The ninth day of September, Chung Yeung Festival.

The scenery of Chongyang has poetry clouds: the cicadas have no sound, and the geese are singing in the sky.

Every family climbs high and looks far away, gathers and spends together, and the mountain on the outskirts of Beijing has an annual chrysanthemum meeting, and the flow of people is like weaving, and the jubilation is very.

However, such a festive atmosphere does not exist in Yanfu.

A carriage stopped at the corner gate of the Yan family, and Yan Shuyu, who was wearing a new peach-colored dress, was helped into the carriage. She didn't have anything on her body except for this one. Entering Chuxiu Palace as a concubine, she doesn't need any dowry at all, and she is not allowed to bring personal belongings.

This carriage is here to take her into the palace, and a few days ago, the Yan Mansion received the news from Chuxiu Palace, asking Yan Shuyu to enter the palace during the Double Ninth Festival, which stunned half of the Yan family.

Mrs. Wang was split in half, and Yan Shuyu was frightened and sick for several days, and she didn't even go to Aunt Hai's burial. Only then did she get better, after hearing the news, her condition recurred, until the ninth day of the first month of September, when she put on a thick layer of makeup on her face, barely covering her sick appearance.

Yan Qingge was not surprised at all by this news, because Yan Xiuyu had already told her about this possibility before.

Yan Shuyu's crime is very big, if she is tried by the Criminal Department to the end, she will definitely be beheaded for her mother's madness, and the case is enough to be published in the "Great Message" as a typical announcement to the world, so as to make a standard for future sentencing.

But Yan Shuyu has a special identity, and for the sake of the prince's reputation, it is impossible for this case to be made public. The prince has no special feelings for Yan Shuyu, this kind of woman who is as poisonous as a snake and scorpion, the most suitable punishment is to take her to the palace, put her under house arrest in disguise, and put an end to the trouble.

Yan Qingge listened to Yan Xiuyu's analysis at that time and felt that it was a little outrageous. But it turned out that Yan Xiuyu knew more about the royal family's methods than she did. Within a few days, the Yan family got a message from Chuxiu Palace.

Yan Shuyu is only fourteen years old, and she is still early in the age of Jilu.

Yuan Qianqian was sixteen when she entered the palace, and Hou Jingjing was also sixteen when she entered the palace, and Yan Shuyu was so much earlier, I was afraid that the people in the palace would know that the cat inside was tired as soon as they inquired.

However, Yan Qingge was not worried about Yan Shuyu at all, but felt that the prince was a little pitiful.

His favorite side concubine, Yuan Qianqian, is such a flattering and murderous virtue. Now there is a ruthless, thick-skinned and black-skinned Yan Shuyu, how will I live in the future, no wonder the prince wants to call himself "lonely", and the emperor wants to call himself a "widow", it is really a bad fate.

As soon as Yan Shuyu left, the entire Yan family became quiet.

It's about Yan Songnian who is too happy, even if the people around the Xinguo Mansion have left, he hasn't come back yet, and he is still messing around with the two outer rooms in the outer city.

If Yan Songnian doesn't come back for the rest of his life, Yan Qingge won't be in a hurry.

The outer room and the children born to him, according to the "Great Zhou Law", prostitutes and prostitutes have children, without any inheritance rights, and are not recognized, even if Yan Songnian has 10,000 children with those two outer rooms, it has nothing to do with Yan Qingge.

But just because she's not in a hurry doesn't mean that others aren't in a hurry.

The news that Yan Songnian was raising an outer room outside had already spread throughout the Yan family, and less than half a month had passed since Chongyang, Aunt Chu came to the door with her two daughters.

"Meet the eldest lady, hurry, call the eldest sister." Aunt Chu pushed Yan Runxin and Yan Boling.

Yan Runxin is three years old and has begun to be sensible, Yan Boling is only more than a year old, and he has just begun to babble. But Aunt Chu should have been specially taught, and the two girls said in unison: "Hello big sister, say hello to big sister." ”

Because Aunt Chu has an ordinary appearance, Yan Runxin and Yan Boling are not very good, and compared with Yan Qingge and Yan Shuyu, the two sisters in front of Zhuyu, they are several levels worse.

It's just that children are not ugly, Yan Qingge is also a little more generous to young children, looking at their pink and tender, Yan Qingge said to Ruyi: "What a pair of girls, I remember that there are new fine silk and fine cotton bought this year in the warehouse, choose a few bright ones, and make clothes for the two younger sisters." ”

Aunt Chu's face was happy, the things in Yan Qingge's house can't be obtained by ordinary people, they are all really good goods, I didn't expect these two money-losing goods to be able to enter Yan Qingge's eyes, it seems that she will ask the nurse to bring them more in the future.

She bowed down and thanked Yan Qingge, took her two daughters, and said, "Miss, the concubine heard that the master had found it, but I don't know why the master didn't return to Yan's house." ”

"He raised an outer room outside, and he couldn't wait to go home." Yan Qingge replied bluntly.

Aunt Chu was choked. She gave birth to the fourth lady Yan Boling for more than a year, and she has been looking forward to getting pregnant with another child and giving birth to a son as soon as possible. But Yan Songnian is not at home, and she can't be born alone.

She is not like Caifeng, guarding the fifth lady Yan Hanqiu, she can dig her heart and lungs, and live her life wholeheartedly, but she has to have a son by her side to feel that she has the bottom in her heart.

Seeing that Yan Qingge didn't care, Aunt Chu sneered: "Miss, concubine body...... The concubine was worried about the master, and wanted to ask the eldest lady to allow me to take the third and fourth young ladies to see the master, if I don't see the master again, I am afraid that they will not even recognize their father's face. ”

Yan Qingge said slowly: "Aunt Chu is in a hurry, when I was a child, my father went to southern Xinjiang to take up his post and didn't come back for more than three years. When he left, I was not much older than my third sister, and when my father returned, I still recognized him. You go back. ”

Aunt Chu saw Yan Qingge drive her away, her face turned red, and she refused to shut up: "Miss, for the sake of me teaching you for many years......

"Aunt Chu, this is the material I picked for the two young ladies, the light in the house is not good, you go out and have a look, see if you like this color." Ruyi interrupted Aunt Chu's words and tactfully asked Aunt Chu to go out.

Aunt Chu saw that there was nothing to be done, gritted her teeth, and went out after Caifeng.

Sent Aunt Chu away, and on the afternoon of the second day, Yan Qingge was embroidering, and Ruyi came in, with a slight resentment on his face, and said, "Miss, the two nurses from Zhuyu Courtyard have arrived with the third and fourth misses." ”

"What are they doing here?"

"The two nurses said that Aunt Chu was afraid that the eldest lady would be lonely, so she specially called the two younger sisters to accompany her."

Yan Qingge laughed for a while, Yan Runxin is three years old, or the age when she falls when she runs fast, Yan Boling has not been weaned yet, so ask these two children to accompany her, Aunt Chu has no problem with her brain. She saw that Aunt Chu had tasted the sweetness yesterday, and called these two little ones to fight the autumn breeze.

The fabric she gave these two girls yesterday was converted into hundreds of taels of silver, which was worth Aunt Chu's monthly money for several years. She is not a good church, not to mention that these two sisters have an ordinary relationship with her, no matter how close they are, they can't come to the door every day with expensive gifts.

Yan Qingge waved his hand and said: "I don't see them anymore, you ask the maid outside to play with them, watch the dog in the yard carefully, don't bite it." After a pause, she said again: "Go to the warehouse and choose a piece of cloth, it doesn't need to be too good, send it to Taoxiangyuan, saying that I will reward Miss Five." ”

Ruyi understood what Yan Qingge meant, went down and chose a cotton cloth that a child could use, called a maid, and said, "Send it to Taoxiangyuan, and say that the eldest lady will reward the fifth lady for wearing." You go slower, don't be in a hurry, it's better to pass in front of the Zhuyu Temple. ”

The maid smiled knowingly and went away with the cloth in her arms.

In the evening, Yan Runxin and Yan Boling went back, empty-handed. Aunt Chu called the two nurses to ask, and the two nurses said: "I didn't see the eldest lady today, the third and fourth ladies only played with the maids in the yard, and the third and fourth ladies each drank a bowl of cheese from Qingxingyuan, used some snacks, and did not get a reward." ”

Aunt Chu knew that they didn't dare to lie about this kind of thing, and her heart was low and depressed.

In the afternoon, she watched a maid pass by in front of the Zhuyu Courtyard with a cloth in her arms, and asked specifically about it, knowing that the cloth was given to the fifth lady Yan Hanqiu, and she couldn't be happier at that time. Even Yan Hanqiu, who didn't go, has a share, Yan Runxin and Yan Boling will definitely return with a full load today, who would have expected that what they were waiting for would be this result.

On the second day, the unwilling Aunt Chu still let the nurse take Yan Runxin and Yan Boling to Qingxingyuan, in the afternoon, as usual, a maid passed in front of her door, holding a big leather made of snow rabbit skin, Aunt Chu asked someone to ask, the maid said that this skin was awarded to the fifth lady Yan Hanqiu, and asked Aunt Caifeng to make winter clothes for her.

In the evening, Yan Runxin and Yan Boling came back, empty-handed as usual.

Aunt Chu's anger flared up all of a sudden, she slapped Yan Runxin who was standing next to her leg in the face, and Yan Runxin spun around like a top and fell to the ground. Yan Boling was so frightened that she burst into tears, which was intertwined with Yan Runxin's crying, which made Aunt Chu so irritable.

"Take these two money-losing goods with you." Aunt Chu scolded the two nurses.

Aunt Chu walked around the house for a long time, straightened out her clothes, and said, "Come on, follow me to Taoxiang Courtyard." ”

She figured out what Yan Qingge meant. Yan Qingge was telling her not to let Yan Runxin and Yan Boling go again. Every time they went, Yan Qingge would send something to Taoxiangyuan, so that her efforts were in vain, and she couldn't get anything but jealousy.

How could such a small means defeat her Chu Danzhu! She will go to Caifeng now, and tell Caifeng to send Yan Hanqiu to Qingxingyuan if she is fine.

In this way, Yan Runxin and Yan Boling went to Qingxingyuan, and Yan Qingge sent things to Taoxiangyuan. And Yan Hanqiu went to Qingxing Garden, wouldn't Yan Qingge also have to send things to Zhuyu Courtyard in turn? She and Aunt Caifeng were mutually beneficial.

The more Aunt Chu thought about it, the more she felt that this method was good, and when she was halfway there, she heard a panting woman behind her shouting: "Auntie, Auntie is not good." ”

Aunt Chu heard that it was Yan Runxin's nurse's voice, and looked back at the nurse, her face full of impatience: "What's the matter?" ”

"Auntie, the third lady can't hear in her right ear." The nurse's anxious eyes glistened with tears and said loudly.

Aunt Chu's slap was too hard, Yan Runxin was hugged back by the nurse, saying that her ears hurt, and the nurse was afraid that something would happen at the time, so she gently raked Yan Runxin's ears with a cotton swab, and when the cotton swab was pulled out, it was covered with pink or red blood.

She spoke to Yan Runxin again, tried and tried, and made sure that Yan Runxin's right ear really couldn't hear the sound clearly, and she didn't know if it was temporary or permanent.

When Aunt Chu heard the news, she didn't even wrinkle her face, and said, "What is the matter with my Tao, I can't hear it on one side, isn't there another side?" ”

The nurse watched Aunt Chu walk up and continue towards Taoxiangyuan, leaving only her back, and her mouth grew in surprise - this is ...... Is this really Yan Runxin's mother-in-law? If you are a mother-in-law, how can you be so ruthless?

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(Tianjin)