Chapter 81: The Battle for the Throne
The sky was overcast and it seemed like it was going to rain!
Thirteen-year-old Lou Xinyue sat under the porch, looking at the gray sky, and her mood was not so good.
"Fourth Miss, you're just in good health, you can't blow the wind anymore!" The maid who arrived hurriedly put on a coat for her.
"Hmm!" Lou Xinyue nodded lightly, looked at the flowers outside, and said to the maid green branch beside her, "It's time to rain in a while, you let the next person move these flowers to the porch!" The flowers are delicate and can't help the wind and rain! ”
"What the fourth sister said is not right!" Another girl came from the other side of the corridor, wearing a fiery red cloak, "If you don't have a lot of wind and rain and experience, how can you bloom fresh and bright flowers, those sick and delicate flowers will not live long in the end!" ”
"That's what the second sister said!" Lou Xinyue lowered her head, looking very docile.
"You're just recovering from a serious illness, don't let your aunt worry anymore." The girl in the red cloak is the second lady in this house, called Lou Xinhui, and she is the young lady who came out, "Green Branch, why don't you help your young lady go back to the room?" ”
"Yes!" A little girl with a green branch, she didn't dare to disobey Lou Xinhui's meaning.
"I still have to go to see my grandmother, so I won't send my fourth sister!" The girl came with a flamboyance, and she left with pride.
Looking at Lou Xinhui's distant figure, Lou Xinyue was envious in her heart, if only she was also a young lady.
"Miss, let's go back!" Green Branch also feels sorry for his own miss, because he is a concubine, and everyone in the house treats the young lady as if she is an air person, and several other young ladies also squeeze Miss from time to time.
"Let's go back!" Lou Xinyue got up, the girl's waist and limbs were in a weak willow posture, she looked like an aunt, she was a beauty, but she was not favored by the eldest lady.
The eldest lady doesn't like the children of the concubine, but she has never treated them badly in life, her food and clothing are not bad, and she does not condone the young ladies and young masters who are born to bully them.
It's just that Lou Xinyue is unwilling in her heart, she is about to be married, her marriage is in the hands of the eldest lady, she did a stupid thing, sneaked out of the house, and the lady punished her for kneeling in the ancestral hall all night, and then she became ill.
I think of the noble son I saw on the street that day, how nice it would be if I became his wife!
I just hope that his family background is not high, otherwise she will ...... Nor does it deserve ......
The Lou family is a martial artist, and the daughters are not like ordinary ladies who only learn poetry and books, and they also have to follow the female master to learn some riding and archery martial arts, but the fourth lady from this concubine is weak, so she has never learned, so the other ladies of the Lou family look down on her.
"Grandmother!" Lou Xinhui affectionately held the arm of the old lady of the Lou family, "Hui'er misses you so much!" ”
"You girl has a very sweet mouth!" The ancestor of the Lou family smiled, looking very kind, "It's really annoying to come to me every day, this old woman!" ”
"Hui'er is coming every day!" Lou Xinhui's eyes smiled and bent into two crescents.
"Tomorrow, your Yinru sister is coming, but you are not allowed to be so sloppy and call you Yinru a sister's joke!"
The Yinru girl in the mouth of the ancestor of the Lou family is her granddaughter, called Lin Yinru, her young daughter married away from Beijing, and not long after she married, she left only such a daughter and went.
If there is no greasy in this, Mrs. Lou doesn't believe it, how is her daughter's health, can she, a mother, know, not to mention that the maids and daughters-in-law left by the marriage at that time also died inexplicably one by one.
It's a pity that this little granddaughter was born without a mother, and she was personally raised by her until she was five years old before she was picked up by the Lin family.
"I don't know if Sister Yinru is the same now?" Lou Xinhui is almost fifteen years old now, and there are still two months before the ceremony, and Lin Yinru is a little younger than her, and now she should be fourteen.
"Alas!" Mrs. Lou sighed, "This time I went to Beijing for next month's Qionghua banquet, the Lin family's group of jackals, tigers and leopards want to use Yinru as a bargaining chip, we don't allow it, you have to take good care of her, you know?" ”
"Granddaughter understands!" Lou Xinhui nodded.
Her eldest sister got married last year, and she married the eldest son of Zhang Qingshu, a bachelor from Hanlin, and the other ladies of the Lou family have not yet made a marriage contract, for this Qionghua banquet, the queen mother personally chose a concubine for the prince.
Even if he is not the crown prince, it is a good thing to be favored by other concubines, and it is good to give it to other princes.
"Hui'er, your mother is confused, but you can't!" Grabbing her granddaughter's hand, the old lady sighed, "If our Lou family can't choose the crown princess, don't mix the rest." ”
"Yes!" Lou Xinhui responded obediently, and she understood the reason.
"Grandmother is tired, you can go outside and play by yourself!"
"Hui'er retires!"
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Almost all the nobles in the capital are preparing for the Qionghua banquet, and the Bai family is no exception.
"Third wife, eldest lady invites Fifth Miss to the front hall!" The little maid with a double-ringed bun stood at the door, but she didn't dare to go in.
"Go call Ling'er!" A cool and beautiful female voice came from the inside.
"Yes!" A maid came out of the room and lowered her voice, "Miss Ziluo come with me!" ”
Ziluo often comes to the third room to help the eldest lady pass the word, and she is quite familiar with the maids here, but she is still afraid of the third lady.
The third master met the bandits on the way to transfer five years ago and died, the young third wife was widowed, and there was only one fifth lady in the third room, and the third lady did not show up often, and always copied the scriptures in the Buddhist hall in the small courtyard, so the upbringing of the fifth lady was all supported by the lady of the big house, and the three young ladies of the big house studied and played together, and the sisters had a very intimate relationship.
Soon arrived at the embroidery building of the fifth lady Bai Huanling, and the maid guarding the door saw Ziluo with sharp eyes, "Why is Sister Ziluo here?" ”
"The eldest lady invites the fifth lady to the front hall!" Zi Luo smiled with a smile, turned around and bowed slightly to the maid beside her, "Thank you Sister Yunxuan for bringing me!" ”
As if following the master's temperament, Yun Xuan was always lukewarm, and turned around and went back after bringing Ziluo over.
"Girl, my son is still taking a nap, Sister Ziluo will tell the eldest lady first, and Miss Fifth will come soon." The little maid stuffed a small corner of broken silver to Ziluo.
"Good!" It's just to run an errand, and you can get a reward every time, so Ziluo likes to come to Sanfang the most.
Watching Ziluo leave, the little maid went to the small room on the side and called Bai Huanling's personal maid, "Sister Hongmei, the eldest lady invites the girl to the front hall!" “
Hongmei put down the embroidery work in her hand, "You go to the big water, I'll call the young lady to get up!" ”
Bai Huanling slept soundly, but was dug out of the quilt by Hongmei.
"Hongmei~" just woke up, there was still a suspicion of stickiness in her voice, looking at the delicate and lovely lady in front of her, Hongmei was also very in love with her, but she had to be ruthless.
"The eldest lady sent someone to invite the young lady, the young lady is not allowed to lie in bed!" Hongmei knows her young lady's temperament, and she is bright and intelligent, but she always likes to be lazy, and she often dozes off in Master Qian's class and makes a lot of jokes.
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