438: "Affiliation"
Three days later, it was the day when Liang Wenqing returned to the door.
said that he was going back to the door, but when he went to the street yesterday, Liang Wenqing had already bumped into Zhuang's Jiang Ying inexplicably, and the three of them listened to the play in the teahouse outside and ate two plates of dim sum.
It's just that Zhuang still gave pertinent criticism to Liang Wenqing as soon as he got married.
"My dad really is." Liang Wenqing sat in the living room eating melon seeds, and said with a dissatisfied face: "I've been back for less than half an hour, and he hasn't seen anyone anymore, so he really doesn't miss me at all, and he knew that I wouldn't come backββ"
"What nonsense?" Song Chunfeng glanced at her and said, "Where can the rules of returning to the door be broken." β
Liang Wenqing pouted and didn't speak.
Zhuang Shi, who was walking in the light in front of the hall door doing needlework, smiled when he saw this and said: "Your father is also temporary, and he can still come back for dinner at noon, you can sit for a while, Sister Ying'er should be taking medicine this time, and she should come over to talk to you later." β
Liang Wenqing stopped complaining, swallowed melon seeds for a while, and suddenly remembered something, and asked Zhuang's family: "By the way, mother, I didn't take away the set of jade heads and noodles in my room before, did you see it when you cleaned up the house for me?" β
Zhuang replied casually: "I saw it, I put it away for you." You kid is really careless enough, such a valuable thing is placed on the table, fortunately, there are no outsiders at home, if there are too many maids invited, you can't find it and can't say it clearly. β
"What." Liang Wenqing smiled and said, "That's what I left for you." I saw it when I went to buy jewelry with Ah Ying before, and I think it suits you very well. I bought it - I forgot to put it in the box and put it in the pile of jewelry, but I only remembered it when I saw it when I was looking for a face on the day of my wedding, and I forgot to tell you when I was in a hurry. β
"Bought it for me?" When Zhuang heard this, he put down the needle and thread in his hand, turned to look at her and said, "Where did I wear such a big set of heads?" You might as well take it back when you leave todayβ"
"What is the color of the oil and green, which can be matched by me at my age?" Liang Wenqing said disapprovingly, "If you don't like it, just leave it there." β
"You kid is a big deal...... Zhuang sighed helplessly, and finally said bitterly: "Now I'm married." In the future, I will have to take care of my own house. You can't buy all these useless things anymore. β
"Got it, got it."
When Zhuang saw her perfunctory face, he knew that she didn't take it to heart, and was about to talk to her about the difficulties of life. But suddenly I heard a slightly hurried footsteps outside the hall.
"Ma'am. Madam! β
Xiaolan trotted all the way from the front. Tired and out of breath.
"Why are you panicking like this?" Zhuang looked at her and asked.
Although this girl is a little more curious, she is usually very steady.
"In the palace, the will has come in the palace...... said that the queen mother came to invite the girl into the palace! Xiaolan's face was full of excitement. She hadn't been in the Liang family for a long time, and she hadn't been in contact with anything related to the palace, so it was not difficult to explain her panic at the moment.
In contrast, the reactions of Zhuang, Liang Wenqing and Song Chunfeng were extremely flat.
Zhuang even wrinkled his eyebrows and said, "Why do you want to invite Sister Ying into the palace again, didn't you just go there not long ago?"
I don't know what the idea is in this palace.
"You go to the girl's yard and let her know if she wants to go." The Zhuang family didn't bother to ask about this, so he simply let Jiang Ying make up his own mind.
Last time, when Jiang Ying came back, she was afraid that she would be worried, so she relayed Jin Qi's words to Zhuang, so that Zhuang was really relieved.
When Xiaolan heard this, she had no choice but to go to Jiang Ying.
Liang Wenqing spat out the skin of melon seeds and said, "Ah Ying, who has come and gone, has become a frequent visitor in the palace." β
Song Chunfeng glanced at her, frowned and reminded: "Eat less, the weather has been very dry recently, and I still eat these things that are easy to catch fire." β
Liang Wenqing listened to his concern for himself, giggled twice, and then obediently put down half a handful of melon seeds in his hand, and instead scooped up the tea cup and drank water in his hand.
And Xiaolan has come to Jiang Ying's side.
Jiang Ying had just drunk most of the bowl of medicine brought by Yun Li, and was inhaling bitterly, when she suddenly heard Xiaolan report that the queen wanted to see her, and she couldn't help but be stunned.
The queen wants to see her again?
"Do you want to start preparing now?" Yunli asked.
Unexpectedly, Jiang Ying said: "Today is the day when Wen Qing returns to the door...... I won't go to the palace. β
Yun Li was stunned for a moment, and Xiaolan simply let out a long "ah-" sound.
Isn't this a protest?
Seeing her panic, Jiang Ying smiled and said, "You tell the palace people who came to pass the word, saying that I really can't leave today, and I will go to the palace to meet the queen mother another day." β
Seeing her look as usual, Xiaolan knew that she didn't have much to say as a subordinate, so she stepped back, and on the way to the living room to reply, she was extremely frightened.
But to her surprise, the palace maid sister with a good temperament didn't blame her at all after listening to her reply, but just smiled and sighed, saying that she would return to the queen, and asked her to tell the girl that she must remember to go to the palace to accompany the queen to talk, and to say hello to her own girl on her behalf.
All in all, there was not the slightest sign of anger.
Xiaolan still didn't dare to slack off, and after sending the people away, she hurriedly ran to Jiang Ying, and conveyed the palace maid's words to Jiang Ying word for word.
Seeing that Jiang Ying listened to it, Shi Cai was relieved.
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And it turns out that although Jiang Ying listened to it at the time, she left this matter behind her later.
First, she felt that her perfunctory words should be understood in the palace, and secondly, she had to blame it on her poor memory recently.
But what Jiang Ying didn't expect was that three days later, someone came to the palace again.
And this time, it was a coincidence that because Kong Fu came to Liang Mansion to see Jiang Ying, Jiang Ying was accompanying him to play chess in the front hall. collided with Xin'er, the big palace maid invited by Xiaolan.
If you can have the leisure to play chess, you naturally can't find any excuse to say that you can't leave......
Looking at Xin'er's smiling face, Jiang Ying had a wry smile in her heart.
The queen treats her well, she can feel it, but the queen is the queen after all, and she instinctively doesn't want to get too close to the people in the palace.
And at the moment, even if I don't like it. But it's inevitable that you have to take a trip.
In order to save face. expressed his apologies for not being able to enter the palace last time, and asked Yunli to pack some osmanthus cakes made early in the morning and bring them into the palace.
"The queen summoned me to the palace this time, but is there anything important?"
In the carriage to the palace, Jiang Ying couldn't help but ask Xin'er.
It's only been a few days since the last edict came. It was as if I was looking forward to her passing.
"The girl is too worried. Where is there anything that matters. It's just that the queen hasn't seen the girl for a long time, and she thinks about the girl in her heart. Xin'er replied with a smile.
Jiang Ying saw that her calm expression didn't look like she was lying, so she also believed it.
All the way to Weiyang Palace. It was nearly noon.
The Weiyang Palace was as clean as ever, except for this majestic and luxurious palace shell, it didn't look like a place where the mother of a country lived.
The queen was also waiting for her in the inner hall this time, but this time Concubine Chen was not by her side.
"The people's daughter sees the queen's mother." Jiang Ying stepped forward to salute, but before she could bow down, she was supported by the queen, and when she raised her face, she saw the queen getting up from the couch, looking at her with a smile on her face.
Jiang Ying had no choice but to straighten up.
It's just that the next moment, he suddenly realized that his left hand was gently held by the queen.
The queen's hand was a little cold, but it seemed to respond to the weak and boneless sentence.
"Come, sit down." The queen said softly.
Jiang Ying was a little flattered, her expression was dull for a while, and she let the queen take her hand and sit on the beauty couch.
Seeing this, Xin'er smiled and said: "Queen Mother, Miss Kong can miss you, and this time I brought you an osmanthus cake made by herself!" β
"Really?" The queen looked very happy, faced in the direction of Jiang Ying, and said with a smile: "What a child with a heart. β
As he spoke, he held Jiang Ying's hand tighter.
"It's good if the mother doesn't dislike it." Jiang Ying laughed twice a little uncomfortably, only to feel that the queen's closeness to her seemed to have 'improved by leaps and bounds' compared to the last time.
And what doesn't make sense is that this kind of closeness doesn't seem to be fake.
Although she thinks she has a good temper, she has never dared to let go too much in front of the queen, and she has always been restrained.
Thinking like this, Jiang Ying was inexplicably a little worried.
"What kind of stupid thing is this, you can have this heart, it's too late for me to be happy, how can there be a reason to dislike it?" The queen seemed to notice Jiang Ying's nervousness, and her tone became more and more gentle, and said: "You are a smart child, but in this Weiyang Palace, you can rest assured that you can be yourself, you don't have to be bound by the rules, and you can say whatever you want - I am not as intrigued here as outside, and there are not so many intrigues." β
Jiang Ying was slightly stunned in her heart, and looked up at the dazzling color in front of her, especially the shallow smile on the corners of her lips and eyebrows, which seemed to have an extraordinary tranquility, which made people feel calm down in their hearts.
Jiang Ying's heart was a little complicated.
Although she doesn't know how to speculate on others, she still has the most basic intuition, and she can detect whether a person treats her with malice or not.
If this queen really treats herself so sincerely, but she secretly guards herself against speculation, is it too villainous?
Jiang Ying hesitated for a moment, but finally opened her mouth cautiously and said, "...... The folk girl dared to ask the queen a word. β
"I just said that you don't have to follow those rules here, if you have anything to say, just ask." The queen said with a smile.
"Why does the queen treat the people so differently?"
If she didn't figure this out, she really couldn't feel at ease.
As far as she knows, this queen mother who has lived in the deep palace for a long time, let alone who she took the initiative to summon, even if someone enters the palace to ask to see her on weekdays, she has always ignored it.
Hearing her ask, the smile on the queen's lips did not diminish, and she didn't blame her for her abrupt words, but replied: "I don't know why, I just feel that I am very close to your child." β
Jiang Ying's expression was complicated when she heard this.
Shouldn't this kind of unjustified favor of nobles or something be the setting of the heroine in Mary Sue's novels?
Why didn't she find out that she still had this kind of aura on her head before?
But whether the queen's answer is true or not, the question stops.
Jiang Ying sighed silently, and no longer dwelled on this issue, only telling herself that even if she didn't have to be tense all the time, she should keep an eye on it.
"There are many things in this world that are inexplicable, aren't they?" The queen patted her hand lightly and asked softly, "If you don't mind, I'll call you Ah Ying from now on, how about it?" β
"It's just a title, the queen's words have tormented the people's daughters."
The queen's smile deepened, but she instructed Xin'er, "Bring the things." β
Xin'er answered, turned around and took a brocade box from the dresser, and carefully handed it to the queen.
"I have also heard about your marriage with the son of the Jin family in the palace, but I can't move and can't go to congratulate you." The queen opened the brocade box, took out the objects inside, and said: "I have worn this talisman jade by my side for many years, and I have been chanting and praying with me every day, and it can be regarded as a living creature with spirituality. Today I will give it to you as a congratulatory gift for your betrothal, and you must not think it is not expensive enough. β
As he spoke, he had already stuffed the bracelet into Jiang Ying's hand.
This bracelet is strung by small sandalwood Buddha beads around the week, there is a piece of jade Buddha falling in the middle, the red jade body is transparent and warm, there seems to be a stream of brilliance circulating in the jade, it is not an ordinary thing at a glance.
Where did Jiang Ying dare to accept it, and hurriedly refused: "Since it is something that the mother wears every day, I think it is a good heart, and the people dare not accept it, so the mother will stay on her body as a companion." β
"Why are you still seeing the outside like this?" The queen pushed her hand back and asked, "But you don't like it?" β
"No...... This bracelet is very beautiful. β
"Since you think it looks good, let's take it." The queen held her hand and refused to let go, with a shallow smile in her tone, and said, "No matter how good things are, I can't see them when they are placed here." β
Xin'er on one side heard this, and couldn't help but sigh.
Jiang Ying hesitated for a moment, and finally accepted it.
Speaking of which, if she refuses again, it will be difficult for each other to lose face.
Accept the things for the time being, and return the last gift when you go back, so that you don't owe each other.
When the queen saw that she was willing to be subordinate, she chuckled twice, groped for Jiang Ying's wrist, and brought the bracelet on her behalf, while saying, "May it bless you with peace and prosperity for the rest of your life, and you will have no worries for the rest of your life." (To be continued.) )