Chapter 9: Moved by Love, Favoritism
On the fourteenth day of the first lunar month, the Lantern Festival, is the day when the girl will have a lover.
At this time in previous years, Yumei would always dress up carefully and sneak out of the house with Xiaoyu to meet her Jun as her brother on the promenade.
Although it is a slip, judging from the fact that every night when he returns to the house, the house still leaves the door and the light, Master Xin may not be unaware, and maybe, he specially sent a small servant to follow, monitor and protect her.
But this year, Yumei has been married to a wife and is a concubine, in terms of identity, she is not even qualified to watch the excitement on such a day.
Yes, although Xiaoyu instigated many times, she only shook her head from beginning to end: "Xiaoyu, the Prime Minister's Mansion is not as good as the family, so it's better not to be sideways." ”
Xiaoyu pouted, "But Miss, Xiangye has said that Miss can go in and out at will without abiding by any rules of the Prime Minister's Mansion, why can't we go out for a walk?" ”
Yumi knocked her on the head, "He said it, but what?" He is the prime minister of a country, and he is away all day long, doing national affairs. What about us? ”
Speaking of this, Yumei suddenly laughed at herself, and that tone, rather than listening to Xiaoyu, was admonishing herself over and over again: "It's just a weak girl in the deep mansion, who has the most days, that is, embroidering and playing the piano, and is accompanied by her all day long, in the final analysis, it is still the wives and wives who are also women." ”
After a pause, she turned to Xiaoyu and asked, "You say, if you offend the ladies and wives, how long can Xiangye protect us?" ”
"This ......" Xiaoyu still didn't understand this: "But Miss, isn't Xiangye the biggest in our house?" ”
Yu Meiyou sighed: "It's not the biggest in our house." ”
When Xiaoyu heard her sigh like this, she was proud for a while, but she pulled the topic away: "Yes! Xiangye is the biggest in the whole world, except for the emperor! ”
While the two were talking and laughing, Xiangye's personal guard Ah Si came, stepped forward to pay homage and saluted: "Madam, Xiangye is invited, please come with me." ”
It stands to reason that the title of "madam" is only given to Gu Yangling's wife, who is also the princess of the dynasty. Yu Mei, as the seventeenth concubine of Xiangye, is usually only worthy of being called "Mrs."
But this personal guard is a special one, first, he has followed Gu Yangling since he was a child, the two are not only friends of life and death, but also brothers who grew up wearing a pair of open crotch pants, and their status is naturally extraordinary, even if they are princesses, they have to give three points of thin face.
Second, he has always felt guilty for his poor protection, which caused Gu Yangling to be chased and killed by assassins in the suburbs of Beijing and injured his leg, and it happened that Xin Yumei saved Gu Yangling at that time. When he learned that Xin Yumei was the medicine girl who saved Gu Yangling, he stubbornly called her "madam".
And on the contrary, Gu Yangling is also the default.
Therefore, except for the princess, who was furious and asked him to change his words, no one in the whole house dared to say no.
Over time, the matter was settled.
Yu Mei walked out of Zijin House with him and walked to the front yard, she thought that Gu Yangling would be in the study or the garden, but Ah Si took her straight through the garden, and then walked through the study, and still did not stop.
Then he took her out of the house and got into a carriage and went to the East Market.
It was almost evening, and the full moon was rising in the east, so it was a very sunny day.
Dongshi is a famous lamp market in the capital, and it is the Lantern Festival, the whole street is full of lanterns, boys and girls come and go with masks, guess lantern riddles, make pairs, so lively.
Yumei was fascinated for a while, but when she came back to her senses, she found that Ah Si was gone.
When looking around, a man in white with a tall posture and a mask of the medicine king slowly walked towards her from the depths of the crowd, and when he got closer, he handed her a mask and said slowly: "Girl, I don't know if I am lucky to invite the girl to swim together?" ”
Yumei heard that she deliberately suppressed her voice, she seemed to know who he was, but in this situation, she seemed to be enchanted, and her mind was not clear for a while, although the answer was about to come out, it was hidden in a burst of fairy energy, like a dream, and she couldn't see clearly.
She nodded slightly, took the mask from his hand, and put it on.
It was the mask of the peony fairy, which matched her pink outfit, and from a distance, it really looked like the fairy who turned around and was about to fly into the sky.
The two looked at each other, and then walked side by side tacitly, like an ordinary couple, went shopping, and bought sky lanterns.
Then, the two went to the bridge, looked at the slowly rising sky lanterns, and released the one that belonged to them.
When the lanterns gradually rose into the sky, they blended in with the crowd of lanterns, and they could no longer distinguish them.
The two stood on the arched bridge, quietly looking at the street, still lively.
Yumi suddenly wanted to see the face under the mask, so she reached out to reveal it, but it was not easy, so she couldn't remove it.
The man looked at her, hesitated for a moment, held the mask with one hand, and untied the white rope with the other.
The rope opened, and he slowly took off his mask, and the familiar face was so clear in the light of the light.
It's him, Gu Yangling.
Yumi smiled slightly, and also reached out to undo her mask.
The two of them are facing each other, and they both have each other in their eyes.
Then, they looked at each other and smiled.
Gu Yangling reached out to hold Yumei's hand, Yumei didn't dodge, but held it, interlocking his fingers.
The two stood side by side on the bridge, and suddenly a gust of wind rose, Yumei shivered slightly, and Gu Yangling took advantage of the situation to hug her into his arms and wrapped her tightly from behind.
Yumi waited quietly in her arms for a while, and suddenly quietly raised her head to look at him.
Seeing this, Gu Yangling lowered his head and kissed her on the lips.
This kiss was soft and warm, which made Yumei's whole body tremble, and the warmth overflowed.
When she realized what had happened, she blushed instantly.
She lowered her head and carefully recalled the time she had spent with Gu Yangling, and suddenly found that this man looked cold, but he was actually warm.
It may not be a good destination.
Two months passed in the blink of an eye.
March is a good time for the grass to grow and the warblers to fly and the spring flowers to bloom.
Although all the plum blossoms in Zijinju withered, within two days, Gu Yangling sent a few new pots of peach blossoms, and the clusters of pink peach blossoms were delicious and delicate, and the fragrance of the flowers was fresh, which filled the desolation brought by the withering of the plum blossoms.
For several days in a row, Yumei was in the courtyard, carefully tending to these delicate flowers.
On this day, the weather is clear, and it is the most suitable for kite flying. Yumei thought that she hadn't been discharged from the hospital for many days, so she took Xiaoyu to the garden to fly a kite, and was flying it, but unexpectedly, the sixth aunt also came with Yahuan.
Coincidentally, Yumei and Xiaoyu ran twice each, but still couldn't fly the kite.
The sixth aunt saw it too much, so she laughed: "Where did the cheap embryo come from, I can't even fly a kite!" ”
Yumei didn't want to conflict with her, so she beckoned Xiaoyu to collect the kite string and said, "Let's go back." "I plan to lead Xiaoyu back to my son.
Unexpectedly, the sixth aunt's maid suddenly became ruthless, walked over, snatched the kite in Xiaoyu's hand, and pushed Xiaoyu to the ground.
The sixth aunt was even more conniving, and scolded Yu Meidao: "I don't know the number of etiquette, I saw my sixth aunt, but I didn't do the courtesy, where did you put the rules of the Prime Minister's Mansion?" ”
Yu Mei picked up Xiaoyu and exhaled a few heavily, Fang endured her anger, she straightened up, bent her knees slightly, and said, "Say hello to the sixth wife." ”
Xiaoyu couldn't look past it, and resisted: "Xiangye said, my young lady doesn't have to abide by these rules!" ”
However, before she finished speaking, she was slapped hard by the girl of the sixth aunt, and there were five bloody paw prints on her face in an instant.
The sixth aunt snorted too proudly, and admonished Yu Meidao: "Take good care of your minions, otherwise you will ......"
Yumei looked at Xiaoyu's scarred face, and finally couldn't bear it, looked straight back, word by word, and asked, "Otherwise, what are you going to do?" ”
The sixth aunt saw her a few times before, and she lowered her eyebrows and was pleasing to her eyes, but she didn't expect that this time, she dared to question her, first laughed twice, and then gritted her teeth and said: "Okay, Xin Yumei, these days I have been favored by Xiangye, I am proud, right, dare to contradict me!" ”
Yumei knew that this beam had already been settled, even if she tolerated it more, it would be in vain, but she straightened up and said slowly: "Please also ask the sixth aunt to be too self-respecting!" After a pause, he said: "Although you entered the house a few days earlier than me, in the final analysis, you are also a concubine, I respect you, Fang respects you Sister Hu, Sixth Aunt Tai." But if you are obsessed with it, and you still want to insult me, I will ......"
However, after Yu Mei's words were finished, he heard a cold question: "What about you?" ”
The person who came turned out to be a lady, followed by Yahuan and her father-in-law left and right, and when she saw Yumei, she reprimanded angrily: "You are so bold! ”
The sixth aunt saw it too much, but the corners of her mouth were hooked, and a sinister smile flashed in the foxy Danfeng's eyes, only to hear her complain to Mrs. "Madam, Xing'er looked at the good weather here, and wanted to ask you to fly a kite to make fun of her, but I didn't want Aunt Seventeen to be there, so I kindly greeted her, who ......knows" said, hiding her face and sobbing: "She relied on the favor of Xiangye, and she actually ...... didn't even put Mrs. in his eyes, and bluntly said that Xing'er was just a concubine, and she was not worthy of being on the same day as her. ”
Make black white!
Yu Mei looked directly at Myolie Wu, angry and hateful, and wanted to justify, but she heard her snort: "Myolie Wu is a concubine, she is not worthy to talk to you, what about Mrs. Ben?" After a pause, he suddenly said in a strange tone, "Can I talk to Mrs. Seventeen?" ”
Yu Mei knew that she was talking back, and she also knew that she was provoked by Myolie Wu, and she was already disgusted with herself, and how she could tell it was in vain, so she was silent and stopped answering.
Seeing that she was no longer silent, the lady became more and more angry, so she gave an order: "Aunt Seventeen has committed a crime, and if she does not repent, take her to the ancestral hall to kneel!" Until you admit your mistake! ”
In this way, Yu Mei was carried outside the ancestral hall by the subordinates, and knelt for three hours, until late at night, Gu Yangling returned to the house, looked for her in Zijinju, and asked the subordinates to know what happened during the day, and went to the ancestral hall to find her.
But by the time he arrived, Yumi had already passed out and was unattended.
He hurriedly carried Yumei back to the room and asked Ah Si to quickly go to the imperial doctor.
When the Imperial Doctor came, Yumei had woken up, but she was still weak.
The imperial doctor carefully checked the pulse for her, suddenly lifted her robe, knelt down in front of Gu Yangling, and said, "Congratulations to Xiangye, congratulations to Mrs." ”
It was not the first time Gu Yangling had heard such an opening statement, and he instantly understood the meaning of the imperial doctor.
turned his head and hugged Yumei in his arms, and his originally cold and expressionless face was also full of red light.
Yumi was hugged by him, but she didn't know what happened, and she was innocent there.
Seeing her like this, Gu Yangling couldn't help pinching her face, and then, close to her ear, said slowly: "Fool, you want to be a mother!" ”