Chapter Seventy-Four: The Past
"Did your second sister have a holiday with Ji Chun? ,… Qi Zhen saw the scene just now and turned her head to look at Qing Dai.
Qing Dai leaned into her ear and told her about the Huā Dynasty, Qi Zhen glanced at Ji Chun, "Relying on her mother is the cousin of the second lady of the Guogong Mansion, her tail is up to the sky." That fall just now was too light! However, your second sister is also a powerful person."
While the two were talking, they saw Tingjia get up and go downstairs, and glanced at the two of them at the staircase, Qi Zhen and Qingdai hurriedly put down their chopsticks, and followed one after the other.
"Qi Zhen, Qing Dai." Tingjia stood outside the forest to the west of the West Pavilion, beckoning to Qi Zhen and Tingjia, who were looking for him.
"Over there!" Qing Dai and Qi Zhen walked over.
"I just passed by and saw a pavilion in the woods, let's go over and talk about it."
Tingjia took Qingdai and Qi Zhen to the small pavilion in the forest to rest. When he arrived at the pavilion and sat down, Qi Zhen enthusiastically took Tingjia's hand, and walked around, up and down, left and right, "Tsk, it seems that I have gained weight, it seems that my life in the Hua family is good!" Hello, when you get married, you forget your sisters. Tingjia blushed, "You are a narrow ghost!" ”
Qing Dai looked at Tingjia wearing a long-sleeved hairpin with a green splendid group, a peony bun on her head, a pair of red gold inlaid red and blue sapphire butterflies to cover her sideburns, her body was plump compared to when she was married, and there was a little more fù charm between her eyebrows and eyes, and her face was ruddy, and she looked more beautiful than before.
"I still talked about you with Pearl today, and I still think that you have not heard from you since you left the cabinet, and I don't know how you have been doing lately? But now looking at your spring breeze, it's not bad! Qi Zhen followed and asked, "How does Hua Shaoqi treat you?" Tingjia nodded slightly, "He doesn't like to talk much, but it's okay to treat me!" With three points of shame, Qi Zhen and Qing Dai smiled, and they were both happy for Tingjia in their hearts.
Qi Zhen glanced to the side and saw that the maid and the grandmother were standing ten steps away from the pavilion, so she asked in a low voice, "What about your princess mother-in-law?" ”
Tingjia sighed, "It's okay, I just entered the door, and I don't know my mother-in-law yet, and she loves her second brother and sister more." "Did the recipe I gave you come in handy?"
"My mother-in-law doesn't let me serve by my side on weekdays, where is the opportunity to say this?" Looking at Tingjia's long sigh, Qi Zhen hated that iron could not become steel and said: "It must be that you can't pull down your face, and your mouth is not sweet enough, so that your second brother and sister have the upper hand." ”
Tingjia bowed her head and didn't speak, Qingdai said: "Sister Tingjia won't pretend to be clever and don't care.
She is the wife of the prince, the future Mrs. Zhongyihou, who is in charge of the inner house and takes care of the house, and it is better to be dignified and stable. Now that she is the new fù, it is naturally good to be able to please the princess, but if she can't please her, don't let the princess find fault with her. Besides, it was the son of the world who lived with Tingjia, not her mother-in-law. ”
Tingjia nodded, and gave a light "um", agreeing with Qingdai's words.
Qi Zhen glanced at Qingdai and muttered, "Just you can speak!" I didn't want her to have a better life. ”
"Alright, alright." Tingjia pulled Qi Zhen and said with a smile, "You are all good for me, I know it in my heart!" No, as soon as I come out today, I'm anxious to see you both. Don't just talk about me, my mother-in-law asked just now, why did you two sneak out? But what's the matter? Qi Zhen and Qing Dai glanced at each other, waved their hands in unison and said, "It's okay, it's okay." Tingjia glared at the two of them, "You two, I don't know, isn't it that Pearl is afraid that my mother-in-law will ask her to question." ”
Qi Zhen pouted and said: "You have guessed it, I won't hide it from you, go back and make a few ugly words for me in front of your mother-in-law, so that no one in her love will fall in love with me." ”
Tingjia hid her face and chuckled: "Are you so unwilling to be a concubine with me?" "Don't, just be a sister, forget it." I don't want to find a husband who will mess with me! ”
"Hehe, you're poor! If my third uncle hears it, Zhun Bao will be so angry that he will die! Tingjia smiled and shook his head, "Don't worry, it's not your turn!" I guess that my mother-in-law is afraid that she has fallen in love with the three girls of the Qin family, but the old lady prefers the ten girls of the Zhang family.
Qi Zhen patted xiōng and breathed a long sigh of relief: "As long as it has nothing to do with me!" However, your third uncle doesn't seem to be a obedient and obedient master, don't let your mother-in-law's idea fall through like five years ago. "It's hard to say that five years ago, the third uncle was still young, but now he is not young."
Qing Dai listened to the two of them talking, sat quietly on the side, thinking of Jiu Niangniang's cold face, she suddenly felt a little bad in her heart, she really heard Tingjia say that Jiu Niangniang was going to get married, she seemed to see Cheng Cheng want to marry another woman, shook her head and put aside those strange thoughts, sighed silently, just now I told Pearl that it was fat and delicious and difficult to digest, and now I want to do what I don't have. It's been more than five years, whether it's Cheng Cheng or Jiu Niangniang, they are all people who have nothing to do with you.
"Qing Dai, Qing Dai" Tingjia pushed Qing Dai, "What do you think of a little girl?" Qingdai pouted and said, "No, I didn't think about anything." ”
Tingjia asked Qi Zhen and Qingdai how they were doing during this time, and said that the princess would go with her to escape the summer in two days, and invite the two of them to sit in the house at that time. Qi Zhen immediately said yes, Qingdai was not very happy to go, and only said that she would see it when the time came. As a result, Qi Zhen saw her hesitation, and begged her to go with her. Qing Dai had no choice but to respond, thinking that she would find a reason to quit that day.
The three sisters had a small meeting, and Qinglian changed her clothes with Qin Zi, and the two left Qin Zi's residence together.
Walking through the corridor, I suddenly heard a flute from the courtyard wall next door.
Qin Zi stopped, looked at the tall plane tree in the courtyard wall, and was silent for a long time.
Qinglian didn't know why, seeing that Qin Zi didn't move, she also stopped standing beside her, until the sound of the flute gradually stopped, and then she whispered: "This flute sound is quiet and beautiful, and it seems to carry a little nostalgia." ”
Qin Zi glanced at Qinglian, "I didn't expect that Miss Shangguan was proficient in music." ”
"Miss Qin's false praise, 1 [You only understand a little.] Qinglian said humbly: "Who is this piper?" Qin Zi's eyes flashed with a strange sè, and the chún horn raised slightly, "Just take a look." ”
The two of them just turned the corner, but saw Qin Xian standing alone at the gate of the courtyard. Qin Man saw Qin Zi and Qinglian, "Third sister, Shangguan girl, why did you come here?" ”
Qin Zi smiled and said, "I heard Shu Tongxuan have a flute, so I came over to take a look." ”
"Young Master Qin." Qinglian gave Qin Xianfu a blessing.
Qin Xian nodded at Qinglian and returned the salute, then turned around and sent Qin Zi away, "The guests over there in the West Pavilion are still waiting, why don't you hurry over?" ”
Qin Zi was a little dissatisfied and said, "Why is the eldest brother in a hurry to drive people away? Who is it in there that makes it so mysterious? "It's just an old friend."
Qin Zi pursed her lips at Qin Man, and looked at Shu Tongxuan's courtyard, "Eldest sister's old friend?" But His Royal Highness King Ning? ”
Qin Xian shook his head, "No." ”
"Big brother not going back to the East Pavilion?"
"I still have something to do here, you go back to the West Pavilion earlier, don't let Her Royal Highness the princess and grandmother wait for a long time." Seeing that he couldn't ask, Qin Zi glanced back at Shu Tongxuan, and left with Qinglian in a daze.
As soon as the two left, Hua Shaoyan walked out of the courtyard.
"You're out?" Qin Man sighed lightly, "You are a person who misses the old love, and you still remember the way to Shu Tongxuan." Hey, if it weren't for Chengping not leaving so suddenly, maybe you and Shu'er would ,........." "If Chengping didn't leave, Chengping would have gone to make peace." Hua Shaoyan interrupted Qin Man's words, and his gaze fell on the distance, "Even if Qin Shu doesn't leave, the two of us won't be able to walk together, and the face is not there, and the place is still the same." Revisiting here and playing a song is just a reminiscence of those carefree days in childhood. Qin Xian frowned and said: "Although everyone was still young back then, you are always different from others to Shu'er, can it be said that you have no other friendship in your heart?" Then why have you repeatedly avoided the princess to marry you over the years? ”
Hua Shaoyan rubbed the sun, "These don't seem to be your concerns!" ”
Qin Xian laughed at himself, "If it weren't for the prince of Beihu who injured Weifu and traveled back then, why did you have to ask Shu'er to go and kiss." She has been thinking about you when she left, I said that you went to the northwest all these years for her, but I didn't expect you to say that you were completely ruthless to her in the end? "I went to the battlefield to defend my family and country. I fought on the battlefield for all these years, born and died, once I was seriously injured and almost died, and when I woke up, I always felt that I seemed to have forgotten something, but I remember Qin Shu's matter clearly..."Hua Shaoyan paused, and said helplessly, "Believe it or not, I don't bother to explain." I was a kid and didn't understand some things, but I can assure you that she and I were just friends, not what you think. Even if you are her own brother, you may not know her true thoughts. ”
Qin Xian was a little stunned, with Hua Shaoyan's xìngzi wanting to find a hundred reasons for being cunning, but once he seriously guaranteed it, he would never lie, did his sister ask for peace back then, did he have other ...............feelings?
Hua Shaoyan shook her head and continued: "No matter what reason she made such a decision, it was always her own will. Back then, I was the first to hurt people, but the Great Qi is a big country, and it is not afraid of the North Hu as the tiger and the wolf, not to mention that the harem of the Great Qi is full of women who want to get ahead, can't you find a suitable person to make peace for the princess? ”
Qin Xian was silent for a long time, and said suspiciously: "Could it be that she is for King Ning?" ”
"I don't know why. I went to Chengping Palace to find King Ning, and she was also there that day... But on the second day, she left the palace to ask for a substitute marriage. Hua Shaoyan remembered the past and sighed lightly, "Qin Shu has been gone for so many years, and now she is the imperial concubine of Beihu." Although there have been frequent wars with Beihu in the past two years, her position has never wavered. To this day, what's the use of dwelling on these past events? She's not coming back! Qin Xian sighed, "That's it!" Let's go, King Chung and the prince are still waiting for you in the East Pavilion. Hua Shaoyan saw that Qin Man was no longer entangled in the old things of his childhood, and knew that he had put it down for the time being, so he nodded, "Well, I haven't seen you for many years, borrow the light of Mrs. Tai, you and I will have a few cups of pain later!" "Good!" Qin Man smiled and nodded, "I'll find a few of them later, let's go to my yard, if you don't get drunk today, you won't return!" "In two days, I will go with the car to escape the summer, and then invite the two of them to sit in the house. Qi Zhen immediately said yes, Qingdai was not very happy to go, and only said that she would see it when the time came. As a result, Qi Zhen saw her hesitation, and begged her to go with her. Qing Dai had no choice but to respond, thinking that she would find a reason to quit that day.
The three sisters had a small meeting, and Qinglian changed her clothes with Qin Zi, and the two left Qin Zi's residence together.
Walking through the corridor, I suddenly heard a flute from the courtyard wall next door.
Qin Zi stopped, looked at the tall plane tree in the courtyard wall, and was silent for a long time.
Qinglian didn't know why, seeing that Qin Zi didn't move, she also stopped standing beside her, until the sound of the flute gradually stopped, and then she whispered: "This flute sound is quiet and beautiful, and it seems to carry a little nostalgia." ”
Qin Zi glanced at Qinglian, "I didn't expect that Miss Shangguan was proficient in music." ”
"Miss Qin's false praise, 1 [You only understand a little.] Qinglian said humbly: "Who is this piper?" Qin Zi's eyes flashed with a strange sè, and the chún horn raised slightly, "Just take a look." ”
The two of them just turned the corner, but saw Qin Xian standing alone at the gate of the courtyard. Qin Man saw Qin Zi and Qinglian, "Third sister, Shangguan girl, why did you come here?" ”
Qin Zi smiled and said, "I heard Shu Tongxuan have a flute, so I came over to take a look." ”
"Young Master Qin." Qinglian gave Qin Xianfu a blessing.
Qin Xian nodded at Qinglian and returned the salute, then turned around and sent Qin Zi away, "The guests over there in the West Pavilion are still waiting, why don't you hurry over?" ”
Qin Zi was a little dissatisfied and said, "Why is the eldest brother in a hurry to drive people away? Who is it in there that makes it so mysterious? "It's just an old friend."
Qin Zi pursed her lips at Qin Man, and looked at Shu Tongxuan's courtyard, "Eldest sister's old friend?" But His Royal Highness King Ning? ”
Qin Xian shook his head, "No." ”
"Big brother not going back to the East Pavilion?"
"I still have something to do here, you go back to the West Pavilion earlier, don't let Her Royal Highness the princess and grandmother wait for a long time." Seeing that he couldn't ask, Qin Zi glanced back at Shu Tongxuan, and left with Qinglian in a daze.
As soon as the two left, Hua Shaoyan walked out of the courtyard.
"You're out?" Qin Man sighed lightly, "You are a person who misses the old love, and you still remember the way to Shu Tongxuan." Hey, if it weren't for Chengping not leaving so suddenly, maybe you and Shu'er would ,........." "If Chengping didn't leave, Chengping would have gone to make peace." Hua Shaoyan interrupted Qin Man's words, and his gaze fell on the distance, "Even if Qin Shu doesn't leave, the two of us won't be able to walk together, and the face is not there, and the place is still the same." Revisiting here and playing a song is just a reminiscence of those carefree days in childhood. Qin Xian frowned and said: "Although everyone was still young back then, you are always different from others to Shu'er, can it be said that you have no other friendship in your heart?" Then why have you repeatedly avoided the princess to marry you over the years? ”
Hua Shaoyan rubbed the sun, "These don't seem to be your concerns!" ”
Qin Xian laughed at himself, "If it weren't for the prince of Beihu who injured Weifu and traveled back then, why did you have to ask Shu'er to go and kiss." She has been thinking about you when she left, I said that you went to the northwest all these years for her, but I didn't expect you to say that you were completely ruthless to her in the end? "I went to the battlefield to defend my family and country. I fought on the battlefield for all these years, born and died, once I was seriously injured and almost died, and when I woke up, I always felt that I seemed to have forgotten something, but I remember Qin Shu's matter clearly..."Hua Shaoyan paused, and said helplessly, "Believe it or not, I don't bother to explain." I was a kid and didn't understand some things, but I can assure you that she and I were just friends, not what you think. Even if you are her own brother, you may not know her true thoughts. ”
Qin Xian was a little stunned, with Hua Shaoyan's xìngzi wanting to find a hundred reasons for being cunning, but once he seriously guaranteed it, he would never lie, did his sister ask for peace back then, did he have other ...............feelings?
Hua Shaoyan shook her head and continued: "No matter what reason she made such a decision, it was always her own will. Back then, I was the first to hurt people, but the Great Qi is a big country, and it is not afraid of the North Hu as the tiger and the wolf, not to mention that the harem of the Great Qi is full of women who want to get ahead, can't you find a suitable person to make peace for the princess? ”
Qin Xian was silent for a long time, and said suspiciously: "Could it be that she is for King Ning?" ”
"I don't know why. I went to Chengping Palace to find King Ning, and she was also there that day... But on the second day, she left the palace to ask for a substitute marriage. Hua Shaoyan remembered the past and sighed lightly, "Qin Shu has been gone for so many years, and now she is the imperial concubine of Beihu." Although there have been frequent wars with Beihu in the past two years, her position has never wavered. To this day, what's the use of dwelling on these past events? She's not coming back! Qin Xian sighed, "That's it!" Let's go, King Chung and the prince are still waiting for you in the East Pavilion. Hua Shaoyan saw that Qin Man was no longer entangled in the old things of his childhood, and knew that he had put it down for the time being, so he nodded, "Well, I haven't seen you for many years, borrow the light of Mrs. Tai, you and I will have a few cups of pain later!" "Good!" Qin Xian smiled and nodded, "I'll find a few of them later, let's go to my yard, if you don't get drunk today, you won't return!" ”!。