258. Socializing
Xie Ning was wearing an ivory placket with a beard-style collar, the ivory color was very elegant, but one shoulder of this dress was embroidered with a scorching red peony flower, and the stamen was inlaid with gemstones. Eight > No. 1 Middle Schoolβ₯ Wen β₯ β€β€<.β€ Gao Jieyu lowered her head after just one look, always feeling that if she looked at it for another moment, her eyes would be burned by the gorgeous peony.
Today, all the people in the main hall of Yong'an Palace have come, from the concubine to the concubine, everyone in the palace who can count them has come.
Xie Ning drove out of the palace with him, although the emperor was assassinated halfway, but when the emperor returned to the palace, Fang Shang Palace still prepared a gift for everywhere. Of course, these gifts are not valuable, they are all some local products brought from the south, a piece of silk embroidery, two bags of tea, a box of paper, or a box of pens and other things. So today, Yong'an Palace is full of people who came to ask An to speak and thank you.
In fact, it hasn't been many days, but Xie Ning always feels that these people sitting in the hall now seem a little strange.
Concubine Jin had a bitter face, her appearance was completely different from the silent and cautious Han Chongrong in Xie Ning's memory. She had a bitter look on her face, and the two lines at the corners of her mouth made her face look uncomfortably mean. Recently, she always complains when she sees people, and Princess Yujun is not in good health, and there are imperial doctors in and out of Shoukang Palace every day, and you can smell the smell of medicine wafting from the door when you pass by the door.
Concubine Jin, when they came in just now, they happened to bump into the eldest prince. The eldest prince was going to the study after breakfast, wearing a light blue soft satin robe, covered with a silver brocade long armor, although the whole person was still thin, but the spirit was excellent, and he greeted people very politely when he saw them.
The resentment in Concubine Jin's heart churned even more.
Obviously, the eldest prince was also sick and dying, but because he was the prince, the emperor naturally valued his son more. Those who have good medical treatment and medicine will definitely use it to the prince without hesitation. The concubine has two children in the palace who are not her own, and she is afraid that people will gossip about her, and she is also playing virtuous.
But she was lonely, as soon as the emperor returned to the palace yesterday, she beat someone to send a letter to Changning Palace, but at night the emperor didn't even come to see it, and went directly to Yong'an Palace, and stayed in Yong'an Palace at night.
It's as if Yong'an Lu has hooked his soul.
Concubine Jin looked at the three words on the door of Yong'an Palace, and felt that those three words were more beautiful than the words on the plaque of Shoukang Palace.
Obviously, Shoukang Palace is newly renovated, but compared with Yong'an Palace, Shoukang Palace is dilapidated and bleak.
When I saw the concubine, the chic and exquisite palace costumes, such fresh and gorgeous beads and silk flowers, made the concubine shine brightly, making it difficult for people to look directly.
Concubine Jin's heart was sour.
Yes, she lost cleanly than the concubine, she was young and beautiful, and her family had recently been promoted to become a senior household official. The concubine gave birth to the second prince, and hugged the eldest prince and Princess Yuyao, and she couldn't compare with any of them.
Gao Jieyu is also wearing a newly made spring dress, coincidentally, the embroidered peony is also a peony flower, but the peony on the concubine is a famous national product, and the peony on her body is like a fake.
In the past, Gao Jieyu should feel that she has lost face, and she should be secretly angry. But now the first thing she thought about was that the people from the Needlework Bureau must have deliberately made her bad. Since the peony was embroidered on the concubine's clothes, what is embroidered for her is not embroidered? Isn't it nice to embroider peonies and roses? Do you have to embroider peonies? let the concubine see it, and thought that she was deliberately saying goodbye to her.
Didn't the emperor let a large number of people out last time? Why is there still such a person in the needlework bureau? It's good to clear it out sooner or later.
She looked at the concubine's expression.
With just a glance, Gao Jieyu could be sure that she had not guessed wrong.
There was no powder on the concubine's face, only a little cherry red lipstick was lightly applied on her lips, and her complexion was not bad.
The important thing is that the concubine's expression reveals a touch of joy and satisfaction in her laziness.
Maybe it's Gao Jieyu's preconceived idea, since she guesses that the concubine is pregnant again, she will deliberately look for traces that match her speculation from her, and confirm what she thinks one by one.
That's right.
Gao Jieyu was sure that her judgment was correct, and the concubine was indeed pregnant again.
For a moment, her heart was empty.
She didn't expect that she would have children for a long time, the women in the palace were only teenagers when they entered the palace, and when they were in their thirties, the best years had long passed, Gao Jieyu sometimes looked in the mirror, and she would feel that the person in the mirror was blurry and old. She couldn't remember what she looked like when she entered the palace, and she felt that the memory of that time was so distant and vague.
Since the concubine has not yet announced the good news to the public, Gao Jieyu also pretended to be confused, and said with a smile: "As soon as the things were sent yesterday, I asked people to open the box and take a look, the embroidery method in the south is different from that in the capital." Although it may not be as good as the craftsmanship of the embroidery lady of the palace needlework bureau, the patterns and colors are very different from those in Beijing. β
Cao Shunrong also followed and said, "That's right. The style of the south is known for its elegance and beauty, although the craftsmanship of the embroidery girls is not top-notch, but I think the artistic conception is moving. Yesterday I had two fans there, one embroidered with 'slanting wind and drizzle does not need to return', and the other embroidered with 'window containing Dingling Qianqiu snow', I don't need other fans this summer, just these two. β
Concubine Jin scolded Gao and Cao in her stomach, and they were simply shameless.
A handful of old people, in order to please the concubine, put down his body so flatteringly.
But I think so in my heart, but I can't say it on my lips. Concubine Jin's words were also very polite: "The concubine Niangniang still thinks about us when she goes out, and I also let people taste the tea, which is really good." β
Only Concubine Shen didn't make a sound, sitting there with a teacup and being silent.
The green plum appeared when the tea was served, and Concubine Shen used fat powder on her face, but the hand holding the tea cup looked thinner than when she came before.
But Concubine Jin's complaints have become a habit, but as soon as she speaks, she will change her taste after three sentences.
Talking about tea, he turned to Princess Yujun again.
"Alas, although the concubine was thoughtful, she also prepared a gift for Yu Xuan. But Yujun's illness has been getting better again and again, and she hasn't stopped taking medicine these days. Originally, I wanted Li to go and show her, but Li ordered to drive out of the palace again......"
Concubine Jin said this, as long as everyone in the palace heard it, they all shook their heads secretly.
Concubine Jin, this is really too bad to speak.
You said you came here to say hello and thank you, right? Why is this a complaint? The meaning of the words is as if the concubine deliberately dominated the imperial doctor and refused to give it to Shoukang Palace.
The emperor went out on patrol, and Li ordered that as the head of the court, he should have been driving, and Concubine Jin didn't think about it carefully and wanted to be happy, if she let others provoke two more sentences, Concubine Jin would become a resentment against the emperor, at least it would be a grounding punishment.
Shainin just didn't hear it.
Chen Jieyu didn't show up, she has been recuperating, and I heard that she was copying Buddhist scriptures.
However, Li Zhaorong diverted Concubine Jin's words, and asked with a smile: "I heard that the princess took a fancy to a girl and brought it back as a companion?" The princess is going to start reading this year? After Princess Mingwei and the others got married, the place where the East Sixth Palace used to study was also withdrawn. If you study again, where will the study be located? β
Xie Ning responded: "It shouldn't be located in the East Sixth Palace, it's too far, and you have to take a lot of effort to come and go every day." β
The topic was originally very good here, and Cao Shunrong also said: "The Shang Gong who taught in the past are all old, and this time I have to find a master, this thing is not easy to do." β
As a result, Concubine Jin interjected again: "Princess Yuyao is going to study this year?" Pity my jade, sick and dead, I don't ask her to study, as long as she lives a good life and is free of illness and disaster, let me reduce my life for ten years, and I am willing to do it for twenty years......"
This time, even Li Zhaorong and the others didn't know how to round the field again.
Concubine Jin always seems to feel that others don't understand the bitterness in her heart, no matter who she talks to, she always has to confess her sorrow and the princess's illness. The implication is that no one else seems to be reliable, their mother and daughter are isolated and dependent on each other, what a hard-working mother she is, and what a pitiful child Princess Yujun is.
Listen to this kind of words once or twice, and others will be kind and comforting. Three or four times, I will endure listening to it.
But when Concubine Jin saw people, she said it, and every time she said it, everyone was tired of her set of words.
Besides, she always felt that she was not doing well, and always compared herself with the concubine, Princess Yujun with Princess Yuyao and the eldest prince. Naturally, I feel that I have a bad life.
But in the eyes of others, Concubine Jin is already luckier than most of them. At least she has a daughter, and the emperor also made her a concubine, so that their mother and daughter moved into the spacious Shoukang Palace.
But Concubine Jin didn't seem to think of these benefits at all, thinking that the emperor was not as concerned and loving to Princess Yujun as he was to Princess Yuyao, thinking that Yong'an Palace was more in the limelight, thinking that her family was bullied and suppressed, and even being involved, and the emperor didn't make decisions for her.
Gao Jieyu was even more careful when she looked at Concubine Shen.
Concubine Shen has been very quiet lately, and there has been almost no movement.
But Gao Jieyu didn't dare to take it lightly at all. She had an instinctive fear of Concubine Shen.
This person is so deep in the city that no one can tell what she is thinking from her face, and they can't guess what she will do next.
The quieter she is now, the more guarded Gao Jieyu becomes, wondering if she is waiting for the most appropriate opportunity to do something that will catch everyone off guard.
Entertaining these people was an errand that Shainin had to do. When she was still Jieyu, she could live her life behind closed doors. But now that she is a concubine, it is impossible for her to just think about being alone.