Chapter 17: First meeting of in-laws
The next morning, Jiang Xinyi got up surprisingly early, and she didn't lie in bed, after all, she was going to see the emperor today, and she couldn't help but feel a little nervous, and the prince didn't send any grandmother who taught etiquette to teach her, maybe this Second Miss Jiang had already learned, but she didn't understand anything!
Be careful, you can come to the palace by yourself, but you can't do it in front of the emperor, besides, didn't you also accept the silver ticket of the perverted prince.
There was a new set of clothes on the table, which was lilac, and Xiaoping told her that it was sent by the prince. also specially instructed to dress up early and go to the front yard.
Xiaoping asked her what hairstyle she wanted? How do she understand, so let Xiao Ping watch it, Xiao Ping thought for a while, and then started to get busy on her head, one moment with a silk rope, one moment to pick up a pillar-like thing, let it bend into a mustache, hold it with a pillar, towering above her head, and then insert bead flowers, and a golden step shake, "Wow, Ping'er's hands are so skillful." Jiang Xinyi looked at herself in the mirror and praised Xiaoping with satisfaction.
"Where, it's the master, you are beautiful, Xiaoping will comb a lot of styles, but on weekdays, the master says that he doesn't like it, it's troublesome." Xiaoping said honestly.
This is true, Jiang Xinyi didn't refute it.
With the help of Xiaoping, Jiang Xinyi was dressed properly, wearing a light purple silk skirt, with peony flowers embroidered with gold thread on the cuffs and hem, and a pink coat was exposed in the placket, Jiang Xinyi naughtily and secretly pulled it down, revealing a little cleavage, but Xiaoping immediately sorted it out again, and finally Xiaoping helped her put on a wide and long shawl embroidered with auspicious cloud patterns, because it was late autumn, so this shawl was made of several layers of yarn, "Master, you really don't want to apply some rouge?" Xiaoping asked.
"Don't." Jiang Xinyi stood in front of the mirror admiring herself, she shook her head uneasily, and saw that the hairstyle had not changed, so she nodded with satisfaction.
In fact, Jiang Xinyi wanted to cover the peach blossom in the center of her eyebrows, but she really couldn't think of a way, and after thinking about it, if she didn't say it, who would know what it was? Except that the timid Bai Shaoqiu would reach out and touch him because he was her cousin, who would dare to make a move on the princess's eyebrows?
"The hour is almost up, master." Xiaoping hurriedly reminded.
"Oh." Jiang Xinyi walked out very reluctantly, Xiaoping did not follow, and the prince said that the princess would go to the front yard alone.
Jiang Xinyi walked out of her yard and saw Ji Hai waiting outside.
"Uncle, why don't you go into the yard? How tired is standing here? Jiang Xinyi said to him.
"The old slave is not tired, thank you princess, the old slave came to pick you up on the order of the prince." Ji Hai kindly gave Jiang Xinyi a smile and said.
Also, Jiang Xinyi was covered with a hijab on the day she entered the mansion, and she hurriedly moved into the backyard the next day, except for going to the garden to see her cousin once, she was still led by a subordinate, and she had never been to other places in the palace at all, this is not to say that Jiang Xinyi is honest, it is that she feels that it is not yet time, and she doesn't like to meet those women of the prince, more is better than less, she would rather climb the wall to walk outside.
This palace is really not ordinarily big, if in modern times, if you can't get along with him and divorce, you can get half of the family property, but here? Alas, the status of women is really low, and it is difficult for a woman who has been divorced by her husband to remarry, let alone divide the family property.
Envy has a fart? There is no share of their own. Jiang Xinyi sighed with emotion as she walked, and Steward Ji didn't dare to ask more.
It was easy to walk to the gate, and I saw a gorgeous carriage parked outside, Wen Yuxin stood next to him with an impatient face, after seeing Jiang Xinyi, he felt that his breathing was about to stop, most of the people outside had never seen the new princess, and they were stupid when they saw it today, how could such a princess and prince be willing to be placed in the backyard?
Looking at Jiang Xinyi, who is still bright and radiant without powder, Wen Yuxin can't connect the person who burns rice and climbs the wall with the gorgeous and noble beauty in front of her, is it her?
"Get in the car, it's getting late." Wen Yuxin hurriedly retracted his mind and said to Jiang Xinyi.
Jiang Xinyi is really not used to being watched by a group of people like this, and she wants to leave quickly, but she can't run, and she has to pay attention to her demeanor.
She was depressed again when she walked to the car, the person at the door of the carriage knelt on the ground, obviously, it was not to say goodbye, but to give her the steps to step on the car, when she encountered the uphill in the modern rickshaw, she got off the car and walked, how could she bear to step on others now? And from the side, the man is also in his fifties. Isn't there supposed to be a stool or something? If there weren't a lot of people watching behind her, she would have picked up the corners of her skirt and stepped into the car, but now!
Wen Yuxin saw her hesitating, walked up to her and asked, "What?" Don't like to ride in a car? Want to ride in a sedan chair? β
"No, don't you have a small stool?" Jiang Xinyi asked in a low voice.
When Wen Yuxin heard her say this, his heart moved, and he glanced at the trembling body on the ground, he knew that the people on the ground had misunderstood the meaning of the princess, thinking that the princess was disgusted, for fear that she would be sent out of the house.
Wen Yuxin stretched out his hand and hugged the person in front of him into the carriage, and then he also got in, "Lao He, let's go." He commanded.
"Yes." Only then did the people on the ground stand up, jumped into the carriage, and drove the carriage forward, and several guards beside the carriage also jumped on horseback and followed left and right.
"What's wrong?" Jiang Xinyi asked uneasily when she saw Wen Yuxin sitting beside her, looking at her eyes.
"No, that's good, but who are you?" He asked.
"It used to be Jiang Shiqian's daughter, but now it's not your wife?" Jiang Xinyi turned her head and replied weakly, fortunately, the guy didn't ask anything more.
She wanted to lift the curtain to look outside, but he pressed it just a little bit with her hand.
"Why are you so serious? People just want to see the excitement. Jiang Xinyi said aggrievedly.
"This king will show you later." Wen Yuxin didn't know why he said this.
"Really? That hook, if you lie to people, you will be the king. Jiang Xinyi happily stretched out her hand to hook her finger with him.
And said the king eight! Wen Yuxin couldn't cry or laugh, so he had to hook her a few times, anyway, no one would see it, he was such a contradiction in his heart, thinking of rejecting her, but his hand stretched out without obeying the call. Thinking that his dignified prince and his princess naively hooked their fingers, who would believe it?
"In a few days, will this king accompany you back to your mother's house?" Wen Yuxin asked.
When Jiang Xinyi heard this, she quickly shook her head, she didn't want to go to that home.
Although Wen Yuxin felt strange when she saw this, she didn't say anything more.
"Since the prince doesn't like me, why don't you write a letter of resignation and give me a divorce, how much trouble is it?" Jiang Xinyi asked cautiously.
"Do you want this king to divorce you?" Wen Yuxin looked at her thoughtfully and asked.
Jiang Xinyi was about to take this opportunity to say what she thought, test his tone, and plan for the future, but when the carriage stopped, Lao He outside said it, and she had to give up.
This time she didn't have to be embarrassed, Wen Yuxin waited at the door after getting out of the car, reached out to carry her out of the car, and gently put her on the ground, Jiang Xinyi smiled at him gratefully, but he didn't expect him to turn around without appreciation.
"Neurotic, one will be cold, the other will be hot." Jiang Xinyi scolded in her heart.
There were already people outside the palace gate to greet her, and on the way inside, Jiang Xinyi tried to restrain herself from looking around like Grandma Liu entering the Grand View Garden, trying to adjust her pace and not make a fool of herself. Wen Yuxin knelt on the ground and said.
Jiang Xinyi hadn't seen the person inside clearly, and when she heard the words, she could only kneel on the ground like him, but she didn't know what to say, why didn't she ask him on the road just now? She regretted it a little.
"After the daughter-in-law knocked on her father and queen mother, she wished her father and queen mother good health and all the best." She is a combination of ancient and modern nonsense.
"Hehe, get up, it's not on the top of the main hall, your own family doesn't need to be formal." A kind voice spoke.
When Jiang Xinyi heard this, she immediately stood up quickly, moving faster than Wen Yuxin.
Seeing the expression of the eunuch and palace maid, she knew that she was ashamed!
Needless to say, the one sitting in the middle of the hall is the emperor, and he is not very old, his kind and amiable appearance makes Jiang Xinyi relax a lot, the beauty next to him, wearing a phoenix crown and a yellow robe, should be the queen's mother, and the beauty next to him should be the mother of the perverted prince, Jiang Xinyi secretly asked them to sit down.
"I asked Yuxin to bring you here a long time ago, but it was said that Concubine Yi had a cold, is it better?" The emperor asked with a smile.
"Back to my father, my daughter-in-law has recovered, thank you for my father's concern." Jiang Xinyi stood up and replied to the emperor, which was much more natural than when she first entered the palace.
"I have long heard that the two daughters of Prime Minister Jiang's family are both talented and good-looking, but I didn't expect that the two beauties have become royal people, sister, we are all blessed people?" The queen said on the side.
"My sister is right, and my sister wants to thank my sister for her success." Nishinomiya also replied with a smile.
Jiang Xinyi looked at the three people opposite, she had already felt the emperor's kindness, but the two mothers? She felt like two poles, the queen was not normal, and the West Palace was cold, although they were both smiling, Jiang Xinyi couldn't feel their sincerity.
"Why is Concubine Yi so serious?" The queen saw Jiang Xinyi staring at her intently and asked.
Jiang Xinyi realized that she had lost her temper, and hurriedly said, "The queen mother is too beautiful, and the daughter-in-law is out of shape." β
"Hahaha, Concubine Yi's mouth is really good at talking, and the mourning family is so happy in her heart." The queen boasted with satisfaction, and she didn't forget to look at the West Palace.
In the main hall, the emperor was talking with Wen Yuxin, and Jiang Xinyi was sitting on pins and needles to deal with the two mothers-in-law. Seeing that the two of them are dignified and virtuous in front of the emperor, maybe they want to control each other to death in their hearts, which dynasty and which generation are not like this?
"Concubine Yi, I don't have anything to give to the mourning family when I meet for the first time, I have prepared some gadgets, I hope you can like it." As soon as the queen waved her hand, a palace maid brought over a box, Jiang Xinyi opened it and looked, wow, it was all gold, silver and jade jewelry.
"Do you like it?" The queen asked.
"Well, I like it, thank you, Queen Mother." Jiang Xinyi thanked happily.
"I'm afraid that if I don't like it, I think the bead flowers on your head are quite exquisite, was it Yuxin who bought it for you, or was it the dowry given by your father?" The queen asked with a smile.
"I don't know? The daughter-in-law saw that the two beads on the queen mother's head were beautiful, but I don't know where the queen mother bought them? Jiang Xinyi had long taken a fancy to the pair of beads on the queen's head, knowing that the jewelry of the emperor's concubine was made by special craftsmen, she also deliberately pretended to be stupid and asked.
"Yo, this kid is quite discerning, this pair of pearl flowers is an offering from the South China Sea, you like it so much, the mourning family will give it to you." As soon as she finished speaking, she reached out to pluck the beaded flowers on her head.
Wen Yuxin glanced at Jiang Xinyi angrily and funny, meaning that she didn't want to. But Jiang Xinyi ignored his eyes; "The queen mother is so good, daughter-in-law thank the queen mother." She said as if she had a sugar smeared on her mouth. The palace maid had already sent the pearl flower to her, Jiang Xinyi's heart was happy, and she hurriedly put it away carefully; "This is given by the queen mother, and it should be treasured." She hadn't forgotten to seal her mouth again.
"There is also a meeting gift here in the palace, Concubine Yi will accept it." Xigong Niangniang looked at Jiang Xinyi meaningfully and said.
The palace maid immediately gave Jiang Xinyi another box, she took it and felt very heavy, and when she opened it, it was a few pairs of agate bracelets and a few gold ingots. Jiang Xinyi was naturally happy to thank her. I thought, it's not stingy, whether you kiss me or not, I don't plan to live with you, do I?
"How does Yuxin treat you? If he bullies you, sue your father today, and let the emperor call the shots for you. The queen asked with a sudden smile. I saw Xigong Niangniang and Wen Yuxin looking at each other nervously.
Obviously, the queen knew what happened to Jiang Xinyi in the Yu Palace, and she wanted to take this opportunity to let Jiang Xinyi say it, and the emperor would definitely be disappointed in him when he heard it, because the emperor would definitely hate his son for lying to him.
But Jiang Xinyi is not stupid, ah, I sued his son in front of the emperor, and the son must have said that he would go home and change it, but the emperor will not follow them, and it will not be her own who will suffer at that time?
"Him?" Jiang Xinyi deliberately lowered her head shyly.
Seeing this, the emperor smiled heartily, "Queen, don't tease this child, my son must be very fond of her, okay, go and inform the imperial dining room, you can have a banquet." β
Just when Wen Yuxin was very satisfied with Jiang Xinyi's performance just now, this aunt spoke again, "Father." β
Wen Yuxin didn't know what she was going to say, and the others were waiting for her to say the back, the queen was surprised, and Xigong clenched her fistsγγγ