Chapter Forty-Eight: A Showman
Xiao Yixuan's injury has been recuperating for a few days, and Duanwang and they really don't know about Xiao Yixuan's injury. On this day, King Duan asked Xiao Yixuan to go to the Spring Building to sing and listen to music, Xiao Yixuan didn't like this kind of place of fireworks and willow lane, and King Duan said that he agreed to charter the venue. When Xiao Yixuan went, he really chartered the venue, and there were only the two of them and the guards. On the stage, a girl was playing the piano. When singing in the Spring Building, the girls are all skilled, most of them are official ladies with declining families, they have good taste, quality and talent, and they don't sell their bodies. There are also some people who want to get ahead and choose to sit in other people's concubines, and they can't stay here all the time.
The sons and adults in the capital also like to come here to listen to music. After the song was finished, the steward inside asked: "Lord Duan, we have a new singer here, do you want to listen to it?" ”
"Really?"
"Her father is also a member of the four grades, because her father died, the family was controlled by her aunt, and the aunt asked her to marry an old man, so she escaped. As soon as she was a woman, she couldn't make a living, so she came to me to eat. ”
"Call it out."
"Yes."
"Come out of Huiru."
A woman walked up, wearing a pink dress and a beaded hairpin.
"I've seen the prince."
"Get up."
"Thank you, Lord Wang."
"Good look. What will you sing? ”
"What does the prince want to hear?"
"Let's just sing it."
Duanwang is also a person who is used to seeing beautiful women, but this time it is different, it is a heart-warming feeling, and he fell in love with her at a glance. But as a prince, he can't easily reveal his heart.
Huiru's singing voice is really as the steward said, with a crisp and sweet voice and unique characteristics. After listening to the song, King Duan ordered his subordinates to reward him with silver, and then got up and walked out, and Xiao Yixuan followed closely behind.
"Don't you listen to it for a while?"
"Nope."
"Is the prince afraid that he won't be able to walk if he listens to it again?"
"You see that?"
"The prince's eyes are very real."
"It's the first time I've felt this way."
"Everything is unpredictable, maybe this is the person you have to worry about for the rest of your life."
At first, Huiru also wanted to make some money in the singing spring building, and she signed a deed of sale for five years. To sell her art in the singing spring building for five years, although she is an ancient woman, her thinking is indeed modern. What she thought in her heart was that her future husband must only love her, and she could not marry a concubine, and she was not allowed to serve a husband with others. These few times, there are always guests who do things to her, trying to take advantage of her. She escaped several times, and the steward told her: If you want to get rid of such a fate, you can only rely on yourself. Although a woman in this kind of place does not sell her body, it sounds like her reputation is not so good, and it is too difficult to marry a good husband, how many people in the world are true lovers?
The people who come to us to sing the Spring House are some dignitaries, if you want to go out, you have to seize the opportunity, and then the prince will come over, and his subordinates have already said that they will charter the venue. He rarely comes here, he took a princess and two side concubines, if you can be looked at by King Duan, entering the Duanwang Mansion is also a way out, after all, King Duan is young and promising, unlike those who are old, you can be your father, and it is not easy to survive when you enter the mansion, and there are many children and grandchildren who do not have you to live. King Duan has a good reputation in the capital, and he is an upright person, although he married a wife, but it was a marriage given by the emperor, and he didn't necessarily like it, and he had to marry. If you go to the palace, we will follow us.
Huiru thought about it and agreed to try it out with the person in charge.
In the evening, Huiru changed her clothes in advance and waited in the back, she had already taken out her best posture to sing, but King Duan left after listening to a song, she was a little discouraged and asked the steward: "Fu Bo, I don't have this blessing." ”
When I saw her situation, Fu Bo comforted Huiru in my eyes: "Don't give up, King Duan has always been clean and self-conscious in this regard, he can't fall in love with you the first time, right? You have to insist that he discovers you and remembers you. ”
"But he doesn't know when he'll come back next time."
"I'll let you know when he's coming."
"Thank you, Fauber."
"To be honest, child, I think you have this life, and I have always seen people as good."
"Fauber, I'm here these days thanks to your care, otherwise I really don't know what to do."
"Adults come here every day, and they don't dare to be too presumptuous. You have nothing to do, you have to think more about fresh tunes, so that Duanwang's eyes will shine. ”
"Yes. Fauber. ”
"King Duan is good-looking, and there are many women that the prince wants to marry him. At the beginning, his princess was also married by the queen mother, and it is said that King Duan didn't like it at all. Later, he took the two side concubines, which the emperor pointed out to him, and he also accepted it. Duanwang, he didn't tell the emperor which woman he liked, but there were many girls who liked him, and he said that he wouldn't marry. ”
"Yes, how many women don't like his identity, and what kind of do he like? I don't expect him to like him, I just want to go out and have a place to stay. ”
"It's okay if you think like this, it's you who suffers too much."
When King Duan returned to the palace, his butler said, "Lord, you are back, your princess was furious today and threw something in the room." ”
"For what?"
"That is to say, the chef is not serious, the food he cooks is not delicious, and there are too few types of dishes every day. The cook said, this is your rule, there are too many wastes. After he heard this, he said that people dare to bully her, what's the matter..."
"That's it?"
"She fell and let her fall, and the things in her house fell with her."
"Lord Wang, don't go and take a look."
"What do I look at, can I take her off when I look at her? I'm going to be angry when she's gone. ”
"What if she goes back and complains?"
"It's all up to her, as long as she doesn't take care of her life."
"The prince is too indulgent to the princess, and he paid it back for a long time."
"It's called wanting to get away with it, let her do it. How about the two side concubines? ”
"It's not that every day a resentment says that the prince doesn't go to them."
"Go and pass the word, I'll go to Concubine Xu later."
When this woman heard that the prince was coming, she couldn't wait to put on all the jewelry, and her face bloomed with joy.
"Lord Wang, you're here."
"How are you doing?"
"The prince didn't care about me for a long time, why did he ask me today?"
"The court is important, and today is free."
"Hasn't the prince gone to the princess yet?"
"yes, I'm going to see you first."
"Really?"
"Really."
"Does the prince really love his concubines?"
"Of course."
The prince slept at Concubine Xu's for one night, he really didn't like the three women in the backyard, so Concubine Xu was a little better. But he came here purely to make the other two women jealous and let them make trouble. The emperor and queen mother arranged for women to be given to him, and he did not refuse, he had to wait for them to die and then clean them up. King Duan slept all night and left early in the morning, and after he returned, he ordered someone to boil Shunzi soup for Concubine Xu. He didn't want them to give birth to his child now, so he found an excuse to say that the child he had recently been in poor health was unhealthy and asked them to drink the soup. At first they were against it, but then they didn't go to anyone who objected, and then they didn't dare not drink it.
The next day, the news that the prince was staying at Concubine Xu spread, and the prince had not been in the backyard for a long time, so he went to Concubine Xu first, where did the princess's face go. The princess dropped the teacup as soon as she heard the news: "What a good concubine Xu seduce him as soon as he comes back, am I dead?" ”
"The princess is not angry."
"How can I not be angry, if my husband doesn't come to me and goes to the side concubine, everyone will laugh at me."
"Then the princess should also be generous, how can you be a princess and worry about the side concubine."
"I'm going to pretend I don't know?"
"No, I mean the princess can't be upright, she can be manipulated secretly."
"Oh, pretend not to care about her behind her back, that's not my style."
"Let her let her down her guard first, and then surprise her."
"Good idea."