Sometimes the palace is sunny

Chapter 1 Head Cyan

After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the wind in Zhuangzi outside Yanjing City cooled down.

Through the small window, you can still see wild geese returning to the south during the day, but at night, there are only a few sporadic stars adorning the window.

Occasionally, there are fireflies entangled outside with broken lights, or crickets call intermittently, and they are a little listless.

Even more listless than the crickets was Achi, the handmaiden who was standing holding the lamp. Watching the candle, she sighed again.

The woman sitting by the window holding the millstone suddenly laughed:

"The cricket outside screams so weakly that it means it's impossible to court a mate. Where did you get so sad?"

A Chi wanted to sigh again, but he held back halfway through the sigh: "Girl, I heard from someone from the mansion that my uncle is coming back."

Looking left and right, A Chi went to the window and closed it, then looked at another maid guarding the outside room and said:

"Go and boil water to scrub the second young lady."

Seeing the others leave, A Chi turned around and saw his girl was still in front of the window picking up water with her hands and continuing to grind the blue powder, and couldn't help but sigh again:
"My girl, it's not that Chi wants to talk too much. The Xie family's mansion doesn't even mention letting you go back during the Mid-Autumn Festival. This time when my uncle comes back, I'm afraid he will bring that Miss Feng back."

After saying a few words, Ah Chi almost shed tears on behalf of his girl. Her girl is Shen Shiqing, the only daughter of the late Grand Master Shen Shao, who was held in the palm of her family like pearls and treasures since she was a child. If the master hadn't gone away suddenly, the wife couldn't get sick, the uncle was unreliable, and the uncle was in a foreign country, he wouldn't have settled down with Xie Feng, the second young master of the Xie family, and rushed the master's filial piety within a hundred days. Hastily married in.

Who would have imagined that Uncle Ning An would say nicely, that if she is taken care of by the master, she will treat her daughter as her own, and that the old man and his wife will be able to rest in peace in the spirit of heaven after the New Year, but in fact, it is just for the sake of a good reputation.

As soon as the girl got married, her parents had double filial piety on her body. She didn't even see her uncle twice until she got filial piety. She stayed with the girl in the deep house of Ning'anbo Mansion for seven years from the age of 15 to 22, watching helplessly. As the girl grew into stature, the childishness faded from her brows, and she also watched the girl live indifferently like a nun day by day. In contrast, Xie Fengan took concubines one after another in the name of her son.

Seeing that she sleeps alone on the bed every day, there are already five or six people outside the yard who are her sons and daughters!
What kind of heirloom of poetry and books is the dignified Ning'anbo family, how can there be such a reason for leaving the wife of the main house?What kind of family status is this?Which poetry book is it?
Even if all these things are barely bearable, this year a Miss Feng suddenly appeared in Jinyang. She found out after careful inquiring that Xie Fengan and his aunt's cousin, Feng Shi, were childhood sweethearts in the early years, and the two families were going to be engaged Ning Anbo suddenly asked him to marry their Shen family's daughter.

Miss Feng used to marry a fifth-rank military officer. Last year, the military officer was resigned because of poor defense. She left after a few months. Miss Feng became a widow, but she took the heart of Uncle Xie's family again. In the past, I only felt that the eyebrows and eyes of those concubines looked alike, but it turned out that they looked like that Miss Feng.

The young lady of her family used to live well in the mansion. Although she rarely spoke to the second young master of the Xie family, she never missed the morning and evening care for the double mother-in-law. The wife of the Xie family scolded her son for not being sympathetic to his daughter-in-law. When her son and her sister's daughter had trouble, the first thing that Mrs. Uncle, who was usually well-behaved and chaste and full of mouthfuls, did was to let her miss take refuge in Zhuangzi, not even the Mid-Autumn Festival. Let the lady go back.

After such calculations, their Xie family actually tricked their own daughter into widowhood!

"I'm immoral, my son is shameless, and I've just wasted my girl's life!" Annoyed in his heart, A Chi scolded this sentence.

Shen Shiqing sat in front of the window, quietly watching the blue stone powder being ground finer and finer on her terrazzo plate, drawing circles steadily with a ceramic pestle in her hand.

She was wearing a short jacket made of silver and red, and a white horse-face skirt with folded branches and flowers on her lower body. There was no decoration on her body except for a white jade bead hairpin with a silver pole on her head. Sitting there, she looked like a demure and elegant lady. picture.

The bright blue gradually spread evenly in front of her, as if it was a clear blue borrowed from the autumn sky.

"If you have time to get angry, why don't you fetch the urn and bleach the color again. Huiyifang's color is really not clean. I have to soak the glue and grind it again. I will wait for the blue color to dry again tomorrow and mix it again. Glue it in and it will work.”

A Chi wanted to say something, but he still went to get the large fine porcelain urn, went outside and saw the little maid just coming in with water, she avoided people to wipe her eyes, and returned to the inner room after a while.

Shen Shiqing stood up, carefully poured the stone blue color she had ground overnight into the urn, then poured in clean water, stirred it a few times, the water became more turbid, she poured out the slightly whitish black water, leaving only the bottom of the urn Bright blue, this is the most eye-catching blue in the azurite system, as for the turbidity in the water, it is the second blue and third blue.

Looking carefully at the light, he nodded in satisfaction.

"In the future, I'd better go to Langjiazhai to buy paints. His azurite and cinnabar are still comfortable to use, so we don't need to clean them up again."

A Chi's eye sockets turned red again.

Everyone in Uncle Ning'an's residence knew that the Second Young Madam was a fairy-like figure, her eyes were clean, she was ignorant of general affairs, she only thought about reciting poems and painting every day, like a lamp hanging high on the porch.

She has also heard gossip from people in the mansion, how can a girl as delicate as her family know the harmony between husband and wife?No wonder the second young master refused to even enter the door of Jianjia Courtyard.

Could it be that the daughter of a university scholar and the second young lady of Ning'anbo's mansion also wants to follow the example of a vixen to win over a man?
But now, I'm afraid the situation is out of control.

He has already been sent from the mansion to Zhuangzi, if he goes down again and let the daughter of the Feng family enter the room, I am afraid that there will be no place for the girl to stand in the uncle's mansion.

After cleaning her hands and face, Shen Shiqing sat on the literary chair and rinsed her mouth with water, when she saw A Chi carefully kneeling in front of her.

"Girl, how about, why don't we go back to the uncle's mansion to find Mrs. Xie's family, and you just say that you want the Feng family's cousin girl to come in, and it would be better to gather her in the mansion as a concubine and set her name...I think my uncle also It’s not that there is Changxing, we can only care about it when he treats Miss Feng coldly. The so-called name is not right, as long as you are willing to take a step back and firmly hold on to your name, the rest can naturally be discussed in the long run.”

"Fade?" Shen Shiqing looked down at her, her tone was soft, with a cold spring-like clarity, "So what if it's faded? He always has newcomers when his love is strong, and I'll let people lift her up at that time." Bring it in? It sounds good, she is a very good matchmaker."

Hugging his girl's leg, Ah Chi said repeatedly: "Young lady, please don't get angry."

"Why am I angry with you? I know you are doing it for my own good. You, Chuiyun, Tunan, and Peifeng accompanied me into this Ning'anbo mansion. Naturally, you plan everything for me, but I, Shen Shiqing, don't care. I would like to live a life of flattering and seeing a man's face and fighting for favor, and those who were unwilling in the past will naturally not be willing in the future."

Shen Shiqing's face was pale, and she raised her hand to hook a strand of hair from her forehead behind her ear.

"The Xie family married me, an orphan of the Shen family, even if they divorced me, even if it was for the sake of reputation, they would not dare to treat me badly in public, that's enough."

Shen Shiqing was born extremely pure and white, with long and dark eyebrows, and deep-colored pupils, she always looked at people with a sense of tranquility, as if she was hiding countless sorrows and hatreds that she wanted to speak.

The light trembled slightly, and she comforted softly: "Ah Chi, I'm doing well for the time being."

Achi sobbed silently: "Where is it not bad? The Xie family's servants are also tyrannical things. Seeing that you haven't returned home for a long time, miss, you are all in a bad mood. No one even wants to do the night watch job. Tunan and Peifeng are required to lead people to watch the night. This is only a month or so away. I am afraid that the slaves will wrong the girl even more. If I had known today, I might as well have recognized Aunt An’s son..."

Shen Shiqing patted her on the shoulder, not letting her continue.

So what?People live in the present, don't look back.

"Achi, how about I arrange a marriage for you too."

The maid who was kneeling at her feet almost rubbed her skirt: "Girl?"

"Her husband-in-law He Changxuan was still white when Chuiyun got married, and now she is also called a Juren lady. She is a rat and is four years older than you, so you can't delay."

Shen Shiqing didn't do it on a whim, Xie Feng'an went to Jinyang for a few months on the pretext of a study tour, the wife of the Xie family suddenly changed her attitude, something must have happened, last year's victory at the border, Miss Feng's father was promoted to the third grade Guangwuwei Commander. How can you let your daughter be a concubine?But he didn't drive Xie Fengan back to Yanjing early, I'm afraid there is something unspeakable... For example, the Feng family girl is pregnant, but she is not in a hurry to enter Ning An Bo's mansion, the Feng family is deliberately stretching the Xie family to let the Xie family Offer up the position of the second young lady.

And what about her? She joined Xie's family at the age of 15, and for the past seven years, she has nothing to say except "nothing to do".

While she is still in the position of the second young lady of Ning'anbo's mansion, her maid can still get married safely. When she really becomes a "lower court lady" trapped in this village, her maid may have to marry if she wants to marry someone beautifully. Difficult.

Seeing her staring at him fixedly, Ah Chi's eyes finally rolled down tears:
"My girl, you can think about yourself more!"

In the afternoon of the second day, the remade blue hair had just been reconciled with oil glue, but someone came from Ning Anbo's residence.

It's a car of thick women.

"Second young lady, the old lady has been unwell for the past few days, and at night she dreamed of the old man again. The lady said that all the women in the house should copy the scriptures and offer them to the Buddha to pray for the old lady."

Seeing that these people brought dozens of scriptures for their girls to copy, the maids around Shen Shiqing turned pale.

Shen Shiqing's expression remained unchanged, and she heard the steward say, "Second Young Madam, Madam also said that in order to let the Bodhisattva know your sincerity, please kneel in the ancestral hall and read and copy this scripture."

This time, Shen Shiqing didn't speak.

Several women stood in a row to "invite her" to the Buddhist hall, and several maidservants rushed up to stop them, but she stopped them with their eyes.

There is only one futon and one incense table in the Buddhist hall, on which there are bronze Buddha statues.

Shen Shiqing fell on the ground, as if her body had been soaked in coldness.

The wives guarding her didn't know where to hide, she raised her head slowly, and saw the ashes falling from the incense table, which had already been burned out again.

Outside the window, there are a few insects chirping, and a little distant star.

She stared blankly for a moment, raised her hand, and pulled out the hairpin from her head. The jade beads on the hairpin were round and bright, as if another full moon was pinched in her palm.

The hairpin rod is uneven, and there are a few words engraved on it.

——"Being kind is essential."

These four words were not only engraved on this hairpin, but also engraved in her heart long ago.

"Shushan is what I want. I have walked this way so far, but I was shocked and realized that there was no way to escape."

Withdrew from Ning'an Bo's mansion to Zhuangzi, and now retreated to this Buddhist hall, the world is so big that she has nowhere to retreat.

Smiling sadly, she pointed the hairpin tip at her shoulder and stabbed it down hard.

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(End of this chapter)