Reborn Concubine Queen

Chapter 20
The second daughter-in-law, Jianshi, pulled Shi Yiqing's sleeves without any resistance. She seemed to be inadvertently exclaiming, but said sarcastically: "Oh, sister Xin'er, why are your sleeves so short? Look at your style, it should be Isn’t it the style of Jingzhong a few years ago? Why are you still wearing it?”

When I swiped the pen and ink just now, I was afraid of splashing on the sleeves, so I turned up the outer robe, and now it happened to reveal the short sleeves inside.Shi Yiqing pretended to be flustered and tugged at his sleeves, put down his outer robe to cover it, and blushed embarrassedly and said, "No, it's nothing."

"It's nothing, I think it's because your clothes are too short!" The delicate and naive girl opened her misty and innocent eyes wide, but she couldn't hide the schadenfreude at the corners of her lips.

As soon as these words came out, the third lady's unkind eyes fixed on Shi Yiqing, she reacted with a smile, and the chill hidden under the hypocritical and false smile approached Shi Yiqing, and said in pretended surprise: "Qing'er , what is going on here?"

The girl who had a cute face before said innocently: "Auntie, sister Qing'er is so pitiful, she doesn't even have a decent dress."

Everyone looked at Shi Yiqing with different expressions, some watched the joke and waited for the third wife Yang to make a fool of herself, and some were indifferent and indifferent, but Shi Yiqing, who stood in the center, always lowered his eyes, with a look of anxiety and guilt , as if making a mistake and confessing.

Shi Yiqing sneered secretly, if there was only this one thing today, even if the first lady and the second lady wanted to embarrass the third lady, I am afraid that the old lady Meng would not allow it, but Shi Xuanxin offended the old lady Meng first , it aroused all the negative emotions of everyone present, gradually accumulated, and finally found such a reason to explode.

Looking sideways at the old lady secretly, she thought to herself, the third lady valued her own face the most, and she was even more unwilling to lose face in front of the old lady and her sister-in-law, but since she wasn't going to make herself feel better, why should she give it to her? What face do you leave behind?Up to this point, if the third wife Yang is smart enough, she shouldn't show any disgust towards herself. If the reputation of being mean to concubine girls spreads, it will not only be detrimental to Shi Jingran's official admonition, but I'm afraid it will be even worse. It will affect the reputation of the mother clan!Thinking about it, in order to keep her son's official reputation, the old lady Meng would definitely not let the third lady Yang do anything wrong.

Just as she was lost in thought, she only heard a sneer, and the second lady said loudly with sarcasm in her eyes: "Siblings, it's been almost a month since Xin'er returned home, you haven't even prepared a decent dress for Xin'er, have you?! "

Sure enough, Shi Yiqing noticed that the old lady Meng looked impatiently, scanning everyone present one by one, and finally stopped on the third lady Yang.

At this time, the third lady's expression was a little uneasy, and she smiled awkwardly, her pretty face flushed into a pig's liver, and her eyes revealed that she was looking around in a panic, not knowing what to say.

When Shi Xuanxin stepped forward and took the initiative to cover up for his mother, Shi Yiqing turned his eyes to look and said to himself, the ancients said, mother and daughter are united, sincerity does not deceive me.

Shi Xuanxin, who is as delicate as a flower, stood in front of everyone with a very vulgar hairpin on his head, and said generously: "Mother said a long time ago that she would make some sets of clothes for the fourth sister, and she has already ordered the servants, mother." I was so busy that I forgot to ask my younger sister. If the fourth younger sister didn't receive it, it must have been delayed by the servants, but..." Turning to look at Shi Yiqing, there was a bit of pity and reproach in her eyes, only Shi Yiqing noticed the gleam in her eyes. Cold, "It's just that my sister shouldn't dress like this. If you don't give me the clothes, come and tell me or your mother. Those who know say that you are shy and timid, and dare not speak in person. Those who don't know say that your mother is harsh on you. If you lose your tongue when you go out, things that don’t exist will become possible, won’t it ruin the family style in our house?!”

These words are soft and gentle, falling into the ears of outsiders, it is completely a sister who is speaking nicely to explain the truth to her beloved sister, and uses persuasion to make her understand the truth of life.But in Shi Yiqing's view, this is undoubtedly the biggest warning.

Shi Yiqing smiled slightly, without the slightest sign of fear: "What my sister said is very true, Qing'er is not thinking carefully, but Qing'er is not the same size as the third sister, if she comes out wearing sister's clothes, I'm afraid It will even make people laugh at inappropriate clothes and offend others, otherwise my sister would have come to the door to bother me, and I definitely wouldn't have made things like this to embarrass my mother and sister."

After all, she is also a young lady from an official family. Even if she came from a humble background and is destined to be a concubine all her life, how can she wear someone else's old clothes and still look grateful?Shi Yiqing deliberately misinterpreted Shi Xuanxin's words, knowing that she didn't mean it, but using it to block Shi Xuanxin's mouth, making her even more annoyed and unable to reply. The rising anger can only be resolved internally, and she dare not Show a little bit.

Shi Xuanxin has been Shi Jingran's favorite since she was a child, coupled with her status as a concubine, even the young wives in other rooms give her face and dare not argue with her, let alone the other concubines in the mansion. Talking to her in fear and respect, has anyone she despises ever dared to turn back like this?She was annoyed for a while, but because she refused to show it in front of the old lady and other households, she suppressed it in her heart and oppressed her forcefully. Purple up.

The third lady never expected that Shi Yiqing would dare to confront herself and Shi Xuanxin in such a way. Her face changed from red in embarrassment to dark in anger, and she still had the airs of a famous family. But also resisted not to attack.After years of education in the family, the third wife insisted that she was of noble birth, and she always felt that quarreling was the work of a shrew, and she disdained it. What she wanted to do was to show power without anger, but what Shi Yiqing did now was tantamount to a slap in the face On her face, she just couldn't get angry now, and she couldn't bear it anymore.

The atmosphere became more and more solemn, and the room became quiet. Everyone lowered their eyes and raised their eyebrows with complicated expressions. On the surface, they chose to ignore the farce just now, but in private, they waited for the development of the situation and watched from the sidelines.

In fact, ever since Shi Yiqing specially wore this short coat to the banquet, Shi Yiqing had expected the present situation and the attitudes of the other rooms, so that it was so "coincidentally" that Zhu Xi knew that he was following the meditation The teacher had studied ink painting, so it was a "coincidence" to be caught with a short sleeve, and it was expected that Shi Xuanxin would come forward to help the third wife, Yang Shi, out of trouble.

Shi Yiqing had foreseen everything early in the morning, and he knew that it was not a wise move to confront the third wife, Mrs. Yang, at this moment, not to mention that he was still bearing the name of a malevolent born in February, and could not be valued by Shi Jingran. Not to mention the old lady's doting, she also knew that even if she showed incomparable obedience and let others use her as a pawn like in her previous life, the current third lady may not be able to tolerate her!

She was just betting on her own future with her life, betting on the selfishness of the old lady Meng who was unwilling to give up all the power willingly, and betting on whether the third wife Yang would fight with the Shi family for Shi Jingran's official reputation. , The reputation of the Yang family came to dispose of me!What is used is life, what is played is heartbeat.

Yinxiu, who was by Shi Yiqing's side, was already pale, and he was about to leave first, his expression was flustered, and he wanted to go up to pull Shi Yiqing's sleeve, but Shi Yiqing, who was standing in the sight of everyone, still looked as usual, his eyes were steady, indifferent Laughing, as if he had never seen the eyes of the knife that gouged out the flesh and blood of the third lady.

The old lady leaned on the soft pillow and smiled indifferently: "Third daughter-in-law, you should rectify those lazy servants, even the young lady in the mansion dared to keep her clothes, she really had the guts of an ambitious leopard! This We know it in our house, if we let outsiders who don't know know it, we still think that our Shi family's family style is not strict, and a good young lady has been wronged, so we dare not speak."

The light and fluffy sentence made the third wife, Yang Shi, overjoyed. She never expected that the old lady, Meng Shi, who had never been willing to defend her, would now simply mention it and put all the responsibility on the servants, thereby saving herself.

The third lady secretly said in admiration, Jiang is still old and hot, but she pretended to be reprimanded by the old lady, she stood below with shame, and said with a pale face: "It's because the daughter-in-law is not strict in discipline, and I still look at my mother." Appease your anger!" As she spoke, she turned around and pointed at Mama Lin, who was serving beside her, and shouted, "Kneel down!"

This sudden situation surprised everyone, Shi Yiqing turned her cheeks slightly to look at Mama Lin, sneered indifferently and said to herself, Mrs. Yang really thought well, to vent her anger on the most incompetent mother around her, one is to do it to the old lady Meng looked at it, and secondly, it was a step down for herself.

Shi Yiqing lowered his eyelashes to cover the complex thoughts in his eyes, thinking that the third wife, Mrs. Yang, was really smart, but when she thought about it, she recognized the facts in front of her, corrected her identity as the aunt's mother, and became a famous lady again. The third wife of the Shi family.As for himself, Shi Yiqing stroked his chin and looked at Shi Xuanxin thoughtfully, smiling slightly, thinking that the mother and daughter thought the same thing, he was just a concubine, and his humble status was destined to be excluded by them Suppression, trying to use such means to let myself honestly let them handle it, but now, what is missing is just an opportunity, a chance to clean up myself smoothly, but I am not in a hurry now, after all, there is still a long way to go Come on, there are plenty of opportunities, right?

The dignified and noble third lady scolded with cold cheeks: "I have ordered you to send the newly made clothes to Qing'er. How do you work? How dare you lie to others and hide the clothes secretly. Do what I say?! Originally, I thought you were brought from the Yang family, and thinking about you doing this matter would make me feel relieved, but I never thought that you would be so bold that you would not even say what I said. It can be ignored, isn't it? Qing'er is the daughter of the Shi family, the daughter of the official minister, how dare you neglect your master like this?! Let me ask you, who gave you the guts to make you behave like this!"

She paused, breathed a sigh of relief and continued to scold: "Qing'er is so innocent, what's the reason for a good-looking lady to go out in such clothes?! I think you clearly have no good intentions and deliberately want to provoke our mother and daughter The relationship between Qing'er and me made Qing'er complain about me, and it made the world misunderstand me, destroying my Shi family style, and ruining the official style of the three masters! Let me ask you, who ordered you to do all this? Tell me!"

(End of this chapter)