Chapter 57: The Gift

Why haven't you slept yet? ”

A slight voice came, and Sheng Mingzhu hurriedly put away the scroll. When he turned around, he saw that Huang's mother was looking at herself with a dissatisfied face. Huang's mother said that she was a subordinate in the house, and she had been following her for more than ten years, and Miss Sheng Mingzhu couldn't put it in front of her, so she said glutinously, "I haven't finished the task assigned by Mr. a few days ago, so I came out and took the scroll to ponder." ”

"Why don't you look inside the house, how cold is outside?"

Huang's mother stepped forward and touched her little hand, and it was really cold. He frowned again and asked, "Where is the golden branch, not waiting in front of you?" ”

"I saw that she was sleepy, so I let her go to sleep." Sheng Mingzhu saw that Huang's mother was still talking at length, so she quickly covered her mouth, "I'm a little sleepy......"

"It's stubborn during the day", Huang's mother glanced at her, and helped people into the house, "It's so dark, Ming'er will get up late." Breakfast was eaten in the carriage. The girl's family didn't sleep enough, and her complexion was not good. ”

Sheng Mingzhu looked at Huang's mother obediently and skillfully, and when she was about to leave, she smiled sweetly at her.

Soon Huang's mother left.

There was no light in the house, and it was dark.

Sheng Mingzhu opened her eyes and looked at the top of her bed, and slowly exhaled. I can't tell you how I feel in my heart - watching myself die, as if I was there? Not really, I feel that my heart is empty, she hasn't seen enough of this great river and mountain, she is from a rich background, she has a father and mother who love her, and a lot of gold and silver.

The ants are still stealing life, why should she die early.

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Gray Yi took out the painting at night, and quickly entered the Dongchang Governor's Mansion.

"It should have been drawn by the third lady herself."

The gray clothes stood beside their master, respectful. Guan Ping glanced back at him, and his eyes fell on the painting again, "The technique is good...... it seems that he doesn't spend all his time playing on weekdays.

"I'm not done", Guan Ping rubbed his chin, "What do you mean by her, why do you want to draw me?"

Gray Yi added appropriately, "Xu wanted to make up for it tonight, but was seen by the family, and the young lady left in a panic." ”

If you pick up to curry favor with the emperor, the eunuch of Xichang should be the first name. If you talk about how to please Guan Ping, Gray Yi has a scale in his heart, and he feels that he uses the word flustered perfectly.

Guan Ping smiled. His countenance, which was already excellent, made the room shine brightlyβ€”

As for Sheng Mingzhu, he thought a lot. Maybe it's something that is boring at night and wants to tease, maybe it's the usual man who sees the plundering of a beautiful woman, maybe it's a sideliner. But he is rarely like this, rarely like this, and in the eyes of the world, including himself, he has never been a person in moral shackles.

He wants someone, and he will be direct and unscrupulous.

Guan Ping is now eight out of twenty - the wind and snow sometimes seem to be a little far away in his eyes. It's just occasionally, like now, that he wants to please a young girl.

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It's getting late after school, especially in winter, and it's darker than before.

When Sheng Mingzhu arrived at the house, a white pom-pom ball jumped directly into her arms, meowing. Lingzhu walked to the table and warmed her hands with the hand warmer prepared by the next person in advance, the academy is not as good as home, and she has two or three chilblains on her hands after holding a pen for a long time.

"It's cold when you get up early, so you don't have to listen to it if you write less." In the end, it was her own sister, and her little fleshy hand was frozen red, and Sheng Mingzhu was also distressed.

Lingzhu shook his head, "The plan of the day lies in the morning. ”

Sheng Mingzhu couldn't see her as a little old man, and she had no aura at all. Then he put down the pompom in his hand, and the cat walked up to Lingzhu with small steps, like a fluffy hairball, and licked the back of her hand. The little girl couldn't resist this cute thing, and Lingzhu quickly held up the pom-pom belly.

Look at it again, with a hairy face and dark eyes.

Sheng Feifei also came back, passed by the three-room courtyard, and saw the two sisters playing with a snow-white ball, her brows furrowed for a while, and she looked at it carefully. After a while, he couldn't help but step forward and ask, "Where did you come from?" ”

In the past, when she entered the palace, she had seen the queen mother hugging the same, and at that time she thought Yuxue was cute, so she asked the little eunuch next to her more. This is the cats and dogs in the palace, and you can't see it from the outside, where did Sheng Mingzhu get it?

The cats were a little scared, and when they saw people coming, the pompom immediately jumped into Sheng Mingzhu's arms, and her head poked out of her arm socket slightly, observing the outside. Sheng Mingzhu touched its head and didn't look up, "A friend sent it." ”

"Which friend?" Sheng Feifei asked.

Sheng Mingzhu raised her eyes and looked at her, and said strangely, "Naturally, it's my friend." ”

Sheng Ruoqiu stayed in the house for one night last night, and she was going home today, Sheng Feifei came to see her off and talk for a while. But he stopped here and refused to leave, "Which of you has such a great ability?" Which is this folk cat, did your grandfather give it to you? She knew that her grandfather favored Sheng Mingzhu, and went into the palace to ask for a gift for Sheng Mingzhu but didn't give it to her!

Sheng Mingzhu only knew that this cat was uncommon, but he didn't know where it came from.

"The second sister is strange, what about what my grandfather gave me?"

Sheng Feifei was blocked and couldn't speak, but she became more and more aggrieved in her heart, and she only felt that her serious concubine was compared to others. I saw Sheng Mingzhu holding the cat again, endured the anger in his heart, and said after a while, "I see that the cat here is very cute, third sister, can you bring it to me to hug it?" ”

"I can't." Sheng Mingzhu is not a fool, seeing that she is uneasy and kind, she also gave her the pom-pom.

Sheng Feifei's face changed suddenly, she didn't expect Sheng Mingzhu to give her face so much. Xu is Sheng Feifei's color was too ugly, and the golden branch next to her didn't hold back the smile on her face.

"Sheng Mingzhu, don't be embarrassed, you used to pretend to be well-behaved in front of me, why, now your father is rampant as a waiter? How long do you think you can be proud, my father is a serious son of the Guogong Mansion, you are just a concubine, half a slave, but you can't even recognize who the master is? ”

Sheng Feifei really doesn't know, why is she, Sheng Mingzhu, a concubine, living more comfortably than her concubine? I looked at her dressed up again, and the clothes and jewelry on her body were all good materials and high-quality clothing and jewelry that were fashionable this year.

Sheng Feifei is naturally dressed well, but only she knows that a few are new and a few are old. Why should the daughter of a three-room concubine be pressed on her head?

Sheng Mingzhu raised his eyes to look at her, and the smile in his eyes disappeared a little.

"I've never been an enemy of my second sister, right?" She looked at Sheng Feifei, she really didn't like Sheng Feifei's temperament, but she had similar blood on her body, and she was not an enemy, most of the time Sheng Feifei was looking for trouble, she was bitten by a dog.

"The second sister said that I was a concubine, and it was nothing to look down on my identity?" She said, "It's just a bad word, the eldest aunt is the last to enter the door, if it really follows the rules of Lao Xian Da Zhou." I'm a concubine, I'm half a slave, what are you? "She doesn't want to lose face, and Sheng Mingzhu is not the kind of person who lets others bully.

"Sheng Mingzhu!" The Ruan family is the stepfamily, but no one dares to say it in this Sheng Mansion. Because the Ruan family is the heroine of the mansion and controls the middle feed of the mansion, no one dares to make a fuss about Sheng Feifei's life experience.

"Second sister doesn't have to be so loud, I can hear it."

Sheng Ruoqiu was waiting for Sheng Feifei, but when she heard from the mouth of the next person that the two young ladies in front of her seemed to have an argument, she hurried over. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Sheng Feifei looked aggrieved and resentful again, so she asked, "What's wrong?" ”

's own sisters are also young girls. Sheng Ruoqiu hoped that the two could be reconciled.

Sheng Mingzhu hung her head and stroked the soft hair of the pom-pom that arched in fright because of Sheng Feifei's raised voice. Sheng Ruoqiu also saw it, and said, "What a cute cat, why didn't I see you take it out yesterday." ”

Sheng Mingzhu saw that she liked it, so he handed it to her arms, "Yesterday, this little guy slept on the futon and slept fragrantly." Originally, I slept at this time, but I knew that my eldest sister was leaving today, and I wanted to send you off. ”

"It's sweet in your mouth."

The two said a word or two, which was ordinary gossip. But in the past, Sheng Ruoqiu gave a pearl forehead ornament to Sheng Mingzhu, Sheng Feifei already felt that her eldest sister was biased, and now it is even more, especially Sheng Mingzhu slapped her in the face just now, how precious is this cat?

The embarrassment in Sheng Feifei's heart turned directly into anger, "Sheng Mingzhu, you can't help but deceive people too much, just a broken cat, who do you think is in your eyes?" ”

Sheng Mingzhu looked back at her, and Sheng Ruoqiu also looked, "What are you doing?" Who taught you the rules by pointing to others? ”

Sheng Feifei withdrew her hand angrily, "I knew you were facing her." Are you my sister or her sister? He glanced at Mingzhu angrily, "Let's wait!" With that, he turned around and ran.

Sheng Ruoqiu frowned, looked at Sheng Mingzhu again, she pursed her lips, "How do I know when I offended the second sister, and she came to me for trouble?" ”

"She has a bad brain, so you don't worry about her on weekdays."

Sheng Ruoqiu said this, and on the surface, it sounded like Sheng Feifei was helping Sheng Mingzhu. Sheng Mingzhu lowered her head and looked at her embroidered shoes, but she knew in her heart that the eldest sister was still looking forward to her own sister, but this seemed to be understandable.

"She was abducted by her mother since she was a child. Small-bellied chicken intestines, but also self-made smart. Sheng Ruoqiu frowned puzzled, "Mingzhu, you are smart, you look good, and you will have great achievements in the future." But her temperament is still waiting for the draft to enter the palace - she only knows wealth and enjoyment, but she doesn't know that Houmen is as deep as the sea. ”

And with the military power of the Sheng family, how could His Majesty give Sheng Feifei to any prince?

"In the end, a sister who comes out of the house is known as a mustard on weekdays, but who can she point to when she goes out in the future. Her wooden head can't turn around, you don't want to fork it. I only hope that after leaving the Sheng family in the future, our sisters can still support each other. ”

Sheng Mingzhu understood what she meant, but she was afraid that she would treat others as sisters and others as enemies.

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Sheng Feifei was about to walk back to her room all the way, but she heard a loud crowd in front of her, and it seemed that a guest was coming. He walked forward curiously, and Ruan was in front of him, preparing tea for people. Old Taijun Song is now old and has not seen guests for a long time, and the mansion has been entertained by the Ruan family.

I saw that there were countless cages, which were very gorgeous.

Seeing many maidservants waiting, there was an old man in a Confucian robe sitting in the center, Sheng Feifei looked at people suspiciously, and walked into Cuizhu who was waiting on the side.

"Who is this, how come I've never seen one?"