The Golden Partridge of An Lingrong's Rebirth

Chapter 83.skinny horse

"Did you say it yourself, or did I ask Dill to come over and say it?" An Lingrong looked at Cardamom's expression and reaction, and guessed casually that Cardamom and Guojun Wang were old.She lowered her eyes slightly, and her voice was a little cold, "I have never asked about the origins of the two of you sisters, but if there is anything to do with relatives in the court, I can't keep you."

Cardamom turned pale with fright, knelt down with a plop, and said with a trembling voice: "Slave... I don't know that he is the prince... When the master taught us earlier, he only said, only said that he is... the master, the master... "

"What master? What are you teaching?" An Lingrong asked again, but seeing the cardamom shaking like chaff, his brows frowned even deeper, and he raised his head and said to Cuiyin, "Take her down and watch carefully, and call Dill."

Cuiyin took the order, and supported Cardamom to get up and go out.

After a while, Dill came in to answer.Cardamom had already told her what happened, and as soon as she entered, Dill closed the door with her backhand, took two steps forward and knelt in front of An Lingrong: "I don't want to embarrass my master, so I will leave the palace today. "

"Where is the palace that can say to leave? You two have been tied to the same boat for so long." An Lingrong asked a little more seriously just now because he was a little anxious. Now he calmed down. I am not so anxious anymore, "Let's talk about it carefully, if I can protect you, I will do my best to protect you."

Dill was dumb, her eyes glistened with water, she swallowed back her soreness with a sob, and then said slowly: "My lord, have you heard of the Yangzhou skinny horse? It is specially trained to be a rich man or a rich man. The daughter of an official's concubine, I used to be one of them. I learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, poetry and book etiquette, mahjong and pai gow, strange skills, etc. when I was 12 years old, my master bought me and raised me. In a remote village in central Sichuan, my sister and I met there."

Thinking of the past, a look of pain flashed across Dill's face: "I thought he was going to take me into the house, but I didn't expect that he took a fancy to my specialty. There are many, many girls in the village. Son, no more than fifteen years old, the only thing to learn is how to kill, all you have to do every day is to fight and rob, if you want to live, you can only exchange the lives of others for your own." She pressed the trembling hand Fingertips, "Among this group of girls, apart from my sister and I, there were two other people who survived to the end. The four of us were sent to the capital together."

An Lingrong looked at her deeply: "Then how did you appear in Sansuizi?"

"I killed the gatekeeper who guarded my sister and me, and ran out overnight." Dill showed a ruthless look on his face, "But the master made us hungry all the way, and we were exhausted after running for a while. They were picked up by the tooth shop as refugees."

There is no need for dill to elaborate on the following things, An Lingrong also knows about it.

"Tell me, what will happen between you and cardamom." An Lingrong took a sip of tea slowly and asked, "Now you don't have to hide anything from me."

Dill kowtowed deeply, and then said: "This servant knows the growth position and function of every bone in the human body, and can tell the degree of bone loss based on a person's daily behavior, just like the Zhou Gonggong next to Concubine Hua. , His foot was broken by a horse in the early years, and there was debris in the bone seam, so it has been in pain for many years." After a pause, he continued, "Cardamom's poison skills are even better than her medicine skills, no matter whether it is poison or medicine. Detoxification is not a problem, if even she says there is no cure, then there is really no cure.”

An Lingrong nodded, and asked again: "What's your real name?"

Dill was taken aback.

"What you told me before was only the name in Yaxing. The numbers you used were 21 for you and 27 for cardamom, but before that, what were your names?" An Lingrong looked into Dill's eyes and asked again.

"The maidservant was called Yunya before, but later she was called Jasmine, and later, the master named her Jiang Caining, and the cardamom was called Jiang Caidie." Dill replied with downcast eyes.She didn't like these names, each of which carried her painful memories.

An Lingrong was silent for a long time, looking at the top of dill's pitch-black head, his heart turned a thousand times.

The bedroom was eerily quiet, Dill's forehead rested on the back of her hand, her heart was barren.She knows that if her identity is exposed one day, it will be a great disaster for the young master, and the two years of ease are already a great gift to her, even if the young master tells her to go, She won't have any complaints either.It's just that, after all, I can't bear to...

"It sounds like this, but my name sounds the best."

Suddenly, An Lingrong's chuckle came from above his head, Dill's eyes widened and he looked up, but fell into a pair of smiling eyes.

An Lingrong stretched out his hand to her with a smile: "Dill, are you willing to abandon everything in the past, and from now on, only recognize me as the master?"

Dill stayed where she was, shifted her gaze from An Lingrong's face to her hand, and then looked up at An Lingrong again. Seeing that her smile was still the same, she immediately burst into tears, and stretched out her hand to firmly hold the plain With white slender hands, she buried her face and cried bitterly: "Servant... slave is willing... slave is willing to follow the young master until death."

After wandering for twelve years, I finally found a harbor where I can dock today.

Outside the palace, on the balcony.

Meng Jingxian stepped out of the carriage slowly, and walked into the Qingliang Palace as if passing through no one's land, but she didn't see the figure of Guojun Wang: "Caiping, where is the prince?"

A beautiful woman was cleaning the yard, when she heard this, she leaned over and saluted: "Go back to Miss Meng, the prince has gone to the palace, and in the afternoon I sent a message from Ah Jin, saying that he will stay in Yuanmingyuan for the next few days and will not come back. gone."

Meng Jingxian couldn't help feeling a little disappointed, put away the ancient painting that she had found with great difficulty, walked into the main hall, landed on the head of the master's house, and asked, "Did your lord say what it was for?"

"I heard that it is for the birthday of the concubine Guan in the palace. The emperor asked the prince to do a good job. The prince is busy." Jiang Caiping served Meng Jingxian with tea as usual, took the ancient painting and took it into the study to hang up, and then came out to stand Behind her, Meng Jingxian waved a fan for her, lowered her eyebrows and lowered her eyes, appearing docile.

"Concubine Guan?" Meng Jingxian took a sip of tea and raised her eyebrows in surprise, "The last time I heard her name, she was just a noble person, but she has been promoted to the position of master so quickly. She looked at Jiang Caiping and smiled gently, "Speaking of which, with your appearance, it is more than enough to be a noble person in the palace, but now you are trapped in this small balcony, have you ever complained?"

Jiang Caiping trembled almost invisibly, and replied in a flat tone: "The prince is kind to the servant, and the servant only hopes that he can repay the prince in this life, and dare not expect anything else."

"That's right, your family is in decline. If the prince hadn't rescued you that day, you would have been escorted up the mountain by those robbers. You don't know if you survived." Meng Jingxian smiled, and turned to business. "When the lord comes back, tell me that the dead soldiers in the east of the city have almost been trained. Let the lord have time to take a look. If you think it's okay, let Cailan come back. The little girl is from every family, and she hangs out with her every day." It's always bad among men." At the end, there was another sigh, "Unfortunately, Cai Ning and Cai Die ran away, leaving you two alone."

Jiang Caiping bit her lip, lowered her head and said nothing.

Meng Jingxian didn't care too much, she talked for a while on her own, and then got up to leave.

Jiang Caiping stood in the hall, and outside the door, the setting sun poured in like blood and landed at her feet, two lines of tears slid down her face hiding in the shadows, the light and shadow interlaced, a scene of desolation and sadness.

She walked slowly to the door, looked up at the burning sky, and slowly closed her eyes.

This is your life, admit it.

On this day, the clouds were bright and the wind was clear, and the sky was as blue as washing. The emperor hosted a banquet at the Peony Pavilion in the Yuanmingyuan to celebrate Concubine Guan’s birthday.

After some singing and dancing, the banquet was over, and the emperor took Zhen Huan and all the concubines to Tonghua Terrace.

The Tonghua Terrace has been cleaned up in advance, and there is no desolate scene of overgrown weeds at all. Under the steps, the lake is full of blooming lotus flowers in different postures. In the clear sky, countless kites fly against the wind, forming a beautiful picture.

"Listen, the phoenix is ​​flying, what an elegant sound of the flute." The emperor took Zhen Huan to the side of the lotus lake and listened.

From far away, there was a flute sound, ethereal and far away, but with endless lingering affection, blowing into people's hearts with the wind.Guojun Wang came from the pavilion holding the flute, like a fairy from outside the world, a handsome young man, unparalleled in the world.

Zhen Huan was so moved that tears filled her eyes. How could she still remember that the emperor treated her badly before? She just felt that she was held in the palm of his hand and doted on. Her eyes were full of only the emperor, and her chest was full of hot love: "Phoenix Yufei, Harmony and clang, husband and wife are harmonious and loving, is the dream of all women in the world."

"Has your dream come true now?" the emperor asked with a smile.

Zhen Huan raised her eyes to look at the emperor, smiled shyly, and kept her words silent.

At the end of the song, King Guojun also walked up to the emperor and Zhen Huan, and looked at Zhen Huan with a smile in his affectionate peach eyes: "Xiao Wang congratulates Concubine Guan on her birthday with lotus flowers all over the lake."

"My lord, I am very grateful for your troubles." Zhen Huan's heart skipped a beat when she met the eyes of King Shangguo, and then she smiled politely and thanked him politely.Everything is fine on the surface, but there are turbulent waves in his heart. Is it because the king of Guojun is so hard-working, or is it because of something else?She pinched her palm secretly, not daring to think about it any further.

The emperor happened to speak at this time, interrupting Zhen Huan's thoughts: "I asked you to think of some novel ideas, I didn't expect you to do it so well."

King Guo retracted his gaze and said with a smile: "Brother Huang told me to celebrate Concubine Guan's birthday, so I must do my best."

"I just don't know, my lord, how to make the lotus bloom in this season?" Zhen Huan ignored the illusion-like throbbing in her heart, and changed the subject.

"The lotus root was planted in advance, and the hot spring water from a lake outside the palace can be introduced into the imperial lake, so that the lotus can bloom overnight." King Guo explained.

After listening to the emperor, he was silent for a moment.

This Tonghua Terrace was the most beloved place of Concubine Shu, the birth mother of King Guojun in the early years, and it was also a symbol of her being favored by the late emperor. The queen mother let go and was able to keep it here.The Tonghua Terrace has been abandoned for many years, and it is okay to use it again now, but I did not expect that the King of Guojun would plant lotus flowers under this imperial lake.

This change of heart made the emperor a little unhappy, but seeing Zhen Huan's flowery smile, he thought about it, and let it go, Zhen Huan and him have been angry for so long, and it took a long time to coax them together, so there is no need to disappoint such trivial matters.

"When you are enfeoffed as a concubine, the women in your family will naturally also be enshrined. I have already decreed that your mother will be the wife of the third rank." The emperor smiled and gave Zhen Huan a favor.Now that Zhen Yuandao's official position is not high, it's okay to give him an imperial order as compensation for the Zhen family.

Zhen Huan thanked her again.

In front of the Tonghua Terrace, Concubine Hua had a cold face, she almost wrote the word "unhappy" on her face.Today's birthday banquet, everyone gave Zhen Huan enough face, and they all came in Jifu, but she was the only one who was wearing a half-worn ordinary clothes, with a black face the whole time.

After returning to Yikun Palace at night, Concubine Hua said angrily with a dark face: "My mother is just the wife of the third rank, and now Concubine Guan's mother is also on board."

"Maybe the emperor just had a whim." Cao Qinmo seldom stayed in Concubine Hua's palace with Wen Yi in his arms tonight. At this moment, she was a little trembling when she replied, for fear that Concubine Hua would look at Wen Yi and think of Concubine Duan, and immediately get angry.

Concubine Hua didn't even look at her, and said coldly: "It wasn't a whim. At the beginning, the emperor promised me to make my mother the wife of the second rank, but because the queen strongly opposed it, saying that I was only a concubine. The mother's edict should not be too high, after all, it still failed to be sealed."

　Here is a quiz for the classroom: Ask, what is the position of Rong Huanmei and the three of them in the emperor's heart?
　　
　
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