The one hundred and fifteenth round
Yi Fei took a deep breath, walked to the middle of the hall, and saluted to the five main candidates on the Dan Qi, without speaking, he smiled brightly, and then said: "The little girl believes that 'a woman is virtuous if she is not talented', so she has never read any books, and her knowledge of the story is very limited. ”
I thought about it for a long time, but I didn't want to wait to fall asleep, but I got an excellent story in a dream, and I dreamed that an immortal from Sealand came by the wind, and told me a very good story in their country. If it weren't for waking up, the little girl still remembered every word spoken by the fairy in the dream, and the little girl really couldn't believe that there would be such an unexpected good story in this world! ”
Concubine Yingchuan couldn't help but be curious: "You said that the story you want to tell was told to you by a foreign immortal in a dream, this is interesting, do you have a name?" Tell us about it! ”
Yi Fei smiled: "Back to the concubine Niangniang, this story is called "Miss Xin's Story".
When everyone heard the name of Yifei's story, there was nothing new about it, and it was not as elegant as the name of the story told by many ladies before, so they felt that she was playing tricks, and they became more and more curious about what kind of wonderful method the story she got in this dream would be.
Yi Fei took the looks of the first five main candidates into her eyes one by one, and said unhurriedly: "The immortal that the little girl dreamed about last night said that in the far west of the sea, there is a kingdom called Sealand, and the people in this country are all blonde, blue-eyed, high-nosed and deep-eyed. In its capital, there is a noble lord surnamed Xin, who has no children under his knees, and only three young ladies who are like flowers and jade, the eldest lady Xin Ruyu is born by his wife, and is the most beautiful, and the other two young ladies are like the moon and flowers are from his concubine. ”
Seeing that the eldest lady was about to reach her death, her mother suddenly fell ill and died, and her father straightened his concubine's room as a step-room. Because the lord is here, this steplady treats Xin Ruyu well, but I don't think that in less than half a year, the lord will also be sick and leave. ”
On the first day after the lord went, her stepmother kicked her out of the young lady's bedroom, let her live in the maid's house, and removed all her maids, and let her do all the maid's work every day, sprinkling and cooking, washing and beating her back, let her do everything, and only give her white water and eat dry steamed buns."
Her two younger sisters had long been jealous of their beauty, so they carried all her beautiful ornaments and dresses into their own house, and took them to their own house, and threw her only a coarse cloth garment, and not even a change of clothes. In less than a month, Xin Ruyu has changed from the original glorious Miss Xin to an unkempt and grizzled fire girl. The subordinates in the family no longer dared to call her Miss, but called her Miss Xin. ”
When the ladies heard this, they thought that she was bullied like this by her stepmother, and they couldn't help but feel sympathy for this Xin Ruyu.
The five main candidates sitting on the Danqi had different expressions when they heard this, and the Empress Dowager Sun and Mrs. Zuo Xiang both had a tense face, and they couldn't see their joy or anger.
Mrs. Weiguo and Mrs. Dingxi looked at each other quietly, and they were a little strange in their hearts, this Zhao Yifei was strongly recommended by Sun Kexin, the wife of the left minister, to get the qualification to run for the princess, and this Mrs. Zuo Xiang is the stepmother who was raised by the concubine, and the two sons born to the former wife do not seem to be very good.
What kind of story does this little girl from Uncle Anyuan's family tell is not good, but she wants to tell a story about her stepmother's mistreatment of the daughter of her original match, isn't this a deliberate embarrassment to Mrs. Zuo Xiang, could it be that there is something else that can't be done?
Only Concubine Yingchuan, with a fascinated look on her face, saw that Yifei paused, and hurriedly urged her: "And then, this Xin Ruyu has been suffering like this?" ”
Yi Fei saw that Concubine Yingchuan liked her story so much, so she didn't care about the expressions of the rest of the main candidates, and hurriedly continued: "This good person has his own good reward, this Xin Ruyu has suffered such unfair treatment, naturally he will not continue to suffer like this." ”
"Let's say that there is only one prince in this King of Sealand, and he was born with a handsome appearance and a dignified appearance. His Royal Highness was also about to marry, but he looked down on none of the ladies chosen by the king and queen for him, saying that they were all vulgar fans, and he was determined to find a stunning woman to be his princess. ”
"The king loved his only son very much, so he ordered a ball to be held in the main hall of the palace, and all the women of the noble houses in the capital were invited, so that the prince could choose a beautiful woman to wife."
When Miss Naxin saw that her two sisters were busy packing up and dressing up, and when she heard the news, she went and begged her stepmother to take her with her, even if her two sisters' maids went with her. But her stepmother was afraid that her beauty would overshadow her two daughters, so she would let her go out, and when she took her two daughters to the palace for a banquet, she threw her more than a dozen pots of clothes, so that she had to wash them that day. If her stepmother returned unwashed, she was not allowed to eat for three days. ”
When Miss Xin saw that the clothes could not be washed until the next day, she remembered all the sufferings she had endured since her parents left, so she could not help but go to the back of the courtyard and cry at her mother's grave. It turns out that the custom of this Sealand people is that once a relative dies, he will be buried near his home, instead of picking a piece of feng shui treasure and burying it outside the city. ”
"Miss Xin was crying sadly, when suddenly a mulberry sapling suddenly grew on the small piece of the ground that was wet with her tears, and then she heard a voice say: 'My son, my mother can no longer protect you, you can break a mulberry branch from this mulberry sapling, but if you want anything, just tell it, and it will meet all your requirements.' ”
"When the girl heard that it was her mother's voice, she kowtowed a few more times before her mother's grave, thanked her mother, broke off a branch from the mulberry sapling, and said, 'O mulberry god, I also want to go to the palace to take part in the prince's concubine ceremony, but my stepmother has not yet washed the clothes that my stepmother ordered me to wash, and I have no beautiful clothes and jewelry to dress up and go to the palace for election.' ”
As soon as she finished speaking, she saw that the mulberry sapling suddenly grew more than two feet high, and there were purple-red fruits on it, and the two largest fruits cracked in the wind, and two pairs of little people jumped out of them, and the four girls also grew when they saw the wind, and at once they grew to more than three feet high, and their hair was combed with two beards. He respectfully saluted Miss Xin and said, "Sister, don't worry, let's dress up my sister and go to the palace." ’”
The four girls grinned and plucked one red fruit after another, and opened this one to a long dress made of gold silk, the other to a jacket woven of silver silk, and another to a set of ruby head jewelry, and even the smallest fruit contained a pair of green and jade earrings. The four villains put on new clothes for Miss Xin, combed her hair in a very gorgeous bun, and made her as dazzling and radiant as a princess. ”
"By the time I was almost dressed, all I needed was a pair of shoes. A little man plucked the last fruit from the mulberry tree and took out a pair of shoes from it, which were made of crystal, and they were crystal clear and beautiful. Miss Xin tried the pair of crystal shoes, and it was just right. ”
"The four girls pointed to the mulberry tree and said a few words, and turned the mulberry tree into a carriage, and one of the girls said: 'These carriages are nothing but illusions, and they will be invalid when they reach the child, and my sister must remember to return before the time of the child.' Two girls drove Miss Xin to the palace, and the other two girls stayed at home to wash her clothes. ”
When he arrived at the gate of the palace, the guard saw that Miss Xin did not have an invitation, and was about to drive her away, but Miss Xin walked down from the carriage, and the guard was immediately dumbfounded, he had never seen such an elegant and beautiful woman, it was like a fairy descending to earth, and he was so stupid to watch this fairy walk into the gate of the palace. All the guards were shocked by Miss Xin's beauty, and no one stopped her, so she made her all the way to the main hall unimpeded. ”
Although the hall was already full of ladies from all over the capital at this time, the prince still saw Miss Xin at a glance in the crowd, and then he never took his eyes off him, he could no longer see the other ladies in the hall, and just walked quickly to Miss Xin's side. It was their custom in Sealand that a man would ask a woman to dance if he wanted her, and that night the prince did not dance with the woman beside him again, but he took Miss Sin's hand and danced tirelessly. ”
Seeing that the ball was about to end, the prince remembered that he hadn't asked the fairy girl what her name was, and which girl it was, and was about to ask, but Miss Xin suddenly found that she was almost there, and hurriedly broke free from the prince's hand and ran out of the hall, and when the prince chased out, he could not see her figure, only to see a crystal slipper on her feet left on the ground."
"The prince had to pick up the shoe back, and issued a notice in the whole country, ordering all the women in the capital to try on the crystal slipper, and whoever could wear the shoe would be his princess, but unfortunately no one could wear it."
In order to become princesses, the two younger sisters of Miss Naxin, Ruyue and Ruhua, cut off their heels and the other cut off their toes, and they forced their feet into the crystal shoes, but how clever the prince was, he could see at a glance that they had made a ghost and arrested them all in prison. At this time, Miss Xin came out in her gray cloth clothes, and gently and skillfully put on the crystal slipper, and the prince was immediately overjoyed, and immediately married Miss Xin as his princess, and after knowing that Miss Xin had been abused by her stepmother before, he sent her stepmother and two younger sisters to the hard labor field to do hard labor all their lives. ”
When Yifei talked about this, not only Concubine Yingchuan was fascinated by it, but the two old ladies had already been hooked by the ups and downs of this novel story and wanted to listen to it again. ”
Yi Fei saw that everyone was really attracted by her story, everyone looked at her and waited for the following, and she was really proud in her heart, so she smiled and said: "In the future, it is natural that the prince and princess will live a happy and happy life from now on!" ”
When Mrs. Dingxi Houtai heard that such a bad person deserved it, and that good people had good rewards, and everyone was happy, she immediately breathed a sigh of relief and praised: "This story is really beautiful and fresh, I have never heard such a novel and interesting story!" ”
Duchess Wei Guo also chimed in: "I've never heard of it, and such an unbelievable story can only be told in the dreams of immortals." ”
Empress Dowager Sun listened to these two old ladies here, you say a word, I say a word, and she only cares about praising Zhao Yifei for telling this story well, and she couldn't help coughing and said: "This kind of story that hinders filial piety is naturally not seen in a ceremonial state like my Great Qin!" There are all parents in the world, although they are stepmothers, but they are also mothers and elders, how can Miss Naxin not only not know filial piety to her mother after becoming a princess, but instead send her mother and sister to do hard labor, such unkind and unfilial women are really hateful! ”