Lu Huiling picked up a smooth horn comb, which was engraved with peach blossoms and inlaid with jade and jade, and she looked very happy.

"Mother, why have you never seen it used?" Lu Huiling asked curiously.

Mrs. Lu took the horn comb, smiled and rubbed the pattern on it with her hand, recalling the past, she said: "This is the comb that my mother used to comb my hair on the day I got married, because I married from a long distance, I have always carried it with me..."

"My mother kept it all the time, for fear that it would be broken and I wouldn't dare to use it." Mrs. Lu said, the tears in the corners of her eyes were about to fall again, "To this day, I still remember the day I got married, my mother told me and sang songs." After you were born, I have been thinking about how I will feel when I comb your hair for you and send you to get married..."

Lu Huiling looked at the comb and remembered what Aunt Xu Lan said when she combed her hair, and instantly had mixed feelings.

As soon as Mrs. Lu mentioned this, she couldn't help but shed tears.

In the past, I always thought that my daughter Huiling would grow up one day and get married, but when she was a child and studied with the children of those families, Mrs. Lu secretly looked for a son of a family with good character and could marry her baby daughter Huiling.

Later, I learned that Lu Huiling liked Qi Jingqin, and Mrs. Lu was not annoyed, at that time she vowed to marry Lu Gaohong, and her old father, who was a businessman, was not allowed, but she still married and lived happily in the end.

Mrs. Lu did not object to Lu Huiling's joy of Qi Jingqin, but she was always worried that her liking would be fruitless, and now Lu Huiling had become the emperor's concubine, and there was no decent wedding, which made Mrs. Lu feel very uncomfortable.

"Mother, do you remember how you sang the ballad when you combed your hair on the day of your wedding?" Lu Huiling held the horn comb and kept fiddling with it in his hand, his eyes were full of joy and yearning.

Mrs. Lu looked at her yearning and was slightly stunned, and suddenly remembered that Hui Ling was already a concubine, but she had not combed her hair yet.

"Yes." It's not that I remember, when they are together, they always talk about their children in the family, and now their daughters will marry when they are old, saying that they ask their mothers to comb their hair when they get married in traditional etiquette, so they have secretly learned about this kind of ballad.

"Mother, comb my hair for me." Lu Huiling hesitated again and again, but still said this sentence.

As the eldest lady of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she should be ten miles of red makeup when she gets married, the long street is covered with fiery red carpets, and the person who marries him should be a slender red wedding dress, with handsome eyebrows and eyes, and there is a little affection when she looks at her, and the people are cheering, and the maids in the Prime Minister's Mansion are wearing red clothes and exuding joy candy.

But now, marrying into the palace alone, there is no bride price, only a monstrous reward, in order not to gossip, the emperor did not announce to the world, and the prime minister did not say a word about it, for a girl who grew up proudly, she only fantasized about letting her mother comb her long hair once.

Lu Huiling sat in front of the dresser, facing the bronze mirror, took off the heavy headdress on her head little by little, and the moment she untied her bun, her jet-black hair fell like a waterfall, she used to wake up in the boudoir, she looked like this, but her eyes were less beautiful than before.

Mrs. Lu was holding a horn comb, looking at this scene, she almost fainted from crying, and the grandmother behind her was already teary-eyed.

Mrs. Lu raised the horn comb, inserted the hair on the top of Lu Huiling's head, and slowly combed it down, she forcibly held back her whimpering cry, her body couldn't help but tremble, she said, "A comb... Comb to... Tail..."

Hearing this, Lu Huiling's tears couldn't stop flowing down, she used to think that if she could hear this sentence in her lifetime, it should be when she married Ruyi Langjun, but she didn't want to become the emperor's concubine now, and share the monarch with the weak water three thousand, and the person she liked had already married her.

On that day, when Liang Huanqing got married, she also sat in front of the bronze mirror with the big red happy word pasted like this, and the bride combed her hair and read the ballad for her.

"Two combs... "Mrs. Lu cried so much that she couldn't help herself, she should have cried with joy when she combed her daughter's hair, but now she is really distressed, and she feels sorry for Lu Huiling's unhappy ending.

"Three combs..."Mrs. Lu's hand holding the horn comb trembled uncontrollably, she burst into tears, but continued to comb.

"That's enough." Lu Huiling said, "Mother, it's enough to get here." ”

Lu Huiling also cried uncontrollably, she turned around and held Mrs. Lu's hand, the mother and daughter looked at each other, both eyes were full of devastation: "Mother, my daughter is not filial." ”

Mrs. Lu cried and shook her head, wanting to say something, but she was already whimpering and speechless.

"Mama, please go and ask Aunt Xu Lan to comb my hair for me." Lu Huiling turned to the grandmother behind Mrs. Lu and commanded.

Xu Lan hurriedly came in to comb Lu Huiling's hair bun, and after cleaning up, it was time for the palace gate to be keyed.

"It's not too early, my daughter is going back to the palace." Lu Huiling wiped the tears from Mrs. Lu's cheeks and said softly.

Mrs. Lu nodded, her face full of reluctance: "Huiling, when is the palace banquet, my mother will go to see you again." ”

"Uh-huh." Lu Huiling responded, and hurriedly turned around to go back to the palace.

She was worried that delaying the palace gate for too long would allow Concubine Mei to seize the opportunity to take advantage of it, and she would go to the Qinzheng Palace early tomorrow morning to accompany the emperor to watch the recital, and she had to rest early tonight.

Aunt Xu Lan didn't understand what they were talking about, so she put her hair in a bun as she spoke, but it was always the master's business, and she helped Lu Huiling to get out of the Prime Minister's Mansion.

When they arrived at the door of the Prime Minister's Mansion, Lu Gaohong and Lu Chen stood in the side room and looked at her, as if they didn't want to show up, separation was always inevitable, Lu Huiling knew that they didn't want to see this scene, so he stopped and said to the side room: "My daughter is gone, Daddy take care." ”

Mama helped Mrs. Lu all the way to the door, Mrs. Lu couldn't cry straight, and Mama mixed with her, for fear that she would fall down in the next second.

"Mother, don't send it." Lu Huiling turned to look at Mrs. Lu, and couldn't bear to toss her again, "Take care of yourself." ”

Then he turned around and left.

Ning Xue took advantage of Xu Lan's emptiness when she went in to comb Lu Huiling's hair, knelt in front of the golden bell carriage, and when Lu Huiling was just about to get into the carriage, she kowtowed and said, "Miss take the slave and maid away, Miss..."

Lu Huiling looked at Ning Xue hesitantly, squatted down to help her up, and whimpered: "Daddy asked you to take the deed of sale and go home, why didn't you listen." ”

"The slave has no home, the Xiangfu is the slave's home, and the place where there is a young lady is the slave's home, and the slave and maid don't go anywhere, they want to stay with the young lady, and the slave and maid will serve you for a lifetime." Ning Xue ignored Lu Huiling's dissuasion, and said while kowtowing.

"This palace is no longer Miss Xiangfu, if you enter the palace, you will not be free, this palace will give you an extra sum of money, Ning Xue, marry someone, marry a good family..." ”

"Don't..."Ning Xue tugged at the hem of Lu Huiling's clothes, shaking her head and crying bitterly, "Miss, don't leave me." ”

Lu Huiling couldn't bear to look at it anymore, Ning Xue was a maid who grew up with her, she knew that the deep palace was lonely, there was no prosperous long street, there was no lively life, and she was in a high position but in danger, she didn't want Ning Xue to be her weakness in the palace.

Lu Huiling stood up, ruthlessly shook off Ning Xue and got into the carriage, and after sitting firmly in the carriage, she heard Ning Xue still crying outside and asking Lu Huiling to take her away.

"Xu Lan, drive her away." Lu Huiling closed her eyes and said slowly, "Send someone to tell the Prime Minister, treat her well, and find a good family for her." ”

"Yes." Xu Lan agreed, and then ordered the two eunuchs to drag Ning Xue away.

The golden bell carriage shook with a crisp sound, and slowly returned according to the way it came.

Ning Xue's crying and screaming were heartbreaking, and she was afraid that she would never see Miss again in this life.

Lu Huiling sat in the carriage, listening to the crisp sound of the bell shaking, and listening to the noisy and lively sound on the street when he came, and the heaviness in his heart increased a little more.

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Liang Lin has been busy in the barracks, and finally has some free time, so he thought that he had not seen his sister Huanqing for a long time, and when he passed by the palace today, he thought about going in to visit.

Liang Huanqing has been persuading the princess to go back to the palace earlier, not to make Concubine Mei anxious, but Qi Wangshu said that the palace must be full of miasma at this time, and he said that he was unwilling to go back, so he had to stay in the palace for a few days.

Liang Huanqing couldn't resist Qi Wangshu, and could only let her live in the palace, but Qi Wangshu wanted to pester Liang Huanqing and live with her in Linlang Garden, which made her very unaccustomed.

After they got up together on this day, Liang Huanqing sat in the Duguang Pavilion to blow the wind when she had nothing to do, and the blowing had a calming effect on her.

"Huanqing, you try this, it's delicious!" Qi Wangshu ran to Liang Huanqing with a plate of dim sum, picked one up and was about to stuff it into her mouth.

"Ahh Liang Huanqing was taken aback, and almost choked to death by the sudden pastry, and coughed in a hurry.

Yuebai was busy and there was no one all day long, and now Jiang Yi had been waiting by her side, and when she saw the princess coughing, she hurriedly stepped forward to pat her on the back.

Qi Wangshu saw that he was in trouble, stood aside with an embarrassed face, and said, "Huanqing, are you okay... I didn't mean to... I... Hey? ”

Qi Wangshu's eyes involuntarily glanced to the side, but she inadvertently saw a familiar figure, she pointed in that direction in surprise and said, "That... Isn't that Liang Lonely! What did he do in the palace! ”

After Liang Huanqing calmed down, he stood up and looked at it, nodded and said, "That's right, I still think it's strange when the little guy came to report the time, why did my brother come to visit for no reason." ”