Chapter I
Chapter 1: Shock
Spring is full of gardens, and purple and red are blooming all over.
The color of the begonia is like rouge, the peony green stem is delicate and weak, and the peony is light and thick......
The flowers in the Hua family's lingering garden are all carefully cultivated, cared for and served by one of the best craftsmen in Beijing.
But this garden full of spring can't overpower the cardamom branches of the Hua family and the young daughters.
The Hua family was originally a big family, and they have enjoyed wealth and prosperity since the past, and their descendants are flourishing. Just say that there is a Shangshu left servant in the family, and there is a noble concubine in the palace in the sixth room of the Hua family in the capital, and now it is even more brocade with flowers, cooking in flames, and crowning all branches of the Hua family.
It is said that everyone carries the sedan chair, and now the six rooms of the Hua family are in full swing, and the wives and girls of the Hua family, all of them are surrounded by the prime minister's wife and the mother of the concubine.
But in the center of the crowd, even if the noble lady wore a goose-yellow dark silk luo shirt on her upper body, a skirt with 12 gold silk threads woven into a golden phoenix and silver goose on her waist, and a shawl with a blue auspicious cloud pattern on her shoulders.
There is a five-color glazed hairpin on her head with a one-foot high bun, although the hairpin is hairpinned with a hard-to-find bean green, which is a jewel of gorgeous clothes, sought after by everyone, such as Xu Chun, it seems that it can't arouse her interest.
The third lady next to her saw that she was interested, and pinched a piece of jujube paste rice cake next to her, took a bite, and quickly spit it out, shouting, "This cake is not ripe, it is raw!" “。
The seventh girl, who was waiting for the eldest lady to eat tea, immediately picked up the conversation as happily as a lark: "Don't vomit, don't vomit, cake!" Ascension! This is a good sign, the third aunt is going to be promoted! After saying that, he stepped forward and made a gesture of begging.
"What am I talking about as a woman?" The third lady caught everyone's appetite at the right time.
"The third aunt sits in the house every day and tells the mother outside the house, isn't it loud?"
"You lai-skinned girl, you are used to talking nonsense, you will make fun of your third aunt, I ate a mouthful of raw rice cakes for nothing, pity me, a mouth full of raw rice, and I have to be arranged by you!" The third lady laughed, and poked her own daughter who was standing next to her like a wood.
The fifth girl, who was hinted at by her mother, hurriedly joked: "The seventh sister is joking again, in my opinion, the uncle must be going to be promoted again, I said how did I get up in the morning and hear the magpie calling?" ”
After a good performance by these people, the eldest lady of the Hua family was finally amused, "You group of monkeys, the old ones don't look old, the small ones don't look small, I should ask the monks to treat you well." ”
"My wife treats me, I have no complaints, who makes me neither as smart as the fifth sister nor as good as the sixth sister." After the seventh girl finished speaking, she took out a handkerchief and wiped her eyes, and sighed helplessly: "Alas, it's a pity that I have a piece of filial piety." ”
Seeing her pretend to be aggrieved and wipe her tears, everyone laughed and fell, and the third lady couldn't help but laugh: "This girl is getting more and more crazy, sister-in-law, just beat her up, I'll help you press her legs." ”
The eldest lady also hurriedly pretended to let the maid go to get the family law.
At this time, the seventh girl saw that the situation was not good, so she threw herself into the arms of the eldest lady and pretended to beg for mercy.
The sound of laughter in the garden is endless, and at this time, a woman wearing a lotus lotus-colored round-necked fish play lotus leaf dark pattern shirt, smoky pink half-arm, and jade-colored 6 blue waves and lotus skirts are blowing willows.
The white face of the person who came was as white as the jade calyx and smiled slightly, looking more warm than the spring breeze, and the eyes of the two bright stars were full of smiles, silently hiding the gentleness like water.
After saluting, the eldest lady hurriedly beckoned: "Sixth sister is here, come quickly, and look at your crazy sister." ”
Seeing that the eldest lady took a fancy to her like this, the seventh girl said half-truthfully: "There is only the sixth sister in my heart, and she doesn't care for me anymore." ”
"I hurt you, why doesn't my mother hurt you? You're all my flesh and soul. The eldest lady took both of them into her arms and smiled.
Which of the people present is not a human spirit, all of them have witty words, and there are continuous laughter and laughter in an instant, and the song and dance of the warblers in the garden are not as enthusiastic as this place.
The joyous atmosphere was interrupted by an old servant in a sauce-colored dress who walked in with a sad face.
Everyone knows that this is the eldest lady's henchman Huang's mother, Huang's mother is the most knowledgeable about the rules on weekdays, but now the bad color on her face can't be suppressed, there must be something big happening.
After Huang's mother saluted, she looked at the eldest lady without saying anything.
The eldest lady saw that her expression was wrong, so she excused herself from being tired.
Everyone also said that they had to go back to rest after visiting the garden for so long.
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Back in the house, the eldest lady retreated.
Mother Huang knelt down, hugged the eldest lady's legs, and hesitated to whisper: "Niangniang just came with news from the palace that the little prince is about to die. ”
Hearing the news, the eldest lady was so sad that she almost fainted.
"Message... True? Although reason told her that Huang's mother had never been a person of false words, she still did not want to believe that her daughter, her grandson, was so unfortunate.
Mom avoided the eldest lady's eyes and nodded with tears.
The eldest lady immediately wept and said, "My poor lady! Over the years, there has not been a single child. ”
"This old man finally gave birth to a small one, or..."
Thinking that his daughter, who was like a pearl in the palm of her hand, had so many disasters and difficulties, she gritted her teeth: "If it weren't for the old man who killed me that day, he had to send me to the cannibalistic prison of my eldest mother, my daughter would not have ended up like this." ”
Mother Huang didn't dare to discuss the rights and wrongs of the master, and hurriedly persuaded: "How can Niangniang's talent and appearance be worthy of ordinary people." ”
"Niangniang's personal person brought Xin'er here, so that Mrs. could make a plan in advance, and find two docile and persuasive sisters from home to enter the palace to help her."
Hearing this, the eldest lady slowly stopped crying and gradually thought about it.
Mother Huang saw that her face was not as bad as just now, and said tentatively: "To put it mildly, Niangniang is also an old slave who grew up." ”
"The women in the palace are already difficult, and if they don't have children, they will be even more afraid of ...... in the future."
"Sending the girl in the family into the palace, if you can raise a child, it is also good for the mother, and you can't write two Chinese characters in one stroke."
When the eldest lady heard Mother Hu's words, although her face was still unhappy, she was already thinking about the gains and losses in her heart.
"This thing must not be sloppy, you have to choose carefully, appearance or something is secondary, the most important thing is conduct." The eldest lady made up her mind to choose an honest and obedient one for her daughter, so as not to be bitten back for raising a tiger.
"Which girl in the family is more suitable?"
"The seventh girl is smart and smart, and her appearance is good, but she is a little cautious." Knowing that the eldest lady didn't want to listen to those false things, Huang's mother thought about it and said truthfully.
"The fifth girl has some wood, but it is easy to fiddle with, but it is crawled out of the stomach of the third wife, and the third lady may not be willing to send it to the palace."
"Speaking of which, the appearance of the sixth girl is the most suitable, but you and Mrs. Jiang have already verbally agreed on her marriage."
The most suitable candidate in the eldest lady's heart is also the sixth girl, and the other girls didn't think much about it at all, after listening to Huang's mother's words, the eldest lady couldn't help but regret a little, why did she make an agreement with Mrs. Jiang so hastily at that time.
The eldest lady couldn't make up her mind for a while, but she said, "You can call me mother, and I will arrange a place for them all."
After careful thinking and weighing, the eldest lady made up her mind: "When I release the news, I will say that I am sick and want someone to serve ......"
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