CHAPTER XXIX

Today's Lin Ruoshui wore a water-red lily skirt, painted exquisite makeup, had a decent smile on his face, and walked like a cheerful butterfly in the crowd. Su Jinan looked at her impeccable smile and couldn't help but think of her life experience, obviously with such an unbearable identity, but she can still be comfortable among a group of noble women, and women who can have such a heart generally have ambitions that cannot be underestimated.

Lin Ruoshui is fourteen years old this year, only one year younger than Su Jin'an's real age, but until Shen Wanjun's accident, there was no second child in the Lin Mansion except for Lin Xiaoyue, Lin Ruoshui only appeared when Lin Wenguo was transferred back to the capital, and she was eight years old at that time.

Su Jin'an drugged Lin Wenguo back then, and it was impossible for him to have any more children at that time, so Su Jin'an later carefully checked the origin of this child, Lin Ruoshui's mother was a dancing girl in the Qinglou, named Yilian. Lin Wenguo once drank too much wine with his colleagues and made a one-night husband and wife with Yilian, Lin Wenguo didn't care about it at that time, but not long after Lin Xiaoyue was full moon, Yilian came to the door with pregnancy in order to get rid of the right and wrong place of the Qinglou, and begged Lin Wenguo to take him in. Lin Wenguo didn't want to pay attention to it, but then after thinking about it, he decided to find a place for Yilian to settle down, and wait until the child was born, if it was a boy, then he would consider taking her into the house, but then Yilian gave birth to a girl, Lin Wenguo was a little disappointed, so he raised their mother and daughter outside, except for sending someone to send some silver taels, basically never saw them.

After Shen Wanjun and Lin Xiaoyue had an accident, Lin Wenguo married Chen Yalin as he wished, but they never had an heir born, at first he thought it was Chen Yalin's problem, after all, he gave birth to two daughters, but after a long time, no one in his backyard was pregnant, he began to have some doubts about himself, and it took a few years for him to determine that the problem was with himself, but Lin Xiaoyue was dead, and he only had one outer room girl left. Lin Wenguo did not tell Chen Yalin about his physical condition, so Chen Yalin always thought that it was his own problem and felt guilty about Lin Wenguo, so Lin Wenguo took this advantage to take Lin Ruoshui back to the house, and persuaded Chen Yalin to raise Lin Ruoshui to his knees, as for Yilian, he just raised her to the Zhuangzi outside the city, and did not take her back to the house. Therefore, today's Lin Ruoshui is not Lin Wenguo's real concubine, just a maiden raised in the name of his mother, but Lin Wenguo's secret is not known in Annan, and no one knows about it after returning to Beijing, everyone thinks that Lin Ruoshui is Lin Wenguo's only concubine.

"Jin'an? Jin'an? A woman's voice pulled back Su Jin'an's thoughts, she turned her face and saw that it was Shao Ningxi, the daughter of Shao Chengjiang, the commander of the Xiao Cavalry Battalion, and the two met once Mei took her out to a banquet, although they were not familiar, but it may be because they are both the daughters of Jiangmen, and the two have a good impression of each other.

"Ning Xi? Is there something wrong? Su Jinan asked Shao Ningxi.

Shao Ningxi shook his head: "What can I do now, it's just to see you here alone in a daze, and I'll come over to see you when I see it." By the way, what were you just thinking? Then get into the gods. ”

"I'm thinking, I don't know what the meaning of today's flower-viewing feast is."

"Meaning? That's naturally for the princes to choose people! ”

"Choosing someone for the prince? Hasn't the marriage of the second prince been decided? Su Jin'an said a little strangely.

Shao Ningxi's expression was so good: "Yes, the second prince and concubine are decided, so don't you have to have a side concubine?" ”

Su Jin'an was a little surprised: "Could it be that the second prince wants to marry the main concubine and the side concubine at the same time, isn't this a bit ......?" ”

"What's the point? His Royal Highness the Second Prince is the wishful husband in the hearts of all the women in the capital, even if it is the side concubine, there are people who have broken their heads, and the second prince is not young, Concubine Rong naturally hopes that her son will spread as soon as possible, and it is not impossible to marry together. ”

Su Jinan laughed a few times speechlessly, Shao Ningxi suddenly posted mysteriously, and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "I heard my father say that the emperor asked Concubine Rong to marry a concubine for His Royal Highness King Yan!" ”

"King Yan?"

"That's right, it's the King Yan you thought of, he is only one year old apart from His Royal Highness the Second Prince, and he also grew up in Concubine Rong's palace, so the emperor asked Concubine Rong to take care of this matter."

Su Jinan said a little abruptly: "So that's the case." ”

"Na, I told you everything I knew, I see that you usually act safely, today you have to be more stable and don't come out, otherwise you will be selected to be the 'Princess of Hades', don't blame me for not reminding you." Shao Ningxi reminded Su Jin'an.

"Okay, thank you for telling me, I will try to be a transparent person today." Su Jinan thanked Shao Ningxi.

Shao Ningxi sat with Su Jin'an for a while, and some familiar girls came to invite, and she said goodbye to Su Jin'an.

On the other side, in the emperor's imperial study, the emperor had just finished talking to Rong Chengjiao about the border, looking at Rong Chengjiao, who was about to leave, the emperor spoke: "After a few years at the border, now you are not young, today your mother held a banquet there, do you want to go and see, if there is a match for your eyes, it is time to marry the princess." ”

Rong Chengjiao didn't react when he heard this, but Su Jin'an's bright eyes suddenly appeared in his mind, and there was no fear and disdain in them, but appreciation and envy.

The emperor didn't give Rong Chengjiao a chance to refuse, and said directly: "Let's go, let's go and have a look." ”

Su Jin'an sat bored in the courtyard where the flowers were appreciating, looking at the flowers of all colors in the yard, and there was no intention of appreciating them at all. There were some girls gathered not far away, as if they were interested in poetry, Su Jinan was not interested in it, and did not come over, but her not going over does not mean that others will not come.

Su Jinan looked at Lin Ruoshui as if he was walking towards him step by step, and raised his good-looking eyebrows, and in a blink of an eye, Lin Ruoshui had already come to Su Jin'an, with a kind smile on his face: "It's Miss Jin'an from the three parties of the Su family, I'm from the Lin Mansion, and we met last time when I put makeup on Sister Azi." ”

"yes, yes." Su Jinan did not deny it.

"Over there, the county lord of Feiluan is asking the ladies of each family to compose poems, and now there is one less person in the team, Miss Jin'an is interested in coming and trying?"

"Nope." Su Jin'an's straightforward and simple refusal made Lin Ruoshui pause, no one had ever rejected her so directly, and she didn't know how to answer for a while.

At this time, a palace maid wearing a pink palace dress came over and said to Su Jin'an, "Miss Su, our county lord invites you to come over." ”

Su Jin'an knew that he couldn't avoid it, so he followed the palace maid to the place where the county lord of Feiluan was. There was a pavilion, there were about seven or eight girls in it, and when they saw Su Jinan coming, everyone got up and saluted each other.

"I heard that you only returned to Beijing with your father a few years ago, no wonder I haven't seen you before, can you compose poems?" The lord of Feiluan County is straight to the point.

"Yes, but the little girl is not good at poetry."

"Then you have to make up a number and write a few sentences."

"Yes, the little girl will be ugly." Su Jinan felt that since he couldn't avoid it, it was better to go with the flow.

"Okay, then let me talk about the rules, today is a flower feast, let's naturally take flowers as the theme, a stick of incense time, one person and one poem, after writing, it will be handed over to the palace maids around her, Rong Concubine Niangniang will personally pass the purpose, into the eyes of the mother, the mother will give the color head, okay, let's start." After the county lord of Feiluan finished speaking, a palace maid took a stick of incense and put it on the table in the middle, and then a palace maid presented pen and ink, Su Jinan looked at the white paper in front of her and was a little speechless, isn't this embarrassing for her? Fortunately, I still have a little stock in my head, so it won't be too ugly.

The pavilion was quiet for a while, everyone was considering the words, Su Jinan had a feeling of cheating in the exam, in order not to look special, she deliberately moved to the side, lowered her head and touched the edge of the table with her white fingers, looking pensive. When the time was almost up, many people had already taught the finished product in advance, and after Lin Ruoshui handed over his own to the palace maid, he saw that Su Jinan was still thinking and walked over and said with some surprise: "Hasn't Jin'an written yet?" ”

Only Su Jinan herself knew that she was unconsciously distracted again, and seeing that the time was almost up, she said to Lin Ruoshui: "Yes, I'm not good at poetry." After speaking, Su Jinan didn't wait for Lin Ruoshui to answer, so he quickly wrote down his content on white rice paper and handed it to the palace maid beside him.

After a stick of incense, all the poems were presented to Concubine Rong, and the ladies in the pavilion were discussing their ideas just now, some were happy and some were regretful, only Su Jinan sat quietly on the side, she was a one-size-fits-all, she didn't care what the result was, anyway, she wouldn't steal the limelight.