Chapter Ninety-Five: Hesitation (I)
At that time, Queen Fang was planning for the marriage, and she was so busy that her feet did not touch the ground, and she happened to hear Jiang Mingying's reply, and only ordered Zhang Yuanju to go to Lin'an Hou Mansion to have a look, and was afraid that Mrs. Tai would take her granddaughter to avoid the illness and make a fuss about disobedience and unfilial piety, so she asked Gonggong Lin to go to Hefu to have a look.
"Let's just say that the county lord of Wenyang's injury is not healed yet, so you can't spend a face to go to your grandmother to serve the sick, right? Mrs. He has always been a bodhisattva, and she has both children and daughters, so it is not her turn to wait for a granddaughter who has lived in the palace for a long time" At this point, she chuckled, already full of mockery. "Then go to the palace treasury and take out the formed ginseng, add and subtract some things and send it to the He Mansion, just say that it is Ah Yan's intention." Empress Fang's eyes were only fixed on the booklet, and she continued to command absentmindedly.
Lin Gonggong left in response.
Immediately, Xingzhao was painting red in the east, paused the tip of the pen, the tip of the pen was suspended, and a weeping willow was erected on the middle road, after a long time, accompanied by a faint sigh, after all, it was a stroke down.
Horizontal and vertical, just like the beginning.
April flies by very fast, and May comes with the warming of early summer and the annoying chirping of cicadas.
On May 5th, the sky was clear, and the poplar flowers were crying around the river.
On the day of the Duanyang Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month of May, the palace was busy early in the morning, and thousands of drawers of rice dumplings were prepared in the dining room, stuffed with small dates or copper coins, and then sent to the palaces to share food for the palace people. In the palace, wormwood and calamus were tied together and inserted on the door eyebrows, or they hung in the hall and in the air. A hint of wormwood's exclusive bitterness. Sandwiched with the sweetness of steamed glutinous rice. It makes people not know for a while whether to cover their faces with their sleeves, or whether they should take a deep breath to cheer up.
Before noon, and after the morning ceremony, the Fengyi Hall was still full of people.
Xingzhao walked in the corridor, and from a long distance, he could hear the joyful and high-pitched voice of a woman in the front palace room.
"Originally, the concubine didn't know what the fourth child was going to do, but she only knew that the fourth child was going to be on duty in the Zongren Mansion. The fourth child goes out early and returns late every day, but he has always been happy. Ask him. The stuffy gourd only knew how to lower his head and smile, and he couldn't say why for a long time. The concubine was even more puzzled in her heart, so she simply called the palace lady beside him to ask, but how did she know that it was"
As soon as Xingzhao lifted the curtain and went in, he saw Concubine Chen Defei sitting on the stool, cutting off her words, standing proudly, glancing left and right, wanting people to continue asking.
couldn't help but purse his lips and smile, the emperor took pity on this son for having a leg disease. In addition, the king of Pingyang was good at it, and the position he ordered to go down was a top idle but face-saving - to issue a check to the clan. The Juelu of the Great Zhou clan was issued at the beginning of the year. By May, most of them have entered the time for verification and reservation. The four princes only need to go to the beginning of the day every day, supervise the people under them to fiddle with the abacus a few times, and go home after walking around.
The days are too idle, and the four princes ponder and manage the music of the pear orchard, and every day there is an extra place to walk, warp the small gong, listen to the little songs, and live a very noble and relaxed life.
"Looking at the water sleeves and listening to the Kun dialect every day, where can you still have a sad face!" Concubine Shu had a rare fun, chose the most unserious of the two errands, and laughed and teased Concubine De, "If you want the concubine to see the fourth child is the most blessed, there is a folk saying called the wife and children hot kang head, and in a few years the fourth daughter-in-law will also have it, and the son will also have it, and after going to be a wealth boy every day, I will listen to Liu Wenlian singing, and I will only live happily day by day!" Grandma is here too! Do you drink Chen Ai water with colored threads?"
As soon as Concubine Lu Shufei turned her head, she saw Xing Zhao, who was wearing a goose yellow embroidered silver gray plain dark pattern skirt and combing her double buns, and snorted softly, and beckoned to Xingzhao with great concern: "Come over and let me take a look, Huan Yi always talks about you!" I heard the queen mother say that your face is going to be better, why does it still look a little red now! ”
One sentence after another, full of warmth. Concubine Shu's kindness to her is not unrelated to Empress Fang's pampering and the emperor's occasional concern.
Even though he knew in his heart, Xingzhao was still infected by the cheerfulness of one sentence after another, and laughed more and more, first sang to Concubine Chen Defei, Concubine Lu, Wang Concubine, and Song Jieyu who were present, and then smiled and went to Queen Fang's side, raised his wrist high, and replied loudly: "Bring it!" Aunt Jiang sent the colorful thread early in the morning! Chen Ai also drinks water, the kitchen master is not allowed to put brown sugar, and the taste of Chen Ai and calamus is harsh and bitter! You also remember to bring incense sachets to ward off evil spirits! ”
didn't mention the injury on his face, and after replying, he just looked at Concubine Shu and smiled.
Concubine Chen Defei likes such a bright little lady the most, and she also laughed: "The queen mother is a person who doesn't like to talk, except for the girl named Jasper in the Fengyi Palace, who likes to talk and laugh, but I haven't seen the second little lady like this here." ”
I thought of the honest and well-behaved little lady in Chen Ge's hometown, and I heard others say that the Min family lady is gentle and virtuous, and the Shi family lady is cheerful and lively.
Her eyes darkened, the fourth prince was raised by her, so in order to cover up the royal secrets, she hastily set such a family affair for him, but she didn't even see the woman! If Ying Yi wasn't a mourning star, she would have swallowed this teacup!
After a pause, he smiled again and added, "No! Xinrong is also one, Xinrong got married, and the county lord of Wenyang came to live in the palace, but the concubine talked about the queen's good fortune more than once, and recruited such a well-behaved little lady to raise. ”
Concubine Shu called Xingzhao is a woman, but Concubine De called Xingzhao but is the lord of Wenyang County. Concubine Shu's mother's family, the Lu family, lives on the Fang family, but Concubine De is the daughter of the official of the Sipintang in Dingjing City, which determines that even if they are also in the same boat, they will have relatives and distant relatives.
It's good that Concubine Lai De is measured and broad-hearted, otherwise it would be impossible to raise the fourth child for her.
Empress Fang smiled and nodded, and looked at Xingzhao beside her with satisfaction, since the day Mrs. Tai left, the little lady was silent for a few days, and then she laughed again.
It's not good to say that, after the veil that originally whitewashed the peace was removed, it revealed the hideousness and ugliness of the nakedness, which made people want to cover their eyes and pretend not to see. But in the end, it's better to uncover it, otherwise it will be bitten viciously by the insect that suddenly comes out from behind the light veil, and then it will hurt more than just the eyes.
"The jasper girl's face is red to the back of her ears," the princess smiled as she covered her mouth with a square handkerchief, answering Concubine De's words.
The dust settled on Ying Yi's descent of Feng Anton, and Wang Concubine made great contributions. But Queen Fang is afraid of the second prince, and her attitude towards the princess has always been tepid, not as amiable as she is to Concubine Shu, nor as often as she is to Concubine De.
Wang Concubine knew in her heart that she was neither annoyed nor panicked, and she walked step by step, and she could always walk out of a road to the sky.
Empress Fang smiled and scolded Concubine De: "You dare to bury the people in my palace!" Concubine Shu buried you, you buried it back, then what is the reason for the people in my palace to be angry! Concubine De shouted injustice, but Queen Fang ignored it, turned her head with a smile and asked Xingzhao: "Xinrong and Huanyi are both in the east, do you want to take a look?" After a while, the three boys will also come over to say goodbye, and you just avoid it. ”
Xingzhao was stunned for a moment, then nodded with a smile, and then went to the east after saluting.
I guess Queen Fang is going to start talking to them.
Xingzhao walked lightly around the octagonal screen, and his ears could see that there were clear and tactful female voices in the main hall, soft and low female voices, and hearty and joyful female voices. There are never too many beauties, Chunlan and autumn chrysanthemums, each with its own elegance. These are all women of a man, and in order to compete for the favor of this man, even if they are like-minded, it is impossible to achieve complete intimacy.
Just like Queen Fang, the daughter of the gate, she is high-spirited and arrogant, and now she has learned to shirk the burden of this woman, if she could bend down in her previous life, would she have walked into a dead end and never be able to get out again? If my mother knew how to adapt to the situation and sing which song to which mountain, wouldn't she have lived so sadly and not so suddenly?
Xingzhao put down the partition with a wry smile, the sound suddenly disappeared in his ears, and he counted the steps intently, the green bricks were so bright that they could be seen, and the shadow of the person was reflected on it, and it was vague.
Three steps and two steps to the east room, but compared with the bustle of the outer hall, it seems more silent.
Also, Huanyi is a quiet personality, and although Princess Xinrong is a lively personality, she can also be quiet.
As soon as Xingzhao walked in, he smiled and saluted Xinrong first, and then took Huanyi's hand and sat down, Xinrong has only been married for a year, and Huanyi is about to turn thirteen, several girls got together, and said that most of them were "Jingli is swarming with a small jacket with a bat pearl buckle" or "Lord Zhang's family married his daughter, and only raised thirty-six dowries, I felt strange and went to inquire, it turned out that Lord Zhang's family was the head of the steproom, and the original dowry was ignored".
Where did Xingzhao and Huanyi know what was popular in the capital, and whose girl was married again, and only listened to Xinrong with a smile.
Xinrong's eyes turned, fell on Xingzhao, and smiled and sent Huanyi to the front hall to inquire: "Go and see when the fourth child will come, let him come in and ask me to say goodbye, so that he has this family matter, and his aunt I am fanning the flames!" ”
This is talking about exposing Ying Yi when she was pregnant, Huan Yi naturally didn't understand, but she also smiled and retreated.
As soon as Huanyi went out, Xinrong took Xingzhao's hand and whispered a few words: "That day, I went to Lin'anhou Mansion to see the third girl Xingming, she said that the lotus leaf was doing well in her yard, and Mother Wang also went to Mrs. He's side on an errand, and your mother's dowry was locked in the main courtyard, and the girl of the two generations guarded it."
Xingzhao looked at Xinrong gratefully, but heard her lower her voice again: "The third girl also told me a strange story, an old doctor in the Rejuvenation Hall, who was invited by your mother when she was ill, and committed suicide after going back. (To be continued......)
ps: Tomorrow is the Double Ninth Festival, and the text is the Duanyang Festival, so it's a good luck~ Everyone will accompany the elderly tomorrow, and think of your relatives every festival!