Chapter 4: Jade Bracelet
In the carriage, Zhen didn't dare to lie down for fear of messing up the bun and hairpin ring, and sat upright all the way, and after a long time, he began to complain, "My waist is sore, why haven't I arrived yet?" β
Feng Luan was thinking about things in his heart, and said perfunctorily: "It should be soon." β
In his previous life, Fan Jinliang fell from a horse and died today, I wonder if Lu Dao is still the same in this life? If things go wrong and Fan Jinliang doesn't die, my uncle will definitely think that he was lying before, and it will be difficult to say anything in the future.
"Ah Luan." Zhen suddenly remembered something, and said abruptly: "On the princess's birthday in a few days, you don't have to dress too gorgeously, just dress up normally." Don't talk too much to others, don't be in the limelight, only talk to the sisters who want to be good, and come back early when the feast is over. β
Feng Luan replied absentmindedly: "Okay." β
"Don't be the wind in your ears." Zhen accentuated his tone and confirmed, "Remember? β
Feng Luan saw that her mother was more serious, and hurriedly said, "Remember." β
In my heart, my mother seemed to have said this in my previous life.
So does the mother herself dislike to be in the limelight? Or did you already understand the truth that the moon is full and you lose, and you don't want to let yourself participate in the royal family's struggle for the crown? Then shook his head and smiled, his mother ......, and his mother, who only knew how to maintain and dress up, would have thought of such a profound? Unless someone pointed her out.
Feng Luan didn't take these details to heart, and put them aside in an instant.
It was because of the crown princess's birthday, remembering the pictures of the banquet in her previous life, and suddenly remembered a person.
Duan's princess Mu, whose maiden name is Lingjia, is the longest among the sisters.
The best handkerchief in her previous life was handed over to Mu Roujia, who was the youngest sister of her mother's compatriots.
After the accident of the Feng family, she was demoted to an official slave and entered the palace, Rou Jia was worried, and often ran to her sister Princess Duan to beg, hoping that she could enter the palace and say that her mother-in-law Jiang Gongfei would take care of herself. About Princess Duan was a little annoyed by her sister, so she thought of transferring her brother-in-law to other provinces, and Roujia followed her husband to the post, and there was no news of her since.
But speaking of which, thanks to Princess Duan's trick of taking a salary.
Otherwise, if Rou Jia had stayed in the capital all the time, and when she became Xiao Duo's concubine for some reason, she would be caught between herself and her sister, how embarrassing it would be.
However, in this life, he will not embarrass Roujia anymore.
Feng Luan clenched his fists, made up his mind, and then casually looked out through the gap in the curtain.
On the street, there are high and low restaurants, restaurants, all kinds of shops, busy pedestrians, shouting hawkers, the capital is as lively and prosperous as the previous life, a scene of prosperity and peace.
Not far away, the window position on the second floor of the first floor.
Chengwang Xiao Zhan held a green glass cup, the wine was mellow, and under the background of the cup, it glowed with a charming color of turquoise. He drank slowly little by little, remembering what Concubine De had said the last few times he had entered the palace, and the wine in his mouth suddenly became tasteless.
According to Concubine Qin De's meaning, she naturally wanted Miss Qin Ba to be her princess, but the Qin family looked prominent, but in fact it was just an empty shelf.
It's just that the queen mother gave birth to the current emperor before she got into the noble circle.
The Qin family counts three generations up, I don't know which corner of the small official and small official Lu Dao is, after relying on his daughter to become noble, there are no talents in the family who can support it, and they are all some powerful people. Even the emperor didn't look down on the Qin family, and refused to give real power to the official position, but just graced the Qin family with a few titles to make the queen mother happy.
How can it be compared with the big families like Feng, Fan, and Mu?
Let's just say that the Feng family, Feng Yuan is an important minister around the Son of Heaven, his brothers, sons and nephews, there are capable scholars in important positions in the court, there are capable warriors stationed in border towns, and there are proficient people who are proficient in human relations and are appointed as provincial officials.
Take out one casually, and those wine bags and rice bags of the Qin family can't catch up.
Not to mention, the intertwined marriage relationship of the three major families.
The prince married the daughter of the Fan family, and King Duan married the daughter of the Mu family, shouldn't he marry a young lady of the Feng family? And the Qin family, that is, when the Queen Mother is there, can still watch it, and when the Queen Mother leaves in the future, it will be nothing.
Hum! Besides, Miss Qin Ba is still a girl of no school age in the Qin family in Beijing, and she hurried from other provinces, and she made up the numbers temporarily, but she was just an uninformed country girl.
For the sake of selfishness, the Qin clan dared to play with their marriage prospects like this, didn't they deceive themselves when they were young and helpless? !
A cold glint flashed in Xiao Zhan's eyes.
His mother, Duan, died of illness when she was two years old.
Everyone thought they were young and didn't remember. But I clearly remember that the day before my mother died, as if she had a premonition, she looked up or knew what she had said. kept telling myself to stay by my side, staring at it, rubbing it constantly, and tears couldn't stop falling.
Late at night, the nurse came to carry herself to sleep.
The mother's hand was forcibly broken by someone who was persuaded to do so, and she looked at herself with great affection and cried: "Zhan'er, you have to live well." She murmured, "...... He can cure the disease, but he can't cure the life. β
The nurse turned pale with fright, and hurriedly carried herself away.
The next day, my mother died violentlyβ
From the beauty to the concubine.
How my mother died, no one can say clearly, and I can't find out the truth now. After her mother died, she was sent to Concubine Qin De to be raised, and it has been fifteen years in the blink of an eye.
Xiao Zhan was in a complicated mood and slammed the wine glass on the table.
"Lord Wang." The little guy happened to run over, and when he saw this, he was so frightened that he paused, and he didn't dare not speak, and pointed down, "It seems that the carriage of the Feng family of the Fengguo Mansion is passing by, and there are no gentlemen riding horses, and they are all female dependents." β
Xiao Zhan quickly looked down.
One after the other, in front of a golden eight-treasure jewel jewel canopy car, so gorgeous and extravagant, must have been sat by the ladies and ladies, followed by a navy blue glazed roof carriage, presumably used by the maids and servants. The front and back of the procession, the housekeeper who opened the way, the guardian who carried the knife, and the rough servant who followed the runaway, there must be at least twenty or thirty people.
Xiao Zhan thought about it quickly, and looked at the direction of the carriage, which seemed to be going to the Treasure Pavilion, and it should be the female dependents who went to pick out jewelry. But Mrs. Fengguo Feng is a little old, she is steady, and most of them will not be so ostentatious in the market, it is estimated that she is the daughter of the second room of the Feng family, so is it the second lady of Feng? β¦β¦ Or is she?
His heart suddenly moved, if Feng Luan came out, it would be a good opportunity to get close to her, but it was too obvious to interact with her directly. After thinking about it, he called the little guy and whispered, "Wait a minute, you ...... like this."
So and so, so and so
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"Madame, Miss, the Treasure Pavilion has arrived." The carriage stopped, and the servants brought their feet to get out of the carriage.
Feng Luan was not interested in picking jewelry, so he went upstairs in the Treasure Pavilion, just sat next to him and drank tea, and his mother made repeated choices, and his mind had already drifted away.
I don't know how long it took to say that I suddenly heard my mother's voice raise up, "Why don't you sell it in a good way?" β
"Ma'am." The shopkeeper lady accompanied the smiling face, "It turned out that the concubine was negligent, this pair of bracelets was seen by a nobleman, and he hadn't decided whether to buy it or not, so he kept it first." He asked someone to take out a box of pearls and jade, "These are also new, and they are in good condition, so you can pick again, madam." β
Zhen frowned unhappily, "Do you have such a business?" If you are optimistic, you will not be allowed to buy it, and you will take something that is not eye-catching. β
The shopkeeper lady compensated again and again, "Madame, Madame, forgive me." β
Feng Luan saw that her mother was going to be angry with others, so she had to go over, looked at the pair of jade bracelets, and persuaded: "It's not good, it's just greener and the water head is better." "I picked a piece of mutton fat jade pendant next to it," my mother looked at this jade pendant. I took another longan-sized Dongzhu hairpin, "This is not bad, the beads are round, big and moist, it is better to buy it." β
But human nature is like this, the more things you can't buy, the more itchy you are, Zhen is dissatisfied: "I just fancy that pair of jade bracelets, I don't love anything else!" β
She said this with a girlish willfulness.
Feng Luan had no choice.
After all, the mother is not a sister, she can only persuade, there is no reason for the juniors to restrain the elders.
Zhen's eyes were shining, looking at the shopkeeper lady, "You say a word accurately, do you sell it or not?" He even did not hesitate to threaten the other party: "Will you do the business of Fengguo Mansion in the future?" β
"yes, yes." The girls followed to help, "Your Treasure Pavilion is really brave!" Our lady looks at your things, is to give you face, but she still dares to push back and not sell? Go back and tear down your shop. β
The shopkeeper was in a cold sweat, but she refused to let go, "Today, tonight, I really can't stand Mrs. β
Zhen didn't expect the other party to be so stubborn, so he was so angry, "Okay, you're a hard bone." She has been pampered and quite delicate since she was a child, and she can't scold people, so she thought about it for a long time before she threw down a sentence, "Wait, turn around and ask you to deliver it to me in person." β
Feng Luan looked at her mother and became more and more angry the more she talked, and the more she said, the more she didn't look like it, she hurriedly gave Mama Zhen a look, stepped forward and grabbed her mother's arm, "Let's go, it's not early, let's go and see the rouge gouache again." β
It's good to say, and I pulled people away with Mama Zhen.
Zhen got angry and went shopping for half a morning, only picked a few boxes of rouge gouache, and bought a few horses for clothes, and he never had a smiling face, so he went back to Fengfu early.
Feng Luan accompanied her mother back to the house to rest, went out, and talked to Mama Zhen in the side hall.
"It's not worth being angry about this." She said in a low voice: "It's just a thing, buy it, buy it, if you can't buy it, there will naturally be a better one to wait, and Mama will wait for a good life to persuade my mother." β
Mama Zhen nodded and said, "Miss, don't worry." β
sighed in my heart, Miss has suddenly become sensible recently, and being a daughter is a little better than being a mother.
Feng Luan was afraid that Mama Zhen would not take it to heart, so she advised: "Please look at Mingzhu and them, don't encourage your mother to find trouble for the bracelet." Anyway, my mother has a lot of jewelry, and I can't wear a set of clothes at home a day, so what's the difference? Find something else, pick up rouge, make a flower dew, and the interruption will pass in a flash. β
"I understand." Mama Zhen's eyes flickered slightly, and she said in a low voice: "The shopkeeper said that there is a nobleman in the picture, Miss think about it, what kind of person should be the nobleman who can suppress the Fengguo Mansion in the capital?" The slave knows the importance of the road. β
Feng Luan couldn't help but glance at Mama Zhen.
I didn't pay attention to it in my previous life, but this person is still a real person who doesn't show his face, and his heart is clear. Like my mother, who doesn't know the importance of her temperament and is squeamish, she has to have such someone to protect and watch her, so as not to suffer a loss.
It's good that I have one more person to negotiate with in the future.
Just as he was about to say goodbye and go back, a little girl suddenly ran outside and said, "The eldest lady has someone to spread the word that Master Fan of the Fuguo Mansion is gone." Let me prepare, Ming'er will wear plain color clothes, and the family will go to the Fan family to pay tribute together. β
Fan Jinliang is dead? Feng Luan's heart jumped, and the piece that had been hanging finally fell to the ground.
Mama Zhen was surprised, and chanted the Buddha beside her: "Shentian Bodhisattva, so dignified, how do you say this?" "Greet the little master, "Second Miss, I'll go in and talk to Madame." He muttered in a low voice, "This is a coincidence, there is no need to interrupt Madame......"
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Feng Luan returned to his star-gazing pavilion and sat quietly for a long time, but his mood was still fluctuating.
Fan Jinliang finally died.
Uncle is in the court, and he should have told the news of this.
So, will he value his "dream"? If it goes well, he can tell his past life experience, and still pretend that it is a "dream", so that ...... can make his uncle alert to the fate of the Feng family.
As long as he has the heart to change, while the emperor has not yet made trouble, everything is still in time!
Feng Luan waited for a long time, but did not wait for the news that his uncle summoned him, but a girl from her mother's side ran over first, panting and said, "Second Miss, Mama Zhen has something to tell you separately." β
"Mama Zhen is in trouble?" Feng Luan put down the tea and waved away the girl beside her.
The little girl approached and said in a low voice: "Not long after Miss went out today, someone specially sent something to Madame, nothing else, it was the pair of jade bracelets that I saw in the Treasure Pavilion before, saying that the main family heard that Madame liked it, so she deliberately cut her love." β
Such a coincidence? Feng Luan was suspicious and asked, "Do you know who the master of the Dao is?" β
The little girl's face stiffened, "It's His Royal Highness King Cheng." β
Xiao Zhan? Feng Luan's mind turned quickly, what did he mean by this? Is it like the shopkeeper said, it happened that he had seen the bracelet before and didn't buy it, and then he heard that his mother liked it, so he sent it over? Still is......
I can't guess the truth for a while.
couldn't help but be slightly annoyed, he didn't want to get involved in the battle of Princess Cheng.
Feng Luan immediately got up and said, "Let's go, I'll go over to my mother's side to have a look." β