Dirty color

Chapter 153 The Resentment of the Fifth Princess

"The old lady also invited Nanny Zhuang to come along with her."

Gu Mingxuan was a little surprised?
Posted in the palace?

She is really tired of these banquets, but since it is a post from the palace, there seems to be no way to shirk it, thinking so in her heart, on the face, Gu Mingxuan smiled very kindly, and said to Cuijiao: "Trouble Elder sister has run away, I will send someone to invite Nanny Zhuang, and after I change my clothes, I will go to see grandma."

Cuijiao bowed to Gu Mingxuan, then left first.

Gu Mingxuan changed her clothes, supported Nanny Zhuang, and walked towards Rong'an Hall.

On the way, I met Gu Mingzhi. Gu Mingxuan smiled at Gu Mingzhi and said, "Fourth sister."

Gu Mingzhi reluctantly bowed to Gu Mingxuan, and said, "Nurse Zhuang, big sister."

Gu Mingxuan agreed with a smile, and when they arrived at Rong'an Hall together, they heard laughter and laughter inside, Gu Mingxuan was startled, it seemed that she was late, and then she also walked in with a smile.

When Cui and the others arrived, they smiled and said: "Seeing that it is the Shangsi Festival, normally only the female family members with high grades can enter Shanglin Garden to play, but this year, the Empress Dowager and the Empress Dowager are kind enough to allow each family to bring My daughter went in to play, that's why I called you here, and I want to tell you some things."

Mrs. Cui then said to Nanny Zhuang: "Nurse Zhuang of Shanglinyuan has accompanied the Empress Dowager to go there a few times. I need to ask Nanny Zhuang to explain the specific situation."

The two of them talked about Shanglin Garden to the girls.

This Shanglin Garden is not the Shanglin Garden built by the first emperor Yingzheng, but the founding ancestor of the Yong Dynasty liked the name, so he changed the name of the former royal garden to Shanglin Garden.

Of course, the world was initially settled at that time, and the scenery of Shanglin Garden was not very good after the flames of war, but now the Dayong Dynasty has been established for a long time, and the world has been peaceful for a hundred years. Although there are wars on the border, it does not affect the boundaries of the capital, because of this , this Shanglin Garden was gradually repaired and expanded by successive emperors of the Yong Dynasty. Today, the scale is extremely grand.

Of course, they can't go in all places, and there is not so much time. This time, the place where the Shangsi Festival ceremony is held is by the Taiye Pool.

And the places where they can swim and walk are just two or three places near Taiye Pond, including Qianqiu Palace!
But don't underestimate these two or three places, they are also extremely vast, just one Taiye Pond is already two or three times the size of the entire Hou Mansion.

Everyone imagined it for a while, and they couldn't help being surprised. The Hou Mansion is already big enough, so how big is the Taiye Pond?
In short, no matter what, Cui Shi and Madam Zhuang only urged a few words: listen less, watch less, talk less, walk less, eat less, laugh more...

Stay away from the water!
It's best to stay by the adult's side and don't leave, so that nothing will happen.

After all, this Shangsi Festival will not only show up with honorable women and civil servants, but also princes, princesses, princesses, princesses, etc., will also be there.

If you accidentally offend one of them, it will be very unbeautiful.

When others listened, they became cautious, for fear that they would accidentally offend the family of a certain princess or princess, and planned to follow the elders closely. Only Gu Minghe listened, but felt great joy in his heart ——

At that time, Shanglin Garden will be full of powerful people, if I can perform well that day and be favored by a nobleman...

This is your chance!
As for Feng Qingli... He only appeared in Gu Minghe's mind for a while, and then he was directly suppressed by Gu Minghe - no matter how good Feng Qingli was, it was useless no matter how good she liked her, Feng Qingli was already dead up!

died!

It's really a pity, but Feng Qingli is dead, and she is still alive, and she still has to live a good life. The thought of Feng Qingli should be kept in her heart, and it's okay to think about it occasionally.

In short, Gu Minghe had already put down Feng Qingli, and started thinking about the upcoming royal children in Shanglin Garden.

If Feng Qingli knew that she was so easily abandoned by others, she didn't know whether she would cry or laugh!

Gu Mingxuan didn't know that Gu Minghe had such an idea, anyway, she didn't plan to do anything, so when she set off that day, she just dressed in a well-regulated way, not too outstanding, but because her beautiful appearance was more delicate and fair than others I don't know how many times her skin has made her look like this, and she is very eye-catching. Nanny Zhuang and Shi Cui are very satisfied——

Do only seven or eight points in everything, and you must leave a way out.

Gu Mingzhi is still young and doesn't dress up much. Gu Mingling is already engaged to a girl. Sun feels that the opportunity is rare and agrees to let Gu Mingling go out for a walk to see the world. Delicate, but not too fancy.

Only Gu Minghe, as soon as he appeared on the stage, surprised everyone.

She is wearing a light purple cross-neck gown, which is cut to fit perfectly, showing off her slender waist very well. The sleeves are narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, and the upper arms are tightened. The bottom is covered with cotton On the outside of the sleeves, there are two layers of gauze, the inner layer is a darker purple than the jacket, and the outer layer is light pink, with a blooming lotus embroidered on it, elegant and graceful, demure and beautiful.

As for the lower body, on the outside of the plain white cotton skirt, it is also covered with two layers of gauze, but this time, it has become pink on the inside, purple on the outside, and pink on the inside, also embroidered on the skirt. A blooming lotus.

After all, Gu Minghe was only thirteen this year, and she was not tall enough to wear the beauty of this dress, so Gu Minghe wore high clogs, so that she could look graceful.

Looking from a distance, the long-haired gauze skirt, elegant and moving, is difficult to describe with pen and ink.

Cui was a little displeased. After all, she felt that this outfit seemed to have passed a little bit. Although it was said that it was spring, the weather in the capital was still as cold as winter. In this way, among the crowd full of brocade cotton coats and cloaks, Gu Minghe's A suit is not only outstanding, but also too outstanding.

However, thinking of Gu Minghe's full ambition, Cui Shi stopped talking.

Now the situation is very clear. Although the three princes have been lifted from the confinement, the power of the three princes has been defeated. Moreover, because of the evidence presented by Mr. Qiu Qida Qiu, the Mu family is also in great trouble. Those who can think clearly will definitely not knock down the third prince.

And the Queen Mother has long since stopped taking care of things. The Queen is concerned about the Eighth Prince. She is not free on weekdays. She only appears on the Shangsi Festival. Therefore, this year's Shangsi Festival, all the things that should be done are the Ministry of Rites and Concubine Pei De. in operation.

It is said that Concubine Pei De decided to celebrate this year's Shangsi Festival in order to show her unique side, so that all the family members of civil servants and generals, regardless of rank or not, would go in to have fun.

In this way, among the people who entered Shanglin Garden, except for some who remained neutral and were only loyal to the emperor, seven out of ten of the remaining people were inclined to the fifth prince.

That being the case, what did she have to worry about.

Since Mrs. Cui didn't intend to take care of Gu Minghe, she just took a look at Gu Minghe, and then led the crowd towards Shanglin Garden.

It was Yinshi at this moment, and it took about two hours for the carriage to travel from the capital to Shanglinyuan. Gu Mingxuan and the others leaned on the carriage to catch up on sleep, so as not to lose energy and make mistakes when the nobleman asked questions.

The first carriage belonged to Mrs. Cui and Nanny Zhuang, the second one belonged to Mrs. Sun, the third one belonged to Gu Mingxuan and Gu Mingling, and the fourth one belonged to Gu Minghe and Gu Mingzhi. In the four carriages, Mrs. Cui and Mrs. Grandma Zhuang didn't sleep much, and she didn't feel sleepy. After talking for a while, Mrs. Sun and the others started to catch up on sleep, and Gu Mingzhi was no exception. Only Gu Minghe had a gentle and charming expression on his face, but his mood was extremely excited.

Because of the excitement, Gu Minghe couldn't sleep at all, and because her heart was full of expectations, Gu Minghe tried to show her best side, and she didn't allow her clothes or hair bun to be messed up because of her undignified manner.

Gu Minghe was full of expectations, but in the water mirror platform of Shanglin Garden, the fifth prince concubine looked at herself expressionlessly in the mirror—although she was not young and had more than one child, her figure was still the same. She is charming, her face is still charming, and even because she has given birth, she has a mature temperament that girls don't have.

However, if you take a closer look, you can see that there are small wrinkles in the corners of her well-maintained eyes, and the places where she was originally upturned have drooped slightly...

In any case, she was really old and not a girl anymore.

Therefore, it is indeed normal for the fifth prince to find another little girl, isn't it?
Don't mention how nicely Concubine Pei De said, what is the emperor's dominance and what is the supreme under heaven, the fifth prince's concubine only knows that once the little girl who is said to have an extremely expensive fate enters the fifth prince's mansion, there will be the words of Mrs. "Gui" in the name of himself, the third concubine, did not have any advantage when facing her.

Thinking about Pei Defei's disgusting face when she said this to herself, and thinking about the embarrassing expression of the fifth prince who said "Mother concubine is also for her own good", the fifth prince concubine felt a deep disgust in her heart——

Leaving aside Pei Defei's disgusting remarks, let's just talk about the person next to him. He seems helpless, but in his heart, he doesn't know how willing he is.

The fifth prince concubine twitched the corners of her mouth, and couldn't help being bored for a while. If the fifth prince told her directly, she would naturally not hinder his ambition, and was even willing to wrong herself for him.

But the fifth prince faced him with such a hypocritical face, and the fifth prince and concubine felt sad in his heart. Once upon a time, his sweetheart and closest husband were no longer sincere when facing him?
It's been a long time, hasn't it?

It's just that she has been pretending not to know, pretending that everything is as beautiful as before, but, today, the fifth prince's deeds make her no longer able to deceive herself and others.

She still has children, so she must always think about them!
Oh, fate is extremely expensive, does that mean that the child she will give birth to in the future will also be extremely expensive?The fifth concubine sneered again, is it true that her child is more noble than her own?
"Your Majesty, you..." The ones who dressed the Fifth Prince Concubine were naturally the most trusted people of the Fifth Prince Concubine, and one of them, Wang Die, couldn't help but look at the Fifth Prince Concubine worriedly, and asked, "Do you want to give up?" rest for a bit?"

The fifth concubine closed her eyes, and after that, all the indifference and sadness in her body were taken back, and she returned to the gentle, loving, dignified and elegant fifth concubine. Lazy, but I can't go too far, it's getting late, I still have to go there early to help my concubine."

When she got up, the Fifth Prince had someone arrange all the clothes on her body carefully, until she couldn't find any faults in her whole body, and then she went outside.

Before starting, the Fifth Prince concubine glanced at Wang Ting, a solemn and reticent court lady beside her, and asked, "Is everything arranged?"

Wang Ting then bowed slightly to the fifth prince and concubine, and said, "Your Majesty, don't worry."

The fifth prince and concubine were really relieved.

With a gentle smile on her lips, she walked slowly towards the outside, but her heart was full of mocking smiles, since Concubine Pei De and her good husband both wanted to bring that extremely expensive woman into the fifth prince's mansion , she only thought about themselves, but never thought about herself, so she had to think about herself, and even more so, her children.

A coldness flashed in the eyes of the fifth prince and concubine. A 13-year-old girl is indeed still young, and it will take three to five years to have children. However, her husband is not too old, and there is always enough time. Time to wait until that child grows up.

Therefore, she can only make plans early. In short, she will never allow anyone to threaten the status of her children in the future.

The Water Mirror Terrace, as the name suggests, is a high platform built in the middle of the water, and the place where the Fifth Prince's Concubine lives is on this high platform, and Concubine Pei De lives in Tingtao Tower, which is not very far from the Water Mirror Platform.

The fifth prince concubine had a gentle smile, and when it was time to listen to Taolou, the maid beside Pei Defei greeted her, and smiled to salute the fifth prince concubine. The fifth prince concubine was very polite to her, and after saying no Said: "Mother and concubine can get up?"

"Going back to the Fifth Prince Concubine, Your Majesty just got up and is dressing up, so please take it with you." He led the Fifth Prince Concubine to the flower hall, served tea and snacks, and then went to see Concubine Pei De.

Concubine Pei De has woken up early. In previous years, the Empress Dowager and Empress didn't care about things. It was after a long fight between herself and Concubine Mu Xian. Either you win or I win, or both parties share the rights equally, but there has never been a time when it was so light With ease, she got such an excellent job—to be able to show her face in front of the emperor, and let her subordinates know her kindness and majesty, which is really perfect.

Therefore, she strives for perfection in everything, and strives for perfection, so that she cannot let others have a bad impression of herself.

Some time ago, she got up early and went to bed late every day, not to mention that today is a good day, and she has to dress up and prepare carefully, so she also got up very early.

Concubine Pei De knew when the fifth concubine came over, but because she just said something to this daughter-in-law yesterday, Concubine Pei De knew that her daughter-in-law was unhappy. Concubine Pei De could understand this kind of unhappiness, but, for Concubine Pei De , the son's future is the most important, everything else is not so important.

What's more, in Concubine Pei De's opinion, it's normal for a man to have many women, not to mention that her son is a prince and having a side concubine is not a big deal.

Therefore, although Concubine Pei De could understand the pain in the fifth prince's concubine's heart, she still told the fifth prince's concubine about the matter and warned the fifth prince's concubine so that she would not feel resentful because of it, nor could she destroy the matter. Otherwise, don't blame yourself for not giving her face.

Therefore, seeing her eldest palace lady coming in at this moment, Concubine Pei De asked, "The fifth concubine is here? How does she look?"

The eldest palace lady knew what Concubine Pei De meant, so she said: "The Fifth Prince Concubine was taught by you, Your Majesty, how could she be wrong? Naturally, she is dignified, elegant, and kind."

Concubine Pei De raised her eyebrows slightly when she heard the words, that is to say, her daughter-in-law has adjusted her mood well, at least, others can't see it?
She smiled and said: "In that case, let's invite the fifth prince and concubine in."

This means that she is quite satisfied with the performance of the fifth prince and concubine.

Before the fifth concubine brought up the tea, she was notified by the little palace maid that "the empress has finished dressing up, please invite the fifth concubine to come over", and a sense of ridicule appeared in her heart—the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have been together for more than ten years, and their own What kind of temperament is the mother-in-law Concubine Pei De, the fifth prince is very clear in her heart, she is like this now, it shows that she is still very satisfied with her performance.

Otherwise, he would hang himself in this flower hall for a long time, not only won't hurt his face too much, but also can give him a serious warning.

It really couldn't be more powerful.

The fifth concubine smiled softly. After seeing Concubine Pei De, she hastily saluted. Concubine Pei De is the kind of person who, the more she does something sorry for you, the more she will put on airs and press you down, letting you swallow the pain by yourself. Therefore, normally, she would show the love between mother-in-law and daughter-in-law with the fifth prince and concubine, but today, she sat on the chair, waited for the fifth prince and concubine to salute, and watched the fifth prince and concubine maintain the salute posture for a while, before saying: "sit down."

In the heart of the fifth prince and concubine, strong dissatisfaction arose - Concubine Pei De has been like this for so many years.

It is extremely uncomfortable to have such a strong mother-in-law.

The only thing that comforts the fifth prince is that he doesn't have to live with her all the time.

Withdrawing his wandering thoughts, the Fifth Prince and Concubine sat down, and after accompanying Concubine Pei De for a few words, the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law walked towards Jianzhang Palace where the Empress lived.

Jianzhang Palace is one of the only two buildings named after the palace in Shanglin Garden. The emperor and empress lived here, and the eighth prince also lived here.

The emperor naturally didn't care about the affairs of the harem. When they passed, the emperor was no longer there, and the empress had recently been taking care of the eighth prince's marriage.

Because Gu Mingxuan caused problems for Xie Junru, Xie Junru avoided being selected as the Eighth Prince's Concubine, and instead became someone else. The Queen attached great importance to this, and almost everything was handled by herself.

Anyway, my son will definitely not be able to be the emperor. Anyway, no matter which prince becomes the emperor, he is his aunt, a proper empress dowager, so now the empress doesn't care about the fight between them at all, and only hopes for it. Good luck to the Eighth Prince.

So the queen quickly let them go, and did what they had to do.

Concubine Pei De started to get busy, because people arrived one after another.

Those serious and solemn sacrificial ceremonies were naturally not for unmarried girls like Gu Mingxuan to participate in, so they were all arranged in the southeast of Taiye Pool.

The sun rises in the east, and the place of sacrifice is to the east of Taiye Pool.

The distance between the two parties was not too far, and they could see the solemn ceremony from a distance.

Naturally, Gu Mingxuan had seen such a scene in her previous life, and she didn't think it was unusual, but Gu Mingling had never seen it before, so she was a little surprised. Gu Mingxuan glanced at Gu Mingling, and said with a leisurely smile: "Second sister, don't worry, maybe, you'll be here soon." After two or three years, you will have the opportunity to directly participate in it, instead of watching it like it is now."

"Ah?" Gu Mingling was stunned for a moment before realizing the meaning of Gu Mingxuan's words - it was nothing more than saying that after Qiu Wei, the young master of the Bao family, he would go to high school, and he might also be appointed as his wife.

Gu Mingling's heart is very useful - doesn't this mean that the young son of the Bao family will definitely go to high school this time... This is the blessing of the big sister to himself.

But on the surface, Gu Mingling looked extremely shy, and glared at Gu Mingxuan angrily.

In Gu Minghe's heart, he deeply despised Gu Mingxuan and Gu Mingling's worthlessness, but on the surface, he still appeared gentle and pleasant, listening to their jokes with a smile.

On the contrary, Gu Mingzhi couldn't hold back for a while, and said sarcastically: "Second sister has to wait for two or three years. Gu Yuwen, but she will marry her directly, and she will be my wife."

When Gu Minghe heard this, he immediately scolded in a low voice: "Zhi'er!"

Gu Mingzhi's temper has been worn down a lot recently, and when he uttered a word, he knew that he had made a mistake. After being reprimanded by Gu Minghe, he hurriedly apologized to Gu Mingxuan and Gu Mingling, and said, "It's my sister's fault. Please don't be angry."

Gu Mingling was not very happy, but after all, Gu Mingzhi had already apologized, and it was her fault if she insisted on holding on, so she was still a little angry in her heart, so she said: "It's okay for the fourth sister to make a slip of the tongue on my side, but , we are all nobles today, Fourth Younger Sister should pay attention."

Gu Mingzhi endured his displeasure and agreed.

Finally, after the sacrifice was over, someone came to inform the young ladies to meet their elders. Gu Mingxuan and others followed the maids of Shanglinyuan to the past, and finally saw Mrs. Cui, Nurse Zhuang and Mrs. Sun.

The three of them were a little tired—after all, they got up at Yinshi, and the boats and cars were exhausted all the way. After arriving, they had a short rest before starting the sacrifice—although there were sacrifices in the Shangsi Festival in the previous dynasty, the scale was not large, but in the current dynasty. Therefore, the ceremony became more solemn and, of course, more lengthy.

Two hours on the road and two hours to sacrifice, Cui Shi and Nanny Zhuang really couldn't bear it.

But he also insisted on it.

When the ceremony was over, Cui was still worried that the four sisters would cause trouble, and now she was relieved to see that they were doing well.

Then, let the maid take them to a pavilion where they can rest, and do it.

Originally it was March, the weather was cold, and it was near the water, the wind was a bit chilly, Cui couldn't bear it, and after putting on a big cloak, she felt better.

Just as she was about to ask the four sisters Gu Mingxuan how she felt, she saw a well-dressed court lady walking towards her.

(End of this chapter)