One day, on a whim, Qingya and Mingxuan drank tea at a Xiangyinzi teahouse in the downtown area of Jinan. This land of Qilu has endless scenery, so Xiangyinzi was built on the bank of the gurgling water. Come and see the green water bank covered with weeping willows and the children playing on the bank.
In this sunny season, Li Qingya was fascinated, looking at the cheerful girls on the stone bridge in the distance with willow branches. After a long time, she touched her belly again and lowered her eyebrows.
Mingxuan asked with a smile: "The fragrant drinks in this restaurant are very good. This gardenia cooked water is so comfortable to drink!"
She never replied.
She knew how much she envied those girls who took things as they pleased, laughing freely and unrestrainedly.
"Stop just looking at them. They are all going to be mothers, and you still envy them. Now you can't even choose to be a girl, right?"
She raised her lowered eyebrows, and a smile gradually appeared at the corner of her mouth: "There is no need to be envious. I envy others to be happy and comfortable, but I don't know that they are poor. They envy my dignity and glory, but they don't understand my every word and deed." We all have to be decent. Everyone has regrets in life, so why bother thinking about other people’s lives?”
"Are you open-minded?" Mingxuan smiled.
"Hey, if you can't look away, you still have to live your life, so why not live it with a smile?"
Mingxuan stopped, drank a cup of tea, poured another cup for her, and asked about Li Shi and Qingru:
"Hey, by the way, how is Sister Ru doing now? Has she married the eldest son of the Zhang family? Has my uncle taken her to Liaoyang?"
She pursed her lips and smiled: "If I want to make it easier for her, wouldn't I be a coward? Of course I would take action."
"As a human being, it's boring to worry too much about children!"
"what have you done?"
Only then did Qingya mention that Zhang Qinli had come to visit her before she came to Jinan.
(A few days before her death, Zhang Qinli was very happy when she heard that Qingya was pregnant, so she took advantage of her health to bring some good supplements to see her, and the two of them chatted in front of the bed.
"My sister really escaped from danger. The good thing is that you and the child are fine. I heard the king say it, and I can feel the pain just listening to it. My sister has really suffered. Now that she is back home, she needs to take a good rest."
After hearing this, she smiled slightly and replied.
Qinli heard her cough twice and went to cover her with a quilt. Qilang Yungong next to her touched her belly and then turned back to Zhang Qinli: "Sister, daddy said that little mistress I’m pregnant with the baby, where is it?”
"You naughty doll, your little one hasn't been born yet, why are you so anxious?"
"Well, I don't. I want a sister. I want it, so my cousin has a sister! I want it too."
When Yungong was making such a fuss, Qingya asked, "Now that I've grown up, I've forgotten. Which cousin is Qilang talking about?"
Qin Linai replied: "The eldest son of my third brother (Zhang Rubi) is called Lingye. He is a month older than Qilang, so Qilang should be called cousin. Not long ago, the third brother added a little girl named Lingye. Zhen Zhen, this guy went to see her, but he was very greedy, so he pestered his father every day to ask why he didn’t get him a Zhen Zhen.”
"I want Zhenzhen, I like Zhenzhen..." He raised his head and cried.
Seeing this, Qingya took his hand and said, "Don't worry, Qilang, Zhenzhen is in my mistress's belly and will come out soon!"
As he said this, he thought about the relationship between the Zhang family's elder brother and Qingru, and asked tentatively: "On the other hand, I remembered that Brother Rubi's wife is my aunt's daughter Gao Shi."
Qin Linai said: "That's right, it's sister Xiao Gao. She has several unmarried girls in the Gao family. Among them, the third girl in the Gao family is the most outstanding in virtue. She told my eldest brother (Zhang Rulin)! My family will have the capital of Ping Li. Got off!"
At this time, the waiter saw that her throat was hoarse at all, so he went to pour her a cup of loquat throat tea. After she drank it, she calmed down a little, reached out and put the cup down gently, with a gentle and slow movement.
After hearing this, Qing Ya narrowed her eyes, her eyebrows were slightly gentle, she thought for a while and then said: "That's how it is. I heard from people in the mansion a few days ago that my sister moved back from the Prince of England's Palace. , Brother Rulin used to visit frequently. After hearing this, I thought they
People like each other! It turns out that Brother Rulin has a wife-to-be! It turns out that the rumors are not credible! "
After hearing this, Qinli sighed softly and tilted her head. She drank sip after sip of the loquat dew in the cup, but she still couldn't open her mouth to drink any more.
Qingya deliberately asked: "Sister, are you feeling unwell? Someone call the imperial doctor to come and take a look."
"No, don't worry about it," she gestured with her hands, then turned away the waiting people with her eyes.
"How is this a rumor?... It's true. My brother has a solid temperament and has liked Sister Ru since he was a child. He never expressed his feelings to Sister Ru before she got married, so he only knew how to study and stay in the sun every day. When he realized it, Sister Ru had already married King Qi. When he returned from high school, he met Sister Ru and Li Guijia again. He expressed his feelings to his father openly and secretly, but Sister Ru rejected him several times. He just heard that his father proposed marriage to the Gao family. Zuo is just a sister who grew up together, a familiar person, a better person."
"No, now Sister Ru is in love with her brother. It's a pity that brother has already made an engagement with the daughter of the Gao family. If he regrets the marriage, dad really doesn't agree."
"It's so pitiful for both of us. I stand by my sister and hope she can finally marry the man she wants. But I think about the Zhang family. After all, my sister is pregnant with someone else's child and has been married twice. Now, if you marry into the Zhang family, it will cause disharmony among Zhang, Gao, and Li families, and you will be in a dilemma!"
When she spoke, her brows furrowed slightly, and a real expression was engraved in her eyes. She would sigh from time to time while speaking, and her face with red marks was slightly pale, which made Qinli feel distressed.
"My sister is really a kind-hearted person, with such good moral character... I should say something that I shouldn't say, but I have heard about how Sister Ru treats you. This time she treats you badly, and you still think about her like this. "My sister is really kind at heart," Qin Linai looked at her red eyes and clasped her hands tightly.
"My sister has seen how the Li family has treated you over the years. My sister is as broad-minded as the Grand Master, and she still helps the Li family overtly and secretly. If it were anyone else, she would have pointed a knife at her parents' family. Yes! Now that my sister is in a high position, she is indeed so tolerant and generous. She is indeed very virtuous."
"After all, it belongs to my sister. Blood is thicker than water. Naturally, I have to think about her. But having said that, I can no longer be selfish in this matter. I must consider my sister's family."
Qinli didn't know what it meant, so he was stunned and didn't ask anything.
"I'm afraid it will be difficult for my sister to get married. Firstly, Uncle Zhang is blocking me in every possible way. Secondly, the Gao family will definitely refuse and there will be a conflict. Thirdly, brother Rulin is the number one scholar and has a bright future. Wan Li, if you marry Sister Ru, a person who has been married twice and is pregnant with another family's baby, this will definitely make other families laugh."
Qinli listened carefully to what she said and nodded slowly.
"Now that this is happening, will the child in my sister's belly be named Wanyan! Or is it named Zhang? How will we be able to raise our heads and live a good life in the future?"
For some reason, the two of them looked at each other for a long time. Qin Linai said: "That's the truth. My sister is thinking about it, but my elder brother can't understand the truth. He is very stubborn."
"Brother Zhang is not unreasonable. Just talk it over with him. I just want my sister to be happy, but considering the overall situation, I really have to do this."
"On the other hand, the Zhang family brother made great contributions to quelling the epidemic in the capital last time. I just heard my uncle say a few days ago that he wanted to ask for a knighthood from the Holy Emperor. The Zhang family brother has such a bright future. From now on... oh, no There’s more to say, sister, you understand.”
After she finished speaking, she waved to the maid to help her lie back a little, and then combed her hanging black hair in the palm of her hand. She combed it again. Qinli seemed to understand something, and said a few words to comfort her. , so he took Yungong to resign.
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"This is what happened. After Mrs. Zhang returned that day, she returned to the Zhang family the next day. Since then, Brother Rulin has never set foot in the Li family again."
Mingxuan rubbed the strong fragrance of tea at the corner of her lips, her eyelashes fluttering: "I don't know what the elder of the family is thinking. Have you really given up?"
"Of course, yes, it will be fine if we go over the matter once! He is only in high school now, if he rashly
It would have a big impact on the Gao family to regret their marriage! He knew the position of the Gao family in the court. No matter how stubborn a person is, he will never joke about the honor and disgrace of his family. "
"Besides, if he gets married one day, if he really marries Qingru as his first wife, a woman who has been divorced twice and is pregnant with another man's child, how can he hold his head up in the court in the future?"
"There are some things that I don't need to say too much. If you just mention them casually in front of people who really care, you will get twice the result with half the effort." She began to feel proud, shaking the shiny gem hairpin on her head, and listened to the Wasi people. She played and sang babblingly, tapping time from time to time, sipping tea, and enjoying herself quite comfortably.
Mingxuan asked again: "Ya'er, what happened a few days ago, uncle, was really too much!"
"Then I won't give up easily. He cares about Qingru so much and feels sorry for her. So I want to make her feel uncomfortable, which will make daddy feel uncomfortable too. Don't worry, this is just the beginning!"
"Just don't go too far!"
"Of course I am measured. After all, he raised me, but I can't ignore what he did, let alone how he and Qingru forced my mother to death and then came to kill me. I can't forget .”
When she mentioned her mother, tears welled up in the corners of her eyes and she couldn't stop them. Mingxuan stopped asking, finished the tea, and went back to her house in Jinan with her.
In early April of the third year of Zhenyuan, the emperor visited Yehuling, Hebei, and visited Jinlian River. It was the early spring when everything was growing, and the endless grassland was reflected in his eyes. The newly built Jingming Palace complex was gorgeous and extravagant, like blossoming crimson flowers. flowers bloom in the vast wilderness.
"This place is very similar to the hunting ground in the south of Huining City. How did Zhang Hao find such a beautiful place?" Emperor Wan Yanliang stood by the golden gate under the eaves of Jingming Palace with his hands behind his back, wearing Jurchen national costumes and looking at Looking at the grassland under the afterglow of the setting sun, he asked Concubine Tang Kuo beside him.
