Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 12

After a while, Murong Wei withdrew her hand, but her face was gloomy and uncertain, and her eyes were suddenly frighteningly cold.

It should have been thought earlier, there is not a newborn baby in so many years, it is obviously abnormal, it turns out that someone has used medicine!
In the previous life, my grandfather was an old doctor of Chinese medicine. I have been with my grandfather since I was a child, and also learned a lot of medical skills.This kind of medicine is by no means the usual Juezitang, and she just faintly felt that something was wrong. If there is such a medicine anywhere, it is only in the palace.The eldest lady's cousin, Empress Li, probably won't be missing.

It's impossible for those imperial physicians not to feel it, maybe they don't want to be involved in the internal strife in this deep house, right?
Fortunately, Aunt Zhou has been taking medicine to regulate her body for these years, and some of the medicinal materials may have counteracted her and did not make her sterilized. As long as the root cause of the disease is found, there is still a chance to conceive after the treatment.

I will definitely get married in the past few years, it would be best if my mother can have a child by her side.

This matter has to be carefully considered.

"Mother, there will definitely be a little brother. My daughter wants to eat sweet-scented osmanthus cake. The one made by mother is the best." She coquettishly held her mother's arm.

Aunt Zhou pampered her forehead, feeling a little emotional: "It's been a long time since I made it. Okay, mother will make it for you, and there are some sweet-scented osmanthus in mother's place."

Murong Wei originally wanted to investigate, so of course she would not refuse at this moment, the two mother and daughter left Mo Garden and went to Yun Pavilion.

After arriving at Yun Pavilion, Murong Wei carefully looked at the furnishings here. The main room has a layout of one light and two darks.

Aunt Zhou asked the maid to find the sweet-scented osmanthus in her collection, and excitedly went to the kitchen to make sweet-scented osmanthus cakes, and Murong Wei checked in the room.

In the Xinuang Pavilion, there is a huanghuali Bogu shelf in the north, where some antiques are placed.To the east is a row of mahogany bookcases inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and to the west is a large round cabinet inlaid with mahogany and marble, where some calligraphy and painting scrolls are placed.There are two carved windows on the south side, and there are desks with pens, inks and papers on them.There were several pots of flowers in front of the window, when Murong Wei saw the flowers, her heart skipped a beat.

The color of the flower was so bright that it seemed a little bewildering, and it seemed to be more colorful than the flowers of other people's houses. It was swaying in the wind, and it also gave off a strange fragrance.

Murong Wei stepped forward, lowered her head and smelled it, pinched the red petals with her fingertips, and her fingertips were stained with a layer of red powder. She smelled it carefully, and her complexion changed slightly.There is a small smoker cage in the warm pavilion, and it is exuding a faint orchid fragrance, but although the smell is fresh, it is very similar to this thing.

She really didn't expect that the medicine was put on the flowers, and her mother is a person who loves flowers the most, she often cooks them herself, and adds incense, how can she not be harmed after a long time?

It's probably the same with other aunts, so it's no wonder they can't conceive!

Now Aunt Zhou came in with a smile, "Wei'er, the sweet-scented osmanthus cake will be ready soon."

"Auntie, the flowers bloom really well."

Aunt Zhou felt a little proud when she heard her boasting about her flowers: "No, the pot of orchids was sick when the master just brought them in. I took good care of them, and everyone who saw them said they bloomed well."

Murong Wei sighed inwardly, the medicined orchid bloomed well, but it was a deadly thing.It's just that Aunt Zhou obviously has a mole around her, and her father will not have any problems sending it. The flower must have been drugged here.

"Does my aunt take care of it by herself? Your incense smells really good, can my daughter ask for some to smoke the house?" Murong Wei asked with a smile.

Aunt Zhou didn't notice the abnormality, she just said: "No, there are maids watching on weekdays. This incense is sent by the mansion, if you want, let Chunlian bring some back for you."

Murong Wei covered her eyebrows and said with a smile, "That's good."

It's just that you have to find a way to make your mother stop using these things. She is used to these things, and it's hard to convince her without a reasonable reason.Maybe only my uncle's family can use it, but there is no one in this mansion who can be trusted.

In a few days it will be my uncle's birthday, so I can find an opportunity to go out to congratulate him.

Murong Wei finished her snacks, and as soon as she returned to the ink garden, Xiangtao came in with a gold-sprinkling post, and chirped, "Girl, someone from Prince Jing's mansion sent a post. It's Princess Jing's birthday tomorrow, and I invite you to come." What about the banquet?"

Murong Wei was taken aback. Prince Jing's mansion was very powerful in the Great Qin Dynasty. Concubine Jing was still the princess of the late emperor. What kind of status was that? Even if she invited people to the banquet, she should have invited the Da Furen and her legitimate son and daughter. How could she be invited as a concubine? girl go?
Yuegu opened the curtain and came in. Her eyes were a little swollen, but her complexion was not bad. When she heard the news, she couldn't help but said happily, "Congratulations girl, this is a good opportunity. There must be royal relatives there. Ladies and gentlemen, if you go to get to know some handkerchiefs, they will definitely invite you if they have some poems or something in the future, and you will have some reputation in the boudoir, and it will be good in the future..."

"Yue Gu, what are you talking about?" Murong Wei quickly interrupted her and stomped her feet, but she refused. Why are you talking about her marriage?
Xiangtao is a naughty one, she said with a smile, "Girl, Aunt Yue is right, you should hurry up and find a good son-in-law."

Murong Wei nodded her forehead and scolded with a smile: "You little hoof, are you excited? Do you want me to match you with a servant?"

Xiangtao's face flushed immediately, she turned her head and ran away: "The girl is bullying!"

Murong Wei shook her head, but her heart was full of doubts.

Ordinarily, she should not be qualified to go to the banquet, and I don't know why Prince Jing's mansion is...

It was impossible for her to refuse this kind of invitation, and it would be fine to meet her tomorrow, and she didn't need to take it seriously, but her mother's affairs were urgent.

Although she didn't take this matter seriously, the next morning, several girls were busy. Lu'er picked out a very gorgeous jacket and skirt for her, but Murong Wei shook her head, but didn't choose which one.

She chose Tianshuibi's embroidered chrysanthemum pattern shirt, and put on a silver-red flowered horse-face skirt with light green wide-sleeved trousers on the outside.Elegant and dignified, paired with a few hairpin beads that are neither outstanding nor ugly, the whole person looks neither eye-catching but not too low-key, just in the middle.

Qiu Fang was carrying her breakfast and came over. Seeing her attire, she was surprised and said, "Young lady, why don't you wear something eye-catching? This is not an ordinary mansion."

Murong Wei smiled and said: "It's just going to the banquet, there is no need."

Xiang Tao, who just came in, pouted. Although her daughter was beautiful, people said that Buddha needs gold clothes, and people need clothes, but the girl doesn't seem to care much about it.

Murong Wei had breakfast casually, and then Shi Shiran took Lu'er and Xiangtao and went out, leaving Qiufang behind to handle housework.

When they arrived at the second living room, they saw that the eldest sister Murong Lan had arrived and was chatting with the fourth younger sister Wan'er in the living room, all of them were well-dressed, much better than her.

Murong Wan'er is going too?

Murong Wei felt strange, at this time, she saw a girl in a light yellow flicking willow and floral dress smiling at her. She was a year or two older than her. People have a feeling of spring breeze, which makes people like it.

"Second sister is going too?" Murong Wei liked this elder sister quite a bit, took her arm and entered the living room, greeted the eldest sister with a smile, as if there was no conflict at all yesterday.

"Yes, eldest sister, fourth younger sister, why did Prince Jing's mansion invite us sisters this time?" Murong Yue asked with a smile.

Murong Lan glanced at Third Sister, seeing that she seemed to be fine, but felt a little bored in her heart.Murong Wan'er was also a little puzzled: "Who knows, I'm just wondering too. Except Fifth Sister who was young and didn't invite us, we were all invited. But today is a good day, tsk tsk, the third sister is wearing this dress, you Don't tidy it up properly, so don't lose the face of our house later."

Murong Wei said lightly: "There are a few sisters here, and I'm not outstanding, so why make it boring."

Murong Lan snorted, "You do understand."

Hearing this, she felt at ease, remembering that although Murong Wei has good color, she is not bad at all, and she is proficient in all kinds of piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, and being the eldest daughter, she is not comparable to this younger sister in every aspect.Why should I have the same knowledge as this younger sister, I don't have to lose my share.

Murong Wei didn't bother to fight with them, she just smiled and talked to the second sister, and the two had a very happy chat.

After a while, the woman outside came to invite her, saying that the wife and the son had already taken the car, and asked the girls to go in two cars together.

There was already a maid waiting by the side, the elder sister and Wan'er sat in the car in front, Murong Wei and the second sister sat in the rear car, together with the maid's car, a group of people left Murong Mansion in a mighty way.

Prince Jing's Mansion is one street away from Murong Mansion, and it's not too far away. The whole mansion takes up about half a street. If it's still far away, you can feel the heavy buildings are deep and undulating. A stone lion, majestic and majestic, with slave guards standing on both sides, so majestic.

Today Prince Jing's Mansion was full of joy, there were already people welcoming guests in front of the gate, elder brother Murong Fu got out of the car, but their female relatives entered through the second gate.

After getting out of the car, the lady in charge of the palace had already come to greet her.

Murong Yue frowned: "Third Sister, why do all the families seem to have a lot of daughters today?"

Murong Wei saw that it was really the case, this matter was really quite weird, it was supposed to be Princess Jing's birthday, and so many ladies from various families were invited, why?
Today, the male guests are guests in the front yard, and the female guests are all in the backyard. For a while, there are a lot of flowers and fragrances, and the surrounding fat, swallows and thin people are so thin that people can't turn their eyes away.

At this time, Prince Jing's daughter, Princess Qingli, walked over with a smile, took Murong Lan's hand affectionately and said, "My good sister, just now I told Xiang'er when you will arrive, you are today, but It takes a few poems."

Princess Qingli is fourteen years old, with a beautiful face, a pair of bright black eyes looking forward to shine, bright red lips, and an earnest smile.She was wearing the most popular peach-colored cloud brocade shirt with swastika pattern this season, a ten-panel moonflower skirt in gouache, a belt made of cloud silk, a palace sash, and a jade ring in a sachet. Strands of shark pearls from the South China Sea are round and fragrant, very rare.

Murong Lan joked: "Today is the princess's birthday, why do you ask me to write poems again, it won't be too late to write after your poetry meeting in a few days."

The eldest lady was talking to several noble ladies, and seemed to hear some news, she frowned and looked at the concubines' daughters.

Qing Li said with a smile: "Although today is my mother's birthday, she wants to take this opportunity to hold a poetry meeting. There are so many ladies from various families here today. Wouldn't it be boring not to do some poetry, painting, singing and dancing for my mother's birthday?"

Murong Lan was quite surprised, and felt that Qing Li must be hiding something from her.

Murong Wei looked around, this is said to be the backyard, but in fact there is only a garden separated from the front yard, those noble ladies have been welcomed into the back hall to sit down, only the young ladies found a place to chat in twos and threes in the garden.

On a small two-story building not far away, there was a young man who was boredly looking at the beautiful girls below, "Brother, is this a meeting gift?"

The young man was tall and tall, wearing only a simple white straight dress, with a dark jade belt around his waist. He wore a jade crown, and his black hair was tied up with a jade crown, pouring down like a waterfall, with beautiful eyebrows and phoenix eyes. Playing with the silk, it is obviously a peerless handsome face, surpassing Pan An, but it is a pity that a scar on the left eyebrow ruins the beauty, as if the white jade is slightly flawed, which is quite a pity.

The young man leaned lazily on the railing, his slender body was smooth and powerful, making him as elegant and charming as a black panther ready to go, but full of danger.That delicate face is beautiful but not bewitching. When people look at it, it is clearly a young man in a troubled world, a romantic young man. If his expression is not so beating at the moment, maybe it will be better.

"Second brother, don't you like it? Seeing the spring scenery in the garden is all for you." A deep and smiling voice came from the side, but it was a man in his twenties, dressed in autumn fragrance embroidered with gold trim, With a rhinoceros belt around his waist, sharp facial features, sword eyebrows and star eyes, and a square chin, he looks very resolute and upright. His eyes are clean and restrained, and his temples are slightly bulging. He is obviously a master of martial arts. He is slender and taller than a boy , Standing like a green pine, calm and composed, his temperament is completely different from that of a teenager, but he has a military atmosphere.

The boy rolled his eyes: "Brother, don't make fun of me. If I tell my sister-in-law that these are for you, you say..."

"Stop messing around, your sister-in-law won't believe you." The man said confidently, "Second brother, my mother and concubine treat you with good intentions."

"Yeah..." The young man's eyes were a little dark and cold, and the smile on his mouth was ironic, "My concubine loves me the most."

"Are you safe from the attack on the road?"

"I don't pay attention to those thieves. Some people don't want me to come back." The young man murmured, "Oh, after all these years, why can't they calm down? It's no fun asking me to send them to the King of Hades. "

"My son, His Royal Highness Luo Wang has come down, and is now at the gate."

The man was stunned for a while, and then he had some fun: "Oh? King Luo is here too? It seems that I should go down to meet the guests."

The young man smiled: "Brother, go first, I'm going to beg for some food from my concubine."

"Would you lose your food, isn't it true that the beauty is real?" The man joked, and then left first.

The young man was bored looking at the lady present, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "It's actually her, that's right, all the ladies from Murong Mansion are here, how could she not be here?"

His gaze was fixed on Murong Wei who was admiring the flowers with Murong Yue in a small pavilion. When he saw her talking and laughing at Yanyan, his gaze was still as clear as he saw that day, as if he could see through the heart of a clear lake.

The young man rolled his eyes, smiled and went downstairs, heaved around the flowers and trees, and turned into a deep courtyard.

A maid greeted her a long time ago, and when she entered the hall, a middle-aged beautiful woman was smiling and talking to others. When she saw the young man coming, she immediately said, "Jing Lan, come here and let your mother take a look. Is there any sweetheart for Delou to choose from?"

Xiao Jinglan curled her lips, Danfeng's eyes flashed with grievance, and she threw herself in front of the beautiful woman: "I know mother despises the child, so I want to give the child someone else and not me."

Obviously a proud man, but he was born to show such aggrieved appearance, and his beautiful handsome face was even more sad, which made the eyes of the maids standing beside him stare straight, even the two concubine sisters who were accompanying him couldn't bear it at this time. I can't help but soften my heart.

The princess couldn't help but nodded his forehead: "You are a monkey and you are being wronged in every possible way, can mother despise you? It happens that there are many ladies from various families here today. You can take a good look after a while, and if you like it, tell mother , even if you don't have it, it doesn't matter, as long as you are making trouble today, why don't you want it?"

Xiao Jinglan snorted: "Don't look at it, baby, my eyes are dazzled."

The concubine laughed and said: "Okay, let those ladies show their talents later, there must be someone you can take a fancy to, right? Let's go, Fu Niang goes over there, and you can take a good look behind there later."

Xiao Jinglan thought for a while, and reluctantly said: "Okay, let's take a look for the sake of mother and child."

"Look at you being wronged!" Wang Hao laughed and cursed, and the two concubines, the Second Miss and the Third Miss, also hurriedly followed, chatting witty words by Wang Hao's side.

After arriving at the place where the guests were received, the concubine gave Xiao Jinglan a few words to let him stay and peek in the small pavilion where no guests were being entertained, and she went to the garden with the two concubines and the maid.

Murong Wei was chatting, when she saw a middle-aged beautiful woman, wearing a peacock blue cloud satin inlaid gold silk long gown, a red gold lanthanum horse-face skirt, jeweled, very luxurious, and her appearance was also extremely beautiful. Princess Li is five points similar.

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to salute, several ladies and ladies came forward to salute, Murong Lan and Princess Qingli were also among them.

"Although today is my birthday, there is no need to be formal. Let's say today is a tea party, so you can have fun." The princess's attitude is very kind, and Princess Qingli also greeted: "Ladies, don't be cautious. Mother, I There is a suggestion, why don't we girls from various families practice our talents willingly, wouldn't it be interesting?"

All the mistresses present seemed to know something, Mrs. Murong said with a smile: "This is not bad, and it should be a birthday greeting for the princess. Let us old people also appreciate it."

Everyone echoed, some of the other ladies were eager to try, some frowned in panic, and some looked on coldly.

The throne of King Jing is so high and powerful that it is definitely not something that ordinary people can cling to in the capital.Today, apart from the royal relatives, famous families, there are also high-ranking officials from the court.Not to mention the man, most of the daughters of famous families came, and the well-informed one seems to have found out something, and at this moment he is even more interested in getting married.Even if Que Ping was not selected, it would be a credit to be valued by Princess Jing.

Murong Yue shook her head: "It doesn't look like today is a birthday, anyway, I don't want to be in the limelight."

Murong Wei said with a smile: "If my sister doesn't go, I won't go either. Wouldn't it be comfortable to watch other people singing and dancing?"

She didn't come to show off today, and her affair with Feng Yu has not subsided recently, wouldn't it make people hate her more if she shows off now, I'm afraid the rumors outside will be even worse.

Murong Wan'er was walking by, and when she heard her words, her eyes were filled with disdain: "Hmph, both of them are useless, today is the time to honor the Murong family, you two are afraid that you won't make a fool of yourself, right? "

Murong Wei was too lazy to argue with her, her eyes were full of sarcasm: "The fourth younger sister must remember to shine, otherwise she won't be the demeanor of our Murong family's daughter!"

Murong Wan'er proudly said: "Of course, you just wait and see."

After finishing speaking, he squeezed into the crowd to talk to Murong Lan, eager to play.

Some grass pavilions were made in the garden, filled with flowers. At this moment, many ladies gathered around the pavilions. The princess and others were also sitting in the nearby grass pavilions, laughing and joking while eating snacks. It was still early, not before lunch. At that time, everyone was having fun.

The maidservants of the guests were all left outside the garden, and only the maidservants of the palace shuttled back and forth in the arena. Murong Wei listened to the ladies talking about who's lady's clothes were novelty, who's pearl flowers looked good, how her makeup was, and who Talk about how beautiful and noble the concubine Shizi who just entered the garden is.Murong Wei looked at the ladies and ladies present calmly, feeling bored, but felt that the scenery in the garden was good, so she wanted to turn around by herself.

Before saying that she wanted to show off her talents, the concubine Shizi was joking and asked Princess Qingli to be the host to celebrate her mother's birthday first. After boasting, the smile didn't stop immediately.

Then the two concubine daughters of Prince Jing's mansion, Qingyan and Qingzhi also came forward to pay their respects with smiles.

At this moment, there was a rumor from outside that His Royal Highness King Luo was coming to pay respects to the concubine on her birthday.

The concubine smiled and said, "I thought he hadn't returned to Beijing, but I didn't expect to come back here, please hurry up!"

Everyone was discussing, at this moment, they saw the eldest son Xiao Jinghua leading a noble man strode through the Moon Cave Gate and came in through the shadow wall.

"It's King Luo? I heard that he followed King Jing to conquer Saibei this time and made great contributions. He is very much praised by the Holy Spirit. I didn't expect to come here to pay my respects to Princess Wang just after returning to Beijing."

Murong Wei heard what her sister said, and turned her eyes to His Royal Highness Luo Wang, but saw that Luo Wang was also eighteen or nineteen years old, wearing a simple dark purple straight dress, with a purple gold silk ribbon around his waist, and a white jade hollow chilong. Wearing a black gold jade crown in her hair, sweeping sword eyebrows, starry eyes like a lake, and high spirits.Probably because he has been on the battlefield, his whole body exudes a heroic and domineering aura. Although there is a smile on his brows and eyes, but his expression sweeps over, the majestic aura makes people involuntarily awed by him, and unknowingly uses him For the center, they stepped forward to salute each other.

From Murong Wei's impression, she heard that this King Luo was married to a wife, she was the daughter of General Zhu, but the princess was unlucky and passed away last year.Luo Wang heard that he was still heartbroken. He was ill for a long time and never remarried, but he gained a good reputation.And because of his knowledge of military affairs, he went to war in Saibei Wara this year, and made many military exploits, which won the favor of several military figures.

The corner of Murong Wei's mouth twitched with a hint of understanding, thinking that the queen has no children, and the position of the crown prince has not yet been decided, and this Second Prince is a very popular candidate.It is not surprising that acting to win the support of the military.

"My nephew pays homage to my aunt, and I wish my aunt a beautiful face forever, good fortune like the East China Sea, and a long life than Nanshan..." King Luo stepped forward to salute respectfully, and the princess smiled and helped him up: "Your Highness is so polite, I just returned to Beijing and it must be the car. Malauton, how can I trouble you to come to my birthday banquet?"

After all, the concubine is the princess of the former emperor, so she is naturally the elder of King Luo. The concubine is quite close to him, she arranged for him to sit down with a smile, and asked him when he will return, how he is and so on.

"My nephew will go back to Beijing first, so I will take Uncle Jing to celebrate my aunt's birthday."

Princess Qingli smiled and said: "Brother Luo Wang, my father can let you bring something back. He promised me to bring Saibei's treasure before."

The princess laughed and scolded: "It's fine for you to be His Highness, Your Highness is still busy with military affairs."

"If you forget anyone, you can't forget Sister Qingli. Uncle Prince Jing asked me to bring it before he left, and it has already been delivered to the mansion."

Qing Li smiled brightly, "That's great, I'll go and see what my father gave me later."

Everyone joked for a while, but the eldest son Xiao Jinghua asked with a smile: "I just heard the sound of silk and bamboo here, and the people in the front yard are very curious, saying that the mother and concubine are enjoying themselves, clamoring for everyone to have fun together."

"Brother, we are a girl's house performing a performance to congratulate my mother and concubine on her birthday!"

Xiao Jinghua glanced into the distance, vaguely saw someone in the hall, knew that his younger brother was there, glanced at Shi Zifei, Shi Zifei smiled and said: "Sister, didn't you mean to perform, don't forget Lan Er, can she still return?" I haven't moved yet, I used to like her piano sound."

"That's right, what my sister-in-law said is, Sister Lan, you can't pretend not to play." Princess Qingli held Murong Lan's arm, making Murong Lan feel a little helpless.

Luo Wang originally felt that men and women were different and it was not suitable to stay here, but there were many people who wanted to cling to him, so they said that today is a good day, and asked him to accompany and comment on the skills of the ladies, so he stayed.

Murong Lan was originally a famous lady in Kyoto, and also the daughter of the Murong family, with natural beauty and beauty.Playing a piece on the stage, the piano skills are really superb, which made Murong Wei quite admired, this elder sister really has real talents, and among the young ladies present, there are really not many who can compare to her.

The sound of the piano attracted some guests in the front yard, and many princes from aristocratic families gathered together to join in the show.They originally came with their sisters and mothers, so there is no reason not to cheer at this moment.

All the daughters were very shy, at this moment they suddenly saw a handsome young man who was as clear as a bamboo like a moon appear, and whispered continuously, it turned out to be Feng Yu.

Today he is dressed in a light blue straight dress, with emerald green half-arms open, and a jasper hairpin stuck in his hair, which makes him look like a banished fairy, elegant and dusty, and has the air of a good son in troubled times.

(End of this chapter)