Chapter 21: Ugly Chic

The palace maids held the portraits of the show girls in turn, and the five of them unfolded the portraits side by side in front of the queen mothers of the two palaces. 【Latest chapter reading. Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen thought back to the show girl they saw yesterday and discussed whether to stay or stay, and the portrait of the past was rolled up, maybe there would no longer be a time to see the light of day, just like the owner of the portrait, the person was still in the palace, but it had nothing to do with the last fifty people.

The portraits left behind stood on the other side, and the queen mothers of the two palaces still had to think about it.

"This is not good, the eyebrows and eyes are raised, and there is a fox look." Empress Dowager Li said, and the palace maid next to her wrote it down.

"Concubine Guo met the show girl outside Cining Palace?" Empress Dowager Li looked sideways at the palace maid who came to report and said.

"Yes, I met outside Cining Palace, and Concubine Guo's sedan chair stayed for a while." The palace maid said.

"This Guo Concubine is too unseemly." Empress Dowager Li frowned and said.

"Don't even think about calling her in for a reprimand." Empress Dowager Chen frowned when she saw her and said, "Now that the show girl enters the palace, she points to how to take the emperor's mind a little more before the show girl is favored, she came to Cining Palace with her front foot, and the emperor is going to her Yikun Palace with her back foot." You're also from the harem yourself, and you've seen less of this kind of trick. "When the first emperor was there, Empress Dowager Li and Empress Dowager Chen were not holy people, and they also saw a lot of people watching their favorite concubines act coldly.

"Naturally, the queen will take care of her in the future." Empress Dowager Chen said, but said to Shang Gong, "The show girl just now should stay." "I'm talking about the fox-like show girl.

"The most beautiful of the show girls this time is the one named Wang Zhixi. It's really a heavenly beauty, and I feel sorry for it. Empress Dowager Chen talked about others.

"Not bad, indeed." Empress Dowager Li got a little lucky, and continued to talk to Empress Dowager Chen about the show girl, "Liu Mulan is also good, she is charming and bright, and she is full of energy, so the heirs of such a woman are lucky." ”

"It's good for the mourning family to look at the show girls." Empress Dowager Chen said, "Send these portraits to the Qianqing Palace, so that Your Majesty can also see them." ”

"Looks like they're all good." Empress Dowager Li said. "It's just that you have to look at each other repeatedly to know what your qualifications are."

"Your Majesty, Concubine Guo asked someone to send a cup of sweet soup." Feng Shang came forward with sweet soup and said flatteringly.

"Hold it aside." Zhu Yijun sat cross-legged on the kang and watched the concerto, without looking up. Feng Shang thought about the silver stuffed by the palace maid of Yikun Palace in his sleeve, and said with a smile, "I heard that today's sweet soup is made by Niangniang herself, starting from one meter and one bean. ”

"She's still thinking about it." Zhu Yijun said strangely. "Bring it up and taste it."

"Your Majesty, the aunt of Cining Palace is waiting outside." Zhang Cheng came in and passed the news, "The Queen Mother sent a portrait of the show girl for Your Majesty to see." ”

"Yes, Xuan come in and take a look." Zhu Yijun said. Feng Shang secretly said to himself that he was unlucky, why did he come to send the portrait at this time, it seems that His Majesty will not go to Yikun Palace today. Feng Shang went to the side and didn't say how the sweet soup of Concubine Guo was, but only secretly looked at His Majesty's expression when he looked at the show girl, His Majesty was most interested in going to Chuxiu Palace to sell it secretly, and the rest of the rest could be sold in Yikun Palace.

Zhu Yijun quickly lived the portrait, and nodded when he saw a beautiful one, Zhang Cheng knew his thoughts, and when he saw the portrait with the label of the eldest girl of Andingfang, he shook off and walked in front of Zhu Yijun.

"What is this drawing?" Zhu Yijun almost didn't take a bite of sweet soup. Wang Ronghe on the portrait, the goose egg face turned into a moon cake face, two thick eyebrows, it can't be said to be ugly, and there is no interest at all.

Zhang Cheng looked down and said, "The painters in this palace are also lucky, I don't know which painting is like and which painting is not." ”

"Not necessarily, I look at the eyebrows that other girls have drawn are eyebrows and eyes, maybe this show girl looks like this." Feng Shang said that he was a conditioned reflex, and Zhang Cheng had to stab him whatever he said, "This kind of thing is also collected into the palace, and I don't know what the eunuchs are for." "Feng Shang heard that the selection of eunuchs is a lot of oil and water.

Zhang Cheng glanced at this fool sympathetically, this girl was selected by His Majesty, you listen to Your Majesty's tone, what is this painting, not how does this person look like this, it is obvious that Your Majesty has seen other people's girls. Zhang Cheng thought silently in his heart, don't be anxious, the good days are ahead, only follow Your Majesty, the chief eunuch can't run.

Zhu Yijun waved his hand and asked Zhang Cheng to roll up the portrait. "Forget it, the ugly ones are quite chic."

"Hey, Your Majesty is too much to say." Wang Ronghe was pulling Yang Jingru to play backgammon, Wang Zhixi suddenly ran in, sat beside Wang Ronghe, and after a while, his eyes and nose were red, and after a glance, tears came down in clusters, and the pear blossom said with rain.

"What did Your Majesty say?" Wang Rong was puzzled. No, what did Your Majesty say, why are you crying to me? "Don't cry, it doesn't look like it."

The palace maid who came in with Wang Zhixi was called Fang Ruo, and she served Wang Zhixi at the beginning, doing her best, as if the other show girls in the hall did not exist. At this moment, she naturally said what she couldn't say for Wang Zhixi, "Just now, Gonggong Feng, who was next to His Majesty, came to Chuxiu Palace and said that His Majesty said, Your Majesty said,"

"What's the point of being a stammerer?" Yang Jingru said with a smile, "Do you want to say that your master and servant can still come from the front hall." ”

Wang Zhixi's face was slightly red, "I'm just wronged for my sister." ”

Fang Ruo said, "Your Majesty said that the girl is ugly and quite chic. It is said that Wang Ronghe is Wang Zhixi's sister, she should be respectful, but looking at Wang Zhixi's behavior, she naturally knows that this sister maintains the respect on her face.

"Fang Ruo." Wang Zhixi shouted, she looked at Wang Ronghe and said, "Xu is a painter who is not skilled and makes my sister ugly." My sister and Chou He have hung up, and when His Majesty sees my sister in person, I will know. ”

"That's good, too. I want to go home too. Wang Ronghe smiled first when he heard the words.

"It's just a joke, why don't you go home." Wang Zhixi said. "Sister, don't be angry. Now that I'm in the palace, my sister said that she wanted to go home, and someone who heard her say that it was disrespectful for her sister to not want to stay in the palace, and it was a bad thing. ”

"Isn't there someone with a heart right in front of you?" Yang Jingru said with a smile.

"Sister really doesn't care at all?" Wang Zhixi asked. Wang Ronghe didn't see the slightest embarrassment on his face, where did this woman not care about her appearance, especially the evaluation of a man who would become her husband. If she was said to be ugly by His Majesty today, I am afraid that she would have the heart to throw herself into the well. There is a show girl in the main hall of the front hall, who is Tianzu, and now she is being squeezed, and she has to do the work of a palace maid, just to be able to live a relaxed life, and occasionally you can bump into her crying in the corner, beating her feet.

Wang Zhixi didn't go with her to bully her, and when others asked, they only said that my sister had never tied her feet, and I felt empathy and sadness to see her so pitiful. Liu Mulan has made a few turns for the show girl, "They are all show girls in the same hall, they have not been canonized, who is more noble than whom, you are showing off your power here now, but you don't know that there are no eyes looking at you behind you." ”

"I know what I look like, and I don't need to know it from other people." Wang Ronghe and Yu Yu dropped their chess pieces and motioned for Yang Jingru to move.

Wang Zhixi was bored, walked away, and returned to the front hall, when others saw her eyebrows and eyes were red, they asked what was wrong, she reluctantly said, "It's okay, just cry for my sister." ”

"You are so kind, you are not happy to be praised by Your Majesty for being beautiful, you are only worried about your sister who is said to be ugly by Your Majesty." Xiunu said, "But you half-brothers, why is there such a big difference?" Isn't your mother's beauty better than her mother's? ”

Wang Zhixi's heart jumped, but she said, "The body is skinny, and the parents who receive it dare not destroy it, and the beginning of filial piety is also." The appearance given by the parents is also the beginning of filial piety. ”

She has known since she was a child that she is ingratiating herself in front of her father, standing up in front of her next rΓ©n miΓ n, saying some ambiguous things in her friends to make everyone misunderstand Wang Ronghe, and even Wang Rong and Wuyan's name She is also spreading in private, which is nothing. has fought with Wang Ronghe too many times, she already knows that Wang Ronghe will not care about these careful thoughts with her, and some things are not regarded as offenses to Wang Ronghe, but in the matter of her mother, it is her bottom line and cannot be touched lightly.

The Zhang family did not leave a portrait, and after his mother took power, a group of subordinates were replaced, and no one remembered Zhang's appearance.

In order to please her, the young woman also said something similar today, all of them were born to a father, the second girl was as beautiful as a fairy, and the eldest girl was far inferior to Yi, so it can be seen that Zhang's appearance is naturally a heaven and an underground compared with his wife's appearance.

She was naturally happy to hear this at the time, because both she and her mother thought so in their hearts. It's just that I didn't expect this to reach Wang Ronghe's ears, and he has always been gentle and smiling, as if someone who doesn't care about it, and directly called someone to tie up the relative, and he was going to beat ten boards and drive him out.

A scuffle broke out in her little courtyard.

She was trembling when she was hugged by the nurse, and looking over the shoulders of the nurse, Wang Ronghe raised her eyebrows and said to her relatives. "I know that you signed the deed of ownership in order to win your mother's trust. Since you have signed the deed of sale, you are a descendant of the Wang family, and I want to sell you, it's just a matter of words. ”

Then she saw her originally high-spirited relatives spread on the ground, kowtowing to her sister with tears in her eyes, "The eldest girl spared her life, it was my lard that blinded her heart, she couldn't talk but her brain, my mouth was broken, I should be beaten, the eldest girl taught me that I should be, I didn't dare to hide, I didn't dare to hide." ”

"I stand here, my mother, who is dead, and the mother of the house." Wang Ronghe swept over the people serving in her courtyard one by one, and everyone couldn't help but bow their heads and tremble, at that time, Wang Ronghe was only eleven years old, and his stature had not increased, and the subordinates who were taller than her no longer dared to look at her level, "If there is a next time to talk about the housewife, I will not be so merciful." ”

Wang Zhixi remembered that she was still frightened and feverish, and the nurse held her all night but refused to call the doctor, "Good girl, you bear with it, blame that broken mouth, think about it in your heart, why do you want to say it?" Mrs. also suffered from the melon, the old man has a big temper, Mrs. is now kneeling in the ancestral hall to the tablet of the first wife, good girl, you have to pity your mother, you must endure it. ”

Wang Zhixi has understood since then that in addition to a pair of skins, she is far from Wang Ronghe. So she learned a lot of talents, and her filial piety and good name spread far and wide, so her name of pearl became more and more victorious, and Wang Ronghe's name was gray.

She couldn't help but compare with Wang Ronghe every time, if she had the upper hand, she would be complacent, and her heart was very satisfied, but when she thought that Wang Ronghe didn't care about comparing with her, this satisfaction changed again, and it was inexplicably sour.