Everyone watched the princess's face change constantly, and finally she said demurely: "Since the prince said that he wanted to marry the girl from Chunyi Building as a side concubine, it is naturally in accordance with the prince's wishes." The concubine personally supervised this matter, please rest assured! ”

Qing Wang Ye said with satisfaction: "Well, others are **, but you are smooth and understand people's feelings, this king can count on you." ”

The princess's face was like ashes, "Thank you for your praise, the concubine will definitely be done properly and beautifully." ”

Qing Wang Ye nodded, "Well, after lunch, you first order someone to send a thousand taels of silver over to make a meeting gift for the old bustard in the Chunyi Building, and then go to the Spring Mansion to talk to the old bustard about the dowry in person!" ”

The princess was stunned, "What does the prince mean, does he want the concubine to go to the Chunyi Building in person?" ”

Qing Wangye's face sank: "What? Don't you want to go? ”

The princess hurriedly shook her head: "No, the concubine will go, the concubine will go in person!" ”

Qing Wangye hummed again, looked around at the women present, Mao Leyan hid behind the thirteenth aunt's wife, lowered his head and kept silent. Qing Wangye patrolled several times, but found nothing suspicious, so he got up and left.

The princess sat down on the chair, her hands trembled slightly, and everyone didn't dare to make a sound, only Concubine Lin and the fifth aunt comforted her softly.

The princess sighed and asked calmly, "After a while, who wants to go to the Qinglou with me?" ”

No one made a sound, that place is not a place for good daughters to go, although not all the ladies present, but the education from childhood to adulthood let them know that the Qinglou is a place that only bad women and men can set foot in, and the daughters of ordinary good families feel ashamed to pass by in front of the door.

Mao Leyan was hot-headed for a while, and made the only wrong decision in her life, she said: "Princess, I'll go with you!" ”

The princess glanced at her with some gratitude, and said again and again: "Okay, it's not in vain that I loved you so much in the past!" ”

The women present were a little jealous and resentful of the side concubine from the Qinglou, and the thirteenth aunt said resentfully: "Everyone says that the women in the Qinglou are all seductive fox spirits, and she is here, but I am afraid that the prince will not look at us!" With that, everyone glared at Luo Yunsheng again.

Luo Yunsheng had a white face, and his whole body trembled slightly.

"Who's to say it isn't? Since my father went to the Qinglou, he would quarrel with my mother every day when he came home. The eighth aunt was also stunned.

The princess glanced at everyone and said, "That's it, the matter is settled, let's stop discussing it, let's go back!" ”

Concubine Lin asked, "The princess just said that she was going to enjoy the osmanthus flowers, is she still going now?" ”

"I'm not going!" The princess said happily, after this incident, who still has the heart to enjoy the flowers?

Concubine Lin said yes and sent everyone away.

Back in the small courtyard, Xiao Shu heard about this incident and said disdainfully: "Men don't have good things!" ”

Mao Leyan was a little entangled, "I agreed to accompany the princess to invite the dowry downstairs." ”

"Are you stupid? You can't go to Qinglou, and good girls don't go to Qinglou. Xiao Shu hurriedly dissuaded.

Mao Leyan said lightly: "I slept all night in this Spring Building last night. ”

Xiao Shu covered her mouth in fright, looked at her in horror, hurriedly looked her up and down, and stammered and asked, "Then, do you have ...... Is there a loss? ”

Mao Leyan looked at her with resentment: "Uncle Ben went to prostitute last night, what did you suffer?" The silver is a bit of a loss, but with the company of beauty, it is worth it. ”

Xiao Shu was completely stunned, and after coming back to his senses, he chased after Mao Leyan and was about to beat him angrily.

When he calmed down, Mao Leyan was also a little puzzled, does the concubine know about this? Isn't she against it?

After lunch, the princess went to see the concubine and reported the matter, hoping to change the prince's decision, but after listening to the concubine's words, she came out with a dead heart, and first ordered someone to send a thousand taels of silver as a meeting gift, and asked the giver to invite Miss Lanzi and the old bustard to the mansion to discuss family affairs together. Although the prince did not tell him so, but in the end, Qinglou is not a place for good people to go, so the princess still hopes that Miss Lanzi and Lao Bustard can move the boat and come to the palace to negotiate. One thousand taels of silver, this made Mao Leyan's heart ache and bleed, how beautiful is this Lanzi girl? The meeting gift is 1,000 taels.

The giver came back to report that the bustard and the Lanzi girl were in the Qinglou to welcome the driver, and they said that the Qinglou was marrying their daughter, and it should be the man who came to talk, not the woman.

The princess was so angry that her body trembled, but the prince ordered her like this, and she couldn't help it. I had to order someone to hire a carriage outside and go to Chunyi Building with Mao Leyan.

Mao Leyan deliberately put on makeup today, his face was exquisite, he wore a long skirt with a blue floor, and a fuchsia fox fur coat. In fact, when she dresses up, she really has the posture of captivating the country and the city. In this way, there is a big difference from yesterday's wet man. She didn't deliberately dress up to show off her might, but in the eyes of the princess, she was dressed very well and said: "Le Yan, you are very good-looking today." Okay, let the Qinglou woman take a look, the women of our palace are not bad. "If she was dressed so neatly and lovely in the past, the princess would definitely not like it very much, but today, the muzzle of the gun is unanimous to the outside world, and personal grievances are put aside for the time being.

Mao Leyan didn't mean that, but it was a blessing that the people who asked for Chunyi Building couldn't recognize her.

In fact, Mao Leyan's worries are completely superfluous, because there are so many guests coming and going in the Qinglou every day, even if she feels that she is a little familiar, she just thinks that people are similar or thinks it is her brother or brother, who would have thought that the aunt and wife of the palace would go to the Qinglou to prostitute and sleep in the prostitute? This is appalling.

The spring building in the day completely lost the excitement of the night, the door was deserted, the girl who greeted the guests at the door has not yet gotten up, there is no lantern, no singing and piano, and there is no noise and laughter.

Mao Leyan accompanied the princess into the gate of the Qinglou, and saw the old bustard sitting on a round table in the main hall last night, she was wearing a red brocade dress, her hair was curled up casually, there was no makeup, her face was as gray as death, her lips were also white, and there was no blood. She sat lazily, without a trace of respect on her face, which was very different from the humble appearance of last night's hospitality, and even Mao Leyan almost thought that she had changed.

"The princess is here? You may be seated! The old bustard pointed to the chair in front of him lightly, and did not raise his eyebrows, which was regarded as a greeting.

The princess's face was pale, but it was not easy to turn her face, so she endured a breath and said, "What is this mother called?" ”

The old bustard smiled proudly: "Everyone calls me Mother Yang." ”

The princess sat down and said, "Mother Yang, I won't beat around the bush, I came today to meet Miss Lanzi and discuss marriage matters with Mother Yang." ”

The old bustard said lightly: "Originally, our Oiran here is not married to someone as a concubine, but the prince comes every day and begs every time he comes back. The princess won't blame the old body, right? ”

Where did the princess suffer such humiliation, and she held back her breath and said, "Where is this to marry someone as a concubine?" That's the side concubine. Since the prince comes every day, he must have already made friends with Miss Lanzi, right? In that case, let's make a long story short, how much dowry does my mother want? How do you want to plan your wedding? Where did the side concubine go out? ”

The old bustard laughed twice, "We are marrying a daughter, not selling a daughter, there is no need to discuss the matter of the dowry in such a hurry, since the princess wants to meet our girl, then naturally she wants to ask the girl to come down to meet the princess." With that, she turned back to the little maid and said, "Go, call the girl down." ”

The little guy responded: "Yes, the villain will go immediately!" With that, he trotted all the way upstairs.

The old bustard's eyes were raised and glanced at the people around the princess, his eyes were fixed on Mao Leyan, a little surprised, and said, "Who is this?" She probably didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful woman in the palace, which really surprised her.

"She is the eighteenth aunt wife of the prince." The princess felt disgusted and aggrieved in her heart, her breath was suffocated in her chest, she could barely breathe, and when she finally asked Mao Leyan, she felt that she could finally breathe, so she replied almost in a vicious tone.

The old bustard has been in the party for decades, so he naturally knows how to observe words and feelings, and said proudly: "It turned out to be the eighteenth aunt's wife, and the old body also said that such a handsome girl was a girl, but her appearance was okay, but her temperament was not good, and she looked like a girl." ”

Originally, Mao Leyan stood here as a bystander watching the play, and if the bustard didn't burn her, it would be considered safe, but the bustard said that she had no temperament, which touched the bottom line of a woman. A woman, you can call her lazy, say she is dirty, or even say that she has no money, but you can't criticize her appearance.

Mao Leyan said coldly: "Girl, your sister! ”

The old bustard was stunned for a moment, and didn't know what she was talking about for a while, "What did you say?" ”

Mao Leyan repeated: "I said, even if it's a girl, it's a little better than the girl here from my mother!" ”

The old bustard turned blue with anger and snorted: "It seems that the tutor in the palace is not very good!" ”

Mao Leyan said lightly, "That's a matter of the palace, don't worry about Mother Yang!" ”

The old bustard was not angry, but laughed strangely: "It turns out that the goods in the palace are all this way, no wonder the prince wants to come to our Spring Mansion to find a side concubine." Princess, your majesty is not strict, there is such an aunt wife, it is all because you have no way to teach, such a quality will only smear the prince's face, this matter will be spread, people will only say that you, who are the concubine mother, will not do things for others, but will not say that this aunt is ignorant! ”

was such an obvious provocation, but the princess didn't seem to hear it, and said with a deep face: "Le Yan, shut up." ”

Mao Leyan really pitied the princess, people clearly wanted her to teach herself, she clearly wanted to turn her inside, and then people sat and watched the excitement, she was good, and she really trained herself.

Sighing, she said: "Princess, Mother Yang is joking with us, Mother Yang's personality is actually kind and fun, she always opens her arms, opens her legs, opens her mouth and mouths to her benefactor. Heard; For the sake of silver, a benefactor asked her to pretend to be a dog and bark at her, and she really barked when she lay on the ground. If you don't believe me, Princess, you can throw some silver out and let your mother make you happy, and your mother will definitely do it. Is it? Mother Yang? Mao Leyan said, while walking in front of Mother Yang, reaching out and gently squeezing her shoulder, the old bustard suddenly felt a tingling pain into the bone, she looked at Mao Leyan in surprise, and looked at Mao Leyan's sharp eyes, she suddenly shuddered, and said: "The old body is just joking, the princess smiled." ”

Although the princess didn't know whether what Mao Leyan said was true or not, when she saw the pale face of the old bustard, it was probably true, and she felt a sense of contempt in her heart, but she always had to cover up her face, and said: "Leyan, don't mess around, sit next to me." "How could the princess not know Mother Yang's thoughts, but when it came to this, she could only scold a few words of Mao Leyan to get angry.

Mao Leyan saw the princess's eyes and understood what she meant, so he stopped talking at the moment, and sat down according to the words, looking well-behaved.