudden swarming of the Haikou from the west, which caused the war in the sea to break out, Princess Ying and Tang Menglan would not have hurried back to the King of England, and the matter back then might not have been so simple to settle down." ”
This matter was something that even Liang Cheng, who was at the gate of the Liang family at that time, had heard of it, let alone Zhong Qing.
Compared with Liang Cheng, she was even fortunate to witness Tang Menglan's unscrupulousness even in front of the third princess Yang, in front of the third princess who made her feel so stressed in Zhong Qing's opinion, Tang Menglan could actually be so unscrupulous.
Even today, I still remember the scene vividly.
Maybe Tang Menglan is the only person who can still make concessions like the Third Prince Princess Yang since Liang Cheng and Princess Changping, but no matter whether Liang Cheng or Princess Changping, they will not be able to tear their faces directly and completely like Tang Menglan and the Third Princess Yang.