CHAPTER XXXIV
On the way to Zhenguo Temple, both of them were relatively speechless, and King Qing's face was stinky, as if he was a little angry. Mao Leyan didn't know what he was angry about, so he simply didn't speak, the personalities of these second-generation officials are generally weird, thinking that she was high, so she didn't use her hot face to stick to other people's cold butts.
In Zhenguo Temple, a group of monks are persuading, I heard that the royal family also sent people, and the wife of the king came early, and now she is persuading in the meditation room.
However, the concubine insisted on going her own way, and she was determined to shave her degree and was unwilling to return to the house, so that the princess had no way out, and scolded King Qing vigorously.
When King Qing and Mao Leyan arrived, the temple door had been opened, and the two kept walking in, and the monks were relieved to see him coming. Princess Ding persuaded for a while, then walked out of the door, just when Mao Leyan and King Qing walked in, the princess saw him, glared at him, and said: "Look at the good things you did, you didn't do things so indiscriminately in the past, are there any rules?" If my sister-in-law is a monk this time, we will not communicate with you in the future. ”
King Ding and King Qing's father are brothers, a mother concubine, so the two families have a very close relationship, and Princess Ding is an elder who watched King Qing grow up, and her words are full of weight.
King Qing hurriedly smiled, "Auntie doesn't have to be angry, isn't Xian'er here to ask for guilt?" ”
Princess Ding snorted, her eyes fell on Mao Leyan, her tone softened a little, and said, "Eighteen is also here?" Eighteen, persuade her well and let her dispel her thoughts. ”
Mao Leyan didn't know who the person in front of him was, but since he was King Qing's aunt, it was always right to call the princess, so he saluted and said, "Eighteen have seen the princess!" ”
"Well, no need to be polite, let's go inside!" The princess said to Mao Le.
Aunt Yu came from the side with tea, and when she saw King Qing, she immediately lowered her face, handed the saucer to the girl next to her, and said with hatred: "Do you know how to come?" ”
King Qing looked at Aunt Yu embarrassedly and said coquettishly: "Auntie, the concubine is still angry?" ”
"Now it's not just your mother who is angry, but even I." Aunt Yu snorted, "I knelt outside last night to ask for guilt, this Miss forgave you, who knew that you, who was not angry, actually knelt for a while and left, and asked Ashin to kneel for you, do you still have some sincerity to ask Miss for guilt?" You only have that vixen in your eyes, if that's the case, what's the point of the young lady going back? If I don't go back, my old lady is also here to accompany the young lady. ”
As soon as he said this, King Qing blushed and didn't dare to make a sound.
Mao Leyan really wanted to laugh, but he didn't expect that this eldest young master would also be deflated, and he was so angry when he looked at her in the past. She whispered in his ear: "You came to ask for sin, and you actually asked someone else to kneel on your behalf?" Shameless. ”
King Qing was annoyed and angry, and roared in a low voice: "Shut up! ”
Mao Leyan shut up, Aunt Yu pulled Mao Leyan over, and said to King Qing: "What are you doing to murder her?" You just see that she is weak and can be bullied, you have the courage to go back and murder the Qinglou woman, eighteen, let's go! ”
After that, he pushed open the door and pulled Mao Leyan in.
Sandalwood incense was burning in the meditation room, the fragrance was sometimes light and sometimes strong, accompanied by the sound of wooden fish quietly entering the heart, which made people suddenly calm down.
A yellow puppy jumped up and jumped into Mao Leyan's arms, Mao Leyan raised it and saw that it was a cute Chow Chow with smooth hair, and his eyes looked at Mao Leyan smartly, and then began to rub her vigorously.
Mao Leyan hugged it, combed its hair, and looked up at the woman kneeling on the futon, she was dressed in a dark red embroidered gold robe, her clothes were thin, although there was a charcoal fire burning in the house, it was still not enough to keep warm by wearing so little.
Mao Leyan knelt beside her, "Eighteen see the concubine!" ”
The concubine didn't look at her either, but said lightly: "It's useless for him to let you come, I've made up my mind!" ”
Mao Leyan smiled slightly: "The concubine is wrong, Eighteen is not here to make you compromise, Eighteen is here to invite you back to participate in a good show!" ”
The concubine turned her face to look at her in surprise, Mao Leyan saw her face clearly, she was not very old, about fifty, although there were traces of age on her face, she could see that she was also a beauty when she was young. She looked at Mao Leyan with some judgment: "What kind of show?" ”
Mao Leyan said: "Naturally, it's a big show of outwitting fox spirits, you don't know how much fun Eighteen had in the house!" She then told the matter of falling into the water and Lawei word for word, and the concubine was angry and happy when she heard it. Finally, the concubine looked at her in amazement, "You put the dagger on her neck in front of you?" ”
"Is this a joke? You didn't see how scared she was, happy! Mao Leyan said with a smile.
The concubine looked at her strangely and said, "Eighteen, you are a little different from before. ”
Mao Leyan also explained, "That's natural, since the concubine left, Eighteen people have faced so many jealous women in the mansion, especially Concubine Yun, she really made Eighteen brains a lot more flexible, and she also saw a lot, persistence is useless, and living well is the most important thing." In fact, to say a shameful word, the night he was scolded by the prince, Eighteen also hanged himself, and later heard an old fairy say to Eighteen in a dream: Life is short, life should not be wasted, play when you can play, eat when you can eat, laugh when you can laugh, don't be obsessed with small things, and finally go to the point of no return. Although I woke up later, I felt that there might not be this old fairy, but it was the experience of eighteen years of life, and I used dreams to restore the truth. ”
Mao Leyan deliberately said half-truths and half-truths, just to make the concubine unable to distinguish the truth from the false.
The concubine has always believed in Buddhism, and she believed greatly in what she said in her dreams, and she thought for a long time before she said: "What this old fairy said is also reasonable, no wonder you have changed your mind and changed your mind." Hey, in fact, where do I really want to become a monk? is really going to become a monk, does he still have the face to live in the capital? He doesn't miss me, my mother, but I can't help but miss him. I just want to use this method to force him to divorce the woman. ”
Mao Leyan smiled and said: "Your starting point is good, but your way is wrong. People are now wishing you don't go back, she is favored in the mansion, and her status even surpasses the princess, to put it bluntly, she is the master of the palace, as long as you go back, she is nothing, even if it is a side concubine? Unpopular, unsatisfactory, and despised by others. As for you saying that the prince divorced her, it would be easy to divorce her, but the question is what people outside will say about him? Especially this thing is spread in the Qinglou, what kind of place is the Qinglou? The gossip is the fastest, and within a month, the whole country knows that the prince is unkind and innocent and divorces his wife. This is also a major loss to the reputation of the prince. ”
The concubine looked at Mao Leyan with a contemplative face, and said with appreciation: "Go on!" ”
Mao Leyan continued: "She is not good, after all, she has entered the palace, and this is an established thing. We can't be angry with her, she entered the palace by trickery, she herself is vicious, black-hearted, these essences the prince does not know, what we have to do is to slowly lift her true face, and reveal her ugliest side in front of the prince, in that way, if we say anything, the prince will expel her from the palace! ”
The concubine patted her thigh and said happily: "Wonderful plan, very good, eighteen, I didn't expect you to think so long-term, it's not in vain that I teach you on weekdays." ”
Mao Leyan hurriedly said flatteringly: "It's that the concubine used to teach meritorious, and she was indeed a little stubborn in the past, but in the end, she knew that she was blindly stubborn and insisted on going her own way, but the result was not what she wanted, why not take a step back and see the situation clearly for yourself, when the time comes, your brain will be clear, and it will be much easier to do things." ”
The concubine actually wanted to go back for a long time, but she couldn't swallow this breath no matter what, and now after hearing Mao Leyan say this, she said: "It's not impossible to go back, but you can't go back so easily, otherwise won't he be the wind in my ears in the future?" ”
It's easy to go down the steps, Mao Leyan smiled: "Naturally, you can't go back easily, if you go back like this, wouldn't it make people laugh at the concubine just to intimidate the prince and play small tricks?" ”
Seeing that Mao Leyan seemed to have a good plan, the concubine asked, "Well, Eighteen Tell me, what should I do?" ”
Mao Leyan thought for a while, and whispered a few words in the ear of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother smiled while listening, and finally laughed: "Clever plan, wonderful plan!" ”
King Qing waited outside for a long time, but he didn't see Mao Leyan come out, so he couldn't help but wander around here anxiously. Princess Ding glanced at him angrily: "Do you know that you are in a hurry now?" Do you dare to hide the matter of marrying a side concubine? This time, you can choke the queen mother angry, the queen mother was not in good health, and now she is sick in bed, and when your mother returns home, you have to enter the palace immediately to ask for guilt! ”
King Qing said guiltily: "Xian'er knows! After a pause, he hesitated again: "I don't know if that woman can persuade the mother concubine, if the mother concubine is unwilling to go back to the house and insists on becoming a monk, Xian'er doesn't know what to do!" ”
Princess Ding was also full of thoughts, and sighed, "Let's wait, Eighteen is deeply loved by your mother, and you may be able to listen to a sentence or two, but for such a big thing, your mother may not be able to listen to it." ”
King Qing's face suddenly drooped, sighed, turned around in place, and said impatiently: "That woman is too, why have you said it for so long?" Isn't it just asking for a favor? Is it necessary for so long? What a worker! ”
Princess Ding shook her head, looking like she hated iron but not steel.
After a while, I saw Mao Leyan open the door and walk out, he hurriedly came up and asked, "How is it?" ”
Mao Leyan pulled him and said helplessly: "The concubine is very resolute, saying that her heart is dead, and there is no one to worry about in the world, so she must become a monk!" ”
"What? Then you talked to her in there for so long, and it didn't make sense? King Qing asked angrily.
Mao Leyan glanced at him, "That's your own mother, don't you know her temperament?" ”
King Qing was suddenly deflated, squatted on the ground and held his head, and said in despair: "It's miserable now, what face will this king have to face the emperor and the queen mother in the future, and when he arrives in Huangquan in the future, how to face the dead father!" ”