Song Yixiao didn’t know what Ji Zifu was thinking at all.
The experience of her being taken by the hound to rescue someone in Zhanchun Venue was really a humiliation to her. Until now, she didn’t tell anyone. How could she tell others something shameful like this?
She even wouldn’t tell someone as close as her confidante and her husband.
So, after leaving Daiguo Grand Princess’s mansion, she immediately forgot Ji Zifu’s matter.
Time filed. The fifth day of the fourth lunar month soon arrived.
Dowager Consort of Hengshan’s birthday banquet was held as scheduled. Maybe it was held to bring good luck to the Dowager Consort, the birthday banquet this year was especially grand. Not to mention the friends and relatives, even all the officials of the court and the new scholars received invitations.
When Song Yixiao met her mother, Wei Mengying, that day, she couldn’t help but say in half surprise and half complai
After a moment, they entered the back hall where Dowager Consort of Hengshan stayed. By now several guests had arrived and they were about to talk with the Dowager Consort. Song Yixiao curtsied to the Dowager Consort with her birth mother. After being asked to rise, she went forward to offer congratulations and meanwhile looked over the Dowager Consort in secret. The Dowager Consort was dressed in an extremely official and graceful way, whose nine-floral hairpins glistened in the sunlight from the side window and made the whole hall greatly radiant.However, even with the splendid jewels, this old lady was clearly much thinner. She didn’t like wearing makeup, but today she put on heavy makeup. Her multi-layered makeup covered her truly pale complexion and her face was so delicately powered that it looked like a mask. Under the reflection of the hairpins and Di clothes, she seemed indescribably magnificent and elegant.Before Song Yixiao approached, she noti
The two ladies got out of the drawing room with their maids. Having walked for a distance, Song Yixiao suddenly asked, “Isn’t Sixth Young Lady here today?”She remembered that the two sisters of the Su Family were always close to each other, but today only Su Shaoling was here, about which she couldn’t help feeling confused.Su Shaoling explained with a smile, “She ate a lot of Bingwan (lit. ice bowl, a kind of snack) two days ago so she has a cough. Considering that there are many people here today, she doesn’t want to infect others so she apologizes and fails to come.”“It has been summer now but it is not so hot. As women, we had better not eat too many bowls of Bingwan,” Song Yixiao said with concern, “Is Sixth Young Lady’s condition serious? It is said that having the loquat-leaf soup may soothe a cough. Maybe it can help.”She thought that Su Shaomo was quite a troublesome girl. Due to the Yin physique, girls were prone to be
It was two days later when Song Yixiao woke up. As she opened her eyes, she saw the familiar ceiling of the bed net and her husband who was sleeping by the bed, holding her hand. The morning sunlight in the early summer, cast through the window, appeared like the cold moonlight through the pale pinkish purple bed net, which shone on his slightly pale face. As a result, his face seemed even more radiant.His appearance was stunning with a sense of alienation from the worldly hubbub.Staring at the man in front of her, Song Yixiao couldn’t help stroking his face. When she just reached out her hand and had yet to touch his skin, Jian Xubai had noticed her movement and opened his eyes. He was clearly delighted to see her wake up and then hastened to order the maids outside. Then he held his arms around her shoulders and helped her sit up slowly, asking with concern, “Are you still dizzy? Are you feeling okay?”As she wanted to speak and yet, failed
Wei Mengying sneered, “The Dowager Consort is a venomous one. She is old and sick now, even if she can survive this time, she doesn’t have much time left. So if she dies now, that’s not too much a pity. But Lu Kou’er is her own granddaughter which is still quite young! She is even willing to let Lu Kou’er die like this! Maybe she did too much evil and God couldn’t tolerate her, so that she gave herself away. Only at this time do people know what kind of person she is.”“What’s the situation?” Song Yixiao asked in a hurry.“Lanhui is one of her trusted maids. She confessed that she put the poison in Qingji Incense according to my order. The reason for her to frame me up must be that she followed the Dowager Consort’s order!” Wei Mengying signaled her daughter to help her up and said in a soft voice, “However, even if the Dowager Consort’s wicked design worked, there was no way for Lanhui to survive since she was charged with poisoning her masters under my co
“Just because of your groundless speculation, you are suspecting your birth mother?!” Wei Mengying gazed at her for a moment and then yelled, “Are you really my birth daughter? This is my question for you too!”“The Dowager Consort feared you so much that she must scheme against you at the cost of her own life even if Lu Guanlun was about to be the heir!” Song Yixiao composed herself instead and then gave a bitter smile, saying, “How could she dare to let you live?”She added, “Now the statement announced by the Prince is that Lanhui was the culprit for all charges. However, a twist of the matter came out and the truth was revealed after the Dowager Consort was dead for three days. Evidently, you are really scheming and shrewd. Besides, it also proves how obvious the loopholes left by the Dowager Consort were! Nevertheless, given that the Dowager Consort fought with you so many years, how could she be so negligent?”Staring at Wei Mengying who
Song Yixiao didn’t return to Duke of Yan’s mansion with a weary look until dusk.When she came back, Jian Xubai had been already anxious for waiting too long. Upon seeing his wife enter the room, he hastened to rise and walk to her, “If you were still not back in a moment, I would go to the prince’s mansion for you. How is your mother doing?”At the moment, Song Yixiao didn’t want to hear anything about Wei Mengying at all. She slightly frowned but she hurriedly covered it in case her reaction was discovered by her husband, “My mother doesn’t look well. According to her maids, she still has to lie in bed for some days.”“Since she is saved, she will be fine,” Jian Xubai nodded his head and comforted her, “Moreover, your mother is in the prime of her life and she will be fine after resting for a few days. However, you are quite weak already. You are not fully recovered but you still went to the Prince’s mansion. In the following days, you had be
After getting Jian Xubai’s acquiescence, Yuan Xuepei took a break to make a plan of getting rid of Wei Mengying. However, before he got any idea about it, the shocking news of Lu Guanlun would be adopted by Marquis Zhaode was relayed to him!“On the day of Grandmother’s birthday, Princess Consort Wei had publicly hinted that the prince’s mansion would be handed over to Lu Guanlun and Xue’e,” He was puzzled and asked Yuan Zhan, “That day, she indeed took Xue’e all the time to receive guests, which made the people present all believe that Lu Guanlun would be the heir of the prince. However, soon after Grandmother died she intends to let Lu Guanlun be Marquis Zhaode’s adopted son, a dead’s adopted son. Isn’t she afraid outsiders’ gossip of her slandering the first wife’s son while the shiva of Grandmother?”Yuan Zhan showed a bitter smile, and then said, “Your Excellency, have you forgotten the ‘truth’ announced by the prince’s mansion? Lanhui is the culprit w
The terrible look of Cuipiao was so obvious when she left that Jinxun, who was always a simple girl, could easily read her mind.So when she returned to the hall to report to Song Yixiao, she specially mentioned about the details, “Everything went well at that time. It’s all Yu Shiheng’s fault. He happened to come back when they were leaving! And he happened to greet me, although I replied him coldly. However, Cuipiao’s face went dark. I wonder if Fan Zhong has noticed it.”“Whatever.” Song Yixiao felt disappointed after she heard the words. She continued with flagging interest, “Everyone needs to operate his own life. If Cuipiao can’t understand this truth, no matter how much I worry about her, it will be in vain!”Speaking of this, she thought of something, then asked, “Why did Yu Shiheng greet you?”“I was talking with Cuipiao at that time and he happened to ride home, so he greeted me,” said Jinxun casually, “After all, I’m you