The reborn woman returns

Chapter 85

Chonghua Palace

Concubine Xue's bedroom is located on the west side of the imperial garden. Although it is not the closest to the Chengqian Palace where the emperor handles government affairs, it is indeed a good place with rockery and lush greenery.In May, Fengcheng is already a bit hot, but when you step into the Chonghua Palace, you feel a bit cool. The peonies in the imperial garden stretch all the way here, like a sea of ​​flowers beside you.

Wearing a lavender palace attire, with a wide skirt winding behind her, she looks dignified and luxurious, her beautiful eyes look like flowing wind, and there is a comfortable smile between her red lips.

"Hanyan has seen the imperial concubine and empress." Huo Hanyan was blessed, not understanding why Concubine Xue invited her into the palace today.

The corner of Concubine Xue's lips curled up into a smile, "Since the princess is here, please sit down." After she sat down, she calmly ordered the maid who was accompanying her: "Ziying, serve tea."

Seeing the palace maid leave, Huo Hanyan's eyes inadvertently glanced at the steaming teapot on the table. "..." What does this mean?It seems that he has never offended Concubine Xue Gui.

Concubine Xue Gui didn't seem to notice Huo Hanyan's expression either, holding a fan in her hand to symbolically catch cold, she looked extremely elegant. "The Princess came back from Cihe Nunnery. This Palace should have invited the Princess to a gathering. How can I sigh that there are too many things in the Palace recently, so I can't get away. I heard that King Huo's Mansion was attacked by assassins from the Kingdom of Rong last night. I wonder how your son is doing?"

"Don't dare to worry about Madam Lao, brother is fine." Huo Hanyan nodded upon hearing this.

A maid named Ziying held a tray and placed a cup of white jade teacup in front of Huo Hanyan, respectfully. "Princess, please use it."

Huo Hanyan looked at the imperial concubine's slightly deep smile, picked up the tea cup in confusion, and smelled the familiar fragrance as soon as she touched the surface of the cup. This is her favorite, Wang Jun Hanxian... Take a light peck, the slightest sweetness Then it overflowed from the tea, which was refreshing, and I couldn't help being slightly stunned.This is the best product that can only grow in the extremely cold place on the snow top of Wangjun Mountain, and it cannot be planted by manpower.

"Every year in the early spring, Shaochen will always bring some good Wangjun Hanxian to the palace." Concubine Xue motioned to the palace staff, poured out a cup from the teapot on the stone table, and placed it in front of her.

Huo Hanyan responded with lowered eyebrows, her face calm. "That's Lord Hou's heart."

"But everyone knows that I only love Tianchi nectar." Concubine Xue couldn't see any clues on her face, her eyes narrowed and she picked up the teacup on the table.There is a layer of milky white rippling in the teacup, which is Tianchi nectar.Her eyes were full of meaning, but her tone was indifferent sigh, "Every year, I collect high-class Wangjun Hanxian, but I don't dare to send it to the place where it should go, so I have to use this palace as a stock shop. "

Huo Hanyan put down the tea cup in her hand without a trace, her heart fluttered slightly, she didn't know how to respond, while Concubine Xue Gui looked at the light smoke from the tea cup, seemed to be trapped in the past, and muttered silently.

"When I entered the palace, Shaochen was only seven years old. His mother died young, and his father...heh~ didn't care about him. He only satisfied him with gold and silver, and indulged him in temperament. Because of this, he also loves him and has a family, not only proclaiming him Marquis of Ningyuan, but also granting him a long street horse, so that his temper is getting more and more rampant. Although I want to control him, I can't do it..."

Huo Hanyan's lips couldn't help curling up, and it seemed that Xue Shaochen, who was like a bully, appeared in front of him again.

"...Until one day when he entered the palace, red welts appeared on his face, and he was full of hostility, as if he wanted to take revenge on someone. This palace is both distressed and worried. His temper will definitely suffer if he continues like this." of."

The whip marks... Could it be that he was beaten when he was ten years old?I remember that on her birthday that year, her eldest brother gave her a thin whip with beads inlaid on it. I was so happy that I kept it on my body all day long.When I went to play on the long street with my maid, I saw Xue Shaochen frantically raising his horsewhip on the long street, beating the old woman who was shopping for vegetables, and immediately became anxious.He swung the whip and whipped it down on his face. He was frightened and rolled off the horse, and he even laughed at him. 'I'll also let you taste what it's like to be whipped! '

"...Wei Guogong's only son, and the honor of Lord Marquis. There are too many people in Fengcheng to fawn on him. Gradually, he grew up, and made friends with some dudes in the capital, and began to linger in Fengyue. Bengong was afraid that he would lose his health at such a young age, so he made the decision to match him with two concubines..."

Hearing this, Huo Hanyan couldn't help frowning slightly, and fully closed her right hand.But she didn't call Concubine Xue Gui's "talking to herself", because she knew that Concubine Xue Guifei made a special trip to tell her.

"After a while, I announced that the two of them entered the palace and asked about the situation. But I learned that Shaochen had never entered their room, and after returning home, he would always look at unknown places and smile foolishly. At that time, Ben Gong thought it was the brothel woman in the Goulan who had seduced him, and hurriedly searched for it, but found that whenever he had a smirk scene, he did not go to the Goulan, so he called him in. Gong Lai asked him tentatively: 'But you have a girl you like?'"

Concubine Xue stared at Huo Hanyan, who was a little embarrassed, and asked Ziying to refill the tea, "Does the princess know what he said?"

"Hanyan doesn't know." After Huo Hanyan was slightly startled, she suppressed the turmoil and deep sourness in her heart, and raised her eyebrows lightly.

Fortunately, Concubine Xue Gui didn't really want to ask the answer from her mouth.Just looking at the wisps of smoke in the tea, thinking about the appearance of his silly brother back then, he couldn't help chuckling, and continued: "He said awkwardly and angrily: 'She is so fierce! Who likes her?! '"

He obviously just asked him if he had a sweetheart, but he hastily denied that it wasn't her!Hehe, in that answer, he used anger to cover up his shy appearance, and said that he had no sweetheart, who would believe it! "He was only 15 years old that year, and it has been eight years since today. The dude Hou Ye back then has now become a mighty border general."

"..." Huo Hanyan's eye circles were reddish, she opened her eyes, and a tear fell silently to the ground.

Concubine Xue Gui looked at this situation, the corners of her lips curled up. "When it comes to King Huo's son, I think of my younger brother, so I talk too much. Don't take it to heart, princess."

Realizing that when he spoke at this time, his voice must be hoarse, so he remained silent.

"The princess has delayed praying for the country for more than two years, and she has passed the most beautiful years of a woman." Concubine Xue Gui said lightly, and asked tentatively: "Now the virtuous king has already married the princess, and Jiaoer is by his side. How do you plan for the future?"

How could Huo Hanyan not understand what the imperial concubine meant, but... "After two years of fasting, my heart is already at peace, and Hanyan has no intention of getting married in this life."

(End of this chapter)