Chapter 167: The Virgin
The next day, the emperor took his entourage and several important officials to the governor's yamen to visit the injured governor Ding. Governor Ding was flattered by the emperor's personal visit and immediately ordered a table of banquets to be set up for lunch. Similarly, the emperor was also quite pleased with Governor Ding's insistence on guarding his post despite his injury, and he just used this wine to chat with his courtiers and enhance the friendship between the monarch and the ministers.
After the meal, Duan Yulin, who was drunk and hot, was accompanied by Ding Renhui, the son of Governor Ding, and returned to Ding's Mansion for a short rest.
The design of Dingfu is a typical Jiangnan garden style, with rockeries and green trees, flowing water fountains, all of them. Ding Renhui also enthusiastically introduced the characteristics of various buildings in Ding's Mansion to Duan Yulin, and he suddenly became interested and wanted to ask Ding Renhui to take him on a tour, but Ding Renhui was omnipotent.
After walking around the Ding Mansion, I finally came to the most pleasant scenery and the most beautifully built garden. Duan Yulin listened to Ding Renhui's suggestion and left the best for the last visit, and he was already itching at this time.
The garden is not big, but it is elegant, especially a hexagonal pavilion in the southeast corner is the most chic. The pavilion is a single eaves, the glazed tiles shine in the sunlight, and the purple gauze tents are hung on all sides of the pavilion, showing a hazy and ethereal state. After the two stepped into the garden, they found that this treasure had been climbed first.
A gust of autumn wind hit, and the purple gauze tent of the Liuying Pavilion was lifted into a corner, and the graceful posture of the two people in the pavilion was faintly visible.
"There's a guest at the house?" Duan Yulin did not rashly make a noise, but asked Ding Renhui first.
"Back to the emperor, it is probably Uchiko and her old friend who are talking in the pavilion." Liuying Pavilion is Ding's wife's favorite place, and whenever a guest comes to her door, she always has to pull people here for leisure.
"Even so, I'm afraid it's inconvenient to disturb ......" Although it is a pity that I can't visit carefully, it is not good to disturb the host's hospitality. Duan Yulin turned around and was about to leave, when he suddenly heard a low cry from the pavilion, and the mournful cry made him involuntarily stop.
"Mrs. Zun cried so sadly, she must have bullied her! Hehe......" Duan Yulin joked with Ding Renhui, but Ding Renhui shook his head innocently.
"Your Majesty, this is a wronged minister! The one who wept was not Uchiko, but Uchiko's friend. No wonder Duan Yulin felt that this voice was familiar, he had clearly never seen Ding's wife.
"Mrs. Zun's old friend must have a great grievance, otherwise how could she cry so sadly?" Duan Yulin's heart couldn't help but be clenched by bursts of crying.
"Your Majesty, you don't know that this lady's life is really tragic! People are not only beautiful as flowers, but also have a quiet and gentle personality, but unfortunately they married a short-lived man. The newlywed was widowed in March, and it is said that ......" Ding Renhui was a little embarrassed to reveal to Duan Yulin the rumors that this woman was still a virgin. After that, he shook his head regretfully and sighed: "Alas, Kong has the reputation of 'Lady Peach Blossom', but there is no one who can keep by his side to 'cherish flowers and love flowers', what is the use?" It's a pity, it's a pity......"
"Is that her?" Duan Yulin was shocked to hear the words "Lady Peach Blossom", and suddenly remembered that this was not the title of Lu Xizhen that he saw yesterday? It turned out that the one who wept in the pavilion was her! No wonder it feels familiar!
"The emperor recognizes Mrs. Peach Blossom?" Ding Renhui seemed a little surprised.
"I met yesterday at the Imperial Palace. It's indeed a poor woman......" Duan Yulin once again glimpsed the woman's bright wrists, plain hands, and the orchid fingers that were inadvertently raised when pinching the silk silk through the gap in the purple gauze curtain.
"Since he is also a person known to the emperor, it doesn't matter. Why don't you go into the pavilion with the minister and say hello to Mrs. Peach Blossom? It is better to use this as an excuse to interrupt her sorrow than to let her indulge in grief all the time. Ding Renhui tentatively asked for the emperor's opinion, but he didn't expect the emperor to agree.
"Who is it who is crying and disturbing Yaxing in my garden?" As he spoke, Duan Yulin slammed open the purple gauze curtain, and a pair of frightened and tearful eyes fell into his sight first.
Lu Yezhen, who was frightened, couldn't slow down for a while, so she looked at the emperor with a panicked and pitiful gaze. It was a woman in beautiful clothes beside her who was the first to react, and hurriedly pulled her to kneel to welcome the holy driver: "The courtiers don't know that the emperor is here, and I hope the emperor will forgive her sins!" ”
"The courtiers know their mistakes, please ask the emperor to surrender!" Lu Huizhen held back her tears, lowered her head and touched the ground to ask the emperor for her guilt.
"Alas, am I such a tyrannical and tyrannical person in your eyes? Hurry up, I'm laughing. Duan Yulin even personally bowed down to help Lu Yezhen.
Lu Haozhen sobbed twice, looked at the emperor with suspicion, and said timidly: "Really? The emperor doesn't blame the courtiers? Looking at the charming appearance of the beautiful woman with tears in her eyes, no one can bear to be punished.
"You don't have any jokes. Come, tell me, are you crying? Have you been wronged? I'm in charge for you! Duan Yulin knew why Lu Yezhen was crying, but he wanted to ask knowingly, in order to listen to her say a few more words in that Wu Nong's soft language.
Lu Yezhen was pulled by the emperor to sit down, her face flushed slightly. Even if Duan Yulin is not confused when he is too old, his majestic figure and slightly feminine face make him younger than his actual age, and he exudes the domineering spirit of the emperor all over his body, which is really fascinating!
"The courtiers have no grievances, the courtiers just miss their deceased husbands......" said and picked up the silk silk to wipe away her tears.
"There is such unswerving love in the world, I am really moved!" Duan Yulin placed his palm on the back of his hand as a sign of comfort. Feeling the delicate and smooth skin under his hands, Duan Yulin couldn't bear to let go.
Ding Renhui, who was standing aside, couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart, why do you miss her deceased husband? The short-lived ghost surnamed Sun and her husband and wife relationship for only three months have reached the point of unswerving death? This Lu Yezhen looks pure and chaste on the surface, but in fact, she is a * in her bones! Don't blame him for smearing black people, he has evidence.
I think that at the beginning, when Lu Yezhen was just widowed, his wife kindly took her to Dingfu to live and relax, but she set her sights on her second brother Renyao! At that time, Renyao was preparing for the imperial examination, but she was shamelessly entangled with him! Renyao, who was so annoyed, hid in his aunt's house in a neighboring county, and didn't even dare to come back after the imperial examination, so he simply stayed in the local area and started a family.
This matter has always been a problem in the hearts of their family, so they have rarely walked around with the Lu family since then. If it weren't for the fact that Lu Wensheng and Shen Zhong, the two old foxes, promised their father a lot of benefits, he and his wife would not have bothered to accompany Lu Huizhen to do this play!
To get back to the point, disgust is disgusting and disgusting, but the business cannot be delayed.
Ding Renhui secretly pulled his wife's sleeve, and his wife immediately pretended to be dizzy and uncomfortable, Ding Renhui hurriedly supported his wife and nervously asked her if she was okay?
"What's wrong with Mrs. Ding (sister)?" Duan Yulin and Lu Yangzhen said in unison, and they looked at each other and smiled at each other in surprise, that is called an ambiguity!
"A few days ago, Uchiko was found to be pregnant for a month, probably because of her weak body. Let the emperor smile. Ding's wife leaned on her husband and pretended to be weak.
"Oops, it's all my fault! Knowing that my sister is pregnant, but I still willfully pull my sister to blow the wind in the garden, it's really ......" The sorry words were hidden in a whimper by Lu Yanzhen. Only the emperor doesn't know that Ding's wife is in good health, and everything is just acting.
"Why didn't you say it earlier? Take your wife back to her room to rest! Duan Yulin was worried that Ding's wife was in trouble, and on the other hand, he had to comfort Lu Yezhen, who was crying again because of self-blame, which was really anxious.
Then, the Ding couple left as a matter of course, leaving plenty of room for them to be alone. As soon as they left, Duan Yulin breathed a sigh of relief, took Lu Yezhen into his arms presumptuously, and asked her dotingly: "Why do you love to cry so much?" Could it be that people made of water? ”
Lu Haozhen was immediately silenced, leaving only a delicate posture of pear blossoms with rain: "The emperor doesn't like his courtiers to cry, so the courtiers won't cry." "The grievances are overflowing, and I can see that Duan Yulin is so distressed!
Duan Yulin pinched Zhenzhen's face and enjoyed the intoxicating touch: "Are you so obedient?" Duan Yulin was skeptical.
Lu Huizhen shyly buried the emperor's head on the emperor's chest, as thin as a mosquito, and said: "The courtiers only listen to the emperor's words......"
At this time, the emperor also understood the intentions of the Ding and Lu families, and also saw clearly that Lu Huizhen was not a chaste martyr at all. But instead of being angry after being deceived, he faintly felt a little excited!
He just can't resist Lu Xizhen's fox, he obviously looks like a lady but wants to do the best thing, this kind of unethical stimulation is an unprecedented huge temptation for him!
Therefore, on this night, the emperor stayed in Ding's mansion under the pretext of having a drink with Governor Ding. And none of the concubines in the palace could have imagined that Lu Yezhen was about to become one of them.
In the afternoon of the next day, the emperor returned to the palace with Lu Huizhen. The first thing he did when he came back was to issue an order to confer on Lu Zhenzhen as a "noble person". This holy decree can be described as shocking the harem!
"Joke! The emperor actually accepted a widow? Also sealed a 'noble'? It's ridiculous! Xu Ying raised his hand and swept down the fruit bowl in his hand, and an apple that flew out happened to hit the head of the eunuch Dong Fu who came to report the news, but he didn't dare to make a sound.
"Mother is angry. The emperor was probably seduced by the widow, and he should have forgotten about her in two days. After all, it's just a 'broken flower and a willow'. Mu Mei carefully comforted her master.
"This palace is not angry that the emperor has accepted new people, but it can't bring a widow to the palace, right? What a system this is! Didn't the queen say anything? Seeing that Mu Mei shook her head, Xu Ying was even more angry. In this regard, the emperor is really becoming more and more casual, first a slave, then a play, and now he doesn't even let go of a widow! Feng Wu, the queen, didn't even ask, I really don't know how she became the queen!
Lu Yezhen, a slut, where is a widow who guards her chastity? This is clearly a *little! The queen can ignore it, but she can't! Not to mention that she is a married young woman, even if she is an unmarried virgin, with Lu Xizhen's background, she is at most a beauty. Now that he has suddenly become a nobleman, he is embarrassed to choose such a self-defeating title? Do you really want to be laughed at by the world? The emperor is really getting older and more confused, and she has to find a way to prevent the emperor from bringing Lu Yezhen back to the capital.