Chapter 22: Hidden Worries
Wang Yushu hadn't seen Flawless for a long time, and wanted to greet her politely, so he held Ye Tong's hand and slowly approached Flawless, and said with kind eyebrows: "I haven't seen you for many years, Xingchen." Are you doing well? ”
"The poor road law is called 'flawless', please don't call the poor road by the old name of the world." Flawless immediately put on a posture of rejecting people thousands of miles away, making Wang Yushu lose face, without waiting for her to defend more, flawlessly and neatly ordered the palace maid in charge of the Fahua Hall to send her off for her, and Wang Yushu could only leave stupidly.
When Wang Yushu passed by Jiang Yuan's side, she found that Jiang Liang glanced at her sideways. The content in that eye is extremely rich, with mockery, disdain, and a kind of "look, you are used to humiliating yourself" contempt. Seeing Jiang Yu's eyes like this, Wang Yushu was simply humiliated, but he had no choice but to secretly tug at his sleeve. She couldn't help but look down and see the red gold silk brocade dress on her body, and touched the strings of gold silk and jade on her head, even she couldn't help laughing at herself, a fifty-year-old woman wears red and green all day long in an attempt to resist aging, isn't she shameless? No wonder Jiang Fang looked down on her, she deserved to be humiliated.
The young concubines were not interested in paying attention to the grievances between the first emperor and the harem, so they dispersed early and returned to the palace. As soon as Su Lianyi returned to the side hall of Yilan Palace, the emperor's decree to give the title arrived, Su Lianyi calmly accepted the order, and then glanced at the Fenghua beside him with a complicated expression, and his mood instantly fell.
"What's wrong with the little master? The emperor gave you a number, you should be happy. Feng Hua comforted Su Lianyi.
"I'm not upset." But Su Lianyi was not very happy, she always felt that this title was weird, 'Lan' and 'Lan' have the same sound, everyone in the harem knows that Concubine Lan is a domineering master, if Fang Huanshan knows that she used a title with the same sound as her, she doesn't know how to embarrass her. Didn't the emperor consider that using the word 'Lan' as a title would push her to the forefront? Still is...... The emperor doesn't care about her life or death at all? Also, all of what she is doing now is not based on the favor she has won herself, but ...... Su Lianyi couldn't help but look at the charming Fenghua again, and she blurted out in a hurry: "Fenghua, don't you think that the title of 'Lan' and the title of Lan Concubine will cause me trouble?" The emperor gave me this title, did he really love me? ”
"The little lord is too worried, and the emperor naturally cares about the little lord. Although the title of the little lord is the same as that of Concubine Lan, Concubine Lan is already a concubine, and the little lord is still a nobleman, and there is a difference of one level, so it will not be confused. I privately thought that the emperor also took this into account, so he did not scruple about the occurrence of homophones. After listening to Feng Hua's explanation, Su Lianyi's mood did not become relaxed, but because Feng Hua felt more aggrieved because of Feng Hua's confident appearance of observing the holy will.
"The emperor has given me a new title, and I think I will come to see it soon...... Look at me, these two days you ...... Get ready. Su Lianyi said intermittently, but his heart couldn't stop pantothenic acid. Last time, the emperor was finally willing to stay in her dormitory again, but he didn't expect that it would be another lonely night, and the emperor still played Go with Fenghua all night. Later, Su Lianyi fell asleep in tears in humiliation and suffering, and he didn't even know when the emperor left.
"Yes. A while ago, the materials rewarded by the emperor had been sent to the division room for tailoring, thinking that it should be done, so the slave maid went to the division room to get it back. After speaking, he deliberately ignored Su Lianyi's sudden emotion and retreated. After Feng Hua walked away, Su Lianyi finally couldn't help but sweep the fruit bowl on the table to the ground, crying bitterly.
King Jing is also among today's ceremonies, and after the ceremony, it is logical that the emperor stayed in the palace, and was still arranged to live in Moyunzhai, which was far away from the residence of the harem concubines. Duan Yuhua took out a purse from his sleeve, opened the purse and took out a gold silk inlaid with purple beads lotus flower to cover the sideburns tassel, since the Mid-Autumn Festival night has not seen Li Jingxi, this sideburns have never had a chance to return to her. Duan Yuhua laughed self-deprecatingly, the opportunity for the prince to meet with the harem concubines was already very rare, and it was very likely that there would be no way to return this thing. It's okay, just keep it as a souvenir, Duan Yuhua put the sideburns back in his purse and put it away.
After lunch, Duan Yulin took a break, and then went to deal with government affairs non-stop, leaving Duan Yuhua alone idle and bored, he decided to go to the library in the palace. Coincidentally, Li Jingxi in the Guanju Palace also happened to finish reading the travelogue and codex at hand, so she took Zimo to the library to find out if there were any new and beautiful books that had arrived recently. So, Duan Yuhua and Li Jingxi met unexpectedly again under the arrangement of fate.
Li Jingxi and Zimo acted separately, and Duan Yuhua on the other side didn't know about Li Jingxi's arrival, and leisurely shuttled between the tall bookshelves. Li Jingxi went around and around, and finally took a fancy to a set of "Western Illustrated Chronicles", but this set of books was placed on the upper floors of the bookshelf, and Li Jingxi stood on tiptoe and tried several times but couldn't reach it. Just as she was about to give up and go to find the little eunuch who was organizing the library to take it on a ladder, a slender and powerful palm crossed the top of Li Jingxi's head and directly helped her take down the entire set of books.
"But the girl wants this?" Duan Yulin only saw Li Jingxi's back, and didn't know that it was her, but only thought she was a senior female official in the Shanggong Bureau. Hearing this familiar voice, Li Jingxi tensed all over, slowly turned around, and saw the familiar handsome face, and smiled slightly: "Then thank you to the prince." ”
Duan Yuhua was obviously stunned for a moment, and then quickly put away his joking gesture and respectfully greeted Li Jingxi: "Xiao Wang has seen Concubine Zhuang, I don't know how offended Niangniang was here just now." ”
"The prince doesn't need to be polite. The palace also wants to thank the prince for his help. Li Jingxi unceremoniously took the book in Duan Yuhua's hand.
"It's just a gesture...... It's also fate to meet here. The topic seemed to suddenly stop at the word "fate", and the two were relatively speechless for a while, and they looked at each other silently for a while and couldn't help laughing.
Li Jingxi was shocked to realize her gaffe, hurriedly sorted out her emotions, and politely said goodbye to Duan Yuhua: "The palace has already chosen the book, so I will leave, the prince will please." Seeing that Li Jingxi turned around and wanted to leave, Duan Yuhua suddenly remembered that her jewelry was still with her, and she should take this opportunity to return it, so she opened her mouth to stay: "Niangniang, please wait!" Li Jingxi turned around when he heard the voice, this time he looked back at Duan Yuhua's eyes and smiled back Bai Meisheng, he was stunned and didn't know what to do, and for some reason he subconsciously hid the purse in his hand behind him.
"Is there anything else to do?" Li Jingxi wondered.
"No, I just ...... I just want to recommend this "Snow Country Travel" to Niangniang, which was compiled by Xiao Wang, so Niangniang might as well take a look. Duan Yuhua took a copy of "Travels in the Snow Country" from the bookshelf and handed it to Li Jingxi, who took it and thanked her, and then went to look for Zimo elsewhere in the library. Duan Yuhua once again looked at her back and went away, suddenly thinking of his late princess, and a sour feeling surged in his heart, so he turned his head ruthlessly and no longer cherished the figure of Na.
Li Jingxi's heart was still pounding and beating until she walked out of the library pavilion, and she pretended to be calm and asked Zimo: "What did you see?" What do you hear? Li Jingxi knew that with Zimo's skill and cleverness, it was impossible not to be completely aware of her communication with Duan Yuhua, so she simply didn't go around the corner.
"Whatever Niangniang wants Zimo to see, Zimo sees; didn't want Zimo to see it, so Zimo didn't see anything. Zimo did see all the interactions between Li Jingxi and King Jing, and when she heard Li Jingxi's question so straightforward, she didn't have to be clever and pretend to know nothing.
"The old rules, no one is allowed to say it." After speaking, he glanced at Zimo deeply. Zimo knew that from this moment on, Li Jingxi really regarded her as a confidant.
To say that the most proud in the near future is Fang Huishan, since the sacrifice ceremony, Li Jingxi seems to be tired and sick, the imperial doctor recommended bed rest after diagnosis, the emperor often went to see her, but because he could not sleep the emperor, he did not stay overnight; In addition to going to see Su Lianyi again, and staying in Mingcuixuan almost every time, Fang Shan can be described as a standout.
Although Fang Yushan has been in a beautiful situation recently, there is also an annoying thing haunting her heart, and every time she thinks about it, she is like a fish in her throat, that is, she is very dissatisfied with the title of Lan Guiren.
"Su Lianyi, a slut, dares to use a title with the same sound as me! She deserves it too? No, I must find a way to ask the emperor to change her title. Fang Yushan slapped the table indignantly and said.
"Little lord, will this work? I heard that this title originated from a poem written by Xiang Guifei, and it was also Xiang Guifei who proposed to use the word 'Lan', if the little lord offended Xiang Guifei because of this matter, it would not be beautiful. Huan Yue is worried that the master's delicate nature will cause a big disaster if he is not careful.
"What's so great about Concubine Xiang? She can't even compare to Su Lianyi's slut in the eyes of His Majesty now, not to mention that her father is only an official residence, so she doesn't dare to do anything to me. Fang Huanshan made up her mind that she would definitely be able to see Shen Xiaoxiang when she went to greet the queen later, and she would settle accounts with her at that time.
After greeting the queen, everyone returned to the palace together, Su Lianyi and Shen Xiaoxiang naturally walked together, and Fang Yushan deliberately waited on the way they had to go back to Yilan Palace. Or Shen Xiaoxiang had good eyesight, and she recognized Fang Huanshan from a distance, and the two walked over to greet her: "Why is Sister Lan here?" The way back to Ming Cuixuan doesn't seem to be this side. ”
"My sister wants to go to Shuying Garden for a walk, I heard that the plum blossoms in the garden are blooming just right, and my sister is trying to go and have a look, why don't you go with Xiang Guifei?" Fang Yushan's invitation to Shen Xiaoxiang to visit the garden is fake, and what he has to say is true.
Shen Xiaoxiang knew that this trip would be difficult to shirk, so he simply agreed: "Okay, this palace is also trying to relax." It's just that...... Concubine Lan only invited the palace to go with her, but didn't invite the Lan nobles to go with her? Shen Xiaoxiang deliberately dragged Su Lianyi into the water, thinking that there was a third party, and Fang Yushan was not too presumptuous.