Chapter 247: The Banquet

The New Year passed quickly.

The footsteps of February are hurrying in.

Jingli can't feel the breath of February, it is still cold and cold, and the haze is cold, and Shiting often complains about it.

"It's windy all day, and the ice is so thick, where is it like early spring? If this is Jiangnan, all the spring flowers are blooming at this time, tender and yellow, the wicker is also soft, the long swagger, and the water is green."

"If you see it, you will accept it!" Ling Qingyun was unhappy, "I have never been to such a good place in my life, you are deliberately recruiting me?" No matter how nonsense it is, believe it or not, I'll slap you with the soles of my shoes! ”

Shi Ting felt that Ling Qingyun had grown her temper, not as gentle and lovely as before, like a shrew.

"Your daughter-in-law looks like a shrew!" He said so.

An Wei's eyes stared at the lone military book collected by Shi Ting, and the words were like gold: "Well, my daughter-in-law!" Then the whole person fell into the war book again.

The days passed unhurriedly.

Then, Ling Qingyun and An Wei's wedding date was slowly approaching, and she didn't go to Shiting much.

Ling Qingyun didn't go by herself, but she also sent Liansheng to see Shiting every day, and Liansheng would tell her every bit of Shiting when she came back.

She is really afraid that something will happen again and delay her departure from the cabinet in March. So she stayed at home every day, did not leave the door, and quietly taught Rui Niang to do needlework.

This year, the era name has been changed, and the era name is Tianxi.

In the first year of Tianxi, the first thing the courtiers did was to set up a queen for the emperor.

Because the emperor was young, he had not yet decided on a marriage, and for a while, all the ethnic groups in the capital jumped up and down. Squeezed out the head.

That grand occasion is really cannibalism!

The Jing clan still wanted Rui Niang to enter the palace, but Ling Qingyun still objected. Jing felt that Ling Qingyun was carrying a big and rare treasure, but he threw it out, and the outside was full of blood in order to grab this treasure.

For some reason, as soon as Ling Qingyun objected, Jing and Chen Qiniang gradually noticed that something was wrong.

Their mother-in-law and daughter-in-law also began to hesitate.

Somehow, I still respect Ling Qingyun's opinion, probably because I think Ling Qingyun has always been sensible. And shrewd. Not a wayward child. There is a reason for such opposition this time.

On the ninth day of the second lunar month, it was the day when Zhao Zhen's mansion of the eldest princess of Yongde was built, and Zhao Zhen's mother feasted for her.

Ling Qingyun also went to congratulate.

"Let Rui Niang go too!" Ling Qingyun said to her mother. "Isn't the third aunt going too?"

Zhao Zhen opened the mansion. There were many ladies at the banquet. The entire Ling family received an invitation. However, the Jing family has always been reluctant to bring Rui Niang forward for this kind of thing, so the third aunt rarely takes Rui Niang when she goes to relatives.

Rui Niang is the daughter of the third uncle's outer room. Although she was raised in the name of the third aunt, the third aunt didn't like her and didn't take her out, which was human nature.

This is the first time that Ling Qingyun has proposed to let Rui Niang go out.

Jing was slightly stunned: "Take Rui Niang with you?" ”

"Isn't it good?" Ling Qingyun asked her mother, "Rui Niang always wants to see the world." ”

Jing smiled and said, "That's the same thing!" ”

Jing agreed to take Rui Niang with him.

Then, Jing reported the matter to Sù Rui Niang.

Rui Niang was at a loss and asked, "Is my sister going?" ”

"Your sister isn't going." Jing teased her, "You follow us, okay?" ”

Rui Niang shook her head and said, "Then I won't go either." ”

"Why?"

Rui Niang blinked her eyes and said innocently, "Sister won't go." ”

"Do you have to follow your sister?" Jing asked her with a smile, "Isn't it okay for the eldest aunt and sister-in-law to take you there?" ”

"No." Rui Niang smiled softly.

"Why is that?" Chen Qiniang was also curious, and interjected to ask Rui Niang.

Rui Niang turned her head and looked at Jing and Chen Qi Niang, her voice was sweet: "Sister said, don't trust anyone except her, especially the eldest aunt and sister-in-law, you will sell me to the palace!" ”

Her expression was very coquettish, as if she didn't think it was unpleasant.

Jing and Chen Qiniang both looked slightly embarrassed, and looked at Rui Niang in amazement.

Normal children don't talk like that. Ling Qingyun told her in private, she knew that she had to be on guard, but she would not directly tell Sù Jing and Chen Qiniang.

Jing was silent for a long time.

"Auntie, I'll go find my sister!" Rui Niang didn't feel that there was anything wrong with this, just like saying something very ordinary, she couldn't see the change in Jing's expression, and went to Ling Qingyun with a smile.

After Rui Niang left, Jing's and Chen Qiniang's mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were speechless to each other and were silent for a long time.

"Rui Niang, she's a little bit, isn't she?" Jing was incoherent and said to Chen Qiniang.

Jing's first positive realization that Rui Niang was a bit stupid, not quite like a normal child.

She is like this, which can not be summed up by a sentence of "simple".

Chen Qiniang groaned: "Yun'er deliberately taught her to say this, right?" ”

"Wan'er did it on purpose." Jing's said, "But you look at Rui Niang"

Ling Qingyun deliberately taught Rui Niang these words.

She just figured out these words, so that Jing and Chen Qiniang could see Rui Niang. Ling Qingyun taught Rui Niang anything, and Rui Niang said something directly.

Rui Niang has a good memory, and she has never said a word wrong.

But

These words can't be directly said to your face!

Rui Niang is completely indistinguishable, she is like a parrot with a learning tongue.

Actually, since Ling Qingyun said that Rui Niang can't be compared with ordinary girls, Jing has also paid attention. It's just that her feelings are not as obvious as this time.

Jing and Chen Qiniang were silent for a long time.

On the ninth day of the second lunar month, the daughters of the Ling family were still ready to take Rui Niang to the mansion of the eldest princess of Yongde.

"Sister, this bead flower is for you to wear!" Rui Niang took off the bead flower on her head and gave it to Ling Qingyun.

It is a pale blue beaded flower.

Pearls with a light color and a little bluish are very rare. There are about seven or eight of them, all the size of soybeans, clustered on snow-colored velvet, which is particularly beautiful and lovely.

This is given to Rui Niang by Chen Qiniang, a total of two.

Rui Niang likes it very much.

After combing her hair, she immediately took one and gave it to Ling Qingyun.

The best stuff. Rui Niang always wanted to share it with Ling Qingyun.

Ling Qingyun helped her put it on, and said with a smile: "Sister doesn't need it, Rui Niang wears it herself, don't take it off again, your hair will be scattered." ”

"Hmm!" Rui Niang answered sweetly.

Jing and Chen Qiniang saw it, looked at each other, and each was a little surprised in their eyes.

When I arrived at the mansion of the eldest princess of Yongde, it was already full of friends, surrounded by beads, and the flower hall of the eldest princess was full of female dependents.

Zhen Niang personally greeted Ling Qingyun's family at the door.

"Rui Niang is so beautiful today!" Zhao Zhen saw Rui Niang at a glance. Very pleasantly surprised. stepped forward and hugged Rui Niang, and praised Rui Niang.

Rui Niang smiled and said, "The eldest princess sister is also good-looking." However, not as good as my sister! ”

Zhao Zhen laughed.

Princess Ji also couldn't laugh: "Look at it." This sisterhood is deep. ”

Jing shook his head helplessly.

Now. Jing and Chen Qiniang in their hearts. It's already seven or eight points gray. As Ling Qingyun said, Rui Niang is not suitable for the court.

I didn't pay attention to it before, because they didn't have any great hopes for Rui Niang. Just look at her as a child and think she's funny and cute. Now, if you treat her as an adult again, she is unqualified.

During the banquet, Rui Niang never left Ling Qingyun.

"See, the eldest princess of Runing didn't bring her daughter-in-law today. In the past, no matter where she went, that daughter-in-law was always by her side."

When Ling Qingyun, Jing and the others were wandering around the courtyard, they heard that behind the pavilion, there were several noble ladies looking at the eldest princess of Runing in the distance and talking quietly.

"Her daughter-in-law is a sister to the eldest grandmother of King Ji's mansion, and today is the eldest princess of Yongde who opened the mansion, why doesn't she take her daughter-in-law?"

They were talking about Liu Sanniang.

Liu Sanniang and Zhao Zhen's sister-in-law are sisters, why did Zhao Zhen open the mansion here, and Liu Sanniang didn't come?

Ling Qingyun stopped and pricked up her ears to listen.

She and Liu Sanniang have only had two faces. Before they had time to get to know each other, Liu Sanniang slandered Ling Qingyun in front of Zhou Youlin, making Ling Qingyun wary of her.

"Not a sister, it's a cousin." Someone corrected, "Everyone doesn't know very well, I just recently heard that Miss Liu San is at home and is not very harmonious with her sisters." ”

"The eldest princess of Runing only has such a daughter-in-law, why didn't she go out this time?"

A medium-sized lady in a silver-red gown did not speak, and only at this moment did she say slowly, "You really don't know? ”

"I don't know, what's wrong?"

"Tell me about it, don't sell it!"

Ling Qingyun stopped, pricked up her ears and listened carefully, and Jing's family, Chen Qiniang, and the third wife also stopped to listen. They were a little embarrassed at first, but when they heard this, their appetites rose.

"During the Lantern Festival, the Queen Mother scolded the Liu family and asked the eldest princess of Runing to control her well! At that time, there were several ladies in the palace of the Queen Mother."

"You're there too?"

"I'm not here, my sister-in-law is here."

"Why did you scold?"

Liu said that the county lord of Yuanyang was wronged, and someone changed her wine, so that the queen mother could find out and return the county lord to innocence. The Queen Mother was furious! ”

"Ouch, isn't that stupid? The Queen Mother dislikes the county lord of Yuanyang the most, and she has been bullied by the county lord of Yuanyang in the past. ”

"It's still a private affair. On the public, that incident was a great shame for the Feng family, and it was too late for the Queen Mother and the Feng family to cover it up. What's the use of finding out who framed it? Can it still save the reputation of the Feng family? It's too late for the Queen Mother to cover up that matter, who is so stupid to mention it again? ”

"Yes, isn't the Liu family a hundred times more shrewd? Her mother was also a shrewd person, how could she be so stupid? ”

"It can be seen that shrewdness is just a little shrewdness, not great wisdom! The queen mother had a seizure on the spot, and the eldest princess of Runing was angry, and these days let the Liu family think about it behind closed doors at home. ”

When Ling Qingyun heard this, she immediately understood.

Liu Sanniang was still unwilling and wanted to harm Ling Qingyun.

It's just that she was too eager for quick success and profit, and openly told the Queen Mother about it. She thought that the Queen Mother belonged to the Feng family, and she would naturally be the master of Yuanyang County, but she didn't know that the Queen Mother Feng was a female official in the Queen Mother's palace back then, and she was commanded by her niece Yuanyang County Lord, and hated her to the core.

Even Empress Dowager Feng's own sister-in-law, Princess Hanshan, she hated it.

Ling Qingyun shook her head helplessly.

However, Liu Sanniang touched a nail at the Queen Mother, and she would definitely sue Princess Sùhanshan and Feng Yuma.

An Wei said that he would pay attention, and it is estimated that on the Feng family's side, An Wei has already started to make arrangements.

Ling Qingyun didn't listen anymore and turned around to leave.

Jing and the others followed.

"It's true." Chen Qiniang suddenly opened her mouth and whispered to them, "The eldest cousin hates Mrs. Zhou very much. ”

The eldest cousin-in-law in her mouth refers to Liu Erniang, the eldest daughter-in-law of King Ji's Mansion. Liu Erniang and Chen Qiniang have a good relationship, and the two often have contacts.

Princess Ji's eldest daughter-in-law is the second girl of Jianping Hou and Liu Sanniang's cousin.

"The eldest cousin said that when Mrs. Zhou was in her mother's house, the sisters were not on good terms with her, saying that she was too calculating." Chen Qiniang added again.

When Jing and the others heard it, they were all a little embarrassed.

Ling Qingyun sighed silently.

However, Liu Sanniang has a baby face and looks very loyal and pure, I really can't see that she has that kind of temperament!

(To be continued......)