Chapter 27 Guest Tea as Wine
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When Hu Shanxiang heard that the eldest sister Hu Shanwei had come over, he remembered the words she said to himself last time, and he was also a little hesitant, I don't know if she came here now, is it still for that? After a moment of silence, he said, "Let her in." โ
Zhihe sighed invisibly, the last time she met Hu Shanggong, her master cried for a long time, and this time she didn't know what would happen. After walking to the bottom of the corridor and saluting according to the rules, he brought in Hu Shanggong, who was standing under the corridor with a calm face.
Hu Shanggong wore a knee-length gauze jacket with an emerald blue palace brocade face, embroidered with magnolia flowers with silver and gold threads, and tied a soft and light blue palace brocade long skirt below, wrapping her slender figure more and more pretty and slender, and inserting a green jade coral hairpin in the middle of the peony bun on her head, which was bright and eye-catching.
Hu Shanxiang was ashamed of himself in front of this beautiful eldest sister, although he is now a concubine, and he has a bit of prestige in his body and qi, but he still feels a little uncomfortable, and when he saw Hu Shanggong saluting her, he hurriedly said: "Eldest sister, please get up, why do you and my sister have to be so polite." โ
Hu Shanggong didn't listen to her, and still knelt down neatly to say goodbye.
Hu Shanxiang was a little surprised by Hu Shanggong's deference, this sister who was five years older than her was the most arrogant, and when she entered the palace that day, she was going to the concubine or the prince's concubine, who knew that the living Empress Renxiao said that although she was young, she was outstanding, and she was sent to do the court order, until the next year Empress Renxiao died, Wang Guifei pointed out that she did Shang Gong and stayed by her side, and the people outside envied her for not serving the emperor with women, and she was a female official of the fifth grade, which was higher than the official rank of the father's Jinyi Wei Baihu of the sixth grade, but Hu Shanxiang knew that in his sister's heart, is very indignant: Those women who are not as talented as her can be concubines for Jieyu, why should she be subservient.
Hu Shanwei, who did not realize his ideals and ambitions, pinned this wish on Hu Shanxiang, no, it should be said that it was the second sister and the fourth sister that she valued more, but unfortunately the eight characters came together, and the third sister Hu Shanxiang was selected as the princess, she had to adjust her strategy and support the third sister who had never had a sense of existence at home.
Last time, the sisters had a dispute over how to fix their favors, Hu Shanwei took out the majesty of the eldest sister, and said a lot of words that are actually more than the same according to his current identity, and even made Hu Shanxiang cry angrily.
Could it be that my sister has given up the idea of last time? Hu Shanxiang didn't dare to decide, and his words were a little light, "Get up, you and my sisters will have many days to meet in the future, and it will be troublesome to kneel at every turn." โ
Hu Shanwei was surprised that in just a few months, her third sister's body has undergone wonderful changes, no longer the dough that can be pinched flat and rounded in the past, and there is the elegance of a superior between her words and eyebrows, so although she stood up obediently, she didn't dare to look at Hu Shanxiang's expression as before, and only lowered her eyes and whispered: "The slave maid happened to have an errand to come to the prince's mansion today, so come to see the princess." The voice was gentle and soft, and he didn't mention what happened last time, and he didn't show a look of grievance on his face because he wanted to bow down to Hu Shanxiang now.
"Since my sister has an errand, I will leave you soon, Zhihe, take the orchid old jade hairpin I got a few days ago to my sister." Hu Shanxiang and Hu Shanggong explained, "The hairpin is better than the green jade coral hairpin brought by my sister, and it just matches my sister's clothes." โ
Hu Shanggong saw that she knew that she was here for something, but she made such an excuse according to her own words, although she took the hairpin from Zhihe's hand and thanked her meticulously, there was a slight urgency on her face.
After Zhihe handed over the things, she retreated silently, the matter of the two sisters, she is a slave, and the less she knows, the better.
Hu Shanxiang looked at his sister with a smile and said softly, "My sister is here today, is there anything else?" โ
After crying that time, she figured out that she was not the angry Hu Sanniang of the Hu family now, even if she was as bright as the eldest sister, she had to bow down, if the sister was for her own good, of course she could listen to it, if it was only for her own good, for the wealth and glory of the Hu family, she really didn't have to make a shield for them, after all, in the Hu Mansion, the only one who really worried about herself was her mother Qian.
Hu Shanggong pursed his lips and chuckled: "The slave maid came this time to tell the princess the good news that my father was going to be promoted by the emperor to the third grade of Guanglu Siqing." Seeing that Hu Shanxiang was slightly shocked but did not show joy, he said: "Mother will also be named the third grade." โ
This news really made Hu Shanxiang happy, "With this title, those aunts will not dare to bully their mothers in the future, right?" โ
Hu Shanggong laughed, "I respect the instructions of the princess on the day of her marriage, my mother's food, clothing, and residence are now the best in the house." With this decree in her hand, she can walk sideways in the future. โ
Hu Shanxiang was slightly stunned, "In this way, it is not in vain all the grievances I suffered when I got married." โ
"What is the princess talking about, the imperial grandson is the dragon son and the phoenix grandson, this is a good thing that many women can't look forward to, you are a concubine, only you are wronged, where can you be wronged by others? You see, the grandson and concubine who married into the house on the same day as you, but one heaven and one place, her father is still the prelude of Honglu Temple, although he walked at the feet of the Son of Heaven, but he was only transferred and not promoted, and he was still a nine-grade petty official, but his father was directly promoted from the Jinyi Wei Baihu of the sixth grade to the Guanglu Temple of the third grade, the emperor's heart is more important, and the clear-eyed person can see at a glance, why should you be self-deprecating? โ
Seeing that Hu Shanxiang was silent, Hu Shanggong said again: "You are now the imperial grandson's concubine, and the crown princess values it so much, you should show some prestige to extinguish the flamboyant spirit of the concubines in this mansion, don't let them rely on His Royal Highness the imperial grandson to like it, I don't know how thick the sky is, there is still the emperor above, no matter how much His Royal Highness likes it, they can't jump to the sky." โ
Seeing that Hu Shanxiang was unmoved, Hu Shanggong persuaded her again, "In the matter of promoting her father from the emperor, doesn't the princess still understand?" The emperor doesn't like the Sun family, this is your Shang Fang sword, and in our family, one is prosperous and one is lost, if you can't keep the position of the concubine, those individuals don't know how to be a cheap mother. โ
"They dare." Hu Shanxiang stopped drinking.
Hu Shanggong smiled bitterly: "Why don't they dare? Although my father took care of my mother on the surface, in private, he listened to the words of those aunts the most, and when I entered the palace that day, I didn't warn my father, and it was only two or three years better. My mother is cowardly, and because she gave birth to four of our sisters, she broke her body, and although the brothers born to my aunts were sent to my mother's name and acted as sisters-in-law, they still had the same heart with them inside. I didn't like you in previous years, but also because you were too much like your mother, angry at her misfortune and hated it, and you didn't know it when you were at home, if I hadn't been able to say a few words in the palace, I was afraid that my father would do the act of taking a concubine as his wife. Even if you don't fight for yourself, don't you fight for our hard-working mother? Do you really want her to be the next cousin's wife, lonely to death? โ
Hu Shanxiang didn't notice that the honorific title in her sister's words had been changed to you, and when she heard Hu Shanggong's words, her face was hesitant, "There are second sisters and fourth sisters, they don't dare to do anything, and the sixth sister and seventh sister treat their mothers well." โ
Hu Shanggong sneered, "Not to mention that they are still young now, it is difficult to say how long this will last, just say that they will also marry in the future, and when your second sister and fourth sister get married, your mother's knees will be a lot colder, in previous years, the two of them were more spicy, and their mother's life in the house was better, but when they got married, would it be difficult to take care of their mother's affairs?" Only you, in the future, will be the mother of the world, as long as you sit in that position, no one dares to do anything to your mother, and now your mother has won the three-grade order lady, isn't this also because of you? How can you get rid of it, and why do you have to be clear from Hu Jiajing? โ
Hu Shanxiang hesitated, "Grandpa Huang doesn't like his relatives to sit big, which is also listed in Taizu's family motto." โ
Hu Shanggong sighed, "We are not autocratic and do not interfere in politics, but we are just keeping what we have, so that the Hu family is safe and prosperous, why do you want to push back and hinder?" That's it, you have no intention, why should the slave and maid say too much, everything is fate, I just hope that you don't regret it in the future. โ
Bent his knees and blessed, making the appearance of holding his breath and wanting to quit.
Hu Shanxiang saw that his sister's every move was in order, and he didn't mess up the rules because he was in power now, thinking that she was also for her mother and for her sisters, he said softly, "No matter what, I won't do anything that harms people's lives." โ
Hu Shanggong smiled happily when he saw her agree, "Of course, the slave is not that ruthless, how can she do something that harms people's lives." โ
"You and my sister, you must abide by those rules in front of people, and in my house behind people, my sister should not be like this, so that my sister will not be frightened."
Hu Shanggong pushed again and again before he smiled: "According to what my sister said, we are still sisters in the future, and we are the masters and slaves in front of people." โ
When one day, when her sister's position is stable, why can't she follow the example of the queen and come to serve a husband with a sister.
With his own appearance, even the grandson and concubine Sun who are known for their reputation in the palace are not afraid to let them go, how can they live under the people for a long time. In the past, he greeted the princess Wang, but he didn't know what she was thinking, for fear that his beauty would attract Emperor Yongle's heart, and in order to avoid suspicion, he never appeared in front of the emperor.
The emperor is already old, the prince's appearance is really ordinary, the fat head and big ears are disgusting, only the imperial grandson who is quite his age is a good match.
Hu Shanxiang didn't know her sister's thoughts, seeing that the eldest sister was close to herself, but also fulfilled her childhood envy of other people's sisters, although she knew that this was because of the change in her status today, but she was still very happy because of the lack of family affection since she was a child, "Since my sister is here today, it is better to drink some tea and leave after dinner." โ
Hu Shanggong smiled, "It's okay to drink tea, just use dinner, and I have to go to the concubine Niangniang to pay when I go back." โ
"Zhihe, make a pot of the 'forget worries' that the mother concubine rewarded a few days ago." Hu Shanxiang raised his voice to summon the maid who retreated to the outside room to wait, and said to Hu Shanggong: "Sister came to me today, she is also a distinguished guest, my sister has an errand and is not easy to drink, so let's replace wine with tea and drink two cups." โ