Fourth Lord's Black Moonlight Queen

Chapter 25

"I come here to wait for you every day. Counting the days, it has been two months, twelve days, seven hours and a quarter of an hour."

"Beginning at noon today, there are 210 three men, [-] women, and four children who have entered and exited the inn. One of the children is a four or five-year-old girl with shofar braids."

It must be how lonely and hopeless it is to observe in such detail whether each visitor is the obsession that is waiting in his heart.

"So, it's not too late to wait for you to go to the latrine."

Anyway, every time she saw him, she was either out of condescension or had a headache,
"Nerd! I'm getting married, don't wait..."

When Lan Qier heard Zhang Tingyu's sour words, she stopped immediately, turned her back to him without turning her head, and said with a sour nose.

"I know, I'm useless, I'm not good enough for you."

"It's none of your business, don't belittle yourself like this!"

"Hengchen, don't wait any longer, you deserve a better woman."

Everyone in the elite circles in Beijing knows that the second son of college student Zhang Ying has been infatuated with the third princess for many years.

In his twenties, he still hasn't taken a wife or concubine, and he hasn't even accepted a housekeeper.

Since four years ago, Lan Qi'er has been invariably telling Zhang Tingyu almost every time she meets her, that she asks him to find a good girl to marry.

She even secretly matched him with a dignified woman, but his attitude was as firm as a rock. In the end, Lan Qier had no choice but to walk around him.

Over the years, a figure who hides and seeks and chases her never tires of it.One is making noise and the other is laughing.

The Huanxi lovers gradually developed feelings for each other.But Lan Qier was firm and did not let go.

She was afraid that she would delay Zhang Tingyu, but this man was still dragged down by her.

Twenty years old but still alone, she has become a topic of conversation among the aristocrats in Beijing.

"It's getting late, and it's time for me to go back to the palace, so let's not live here."

Lan Qier straightened her back and walked straight towards the door. Based on Li Jingui's understanding of her over the years, the more she pretended to be calm and unrestrained, the more worried she became.

"Wait a moment!"

Zhang Tingyu stepped in front of Lan Qier, took off the jade pendant he was carrying, and stuffed it into her hand.

"This jade pendant stays with me all year round, and I give it to you."

"This jade pendant looks quite expensive, I'd better give it to your future wife!"

Lan Qier forced the jade pendant back into Zhang Tingyu's hands.

"I have been weak and sick since I was a child. This is the natal jade that my father and mother begged for me. Forget it, you don't want to forget it."

With a crisp sound, the emerald green jade pendant fell to the ground and fell to pieces.

"There is still something to do in the next family, let's go first."

Zhang Tingyu's face was ashen, and he turned and left with brisk steps, leaving only Lan Qi'er standing there blankly, at a loss.

"The jade pendant is so fine, it's broken just like that. Xiao Suzi quickly pack up the pieces for me. I'll go to the jewelry store to see if I can polish them into earrings. I've been thinking about jadeite earrings for a long time."

Li Jingui looked at the broken jade all over the floor and regretted it. This broken jade is not a jade pendant, it is obviously a sincere heart.

"If you want earrings, I will buy them for you. Broken jade is unlucky."

Yinzhen supported Li Jingui to prevent her from bending over to pick up the remnants of jade.

On weekdays, he didn't like these gold, silver and jade, so he didn't bother to collect them.

After today, he made up his mind to collect these jewelry and hairpins for Li Jingui, as well as all the objects that women like.

It must be that he is not careful and considerate enough, otherwise his woman would not have such shallow eyelids and be so overjoyed when she meets broken jade!

"Sister Jin Gui, come here as a slave."

Su Peisheng guessed that his own father would not be able to figure out what Li Jingui's intentions were in such a move.But he more or less guessed some.

"I will do it myself!"

Lan Qier took out the brocade handkerchief she was carrying with her from her sleeve, and carefully took the fragments of jade from Su Peisheng and Li Jingui's hands.

She half-kneeled on the ground and groped for a long time, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, she slowly got up.

"This is green jadeite. Even fragments are worth a lot of money. It's shameful to waste it!"

Li Jingui knew how much duplicity and sadness and helplessness were in her words.

"When the time is right, I'll talk to Heng Chen and see if I can untie his knot."

"Thank you grandpa~"

Zhang Tingyu was one of Si Age's companions when he was young, and Zhang Ying, a bachelor, was Si Age's mentor, and the two had a close relationship since childhood.

Later, because of the incident between Zhang Tingyu and the three princesses a few years ago, there was an uproar in Beijing.

Concubine Rong cried and found His Majesty crying, and His Majesty was furious and removed him from the Prince's Accompanying School, otherwise Zhang Tingyu would have been an official with his talent and learning.

"Your fourth brother!"

Lan Qier clasped his hands together and bowed sincerely.

"No, they are all from my own family. Why does the third sister need to be so polite? Besides, Hengchen is also my best friend, so there is no need to thank him."

"Hmph! It's just that you don't have to call fourth brother anymore, and call our master a brat!"

Li Jingui raised his chin and said arrogantly.

"You two are really a natural pair, and you have exactly the same shortcoming!"

Depressedly, Lan Qi'er grabbed the melon seeds on the counter and gnawed them crisply.

She wasn't blind along the way, and this stinky brat, Yinzhen, really didn't just want to play with Li Jingui for a while.

She could feel that he really loved Li Jingui deeply.

After handing over the wine shop and tea house, it was almost time to light the lanterns. Not long after Lan Qier stepped into the Forbidden City, she was invited back to Xianfu Palace by the aunt sent by the Concubine Rong.

Lan Qier's mother, Concubine Rong, is the biological mother of His Majesty's first prince. She has five sons and a daughter.

Among them, only the third son of the emperor, Yinzhi, and the third daughter of the emperor, Princess Gulun Rongxian, grew up.

The children in the Forbidden City are hard to feed, and Concubine Rong, who has lost her four sons, has seen through the spring and autumn in the Forbidden City.

She has always acted modestly and low-key, so she lived a peaceful life in the harem.

In the early years of Kangxi, except for Hesheli as the queen, His Majesty did not confer any other concubines who entered the palace at the same time, including the later Empress Xiaozhaoren.

And because His Majesty is quite stingy in conferring concubines, and he likes to confer concubines in batches every few years.

These concubines were all called concubines before they entered the confinement. Although their status was not high, their treatment was not low.

The noble concubine Niu Hulu had no title before being canonized, and the concubine was directly conferred the title of noble concubine.

The most obvious example is Xiaotong Jiashi, the younger sister of Empress Xiaoyiren.

She did not receive any title before becoming a concubine at the age of 33. She was a concubine and enjoyed the treatment of a concubine.

But concubine concubine does not have a title, after all, she is in an embarrassing situation of being unknown, so women in the harem are very taboo about this title.

After many hardships, the Ma Jia family was named Rong Concubine in August of the 16th year of Kangxi, and promoted to Concubine Rong in December of the 20th year of Kangxi.

During the period from the sixth to the 16th year of Kangxi, she should be very favored, especially from the 16th to the [-]th year of Kangxi, she gave birth to princes and daughters every year.

Five of His Majesty's first ten princes were descended from the Ma Jia family, which shows his status.

But since the 20th year of Kangxi, Rongfei Ma Jia has never been promoted again. There is no other reason. Her birth is not high. Like Liangfei Wei, she is from Xinzheku.

(End of this chapter)