The palace wall reflects the moon

Chapter 69
Jiang Qingyue is an easy child to coax.

Lu Yunjin hugged her and said, "Can you buy some candied haws for Qingyue?"

Jiang Qingyue was coaxed, and happily took her mother to the street.

But at night, she was unhappy.

"Why can't I sleep with my mother?"

Lu Yunjin touched her head: "Because you are getting older. You are almost six years old and it's time to sleep in your own crib."

Jiang Qingyue thought for a while and agreed with her mother's statement.

My mother put a screen in the original room, and her little bed was behind the screen.

At night, Jiang Qingyue was thirsty and wanted to drink water. She hugged the pillow and went to find her mother, but she saw her father and mother sleeping together.

Jiang Qingyue burst into tears: "You are so old and you want to sleep with dad, but you let me sleep alone when I am so young!"

Lu Yunjin and Jiang Liu woke up with a start. Lu Yunjin lifted the quilt and got out of bed. He squatted down and hugged his daughter to explain the reason to her.

Jiang Qingyue didn't understand that couples should sleep together, so she cried.

"You want daddy to abandon me! I am no longer a child that my mother likes!"

The couple squatted in front of her, coaxing her back and forth but to no avail.

Finally, Jiang Liu put on a coat and said helplessly: "You can sleep with the child... We won't make the child sad."

Jiang Qingyue stopped crying immediately and looked at her mother with eyes blinking, tears still hanging on her face.

Lu Yunjin let out a long sigh and said to Jiang Liu: "Let me just say, children are very annoying, and one is enough."

When she said this, Jiang Qingyue used all her strength to cry again, her face flushed.

Lu Yunjin quickly coaxed: "What mother said is wrong. The child is not annoying, mother is not annoyed, and father is not annoyed either. Our Qingyue is a good child..."
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Jiang Qingyue slept for a long time and had a long dream.

In the dream, there is a perfect family, and the parents are very loving.

There were no concubines or brothers and sisters in her family.

She was the only apple of her parents' eyes. She was held in the palm of their hands, soaked in a honey pot, and grew up safely.

If you cry, someone will comfort you; if you feel pain, someone will help you.

So much so that when I woke up, the pillow was mostly wet.

She sat up, and Shen Shuning was in her room, tracing her face in front of the makeup mirror.

Jiang Qingyue said "Hey", "Are you going to dress up? Did you meet some man?"

A woman likes her appearance, but she was curious about which man could catch Shu Ning's eyes.

Shen Shuning turned around, his face pockmarked, and it looked like it was painted on.

The eyebrow pencil in her hand was still being applied to her face.

"I see how pockmarked your face is, and I want to imitate it."

Jiang Qingyue lifted the quilt, put on her shoes, walked to her, rubbed the handkerchief in the basin, and carefully wiped away the pockmark on her face.

Then he took the eyebrow pencil in her hand and carefully drew her eyebrows.

"Shu Ning, why don't you find someone to marry, lest he wants to get you married again."

Find someone at random and label it as a married woman, so that Shen Xiao won't cause trouble again.

Shen Shuning said: "Now he can't hear the word "marriage". If anyone mentions it, he will be in a state of confusion for most of the day."

Jiang Qingyue thought to herself that he was her brother after all.

"Do you feel sorry for him?"

Shen Shuning looked at her close at hand, carefully tracing her eyebrows, and said softly: "It's been a year, and I don't hate him so much, but I still feel cold."

Jiang Qingyue finished tracing one side and switched to the other, thoughtfully. "What is his purpose in naming Zhang Shuting as Concubine An?"

"God knows whether he wants to stabilize the harem or stir up troubles?" Shen Shuning considered, "If he wants to become a queen, he will only be someone he can easily control. Liu Qingshu is obviously not the one. He can only choose from Zhang Shuting and Yu Jin. . Yu Jin’s father, grandfather, and uncles were all officials in the court, while Zhang Shuting’s father, Marquis Yongchang, had no title but no official position. Although her grandfather, Duke Zhenguo, was famous, he was also old.”

A queen who does not need to worry about the influence of her relatives is much less worried.

Jiang Qingyue recalled the face of Marquis Yongchang, her eyes slightly cold.

"Zhang Shuting must not be the queen."

"That's natural. He always needs to understand what kind of character Zhang Shuting is. He is considering the delay in promoting her. The matter is serious and he will not be hasty."

Shen Shuning smiled and continued: "Because of the ruin of Zhang Shulan's reputation, Duke Zhen personally handed over a booklet to the emperor. He wrote hundreds of words to impeach Liu Wenyu, but all he talked about were trivial style issues. , the emperor could only scold Liu Wenyu a few words, but the Zhang and Liu families are really done with each other."

Jiang Qingyue paused and smiled: "Would the emperor sacrifice a young general for the sake of a prestigious government?"

"The emperor always only considers gains and losses, regardless of right or wrong. He will definitely not be unable to understand this account." Shen Shuning looked at her and asked curiously, "But how did you do it, let Liu Wenyu humiliate Zhang Shulan in public?"
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a month ago.

King Xuan held a spring tea party and invited all the princes and noble families in the imperial city to the banquet.

After all, at King Xuan's banquet, everyone else brought his wife, except Liu Wenyu, who brought Xu Yingchu, a concubine.

Liu Wenyu had colleagues to deal with and could not keep an eye on her, so he left her alone after explaining a few words.

It was rare for Xu Yingchu to come to such an occasion, so she was a little timid, so she found an inconspicuous place and stayed quietly.

A woman in pink noticed her and wanted to come over to say hello, but was pulled over.

The man whispered something in the ear of the pink-clothed woman, and the pink-clothed woman looked at Xu Yingchu with disdain.

"Let's go, let's go." They dispersed in a hurry.

Xu Yingchu's face felt embarrassed.

Those people are all rich ladies in the boudoir, and they are also the first wife after they get married, so they naturally look down on her.

She was stuck in place, feeling more and more miserable and wishing she could leave Prince Xuan's Mansion, when two women came near her and talked and laughed.

The woman in red said: "There are no two concubines, and a concubine will always be a concubine. Even if the wife dies, it will not be the concubine's turn to take over. Those lowly things, even if they fall into your husband's eyes for a while, they will only last for a while. Bairihong, why do you worry about it?"

Another woman in green said: "Everything has exceptions. Wouldn't the concubine of the Xie family in the south of the city be promoted to an equal wife?"

The Xie family in the south of the city?Is there really a concubine who is raised as a wife?

Xu Yingchu pricked up his ears.

The woman in red was speechless and said: "That's true, that one from the Qin family is quite capable. With her husband's love and skill, she managed to get so many elders to recognize her."

"What can you do if you don't recognize her? The elders in the family have taken a fancy to the girl they want to marry, and she asked her husband to humiliate her in public. After such a commotion, which girl from the family would be willing to marry him?"

"It's better to rely on her husband's favor. How many such men are there? You and I are not that lucky."

"Speaking of General Liu, doesn't Miss Sun Si of Zhenguo Palace like him? Is he willing to mess with Miss Sun Si's face for that concubine?"

"That's Zhang Shulan..."

"But if General Liu did it, who would dare to think about General Liu in the future? Even Zhang Shulan fell down, and others would just stay away from General Liu. Why worry about his concubine not being able to straighten him out? Even if he can't lift him up, As a wife, she can monopolize her husband."

The two women walked further and further away, and Xu Yingchu couldn't hear clearly what they said next.

She knew that many powerful people wanted their daughters to marry Liu Wenyu.

But does Zhang Shulan, the fourth Miss Sun of Zhenguo Palace, also admire Liu Wenyu?
She had met Zhang Shulan, a bright and arrogant young lady from an aristocratic family.

When they met that time, Zhang Shulan looked at her arrogantly and said calmly: "No matter how nice the clothes are, there is still the essence of Fireworks Willow Lane on the inside."

One sentence made her blush.

But it turns out that Zhang Shulan's harsh attitude was because of Liu Wenyu.

Xu Yingchu bit her lip.

(End of this chapter)