Chapter 23: Humiliation
Unexpectedly, Fang Yushan was willing to embarrass others, and said with a stingy voice: "This title of Lan Guiren is good, do you also want to touch the nobility of this little master?" Since the Lan nobles have already sought benevolence, they should stay in their palace and keep this blessing, and it is better not to wander around. What do you say, Lan, Gui, Ren? Fang Huanshan asked Su Lianyi in an unkind tone, but Su Lianyi didn't dare to refute, so she could only say yes. Hearing Su Lianyi's answer, Fang Yushan smiled with satisfaction, and said to Shen Xiaoxiang again: "It's my sister, I have to dissipate the cold air around me." I've always liked to get a few bouquets of roses to put in a vase these days, but this morning the flower room sent roses that are very similar to roses. I don't know which foolish slave it is, but I don't know that there are also noble and cheap flowers and trees in the Rosaceae family, and I try to fool me with lowly roses! The shabby smell that fills the house in my palace is not to be dispersed? Although the words were said to Shen Xiaoxiang, when he said "shabby" and "cheap", his eyes were clearly aimed at Su Lianyi.
"Hey, what did Concubine Lan say. Concubine Lan's sister has a noble temperament, not to mention a rose, even the weeds on the side of the road can't hide her sister's noble charm! Why bother to make yourself unhappy for a few cheap flowers, let's go to the Shuying Garden to fold a few plum blossoms to watch. Shen Xiaoxiang seemed to relieve Su Lianyi, but his words were not without contempt. Fang Huanshan glanced at Su Lianyi contemptuously, and finally left with Shen Xiaoxiang.
Su Lianyi stood quietly in place, looking at the unknown direction with empty eyes, and muttered, "Fenghua, did you hear me?" They compared me to a weed on the side of the road. Su Lianyi turned her gaze back to Fenghua and asked her, "What about you?" Do you think I'm cheap, too? You have to take what doesn't belong to you. Feng Hua was silent, just looked at Su Lianyi sadly.
Fang Yushan and Shen Xiaoxiang came to the Shuying Garden, at this time, the Shuying Garden was quiet and unmanned, only red and white plums were in full bloom. With bursts of plum fragrance, Shen Xiaoxiang put away the smile just now, and asked straight to the point: "Concubine Lan has something to say, if you are in the mood to enjoy plum blossoms, I don't believe it." Shen Xiaoxiang waved his hand and retreated from the ice lotus, and Fang Huanshan also signaled Huan Yue to avoid, and then went straight to the point: "Since this is the case, my sister will not beat around the bush." The concubine just wanted to ask the Hunan concubine, why did she suggest that the emperor choose the word 'Lan' for Su Lianyi as the title? 'Lan' and 'Lan' have the same sound, your concubine won't be unexpected, right? Did the concubine do this with the intention of embarrassing the concubine? The implication is to ask Shen Xiaoxiang if she wants to be her enemy?
Shen Xiaoxiang had already guessed that Fang Huanshan was going to ask her about it, and if it weren't for Yun Concubine mentioning the portrait of Nalaoshzi a lot, she wouldn't have remembered that poem, and what happened after that would not have happened. Looking back now, I'm afraid that Yun Concubine deliberately mentioned the poem in her portrait, and everything was planned by Yun Concubine! This slut wants to use Fang Lianshan's hand to deal with her and Su Lianyi, so that the three of them can fight each other, so that they can kill three birds with one stone! But she, Shen Xiaoxiang, is not a fool, she can't be calculated in vain, this account can't be counted on her head!
"My sister has wronged me for this! Where is this palace to embarrass my sister, is someone trying to embarrass this palace! Shen Xiaoxiang pretended to be extremely aggrieved, and her tone was helpless.
"What do you mean by that?" Fang Yushan wanted to see what kind of medicine she was selling in her gourd.
"My sister knows that the title of Lan Guiren comes from a poem written by this palace in the past, but you don't know that it was not my intention to mention this matter, but someone else!" There is a debtor and a debtor, and she should be asked to bear the things provoked by Concubine Yun.
"Who is it?" It turned out that in addition to Shen Xiaoxiang, there were other people present at that time.
"It's Yun Concubine. On that day, the palace and Yun Concubine both went to deliver pastries to the emperor, and there were only three people in the Zhaoyang Palace at that time, including the emperor, me and her, which can be proved by asking a palace person from the Zhaoyang Palace. Shen Xiaoxiang tried to prove his innocence.
"Even if there are only two sisters here, as long as Concubine Yun doesn't admit it, the concubine still can't get off the suspicion." Fang Yushan was still skeptical.
"That's what my sister said. So this palace wants to tell my sister another thing that happened at that time - the poem mentioned by Yun Concubine happened to contain the name of Lan Guiren, so she proposed to choose a word from this poem as the title, and the emperor wrote the words 'Xiao' and 'Lan' at that time and asked us which one is appropriate? Sister, what do you think I can do? Hongu is really in a dilemma. At this time, Yun Concubine recommended that the emperor choose the word 'Lan', she said that choosing the word 'Xiao' re-emphasized the name of the palace, and it was disrespectful to the palace. Yun Concubine is really a good means, this is to break the sisterhood between you and me! Shen Xiaoxiang's words were nine true and one false, and he wiped his tears with a silk as if he had really been wronged. This time, Fang Huanshan couldn't help but believe it, Shen Xiaoxiang would not be stupid enough to bring up these two words to embarrass herself, so it was really Yun Concubine who was behind her back.
"I see, I'm wrong about my sister. This account will be counted on the head of Yun Concubine, thank my sister for telling the truth, and ask my sister for forgiveness for offending just now. Fang Huanshan pretended to make amends.
"Sister don't mind, we're all victims." Shen Xiaoxiang also pretended not to mind.
"My sister is generous, my sister has another request, I wonder if I can give my sister all the poems she made to my sister?" Fang Huanshan wanted to know what kind of poem this was, which caused these troubles.
"The green water ripples around the gardenia, and the mountains infiltrate the new scroll. The rain fell and Shu Jiaoxu, and the Yiren stood idly next to the small building. Shen Xiaoxiang folded a branch of white plum in his hand while chanting poetry, and nodded meaningfully to Fang Yushan. Fang Huanshan heard the sound and knew what she meant, and secretly conspired and smiled.
November 27 is Fang Huishan's eighteenth birthday, the emperor promised to accompany her to celebrate in the evening, Fang Weishan was so excited that she did not have leisure all day, and has been preparing for her birthday in the evening. Maybe it was too busy, Fang Yushan felt a little sleepy, so she called Huan Yue to tell the rest of the matters: "Huan Yue, I'm a little sleepy, I want to sleep for a while." I remember to tell the small kitchen to make dinner exquisite, and add a plate of rock sugar and dried apricots to the snack after the meal, I have always been hungry for this sweet and sour taste these days. A few days ago, there was a new palace maid sent by the Ministry of Internal Affairs named Yaoguang, I look at people who are very clever, you teach her to learn to take care of the affairs of the palace, and I can help you in the future. ”
"The slave knows. But the little master has always been sleepy these days, do you need to ask a doctor to take a look? Huan Yue saw that Fang Huanshan had always been lazy in the past three or five days, and she was a little worried.
"Please ask me tomorrow, today is my birthday, it's too bad to see a doctor and take medicine. I'll just take a break, you can go down and get busy. Fang Yushan yawned again and again, and was too lazy to say, lying on the bed and dozing.
"Yes, the slave and maid are gone." Huanyue gently closed the door and retreated to find Yaoguang without mentioning it.
Fang Huanshan woke up after sleeping for an hour, and the first thing she did when she woke up was to call someone to wait for her to change her clothes: "Huanyue!" Fang Yushan called twice in succession, but Huan Yue came in, and said in her heart, where is this dead girl going to be lazy!
"Little master, the slave is here. Sister Huanyue was busy in the small kitchen, and she told me to stay here and wait for the little master to wake up. "The newcomer Yaoguang is really smart and clever, today is the master's birthday, and she also deliberately wore a decent plain velvet and emerald embroidered jacket, thinking that she would not lose Ming Cuixuan's face when she saw it.
"Yaoguang, okay, you can help me change my clothes and comb my hair." Yaoguang hurriedly helped Fang Huanshan get out of bed and sit in front of the dresser, she neatly helped Fang Huanshan match her clothes, and chose the style that Fang Huanshan liked, the more Fang Huanshan looked at Yaoguang, the more she felt that it was quite pleasing to the eye.
At dinner, Yulin arrived at Ming Cui Xuan on time, and Fang Huanshan and the palace people knelt at the door to greet him. Duan Yulin came to Fang Yushan's side and pulled her up, and said lovingly: "Today's birthday, don't stick to these etiquette." As he spoke, he took her hand all the way into the temple.
After the two of them were seated, Huan Yue and Yaoguang served the emperor and the little master to clean their hands and eat. Duan Yulin likes to eat fish, so there is a steamed sea bass on the table is Huanyue's specialty, this is still an opportunity Fang Yushan tasted it and felt that it had a different taste than the cooking in the imperial dining room, so he wanted the emperor to taste it too, and specially instructed Huanyue to cook it himself. Duan Yulin really took a bite of sea bass with the first chopsticks, and said with great satisfaction after tasting it: "Although this sea bass method is ordinary, the taste is very special, not like the craftsmanship of the imperial dining room, the chef in your small kitchen has good cooking skills!" Hearing Duan Yulin praise Huanyue's cooking, Fang Yushan smiled and said: "The emperor guessed wrong, this steamed sea bass is our Huanyue's specialty dish, the reason why the taste is unique is because of the special spices from her hometown are added to the seasoning." ”
"Oh? Which one is called Huanyue, call it up and take a look. Duan Yulin was a little curious about the chef of this dish.
"Your Majesty, she is Huanyue, she is the personal maid of the concubine!" Fang Yushan motioned for Huan Yue to step forward and answer.
"Slave Huanyue, knock to see Your Majesty." Huanyue hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.
"It's her, I said this name sounds familiar. You, head up! Duan Yulin ordered. Huanyue slowly raised her head as she said, she also deliberately dressed up today, sprinkled with flowers and pure pleated skirt with a water-pink silk blouse, a simple ribbon pulled into a ring embellished with feathers and pearl decorations on the bun to look more pure and lovely. Duan Yulin looked at Huan Yue for a moment, and praised with a smile: "Not only are the dishes well done, but the people are also beautiful and delicious." Duan Yulin's joking words aroused Fang Yushan's suspicions, and then looked at Huan Yue, who was kneeling on the ground, inadvertently revealed a charm that even she hadn't noticed, Fang Yushan's mood instantly fell to the bottom, pretending to laugh a couple of sentences to bypass this topic, and sent Huan Yue and Yaoguang out without a trace.