atypical prostitute

Chapter 105

Hearing that the eldest princess was in the front hall, accompanied by the eldest wife of the Fu family, Li Ci hadn't made any gesture yet, Yu Jing had already urged the maids to touch up her makeup and change her clothes, while she was dressing up, she was holding copper Looking left and right in the mirror, he asked the female officer from time to time: "Am I dressed like this?"

The female official knew that she didn't want to lose face in front of the eldest beauty, the eldest princess, and complimented: "The princess is naturally beautiful, and she is just young, no matter how she dresses up, she looks as beautiful as a fairy."

It's a pity that these stereotyped compliments couldn't calm down Yu Jing's heart. She looked at it carefully for a long time, and finally the self in the mirror was indeed perfect, so she said awkwardly and ostentatiously to Li: "The bride sees my sister-in-law. Always... If Fourth Lady wants to laugh, just laugh."

Li Ci also felt a little unhappy when she saw her eagerness to be recognized by the entire Xiao family immediately.But after all, they are my own sisters, so I have to save some face, so I rolled my eyes and said with a smile: "Although the eldest princess is the most beautiful woman in the empire, she is not as good as the second lady's cardamom years. Even I, who thought I was used to seeing the beauty of the princess, was so envious."

After all, she was soft-hearted and didn't want to expose the fact that Yu Jing was nothing more than Liang Wang's successor after all, not the fifth sister-in-law of the eldest princess.

After hearing the compliment, Yu Jing felt that Li Ci was much more pleasing to the eye. After checking again to make sure that there was nothing wrong with it, she took Li Ci's hand and went to the front hall together.

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Needless to say, the excitement at the Guining Banquet, the second lady of the Fu family is now the respected princess, and the eldest princess Yujia, who is also a big matchmaker and sister-in-law, is here in person. If the banquet is not grand enough, the Fu family in the north will no longer have to be human in the capital. .

It was already very hot in June, and the Fu family specially prepared a whole truckload of ice cubes and put them in every corner. Even most of the dishes were chilled, making them cool and refreshing.This time, in order to entertain the eldest princess and Princess Liang, the Fu family spared no expense and prepared a total of [-] main dishes. They also paid a lot of money to hire a big food magician, a Persian dancer and other rare shows to add to the fun. It's really delicacies from mountains and seas coming up like flowing water, and the singing and dancing are especially dizzying.

Among the main dishes, the most original one is Treading Snow Bear which is made of a whole bear paw.

The bear’s paws were stewed with dozens of precious seasonings three days ago, and the meat was stewed until the outer surface was complete and the meat was as soft as tofu. Then it was served on the crushed ice made of pear juice. When the silver box was opened, the cold air People, but the entrance is smooth but not greasy, full of fragrance, it can be described as a rare delicacy in summer.

Naturally, Li Ci, who came up with this dish ingeniously, also received many rewards.

Different from the arrogance she treated her family members in the morning, in front of the eldest princess, Yu Jing always kept her eyebrows low and pleasing to the eye. It was obvious that she really treated herself as a bride and entertained the picky sister-in-law of the eldest princess.

Such a character as the eldest princess, how could she not see Yu Jing's intentions?But even if she doesn't want to see Yujing's nose and face, she will not refute Li Ci's face face to face. After some service, she takes out a Baiziqiansun Linglong suet white jade plaque and gives it to Yujing, wishing her Open branches and leaves for Liang Wang as soon as possible.

Yu Jing was unwilling, but she didn't dare to show the slightest bit on her face, she took the jade pendant obediently, and continued to add chopsticks and soup to the eldest princess, but she thought she concealed it very well, after all, she vented a lot of unhappiness, everyone in the hall was watching her words All the older generation were trembling with trepidation, for fear that after the banquet, as soon as the Eldest Princess left, the newly promoted Princess Liang would vent her anger on others and throw a tantrum.

It's a pity that the banquet will eventually end, not to mention that Yujing is the princess who is married to the ancestral hall and the Ming Dynasty. Apart from being a little picky, the eldest princess just taunted a few words at will. Yujing knows her identity and dare not complain, so she accepts it silently. .

After the Guining Banquet was finished, everyone in the Fu family, from the eldest wife down, was exhausted.

Yujing's face was covered with frost, and she glared angrily at the handsome and unrestrained eldest princess, daring not to speak out.

The eldest princess received her resentment, but she didn't take it seriously. After drinking her tea, she lazily said to Li Ci: "I'm bored here, Fourth Lady will accompany me to the garden to refresh myself?"

The tone was quite strong.

Li Ci knew that the eldest princess's sudden attitude probably had something to explain. Although she was dissatisfied with this woman a lot, she couldn't resist the fact that she was the mother of this body. Besides, Yu Jing's behavior today was really too much.

Then he bowed and left the table, surrounded by a group of maids, and accompanied the eldest princess to walk in the courtyard.

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For today's Guining Banquet, the Fu family spared no expense.

Li Ci accompanied the eldest princess into the lake pavilion, and before she could sit down, more than a dozen servants filed in, with copper plates piled up with ice cubes like hills in their hands, and the copper basin was placed behind the brocade curtain, letting the ice cubes be exposed to the scorching sun. Melt slowly.

Another maidservant brought in three exhaust fans made in Changsha and pulled them continuously. The cool wind full of water vapor blew the brocade tent, dissipating the scorching heat of the summer.

For the hospitality of the Fu family, the eldest princess is at ease.She was lying on the side of the beauty's couch, holding a palace fan, and casually said to Li Ci who was standing beside her, "Sit down too."

Li Ci thanked her for her kindness and sat on the chair next to the beauty's couch.

The eldest princess looked around again, and said: "You all go down now. I have something personal to say to Fourth Lady."

"But--"

The sun was scorching outside, although the servants were well-trained, they cherished their beauty after all. Such an order was unavoidably a little reluctance, so the eldest princess raised her chin, and the servants retreated wearily.

The maids came out of the brocade barrier, and the eldest princess also changed her color. She was almost ingratiating and said, "Fourth lady, do you really hate me so much? You don't even want to...?"

Seeing tears in her beautiful eyes, Li Ci moved in his heart, and was about to answer, but the dying faces of Fu Zhu, Aunt Shen and Changsha King appeared in front of his eyes, and when he looked at the princess again, he immediately felt that the faces were hideous.

"It doesn't matter if you like it or hate it, you are the eldest princess of the royal family. I'm just a concubine, but I just want to eat my own flesh. In the end, I still have to show a filial piety."

The eldest princess knew that Li Ci really hated herself very much. She was always domineering, but because of Jun Fengxi's instructions, she didn't dare to get angry, so she forced a smile and said, "I know that I was the one who couldn't help you, but... My parents, you—you have to understand me... I have difficulties..."

"Difficulties? I didn't love you but brought me into this world, and after abandoning me, you poisoned me in order to control the Fu family... If it wasn't for Ye Chuan in the small forest... I would have died! Don't tell me that you have reasons for doing all this Yes! The King of Changsha is right, you are too selfish and narcissistic, you always think that men in the world should love you, and are willing to do everything to satisfy you, but unfortunately... besides him, who else really loves you past you?"

The eldest princess was at a loss for words for a while, and she was powerless to argue: "I... was deceived by King Liang... if I... If I didn't love you, why did I give birth to you... I..."

This attitude of resolutely not thinking that there was anything wrong hurt Li Ci deeply. She suppressed the raging anger and said calmly as much as possible: "Do you think you are very pitiful? There are many people in the world who are more pitiful than you! How many people are there?" With nothing to cover your body and food to eat, how many people dream of crawling to your feet and licking the soil on your feet! What you call pitiful is nothing but moaning! A person who wants to cover up his sin of incest, in order to gain more power and Benefits... a woman who uses her flesh and blood as pawns, I... don't want to hear anything you say!"

"Li Ci..."

The eldest princess said timidly, once again she had an elite in her eyes.

Before she could finish speaking, Li Ci interrupted sharply: "Don't call me that name, you don't deserve it!"

The face of the eldest princess turned gray, she had never been insulted like this before, she was extremely wronged in her heart, after several struggles, she finally cleared up her messy mood, and said: "Now that things have happened, I know that no matter what I say, you will never forgive me. Me. But... I have really repented! I... I want to make up for you from the bottom of my heart. "

She stretched out her hand to touch her daughter's hair, but seeing Li Ci's cold eyes, she had to let it go, sighed, and said powerlessly: "Li Ci, I know you want to repay the kindness of Fu Zhu and Shen Liji, so this time you Although I don't agree with planning for the king of Liang for Yujing, I am happy to see it succeed. There is just one thing, but I want to remind you. Yujing... is an unfamiliar white-eyed wolf. She... I might stab you in the future!"

"I do not believe!"

The eldest princess snorted coldly, and said: "I know you don't believe it, but I have seen too many people like Yu Jing. She is modest and prudent when she is humble, and arrogant when she is rich. She is inferior and narrow-minded, often because of a little bit of dissatisfaction. , and grow an ugly killing intent."

Speaking of this, she paused for a moment, and said: "Si Niangzi, don't you really realize that the she today is different from the she you knew before?"

Li Ci shook her head, remembering the Jintang incident back then.

It's just that she didn't want to doubt her sister, so she deceived herself and said: "She hasn't changed, she never changed."

The eldest princess said again: "She came from a humble background. It was you who never gave up and advised her that made her rich today. Right now, she naturally regards you as a benefactor. It's a pity that if a person is rich, he will forget his roots. With the promotion of status, Her mind will also change. Gradually, she will feel that your existence is an eyesore, and that you are a further obstacle for her. When she has stabilized her position and becomes a high-ranking princess, she may be the first thing she will do at that time. The thing is—to erase the humble past in the Fu family."

Li Ci was silent.

Although the eldest princess's words were suspected of being provocative, some of Yu Jing's words today did arouse Li Ci's similar worries.

Now, Li Ci couldn't help but fell into deep thought after being told by the eldest princess.

The eldest princess is so shrewd. Seeing her slightly agitated face, she knew that her words had finally touched Li Ci's heartstrings, so she struck out while the iron was hot: "The Fu family has treated her with flattery, so after she gains power, at most she can only show some prestige, Mrs. Fu She has always been good at adapting to the wind, and she was expected to serve her well. But you——it’s different. The higher she climbs, the more she knows, the more scrupulous she is about you. Anyway, I can't lift my head up in front of you. In addition, King Liang's heart is as delicate as silk, and he penetrates every hole. If he wants to provoke him, Yu Jing's heart will soon be full of hatred for you!"

What the eldest princess said did make sense, and Li Ci agreed in his heart, but his mouth was still stubborn: "I know her temperament very well. I help her only for the Fu family."

"Really?"

The eldest princess asked back, looking sideways at Lici.

Li Ci smiled sweetly, and said: "Princess Meng didn't give up, and taught me a lot of truths. But there is one thing that the princess miscalculated, and Yu Jing will never have the opportunity to fight against me! She is trapped in the backyard. It is too small to see the wider sky beyond the high wall. If you think that you can erase the past with the power of King Liang and become a golden branch and jade leaf from now on, that would be too naive."

Seeing how calm and calm she was, the eldest princess felt that Jun Fengxi's warning was prescient, and said with a smile: "As expected of my daughter, I don't regret it, but I won't let people who let me down easily."

"But I can't see through you, Your Highness the Eldest Princess."

When the eldest princess heard the words, she burst into tears again, and was about to defend herself when Li Ci stood up.

"I was very curious at first, what was the reason why you treated me like this? Now, what is the reason for you to come forward to be my ally with a shy face? But now, I suddenly feel that the truth is not important. You I have your considerations, I have my worries, I am not you, and you are not me."

"If you want to know, I can tell you all."

"No need. I have no interest in what happened back then. For the sake of the Fu family, I can even unite with King Liang, let alone you?"

"... Lici..."

The eldest princess was stunned, with mixed feelings, tears rolled down unstoppably, washed away the rouge, and dripped bright red.

Li Ci watched quietly, and suddenly found fine lines appearing in the corners of the eyes of the number one beauty in the empire...

(End of this chapter)