Yuan Xuepei’s conversation with Su Shaoge was very harmonious—Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao had planned to move to a place recently, so as to shun Princess Yushan.
So after a day or two days, Su Shaoge and Prince of Zhao pretended to “visit friends”, packed up their clothes, and quietly left the Lunong Building.
They actually moved to the Cuizhu Court, which was a dozen li away from the Yaohua Venue, but everyone said to Princess Yushan, “It was Master Su’s friend in Qingzhou who came to the capital. He should receive the guests. His Highness Prince of Zhao also companied with him to have a look.”
Princess Yushan asked surprisedly and angrily, “When will they come back?”
“It’s not sure to say this.” Because Nie Wuying’s medicine finally didn’t need herbs for calming the nerves, Song Yixiao and Yuan Xue’e came to the Yaohua Venue to chat with her. They looked at each other and spoke in unison, “After all, the New Year is approaching,
Su Shaoge jumped through the window again after hearing the words and nodded awkwardly to her, “Sorry!”He re-entered into the bed-curtain. To show no concern of his secret, Song Yixiao deliberately avoided him behind the screen.After a sound of “kada”, the voice of opening machine was heard in the quiet room, Su Shaoge’s footsteps came out of the bed-curtain, and he said softly, “Madam Song, the book has been obtained. I have offended more tonight. Please forgive me!”She said, “It’s okay, I just hope you not to talk about this to others in the future, because people will talk!”“Of course...” Su Shaoge didn’t finish talking, and suddenly there was a fierce barking not far away!It was quiet at night, and the sudden noise could easily disturb others. Especially Song Yixiao was particularly afraid of dogs, and just hearing it would cause her a heart palpitation. In panic, she accidentally broke a glass lamp behind the
Because most of them travelled by carriage, their speed of travelling couldn’t be as fast as riding a horse.However, Zhuo Ping’an made a fuss on the way. He suddenly rushed out of the carriage and fell on the roadside. Due to the thick snow, he didn’t get injured, but it still freaked out Commandery Princess Qingjiang. She hastened to coax him into getting back into the carriage and meanwhile asked the carter to slow down in case that the same accident happened again.As a result, they went into town when the gate was about to be closed.After going into town, Commandery Princess Qingjiang hurriedly brought her son back home in case of any more trouble and meanwhile asked Song Yixiao to send Nie Wuying back to the Grand Princess’s mansion.Since Song Yixiao was in her mother-in-law’s mansion, she must greet the latter. As a result, it was dark when she arrived back at Duke of Yan’s mansion.Since a guard had returned
Until at night, Song Yixiao noticed that her husband appeared laden with anxiety and then asked in confusion, “Who is Elder Lady Duanmu? Don’t you like to meet her?”Jian Xubai shook his head with a complex look, saying briefly, “She is the elder sister of my legitimate grandma. I have never met her before!”“How strange! Since they haven’t met before, why does he feel so annoyed?” Reminded by him, Song Yixiao recalled that when she prayed at the ancestors after getting married, she saw the memorial tablet of the Elder Madam of Yan. Her maiden name was Duanmu indeed.Yet, this grandma was dead for too long, who was not brought up by anyone. It was only a few months since she was married to Jian Xubai. Thus, she hadn’t known all the relatives of the Jian Family and couldn’t think of this deceased grandma quickly.At the moment, she was rather confused. Then she just leaned against her husband’s shoulders and asked curiously, “Then s
Cuipiao knew that her following answer would directly decide whether Song Yixiao would truly accept her repentance. She took a deep breath and clenched her fists, saying, “I’m no longer young and have made serious mistakes before. Now I’m only hoping that Your Highness can mercifully let me have someone to count on for the rest of my life!”Her request was euphemistic but she had expressed clearly that she wanted to get married. Cuipiao blushed and lowered her head with embarrassment because she just uttered her wish of getting married in public and realized that her dream could never come true.“I have served His Highness for a long time. Although he was away from the imperial capital for six years, after he was back, Her Majesty the Empress Dowager sent me back to Duke of Yan’s mansion!” When she recollected the past, Cuipiao’s clenched hands slightly trembled and her feelings were complicated beyond description. “As a trustworthy maid, I should have beco
When Song Yixiao was about to get married, the first young mistress of Prince of Hengshan’s mansion, Madam Kong helped mediate the matter, so the Song Family insisted that her life was incompatible with Madam Pang, for which they shouldn’t meet again. Consequently, when it came to the worldly practices of the Song Family, she only sent gifts to them without her presence, which saved quite some trouble for her.Nevertheless, for the first Spring Festival, even though she shouldn’t meet with Madam Pang, she had to give a kowtow before the Song Family’s mansion with Jian Xubai.“But I really don’t want to go!” Song Yixiao heaved a sigh quietly. She still remembered what she went through when she sent her stepmother and half-sister back home. It was reluctantly tolerable for her to be disgraced by her father alone, but if it happened in front of her husband, how could she stand it?Although Jian Xubai had known that Song Yuan disliked her, it didn’
Wei Mengying answered her daughter with certainty, “The Prince even showed me the memorial to the throne regarding the heir entitlement. How can it not be true?”Again she added, “He will submit it after the court is open again.”“Then what about you and Guanyun?” Wei Mengying didn’t have to lie about this, but Song Yixiao still smelt a rat. In her eyes, her mother was not easy to deal with!She pondered and ventured a question, “May I ask whether His Highness has made any arrangement?”“Guanyun can only rely on himself and see whether he can pass the imperial exam!” Wei Mengying glanced at her and said, “As for me, don’t you always think that Lu Guanlun is a kind and honest man? I am his stepmother. Isn’t it reasonable that I hope him to take care of me when I am old?”Song Yixiao hastened to reply, “That’s not what I mean. I do feel that Lu Guanlun is kind and honest, but you are my birth mother! I just feel that the
It was a custom to pay a New Year’s call to seniors in the first lunar month. Regardless of the resentment for this distant uncle, a visit to him was unavoidable. However, before going to the Qiu Family’s mansion, Jian Xubai and Song Yixiao had to deal with the Qianqiu Festival first.Empress Su was from an influential family, but she practiced frugality. Besides, her birthday happened to be the most leisure and yet busiest time in a year. Therefore, she never agreed to celebrate for it in a high-profile manner. Instead, she only set up a small feast of several tables in the Palace of Weiyang.Although not many guests were invited, it was not peaceful anyway. Soon after the feast started, Daiguo Grand Princess kept mentioning that Prince of Zhao would work in court after the Spring Festival. “Your Majesty, why don’t you ask Prince of Wei to help share your burden? His pedigree is not as noble as that of Prince of Zhao, but he is older anyway. Besides, he is
That a princess of Wuhuan was sent into the imperial palace of the Great Rui was heard by Song Yixiao in the present life and her previous life. However, she didn’t know what the princess went through afterwards.If it were not for Jian Xubai, she wouldn’t have known that Lady Nuan, who was unknown in the palace, used to be Princess Feinuan of Wuhuan.“He sounds like being pitiful for Lady Nuan?” Song Yixiao didn’t care that Lady Nuan had been a princess of Wuhuan before, but when Jian Xubai talked of her, his facial expression seemed really weird, “He was held as hostage in Wuhuan for several years. Maybe he was not insulted there given his identity. And it was the Su Family who made him captured. By reason, he should have held grudge against Wuhuan.”Under this circumstance, Jian Xubai still showed sympathy for the daughter of the king of Wuhuan. How could his wife not think much?Nonetheless, it was improper to get him to talk,