Chapter 18: Design for Favor

A maid carried a delicate and beautiful brocade box into the courtyard where the eldest princess Yuan Zhonghua lived. The pen %fun %pavilion www.biquge.info said that it was sent to the eldest princess by the general of Lord Lang.

The brocade box was placed in front of Yuan Zhonghua, and without Yuan Zhonghua doing it himself, Ah Jiao opened the brocade box, and it turned out to be a jade flute.

An intact jade flute, the tentacles are warm, and the jade is warm. It is said to be white jade, but it has a soft pale yellow, which is really chic and beautiful.

Yuan Zhonghua has not played the flute for a long time. I don't know why Gao Cheng suddenly remembered to order someone to send this. She has always treasured the original broken jade flute, but from time to time she took it out to look at it, and she cherished it very much.

But the slaves couldn't help but whisper excitedly. Lord Lang is very attentive to the housewife, and recently changed the glass window, and sent valuables from time to time, and he alienated the housemother without seeing the new Mrs. Li.

Yuan Zhonghua looked at the jade flute and asked casually, "What about the prince?" Is Choi Shilang still around? She suddenly had a feeling that she couldn't suppress no matter what, and she wanted to go to him. Only she was allowed to enter his study.

"Cui Shilang is gone. The son of the world is not there. The Lord commanded that the prince should be summoned into the palace. ”

"Is there something wrong with the Lord?" Yuan Zhonghua's attention was attracted.

Ah Jian thought about it, "It doesn't matter if you think about it. I just heard that the prince of Rouran was going back to the royal court to pay homage to the Lord. ”

Yuan Zhonghua didn't ask again. It will be the New Year in a few days, and there will be a lot of feasts and drinks in the palace. This year, because the queen is pregnant, the emperor is particularly happy, and there are more banquets. She is strange that the prince of Rouran is going back to the royal court, why is the princess Yu Jiulu still living in the general's mansion? And she hadn't seen moonlight in days.

Since that day, Kang Naning was ordered to dance for the prince of Rouran, I don't know what the reason is, Moonlight not only did not return to Jinyang, but also changed to a secluded courtyard to live. It's not a guest house, it's not far from where the concubines live in the back.

I don't know when there were more and more people in the General's Mansion.

Li Changyi is particularly uncomfortable.

Because she is the concubine given by the emperor to the general Gao Cheng, it is different from other concubines. The title of "Mrs. Li" was called down like this, and no one stopped it.

But Li Changyi still didn't adapt. Once upon a time in the Assassin's Mansion, she was the main mother. And she never allowed Gao Zhongmi to have a concubine. Even if there is no concubine, she can't show the majesty of the housemother, she doesn't allow it. Gao Zhongmi was willing to be so intoxicated by her alone that he got carried away, where did he have any thoughts to buy a concubine.

Li Changyi never thought that one day she would be demoted to a concubine. And it is also the concubine of Gao Cheng, a wandering swinger. Gao Cheng has never cared about her except for teasing and taking advantage of her. This made Li Changyi feel a sense of frustration.

But she couldn't just give in.

But so what? She became Gao Cheng's concubine and lived in the General's Mansion, Gao Cheng was nominally her husband, but he never came to see her. It's not as good as when she lived in Dongbai Hall. Although she also did not want to live with the grandmother. She suddenly thought that she had heard that her grandmother, Princess Langya, was very favored. Thinking that she could monopolize him alone in Dongbai Hall from time to time, she was really a little jealous.

What she needs is such an exclusive pet, and she can't bear to be left out and forgotten.

The sound of the lute sounded again. Li Changyi doesn't like this kind of sound, she doesn't like turtles. And the turtle music played by this pipa is particularly desolate, sad, and a kind of frustration in a desperate situation. What she wants now is to be excited, not depressed.

She has lived here for a few days, and she can hear the sound of the pipa every day. No one ever asked, no one ever mentioned a word, probably all used to it. Li Changyi thought that the sound of the pipa was very strange.

It was dark inside the house, and it was dark outside, so that it was almost impossible to tell the day from night. Coupled with a bad mood, Li Changyi's temper is going to be extremely bad. The slaves and maids were punished three times and twice, and they all tried their best to avoid this Mrs. Li, for fear that they would suffer.

Li Changyi was upset that the sound of the pipa was intermittent and refused to stop.

Kuye hurried through the courtyard, cursing the cold weather in his heart, and feeling resentful that the lady had been treated poorly, and could only live in such a small and simple place, and there was no way to compare it with the residence in the former Assassin's Mansion.

When I came in, I saw that the little lady was only holding her bun at will, wearing a hakama, and she looked completely homely, which was simply unpopular. Kuye felt that the lady had a self-defeating mentality since she entered the General's Mansion, which was absolutely impossible.

"Lady, I've asked clearly." Kuye dispersed several other slaves and maids in the house, and walked over to Li Changyi and replied.

The little lady knelt on the seat, and she knelt beside Li Changyi. There is not even a big bed in this room, and it is too cold.

"It is the general's concubine who plays the pipa, and the slave is called 'Kang Ji', who is the biological mother of Shiro Asu. was originally a low-born wine shop bearded girl. I heard that he used to sell wine in the market, but then he somehow happened to see the general, and because he was good at playing the pipa, he attracted the attention of the general, so he was included in the house. Kuye told Li Changyi all the news he had inquired about.

It was because of the sound of the pipa that came every day that Li Changyi was irritable, so he ordered Kuye to inquire about the news. But the news from Kuye not only did not dispel the dissatisfaction in Li Changyi's heart, but aroused her fear. Orchids, wine shops, which reminded her of the Sogdian girl. Everything is the same, is there really such a coincidence?

Li Changyi's eyes stared at Kuye with intricate eyes, and Kuye also looked at her with great certainty. There is nothing she has done that Kuye doesn't know, and it seems that Kuye is sure in her heart.

"Is that her?" Li Changyi was still unwilling.

"Lady, it seems that it is." Kuye has already decided in his heart. hatefully said, "This bearded girl, from a humble and restless background, dares to tease the general in a wine shop." Who let her see the affairs of the lady and the general? Why did she escape at that time? How exactly did the Great General end up with her? ”

The bitter leaf refers to the past situation in the Yecheng wine shop. At that time, Li Changyi witnessed Gao Cheng and Kang Naning playing the pipa together in the wine shop. Li Changyi was born beautiful, and he is a high-ranking family of the Li family in Zhao County, and he has always regarded himself very highly, and he can't see others overshadowing him.

In the Zhonghuang Mountain Wahuang Temple, Li Changyi met Gao Cheng for the first time, Gao Cheng teased her in every way, and Li Changyi was already uncomfortable. She didn't know that Gao Cheng had seen her and Gao Zhongmi on the streets of Yecheng when she was close, so she looked down on her in her heart.

Gao Cheng is still kind and pleasant to a girl in a wine shop, and he talks about music and rhythm, but he has no sincerity towards her. Later, he used it in every possible way, and even coerced and lured, which made Li Changyi even more annoyed and hateful. But this is the end, she had to be given to him by the emperor as a concubine again.

What I didn't expect was that my identity was reduced to the same status as Kang Naning, a bearded girl in a wine shop, and she became Gao Cheng's concubine. The eldest princess is the sister-in-law of the Lord, but how can she also be given by the emperor himself, how can she be on a par with Hu Nu?

Li Changyi still remembered that the eldest princess was scheming, but this Hu girl became the general's concubine so easily, and she must not be a scheming person. And she has already given birth to Xiao Langjun.

It's just that Gao Cheng used to tease and joke in every way, but now he doesn't even show his face, he doesn't come, he doesn't have her at all. Li Changyi really can't be reconciled.

Kuye looked at Li Changyi and was silent for a long time, she had never seen the little lady look so depressed. So he couldn't help but complain in a low voice, "If the lady is so careless, even that bearded girl can't compare." ”

Li Changyi was shocked by these words, and woke up suddenly.

"Where has the general gone?" She subconsciously blurted out a question. The only way to do this is to let Gao Cheng pay attention to her first, so that he can say anything else.

"The general doesn't seem to be in the palace, I heard that the lord summoned the general into the palace." Kuba hesitated and didn't answer in the affirmative. After all, in the General's Mansion, she can't be as commanding as she used to be in the Assassin's Mansion.

Li Changyi didn't speak, and there were some things she didn't want to say even bitter leaves. From Gao Zhongmi's treason, she can see that Gao Cheng is mostly using her mentality. To do so in itself is to completely ignore her as a person. Li Changyi, who prides herself on being a beauty of the country, can't stand this the most.

Want to know how Gao Zhongmi was obedient to her in the past? Gao Cheng's attitude towards her is simply different from Gao Zhongmi.

Although Li Changyi was already gritting her teeth in her heart, she still had to admit that if she wanted to compete for favor with Gao Cheng, she had to first make him feel that she was still useful. She is a concubine given to him by the emperor himself, and he should understand that she is absolutely inseparable from the emperor and the clan.

This is the only thing she can rely on now, but it will backfire if she doesn't use it well, so she must grasp the proportions and scales. Li Changyi knows very well that according to Gao Cheng's gentlemanly temper, if she believes that she has a backer and wants to be subdued, Gao Cheng may not be convinced. And she didn't want to use this kind of fool's trick.

Hinting and threatening Gao Cheng is even more useless. Gao Cheng may not necessarily take the emperor Yuan Shanjian in his eyes. She has heard a lot about the bad deeds of the general's rudeness. Punching and kicking the emperor, teasing King Gaoyang and those people like domestic slaves, this is almost unknown to everyone in Yecheng.

Li Changyi's eyes are like dreamlike scenes, all of which are all from her acquaintance with Gao Cheng to the present. Come to think of it, maybe it's still the most useful to coax people in low clothes. might as well confess that the emperor has a heart for her, and she is also willing to deal with the emperor for the sake of the general. This softness means that she is willing to work with the general, or she can let Gao Cheng remove her psychological defense, and is willing to use her to deal with the emperor and the clan. That's where she comes in.

The rest of how to get the favor of the husband must be based on this, and that is a matter for the future. Li Changyi was even full of confidence in herself at this time. She didn't believe that she was such a talent, how could she not be favored in the future. She even thought of Gao Cheng's uncountable wives and concubines.

The main mother, Yuan Zhonghua, is the eldest princess, the daughter of the clan, and the emperor's own sister. As for the other concubines, like Kang Ji, they don't need to be taken seriously at all, and Gao Cheng must not pay special attention to this, because it seems that none of these concubines in the mansion are particularly favored.

Li Changyi felt that if she could only be a concubine, then at least she had to be above other concubines, and she must not be the same as Kang Ji, who was from a humble background. That princess Langya, thinking that she can get a unique place in Dongbaitang, although she does not have the title of a concubine, she is just a foreign wife, but she is so detached, Li Changyi is still jealous and hateful in her heart.

In fact, she didn't want to do this in her heart. Thinking back to the past when I was the housewife in the Assassin's Mansion, I hated the current situation even more.

Gao Cheng is indeed not in the house.

Emperor Yuan Shanjian did indeed summon the general into the palace. It was when Gao Cheng and Cui Jishu secretly discussed that Sun Teng would not come back to Yecheng to visit, and someone from the palace came.

Bald Tujia did mean to return to the royal court in a hurry before, and he also expressed it to Gao Cheng. It's just that this situation is very good, others don't know, but Bald Tujia understands it in her heart. That's why he has been cautious and has not been in a hurry to leave.

So far, more than 20 days have passed, and I feel that the weather is gradually getting warmer and not so cold. The year has begun, Emperor Yuan Shanjian didn't know why, the excitement was always unbearable, often in the palace banquet in three or five years, and when he returned, he had to invite the general to go.

Gao Cheng must go every time he is called.

But this time is different. Sun Teng returned to Yecheng and went straight to Gaoyang Mansion, Gao Cheng didn't know the situation in Jinyang before he saw Sun Teng, and he was anxious in his heart, but Yuan Shanjian found an excuse to entertain the prince of Rouran to annoy him, which made him extremely angry.

Patiently preparing to enter the palace, there is something going on.

Gao Cheng didn't know that he was a general, and Taibao Sun Teng came.

Sun Teng and Gao Yang finally came to an agreement, but his responsibilities were much more than that. If you want to go back to Yecheng to meet the general, this is normal, but it is not normal not to come. But I didn't expect to pounce in the air, Gao Cheng was not in the house. When Sun Teng heard that the general had entered the palace, he also hurriedly chased after him. In fact, the most important thing in his heart is to see Gao Cheng. Appeasing Gao Yang was just to let him relax his vigilance and stop paying attention to Jinyang, so Sun Teng told him: King Gao is dead.

What Sun Teng, who chased to the palace, didn't know was that Gao Cheng did not enter the palace.

It was precisely because there was Lin Quanshe on the way to the palace, and Xiao Yi, the king of Xiangdong of Liang Guo, ordered someone to say that there was something urgent, so Gao Cheng turned around and went to Lin Quanshe.

He went to Lin Quanshe alone, and Cui Jishu, the attendant of the Yellow Gate, was sent into the palace by Gao Cheng to deal with it.

At this point, Gao Cheng was already a little scrambling, but he was barely able to cope with it on the surface. The things that are usually hidden and not released are all issued at the same time at this time, which makes people inevitably feel anxious.

Feasting is not a big deal. Bald Tujia wants to go back to the royal court, and she also shouted, not for a day or two. Moreover, if there is really something important, he will not let Yuan Zenjian know first, and then tell him. Relatively speaking, the matter of Nanliang is more important.

Xiao Yi is not a person who can't hold his breath. was in such a hurry to invite him to Lin Quanshe, Gao Cheng's intuition was not a trivial matter worth mentioning, and presumably Xiao Yi would not deliberately exaggerate and tease him. So of course, Gao Cheng went to Lin Quanshe first.

It's just that Gao Cheng didn't expect that he actually saw Lin Quanshe see a person he didn't expect. (To be continued.) )