Chapter 36: The Buddha's Feast
"This ...... Not quite right? If the lady is gone, where will I go to the lady's face? Aunt Liu bit her lip and seemed to be a little entangled, but in fact, her heart had already blossomed.
"What's so hard about that? directly declared to the outside world that Madame was not in good health, and I was afraid that she would neglect the palace, and you and Madame were sisters, so it would be good to accompany Madame to the palace as a guest. Shen Chusheng quickly finalized this matter.
And Song Ruyu was the last to know the news.
Hearing that someone came to report that Shen Chusheng let him pass, she thought she had heard it wrong, you must know that Shen Chusheng had not seen her for almost ten years.
Hearing that the subordinate said that he really let himself pass, Song Ruyu immediately had a faint premonition in his heart, there was absolutely nothing good.
Sure enough, when Song Ruyu entered Shen Chusheng's bedroom, she saw that not only Shen Chusheng, but Aunt Liu was also there.
To Song Ruyu's surprise, Aunt Liu stood up to greet her for the first time today, and also gave her a concubine's room salute.
Song Ruyu helped her up, and then stood aside in a regular manner, not showing much intimacy with Aunt Liu, which made Aunt Liu, who was about to stage a deep sisterhood, immediately a little embarrassed, and she had to return to her seat and sit down.
"I wonder what happened when the master asked me to come over?" Song Ruyu lowered her head and asked in a proper manner.
"There's a letter from the palace, take a look." As soon as Shen Chusheng finished speaking, the little guy on the side hurriedly handed the invitation sent by the old princess today to Song Ruyu.
Hearing that it was the palace, Song Ruyu's heart tightened, could it be that something happened to Shen Xinyue?
She quickly took the letter and was relieved to see that she had only invited herself to the Buddha feast.
"Yes, sir, I see."
"Slow," Shen Chusheng stopped Song Ruyu, who was about to leave: "Look at the way you look now, where do you have half the appearance of being a housewife, if you are allowed to go to the palace like this, I don't know how much face you will have to lose to our Shen family." ”
Shen Chusheng's face was full of disgust, Song Ruyu didn't have any fluctuations in his heart when he heard his words, but he lowered his head very obediently and let him say.
And Song Ruyu's appearance of not caring about anything made Shen Chusheng even more angry.
However, thinking of his purpose, he still didn't say anything else, and went straight to the point: "In this way, let Aunt Liu accompany you, and the two of you can take care of it so that nothing will go wrong." ”
"This ...... Not quite right? Song Ruyu opened her mouth for the first time and resisted Shen Chusheng: "What the palace said is that I will take the girls in the mansion to go, if I bring more people, is it not in accordance with the rules?" ”
"Sister, don't worry, I'll just follow my sister at that time, as long as my sister tells the outside that I am like a sister to you, and I volunteer to accompany you, no one will say anything." Aunt Liu hurriedly explained.
Song Ruyu wanted to say something more, but when her eyes touched Shen Chusheng, she still didn't dare to be verbose, so she could only swallow back the unspoken words alive. Agreed.
Soon the palace received the news, and even the news that Shen Chusheng asked Aunt Liu to accompany Song Ruyu to the Buddha banquet also spread to the palace.
"I really didn't expect that this Shen family's backyard is not ordinarily exciting." After listening to Mama Li's words, the old princess was so happy that she couldn't close her mouth: "I'm looking forward to the arrival of the Shen family more and more now." ”
"Yes, princess, as far as I know, Aunt Liu's mother and daughter are not fuel-efficient lamps, if it weren't for the dark box operation of the two of them, Shen Xinyue would not have had such a bad reputation. When the time comes, Shen Xinyue will feel better. Mama Li hurriedly flattered the old princess on the side.
"Sure enough, it's a lowly merchant, and a concubine can ride on the head of the concubine, and she is better than the concubine everywhere." The old princess raised her eyes contemptuously.
Although she dislikes Shen Xinyue very much, as a lady in the main room, she dislikes this kind of thing as spoiling a concubine and killing his wife.
"Okay, since things are almost arranged, you can go and inform the prince." The old princess waved her hand and sent Mama Li out.
At this time, Shen Xinyue was bored walking in the yard, and she was still a little surprised to see Mama Li coming.
What's going on again? Why did she come all of a sudden?
Although she was curious, Shen Xinyue didn't plan to ask, but stood quietly in place and waited for Mama Li to come over by herself.
At this moment, Huo Weilou came back from outside, and when he saw Mama Li standing in front of him, he frowned almost invisibly, and asked out loud: "Why did Mama come over, is there something going on on the concubine's side?" ”
Mama Li was originally thinking about how to walk next to Shen Xinyue to give her a dismount, when suddenly Huo Weilou's voice behind her startled her.
She hurriedly turned around and saluted Huo Weilou: "Lord, it's not a big deal, it's just that the old princess thinks that it will be the Buddha's birthday in a few days, so she wants to go to a suburban courtyard to hold a Buddha banquet, and then she thinks that the princess must be very reluctant to marry from the south of the Yangtze River, so the old princess also took this opportunity to invite the princess's family to come, this is not, specially let me inform the princess." ”
"Buddha feast?" Huo Weilou glanced at Shen Xinyue, and then asked, "Why is the mother concubine so interested?" ”
"It's not that I'm interested, it's just that the old princess said that the poor princess is not familiar with life here, so she deliberately used an excuse to let the princess meet with her family, and our house has also taken the opportunity to be lively."
Mama Li was talking, and Shen Xinyue also came over.
"My family? Who are they? ”
Shen Xinyue looked at Mama Li suspiciously.
If the old princess really wants to be sympathetic to herself, Shen Xinyue can't believe it, but since she sent someone to report it, then she must not be fake.
The only possibility is that the old princess is holding back something bad.
Shen Xinyue thought of Shen Fengjiao almost immediately, did the old princess want to use Shen Fengjiao to deal with herself?
"Back to the princess, the old princess thought that the princess was lonely, so she specially took several sisters in your family over, and then accompanied by Mrs. and Aunt Liu in the house." Although Mama Li's tone was very respectful when she said this, the schadenfreude in her eyes couldn't be hidden.
Aunt Liu......
Shen Xinyue didn't expect that there would be her.
The last time I went back to the door, Shen Xinyue had already seen that although Shen Fengjiao had a lot of bad intentions, she was always weak and not afraid, and it was this Aunt Liu who was really giving advice to her and always working against her.
Thinking of the fact that the original owner is a young lady, but she has a straw bag title, and Song Ruyu is directly elevated as the wife of the Shen family, you can also know that this Aunt Liu is not easy to deal with.
The old princess asked Aunt Liu and Shen Fengjiao and others to take over, this idea can be said to be Sima Zhao's heart, everyone knows it, but Shen Xinyue can't break it yet, otherwise it will be Song Ruyu who will suffer at that time, since she has replaced Shen Xinyue to live, she can't hurt her mother.
Huo Weilou's eyes seemed to pass over Shen Xinyue's face unintentionally, taking in the entanglement on her face. Then he said: "Please also ask the princess to go back to the mother, and say that the princess doesn't understand Buddhism, and it's not interesting to go to this kind of banquet to sit, but it also makes the mother look bad, plus the princess and the king have not yet entered the palace to visit the queen mother, so the king wants to take the princess into the palace to visit the queen mother in the next few days, so ......"
"No, Mama, you tell your mother that I will go, as for meeting the Queen Mother...... The date has not been determined yet, and it will not be in the way to push back a few days. ”
Huo Weilou's refusal was interrupted by Shen Xinyue before he finished speaking, he looked at Shen Xinyue suspiciously, he didn't understand why she agreed to this request, it is said that Shen Xinyue doesn't like trouble the most?
"Yes, the slave went back and told the old princess." Mama Li got Shen Xinyue's answer and left with a smile.
Seeing her walk away, Huo Weilou walked to the side of the stone bench and sat down and asked Shen Xinyue, "You can not go at all, why do you have to deal with this." ”
Shen Xinyue glanced at Huo Weilou, and said angrily: "Why don't you go?" Now that she has set up all the tables and has already called my mother's family over, wouldn't it be in vain for me to refuse at this time? ”
"If you don't want to go, then no one can force you."
"I didn't say if I wanted to go or not, why did you keep telling me not to go?" Shen Xinyue looked up at Huo Weilou suspiciously, and then she suddenly widened her eyes as if she had thought of something and said, "Did you hear that Shen Fengjiao was coming, and you were afraid that she was not my opponent and was bullied by me, so she kept stopping me?" ”
Huo Weilou glanced at Shen Xinyue helplessly, and before he could speak, Shen Xinyue continued:
"No wonder I thought it was weird when you went to Shen Mansion with me last time, did you fall in love with Shen Fengjiao at that time? After all, it's up to me to get in your way, I shouldn't have been there when she went to the study that night. ”
After Shen Xinyue finished speaking, she looked at Huo Weilou with a look that she already knew everything.
Huo Weilou was helpless, but he didn't know what he was thinking just now, he just didn't want Shen Xinyue to experience these troublesome things for no reason, if he could, he even wanted Shen Xinyue to have to face nothing, and just live the life he wanted leisurely every day, and he just stood aside and watched......
Why did you think so far Huo Weilou shook his head slightly, throwing those strange thoughts out of his mind.
"What's wrong with you? It can't be that I said that my heart is empty, right? Shen Xinyue watched Huo Weilou's sudden and abnormal loss of consciousness, and felt more and more that her guess was very accurate.
Huo Weilou didn't know what to say, so he simply didn't speak.
"Ignore me, huh? It's boring, I'd better go back to my room. After Shen Xinyue finished speaking, she jumped back to the bedroom.
Huo Weilou looked at the back of Shen Xinyue leaving, thinking of the inexplicable idea he had just now, he only felt extremely ridiculous.
"Huo Xing." Huo Weilou called out, wanting to ask him if he knew what was wrong with him, but he still held back the words when he came to his lips.
"The subordinates are here, what's wrong with the prince?"
"Have you heard that the old princess is going to prepare a Buddha banquet? I'm worried that the princess won't be able to cope with it, so remember to arrange more people to follow the princess secretly during this time and help her deal with the trouble. ”
In the next few days, the entire palace was busy with the Buddha banquet.
And Lan Qingruo, who was confined to his own yard, seemed out of place with everyone's busyness.
"Eh, what are you all up to, all of you are running so fast." Lan Qingruo stopped a subordinate at the gate of the courtyard and asked.
"Mrs. Hui, it's the old princess who wants to go to another courtyard to hold a Buddhist banquet, and we are preparing things for the Buddhist banquet."
"Buddha feast? When is it? A glint burst out of Lan Qingruo's eyes.