119 The Price of Cheapness
Lu Nianjin looked at Lu Jiayi's shy and pretentious appearance, and almost laughed out loud, she grabbed Xiao Xun's hand hard, and then she couldn't hold back her laughter, and called "Auntie" with her chin head.
Lu Jiayi heard her speak, Fang She gave her a look and said, "Crown Princess." ”
Lu Nianjin coughed lightly and couldn't hold back a laugh, "Auntie's feather satin clothes today...... Ten chic. ”
When Lu Jiayi heard her say this, she twisted her wide sleeves, raised her chin, and said triumphantly, "This feather coat is made of the forehead feathers of a lark falling from the sunset brocade, and one piece of clothing uses two thousand black larks, which is the first one among the ladies in the capital." ”
Lu Nianjin was slightly stunned, "Auntie, you injured the lives of two thousand birds and sparrows for a piece of clothing?" ”
"So what?" Lu Jiayi looked at her like a proud old hen, "It's just a few lowly birds, and it's their honor that their forehead feathers can fall on my dress." As she spoke, she swept past Lu Nianjin again, looked directly at Xiao Xun, and said with a smile, "Prince, my niece and concubine are from a simple and accustomed background, and they have never seen anything good, so you take care of them a little more on weekdays." ”
When Xiao Xun heard this, he glanced at Lu Jiayi, who was dressed like a black chicken, and said coldly, "Jin'er is very good." ”
"......" Lu Jiayi didn't expect Xiao Xun to refute her in public, the smile on her face suddenly froze, and she bit her lip in disbelief and said, "Prince, I mean ......"
"On the contrary, it is you, who have mutilated thousands of living beings for the sake of a single piece of clothing, and you have no idea what compassion is!" Xiao Xun interrupted her and reprimanded her coldly.
Lu Jiayi had tears in her eyes, and her face was blue and red, as if she had been slapped hard in front of everyone.
But she couldn't say anything to refute, so in shame, she stomped her foot hard, and simply turned her head and ran......
"Thank you, Prince." After Lu Jiayi ran away, Lu Nianjin pinched Xiao Xun's palm and whispered.
Xiao Xun glanced at her dotingly, his eyes were gentle, completely different from the coldness when facing Lu Jiayi.
The others in the garden looked at this scene and secretly thought carefully.
There is envy of Lu Nianjin's good life, obviously he married a dead man at the beginning, but now he is a veritable crown princess, the future queen, and she has the favor of the prince alone, and she has the eldest grandson of the emperor under her knees. There are those who want to stuff their daughters into the National Teacher's Mansion, and there are those who are jealous of Lu Nianjin. Lu Nianshi and Lu Nianyun in the second room of the Lu family are the latter.
Not far away by the peony bush, Lu Nianshi grabbed the embroidered handkerchief in her hand vigorously, and said to a few young ladies who knew each other, "I'm sorry, my eldest sister is here, I'll go over and say hello to her first." ”
Several young ladies looked at each other and said in unison, "Nian Shi, let's go with you." ”
Lu Nianshi didn't want to be robbed of the limelight, she smiled and declined, "No need, my eldest sister has always been kind and won't eat me, I'll just go over by myself." With that, he didn't give anyone else a chance to speak again, and turned to leave.
"The little girl has seen the prince and the princess." When Lu Nianjin and Xiao Xun approached, Lu Nianshi squatted down with a moving smile and made a blessing.
Lu Nianjin glanced at her lightly, "Don't be polite, get up." ”
"Crown Princess Xie," Lu Nianshi thanked her, stood up straight, paused, and said again, "My sister hasn't returned to the Gongfu for a long time. ”
"Hmm," Lu Nianjin replied nonchalantly.
Lu Nianshi was embarrassed, and continued, "In the future, can my sister go to the National Teacher's Mansion to see my sister?" I haven't seen my sister's little county king yet! ”
"You can come if you want." Lu Nianjin said.
Lu Nianshi got the permission, and smiled more beautifully and gently, like a fresh lily that bloomed at the beginning, "Thank you sister, I will definitely go to the National Teacher's Mansion to greet my sister and accompany my sister in the future." ”
Lu Nianjin smiled officially.
The legs are long on Lu Nianshi's body, she can come if she wants, but she can't be empty, and if she can't see her, it's her business.
"I'll go sit down with my sister over there." After speaking, Lu Nianshi pointed to a flower pavilion and proposed.
Lu Nianjin didn't respond, she glanced at the peony cong, "Miss Chen, they are still waiting for you, you go over and entertain them first." ”
Lu Nianshi froze for a moment when she heard this, and then forced a smile, "Then my sister will go over first." ”
Lu Nianjin watched her turn around and leave, and walked towards the pavilion in the opposite direction with Xiao Xun as he said, "The prince is really popular today, and all ages can eat it." ”
Xiao Xun pinched her palm, and said in a light tone, "The old and the young are not as good as you." ”
Lu Nianjin snorted and didn't say anything more.
The two sat down in the Maple Leaf Pavilion, talking with each other.
After about a quarter of an hour, the old lady of Chengguo hurriedly walked towards this side with Lu Jiayi.
From a distance, Lu Jiayi has changed into clothes, it is a water-red quicksand brocade, her posture is swaying, and there seem to be thousands of gold filaments swimming in the skirt.
When she arrived at the pavilion, the old lady stepped forward and saluted with a cane, "The old man has seen the prince and the princess." ”
Xiao Xun raised his hand, "Old lady doesn't have to be polite, please take a seat." ”
When the old lady heard this, she didn't sit down as she said, but glanced at Lu Jiayi behind her, and said sadly, "Prince, the old man came here this time to bring Yi'er to apologize to you." ”
"Apologize to Hongu?" Xiao Xun raised his eyebrows, "Then I don't know, where did Miss Lu offend this palace?" ”
When the old lady heard Xiao Xun say this, her face changed slightly, she pondered for a moment, and with a ruthless heart, she said sharply to Lu Jiayi, "Don't kneel down and apologize to the prince and princess!" ”
Lu Jiayi listened to her mother's words, knelt down in the rain, and choked up in humiliation, "It's my fault, I shouldn't mock the princess, ask the prince and the princess for forgiveness, spare me this time." ”
Xiao Xun retracted his gaze and looked at Lu Nianjin.
Lu Nianjin's index finger flexed slightly, and he tapped the table lightly and heavily, and only after a moment did he speak, "Auntie doesn't think that I will forgive you just by apologizing from you?" ”
"What about you...... What does the crown princess want? ”
Lu Nianjin smiled at the corner of his mouth, but there was a faint mockery at the end of his eyes, "Just now in the garden, my aunt said that I was shabby and had never seen any good things, so why don't I borrow a few good things from my aunt today, and let me bring them back to the National Master's Mansion to pay homage to like a good student?" ”
This is blatant blackmail!
Lu Jiayi's face became even darker, she clenched her fists tightly, but in front of Xiao Xun, she was reluctant to self-destruct her image, so she could only knock out her teeth and swallow blood at the moment, and said, "What the princess said is that when I go back, I will have people prepare ten treasures and send them to the National Teacher's Mansion for the princess to see." ”
"Then thank you Auntie."
Lu Jiayi squeezed out a sentence from between her teeth, "It's all my own family, and the princess doesn't need to be polite." ”
"Besides, there's one more thing I want to ask my grandmother." Lu Nianjin looked away and looked at the old lady again.
The old lady clutched her crutches, and a bad premonition welled up in her heart.
Sure enough, the next moment, Lu Nianjin got into trouble, looked at her and said, "Speaking of which, I also listened to my aunt's words, and then I remembered, it seems that when I was eight years old, after my mother passed away, the house never sent me monthly silver, bead hairpin jewelry and four-season clothes, and all my flowers are used to make the savings left to me by my mother." ”
"In the past, the elders in the house didn't mention it, and the granddaughter was embarrassed to mention it."
"But now, since my aunt has mentioned it, shouldn't my grandmother make up for me the monthly examples, clothes, jewelry, and silver in the past ten years?"
When the old lady heard her say this, the corners of her eyes twitched uncontrollably, and after a long time, she coughed and said in a dumb voice, "Crown Princess Mingjian, these general affairs of the Guogong Mansion have always been in the hands of your mother, and grandmother really doesn't know about this matter, if she knew, she would never let her mess around so much, and harsh your ...... for so many years."
Lu Nianjin didn't want to listen to the old lady shirk her responsibility, she just wanted the Chengguo Mansion to bleed profusely because of Lu Jiayi's cheap mouth.
"Can the prince calculate, how many months should the Guogong Mansion reissue the concubine?" She turned directly to Xiao Xun and asked softly.
Xiao Xun bowed his head, looked at the old lady, his eyebrows twisted slightly, and said, "The concubine of the Guogong Mansion should be thirty taels per month, three horses of clothing per month, two sets of jewelry, one hundred catties of meat and vegetables, and several boxes of supplements, a total of three hundred and fifty taels, one year is four thousand two hundred taels, ten years is forty-two thousand taels, plus interest, the Guogong Mansion supplies Jin'er sixty-six thousand taels!" ”
The old lady was dumbfounded, almost unable to hold the crutches, and lost her voice, "Sixty-six thousand taels? ”
"Yes!"
"Isn't that a bit much, Prince?" The old lady whispered, her tone almost pleading.
Xiao Xun glanced at her indifferently, and said coldly, "If the old lady doesn't want to make up this money, it's okay." Jin'er just got out of the Chengguo Mansion, and in the future, no matter whether it is good or bad, life or death, it will no longer have the slightest relationship with the Chengguo Mansion. ”
"This, this ......" The old lady panicked, if she really let Lu Nianjin, the future queen, get out of the Xiao Lu family, then Chengguo Gong would definitely kill her!
"Does the old lady admit or not admit this account?" Xiao Xun saw the old lady's reaction in his eyes, he put his arm around Lu Nianjin's shoulder, and asked again in a deep tone.
What else can the old lady do, she can only agree.
"Old Recognition!" She said sadly.
"Stand down!" Xiao Xun saw that she recognized it, so he didn't say anything more, and directly issued an eviction order.
The old lady bowed.
Her angry eyes flickered, and she coldly swept towards Lu Jiayi on the ground, "Evil obstacles, don't hurry up." ”
Lu Jiayi bit her lip and stood up, and helped the old lady out of the Maple Leaf Pavilion together......
Lu Nianjin watched the two leave, pulled out his hand from Xiao Xun's hand, and quipped, "Prince, the concubine thinks that you really shouldn't be a prince, the leader of the mountain bandits or something may be more suitable for you!" ”
Xiao Xun met the bright smile in her eyes and knocked her on the forehead, "Then do you like it?" ”
"I like it!" Lu Nianjin said, "I originally just wanted to knock them on 30,000 taels of silver, but I didn't expect the prince to be even more ruthless, and it doubled all at once." This is estimated to be enough for the old lady to feel distressed for a long time. ”
"This time, be ruthless, so that they don't dare to make a mistake in front of you in the future!"
"How is this possible?" Lu Nianjin looked at his eyes and smiled extremely sarcastically, "My aunt is obviously here for the prince, as long as you are still the prince, the Lu family has not fallen, and her leg has not been broken, she will definitely continue to pester you." ”
After all, the temptation of the future queen is too great, and it is completely worth Lu Jiayi's bloodshed.
"Then break her legs!"
"Are you fighting?" Lu Nianjin asked.
Xiao Xun glanced at her, "Naturally it's you!" ”
Lu Nianjin: "......"
The two talked for a while, and the feast began.
Lu Nianjin and Xiao Xun sat naturally the first on the right.
The two of them ate food without a match, watching the daughters take turns on the stage on the round platform in the center of the garden, all of them are charming and wonderful, like a draft.
Lu Nianshi is obviously the finale.
After three rounds of wine and five flavors of food, when the guests were a little drunk, she wore a white gauze skirt and combed her nine-bearded Wangxian hair bun on the stage. My granddaughter recently learned a new fairy dance, and today I wish you this dance every year, every year, and today, as blessed as the long flowing water of the East China Sea, and the longevity is better than that of Nanshan! ”
"Good, good!" Chengguo Gong was so happy that his face was full of red light, and he stroked his beard and chin with satisfaction.
Lu Nianshi smiled movingly again, and glanced at the musician with his sleeves. The next moment, the melodious sound of the guqin sounded.
Lu Nianshi stepped on the beat of the piano song, turned around, threw his sleeves and looked back, the white veil was flying, and the dancing posture was indeed fluttering in the wind, lifting like a fairy in the sky.
Lu Nianjin watched it with relish.
After the dance, the applause was like thunder.
Lu Nianshi breathed a sigh of relief, her cheeks turned crimson, and she bent the corners of her lips in the direction of Xiao Xun with a shy smile.
Xiao Xun didn't look at her, just concentrated on talking to Lu Nianjin.
Lu Nianshi threw her eyes at the blind man, she was sad and indignant in her heart, and she tightened her hand under the wide sleeve, secretly annoyed.
She was embarrassed, suddenly, there was a sudden sound in the garden that seemed to be laughing but not laughing, listening to the voice, it was the third prince Xiao De, I saw him staring at Lu Nianjin for a moment, pinching the wine glass, and said with bad intentions, "Today is the birthday of the Duke of Chengguo, several young ladies of the Lu family have presented their talents, and the crown princess is not on stage, but also to show her filial piety?" ”
Lu Nianjin looked at him with a cold face, "I won't." ”
Xiao De didn't believe it, he stood up from his seat and sneered, "The daughter of the Lu family is versatile, how could the crown princess not!" ”
Lu Nianjin hooked his lips coldly, and his tone was slightly deep, "If the third prince doesn't force me to perform, it's okay." ”
"Then you don't want to go on stage quickly!" Xiao De urged loudly, making it clear that he was humiliating Lu Nianjin.
Lu Nianjin was still sitting still, her eyes were like water, and she looked straight at Xiao Dedao, "Don't worry, I haven't finished my words yet." ”
"Today, I can give face to the three princes and perform on stage."
"But ten days later, on the birthday of the general of Zhenguo, will Ling's mother Lu Guifei also perform on stage and talk about filial piety?"
Her words fell, and the room was silent.
Xiao De's face was flushed with anger, he flew up, kicked the table in front of him, and said angrily, "What are you, what are you comparing with my mother!" You're just a wild seed! ”