Chapter 44: Fengyi
In the Cuiwei Palace, the moon sinks into the water, and the breeze is gentle.
"You don't have the slightest intention of blaming the palace?" Concubine Xuan withdrew from everyone and asked with her hands.
"Not at all." Cai Ling replied with a smile, "Ling'er guessed that Niangniang would not punish Chen Liangdi." ”
Xuan Guifei sighed, "After all, it is a person with a body." It is not too late to wait until the child is born safely before liquidation. ”
"Hmm." Cai Ling bowed her head, and then asked, "Niangniang is angry?" ”
"It's a little." Concubine Xuan pretended to be a righteous color and said, "This palace gave up the lunch break and waited for you in the Agarwood Pavilion for a long time, but I didn't expect it to be in your game, since I wanted the life of the palace maid, why did I relent?" ”
"Ling'er knows her mistake." Cai Ling was about to kneel, but was supported by Concubine Xuan, and when she sat back in place, she said, "The Tao is not enough, and I know that the forbidden place in the deep palace is not a place where Ling'er can stay for a long time." ”
"You don't look like you're going to get rid of people who disagree with you for the sake of love. Bullied by this palace maid? Tell me about something. Concubine Xuan didn't blame her, so she felt even more guilty.
"Wei Wei is very good." She is also a righteous color, "The new palace maid next to His Highness, named Heng'er, is probably not suitable to stay in front of His Highness." ”
"Hongu also saw it." Concubine Xuan patted her hand and said, "What this palace values most is your friendship with the prince. Naturally, you can't keep this Heng'er, but she's not your real purpose here. What are the requirements? Hongu is willing to help you. ”
"There is a Huanxi palace maid in the court, named Manyun, who used to be kind to Ling'er in the Qin Palace. Now I have the courage to ask my mother for this person. Cai Ling knelt down and begged.
"If it's just for a palace maid, why do you ......" Concubine Xuan said regretfully, but she helped her up with both hands, "If you have no one around you in the palace to take care of your daily life, it is because the palace is not thoughtful." ”
"Ling'er, thank you for your grace." A pear vortex smile appeared on his fair face.
……
Manyun was the person who went to Ziwei Palace two days later, and Cai Ling personally went to the court to pick him up.
After a rainstorm, there were puddles of water, all kinds of cloth had no time to collect, water was still dripping on the clothes pole, and the palace maids were chattering and arguing. Manyun came from the crowd, wearing a coarse cloth dark blue palace dress, without any hair ornaments on the bun, the black hair was only wrapped in a coarse cloth of the same color, his face was slightly pale, his face was also haggard, and his smile was still as gorgeous as Chunhui.
Cai Ling took the small burden in her hand and hugged it tightly. The palace ladies continued to discuss.
"This is the Jiang family who even the prince is afraid of her."
"I heard that it won't be long before I marry the King of Dian and become a princess."
"yes. The prince is also very good to her, and I heard that every year he will give her a fist-sized piece of jade. ”
"If we want to talk about other people's lives, how can we compare? The young lady from the Prime Minister's Mansion is a high-ranking official, and the future husband is either a prince or a prince. ”
Cai Ling listened, raised her eyebrows and smiled, they looked at things really one-sidedly, don't you remember that her family was in the middle of the road, and was divorced by the prince, the prince of Yunnan is very good, but there are already eighteen concubines around him. But listening to their comments is pleasant.
"What nonsense are you talking about here! that your mouths may be broken, and you deserve to be relegated to this place where there is no light of day! Aunt Wu of the Huanyi Bureau scolded angrily.
Cai Ling and Manyun looked at each other and smiled, and left without looking back.
Of course, Cai Ling didn't know at that time that this Huanyi Courtyard still had a lot of connections with her, and she didn't know how much she would suffer at the hands of this fierce and vicious Aunt Wu.
Manyun had served in front of the Queen Mother in the past, whether it was a single grass or tree in Ziwei Palace or a palace maid and eunuch under Aunt Chun, she was very familiar with it. Although the years with the prince were safe and happy, it was very cordial to return to Ziwei Palace.
The two are sisters in private, except for practicing embroidery, writing, and playing the piano, the rest of the time is an in-depth tour of Weiyang. There are peach trees on the mountain that Cai Ling knows, and the peach blossoms have not yet fallen, and there are koi fish in the lake that Manyun knows, and they like to eat white-flour steamed buns the most. The days are like flowing water, so comfortable.
Until this day, when the sun was setting, Cai Ling came back from Xishan slowly holding two snow-white pear blossoms, and said to Manyun who had been urging her with a smile: "Aunt Chun said that she needed to go back early today, but she didn't say why, it is estimated that it is not an important matter." ”
"The Imperial Diet Bureau took the menu two days ago to show Aunt Chun. There must be someone important coming. Manyun said firmly.
"Someone important?" Walking around a corner, Cai Ling laughed at herself, "For me, except for the return of the Dian king, nothing else matters. ”
As soon as the words fell, he raised his eyes and saw a familiar figure a few feet away in front of him, the man listened to her words, and his body sped up and walked forward in an instant, but the woman next to him wearing a light green skirt and a jade auspicious cloud hairpin stopped her steps, turned around and smiled, "Miss Jiang, don't come to harm?" ”
"Slaves and maids see Fengyi Niangniang." Manyun curtsied.
Wei Wei is the Fengyi who was given the title a few days ago, and his rank is two levels lower than that of Liangdi, but he is also the master of Weiyangli. I heard that on the night of the fall into the water, this delicate woman knelt outside the Chengqian Hall all night...... Moved the emperor.
"Let's be flat." Wei Wei held her head high, like a proud white swan.
"Okay." Cai Ling put the pear blossom still under the tree, clapped his hands and said, "I suddenly thought of making an appointment with Xuan Niangniang to appreciate the painting, and I will not accompany you." ”
"The girl is afraid that she will be embarrassed to see me with His Highness." Wei Wei was really carried away.
Cai Ling smiled: "How can it be embarrassing? Since Wei Fengyi doesn't care, I have nothing to worry about. I just remembered that I made an appointment with my mother to enjoy the painting tomorrow. ”
"Your Highness......" Wei Weijiao shouted, but the man had already disappeared from sight.
In the evening, in the Yujing Pavilion, the evening breeze is clear, blowing the fragrance of flowers outside the pavilion. The light purple curtain fluttered in the wind, and in the tent, the queen mother sat on the top, Cai Ling sat on her right, and behind the small case on the left were the prince and Wei Wei.
"Wei Fengyi is still used to it lately?" The Queen Mother asked.
"Back to the Queen Mother, everything is fine with Wei'er, but now I can't serve His Highness at any time, and I occasionally feel sad, and I don't know if the palace people in the Chengqian Palace can serve His Highness's diet and daily life properly." Wei Wei's thin eyebrows frowned slightly.
"It's rare for you to have a piece of your heart." The Queen Mother praised, and then admonished earnestly, "The king's ambition is in the community, how can he be bound by the private feelings of these children." In the future, you should only fulfill the duties of a concubine, and the rest of the trivial matters will naturally be dedicated, and you will no longer live in the past. ”
"Wei'er remembers the teachings of the Queen Mother." Wei Wei turned his eyes to look at the prince, his eyes full of affection.
Cai Ling was concentrating on holding a piece of sweet and sour fish, Wei Wei suddenly raised her glass to her, "I have never had the opportunity to thank Miss Jiang for saving her life, Wei'er toasted the girl with tea instead of wine, and I hope that the girl will turn the conflict into a jade silk regardless of the past suspicions." ”
Tea instead of wine? She searched for a long time and didn't find her cup of tea on the case, only to remember that she had just rejected the tea served by the palace people on the grounds that she was afraid that she would not be able to sleep, and there was only a glass of wine on the case. Although she is not in the mood to drink tonight, she is in case the Queen Mother will let her raise a glass, so she prepares.
"Fengyi Niangniang is too worried." Cai Ling raised a glass and drank it all. Putting down the cup, he caught a glimpse of Wei Wei's thin lips and put down the teacup, and the crown prince's head on his side was not raised.
Halfway through the banquet, the Queen Mother suddenly said: "Ling girl, why are you depressed tonight, do you have something on your mind?" ”
At this time, the prince moved his gaze to her, and when the eyes met, Cai Ling chuckled in her heart, but with a suitable smile on her face, she replied to the queen mother, "No." After climbing Mount Molan for half a day, I was a little tired. ”
"The mourning family should blame you again, you don't learn to embroider all day long, and run all over the mountains, the loss is so big, if you are in Chang'an City, I don't know what kind of name you want to make." The Queen Mother gestured, and Aunt Chun stepped back with a familiar chat.
"No, it won't." Cai Ling seemed to see the dawn of hope, "If it is in Chang'an City, Ling'er must not run around every day, and cultivate her self-cultivation every day." She was so anxious that she almost knocked over the empty wine glass in front of her, and hurriedly held it tightly.
When I raised my eyes again, Aunt Chun had already walked up to me with a tray. The Queen Mother said: "This is received today, and I will reply to you from the thrift." ”
"Oh." Cai Ling hurriedly took it, and was about to tuck it into her waist, the Queen Mother smiled: "Why don't you read it out for everyone to hear?" The boy has always been old, and the mourning family is very curious about what he has written. ”
"Huh?" Cai Ling couldn't help but snort softly, and in a blink of an eye, the prince was silent, but Wei Wei was happy, and the queen mother was looking at her like a torch. In this way, her old man wants to help the prince break with Cailing. Why bother to avoid Cailing.
She read aloud: "The book was obtained a few days ago, and the king did not return the book empty, because of the sixteen diseases, the king stayed at the bedside and did not see the light of day." This king has no disease, only sex, fortunately you do not give up, willing to be a wife, this king is happy, one because the emperor's order cannot be violated, two because of your affection, three because your heart is tolerant, four because this king is lacking as a housewife, five reasons, the most important also, you are very rich.
The appearance of Shen Youjian sitting in a broken bamboo house patting his head and writing a letter in pain came to mind, and when he read "The makeup is very rich", Cai Ling suddenly laughed. The Queen Mother said: "Laugh again after reading." ”
"After you come, this king should raise his eyebrows with you, and his head will not be separated. Be at peace with thy heart. "What is hidden between the lips and teeth is only the last sentence: Do not think about the prince anymore, so that you will be killed.
"Raise his eyebrows, and the white head is inseparable." The Queen Mother muttered, "Such a promise is something that ordinary people can ask for." Ling'er, do you know how to be grateful. ”
Even Wei Wei looked at Cai Ling with envy. Indeed, husband and wife are harmonious and long-lasting, this is her lifelong pursuit, but people are different, the white head she has always wanted is inseparable from Shen Muchi, who is like frost in front of her. But no more can be said.
"Ling'er is especially moved." Cai Ling replied.
Bang Dang...... The prince touched the cup as he got up.
"My grandson was too strong to drink, so he retired first." The prince arched his hand, and did not glance at Wei Wei, but only ordered, "Wei Fengyi stayed to accompany the Queen Mother more." ”
He dodged out of the windswept curtain and disappeared into the depths of the moonlit cloister. The palace people were too late, so they quickly chased after the glass lamp. The Queen Mother only sighed lightly.