Chapter 17 Breathe, panic
Hua Jingyao didn't expect that the first thing she saw when she entered Chunhui Hall was this Cousin Cai.
Hehe.
Cousin Cai is the maiden niece of Mrs. Cai. Mrs. Cai's brothers, cousins, cousins, and cousins add up to more than ten or twenty people, and there are dozens of nephews and nieces who are far away.
The Cai family is considered a small fortune in Xianghe, and they have been out of Jinshi and Juren, but they are just "once", and they have not had it in recent decades.
Even so, the Cai family has regarded itself as a scholar from top to bottom, and this cousin Cai Bilian is also the same.
Four years ago, Cai Bilian entered the Beijing draft, but her luck was really bad, in that year, Yongguo Gong Shen Lingze died violently, the Queen Mother was sad and seriously ill, and the emperor was also very sad, so she had no intention of drafting, and the draft was canceled.
Prior to this, Mrs. Cai had already begged the eldest princess of Zhaoyang, although the two families had reconciled, but after all, there was Hua Jingyao in the middle, and the eldest princess of Zhaoyang had already nodded.
But if the emperor doesn't choose, what can he do?
Cai Bilian had no choice but to live in the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion and wait for the next year, although the draft is once every three years, but she was not selected last year, and she may be selected again next year.
But it backfired, Hua Yukun, who traveled abroad the following year, came back and brought back a little baby, that is, the fifth girl Hua Jinglin.
Old Mrs. Cai went to the eldest princess's mansion again, and the eldest princess of Zhaoyang didn't even see her face, so she asked Mama You to come out and send her away.
That year, the emperor did not have a public draft, and directly selected four beauties to enter the palace, one was assigned to the eldest prince as a side concubine, one emperor himself left a nobleman, and the other two were sent to Cining Palace and became female officials next to the queen mother. Whether it is a noble person or a female official, it is the help of the family, and what makes Mrs. Cai angry the most is that these four are all sent by the noble family, and those two female officials are the way of the eldest princess of Zhaoyang.
If Hua Yukun didn't bring back that little thing, Cai Bilian would be a female official of Cining Palace.
What is the identity of the female official of Cining Palace, that is the person who can speak in front of the Queen Mother, when today's son and mother are filial, and every year at the court meeting, the ladies of the Imperial Court compete to rush to stuff the female officials around the Queen Mother into red, in order to put their names on the premise of the Queen Mother......
It stands to reason that if she misses the two draft opportunities, Miss Cai should also go home, discuss her relatives, and marry someone.
But Miss Cai didn't leave, she wanted to stay in the capital to wait for her aunt, and Mrs. Cai also felt that this niece was to her liking, and wanted to tell Miss Cai that she was close to her in the capital.
So Miss Cai continued to live in the Qingyuan Marquis Mansion, and two years have passed in a flash, this year Shen Yuan, the son of Yongguo, died on the wedding night, the Queen Mother was fifteen years old four years ago, and now she is a nineteen-year-old girl, the draft is hopeless, but Mrs. Cai's good relatives are also hopeless.
Hua Jingyao remembered that in the previous life, Cai Bilian later married her fourth uncle and became her fourth aunt.
Master Hua Si is a concubine, Mrs. Cai doesn't like him, and she doesn't know why she married Cai Bilian to him later.
Now, Cai Bilian is not the fourth wife of Washington, she is just a cousin who lives here temporarily.
Hua Jingyao's eyes wandered in front of the door, only to see Cai Bilian and the maid Lanzhi she brought from Xianghe, and then Hua Jingyao saw the second wife who was munching melon seeds under the porch and watching the excitement.
Seeing her coming, the second wife hurriedly stood up: "The third girl hasn't seen her for a long time, look, she is getting more and more smart." ”
Hua Jingyao grinned: "The second wife is rich again, what a blessing." ”
The second wife smiled a little uncomfortably, the third girl has never liked to talk, often her good words are said in a basket, the third girl is smiling and bowing, today is a lot of words, but why does this sound so awkward?
"Hey, Cousin Cai, why don't you let us in?" Hua Jingyao looked at Cai Bilian, who was standing at the door.
Cai Bilian's attention was on the coffin, and when she heard Hua Jingyao calling her, she reacted, she pointed to the coffin behind Hua Jingyao and asked, "Third girl, what's going on?" ”
"That's what you see, Cousin Cai, hurry up and let me, don't bump my sister, my sister is young, and she has to cry and make trouble when she is woken up."
As she spoke, Hua Jingyao walked inside with her head held high, Shi Ding followed behind her with the coffin in both hands, Cai Bilian only felt a cold air surging up from the soles of her feet, the third girl was talking about her sister? She said her sister woke up crying and fussing?
Her sister is obviously dead, isn't the coffin her sister's?
At this time, movement was already heard in the house, the curtain opened from the inside, and before the people inside poked their heads out, Hua Jingyao pushed Cai Bilian away, raised her legs and walked in.
The maid who lifted the curtain was almost hit by Hua Jingyao, and before she could react, she saw the coffin.
"Ahh The maid screamed and sat on the ground.
Hua Jingyao didn't even give her a corner of the eye, and blessed Mrs. Cai: "The old lady is fine." ”
Usually she calls Mrs. Cai her grandmother, but this time she changed her name.
Old Madam Cai felt a pang in her heart, and when she saw the coffin, she had already secretly screamed.
"Yaoyao, why are you here, didn't you say that you accompanied the eldest princess to do things for the prince of Yongguo in Guangji Temple? It's windy outside today, ouch, you go and serve a bowl of rock sugar white fungus soup to the three girls to moisten your throat, good boy, hurry up and sit down next to my grandmother, grandmother thinks of my baby Yaoyao every day. Mrs. Cai asked Nuan Bao for a series of cold questions, as if she hadn't seen the coffin.
Hua Jingyao also smiled, walked to Mrs. Cai and sat down, and said to the maid on the side, "Add another chair." ”
The maid didn't know what to do, but the three girls spoke, and they couldn't help but listen, who were the three girls, that was the daughter of the eldest princess.
The maid immediately moved another chair over, Hua Jingyao sat on the left side of Mrs. Cai, and asked the chair to be placed on the right side of Mrs. Cai.
She said to Sting, who was holding the coffin: "Don't put my sister down yet, my sister is stuffy inside, you let her come out to breathe." ”
Hua Jingyao didn't think there was anything wrong with her saying this, it was Hua Jinglin lying inside, it was herself, she let her come out by herself to breathe, what's wrong, right?
But Mrs. Cai's face had changed, and the second wife and Cai Bilian who followed up were all startled.
Is the third girl's brain broken, doesn't she know that she brought in a coffin?
Sting walked over with straight eyebrows and put the coffin on the chair, the chair was wide, but the coffin still couldn't all be placed on the chair, and one section was suspended in mid-air, which made Mrs. Cai panic, for fear that the coffin would fall to the ground and the people inside would jump out.