The Times Spent in Pretense

Chapter 53: not good

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Hua Liuli got into the carriage with the prince, Hua Liuli stared at the pendant on the carriage, suddenly couldn't hold back, and laughed.

"What are you laughing at?" The prince handed a plate of snacks to Hua Liuli, stared at the vacant seat beside Hua Liuli for a while, but didn't sit down.

"The servant girl laughs at His Highness, and she has become a big fat man in the eyes of others." Hua Liuli was holding a ceramic plate with dessert, and she laughed incessantly.

"Fortunately, with the help of the county master, this fat was not taken away." The prince smiled and thanked, "If there is a next time, please draw a knife to help Liuli."

"That lady Xie looks at the minister's daughter, but it's not very friendly." Hua Liuli put the plate on the small table and shook her head, "Your Highness, relying on others is worse than relying on yourself, you have to know how to save yourself."

"Liu Li is right."

The carriage the prince rides is spacious and comfortable, even if several people lie side by side, they will not be tied.

In order to prevent others from gossiping about Hua Liuli, in the carriage at the moment, in addition to the prince and Hua Liuli, there were also the eunuchs and maids who were serving, they bowed their heads and knelt aside without saying a word.

"Before Princess Leyang's mother and concubine passed away, she had a very good relationship with the grandmother in the palace." The prince said, "After she got married to the Xie family, the father, thinking of the old concubine's affection, has always been very fond of her. take care of."

But the human heart is a very strange thing, and sometimes it is too good, but it is easy for people to forget their duties, and even want to have more.

The young Princess Leyang was not so ostentatious. Her father wanted her to marry far away in the south. Not only did she give gifts every year, but she also often kept her in Beijing.

Probably because of this kindness and tolerance, as well as Princess Shun'an, who lives in Beijing but has never been awarded the title of Princess Chang, she has a sense of superiority, and she has become more and more high-profile in recent years.

This time when she entered Beijing, she was even more powerful than before. It wasn't because of her husband's family's power, but because she knew that her eldest daughter died in Beijing, and her father would definitely feel sympathy for her, even if she was a little inappropriate. In this place, everyone will turn one eye and close one eye for the sake of her bereaved daughter.

In the prosperous capital of Beijing, people like Princess Leyang are not uncommon.

For the sake of power and status, whether it is friends or relatives, even if it is their own flesh and blood, they can give up.

The prince has seen the big one since he was a child, and he has already seen through such people's hearts. It is really boring and nothing new.

After sending Hua Liuli to the door of Hua's house, the prince was about to leave when he saw Hua Changkong greeted him with a smile on his face.

"His Royal Highness." Hua Changkong smiled and bowed to the prince, "It's not early, why don't your Highness have dinner in the humble house before leaving?"

"The lonely trade comes here, I'm afraid it will disturb your house..."

"Your Highness is very polite, the palace is full of rude people, it's good that your highness does not dislike it." Hua Changkong welcomed the prince into the door, enthusiastically introduced the flowers and plants in the palace to his highness, and praised Emperor Changlong from time to time, saying that His Majesty rewarded him The mansion for them is really nice and comfortable.

Although Hua Changkong was so enthusiastic when he came to Hua's house last time, the Prince inexplicably felt that today's enthusiasm was a bit more sincere than his previous enthusiasm.

He looked back at Hua Liuli who was following behind, Hua Liuli smiled and winked at him, the prince thought, maybe he thought too much.

At dinner, Hua Yingting and Wei Mingyue were both present, Hua Yingting invited the prince to sit, but the prince insisted: "Gu and the general have a friendship of half a teacher, the general is the teacher, and the lonely is the apprentice, how can there be an apprentice sitting in the first place of the master? General please."

This is the future Lord Taishan. He wants to be more attentive so that he can marry a wife.

"Your Highness's words are wrong, the king is the king, and the minister is the minister." Hua Yingting was very strong, and he pulled the prince and put him on the first seat, "His Royal Highness's heart is in the lead, and our own family actually don't want to pay attention to it. This is just to block the mouths of outsiders, and I have to do it. Your Highness should be a helper, and feel wronged."

I hope you can also look at the friendship between the half teachers in the future, and be able to endure more after being cleaned up by my daughter.

"The general is too polite."

"Your Highness is too forgiving."

After a meal, Hua Yingting got up and personally put the prince on the carriage, looking at the prince like a kind old father-in-law, without the slightest momentum of a general commanding thousands of troops on the battlefield.

As soon as the prince left, Hua Yingting returned to the room, seeing that the good girl was still tired of acting like a spoiled child in front of her own wife, and sighed deeply in her heart.

Good girl, do you know that when your two older brothers got married, your old father didn't worry so much.

Hua Liuli didn't know what her old father was thinking. She was telling her mother about the encounter with Princess Leyang at the foot of the mountain today.

"Did my mother have a bad relationship with that princess before? When my daughter saw her mentioning you, her face was very ugly." Hua Liuli thought, mother must have lived a wonderful life when she was young. These female relatives in the capital, There are many who admire her, but there seem to be many who hate her.

"Princess Leyang?" Wei Mingyue thought for a while, in her memory, she didn't have much to do with Princess Leyang, she shook her head: "I don't know for mother, with my temper when I was young, Even if someone is dissatisfied with me, they will not take it to heart."

Seeing her mother's light-hearted appearance, Hua Liuli said: "As expected of the unparalleled mother in the world, any conspiracy and tricks in front of you are paper tigers."

"Stop flattering, your mouth is so sweet, is there a conflict with the people from the Princess Leyang's mansion?" Wei Mingyue smiled and nodded Hua Liuli's forehead. She gave birth to three sons and a daughter, and the one who looks the most like her is this one. The most beautiful and harmless daughter.

Only those outsiders would feel that their mother and daughter are diametrically opposed in temperament.

The daughter followed her temperament, but she did things like her father. Those who thought she was weak and easy to bully because of her appearance, until they were unlucky, didn't know what happened.

"My daughter didn't want to meddle in her own business." Hua Liuli explained, "but the eunuch of the princess's mansion flogged the people, and the princess said bad things about you, how could the daughter hold back. You are father's favorite woman, daughter and brother. Our best mother, how can someone casually speak ill of you in front of me?"

"Our good girl has done a good job. If we don't have the heart to guard the people, how can we go to the battlefield." Wei Mingyue smiled, "Do what you think is right, don't be afraid."

Hua Liuli greasy into Wei Mingyue's arms, whispered: "Mother, does Princess Leyang want her daughter to be the crown princess?"

Wei Mingyue looked down at her daughter who still acted like a spoiled child when she was a child, with a faint smile on her face, "Do you want her to be a princess?"

"What does it have to do with her daughter if she is to be a crown princess or not?" Hua Liuli sat up straight and looked at Wei Mingyue suspiciously, "Your Majesty should think about it."

"You're right." Wei Mingyue smiled, "From my point of view, Your Majesty probably wouldn't want to let Miss Xie be the crown princess, although she is indeed a good choice."

The Xie family produced talented and famous people, and they were very famous in the south. The prince married the daughter of the Xie family, which was equivalent to buying the hearts of most literati in the south, which was very beneficial to his prestige after he took the throne. But there are pros and cons. Southern talents and celebrities control the mainstream of public opinion, which is equivalent to an invisible sword.

As a king, he does not want to become a master by relying on a sword, but wants to be the master of the sword.

The marriage between the prince and the daughter of the Xie family not only made the southern literati circle for his own use, but also raised the status of southern literati invisibly. Over time, these people will point fingers at the royal family, saying that this can be done and that cannot be done, making the emperor a puppet with the shackles of fame.

The tortoiseshell country adjacent to the Great Jin Dynasty is a lesson from the past.

Wei Mingyue has been to the tortoiseshell country, where the emphasis is on literature and less on martial arts, and believes that all things are inferior, only reading is high. Scholars often conduct a death test in the courtroom, and they can still win a name when they are killed by the court.

What she couldn't understand the most was that there were hardly any women on the streets of Tortoiseshell Country. If a woman met and talked with a man outside, it would be considered unclean. Even the princess should marry early and abide by the so-called women's way.

After the concubine married the princess, she even dared to have a concubine. If the princess accepted a concubine, she would be exaggerated by these scholars.

If the concubine of Da Jin dared to do such a thing, he would be beaten by the princess and his face would be bruised and only half his life left, or he would be beaten to death and then reconciled.

As for the literati in the capital, when encountering such a lively scene, they would only bring a pen and paper to record or draw what happened, and then write a few limericks, which would be entertaining and entertaining, and no one would complain for the consort.

In recent years, there are several old men in the Xie family, but they advocate that Dajin should learn the style of tortoiseshell righteousness, but it has not attracted too many people's attention.

She was very worried that after the daughter of the Xie family married the prince, if she suddenly started to lead by example and let Dajin women learn tortoiseshell daughters, it would be really troublesome.

She looked at Dazzling Liuli worriedly, her daughter was still young, and she couldn't live in such an environment for the rest of her life. But the behavior of the superiors has a huge impact on the people.

After thinking about it, I still hope that the Xie family daughter will not be a princess.

The day after Princess Leyang returned to the capital, she went to the palace to meet the Empress Dowager and Emperor Changlong. She choked up when she mentioned the eldest daughter who died of illness last year.

"The eldest girl has always been considerate and sensible. It's just that I didn't give her a strong body when I gave birth to her." Under the comfort of the Queen Mother and Emperor Changlong, Princess Leyang reluctantly stopped her tears and pulled the two with red eyes. The daughter's hand said, "Now I only have Yaoyao, a girl and a helpless boy. Yaoyao is a gentle and virtuous child, and she likes the cultural climate of the capital. I just thought and let her stay in the capital."

This is not too obscure, Emperor Changlong and the empress dowager understand what she means, and she wants Xie Yao to marry in the capital.

The queen mother smiled and asked, "Which good son-in-law do you like?"

"Empress mother, although the daughter often lives in the capital, she doesn't know enough about the capital, and whether the other sons are good or not, the daughter doesn't know." Princess Leyang touched the back of Xie Yao's hand, and said with a smile, " I grew up watching the prince, Yaoyao is a docile child who likes to play with the prince since he was a child, why not kiss him and let her stay by the prince's side to take care of him?"

Hearing this, the smile on the Queen Mother's face suddenly faded, she glanced at Emperor Changlong, held up the teacup and covered the corner of her mouth without speaking.

Emperor Changlong glanced at Xie Yao, who was shy and timid, and said, "Why didn't your concubine come with you when you entered Beijing this time?"

"The concubine still has some matters to deal with. It will take about half a month to arrive." Princess Leyang said, "Brother Huang, Yaoyao and the crown prince..."

"Your Majesty." Zhao Sancai hurried in, "The Marquis of Chang'an asks to see you."

"Mingyue is coming?" Without waiting for Emperor Changlong to speak, the queen mother said first: "Quickly invite her in."

Seeing the Queen Mother's attitude, Xie Yao's face became disastrous. If the Queen Mother agreed to this marriage, why would she rush to let other people in? It was clear that she didn't want her to marry the prince, and she didn't want her to be too embarrassed with her mother, so she did this.

Princess Leyang was more calm than her daughter, she patted the back of her daughter's hand with a smile, and stared at the door of the temple.

At that time, people in the capital always said that the rude woman in Wei Mingyue was the first beauty in the capital, but she wanted to see how beautiful Wei Mingyue could be after so many years in the bitter and cold border.

Not long after, a bright and beautiful woman walked in, and her gestures carried a fresh energy, which was very eye-catching.

"Mother." Xie Yao felt a tingling in the back of her hand, and she called out softly.

Princess Leyang let go of her daughter's hand and sat dignifiedly on the chair with a proper smile on her face.

"The last commander has seen His Majesty, and the Empress Dowager." Wei Mingyue stepped forward and saluted, glanced at Eldest Princess Leyang, but did not speak.

"Hurry up and take a seat, you don't have to do so much ceremony." The queen mother greeted Wei Mingyue to sit down, and she was secretly glad that Wei Mingyue was here, otherwise she and the emperor would have to work hard to find a reason for refusing marriage.

Wei Mingyue bowed her hands and bowed to the Queen Mother again, and made a big gift to Emperor Changlong: "Your Majesty, the end of the future is here today to plead guilty on behalf of the unworthy daughter."

Seeing Wei Mingyue saluting him, Emperor Changlong unconsciously moved his butt back. But as soon as she mentioned Hua Liuli, she thought she knew the prince's mind, so she sat forward again, trying her best to put on a kind smile: "What do you mean by Aiqing? Fushou County Master is smart, clever, well-behaved and lovely. , kind and considerate, with a high quality and blue heart, why do you need to ask for any crime?"

No matter what it is, let's praise her daughter first.

"Your Majesty is wrong, the last will be ashamed to hear this." Wei Mingyue smiled helplessly, "That child is really outrageous, the first day Princess Leyang entered Beijing, she did something unpleasant to the eldest princess. The goddaughter has no way and has already taken her outside the palace and asked her to come and plead guilty to His Majesty."

"The Fushou County Master is outside?" Emperor Changlong glanced at the sky outside. Today's weather is not good, the wind is blowing, and the Fushou County Master is so weak, how can he bear it

Afraid that the wind would blow away the little girl his son liked, Emperor Changlong didn't even have time to ask Hua Liuli what he did, so he directly asked Zhao Sancai to bring the little girl in.

Xie Yao saw the person coming and almost bit her silver teeth. Isn't this the little goblin who seduced the prince's cousin

"It's so windy outside, how can the county master be left alone?" The more Emperor Changlong looked at Hua Liuli, the more he liked it. This girl is good, she looks better than her mother, and the most important thing is her gentle personality, unlike her mother. My dear, one palm can split a large rock.

"Go get the hot ginger soup and remove the incense in the house." After consciously establishing a lovely and amiable father-in-law image in front of Hua Liuli, Emperor Changlong asked gently, "Can the county master use some snacks? "

"Thank you, Your Majesty, the servants don't need it." Hua Liuli supported the handmaiden's hand, walked to the center of the room, bowed to everyone in the room, and told what happened last night in its entirety.

"The minister's daughter only cared about the safety of the people, but she didn't care about the face of the eldest princess, and made Miss Xie sad. After the minister and daughter returned home, she was uncomfortable in sitting and lying down, and her mood could not be calm for a long time. I learned that the eldest princess and Xie Miss is here with the Empress Dowager, so I came here to apologize to the two of you." After speaking, she walked up to the eldest princess and Xie Yao and said, "I'm sorry, yesterday's ministers and daughters were impulsive, please forgive me."

"The little girl is ignorant. The last commander taught her a lesson at home yesterday." Wei Mingyue bowed her hands to Princess Leyang, "Princess, please forgive me."

Eldest Princess Leyang felt chills in her heart. She never thought that Wei Mingyue's mother and daughter would stab the matter directly to the emperor's brother. Where is this asking for guilt, it is clear that a pit was dug under her feet, and a few needles were buried in the pit.

"When the dharma meeting was held, the people were asked to set up stalls around, and Jingzhao Mansion had already asked the imperial court for instructions. This is a good thing for the people's livelihood, and there is no violation of the rules. Why did the eunuch of the Princess Mansion beat the vendors?" Emperor Changlong asked the palace maid Helping Hua Liuli to sit down to rest, her face turned cold: "Leyang, although you are a princess, you should also take care of those servants who use their power to bully others."

"Brother Huang is right." Princess Leyang covered the corners of her eyes and sobbed softly, "Since the eldest girl passed away, I have been living a rough life, but it has made those servants who don't have long eyes become more arrogant."

She cried for a while, wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said to Hua Liuli: "Thanks to the presence of the county master, I didn't let this kind of bullying slave succeed. How could this palace blame the county master? It's too late to be grateful."

"Thank you, Your Highness." Hua Liuli smiled eloquently. "Yesterday, my mother told my ministers and daughters that Your Highness is the most gentle and kind, and treats the younger generation very well. I saw you today, and I know that you are better than my mother."

"It's the Hou Miaozan of Chang'an." Princess Leyang squeezed these words out of her teeth. She would rather believe that pigs can climb trees than that Wei Mingyue would praise her like that.

Yesterday, the female general under Wei Mingyue clearly did not give her any face, forcibly escorted her eunuch chief to Jingzhao Mansion, and just let the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion beat him ten sticks in public, attracting countless people to watch the fun After that, the person was sent back to the Princess Mansion.

Along the way, he also said something to the people in the capital, intentionally or unintentionally. This is the eunuch of the Princess Leyang's mansion. He was beaten only when he committed a crime. He also said how unselfish Jing Zhaoyin was, how righteous the crown prince was, and how he would rather punish his aunt's servants for the sake of the common people, and how well His Majesty taught the crown prince.

Attracted a lot of people watching the lively, clapping their hands and saying goodbye.

Co-authoring is to slap her in the face, to make a face for others.

I did something so immoral yesterday, but today my face changed, and I went to the palace to plead guilty again. Although I did the right thing, I did it too impulsive and didn't give the eldest princess any face, so I came to plead guilty.

If you really want to save face, don't make things so ugly yesterday.

Now this pie is clearly for His Majesty to see, to show how loyal their mother and daughter are to His Majesty.

What made her even more angry was that not only did the emperor not reprimand Hua Liuli, but he also asked the palace maid and eunuch to bring food from time to time. Those who didn't know it thought it was his daughter.

"Don't boil the ginger tea too thick, remember to bring a bowl of rose dew over to help the county master relieve the ginger taste." Emperor Changlong was not in the mood to listen to Princess Leyang's miserable cry. He opened his mouth and instructed the maid to prepare rose dew for Hua Liuli.

The atmosphere became a little embarrassing in an instant. Princess Leyang watched Hua Liuli sip the ginger soup, and Wei Mingyue said something, "Your Majesty is still majestic, this child doesn't like to drink these at home" and so on, she felt disgusting .

This mother and daughter not only double-sided, but also love to flatter the emperor.

Really shameless.

"Wei Aiqing, I think Princess Fushou is very good. Don't be picky about her. It's normal for a little girl not to like the taste of ginger soup. Who would like things that don't taste good?" Emperor Changlong looked at Hua Liuli now. It feels good anywhere, after all, this is the future daughter-in-law.

Of course, the best part is that she didn't follow Wei Mingyue's mother, which is simply a blessing to his son.

"Fu Shou County Master, you are not well, you must take medicine on time, otherwise the family will be worried." Xie Yao saw that Emperor Changlong seemed to like Hua Liuli very much, and felt a little panic, "If you don't take good care of your body now, what will you do in the future?" Woolen cloth?"

People who are not in good health should not be delusional about being a princess.

"Who said the county master is not good?" The prince strode into the hall, his eyes fell on Hua Liuli, who lowered his head and drank rose dew, "Gu thinks the county master is very good."