Chapter 56: Rumors
Ah, I still didn't mention Zhou Qingran, is Zixi in a hurry? Alas, it was originally going to be mentioned, but thinking about it, it is better to abuse the Song family first...... Hey.
There is a lilac in the Changle Palace, warm as spring, two pots of begonias on the shelf are blooming delicately, the begonia flower is a parrot frame, there is a parrot with green feathers and blue feathers on it, and there is not much mouth when you see people coming in, just tilting your head and looking curiously, and lowering your head from time to time to peck your wings.
Su Ruhui raised her eyes and looked at it, but felt strange, there was only spring clothes in the hall, but there was no shadow of a charcoal pot around. She sat down in His Royal Highness, Queen Zhou changed into a regular dress and came out, and when she saw Su Ruhui standing up, she said with a smile: "No need to be polite, sit down." β
Su Ruhui still owed a salute before daring to sit down a little carefully, Queen Zhou sat down on the phoenix seat, and saw that An Qiu had already served tea to Su Ruhui, showing a hint of approval, and said: "Before, Concubine Xian said that you are agile and generous, cute and gentle, and this palace only knows you, but I didn't expect you to be a little lucky star in our palace, Concubine Xian is so sick, you go to accompany her for a few days, and the niece of this palace also has your help to recover hopefully, no wonder the queen mother helped you to ask for rewards last time." β
"Niangniang, this is a false praise, where is the blessing of the painting comparable to the virtuous concubine Niangniang and abandonment of illness? It's just a coincidence. Su Ruhui was humble.
Queen Zhou said something to her cordially, and she was going to stay for dinner, Su Ruhui hurriedly excused herself, saying that she was going to visit Concubine Xian, so the queen gave up and said with a smile: "Is it the person who has accompanied Concubine Xian, who has put the hot soup and hot water here in the palace, and still has to step on the ice and snow to go to Mingguang Palace to ask for lunch?" β
Su Ruhui and Queen Zhou had been talking for a long time, so she smiled and said: "The queen mother and the virtuous concubine are both very good courtiers, but they have been here for so long, but they haven't seen the virtuous concubine Niangniang, the virtuous concubine Niangniang should be annoyed by the courtiers, so they have to go over." β
"Your little mouth is sweet, don't you know if you actually came to see the disease? But he used this palace as a ditch! Queen Zhou scolded with a smile, "Okay, this palace hurts you this time, don't tell Concubine Xian!" β
Saying that, An Qiu personally sent Su Ruhua out.
Su Ruhui knew that An Chun, An Xia, An Qiu and An Dong around the queen were all confidants of Zhou's son, so she thanked her very respectfully and said goodbye to Queen Zhou.
Out of the Changle Palace, I saw An Qiu clapping his hands, and suddenly four little palace maids walked out of the side, each holding a thing like a palace lamp in their hands, but it was a charcoal basin when they looked closely, An Qiu saw Su Ruhui surprised, and said with a smile: "Miss just came out of the Changle Palace, it is hot inside, although the corridor can shelter from the wind, but it is still much cooler than in the hall, let them carry the charcoal basin to accompany them to warm." β
Su Ruhui's heart moved, and she said with a smile: "Changle Hall is indeed as warm as spring, but why didn't you see the charcoal basin?" β
"So Miss doesn't know? The main halls in this palace are all earth dragons. An Qiu said with a smile, "Yes, Qingzhou is located in the southwest, where there is no need for earth dragons, and the slave maid heard that the Su Mansion is designed according to the style of the ancestral house of the Su family in Qingzhou, and there may not be a land dragon." β
Su Ruhui suddenly said: "When the ancestors first arrived in the imperial capital, they were separated from Qingzhou and missed it very much, so when they started to build it, almost all of them were made in the style of Qingzhou, and I really have never seen the earth dragon." β
"The Lumingtai where Miss lives now naturally does not have a dragon, and there are several pavilions in Renshou Palace that rely on the Detai Palace, but there is no Detai Palace." An Qiu is not as good as Xiuwan, she is the companion of Queen Zhou, she has been in the palace for many years, and she has followed the queen, and she knows a lot about the situation in the palace, and said, "This is because the Empress Dowager Mu Yi is also from a southern family, so she doesn't like Dilong." β
Empress Dowager Mu Yi is the granddaughter-in-law of Taizu, but also the first owner of Renshou Palace, before this Empress Dowager has been living in the north of the Hui Shu Palace, although the scenery of Hui Shu Palace is beautiful, but too dark and damp, later Emperor Jingzong sent people to repair and expand the Guangyang Palace in the south, almost renovated into a brand new palace, renamed Renshou, the Empress Dowager Muyi stayed.
Since then, the residence of the empress dowager has been fixed in Renshou Palace.
Su Ruhui nodded, followed An Qiu to the palace gate of Weiyang Palace, turned a corner, but saw that there was a bright light in front of him, a person was dressed in a fiery red hat, flying like fire, reflecting the heavy snow behind him, which was very beautiful. When Su Ruhui saw this person, she couldn't help but sneer in her heart.
An Qiu smiled and owed, and called, "Miss Song!" β
"Aunt Anqiu, where is this going?" Song Caisu also ignored Su Ruhui, and just talked to An Qiu.
"On the order of Niangniangyi, send Miss Su out." An Qiu smiled and said, "Is Miss Song going to have lunch with her mother?" It happened that Miss Su was going to Mingguang Palace, otherwise, it would be together. β
"I've also met Su Ruhui, why don't my aunt go back and serve her mother, I'll give her a gift?"
Su Ru frowned, and said without waiting for An Qiu to answer: "Since the queen mother is already having lunch, my aunt should go to serve the mother, how can I delay the mother's meal for the sake of Ruhui?" β
An Qiu thought for a while, and saw that Su Ruhui and Song Caisu were urging themselves to take care of the queen, so they retreated: "Then the slave maid will go back first, the two young ladies should be careful, just walk along the corridor, although it is farther away, but the road outside is slippery and cold." β
Seeing An Qiu retreat, the gentle and innocent smiles on Su Ruhui and Song Caisu's faces instantly cooled, and they looked at each other intently for a moment, Su Ruhui raised her hand and said to the four charcoal palace maids: "After walking such a long way, I am no longer cold, you can go back." β
The four palace maids hesitated, and when they saw Su Ruhui's insistence, they saluted together and went to the Changle Hall along the corridor.
"Su Ruhui!" There was no one around, Song Caisu couldn't hold back the anger in her heart anymore, she stepped forward, grabbed Su Ruhui's clothes, and said angrily, "Your family is so shameless!" β
Su Ruhui's face sank, and she suddenly raised her hand and pushed Song Caisu to stumble!
"It's not too late to think about it and then do it, although I haven't followed the three brothers to dance knives and guns, how to say that I am also the daughter of a military general, after all, I have heard my father instruct my brothers in martial arts, you are a weak girl raised in the boudoir, another one, I am afraid that I will be beaten!" Su Ruhui sneered, anyway, there was no third person around, Su Ruhui was too lazy to pretend to be any longer, so she simply revealed her true face when she was at home, and looked at Song Caisu, who was pushed by herself and hit the pillar of the cloister.
She Su Ruhui is a descendant of the gatekeeper, how can she be afraid of this kind of private conflict? Since Song Caisu wants to send An Qiu away, in this Weiyang Palace, Su Ruhui is really not afraid of what tricks she can use.
Song Caisu didn't expect that Su Ruhui, who was so dignified and generous in front of the person, looked at Su Ruhui, who looked modest, and turned her face so quickly, she was stunned for a moment, and only then did she react, and she already said with a crying voice: "You dare to beat me?" I'm going to tell the Queen Mother and the Queen Motherβ"
"Shh But I saw Su Ruhui pick up a finger, make a silent movement on the side of her lips, and said with a smile, "It was Aunt An Qiu who you sent away to send me away, and she wanted to be alone with me, what happened, think about it yourself, who is more responsible?" β
"You!" Song Caisu was angry, regardless of whether she was her opponent or not, she jumped up and grabbed her sleeve and said angrily, "Your relocation to the palace was requested by the county lord of Huaizhen to His Majesty, I just helped to say a few words, how can you be so vicious, make rumors, and cause my mother to be rejected by the clan!" persecuted my father to divorce her? β
Hearing her say this, Su Ruhui was surprised: "What abandonment? "It was not early when Su Ruhui saw An yesterday, on the one hand, he wanted to say something considerate, and on the other hand, he wanted to ask about the current situation, and An Shi also seized the opportunity to train one or two, but in his busyness, he forgot about Su Wanhai's action intentionally or unintentionally.
This is because Su Wanhai personally took action, just to clear up the relationship, although An's is capable, after all, she is a woman in the back house, and the number of people she can use and the places she can go to are limited, and it is easy to be found out, so Su Wanhai once said to An's that this matter should not be done, Su Ruhua is here, don't say it easily, lest her daughter miss traces at a young age.
So Su Ruhui really didn't know about it.
But where does Song Caisu believe it? Yesterday she was ordered to enter the Hajj, she was also full of joy to meet her mother, who knew that when they met, they found that Xiuli Junjun's complexion was actually smeared with fat powder, even so, it was difficult to hide the haggard and pale blue when she looked at it closely.
After asking, Song Caisu knew that rumors had spread in the imperial capital recently, saying that Song Ying's original partner Wei died so early because he was killed by Xiuli Junjun, otherwise the dignified Wei family's concubine, before leaving the cabinet, there was no rumor that Wei was sick and weak, how could she die before marrying Song Ying before she reached thirty, and she didn't even leave a son and a half daughter?
Moreover, after Wei's death, Song Ying not only did not agree to the clan's request to remarry the famous family, but instead raised Song Caisu's biological mother Ye as his wife, and Song Caisu, who was born later, naturally became the concubine recognized by the clan.
The rumors were said flexibly, and many even said that they had been leaked by the servants of the inner courtyard of the Song Mansion. Not only that, but when the Ye family sent people to find the people who served by Mrs. Qianwei's side, intending to refute the rumors, they found that those people were either missing or had just been killed, but instead confirmed her crime of murder.
Although Dali Temple has not asked, but the Wei family, who originally had contacts during the festival, did not see half a figure before Laba, and even Song Ying specially took the Ye family to explain, although the Wei family welcomed in, but only said a few words to Song Ying that were not salty or light, and even the gifts that came to the door were returned as they were, and even the head of the Wei family only called a rough maid to receive the Ye family. In the past, although the Ye family was from a humble background and continued to be a string, the Wei family's thousand-year-old gate valve was quite particular about etiquette, although it would not call out the housewife to receive it, but it would also send a few face-worthy concubines or daughters-in-law to accompany them, where would they be so slack like this time? It's just a blatant slap in the face.
Obviously, the Wei family believed some rumors.
Among the existing thousand-year-old gate valves in Dayong, Jiangnan Song and Fengzhou Wei have always had a friendship of intermarriage, and if it is not believed in six or seven points, Wei will never embarrass Song Ying, who is a descendant of the Song family and has legitimate rights.
And this matter is also difficult to explain clearly, Wei has died, when she was seriously ill, the maids and grandmothers she took care of also died, disappeared, disappeared, in addition to these slaves, the most served was Ye's, and when Song Ying carried her, it was because of Ye's loyalty. Now the rumor says that the Ye family harmed the Wei family, so the so-called respect for the master's mother before has all become a harbor of evil.
In this case, it is naturally impossible for the Song family to ruin the friendship between the two families for hundreds of years because of a low-born continuation, so the clan came forward and ordered Song Ying to divorce his wife or reduce the Ye family to a concubine and marry another famous woman.
When Song Caisu heard the news, it was like a bolt from the blue!