Reborn Concubine Queen

Chapter 149 Seventieth Birthday
The people who came to the banquet calculated the time and arrived one after another. Shi Yiqing reluctantly held up his energy and followed Shi Zeqian and others to meet the guests in the Chunhui Hall. Beside her, he whispered to her: "Now the whole family has spread the word that your Miss Ninth is a powerful person, and she doesn't even look down on her aunt."

Shi Yiqing took a sip of ginseng tea from the tea bowl, forced a smile and said, "My sister knows me best, even if I lend Qing'er ten guts, she wouldn't dare not take my mother to heart, and I don't know what messed it up." Talking nonsense. My sister is a smart person, she wants to know what to say and what not to say."

Shi Zeqian concealed herself by wiping her mouth with a towel and said to Shi Yiqing: "I don't need my sister to remind me, I am free to measure myself. In the end, this is just a matter of your Sanfang side and has nothing to do with me. I am just worried about my sister, especially Just have a say."

"Then I will thank my sister for her kindness." After finishing speaking, Shi Yiqing turned her head and chatted with Xiao Yongqi, pretending that she had never spoken to Shi Zeqian just now.

Although the various aristocratic families in Beijing came here to curry favor with the aristocratic families, the ladies who came from the aristocratic families didn't want to know the lady from the Shi family who had returned from abroad. Comfortable, but not embarrassed.

After drinking some tea, General Ding'an's daughter smiled and asked Shi Zeqian: "Hey, where is the most beautiful woman in the world in your family? By the way, and the singer from before, why is she not here? Listen Is it true that the songwriter has become a monk?"

Although Shi Zeqian had unhappy eyes, she pretended to be indifferent, and said with a smile: "Miss Gao is joking, the tenth younger sister's singing is just for fun. Back then, grandma couldn't sleep well, but it was tenth younger sister's way to let grandma sleep peacefully." For this reason, my grandmother praised my tenth sister and rewarded a lot of things, which made our sisters very greedy. As for my sixth sister, she likes to read Buddhism. Kind and filial, I invited myself to burn incense in the temple, and brought my tenth younger sister along with me."

The young lady sitting on the side smiled and said: "No matter how filial and sincere you are to the Buddha, today is your grandmother's birthday, so you should come back and have a look, and talk to our sisters."

"Accordingly, it should be so," Shi Zeqian paused, her smile unchanged, and continued, "However, the journey is far away. I think the sixth and tenth sisters are on the way, and I'm afraid they will arrive later."

The former Miss Gao said with a half-smile: "People say that parents are here, and they don't travel far. Now it's my grandmother's birthday, but the whereabouts of the two young ladies of the Shi family are unknown. This is really strange."

As the guests pressed forward step by step, all the young ladies of the Shi family had different expressions.Because Shi Zeqian is the oldest unmarried elder sister in the mansion, and she has a strong temper, she wanted to argue with them, but she couldn't stand up from the very beginning, she was at a disadvantage everywhere, she was so depressed that she couldn't speak, but she couldn't make any noise , a pretty face suddenly white and green, but it's pretty tight.Shi Fuhao and Shi Fulao came from concubine backgrounds, if they were in private, they would dare to distinguish a few words, but now they dare not in front of everyone, for fear that the flames of war will spread to themselves.As for Shi Yiqing, although she is from the third room, and she is the half-brother of Shi Xuanxin and Shi Yunyou, but the enmity between them is the deepest, and she doesn't want to say a word about the two of them. A look on the sidelines.

The ladies from the aristocratic family who came to be guests whispered one after another, and looked at the ladies of the Shi family with wrong eyes, and the voices of whispering and whispering became louder and louder, and the noise was out of order.Unexpectedly, the young ladies of the Shi family could sit still, but Shi Zejia, who was still young, couldn't stand it anymore, with a dark face about to burst out.

Shi Zejia on the other side was about to explode, but Xiao Yongqi, who was sitting in the way of Shi Yiqing on the other side, said in a cold voice: "Hmph, a bunch of villains. If you have something to say, just ask it in front of everyone, and they don't want to answer it." Don't force yourself to answer, this is a birthday banquet, not your boudoir, muttering, it's not the behavior of a hero!"

Shi Yiqing followed everyone's blank gazes to Xiao Yongqi who was beside him, and after a while he burst out laughing, and jokingly said to her: "Everyone here is not a good guy."

One sentence eased the embarrassment in the room, and they laughed and gagged, as if nothing happened just now.

While everyone was not paying attention, Xiao Yongqi pulled Shi Yiqing out of Chunhui Hall, stood under a tung tree, and said dissatisfied: "Cousin, you are so serious, why stop me at this time!"

"You still have the nerve to say it. Let me ask you, what day is it today? You dare to get into a stalemate with everyone at this time. Madam Xiao knows, why don't you scold me to death?"

"Then you let them bully you like this?"

Shi Yiqing raised her eyebrows and said: "Which eye do you see that I am being bullied? I am Shi Yiqing, someone who can't even bully you, Yongqi Xiao, who dares to bully me? Besides, they are talking about Shi Xuanxin and Shi Yunyou anyway." Sister, it has nothing to do with me, I am not angry, why are you angry?"

Xiao Yongqi let out a long breath with a look of hating iron but not steel, and pulled Shi Yiqing around the edge of Zhonghua Lake in the upper courtyard. Instead of mentioning what happened just now, she looked around and asked: "Hey, cousin, tell me, Will Brother Mu come?"

"I don't know. But I can be sure of one thing, that is, even if your big brother Mu came, he would not come to look for you if he knew you were waiting here."

Xiao Yongqi pouted and turned around to look at Shi Yiqing, and said dissatisfiedly: "Cousin, you promised me to help me before, and now it has been a year, and you haven't even done anything, you are sorry me?!"

Shi Yiqing got a headache from her noise, raised his hand to rub his tight temples, and said with a wry smile, "When did I say I won't help you anymore?"

"Well, since you are still willing to help me, then accompany me to find Big Brother Mu!"

Shi Yiqing looked at her dumbfounded, and said in a shy voice: "Forget it, I'm afraid of you. Now, you go and sit with me in the Sijiao pavilion next to me, and I'll let the girl go find your big brother Mu. Pretending to be a chance meeting doesn't count as ruining your reputation."

Xiao Yongqi smiled and opened her eyes, clapped her hands and said yes.

After Xiao Yongqi was placed, Shi Yiqing sighed softly, took off the mutton fat jade engraved with backgammon from himself, handed it to Li Ying who was waiting with him, and said: "Take it and go to find Master Gao Qichang first, when he sees this Kuaiyu will understand that I asked you to come here. You explain the matter to him and invite him to find Mr. Mu to come here. Remember, just tell Mr. Mu that I am very interested in his last proposal and have a heart Discuss with him again, we can't meet each other on weekdays, so we have to take advantage of this matter to take risks."

Xiao Yongqi saw that Lian Ying was leading the order with Yang Zhiyu in her arms, and asked in puzzlement: "Cousin, I just want to talk to Brother Mu for a while, why make it so complicated? What's more, you also said, The more private this matter is, the better, why do you want Lian Ying to find that Gao Qichang?"

After a pause, she became more and more puzzled: "Even if you show Gao Qichang the mutton fat jade, how do you know that he will definitely help you? If you don't help you, or tell this matter, wouldn't it be ruined?" You and my name? Cousin, what do you think? Or tell me!"

Holding the folding fan, Shi Yiqing smiled calmly: "I didn't intend to hide it from you, but there are some things that are difficult to say, and I can't explain clearly for a while. When it is convenient later, I will explain everything exactly as it is." Let me tell you clearly, and I promise I won't hide anything from you again."

Xiao Yongqi pouted angrily, and after waiting for a while, seeing that Shi Yiqing really had no intention of voicing, she had no choice but to vent her anger, and said, "Forget it, I'm not the kind of person who makes things difficult for others. If you don't want to say it, I am I won't force you."

Shi Yiqing was surprised by these words, tentatively looked at Xiao Yongqi's expression, and jokingly said: "Is this still our little overlord? When did you become so reasonable?"

Xiao Yongqi blushed and raised her fist to greet Shi Yiqing.

The two were laughing and playing, and after a cup of tea, they saw a handsome young man in a bright red brocade robe with the same color on his forehead barging in, and looked at Xiao Yongqi with raised eyebrows.

Xiao Yongqi stood up from her seat with a dark face: "Mu Zhiyuan, why are you everywhere?"

The young man called Mu Zhiyuan sneered twice with his hips on his hips, and said in a male duck voice: "I knew that with such a good opportunity, you would definitely pester my sixth brother! Hmph, a mother like you Tiger, you still want to marry my sixth brother, go ahead and dream!"

Shi Yiqing never thought that this little tiger from the Mu family would also be released, so he stood up and stood between the two of them with a wry smile, fearing that the two of them would quarrel and fight, he leaned over politely and said, "So it's the ninth son of the Mu family. meet again."

Mu Zhiyuan's face turned red very quickly, his porcelain doll-like cheeks were blushing, and he said shyly, "Okay, long time no see."

Xiao Yongqi hugged Shi Yiqing's arm and pulled her away from Mu Zhiyuan, pouted and shouted unhappily: "This is my cousin, you little brat, why are you so shy!"

"You, you're just a brat!" Mu Zhiyuan frowned instantly, yelling with his hands on his hips, "You're only a few months older than me, what right do you have to call me a brat!"

Shi Yiqing looked at the two people bickering like children in front of him with a headache, and was thinking of a solution when he glanced over and saw Lian Ying leading Gao Qichang and Mu Weidao over, he was taken aback for a moment, then hurriedly turned to them The two shouted: "Xiao Qi, Mr. Mu is here!"

Xiao Yongqi, who was arguing with Mu Zhiyuan, instantly changed her image, dressed herself as a well-bred and connotative woman from a family, and hid behind Shi Yiqing with her head shrugged.Shi Yiqing was taken aback by her shy look, and Mu Zhiyuan screamed again and again, abandoning them and went straight to Mu Weidao who was about to come.

Mu Weidao saw Xiao Yongqi in the Sijiao Pavilion from a distance, and couldn't help frowning, and saw Mu Zhiyuan sneaking up first, although he was not happy, he still had a serious face and said: "You are not old. Follow uncle honestly, what are you doing here?"

Just as Mu Zhiyuan was about to complain to Mu Weidao and speak ill of Xiao Yongqi, seeing Mu Weidao scolded himself when he opened his mouth, he was stunned for a moment, and was about to speak to distinguish when he heard a cold voice carried by the wind.

"Mr. Mu, I invited Mr. Jiu to play here. I don't know if Mr. Mu doesn't like it. I'm really sorry."

Gao Qichang took two steps towards the Sijiao Pavilion with his hands behind his back, and said with a half-smile: "The Ninth Young Master joined the army with his father since he was a child, and rarely showed himself in the house. I never thought that Miss Shi would know the Ninth Young Master from the Mu family. .”

Shi Yiqing replied with a faint smile: "It's just that a few months ago, I had a relationship with the ninth son once, and now I'm acquainted with him."

"Oh?" Gao Qichang glanced at Mu Weidao with dark eyes, then looked at Mu Zhiyuan again, and said, "Miss Shi stays at home, and the Mu family and the Shi family have never had any contact. Where is it?"

Xiao Yongqi frowned dissatisfied and walked out of the Sijiao Pavilion, and said in a loud voice: "Mr. Gao is too aggressive, isn't he? Let's not talk about what this matter has to do with you. Why do you say that my cousin is not a woman?! More What's more, it happened for a reason. When my cousin came out of my Xiao's house a few months ago, she almost encountered an accident. She was seen by that little ghost and rescued. People at home, what's the matter? Is it worth you pressing so hard?"

Shi Yiqing stepped forward and pulled Xiao Yongqi's clothes secretly, and said to Gao Qichang indifferently: "Mr. Gao is suspicious, and my cousin and I don't want to guess too much, but if what you say is spread, it may destroy my Shi family. I hope Mr. Gao pays attention to his reputation."

After a pause, without talking to Gao Qichang, Shi Yiqing turned around and said to Mu Weidao: "It's my fault today, I used words to deceive the young master. From now on, the young master will be resentful or hateful, although the young master will deal with it. I am thinking about the young master in my heart. If you can talk to Xiaoqi for a while, even if you two become strangers in the future, you should speak out what is in your heart, don't hide it and let others guess."

"Cousin!" Xiao Yongqi hurriedly pulled Shi Yiqing's sleeve.

Shi Yiqing looked at Xiao Yongqi's attitude of a little girl, so she couldn't help but sighed softly, pulled Xiao Yongqi out of the Sijiao Pavilion, walked to the path, bent down to salute Mu Weidao, and said in a deep voice: "Young master has always known Xiao Qi's worship. Mr. Mu, however, avoids her everywhere, causing her to be in a vacant state of infatuation, thinking that this must not be the work of a real man, right?"

Mu Weidao looked at Xiao Yongqi who was hiding stiffly behind Shi Yiqing with a cold face, and said in a hoarse voice: "Miss secretly promised, it has nothing to do with me. I can't refuse decisively, and I can't accept it calmly. Take it as it is. I only thought that Miss Xiao came from a famous family, and I understood what I meant, but what I didn't expect was that Miss Xiao still insisted on doing it, trapping me in a place of injustice."

These words were so serious that even Yi Qing couldn't help being stunned for a moment, and subconsciously turned to look at Xiao Yongqi.A beam of light hit Xiao Yongqi's face, and that pretty and beautiful face faded instantly and turned pale.

Shi Yiqing hugged Xiao Yongqi's shoulders distressedly, and said with nagging concern: "I just said, he doesn't deserve what you do, but you just don't listen. It's all right now, are you giving up?"

Xiao Yongqi lowered her head and tugged at Shi Yiqing's sleeve, said in a hoarse voice: "Cousin, I'm ashamed to face anyone, you can take me out of here first."

Seeing that she was in a bad mood, Shi Yiqing had no choice but to nod, and said goodbye to Gao Qichang with a stiff face, but never gave Mu Weidao a look, and took Xiao Yongqi to the nearest Xiaoxiang Yuxie to sit there.

After dismissing the girl who came in to serve, Shi Yiqing personally twisted a hot towel and handed it to Xiao Yongqi to wipe her face, exhaled again and said, "Now are you giving up? What I said before, a person like Mu Weidao would never do it because of Your infatuation will be shaken."

Tears flowed freely on Xiao Yongqi's face, her face was blurred from crying, and she choked up in embarrassment: "Cousin, do you know? In fact, long before I was determined by my grandma to participate in the draft, at that time I Say to yourself, if you don’t go for a fight now, I’m afraid there will be no hope of even fighting in the end. I originally thought that with you today, even if Brother Mu is tired of my actions, he will cover up one or two, Leave me some hope, I never thought, his words are so decisive, leaving no leeway."

Xiao Yongqi raised her hand to wipe away the tears that splashed on the back of her hand, she fell into Shi Yiqing's arms in agony, and cried, "I still had dreams before, but now, I don't even have the right to dream. Cousin , why doesn't he like me!"

Shi Yiqing stroked the top of her hair with his hand, and said comfortingly: "He is a rotten piece of wood, who knows what liking is, and you have to ask him like this, isn't it embarrassing him?"

"Who are you calling rotten wood?! My brother is not rotten wood!"

Against Shi Yiqing's startled gaze, Mu Zhiyuan showed his face from the window, lowered his eyes and said coyly, "I, I'll see what you guys are doing here."

Xiao Yongqi raised a pair of swollen eyes and shouted angrily at Mu Zhiyuan outside the window: "You are also a descendant of a famous family?!"

Shi Yiqing hugged Xiao Yongqi comfortingly, and said to Mu Zhiyuan with a gloomy expression: "Master Mu, what Xiao Qi said is that this was not done by a gentleman, please leave!"

Mu Zhiyuan rubbed his nose embarrassingly, twitched the corners of his mouth in embarrassment, bowed his head and said a few words of apology, was led out of Xiaoxiang Yuxie by the light smoke, and went to the front hall.

Interrupted so recklessly by Mu Zhiyuan, the sadness in the air was mixed with a little embarrassment, Xiao Yongqi raised her hand to touch the swollen corner of her eyes, and said aggrievedly to Shi Yiqing: "Cousin, I look like this, How can you go out to meet people in a while, it's a shame!"

Shi Yiqing joked with a half-smile: "If I knew it was embarrassing now, what did I do just now?"

(End of this chapter)