This time, he had a rare thought with Huo Yuan, she was so beautiful, even if she didn't dance, it was enough to amaze the audience, enough to make the sons and brothers who participated in the banquet haunted and fascinated by her, if she danced a beautiful and gorgeous flying dance, wouldn't she be robbed on the spot?

If others don't say it, it's that Saknu, who will be the first to have a bad mind, when he thinks of that scene, and then thinks of the eyes of those sons, Nangong Yi can't be calm anymore, and he can't wait to stir up the damn Shangsi Festival banquet immediately!

Moreover, he knew very well that the queen mother specially sent Bai Shanggong to the Anguo Mansion to give her an invitation, and there must be a conspiracy in it. These days, because he refused to accept the marriage with Li Ruizhu, the relationship between the mother and son has been tense to the extreme, although the queen mother is angry, but she can't help him, she is bound to sprinkle the anger on her head, he knows the temper of the queen mother, and when the time comes, the thunderous anger of the queen mother will make it difficult for her to bear!

Because of her ruthlessness, he could resist not looking at her and ignoring her, but he couldn't see her being calculated and ignore her!

……

At the fourth watch, Cai Wei was woken up by her mother from the bed, she rubbed her sleepy eyes, and when she opened her eyes and saw that it was still dark outside, the whole person was suddenly not good!

Last night, I was forced to dance in the middle of the night by my mother, and after my mother left, I accompanied Gui Daxian to give my grandmother acupuncture to the third watch, she just fell asleep, and now it is just after the fourth watch, and she was called up by her mother to practice dancing in a hurry, and she suddenly had a feeling of being oppressed by the evil capitalists.

"Mother, can you let me sleep a little longer?"

"No way!"

Du's answer was categorical and non-negotiable.

"Wei'er, you don't have dancing skills, and you only have three days, if you want to show your face to the queen's mother and make everyone look at you, you must work hard to practice, and wait for the queen's Shangsi Festival, no matter how you sleep with your mother, you won't stop you......"

Cai Wei still wanted to argue, but she was dragged up by her mother from the bed, and she couldn't help but help her put on a dress, pull her hair, and take her out to wash.

After washing her face, Cai Wei's sleepiness faded a little, and she began to continue practicing dance with her mother.

Although not very reluctant, but I have to say, Cai Wei is indeed very talented in dancing, a fantasy and charming flying dance, ordinary people need two or three days to remember the basic movements of the dance, and Cai Wei only took a morning to remember, although the movements are not very accurate, but Du Shi is already very satisfied, the next two and a half days, she intends to use it to refine every movement, so that her daughter can become one with dance!

I practiced until noon, when the big girl thrush next to the old lady Wang came, passed the old lady's words, and invited their family to go to the lotus root Champs for dinner.

Mei couldn't go because he was blind and couldn't move, and Cai Fei didn't want to go because he didn't worry about his grandmother, Mu Zhongqing went to the restaurant early in the morning, Wen'er and Wu'er went to the school, and they could only come back at night, so the last people to go to the appointment were only Du and Caiwei's mother and daughter.

When the two came to the Lotus Champs, they found that the ladies of the Du family were there, surrounded by pearls and emeralds, and they were playing around the old lady Wang.

Being so exaggerated compliments and being sought after made Cai Wei secretly amused, if these people knew why the queen would invite her, let alone making love to them, I am afraid it will be too late to hide from her!

During the meal, Cai Wei was still the same as last time, and the girls in the house were at the same table, Du Wanqiu took Cai Wei's hand and said happily: "Look, my sister still has to go into the palace with my sister after all, but it is thanks to my sister to fight for her own strength, and she can follow her sister in in a bright way, otherwise, if she goes as a maid, even if she sees the wealth of the heavenly family, it is disgraceful, isn't it?" ”

Cai Wei smiled, and was about to speak, when she heard Du Wanru, the eldest daughter of the second room beside her, sneer: "The eldest sister is glorious, she goes to the palace every year to gain knowledge, but it's a pity that she has been there so many times, and she is still alone, and she has wasted a place in our Anguo Mansion in vain." ”

Du Wanqiu was choked by Du Wanru, she was stunned, thought about it for a while, and sneered: "I just went to the queen's banquet to have a banquet, and I have no other thoughts, like some people, in order to be able to climb the dragon and the phoenix, even the maid is willing to play, and I don't like to lose the price!" ”

Speaking of this, Cai Wei realized that Sister Du Wanru wanted to enter the palace with them, and she pretended to be their maid and went in with them.

It seems that in order to be able to cling to the powerful, the Anguo Mansion has really achieved the point of complete shamelessness.

However, Du Wanqiu was reluctant to take the two sisters in, so she used the matter of Cai Wei to mock them. Du Wanqiu was reluctant to bring the twin sisters into the palace, not only for fear of being robbed of the limelight by them, but also because Du Wanqiu's mother Guo and Du Wanru's mother Wang have always been incompatible.

Although the Wang family and the Guo family are concubines, they almost tore their faces because they were in charge of the middle feed, and they had long been at odds with each other.

The eldest lady Guo has always regarded herself as the eldest daughter-in-law of the long house, and she thinks that she should be in charge of the middle feed of the Anguo Mansion, but the old lady Wang is not at ease to put all the furniture of Nuoda in her hands, and after weighing it again, she let her niece and the second lady Wang and the big house Guo take charge together.

However, in fact, the main power is in the hands of the Wang family of the second room, the big house is almost hollowed, and there is a name of the head of the family, although the eldest lady Guo has a grudge, but on the surface she does not dare to express it, she can only muttered a few words to her children behind her back to vent her anger.

Du Wanqiu often heard her mother's grievances, so she naturally held grievances for her mother, and she didn't want to see Du Wanru as a sister. The sisters also can't get used to Du Wanqiu, and they can't get used to her dominating the name of the granddaughter of the Changfang of the Principality of An, and she can do anything good. Therefore, every time these sisters get together, they must chirp a few words.

Du Wanru's sisters were ridiculed by Du Wanqiu, how could they give up, Du Wanyue sneered a few times, and said: "My sister and I were ordered by the old lady to see the banquet in the palace, so we can follow the blessings, otherwise the eldest sister will never be able to get married, and our sisters are afraid that we will not have the opportunity to see it." ”

She was taking the opportunity to ridicule Du Wanqiu for not being able to find a satisfactory in-law, and she also took this opportunity to explain that their sisters had no other purpose in entering the palace, but in fact, last night, the Erfang family had already agreed and decided to let the two daughters enter the palace with Cai Wei Wanqiu as maids.

The Anguo Mansion is just an empty title, an empty lord with no real power, and there are three generations of hereditary succession, and when it comes to Du Ruhai's generation, it is already the last generation, seeing that their family has reached the situation of the country, how can they not be in a hurry, but whenever there is an opportunity to turn over, they will never miss it.

And Du Wanru's sisters, because of their beautiful appearance, are also high-hearted, and the people who are not high or low, whether they are high or low, are not high or low in the official media who walk around the house on weekdays, they all want to be like the eldest aunt, have the opportunity to be favored by nobles, and then ascend to the sky in one step.

The eldest aunt was in the banquet of the Shangsi Festival because of the song "Phoenix Seeking Phoenix" by the eldest aunt, and now the eldest aunt has become the wife of the general who protects the country, the wife of the imperial court, and won the love of the uncle.

Invisibly, the aunt has become a role model for them, and marrying a man who can bring them glory, status, and wealth has also become their unremitting goal in life.

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When Du Wanqiu heard Du Wanru's words "can't get married", it was as if she had been poked in her lungs, her face turned red, and she pinched the chopsticks with a jade hand, almost pinching the ebony chopsticks with ivory and silver, gritting her teeth for a long time, and suddenly laughed in a low voice.

"Since the two sisters want to enter the palace so much, my sister will naturally fulfill you, and I will definitely take you into the palace tomorrow, but since you are going to replace my maid into the palace, I have to let my sister serve me, and when the time comes, if there is anything that offends the sisters, I hope the two sisters will have a lot of Haihan!"

This sentence is not salty or light, full of threat, tomorrow Du Wanru sisters will follow Cai Wei and Du Wanqiu into the palace as maids, if Du Wanqiu wants to rectify them in the palace, just one sentence, they can die without a place to be buried.

Although Du Wanru and Du Wanyue were unwilling to be suppressed by Du Wanqiu, they had a handle in Du Wanqiu's hands, so they had to gather their edge and eat silently.

If the dispute continues, Du Wanqiu will be annoyed, tomorrow will really clean them up first and give them small shoes to wear, their sisters don't even know how they died!

Seeing that Du Wanru's sisters obediently shut up, Du Wanqiu snorted coldly and began to eat slowly, Cai Wei had no intention of watching them tear up, but it was rare that the room was quiet, rolled her eyes, and continued to eat.

During the banquet, Du Wanqiu treated Cai Wei very affectionately, talked to her, and prepared vegetables for her, like Cai Wei's own sister, so that Cai Wei couldn't help but roll her eyes.

The people at the table over there are also talking and laughing, and they are happy, if they are seen by people who don't know the details, they will think that this is really a happy and harmonious home!

While eating, Steward Cao suddenly came to report, saying that Huo Gongzi was here and asked to see the old lady and the fourth aunt.

When Mrs. Wang heard this, she hurriedly instructed Steward Cao to call Principality An to come back to accompany the guests, but Steward Cao said: "Gongzi Huo specified that he wanted to see the old lady and the fourth aunt, but he didn't say that he wanted to see Grandpa Guo. ”

When the old lady Wang heard this, she glanced at Cai Wei meaningfully, and said to Du Shi: "Since you are looking for us, let's go out and have a look!" ”

After that, he instructed Steward Cao to invite Huo Yuan in.

Cai Wei and they are now having dinner in the inner hall of the Lotus Champs, the inner hall of the Lotus Champs and the outer hall for hospitality are only separated by a large screen of sandalwood seats, colorless tulle bottom embroidered bird pictures, sitting in the inner hall, through the tulle, you can clearly see the outside, and the people outside can also see the inside with a blanching shadow.

After Huo Yuan came in, he immediately attracted the attention of all the ladies in the inner hall, especially Du Wanqiu, when she saw Huo Yuan's handsome and elegant appearance, elegant style, and extravagant clothes, which were even more handsome and extraordinary than she imagined Huo Gongzi, her whole heart suddenly jumped up with a 'bang bang' that she couldn't control, and her face was red as if she was drunk.

The other ladies also blushed slightly, peeking at the handsome boy outside, and had no intention of eating.

It's Cai Wei, because she has been practicing dance all morning, and she is already so hungry that her chest is close to her back, so she is the only one who is still eating without distractions.

After Huo Yuan came in, when he saw the old lady Wang and Du, he politely stepped forward and saluted, and after the guest of honor sat down, he ordered a small servant who followed him to send a big brocade box.

Wang smiled, pointed to the brocade box and said, "What is this?" ”

Huo Yuan said humbly: "This is the jewelry ordered by the master of the house yesterday to Huo's 'ingenuity building', saying that it was worn by Miss Biao when she was preparing to enter the palace, and several of them were not in the Ingenuity Building, so they could only be mobilized in other shops, and they were only found now, Huo personally sent it over, and wanted to ask Miss Biao to see if she was satisfied, if there was anything wrong, Huo was going to change?" ”

After saying that, he raised his hand and ordered the little guy to open the brocade box.

The brocade box was opened, and I saw that the brocade box was full of jewels and brilliance, and it was filled with some rare and valuable jewelry.

When the old lady saw this, her eyes immediately widened, revealing an incredible look.

Such valuable jewelry, Rao is the Anguo Mansion in its heyday, there is no one!

At this moment, Wang's heart was full of sour water, and he was very uncomfortable, the slut of the Mei family was able to give birth to a granddaughter with such ability, and the heart of Huo Gongzi, the richest man in the Great Jin Kingdom, was so willing to serve her before and after the saddle, if her granddaughters could do the same, how happy she should be!

However, although his heart was pantothenic, Wang still smiled very decently and said, "Huo Gongzi is too polite, such a good thing is rare even if it is old, how can that girl not like it?" ”

Huo Yuan said warmly: "The old lady is too modest, whether Miss Biao can fall in love with her, let's ask her to see it." ”

Wang said, "So, thrush, present the box to the back hall and show it to your cousin, so that she can see what she is not satisfied with?" ”

She raised her hand, and the thrush went down with the box in her hand.

In the screen, when all the ladies saw the box in the thrush's hand, they were all stunned, and their eyes were immediately insufficient, staring at the glittering jewelry in the box, envious and jealous.

The thrush held the box to Cai Wei's side, bent down, and said softly: "Huo Gongzi, please take a look at Miss Biao, is there anything wrong with these heads?" ”

Cai Wei raised her eyes and took a look, and saw that the jewelry was delicate and delicate, and the decorations on them were extremely precious and rare gemstones, with bright colors and exquisite workmanship, and each piece was a priceless and ingenious treasure.

So, she nodded and said, "Very good, I'm satisfied." ”

Outside, after Huo Yuan heard her say the word 'satisfied', he put his mind at ease, sat for a while, and then politely got up and said goodbye.

At this moment, he was in a good mood.

In the morning, he met the eldest sister Huo Xianfei as he wished, and honestly revealed his heart to her, Concubine Xian has always loved this brother very much, and she also trusts him very much, so she promised to help him get an invitation again, and if she can also pick the rose, she will take advantage of it at the Shangsi Festival, and try her best to fulfill her brother's wish.

With his sister's promise, Huo Yuan began to look forward to the Shangsi Festival, if she could marry through the mouth of the queen or the mouth of the virtuous concubine, she would marry into the Huo family, and she would also be looked down upon!

When Du Wanqiu saw Huo Yuan's thoughtfulness towards Cai Wei, she was so jealous that she felt like she had been stung by a scorpion, and she said with a smile: "My sister is so blessed, she has obtained so many good things, if she wears these jewelry into the palace, she will definitely overwhelm the crowd." ”

Cai Wei didn't like to listen to these hypocritical polite words, so she only said lightly: "Sister is polite." So he buried his head and went on eating.

After eating, Du Shi was in a hurry to take Cai Wei back to practice dance, so he quit the old lady Wang, took the jewelry box, and took Cai Wei back to Changchun Garden.

When passing through the back garden of the house, the back garden was quiet, people probably went to take a nap, Cai Wei and Niang were walking, and saw the Yueniang girl who was going to be sent to marriage in the Fangfei Pavilion from a distance.

In terms of seniority, Yueniang is still Du's sister, Cai Wei's aunt, at this moment, she is standing by the lotus pond, tears streaming down her face, looking desperate, and her body is trembling slightly, as if she will fall down at any time.

Cai Wei saw it, and sympathized with her, this poor woman, just like her mother's yesterday, is facing the fate of being sacrificed by the family, and will be associated with an old man who is about to die, and the years of jasper will flow away in the time of accompanying the old man's cough and backache, which is a cruel thing for a young girl!

Du Shi also saw Yueniang, quietly slowed down, and whispered to his daughter: "Wei'er, do you think she is a little abnormal?" ”

As soon as she finished speaking, she only heard a "poof", Du Yueniang fell into the lotus pond, however, she did not struggle, but sank down the pond.

"Not good! She's looking for a short time! ”

Cai Wei exclaimed, stuffed the jewelry box in her hand into her mother's hand, ran to the lotus pond in three steps and two steps, and jumped in with a "poof".

The pool water in April was still very cold, as soon as Cai Wei entered the pool, her body was so cold that she almost spasmed, she endured the discomfort on her body, and quickly swam to Yueniang's side.

At this moment, Yueniang had lost consciousness, closed her eyes, like duckweed, drifting with the waves in the water, Cai Wei grabbed her and swam to the shore with all her might.

On the shore, Du Shi shouted loudly, and soon attracted a few people nearby, who pulled Cai Wei and Yueniang up, carried people, and sent the two of them back to their yards.

Cai Wei returned to Changchun Garden, immediately took off her clothes and lay down in the quilt, Du Shi instructed Xiaohong to boil the bath water, Xiaoqing to boil the cold soup, and she held hot tea and served her daughter to drink it herself.

"Wei'er, what's wrong with you?"

Du Shi is worried about it, in two days, his daughter will go to the Shangsi Festival, if he gets a cold at this time, how can it be good?

Cai Wei smiled: "It's not in the way, don't worry about me, my body is strong, drink a few sips of cold soup and get some sleep." ”

Du Shi complained: "You don't let your mother worry too much, why did you jump into the pool yourself?" I don't want to think about my body and rush up to save people, if you get a cold, see what you do? ”

As he was talking, Mei Shi helped Fei'er's hand and came over, touched Cai Wei on the kang, and was so distressed that she shed tears.

"You kid, why don't you know how to be careful? My daughter's body is expensive, and I am most afraid of the cold, in case I give cold water to cool down, and it will not be good to sit down......"

Cai Wei remembered the old turtle's words, she couldn't let her cry, it was not good for her eyes, seeing that she was crying, Cai Wei hurriedly folded her spirits, and told her a lot of things that she didn't have, so she diverted her attention and coaxed her to stop crying.

After coaxing the grandmother, the bath water was boiled, and Cai Wei was not used to having someone around when she took a bath, so she let them all go out, and she stayed in the house by herself, and sat comfortably in the barrel.

As soon as she entered the bathtub, the warm water made most of the cold on her body disappear suddenly, and she was much more comfortable, she lazily soaked in the wooden bucket, took a comfortable nap, and fell asleep in a daze.

In his sleep, he suddenly heard a woman's cry, mixed with a few words of repentance, coming from the east room.

After Cai Wei woke up from crying, she immediately pricked up her ears and listened.

"Sister Mei, I treated you like that back then, but I didn't expect that it was your granddaughter who saved my Yueniang today, I am really ashamed, if I don't personally ask my sister for sin, I can't live anymore."

"Aunt Liao, good and decent, what are you doing? Where does this begin? ”

My grandmother's voice came too.

I only heard that Liao cried: "Sister Mei, I took my favor because I hated you back then, so after you were down, I have been secretly instructing people to abuse and beat you, now I think about it, I was really oily at that time, and I actually did such a thing as a pig and a dog, and my sister's granddaughter saved my daughter regardless ......of the previous suspicions."

“……”

After hearing this, Cai Wei was taken aback, all along, she had always thought that the person who instructed and beat her grandmother should be the Duchess of Anguo, Wang, or her children, she was preparing to investigate the matter, once confirmed, she was going to destroy the Anguo Mansion to avenge her grandmother, but she didn't expect that a Liao suddenly jumped out and took the initiative to admit that she had abused Mei, which made Cai Wei feel surprised and shocked.

Over there, Fei'er screamed sharply: "For the sake of jealousy, can you hurt someone so cruelly?" If you look at my grandmother's face and look at the scars on her body, aren't you afraid of retribution? ”

Liao cried: "I have regretted it, I came to my sister's door today to ask for sin, and now people kneel in front of my sister, my sister wants to punish and punish, and I want to beat and kill, my sister listens to her and respects it, I just beg my sister not to be angry, otherwise even if my sisters go to the eighteenth layer of hell, it will be difficult to feel at ease." ”

Cai Wei got dressed and walked to the east room where her grandmother lived, and saw Aunt Liao from Fangfei Pavilion kneeling under her grandmother's kang, crying so much that she was sobbing and choking.

"When my sister didn't enter the house, my sister was favored by the grandfather of the country, but as soon as my sister entered the house, my sister was taken away from her favor, not to mention that Yongji, who was born to my sister, was also broken in her leg."

"At that time, my sister was confused for a while, thinking that my sister was my evil star, taking away my favor, and rushing my son, so I targeted you everywhere, and after you were blind, I tortured you in every way, my sister is really..." Wolves and dogs, pigs and dogs are not as good as ah......"

Mei sat on the edge of the kang and listened quietly to Liao's confession, with no expression on her face covered with hideous scars, as if she had nothing to do with her.

It was Cai Fei and Du Shi who were angry and excited, and accused her fiercely.

"To an old man who is blind, you are so cruel and ruthless, are you not afraid of retribution?"

"People are doing it, the heavens are watching, and your evil deeds will be punished by God!"

“……”

Liao knelt there, let Du Shi and Cai Fei condemn him, just hung his head and cried, and apologized silently.

"Enough!"

Mei suddenly spoke up and said, "It's all in the past, I don't want to mention it again, you go back and repent yourself, don't appear in front of me......"

"Thank you sister, a lot, my sister remembered ......"

Liao kowtowed to Mei reverently and wiped his tears down.

"Grandmother, she hurt you like this, is it possible to do this?"

Cai Fei actually went out and stomped his feet in anger.

"No, my grandmother has suffered so much, I can't just take her for nothing, I want to go to the old lady to complain, expose her evil deeds, and let the old lady expel this poisonous woman from the house and let her live on the streets."

Mei said lightly: "Forget it, it's all about some old sesame seeds and rotten grain, grandmother doesn't care about it for a long time, as long as there are you, it is to let grandmother suffer some more, and grandmother can stand it." ”

Du Shi said: "Fei'er, don't make any more trouble, don't you know that the old lady is here?" The things in the mansion are no matter how big or small, and what is there that the old lady doesn't know? It's just that she doesn't bother to pay attention to it, or she just lets them do it! ”

Cai Fei hated and said, "Is it just that? Grandmother suffered so many sins, so cheap that poison? ”

Mei said: "Speaking of which, I took her favor first, no wonder she resents me. That's it, this matter is over, don't mention it again in the future, as long as our family can live in one place in peace, better than anything else, I have nothing else to ask for. ”