first princess

Chapter 99: Anniversary in the Bridal Chamber (3)
"Hey, Sister Concubine, are you mocking Concubine De for pretending to be sick?" Where is Concubine Shu really sick?It's just a way to invite pets.

Concubine De is the original Concubine Xiang. The crown prince got married, the emperor pardoned the world, and sealed the harem, but all concubines with children were promoted. Last night, she suddenly asked for leave like the queen, saying that she should not come out more because of the wind and cold.

The imperial concubine smiled and stroked the eight-tailed phoenix hairpin on her head, she couldn't hide her arrogance: "No, it's just that my sister rarely attends such occasions, so I will ask more, my sister must not give me a sign of saying goodbye to anyone at will." You must know that the peace and tranquility of the harem is the blessing of the world, I dare not cause trouble at will, and my sister should not provoke trouble on purpose."

"You..." Concubine Shu looked at the queen aggrievedly.

The queen has a headache. These women fight back and forth like cockfights all year round. Is it interesting?Don't you feel tired?
Concubine Shu saw that the queen ignored her, so she smoothed things out by herself: "I, it's true that I want to see the concubine, and I really want to eat lychees from the queen's palace. I'm afraid that if I come late, my sisters will divide them up."

The queen followed her words, and said with a pleasant face: "This year, there are floods in the south, and the amount of lychees to be tribute is less than usual, so I didn't send them to your palace one by one, lest some people don't like it and it would be a waste."

The two got up and thanked her, and the queen said again: "Governor Jiang's wife has done a good job this time, and the common people think highly of her. A few days ago, someone submitted a booklet to ask her to be a lady. Long live God let me watch it." Let me do it, let me ask you what you mean."

Concubine Shu spat out the pills in her mouth, and the maid put away the veil that wrapped the pills, and she asked softly, "But the third miss of the Shui family, Shui Lingyu?"

The empress put down the teacup that had run out of heat, and the maid filled it up. She stretched out her hand to take it, and found that it was slightly hot. Liu Mei frowned, and withdrew her hand from looking at the cup, and said kindly to Concubine Shu: "It's her, she's not too old. He is big, but he can bear hardships and stand hard work, and he doesn't think the victims are messy. At first, he cooked porridge and gave away porridge. Later, he organized many doctors to take turns to see the patients. I think Governor Jiang married the right person this time. "

He said he was asking them what they meant, but he was actually just letting them know in a disguised form.

Concubine Shu smiled and said: "I look very good, following the public opinion is to appease the people.".

The imperial concubine rubbed the handkerchief in her hand, raised her eyebrows lightly and said: "The ancestors of the Shui family burned some high incense? All the daughters born have a bright future, and the concubine's family alone occupies two , In addition, a concubine of the eldest son of the Zhenbei Palace and a side concubine of the Prince of the Pingnan Palace, this kind of glory, the empress, even the Yao family has never had it."

Where did the queen not understand what she meant?He didn't get angry, just kept smiling, and said in the usual tone: "The daughters are all the best."

After emphasizing the word "daughter", everyone couldn't help but think of Shui Minyu and Shui Minhui from the Shangshu Mansion, and shook their heads. No matter how capable a daughter is, what's the use?The sons who really continued the incense, Shui Minyu and Shui Minhui, were of mediocre aptitude, obviously not suitable for being an official, and the prosperity of the Shui family was only the first or second generation.

The empress is the empress, and the imperial concubine said a lot of words with guns and cannons. The empress obviously only said one sentence, and she still echoed the imperial concubine's point of view, but it made people dispel the jealousy and envy in their hearts.

When Shui Linglong and Eunuch Zhang entered Weiyang Palace, they happened to see Mistress Mo walking towards them with a little tearful court lady on her face. The two looked at Eunuch Zhang and quickly saluted Shui Linglong. Mistress Mo said with a smile: "My servant, Mo Ju, has met the concubine."

Shui Linglong smiled lightly and said, "Ms. Mo doesn't need to be too polite."

Officer Mo blessed her body again, and then she took the little court lady who couldn't even serve the tea and scalded the queen to the Department of Punishment.

Shui Linglong stood at the gate of Baifang Pavilion, thinking that she had been reborn for more than half a year, and finally she was going to deal with women at the pinnacle of power. Women and children, they hold the power of life and death in their hands. They praise you to heaven with one word, and kick you into prison in a blink of an eye.

Shui Linglong took a deep breath, and slowly walked into the bright and spacious hall.

As soon as Bingbing opened his eyes, seeing the bright sky outside the window, his expression changed drastically in fright, he sat up abruptly, and touched the place where Yun Li had been lying beside him, it was astonishingly cold, it seemed that he had been away for a long time.When exactly did he leave?Last night he tossed her like crazy for most of the night, she had never seen such despair in his eyes, but in fact, it was just that Linglong got married...

I thought I didn't mind, but when I think about it now, my heart hurts like being pricked by a needle.

"Prince Concubine, I will help you change your clothes. The empress should be in a hurry." The servant girl Yue'e stood outside the screen and said cautiously.

Bingbing rubbed her sore waist: "Where is His Royal Highness?"

"His Highness is in the study, saying that he will accompany you into the palace after you finish washing up."

What do you do when you enter the palace together?See Linglong?Bingbing smiled bitterly, and called Yue'e to come in to serve.

Although she is in a bad mood, she has a good appetite, especially when she is with Linglong, she has learned how to eat spicy food, and now she doesn't like spicy food. For breakfast, she had a bowl of beef noodles mixed with some chopped peppers, which made her teary-eyed. non-stop.

When Yun Li entered the door, she saw her crying while eating noodles, staring at her eyes, and said softly: "If you can't eat spicy food, don't eat it. You are used to eating light food, how can it compare to Linglong?"

Bingbing put down her chopsticks, wiped her tears and lips with a handkerchief, saluted respectfully, lowered her eyebrows and said: "Yes, my concubine will never be able to compare with Linglong, my concubine has self-knowledge, please rest assured, Your Highness."

Yun Li's thick eyebrows frowned, why did the Crown Princess' words sound a bit strange?He was simply referring to eating chili peppers, she seemed to be... alluding to something else?But he didn't take it too seriously, he just looked at Bingbing and said slowly: "Let's enter the palace when we're full."

Your Highness, in fact, I am not full...

In the Baifang Pavilion of Weiyang Palace, Shui Linglong bowed three times and bowed nine times to the queen. She was soaked through after the round of ceremony, but her expression was calm and elegant from the beginning to the end, and the queen showed some satisfaction. Eunuch Zhang ordered: "Bring me the purple gold Ruyi hairpin from my palace."

Zijin jewelry is very precious, even in the palace of a first-class concubine, there are not many pieces, especially the ones with the word "Ruyi" are often rewards from the former emperor.

Shui Linglong knelt on the ground, took the brocade box with both hands, bowed again, and said: "Thank you, Empress Empress, for your kindness, my wife is very grateful!"

"Pingshen, bestow a seat."

Shui Linglong thanked her again and again, stood up, and saluted Concubine Gui and Concubine Shu in turn.

The imperial concubine raised her eyebrows lightly, and rewarded her with a pair of jadeite bracelets.

Concubine Shu smiled sweetly and gave her a luminous cup.

Shui Linglong thanked her one by one, before she sat down on Concubine Shu's lower head.

The imperial concubine couldn't hide her arrogant smile and said: "Don't you say she is a concubine? I see that she has learned the rules quite well, no worse than a concubine."

Shui Linglong smiled as usual without any fluctuation.

Concubine Shu turned her beautiful eyes, covered her face and smiled and said, "How is it compared to your third concubine?"

Concubine Shu is really capable of picking things up. Although the third concubine was the concubine De's favorite, the queen, the aunt, nodded her head when she was allowed to marry. If she said that Shui Linglong was better, she would slap the queen in the face; The concubine is even better, and Shui Linglong, the person involved, was present, so she couldn't help feeling upset when she heard it.

Shui Linglong drank the tea in the water, glanced at the imperial concubine from the corner of her eye, wondering how she would answer.

A gleam of joy flashed in the eyes of the imperial concubine, it seemed that it was reasonable for Concubine Shu to say such words, or it was within her calculations, she shook the cup and smiled wantonly: "Concubine Shu is a good question Another day, I will call the third concubine into the palace to compete with the first concubine, and ask the empress to be the referee, whoever is the winner will be given a pair of night pearls."

Cleverly kicked the ball to the Queen!

Shui Linglong blinked, no wonder the third prince was able to confront Yun Li, with such a shrewd mother!
The queen smiled lightly: "You are really not a loser, a pair of Ye Mingzhu wanted to lure the third daughter-in-law to bring the emperor's eldest grandson to see you!" It seemed that Concubine Shu's words were to help the concubine to see her grandson.

The imperial concubine choked, and then, as if she had been hit by a small thought, she held the corner of her lips shyly: "Nothing can be hidden from the empress's eyes!"

The smoke of a war that was almost ignited was easily extinguished by the queen.

Shui Linglong took a sip of tea, the queen is really a master of palace fighting.

Everyone chatted for a while, the queen looked at Shui Linglong, and said gently: "Before you came, we were discussing about your third sister. Your third sister has benefited the people in the south of the Yangtze River, and her reputation has spread far and wide. Some officials wrote a book for you. Your third sister, please give me an imperial order, what do you think?"

When a woman gets married, she follows her husband's family identity, but the queen calls out "her third sister". Is this trying to get close to her?Shui Linglong stood up and gave a blessing, and said with a shy smile: "My wife thinks that if you want to reward the third sister, you must first reward the other two."

"Oh, who?" The queen became interested, the noble concubine and concubine Shu pricked up their ears, even the indifferent concubine Xian looked sideways at Shui Linglong.

"The first person is the current empress. The empress is a model for all the women in the Great Zhou Dynasty. The third sister's noble character must have learned the spirit of the empress." She emphasized "study correctly", which is telling Others, some women's lack of virtue is not the fault of the queen, the mother of the country, but the wrong way of learning.

Everyone couldn't help showing a bit of surprise, Concubine Shu was planning to take advantage of the loopholes in her words to make a fuss, but at this moment she was speechless.

The Queen smiled and nodded.

Shui Linglong shook her sweaty and sticky hands, and continued: "The second person to be rewarded is Governor Jiang. The husband is the guide for the wife. The husband loves the country, loves the people, and behaves upright, so the wife can learn from him. If Governor Jiang and ordinary men Both think that women and children should not show their faces, so the third sister of the minister's wife will not have the opportunity to get to know the victims at close range, listen to their voices, let alone rescue them."

The eloquent remarks seemed to be praising the Queen and Governor Jiang, but in fact they praised Shui Lingyu every sentence, and cleverly pushed the only shortcoming of Shui Lingyu that was questioned by the old civil servants to Governor Jiang, and had a relationship with the life and death of the victims. Closely combined, so what's wrong with "showing your face"?
The queen's eyes flashed with deep amazement and deep regret. She ordered Zhang Gonggong to threaten Shui Hangge like that, intending to make her son's infatuation complete, but unexpectedly Bingbing married here by mistake. At that time, she did not It feels too big, and now when I hear her talking, I feel that I have missed a treasure.

The queen suppressed the thoughts in her heart, and said with a smile: "You have such a clever mouth!"

Shui Linglong blessed her body and sat down on the seat.

The queen ordered Zhang Gonggong: "Put a basket of lychees that have just entered the palace and give it to Shi Zifei."

"Yes!" Eunuch Zhang responded respectfully.

Shui Linglong got up again and thanked her.

The imperial concubine looked at Shui Linglong, her eyes flashed, which was meaningful.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness and Concubine are here." Outside the door, the eunuch's announcement sounded.

The queen's eyes flashed, and she raised her hand calmly, Zhang Gonggong said: "His Royal Highness and the Crown Princess are invited to meet—"

Yun Li and Bing Bing stepped into Baifang Pavilion, and they saluted the Queen: "See the Queen Mother."

"Flat body."

The third concubine got up and gave the two of them a national salute, and the two returned the salute to the third concubine's family.

Yunli and Bingbing sat down on the chairs opposite Sanfei and Shui Linglong, the little maid served tea, Bingbing blinked her right eye at Shui Linglong, as cunning as a fox, there is jealousy, but it is true that she likes Shui Linglong.

Shui Linglong also took advantage of drinking tea to look at Bingbing, but inadvertently met Yun Li's fiery gaze, and she quickly lowered her eyes.

The queen's seemingly gentle but sharp eyes swept away, and the smile on the corners of her lips froze, and said: "The prince came just in time, and Xiao Qi was just arguing to go to your father to recite his homework. Is he a teacher? You go to the inner hall to check his homework." The tone cannot be rejected!

Yun Li's thick eyebrows frowned, reluctantly withdrew his eyes from the charming face like a peach blossom, thinking that she had completed the transformation from a girl to a woman last night, and remembered the car waiting for her at the gate of the palace. Carriage, feeling suddenly lost in his heart, he suppressed his emotions, got up and said: "Yes, my son will leave."

The noble concubine lowered her eyes and said nothing, just drinking tea quietly.

Concubine Shu's eyeballs rolled around, she smelled something that made her blood boil, what could it be?

The queen looked at Shui Linglong and said, "Since you have entered the palace, go and see your aunt and sister!"

This is to allow her to visit Shui Chenxiang?Shui Linglong was taken aback for a moment, the queen treated her so well today, she was almost flattered.

After Shui Linglong left, the queen looked at Bingbing again, her smile remained the same, but with an imperceptible sternness: "Is your body better?"

Bingbing bit her lip, and answered bravely: "It's better, Erchen has been taking medicine seriously."

The queen wanted to ask "Did the monthly letter for this month come?", but the words changed to: "The third princess thinks that the palace is boring, so go and accompany her to relieve boredom."

"Yes."

After all the guests left, the queen leaned back on the chair as if she was very tired: "Do you think I have acted too hastily? She is still young after all, and it is normal for her monthly letters to be irregular. At her age, Bengong is also a Months come, don't come for a month, until the sixteenth birthday will gradually get better."

Eunuch Zhang understands that although the queen is asking, she doesn't want you to answer. The birth of the eldest grandson by the third concubine will have a great impact on the prince. The queen is looking forward to the good news from the concubine, but the concubine's monthly letters are irregular. , not easy to conceive, this has been married for four months and there is not even a bubble.

Shui Linglong left Weiyang Palace and walked towards Lenggong. She decided to visit Shui Chenxiang first and then Shui Lingyue. Well, she admitted that if the queen hadn't spoken, she would not want to talk to Shui Lingyue at all.

The sky was gloomy, and the dark clouds were like hills pressing on the top of the head. Just looking at it made me feel that my breathing was heavy.

Ghost weather!
Shui Linglong wiped the sweat from her forehead with a handkerchief, and stared at the road in front of her without turning her eyes. Unexpectedly, she bumped into a eunuch when she was approaching the Imperial Garden!

Zhi Fan is not Ye Mao, she doesn't have that kind of skill, she followed Shui Linglong, when she heard Shui Linglong let out a low cry of pain, it was already a step late when she was going to stop her with her skills, Shui Linglong was knocked back suddenly, leaning against the on her.

Zhi Feng hurriedly stabilized her figure: "Miss, are you alright?"

Shui Linglong rubbed her slightly sore shoulder, and looked at the person who came, about twenty, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, very handsome.

Zhi Fan also looked at him, feeling as if he had seen it somewhere before, but couldn't remember it for a while.

The eunuch hurriedly bowed to apologize and said, "I'm sorry, I'm sorry, the slave didn't do it on purpose!" He didn't look up at Shui Linglong at all!

Shui Linglong found that he was not flustered as usual, as if there were poisonous snakes and ferocious beasts chasing behind him, judging by his attire, at least he was a servant of the fourth rank, Shui Linglong reckoned that he should be the eunuch in charge of a certain palace lady, this kind of person is still Do not offend the good.Shui Linglong waved her hand: "It's okay, let's go."

The man didn't thank you, and just walked away!
Zhi Fan glared at the man unhappily, then bowed to pick up the purse knocked off by him: "Miss, your things have been lost."

While speaking, the ribbon on the purse fell apart, and the two jade pendants fell on the grass. Branch Fan picked it up and handed it to Shui Linglong, who said in surprise, "Huh? It's half-moon-shaped, and it's also written, so special."

The man suddenly stopped and turned his head. When he saw Qing Shui Linglong and the jade pendant in her hand, his face... turned pale instantly!

(End of this chapter)