Madam Xiang wanted to catch up with her, but a maid sent by Empress Dowager Meng stopped her, "Madam, it's getting late. If Fourteenth Miss Meng didn't sleep now and got a pale face tomorrow, the Empress Dowager would definitely punish us!"
How could Madam Xiang bear this?
But the maid didn't compromise even if she had pestered her for a long time. In the end, the maid just fell to her knees, grabbed her skirt's hemline, and cried badly, "Madam, please, madam. You've also served the Empress Dowager before, so you must know that the Empress Dowager dislikes useless servants. I had a hard time getting the opportunity to serve Fourteenth Miss Meng. Please, Madam! Don’t let me be punished by the Empress Dowager!"
Madam Xiang had been a senior maid of Empress Dowager Meng before and had always been favored by her, so she was quite respected by the servants in Xin Shou Palace, otherwise she could not sneak in the palace after the palace gate was lock
The Gongsun siblings and Sheng Shuihe had the same idea about this, "He is so talented that the Royal Preceptor can't bear his dark future."Before Sheng Weiqiao thought about it carefully, she still thought it was true. After all, Sheng Shuihe was really talented.But thinking about it at this moment, she thought that only talent might not be able to impress Huan Guanlan.After all, Huan Guanlan was so cosmopolitan!When he was the first-rank official and recognized as the great scholar in the world, so many people traveled thousands of miles and knelt in front of his door just to get his advice.To put it bluntly, Sheng Shuihe's talent might be rare for ordinary people. While for Huan Guanlan, it might just be common.After all, when he hadn't been in trouble, so many talented scholars tried to learn from him, even if he was just their nominal teacher.The disciples he had taught personally
When Sheng Weiqiao was thinking, a young girl who was about fourteen-year-old said with a smile in a clear voice, "Do you know the new powder in the Palace?"“Are you talking about the ‘Jade Peach Flower Powder’ that the maid gave to Noble Consort Shu?" Another girl sitting next to her who was about the same age as her answered immediately.This girl was wearing a pomegranate-red dress with a ruddy face, and she was very eye-catching among the girls in gorgeous dress. Sheng Weiqiao, Sheng Weiwu, and Gongsun Yingjiang sat a few people away from her, and they could smell the scent of rouge coming from her. She might wear a heavy makeup and said articulately, "It is said to be the ancient recipe found in the book. It is blended with plaster, talc, mussel powder, wax fat, musk, and motherwort. It is more delicate and shinier than ordinary powder, and it is good for the skin. But it's scarce, and nobody has it!"Princess Huihe smiled and asked, "Sin
"Good news!" Huan Yehe broke the silence, seeing that everyone had accepted the news. She cast an eye over the crowd and smiled cheerfully despite the coldness in her eyes, "We must visit State Duke Zheng Family sometime and say congratulation!""I'll skip this!" Zhao Taoxuan raised her brows and responded curtly, "I'll go back now, if you're setting off to see Fourteenth Miss Meng!"She rose and gave Huan Yehe a nod as if to leave.Huan Yehe explained immediately, "I said I must go, sometime! Not now! Would I leave my guests alone and go talk with others after inviting you here in my name? Besides, Meng Family must be having a private talk now. They're a big family, and Fourteenth Miss Meng received the decree just now. I won't intrude on their family gathering!"Then Zhao Taoxuan sat down and flicked her mauve pleated skirt. She smiled, "So I'll stay."Sheng Weiqiao inwardly complimented Zhao Taoxuan on her tact. The
Huan Yehe blew on her tea contained in a rosebay-patterned teacup and took a sip. She sighed, "I heard they decided to find the truth to prove their master’s innocence after learning the unjust accusation against him! Meng Boqin's potency isn't to be abused by others, after all.""But how is it connected to our acts back in the cave?" Sheng Weiqiao got impatient. Huan Yehe wasn't talking nonsense, but her vague response to Sheng Weiqiao's question and her emphasis on the involvement of Meng Boqin and their risk of being exposed appeared to be a sign that she was creating tension and flustering Sheng Weiqiao.Sheng Weiqiao didn't develop those negotiation tactics, as her parents pampered her and only wanted her to lead a carefree life. But it didn't mean she didn't pick up anything concerning that through her daily conversation with her father Sheng Lanci, who was known to be an expert in this field. Hence, she felt displeased, seeing through Huan Yehe's int
"What's wrong with you?!" Huan Yehe frantically squeezed her hanky and rolled her eyes at Sheng Weiqiao, "I see your brother as a sly rival rather than a potential lover. Moreover, girls tend to feign fear rather than overcome fear when facing the men they like! It's the trick to get one’s attention! There's no need for me to overcome anything unless your brother and I switch the gender roles!"After criticizing Sheng Weiqiao's view on relationships, she expressly smoothed her chignon and pushed in the hairpin, showing off the tender aura around her. Then she continued, "Sheng Shuihe isn't compassionate, but he's a man, still!"Sheng Weiqiao pursed her lips, interpreting Huan Yehe’s words as contempt for females, "You seemed to think that girls had to stay at home and be depressed all day long. But a princess from the former dynasty once formed an army of women for the war!""That's not what I mean." Huan Yehe explained, "You mentioned the prin
But Madam Nan was favorable to her saying, "You made sense! He looks like that kind of person who would try to impress Weiqiao with underhand tricks, but that's too much for him!"She pondered, "Then... What happened actually?"Xu Caikui uttered indignantly, "Mother, haven't you seen it? As Grandfather wrote in the letter, Eldest Brother went to Nanfeng County with Senior Master Sheng to discuss the possibility of marriage between the two families, and the academic communication with Uncle Sheng was merely a pretext. Senior Master Sheng also connived at that deed... But for Sheng Family's part, wouldn't they manage to test Eldest Brother's faithfulness to their most beloved daughter?"Sheng Weiqiao was speechless.Please, we didn't have such a convention in our family!And my grandfather only prompted us to talk more so that we could ascertain if we matched!On the top of that, did many people fall in love
Sheng Weiqiao was exhausted when she finally returned to Jihong Pavilion.And then she remembered something crucial that had been ignored by all of them, "Fourteenth Miss Meng accepted the decree of being step-empress. Even if Ningwei Marquis Family didn’t support Meng Family, Caikui, her sister and the three girls in my party have all attended to the birthday banquet of Fourteenth Miss Meng, we're supposed to go felicitate her on the decree that declared her the future empress, despite the political independence of Ningwei Marquis Family!"Other people, including Huan Yehe, all swung by Meng Family after the activities in Yongyi Count Family wrapped up.They would have done the same if Madam Nan and Xu Caikui hadn't mauled Xu Baomo as if he had been their arch enemy throughout the afternoon. Sheng Weiqiao had been trying to convince them that Xu Baomo wasn't as filthy as they expected, while they were trying to suggest that she shouldn't be be
Sheng Shuihe and Xu Baomo didn't know that Sheng Weiqiao stabbed Xu Baomo in the back these days, so after saying their farewells to Madam Nan, they went to the drawing room to eat food unsuspectingly.At this time, the table in the drawing room had been covered with various dishes, such as fried gardenias, plain chicken, fried wild bamboo shoots, shrimp, jujube puree cake, fried shrimp, tomato crispy rice, ham and broad beans, shredded chicken white fungus, osmanthus fish sticks, sweet and sour lotus root, fresh mushroom cabbage, white braised pork belly, braised red shellfish...Obviously, the chefs of Marquis Mansion cooked the food with earnestness.Staying in the Examination Hall for nine consecutive days, except for the porridge and water provided by the Examination Hall, they could only eat some dry food. Looking at the food at this time, they had a great appetite.Madam Nan didn't let anyone come to serve them, so only they
Shu Zhaoyi lost her soul and returned to the Xuanjing Emperor placed outside the bedchamber, and was about to go in to see how the Xuanjing Emperor slept ... After she came back with the Xuanjing Emperor, because she was anxious to go to interrogate Meng Guiyu alone, she excused herself to drink wine to drown her sorrows, and left the Xuanjing Emperor after she got him drunk.This moment back can not help but go in to see, who knows just to the door to see the two chamberlains eyes and nose guarding.Seeing Zhaoyi come over, their faces all changed, and they bowed tremblingly, saying, "Long live the Empress!""There are people inside?" Shu Zhaoyi asked with a raised eyebrow when she saw that despite their respectful attitude, they never had the intention to give way.The two chamberlains looked at each other, with trepidation in their eyes, knowing that the Shu sisters were in great favor and neither were good-tempered.Especially at this moment, the ne
Shu Zhaoyi's expression was harsh, but Meng Guiyu's face was calm, and he said in a deep voice, "Back to Lady Zhaoyi, I really didn't know about Your Highness's suffering at all!"He glanced at Shu Guifei's remains on the door panel not far away, "As for why His Majesty and Lady Zhaoyi found that Lady Guifei was missing, they issued an imperial edict for the forbidden army to search everywhere, and in the end, it was me who sent Lady Guifei to His Majesty as well as to Lady Zhaoyi.... Ma'am, I reported up before that Lady Guifei wasn't personally found by me, but was reported up after his men found it. personally found, but rather after my men found it and reported it up, I went to see it!""After all, I have been favored by the two empresses and have joined the forbidden army as the Grand Commander of the forbidden army. When the forbidden army discovers a clue, it is natural to report it to me first, and then I will convey it to His Majesty and you, Your Highness!"
"Your Highness!" Meng Gui Yu's expression was somber, his eyes were also red, stepped forward and cupped his fists and said, "After I learned that Your Highness and her attendants had disappeared, I couldn't believe that Your Highness had been in an accident! However, the Queen Consort lived in the Qiongxue Palace and the left side of the inch by inch search down, the Committee did not see any silhouettes, can only be dispersed towards the distance. At this time to listen to the water division side of the report, said the spring wave lake floated up ... floated up a number of people, all for the palace attire, the leader of the even more expensive clothes extraordinary, I ... ministers eleven million hope that it is a mistake!""But the minister to the lake, personally saw this body pomegranate red dress shirt ... I remember, two days ago also see your concubine through ...""This must be which bitchy servant girl, stole this palace sister's robe!!!" Shu Zhao Yi covered
The sky was overcast as if it were night before the rain poured down.In the back room of the assassin's residence, the doors and windows were closed, and it was too dim to see the outlines of things.Yi Liu dressed in Xuan Shirt strong clothing, full head of green silk also with the same color of the handkerchief tightly wrapped up, foot soft sole light boots, quietly stepped over the scarlet ground tangled branches of lotus pattern unicorn play beads rug.The short sword in his hand was coated in black paint, dark and heavy that would not emit any reflections, best suited for the immediate environment.She narrowed her eyes slightly so as not to let the luster between the flow of her bright eyes be detected by her opponent.The thunder outside the house had been raging for a long time, and her confrontation with her opponent had lasted even longer.She's in no hurry.In addition to the fact that this was the Assassin's Palace, the home bas
Rong Sleeping Crane was busy smiling and greeted her, "Auntie! I disturbed you last night, are you resting well now?"Xuan Yu Feng first looked him up and down, saw his gray head and face, and his clothes were dirty, then said in a pleasant manner, "I am an idle person anyway, it is nothing to make a mess once in a while, but it is you ... how did you get this? How to make such a mess? I just saw with you a piece of over the guards, are good, thought you also safe and sound it!"Let's just say that he, "Auntie knows that this child of yours is both literate and skilled in martial arts. But the so-called not in his position does not seek his own politics, you now is not to the district Gongsun clan to sell their lives of the Wuyi camp leader, but the king of the big Mu County, is the husband of Qiao Er, lemonade father of the king! If it is because of the first to fight, there are any shortcomings, you call Qiao'er mother and son in the future how to do?""What's mo
"..." Rong Sleeping Crane froze and said, "Good girl, although Meng Boqin is gone, the Northern Border may not be peaceful ah! And you also know that I secretly came from the Western Border this time, so after settling your mother and son, I will talk to uncle for a few more days, and also have to hurry to return to the Western Border."Sheng Weiqiao said, "You have urgent matters, you go to the western border first! I'll go over slowly with lemonade, at most it's just a few more days of traveling."She frowned slightly, ''Before I left from the Western Frontier in such a hurry, the things I lost down were just that, Geun Li, Ju Li those people, and the twelve niang and whatnot ... I'm telling you, if it wasn't for the fact that you were in the way of Meng Boqin before, and you said that it was safest to take the sea route to leave, I would have wanted to go to the Western Frontier to witness it no matter what. I'd like to go to the western border to see them before I fe
"Think of the good in things!" The plan to use Zhao Shi as a front failed, Rong Yuhe could only go alone to face his wife's doubts, he was on his way to comfort himself, "I can't say that my daughter is worried and scared alone in the camp, and she is satisfied to see that I am well past it. Why is it that things are happening differently from what she told me before, and she's not in the mood to get to the bottom of it, so I'll be able to get by with a few perfunctory sentences?"With that thought he looked down at his neat as new robes, pondered for a moment, and decisively halted his mount!The left and right guards were instantly aghast, taking off the bow hanging on the saddle and nocking arrows from the arrow pot at their waist while asking in a low voice, "County King?""... "Rong Sleeping Crane looked at them as if they were enemies, the corner of his mouth twitched, and said, "It's nothing. Well, you guys stay here, lone go to the side forest for a bit!"
The green-clothed boy heard, a face of "difficult to say" expression, once again look at Zhao Shi, mouth vaguely said, "I do not know how to say ... anyway... several stewards feel very difficult to make a judgment. ...Several stewards feel that it's very tricky and can't make a judgment, so I can only ask the County King to personally decide!"Seeing this situation, Zhao Shi raised an eyebrow and said to Rong Sleeping Crane, "I'm about to go out to see how things are going underneath, you guys talk over here!"Just take the old maid and go.The room is left with Rong Sleeping Crane and the boy, that boy immediately swept away the calm in front of Zhao Shi's master and servant, said in a tone of excitement mixed with inexplicable excitement, "County King! To tell you the truth, you may not believe it: brother Ah Xi, he ... actually slept with the Empress!!!"Yung Sleeping Crane, who has taken a hundred and twenty-thousand percent care and is ready to receive
Zhao Shi sniffed, froze for a good while, before asking with doubts, "You ... you send all the horses of your Western Frontier elite cavalry over? Then what about the direct line that you single-handedly trained?"Not waiting for Rong Sleeping Crane to answer, he shook his head again, "Not right! You kid has always been treacherous, not taking advantage of others would be good, how could you do something so self-sacrificing?!"Mind electric turn, suddenly eyes bright, breathing are a little short of breath, eagerly asked, "I remember you promised Deng Chen Liyu to help him raise his son and grandson ...?""I'm not as old as his grandson, what do you mean by helping him raise his son and grandson?" Rong Sleeping Crane cried and laughed, "It's just a promise to shelter a few of his heirs."Zhao suitable toward him leaned his body, attentive to ask, "The previous dynasty has the emperor Na Ru Ru princess as a consort, when Ru Ru accompanied by 10,000 horses, tha