CHAPTER XXI
Li Guiren asked someone to take this bayberry down, instructed the method of concoction, and called his cronies Lao Shangren to come over, and asked: Qianzi ran out to see her, did Concubine Chen speak. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info Lao Shangren heard that Qianzi was making a fuss, how dare he reply as it is, so he said: I haven't heard anything. Li Guiren sighed: "Don't hide it from me. Since Ah Zi passed on to that side, there should only be a mother over there in the name. She came to see me in disregard of the rules, how could anyone not be chilled. I've died once here, and I didn't see Ah Zi sent to see me, so it can be seen that I am already resentful, and I don't even care about the good face - that's it. Now I have asked someone to cook a new bayberry cake, and you can send it to Yu Azi. The mother made a small snack for her daughter as a small snack rewarded by the queen, and no one could say anything. But you remember to tell Ah Zi that she must not eat it, she has to go to Concubine Chen while it is hot, and say, 'The noble man sent a small snack in the cage, I think of my mother, I don't dare to eat it first, please try it!' Let Concubine Chen know that Ah Zi is already heavier than my biological mother in her heart, and she will hurt Ah Zi more in the future. As for this pastry, Concubine Chen can eat it, if it is thrown aside, it will be a matter between her and the queen, and it will have nothing to do with our mother and daughter. - Have you written down all these words? ”
The old monk nodded, and when she came to Concubine Chen's Palace, it happened that Qianzi was pulled by Wangleng to play again, she could only give everything to Qin'er, and told her all those words, and Qin'er nodded and said that she had written them down.
Wangleng and Qianzi are fighting for cards, Wangleng was the first hand, Qianzi drew a card, and smiled: "There is also a day when it falls into my hands!" Wangleng split the hand to snatch the card, look, it is a peony, the painting is inscribed "pity this Haoran quality", next to the note is: "It is said that 'the people of a city are crazy', who can be spared, will be in the hand of the red heart card are given the flower owner points." Wangleng counted down, a good handful of cards in his hand to give away most of them, so annoyed that he gritted his teeth and threw the cards away: "I don't play anymore." Qianzi said apologetically: "Just touch it a few more times, who knows if there will be no better one in the future?" Wangleng looked at her and said word for word: "If there is a better one, I don't want it." Saying that, he suddenly saw a little girl outside the door probing his brain, Wang Leng glanced at it, and knew that it was a rough call in Qianzi's room, his heart moved, and he didn't see Qianzi still burying his head in counting cards, and the little girl didn't dare to scream, Wang Leng put all the cards on the table to the ground, and smirked: "Ouch, my hand is slipping." You take care of me, I'll go outside and breathe. As she spoke, the little girl had already dodged aside, looked at the cold tiger and asked someone to hold it, and asked, "What is your name, and what are you doing here?" ”
The little girl replied on the ground: "The little one is called Yingsheng, from the Zijun Yuan's room, there is nothing wrong with coming here." Wang sneered: "What about being a fool? Ordered someone to cover her mouth, and personally plucked the hairpin from her hair and poked it a few times at the tender place on her body, the little girl Ying was in great pain, and Fang cried: "It was Sister Qin who asked me to come and see if Jun Yuan had returned: the nobleman sent her something." I don't know anything else. Wang Leng said suspiciously: "It's common for them to send something between them, why are they so sneaky?" Yingsheng couldn't say it vaguely. Wangleng asked someone to carry her to Yang'er's side. When he was about to arrive at the door, Yingsheng raised his voice and said, "Leng Junyuan has arrived!" Wang Leng raised his hand and beat her up, and scolded in his mouth: "What do you want to report?" "Splitting in.
Qin'er wiped her face, hurriedly greeted her, and said with a smile: "Why is Lord Junyuan here?" Wangleng was not polite, so he forced her to ask her about things. Qin'er knew that it was powerful, how could she dare to go back as it was, she only said that Li Guiren sent something to Qianzi Junyuan, she didn't dare to make a mistake, and she was afraid of disturbing the game of the two county ladies, so she only asked Yingsheng to go and see it quietly, and there was absolutely nothing to do. Although she pinched a few handfuls hard, Qin'er never changed her words. Wangleng thought about it, smiled, and asked Qin'er to be tortured in the ear room, and she sat in the room and waited for the letter.
Qin'er tortured Haosheng a lot, and then was taken back to the room. Wang Liang put on a kind smile, personally helped her up, and said, "I'm just afraid that you guys will do something and hurt Sister Zi." In this way, it is really too much to worry about, and you are really honest. This silver coin will give you a crush. But don't mention it to others, lest you let Sister Zi hear a lot of heart. If you don't have a firm mouth and a word scrapes into my ear, be careful. Do you understand? ”
When she said this, her face was still smiling, but Qin'er saw that her whole body trembled, and the chill came out of her bones, and she hurriedly replied: "The little one understands!" Wangleng nodded, went back and chatted with Qianzi for a few more words, and let her go back to the room. Qin'er handed over the food box for the pastries to Qianzi, and relayed Li Guiren's instructions, but the person next to him didn't dare to say it. Qianzi took the box and went to Concubine Chen.
Wangleng quietly sent someone over there to check the news, and reported that Qianzi didn't eat the pastry, but went to Concubine Chen's room.
Qianzi was cautious and said what her mother had taught her, Concubine Chen's face was kind, and she smiled: "It's hard to think about you." "I put away the pastry box, but I didn't say I wanted to eat it. Wangleng crashed in and shouted, "Hey, what's in this box?" Concubine Chen smiled: "The pastry sent by Li Guiren over there is a bayberry cake, do you want to taste a piece?" Wang sneered, opened the lid of the box and looked at it, and said, "What a delicate snack." He called the little dog in the room, grabbed a few pieces of snacks, crumpled them and threw them to him.
Qianzi jumped up and said, "What are you doing?" Wang sneered: "I'm so good to you, you can't think of me if you have a good one." What are you doing with this thing? Feed the dogs! Qianzi burst into tears: "This, even I am not willing to eat it, you will be ruined!" Wangleng sneered: "What kind of thing, what's the waste?" "I went and grabbed the rest of the cake. Qianzi pounced on her, stuffed the pastry into her mouth, and pushed her coldly. Concubine Chen said angrily: "What are you doing? Don't stop yet! The two children didn't listen to her either. The dog didn't like sweet cakes, so he sniffed and was about to walk away. Wangleng shouted: "Eat!" The dog was accustomed to her orders, so he had to swallow a piece of broken cake, wagged his tail, and could not walk a few steps, and suddenly fell asleep on the ground.
Concubine Chen was stunned, looked at Wangleng, looked at Qianzi, and slowly stood up and said, "Someone is coming." ”
What happened later, Qianzi has never been very clear. She was dazed, and all she knew was that she was being guarded in a room, and she had been woken up from sleep. A doctor came, examined her in detail, and fed her medicine. She vomited when she took the medicine, and she vomited all over the ground, her head was a little clearer, and the doctor still told her to take the medicine. After two or three days like this, two palace ladies came and led her to a golden palace that she had never been to. Inside, the county king, Concubine Chen, and Wangleng are all there.
The king of the county is asking, "...... What are you doing by throwing other people's pastries on the ground? Wangleng replied crisply: "I'm jealous!" They ignored me. As he spoke, he spread his hand wide and said, "I want so much, so much, so much love, no matter what form it is." If anyone doesn't give it, I'll be jealous! The county king laughed heartily. Concubine Chen shook her head and sighed: "This kid! ”
Qianzi looked at the three of them, it was really a family of three and Meimei, and she knocked over the five-flavor bottle in her heart, and stood at the door and didn't want to go in for a while. The king of the county beckoned her to come in, his face was calm, and he asked some questions about the beginning and end of the bayberry cake, and Qianzi replied truthfully, saying, "The noble man told me to think more about my mother, and if there is a good one, give it to my mother first." The king nodded and told her to stand down.
Soon after this, Li Guiren died, and it is said that typhoid fever turned into an evil disease, and he died of a serious illness. But there are rumors in the palace that she used her daughter to poison Concubine Chen, and she knew to the king of the county that she was given death, but she was only merit in raising the county yuan, so she covered up her serious illness and did not damage her grief after death. This is scary enough, but there is an even more powerful version of the rumor, saying that the poison was originally prepared by the queen to kill Li Guiren in the bayberry, but I didn't expect it to be sent to Concubine Chen by mistake, the effect of this medicine is very similar to the previous cases of bizarre infection and miscarriage of several pregnant concubines, and the county king's heart is already like a mirror, but because the queen's power is not good for a while, this is why Li Guiren first made a substitute for the ghost.
Qianzi faintly heard these words, as if they were a dream, and it didn't seem to be true in any case. But she secretly ran to her mother's palace, which was indeed empty. People were busy moving things, painting the walls with pepper mud, and saying that the nouveau riche was going to move in. Qianzi looked at the mess under the stairs and lost some looks, and there was an old silk flower, which was very familiar, as if it had been worn by her mother one day. She crouched beside it and reached out to touch it, and it felt soft, as if it had just been removed from a person's head and could be put back on at any time. But is the hairpin man really no longer there, never again?
The lump was blocked in his throat, and he didn't seem to feel sad for a while, but his eyes were dark, and he felt that there was boundless desolation and fear around him.
"Click, click, click", the plain fragrant pear clogs came over, and Wangleng hugged her in the back, holding her delicately and warmly. Qianzi's tears suddenly welled up, she howled and cried, sobbing so much that she could barely breathe, and it took a long, long time to ask a sentence intermittently: "Those things...... Isn't it, isn't it true? ”
"It's all." Wangleng said simply, "Don't think about it. I'm here to protect you, don't be afraid. ”
After more than a year, the queen suddenly gave up the queen's position and cut her hair to become a nun. Concubine Chen was promoted to the new queen and was named "Dechen". Wangleng is still the most favored county lady, and she has always kept Qianzi, sometimes deliberately angry with her, and sometimes deliberately flattered. Qianzi's life is very happy, a few years of children's career have passed in a blink of an eye, she has become a girl, she is still happy, sometimes she thinks back to the timid biological mother Li Guiren, and thinks of the dim room, it is like a previous life, and I can't remember it clearly.
In the past few days, the palace has become very lively again, and the oldest county lady has reached the age and should choose a son-in-law to leave the cabinet. The king of the county asked for the title of princess from the state emperor for her, with the title "Shouchun", and called the candidate of the horse into the palace to take the exam, so that Princess Shouchun could choose by herself. The famous young talents in Beijing are among the callers, among which there is only one Zhao Yan Gongzi who is nearly middle-aged, in fact, he has already married a wife, but this woman died soon after passing the door, the court considered that he is the eldest son of the Zhao family of the four major families of the imperial court, the status is noble, and the literary talent is extremely high, the whole country is well-known, so it was also called. The young people couldn't help but laugh when they looked at him, and he himself knew that he was embarrassed, so he didn't talk to anyone, but just stood quietly aside.
After giving banquets, swimming through the garden, and talking, some people had indecent dining postures, indecent sitting, and indecent conversations, all of which were seen by the Wang family and secretly eliminated, and then entered the official examination. The first was a martial arts test, and a fruit was hung in the royal garden with willow silk, and people were asked to shoot the fruit. A young man was the first to shoot the horse out, born with a white face, red lips, eyebrows and ink sword, eyes and autumn water, wearing a silver helmet, sitting across a white horse, people reported that it was the third son of the king of North Wen, Luo Tinggui. There are still some naughty shadows of his youth between his eyebrows, looking at the fruit and smiling first, Fang let the horse out, turned around to draw the bow, and shouted! And the arrow struck the fruit, and the crowd shouted with good cheers. One of the young men came out and said, "Look at me too!" "When the fruit stabilized, he also released an arrow, which also hit the fruit, and was together with Luo Tinggui's previous arrow. The crowd applauded louder, and the palace people were busy reporting his name, which was the young son of General Feilong, the commander of the Chinese army.
These two arrows were shot well, and one person's head was moved, and he patted his horse out, and without waiting for the fruit to stop, he drew his bow and shot an arrow, and shouted, "Look!" ", also shot. Everyone smacked their tongues, but when they looked at it, it was the widowed Zhao Yan.
Listening to the "haha" long laugh again, one said: "Let me have an arrow too!" And the horse passed like an arrow, and with one arrow, it broke the willow silk, and the fruit fell to the ground with three arrows. When everyone was busy watching, it was He Gui, the son of He Shangshu, who had heard his poetry for a long time, and he couldn't imagine that archery was so exquisite.
Behind the shooting range, all the women and Xiao Junyuan sat around to watch the excitement, and Qianzi was especially fascinated. Wangleng glanced at her attentively and did not speak. Queen Dechen said to Princess Shouchun: "There are many talented people in the court, and my son's husband and son-in-law can choose as much as they want." Princess Shouchun lowered her head and pursed her lips and smiled.
After this martial arts test, after all, it is difficult to distinguish the winner from the loser, and the next step is the literary test. Princess Shouchun sat in the curtain and said: "The concubine wanted to fill in the words of 'Tang Duoling' the day before yesterday, but she couldn't do it. Therefore, I dare to do it, please imitate the tone of the boudoir and fill it in with the rhyme of eleven you. The four seasons of 'spring, summer, autumn and winter' only need one song per season, and if whoever finishes it first, the descendants do not need to write the words of this season. When the four seasons are finished, the question is over. Do you think it's okay? ”
Who's to say no? At the moment, they all buried their heads and groaned. In order to hand in the paper in a hurry, unconsciously biting fingers, rubbing the corners of clothes, scratching scalps, picking ear holes, all kinds of ugly thoughts came out, and the royal family quietly saw it behind the curtain, and they couldn't help but laugh.
The third son, Luo Tinggui's talent, was very fast, and after thinking for a while, he had already gained more than half of it, and while secretly rejoicing in his heart, "I must be the leader this time", while rushing to make up for it. Unexpectedly, the arrow that broke the willow silk He Gui, who had been leaning in front of the window to watch the scenery, suddenly laughed at this moment, walked back to the case, picked up the pen without thinking, and waved it to call the palace people to collect the volume. Luo Tinggui was in a hurry, but fortunately he chose the topic of "spring", and the palace people reported it: "He Gongzi rose, receive the word 'autumn' of the four seasons, finish the volume!" "Half of the people in the room are writing about autumn, and they can only put down their pens in anger or think about another three seasons of the volume.
The "autumn" scroll was passed into the curtain, and the king of the county was the first to unfold it to see, only to see the dragon flying and the phoenix dancing on the paper:
"The big waves have flowed eastward, how can they resist death. Even if it comes back, it's not the old Jiangzhou. The west wind of the tung leaves blows all over the ground, forcing the cold geese and broken golden ou.
"When will the heart be harvested, and the yellow flowers will be cut into sorrow. On the silver paper, I want to write and rest. A roll of Hunan curtains and thousands of dreams, all wiped out, see the autumn clearly. ”
When I read a sentence, everyone sighed and said that it was rare in the world to write so quickly and well. And Luo Tinggui's "Spring" scroll has also stepped on its heel and sent in, the handwriting is surprisingly beautiful, and it reads:
"Luan Ma is lightly furrowed, back to the head of the whip bridge. Leaning on the swallow fence, full of wind flow. Sigh Huafang, who can send it, red falls, hates it.
"The powder is teasing the boat, and the spring wave is not willing to rest. Laughing Yuan, the place is unbearable. Happiness is nothing more than the willow on the embankment, relying on it, let Qing stay. ”
Everyone sighed: "That's why it's worthy of the word 'spring'." And ingenious, the Tao has not been able to be said before, and the end is chic. After discussing for a while, the word scroll of "Xia" was also prepared, and it was Jiang Sheng, who was the top young in the bachelor's house, and filled in:
"Summer soak in Zirongzhou, cool search jasper building. Thank God, good rain came late to harvest. The small fan is carried in the sleeve, and the low embroidered handkerchief is covered with delicateness.
"Qihu turned his starry eyes, and the Milky Way was worried. Gradually loosening, with a slack lotus hook, where does the incense silk at the bottom go? Divide and find the marquis. ”
Everyone praised: "The strange way praises him for being old." Looking at this strength, it is really not worse than the accumulated university scholars. ”
After these three volumes were reported, no one had moved in "Winter". Zhao Yan was originally sitting there like a fugue out of the world, but only then did he secretly sigh: "Is it the will of heaven that I have to hand in the papers?" So he picked up the pen and put the poem that had been filled in his chest on the paper, which was a "winter" word scroll, a word cloud:
"Green ants appreciate the new thickness, hazy memories of the old tour. When he was a teenager, he also liked to sail lightly. Lazy and now poetry is getting old, people are still Taoist and envious.
"The bottom is cold and lightly stolen, and the cumulus clouds and snow are not paid. When you go out, you are afraid to comb your hair. Knock on the mirror to warm the couch, make calculations, and count idle chips. ”
Everyone in the curtain read this volume, but before they could comment on it, the king of the county smiled and said to Princess Shouchun: "The four volumes have been filled in, which one do you fancy?" Princess Shouchun lowered her head and just smiled. Queen Dechen smiled: "This kid is shy. Princess Shouchun smiled and got up to confess, and left her seat to change her clothes. Her maid waited beside her, and quietly asked anxiously: "My county lady, which one do you fancy to?" Princess Shouchun glanced at her and said with a smile: "Which poem do you have the best words to fill in?" The girl thought for a while and said, "When it's Bachelor Jiang's 'summer', that kind of dignified is the right way in the poem, right?" Princess Shouchun shook her head with a smile: "Winter baking." The girl said curiously: "This is winter baking?" What about the other three? Princess Shouchun commented one by one: "The word 'spring' has the spirit of Qinglou, and the word 'autumn' has a delicate madness, and they can't be husbands, and the word 'winter' ...... Hello, annoyed by its cunning. The girl was shocked: "Why is Zhao Gongzi's 'winter' word cunning?" Tell me, 'twilight' is the real thing, right? Princess Shouchun shook her head and said, "How old can he be?" is in the prime of life, and can shoot the arrows of the two of them, how can it be twilight? It's just that because the cultivation is too good, I am afraid that too much of the front will cause trouble, so I pretend to be humble. So he is cunning. The girl smiled: "Isn't the princess taking a fancy to this cunning?" Princess Shouchun smiled and did not answer. And Qianzi also said that she changed her clothes, came out and intercepted the two of them, her heart was pounding, and she had to pretend to be casual on her face, and asked Princess Shouchun: "Sister." Which of these people do you like more? ”
Princess Shouchun thought about it and said with a smile: "There is naturally preference, but it's hard to say at the moment...... Which of these four lyrics do you like the most? Qianzi didn't expect the problem to be thrown back to herself, lowered her head and hesitated for a moment, but still said honestly: "I like spring." ”
Princess Shouchun was stunned, stared at Qianzi, and felt that this preference was very ominous, but in the end, the past was covered, and the sisters returned to the curtain together. The king of the county still asked her opinion, and Princess Shouchun covered her face and smiled: "There is one last moral test." After the father has tried, the child will talk about it. ”
At dusk that day, the Wang family came out with good news - Princess Shouchun had decided to marry Zhao Yan. There was a lot of joy and jubilation up and down, and He Gui ate a dull thunder alone. He only thinks that his talent is so high, he will be proud, who knows, this is not a story written for him, he is not the protagonist.
In this compartment, Qianzi quietly slipped back to the room, turned the cabinet drawers over and over, and sat on the ground dejectedly, her head against the corner of the cabinet.
"Are you looking for this?" Wang Leng walked in with a smile, holding a golden doll in the palm of his hand, the golden doll that was untied from the collar by the old twilight and the little boy many years ago.
"This is it!" Qianzi said in surprise, and then thought of panic, "Uh, that I-"
"Little Nizi thinks of spring." Wang Leng didn't care, but just laughed and said, "Then I'll go to my father and tell you, so that you can fulfill your wish." ”
Wangleng does what he says. After Princess Shouchun came out of the cabinet, the king of the county issued a royal decree to seal Princess Anyang with Qianzi, referring to Luo Ting, the third son of Northern Vanillus.
Qianzi was full of joy, as if she felt that there was nothing to ask of the heavens in this life, and the wind was very light and the clouds were very soft. Wangliang asked someone to carry a sedan chair with a black curtain, and said to her with a smile: "Do you know what your future husband will become?" I'll show you. ”
Qianzi sat in the sedan chair, and for a moment, she thought that she would see a corpse stripped of her skin, or a person who was worse than dead. But the sedan chair was only carried to a place overflowing with pink fragrance and laughter. Wang Leng had already changed her and Qianzi into men's clothes, and when she got off the sedan chair, she walked into a boudoir and said to a very charming young girl: "You agreed to what I asked someone to say before?" ”
The girl poured them a glass of wine and said with a smile: "Naturally, I agreed." It is said that after the third prince of the north pointed out to the king of the county that he was married, it was not for nothing that he was curious about him and wanted to meet him. But you are the only one who is willing to spend such a large amount of money just to sneak a glimpse at him. ”
Wangleng curled the corners of his lips: "Don't talk nonsense." Can you do it now, or can't? ”
"Yes, naturally." The girl smiled so much that her eyes turned into crescent moons: "The third prince almost saw the sky soaking in us, take someone to take a look, and it doesn't matter what you do." ”
She led them through the beautiful corridors and corridors, with heavy curtains in front of them, behind which there were sneers of several women, and a man's voice, which brought a sharp pain to Qianzi's heart. Wangleng glanced at her, and smiled and lowered the girl: "You introduce yourself first: What kind of place is this?" ”
The girl was stunned and replied: "This is the Qinglou, and the flower hall in front of it is the flower viewing hall." Chimura's teeth bit her lip.
Yes, she knew, she should have known. A boy who kisses others when he has no hair on his mouth will become what he will become when he grows up. She didn't expect it, it's just that she was too stupid.
Wangleng asked, "Do you want to lift the curtain and take a look?" Qianzi shook her head. Now that you understand it, isn't it the same whether you look at it or not?
However, Wangleng's hand had lifted the curtain.
Qianzi glanced at it and immediately understood that it was still different to look at it and not to see it. Her blood rushed to her skull, her face burned as if it were about to burn, her skull buzzed, and the scene burned her eyes like a soldering iron.
Suddenly there was a commotion outside, and the girls were chattering, as if to say that the king of North Vancouver knew that his son was engaged to the princess, and actually came to the brothel, so he was so angry that he came to arrest him himself.
"Bang la", a young man flew out, ran for his life, panicked, knocked Qianzi to the ground, paused slightly, leaned over and said to her: "I'm sorry." ”
His eyes fell on Qianzi's face, as if he remembered something, but he only had time to blink hurriedly, smile toothily, and run away.
Qianzi trembled and fell to the ground, tears rolling down.
In the flower viewing hall, a neutral voice roared, "Where's that rabbit cub?!" ”
Wangleng picked up Qianzi: "Go back." ”
On the way back, Wangleng said softly to Qianzi: "Don't get married." I told my father that you decided to accompany the Queen Mother to the nunnery to worship the Buddha, and he had no choice but not to agree. You can get rid of this family business. I'll be with you. We will stay in the palace forever. ”
"Nope." Chimurai said, "I'm going to marry him." ”
When he hit her, the physical contact, that kind of heartbeat, even if it hurts, wants to taste it again. It's a sad thing.
Wangleng was silent. Biting your lip.
When the sedan chair returned to the palace, Queen Dechen had been waiting for a long time, and expressed great anger at the absurd behavior of leaving the palace without permission, but she also knew that it was Wang Leng's idea, so she didn't dare to report to the king of the county, but just reprimanded the two.
Then Qianzi was locked in a dark room, I don't know what happened outside, and I don't know how long it took, Queen Dechen called her out, looked at her for a long time, and said, "If you want to be cold, I won't spare you." ”
Qianzi was terrified: how could she be cold? It's always been that Wangleng is stronger.
Back in the room, Wang Leng fiddled with a small white jade wooden fish in his hand and said, "It's quiet there." I'll accompany you, don't you really want to go? ”
Qianzi said, "Don't." ”
Wang sneered: "I see." (To be continued.) )