On the eighth day of the lunar month, it is the 40th birthday of the second lady of the Liguo Mansion, Bai's 40th birthday, on this day, Chrysanthemum made an exception and did not lazy bed, got up early, and went to the front to accompany her parents to breakfast.

Seeing that her daughter got up so early, Cui Shi smiled unconsciously and said, "Is the sun coming out of the west today?" You're so diligent? ”

Chrysanthemum coughed and said, "I asked Sister Ning to buy rouge today, so I got up early, so I don't have to wait for Sister Ning." ”

Cui Shi did not doubt him, and instructed: "Go out and wear more later, don't forget to bring the hand stove, all say that Laqi Laba, frozen jaws, although the capital is warmer than our north, after all, the solar term has arrived, and it is careless." ”

As he spoke, he instructed Xiao Kui to pick out the thickest sweater for the young lady, and then add the charcoal in the hand stove and the charcoal basin in the carriage first, so as to save a while and get cold in the car......

Chrysanthemum hurriedly stopped her and said, "Mother, Sister Ning will pick me up in a while, I'll just take her car, and the charcoal pot won't have to." ”

Cui Shi listened, and chattered: "You have to pay more attention when you go outside, people are the prime minister's daughter, how can you befriend the daughter of this little official for no reason, eighty percent is looking at our relationship with the queen mother, and wants to borrow your strength to tie up the queen mother, you have to be careful, don't be taken advantage of......." ”

chattered about the work of a meal, until the chrysanthemum was full and was about to go back to grooming, so he stopped talking!

After Chrysanthemum returned to her room, she dressed up, and quietly hid the congratulatory gift she had prepared for the Bai family in her arms, and saw that the time was almost up, so she took Xiaokui out of the door alone and went out of the door.

Outside the door, Ning Huaixiu was already waiting there, seeing the chrysanthemum, Ning Huaixiu's heart was full of joy, if she wanted to achieve her goal today, the chrysanthemum was an indispensable chess piece, and she understood Queen Mu's temperament, so as long as the chrysanthemum was in her hands, she was not afraid that Queen Mu would not die obediently!

After Chrysanthemum got into the car, she took out a brocade box from her arms, handed it to Ning Huaixiu, and said, "Sister Ning, you can help me see if the congratulatory gift I prepared for Mrs. Bai is a little shabby, if it is shabby, let's not go to the Liguo Mansion first, you accompany me to the Treasure Pavilion to choose another one." ”

Ning Huaixiu opened the brocade box and saw that there was a coral bracelet inside, red and gorgeous, very good-looking, Rao was born in the rich and noble township since she was a child, and when she saw this thing, she also felt that it was a rare good thing!

"You don't need to buy it anymore, this one is excellent, it is the rich of the Liguo Mansion, and you can't slack off when you see this thing!"

Ning Huaixiu said on her lips, but said in her heart, even if you take an unbearable pickled thing, I will never let you delay the time to buy other things, because she has calculated the time, and she is not allowed to make a mistake, otherwise her efforts will be wasted, and it will be difficult to find the perfect opportunity to kill Queen Mo......

"Then I'm relieved!"

Chrysanthemum patted her chest, and a hanging heart was put down.

The carriage grunted, and soon arrived at the Liguo Mansion, although the Liguo Mansion had opened the middle door to welcome the guests, Ning Huaixiu's carriage went directly to the front of the mansion, and the chrysanthemum looked up through the glass window, and saw the gate of the Liguo Mansion quite wide, the red lanterns were provoked on both sides of the mansion, and the red silk was also hung on the gold plaque, which looked festive. A group of two rows of porters were wearing new green cloth cotton clothes, dark pants, and navy blue sweat scarves around their waists and stood respectfully on both sides.

But because Ning Huaixiu is a female dependent, it is inconvenient to enter and exit at the gate, so there is a small servant who leads the coachman of Ningfu and introduces Ning Huaixiu's carriage into the side door of the special reception of female dependents.

Fei'er is dressed very grandly today, she is wearing a peach-colored peony pinched silver brocade wide-sleeved cotton jacket, the neckline and placket are inlaid with the fur of the fire fox, and the lower head is a plain white moonflower skirt with peach red edges, and the waist is tied with a garnet red embroidered purple and blue entangled peony waist seal, and the waist is decorated with a jasper ring to wear a pressure skirt, and the flowing cloud bun on the head is inserted with a ruby silk butterfly gold step shake, and the step shake hangs down the red gold silk tassel on the side of the neck, and there are two thumb-sized drop-shaped rubies.

There were no earrings, but the two strands of tassel rubies fell right between the neck sockets, swaying with the wind, teasing her white and graceful neck, which was really charming. It seems that there is both the innocence and agility of a young girl, and the charm and charm of a young woman, even people like Ning Huaixiu who have read countless people are stunned!

This vixen is simply out of the same touch as her sister, and when she cleans up Queen Mo, then she has to be cleaned up too, otherwise, if the emperor wants to use this little vixen to miss the old people in the future, won't she have to be vomited to death?

Having made up her mind, she swept away the anger in her heart, and stepped forward with a smile: "Hello Mrs. General, we came to pay homage to the second lady, I wonder if it's a little early to come?" ”

The eldest young lady of the big room, Yang, was stoned to death in the earthquake five months ago, and several young ladies in the family were in the midst of filial piety for their mother, so it was inconvenient to come out to attend the banquet, and Mo Zili in the second room had no wife's room, so the young ladies and young daughters-in-law who came were all received by Fei'er alone.

I heard that the old lady of the Liguo Mansion attaches great importance to this second daughter-in-law, because the second master has been weak since he was a child, and he has not been out of office in his life, and the second lady Bai, as the daughter of Wuqing Bofu, married such a man in this life, and she didn't even get a fate, and she has been doing it for a lifetime.

Every year, when the old lady takes the eldest daughter-in-law and the eldest grandson's daughter-in-law into the palace to congratulate her, she will feel that her son has dragged down the daughter-in-law, therefore, Bai's fortieth birthday, the old lady deliberately made the pomp bigger, and the ladies of the noble family in the capital almost gave the post, just to make a good lively and lively and compensate the second daughter-in-law.

"Hello Miss Ning, Shen ...... Hello Miss! ”

When Fei'er saw the chrysanthemum, she was stunned for a moment, she didn't seem to expect her to come, no, Fei'er is a very well-cultivated person, since people have come, she immediately adjusted her feelings, warmly greeted each other, and let them in.

"Thank you two for your support, this time is just right, please come in, the ladies of Wuqingbo's Mansion and the ladies of General Zhongyi's Mansion have already arrived, and they are resting in the Zizhu Courtyard, you two come with me, I'll take you to meet them!"

Wuqingbo's mansion is the maiden home of the second lady Bai, and now the family has come to celebrate the birthday of the second lady, the Zhongyi General's Mansion is the maiden home of the old lady Liu, and the current Zhongyi general is the nephew of the old lady Liu Tang, Liu Tang has many wives and concubines, and has three concubines and seven daughters, of which two have been married, and the remaining one and three are still to be in the boudoir, and they are all brought to participate in the birthday banquet of the second lady.

Zizhu Courtyard is very soon to arrive, there are many maids and women in the yard, but it is quiet and regular, Zizhu Courtyard is built to be rich and beautiful, and it is very suitable for her daughter's house to stay.

The pretty maid standing under the porch wearing a green armor saw Fei'er and her party coming, hurriedly opened the curtains, and said with a smile: "The young lady has worked hard, and I have brought two more young ladies, please come in." ”

Fei'er took Ning Huaixiu and Chrysanthemum into the house, as soon as she entered the door, there was another wave of warmth, the room was not only warm like spring, but also fragrant, a dozen or so young ladies who were fat and thin were sitting or standing, talking and laughing lively. Seeing Fei'er enter the house, they all stopped laughing and looked at the two people behind her.

Ning Huaixiu is a celebrity in the capital, everyone knows it, only Chrysanthemum has not shown her face much, only the first time she entered the palace that year to see Cai Wei was in front of everyone once, but at that time everyone was congratulating, no one dared to look up, so few people noticed her appearance.

It is precisely because of this that the ladies in the house do not know her.

Fei'er made the following introduction to everyone, she did not say the specific identity of the chrysanthemum, but said that the daughter of Lord Shen's family also came to celebrate her birthday, the girls did not know the origin of Shen Chrysanthemum, and saw that she was wearing a smoke cloud yarn worth hundreds of taels and a horse, this kind of yarn was recently launched in the capital, and the cut clothes were draped over the cotton clothes, not only not bloated and light, but could wear the winter clothes out of a light and elegant feeling, only the chrysanthemum was on this body, it had to be five or six hundred taels of price, everyone saw that she was dressed well, and she was with Ning Huaixiu, I thought she was a noble girl of which family, and they all met her gently and humbly.

After Fei'er brought them in, she laughed a few words, and hurried to the front to get busy.

Several daughters from the Zhongyi General's Mansion and Wuqingbo's Mansion came over and spoke affectionately around Shen Juhua, a young lady about ten years old, stepped forward to take Chrysanthemum's hand, raised her face and asked Chrysanthemum: "Sister Shen, you are the young lady of the Fengzhou Inspector Shen's family who was recently transferred to the capital, why haven't I seen you before?" ”

Fengzhou is a third-grade officer, and Chrysanthemum's father is not one or two official ranks, Chrysanthemum hurriedly shook her head, and said to the little girl with a smile: "No, my father was transferred to the capital from the north, and he used to be a county magistrate in Qingxian County, Bianzhou!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the smile on the little girl's face disappeared, and her voice became cold.

"You are that Shen Juhua!"

Chrysanthemum was stunned: "Uh, yes, what's wrong?" ”

When the little girl heard this, she angrily shook off her hand and said sharply: "I almost lost my life for my cousin for you, and my uncle almost died of illness in the north, you are good, seeing that my cousin is disabled, he is in a hurry to get married, he is really a ruthless, unrighteous and cold-hearted and cold-hearted person, even so, what are you doing in the Liguo Mansion?" Don't you think my cousin is sad enough? ”

The little girl who spoke was Bai's niece, and when she heard the adults muttering a few words about Mo Zili and Shen Juhua on weekdays, she remembered it in her heart, and regarded Shen Juhua as the kind of ungrateful and mercenary woman.

Chrysanthemum's face turned red, coughed, and said, "Little sister, you are mistaken, I have nothing to do with your cousin, but you are too careful!" ”

"Phew, who is your sister, my father is a third-grade member of the court, how can there be such a wolf-hearted daughter as you, you keep saying that I am nothing to do with my cousin, nothing My cousin will jump off the cliff and sacrifice his life to save you? He is not the kind of character who sacrifices himself to save others in the face of righteousness, if it were you, would you jump off the cliff to save someone you just know? ”

"That's right, Miss Shen should stop talking about it, the more she describes it, the darker it gets."

Miss Yan of the Zhongyi General's Mansion also opened her mouth, she is already sixteen years old, after Mo Zili and Wu Xiangyun reconciled, General Zhongyi intended to marry her to Mo Zili, she had also seen Mo Zili, and was very moved by his majestic and handsome appearance, however, Luohua was ruthless and ruthless, and Mo Zili decisively and resolutely refused.

Miss Yan was sad, but she did not reduce her love for Mo Zili, but liked him more and more with the passage of the world, and because of this, her treachery to Chrysanthemum made her Zili brother hateful, and she did not hesitate to condemn Shen Chrysanthemum in front of everyone.

The two concubines of the Zhongyi General's Mansion have always been the echoes of this Miss Yan, and when they saw Miss Chang speak, they also condemned the chrysanthemums, but the words they said were very small, and the identity of their concubines was exposed at once.

"Miss Shen's husband must be either rich or expensive, look at the smoke and cloud yarn you wear, it will cost five or six hundred taels of silver to cut a gown, it's really terrifying. Originally, my mother also said that we would buy one for each of our sisters, but the earth dragon turned over and made trouble, and each mansion lost a lot, and was ordered to give porridge, and the house is now very tight, so my mother put this matter aside, but I can only feast my eyes on the smoke and clouds. ”

"Since Miss Shen is married, she shouldn't come to our side, let's go to the Luoying Courtyard where the ladies stay, that's where your wives should stay!"

The chrysanthemum was robbed, she stood up and said angrily: "Sister Ning, it seems that I shouldn't have come here, since everyone doesn't welcome me, I'll go!" ”

Ning Huaixiu hurriedly grabbed her and said softly: "You are here to congratulate the second lady on her birthday, and you are not here to quarrel with others, why do you want to leave because of this misunderstanding for everyone?" What would the second lady think if she heard that you had come and gone? These sisters also don't know the real situation, so they will believe those rumors that are spread falsely, and they are unhappy for their sons, if they knew the truth, they wouldn't say that about you. ”

"The truth? Miss Ning, is there any truth? Isn't Miss Shen ungrateful and turns her face and denies people? A young lady wearing a garnet red passionflower dark striped placket asked curiously, not hiding her thoughts about chrysanthemums at all.

Ning Huaixiu didn't know the truth, but she was just using this to block everyone's mouths, in case Chrysanthemum was really annoyed and left the Liguo Mansion, she would lose her best chess piece.

Therefore, after hearing the young lady's words, a gentle face suddenly became stern, and she said coldly: "Is the matter of men and women also something that our daughter's family should discuss?" You are also young ladies from big families, don't you even understand these rules? ”

As soon as the words were finished, the young ladies who were still indignant just now immediately shut up, sat there and didn't speak, but the young lady in the Zhongyi General's Mansion was not a vegetarian, and whispered: "A daughter's family, in order to climb the dragon and attach the phoenix, doesn't even want her identity, and rushes into the palace to be a palace maid and a man, and in the end she hasn't been kicked out, and she still has the face to say the rules, it's really funny!" ”

Although the young lady's sarcastic voice was not loud, everyone heard it, Ning Huaixiu's face suddenly turned red, since the last time Prime Minister Ning Cheng led the ministers to force Nangong Yi to punish the queen, he has obviously lost his sacred heart, and his status in the court has plummeted, and no one in the court takes him seriously, so Ning Huaixiu is naturally low, and he no longer has the outstanding status among the daughters in the past.

Their lips were pursed tightly, and the fists under their sleeves were clenched so hard that their knuckles turned white. In this life, voluntarily entering the palace is her biggest failure, and it is also a stain on her body that is difficult to wash, unless she can marry Nangong Yi in a dignified manner, otherwise, she will be ridiculed and ridiculed for a lifetime. Therefore, she must marry that person, she must sit on the throne of the queen, and she must trample under the feet of these people who dare to ridicule her and mock her, so that they will never be able to turn over......

Seeing that Ning Huaixiu was ridiculed for defending her, Chrysanthemum immediately rolled up her sleeves, pointed at the young lady who spoke, and said loudly: "What do you say, there is a kind of you repeating it again, believe it or not, I will beat you to death?" ”

"Oh, someone's going to do it!"

The delicate ladies have never seen the rude posture of the chrysanthemum, and they screamed in fright, and some were stunned by the fright. The maids and ladies who were waiting for them rushed up, all blocking in front of their masters, and said, "Miss Shen, what are you doing?" Come to celebrate your birthday with dignity, why do you want to hit someone? ”

"Yes, Miss Shen, are you obviously here to smash the field!"

was at a stalemate, Fei'er led a few young ladies in, she heard the movement in the house when she was in the yard, and when she entered the house, she happened to see this tense posture, so she smiled and said, "What's the matter?" It's rare for the girls to get together, why don't they talk and laugh for fun, but what are they doing here like clay figurines and wax figures? But do you complain that the refreshments in our Liguo Mansion are not exquisite enough? ”

She didn't say anything, so as not to embarrass everyone, she only asked Liuzhu and Liuli behind her to go to the back kitchen to get some fancy snacks for the girls to eat, and gently resolved this contradiction.

Ning Huaixiu whispered: "Sister Shen, it's boring here, sister will take you out for a walk!" ”

Shen Juhua couldn't wait to leave these nasty daughters, and when she heard Ning Huaixiu's voice, she was in her arms and said, "Let's go!" ”

The two said hello to Fei'er, left Zizhu Courtyard, and went to the garden behind to play.

Although it is winter at the moment, there is a long and winding artificial lake in the garden behind, the lake is planted with all kinds of plum blossoms, and now the plum blossoms have bloomed, reflecting a pool of lake water, but it is different and beautiful, like a fairyland.

In the middle of the lake stands a small island, and on the island is an octagonal viewing pavilion, which is hidden in the rocks and trees, looming, and the red-roofed green fence can be seen in the distance.

"Let's go and sit in the pavilion for a while, so as not to listen to the noise of those people!"

Ning Huaixiu took Chrysanthemum's hand and walked along the small bridge to the pavilion in the lake.

Climb up the island, walk to the pavilion, and find that this pavilion actually has a hole, because it is winter, the weather is cold, the pavilion is actually equipped with glass around it, and it has become a warm pavilion, although it is not big, but it is also very clean and comfortable, burning charcoal fire, incense is also smoked inside, through the glass wall, you can see the scene outside.

This pavilion is located at the highest point of the Rikook Mansion, and sitting in the pavilion offers an unobstructed view of the surrounding scenery.

Chrysanthemum sat in the pavilion and said dejectedly: "I knew that this was the case, it was better if I didn't come, so as not to be ridiculed by you, Sister Ning." ”

Ning Huaixiu said: "You girl, if you tell your sister this, you will see the outside, if you don't come, you can't let Mrs. Bai see your sincerity, we won't see such a beautiful scenery!" ”

As he spoke, he pulled the chrysanthemum and got up and watched the scenery around the pavilion.

The scenery of the Liguo Mansion is naturally excellent, and the chrysanthemum can't help but exclaim when she sees it: "It's so beautiful, it's even more beautiful than the palace!" ”

Ning Huaixiu said: "What is this, you don't know, there is a rockery in the back garden of this house, which is made of Taihu Lake stones, and the rockery is built in imitation of Tianlun Mountain between Dajin and Liaodan, but it is just shrinking hundreds of times. After eating later, my sister will take you to see, you were born in the north and grew up in the north, you should be familiar with Tianlun Mountain! ”

When Ning Huaixiu said this, she immediately reminded Chrysanthemum of her homeland, she nodded and said, "Okay, I'll definitely go and see it later!" ”

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At that time, the queen's Luan arrived, and the ladies of the Liguo Mansion and the ladies who came to congratulate the birthday were greeted outside the door, and Chrysanthemum and Ning Huaixiu were also notified to arrive, and followed everyone outside to greet Caiwei.

Cai Wei is wearing a five-color wide-sleeved phoenix robe woven with gold silk and peacock feathers today, without a heavy phoenix crown on her head, only with a phoenix hairpin studded with diamonds, shining in the sun, dazzling, and taking away all the brilliance of women at once.

After bowing, Cai Wei let everyone calm down, and was supported by the old lady Liu and the eldest lady Wu, and went to the backyard.

Ning Huaixiu followed behind, silently looking at the much-anticipated queen mother, and sneered in her heart, "You can be proud, this is the last time you put the queen mother on the shelf, two hours later, you will completely disappear from this world, and you will return to the same as in your previous life, and you will develop according to the trajectory of your previous life..." ”

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Dear friends, I will take my mother to Beijing to see a doctor tomorrow, and the update will probably not be on time, but I will try to be on time, and it will be updated every day!

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