"Qingya, what does she mean by this? What about you having a one-night stand with the king? Did you really have sex with him?"
Faced with her mother's questioning, the tears in the corner of her eyes almost fell down, but she swallowed them hard, pretending to be relaxed and looked at Fang Fei in the court, took the opportunity to roll her eyes again, and looked back. laugh.
"As for my sister, Sister Ru went a little crazy because of her marriage, so she started talking nonsense. She has been like this all this time. If you don't believe me, I asked Sister Mo Ying!"
She smiled at Mo Ying who was behind her mother, and Mo Ying immediately replied with a straight face: "Yes! Madam, the third girl has been a little crazy recently, and she often makes noises in the courtyard."
Gong Renjing shook her head, looked at Mo Ying's expression, and asked again: "Really?"
"Sister, you are worrying too much. How could my daughter do such a shameless thing? I am a lady and I will not be so frivolous.".c
"Okay! You read poetry and books when you were young, you know the virtues of women, and you know the "Women's Training", so you should understand the principles behind it."
"Yes, sister!"
Gongren picked up the "Shishuo" next to him again and happened to turn to the chapter on Huoyan. He smiled slightly and said, "I also read this book when I was a lady. The chapter on Huoyan was my favorite when I was a child. It was read that Xun Fengqian loved his wife as much as she loved him. When his wife was sick and had a fever, he would often go out to the courtyard and lie in the snow to keep himself cold. Then he would go back to the house and surround her and iron her clothes in person."
"At that time, I thought, why should I iron it myself? Why not just apply ice water on it to reduce the fever? Wouldn't it be stupid to do so? It was only later that I got married that I realized that this is something that is difficult for ordinary people to do, and it is also a human nature. It’s just a big mess.”
Qingya replied: "I actually understand the meaning. After his wife passed away, he said, "A woman's moral character is not enough, and she should focus on sex." He didn't just take the superficial meaning! "
"You are smart and understand the meaning. If his wife served others with sex and had no virtue, he would not love her so much. This chapter is to advise people not to indulge in love and female sex, but there are so many things in the world. How many people can do it?"
Qingya looked at her posture of looking up to the sky and sighing, as if she was reminiscing about the past years, so she asked tentatively: "Sister, did you and your father fall in love and get married, or is it a matchmaker?"
Kyouto did not answer, but shook his head to look at his beloved daughter's sincere eyes, sneered coldly, and replied: "I...at that time, I didn't understand love, and I was so confused that I got married at the age of seventeen or eighteen. Come over here, marry as the second wife, and bear the imperial title of the Commander-in-Chief, your father is already thirty by then!"
"Since it's your destiny, why does daddy treat my sister like this? He ignored you when you gave birth, and he has often neglected you these years?"
"There are many things that you don't know, but you will naturally get the answers later..."
She looked out of the court, and saw a cool breeze blowing away the gauze on her body.
"Qingya, next month, you are going to get married. I also have something to give you. I will call you again when I have time! I will go and see Xianke now."
She stood up and placed the "Shishuo" gently in her palms and said: "The ancient books are just a guide. Just stick to your heart and don't regret the beginning."
Another kind smile twitched at the corners of her lips. She tucked herself up and walked away, walking into the corridor with Mo Ying's support.
Qingya held the book in both hands and watched the frieze of cyan skirt disappear before her eyes. When she shook her head and came over, her mother had already walked away. Her figure, as slender as a willow, faced the autumn wind that came in front of her, walking weakly with small steps. Walking alone, it was as if the strong wind could break the waist of a willow tree. She looked at her mother's retreating back and couldn't help but feel a sore nose and tears in her eyes.
"When my sister was young, she was absolutely beautiful!" She muttered to herself and returned to the house.
For dozens of days, Qingya never left the Nuan Pavilion. She only listened to Cuihe telling some interesting things about her relatives when she was meditating on embroidery or practicing calligraphy. King Qi never looked for her again, and there was no picture of her with a flowery note. By the way, King Yong was busy preparing for the wedding and didn't come very often. For a time, the days passed easily and quickly, and it was already October in a blink of an eye.
It was cold in the north, and it would snow in October. The whole Li family was blessed by her happy event, so Li Shi ordered new cotton-padded clothes to be bought for all the servants in the house, and he also paid a lot of rewards. There was light snow falling outside that day. Qing Ya silently looked at a picture of "The King Sends His Son" in front of the table. While drawing out the lines with a pen, she gathered the fluff on her cloak, and from time to time she warmed her hands on the stove nearby.
Cui He had just returned from receiving the reward money and new clothes. She walked in with flying steps and hummed a tune. She was holding a stack of light blue robes and skirts with pink auspicious patterns in her hands. There were also two jade bracelets and silver ingots beside her.
Qingya half-raised her head and glanced at her with a pursed lips and a smile: "Are you going to receive the reward? These clothes look very nice! They match your temperament."
She lifted the pen, held it horizontally in her hand, and looked at the picture.
"Girl, you are joking. My master said that I am now the new wife's maid, so I must dress decently. I cannot let others say that my Li family is disgraceful."
She snorted softly: "Humph! Decent, how much effort he has made for his dignity!"
Cui He took the gift back, and after a while he went back to study ink for her: "Girl, I heard that the king has a son!"
Qing Ya paused and said, "It's okay if you have it. He has a lot of wives and concubines, and naturally his children surround his knees. Don't be surprised if you find it strange!"
"Both kings have them!" Cui He added.
After hearing this, she stopped, placed the pen in her hand gently on the pen rest, and sat down on the small pillar beside her with her little servant girl in hand, warming her hands in the charcoal fire.
"Just tell me!" she asked casually.
"The day before yesterday, I heard from the servant of Qi State Mansion that the lady of Jin State who is far away in Zhongjing is pregnant. She is about four months old! King Qi was very happy when he found out."
"Yeah!" She answered softly, but her mouth gradually became sour.
She took a deep breath and said, "How doted he is on Da! It's his second child, what else? Didn't he talk about the two kings?"
"Ms. Xu Guo is pregnant, more than two months old!"
"I thought you were the Pusan clan! It scared me," she pursed her lips and smiled.
"The lady from Liang Kingdom is here too!" Cui He said again.
She raised her head and looked at the flying snow outside the golden door of the table. She shook her head and walked over: "Huh, huh, huh, that's really a happy event. October is an auspicious month!"
"In ten days, it will be the girl's wedding day. I also took advantage of this gift to wish the girl a child soon after her marriage. The girl looks blessed, like a person who has many children and many blessings!" Cui He went to pray for her. She put on her cloak.
"I won't have one, and I don't want to have one with him. Children are only with the one you love..."
"The girl is talking nonsense again!" Cuihe fastened her belt.
"You just don't understand! Okay, I'm going to see my sister. You can check Xian'er's calligraphy practice for me and let him rest for a while after he finishes practicing."
"yes!"
She quickly gathered her cloak, went to the bed to get a plush armband, then lifted the curtain and left simply.
As soon as she left the Nuan Pavilion, she was greeted by a howling cold wind, which made her cheeks turn red. She looked at the former garden where all the flowers had faded. The lily flowers and reed leaves beside the waterside pavilion, and the green waterlilies and fragrant water chestnuts in the small pond were all here. The colorful flowers of the season have all fallen, and only the dead branches stand alone in the pond.
There were no koi or fish playing in the water, and there was only empty water in the pond. She took a deep breath and moved forward. In a moment, she came to the main room of Weilan Garden. Looking out from behind the curtain, Gongren was embroidering an embroidered pattern beside the embroidery bed. A picture of "Pomegranate with Ten Thousand Sons".
"Sister, you said you were looking for me, but now I'm here on my own!"
Kyouto stood up with support: "I have been doing embroidery at home these days, and I almost forgot about it."
She pulled her daughter to sit on the couch under the open window, stepped back and took a key from the drawer of the dresser, took a mahogany box from the closet, placed it on the desk case, opened the box, and a stack of The folded deed paper is placed among them.
She touched the corner of the box and said, "Ya'er, you are going to get married in a few days. Here are some deeds for the households' fields, so I will give them to you!"
She pushed the box in front of her.
"Sister, it doesn't have to be like this. Daddy has already prepared a generous dowry. There is no need for any more!" Qingya quickly waved her hand and pushed the box back.
"Your father has prepared a generous dowry because the king's betrothal gift is large, and the gift is the weight of the princess. Naturally, your father cannot lose his dignity, but these are my only gifts for my beloved daughter, and they do not count as dowry. , so that you can have a place to stay if you are wronged or bullied in the future."
She opened the box again, looked at the yellowed deed papers, and couldn't help but touch them with her hands.
, meditate for a long time.
"Here is the dowry your grandmother brought from the Wanyan family. It was very rich. I have many brothers, but one sister died young, so I was the only daughter left in the family. When I got married, your grandmother had already passed away. Ten years later, your grandfather gave me all her dowry,"
"Sister, your dowry is so valuable. It was left by your grandmother, so please keep it for yourself!"
"What should I do with it? I'm feeding the mice. Here, together with your grandmother's and mine dowry, it's not surprising that I want to build a big business like the Li family! Taizu gave your grandmother a generous sum. "The dowry," she patted the wooden lid of the box.
"Sister!" She burst into tears.
"What's wrong? You're going to be so happy, why are you so sad?"
She touched the tears in the corner of her eyes with her two fingers and said, "I can't bear to leave my sister! I always feel that I have to leave my mother to get married before I understand, and I don't even have time to live with you for a while."
Kyouto walked up to her and sat down, plucked the tassels from her forehead, shook her hand and said, "Staying in the Li family is torture. Your father will definitely make trouble for nothing. It's better to get married and be happy." life."
"Huh?" She looked at her red eyes again.
"In the past ten years, you have suffered a lot. You have experienced everything from boards and whips to freezing, punishment, fasting, and foot confinement, but you have never thought that you have not become depressed because of this, but have become more tenacious and tolerant. It is really rare. , like a girl with everyone’s style.”
She held her in her arms, looked at Qingya and sobbed against her brocade skirt, then gently stroked her black hair, and a wave of heat surged into her heart.
"The daughter that I have taught by the Ugu Lun clan is both talented and beautiful, and has good moral character. How many young masters want to be married to her? She will not be like some girls who can only act coquettishly and coquettishly, and are as useless as a scolding street woman. education,"
Hearing this, she sobbed harder and said: "Qingya, you are a smart girl, prudent and dignified. From now on, you will be a member of the royal family. You must remember that the royal family has many concubines, so they will inevitably guard an empty room alone. Don't do that. He is arrogant and strives for favor, and he does things that make him happy without doing anything."
She nodded slightly.
"With this departure, we will get deeper into the Chongmen Zhu Heng. Although I sometimes say that the king favors you, you must also remember that love has a time limit. If you lose that feeling one day, you must not cry. Human All things in the world are far more beautiful than love!"
She told Qingya, and she raised her head and picked up the box. She looked at it carefully in her hands and looked at the stacks of yellowed deed papers lying in the old box. The ink on them was a little blurry. , but you can still see clearly what is written.
She accepted this heavy love because her mother had planned it for her over the past ten years. Looking up at my mother again, I saw that the confinement period has been difficult recently, and she has become thinner and thinner. There is a little white frost on her temples, and there are shallow wrinkles around her gentle eyes. Red tears.
Today is late autumn for Xue Feifei, and her wedding is only a few days away!
