Fengqi crabapple

Chapter 231 A Gray Nose

The East Palace was not as happy as the racecourse.

Haitang is pregnant, so there is no need to welcome a new person.Zhengxu closed the door of the main hall and was playing with Shuang'er and Liuying inside grinding pearl powder.Yilan gave her a handful of fine pearls last time. It was too stingy to make jewelry, but it was just right to grind them into powder and apply them on her face.

"Your Majesty, you can watch it, and your hands are sore." Liuying snatched the pounding bowl from Haitang's hand, and handed it to Caiqin, who let Caiqin continue pounding.Caiqin learned a lot of beautifying recipes from the princess, such as Poria powder and rose ointment, which are both fragrant and effective.It is the first time to make pearl powder, after all, pearls are not so good.

"I thought I heard Concubine Su entering the room just now. Has the prince not come back yet?" Haitang asked, patting the powder on her hands.She didn't care much about this matter. She and Xie Ruitan had a frank talk and there was no grudge in her heart anymore.It’s just that the East Palace still has the dignity of the East Palace. If you are too negligent, you won’t be able to justify it in front of all the empresses.

"The prince told you not to worry about this before he left." Ji'er came in with a bowl of bird's nest porridge, and Cai Lian went over and closed the door.She stuck out her tongue and said with a smile: "Which emperor is not from the Three Palaces and Sixth Courtyard? Even for ordinary people, it is common for us to have three wives and four concubines. It is unusual for our prince to hide out even if he has a concubine."

"It's over, it's over! The truth about our crown prince's henpecking can finally be concealed. Now the crown princess will be notorious." Shuang'er covered her mouth and smiled.

Haitang took a mouthful of bird's nest porridge and almost spit it out. She smiled and said to Ji'er: "This reminds me. In order to cover up my image of a jealous wife, you go to the warehouse to find a pair of gold and jade Ruyi and send them to her. Press the room. Su Manzhen has wanted to enter the East Palace for a long time, and now it’s her wish.”

Haitang was wrong this time, it was true that Su Manzhen wanted to enter the East Palace, but she didn't want to enter like this!

That day, Concubine Su summoned her into the palace and told her their plan.

It turned out that Cao Baoli saw that the prince repeatedly violated their arrangements. Now that the Taoist concubine was pregnant, the emperor became addicted to the elixir and had to increase the dosage.They were afraid that things would gradually become uncontrollable, so they wanted to cut through the mess quickly and let King Kang take over quickly.But the prince's side is like an iron barrel, and they need to put someone next to the prince.

Su Manzhen is this person.

"This is not fair! I am also a member of the Su family, why should I be sacrificed! Aunt, if you really love me, you should marry me to your cousin, not the prince you want to get rid of! I will marry Him, what will I do when he dies?" Su Manzhen cried.

When Concubine Su saw her father making this decision at first, she felt it was not worth it for Su Manzhen, but it was also for her son, so she had no choice but to comfort her: "When the prince dies, my aunt will find someone else to marry for you. If you are willing, you can go to Chu'er If you don't want to be a wife in the house, you can stay with your aunt, and the Su family will not treat you badly. Otherwise..."

Concubine Su straightened up, changed her expression, picked up the tea cup, took a sip and said, "Your father, brother, brother, and the entire Su family will never prosper. Is this what you want to see?"

Su Manzhen gradually stopped crying. She knew that Concubine Su had already made up her mind and crying would not make any difference.Thinking back to when Ji Qinglan married Prince Xian, he and Su Manfei secretly laughed at her.Unexpectedly, she was even more unbearable. Marrying was just a small favor for the family. She had no choice but to go to the East Palace first and then make plans.

Today she entered the East Palace, but only two nuns came to greet her.Not to mention that the Crown Princess is pregnant, the Crown Prince is not even in the palace!In the east side hall, Su Manzhen pulled off the red hijab and threw it to the ground.

She was really unwilling to be abandoned by the Su family, and even more unwilling to be left out by Xie Ruitan. "There must be a turning point. If the prince can ascend the throne, I will be the imperial concubine!" With a hint of luck, she made her own decision: "When I become the imperial concubine, I can support the Su family, so why do I have to have my cousin do it?" emperor?"

Su Manzhen stood up slowly, walked over and picked up the red hijab from the ground, and sat back on the bed.Qiaoer said distressedly: "Girl, I have wronged you. It must be the Crown Princess who is domineering, and the Crown Prince does not dare to get close to you."

Yan'er poured a cup of tea for Su Manzhen: "Since you have come in, the prince will one day enter our palace. Anyway, the prince has only you as a concubine, and the future will be long." Qiao'er and Yan'er didn't know Concubine Su's plan was only to make plans for her daughter to be favored in the East Palace.Su Manzhen made up her mind, put the red hijab on her head again, and said calmly: "Qiao'er is going to guard the palace gate. No matter how late it is, as soon as the prince comes back, tell him that I am still waiting for him to take off the hijab. "Qiao'er nodded and went out.Yes, today is the wedding night of the concubine, there is no way the prince will not come, right?
Yan'er handed the tea to Su Manzhen, but she pushed it away and said with a smile: "How can I look haggard for my wife after eating and drinking enough? You take all the refreshments in the room. If you can't light the dragon and phoenix candles, just light them for me. A pair of red candles, tonight is our wedding night after all." Su Manzhen lowered her eyes, is this the wedding night she longed for?
The prince finally came back in front of the palace gate.He was holding a bamboo basket. The waiter who opened the door came to help him but refused to take it, shouting: "Get out of the way, get out of the way!" Everyone was wondering, where did Chang Le go if he didn't help the prince with his things?
I saw Chang Le following behind, holding a larger flat frame, which was almost invisible because it was blocking the road.A group of people came out to see what was going on. Everyone lit up their lamps and illuminated the corridor as if it were daytime.Qiaoer thought about telling the prince several times that Concubine Su was waiting for him. Those palace maids and eunuchs didn't want to see her, and she couldn't even squeeze through.

Haitang heard the commotion outside the dormitory, and was about to go out to see what was going on, when she saw Xie Ruitang striding in with a smile, put the basket in her hand on the table, and said, "Come and see, Shen Congxi came from Guangdong. What good things did you bring back?"

Haitang smiled as soon as he saw it: "It's really hard for Master Shen. This must be caused by His Highness Prince Cheng."

It turned out to be a basket of sprouted sweet potatoes, with five or six in them.There are one or two small buds on each sweet potato. The small buds are as long as a finger. The three-pronged leaves have not yet grown. They are tender and really cute.

"Can it be planted like this?" Xie Ruitang asked, fiddling with the sprouts.

"Why not? We will plant it tomorrow. These sweet potatoes are not grown in large quantities in China. How did Mr. Shen find it?" Haitang found it incredible.In all her years in Yueling, she had only seen someone bring it back from overseas once.

"It's not easy to find sweet potatoes, but it's much easier to find people who have come back from Nanyang." Xie Ruitang took Haitang's hand and said, "There is another one out there, and it's really not easy!"

The two walked out of the hall holding hands. Everyone was looking at the basket of grass on the ground. The grass was shoveled up with the ground, and there was a thick layer of mud underneath.No one knows what kind of grass this is.

Haitang smiled and said to everyone: "No wonder you don't know it. This is called Xiaoyu Xiancao, a herb only found in the south of the Yangtze River. I used to live in Lingnan, and it can be found all over the mountains and plains. In summer, the whole plant is dried in the shade and burned to smoke out mosquitoes."

"It only exists in the south of the Yangtze River? It's really rare. Can it be planted in the East Palace?" Cai Lian asked.

"The little fish fairy grass is an annual. Collect the seeds in autumn and store them in the house. We can always try it when we plant them in the next spring." Haitang nodded with a smile.Only then did she realize that this was definitely not caused by King Cheng. King Cheng didn't know about the Xiaoyu Xiancao. Xie Ruitang must have had someone find it for her.

Everyone gathered around the sweet potato again to look at it.Ji'er came over and picked up the basket and said, "Take it away quickly, don't disturb the prince and princess' rest."

Seeing that there was no chance if she didn't say anything, Qiao'er quickly squeezed forward, saluted, and said loudly: "Slave Qiao'er has met His Highness the Crown Prince! Concubine Su is still waiting in the east courtyard for you to take off the red hijab!"

"Oh? It's so late. Let her have a good rest. She won't have to come over to say hello tomorrow morning. I'm tired and won't be up early tomorrow." After saying that, he pulled Haitang into the inner hall without looking at it much. A Qiaoer glance.

Everyone, don’t you understand this?I have only seen the prince love the princess, but how often have I seen him put other women in his eyes?The happiest person is Xilan, what about the concubine?Still in vain.

Everyone in the East Palace knew that Concubine Su was cold as soon as she was brought in.

(End of this chapter)