A Lady’s Tranquility

Chapter 44: Variety

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Xiao Shu has the highest status among several people, and has a good relationship with Yao Xi. After asking her for a long time, seeing that she only cried but did not answer, her brows became even tighter.

She simply didn't ask, and took the page of letterhead out of Yao Xi's arm.

It became clear after reading it.

Obviously, this letter was not written to Yao Xi, but to Yao Xi's father, Yao Qingyu, the grandfather of the crown prince.

After reading it, Mrs. Yao forwarded the letter to Yao Xi.

But other than that, there is no word, and it does not say what the letter is sent for.

"This cover is a figure..."

Xiao Shu murmured softly after reading the letter.

In fact, she wanted to be strong and was impatient to hear people cry, so she said to Yao Xi, "Don't cry, isn't it shameful enough?"

Yao Xi's cry was a little quieter.

Xiao Shu then asked: "You said a few days ago that you don't want this marriage. Now Zhang Zhe has taken the initiative to write a letter to withdraw from the marriage, and you don't need to spend any more effort and toss, isn't it good?"

Yao Xi buried her head, and no one could see her expression clearly.

But the cry that had just subsided, was faintly suppressed, and gradually became uncontrollable.

Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi looked at each other, and both knew that this kind of thing was not suitable for public speaking, and also guessed Yao Xi's thoughts, and said, "Go in and talk."

After speaking, the two helped Yao Xi get up and went to her room.

Leaving everyone staring at each other.

Fang Miao looked strange, the pointer of the compass in her hand swayed slightly as she looked towards the backs of the three people, she couldn't help but muttered, "It's strange that I'm not happy if my wish was fulfilled..."

Jiang Xuening curled his lips mockingly.

What Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi can guess, she can naturally guess, but she is not very happy.

The protagonist had left, and she didn't want to stay in this hall any longer, so she excused herself to clean up the room and walked out of the hall towards her own house.

After thinking about it, Fang Miao actually followed.

Jiang Xuening looked back at her.

Fang Miao smiled embarrassingly, as if she was a little embarrassed, but she followed Jiang Xuening without stopping, only said: "At that time, Miss Yao Xi almost listened to You Yue's words and wanted to smear Zhang Zhe's reputation. Miss Jiang Er also had an attack once. , Now that the divorce has happened, Jiang Er girl doesn't seem to care at all. Well, I'm stupid, why is Yao Xi crying, and what are they going to talk about?"

From the first day of entering the palace, Fang Miao recognized that Jiang Xuening was a person with "fortune", and Jiang Xuening could not find out whether it was true or not.

It's just that since I entered the palace, I have to stay for half a year, so naturally I can't have no friends like before.

Fang Miao is a person of God and Taoism, and has her own way of living, but she was one of the few people who survived in her last life.

Jiang Xuening thought about it and smiled, "Why do you think Taifu Yao sent the letter?"

Fang Miao said, "Isn't it just for Yao Xi to see?"

Jiang Xuening said: "That letter was originally written to Mrs. Yao, and it came from a man, and it is not appropriate to pass it on to the lady of the boudoir anyway? Besides, if you just want her to know about Zhang Zhalai's withdrawal from the relatives, just start over again. It’s enough to write a letter to inform, why even send people’s letters together?”

Fang Miao blinked, stunned.

She couldn't help but stretch out her hand and scratch her head: "What does Miss Jiang Er mean?"

Jiang Xuening lowered his eyes, the smile on his lips gradually faded, and said flatly: "This letter should have been delivered to Taifu Yao soon, and Taifu Yao has not been able to reply. Zhang Zhe came from a poor family, but he was able to get Taifu Yao to agree to this marriage. I know that Mrs. Yao should think highly of Zhang Zhe's character. Yao Xi wants to retire, but Mrs. Yao obviously doesn't. Anyone who is on the sidelines can see from this letter that Zhang Zha's character is precious, Yao Xi is not stupid, how can they not see it Come out? Before Mrs. Yao replied, she forwarded the letter to her daughter, thinking that she wanted her to reconsider."

Fang Miao was stunned when she heard this, and it took a long while to recover her mind: "Second girl, wouldn't she want to say that Yao Xi is crying because of her... She changed her mind after reading this letter, and now she wants to marry Zhang Zha, right? ?!"

Jiang Xuening has arrived at the door of his room.

She stopped in her footsteps, looked down at the shadow in the gap between the two doors, and said, "Who knows?"

After she finished speaking, she pushed open the door and walked in. She didn't care what Fang Miao looked like outside, so she closed the door.

Fang Miao stood outside her door, but she didn't mind. Recalling Jiang Xuening's words just now, she was very curious about what Yao Xi, Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi would talk about at the moment.

Then he turned around and wanted to go back to his room.

Just two steps out, she suddenly made an "eh", looked back at Jiang Xuening's two closed doors, and couldn't help muttering: "Did they just say that the letter was written by Zhang Zhe? "

Why doesn't she remember at all

Just saw the writing on it.

Could it be that I have a bad memory, I just calculated and calculated Feng Shui, but I lost my mind and didn't hear the key

Fang Miao scratched her head again, without thinking about the reason, she simply put the doubts behind her and walked towards her house again.

On this day, the last person who came to Yangzhizhai was Youyue.

It is said that something in the mansion was delayed, and he entered the palace in a hurry before releasing the key at the palace gate.

At this time, Yao Xi had finished talking with Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi, and her mood had settled down. Except for some red eyes, she could not see anything unusual.

You Yue had previously offered advice to Yao Xi over the matter of withdrawing from her relatives Zhang Zhe. Although Jiang Xuening had pushed her into the fish tank, her relationship with Yao Xi had naturally drawn closer.

When she came in the evening, it was convenient for her to sit beside Yao Xi and talk.

Unexpectedly, Yao Xi seemed to be a different person. Although she was still talking to her, her attitude was much colder compared to the last time she entered the palace, which made You Yue feel as if she had slammed her head against a copper wall without any defense. , For a while, standing is not sitting nor sitting, nor is laughing, nor is it swaying his face, so he has to clamp his tail and sit beside him awkwardly.

That night, the eldest princess of Leyang, Shen Zhiyi, sent people to reward many things, and Su Shangyi from the Shangyi Bureau personally came to tell them about the accompanying reading tomorrow.

According to the rules in the palace, the prince should get up before dawn when he reads.

But Sheng Shang Nian realized that the eldest princess was a girl's family, and even the companion reading was a pampered young lady in various houses, so he relaxed a lot and only asked Daily Maozheng to go to Fengchen Hall to go to school and listen to the lectures by the gentlemen.

A total of five gentlemen were invited.

There are two classes a day, mostly in the morning.

In the afternoon, the princess and the companions are left to study or play by themselves.

With the exception of Xie Wei, the other gentlemen are only responsible for teaching one course. He has to teach two courses at the same time, and because he goes to Wenyuan Pavilion from time to time to give lectures on the Sutras, one of them must be put in the afternoon.

If the time cannot be adjusted upwards in the future, he will adjust it himself.

When Su Shangyi left, he only said: "The gentleman's six arts, the rituals and music, the archery and the number of books, only two of the 'Shooting Yu' do not need to be learned, the other gentlemen will teach them, as well as literature and painting. Master Xie teaches 'qin'. And 'wen', you need to pay special attention. The pen and ink and books to be used have been prepared in the palace and placed on the desk of Fengchen Hall, but the qin should be brought by your companions. The gentlemen will come to the hall one by one tomorrow. , I will tell you what to learn and how to learn first. The eldest princess will come too. I also hope that in the days to come, together with the eldest princess, you will be dedicated to learning, respect your teacher and respect the Tao, and live up to the grace of the Holy One. ."

Everyone took it to heart.

After Su Shangyi left, it was inevitable that she would be excited to guess what she would learn tomorrow, and what the gentlemen would be like, with a look of great anticipation.

However, Jiang Xuening was not happy.

As long as I think about going to school, thinking about Xie Wei, and thinking about learning the piano, I feel a dull pain in my ten fingers, and I wish I could go out of the palace now.

But the next morning, I still had to get up on time.

After washing up, she hugged Qin and came out of the room, joined the crowd, and went to Fengchen Hall together.

Everyone knows that the qin is taught by Xie Wei. During the time when they came home from the palace, everyone spent a lot of time on the selection of the qin. , and carefully put on the piano bag.

The same goes for Jiang Xuening.

Unexpectedly, when she was leaving Yangzhizhai, Xiao Shu's eyes fell on her piano, and she said, "Miss Jiang's piano bag looks familiar."

Jiang Xuening was stunned, and looked down at the dark blue piano bag: this is the "Jianan" that Yan Lin took her to the Youhuang Pavilion to buy. The harp bag in which it was delivered to them.

She didn't know how Xiao Shu felt familiar.

At the moment, he only said: "It's just an ordinary piano bag, you can see it everywhere."

"It's really not something you can see anywhere. I heard that a guqin called 'Jiao'an' came to Youhuang Pavilion some time ago, so I sent someone to buy it. But the owner of the qin pavilion actually said that the qin was for Yan Shizi looked for it, not to sell it to others. I regretted it for a long time, but I didn't expect that I would meet with Jiang Er girl today." Xiao Shu wore a dark purple palace dress today, looking dignified and extravagant, straight He suppressed the others, and only looked at Jiang Xuening and laughed, "It seems that the qin was not used by Shizi Yan himself, but was specially found for Miss Jiang Er."

Everyone's eyes immediately fell on the piano that Jiang Xuening was holding.

Chen Shuyi, Fang Miao, Zhou Baoying and others were just curious.

However, You Yue easily remembered the scene of being slapped in the face at the Double Ninth Banquet that day, her face was not very good, and Jiang Xuening's eyes concealed a bit of contempt.

Yao Rongrong stood behind the crowd and looked at it silently.

Since the Double Ninth Banquet in the Uncle's Mansion in Qingyuan, the news of the close relationship between Yanlin, the noble Hou Shizi of Yong Yi and the second girl of the Jiang family, has spread in Beijing, and everyone who is a little more well-informed knows about it. And Yan Lin was going to do the crown ceremony next month, and there were only a few days left, so everyone guessed that the Yan and Jiang families should have secretly arranged a marriage, so they did not criticize the relationship between the two children.

There are not many people outside chatting their tongues.

One is that the two families didn't say anything, and it was not the turn of outsiders; the other was that the Marquis of Yongyi was so powerful that others didn't dare to say much.

But now Xiao Shu has said it without hesitation.

Jiang Xuening thought to herself that the conflict with Xiao Shu in the previous life was because of the position of the queen, and no one would give in, so she fought a life-and-death fight, and in the end, no one would end well; and in this life, she did not want to be the queen, let alone marry Shen. Jie, there is no conflict of interest between the two, and with the pride of Xiao Shu's aristocratic family and the wisdom of not losing to a man, shouldn't they take the initiative to provoke any disputes.

That is to say, in principle, Xiao Shu would not target her.

Therefore, when she didn't know whether she was intentional or not, Jiang Xuening could only think that she was inadvertent, so she didn't have an attack, and just smiled as usual: "Although 'Jianan' is good, it is among the most famous pianos in the world. I'm afraid it's not among the bottom. Although Miss Xiao missed this one, she must be able to find a better one easily, right?"

Xiao Shu laughed, but she didn't answer, let alone explain anything, she just asked the maid who was holding the piano to follow her footsteps and continued to go in the direction of Fengchen Palace.

Everyone's eyes could not help but fall on her piano.

But no one can recognize the origin of the qin, and can only guess that the qin is not ordinary through the Hetian jade pendant hanging on the qin bag.

A group of eight people walked along the palace wall and onto the palace road.

The sky is not yet fully bright.

The palace lanterns lit on both sides radiated light at the point where the dark blue sky curtain meets the dark red palace wall. Jiang Xuening has walked this way many times in his last life, and he is familiar enough to close his eyes and not go wrong. So absentmindedly fell to the end.

Yao Xi was the first to walk, but for some reason, she looked back as she walked.

Seeing Jiang Xuening at the end, her footsteps slowed down.

After a while, he naturally came to Jiang Xuening's side.

Jiang Xuening only noticed her at this time, and frowned quietly in the dim light, just thinking about going to the Three Treasures Hall without incident, so she asked, "What's the matter with Miss Yao?"

Yao Xi looked at her, looked at her very seriously.

After a while, he smiled in a lowered voice: "I was just curious about the second girl Jiang. If there were no good words and persuasion from the second girl a few days ago, I am afraid that I have made a big mistake and ruined the reputation of others. If I don’t say it, I will miss a good marriage. When I think about it now, I really feel that I should be grateful. But I also have some doubts in my heart. The second girl Jiang told me to wait without doing anything. I didn’t understand it at the time. , I didn't know what the second girl Jiang meant until I saw the letter of resignation from my father yesterday. If I didn't know that the second girl and Yan Shizi were a pair, I'm afraid I would really feel that you and Zhang Zhe have a close relationship. But the second girl, it seems that you really know Master Zhang very well?"

Jiang Xuening looked down at the road, but did not answer.

Yao Xi felt a bit of bitterness in her heart.

Just thinking of the letter yesterday and what Xiao Shu and others said to her, it was rare to feel a bit sweet and shy.

There was a little blush on her cheeks, and her voice also had some rare hesitation and anxiety, and said to Jiang Xuening: "Now I know why my father appreciates him. Although he gave his father a book to quit his relationship, he was afraid of his future. My career is not going well, I am afraid that I will suffer after marrying him. But isn't the most important thing for my daughter's family is to find a good person? After seeing the letter, I thought, if I can really marry him, I will not be able to do so in the future. I will be angry. And my father will help me, so it may not be a bad thing. I want to write to my father to tell my father that I have changed my mind. What do you think of Miss Jiang Er?"

"… "

In the east, the fish's belly was white, and there was a thick fog floating in the Forbidden City. The Fengchen Hall in front of him only stretched out a high-pitched eaves in the fog, but Jiang Xuening could see the strange confusion.

For a moment, malice flooded.

A certain voice shouted frantically in her mind: Be a bad person, Ning Ning, be a bad person. Don't care what others think, go grab it! Go grab Zhang Zhe! It was given to you by God!

But she can't.

There seemed to be eyes looking at her through the fog, reminding her that she had promised to be a good person in the future.

In the end the voices disappeared.

Jiang Xuening blinked, only to feel that he had fallen into this fog, looked at Yao Xi, and then heard his calm voice without any flaws: "Miss Yao didn't make a big mistake, it is very rare to find out that you are lost. If you can achieve a marriage with Master Zhang, Ling Zun must be very pleased."