Chapter 267: Candidate for Concubine
What the impostor and Shen Baiyan said, Song Zhi didn't know, but seeing that Shen Baiyan looked calm when he came back, it shouldn't be a bad thing. On his arm stood an eagle, the same one that had been domesticated to deliver letters.
"Yikes!" Song Zhi wanted to reach out and untie the letter on the eagle's talons, but saw that the eagle's feathers were stained with blood beads, "Why is it bleeding?" ”
The eagle's eyes were purring, and it seemed to be very nervous, Shen Baiyan stroked its feathers and said lightly: "Firmament, you have arrived, don't be afraid." ”
There are a total of five eagles, and in Song Zhi's opinion, they are all exactly the same, and it is also a loss that Shen Baiyan can tell them apart. Listening to Lan Yue, it was a secret guard named Yu Niang in Yuxinlou who was responsible for domesticating and raising them, and he was better than people to these eagles on weekdays.
The sky seemed to be calming down a little, and Shen Baiyan carefully took off the bamboo pipe on its feet, handed it over to Lan Yue, and asked her to send the eagle to Yu Niang to heal its wounds.
"Someone must have tried to steal the letter, so they shot it." Shen Baiyan unfolded the letter and scanned a few lines, and found that it was Song Ling's letter, thinking that it was just some ordinary family matters, so he handed it to Song Zhi without looking at it carefully, and said, "Ruohui's letter." ”
Seeing that Song Zhi was reading the letter with his eyes down, Shen Baiyan was concerned about shooting the sky, so he said, "I'll go and see Yu Yi to see if there are any clues." ”
When he left, he brought a little cold wind outside the house, which made Song Zhi's neck tremble slightly. Meteor quickly closed the door, but saw that Song Zhi's expression was getting worse and worse.
"Madame, what's wrong with you? But what does the letter say? Meteor sat down with Song Zhi in his arms and looked at her worriedly.
Song Zhi slapped the letter on the table, and said in a trembling voice after a few mouthfuls: "The queen mother in the palace passed on the decree of Yi, saying that she had decided the queen candidate, and it was the Zhao family's Miss Yan." This letter has been on the road for a few days, and now I think that even the Nacai ceremony has passed! ”
Meteor was a little puzzled, and she whispered, "Why is that lady unhappy, aren't you?" ”
The implication of Meteor's words is that Song Zhi didn't like Song Tian to enter the palace in the first place, and now that the latter is in another family, shouldn't he breathe a sigh of relief?
"If only it were that simple! Tian'er didn't know what kind of ecstasy soup she was poured into, and when she arrived at the situation, she even discussed with her mother about entering the palace. Song Zhi has always felt that her little sister is blue-hearted, but she didn't expect that she was such a person who was blindfolded by love.
"This thing came too suddenly, we only had some rumors when we went out, why did we suddenly decide on a candidate?" Meteor has always dared not talk about these things easily, and now he only dares to whisper a few words in Song Zhi's ear.
"It is said that the autumn wind is rising, and the queen mother is infected with the disease of head wind, and she feels that her body is decaying, so she wants to set a candidate for the queen for the emperor as soon as possible." Song Zhi read Song Ling's letter again, and said to Meteor.
Anyone with a little brain knows that this is just an excuse, if the queen mother's body is really decaying, how can she still have the energy to watch the twists and turns?
The original twist and turn was to enter the palace through Shen Baiyan's hand first, but now as soon as Shen Baiyan left Beijing, it was not Shen Ze's turn to be the first to see, and it was still handed over to Shen Ze through the hand of the Queen Mother.
Since Shen Ze grew up, Song Zhi saw him only a handful of times, and he didn't know him well, and Shen Baiyan rarely mentioned Shen Ze in front of her, but she was so familiar with Shen Baiyan, she only saw a slight pause in his tone when he talked about Shen Ze, and a slight deep meaning in his eyes, so he knew that his attitude towards Shen Ze had changed very subtly.
The reason why Song Zhi disagreed with Song Tian was that in addition to the so-called 'once you enter the palace gate, it is as deep as the sea', it comes from his uncertainty about Shen Ze.
At this time, Shen Baiyan pushed the door in, and saw that Song Zhi and the Meteor master and servant were relatively speechless, and felt a little strange, and saw that Song Ling's letter was spread out on the table, Song Zhi pressed the letter with his hand, and seemed to be resistant to the content of the letter, so he had a guess in his heart.
He took out the letter paper from Song Zhi's palm and looked at it carefully, and while looking at it, he stroked Song Zhi's green silk. Seeing that Song Zhi's expression was slightly relaxed, and his eyebrows were softer, Meteor quietly retreated.
"Actually, you don't have to worry so much." Song Zhi suddenly spoke, as if he was comforting himself, "When the two of us got married, weren't we similar to the two of them?" met at a young age, and then got married according to the situation. ”
"Getting married with the situation?" Before Song Zhi finished speaking, he was bluntly interrupted by Shen Baiyan.
Song Zhi looked up in astonishment, and saw Shen Baiyan staring at her, and some northern frost seemed to float in his eyes.
Although Song Zhi felt a little strange, he didn't feel that he had said anything wrong for a while, as if the hare had not yet noticed the trap a few steps away from him, and still nodded ignorantly.
Shen Baiyan suddenly pressed down, and Song Zhi didn't know what was happening, so he only subconsciously reached out and hugged him tightly.
Shen Baiyan's body stiffened, then relaxed, rested his chin on Song Zhi's shoulder, and said a little aggrievedly: "It's not a marriage that follows the situation, if the candidate for marriage that day is not you, I have my own way to turn things around." ”
Song Zhi patted Shen Baiyan on the back and said to Shen Baiyan in a coaxing tone: "Okay, good, you are the most powerful." ”
Shen Baiyan heard that Song Zhi was still joking, so he straightened up and pushed Song Zhi away, went straight to the side of the futon and sat down, picked up the teapot on the low table and poured tea for himself.
Song Zhi saw that something was wrong with Shen Baiyan, picked up his skirt and trotted to Shen Baiyan's side, sat down next to him, held his arm, made a coquettish appearance, and said coquettishly: "Lang Jun, what's wrong with you?" ”
She deliberately imitated the singing tone of the opera, making Shen Baiyan uncomfortable, so she reached out and pinched her nose, so that she would stop being tired of talking crookedly.
Song Zhi knocked off Shen Baiyan's hand and said, "What's wrong with you, did I mean something wrong?" ”
Shen Baiyan had a small pimple in his heart, but when he said it, it seemed hypocritical, so he sulked in his heart.
Seeing Song Zhi shaking his arm and being coquettish, he held back for a long time before saying, "You are something I bothered to plan, not something that follows the situation." ”
Song Zhi was slightly stunned, as if he understood something, his eyes bent into two sweet lines, and the whole person hung on Shen Baiyan's neck and refused to come down.
The two were silent for a while, and Song Zhi lay on Shen Baiyan's shoulder and said sullenly, "Tian'er's matter, how are you doing?" ”
"Have you asked Lord Yue?" Shen Baiyan said.
"Daddy? I didn't ask, but my brother had always been in contact with his father, and it was impossible for him not to tell him about it. But the elder brother did not mention what his father meant in the letter, only said that his mother asked Tian'er to persuade him, and said that the queen mother invited her mother to enter the palace to speak, but it was not clear what she said. Song Zhi straightened up, sat on Shen Baiyan's lap, and said depressedly.
"If Lord Yue's opinion on this matter is not clear, or if he agrees with Tian'er entering the palace, you and Ruohui will not approve of it, and you will not be able to disobey it." Although Shen Baiyan's words made Song Zhi a little more depressed, it was also a big truth.
As Song Zhi himself said to Zhao Ci before, his parents and elders are afraid, how can she be the master of this sister's marriage?
Song Zhi was only a little depressed in the north at this time, but Song Ling was full of feelings of powerlessness at home.
The Empress Dowager Yizhi personally announced that the eldest daughter of General Zhao was the current queen, and the second daughter of General Song was the concubine, in addition, there was also a concubine of the Cui family's descendants, and a concubine of the branch was a beauty. There are also some low-ranking people, a total of more than ten people.
This palace can be described as very lively.
"Why haven't I received a single letter from my father since the month before last month?" Song Ling looked at Li Shuofeng and said.
Li Shuofeng was embarrassed by his unfavorable work, but the carrier pigeon was unharmed, but if someone intercepted the carrier pigeon along the way, it was also very likely.
Song Zhi felt really strange, the carrier pigeons came back one by one, but they didn't bring back the letters, as if Song Ling had nothing to say to Song Ling at all. But their father and son have a harmonious relationship, even if there is nothing to do, there will be a few words of peace.
A few days ago, when Song Ling went to the Lin family to talk about Song Tian's marriage, he asked the Lin family to take Song Ling's letter and gag it, and the Lin family said: "Your father doesn't object, why do you object?" ”
The letter flashed in front of Song Ling's eyes, only glanced at it a few times, Song Ling was about to take a closer look, and when she heard Lin ask about the jade book, she felt very uncomfortable, and left after a few perfunctory words.
"I still find it strange. In this way, you will go to the western frontier and tell the general these things in detail. Song Ling said to Li Shuo.
Li Shuofeng nodded and left immediately.
Song Ling was the only one left in this courtyard, he sat on the stone table in a daze, stepped on the stone bench with one foot, and pinched a branch full of yellow leaves in his left hand, until he heard a sharp and delicate voice sound, "Captain, why are you full of bitterness." ”
Song Ling smiled slightly without replying, and said, "Why are you so rude?" Coming to someone else's house as if no one was there? ”
Water chestnut hugged his arm, watched Song Ling turn his face and smile at himself, a yellow leaf fell on the top of his hair and he didn't know it, water chestnut turned his face and coughed lightly, and said with a smile: "Ru'er was tired of playing with other little masters in the Lin Mansion today, so he came to the palace to rest, and he asked me to tell you." ”
Song Ling lowered her eyes and nodded, as if she was a little lonely, it was this bit of loneliness that stumbled the footsteps of the water chestnut, she wanted to leave, but she involuntarily took a few steps forward, and said to Song Ling: "What's wrong with you?" ”
Song Ling's eyelids are always thin and red, especially when he laughs, he is inexplicably a little more demonic, but when he is lonely, it makes him look like he has just cried.
Song Ling shook her head, smiled comfortably, and showed a bit of youthfulness, "Speaking of which, you've been training Ru'er a little bit more ruthlessly recently, right?" ”
He suddenly said this mindless sentence, which made the water chestnut slightly stunned, and quickly reacted, and said, "You already knew?" ”