Queen's New Clothes

Chapter 11

After returning home, the second wife, Mrs. Guo, led Liao and Li Xiangru to Chunhui Hall to pay respects to the ancestors that night.

It happened that Su Xi was also there, sitting on the warm bed by the window to talk with the old lady. There was a plate of freshly picked cherries this spring in front of her.Su Xi didn't feel sour at all, and didn't dip it in sugar cheese, and ate several in a while.Ever since she quit dessert pastries, this seasonal fresh fruit has been her only consolation.

After Mrs. Guo greeted the old lady, she introduced: "Mother, this is Liao, the wife of my daughter-in-law's cousin, and this is my niece and sister Ru." As he spoke, he took Li Xiangru's hand and walked to the old lady. Stepping forward, he said with a smile: "Sister Ru, come and meet the ancestor."

Li Xiangru bowed his knees obediently, "Xiangru has met the old ancestor, and the old ancestor has a happy life and a healthy life."

Now Li Xiangru has changed into a lilac-colored grape-pattern satin jacket and a pleated skirt. She is much more decent than when she first started, and her manners are very appropriate. At first glance, she looks like a well-bred girl.Su Xi looked sideways from the old lady's arms, and couldn't help but think of the scene after Li Xiangru married her elder brother. The elder brother didn't come home for a few days due to his busy schedule. Li Xiangru suspected that he had found a woman outside and had a fuss in the courtyard. Said that she even ran to Yin's place to make a scene and make noise. She was completely the image of a shrew in the market, which made Yin's anger down, and strengthened her elder brother's determination to abandon her.

It's a pity that Su Xi couldn't wait until her elder brother divorced his wife, she went back to the year when she was ten years old.

Even if the eldest brother divorced Li Xiangru later, he could not erase the pain he suffered in those years.And the source of this pain, Su Xi will completely cut off in this lifetime.

The old lady sized up Li Xiangru's eyes, nodded and said, "She is a pretty girl."

The old lady asked Nanny Li to take out the pre-prepared meeting gift and gave it to Li Xiangru. It was a pair of gold silk butterflies inlaid with white jade hairpins. The wings of the butterflies were exquisitely polished and lifelike.Li Xiangru lowered his head to hide the joy in his eyes, bowed his knees and thanked him: "Thank you, old ancestor."

The old lady naturally didn't miss Li Xiangru's expression, but she didn't say anything, she looked away lightly, "Since you are relatives of the second daughter-in-law, just stay here with peace of mind, as long as it's nothing serious, the house will not treat you slowly."

These words are both polite and a reminder, so that the mother and daughter will not make any troubles.

Liao said yes again and again.

Then Mrs. Guo and Mrs. Liao talked with the old lady, and Su Xi and the little girls went to chat on the warm table beside them.

Su Xi and Su Lingrong have nothing to talk about, and naturally they don't want to talk to Li Xiangru.However, Yin Shi taught her since she was a child to be obedient and generous in front of others. Even if she doesn't like this person, she can't be rude and make people laugh at her.Especially after seeing Li Xiang's real face like a shrew, Su Xi hated this kind of people even more, and she didn't want to be in the same category as them from the bottom of her heart.

So it's not too close.

Su Xi pushed the pastel dish with twigs and lotus patterns over, and said crisply, "Fifth Sister and Ru Sister, let's eat cherries."

Li Xiangru is four or five years older than Su Xi, and he only treats her as a younger sister, "Thank you, sister Xi."

Su Lingrong didn't appreciate it, thinking that the old lady was sitting far away and didn't pay attention to their situation, so she sniffed: "Who wants to eat what you left."

Unexpectedly, although the old lady is old, she is not dizzy, so she naturally heard this sentence clearly.The old lady put down the teacup in her hand and called out "Youyou" to Nuantao.

Su Xi ran up to the old lady, and obediently called: "Grandmother."

The old lady touched her bud head, and said kindly: "We are still young and sensible, and know how to give good things to my sister." The implication is that Su Lingrong is an older sister, but she is not as sensible as her younger sister.

Guo's face changed slightly.

The old lady never thought highly of her second daughter-in-law, she just thought she was short-sighted and jealous, so she restrained her second daughter so much that she dared not go back to the inner courtyard once for three to five days, and the two children were spoiled by her without rules. After saying a few words, he didn't let her stay in front of him any longer, so he sent her back with Liao Shi.

The people in the second room had just left when they met Su Li coming in from the outside.

Su Li came to look for Su Xi. That kid Su Baiyu couldn't solve the "Kong Ming chain lock" that Su Xi gave him, so he wanted to ask Su Xi to tell him the answer.Su Licai walked to the door, but a girl stood in front of him. He looked at Li Xiangru, nodded, and walked around her into the room.

Li Xiangru didn't think about the way Su Lifang looked at her until she was far away. Although it was only for a moment, Su Li's calm and steady demeanor was deeply engraved in her mind.

On the eighth day of the lunar new year, it was Mrs. Su's birthday.

Because at the beginning of the year, Mrs. Su had just made a meritorious service, repelled the Beidi invasion, and defended seven or eight cities at the border. The emperor was very happy, and rewarded Su Qingbo with 120 food seals and countless gold, silver and jewels.Now that Old General Su is very popular in the court, there are not a few people who take this opportunity to show their kindness to the Su family. Therefore, this year's old lady's birthday is very lively, and people from the Ruyi class are invited to sing at the house for three days and three nights in advance. From morning till night, Su Xi babbled and babbled until Su Xi's ears felt calluses.

Many people came to the mansion that day, and I heard that Luyang Hou's mansion also came.

Li Xingyi, the Marquis of Luyang, lost his wife in his early years, and he had only one son and one daughter under his knees. The daughter was named Li Anyi, who was three years older than Su Xi.

Ever since Su Xi was reborn, he hadn't seen Li Yan.

Su Xi liked Li Yan in her previous life, because Li Yansheng was tall, handsome, calm and dignified. For Su Xi, who had never met many foreign men and had a heart, he was most likely to fall in love with a man like Li Yan.So when Yin Shi told her about the marriage, she didn't refuse, but blushed and acquiesced.It was only after she married Li Yan that she realized how hasty the original decision was. The two of them hadn't had much contact before, and the little love they had at the beginning of love, but after thinking about it, maybe it was just a little bit of goodwill.

After getting married, Su Xi discovered that Li Yan didn't really want to marry her. He had someone else in his heart, and that person was Fu Yi, who was both talented and beautiful.There is a portrait of Fu Yi hidden in Li Yan's study room. He never let Su Xi set foot in that study room. If Su Xi couldn't bear it and broke in once, maybe she would never know that there is a bright moonlight in her husband's heart, but she is nothing.

Even when Fu Yi later married Wei Yuan, Prince Yu's son, Li Yan never let her go, and even refused to touch other women except her.

Married for two years without a child, the Yin family did not know how many times she had hinted at it, but Su Xi knew in her heart that if there was no consummation, how could there be a child?

It was only later that Su Xi learned that Li Yan was forced to marry her by the Marquis of Luyang, who wanted to use the Su family as a springboard to consolidate the position of the Li family.After Su Xi learned the truth, she was determined to reconcile with Li Yan, but unfortunately she died unexpectedly without reconciliation.

Thinking of the cause of her own death... Su Xi was silent for a moment.

Now that she knows all the causes and consequences in this life, she will never be so stupid as to marry Li Yan again.

After seeing several wives, Yin asked Su Xi to take several girls of similar age to play in the backyard.

Fu Yi was naturally the core of the crowd, and no matter where she went, people would support her, as if she was surrounded by stars.The girl next to Fu Yi is Yin Qiqi, the eldest daughter of Yin's natal family. She is the same age as Fu Yi, and she is also very well-bred. Very rare.Those who walk with these two people are either willing to be the green leaves that set off the red flowers, or they are trying to get closer to the talented women.

Su Xi remembered Yin Qiqi because three years later Yin Qiqi became engaged to Jin Wang Shizi Wei Wei, and she envied all the noble women in the capital.It's just that this girl was very lucky, and she fell into the lake in her backyard and drowned not long after she got engaged.

It's a poor man.

Later, Wei Feng made another marriage, which seemed to be the granddaughter of the Wenyuange University scholar, but unfortunately, not long after, this girl also died unexpectedly.Su Xi felt that it must be Wei Yanke's wife, otherwise why did they make two marriages one after another, and the other party died?
"The crabapple flowers are blooming well over there, shall we go for a walk over there?" Yu Baotong pointed to a place ahead and interrupted Su Xi's thoughts.

Yu Baotong is the third daughter of the Rongguo Duke's Mansion. Two older sisters are married, and the third younger sister is only three years old. She was not brought out today.Yu Baotong is twelve years old this year, older than both Su Xi and Tang Wan, so he takes good care of them on weekdays.

Su Xi put away her wild thoughts and asked concerned: "Is sister Yu very busy these days? Sister Wan and I haven't seen you for a few days."

Yu Baotong has been locked at home for a while, and indeed he hasn't come out for a long time. "My mother found a female teacher for me and asked me to study the Four Books for Women every day. If you hadn't written me to invite me today, I'm afraid my mother wouldn't let me out."

Tang Wan said sympathetically, "Madam Yu is so strict."

"That's not true." Yu Baotong has reached the age where he is about to marry, and Mrs. Yu did this for the sake of her daughter.But to the two younger sisters, Yu Baotong couldn't say it out, so he changed the subject and said, "Hey, has Xiaoyou grown taller? I think she's a little taller than before." After a pause, he began to look at Su Xi seriously. , as if he had just seen her clearly, "The face is also small. It is said that girls will become slimmer and slimmer after they get slender. This is true. She is so beautiful when she is born, but I don't know how much she will be when she grows up. It's beautiful."

Su Xi pursed her lips in shame. She let sister Yu down. In her previous life, instead of becoming slim when she grew up, she became a big fat dumpling, which had nothing to do with beauty at all.

The three of them sat on the stone bench under the tree and talked, and then a servant girl brought snacks, such as red dates and yam cakes, peach blossom cakes, wishful rolls, etc.After a while, Yu Baotong saw that Su Xi didn't take a bite of the dim sum on the table, so he couldn't help asking curiously: "Don't you like peach blossom cakes very much, why don't you eat them today?"

Su Xi has a good relationship with Tang Wan and Yu Baotong. Even if they were married in the previous life, the three of them were like sisters, so they didn't hide anything and told them about his recent dieting exercise.

The first thing Yu Baotong thought was: "You are growing your body now, how can you do it if you don't eat? Don't starve your body to death."

Su Xi pinched her cheeks, stuck out her tongue and said, "Sister Yu thinks I'm the one who will starve you to death?"

"Ghost girl." Yu Baotong spat at her, but felt relieved, and remembered the movements she said she practiced every day, and said: "There is a female master in my family who taught me how to dance when I was young. Her dance not only She can dance beautifully, and she can also shape her body to make her figure beautiful, since Youyou has such thoughts, why don't I introduce her to you?"

Dayan Dynasty paid great attention to the upbringing of her daughter's family. Although dancing was mostly something that dancers would do, noble girls generally did not perform dances openly, but in their own homes, it was very common to practice dancing.

Naturally, that couldn't be better, Su Xixi said: "Let me ask my mother first, if she agrees, can I write to Sister Yu?"

Yu Baotong said yes.

Half an hour later, the wind gradually picked up outside, and Su Xi and the others were ready to go back to the house.As soon as I turned around a moon cave gate, I saw two people standing under the corridor.

Fu Yi was wearing a goose-yellow spring shirt with Suzhou embroidered warbler and bird pattern. She was slim and graceful, and she was quite pleasing to the eye just by looking at her back.

And the man standing opposite Fu Yi, wearing a blue straight gown, tall and handsome, with dark black eyes, is Su Xi's husband Li Yan in her previous life.

(End of this chapter)