13. The thirteenth round
The palace of the king of Beijing, clothed in red and green, the middle door is wide open, and the door is like a city. Jia Min came to the Beijing Palace, the palace is majestic and magnificent, the layout is regular, the pavilions are staggered, and it is even more than the Rongguo Mansion, which fully interprets the image of glory and wealth. And these are not too shocking for Jia Min, Bi Yi did not come to visit the boudoir in her previous life, not to mention that she also went to the palace, compared to where she was, it was a big deal.
But the one qiē in the palace of the king of Beijing is like a dream scene for Jia San, countless times in the dead of night, in the dream she lives in a magnificent mansion, and there are men who look like Pan An treat her like a treasure and spoil her. At this moment, she decided in her heart that the Beijing Mansion was her best destination, although she already had a concubine, it was not possible to be a concubine with her family background. She looked at it and was about to enter the main courtyard, so she slowly collected the excitement in her heart, like a beautiful and elegant hibiscus out of the water.
In the main courtyard, because the female relatives of the Beijing Palace, except for the concubine, are the princesses and the Qingxian county lord Shui Yi, who has not yet left the cabinet, when she heard that the wife of Rong Guogong brought her daughter to celebrate her birthday, the concubine asked Zhao Mama next to her to greet her. The bead curtain moved slightly, and I saw a noble lady walking in with two young girls, the big one was soft and delicate, and the small jade snow was lovely, and people were even more happy.
Jia Min was just about to salute with his mother, when he heard the concubine stop: "Duchess Rongguo, no courtesy." Before she finished speaking, Mama Zhao helped them up, but Jia Min still saluted the concubines and princesses in a proper manner.
The concubine saw that she liked it very much, so she summoned Jia Min to her side, and said to Jia's mother with a smile: "The Duchess of the Kingdom is a well-educated child, a child who knows etiquette, look at this little appearance, it is really loveable." ”
Mother Jia was very happy to hear the concubine praise her daughter, but she still replied modestly: "Concubine, I don't deserve you to praise her so much, she, she is the most able to talk to people, don't look at her now in front of you well-behaved and polite, she does a lot of naughty things in private." ”
After hearing this, the concubine took Jia Min's hand and said: "Don't be too strict, isn't she just a playmaker at this age, you don't like to be on a shelf at a young age, she has no real temperament at all, and she is very boring." ”
Mrs. Shangshu Qi of the household department also said: "What the concubine said is right, women are not the most wanton in the boudoir, waiting for the biggest, allowing people, leaving the pavilion, not only to manage family affairs but also to be filial to the in-laws, and to have children and raise children, there is no moment of leisure." ”
The people sitting here were all the ladies of the house, who also came from the time of being a girl, and they all felt the same way as Mrs. Qi's words, and they all said yes.
When everyone else was looking at Jia Min, a lady wearing a carved silk clay gold and silver Ruyi cloud pattern satin gown suddenly said: "Look at the small one, but we have left out another girl, and the Duchess of Guo will not introduce us to it." As soon as these words came out of the house and looked at her, they remembered that she was the cousin of the current saint and the daughter of Prince Xianyi, the lord of Mengxian. After all, everyone here knows that Rongguo Gong Jia Daishan has two sons and four daughters, among which the son and the young daughter are concubines, and when Jia's mother enters the house, they all understand that the eldest is the third girl of Rongguo Mansion, so they will not greet her.
But now the county lord of Mengxian has clearly brought it up, not only making Jia Min unhappy, but also Concubine Beijing is not very happy in her heart, doesn't this clearly point out that she is not considerate. Jia Mu didn't think as much as others thought, whether it was Rongguo Mansion or herself, she had no disagreement with Prince Xianyi's Mansion and the county lord. Suddenly, I thought that the county lord of Mengxian had a concubine who had reached the age of marriage, but she fell in love with the third girl, so she smiled and replied: "Look at me patronizing and talking to the concubine, I forgot about this girl, I am really confused, I really want to thank the county lord Mengxian for reminding me, or am I rude?" ”
As he spoke, he pulled the third girl Jia in front of everyone, and said lightly: "She is the third girl in our house, please ask the ladies for more advice in the future." After speaking, he only saw that Jia San girl was standing there with her head down, and she didn't make any moves. He quietly tugged at her clothes and motioned for her to salute the ladies.
Jia San was really angry because everyone looked at Jia Min at the beginning and completely ignored her. But someone suddenly mentioned her every day, and was pulled in front of everyone by his wife, and she had never had such an experience, so she didn't know how to react for a while. And she was even more cramped and uneasy under the gaze of everyone. She was thinking deeply when she suddenly felt someone pulling her clothes, and when she turned her head, she found that her wife was looking at her with a bad face, and she was even more frightened.
Mother Jia saw that she was ignoring her gestures, and looked around at the expressions of the ladies in the room, her face was a little unbearable, so she said Shanshan: "Why are you still standing stupidly this child, or don't salute the ladies, heh, heh, this child wants everything, but he is a little shy." The latter words were addressed to the others in the room.
The people in the room said they didn't care, which was understandable, and the third girl was also saluting, but she was annoyed in her heart, she wanted to show her good, but she didn't want to almost make a fool of herself. Why is it that she is obviously a girl from the Jia family, and she is so much different from Jia Min?
And the county lord of Mengxian is also very satisfied with Jia San's little family expression, in fact, her intentions are the same as what Jia's mother guessed, for the concubine and the concubine, she is the same as the wife of the world, she is very estranged, during this time for the concubine marriage she has seen the girls of all the people, but there are such and such shortcomings. But today, the third girl of the Jia family and the concubine are really a match made in heaven. And her family's character makes it impossible for the county horse master to find fault.
At this time, the concubine said again: "Okay, the ceremony is over, the two of them must be very bored to chat with us here, let's let them go find Shui Yi." After speaking, he gave the prepared table gifts to the two sisters, and Fang called someone to take them to the back garden to find the county lord Qingxian.
When the ladies saw the gifts given by the concubine and the princess, they also gave the gifts. It's just that the difference between the rites is tacit. Jia Min handed over all the gifts to the girls, and followed the palace girls to the back garden. As soon as she left the courtyard of the main house, she heard the rumors outside that Jing'anhou's wife was coming, and her footsteps paused and looked back.
And her actions aroused the suspicion of the girl who led the way, so she asked, "Miss Jia, is there anything else?" ”
Jia Min hurriedly said: "It's okay, I was thinking about things just now, and I was distracted for a while, let's continue walking." After saying that, he smiled at the girl. Although the man knew that it was perfunctory, he didn't say anything and just continued to lead the way, but Jia San kept staring at Jia Min, trying to see the difference, but Jia Min bowed his head to her eyes and avoided it.
I don't know much about Jia Min, the lord of Qingxian County, although I have been in contact with it in my previous life, I am only a general friend. In front of her, she was wearing a light blue long skirt, with a pendant bun, inserting a pearl step and shaking, saying goodbye to a hairpin with butterflies, and no other decorations, simple and elegant, hands like soft wattles, skin like clotted fat, teeth like rhinoceros, moth eyebrows, clever smile, like a fairy descending to earth. The hair on her chest was like silk, fluttering in the wind, adding a touch of enchantment to her.
Shui Yi saw Jia Min and the others coming over, and stepped forward to greet them, and said with a smile: "Two Jia sisters are here, come and sit, why haven't you seen them before?" As he spoke, he led them to the water pavilion on the lotus pond.
Jia Min replied: "County Lord, I have a single surname of Min, you can call me Min'er, everyone in my family calls me like this, this is my third sister Jia." When my mother saw that I was young, she rarely took me out. ”
Shui Yi listened to her sincere words and said happily: "Okay, then don't call me the county lord, it sounds very raw." Jia Min smiled and nodded.
When they came to the water pavilion, there were already five girls sitting there, either dignified or beautiful or delicate or elegant, each with a thousand colors. And Jia Min also found that the eldest daughter of the Sun family, who later became the fifth imperial concubine, and the young daughter of the Zhang family, the head of the Hanlin Academy, who later became her eldest sister-in-law, were also among them.
Seeing that the county lord came to bring the two girls, the people in the water pavilion all cast their eyes, perhaps they had not experienced the world, and the curiosity in their eyes could not be concealed. Before Shui Yi could make an introduction, a woman wearing a peony pattern brocade robe with a tender yellow background stood up and asked arrogantly, "Cousin, who is this new girl?" "It turned out that she was the granddaughter of the concubine's maiden niece, the granddaughter of the Zhenguo Bull family, and the grandchildren of the Niu family were six sons and two daughters, and the eldest daughter-in-law gave birth to the second son for ten years before she became pregnant with this daughter.
Shui Yi looked at it, a trace of boredom flashed in her beautiful eyes, and it was not easy for people to notice it, but she still said with an amiable face: "Sister Yan, these two sisters are the third and fourth girls in the Rongguo Mansion. She introduced it decently.
Niu Yan heard that it was the daughter of the Jia family, so she checked the arrogance on her face a little, walked up to Jia Min with a smile and took her hand and said: "It turned out to be Sister Jia, I often heard my mother praise you, and I have long wanted to see the truth, but unfortunately I heard that you are tired and weak and need to recuperate well and cannot leave the house, and you are always not allowed to see you." After speaking, he looked at Jia San and said suspiciously: "I don't know which girl from Jia Mansion this is, I don't know how to call it." ”
Miss Jia San just wanted to step forward to answer her question, but she was very embarrassed when she heard her name, and she didn't know how to answer. Jia Min listened to Niu Yan's words and insinuated that she was weak, and she didn't like it. Seeing that my sister looked embarrassed, I helped her reply: "Sister Yan, my sister is ranked as three at home, and everyone in the family is called the third girl, fourteen years old, she should be slightly older than you, you can call Sister Jia." ”
When Niu Yan heard this, her apricot eyes swept away, and Fang sneered: "It turned out to be Miss Jia San, but I don't know why you didn't answer yourself, but let your sister answer for you?" Oh, I remember, the third girl is not a servant, of course she has to respect her daughter-in-law, but Sister Jia, this Sister Jia and your sister can't afford it. Cousin, in this water pavilion, there are all official daughters, this Jia San girl doesn't seem to be suitable here, don't you say? As soon as these words came out, the girls in the room did not know how to answer, and if they did, such mean words were not their usual behavior. If it is not, it is also wrong, after all, the descendants are different, and the order of the young and the young is what she has learned since she was a child. They had to pretend that they didn't hear it, and they did their own things.
Jia Min just wanted to go up and reason with him, but was stopped by Mama Qian, and only then did he come back to his senses, and said: "Sister Yan, you are really a straightforward person, but it is better to say less about this, although my sister does not care about today's words, if he spreads it out in the future, it will be an obstacle to your reputation, and you will have to compensate for the loss at that time." There is a cloud in "The Female Commandment": "Choose words and speak, don't say evil words, sometimes speak again, don't get tired of people, is it a woman's words, I don't know if Sister Yan knows?" ”
When Niu Yan saw the people seated, she had no rebuttal, and she was very proud. didn't expect Jia Min to use the words of the female commandment to say that she had no female words, but she didn't say anything about it, only glared at her. The girls who were also sitting praised Jia Min for her intelligence and agility, and she made the arrogant Niu Yan silent with a gentle word.