++++++++++++++++++ the dividing line of the trip to Luoyang (IV) (middle).

In the prince's mansion, Yan'er dressed herself carefully. Today is her birthday, In addition to the people in the house to give her a birthday, there are also many official eunuchs in Beijing who send people to give gifts. Although it is a side concubine, because the prince has not established a concubine, Yan'er is in charge of all internal affairs. Although there is no noble court, she is the big palace maid next to the Queen Mother, and she has the support of the Queen Mother, even if there is a prince and concubine and a queen in the palace, she has to give her a little face. Since she was a child, she has been trained by the Queen Mother, she is exquisite, socializes properly, and balances the power of all parties for the prince. Because of this, she is quite favored by Yiyi, and she always stays here for two days a month. He's definitely coming on a special day like this.

Ping'er, the big girl beside her, hurriedly came in from outside at this moment. Ping'er was the dowry she brought from the palace, and she did rough work in the queen mother's palace, and she always followed her sister before and after her sister in ordinary days, and she was very good at getting things done. After she followed the prince, the queen mother rewarded Ping'er to her.

"Why are you drinking crabs like this?"

Ping'er glanced at the people around her, these people knew that Ping'er was going to speak, except for Yang Liu and Yingge, who usually served closely, the others hurriedly retreated, Ping'er Fang came over and picked up a silk flower in the dresser and handed it to Yang Liu, who was combing Yan'er's hair: "The slave maid heard someone in the study outside just now, and there was a letter today, saying that the third son of the Tang family was married, and he chose his uncle's Miss Cousin." ”

"Oh?!"

"Didn't the queen mother announce that you entered the palace and asked your Highness to tell him to arrange the young lady of the Lan family for the third prince? For this matter, you also made a loss to the old lady of Master Li's family, originally said that you helped her match her sixth lady with Young Master Tang. You also told the prince, and the prince also said that he sent someone to deliver the letter. At that time, the queen mother also said that you would do something. This time, if the girl of the Bai family is decided and does not accept the family affairs of the Lan family, I am afraid that it will not be easy to explain to the queen. ”

"The two sides are married?"

"I didn't say that I was married, I said that Young Master Tang had a sweetheart, and he was Miss Bai Jiabiao. Moreover, it was said that in order to win Young Master Tang, the young lady of the Lan family also drugged the young lady of the Bai family, and was caught red-handed. If the woman asks the man for marriage and fails, if the two parties press it down, it will be forgotten, but there is such a thing as drugged, and it has become the Lan family's unscrupulous means for this family matter, and this time the Lan family's face is embarrassed. If the queen mother knows, I don't know if she will be angry with you and blame you for not doing things well. After all, it was you who did the work first, and Miss Nalan probably felt that things were not going well, so she would make this decision to drug someone. ”

Yingge is also the old man next to Yan'er, she Ping'er said this, and she was also anxious: "The queen mother has not been very satisfied with everything in your management of the prince's mansion in the past few years, and it was not easy to ease the relationship a little because of this matter, but I am afraid that it will be difficult to do this time." ”

"What's going on on the Queen Mother's side about this?"

At dusk, Yiyi came to Yan'er's yard under the reminder of the housekeeper's grandmother. In recent years, Concubine Yan's position in the prince's mansion has been very stable, the prince is busy with affairs, most of the time he stays in the study, rarely goes to the courtyard of the concubine and concubine, and some people may not have the opportunity to meet each other for a few months. And Concubine Yan, twice a month, the prince will take extra care of her birthday during the New Year's Festival. It can be seen that the women in the prince's mansion and in the capital who are preparing to enter the palace are very blushing.

When the prince came in, Yan'er knelt down and pleaded guilty: "The queen asked me to beg you to arrange Miss Ruoxue's marriage, but now it seems that it is not going well, I heard that something happened and caused you trouble, it is all the fault of the slave family, and I am not thoughtful." ”

"Let's get up," Yiyi helped her up with a pleasant face, in front of many subordinates, he still needed to give face to the side concubine, otherwise she would not be able to manage this prince's mansion: "After you have time to enter the palace to accompany your mother, her old man may not be happy these days." But you also have to let the queen mother know that no matter who he chooses for Xinjie's marriage, as long as he likes it, the palace has no opinion. Xinjie has always been loyal to us, don't let everyone be divided because of this incident. also asked my uncle not to embarrass Xinjie and the Tang family. Marriage is predetermined. In fact, he didn't want to embarrass his brother in this matter, but the queen mother wanted to strengthen the Lan family and win over the power, so he couldn't express his opinion.

After accompanying the prince to eat, Yan'er repacked up and came to the prince, just drank some wine, her cheeks were overflowing with spring, and she stood softly against the prince and served him tea. The dress she wore today was close to the fit and luxurious, and the opening was extremely low, and when she bent down slightly to hold the tea bowl, the twin peaks and ravines stood out, and at the same time there was a faint sweet fragrance. The prince took the tea and glanced at her waist, but without raising his eyes at her face, he waved everyone back. The moment he waved his hand, a trace of gloom crossed Yan'er's eyes, but it didn't last long, and before the subordinate could completely withdraw, her Luo skirt had already been thrown to the ground. The lady in charge had just taken the door out, and she was already exposed to the air.

When the prince went to other courtyards, there were people in charge of the mother and the memory room waiting in front of him, but when he was in the courtyard of Concubine Yan, everyone was asked to withdraw, leaving Concubine Yan alone to wait inside, and only after each thing was done did he let people go in to serve and clean up. Everyone felt that this prince had extraordinary feelings for Concubine Yan. Every time, the lady in charge guarded the door and did not let people approach, but across most of the courtyard, everyone could still hear the screams of Concubine Yan in the house and her constant call for Brother Yiyi. The subordinates in the courtyard didn't dare to have any expression, but they had to admit in their hearts the special existence of Concubine Yan, and only she dared to call the prince's name like that. However, the hidden personal guards could clearly hear many details that outsiders did not know, and they were more or less sympathetic to Concubine Yan. But the master's affairs, they can't be controlled as guards, not to mention that there are too many women in this world who want glory and wealth, and they are willing to pay the price for it.

On normal days, the prince would stay here when he was fortunate enough to have a side concubine. I don't know what went wrong today, but when everyone heard from afar that the matter was over, they were still waiting to be summoned to serve, but they saw the prince come out by himself and take people to the study. If it is said that Concubine Yan has fallen out of favor, the two of them are still in full swing just now, and there are traces of this body as evidence. But when the prince left, he had annoyance on his face, and he didn't know how the side concubine provoked the master. Only the lady in charge and the guards vaguely heard the concubine say that she wanted to be herself.

Concubine Yan felt a glance at her when she was leaving, and it was full of disdain. Shame and anger filled her, for so many years, she gave up herself for the prince, today is her birthday, she just asked to be herself on the day of her birthday, but in exchange for his cold words: "Do you think you are worthy of being involved in this palace?" ”

Sadness is sorrow, but even crying is a luxury for Concubine Yan. She had to make it up quickly, and let the prince prepare a supper and ginseng soup.

On ordinary days, the women in this mansion envy her and can act privately with the prince, but the prince's visit to their courtyard is just a routine business as the heir to the throne, and the lady and the eunuch in charge are listening and watching, and they don't even have a chance to say a word of their own thoughts. It is precisely because of her special that no woman in the house dares to make a moth to her.

She should be glad that the woman is dead, so that she has the opportunity to stay by the prince's side in her place. She's dead, dead, hehe, that's a good thing.

Luoyang Liu's family, after Mr. Liu came back from Xianyang, he has been saying that he is not in good health and closed his door. The matter of Xianyang also came back to Luoyang through the news between various families. As a generation of Confucians, Mr. Liu, who thinks he has excellent conduct and is a teacher, feels that his face has been lost by his granddaughter. The people outside didn't know the whole truth about Lan Ruoxue's drugging of others, but he knew. If it weren't for the Marquis of Xiangyang and Prince Feng to take her away, he would have someone tie her up and send her back to the Lan family to be sent away. At home, I am angry, but the days always have to pass, in addition to sighing for a long time, practicing calligraphy and reading in the study, is to supervise the schoolwork of several grandchildren. In a blink of an eye, it was his wife's birthday, and the children and daughters-in-law of the family began to be busy with the old wife. Although Mr. Liu didn't want to see anyone, the husband and wife for decades couldn't refute her face, so he left it alone and tossed with the younger generations.

Because the Lan family has been smooth sailing in recent years, even the Liu family has become more and more beautiful. In previous years, at times like these, all kinds of local people are willing to show their faces and make friends. Even if people can't get there, from the merchants and gentry to the government, people from all walks of life will let people give gifts. And every year, the gifts sent by the Jingli Lan family and the Luoyang prefect are the most noble. This year, the Liu family is even more beautiful, not only received the birthday gift of the Lan family, but also the reward of the queen's mother. When everyone saw it, they understood that although there was a mistake in the marriage between Miss Lan and the Tang family, the Liu family was still valued by the queen and their status was not harmed.

In this lively atmosphere, the person who sang the salute at the door sang: "The prefect sent Huoshan Huangya two taels." The person who sang the salute felt weird after singing, and the bookkeeper who came to record the gift from the accounting room next to him pouted, and the steward who greeted the guests was also full of disdain: "Brother, we have received a lot of gifts since the opening of the mansion, but I have never seen this kind of gift from the prefect." You see, the tea that our porter brothers drink is better than this. ”

This maverick gift silences the lively foyer for a moment. Everyone talked about it, but the prefect did not appear, but only sent a few hundred dollars of tea as a gift, isn't this clearly the face of the Liu family and the queen's face? If it hadn't been sent by the prefect, if it were an ordinary person, I am afraid that the Liu family would have thrown out the tea at this moment.

The person who sent the tea was the prefect's scholar Chungeng, and he was not annoyed when he heard these words, and said with a smile: "Our lord said, thank you for the invitation, but the lord has just taken office, and there are many miscellaneous things. This tea is specially planted for adults in the tea garden of my wife's hometown to send to friends. The adults are meager, and they are not as good as the nobles of the big families, and they can make generous moves. The people of the prefect's yamen are not as noble as the gatekeepers of the Liufu Mansion, so the tea they drink is naturally not as good as the gatekeepers. The word concierge bites very hard. Having said that, but the smile on Chungeng's face did not change: "In this case, let's not be embarrassed here, my lord ordered, if your mansion doesn't like it, let me bring it back, the tea he drank himself is just gone, and it's just right to take this back, so he doesn't have to spend money to buy it outside." With that, he smiled and picked up the tea leaves and left.