Farmhouse Qiaofei

Chapter 286
Bai Shao suddenly became the hottest person in Yanjing City.

The reason is because of Yan Shu.

The second prince was overthrown, and the fourth prince took over the things that the second prince managed before, as if one fell out of favor and the other regained favor.

And Bai Shao was bestowed on Yanshu by Jinkou Yuyan, and she just waited for her to marry and become the fourth prince's concubine when she had time to pick a date.

Of course, if the fourth prince goes one step further, it is not impossible to sit on the No.1 position in the harem.

In short, Bai Shao, who originally had a high status among the noble girls in Yanjing, has become the best among the noble girls this time, and even the princess has a faint side-by-side trend——the princess has always been a It is very possible for Bai Shao not to reach that position, and with the support of Gu Qingfan and the government of the town, Bai Shao is now in Chengdu with a distinguished status, which is no worse than any noble daughter in Yanjing.

But because of this, her troubles came.

Originally, even if she became Miss Gu's family, because it was not long before the Gu family had time to do the family tree and other things, so Bai Shao was still low-key in Yanjing, and she would push back those banquets that she could, and stayed in the house all day long. The Ruan family respected their relatives and elders.

But now, because of the favor of the beloved fourth prince, she suddenly became very popular.

First came the banquets that flew like snowflakes, followed by various banquets in the palace.

She can still refuse the banquets of ordinary people based on her status, but she can't refuse the big and small banquets in the palace.

A few days ago, the Biansheng Ruan family was worried that Bai Shao would not eat well in Xieyang County, so she became a little sick, and now she is still a little weak. As for entering the palace, she was the only one who did it alone.

Moreover, it just so happened that the most recent palace banquet was also the biggest palace banquet of the year - Chinese New Year.

Yan Shu was afraid that she would be embarrassed if she forgot the etiquette, so she took a few days out of her busy schedule to review the etiquette she had learned before.

Ruan Shi also supported her uncomfortable body to buy Bai Shao's outfit for entering the palace.

Gu Qingfan brought Bai Wei over and asked her to accompany Bai Shao into the palace.

This is Bai Wei's own request, not for the sake of novelty, but because he is really worried that Bai Shao will be made things difficult for him alone in the palace. Although Bai Wei is useless, sometimes he is inexplicably confident when he is alone. .

Soon, the New Year will come.

Ruan fell ill again, lying in a house full of silver charcoal and coughing every day, even though he drank medicine for three meals a day, he still didn't get better.

Bai Shao is very worried, but Ruan Shi persuades her, saying that her disease is deep in her bones. It was a seasonal disease when she was born with panic and anxiety, and it will be fine when the air warms up.

Moreover, in order to reassure her daughter, she insisted on getting up and choosing the outfit for Bai Shao to wear into the palace today.

She was dressed in a lavender dress, with intricate patterns embroidered on the overlapping collars, pearls on the center of the flower, and many beads of various colors on the hem of the skirt. Extravagance.

In order to match this dress, Ruan chose a deep purple crystal hairpin for Bai Shao, inserted it on her high bun, and chose two lavender earrings to wear into her ears, and gave her There are two silver bracelets and two gold bracelets on the wrist.

Wearing one of the pure gold and silver bracelets in this era is tiring enough, let alone wearing four, Bai Shao felt uncomfortable and wanted to take it off.

However, Ruan held her hand and told her, "In the deep palace, you need money to buy people's hearts when you encounter anything, but sometimes gold and silver artifacts are better than money. It's not necessary to give her some jewelry. So you must wear this bracelet, and take it out when you meet a certain need."

It's hard for Bai Shao to be self-willed like this, so she can only hold her heavy hands and ask He Xiang to change her into a pair of fox fur riding boots. Ruan's yard came out.

At this time, Bai Wei also changed her clothes and came out.

Because of her status, her clothes are much lighter than Bai Shao's. There are no complicated big skirts, and no lumpy pearls and gems. It's just an elegant green dress with some flowers, plants and butterflies embroidered on the skirt. It is faintly revealed when walking, making the whole person relaxed and happy.

Bai Shao couldn't help smiling wryly, this is the clothes that girls should wear.

What is this about her...

But the Ruan family didn't allow her to take it off, so Bai Shao just had to be brave, put on a high bun, and wear jingle rings all over her body, get into the carriage, bring two maids and Bai Wei, and wait for Gu Qingfan to change. They took off their clothes and entered the palace together.

This is the first time for Bai Shao to come here, because she kept her head down and sat quietly in the carriage, remembering Yan Shu and Ruan Shi's advice.

But Bai Wei mischievously opened a corner of the car curtain to look outside, it was Gu Qingfan who glanced over, she put down the small curtain, turned her head and whispered to Bai Shao, "This palace is so big, a wall can match it Shilipu is as big as a Zhuangzi...By the way, do you know why Shilipu is called Shilipu? Because the whole Zhuangzi is only ten miles around, and the length of the mile is called Shilipu to make it appear that it is very big...Actually straight from the beginning There is not even five miles to the end..."

There was a faint smile on the corner of Bai Shao's mouth, and before she had time to speak to her, the carriage stopped suddenly, and the coachman called her in a low voice outside, "Miss, the second gate of the palace has arrived, and the rest of the road has to be walked by yourself... Enter the carriage... Not going."

Yan Shu had already said this, so Bai Shao cooperated and got out of the carriage, followed Gu Qingfan, and passed through the second door together.

Afterwards, because of the different identities of men and women, Gu Qingfan had to go to the front hall, but Bai Shao had to go to the harem, so the siblings had to separate.

Gu Qingfan was still a little worried about the two girls, so before they separated, he couldn't stop telling them, "Don't look blindly, don't meddle in other people's business, don't fight injustice blindly, you must remember that there is no blood in this harem, if you want to Be safe and shut up is the best thing to do."

Bai Wei stuck out her tongue at him, she felt that Gu Qingfan was speaking to her.

"Remember, if you have anything to do, you can go to Concubine Duan's palace for help. She is the mother concubine of the fourth prince, and she will not harm you anyway!" After exhorting the last sentence, Gu Qingfan took a deep look at the two. The woman followed the eunuch to the front hall.

As for Bai Shao and Bai Wei, a court lady had already come, she saluted them with a smile, and said softly, "This is Miss Gu, come with the slave."

Saying that, he took the initiative to walk in front, and led the sisters Bai Shao and Bai Wei to Kunning Palace with a humble attitude.

But all women who come to the harem must go to see the queen, this is an unwritten rule, so Bai Shao was not afraid, and entered the Kunning Palace openly, and said a word to the queen on the phoenix chair Standard blessing ceremony.

After seeing her coming in, the Kunning Palace was still a little noisy just now, and the queen on the phoenix chair smiled and asked someone to help Bai Shao, and said softly, "It turns out that the lady from the Gu family has arrived... I promised Yan Shu that child, and I will be your mother from now on, be good, raise your head and let me have a look."

Bai Shao raised her head slowly, only glanced around quickly from the corner of her eye, then lowered her eyes, staring at the ground in front of her without making a sound.

"It's such an iconic beauty, it's no wonder that Yan Shu repeatedly asked his father to give you a marriage." The queen looked at Bai Shao for a moment, and praised with a smile.

I heard that the empress became a concubine when Emperor Tianyu was close to 40 years old. She is not particularly old, and she is only close to 40 years old this year. Because she is well maintained, she is only in her early thirties, and she looks similar to the Ruan family.

Perhaps it was because she was not favored, the queen had never had any heirs, that's why she praised Bai Shao so mercilessly.

However, just after she had praised Bai Shao, a woman who was also wearing palace attire sitting on one side also laughed and said, "Speaking of the logo, who else in the whole palace can compare with the empress's logo, as the saying goes , a woman ages quickly after giving birth to a child, and the empress can maintain such a beauty, it is really His Majesty's favor."

What he said was flattering on the surface, but secretly he was belittling the queen for not even having an heir.

Bai Shao, who kept her eyelids down and didn't speak, felt a twitch in her heart, secretly glanced at the woman from the corner of her eye, and thought that this person should be the second prince's mother and concubine.

Everyone in Yanjing knows that the queen and the noble concubine have a bad relationship with each other. The queen occupies the status of a concubine, but the noble concubine gave birth to a son. Although he is not the eldest, he has always been favored by the emperor. Eighty-two, has been at odds.

But usually they just don't get along, and there's never such a big time to poke people's wounds.

Bai Shao analyzed secretly, thinking that maybe the second prince was overthrown by the fourth prince, and the empress praised the future fourth concubine, which aroused the dissatisfaction of the imperial concubine, so she deliberately poked the queen's wound so deliberately.

Thinking of this, she quietly raised her eyelids to glance at the queen, but was surprised to find that the queen was not angry, but kept smiling all the time, and said to the woman in palace attire, "What my sister said is that this palace It is a great honor to be able to maintain it like this at the age of nearly forty, compared to my sister who is almost 50 years old. If there are not so many guests to entertain, I really want to share the things used for maintenance with my sister One serving."

Women in the palace call elder sister and younger sister not by age, but by status.

So don't think that the imperial concubine is called the queen's sister, but she is actually five or six years older than the queen.

As for the face, it was seven or eight years older than the empress.

There is an irresistible factor of age, but more of it is because of worrying about the second prince these days.

Women who don't care about age and appearance, the queen's words are not soft or hard to win a game for herself, and she secretly reminded the imperial concubine that there are so many people talking now, and told her to restrain herself a little.

Sure enough, the imperial concubine glanced at the people around her, held back her breath and lowered her head.

The queen nodded in satisfaction, looked at Bai Shao and said softly, "Since Miss Gu is here, please sit down and rest, someone, bring two embroidered piers for Miss Gu, and wait for the concubines to come over, we will then Let’s go to the front hall together.”

Bai Shao nodded meekly, and after the two maids put the embroidered piers away, she and Bai Wei chose one and sat down.

During the period, she looked around, analyzed secretly, and confirmed that the mother and concubine of the fourth prince hadn't come, so she sat on the spot with her eyes and nose carefully.

The so-called palace banquets are usually entered before the sky is getting dark, and the singing and dancing will start after dark.

The sky is still bright now, and the men in the front hall gather together to chat, while the women in the harem can only sit here.

Quite a few people whispered because they were too bored.

Bai Shao and Bai Wei listened with their ears sideways, just for fun.

It was only after the sun had set and the sky was getting dark that the queen stood up on her own initiative and led a group of mighty women to the front hall.

Because of his identity, and because Bai Shao was not familiar with anyone, he was always at the end.

The one in front of her was a young woman who looked to be in her early thirties, she was very dignified, she kept smiling faintly, and never spoke to anyone.

At the beginning, Bai Shao didn't know her identity, but after entering the front hall, someone came to salute her, only then did Bai Shao know that the young woman in front of her was actually the eldest concubine.

Inexplicably, Bai Shao remembered the word "妯娌".

But when she thought that she hadn't married Yan Shu yet, she calmed down again and followed the eldest princess into the front hall.

At this moment, the eldest princess seemed to have noticed Bai Shao, she raised her eyebrows slightly, and greeted her with a very pleasant voice, "Hello, Miss Gu,"

"Wan Qing has met the eldest concubine." Bai Shao bowed slightly to her.

"Don't be so polite. If the fourth prince sees it, he will feel bad, and he will blame me in his heart." The eldest prince and concubine seemed to be a very interesting person, and she made fun of Bai Shao and Yan Shu during the conversation.

At this time, Bai Shao could only lower her head with a blushing face, pretending to be at a loss.

The eldest princess knew that she was embarrassed, she smiled lightly and said nothing more, turned around and walked to the innermost seat of the hall and sat down.

Bai Shao breathed a sigh of relief, picked a place near the front of Miss Shijia's seat, and sat down.

Like this kind of banquet, everyone's seat is very particular.

For example, the royal family sits closest to the emperor, with men on one side and women on the other.The aristocratic family should be slightly behind and in the middle.Those who are further outside and close to the entrance of the main hall are the children of various adults who are not from aristocratic families.

Among them, those with higher status in the royal family, such as the eldest princess and concubine, sat very close to the emperor, and they were still in the first row.

Among the aristocratic families, such as Bai Shao, have to sit in the first row in the middle.

"Shao'er..." At this moment, Bai Wei, who hadn't dared to speak before, saw that there was some noise around and whispered to each other, not afraid that anyone would notice him, so she gently tugged at Bai Shao's sleeve, and said in a low voice, "Shao'er, I always have a bad feeling in my heart.”

"What bad feeling?" Bai Shao was stunned when she heard this, and turned her head to ask.

Biting her lower lip, Bai Wei said in a low voice, "Just now you lowered your head and didn't see it, but there was always a sense of pity in the eyes of the eldest princess looking at us."

mercy?

(End of this chapter)