The High Gate Mistress of Rebirth

Chapter 4 Li Ling treats her differently
The birthday celebration of the old lady of Zhen Guogong's mansion is naturally very grand.

String songs and bamboo songs, opera and storytelling, and the banquet of flowing water, the guests did not leave until the full moon lifted into the sky.

The women's seats were disbanded earlier than the men's seats. Jing Shu and Xu Wanning were almost paralyzed from exhaustion. Xu Wanning squeezed her lower back as she walked and complained: "It's really tiring. Fortunately, you came to the door on grandma's birthday. If I didn't have your help today Me, I'm going to die from exhaustion."

Jing Shu was a little puzzled, she had been entertaining guests with Xu Wanning today, but she had never seen Qingluan.

"It's really tiring, but I didn't see anyone from the palace today?" Jing Shu asked politely.

If she said that she didn't care about Qingluan and Li Ling's affairs at all in this life, she really couldn't do it.But now she cares about this not because she was infatuated with Li Ling like she was in the previous life, but because she is unwilling or unwilling to admit defeat.

In her previous life, Qingluan came to celebrate the birthday of the old lady, and Jingshu only saw her once.Although she was born beautiful, there was a hint of sadness in her eyes, and she looked fragile.

Such a soft and weak woman can naturally arouse a man's desire to protect.

Especially a man like Li Ling.

Xu Wanning replied: "The Holy One sent His Highness the Crown Prince to celebrate his birthday, and no female relatives came."

Jing Shu suddenly realized that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was here at the men's table, so she naturally didn't know.

"The Ninth Princess was going to come, but she heard that she had a sudden high fever last night and couldn't get up, so she didn't come.

Xu Wanning continued.

In the previous life, because Qingluan hadn't reached Ji yet, and was close relatives with the Duke of Zhenguo, there was no need to taboo against men and women.

Anyway, even though she came to celebrate her grandmother's birthday that time, she only stayed with the old lady for a cup of tea, so she found an excuse to cling to Li Ling.

"The Ninth Princess is not in good health, and the emperor's aunt left early, and the Zhen Guogong's mansion is her only support. But now that the old lady is old, she has enough energy to take care of her. The Duke and the Eldest Princess are like that , naturally, I can't take her into consideration. Hey! Although she is a princess, she is still a poor person."

With Li Ling, a cousin who is willing to risk his life for her, to protect her, what a pity!

It's just a pity that she didn't come today, Li Ling's inkstone that " insisted on not letting go of Qingshan" was not given away after all.

Seeing that Jing Shu was silent, Xu Wanning asked, "What's the matter? Why are you depressed? But what's on your mind?"

Jingshu recalled her thoughts, and smiled at Xu Wanning: "I can have something on my mind, I'm just thinking, I just married into the mansion, how to live my life well, so that this life is not in vain."

Xu Wanning didn't expect Jing Shu to be as transparent as her. She pulled Jing Shu as if she was a friend, and said with a smile: "We women, we have to think for ourselves and not wrong ourselves, so that we can live a chic life."

The two talked and laughed all the way back to the backyard.

It was already midnight when we arrived at Qingfengyuan, and Jingshu went to bed after being served by the little maids to take a bath.After a busy day, she was really tired, and she fell asleep as soon as she touched the pillow.

After sleeping until midnight, Jing Shu was woken up by the sound of the door opening, knowing that Li Ling had returned.

If it was before, no matter how tired she was, she would stand up and serve him.Now that she heard that he was back, she just wanted to continue to sleep.

After washing, Li Ling went to bed, leaned into Jing Shu's ear and asked softly, "Sleeping?"

Since you're pretending to be asleep, pretend to be in the end.Jing Shu closed her eyes and said nothing.

Li Ling lay down next to her, with a big hand reaching into her pajamas.

The anger aroused by this bride this morning made him feel itchy all day long.Although he is tired after a day of socializing, he still misses it very much.

After all, newlyweds.

"I'm sleepy, I want to sleep." Jing Shu took his hand away and muttered.

Ok?She turned him down!

Li Ling's hands froze on one side, feeling a little displeased.Remembering that she was perfunctory and impatient with him in the morning, the anger in her heart became even stronger.

He wanted to take him over directly, but he stared at the thin back that Jing Shu had left for him, and held back for a while.

Worked all day.

Perhaps, she was really tired today.

When Jing Shu woke up, it was already high in the sun.

Yesterday was the old lady's birthday, today she was supposed to go to Anxi Hall to pay her respects, but she overslept.

Seeing Ziyun coming in from the outside, Jingshu couldn't help complaining: "It's already this hour, why didn't you wake me up earlier?"

Ziyun replied with a smile: "My uncle said that Miss was too tired yesterday, so I won't disturb you."

Jing Shu really couldn't believe that Li Ling could say such a thing.

"Is there someone from the old lady to tell me?" Although the old lady has always been tolerant to the younger generation, she cannot ignore it in terms of etiquette.

"Young master told the servant girl that he will explain to the old lady when he goes to pay his respects."

Only then did Jing Shu feel relieved.

Yesterday, I was really tired after a day of work. Although I slept a little better, my body was still tight: "Go and prepare the bath water. I want to take a good bath and relieve myself."

Ziyun beckoned Bilu to come in, and the two of them put warm water in the bathtub, dripped with fragrant dew, sprinkled with skin-nourishing flower petals, and after a while, they were ready.

Jing Shu soaked in the warm and slippery water for a long time, and did not get out of the bathtub until her muscles and bones stretched.

Ziyun brought a bath towel to try on her body. Seeing Ziyun's smile on her face, Jing Shu asked, "What are you thinking? I'm so happy."

"The servant is happy for the young lady. When the young lady first married, the servant saw that the uncle was so cold-tempered, and worried that he would not be considerate to the young lady in the future. Now it seems that the servant is worrying too much. Although the elder son looks cold, he seems to treat the young lady more and more. I'm getting more and more interested."

Ziyun is a careful person, Li Ling's behavior of not letting others wake her up this morning is indeed a bit abnormal.Ever since he got married, he got up early every day, and she also got up. He never cared whether she was tired or not.

If Li Ling doesn't go too far in this life, she will still live with him.

Harmony is the worst policy.She would hurt her muscles and hurt her family, and she would not take that step unless it was absolutely necessary.

After bathing, Danzhu brought a bowl of bird's nest porridge.After Jingshu used it, she lay down on the imperial concubine's couch in front of the window and read a book.

She is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting.In her previous life, she was not cared by her husband, and she rarely went out to socialize. During the long lonely time, she relied on these to support her.

After reading two pages, I heard Li Ling asking outside, "Is Madam awake?"

"I'm awake, I'm in the room." It was Ziyun's voice.

Li Ling hurried into the upper room, opened the door and saw Jing Shu wearing a moon-white nightgown, lying barefoot on the imperial concubine's couch reading a book, her half-dry hair was loose, pouring down like a waterfall down.

A lazy and delicate little girl.

Seeing Li Ling coming in, Jing Shu raised her eyes and asked, "Didn't Master Shi go to the military camp? Why did you come back?"

"A lot of birthday presents were sent outside yesterday. Grandma said that you worked hard yesterday, so she asked me to pick some jewelry for you." He said as he walked towards Jingshu.

This morning Mrs. Li ordered people to keep all the eye-catching jewelry given by yesterday's distinguished guest, and let the two daughters-in-law and granddaughters who came to pay their respects each pick up a few pieces.

When the old lady heard Li Ling say that Jingshu had worked too much yesterday and didn't come to pay her respects in the morning because she was not feeling well, the old lady was not only not unhappy, but felt very sorry for her granddaughter-in-law.She asked Li Ling to choose a few pieces of jewelry for her, which was a little sympathy from her grandmother for her hard-working birthday party.

Li Ling walked up to Jing Shu and handed the box containing the jewelry to Jing Shu.

Jing Shu took the box and said politely: "Just let the girls bring it over, why bother Shizi to come this way." She glanced further, "It's getting late, Shizi go to the yamen quickly, Don't delay any longer."

"In time." Li Ling pouted at her, motioning for her to open the box.

Jing Shu opened the box, and inside were two fine white jade hairpins, a pair of pearl earrings, and a pair of gold bracelets carved with gold. Naturally, they were all good things, but they were not unusual.But the blood-red coral bracelet is indeed a rare commodity.

Jing Shu detected the bracelet and put it on her hand.She raised her arms, looked at it carefully, and smiled with satisfaction, two shallow dimples appeared on her fair cheeks.

This was the first time Li Ling saw his wife smile.

Qiao Xiaoyanran, indescribably playful and cute.

He couldn't help but possessed himself, and hugged his little wife on the couch by the waist.

Jing Shu was taken aback by his sudden move.

I spent five years with him in the last life, although he was happy to linger on the bed to death, but he had never hugged her like this.

"What are you doing?" Jing Shu asked in surprise.

"It's cold in front of the window, you're wearing thin clothes, beware of catching cold."

This is June? ? ?

After a whirlwind, Jing Shu was put on the bed by him.

After a few back and forth, she was sweating profusely from being tortured by him.

The shower just now was a waste of time.

After enjoying himself, Li Ling got up and put on his clothes. He put on his inner coat and his official uniform embroidered with red and python patterns, and tied the rhino horn and jade belt tightly.

Well-dressed and in good spirits.He had a solemn and majestic appearance again, completely unable to see what kind of hearty joy he had just experienced.

"I'm leaving." He said to his little wife who was trapped in the quilt.

"En." Jing Shu replied feebly, as a response to him.

"Come back for dinner, wait for me."

Li Ling is a very lustful person, and when she gets excited at night, sometimes she is so tossed that she can't get out of bed the next day.Fortunately, now that the sky is bright and bright, he rushed to work on an errand, and it wasn't too much.Even so, she was still being tormented by him, and now she was so tired that she just wanted to sleep and was too lazy to talk, so she squinted her eyes and only nodded slightly at him.

Seeing that her palm-sized face was flushed, she was nestled under the quilt like a kitten, looking weak and obedient.

Li Ling couldn't help but feel a little moved.

It's just that there are still important matters to be dealt with in the army, so we can't delay any longer!
He leaned over and tucked up the quilt to cover her round, snow-white shoulder sockets, and then he turned and left neatly.
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In the second half of the afternoon, Xu Wanning came to Qingfengyuan.

The owner of Lanling County will hold a flower viewing party in the mansion in seven days. Xu Wanning and Lanling exchange handkerchiefs, so it is natural to invite Xu Wanning.

Xu Wanning asked Jing Shu, "Lanling wanted to ask you to go with her, but she was worried that you just got married and wouldn't want to go out. She asked me to ask if you would like to go with me."

Although Jing Shu didn't have a close relationship with Lan Ling, she was familiar with her, so she readily agreed to Xu Wanning: "I happen to have nothing to do these few days, and I will go to the banquet with my sister-in-law."

After the two agreed to go to the flower viewing party, they sat on the couch and chatted while drinking tea.Xu Wanning accidentally saw the coral bracelet on Jingshu's wrist, and said casually: "This is a good thing, is it a gift from the second child?"

Jing Shu took off the bracelet and handed it to Xu Wanning, and replied: "Where did he give it, it was given by my grandmother this morning."

It was only then that Xu Wanning realized that the old lady asked everyone to choose jewelry this morning.

It's just that she got up late this morning, and everyone dispersed when they arrived at An Xi Tang.I only heard the third girl complaining to her, saying that she was looking for a good coral bracelet, but it was picked up by the second child.

It can be seen that this is it.

Xu Wanning took the bracelet and looked at it carefully.The color of the coral was as bright red as blood, and it was about to drip. It was the best coral among them. She smiled and said: "It is indeed a good thing. This should have been rewarded by the palace yesterday."

As she said that, she looked at Jing Shu and joked, "It's different when you're married. I never imagined that the ice bump on the second child would hurt people."

Thinking about the cold-faced, serious-minded elder son and the third girl who was in his teens, Xu Wanning thought it was funny and funny.

It's perfectly normal to give some things to his wife, and besides, the old lady asked him to choose the jewelry for her, so he just borrowed flowers to present to Buddha.

But such an ordinary thing, put on someone like Li Ling, not to mention Xu Wanning, even Jing Shu herself finds it strange.

In this life, Li Ling treated her differently.

　Jing Shu: You performed well today!
　　Li Ling: Thank God, I finally got it right once.

　　Jingshu: Don't be proud, I'll see how you behave in the future.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)