Chapter 12
"Your Majesty, you are teasing Sanniang." Mrs. Jia Zhao, the Duke of Sui, replied with a hearty laugh.
"Linlang, you are too self-effacing. From my point of view, after your daughter, with her family background, personality, and appearance, anyone with a wife who has an unmarried son in the family will be moved by her. "Song Taifei was boasting.
Jia Sanniang, who was pretending to be shy, almost swallowed her. The main reason is that I can’t hold it anymore.
"Good boy, what I said scared you." Concubine Song looked at Jia Sanniang, who had been lowering her head, and gently comforted you before saying, "You must be scared."
After saying this, Concubine Song took off a gold bracelet inlaid with precious stones from her wrist. She smiled and said, "This is a little compensation for me as an elder."
"If the empress wears it by her side, it must be a beloved thing. I will never dare to accept it."
Seeing Jia Sanniang's refusal, Princess Song glanced at Jia Zhao again and said, "Linlang, please give me some advice."
Mrs. Jia Zhao pursed her lips and smiled, and replied: "How can I refuse your kindness?" Jia Sanniang got the hint from her aunt, and when she turned around, she saw her aunt Jia Zhao gently nodding.
Jia Sanniang received her aunt's approval. She bowed to Song Taifei Fu and said, "I thank the concubine for her reward."
Concubine Song personally put the gold bracelet inlaid with gems onto Jia Sanniang's wrist. The filigree gold bracelet complemented the snow-white skin, and it seemed to complement each other for a while.
"In the meditation room of this palace, there are fewer people, fewer things, and fewer worries, so it will inevitably be boring." After making some comments, Song Taifei said with a smile: "Young girls can't be bored and become gossips, so they have to To be more interesting, you have to be more lively. Linlang, how about letting the girls go outside to relax and hang out for a while? "
"It's all according to your instructions, the empress." Jia Zhao replied.
"Qingque, you go out to relax with the four daughters of the Duke's Mansion. A patch of pink pear blossoms are blooming beside the hot spring pool of Daxiangguo Temple, which is also a quite unique scenery. I know the monks in the temple. After a while, you can lead the guests to enjoy the scenery." After Song Taifei called a maid named Qingque, she gave some instructions.
Qingque bowed respectfully and accepted the errand. Then Qingque walked up to Jia Yuanniang and others, bowed again, and invited the four girls from the Jia family to come out of the house to have some fun.
Jia Yuanniang stood up, and she led her three sisters to salute Song Taifei. After that, the Jia sisters said goodbye and left together.
When Jia Sanniang was about to leave the house, she heard her aunt's voice coming from behind her.
"It's too late to say so politely."
"..."
Who is Wanyan? Jia Sanniang doesn't know. All she could think of was that today's visit must have been arranged in advance. This can be heard from the words of my aunt.
After waiting for Jia Sanniang and her group to leave Jingxinzhai, Qingque kept saying witty words. She led Jia Sanniang and the sisters to enjoy the scenery and explain it at the same time.
Jia Erniang's eyes were always staring at her third cousin. If eyes could breathe fire, Jia Erniang's eyes would definitely be filled with fire.
Jia Erniang wondered if her aunt was here just to show off to her third cousin. Is Princess Song a matchmaker?
She couldn't blame Jia Erniang for guessing like this. In her heart, her eldest sister Yuanniang was destined to enter the palace and become the empress. The only unmarried girl left in the eldest house is the third sister.
Concubine Song had just praised her third sister, and her words were all related to marriage. In Jia Erniang's opinion, the concubine in the palace used matchmakers to guarantee the marriage, so the third sister's future husband's family must be a member of the royal family.
Jia Erniang thought again that she would inevitably get sulky when she was a child. She was filled with sadness and sadness. They were both daughters of the Jia family, but they had the same people but different fates.
Jia Erniang thought of something secretly told to her by her nanny, Grandma Sun, saying that her biological mother, Xiong Xiaoniang, begged her father to marry her to the Xiong family and her cousin, who was an eighth-rank Beijing official.
When Jia Erniang heard such outrageous news, she almost fell ill from anger. Fortunately, Grandma Sun comforted her, saying that this marriage would never succeed. Her father clearly rejected the idea of losing her biological mother, Xiong Xiaoniang. Xiaoniang was scolded severely, saying that Xiong Huai was able to find an eighth-rank official position in Kyoto because he followed the path of the Jia family. The Xiong family is not worthy of Jia's daughter.
Xiong Huai is the young talent Xiong Xiaoniang calls him, and he is also the whole hope of the Xiong family. At the same time, he is also Xiong Xiaoniang's nephew who wants to support her.
Jia Erniang felt aggrieved. Her biological mother, Xiong Xiaoniang, could only see her nephew in her eyes. She always wanted to draw her biological daughter's blood to feed her family's appetite.
Such a holding back biological mother, even if she comes from a so-called innocent family. The birth mother Xiong Xiaoniang’s natal family and the Xiong family are not worthy of the words “farming and studying family heirloom” in Jia Erniang’s heart.
Jia Erniang was so envious of her third cousin that her envious eyes were about to burst into flames.
"Second sister." Jia Yuanniang called out, interrupting Jia Erniang's attention.
"Big sister." Jia Erniang retracted the complicated emotions that fell on her third sister.
"Sixth sister is a little slut, look at how noisy she is, please help my sister and don't let sixth sister run away." Jia Yuanniang warned her second cousin.
"Don't worry, eldest sister, I will keep an eye on the sixth sister." Jia Erniang responded.
So Jia Liu Niang got all the attention of her second sister, and she didn't dare to play around.
Jia Sanniang looked at the cute look of the sixth sister with her little head hanging down, covering her mouth in amusement.
Beside the hot spring pool, pink pear blossoms are in full bloom on every tree. Not the usual white, but large swaths of pink. It has a festive flavor like peach blossoms, more like a hymn in the spring breeze in March.
"If you girls like it, you can pick a few branches and go back to enjoy them." Qingque gave a suggestion.
Jia Sanniang became interested, so after whispering a few words to her eldest sister Yuan Niang, she led her maids Shuxiang and Moxiang to pick pear blossoms.
Occasionally, when I enter the depths of the flowers, I can hear the chirping of birds in my ears and the tempting fragrance in my nose.
When Jia Sanniang picked several pink pear blossoms, she saw a large sea of snow-white flowers in the distance.
"Go and have a look." Jia Sanniang suggested. Shuxiang and Moxiang naturally spoke together, and they followed Jia Sanniang towards the sea of snow-white flowers in the distance.
After getting closer, Jia Sanniang saw a new scene on the back of a rockery.
"A pear tree weighs begonias." A crooked poem came to Jia Sanniang's mind.
The reality is like this. A pear tree is in full bloom on the hillside of the rockery, and at the foot of the rockery are large tracts of begonia flowers. Red, pink, white, purple, and all kinds of begonia flowers are blooming in various colors, which is very lively.
When everything happens, flowers come into people’s eyes. Jia Sanniang reached out and picked off a few crabapples.
In a small pavilion on top of the rockery, Li Heng glanced at Jia Sanniang, who was at the foot of the rockery, picking a few flowers and sniffing the fragrance of the flowers. He asked his personal eunuch Wei Jin, "Who is she?"
The emperor's face was not clear, and his heart was unhappy.
On a whim, Emperor Hongwu accompanied the third emperor's brother out of the palace. After seeing the situation around the Daxiangguo Temple, Emperor Hongwu felt even worse.
There are countless beauties in the harem, and the emperor sees all the beauties. In the eyes of the world, Jia Sanniang was beautiful, but in the eyes of the emperor, her qualifications were mediocre. It just so happened that it was such a woman who seemed ordinary to the emperor. He was delighted at first sight and fell in love with her at first sight.
Li Heng sneered in his heart. Hum, if you are charming and tempting the Lord, it will be a trap. Who is planning? His heart can be killed.
