Chapter 260 Side Concubine
Li Qing listened silently, and sighed softly after a while.
"She wanted to marry to the capital a while ago. I don't know if her mind has changed now. If you ask someone to ask quietly, Hongqi, please continue to do so and report to Chunxiyuan on daily basis. I am her mother. Since I am in the mansion, I will not be bothered with the young lady anymore. It is the right thing to worry about it yourself. If the child loses weight, he will really not be able to grow up."
Madam Zheng sighed heavily, patted her thighs gently and sighed:
"There is no clean land in the royal family! A girl's house has not yet been married, just like that. Oh, in the future, she will marry into the big families. She doesn't know how to accumulate blessings and is not good enough to live?"
Li Qing tilted his head, looked at Madam Zheng slanted, and asked slowly:
"Why are you so soft-hearted and meddling in other people's business? You'd better worry for me. The two concubines who were given to Qingguo are rushing all the way to enter the mansion before the Spring Festival! I originally thought that if they enter the mansion after the New Year, we happened to go back to the village, and we were out of sight. Now, I'm afraid I can't avoid it. Oh, let's prepare two pairs of big gold bracelets. After drinking tea, this gift is always given."
Madam Zheng laughed out loud,
"Madam is really, I want to reward her with the big gold bracelet again, which is quite affordable. The two together weigh half a pound."
Li Qing put down the cup and showed a slightly gloomy smile. Madam Zheng smiled and patted Li Qing's back gently, and then said:
"It's not a big difference whether you're here early or late. I feel a sense of responsibility. Maybe I'm not willing to feel wronged. I might even think that my wife is wronged. Let's take a look."
Li Qing lowered his eyes and nodded for a while.
"We can only let him go about this matter, otherwise, what can we do? Fortunately, we have only lived in this mansion for half a month, and we only thoughtfully arranged this Spring Festival and could take a good rest when we returned to the village."
Madam Zheng looked at Li Qing carefully, nodded with a smile, and changed the topic. When talking about the arrangements for the New Year, the two carefully discussed the various arrangements for the New Year. Li Qing gradually recovered and no longer thought about the two concubines who were about to enter the mansion. She just smiled and told Madam Zheng:
"Madam finds more helpers. Over the past year, I have watched coldly. Green Artemisia is a good one. What about Madam?"
"Mrs. I think the same thing. I also intend to find her words. She was kidnapped since she was a child and didn't want to go out of the house again. In the future, she wanted to find someone who was suitable among the servants and become a relative, so she relied on the house to live. She could use it for a long time."
"The nanny will take her with her to teach her from tomorrow, and may be able to help you in the future."
Madam Zheng smiled and nodded in response, said for a while before leaving.
Li Qing settled his life every morning and evening, serving Empress Wen's daily life and food, and receiving guests. He had a good etiquette and rules, and was very thoughtful. Empress Wen praised Empress Wen several times with satisfaction.
In the blink of an eye, the day before the Kitchen God sacrifice, Wu Weijun rushed back to Pingyang Mansion from Shuangshan City.
Wu Weijun got off the horse at the gate, his face was gloomy and he walked into the yard. Li Fangfei and the maid from the girl had been waiting in the second door. Seeing Wu Weijun come in, he hurriedly ran a few steps and went up to meet him. Wu Weijun hurriedly stepped forward a few steps, caught Li Fangfei, looked down at her and said with a smile:
"It's so cold outside, you're waiting for me in the house. What's going on? If you get cold, it's heartbreaking."
Li Fangfei smiled like a flower, raised her head and looked at Wu Weijun with a wrong eye, and couldn't speak. After a while, she lowered her head shyly and let Wu Weijun hold hands and go into the inner courtyard.
Wu Weijun changed his clothes, and the two of them had dinner. Li Fangfei looked at Wu Weijun worriedly.
"The job is not going well? You have a bad face."
"oh,"
Wu Weijun was stunned, opened his mouth, stood up and hugged Li Fangfei into the inner room, repelled all the girls and women, helped Li Fangfei sit on the bed, and whispered:
"The mission went very smoothly. My wife sent Ding Er to help, and Yang Yuanzhang was taken care of by the Ministry of Revenue. What was wrong with it? There was another thing, and I felt extremely uneasy."
Wu Weijun paused, sighed slowly, lowered his voice and continued:
"The emperor gave two concubines to the prince. Have you heard of this?"
Li Fangfei opened her eyes wide and shook her head in shock. Wu Weijun lowered her head and looked at her with a wry smile. For such a big thing, these two concubines will enter the royal palace before the Spring Festival. I am afraid that everyone in Pingyang Palace will know about it. Wu Weijun took back his mind, held Li Fangfei and explained patiently:
"The emperor gave two concubines to the prince, one was the daughter of the Minister of Rites, and the other was the girl from our Wu family."
Li Fangfei listened in a daze and became surprised.
"What is my father doing?"
"This is not my father's intention, it is my own arrangement. Uncle Six is optimistic about the second prince and has already attached himself to it. The family has also accused of this matter. After all, the road for the family is always better. I told my family about this concubine. I told my family that sending people to the Pingwang Mansion is probably more harmful than good. But the family is very willing to have a daughter in the Wu family carry it into the Pingwang Mansion. In addition to us, it is also another link."
Li Fangfei listened carefully and nodded slowly. Wu Weijun looked down at her and smiled. Although his little wife was simply not scheming, she was born to everyone after all. You can understand these things with a little bit of it.
Wu Weijun thought about it and continued:
"The one who sent it this time is the third daughter of the sixth uncle and the youngest daughter of the sixth uncle. She is ranked twelve in the family, and her nickname is Ruier, and she is only fourteen years old this year."
Wu Weijun frowned, paused, and smiled bitterly at the corner of his mouth, and said helplessly:
"Uncle Six also put his mind into it. I heard that when the princess married into the mansion, she was young and favored by the prince, so...ah, the princess, it's not what they thought."
"Well, although Qingqing is young, she can speak and do things. Her mother said she is older than a forty-year-old."
Li Fangfei focused her head, Wu Weijun sighed slightly,
"When I traveled to the capital, I lived at my sixth uncle's house. Rui'er was still young at that time and loved to follow me to listen to stories. She was innocent and lively and felt fresh in everything she saw. She always wanted to go out for a walk like me. I also loved her very much. Now..."
Wu Weijun sighed again, turned to look at Li Fangfei,
"The prince's mansion is not a good place. Besides, she is a concubine. The position of a concubine is no different from a concubine. Her temperament, if she cannot be favored by the prince, life will be extremely difficult. If she really gets favored by the prince, she is afraid... she will not have a way to live. The prince... is not a person who is just merciful. Besides, looking at this now, the prince will go between Pingyang Mansion and Shilizhuang every day, and I am afraid that in my eyes and heart, except for the princess, we will be able to tolerate others for a while! Fangfei, we have to find a way to help her."
"Where is the family?"
Li Fangfei asked worriedly, Wu Weijun smiled bitterly,
"This is also for the sake of the family. The princess is more reliable than the prince. But the family doesn't believe me now. Besides, there is no big obstacle in the palace or the concubine of the Wu family. This is just a trick that may be used, maybe not needed. Maybe it's not available. Maybe it's not available at all, but once the twelve sister enters the palace, she will be ruined for the rest of her life."
Li Fangfei leaned gently in Wu Weijun's arms and nodded slowly.
The next day, Li Fangfei packed up some baskets of local products sent from Luocheng and went to Yang's house to visit Qiuyue.
The next day, Wu Weijun took his close servant to change into casual clothes and rode straight to Wangxiang Post. According to the itinerary, Li Yunsheng and his two concubines given by the emperor should have moved into Wangxiang Post that night.
At the beginning of the next day, Li Yunsheng and his party got on the carriage, trotted in the carriage, and entered Pingyang Mansion.
King Ping set up an incense table in the front yard. Li Yunsheng did not dare to take it big, so he was careful, bowed slightly, read the imperial edict quickly, and hurriedly held the imperial edict over his head with both hands and presented it to King Ping. King Ping tense his face, stretched out a few fingers to pinch the imperial edict, turned around and threw it into Ding Yi's hand, and pulled out a smile on the corner of his mouth, and said slowly and coldly with silky silk:
"Mr. Li has worked hard all the way. Let's go back to the inn to rest. Since you are here in South Korea, you don't have to rush back. It's not too late to leave after the New Year."
Li Yunsheng hurriedly bowed deeply, thanked his grace with his face, turned slightly, and gave up the two concubines behind him.
"Come here and pay homage to the prince!"
One of the two concubines is a little older, with a gentle and quiet face, and the other is very young, with very agile eyes, as if they can't stop for a moment, and they are all wearing the same silver-red palace cloak.
The older girl took a step forward, lowered her eyes, and bent her knees respectfully and timidly,
"I have met the prince."
The younger ones stepped forward with a half-step, and looked at Ping Wang with his eyes turning around, slowly bent his knees and asked An:
"I've seen the prince."
King Ping glanced at the two of them, turned around and ordered Ding Yi:
"Mrs. I'm busy these days and I don't have time to see them for a while. You can take them down and leave them to Mama Zheng. Let's arrange for you to stay in the guest room in the outer courtyard for a few days."
Ding Yi hurriedly bowed and agreed, turned around and politely led the two and the maid to the outer courtyard. Li Yunsheng frowned, was stunned, opened his mouth, but swallowed the words he said, and withdrew with a smile.
Ding Yi handed the two over to an old lady, who led them into a very quiet and simple yard and let them live in the left and right wings respectively.
Wu Ruier, the twelve-year-old lady of the Wu family, was excited, nervous and uneasy, and she didn't care about looking at the yard and the house. She just held her hands and turned around the house. The big girl Qingye took her people to clean up the house simply, frowned and looked at the house, poked her head out, looked at the yard a few times, sighed gently, and held the little girl back, took the pills from the bag, poured a cup of hot water from the warm nest, and handed it to Wu Ruier.
"Girl, this is the medicine given by the Third Young Master yesterday, hurry up and take it." (To be continued. If you want to know what happens next, please log in. There are more chapters, support the author and support genuine reading!)
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