Chapter 19: The Long Years—Disaster Returns
Since Ling'er woke up, everything in the Lingxi Courtyard has returned to its previous tranquility and peace. The only drawback is that Ling'er is still unable to move, and can only lie on her stomach as much as possible every day. She is also an active lord by nature, and if she doesn't, she will say "oops" a few times to sympathize. Qingxi and the girls were funny and distressed when they saw it, so everyone took turns to tell her jokes to relieve her boredom.
Qingxi told Ling'er how the Liu clan was beaten and now grounded. At first glance, Ling'er felt that it was pitiful that she was still tortured so much at such an age like her mother. But when I thought about it, I thought about what happened to me, if it wasn't for my own fate, I am afraid that I would have met the Lord of Yama at this time, and I still sympathized with her, the old woman with a heart like a femme fatale, really deserved to die. After Qingxi finished speaking, he said: "Miss get better quickly, King Heng is still waiting for you to be able to move around, so I can go to the Prime Minister's Mansion as soon as possible, and the wedding date is approaching." ”
When Ling'er heard Qingxi's words, her heart warmed up again, and she hadn't even talked about love in her previous life. There were a few small ** in middle school, but they were all under the strict supervision of my father, and the little hands didn't dare to hold the hand, and it ended hastily. I finally went to college, got out of my father's clutches, and gained the right to love freely, but I studied medicine, and spent most of my five years of college life in the laboratory, not to mention falling in love, but once I met a super invincible handsome guy at dinner in the cafeteria, and I was also thinking about how many ribs he had. Seeing that people were furious, they didn't wait to speak, but when they had a nervous problem, they ran away. Thinking of this, Ling'er couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"What are you laughing at, and tell this king to listen?" King Heng walked in at some point, and when he saw Ling'er looking stupid, he asked with a smile.
When Ling'er heard this warm baritone, she felt quite comfortable, and said lazily: "It's so boring to stay like this every day, so tired!" ”
King Heng sat in front of the couch by himself, looking at Ling'er's appearance on the bed, and laughed in his heart, "I'm still tired of lying like this, so will I let this king hold me every day from now on?" This king hugged you that time, but it was not light. ”
Ling'er pretended to be displeased, and rolled her eyes, "Why don't you take me to the yard to bask in the sun." ”
King Heng said: "It's cloudy, where is the sun." This king has just asked for Yuxu ointment from the queen mother, this is a tribute from Nanzhao, it is excellent for wounds, you use it first. ”
Ling'er is also afraid of the scars all over her body in the future, which girl does not love beauty, hearing King Heng say this, knowing that he is bothering about himself, he is quite moved. After a pause, he said: "Our wedding date is near, and I have no one to prepare for me, how do you think it is good?" ”
In Ling'er, this is an extremely common thing. In the 21st century, no matter how big or small the matter is, which young couple is not discussed by the two of them.
But after all, this is the Great Zhou Dynasty, and King Heng can come to visit every day because of his serious injury, which is already out of line. Today, when I saw her talking about her marriage, she was in a cowardly state like an ordinary woman, and I was surprised in my heart, and I liked her innocence. Shen Mo said for a moment: "What kind of wedding does Ling'er want?" ”
Ling'er couldn't help but sigh in her heart: "Alas, can I say that I want to have an outdoor lawn wedding, this is also unrealistic, but I just follow the customs of your Great Zhou royal family." ”
King Heng saw that Ling'er didn't say a word, but said that she had no idea, and wanted her to be a boudoir woman, so naturally she didn't know anything about it. It was relieved and said: "You don't have to worry about this, you can heal your injuries with peace of mind." ”
In the past few days, there are some things in the court that need to be handled by me personally, and I am afraid that I will not be able to come to see you every day, and you will only send someone to my house to talk about anything.
Ling'er couldn't help but feel a little disappointed when she heard him say this, but it didn't prevent him from being busy with political affairs, so she pretended to smile and said: "You only go and get busy with you, I'm fine, don't worry." ”
King Heng chatted with Ling'er for a while, and then got up and left.
In the Yiran courtyard, Ji Ran wore a long skirt with roses and flowers, and her hair was obliquely inserted into the cloud feet and pearl tendrils, and she looked charming. At this time, this lovely person was looking ahead with empty eyes, vigorously holding the newly picked flowers in his hands, and there were already petals in front of him.
"Miss, come into the house, it's a little cold today, be careful of the wind cold." The personal maid Hongyu said.
Ji Ran's face was still expressionless, and he opened his lips slightly and said coldly: "What you asked you to do, can you do it?" ”
Hongyu replied: "That mother Zhang said that King Heng has never been to Lingxi Courtyard in the past few days, and she sees the opportunity and will definitely take action to reassure Miss." ”
A trace of viciousness appeared on Ji Ran's lips, and he hated in his heart: "If my mother acts according to my words, she will end up as soon as possible for this little slut, why should she end up today." With resentment in his heart, he kicked the flower basket in front of him far away, turned around and entered the inner room.
The weather was sunny on this day, it was early winter, and the white mist could be seen in the exhaled breath, but the quiet courtyard was wrapped in a blanket and lying on the beauty couch, bathed in the sun, Ling'er felt like a lazy big bear.
A few girls are making wedding dresses for themselves, and the material is a phoenix peony sent by Hengwangfu. It is said that the weaving bureau of the weaving bureau of Wang Zhinu weaving this batch of clothing after unintentionally being impersonated by the then supervisor of weaving, this Wang Zhinu was angry for a while, a fire to destroy their more than ten years of hard work. Fortunately, the rescue was timely, and there were two horses that were not damaged, one of which was given to Princess Ning Xin'er by the emperor at that time, and the princess and her relatives took them to other countries. The other horse was in the people's house, and he hadn't heard of it for many years, so he didn't want to be found by King Heng and give it to him to make a wedding dress.
It's a pity that Ling'er shook the cloth around, and didn't find any difference, thinking that it was just a folk rumor, which was untrue. So he was happy and threw it to Nuo'er to sew them, and they didn't bother to care.
Among these girls, the daughter of Nuo is the best, Qingxi is not good at fine work, and Qingqing is an acute child. Therefore, the job of sewing the wedding dress naturally fell to Nuo'er's head, Nuo'er was meticulous in her work, and she was afraid of delaying the day, and she was working day and night, which was very hard.
It was almost noon, and it was almost time for the young lady to drink the medicine, Nuo'er put down her work and got up to boil the medicine. Since that day, she remembered the dosage of the medicine she used, the heat, etc., and she has been doing this thing all along. Unexpectedly, at this time, Zhang's mother hurriedly said: "Girl, go and be busy with you, I have seen you these days, and I have kept in mind the method of boiling medicine, and I will do this well in the future." ”
Hearing this, Nuo'er smiled slightly and said, "Then there is Lao Zhang's mother." Without much thought, he turned around and went to sew Miss's wedding dress.
Ling'er is more punctual when she drinks medicine than she eats these days, and when she sees that it is almost an hour, Nuo'er is still sitting still. I couldn't help but ask, "Don't you need to drink medicine today?" ”
Nuo'er said with a smile: "Although Miss is already very good, I'm afraid I still have to take this medicine for a while, and curing the root is the first thing." Today's mother is boiling medicine, and it will be fine in a while. ”
Ling'er heard this, sighed in disappointment, and continued to nest, originally she thought that she didn't need to drink medicine anymore, since Bai Huan was happy.
After the two of them said, Zhang's mother had already cautiously brought the medicine bowl over, and said with a smile: "Miss should take medicine." ”
Ling'er pulled the corners of her mouth, took the medicine bowl, and was about to drink it. Seeing Mama Zhang staring at herself, she couldn't help but feel uncomfortable, so she sent her away: "Mama Zhang, go get me a few candied fruits, this medicine is very bitter." ”
Zhang's mother hurriedly said "yes", turned around and went to the back room to get candied fruit.
Ling'er tasted it slowly, and couldn't help but "Huh?" "Sigh, this medicine has always been extremely bitter, why is it a little sweet and sour today?
I had doubts in my heart, so I had more eyes, and I spit out all the medicinal juice in my mouth when people were unprepared, and poured all the medicinal juice into the stone cracks in the bowl. When Zhang's mother took the candied fruit, she only said that she was tired and wanted to go back to the house to rest, and before she took the candied fruit, she directly ordered Qingxi to come over and help her into the house. Ling'er came over from Qingxi to help, pretending to inadvertently glance at Zhang's mother, only to see that she took away the medicine bowl as if nothing happened. Ling'er said in her heart: "Isn't it that you are too careful?" Or is he repeatedly calculated, and now he is a frightened bird? ”
Ling'er thought of these boring things for a while, so she wanted to be quiet alone, and ordered: "I'm a little tired, take a rest, you don't have to come and disturb." ”
Qingxi answered yes, put down the gauze tent, closed the door, and withdrew.
Ling'er felt quiet at this time, and couldn't help but shake out all the past things and think about it, thinking that she was sleepy unconsciously, and fell asleep for a while.
I don't know when the door was gently pushed open from the outside, Ling'er had woken up at this time, but she didn't feel too lazy to move, she lay quietly, and only said a few girls from Qingxi came to see herself, and she didn't say anything.
The man walked lightly to the bed and stood for a while, but did not speak.
Ling'er wondered in her heart, and couldn't help but look at the past with a slanted gaze, although through the hanging flower gauze tent, she could clearly identify who was not the mother who came here.
Ling'er was afraid, annoyed and hateful in her heart, afraid that the people around her would harm her; Annoyed that he was sincere to others, and he didn't lose half of them, but they treated themselves like this; I hate that I am too weak, and I have been bullied and framed repeatedly, since I am just blindly slaughtered by others.
Ling'er glared at the person outside the tent, and wanted to divide the body of the five horses immediately, crush the bones and scatter the ashes.
Zhang's mother observed for a while, and saw that there was no movement in the tent, so she stepped forward, intending to open the gauze tent to see what was going on.
Ling'er flew up and kicked over, kicking it in the heart. Ling'er sat up at this time, and glared viciously at the dog slave in front of him who was eating inside and out, plotting to kill his master.
Several people outside the house hurriedly ran in when they heard the movement, and they were all at a loss when they saw the situation in front of them.
Ling'er was only trembling with anger at this time, her pink fists were clenched, and water almost came out of her palm. said coldly: "Go and invite the master?" ”
After hearing this, Qingxi turned around and went to the Xiangfu study to invite Ji Qian.
Seeing Qingxi hurriedly come to Ling'er to invite him to Lingxi Courtyard to speak, Ji Qian was stunned in his heart, "Ling'er has never taken the initiative to see me since she moved into that small courtyard, even if I went to see her a few times when she was seriously injured, she looked cold, why did she take the initiative to invite her today?" Although he was suspicious in his heart, Ling'er would soon be the princess of Heng Wangfu, and her identity was not as good as before, Ji Qian still asked Qingxi to go back first, and he went to Lingxi Courtyard with a little preparation.
Ji Qian was led to the main hall by Nuo'er, who had been waiting for a long time, and saw Ling'er sitting in the hall, several girls and an old mother standing on both sides, and there was a mother-in-law kneeling in the hall who was tied up by five flowers.
When Ling'er saw Ji Qian coming over, she saluted and said, "Father, please sit down." Then he gave Ji Qian his place and moved to the red sandalwood carved chair next to him.
After sitting down for a while, Ling'er said in a deep voice: "I bothered my father to come over today, so that you can administer justice for your daughter." Then he shouted at Zhang's mother: "Why don't you repeat what you just said again?" ”
Zhang's mother's old face has long been beaten like a pig's head, red, blue, and purple, but it looks good. Seeing this, Ji Qian couldn't help but be shocked.
Zhang's mother cried and said sadly: "The old slave was instructed by the eldest lady, and the eldest lady said that as long as the old slave put the juice of the broken intestine grass into the medicine of the second lady according to her instructions, after the matter is completed, she will return the old slave's deed of sale to me, and give me another hundred taels of silver to let me go back to my son to marry a daughter-in-law, and enjoy my old age in peace. ”
After Zhang's mother finished speaking, Ling'er didn't speak, just waiting to see what Ji Qian would do.
Looking at this Ji Qian again, when he heard Zhang's mother's narration, he was so angry that he smoked, his goatee shook a few times, and he slapped it on the side with a "snap", and shouted: "Go and call the eldest lady to me." ”
Half a cup of tea, Ji Ranfang wore a light gauze lake green dress, and walked into the Lingxi Courtyard with a pair of beautiful women. When Qingxi went to invite Ji Ran, she only said that there was something wrong with Xiangye calling her to Lingxi Courtyard, and did not mention anything else, because Ji Ran didn't know what she was doing this time, but she was just speculating in her heart.
When he entered the main hall, Ji Qian said sharply: "Bastard, don't kneel yet!" ”
Ji Ran was frightened, because of the Liu family, she was the most favored by her father among the daughters, and it was really unexpected to be scolded like this at first sight today. He just looked at his father in a daze, but hesitated and did not kneel.
Ji Qian was so angry that he couldn't help it, where could he still tolerate her pampering, and stepped forward and slapped Ji Ran with five finger prints on the left side of his face. Ji Ran was so frightened that she hurriedly covered her face and knelt down and cried: "My daughter should be punished by her father for doing something wrong, but I ask my father to tell my daughter what is wrong." So far, she can only pretend not to know to explain herself.
Ling'er watched coldly, sneering in her heart, "See when you pretend?" ”
Ji Qian said angrily: "This mother-in-law has been recruited, you still only pretend not to know, how can Ling'er say that she is also your sister, how can you do such a rebellious thing?" ”
Zhang's mother was taken aside and knelt after she finished talking, but Ji Ran didn't see her when she came in, and then she heard that Fang Cai found that there was a mother-in-law kneeling next to her, and said in her heart, "I'm afraid I can't be good now." I had to cry and complain: "The daughter resented her sister because her mother was punished, so she wanted someone to give her some medicine to make her uncomfortable for a few days, and she didn't mean to kill her, and her father and sister should not listen to the mother-in-law's nonsense." ”
Ji Qian then asked Zhang's mother, "The broken intestine grass was given to you by the eldest lady?" ”
Zhang's mother was already frightened by Ling'er, and she had no opinion, so when she asked at this time, she said honestly: "That grass is a slave given by the eldest lady's personal girl Hongyu." ”