Lord, don't be afraid, the princess is not angry

Chapter 93
Because of Zhuhua's illness, Sun and Yinhua came to the palace early, and they sat in the palace with peace of mind until the concubine Xian sent the imperial physician to Cheng's mansion.The two of them were really afraid that they would be punished for contempt of the royal family because Zhuhua didn't come, now that they were fine now, their thoughts gradually shifted from Zhuhua to the decorations in the palace.

Yinhua had long been attracted by the magnificence of the palace, even though she knew her identity, she couldn't help but look around.

The imperial palace is really big. She entered the palace gate with Mrs. Sun in the morning and walked a long way with the little eunuch before arriving at the palace for guests.The two of them reported the matter of Zhuhua and found an inconspicuous place to sit. Not long after, a family of wives and young ladies entered the hall, many of which were seen by the two of them.After the two greeted each other, they stopped at the decoration in the hall.Yinhua has long felt that her house is too monotonous, the atmosphere is grand but not gorgeous enough, it can't even compare to some of the mansions that usually hold banquets, let alone the palace.The two pairs of azure vases in front were also pretty, with three-dimensional chrysanthemum decorations on the vases, which she had never seen outside.

Yinhua was watching carefully, when she heard the eunuch tell the story that it was the concubine Xian who arrived.The original voices in this hall stopped, and the people automatically divided into two rows, bowed to each other, and saluted after the concubine Xian took her seat.Concubine Xian has a peaceful and beautiful appearance, and she exchanged a few words with everyone, and she can talk to almost every lady with respect in Chang'an.Yinhua listened, but her mind was on the new clothes of the ladies who came to the chrysanthemum banquet this time.

They wore new clothes, painted exquisite makeup, and their frowns and smiles were a little more dignified than when they were seen before.Yinhua looked at it coldly, but thought it was funny.But there are also a few who are not well-dressed, and most of them are recognized by Yinhua. Some of them are used to being ignorant at banquets, but they always like to stare at her. Miss Military Officer, this time she is wearing a light blue dress, and only a few jade hairpins on her head, unlike before, she is dressed in gorgeous clothes, and even her head and face are covered with gold ornaments with precious stones, which makes people unable to open their eyes. open your eyes.She also took a look at Yinhua, and there was a flash of understanding in her eyes.

Yinhua had heard about her, and she seemed to say that she had a family who was seeing her. Seeing her low-key attire, she probably was very satisfied with the marriage.It seems that she is not the only one who does not want to enter the palace and marry into the royal family, Yinhua thought to herself.

Before attending the banquet, she thought for a long time, but she still decided not to be in the limelight, so she also asked Zhuhua for her suggestion to dress in a low-key way this time.But it may not be low-key in the eyes of others, because she is wearing a whole set of pure green dark pattern dress.Green is a very attractive color. Some people will look black and old when wearing it, and Yinhua is one of them.When Zhuhua asked Yinhua to try on this dress, she almost called her "second mother".And after Yinhua wears green, people will look particularly mean.Zhuhua thought that there should be no such self-seeking person in this world who would be willing to marry a mean person as his wife.

Since she didn't come to fight for anything, Yinhua was also more relaxed than others, it was not easy to enter the palace once, maybe it was only once in her life, so she naturally wanted to take a good look at the scenery in the palace and go back to show off to Zhuhua and the others.Speaking of which, Zhuhua is really miserable, she gets sick every critical day, and I don't know if the snacks in the palace can be taken away, or should she bring some snacks back to comfort her?No, these foods are always for Jinhua, Zhuhua... When she gets to the Imperial Garden, she just picks up a stone and shows it to her when she goes home.

After waiting for a while, Concubine Xian and the others went to the imperial garden.

There is an autumn garden in the garden, which has been filled with pots of chrysanthemums along the flowing water path, and there is also a lot of small yellow chrysanthemums newly planted in a rockery group, which is quite wild.In the depths of the garden, futons on low tables were placed, and the top was covered with dark green blankets. There were six seats, and the two in the middle were vacant. Concubine Xian sat on the upper seat on the right.After she took her seat and greeted her, all the wives sat down one by one, and then a waiter came in one after another carrying meals.

Since there were frequent disasters in the country in the past few years, the emperor advocated frugality in the palace, so the dishes of the palace banquet this time are also very ordinary, but the utensils used are more expensive.Yinhua has participated in various banquets these years, and the most unbearable thing is the food. She is different from Jinhua, Jinhua only needs to eat enough, but she is very picky about the taste, especially like the dishes with thick oil and red sauce.In general banquets, there are some good-looking but bland dishes, but such dishes rarely appear, which makes her not happy every time she eats.

But in order to avoid getting fat, she didn't dare to eat too much.The family didn't notice it, but Zhuhua did, but she always made the kitchen a bit lighter.In Zhuhua, I saw that girls who are only fourteen or fifteen years old don’t like to eat too much, and they are prone to gain weight, not to mention acne.

Yinhua took a sip of every dish, then imitated the young lady at the table, rinsed her mouth and stopped eating.After sitting for a while, when the food on the table was changed to tea, he heard footsteps coming from the outside. Not long after, two concubines entered side by side, and the one who walked in front was wearing a red woven flower sleeve shirt with a plump smile Wen Wan is Concubine Li Shu, the biological mother of the sixth prince Yang Fangxun, and the other one who is wearing a sapphire blue auspicious cloud pattern jacket with a slight smile is Concubine Xu De, the biological mother of the fifth prince Yang Fangzhao.In terms of age, Concubine Li Shu is one year older than Concubine Xu De, and she entered Kang Wang's Mansion first, but because her son was born a year later and has a gentle personality, people who don't know think that Concubine Shu is younger.

"I heard early in the morning that there are many good daughters coming to the palace, and I rushed over after sorting out the chores. On the way, I also met Concubine De." Concubine Li Shu sat next to Concubine Xian while talking. After taking a seat, he looked down and praised, "I don't know how the daughters raised by the wives all look like flowers."

"It's all about the appearance of Pu Liu, and I can't be praised by the empress. Speaking of it, the eldest princess is the real talent and appearance, with the atmosphere of the forest." The speaker is the eldest princess of Yiyang. She married a descendant of a Jiangnan family and gave birth to two sons. Female.Among all the eldest princesses, this was the only one who was quite safe before, and now she needs to be taken care of by the emperor. Today she brought the eldest daughter Xie Zhenyan into the palace.

As soon as these words were said, the other wives responded again and again, who didn't know that the emperor had many princes but only one princess, who usually loved her very much.

Concubine Li Shu smiled gently, revealing two dimples, "Everyone is absurd, she is still a little girl, so I can't see anything."

Then she looked at Xie Zhenyan, "I haven't seen you for a few days, Yan'er has become more and more slick, I heard that you have been learning the piano for a while, so I am willing to play a song with such a beautiful scenery."

Xie Zhenyan got up generously and gave a salute: "Since the empress wants to eat, the little girl should show her shame, and she should just throw bricks to attract jade."

Xie Zhenyan is fourteen years old, with outstanding temperament, gentle eyebrows, wearing a pea green butterfly shirt, which makes her skin whiter than snow.She attended the banquet this time not to become a princess, but to liven up the atmosphere, which was agreed at the beginning.After she finished playing a piece, Concubine Xian praised and asked around, and then several young ladies came out to play.Yinhua also learned to play the piano, but she was not very good at it. Qinglan always said that she was almost unimpressive, but she didn't think her playing was any different from others.But today she didn't come here to show off, even if she could, she couldn't.

Everyone waiting for the meeting played it again, and Concubine Li Shu told Concubine Xian not to restrain the little girls and let them go for a stroll in the garden.

Princess Yiyang echoed: "Your Majesty understands the thoughts of the little girl's family best. It's just a waste of time to just go shopping. There are many young ladies with outstanding poetry and paintings. It's better to let them paint or write poems. They can write well. Let the ladies spend their money to give a reward as a lottery."

"I knew you coaxed us to dig out things." Concubine Li Shu smiled, took off a white jade bracelet from her hand and put it on the tray brought up by the maid. One step shakes.

Yinhua glanced at it, and she liked Concubine Xian's dancing butterfly hairpin inlaid with topaz. Of course, she would like it even more if the gem was replaced with ruby.

Now that the lottery has been won, the ladies of each family have to go to the garden for a stroll, and get together soon if they are friendly.Yinhua wanted to act alone, she was thinking of picking a stone for Zhuhua to go back, but the imperial garden was very clean, not even a piece of broken stone.She looked at a path paved with cobblestones, and thought in embarrassment that she couldn't dig a piece out of the ground, and then looked at the rockery with chrysanthemums planted not far away, and thought, maybe dig a stone out of the rockery?She stared around the rockery for a long time, and she was sure that it would be impossible to just pick it out with her hands, so she gave up this idea and went to the ginkgo tree on the other side to pick up a leaf from the ground.

"Miss, what are you doing picking up leaves?" Xia Fen has been following her around the garden, puzzled by her actions, could it be that she wants to run into the prince who came to see him in the garden?How could the prince in this palace be so impolite, besides, even if Yinhua's dress bumped into her, it would only annoy others.

"Isn't Ah Zhu sick and unable to come? I'll bring a leaf back, anyway, she likes ginkgo, and I think she will recover from her illness as soon as she is happy."

"Miss treats Miss San very well." Xia Fen praised, but thought in her heart, can Miss San be happy when she receives Ye Zi?

"I've always treated her well, but unfortunately that heartless one will only anger me."

"Miss San is so modest because of her generosity."

As soon as she finished speaking, she heard someone beside her laughing.Yinhua turned her head and saw that she was an unfamiliar young lady. Yinhua remembered that someone had just said that she was Shen Caishu, the granddaughter of the second master of the Shen family.The third master of the Shen family is in charge of the Ministry of War. Concubine Shen is now the second daughter of the third master Shen. Compared with the ambitious third master Shen, the second master Shen and the second master Shen are mediocre. The body died early.Second Lord Shen is now holding a idle job in the Ministry of War, but his eldest son is still progressing, and now he is sent to serve as the governor of a small state. Hearing that there is a flower viewing banquet in the palace, he sent his daughter Shen Caishu to Beijing.

Shen Caishu is 14 years old, and because of her young age, she has not yet grown up.She has been in office with her father for many years, and she never attended the banquet in Beijing, but now she came back in a hurry and asked the sisters in the house about the outstanding figures in Beijing, except for a few young ladies with both talents and looks, they all mentioned Yinhua.A lady with mud legs who came from a fourth-rank military officer's family, what should I pay attention to, look at her green attire, she is so ugly that I don't even notice it.

"I used to hear others say that the Cheng family was frugal, but I didn't believe it. Now that I see Miss Cheng's outfit, I believe it. Is this the green cloth from the cloth shop at a discount?" The Cheng family likes to buy discounted cloth The people in Chang'an have heard about it for a long time, and their eyes lingered on Yinhua for a while, Shen Caishu smiled and shook her head, "That's all, why did you finally enter the palace once and only pick up a leaf to go back? I heard that Miss Cheng is also the same People who have learned the rules and know how to write poems and paintings, why don't you make a painting and write a poem to win a lottery and go home, and give it to your frail sister."

"My sister is still young. She doesn't like hairpins or bracelets, but leaves. Since she doesn't like it, I won't argue with others. If Miss Shen likes it, she can fight for it herself, but Miss Shen also reads Have you ever read? How many years have you read? Can you still buy books to read in other places these years, if you can’t write poems later, do you need me to help you with a word?”

"You..." Shen Caishu gritted her teeth angrily, then held back her anger and asked with a non-smiling smile: "I haven't read much, but I just know a few more words than you!"

"Oh? What are the words, but 'yelang is arrogant' or 'sitting in the well and watching the sky'?" Yinhua asked with great interest.

Shen Caishu blushed with anger, and was about to say something when the maid behind her pulled her.At this time, three young ladies also walked by, all of whom Yinhua had met before, but they didn't say anything.

"Sister Shen, why bother Miss Cheng Er's interest in picking leaves? Let's go over there. There are some pots of green chrysanthemums blooming very well." One of them took Shen Caishu's hand and said affectionately. Yinhua remembered her as if It is Geng Lanqing, the daughter of the Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

Shen Caishu snorted and shook off her hand, and walked away, which made Geng Lanqing's smile froze for a moment.

Immediately, Geng Lanqing returned to smiling, and asked kindly: "Since sister Shen doesn't want to go, will Miss Cheng Er go?"

"I'd better pick up the leaves here." Yinhua was deeply poisoned by the backyard fighting stories of Wang Momo, Qinglan, and Zhuhua, and she always felt that they had something wrong with such young ladies who suddenly approached her. The reason why she has been unable to make any close friends.

Concubine Xian gave an hour, and when the time was up, the ladies returned to their positions, and then went forward to show their paintings and poems.Yinhua's poems and paintings are not very good, so she never participates in this kind of activities, and has always been on the sidelines.Fortunately, no one urged her to go, and after the round of demonstrations was over, the lottery prepared by the three empresses was also divided.

After watching the painting, Concubine Xian praised the embroidery on the dress of a certain lady. She heard that she embroidered it by herself, so she even specially embroidered a picture to give to Concubine Xian.Yinhua pursed her lips when she heard this, didn't she say that the ladies who think they are good at embroidery should bring an embroidery picture, how come it is specially embroidered for the concubine Xian?

Afterwards, several girls from other families submitted their embroidery pictures one after another, and Yinhua was among them. The only talent she could show was embroidery.The embroidery she brought to the palace this time was a chrysanthemum with gold and silver threads.Her embroidery skills are not bad, and the composition of this picture is also beautiful, but the elegant chrysanthemums become vulgar after adding gold and silver threads. Concubine Xian reluctantly praised this picture, it is not like other embroidery pictures Let Concubine Shu also have a look.

The flower viewing feast was supposed to be over when I came here, but the prince, who is out of school, brought his companions to read and pay his respects.The concubine Xian then asked them to pick a picture that closed their eyes from the completed calligraphy and painting embroidery pictures. None of them picked Yinhua's, and no one even stopped in front of Yinhua's embroidery picture.

Sure enough, if she didn't embroider the red chrysanthemum, the picture would be unattractive, Yinhua thought to herself, but she didn't know that the red chrysanthemum was missing because the picture was not good.

Zhuhua has been sick and groggy since the morning, and she doesn't even know that the imperial physician came in the middle, and she doesn't know when Mrs. Sun and Yinhua went out and when they came back.But on the second day, her illness was completely cured, and she was still very energetic. She couldn't lie down early in the morning and went to the kitchen to cook breakfast for the family.During breakfast, Mrs. Sun didn't know what to say when she saw her daughter who was worrying about her sickness from time to time.

Zhuhua, who was in good spirits, didn't inquire about the flower viewing banquet, and spoke highly of the ginkgo leaves Yinhua picked for her.When she was sick, Yinhua could think of her and she was very happy, but the choice of this gift was so ingenious that she didn't know what to say.It's like when Zhuhua celebrated her birthday last year, Yinhua personally made her an extremely gorgeous dress, so gorgeous that she barely wore it once during the New Year and stuffed it at the bottom of the box.It's really not good to marry into the royal family with this taste, she thought unkindly.

In the next few days, there was no movement in the mansion. The other mansions had already announced their plans for the election, and the Cheng mansion probably did not win the election. At last, the family members were no longer worried, and they were in the mood to talk about the chosen one.

Wei Rumeng, the granddaughter of Taichang Temple Minister who was in charge of offering sacrifices, gave marriage to the fourth prince born to Concubine Xian; Meng Yanran, the daughter of Imperial Envoy Zhongcheng, bestowed marriage to the sixth prince; Shen Caishu gave the marriage to the seventh prince.In addition, the prince added a side concubine, the daughter of a fourth-rank official; the second prince added two side concubines.The empress in the palace also asked for marriage orders for several younger children. Xie Zhenyan, the daughter of the eldest princess of Yiyang, was granted the title of princess and married to Yu Hou's son, Yu Qingyuan, the son of An Guohou.

Military officials and civilian officials seldom hold banquets together, so Yinhua only glanced at the ladies who married the prince as concubines from a distance, and didn't talk much, even she just met Shen Caishu.

"The Seventh Prince is miserable, he wants to marry such a shrew." Yinhua and Zhuhua sighed when chatting in private.

Zhuhua has never met the prince, nor has she met any ladies, so she doesn't quite understand Yinhua's sigh.These days, she has been trying very hard to think about the last succession of Emperor Kang Taizong in history. She doesn't remember which son it is, but she knows that it is not the son of the first queen, which means that the one who will succeed in the future will not be the current crown prince.As for who it is, she really can't remember. She only knows that there is a word "Fang" in the name, but every prince's name has the word "Fang" in it; She had rebelled against her, but she really couldn't remember the specifics.

The Kang Dynasty flourished unprecedentedly under the reign of Emperor Kang Taizong, so that no matter what the successors did later, they could not attract attention. Besides, the next emperor seemed to have mediocre qualifications and had no sons yet. The one who succeeded him was his nephew.The third emperor of the Kang Dynasty was also highly rated in history, but his son was not born well, and the fourth emperor of the Kang Dynasty who succeeded him lost all the peace and prosperity accumulated by the previous three generations, and finally caused the Kang Dynasty to fall apart.

Zhuhua made a rough calculation, and estimated that by that time, she should be dead, and how the throne will change has nothing to do with her, nor does it have much to do with the Cheng family, and Yinhua has not been elected as a concubine, nor has she been given a marriage.

　Knock on the blackboard, everyone should study the history of the Kang Dynasty, it will be useful later~ hehe~
　　
　
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