Chapter 104: The Past
As if she had a soul in her heart, He Ningxin looked in the mirror in the blessed land of Sumeru, wondering if Pei Shufen would appear in Langjing Cave. Pei Shufen suddenly felt something in the mansion of the Marquis of Ningyuan, and hurriedly asked the maid Tongyue to guard outside, went to the clean room alone, and flashed into his own Langjing Cave from the clean room.
"The last medicine was taken too quickly, and it looks like we have to do some more." Pei Shufen chuckled softly, and while thinking about it, she went to the medicine garden downstairs to harvest the herbs. The actions and behaviors are much more restrained and subtle than before.
When he arrived at the medicine garden in Langjin Cave, as before, Pei Shufen was tired and had back pain, so he harvested a small bundle of medicinal herbs. She didn't dare to delay too much time to rest, so she neatly picked up the herbs, went directly to the bookcase in the study on the second floor, took the medicine bowl and medicine pestle from the shelf next to her, and slowly grinded them.
He Ningxin looked at the situation in the Langjing Cave in the mirror on the side of the Sumeru Blessed Land, and suddenly felt a little frightened.
Pei Shufen's appearance is much more mature and charming than more than a month ago. Looking at her figure, she doesn't look like a fifteen-year-old girl who has just reached the end of her rope, but looks like a thirty-five-year-old mature woman who has read countless people. The corners of the eyes and the tips of the eyebrows are all spring, but there is a slight blue under the eyes, and there is an abnormal flush in the pink complexion. Although she ordered lipstick, she could see that her lips were much lighter.
All kinds of signs look like an overindulgence.
He Ningxin smiled dumbly over there: Chu Huajin's greedy and lustful problem has not changed at all. It seems that the new favorite this time is the lady who married in two years ago and is now just rounding the house.
When He Ningxin was still Pei Shufan, he only had the righteousness of husband and wife for Chu Hua, and there was no love between husband and wife. If it weren't for the sake of having children, she wouldn't want to have a husband and wife affair with him. It's just that at that time, she was his original partner, and it was her responsibility and obligation to give birth to her original son-in-law. She had to be patient, like she was dead, to survive those uncomfortable nights.
Later, when she became pregnant, she immediately drove Chu Huajin out of her house. At that time, she was very glad that Chu Hua had so many concubines and didn't have to stay in her house all day. In order to see Chu Huajin as little as possible at night, she spared no effort to carry him room after room and concubine room, accepted one room after another, and even prepared several kabuki servants in the outer courtyard. In his own room, he also opened his face to Tong Ye and Tong Xue, as long as it was his own day, he would let them serve Chu Huajin.
People say that she is virtuous, and that Chu Hua can enjoy the blessings of Qi only when she marries a good wife. Even Mrs. Ning Yuan, who loved to stuff women for her son before, saw that her eldest son had so many women, and she was no longer willing to add more people to her eldest son. The son's body is not made of iron, and so many women have sharpened the iron pestle into embroidery needles.
Maybe people are rebellious. Back then, she brought so many women in for Chu Huajin, but Chu Huajin blamed her for being too virtuous and didn't often go to the concubine's room to spend the night. It was only later that Aunt Qi and Aunt Fang entered the door and really distracted him.
If you want to say that Pei Shufan suffered a loss back then, it was never in the concubine's room, but in her mother-in-law, Mrs. Ningyuan, and her husband, Chu Huajin. These two people, when she first got married, she was completely defenseless.
Her maiden family, the Pei family, had a strict family style, and the concubines of the Pei family all followed the rules. If a man doesn't spoil his concubine and kill his wife, the concubine can't turn the storm at all, and it doesn't take much care for the lady of the main room. Therefore, the concubine has no rules, it is all the man's fault, and it has nothing to do with the lady of the main room. The Pei family is a clear example. The concubine of the Pei family wanted to make a difference, and Master Pei was the first to jump out and shoot her back. Mrs. Xia was unhappy, and she only quarreled with Master Pei, and never tossed and tortured the concubine. However, maybe it is the special concubine room of the Pei family, and it was not accepted by Master Pei on his own initiative, but given by the saint, or given by Mrs. Xia, so it has never been a climate in the Pei family.
Under the influence of Mrs. Xia, Pei Shufan is not very proficient in the various means of handling the concubine room. At home, she was raised like a man, and she learned a subset of classics and history, and the way of governing the country. The woman in the backyard was attentive and winding, she didn't understand, but she didn't disdain it. When she married into the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion at the beginning of the year, because the old Marquis Ning Yuanhou was an understanding person, she also naively thought that her husband would also be an understanding person. Who knew that after getting married, she realized that she had a father, but not a son.
Fortunately, she learned a lesson, so she immediately changed her way of doing things, quickly took control of the entire Hou Mansion, and successfully gave birth to her own sons and daughters. It's just that no matter how strong human life is, it can't be stronger. She has had problems from the womb since she was a child, and she should have been warmed with tonics. In order to pinch her, Mrs. Tai of the Marquis of Ningyuan Mansion deliberately let the two aunts and sons of the husband and wife secretly drug her. It was only after she suffered this big loss that she knew that there was a mother-in-law like Mrs. Ning Yuan's Marquis Mansion who harmed others and was not beneficial to herself. Fortunately, she woke up early, otherwise she would not only have lost her body, but would have been infertile for life.
Later, after she gave birth to a child, the more serious her condition became, and it was already difficult to get up, and the medicine stone was reckless. If it weren't for the variable of her sister-in-law, she could have taken care of everything in order and then let go.
What my sister did ended her life in her previous life ahead of schedule. Maybe God also took pity on her and gave her a new life and a healthy body.
Looking at Pei Shufen in the mirror, He Ningxin smiled slightly: Sister, the two of us, this account is not finished yet!
On the other side of the mirror is Pei Shufen's Langjing Cave Sky.
I saw Pei Shufen make the pill in front of the bookcase on the other side of the mirror, took it in his hand and looked at it, and said to himself: "This child avoidance pill is much better than that child avoidance soup." With this child-avoiding pill, I shouldn't have to worry about getting pregnant unexpectedly. Speaking of this, Pei Shufen giggled, and couldn't help but laugh: "These people are really stupid." Giving birth to a child at the age of fifteen is the only way to pass the ghost gate, you ask me to give birth to me, I won't give birth! - Wait five years, I can afford to wait. Five years from now, when I'm twenty years old, I will have another child. ”
He Ningxin saw this scene in the mirror of the blessed land of Sumeru, and suddenly changed color, full of suspicion: It turned out that this medicine was for her own consumption. What's the deal with not having children in those five years?
Thinking of his two children Chu Qianyi and Chu Qianqian in the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion, He Ningxin's heart was in turmoil. Later, when Pei Shufen left Langjing Dongtian over there, she didn't know.
Coming out of the blessed land of Sumeru, He Ningxin lay on the bed in a trance and fell asleep.
This night, she returned to the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion for the first time in her dream, and played with her two children in the back garden of the Ningyuan Marquis Mansion. There are many pear trees in the back garden of the Ningyuan Marquis' Mansion, and when the flowers bloom, the flowers are as white as snow, which is very beautiful. The two children were running and screaming under the snowy trees, and she stood by and watched them quietly. When they fell, she went over and lifted them up; When they wept bitterly, she took them in her arms and soothed them softly......
When she woke up the next day, He Ningxin was still stunned.
The big maids Fufeng and Fuliu came in to serve He Ningxin to freshen up, and seeing that He Ningxin didn't seem to be sleeping well, they exchanged glances with each other.
Fufeng took a big handkerchief and wrapped it around He Ningxin's chest, and Fuliu pulled her long hair a few times behind He Ningxin and fixed it behind her head with a hosta.
He Ningxin bent down, poured water on her face, and washed it casually.
Fu Feng took the jasmine-scented facial soap from the shelf next to him and gently moistened it with water. Then Fu Feng rubbed two times from the facial soap with his fingertips, got some pancreas down, and rubbed it twice on the palm of his hand, and there was a lot of snow-white foam, like the pear blossoms that bloomed in He Ningxin's dream yesterday.
He Ningxin watched Fu Feng wipe the foam on her face, cleaned herself, closed her eyes slightly, and let the two maids wash and dress her.
After Fufeng sucked the water on He Ningxin's face with a handkerchief, Fuliu took the facial grease over and applied a thin layer of grease to He Ningxin's face.
He Ningxin's skin is very delicate and white, and her cheeks are rosy and natural. Just after washing my face, the skin on my face is moist and plump, lined with plump black eyes, which is very moving.
Fu Liu took the rouge and duck egg powder, looked at He Ningxin's face carefully, and sighed: "I think the eldest girl doesn't need to put on fat powder anymore, but it stains this face." ”
Fufeng glanced at Fuliu, and smiled at He Ningxin, who was sitting on the dresser thoughtfully: "The eldest girl is getting better and better, according to the slave maid, today's flower party in the Anjun Palace, the eldest girl may be able to get a name and come back." ”
Fuliu pushed Fufeng and said with a smile: "Our eldest girl is married, and we don't have to go back with those girls who are in a hurry to find a husband to grab those useless names." ”
Fufeng hurriedly covered his mouth with his hand and said apologetically: "It's the slave who said it wrong." Don't blame the slave girl, big girl. ”
He Ningxin came back to her senses, looked in the mirror, and saw two big girls squeezing her eyebrows behind her back to make her happy, and said with a smile: "You two don't play treasures." Comb my hair, let's go to my mother's for breakfast. After breakfast, come back and put on your jewelry and change your clothes. ”
Fu Feng and Fu Liu hurriedly put away their smiles, said yes, helped He Ningxin out of the clean room, changed into homely clothes outside, and went to Mrs. Xu for breakfast.
After breakfast, Mrs. Xu came with them and personally helped He Ningxin dress up.
Wearing a new shirt with a blue sky, a bun of clouds on his head, and then inserting the green head one by one, He Ningxin in the big dressing mirror has become a person, graceful and luxurious, with beautiful eyebrows.
Mrs. Xu nodded secretly in her heart: Xin'er's facial features are actually the same as her father's eldest man He Siping, and she is very beautiful. It's just that it used to be a little too rounded, and it was muddy, and the aura was much worse. Now that I have gone through something, I have lost that layer of greenness, and I have lost some weight, and I have changed my face immediately.
He Ningxin looked in the mirror and saw that Tianshuibi's shirt was seamless, very exquisitely made, and turned back to Mrs. Xu and boasted: "Where did my mother find the embroidered girl?" - This kind of craftsmanship lives up to this material. ”
The fabric of Tianshui Bi is a kind of silkworm spinning silk that is unique to a remote mountainous area in Korea. This kind of silkworm dies after spitting silk, and only spits silk once in its life. Such a large piece of clothing requires thousands of silkworms to spit silk, plus hundreds of weaver girls for a year's hard work to weave into clothing. That blue color is the essence of the silkworm's life, not the dye that can be dyed outside. Whether embroidered or woven with this fabric, the blue color can change into different shades of color with the unevenness of the needle and thread and the change of external light.
Now wearing it on He Ningxin, every time she turns around, every time she takes a step, there is a faint blue color, not as good as a person in the world.
He Ningxin had also known the name of this Tianshui Bi before, but she had never seen it. With the texture and rarity of Tianshui Bi, many people once thought that Tianshui Bi would become a tribute and be used exclusively by the royal family.
However, the Fan royal family of the Great Qi Dynasty refused all precious and rare things as tribute. The items used by the royal family were the most produced by the Great Qi Dynasty, but they were of more exquisite quality and were purchased and supplied by designated imperial merchants. And the rarer it is, the less likely it is to be a tribute.
Fan Hui, the founding emperor of the Great Qi Dynasty, said that the royal family is worshiped by the people of the world and should be considered for the sake of the people of the world. Rare and rare things, labor and money, the royal family will never encourage and support.
Therefore, things like Tianshui Bi have become the ones with the highest price. Without the name of tribute, the value is completely determined by the market. But this price, of course, is ridiculously high, just like a rich family like Mrs. Xu, she can only buy one horse in this life and make a dress for her daughter.
Mrs. Xu saw that He Ningxin was dressed up, got up and said, "Let's go." While it's still early, we can go to the Anjun Palace, and meet the King of Anjun and the Princess of Anjun. ”
He Ningxin followed Mrs. Xu into the car and went to the Anjun Palace.
When they came to the gate of the palace, the subordinates of the He family stepped forward to report that the disciples of the palace heard that it was the family of Inspector Zuo Yushi He Siping who had arrived, and hurriedly asked people to go to the inner courtyard to report.
After a while, a girl wearing a narrow-sleeved shirt, a large skirt, and a pair of deerskin boots rushed out of the gate of the palace, and asked the He family's car, "But the He family's sister has arrived?" - I'm Song Liangyu, I saw it last time in the Marquis of Ningyuan's mansion. ”