Chapter 56: The Heart of a Harem Woman
The lychee in the tea kept changing directions and floating, like an eyeball, and everyone was sick in their hearts, and even a few women had covered their mouths and exclaimed.
Before everyone came back to their senses, they saw that Mu Xuefu had already picked up the tea and put it in his mouth, "It's so fragrant." ”
"You-" Qin Qing looked at her with a frightened look, his fingers trembling and pointing to the cup of tea.
"Lychee tea really has a different taste, Miss Qin also wants to taste it?" Mu Xuefu raised the cup to her, looked at her pale face, smiled, put down the tea, and said, "I'm just joking, why is Miss Qin scared like this, I don't know if I think the unjust soul has found you." ”
Concubine Xian looked at Mu Xuefu coldly, and her voice revealed majesty, "Okay, it's a big New Year, it's bad luck to say this." What kind of injustice, only people who have ghosts in their hearts will find it, as long as they sit upright and sit upright, how can there be a life-seeking saying! Princess Chen, Qing'er, they are all ladies who have not yet left the cabinet, and they are only curious about the rumors outside the city that are full of wind and rain, and it is only the temperament of the youngest daughter that they will have this question, you just need to clarify with good words, why scare them? ”
In fact, Concubine Xian said this a little bit overstepping, not to mention that the queen did not speak, that is, there are also Concubine Wen and Imperial Concubine above her, where is her turn to speak. However, since her son went to Jiangnan on an errand and came back from the assassination, the emperor not only promoted her position, but also looked at King Ning differently, she inevitably felt too high, and even dared to rob the queen's words.
Mu Xuefu held back the sarcasm in her heart, turned into a smile on her lips, Ying Ying got up and blessed her, and said: "Concubine Xian Niangniang taught her a lesson, but I still have to advise Miss Qin, hearing is false, seeing is believing, don't make a judgment too early about things that you haven't seen." As everyone knows, this tricking is a taboo for royal daughters-in-law. ”
"King Chen, your princess is really sharp-toothed, so that we elders can't say a word." Looking at the virtuous concubine beside her who was choked by Mu Xuefu and couldn't say a word, Concubine Wen glared at Mu Xuefu, looking at her harmless and gentle appearance, her heart was resentful, but she turned her head to Jingrong.
Mu Yurong was afraid that a few mothers would blame her sister, so she hurriedly got up and saluted: "Don't blame Wang Niangniang, Fu'er has been pampered since she was a child, and her father loves her very much, so this temperament is inevitably straightforward and refreshing." However, she is just straightforward and has no malice. ”
"That's strange, you and your sister are both the daughters of Zuo Xiang, why are there so big differences?" Concubine Wen snorted coldly: "Princess Chen should really learn from Princess Rui how to be gentle and dignified, even if she was spoiled in the deep boudoir, and now that she has married into the royal family, this identity is different." If it's still the same as before, it will inevitably make people laugh. He looked at Princess Yu again, "Princess Yu is Princess Chen's mother-in-law, and you need to worry more about teaching her daughter-in-law." ”
I thought that I would get a response from Princess Yu, but Princess Yu just smiled faintly, looking at Mu Xuefu's gaze was much softer than before, and Hui Wen Guifei's words were mocking, "Concubine Wen is not from a high background, I don't know that this young lady who is raised in a big family is born with a sense of arrogance, although she is easy to offend people when she speaks straightforwardly, but unlike some small households, her heart is gloomy, and the crooks in her stomach can turn eighteen times." ”
Concubine Wen was angry, and she didn't want this Princess Yu to not only give her face, but also expose her family background in disguise. But at this time, so many people were present, and Princess Yu's maiden family was prominent, so she had to swallow this anger alive. After a change of words, he said to Jing Rong again: "Marrying a wife and marrying a virtuous person, for the sake of the peace of the house in the future, King Chen still has more control over your princess." Don't let her say anything, offend people, but affect you. ”
Jing Rong smiled on his lips, a cold sneer pierced the corners of his mouth, he straightened up slightly and pulled back Mu Xuefu to let her sit down, before he said: "Concubine Lao Wen is worried, although Fu'er is squeamish, she has a pure temperament and a hearty personality, she looks like this, this king likes it." ”
"It's good if the prince likes it." Mu Xuefu's eyes flew, leaned directly on him, and spoke softly, straight to everyone's hearts.
The queen, who has not been silent, savored this good play, such a wonderful script is even better than the story in the play. Looking at Concubine Wen Guifei's suffocated flushed face, the smugness in her heart was even worse, and even the corners of her mouth couldn't hide the smile.
She put down the teacup, wiped the corners of her mouth with a brocade hand, and said, "Okay, today is the first day of the new year, and it should be a festive day. This matter is a matter of King Chen's Mansion, and this palace believes that King Chen can handle it properly. As for Princess Chen, how old is she? is one year younger than Princess Sanssoucian, Princess Sanssouci Sister Wen is so spoiled, why don't people be pampered. Besides, King Chen is willing to spoil and indulge, do we, who are elders, still want to separate other husbands and wives? ”
When Concubine Wen heard this, she was furious almost instantly, and cold scratches flashed in her eyes, but she was also a person who had been in the harem for more than ten years, and she had heard more ugly words than this, and what else could not be tolerated. She snorted lightly, shook off the silk handkerchief, and helped the glazed jade earrings in her ears, and her gorgeous and delicate lips bloomed with a smile, "The queen has no children and doesn't know the truth of the deep responsibility of love, and the concubines regard King Chen as a son and nephew, so they naturally treat Princess Chen as a daughter-in-law, but the concubines taught her because they liked her, how did they become concubines and husband and wife in the queen's mouth?" It seems that the queen really doesn't understand the hearts of those of us who have been mothers. ”
The queen's lack of children has always been a pain in her heart, once she was also pregnant with a dragon son, if it wasn't for this Wen Yao to let her daughter knock herself down, how could she lose her child! And the emperor, instead of punishing Concubine Wen and Jing Wan, blamed her for protecting the dragon fetus, and she has fallen out of favor since then. So for so many years, she and Concubine Wen have always been incompatible, and no one can see who is good. Now that Concubine Wen mentioned that she didn't know that being a mother's heart was equivalent to sprinkling salt on her wounds, how could she not hate!
The queen took a hard breath, diluted the anger in her chest, and after a moment, her expression was slightly gloomy, and she returned to her gentle complexion, and said: "This palace is the queen, the mother of the world, and all the people are children of this palace, how can Concubine Wen say that this palace does not know the heart of a mother?" Fu shifted his gaze to look at Princess Sanssouci, "Speaking of children, this palace remembers that Princess Sanssouci is also seventeen, Concubine Wen always thinks about others, and she should also plan for her daughter." At such an age, it is appropriate to find a satisfactory colt. As a worry-free queen mother, this matter will naturally be mentioned in the emperor's premise, so that she can have a wishful husband to love her. ”
Princess Sanssouci is thinking about Jingrong, how could she want to marry someone else? Hearing the queen mention her marriage, her body trembled, and she was about to get up to refute it, but she was held back by Concubine Wen. was terrified in his heart, his eyes flashed with panic, and his eyes looked helplessly at Jingrong, but he couldn't get a trace of his gaze. His eyes followed closely to the woman beside him, who looked at him like silk, hooking his soul and making him unable to see his affection. Wu Wu bit her lower lip hard, as if she wanted to tear Mu Xuefu into her abdomen, she clenched her fists fiercely, trying her best to restrain the hesitation and anxiety in her heart.
While suppressing her daughter's impulse, Concubine Wen adjusted her mentality, and said with the same expression: "Wan'er's marriage doesn't bother the queen's mother, she has the concubine, the concubine, and Your Majesty, the father, so she will naturally choose the best horse for her." The queen mother is so worried about Wan'er, and she has worked hard, and the concubine has thanked her here. However, Wan'er has just passed seventeen, and I am really reluctant to bear this piece of meat in my mother's heart, and the folk don't often say that the emperor's daughter is not worried about getting married, and the concubine should keep Wan'er by her side for two more years. The mouth slowly grew a smile and looked at the people with children present, "It is said that the daughter is the mother's little padded jacket, and the mother's love for her daughter is only known to those of us who are mothers, don't you say?" ”
If you should say this at this time, you will directly offend the queen, if you don't cater to it, and you are afraid of saving Concubine Wen's face, several people looked at each other, and they all laughed together.
Not to mention that she has hit her sore spot several times and three times, just say what she said before, what does it mean to have her as a mother and Your Majesty as a father? She is the queen and Jing Wan's mother-in-law, when does the princess's marriage still want to cross her as the queen? The queen's cold gaze swept over their mother and daughter, and a small snort overflowed from her nose, which was insignificant. She casually pulled her eyes back from the mother and daughter, just as she glanced at Jingrong and Mu Xuefu's closeness, and then glanced sideways at Princess Sanssouc's jealous gaze, and there was a kind of happiness in her heart, as if all the previous unhappiness had disappeared.
"Lord Wang, you see how vicious Princess Wuwu's eyes are, and I can't wait to eat the concubine when I look at her devouring eyes." Mu Xuefu approached Jing Rong, pulled down his head, and whispered in his ear, with a soft and glutinous coquettish taste, "You have to protect the concubine's body, don't let the concubine's body be eaten by poisonous snakes." ”
Jing Rong scratched her nose with a playful smile on her lips, "You still use this king to protect?" Looking at your strength just now, I thought that I would love my concubine and protect this king in the future! He knew that Mu Xuefu had sharp teeth and was a master who never suffered losses, but today this cleverness was not just articulate, but the fierceness of her momentum exuded from the inside out. When dealing with worry-free and Qin Qing, it was like dealing with inconspicuous little people, and he played with them between applause while talking and laughing, and even he felt that as long as Mu Xuefu wanted to, he could crush them in the palm of his hand.
Mu Xuefu kept staring at him, not missing the suspicion that flashed in his eyes, "Although the concubine is not as powerful as the prince, she is also willing to be a little hedgehog, as long as someone attacks, she will curl up and fight back with sharp thorns, even if the strength is small, she will sting the opponent." However, if someone bullies the prince, the concubine will be pierced with my little thorn, and his hands will be covered with blood. ”