Chapter 148

According to the usual practice, after the Qionglin banquet, the imperial court will give all the new scholars a few days of family leave. Those from other places went home to visit relatives, and those who stayed in the capital took advantage of this opportunity to contact their feelings everywhere.

Since ancient times, there have been the so-called three irons of life: the same window, carried a gun, what is the ...... In the same year, it can be said to be a very important network for these newcomers in the workplace. So among the various banquets and group worships, the most will not be left behind, except for the teacher, it is the three leaders of the same list of champions.

Among these three people, Lin Ruting, the champion, is probably the only one who is not well-known in the capital. But he has a good temperament, and he treats people with a kind of warmth like a spring breeze, so almost effortlessly, this champion won a piece of praise.

And Yuan Changqing is just the opposite of Lin Ruting. Although he became famous for a long time, he is a well-known "cold beauty". There was a joke that there was a new gentleman in the academy, and it wasn't until the end of the school year that he knew that Yuan Changqing was not a dumb person. But after everyone had more contact with Yuan Changqing, they found that he was not as cold and difficult to get close to as the legend, speaking of which, he just didn't like to talk much. However, once he speaks, he is often able to get to the point, and he is obviously not the one who is famous.

As for Bangyan, his name is Yu Hong, and he is a middle-aged man in his forties. This Yu Bangyan and the concubine in the palace are fellow villagers, and he was also a well-known talent in his hometown. The one in the palace had also been interested in recruiting him before, but he was proud of his talents, thinking that he would definitely win without the care of the four princes. But I don't want to take three subjects in a row, and I will be named Sun Shan. So, after falling off the list again last year, he finally bowed his head to reality and bowed to the door of the Chengenhou Mansion. In the past year, he has been funded by the four princes, and he has also made some famous names in the major literary associations in the capital, and he can be regarded as a celebrity. It's just that although he finally got his wish this year, and he is still on the list, he is sandwiched between Lin Ruting and Yuan Changqing, two young people with black hair, and he is gray, which is inevitably a little embarrassing.

And the so-called things gather by like, and people are divided by groups. As soon as there were many people, naturally those with similar interests came together, and those who sought the same gradually formed a group. Although Tanhua Yuan Changqing is not in the eyes of the emperor, he has a good relationship with the prince, and he is obviously a "prince-son party". Those who took a fancy to the prince and wanted to get in touch with the prince through Yuan Changqing inevitably gathered around him. Those who saw that the emperor did not want to see the crown prince and felt that the four princes were more likely to ascend to the throne gathered around Yu Hong. The rest of those who were either out of caution, or just wanted to be a pure minister, and were unwilling to stand in line, naturally stood with Lin Ruting, who had never revealed his identity.

Just when Yuan Changqing was entertaining at various banquets every day, Shanniang was not idle.

The eldest princess said before that she would invite her to her princess's mansion to get together, but later because Yuan Changqing was going to take the exam, the two couldn't get together once. Now that those who are rushing to take the exam have already passed the Tanhua exam, the Tanhua lady is naturally idle. When Yuan Changqing was dragged out for a drinking party by the same year, Shanniang was invited into the princess's mansion by an invitation from the eldest princess.

The princess Celestia's princess mansion is also in Fushoufang, only one street away from Shanniang's house. When Shanniang arrived, several guests had already arrived in the princess's mansion. Seeing her come in, the eldest princess hurriedly came out of the pavilion in the water pavilion, took Shanniang's hand again, looked her up and down for a while, and said with a smile: "Sure enough, it's a flower girl, like a flower." ”

Shanniang has been married to Yuan Changqing for almost half a year, so naturally she is no longer dressed in dazzling red all day long like before. At the end of April and the beginning of May, it was the time of spring and summer communication, so she changed into a light dress. I saw that she was covered with a dark purple large-sleeved shirt on the outside, and a plain white high-waisted skirt on the inside. Clusters of lilac wisteria flowers were densely embroidered on the undershirt, and at the length of the skirt, they became layers of petals, and then gradually thinned down into a faint shadow of flowers.

The eldest princess took her hand, tore off her coat without seeing it, looked at the underskirt with complicated embroidery for a while, and then looked up and asked Shanniang: "This is embroidered by your mother?" ”

Shanniang was surprised. After a pause, he said with a smile: "The news in Beijing spread so fast. ”

The eldest princess also smiled: "Originally, they all said behind their backs that the old lady of the Yuan family was calculating and married a daughter-in-law who was not relied on for Yuan Da, but I didn't expect that your family was actually hidden." Your old lady is afraid that her intestines will be repentant at this time. ”

While talking, several noble ladies who were sitting in the pavilion also followed. The eldest princess simply pushed Shanniang's shoulders and spun around in front of them, and said with a smile: "Look, how's it?" He added, "Sure enough, it is the world-famous jade embroidery, and it looks extraordinary." ”

Shanniang hurriedly smiled: "This is not. My mother didn't want to embroider this kind of thing, she only wanted to embroider what she wanted. I embroidered it from the children of the orphanage in Meishan Town, and it was they who gave us a gift to thank my mother for teaching them embroidery. And he said, "I'm pretty good, and the eldest princess should look at the dress they gave my mother." Knowing that my mother liked lotus flowers, they embroidered a pool of lotus flowers on top of black silk satin, and used no less than 20 kinds of white silk thread on one petal alone. What Shanniang didn't say was that the embroidery on her clothes and the fifth wife's clothes was actually painted by the fifth master.

The eldest princess was stunned for a while, looked back at someone behind her and asked, "White is white, why are there dozens of whites?" ”

The young woman she was looking at couldn't help blushing, pursed her lips shyly, and then said softly: "Big sister doesn't like embroidery, naturally I don't know, in fact, in the embroidery thread, each big color is divided into a variety of small colors, and some can be divided into hundreds." ”

This person was standing behind the crowd, and Shanniang didn't pay attention for a while, until she opened her mouth to speak, Shanniang didn't recognize it, and it was actually a recognized person-Mrs. Hou Shizi of Yongning, Shen.

When the two looked at each other, Shen looked at her and smiled, Shanniang also smiled back, and then swept her eyes into the crowd, but she didn't see Mrs. Yongning Hou, but saw that all the women present were about twenty to forty years old, and they were all dressed as women, and she suddenly counted them in her heart.

In her previous life, Shanniang knew that the eldest princess learned from the men outside to lead a club, called "Ni Shang Yu Yi" - but it was different from Yuan Changqing's five masters and their literary and painting clubs, the eldest princess loved bright clothes, and also loved a fresh and lively society, so this "Ni Shang Yu Yi" club, only from the literal meaning, can be known, but it is a "pure play club" that studies exquisite clothes and jewelry, plus some eating, drinking and having fun.

These people should be members of that society.

She turned her head and smiled at the Celestial Princess, "I also learned embroidery with my wife for a while, and just looking at the various silk threads, I can see that I am almost blind." Take these colors on my body, for example. She pointed to the petals embroidered on the dress, "Do you know what color this is?" ”

The eldest princess leaned over to look at it and said with a smile, "Purple." ”

A woman next to her, who was about the same age as the eldest princess, also smiled: "It should be called Light Purple." ”

So the eldest princess turned around and pulled Shen over again, pushed her and said, "What are you doing in the back?" The thirteenth son is also a new daughter-in-law, why can't you let go so much? ”

Shen glanced at Shanniang helplessly, blushed and whispered, "This is Lilac Purple." ”

"Yes." Shanniang smiled kindly at her, pointed to a touch of color on the edge of the petals, and said, "That one is called Lilac Purple, and this one is called Gray Purple." You see, two colors are contrasted in one place, and you can still distinguish a light, but if you only take a silk thread to recognize you, who can recognize it? The two colors are just a little darker and a little lighter, and I can't recognize them anyway. ”

"She can recognize it." The eldest princess smiled and pushed the Shen family, and then introduced Shanniang: "This is my nephew and daughter-in-law, the ninth in my mother's family, you can call her Jiuniang." ”

Shanniang hurriedly stepped forward and took Shen's hand, and smiled at the eldest princess: "We recognize it." As he spoke, he curtched at Shen, and Shen quickly returned the salute.

Although Shen is a native of Beijing, he was born in the north and south, and his eyebrows are extremely delicate and small. Speaking of which, Shanniang's appearance is actually not outstanding, but there is a smart air between her eyebrows, and standing with the extremely beautiful Shen family, she has never been compared at all.

The woman who had just spoken to Shanniang smiled and said, "Look at these two new daughters-in-law, they look like two shallots, and they make us even more hateful." ”

The eldest princess smiled: "It's a hateful face, it's you, I'm still young." Everyone laughed for a while, and the eldest princess pulled Shanniang over again and introduced her: "This is Mrs. Huaiyuanbo, you can call her nine catties." ”

Obviously, this is Mrs. Huaiyuanbo's maiden name. The eldest princess is a good friend with others, but Shanniang is meeting for the first time, and she can't help but feel a dilemma. Shen Shi hurriedly came over to relieve her, and said with a smile: "This is Sister Lu." ”

Princess Celestia introduced her to everyone present one by one.

In my previous life, when I joined this society, I used to have a dream of Shanniang. It's just that later, with the cold war between her and Yuan Changqing, she became more and more closed herself, and she became more and more afraid of being discovered by outsiders, she was just a superficial scenery, so gradually, she became more and more reluctant to go out to face the crowd. In order to escape from those people and things she didn't want to face, and to force her children and Yuan Changqing to give in to her, she began to pretend to be sick......

It was a past life.

In this life, Shanniang probably guessed that the eldest princess probably wanted to introduce her into this society, so she deliberately wore this low-key but secretly luxurious dress.

Sure enough, after sitting down in the water pavilion, without waiting for the eldest princess to ask, the "nine-catty girl" Lu asked Shanniang first: "The pattern of your clothes is very chic, it looks like an ink painting, this is really not jade embroidery?" ”

The eldest princess suddenly remembered something, so she asked Shanniang, "I heard that your mother taught those children?" Then this should be jade embroidery. He said again: "You mother and daughter, others have to spend a lot of silver to embroider a jade embroidery the size of a handkerchief, and you two are so extravagant that you embroider it on your clothes." ”

Shanniang smiled: "Our wife said that this kind of Cheng dù can't be called jade embroidery. The real jade embroidery should look like a kind of spirit, but this one only has a shape. ”

"That's good enough." Lu Jiujin said. He asked her again, "Are those children still in Meishan Town now?" ”

"Some are still there, some have been hired by embroidery villages in other places, and a few said that they wanted to form their own embroidery villages, and my wife and I joined the shares, and even our lord had to squeeze in to occupy a share. I've heard that business is doing well now. ”

Another person asked Shanniang curiously: "That is to say, these wedding clothes of yours were also embroidered by them?" Aren't you taboo? ”

"What am I taboo about?" Shanniang was surprised.

Another noble lady said, "Those children, who knows what their origins are, I heard that many of them are children from dirty places, and because no one is willing to raise them, they are thrown into that place." ”

Shanniang was a little annoyed when she heard this. But thinking that he thought the same way in his previous life, he pressed his annoyance, sighed at everyone, and said: "Not to mention that many of them are just the death of their parents, and the relatives in the family refused to adopt them and fell there, that is, those who don't know their parents, what are they guilty of?" When their parents gave birth to them, no one consulted them, saying that they would ask them if they would like to be born. If there is a choice, I am afraid that none of those children are willing to be born in this world, but they were forced to give birth, which should be the sin of parents, but because they evaded responsibility, they put the blame on the innocent children one by one. Speaking of which, it's just that they are children compared to the adults who abandon their children, they are weaker and easier to bully. ”

"Just as a woman is always the first to be blamed when something happens." Celestia suddenly said in a deep voice. "Actually, I've been thinking, what if it's a kid from that place? Do you really blame those women? Without those men, where would these children come from?! The root cause of the crime is all those stinky men! ”

So, for a while, the ladies were filled with righteous indignation, and they all talked about the injustices they had encountered. The eldest princess sneered: "I am just a dead husband, and I love to wear two bright clothes, and those men think that I am a serious person, and they dare to say anything in front of me, and they are so annoyed that I beat people, and they say that I am a bully." If I really bully someone, I will directly order someone to cut him down!" ”

Shan Niang wore this dress today, originally to attract people to pay attention to the poor people in the orphanage, but she didn't expect that the eldest princess thought of the injustice she had suffered from the orphans, and for a while she took the topic crookedly, and the other women in the society also sighed with indignation.

Lu Jiujin sighed: "Don't be a daughter, they don't have to be happy, angry, sad and happy, what I hate the most is that not only men bully us, but women bully women, and they are even more ruthless than men." ”

The eldest princess hurriedly said: "What? Your mother-in-law tossed you again? ”

Lu Jiujin sneered, "She dares!" He added, "Her only ability is to ask her son to suppress me." In the past, I always thought about the relationship between husband and wife, and I took a step back for the sake of his face, but now I realize that I care about his face, but he never cares about my face. I figured it out, he didn't care about my life or death to be a filial son, so he did it, I only did myself. ”

It was only then that Shanniang associated Huai Yuanbo's name with the Shen family in front of her. In the previous life, this Shen was also a famous evil woman, and it is said that she beat and scolded her mother-in-law and husband, and favored her husband's mother-in-law with a generous temperament, and repeatedly tolerated her - now listening to everyone's words, Shanniang knew that there was another reason for the matter.

But he said that Uncle Huaiyuan lost his father since he was a child, and he was all brought up by his widowed mother, so he was extremely filial. At the beginning, the family was still harmonious, and all of them changed after the Lu family gave birth to a child. Because the old lady took the child away to raise it, and still provoked their mother-son relationship in front of the child, Lu and her mother-in-law clashed. Huaiyuan knew the truth of the matter, but he didn't dare to resist his mother, and always asked the Lu family to bear with him. It wasn't until the child was no longer close to the Lu family that the Lu family became disheartened. asked for harmony, not only Huaiyuanbo refused, but even her mother's family refused, and threatened her to strangle her if she left. Now this matter is so deadlocked, she lives alone in the side courtyard facing the street, and no longer has contact with her husband and mother's family.

The eldest princess slammed the table and said, "I told you earlier......"

Lu shook his hand and said, "My business, I don't want to drag you down." Besides, you're not much better off than I am. ”

Shanniang suddenly sighed and said, "It is said that the fatherless and motherless orphans in the orphanage are pitiful, but at least they can be their own masters." It is said that parents are gracious, but I always feel that some parents do not actually treat their children as children, but as a kind of object that they have created. They made the object, so they can do whatever they want with it, so the object must be completely at their mercy, and not have a single opinion of its own. If there is a slight disobedience, it is unfilial piety as a child. What they want is actually a puppet, and they don't care whether their children are happy or not, whether they are happy, or if they are having a hard time...... Filial piety and filial piety, filial piety comes first, they will only ask their children to be like children, but they never ask themselves to be like parents......"

As she said this, Lu couldn't help but sigh. The eldest princess paused, suddenly reached out and patted Shanniang's shoulder, and said with a smile: "Could it be that Mr. Shuyi is also such an unreasonable parent?" ”

Shanniang was stunned for a moment, and then came back to her senses. She just remembered her attitude towards her children in her previous life from the words that Lu's parents said to Lu. Her remarks were not so much about Lu's parents, but rather self-criticism......

She smiled stiffly and said, "My father and my mother are the most sensible fathers and mothers in the world." I'm just saying that there are some fathers and mothers in the world who are not like that......"

"Yes," Lu sighed, "not every parent can seek justice for his wronged daughter like Mr. Shuyi." More, but when the daughter who marries out is the water that is spilled. ”

Shanniang smiled and raised her hand to support her forehead.

*・*・*

In the evening, when Yuan Changqing came to pester her again, she suddenly trembled, pushed him away, and only said that she was tired.

Yuan Changqing is such a keen person, he had already found out that she had been a little sullen since she came back from the eldest princess's mansion, and he was busy pressing her to ask questions.

Now Shanniang and his wife have developed a good habit of not hiding from each other if there is a problem, so Shanniang sighed and told Lu's matter again, and said: "I am also the kind of hard-tempered person, I want people to follow me in everything, I will beat and scold my brother and brother at every turn, and I will ...... in the future I'm afraid I'm not a good mother......"

She rolled over and buried her face in his arms as if seeking comfort. Although she had told him about her previous life under the pretense of a dream, she didn't really believe that he would believe her, so she could only be vague.

And Yuan Changqing immediately thought of the "dream" she had talked about.

I don't know why, obviously he doesn't believe in her "dream", but every time he inadvertently thinks of her "dream". Even when he was bored, he would secretly speculate on the possibility of her "dream" happening based on what she said. And unfortunately, no matter how much he didn't want to believe it, the truth is that if that is the case, it is very likely that the relationship between him and her will really become what she "dreamed of...... Even, for his children, he will probably pick up her leaks like in her "dream" and play the perfect father in front of the children......

Whenever he thought of this, he always had a feeling of panic, as if the qiē in front of him was a dream, and the qiē in her "dream" was the real existence...... And, if he hadn't experienced the happiness he had now, probably he wouldn't have felt that there was anything wrong with that kind of life, let alone know how sad it was to be lonely like that......

He hugged her tightly, kissed her heart and said, "You won't." You're going to be a good mother, and you're going to be the most spoiled mother in the world. I even think that if I don't take care of it, our children will definitely be spoiled by you. But it doesn't matter, and me, you're spoiled, I'll discipline them. You have taught them crookedly, and I have come to correct them. If they dare to be disrespectful to you, we'll just kick them out. Little brutes who don't know how to be grateful, don't do it, let's live our lives without them! ”

That last sentence couldn't help but amuse Shanniang. She looked up at him and smiled, "How do you know I'm going to spoil the kids?" ”

"Actually," Yuan Changqing turned over and pressed her under him, traced her eyelashes with his lips, and said softly, "Didn't you notice?" In fact, you have been spoiling a lot of people, your brother, your two younger brothers, me. Even the old lady. None of us have become bad, and our children will not be bad in the future. ”