Concubine like a house

Chapter 49
In a blink of an eye, at dusk, Mu Wang Nie Qi and Chengjun Wang Nie Jiu arrived as promised.Shen Yu, as the son of the grand emperor of Nanxi Tong, was related to the two princes, so Mrs. Tai specially invited him to come and accompany her.

Both Mrs. Tai and Shen Yu had met the two princes, but Yun Qi and Yun Xian had only met King Mu from the same city, and had never met Ninth Prince Nie Peixiao.When Yunci got married last year, there were too many guests, and the two brothers had their own tasks of entertaining guests, so they had no time to make friends with the Ninth Prince. Seeing him coming to the door today, they both wanted to get acquainted.

To show their sincerity, Yun Qi and Yun Xian waited at the gate of the mansion early on.Not long after, I saw a low-key chariot approaching from a distance, slowly stopping in front of the mansion.Then two people got out of the car, one in black and the other in purple, they were Prince Mu Nie Peihan and Prince Cheng Nie Peixiao.It's just that Nie Peixiao's life as king is still young, and now there is no fiefdom, so everyone habitually calls him "Nine Princes".

Yun Qi and Yun Xian had met King Mu many times, needless to say, they both secretly looked at the Ninth Prince.Seeing that he was eighteen or nineteen years old, he was dressed in dark purple clothes, with a tall and straight figure, black snake patterns on the skirt and cuffs, and a black silk belt tied around his waist, it can be seen that he was wearing it on a special trip, as an expression of respect for the deceased respect.

It is said that the Ninth Prince never left his flute, and a long flute has played countless songs and captured the hearts of many ladies.It's just that this Ninth Prince is not serious about fighting for fame and fortune, and has repeatedly rejected his father's marriage proposals. He said that the mansion only raises concubines, and he will never allow others to marry wives and concubines—even if it is his father. And never compromise.

The Ninth Prince was originally the youngest prince of the Nanxi Clan and the old son of Emperor Tongsheng, and because of his idleness and freedom, Emperor Tongsheng favored this son very much, so he also let him mess around.Even if the nine princes went to and from the imperial city all day long, made friends with romantic children, and set foot in the fireworks and willow alleys... Emperor Tong Sheng would still turn a blind eye.

In terms of charm, incomparable charm, femininity and ruthlessness, King Mu deserves it; in terms of elegance, handsomeness and masculinity, the Ninth Prince is even better—this is Yun Qi and Yun Xian's evaluation after comparing the two princes.

It's just that no one dares to underestimate the Ninth Prince.Because he followed his brother Mu Wang in the army when he was a teenager, and a set of "sixteen styles of cloud chasing the moon" swordsmanship was powerful in all directions. He once beheaded the leader of the Jiang clan when he was attacking Jiangdi, and he has become famous ever since. .

Thinking of this, the two brothers thought of the Fourth Aunt Tai Luanqing at the same time.If it is true, the Ninth Prince Nie Peixiao can be regarded as Luanqing's family-killing enemy.

Yun Xian came to his senses first, fearing that Nie Peixiao stood at the door for a long time, and the news would reach Luan Qing's ears, so he quickly extended his hand to invite: "You two honored guests, my mother has been waiting for a long time."

King Mu and the Ninth Prince did not show much politeness, they bowed their hands and returned the salute and entered Yun Mansion, first worshiped Yun Ci, and then went to Yinxiang Zuiyue Garden to have a banquet.With wine masters like Shen Yu adjusting the atmosphere during the banquet, a private banquet can be regarded as a joy for both guests and hosts.When the banquet came to an end, it was already the climax of the moon, so the two princes excused themselves that it was late and left the mansion.

Mrs. Tai understood that the two princes came to pay respects to Yunci, but in fact they wanted the Yun family to support King Mu in competing for the throne.She saw the intention of the two, but she just laughed it off and blocked it neither softly nor hard.

It was not until the Ninth Prince left that Chuxiu dared to come out from Zhiyanxuan.She suddenly remembered the situation when Yun Ci and her commented on "Zhu Xian Duan", and also remembered the piano that Yun Ci gave her.Since she came to Yunfu, she hasn't touched the piano for a long time, her thoughts were chaotic tonight, and she suddenly became interested in playing the piano.

Seeing the dead of night, Zhiyanxuan was asleep all the way up and down, and when he came out of Xiuxiu, he held the piano and went out under the guard of the bamboo shadow, looking for a place to play a song and express his grief.She walked around, and finally found a secluded place, which looked familiar.Chuxiu remembered that he had been here when Yunci got married, and also met a young man in purple with frivolous words.But I don't want to, I walked aimlessly tonight, and I revisited the old place.

"Madam, this is Jing Yuan." Zhu Ying reminded.

Jingyuan, if you really can afford the word "quiet", it is really very quiet.After Chuxiu realized it, the place where Xia Yanran slipped and fell into the water was the lotus pond in Jingyuan!She couldn't help looking up, it was March, and the lotus pond was barren, which added a bit of tranquility and loneliness to the garden.

"Ma'am... how about another place?" Zhu Ying was worried that Chuxiu was afraid, so she asked.

"No, it's very good here." Chuxiu was very calm, walked to the stone table in the gazebo, put down the piano instruments and began to fiddle with them.The song "Youth Tour" played in Chasing Hongyuan sounded again, not only because of her own longing for Yunci, but also for Zhuying, who listened to the song again, was deeply moved.

"The most important thing is that there are many things, things flow, and the two meet in the end.

Shallow love finally seems like, the cloud is uncertain, still in the dream soul.

Poor people, thinner than clouds, Jiahui is even harder.

Thinking about it carefully, there are many heartbroken places, which are not the same as this time. "

The melancholy sound of the piano flows slowly from Chuxiu's fingertips, infinitely affectionate and arousing.Suddenly, the faint sound of flute came from outside the wall, which is also the rhythm of this ancient song, which seamlessly blends with the sound of Chuxiu's piano!It's like two people who are playing the piano and playing the flute have cooperated thousands of times.

At the beginning, Chuxiu's thoughts were all on the qin, but she didn't find anyone who could harmonize with her qin.However, when she played the same song repeatedly, the sound of the flute outside the wall suddenly became louder and louder, like a faint sob, passing through the wall so that she could not ignore it.

With a sound of "噗", Chuxiu's hands suddenly stopped, and the sound of the piano also stopped abruptly.Zhu Ying was immersed in the continuous sadness of the qin and flute ensemble, but when he saw the sound of the qin suddenly stopped, only the sound of the flute remained, so he hurriedly went to see Chuxiu who was playing the qin.

But under the bright moonlight, Chuxiu's right index finger had a broken nail, and a piece of crescent-shaped broken nail happened to be stuck between the two strings. bridge.

"Ma'am..." Zhu Ying was a little worried.

Chuxiu slowly withdrew his right hand, lowered his eyebrows and looked at the broken armor, and said with a wry smile: "It's okay, just now I was so sad, I lost my mind and used too much force."

As soon as the voice fell, the sound of the flute outside the wall also slowly subsided, and the remaining sobs floated into the ears of Chuxiu and Zhuying, as if they were telling the anguish of no one to reconcile, and seemed to regret the abrupt end of the ancient song.Looking out of Xiuxiu, I looked at the place where the sound of the flute was coming from, and asked Zhuying, "Who could be playing the flute here?"

Zhu Ying thought for a while: "Could it be Lord Shen Xiaohou?"

"He's not good at rhythm." Chu Xiu shook his head and denied.

"That's..." Zhu Ying suddenly thought of the two honored guests coming tonight, one of them is very good at flute, even the homonym of his name is "Pei Xiao".But, will it be the Ninth Prince?He had clearly left by car... Could it be that he knew Chuxiu's true identity and came here to express his feelings?
Zhu Ying decided to hide what was in her mind, so she replied perfunctorily: "Maybe the young master of some family can't sleep at night, and after hearing this good song from Madam, she was touched and felt sad, so she played the flute to make peace with her."

"Really?" Chuxiu looked at the courtyard wall in the distance with shining eyes, a beautiful face under the moonlight that seemed to be radiant, but also sad and lonely, "I think this person who plays the flute has a story. , it seems that there is a sadness in my heart. Or is it emptiness?"

What she said was more like a whisper, a little low and soft, Zhu Ying didn't hear the last words clearly, so she replied: "This subordinate doesn't know the rhythm, and can't tell the mood of the flute player."

"If you don't know the melody, how can you have a sad look on your face, where sadness comes from?" Chuxiu looked at Zhuying sideways, and asked in confusion.

Bamboo Shadow pondered for a moment, and then said truthfully: "That day when you were chasing the Rainbow Garden, Madam, when you were playing this song at night, this subordinate was accompanying the master, and happened to walk outside your room."

Hearing this, Chuxiu immediately closed her eyes, trying not to let the tears fall.Just like the libretto, "Shallow love ends up like, the cloud is uncertain, still in the soul of a dream", she and Yun Ci really only meet in a dream!Every time she thinks of this, the feeling of heartbreak is about to tear her apart.

There was another burst of uncontrollable pain in her heart, Chuxiu stroked her heart, and sighed: "Go back." She stood up while speaking, twisted the piece of armor from the strings, and was about to put away the piano and leave, but she heard the wall. There was another flute sound outside.

Has the person who played the flute left yet?Chuxiu listened carefully, this time, another ancient song was heard, but it stopped suddenly in the middle of playing.It's just that where there was a pause, it happened to be a libretto - "A thousand miles away, I ask Jun'an, I'm speechless, but I'm alright?"

Chuxiu's hand holding the piano paused, and she sensed the worry of the flute player.Presumably that person heard the sound of the piano that stopped abruptly, and waited for a long time for no replay, so he played the song and asked?
With such a delicate mind, it can be seen that she is a woman.Chuxiu thought that he should respond to the tacit understanding of the piano and flute alone.What's more, the flute player has been waiting outside the wall.Thinking of this, Chuxiu sat down in front of the stone table again, and slowly raised his voice to respond.She played a minor tune "One World's Peace", which was short and not cheerful, and she played it steadily and flatly, just as she wanted to express at the moment—it was considered safe.

Because of a broken nail on his right hand, Chuxiu felt a little weak when playing this piece.But after all, the piece was not long, and she could barely finish it. At the end, she made a swipe on the end note and played a legato for the end, which was her thanks to the flute player.

Sure enough, as soon as the sound of the piano fell, the sound of the flute outside the wall sounded again, only three or five syllables, like an oriole singing green, and like a warm wind in mid-spring, it seemed to encourage those who played the piano.Hearing the news of Chuxiu, he smiled sincerely for the first time tonight, and slowly put away the instrument and said to Zhuying, "Go back."

Because of the tacit understanding, concern and encouragement conveyed in the sound of the night flute, Chuxiu fell into a deep sleep for the first time after Yunci's death, without waking up in the middle of the night, let alone tossing and turning insomnia.

But the flute player outside the wall was not so lucky.Nie Peixiao drank some wine at Yun Mansion tonight, and when she thought of Yun Ci's untimely death, she was hooked by that drunkenness, and suddenly felt a little emotional and melancholy.Nie Peixiao asked herself that she was not familiar with Yunci, but she and Shen Yu were good friends in Jingzhou, not to mention that Shen Yu was the adopted son of his father, and he had a brotherly friendship with him.He had heard Shen Yu mention the origin of Yun Ci's leg disease earlier, and he also had some admiration for Yun Ci.

When Yun Ci got married, he was ordered by his father to come to congratulate him, and he took advantage of the opportunity to visit Seventh Brother.

Even though Yunci had been laughing and toasting all night during his big wedding, Nie Peixiao felt that Yunci was not joyful from the bottom of his heart, and this marriage must be a so-called marriage.Thinking about this at the time, he felt that he had seen his own future, and he might not be able to escape the fate of "marriage with power".

At that time, the more he thought about it, the more he felt uncomfortable, so he sneaked out from the wedding banquet, looking for a secluded place to drink and have fun alone, but when he was about to get up, he was interrupted by a woman...

Thinking of this, Nie Peixiao couldn't help sighing.He never thought that Yun Ci would die in just seven months!He originally wanted to have a deep friendship with Yun Ci, but he didn't know that the first meeting was a newlywed, and the second meeting turned into a dead soul...

When he came to Yun Mansion again tonight, his original intention was to go to that garden again, and pay tribute to his state of mind at that time.However, the atmosphere at the banquet was delicate, and he really couldn't find a chance to escape, so he had no choice but to let his seventh elder brother Mu Wang go back to the mansion first after leaving Yun Mansion, while he abandoned the car and walked, with his personal guards, groping for the garden according to his memory outside.

It's just that I don't want to think that this time, someone is playing the piano inside the courtyard wall, sad and powerless, mixed with lingering longing.Even he, who claimed to be proficient in temperament, was infected by the sound of the piano, and unconsciously played the flute to complement it.However, only halfway through the ensemble, the sound of the piano inside the wall stopped abruptly, which made him feel lost.

Even though he knew that Lixinhou's mansion was impregnable, he was still worried about whether something happened to the person who played the piano.That's why they blew up a cryptic inquiry. Originally, they just wanted to try it out by chance, but the piano player inside the wall responded quickly!

This can be called an act of bosom friend!Nie Peixiao was delighted, he was even more sure that the person playing the piano inside the wall was a woman, moreover, a very young woman!Only young girls like to use legato at the end of the song.

Nie Peixiao couldn't help laughing.The piano sounds he heard in the past were either deliberately flattering, or pretending to be deep, or unintentionally skillful, or barely in his ears... always lacked the sincerity and feelings that could impress him.Ever since Han Chuxiang disappeared, how long has it been since he heard such a moving sound?
The person who can play the piano in the middle of the night must not be a servant of the Yunfu... At that moment, Nie Peixiao almost jumped into the high wall to check for the beauty, but after thinking about it calmly, he came here this time for The future of Seventh Brother's great cause of fighting for the reserve is uncertain, and the outcome is unknown. If he really offends the beautiful woman, how can he maintain the fate of this bosom friend?

What's more, it's not another family in front of you, but the Yun family.Just because of this sensitive surname, he can't act rashly.After such an analysis, Nie Peixiao smiled regretfully, then turned to the personal guard and asked, "How many ladies are there in the Yunfu?"

The guard thought for a moment, then replied: "There are two concubine ladies, whose boudoir names are Yun Xiangrong and Yun Muge."

"Yun Xiangrong, Yun Muge?" Nie Peixiao muttered their names and asked, "How old are you?"

"Yun Xiangrong is sixteen years old, and Yun Muge... is about eleven or twelve years old."

Listening to the sound of the piano, shouldn't it be played by an eleven or twelve-year-old girl?Nie Peixiao glanced at the high courtyard wall of Yun Mansion again, her words seemed to be sure, yet also puzzled: "Is Yun Xiangrong?"

After finishing speaking, he was wearing a dark purple robe and gradually drifted away, finally disappearing in the lonely moonlight...

That night, Chuxiu slept very deeply, and it was already bright when he woke up.Served by Danxin, she got up to wash, and she went to Rongjin Hall to pay her respects to Mrs. Tai as usual.After the first seven days of Yunci's speech, Yun's mansion returned to the old days, and many old habits were brought back, such as the concubine of the second room accompanied the wife to have breakfast.Going out of Xiu had no intention of delaying her meal at the old man's house, so she wanted to return to Zhiyanxuan after inviting her.

"Since you're here, let's stay and eat together." Mrs. Tai said casually, but Chuxiu knew that this meal must have some deep meaning.She accompanied Mrs. Tai into the dining hall, and she saw the faces of the two concubines showing a little surprise, but Sanfang Wenxian quickly reacted, and took the lead in saluting: "Mrs. Madam, madam."

Erfang Hua Wuying followed closely and said: "Mrs. Tai, Mrs.... Morning." The words were uncomfortable, and she smiled forcedly.

Mrs. Tai nodded slightly, and Chuxiu took the opportunity to return the salute: "Second aunt and third aunt are polite."

As soon as the words were finished, Mrs. Tai had already taken her seat first, and then deliberately patted the seat next to her, knowing it, she then took her seat.Several aunts and wives also sat down one after another.Chuxiu couldn't help but look up, the four women on the table were all masters of the Yun Mansion, but three of them were slaves - the second concubine Hua Wuying was the maidservant of Mrs. Tai, and the third concubine Wen Xian is the slave of Lord Hou, and she herself is Yun Ci's slave.

Chuxiu suddenly felt empathetic, and understood why Mrs. Tai paid so much attention to status.Just imagine that she is the grand daughter of the Xie family, and the famous mistress of the Yun family, but now she is eating at the same table with three women who were born as servants, she must be troubled in her heart.

Just thinking to myself, the other side has already started to pass the food, only to hear Mrs. Tai say kindly: "You are a healthy person, and you are most afraid of going wrong in the first three months. It's fine to have breakfast with me today, From tomorrow onwards, morning and evening appointments will still be waived. If I have something to do, I will let you know."

She was slightly surprised when she heard the words out of Xiuxiu, and suddenly realized that Mrs. Tai had sang with her, adding to the authenticity of "pregnancy", so she quickly said yes, pretending to be flattered.

Seeing this, the two aunts also said some words of advice, and spent the breakfast in their own minds.After breakfast, several of them sat silently, not daring to leave, waiting for Mrs. Tai's further instructions.Until this time, the old man calmly wiped her mouth with a towel and washed her hands with water, and said to Chuxiu in a leisurely manner, "Let Mama Chi take care of your baby." Opportunity, waved back to the concubine of the two rooms: "You two go away."

(End of this chapter)