Chapter 12: Memories
Qin Xiaoshuang, who calmed down, finally began to think about the impact of today's events on him, so he asked out loud: "How is Mother Zhao now?" ”
"The slave sent someone to follow her before, and she took care of her life, and she can get by for the time being."
Bi Tao stepped forward to refill Qin Xiaoshuang's tea and replied softly.
"Is it safe?"
Qin Xiaoshuang asked again.
Bi Tao replied: "The residence arranged for her is far away from our palace, and it is remote, and there are no neighbors nearby, so it is safe to come." ”
Qin Xiaoshuang nodded and then ordered: "She has received a lot of benefits from us, and she also knows a lot of things about us, and when you are sure that there is no evidence against us, you will know what to do." ”
Seeing Bi Tao nodding, Qin Xiaoshuang was relieved and couldn't help but think of Shen Jiahe, if it weren't for her, how could Mother Zhao be found out, and she lost the right to be in charge.
She has always been accustomed to being powerful in this mansion, and naturally knows that there are many subordinates who hate her in the shadows, and if she can't quickly restore her authority in this mansion, I'm afraid that she will have a hard time in the future.
Her nails scratched on the table for a while, and the hatred for Shen Jiahe in her heart accumulated deeper and deeper, and she drank a few herbal teas to temporarily suppress the anger in her heart, and only then did she return to that gentle temperament on her face.
Shen Jiahe is naturally reluctant to return to King Kang's Mansion to face all the bad things there, but she is now in charge of all the affairs of the inner house, and the stewards have something to return every day, so naturally they can't hide comfortably in King Xian's Mansion.
The news that the power of King Kang's mansion was received by Shen Jiahe was learned by outsiders, and the wives of the official family who originally disdained to deal with the side concubines would have sent a message of worship to get close to Shen Jiahe.
The ministers of the DPRK and China are moving around, and the female relatives of the official family are also good at maintaining relations, and there are some things that are not easy for men to talk about on the surface, and news that is not easy to inquire about, so that these women can solve it between small talk.
In the past, King Kang's Mansion had never received the relatives of those officials because there were only side concubines.
So, everything had to be done from scratch.
Whether it was the arrangement of the maid that day, or the sorting of dishes and refreshments, or even whether to arrange a few scenes for the entertainment of the ladies that day, Shen Jiahe personally asked one by one.
Although Shen Jiahe is very tired of this kind of trivial matter, he is also very tired.
Since the wives of several ministers in the court sent her a greeting post, Shen Jiahe has been busy with trivial matters every day, and he is not allowed to return to the palace at night.
Every time in the middle of the night, when he was lying in the bedroom of King Kang's Mansion and tossing and turning, Shen Jiahe felt that he recognized the bed a little, so he missed the bed in King Xian's Mansion very much.
The official's wife came to the door, and these projects of drinking tea and walking around the garden were indispensable.
It would not be good if they were to see that they were not familiar with the palace at all.
So when he was free during the day, Shen Jiahe took Bai Ying and Bai Wei to hang out in the house.
After Qin Xiaoshuang knew this from the mouth of his subordinates, his face was very ugly, in addition to gritting his teeth and cursing Shen Jiahe in his heart, he worked harder to please Pei Shu, hoping that one day Pei Shu could trust her again and return her stewardship.
On this day, I learned that Pei Shu had been sitting in the study for a long time, so Qin Xiaoshuang carefully prepared tea and refreshments for him, but he didn't expect to meet Shen Jiahe who was wandering around on the way to the study.
Shen Jiahe saw her from a long distance, and didn't want to have any contact with her, so he wanted to take a detour to leave, but he didn't expect Qin Xiaoshuang to shout from a distance: "Sister Princess, stay." ”
Shen Jiahe raised her eyebrows and stood in place, watching her come over with small steps, and actually took the initiative to say hello to her respectfully: "Concubine to the princess's sister." ”
She was gentle and respectful on her face, but there was a little disdain in her eyes, Shen Jiahe really didn't want to bother with her, so she nodded and was about to leave again.
Qin Xiaoshuang spoke softly behind her again: "The concubine is going to send refreshments to the prince, why don't you go over and taste it together?" The prince said that he liked the tea brewed by the concubine himself the most, even the tea in the palace was not as delicious as the concubine's cooking. ”
Shen Jiahe looked back at her with a smile: "Are you saying that the tea in the palace is not as good as your side concubine?" ”
Qin Xiaoshuang pursed her lips and smiled, and she was not in a hurry: "Sister misunderstood, the prince is just because he likes the concubine, and he thinks that the tea boiled by the concubine is the most mellow, and my sister has to misinterpret the meaning, why?" ”
Shen Jiahe looked at the smile on her face, her delicate and contrived posture, she only felt a wave of nausea in her stomach, and she glanced at her coldly: "Your appearance is still the most suitable for the prince to see, this princess really can't appreciate it." ”
Qin Xiaoshuang only thought that Shen Jiahe was annoyed and angry, and her heart was happy, and her tone was even more delicate: "Since my sister doesn't like it, the concubine won't bother." The concubine also had to rush to deliver tea to the prince, lest the tea be cold and lose its taste. ”
Pei Shu had already finished today's official business, and at this time in the past, he had gone to Qin Xiaoshuang's courtyard to listen to the song and taste the fragrant tea she brewed herself, but today he didn't want to move.
The housekeeper went back and forth early in the morning, saying that the one named Xiao Qi was doing a good job in the kitchen.
However, in just half a day, she can control twenty or thirty people in the kitchen, so that the top and bottom can obey her.
There are so many people in the kitchen, but Shen Jiahe singled out Xiao Qi, which is enough to show that she has a good eye for people.
Thinking that she took out her silver ticket and handed the rest to the housekeeper, Pei Shu couldn't help laughing.
She is very serious about this kind of thing, and she doesn't even want a penny.
But she seemed to have forgotten that she was half the master of this palace.
It should have been all hers.
"Did she forget, or did she never think of herself as the princess of this mansion?"
Pei Shu muttered.
He himself did not regard Shen Jiahe as the princess of King Kang's mansion, and Shen Jiahe never regarded himself as her husband since that collision.
He reluctantly married her for the first time, divorced her on the second day after the wedding, and then the two agreed with each other to marry for the second time.
Uncle Pei Yuan and Shen Jiahe are childhood sweethearts, so why shouldn't they be like her?
They all grew up together, when Prime Minister Shen often took her into the palace when she was young, she always loved to stick behind him, but at that time, he felt that a little girl was too troublesome, and she was always crying, so she always disliked her.
When I grew up, I didn't like her weak appearance even more, so I always used cold words to her.
Later, he met Qin Xiaoshuang, who went to Beijing with his father, the princess on the grassland was really different from the ladies in Beijing, her enthusiastic and blatant pursuit made him instantly captured, if it wasn't for the queen mother's original obstruction, he intended to marry her as a princess.
Now that the Queen Mother is the master of the marriage, he naturally knows the thoughts of the elders in his heart, although he is reluctant, he still marries Shen Jiahe, but he threw up his sleeves and went to the study on the wedding night.
If you do something wrong, this is where you go wrong.
Because of this humiliation, she intended to seek death, so the little girl who used to follow her has now become sharp-tongued, strong, and unyielding, and has become bad, but she has also become flamboyant and bright.
She seems to be getting farther and farther away from herself, so that Pei Shu is very unaccustomed to it now.
When Qin Xiaoshuang walked to the study, what she saw was Pei Shu in a daze, she put the tea tray on the table gently, quietly stepped forward, blindfolded him from behind, but didn't want to turn her head to look over, and saw that the rice paper laid out in front of Pei Shu was full of Shen Jiahe's name.
The strokes are frivolous and irregular, and they are obviously meaningless graffiti.
Qin Xiaoshuang panicked in his heart, and had long forgotten to interact with Pei Shu intimately, until the back of his hand was warm, and a familiar voice came from below: "You, you have always been so naughty." ”
She exhaled and replied with a chuckle: "The prince is busy with official business, and the concubine is worried that the prince will be tired, so she specially sent refreshments here." ”
Qin Xiaoshuang let go of his hand, Pei Shu glanced in front of him, only quietly folded the rice paper full of names, and then pulled Qin Xiaoshuang to sit down at the tea table behind: "You have a heart." ”
Qin Xiaoshuang suppressed the sourness that was about to burst out of her heart, thinking that before Pei Shu's wedding, she was lying in Pei Shu's arms at that time, and promised her that she would only love her in this life, and would never like anyone else.
He told her that he was helpless to marry Shen Jiahe, and he also apologized to her in a low voice, saying that he couldn't give her the position of wife.
She also smiled at the time and said that as long as the prince's heart is with her, nothing else matters.
But at this moment, she felt that the things she was holding in her hands seemed to be being sucked away little by little, and in the eyes of this man who had always said that he only loved her, there were now shadows of other women.
Shen Jiahe, after all, is a scourge.
Qin Xiao's face was not obvious, he only gently poured tea for Pei Shu, and then twisted a piece of hibiscus cake with his fingers and sent it to Pei Shu's mouth, and said in a coquettish voice: "The prince tastes it, this is what the concubine spent a long time learning from the cook and making it herself." ”
Pei Shu took a bite of her finger, and the tip of his tongue swept lightly on her fingertips, causing Qin Xiaoshuang to immediately bow his head shyly, Pei Shu said with a smile: "Just leave these to the next person, why should you be tired." ”
Qin Xiaoshuang put her arms around Pei Shu's neck and whispered, "The concubine likes it." The concubine doesn't feel tired of doing anything as the prince, as long as the prince is happy. ”
Just like Bi Tao said, the only thing she can rely on in this palace is the prince's liking, so she must firmly grasp this point in order to have a chance to solve Shen Jiahe's threat to herself.
Because of meeting Qin Xiaoshuang, Shen Jiahe had no interest in continuing to wander around, so he took the two maids back to the dormitory.
Bai Wei had nothing to do and sorted out her clothes on the side, Shen Jiahe immediately had a headache when she thought of the clothes she wore when she entered the palace that day, she frowned and said, "When I received those ladies, did I still have to dress like I went to the palace for a banquet?" ”
Bai Wei said with a smile: "It doesn't have to be so grand, although the grade of these officials is not low, but their family members can't go past the princess, so as long as it's a little more grand than you usually have." ”
Shen Jiahe looked at the clothes that Bai Wei sorted out, he really didn't like any of them, these were all clothes and accessories that came from the marriage, and they might all be according to the preferences of the original body.
Bai Wei also figured out Shen Jiahe's current personality preferences during this time, and knew that she didn't like it, so she said: "The palace should have just made a batch of ready-to-wear clothes today, the princess might as well let them send some sample clothes, if there is something she doesn't like, she can still have time to let them change it." ”