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Chapter 52: Welcome the Cyclamen (17)
Concubine Shun complained quietly: "My lady, it's not my concubine who is talking nonsense. My lady didn't see the [-]th reunion banquet yesterday, and the prince just sat down for a while, and he was out of his mind. It's always like this recently. Today, my concubine knows why! My lady Just find someone to ask, was the prince stabbed last month in front of the mansion, or in some other good place?"

"Let me ask you, you are in a deep house, where did you hear this? How do you know it's not a rumor?"

"The girl Wen Xue told me that her own brother was on duty at the Zhenfu Department. That night, it happened to be in time to deal with the assassination case, and she said that the prince was blocked by assassins in Huaihua Alley."

"Okay, okay." Zhan's cheeks twitched, while nodding his head again and again, he raised his voice, "Go, tell the housekeeper Sun Xiuda to bring two people and come to see me with an iron hammer."

After a while, I saw a fat middle-aged man with a simple and honest face, trotting towards the outside of the corridor, "What orders does the concubine empress have?"

Zhan stretched out her arm and pointed at a maidservant behind Concubine Shun's seat, "Since this maidservant doesn't have a handle on her mouth, there's no need to keep a pair of good teeth in vain. Take it for me and knock off her entire set of teeth." , and then give it to Lao Tzu to take it back. In addition, she also has a brother who is in the Zhenfu Department, you tell the prince, that is also a gossiping slave, and he can't keep it."

Sun Xiuda responded one by one, and then waved his hand, and the next two eunuchs stepped forward, no matter the little maid named Wen Xue collapsed on the ground and cried for mercy, just held her and opened her mouth, "Bang!" "Bang" and smashed down the iron hammer.Wen Xue was bleeding profusely for a moment, and passed out on the ground.

The concubines from far and near were all silent, and Concubine Shun's feet were even weaker, and she almost fainted.Mrs. Zhan sat upright and said: "Listen to me clearly, the assassination of the prince has long been settled, and no one is allowed to spread rumors and cause trouble. If anyone dares to mention the four words 'Huaihua Hutong' in the future, this will be a precedent! Who Making noise there?"

All the concubines also looked around one after another, not knowing who had the guts to yell while holding their breath.Zhan frowned, "Consort Rong and Wan, please go and see who it is for me, and give me a serious warning. As soon as you leave my eyes, you will behave like this."

Concubine Rong and Concubine Wan responded, walked out of the pavilion side by side, and went straight to the chaotic place.The line along the road is full of low-level Ji people, bending their bodies one after another, like a wave of red, green and green.At the end of the corridor, I saw a 50-[-]-year-old old woman with black silk on her forehead, pinching her waist and puffing her chest, shouting: "Everyone is here today, why don't you invite our empress? Our empress is a concubine, Why can't such a high status not attend?" There was a young woman behind her, compared with other girls, her clothes were shabby, and her hair was only a cool hair, but she had an inexhaustible beauty, standing there, the sky was full The bright moonlight shone on her alone, her bones were elegant, elegant and beautiful.

"Yo, who am I supposed to be?" Concubine Rong stopped first, she was tall and tall, and she stepped on the steps, looking even more condescending, "So it's Sister Xiangshou."

"Oh," Concubine Wan couldn't help her delicate appearance, and Jiao Didi covered her mouth with a silk cloth, "I said he looked familiar, but if my sister didn't mention it, I'd forgotten about such a person."

Xiang Shou looked towards the two of them, and under a few pillars of lacquered and dried lotus leaf lamps, a red gauze seemed to be thrown over her face, her face was flushed, and she called "sister" twice in an inaudible voice.On the contrary, the old woman in front took a step forward, opened her voice, and said with a strong southern accent: "You two empresses are here! There was no seat for our empress at the Moon Festival on August [-]th last night. Today is the second concubine empress." For the banquet, all the female family members of the house are invited, why not invite our empress alone? Our empress is also a world concubine just like the two of you, even if we can't sit on the top together, we should have a place in this corridor."

Concubine Wan giggled in the handkerchief, revealing a little pink lips, "According to the rules, side concubines, world concubines, and concubines who have status have to go to the Fengyue Shuangqing Pavilion of the second concubine every morning. Please be safe, since this is also one of the fourth concubines, why have I never seen her come to set the rules?"

The old woman had a ferocious face, and she was very aggressive, "It's not that we don't want to set the rules, it's that the second concubine doesn't allow it."

"It's good if you know it's not allowed." Yin Huasheng, who held a reed with two geese in his head, hung two green feathers on Concubine Rong's forehead, swaying softly, which further accentuated the toughness of her face, "I don't even think about why I'm in my body. She is a concubine, but she doesn't even have the qualifications to sit at the table with Ji people? I actually advise you not to be disliked by others here, but to hide your embarrassment and hide from the world as soon as possible! Go!"

Concubine Wan turned around and complained: "I'm shameless, so I can't blame others."

The old woman was about to argue, but she was grabbed by her back. "Nurse, stop talking, let's go, please, let's go." Jingying's hands and wrists trembled slightly, like a moon in a bend of water.

As soon as the old woman turned around, her expression changed completely, and her murderous look turned into pity, "Mother, don't cry, let's go, let's go, don't talk to these snobs. Bah! Don't invite us, we don't mind coming!  … ..." Cursing aggressively, he turned and walked away.

The group of concubines sitting nearby were all the lowest-status concubines in the palace, commenting in twos and threes: "I'm so short-sighted, I'm running into the anger of the second concubine."

"Hmph, who doesn't know what she's thinking? She just wants to meet the prince. Where does the prince remember her being so famous?"

"That's right, overreaching."

"Don't look at her like that, she is not a fuel-efficient lamp, she is very flattering and flattering."

"I also vaguely heard that she was bought from the south by the chief eunuch in the palace as a gift for the prince."

"Yes, it can scare people to death. She is the 'Yangzhou Skinny Horse'."

"That's right! She's from 'Slender Horse', that's right."

"Sister, what is a 'skinny horse'?"

"Oh, you are so stupid. You don't even know about it. It's those lowly women who were bought by people when they were young to teach all kinds of charming skills, and then sold to people as little wives when they were teenagers. A whore isn't much better."

"In this way, this lady's background is so humble, and she was promoted as a 'world concubine'. She should have been favored by the prince in the past, right?"

"What 'empress'! Do you think you can deceive yourself with the title of 'World Concubine'? Don't talk about Concubine Rong and the others, just us, whoever treats her as a world concubine, does anyone give a half a salute when seeing her?

"What's her name anyway?"

"Yo, haven't you seen her?"

"No, I've been in the mansion for more than a year, and it's the first time I see you."

"Xiangshou is the former 'Concubine of Shou'. Although the name is not abandoned, she is not as good as a third-class girl. And her Nanny Yao, a clown! If you see their master and servant in the future, stay away. "

……

Where human words are scary, Xiangshou, who is held in the hands of Nanny Yao, has a slender waist and a smooth waist, and rhymes with each step, turning herself into a poem: the hibiscus flower in the past is now a rootless grass[17].In the poem, there is a lingering desire to talk about the past.

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And there is another kind that is hesitant to talk, the tough and violent ones, and it is in the Hedaotang that is separated by flowers and water.

Qi She opened his mouth several times, but only one sentence came out: "Remove."

Cuiyi and Youyan remained silent, and took away the dishes on the table one by one, and they also walked away without interest.

Zhou Dun was the only one left in the room to accompany him. He looked around, grabbed a hemp-skinned walnut from a small black lacquered disc on the desk, and took out the silver-handled iron tongs. After a while, carefully peel off the skin and peel off the flesh, "Master, don't eat for dinner, let's eat some peach kernels. The peach kernels nourish qi and blood, remove dryness and phlegm, warm the lungs and moisten the intestines, strengthen the kidney and generate essence, and benefit the door of life." , in the triple energizer, black beard and hair, healed by stone drenching..."

Qi She couldn't hold back her smile for a long time, "You're a bitch!" But he took the walnut meat and threw it into his mouth, tilted his head to the back of the chair, and took a deep breath, "Just now Seriously, eh, do I count as—annoyed?"

Zhou Dun just squeezed the pliers to open the walnuts, and a smile appeared in the corner of his eyes, "Is it the concubine Shun or Miss Duan who is annoyed?"

Qi She didn't answer, her eyelids trembled slightly, like strings being plucked, with endless reverberations. "'Her'—how's it going?"

"It's still the same. The people around you are either Jinma guest or Hanlin talent. They are all proud to visit the makeup pavilion and see the color. Oh, there is a piece of news. Have you ever heard of the 'teapot and money jar'? name?"

"Uh, Yu Shi Qiu Jinqi's wife?"

"I have a good memory. A few days ago, Grandma Qiu took a group of family members to Huai Yatang to make a big fuss, saying that Miss Duan was playing tricks and making her lose money, but in the end she was forced to take off the golden beam crown on the spot by Miss Duan's words. It is said that the 'teapot and money jar' is full of gold ingots, and when the charcoal explodes, they have to turn it into gold water and spit it out quickly."

"No way, I heard that Grandma Qiu is very popular and a famous shrew, how can she give in?"

"Miss Duan scares people, saying that she will let the turtle slave force Grandma Yushi!"

Qi She laughed loudly, stretched out his arms and picked up a half-clamped walnut from Zhou Dun's hand, and dug out the nuts to eat, "She can do it. Grandma Yushi, she can't be so kind and let it go. Get this thing back?"

"Grandma Yushi is fine, that night Qiu Yushi came to the door by herself and beat Miss Duan—"

"Click" made Zhou Dun stop, he looked at each other, and saw that the walnut in Qi She's hand had been crushed by Qi She with its shell and flesh, and a walnut-sized walnut frowned between his eyebrows. pimple.Zhou Dun hurriedly took out a handkerchief from his arms, knelt down and wiped Qi She's palms, "Is your heart hurt?"

"It's my turn to feel bad." Staring at the mess in the palm, there are many fine debris lingering and refusing to go, "Go on."

(End of this chapter)