Reborn Concubine Queen

Chapter 117
Mo Xian rubbed the corners of her eyes and said with a wry smile: "My good lady, sister Zhuxi agreed to Xiao's house for the old lady yesterday, and she is going to take you to Xiao's house today, I'm just afraid to tidy up now It's time to leave the house."

Only then did Shi Yiqing recall what happened last night, and looked up at the rapidly rising sun outside, pouted dissatisfiedly, got dressed and carefully combed her hair after being fiddled with by a few maids. She threw on some powdered cakes to cover up her sleepless gauntness, and was surrounded by Yingluo and others, she left the garden and went to Chunhui Hall.

The old lady woke up early in the morning, and was eating longevity noodles with bamboo breathing hands. Seeing that Shi Yiqing was wearing the white fox cloak she had given her a few days ago, her face was more and more like white jade, and she described it as delicate and beautiful. She was very happy, so she went Called Shi Yiqing to come closer, looked carefully but saw her haggard face, couldn't help feeling a little distressed, pulled into her arms and asked: "I said girl, why are you so haggard today? Why are your eyes red and swollen? But who bullied you?"

Shi Yiqing lowered her head shyly, tangled her fingers in her pockets, and said in a muffled voice: "I am the treasure of my grandmother, who dares to bully me."

The old lady saw that Shi Yiqing didn't want to say anything, so she called Mo Xian who was close to her.Mo Xian took a look at Shi Yiqing who had kept his head down and said nothing, and honestly told the story of what happened last night. The old lady couldn't laugh or cry, and embraced Shi Yiqing just yelling "heart and liver".

Because she agreed to the Xiao family yesterday, although the old lady Meng didn't want Shi Yiqing to haggle away, she couldn't, so she had someone prepare a carriage and lead Shi Yiqing out of the house.

Shi Yiqing bowed to bid farewell to the old lady, and left Chunhui Hall with the gift sent to Xiao's house, wrapped her cloak tightly and headed towards the north corner gate, before she reached the north corner gate, she heard a horse's long cry outside The sound was followed by another short horse cry.

Shi Yiqing paused.

The North Corner Gate is close to the stables in the mansion. In the past, the masters and young men of all houses liked to go through the North Corner Gate.Shi Yiqing originally planned to leave when the masters and young masters in the mansion didn't have to ride out of the mansion on horseback, but now it was a coincidence that someone came back to the mansion.

Just as he was hesitating whether to move forward or avoid it nearby, so as not to cause trouble, the north corner door that was originally covered was pushed open, Shi Yiqing couldn't avoid it, raised his eyes to follow the line of sight, and couldn't help but sigh sigh.

How could she have such a relationship with him?

After leaning over and saluting, Shi Yiqing forced a smile and called out, "Good morning, second brother."

In front of all the servants in the mansion, Shi Conghu suddenly saw that it was Shi Yiqing, and he couldn't show his face in public, so he nodded with stiff cheeks, which was regarded as a response to Shi Yiqing's greeting.The footsteps passing through the north corner gate paused slightly, and he glanced sideways at the maid who was holding the package behind Shi Yiqing, and subconsciously raised his eyebrows and asked, "Where is Ninth Sister going?"

Shi Yiqing lowered his cheeks and said politely: "If you go back to the second brother, grandma will let my younger sister go to Xiao's house to pay New Year's greetings."

Shi Conghu's face turned ugly, thinking of his mother Yang Lianxiang's cry to him last night, and comparing it with Shi Yiqing's situation, he felt that the Shi family was bewitched by Shi Yiqing and had prejudice against his mother.

This idea of ​​blaming others for everything, and thus resenting others is quite similar to Shi Xuanxin and Shi Yunyou's sisters.

Shi Yiqing secretly took a look at Shi Conghu's face, knowing that he followed Yang Lianxiang's temperament and thought in a wrong way, and he was afraid that the resentment would come to him again, so he couldn't help sighing secretly, and became more and more impatient to pay attention to him.

Just about to bid farewell to Shi Conghu, Shi Conghu gave a cold snort first, slammed his sleeves and left the North Corner Gate, hurriedly headed towards Shi Jingran's study.Presumably, he should have filed a complaint in front of Shi Jingran.

Shi Yiqing watched Shi Conghu's figure disappear into the veranda, and couldn't help chuckling.If he really is a fool, if he rashly goes to Shi Jingran to accuse the old lady of being unfair, he will probably scold Shi Conghu if he is light, but if he is serious, he will be punished.

Gloating for a while, Shi Yiqing got into the carriage and still wondered if Shi Conghu would be beaten. If Shi Jingran really beat him up, this should be the first time Shi Conghu was beaten by his father in his past and present lives. It was the second time he was humiliated and punished in front of the whole government.

While Shi Yiqing was imagining Shi Conghu's tragic appearance after being beaten, the carriage drove slowly, and soon came to Xiao's house in the inner imperial city.

Shi Yiqing entered the corner gate of Xiao's house with etiquette, did not dare to take a wrong step, followed the big girl into the door, bypassed the familiar pavilions and waterside pavilions, and entered the courtyard of the Yinshan county lord.

The Lord of Yinshan County loves to be clean, even though it is the beginning of the year, only the favored Xiao Yongqi is playing on the kang, and the other young ladies and young masters of the Xiao family don't know where they are.

Seeing Shi Yiqing coming, Xiao Yongqi was so happy that she smiled like a flower, she hurriedly jumped off the kang, jumped to Shi Yiqing's side, shook her arm and said: "Cousin, cousin, you are here!"

Shi Yiqing smiled and glanced at Xiao Yongqi who was dressed festively, and it made her look more and more delicate. He liked her very much, and couldn't help but softly said: "Little girl, congratulations on your one year older."

Xiao Yongqi smiled happily, and then pulled Shi Yiqing to bow down to the Yinshan County Lord who was sitting on it to pay New Year's greetings. Xiao Yongqi pulled up from the ground, but Xiao Yongqi pushed away Nanny's hand and pulled Shi Yiqing to stand up from the ground.

County Lord Yinshan looked at Shi Yiqing carefully, and felt that she was getting more and more attractive, although her appearance was not the best, but the temperament around her stood there, cold like plum blossoms in the cold winter, but when she turned her eyes and smiled, it was like ice and snow In her initial transformation, everything changed like her, and the Lord Yinshan couldn't see through her.

Shi Yiqing leaned over and held the etiquette and said: "Grandmother, Qing'er doesn't know etiquette. It's Qing'er's fault that Qing'er is going to see you in the mansion after the New Year is over, and grandma should send someone to remind her. She still looks at grandma Haihan." Taking the package held by Mo Xian, he leaned over and half knelt down on his knees and handed it over, "This is a five-blessing birthday bag sewn by Qing'er himself, and I hope the county magistrate will accept it with a smile."

The county magistrate smiled and waved his hand, asked the people around him to accept it, and said: "It's good for you to come, and you don't need to send any gifts. Xiaoqi, I don't blame grandma for saying you, your cousin rarely comes here during the Chinese New Year." Come on, why are you still making people kneel? Grandma, I’m an idiot, so could it be that you are also an idiot? Young girl, get up, get up!”

Xiao Yongqi pouted her red lips and said dissatisfiedly: "Grandma is really eccentric, and said she only loves Xiao Qi alone. Now that my cousin is here, grandma sees that she looks better than Xiao Qi, so I don't want Xiao Qi."

Shi Yiqing smiled and stepped forward to hold Xiao Yongqi's hand, and said softly: "Okay, you, a child who hasn't grown up, already know how to act like a baby."

The Lord of Yinshan County couldn't bear Xiao Yongqi being wronged the most. Seeing Xiao Yongqi pouted, she immediately waved her hand to let Xiao Yongqi go over to play, but Xiao Yongqi stubbornly refused to go over, just took Shi Yiqing's arm, and said with a smile: "Grandma, I I haven't seen my cousin for a long time, I want to say something close to my cousin, is that okay?"

The Yinshan County Lord was very displeased with what he said, but he couldn't say anything in front of Shi Yiqing, so he nodded with a grim expression, and asked the maid who served Xiao Yongqi to lead Xiao Yongqi and Shi Yiqing to the inner warm pavilion, Let the two sisters talk to each other.

Shi Yiqing glanced at Xiao Yongqi in surprise, and thought to himself, even if this Xiao Yongqi is spoiled, she should understand the meaning of Yinshan county lord. Doesn't she annoy Yinshan county lord by acting like this now?
Thinking in this way, when there were only two people left, Shi Yiqing asked the doubts in his heart, never thought that Xiao Yongqi, who was always sunny and innocent, would sigh with sadness on his face.

After a while, Xiao Yongqi lowered her voice and said in a voice that only two people could hear: "Cousin, no matter what grandma says later, don't easily agree to it, do you understand?"

This made Shi Yiqing even more curious.

Xiao Yongqi waved her hands with an ugly face, and said impatiently: "Don't ask any more questions. After a while, my mother will bring my brothers and sisters over to let you get to know each other. Remember my words when the time comes, or be careful Can't get out of Xiao's house."

Shi Yiqing was taken aback, seeing Xiao Yongqi's expression didn't look like a fake, and knew that the county lord of Yinshan didn't invite her here for some family banquet, maybe it was a Hongmen banquet.

Thinking in this way, and vaguely seeing someone passing by the door, she knew that County Lord Yinshan was not at ease, and let people watch the two of them talking, which made Xiao Yongqi speechless, so she had to be ambiguous Here comes such a sentence.

Now that he knew that it was not appropriate to ask more questions at this time, and Xiao Yongqi was a person who couldn't tell when Zi Wumaoyou came, Shi Yiqing felt uneasy, but she couldn't ask any more, so she had to pull Xiao Yongqi to say some heart-to-heart words about her daughter's family. Some anecdotes I heard recently made Xiao Yongqi laugh forward and backward.

Shi Yiqing watched Xiao Yongqi let go of her restless smile and said to herself, if she is really a child, she is happy to let her be happy.

The two sisters were talking, when a pretty figure turned around at the screen in the inner room, lowered their eyelashes slightly, bowed and bowed, and said softly: "Madam, please come and sit in the county lord's room."

This is Mrs. Xiao leading all the young masters and ladies over.

Mo Xian and Lian Ying, who were accompanying him, waited on Shi Yiqing to straighten the corners of his clothes and re-tie his hair, and then followed Xiao Yongqi out of the inner room, and entered the main room of Yinshan county lord through the curtain.

Shi Yiqing kept the etiquette in mind, he was unwilling to look at it and say a word, for fear of being caught by someone, he leaned over and saluted, and only after Mrs. Xiao spoke, did she dare to look at Mrs. Xiao shyly and timidly.I saw that Madam Xiao was wearing a purple gold magpie and phoenix bead crown, and a crimson gold and silver silk phoenix embroidered court dress. It was obvious that she had just entered the palace to pay her respects to the Queen Mother.

Mrs. Xiao pushed the heater in her hand to the little girl behind her, beckoned Shi Yiqing to her side, took her hand and whispered for a while, then pretended to say: "I think you just returned to Beijing not long ago, and you are so young." Those who came to Xiao’s house probably haven’t seen your sisters, have they?”

After finishing speaking, he pointed to a girl with a slender figure, delicate skin that was more snowy than snow, a face that looked like peach blossoms and dewy, shy and timid, and said: "This is your fourth sister, named Yong Si."

Pointing to a girl behind her with thin powder and daisy on her face, an upside-down bun, a golden phoenix with silk on her temples, and a gold inlaid flower on her forehead, she said gracefully and calmly, and said: "This It's your fifth sister named Yong Wu."

Shi Yiqing bowed one by one, announced his name softly, and was about to speak, when he heard hearty laughter from outside, startling the soft-spoken people in the room.Shi Yiqing went to look at Xiao Yongqi full of doubts, not knowing who acted like this.

Just as she was thinking, she heard Xiao Yongqi happily calling out: "Cousin, the Sixth Sister I told you about is here."

At this time, Shi Yiqing suddenly realized.

Shi Yiqing still remembers that in her previous life, she assisted Li Chi to ascend to the throne, and he killed all the ministers in the court who refused to submit to Li Chi. When the Qiang people who were like wolves and tigers at the border heard the news, they gathered their troops and captured him overnight. The three cities of the Li Dynasty were approaching the capital.At this time, there are not many generals who can be used in the court, and most of the imperial guards are descendants of the aristocratic families in the capital. Under the greed for life and fear of death, the entire capital is filled with a pessimistic mood.

It was at this time that Xiao Yongliu stepped forward. After taking off her hairpin skirt and changing into armor, she took the lead and went out of the city to fight, killing nine Qiang generals in a row.

That war was the bloodiest one Shi Yiqing had ever seen, and it was also the most generous and tragic one.

Shi Yiqing sometimes thinks that if Xiao Yongliu's story ends here, if her whole life ends here, she might become a great hero admired by the world, who will live forever and be praised forever.It's just that life doesn't follow the track that people expected. There is always a fork in the road that turns your whole life upside down.

In his previous life, Li Chi was grateful to Xiao Yongliu for protecting the capital, and even saved the huge Li family, so he favored her very much. He not only rewarded her husband's family with the title of permanent viscount, but also treated the Xiao family well. Excited, Xiao Yongqi was allowed to marry Mu Weidao and choose a date for marriage.

Every time Shi Yiqing thought of this, he couldn't help laughing wryly.If that incident hadn't happened back then, maybe Xiao Yongqi in the previous life followed her wish and became Mu Weidao's wife, would she be more tolerant to her, less hated, and make her end a little better?

The memory was interrupted by someone, Shi Yiqing looked along the line of sight, only to see a rose red jacket with mouse fur trimmed in the sunlight in the room, and a jasper and seven treasure hairpin was simply inserted on the head to fix the strands of hair. , the ruby ​​earrings on her ears swayed with her movements, smiling sweetly, just like a hundred flowers blooming in winter.

Xiao Yongliu stood in front of Shi Yiqing, pointed at her with a smile and asked Yinshan county magistrate, "Hey, why haven't you seen this sister?"

Mrs. Xiao on the side quickly smiled and said, "What sister? This is your cousin of the Shi family, Yi Qing who was born only a few days earlier than you. I remember you two wrestled together when you were young, how did you forget?"

Xiao Yongliu suddenly realized and smiled, and stretched out his hand with red cheeks, and said hello in a very new way: "Hi, I'm Liu'er, long time no see."

The memory in my mind flowed back to the past in an instant, the smiling face in front of me overlapped with her in the deep memory, and the cheerful voice echoed in my ears, gradually getting lower and lower, and finally turned into a desolate cry.

Shi Yiqing stretched out his hand to shake her in a daze: "Long time no see."

I should have thought about it a long time ago. I came and went in a hurry a few times before. I only saw the owner of Yinshan County, so I had to drive away and go back to Shi's house. I forgot that the young ladies of Xiao's family were all late. , waiting to be a perfect bride.

But, except for Xiao Yongliu.

Xiao Yongliu's biological mother was originally a military general, but her family was ruined, and she had to be transferred by her family to marry into Xiao's family as a concubine. She lived unwillingly for several years, and died of depression not long after giving birth to Xiao Yongliu.Xiao Yongliu inherited his mother's talent, and he is also a master who is willing to practice. He is superb at playing with a golden gun dipped in plain tassels, which is what saved the capital from being besieged back then.

However, back then, she was already pregnant with her husband's heir, and the Li Dynasty was saved in the battle outside the city, but not only did she lose her child, but she would also never be able to be a mother.

Shi Yiqing couldn't forget Xiao Yongliu's demeanor after being told about it by the imperial physician, who was suffering until the end with despair and indifference.Until later, she personally experienced that feeling. During the time when she lost her Nian'er, whenever she thought of Xiao Yongliu's empty and dead eyes, she couldn't help but shudder.

"...Sister, cousin?"

Shi Yiqing looked at Xiao Yongqi in surprise: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Yongqi looked at Shi Yiqing with an inexplicable expression, and said with concern: "Cousin, what's wrong with you? Why are you so haggard?"

Shi Yiqing forced a smile, touched his cheek, and said, "It's nothing, I guess it must be because I didn't sleep well last night."

Mrs. Xiao carefully looked at Shi Yiqing's expression with seemingly concern, and said softly: "The people who came back said that you had a good time with the ladies in the mansion last night, and drank a few glasses of wine. I think there should be no Sleep well." Saying that, she turned her head and told the girl, "Go to my yard and call Fen'er, and ask her to bring a cup of ginseng tea to Miss Biao."

The girl went away in response, Shi Yiqing had no choice but to bow down and thank Mrs. Xiao, and was about to get up and sit back on the chair, but heard the Yinshan county magistrate sitting on the soft couch calling her: "Young girl Qing, come to grandma."

Shi Yiqing had no choice but to walk up to the Lord Yinshan in small steps, and called softly: "Grandmother." Before he could say anything else, the Lord Yinshan dragged him to sit beside her.

With her silver hair coiled up high, she put her arms around Shi Yiqing's shoulders and said with a smile, "This is not a place beside you, it's also your home. You don't have to be so restrictive, just play with your sisters and sisters."

These words were repeatedly emphasized by Yinshan County Lord, but Shi Yiqing felt uncomfortable all over, and forced the smile on his face to soften, but goose bumps all over his body.

(End of this chapter)