Chapter 691: Keep the Enemy Closer
Duan Xiaolou's lonely back disappeared into the morning light in the east, and in the corner of the room, the unknown cicada Yi asked, "Can't you live in the East Palace?" Then I'll go pack my luggage, Miss, what do you want to eat earlier? β
He Angelica sat down at the table, poured out the cold tea and took a bite, and replied: "I want to eat the roasted wheat in Yangzhou Rabbit Town, and I will ask Wang Bao, the housekeeper of the county lord's mansion, to send you back to your hometown, and bring some local products by the way." Luggage, you just pack your own portion. β
"Send me back to Yangzhou?" Cicada Yi exclaimed in surprise, "Miss, you don't want me anymore!" So who combs your hair? β
In such a resolute atmosphere, He Angelica was suddenly laughed at by her, and said to herself: "Although the few maids in King Ning's Mansion lack loyalty, their hair combing skills are really good, and the few batches I use now are not as good as others." If you want to comb another flying phoenix and keep a fairy beaded bun, only when you go to the palace can you find a good comb for your hair. β
Cicada Yi pushed the door out to get face wash, and as soon as she walked out, she stammered and shouted, "Blood!" Good, much, many, blood! β
He Angelica went out to check and found a row of bloody footprints on the ground, extending from under her window to the courtyard wall, and there were no more outside the courtyard. She sighed, wishing someone had bandaged his wounds.
slipped out of the prince's mansion in the middle of the night, broke into the Lin'an Princess's mansion to find Bai Yangbai for a mask, and then came back again. Assuming that both mansions had triple guards inside and outβthe actual situation would only be more than triple guardsβthen the price Duan Xiaolou paid for sending her that thin piece of skin was a nine-fold guard with swords and guns in just two hours!
What a fool, didn't you see that the reason for her rejection of Populus euphratica was just a pretext. For the sake of a mask...... Duan Xiaolou is just a fool. She just didn't want to involve more people in, she had a strong feeling that the enemy was not far away, and she was going to pull that person out with her own hands.
"Go fetch two buckets of water and get all the blood wet." He Angelica looked up at the dark clouds in the sky and said calmly, "There will be a rainstorm in the morning, and it will be clean after the rain." β
"Oh." Cicada Yi complied, but looked at He Angelica's eyes a little evasively, and his heart was full of confusion.
It's different, Miss has become different. It's like ...... to be the same person, but to have a completely different impression That year, when she had just stretched out a thin and white hand from the coffin, she sat up straight! The icy chill soaked through her body, as if from a place full of death.
He Angelica hooked his lips and sipped cold tea in small sips. "That place" taught her a simple truth: keep your enemies close to you, and the truth will be closer. What she wants is the truth, even if it's bloody behind it.
After breakfast, it rained heavily, and the yard was painted without leaving a trace. Hu Yang and Meng Chen came to visit again, and He Angelica stuffed the cicada clothes into them and asked, "Where is Duan Xiaolou?" β
"It's gone." Meng Chen replied.
"How's the injury?"
"Bandaged." Hu Yang replied.
After a pause, He Angelica asked them again: "What has Meng Xuan been doing lately?" How's it going at home? β
Meng Chen told her truthfully: "The seventh brother seems to be very busy these days, and rarely stays at home, but there is one more woman in your three gardens." Her name is Zixiao, and she is the woman that the seventh brother brought home for the first time a few years ago, and then she had a quarrel, and she was kicked out of the house, and she was picked up by her mother again, and now the seventh brother has officially accepted her. In addition, Yitong picked up an infant baby from Yangzhou, some people say that it is the child of the seventh brother, he himself did not deny it, and is currently being raised by Zixiao. β
"That's good." He Angelica Dao.
Hu Yang looked at her expression, and it didn't look like "very good", so he was relieved: "Don't listen to his nonsense, in fact, since you left, Meng Xuan's whole person has become more gloomy than Xiao Chen, anyway, I haven't seen him stay at home." It's not so much that he can't see women, but that he can't see people, and I guess he must miss you very much, so come home with us early. β
"Do you call the Meng Mansion home?" He Angelica asked strangely.
"That's right," Meng Chen smiled, "She is also the daughter-in-law of the Meng family now, and the two of you have become concubines." Well, we're going to say goodbye for now, it's not a good place to talk about home. β
"Go ahead."
He Angelica saw the three of them walking towards the outer courtyard with his own eyes, and Meng Chen asked, "Am I gloomy?" Hu Yang nodded affirmatively and said: "Yes, the yin and yang are weird, if you continue like this, no girl will be willing to marry you." β
The three shadows waded away from the rain on the ground, and this is what it feels like to have relatives.
"County Lord, Your Highness, please go to the front hall and let you bring the silver needle with you." The green mantle sedan chair was carried to the door, waiting for He Angelica to get on the sedan chair.
Although these people were not very polite, He Angelica still got into the sedan chair without saying a word. Before she sat down, a slight fishy smell suddenly wafted from her nose, and this smell was...... Yellow water glue!
She shook out the silk handkerchief in her sleeve and landed on her seat, and when she picked it up after a while, it stuck to it and couldn't pull it. Sure enough, it is yellow water glue, a viscose extracted from the bark of trees, which is specially used for wood bonding at the joints of furniture.
It can penetrate the fabric, especially the kind of gauze worn in the summer, and if you don't sit on it, even the innermost coat can stick firmly to the seat. Then, the person who was recruited struggled to stand up again, and pulled the clothes all the way, and the consequences can be imagined.
Who is this, who has prepared such a tricky way to rectify people? As the future emperor, Zhu Yunwen should not do such a boring trifle.
She did know a person who was dedicated to playing tricks on people, and even encountered the danger of yellow water glue once, but that person had long since died a very tragic death.
"County Lord?" The grandmother outside the sedan chair urged, "Please sit tight, the slaves and maids are going to carry the sedan chair, Your Highness is waiting in a hurry." β
"It's okay, let's get up."
This half-height sedan chair is not enough for a person to stand upright. Looking out of the hollow screen, He Angelica's side face was crystal white, her eyebrows were stretched, the corners of her lips were lightly pursed, her expression was relaxed and calm, as if she was sitting in a sedan chair steadily, and she didn't know what good things were waiting for her under her buttocks.
Behind an oak tree not far away, Rose Maid, who had confirmed the scene, had a smug smile on her face. That's great! After doing this, let the county lord of Qingning stand out in public, and he can please that person, as a step into the body, and become a celebrity next to that person!
Years of experience as a maid told Rose that Chai Yutu was about to become yesterday's yellow flower, and if she followed her, she would be affected. But that person is different, with her, he will not worry about it for the rest of his life.
"Get off the sedan car!"
The mama who led the way in front gave an order, the sedan chair stopped at the corner, and in front of it was the main hall of the East Palace to entertain guests, where a large group of people stood and talked and laughed.
Among them, there is a beauty with a round nose, the colorful silk around her body is brilliant, no place is not bright, and she also wears a whole head of crystal ornaments, which looks very exaggerated at first glance, and it also matches her temperament very well at a glance. She is a woman who is naturally suitable for wearing bright fabrics and expensive jewelry. Qing'er rated it as a "Lantern Festival Lantern", a gorgeous, vulgar, and lively woman.
The beauty didn't know what to say, causing everyone to turn their heads and look at He Angelica's sedan chair.
At this time, the sedan car has been parked for a while, and Mama has reminded it several times, but He Angelica has not come out for a long time, which seems strange to others. Under the guidance of that beauty, some people pointed and pointed out, accusing the people in the sedan chair of not knowing etiquette, sitting in the sedan chair in the prince's mansion, and not getting off the sedan chair when they saw His Royal Highness the eldest grandson?
"County Lord, will the old slave help you down?" Mama opened the sedan curtain, revealing He Angelica who was sitting precariously inside.
"Mama, the woman in yellow over there looks a little familiar," He Angelica asked with a smile, "Is it the newly acquired beauty of His Royal Highness the eldest grandson?" I don't know what the last name is? β
Mama waved her hand again and again and corrected: "No, no, His Royal Highness the eldest grandson only has four beauties, and that one is the mother of the palace." β
"Mother?"
"I heard that it was yesterday that the Sixth Palace was announced, and a newly sealed Concubine Luo Niangniang was very favored!" Mama lowered her voice and said, "The county lord may also know that in the entire palace, only the first queen and the current imperial concubine have always been qualified to wear yellow. The emperor said, 'The country is beautiful and fragrant, and she is wearing yellow', so she was exempted from the crime of killing her head and named her mother. β
"Oh?" He Angelica's smile spread sincerely, his eyes were ten zhang away, and he stared at Concubine Luo with the same expression.
The old man's gossip is not covered, and the grandmother said inexhaustibly, "People now call it 'wearing yellow by order', which is more vigorous than the concubine Niangniang, but according to the old slave, he has a small family spirit, and he does not look like a prince when he wears a dragon robe." Before the words fell, Concubine Luo on the opposite side had already run over in small steps.
Concubine Luo is not very old, and she looks very delicate when she trots with a yellow silk skirt, and her voice has a coquettish nasal voice: "Third sister, I want to kill my sister!" Sister, you're getting more and more beautiful! β
Sister, sister? The grandmother on the side almost didn't bite her tongue off, and she wanted to swallow her last sentence back alive.
He Angelica smiled and greeted Concubine Luo: "Second sister, don't come unharmed?" I heard that you and your third sister, Qi Mu'er and Cousin Qi were selected to be sent to the palace, and before you had time to congratulate you, your car drove to Beijing in a hurry. I thought I would never see it again in my life, but I didn't expect it, I really didn't expect it. Your dress is beautiful. β
It turned out that Concubine Luo was Luo Baiqiong, the second lady of Luofu. Although this yellow dress is beautiful, it is also very eye-catching, even if it is supported by the emperor's holy decree, as long as people with brains will not wear it like this. Indeed, Luo Baiqiong used to be a person who didn't have a lot of brains, but after going around and around, she still lived so nourishingly when she entered the palace, and she would never be able to do it without enough brains and means.
"Sister? Hurry up," Luo Baiqiong came over and pulled her with a grin, "Let the second sister see if you have grown taller." β
He Angelica smiled stiffly: "Don't move, I'...... I had cramps in my calf and couldn't get down. β