Empress Jinghua: The eunuch is nine thousand years old

Chapter 107 Unwilling

The scorching sun sets in the clouds, and the willow shoots rise in the moon.

Liu Anli's birthday party ended amid bursts of laughter, and the unhappiness during the day was quickly forgotten by the young people. They stayed at Liu's house for a whole day, and they returned together when the stars appeared in the night. .

Xia Zijin couldn't help Mrs. Liu's kindness to persuade her to stay, and agreed to stay in Liu's residence for one night, so she sent an attendant back to the palace to report.

The brothers of the Liu family were very happy. The three brothers and sisters chatted in Mrs. Liu's room. Mrs. Liu talked to Xia Zijin about the family's recent situation affectionately. Mrs. Liu Qin also carefully prepared barley tea and snacks for digestion. Listen quietly and say a few words from time to time.

From time to time, Mrs. Liu's spacious room let out crisp or hearty laughter, and warm candles were lit in every corner, emitting a pleasant halo.

Different from the scene of He Le here, a room in the backyard of Liu Mansion is deserted.

Sitting in front of the dressing table, Liu Xianxian tore off one of the gold ornaments and threw them on the table as if venting her anger. Shaking the hairpin endlessly to see if it was broken, she behaved in such a way that she was confused by Xia Zijin's anger.

"what……!"

She tore her hair frantically with both hands, resisting the urge to smash everything on the table to vent her anger. Those were all the cosmetics and accessories she bought with frugality. to go.

"Xia Zijin...why are you so lingering!" She cursed to herself, "I'm just being your princess in your palace, why come to Liu's house to put on a show! It's all because of you that I am Will be left out in the cold by the Liu family!"

Liu Xiangqin didn't have a daughter, and there were only Liu family brothers in the mansion. She was originally the only member of the Liu family from the younger generation. The Liu family all took a fancy to her, but since Xia Zijin appeared, everything changed!

Grandmother loves her a hundred times more than herself, and she has only seen her less than ten times, but she puts her in a higher position than herself who has been close to the Liu family for several years, not to mention the Liu family brothers, one by two. Surrounding her, cousins ​​and cousins ​​shouted so affectionately!
It was like this before, not to mention today, when she targeted herself in front of so many people during the day, and even insinuated that she was not worthy of that poor champion from the slums!
If Xia Zijin hadn't encouraged the Liu family brothers to make friends with those fledgling young people with no background, how could the Liu family have thought of marrying her to this number one scholar or that number one scholar.

She is the niece of a second-rank official, so she should be married to a prince and grandson, right?It doesn't matter how bad it is to marry Liu Anqi, at least she still likes Liu Anqi somewhat in her heart.

But whether it's Liu Anqi or anyone else, they only have that hateful Xia Zijin in their eyes, how can she be reconciled to this?
"Isn't it just that he has high means and can curry favor with people!" Liu Qianxian cursed through gritted teeth, and slammed the table hard, making her tiger's mouth numb from the shock, but she still felt puzzled.

Her resentful and angry eyes became deeper under the dim light. She clenched her fists and was thinking about something. Suddenly, a distorted and vicious smile appeared on her lips, and she got up and walked to the floor-to-ceiling pear flower wood wardrobe. With a creak, he opened the cabinet door and tiptoed to rummage through the upper shelf.

Liu Xianxian searched for a long time, found some colorful fabrics from the bottom of the grid, and found the sewing box from the drawer of the box. She laughed a few times, and took the things with great interest. Thread a needle and thread under an oil lamp.

The birds on the bushes were chirping, and the moonlight climbed into the window, but it made her face look like a villain.

"Xiaokui, what time is it?" Xia Zijin moved his numb body and asked Xiaokui beside him.

"Princess, it's already a quarter past midnight!" Xiaokui said.

Mrs. Liu, who was leaning on the soft bed, patted her knee and said, "Look at me, I'm so confused, I kept you talking until so late without knowing it."

Mrs. Liu, Mrs. Qin, went back to Liu Xiangqin's room to rest early. There were only three grandparents and the maids waiting in the room. Liu Anli opened his mouth wide and yawned. tired.

"Grandmother, please rest quickly, we should go back to the room, my cousin will go back to the palace early tomorrow morning."

Xia Zijin saw that he was a little sleepy just now, and smiled slightly.

Mrs. Liu nodded, explained a few more words, and let them go.

The servant girl led Xia Zijin all the way across the promenade. At this time, the servants in the mansion had not rested yet, and the corridors were all lit with lamps. They walked for about a hundred steps. The maid led her to a room facing the moonlight, in front of the house. A house with osmanthus trees.

Pushing the door open, the inside is almost as spacious as Mrs. Liu's room, except that there are mostly pretty colored furnishings, smoky blue hanging curtains, light crow green tablecloths, moonlight screens and curtains dyed plum green .It's just that the style of home furnishings in the room looks old, and the four ink paintings of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum hanging on the four walls have turned slightly yellow.

"Princess, this is the house where the eldest lady used to live. The old lady has ordered the servants to clean it in advance, and they will clean it every three to five days on weekdays. You can stay at ease!" The servant girl bowed respectfully. body.

There is only one eldest lady in the Liu family's servant girl's mouth, and that is Mrs. Liu's late daughter, her mother Liu Concubine.

Xia Zijin looked around at the room of the person closest to her by blood, but with a bit of sentimentality and nostalgia on her face, she nodded her thanks and asked the maid to leave.

She walked slowly around the room for a few times, caressed the small round table with half a person's height with her bare hands, and a beautiful and refined figure sitting at the table and reading to the moon appeared in her head.

At that time, Concubine Liu was also an ignorant girl in the Mood for Love. She lived where she was standing. Would she lean on the rocking chair for a nap in the lazy afternoon, would she grind and paint in her spare time, and would she sit a few steps away from her in the morning and evening? On the other side, in front of the dressing table carved from agarwood wood, do some makeup in front of the brass rhombic mirror?
Thinking of this, Xia Zijin felt that the figure in her mind was gradually moving. Even though she had never seen her mother, she was still fantasizing and missing her in the bottom of her heart.

"Ah, princess, the fairy girl in this painting looks just like you!"

Xia Zijin was staring at the half-embroidered Clivia cloth pattern on the dressing table, but she heard Xiaokui behind her scream in a low voice. a long painting.

The woman in the painting is holding the gauze lightly, with a little cinnabar red between her eyebrows, playing in the water by the stream barefoot, straightening her temples with one hand, and holding her skirt with the other, with a smile as bright as a lotus on her face.

Looking at the facial features alone, it is indeed very similar to her, but there is a difference between her eyebrows and eyes, which is carefree, gentle and tender, and a small mole on the bridge of the nose is indescribably charming.

Needless to say, the woman in this painting is undoubtedly Concubine Liu.

Xia Zijin raised her hand to caress the somewhat faded paper surface, showing a slight smile, who knows who has such a good painter, who can draw Concubine Liu's frowns and smiles so vividly.

"This is the princess' mother." Xia Zijin said softly, took the painting down from the wall behind the curtain, and looked carefully at the bright lamp.

The faint woody fragrance in the room wafts around the picture scroll and the window sill.Can people at the other end of time also feel such longing?

Falling asleep holding the portrait of Concubine Liu, Xia Zijin slept soundly all night.

In her dream, she dreamed that Concubine Liu was holding a little doll by the brook in the picture scroll, her chubby cheeks were buried in Concubine Liu's arms, with unparalleled peace of mind and attachment.

When the morning light fell on the edge of the bed, Xia Zijin's thick black and curly long eyelashes were slowly opened, and the warm and sweet dream disappeared into the distance, and she was still reluctant to part with it.

She rubbed her eyes and sat up, gently put the scroll aside, brushed her long hair that was a little messy from sleeping, because she was in a happy mood because of a good night's dream.

Concubine Liu died when she was just born. She had never experienced a scene like the one in her dream. Compared to never having it, it would be better to experience it once in her sleep.

Xia Zijin was stretching her feet into satin repair shoes when the door of the room opened with a creak, and the bud green skirt hurriedly swayed in front of her. She looked up and saw Xiaokui clenching her fists, A small face was wrinkled like a jellyfish skin.

"What's wrong with you girl, you're so angry so early in the morning?"

Xia Zijin shook his head and smiled, took off the coat on the rack and unfolded it.

"Princess! The cousin of the Liu family is really a stinky girl!" Xiaokui blurted out indignantly, looked at Xia Zijin seriously and said, "I really can't tell that she is also from the Liu family. It's far from the Liu family's young master and other elders."

Xiaokui is her most loyal girl, and she never dislikes a person for no reason, unless that person is not good for her.

"What happened to Liu Xianxian?"

Xiaokui took a step closer and whispered: "My servant got up in the morning and went to Fangfang to explain to Xiao Huanzi and other palace people the time to return to the palace this morning. After coming out, she looked around a few times as if guilty of guilt, and saw the servant girl walking over and quickly lowered her head and walked away. So the servant girl couldn't help being curious, and ran into the bushes where she came out just now to have a look, and found nothing unusual Just as I was about to leave, I found a piece of freshly dug soil under the root of the tree, with traces of shallow footprints on it, so I couldn't hold back for a while, so I picked a branch and dug it up."

"What did you dig?" Xia Zijin asked, blinking her eyes. When Xiao Kui spoke, she had already put on all her clothes, pulled up the silk, and tied the belt around her waist with a beautiful magnolia knot.

(End of this chapter)