Chapter 189: A Fork in the Road
"What's the point of my sister saying such things now? What my sister said and did these days doesn't look like the sisterly love she remembers, why did she come to Cining Palace to reverse sex? ”
Listening to Hua Ying's words without mercy, Concubine Xiu knew that what she had done before really angered her, but Concubine Xiu was not in a hurry at all, and when she heard her sarcastic words, she just smiled faintly: "The concubine knows that my sister is blaming me, but my sister should also know what the concubine just said, the two of us have different fates, you were born with a good fate, and some people are born with a humble fate, so since the concubine plans to climb up, then she must climb higher and farther, so that the second princess of the concubine, and the current six elder brothers can be beautiful. ”
Hua Ying replied coldly: "Concubine Xiu doesn't need to deliberately emphasize your background to me, indeed, your background cannot be changed, but this does not mean that people have to do whatever it takes, you only say that you want the second princess and the sixth elder brother to live a good life, in fact, what you want most in your heart is to let yourself live a good life and get ahead and be respected by everyone." In her eyes, Concubine Xiu is looking for a reasonable excuse for what she has done, people's origin and appearance really can't change with people's thoughts, but she even forgot her original feelings, which will make others feel cold.
"It turns out that in my sister's eyes, the concubine is such a person."
"You're wrong, Concubine Xiu," Hua Ying sat on the sedan chair and looked at her across the air, with only plainness and calmness in her eyes: "It's not in the eyes of Bengong that you are such a person, but in Bengong that you told in person, you are such a person." ”
"The concubine can only say that we do have a sisterhood for two years, if my sister needs help in the future, she can still come to the concubine, because we have similarities after all, do you know?" Concubine Xiu's face was filled with a strange smile: "You can fool the emperor in the past, fool the queen mother in the past, but here in the concubines, you only need to know at a glance that you don't love the emperor so much, of course, you have wasted a lot of effort to make the emperor like you, so don't you also try your best to get on the throne?" Who is nobler than whom? ”
After Hua Ying heard such words, she realized how stupid she was to persuade Concubine Xiu in the first place, she didn't realize the essential difference between Hua Ying and her, and maybe she would think that Hua Ying helped her in the first place to have one more helper in the harem: "It's a pity, this palace can only tell you that your so-called seeing through the truth is all wrong, do you know why?" ”
Concubine Xiu looked at Hua Ying: "I want to hear about it." ”
"Maybe we do have similarities, but we are completely different in nature, do you know that you are like a peacock with the screen on all the time? Ever since you became a concubine and a concubine, you have been working too hard, hurrying to get on the throne and find your own belonging, but this just proves from the opposite side that you can't afford to lose deep down in your heart, you think you must clear all the obstacles in your way, otherwise you will lose the overall situation, this is the difference between this palace and you, this palace has never thought of hurting people who have nothing to do with you. Even you can't compare to Xuan's promise, at least she is gentle and calm enough. ”
After saying that, it happened to be at the fork in the road where the two were going to separate, Hua Ying didn't look at Concubine Xiu's expression again, but just left her with a back, maybe their lives are like a fork in the road, and the background, environment and mentality determine that they choose completely different paths.
"Niangniang, how can Concubine Yun speak to you like that?" After returning to Yonghe Palace, Concubine Xiu's personal palace maid Chengyu said that she could hear the conversation between the two of them clearly just now, and she naturally felt that Hua Ying was talking too much at this time.
What surprised him was what his mother-in-law said next: "What is there to be angry about, Concubine Yun is not the same person as Bengong, besides, she didn't say a word wrong." ”
"Mother?"
Hua Ying didn't say a word, the similarities she said were only superficial, but Hua Ying really said it to her heart, she was indeed like a peacock who used too much force to show herself to others, wishing that she could sit in the highest position in the next second and trample the people who had bullied her under her feet, but Hua Ying is different, every step Hua Ying takes is determined by her heart, but not ambition.
"In the future, there may be more such words, so don't take it to heart." Concubine Xiu didn't discuss this matter with Chengyu too much, she felt that since it had already begun, she should not give up halfway, go their own way, and when necessary, she would not mind confronting Hua Ying.
Compared with Hua Ying and others, the days of Rou Chang are indeed not good, because since the time in Qingliangyuan, the emperor has never come to the palace where Rou Chang is here, so it has been more than a year, except for the fact that she has seen the emperor at the banquet where everyone is there, the rest of the time has never looked at the emperor again, she is happy and comfortable, but most of the people in this palace feel that their lives are bitter, and Rou Changzai also feels that she let them suffer with her, so she is also very tolerant of them, and there is almost only Chun'er waiting around her. By their laziness and laziness, playing cards and playing cards.
"Little master, you can't indulge them anymore, forget one or two, except for the slave maid, another big palace maid also followed them, what can I do, you are a little master, there are not even two decent people to serve by your side." Chun'er was so anxious that she stomped her feet, but Rou Changzai comforted her first, and then still didn't take action.
Rou Chang was holding Chun'er's hand, Chun'er's skeleton was as small as her, but her thin shoulders carried the burden of supporting the family: "Don't worry, you are not the little master, what are you doing with so much care, or your little master, I am not angry, and I completely rejected the emperor according to my own wishes, so I can't ask them to serve this little master anymore, right?"
"The slave just feels sorry for the little master, the little master is too indulgent to them, in the slave and maid's heart, no matter what the little master does, it is right, and they can't help but disrespect the little master." Chun'er, who is often talking to the emperor, doesn't know, what Chun'er knows is that the little lord is tired of the endless battles in the palace, and just wants to find a noble person to stay for a few days and live a stable life, but even if there is no emperor, this stable day is not begging, because there are still a bunch of dog-eyed people in the palace, who will always harass Rou Chang.
"Chun'er's intentions, this little master knows it, it's just that your younger brothers and sisters in the family, as well as your parents, are waiting for you to make money to support the family, haven't you ever blamed me?" Rou Changzai naturally trusts Chun'er, but she doesn't know how she can have such a loyal servant.
Chun'er wiped the tears that oozed from the corners of her eyes because of anxiety: "The little master is the reborn parents of the slave and the maid, even if the slave and the maid work for the little master at the beginning of the purpose of subsidizing the family, but the little master treats the slave and the maid well, to put it mildly, the slave and the maid also regard the little master as a family, as long as the little master is happy, the slave and the maid are nothing." ”
"You, as you talk, shed tears again." When Rou Chang handed Chun'er a handkerchief, there was also a small purse stuffed into her hand, which she embroidered herself: "If the people in the Internal Affairs Office don't treat you as people and deduct your share, take this and send it to your family first, don't refuse, how can this little master be well fed and clothed in the palace, but your family is different." ”
Chang is a small share, this is also Rou Chang's money for a month, all given to Chun'er, and Chun'er refused, Chun'er had to start wiping her tears because she was moved, Rou Changzai didn't know how to comfort it, but Shun Guiren came.
"Sister Yuan'er, ...... today" Shun Guiren is like a cheerful yellow bird, always vigorous and brings people a good mood, today is no exception, she walked into the house lively, but saw Rou Chang's personal palace maid Chun'er was crying, and suddenly silenced, looking at Rou Chang, afraid of saying something to make Chun'er sad.
"She's fine, she's just too easy to be moved, and she's a crying spirit." Rou Changzai only needed a look to know what the noble Shun wanted to say: "Sister is here, just sit down, you know that there is no good tea to entertain you here." ”
Shun Guiren knew her situation, and he also thought about persuasion before, but later he saw that she was comfortable, so he simply had time to come and see: "There is no need for hypocrisy between us, Chun'er must be like this because you are good to her, I must cry another day, otherwise it seems that I have treated her badly." ”
Sure enough, Shun Guiren was so interesting, Chun'er immediately stopped crying, but just twitched and said: "Shun Xiaozhu doesn't know, the little master gave her monthly silver to the slave maid to subsidize the family, the internal affairs office was already short of catties and two, the little master gave the slave maid, and he had to embroider flowers to take out to earn some silver, so that he could have decent winter clothes in winter." ”
Shun Guiren also frowned when he heard this: "After the rectification a few years ago, although this Shangyi Bureau will not detain clothes at will, it still changes the law to take profits from it, and it is really hateful to let Yuan'er work so hard." ”
It seems that he is afraid of Shun Guiren's temperament and goes directly to the Monk Clothing Bureau of the Internal Affairs Office, Rou Chang hurriedly said: "This is also the path I chose, and I became a dispensable person, it is normal for them to ignore me, there is no need to be angry about this, and besides, my sister also knows, I love embroidery when I have nothing to do, and it is not very hard." ”
"Embroidery is a hobby, how can it be compared to making money? And in my heart, you're not a dispensable person. Shun Guiren was indignant, but it was a pity that she didn't have the right to interfere, and she didn't want to trouble Hua Ying for this matter, but she couldn't bear to see Rou Chang like this