Phoenix Fight: The First Concubine

Chapter 65 Fainted
Murong Wei thought in her heart, this girl showed all her thoughts on her face, since she was willing to speak so frankly, it was still useful.

"A virtuous person does not avoid relatives. If I have the ability, I will naturally use it."

Zhixia understood what she meant, "How dare the servants lie? The servants are useless in ordinary times, they only like to serve flowers and plants."

Murong Wei smiled: "There is nothing wrong with liking flowers and plants. If you have nothing to do, just take good care of the flowers and plants in the yard."

Zhixia agreed, with a smile on Yuanyuan's little face, which looked very cute.

Xiao Mingrui entered the room, he was still wearing a simple bunt, his body was steaming, sweat was dripping, Xiao Luzi followed behind, waiting for him to take a bath.

When he came out and changed his clothes, Murong Wei had someone prepare breakfast.

Stir-fried cabbage, fried yellow croaker, rice stems, etc. were arranged in seven or eight dishes, and two bowls of rice were filled.

Murong Wei was drinking milk, when he sat down, the milk was also finished.

"Father-in-law has sent someone here, and your eldest brother will come to pick us up to your house in a while."

Xiao Mingrui saw that there was indeed a flower tin made of gold leaf pasted on her neck, and looked at her with a half-smile.

Murong Wei pretended not to notice, after breakfast, those concubines came to pay their respects again.

Murong Wei sent someone to let them in, this time everyone seemed to be in peace.

Zhang Yuqian was also among them, her eyebrows were lowered and she occasionally looked up at Xiao Mingrui with tender eyes.

Murong Wei found it funny and sent them away.

At this time Murong Fu also came to the Palace, Xiao Mingrui heard this, and went to the Cunxin Courtyard with Murong Wei to wait.

But after a while, Murong Fu was ushered by a palace attendant.

Today he also wore a brand new sapphire blue gown with tangled branches and lotus patterns and long sleeves, and his black hair was wearing a Dongpo crown. When he saw Xiao Mingrui and Murong Wei, he stepped forward to greet him.

Murong Wei hurriedly said: "Brother, you don't need to be polite, my brothers and sisters, brother, please sit down."

Xiao Mingrui also smiled and asked Murong Fu to sit down.

Murong Fu took a look at his younger sister and saw that she looked very good, and Xiao Mingrui looked at her occasionally with tenderness, knowing that the two of them were doing well.

"Father urged me to come and pick up the prince and concubine to go back to visit relatives today. It's getting late, so it's better to go back earlier. Grandma has always been thinking about my sister."

Murong Wei thought that the old lady might be very worried about her affairs in the palace, so she hurriedly took the green wall car with Xiao Mingrui to the Chuihua Gate of the palace, brought maids, maids, guards, gifts and other things, and transferred to He got into a Zhu Ying huagai car and went to Murong's house.

Arrived in front of the main gate of Murong Mansion, the gate of the mansion has already been opened, Master Murong and Fourth Master have already greeted him at the door, and when they see Xiao Mingrui, they also need to salute.

"How dare you trouble your father-in-law to welcome you? My lord father-in-law, I am planning to go together to say hello to the old lady."

Xiao Mingrui did not put on airs of a prince, he helped Murong Duan to enter the door in a gentle and polite manner.

Murong Duan's posture was the same as usual in court, his expression was only slightly relaxed. "My lord, you are being polite. This old man is a minister, and His Highness is a prince and prince. You can't lose your etiquette."

How could Xiao Mingrui not understand what Murong Duan meant.

It is not allowed for the emperor to make friends with courtiers in private. Although they are relatives by marriage, it is not good to be too close.

"Father-in-law, I'm your son-in-law, and I'm already a son-in-law. I'm also a junior. A junior should be polite to his elders."

Murong Duan laughed and said: "The emperor and the ministers, of course the emperor comes first and then the ministers. After this, the old man dares to talk about family affairs."

Murong Wei listened to their back-and-forth conversations, and secretly thought that her father would not change the strategy of the Murong family, even if she married Xiao Mingrui.

They don't want to get involved in the prince's seizure of the heir apparent, the emperor is still in his prime.

Although the attitude is neutral, as long as you don't favor the side and has her relationship, many things will inevitably favor Xiao Mingrui.

What's more, the relationship between Murong's family and King Qi is not very good now.

Xiao Mingrui didn't get too entangled in this issue, many things can't be changed and decided in a short while.

Now that Xiao Mingrui has made up his mind, she doesn't want to persuade her not to fight.

Even after King Qi came to power, he might not be willing to let him go.

That being the case, why not fight?

Many things are always involuntary.

When we arrived at Rongshou Hall, many well-dressed maids and women had already surrounded the door, and when they saw the visitor, they quickly knelt down and saluted.

Xiao Mingrui said lightly: "Get up."

After all, he took him into the main room.

The old lady was wearing the jacket and skirt of a first-class woman, her face was flushed, and she smiled and bowed her knees to salute.

Xiao Mingrui hurriedly helped the old lady up: "Old lady doesn't need to be like this, Xiao Wang is also the son-in-law of the Xiao family, how dare you ask the old lady to salute, wouldn't you be ashamed of me?"

Murong Wei stepped forward to help her grandmother, "Grandma, you are getting old, please sit down."

The old lady smiled and said: "My lord, this is etiquette. But after all, today is the day when Sister Wei returns home, so we will act according to family etiquette."

"Naturally." Seeing that the old man was also there, Xiao Mingrui hurried forward to greet him.

The old man is still in good spirits, he is the second assistant of the cabinet, and has a high position in the court. Although he is polite to Xiao Mingrui, he is not as respectful as Murong Duan. He greeted Xiao Mingrui with a smile. .

Murong Wei looked at the people in the room from the other side, and saw that the elders were all there, and the eldest lady was also here.

Although Aunt Zhou was promoted to a second wife and also Murong Wei's biological mother, she didn't come out because she was in confinement.

Murong Fu and Yun Xia were sitting, Yun Xia looked a little pregnant now, but her complexion was fine.

Murong Guan and Murong Wan'er brothers and sisters were sitting next to each other. When Murong Wan'er saw Murong Wei, a trace of jealousy flashed in her eyes, especially when she saw that she looked so good. Xiao Mingrui took care of her even more, and even smashed her handkerchief with hatred. son.

He smiled and said, "Where's my little brother?"

The old lady said: "The child is still young, and he will not be able to see the wind for a while before confinement."

Murong Wei smiled and said, "I'll go see him later, I haven't seen him for a few days, it's weird."

Originally, according to folk etiquette, Xiao Mingrui wanted to kowtow to the chief elder, but he was a member of the royal family, so who would dare to make him kowtow.

So it was changed to serving tea.

When Xiao Mingrui served tea to the old man, the old lady, and the old lady one by one, the atmosphere became better than before.

Yunxia joked: "It's a pity that the second sister didn't come back today, otherwise the third sister would have been made fun of. You laughed at her many times before."

Murong Wei blushed and said, "Sister-in-law, why don't you say this scandal in front of everyone?"

Yunxia covered her lips and laughed, "Look, after becoming a princess, she is now thin-skinned."

Everyone chatted and laughed, the old man and the old man left here with Xiao Mingrui to go to the study, and the two Murong Fu brothers also left.

The Da Furen also ordered people to organize the banquet, and she would return in the afternoon when there was a meal left for noon.

The Fourth Madam patted her hand and said: "Look at Sister Wei's complexion, it seems that you must be living a comfortable life. Hey, why did you put gold leaf on your neck?"

Murong Wei hurriedly touched his neck in embarrassment, and said to him from left to right: "It's not that I saw someone posted it and thought it looked good, so I tried it."

She was afraid that others would think of going to other places, so she explained: "Look at the pictures of ladies on the paintings, they are all pasted with dimples, Huatian, I think it looks good, let the maid cut it, and paste it on it."

"This look is quite unique." Yunxia looked at the stars on her pink neck, "I'll have someone cut some for decoration later on."

Murong Wei breathed a sigh of relief, and heard Murong Wan'er say: "Oh, third sister, you must have been bitten by a mosquito, and you're all red. The weather is getting hotter and hotter."

Murong Wei froze immediately, seeing Murong Wan'er staring at her neck, as if innocent.

No, Murong Wei didn't notice when Xiao Mingrui planted strawberries on her body last night, it was just because of the low position that it was not obvious.

Who knew that Murong Wan'er saw it.

Yun Xia was stunned for a moment, then thought of something, looked at Murong Wei amusedly and ambiguously: "Sister, sister-in-law also has some good medicine here, why don't you just rub some on it, and you won't be able to see it soon."

Everyone has been here, so why don't they understand, seeing Murong Wei blushing and faltering, they all laughed.

Murong Wei glared at Murong Wan'er, this damn girl just wants to see her make a fool of herself!

Fortunately, as long as she is thick-skinned, she can just ignore their ambiguous gazes.

The eldest lady's eyes were cold, thinking that this dead girl is favored by her husband and son-in-law, while her daughter is in Feng's house, but Feng Yu is...

Annoyed, she thought of those two useless maids and sent them to Murong Wei's side, but they were useless at all.

Seeing that her granddaughter's head was about to drop, the old lady smiled and said, "Okay, don't laugh at her either. She's a newly married girl, isn't she so shameless?"

Murong Wei breathed a sigh of relief, stepped forward and sat down next to the old lady, "Grandmother is the best, granddaughter can't live without grandma for a moment."

The old lady laughed and scolded: "They are all married now, and they are tired of grandma!"

Murong Wei accompanied the old lady and told amusing jokes, the old lady saw that the old lady was busy with the affairs of the house, and said: "Your mother is in confinement, I think you have a lot to say to her. "

"Thank you grandma, granddaughter will come back to accompany you later."

Murong Wei really wanted to go back and see how Aunt Zhou was doing.

Although it's only been two days since she left, she is already a member of someone else's family.

She is a married daughter, so she cannot always go home.

It will not be as easy to meet in the future as it used to be.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help feeling sad.

Murong Wei was accompanied by Yun Xiang to see Aunt Zhou. At this moment, Aunt Zhou was confinement in Yunge. When Murong Wei went to the delivery room, she saw Mama Du. Mama Du was pleasantly surprised: "Miss San is back!"

Murong Wei smiled and said, "How is my mother, and how is my younger brother, are you alright?"

"Okay, everything is fine, I just kept talking about Miss." Mother Du opened the curtain and welcomed Murong Wei in.

Seeing Murong Wei coming, Aunt Zhou was also full of surprise, she was about to get out of bed, but was supported by Murong Wei: "Mother, you can't stand the wind now, you'd better lie down, fortunately, it will be the full moon in a few days."

Aunt Zhou took her hand and looked her up and down, with tears in her eyes: "Okay, you're doing well now, mother, don't worry."

Murong Wei had a sore nose, seeing that Mama Du called the nanny to bring her younger brother, Brother Chun.

This kid was sleeping, and he was still spitting bubbles from his small mouth. Murong Wei liked it a lot and made fun of it.

Aunt Zhou felt like crying.

Yun Xiang persuaded: "Today is really a good day, Second Madam should be happy."

"That's right, look at me, this is the day you come back home, I should be happy. It's a pity that I can't go out during confinement."

Murong Wei put Brother Chun next to Aunt Zhou: "Mother, look, how cute is my brother? The good days are coming. My brother and I will respect you from now on."

Aunt Zhou's eyes were full of smiles: "You, mother will be happy if you take care of yourself. Mother is fine at home, there will be no problems."

Seeing this, Yun Xiang and Mama Du left the delivery room, leaving them to talk with their mother and daughter.

When Aunt Zhou saw people leaving, she took her hand and asked, "How is the lord treating you?"

"En." Murong Wei nodded: "Don't worry, mother, he is very good to me."

Aunt Zhou sighed: "You child, I know you have always had ideas, but he is a prince, so the inner courtyard must not be peaceful, right? I heard that he also has several concubines. You are young, I I'm afraid you don't know how to be pregnant, then..."

Murong Wei whispered: "Mom, I understand. I will use contraception."

It is too dangerous to conceive a child at this age, and giving birth at this time is also a dangerous thing. Without the development of modern medicine, it is not new to die in childbirth.

She really cares about her own life.

Aunt Zhou was still a little worried: "But I'm afraid that if you are not pregnant, he will complain. If his concubine gets pregnant before you, it will be troublesome to give birth to the eldest son."

Murong Wei could only talk about him from left to right, "No, mother, I will make it clear to him first."

Seeing that she was still worried, he said, "Mother, I won't do anything I'm not sure about. Don't worry."

Seeing her confident appearance, Aunt Zhou couldn't help believing her words.

My daughter has always been smarter and more capable than her.

The two mothers and daughters talked for a while, and suddenly Madam Du's voice came from outside, with a bit of joy: "Princess, the prince is here, and he said he would come to see our second lady."

Murong Wei was taken aback for a moment, she didn't expect him to come.

This is the delivery room, it is inconvenient for men to enter, Murong Wei saw Aunt Zhou's face was a little happy, she seemed very happy, she opened the curtain and went out.

Sure enough, Xiao Mingrui was there, with Murong Fu at his side.

"My lord, you are..."

Xiao Mingrui said with a smile: "No matter what, I should come to pay my respects to my mother-in-law, but it's not very convenient now."

Murong Wei was moved in her heart, knowing that he came here for her sake.

Otherwise, with Aunt Zhou's status, he wouldn't be able to care about her.

Murong Wei's eyes flickered, "I asked someone to lift the screen at the door, and the prince just said a few words there."

Murong Fu said: "My lord, why not just follow what Sanmei said."

In fact, he is also very troubled, after all this is where his concubine lives, so it is inconvenient for him to come, but Xiao Mingrui insists on seeing Aunt Zhou, and Murong Fu has no choice.

Soon, Mother Du asked to raise the screen to block the door, Xiao Mingrui pulled Murong Wei in, and stood still in front of the screen.

"Mother-in-law, please accept my son-in-law's worship." After saying that, he bowed and bowed halfway.

Aunt Zhou hurriedly said: "My lord is really too polite, the little lady dare not accept your gift."

Murong Wei looked at Xiao Mingrui with a smile on the corner of her mouth.

"Mom, you just accept this gift from him."

Aunt Zhou was still a little apprehensive, and said after a long time: "Then I will suffer. This is the delivery room, and the prince should not stay longer. The little lady will not keep you anymore. I only hope that you and your husband will live in harmony, and the little lady has no other ideas. gone."

Xiao Mingrui nodded, and said seriously: "This king will definitely take good care of the princess, please rest assured mother-in-law."

After all, it's the delivery room, so it's not appropriate to stay longer, Murong Fu invited him out soon.

Murong Wei said goodbye to Aunt Zhou, then looked at him with a smile, "My lord, thank you very much."

"Thank you, you and I, this is what we should do." He took his wife's hand: "It's still early, why don't you invite me to visit your boudoir?"

Murong Wei thought about it, and she was a little annoyed by the thing on her neck, so she might as well go to the room and change into a high-necked dress.

Thinking of this, her beautiful eyes turned and said angrily: "It's all you, look at the mark left here, I was laughed to death just now."

Xiao Mingrui covered his lips and smiled lowly: "How can someone see such a secret?"

After hearing this, she touched the gold leaf on her neck in frustration: "I won't post this thing anymore, I want to cover it up, but let people make fun of me."

"Hahaha..." He couldn't help laughing, as she expected, she posted such an eye-catching thing, how could others not notice?

I didn't expect that it would be self-defeating, the more I was afraid of being discovered, the more obvious it would be.

Murong Wei gouged him out angrily, this guy is really annoying, it's all like this, and he still laughs at her.

If it weren't for him, would he have made a fool of himself today?
When the two couples came to Mo Garden, Xiao Mingrui had been here once, but this time they are familiar with each other.

Xiangtao followed by her side, there was already someone waiting to serve her in the garden.

The furnishings in the house are still the same as before, nothing has changed.

Except for some things like calligraphy and painting that she used to take away, most of the things are still kept.

"Xiangtao, go and find me a dress with a stand collar."

She remembered that there were still some clothes left here.

Xiangtao also knew about those marks on the young lady's neck, so she immediately pursed her lips and snickered.

Xiao Mingrui took her into his arms: "Okay, it's nothing, it's just a proof of our love as husband and wife. Besides, we're newly married, so it's nothing."

Murong Wei pressed her cheek against his chest, and said sullenly, "I just hate being looked at like a monkey."

"Hey, I'll be more careful in the future. Your skin is too tender, leaving any marks on it will be too obvious." He reached out to remove the gold leaf, "It's better to apply the medicine, I have the best one from the palace. Nine Fragrance Gel, it will be cured soon after you smear it on.”

"That's not for healing, I heard it's good for scars."

Is it too good to use it for wiping it? That thing is very precious.

"No matter how good things are, they are just for use, don't think too much about them." Murong didn't care much about these things.

For him, good things are for use. Now that his wife needs them, why keep them?
When Xiangtao found a cherry red dress with a stand-up collar, slanted breasts, pipa sleeves and makeup, Murong Wei changed it and looked at the mirror, seeing that she couldn't really see it anymore, and then put some powder on it to cover it up.

She was finally satisfied now.

After the couple had lunch, they returned to the Luo Palace in the afternoon.

Xiao Mingrui went directly to the front yard to deal with matters, while Murong Wei returned to Tianxiangyuan.

When she entered the door, she saw two maidservants watering the flowers with a water bottle. Murong Wei saw at a glance that it was the second maidservant who was sent by the Da Furen.

"My maidservant pays respects to the concubine." Nianhong stepped forward to salute in a very orderly manner, with a very low posture.

Not to be outdone, Yi Cui put down the kettle and came over.

Murong Wei said calmly, "Oh, it's you two, do your best."

Niu Hong narrowed her eyes and said: "My servant, Niu Hong, likes flowers and plants very much on weekdays, and this servant likes the errands sent by the princess very much."

Yi Cui secretly glared at Nian Hong fiercely.

Murong Wei said with a half-smile, "If you like it, just keep doing it."

Niuhong lowered her eyes and said, "Yes, thank you, Princess Wang, for your kindness."

Murong Wei didn't bother to pay attention to them, and entered the room, Xiang Tao muttered thoughtfully: "Those two girls have no good intentions, Wangfei, you can't trust them."

Murong Wei changed her clothes, sat on the kang beside the sapphire blue ice-cracked glass window, and rubbed her temples.

"You, hurry up and help Aunt Yue and the others sort out the accounts. I'll see the divided accounts in a while."

Xiangtao immediately shut up.

Murong Wei leaned against the purple floral pillow on the kang, and took a nap for a while, when there was a sudden noise outside, which woke her up directly.

When she opened her eyes, she saw Xiangyu entered the room, with a somewhat impatient face: "Princess, go and see, that Aunt Zhang fainted at our door."

fainted?

"How did she faint?"

"Wangfei, you forgot, didn't you let her walk for half an hour every day? For some reason, she walked around for a long time and came to our door, and then passed out. Who knew that she just happened to be bumped into by the prince."

Speaking of this, Xiangyu's expression became strange.

Murong Wei slightly frowned and snorted.

She didn't get dizzy in the morning or in the evening, but when Xiao Mingrui came, she would faint.

This bitter trick made it really good.

Murong Wei straightened her clothes, and said calmly, "Let someone cook some medicinal soup to prevent heatstroke, and bring a snuff bottle, let's take a look."

After finishing speaking, he came out of the room, and sure enough, he saw some people gathered in the yard looking towards the main hall.

Murong Wei's eyes were slightly cold, and she said lightly: "Don't you have to do anything?"

Everyone was startled, and quickly knelt down to plead guilty.

Murong Wei glanced at them: "I don't need unruly servants in my courtyard. If you like to watch the excitement, you can leave the palace. There are a lot of excitement on the street."

After all, he walked unhurriedly along the Chaoshou corridor to the main hall of Tianxiangyuan.

When he got closer, he saw Xiao Mingrui was frowning, and Zhang Yuqian was already sitting on a chair supported by a crying maid.

Surrounded by a few servant girls, seeing Murong Wei coming, they all looked at Murong Wei with hidden eyes.

Murong Wei sneered in her heart, did she want to use this method to make people say that she, a regular wife, can't tolerate concubines?
Abusing the concubine, causing the concubine to faint from the sun?
"My lord, seeing Aunt Zhang's flushed face, I don't know if it's heatstroke? It's very hot in the afternoon, and my sister is still wearing so many clothes. Come, help Aunt Zhang into the room quickly, and untie her clothes." , How could such a good person get heat stroke?"

Zhang Yuqian's maid, Shui Ling, shuddered under Murong Wei's menacing eyes, and said intermittently: "My aunt got the order from the princess yesterday and said she would go for half an hour. I didn't expect my aunt to faint while walking." gone."

"Wait." Murong Wei raised her eyebrows: "Are you following my order?"

She looked back at Xiao Mingrui, "My lord is going to make the decision for me, I just want Aunt Zhang to come out for a walk. There are so many shaded places in the mansion, and there are so many gardens, no matter what I can spend half an hour. Sigh , I didn’t expect that Aunt Zhang would be so honest, you said that the weather is so hot, wearing such thick clothes, that’s not going for a walk, isn’t that just asking for trouble?”

Xiangyu, who brought the things, almost burst out laughing when she heard this, and the servant girl who was waiting on the side couldn't help but laugh too.

But no, they didn't tell you to walk in the sun, and I insist on wearing so many clothes to dry, so it's no wonder I don't suffer from heat stroke!
To say it is a solid eye, I am afraid it is a lack of heart.

Shui Ling couldn't stand anymore, and retorted: "My lord, my aunt is afraid that the princess will be angry, so she dare not walk in the shade, slave girl..."

The expression on Murong Wei's face was still gentle: "Oh, is that so? Didn't I intend to let her go for a walk to benefit her body and mind? Why does she think that the princess will be angry? What are you, dare to contradict the princess in person?"

(End of this chapter)