Chapter 56: Moving like a rabbit, quiet like a virgin
"The two of us really have the same disease, you are interested in the beauty of the family, but I can't say it in my heart."
Hearing this wry smile, Yang Huaijin's dim eyes suddenly lit up. "I know that you have a beautiful woman in your heart, but if you don't say it, I won't bother to ask, so you can tell me whose young lady is your unspeakable beauty?"
"Brother Yang, don't ask, it's my wishful thinking, it's better to bury it in my heart." Yan Xinglu waved his hand again and again.
"Wishful thinking? If you don't say it, how will you know that the young lady doesn't have a good impression of you, you are a beautiful and jade son, and you are a well-known talent, the son of the Taiwei, which young lady doesn't like it, don't be presumptuous! Yang Huaijin thought that this was just Yan Xinglu's complaining words, so he hurriedly comforted him.
"Brother Yang has not been in Beijing for a long time, he won't know, they all say that I am a talented person, and in her eyes, I am just a nerd, and I have a good impression, but I can't help it!" Yan Xinglu glanced at his favorite poetry book on the shelf, and his eyes dimmed a little.
"Since it is a good impression, and it is not a difference between the family, this should be a good fate, why is Brother Yan afraid and not spit out his sincerity?" Yang Huaijin suddenly became curious.
In the end, he is a brother who has been friends for many years, and the only person who can make Yan Xinglu spit out his bitterness is Yang Huaijin.
"The destiny of heaven cannot be violated, and it can only be appointed, I only hope that after she gets married, she can be happy and happy!"
"Marry?" Yang Huaijin was stunned for a moment, and his eyes couldn't help but become solemn: "I just heard about His Royal Highness King Rui wanting to marry last night, it turns out that Brother Yan's intended person is actually that young lady!" ”
Yan Xinglu smiled bitterly and took a long breath of turbid breath in his heart.
"Also, that young lady is a maverick, no wonder Brother Yan likes it, it's just Brother Yan, it's hard to disobey your destiny, you should want to open some!"
Yang Huaijin pressed Yan Xinglu's shoulder, originally to persuade him, but when he was concerned about what was in his heart, he sighed and smiled bitterly.
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Tomorrow is the day of great joy, early this morning in the palace came to the palace four aunts at the request of the queen to bring a special rouge gouache snail snail lipstick and other facial makeup materials, just waiting for the next morning for Du Yiyi to comb, the phoenix crown has been delivered as early as the day of the dowry, and the red hijab embroidered with gold thread is embroidered by Lu Xiangxue himself, and the dowry prepared by Shen Ke Lu Xiangxue for Du Yiyi began to be loaded into the dowry in the middle of the day. The dowry in the palace is different from the original, and all the items on the dowry list have also been copied to the top of the dowry list by Mr. Accounts, and all this is personally supervised by Lu Xiangxue, Shen Ke has already said that he wants to make Du Yiyi's wedding day beautiful, to say that the nobles in the capital marry their daughters and sisters, the most dowry is the daughter of Qin Guogong who married the prince of Zhenguo, and the dowry is full of three hundred, Du Yiyi is married to the prince, and the Shen family naturally does not need to worry about the difference in rank. Lu Xiangxue cooperated with the treasury account room to check the account books, and took out a dowry of three hundred lifts, plus the bride gifts of the emperor, adding up to four hundred and eighty-eight lifts, making up an auspicious number.
At noon, the subordinates of the Shen Mansion hurriedly used lunch and began to work again without touching the ground, tomorrow the Shen Mansion also needs to set up a banquet, this afternoon the people must arrange the tables and chairs, etc., Lu Xiangxue is too busy to get rid of the makeup, the housekeeper is outside the front hall of the lobby to direct the subordinates to arrange, the front yard is noisy and boiling like boiling water to explode the pot, at this time the backyard is clean and peaceful, Du Yiyi endured sleepiness and sat on the soft couch boringly and listened to the aunt in the palace and a happy woman talking about the etiquette of getting married tomorrow, What kind of broken saddle kicking sedan chair is something that makes her unable to lift her spirits.
Finally, when several aunts and sisters said that they had dried up and closed their mouths, Ling'er outside came in a hurry.
"Miss, the eldest princess and the little princess are here, and Madame asked the maidservant to invite you to the lobby."
Celestial Princess, Little Princess? Du Yiyi muttered the most enviable name of this woman in the world, Dai Mei frowned unconsciously, she has been in this world for three months, the prince, the emperor, the queen and the princess have all seen it, but the two sons have never met, even the topics of chatting on weekdays have never been related to these two princesses, if she marries Ning Zhiyuan, the eldest princess and the little princess are her sister-in-law, no wonder the two of them came here at this time.
"Got it." I happened to be a little tired listening to the words of a few aunts, and now I can relieve my fatigue by meeting the two princesses, and several aunts were sent by the palace, so she didn't care about the errand, so she had to let Mother Xu accompany her to the lobby.
Speaking of the two princesses, this is a plain as water, the eldest princess Ning Yingying is the daughter of Concubine De, one of the four concubines, ranked fifth among several dragon sons and dragon girls, the eldest princess was born with Ning Zhiyuan is almost the same, and she was also born prematurely, although her body is better than Ning Zhiyuan, but she has asthma brought from her mother's womb, she is an elegant and demure character, and when she has nothing to do, she just stays in the palace to paint poems and play the qin, and rarely shows up, although she lives in the palace, But the heavenly family has a rule that the dragon son and the dragon girl are not allowed to be raised by their mother when they are thirteen years old, the dragon son is thirteen years old and settles in the mansion outside the palace, and the dragon girl lives alone, Du Yiyi stayed in the palace for ten days and also went to the palace of Concubine De several times, but did not see it once, and went to the palace of the eldest princess and the little princess on the first day to ask to see, and the little princess Ning Xiao's background is more humble than the eldest princess, and her mother is one of the five concubines Qi Zhaoyi, who ranks last among the dragon sons and dragon girls, and the eldest princess is diametrically opposed to the character, Even secretly out of the palace many times, which made the emperor angry, and even reprimanded her for being stubborn and unwilling, but it is also strange to say that this little princess sometimes disobeys her biological mother's words, and is even more fearless and lawless to the emperor, but she has always obeyed the eldest princess.
On the way to the lobby, Xu's mother briefly made a brief description for Du Yiyi, so that Du Yiyi had a certain understanding of the two princesses, the identity of the princess in the peaceful and prosperous world can be said to be the happiest in the world, born with glory and wealth and superiority, not like several princes who have to work hard to win the heir, just wait until the day of the cabinet.
Seeing that Du Yiyi listened carefully, Mother Xu continued to say like a treasure: "The little princess has not yet been married, but the eldest princess has already made a marriage contract for many years, it seems that the future concubine is the son of Duke Cangming!" ”
"Cangming Gong?" Du Yiyi stopped in astonishment, didn't the emperor's current posture just want to take these meritorious families to open the knife? Why do you want to marry the eldest princess to the son of Duke Cangming?
"It's a marriage contract made last year, and the marriage will have to wait until after the spring of next year, and it is uncertain whether there will be variables!" Mother Xu knew the reason for Du Yiyi's question, and she also lowered her head and sighed at the moment!
The emperor began to deal with these meritorious families ten years ago, but last year he promised the eldest princess to the son of Duke Cangming, what is the intention of this? Could it be that the emperor wants to exchange the happiness of his own daughter's life for his own achievements?
Thinking about it, she couldn't help but shudder!
In the lobby, Lu Xiangxue was sitting on the left hand side, and on the two master chairs in the middle of the lobby were sitting two beautiful women with gold hairpins and silver faces.
The one on the left, willow eyebrows, double eyelids, high nose bridge, cherry mouth, smiling at the corners of his mouth, a bookish breath can be seen between his eyebrows, wearing a silver thread embroidered plum blossom pink palace dress is slightly wide, and a silver fox light fur cloak is lined with petite and weak, compared to the smart-eyed woman on the side, the eyes are less lively and more reserved, at a glance, you can know that it should be the eldest princess Ning Yingying, and the one on her side, dressed in a cherry purple neon dress and ironed, the hands between the thighs are always restless and circling, A pair of dark and bright eyes looked at Du Yiyi as soon as he saw her entering, and looked at the still somewhat immature face, it should be the little princess Ning Xiao.
Moving like a rabbit and quiet like a virgin, these two sisters are really completely different from each other at both ends of their personalities.
"I've seen the big princess little princess!"
Du Yi bowed according to Yingying's blessing.
"No need to be polite, no need to be polite!"
As soon as Du Yiyi looked up, she saw the eyes of the eldest princess full of kindness.
"The fourth brother is going to get married tomorrow, thinking that I, who should be a sister-in-law, have never even seen my younger siblings, it's really rude, I was taking a break that day, and the maids in the palace didn't dare to disturb, so I actually let Miss Du go back, and I don't know how to be a sister!"
"Fifth sister, you are not in good health and you have to take a nap every day, Miss Du just didn't go by chance, a few days earlier and a few days later, it's not the same?" The little princess pulled the eldest princess's sleeve and said with a smile: "I heard some things about Miss Du that day, and I liked Miss Du's temperament very much. Such a person is married to the fourth brother, and I don't know who should listen to whom! After saying that, the little princess leaned back and forth happily.
"You girl." The eldest princess was annoyed and helpless, so she could only pinch the back of the little princess's hand.
"Sister! I think Miss Du is a straightforward person, but it's not the same as you, here are the rules, there are rules, Miss Du, you say yes! The little princess smiled and raised her head.
"The little princess is really lively and cheerful, and has a straightforward temperament." Du Yiyi couldn't cry or laugh, so she had to reply with such a sentence.
"Fifth sister, look, I knew that Miss Du would fall in love with me!" Hearing this praise, the little princess jumped up unhappily, and put her hands on Du Yiyi's shoulders regardless of her identity etiquette or the fact that it was the first time she met Du Yiyi. "If the fourth brother bullies you, you just have to tell me, with his body, you can't fight with me for a round!"
The little princess's complacency was only exchanged for the eldest princess's helpless eyes, "You are not afraid of jokes if you say these words in front of Mrs. Shen!" ”
Lu Xiangxue looked at the little princess who was one shoulder shorter than Du Yiyi in the center of the lobby, pursed her lips and smiled: "The little princess has a lively temperament, this is what she should have at this age, where can there be jokes!" ”
"Mrs. Shen is right! Cardamom in a garment, why do you want to lock yourself in the cage of etiquette, Fifth Sister, you are already weak, and you are still stuffy in the house every day, looking like a woman in her twenties and thirties, where is it like a girl in fifteen or sixteen! ”
Although the little princess listens to the words of the eldest princess, her nature is to be arrogant, and the eldest princess is also arrogant to her, so the little princess knows almost everything about the eldest princess.
It doesn't matter if the two of them fight with the eldest princess on weekdays, but today they can't pull their faces in front of Lu Xiangxue and Du Yiyi: "Okay, okay, just look at the fourteenth year, I look like an old woman, you are crazy like a madman, if you let my father know that you are so rude in Shen Mansion, you can have your good fruit to eat!" ”
The two of them came and went one sentence at a time, but they didn't know that Du Yiyi, who was standing, and Lu Xiangxue, who was sitting, were both envious in their hearts, whether it was Du Yiyi or Lu Xiangxue, they were only daughters at home, and they had no brothers and sisters.
"The eldest princess and the little princess have a deep sisterhood, and they envy others!" As soon as the words fell, Du Yiyi only felt a hot gaze on the side, seeing that it was Lu Xiangxue, he smiled with her.
Lu Xiangxue recalled from her stunnedness: "I am an only daughter at home, and there is no one who wants to make trouble on weekdays, but it is a little rude to see the eldest princess and the little princess so harmonious!" ”
"Mrs. Shen, although you are an only daughter, but General Shen is heroic and outstanding, such a good match, Mrs. Shen is also a blessed person, I think Miss Du's temperament is somewhat similar to my sixth sister, the two of you sister-in-law are harmonious and happy, this is what makes me envious!" The smile on the eldest princess's face stiffened a little as she spoke, and when she talked about marriage, how could she not worry, thinking of her father now thinking about how to eradicate her husband day and night, she was in a cold sweat when she dreamed at midnight.
Although the little princess was very aggressive, her mind was also delicate, and when she saw the eldest princess's face, she hurriedly sat back to her side and held her hand. "Fifth sister, you're thinking too much again!"