The celebration banquet was over and it was already afternoon time; however, it was still early, so Empress Xiao showed her kindness as a landowner and invited the lady and noble lady who were attending the banquet to visit the Wencheng Palace Royal Garden.
Wencheng Hall is a palace complex that covers an extremely large area. It has a layout of front hall and back garden as a whole. The exquisite and elegant buildings in the imperial garden are stacked one on top of another, with large and small courtyards one inside another. People with poor sense of direction can easily lose their way if they walk alone. , but the main scenery of Luoyang Palace is rivers and lakes. As long as people pay attention to the flow of the river, the overall pattern will become very clear.
This kind of banquets and gatherings specifically for nvs are actually a very important way of socializing for famous families and dignitaries. Once there is a big banquet like today, the father-in-law, husband and son will arrange tasks for their nvs: good relationship, equal relationship If you are indifferent, you can let Nuju take the opportunity to strengthen your relationship; if you usually have conflicts and political disputes, let Nuju help bridge the gap. As for the out-of-town or low-level generals, let Omaki take the opportunity to get to know the important minister Ia-maki, so that they can further look for opportunities.
Others want to find a well-matched, gentle, virtuous, beautiful and generous wife for their children. For example, Dugu Min's main purpose in participating in the banquet was to find a good daughter-in-law.
There were a lot of important ministers and family members attending the banquet today, and most of them had various purposes and tasks. When Empress Xiao sent out the invitation, not one of them left.
As for Xiao Ying, Liu Rumei, Pei Shuying and others, they really wanted to go home, but their families were the protagonists of the banquets on both sides and could not leave just now. Moreover, Yang Ji was likely to be kept in the palace for questioning by the emperor, so they followed many Nvjuan came to Yuyuan.
In the imperial garden, you can see groups of married women and aristocratic women everywhere in the pavilions, small bridges and flowing water.
Since the Xiao family, Pei family, Dong Palace, Prince Teng's house and other relatives each have their own circles, they all have to communicate with their followers; Xiao Ying and others did not disturb others, but found a pavilion to talk with their own circles.
It's just that there are very few people in the center of King Wei, and even fewer can enter the palace for the banquet. Xiao Ying only has Yang Yichen's wife Du, He Tuo's wife Jia, Dugu Sheng's wife Liu, Xiao Yu's wife Dugu, and Yin Shishi's wife There are only a dozen or so people including the Zhao family, Yao Junsu's wife Zhang, Wang Xingben's wife Wen, Gao Junya's wife Jiang, Wang Bian's wife Meng, and Wang Wei's wife Yan.
In addition to the family records of the Wei Wang family, there are also the Lanling Princess Yang Awu who married Xiao Jian, the eldest Sun Cheng's wife, and Xiao Ying's biological mother Gao.
Although their number is not as large as other circles of powerful people, they are very familiar with each other. When they gather together to drink tea and laugh, they don't have so many worries and can speak more freely.
He Tuo's wife, Jia, is nearly sixty years old. Her hair is gray, but her cheeks are fair and rosy. She has been visiting the palace from time to time recently, and she also knows that Xiao Ying, Liu Rumei, and Pei Shuying are five months pregnant.
A pair of slightly cloudy eyes were full of kindness. She looked at Xiao Ying's swollen belly and asked kindly: "Princess, are you and your concubine waiting for delivery in Tokyo, or should you go back to Daxing or Zhangye?"
"I don't know, everything depends on Lang Jun!" Xiao Ying said with a chuckle: "If the saint asks Lang Jun to return to Liangzhou to take charge, then we will definitely go back to Zhangye; if the saint makes a new appointment, we sisters will stay In Tokyo, but Aying dreams of going back to Zhangye, she said Zhangye is comfortable there."
Jia sighed sadly and said with a forced smile: "Concubine Pei speaks to my heart. I also like Zhangye. If Alang had not come to the imperial court to serve as the Imperial Academy, I would not want to come to the capital."
Xiao Ying guessed that Mrs. Jia was worried that He Tuo would not do well in the upcoming national examination, so she said to her: "Aunt, you also know that my Alang always rests for a long time after fighting. If there is no emergency in Liangzhou It’s a big deal and he should stay in Tokyo for a long time.”
"If that's the case, that's great!" Jia Shi breathed a sigh of relief.
Once people get older, they no longer want to bother, but care more about peace and safety, and Jia is no exception. She witnessed the fight between her husband and Su Wei, and also escaped from death with her husband many times. When she was young, she didn't think much of it, but as she grew older and more experienced, she became afraid of the capital.
The muddy water in the capital was too deep, and her husband had a serious temper. She was really worried that her husband had been sold, especially if she didn't know it. It would be completely different if he was in Zhangye or if Yang Ji was in the capital to help him.
Princess Lanling didn't know what Jia was thinking or worried about, but she was very smart and had been in the capital for a long time. She was very familiar with the ways of official promotion. She took over the conversation and said to Xiao Ying, who was both her sister-in-law and younger sister-in-law: "The rewards and punishments of saints Obviously, Vajra Nu’s contribution to destroying the country is of great significance, and the saint is very likely to let him enter the center. From now on, you will be Mrs. Shangshu Ling.”
Xiao Ying said with a mixture of laughter and laughter: "Sister, I seem to be Mrs. Shangshu Ling now."
Everyone laughs!
Yang Ji made numerous meritorious deeds during his campaigns in the south and north. He was a prince, a minister, a general of the left and right guards, and a shepherd of Liangzhou, etc. If we calculate this one by one, Xiao Ying has a lot of titles besides Princess Wei.
"Princess, it's really lively here." Just as everyone was talking and laughing, a sudden voice suddenly came.
There was a sudden silence in the pavilion. Everyone looked around and saw Yang Xuangan's wife Zheng and an old woman with a cane turning out of the bamboo bushes outside the pavilion.
The old woman was wearing a first-grade imperial attire, and her neatly combed silver hair was fixed with a jade hairpin. Although her face was densely wrinkled and her body had some stoops, her eyes were full of sharp light, and her face was There was a dull smile on his face, but everyone could feel a hint of intimidating and powerful aura.
Seeing them arriving in style, everyone in the pavilion stood up to greet the silver-haired old lady and said, "I have met the old lady."
This old lady was none other than Yang Suhan's wife Zheng Qiye. She entered the pavilion majesticly, glanced around, and finally bowed slightly to Xiao Ying and said with a smile: "Princess, the old lady is getting old. I can’t walk anymore, can you let the old woman sit down?”
After hearing this, everyone in the pavilion felt that Yang Zheng's visitor was not good. However, Xiao Ying and Princess Lanling were the main ones here, and Princess Lanling was married, and the other party came for Xiao Ying, so she was not good either. Interjected.
Xiao Ying also felt that the other party had bad intentions, but she said with a calm smile on her face: "This is the palace garden. As the owner of the palace, the queen said that everything is free. The old lady and the duchess can take their seats. Please!"
Zheng Qiye said with a smile: "It's so disturbing."
After sitting down with his daughter-in-law, he looked at Liu Rumei, Zhang Chuchen, Murong Xianyue, Xian Yufang, and Liu Xu, and pretended to ask: "These ladies look so familiar, I don't know what to call them?"
His daughter-in-law and niece immediately took over the conversation and introduced them one by one: "Aniang, this is Princess Wei Liu, Mrs. Zhang, Mrs. Murong, Mrs. Xianyu, and Mrs. Liu. They are not outsiders to say the least. They all grew up in our house. All of them are as beautiful as gods, well-educated, and good at singing and dancing."
Zheng Qiye suddenly said: "That's it, no wonder he looks so familiar!"
After listening to the questions and answers of the two women, everyone's expressions became extremely ugly: Mrs. Zheng was right when she said that Liu Rumei and others grew up as princesses in the Chu Kingdom, but she deliberately said that she was "good at singing and dancing", which clearly meant that Wei Wei The king's concubines and concubines were just singers and dancers in their family; from this, Xiao Ying and Pei Shuying, who served the same husband as them, were not much better, they were both singers and dancers.
Xiao Ying's face remained unchanged, but she was extremely annoyed in her heart. When they were dining in the Qianyuan Hall just now, Zheng Qiye and Zheng Shi were standing next to them. The tone and tone of the words of this hateful mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were even more insinuations.
In the final analysis, they are still dissatisfied, unwilling and jealous. They mistakenly thought that Yang Ji had learned Yang Su's art of war, so when facing the members of Prince Wei's palace, they always looked down on them with a superior attitude.
If Yang Su's position as Shangshu Ling fell into the hands of Yang Xiong, Gao Jun, Su Wei, Changsun Chi, Pei Ju, Xiao Jue, Li Ziquan and others, they might not have such messy thoughts, but what they think is " The little man "Yang Ji" became a minister, and their mentality became unbalanced.
At the banquet, Xiao Ying couldn't disgrace Queen Xiao, so she didn't bother to pay attention to them, but she didn't expect that this pair of brainless mother-in-law and daughter-in-law came after them to humiliate them.
However, these self-deprecating words were not easy to accept. It was difficult for her, Liu Rumei and others to argue, so she glanced at Pei Shuying next to her.
Compared with Xiao Ying, the eldest sister in charge of the facade, Pei Shuying had no worries at all. When she saw these two bitches insulting everyone in Prince Wei's house, and saw Liu Rumei and others' pale faces, the anger in her heart had already been rising. Seeing the look the eldest sister gave him, he couldn't hold it back any longer.
However, she knew that if she used Liu Rumei and others to argue, she would not be able to argue with the other party no matter how hard she argued, so she took herself and Xiao Ying as examples: "Mrs. Zheng is so right. The eldest lady and I came from humble backgrounds, and we have nothing to do with others." Foresight, fortunately, we are broad-minded and dedicated to the common good. If we had the eyes of needles and short-sightedness, and held the saints hostage with the bones of our relatives, we would have exterminated ourselves in the world long ago."
"If we are like some old and ugly jealous women who falsely accuse their husbands of treason because of jealousy, our shameless natal family will definitely ask King Wei to divorce us, instead of being shameless and shameless and encouraging us to use our husband's family's wealth to fill our natal family. Lack of it.”
Zheng Qiye's old face suddenly darkened, this stinky girl's mouth is too poisonous!
Just when she was about to speak, Xiao Ying had already taken over and said in a gentle and gentle voice: "Old madam, my sister is outspoken and expresses her feelings. You have a broad mind and a far-sighted vision. Don't do it to yourself. Take it!"
Zheng Qiye almost vomited blood. What is the difference between this and calling someone by name?
"Old madam, I'm not talking about you!" Pei Shuying went on to say in a serious tone: "My mother-in-law once said that each generation has its own way of living. Those mothers-in-law who want to die will not survive if they cling to the power of the house. Let go, then this mother-in-law is an old thief who will bring trouble to future generations and ruin several generations. Do you think this is true?"
Isn't it just a war of words? She, Pei Shuying, is not a stranger!
"I think Aniang is right!" Xiao Ying looked at her lovely daughter-in-law, her bright eyes full of doting: "Guanyin Maid, when you and Hao'er get married, you will have to worry about family matters."
Guanyin had reached an age where she seemed to understand, and even though she didn't know that the adults were tit-for-tat, she was still shy. She blinked her bright eyes and said with a blush, "Auntie, Mr. Dong said that the king is the guide for the minister, and the father is the son. Gang and husband are wives, and Guanyin will listen to brother Hao from now on!"
"So good!"
"So sensible!"
"Princess Sui'an is so cute."
Everyone who wanted to laugh but couldn't, finally had a cathartic moment and everyone laughed out loud.
"You have been taught, you have been taught!" Princess Lanling smiled like a flower and said to Xiao Ying with great joy: "Even a child knows that the king is the guide for the minister, the father is the guide for the son, and the husband is the guide for the wife. I mean, brothers and sisters, you Don’t let your future daughter-in-law compete with you.”
"Thank you for the tip, sister!" Xiao Ying said with a bright smile on her beautiful face, "But my little sister is not very knowledgeable, but she is also a wife of the Yang family and the Xiao family, so she naturally knows that the husband should be the guide for the wife."
Princess Lanling's beautiful face showed a hint of amusement, and she continued to criticize the mulberry trees and the pagoda trees: "Since the publication of the Book of Rites of the Han Dynasty, all women in the Han family have taken seven outings as a warning. If there were frequent wars in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Naturally, no one cares about it, but the Sui Dynasty is different."
To avoid hurting her deceased mother by accident, Princess Lanling said emphatically: "To this day, only women of Hu people's origins believe in what the Puppet Qi Dynasty admired: 'It is a woman's virtue to control her husband, and it is a woman's virtue to be able to be jealous'." "
Zheng Qiye: "..."
Have I, Zheng’s daughter, and our mother-in-law and daughter-in-law become barbarians?
Xiao Ying bowed to Princess Lanling and started discussing it as if no one else was watching: "Mr. Lang once said that when you marry a virtuous wife, you should marry a virtuous wife. If you marry an unvirtuous wife, you will destroy three generations. Isn't that right?"
"That's true!" Princess Lanling blinked and said softly: "When Vajra Nu was young, he once said to Aye, 'Use history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs, use people as a mirror, you can know the gains and losses.' I am looking forward to today There is a famous family that almost died because of a jealous mother-in-law and an unkind daughter-in-law. What is even more frightening is that the situation of this family is slightly better, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law come out to act like monsters again. Women like me have this pair of mother-in-law and daughter-in-law as mirrors, and we should follow them. As a warning!”
"What sister said is absolutely true!" Xiao Ying nodded and turned to Zheng Qiye for advice: "Old madam, the juniors and others are young and ignorant. You are an elder who comes from a famous family and is well-informed. Do you have anything to teach me? ?”
When Zheng Qiye grew up, even Empress Dugumin was somewhat polite during her lifetime. How had she ever suffered such a big loss? She had never been so 'insulted' before. She laughed angrily and said, "You are such a sharp-tongued little girl, pointing at the monk and scolding the bald donkey. With such a character, I really don't know how Dugu Min got you in. One day, I really want to come and ask what happened!" "
When people are talking and laughing with their good friends, they don't like guests who come unexpectedly. This is also an important reason why Xiao Ying did not go to the Xiao family; if the visitor comes with the purpose of insulting her family, That would make people even more disgusted and hateful, and the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law in front of them are undoubtedly disgusting and hateful evil guests.
Xiao Ying was extremely unhappy and disgusted, but now she saw this old immortal scolding her mother-in-law. She couldn't bear it anymore, stared at Zheng Qiye, and said in a cold tone: "I respect your age and don't bother to argue with you; but you are ignorant and aggressive. Do you really think you are an elder? Let me ask you, do you want to fight or something?"
"A Ying..." Princess Lanling was also frightened by Xiao Ying.
"What are you afraid of? What is there to be afraid of? Even if we fight in the court, we, Prince Wei, are not afraid!" Xiao Ying stood up angrily, ignoring Zheng Qiye who was stunned and in disbelief, and ordered: "Chuchen , Xianyue, if these foolish women dare to say another word, you will slap me immediately. If they are killed or injured, it is mine."
Zheng Qiye and Zheng's faces were extremely ugly, but they didn't dare to speak in the face of Xiao Ying's fire-like eyes. They looked at Xiao Ying deeply, stood up and left.
Princess Lanling, Mrs. Gao and others were stunned: "..."
The famously tough Zheng Qiye and Zheng didn't even dare to say a word in the scene, and they left in such a disgraceful state?
This really surprised them.
To put it bluntly, Zheng Qiye and Mrs. Zheng are idiots with no redeeming qualities at all, and their strengths are bullying good and fearing evil, using power to bully others, and staying in harmony. If they encounter someone more powerful and fierce than them outside, People, then they will wilt immediately. And Xiao Ying and Yang Ji behind her were obviously the strong ones who made them wilt.
"Bitch!" Pei Shuying spat.
When everyone thought about it, that mother-in-law and daughter-in-law were really mean.
