Chapter Seventy-One: Preparations for the Performance



Updated: 2013-06-04

Seeing that Ouyang Xinrou didn't intend to blame her, it must be because she had seen through Xijuan's temperament in normal times, but poor Wan Qiliang was inexplicably treated as an unlucky person, which was really unpleasant.

Ouyang Xinrou looked at Wan Qiliang, she had been in the palace for a long time, even the most simple person should have some experience in observing words and feelings, but she couldn't see through Wan Qiliang, she just stood there so lightly, as if anything was meaningless in her eyes, she was obviously born with a beautiful appearance, and she was still envious of her delicate posture, as well as the unexplained pity in her eyes when she first saw her, which made her curious about her, after all, every day in the palace, she stepped on the land of the Quartet, and looked at the sky of the Quartet above her head. No matter how much freshness there once had, it has been worn away by time.

"Are you familiar with Chengxi?" Ouyang Xinrou has been rushing to Ouyang Chengxi since she was a child, as long as it is what he wants, she will do her best as a sister, even if she grows up, she will not be surprised, so Ouyang Chengxi's tendon temperament is more or less inseparable from Ouyang Xinrou's favor, naturally Ouyang Xinrou knows Ouyang Chengxi no less than himself, but his younger brother, who has always been reluctant to have more to do with the imperial court, actually asked her to allow a Qinglou woman to dance at the palace banquet, which made her more or less incomprehensible, thinking that Chengxi fell in love with the girl in his mouth, but looking at his expression, it didn't look like this, so she had to leave the question to Wan Qiliang to answer for her.

"Chengxi? The folk girl didn't know this person. Wan Qiliang pretended to think about it very seriously, but finally gave such an answer, which was indeed a bit unexpected by Ouyang Xinrou.

Don't recognize? Ouyang Xinrou didn't expect Wan Qiliang to not know Cheng Xi, so what did Cheng Xi do this for? She didn't understand, but Wan Qiliang could see it clearly.

"If you don't know, you don't know, this palace will let Xiaomei take you down to rest first." Maybe when she sees Cheng Xi again today, she should ask him what the purpose of what he is doing, after all, she has already taken a risk by getting an unidentified person into the palace, and it will be even more terrible if something goes wrong again.

"Thank you for your kindness." Wan Qiliang gave a slight salute, and waited for Ouyang Xinrou to call someone to come in and lead her out, and saw that the person who came was the cute child, and the corners of her mouth seemed to have a malicious smile, which made Xiaomei's heart a little hairy.

"Xiaomei, how many years have you been in the palace?" Wan Qiliang doesn't have any good feelings about the direction of the palace, so she always feels that a simple child like Xiaomei is in such a dangerous place, she always feels that something should not be.

"It's been almost five years." Xiaomei's way of counting with her fingers made Wan Qiliang want to pinch her tender little face fiercely, but if she really did it, Xiaomei would probably be so scared by her that she cried, and the gains outweighed the losses.

Five years is really a long number, five years ago, Xiaomei was just a child, and she already had to look at people's faces to do this and that, compared to her, she was quite good, although she couldn't get the warmth of the family, but she was still able to enjoy herself, at least without worrying about food and clothing.

Xiaomei didn't understand what was going on with Wan Qiliang's silence for a while, but she could see the worry in her eyes, but she still didn't understand, she was doing well now, what was she worried about? It's this sister who is so kind that she cares about her.

Wan Qiliang rested for a while in the side hall of the Rouxue Palace, and when he woke up, it was already night outside, and it seemed to be noisy.

"Sister Meiliang, are you awake?" Xiaomei knocked on the door, seeing that the time was almost up, and the palace banquet was about to start, Concubine Rou specially instructed her to come over to find Sister Meiliang, in case the time was delayed, it would not be good.

Wan Qiliang walked over and opened the door, hearing Xiaomei's slightly anxious voice, she thought something was wrong, it turned out that the palace banquet was about to start, looking at the people behind Xiaomei, there were some disdainful expressions on their faces, could it be that most of the expressions of the people in this palace were just like this?

"These sisters were sent by Concubine Rou to make up for Sister Meiliang." Xiao Meimei introduced it heartily, just seeing that both sides were ignoring each other, she didn't know what to do for a while, and her little face was about to become a small bun.

"In that case, let's all come in." Wan Qiliang gave in, and a few of them were not polite, and walked straight in.

"Sit in a chair." The woman's impatient tone made Wan Qiliang suddenly laugh, the laughter was a little weird, several people looked at each other, and they didn't come up with a reason, which made them very inexplicable.

Wan Qiliang still sat down obediently, her long and smooth hair was scattered to her waist, which made Xiaomei very envious, and she wanted to go up and touch it for fear of hurting Wan Qiliang, but the person who combed Wan Qiliang's hair didn't have so many scruples, and her long hair was pulled off several times, which completely annoyed Wan Qiliang, and this kind of thing really happened to this kind of person who didn't know what to do.

"Ah......h

"Do you like it?" Wan Qiliang said that she was still working hard, as if she was going to pull her hair directly off her scalp, and she was still deeply implementing the principle of 'giving back to the other in the other way', and naturally she would not be soft.

The other two people were naturally unwilling to see their sisters being bullied, and stepped forward to drag Wan Qiliang away, but she kicked them to the ground by one of them, and that kick also added a little of her internal force, and the two of them were weak even if they thought about it.

Xiaomei was a little overwhelmed when she saw this situation, and stood there stupidly watching Wan Qiliang do it, she should have stopped it, but the action of her body told her that she didn't want to do that, so she could only be nailed there motionless.

Wan Qiliang thought that Xiaomei was scared stupid, and it was right to think about it, she shouldn't have done it in front of her, but how could she swallow her anger when she was too deceitful? Her personality has never been so good.

Ignoring the hateful eyes of a few people, Wan Qiliang just made up for it and left with Xiaomei, except that her hair became scattered, her appearance was no different from before these people came in, so when Concubine Rou saw Wan Qiliang again, she couldn't help but be surprised.

"Why are you still like this?"

"A few people from Concubine Rou's faction are afraid that the little woman can't afford to arouse them, and they are still splashing and rolling in that room." Wan Qiliang is also telling the truth, these people have been scolding her all the time, isn't it a spo? Lying on the ground and not getting up and tossing back and forth is not rolling?

"What's going on?" Ouyang Xinrou is also a master-level figure, and she still has some prestige, staring at Xiaomei with a pair of eyes, asking her.

"Yes...... It was a few of them who were unreasonable to Sister Meiliang first, and they still relied on the floor of the room and refused to get up. Xiaomei thought about it, she couldn't betray Mei Liang, and she didn't want to lie, so she had to say so.

Wan Qiliang listened to it funny, and thought that Xiaomei would definitely tell the truth, but she didn't expect to hide it for her, she really didn't like her in vain.

Ouyang Xinrou heard Xiaomei say this, and most of her doubts disappeared, after all, she still knows what kind of person Xiaomei is, this child is too simple, she can't do anything to lie, she has written down such rude things for those three people, and the top priority is to dress up Wan Qiliang first, seeing that this is less than half an hour before the start of the palace banquet, she can't just mess up the matter that Chengxi asked her to do.

"This palace sent someone else to make up for you."

"Thank you for your kindness, you don't have to make up, I hope Niang Niang can find a red dress for the little girl, if not, the red fabric will also be."

"What's so hard about that? Hongu will prepare one for you immediately. ”

"Thank you, mother."

Sure enough, Ouyang Xinrou gave the order, and the efficiency of the palace people became faster, and as soon as they entered and exited, a bright red long dress appeared in front of Wan Qiliang's eyes.

"Let's see, I don't know if you're satisfied?"

Wan Qiliang picked up the red dress and looked at it, and compared it on his body again, this dress is afraid that Ouyang Xinrou's own thing, except for the size is slightly wider at the waist, there is no other problem.

"Thank you, Niangniang, the little girl is very satisfied."

"Seeing that the time for this palace banquet is coming, this palace needs to take the first step, you just wait in this palace, and when you appear, someone will come to inform you, remember not to run around." Ouyang Xinrou was going to see Helian Yunqian first, this kind of palace banquet had always been attended by the emperor and his concubines, and this time was naturally no exception.

"Mei Liang will stay here in peace and won't run around." Wan Qiliang didn't have any interest in this palace, it sounded so noisy outside, how boring she was to join in the excitement.

Ouyang Xinrou nodded, and left Rouxue Palace with a group of palace maids, leaving Xiaomei to accompany Wan Qiliang.

Speaking of which, Ouyang Xinrougui's concubine as the emperor's concubine is so polite that she can't be more polite to Wan Qiliang, in fact, even Wan Qiliang herself is a little suspicious, even if she has a good personality, when she hears her say that about her maid, she should also look at it or lose her temper or something, but she acts like she doesn't have that kind thing, I really don't know if she is too kind or has other plans, Wan Qianliang has a good impression of her, but now she is somewhat suspicious.

In fact, it can be said that Wan Qiliang is too worried, the reason why Ouyang Xinrou is quite polite to Wan Qiliang is nothing more than looking at Ouyang Chengxi's face, after all, this is the person he recommended, how can she not save face as a sister, and besides, she can't see the slightest malice when she looks at Wan Qiliang, in this case, why should she hurt her anger for those little things, this is not good for anyone, she still sees this truth very clearly, she has lived in the harem for a long time, and expects her to have no heart at all, that is the great naivety, has been by Helian Yunqian's side for so long, as the saying goes, those who are close to Zhu are red, and those who are close to ink are black, and now she is no longer Ouyang Xinrou who can be so happy that she can't sleep because of Helian Yunqian's words.