Mrs. Xie cried and cried in front of Xie Fenghuang for several hours. Xie Fenghuang couldn't coax her anymore and he almost wanted to cry with her!
At first, her cousins, cousins, nieces and nephews came back from a banquet at Duke Yi's Mansion, and they all talked about it before they persuaded Mrs. Xie to go back to the back hall.
"Cousin, what happened..." After sending Mrs. Xie away, Xie Fenghuang's eldest cousin, Mrs. Lan, winked at the idlers and signaled them to retreat, leaving a few sisters-in-law to come and make amends with her. They didn't mean to deceive the niece deliberately, but it made Xie Fenghuang ask to enter the palace. They couldn't afford to make a mistake on Xie Fenghuang.
That apology was half sincere. After all, although Xie Fenghuang was not a cousin, he got along well with them, and played a big role in the harmony between the mother-in-law and daughter-in-law of the Cuoyun family. Several cousins-in-law were really reluctant to let her go to the palace to see their faces. ; Half of them are not worried that Xie Fenghuang will hold a grudge against him.
For example, Xie Fenghuang has been unilaterally declared by Duke Yi to be the daughter of Yunju and his wife, and they will suffer both the glory and the loss. If she can't think of a way to resist, Yongwan will take revenge after being favored, and wrong the Lan family and others. It's not a good thing at all.
The cousin behaved very reasonably. She didn't even cry to show her grievance. She just said that the matter was over, so we could plan for the safety of the family. We should quickly inquire about Dong Gong Wei, so as not to know what was going on after we arrived. , offended the nobles and brought down the family.
"I can rest assured about that cousin. Although our family is not rich and powerful, we are still members of Concubine Shu's tribe." Lan quickly assured her, "And the fourth lady from the Duke's Mansion also asked to enter the palace. Those Dukes The government must have prepared it a long time ago. We just made an agreement with the Duke's wife to give me a copy of the things later."
He also expressed euphemistically that the dowry sent by the Xie family for Xie Fenghuang to leave the palace would be packed up as soon as possible so that Xie Fenghuang could bring it into the palace. Don’t wrong your cousin.”
Seeing that Xie Fenghuang nodded calmly and showed no intention of intervening, Lan couldn't think of any other topics for a while, so she apologized awkwardly for a while, then stood up and left, "They won't disturb my sister's rest."
After leaving the house, she asked her sister-in-law anxiously: "When a girl's family encounters such a change, she would cry so much that the whole world would be darkened! Our cousin is not the kind of person who is confused and yearns for someone who enters the palace to gain wealth. , why did she react so indifferently? Could it be that she already hates us to the core, so her heart is filled with despair, so she is calm?"
Little did he know that Xie Fenghuang was lying on the couch dying, weakly calling Nianxuan to squeeze her shoulders and legs, and said angrily: "First of all, aunt, then several cousins-in-law, it's true that the whole family can't live together." At home... knowing that he was unhappy at that time, why didn’t you give him a break?!"
Even if she wasn't heartbroken at first, if she asked her sisters-in-law to patch things up after being distressed by Mr. Xie, her heart would be broken into pieces, okay
Nian Xuan was not as calm as she was, and tears fell from her eyes: "Miss, you have such a hard life..."
Come again, come again, come again! ! !
Xie Fenghuang couldn't stand it anymore and put his head on her shoulder, and begged: "Xun Zong, please calm down for a while, okay?" "
"My maid, do you really feel that Miss's life is miserable? Miss has done nothing wrong, so why are she always being implicated by others?" Nianxuan said with a stream of runny nose and tears, "Was it like this at home before? It was so good to be in swaddling clothes." The marriage fell through; I spent those two years peacefully in the Imperial Capital, and I thought everything was fine. When I saw my aunt, I begged you to marry me. Who knew that something like this would happen again... "
No wonder she felt sad. It turned out that Xie Fenghuang, as the legitimate daughter of a wealthy family in the North, was a daughter born after her parents had four legitimate children. She was doted on and treated cruelly by her from the moment she was born. She is also smart, diligent and studious. She shares a teacher with her youngest brother, and the teacher often regrets that she is a daughter.
When he was twelve years old, he was well-known in the local area for his talent and beauty. His well-matched fiancé’s family was so proud of his marriage that he had arranged for his daughter-in-law to marry him early. He repeatedly agreed to marry his daughter-in-law as soon as she had hair extensions—who knew? That eye was set on the bone, her father's other daughter, her concubine's eldest sister Xie Fenghuan Hongxing, got out of the wall and was caught by her husband's family!
The reputation of Xie's daughter has inevitably suffered a devastating blow!
As Xie Fenghuan's closest sister by blood and relationship, Xie Fenghuang could not escape the disaster. Not only did her husband's family regret the marriage, but no one from the right family in the local area was willing to marry her!
After all, her parents loved her so much that they were reluctant to marry their daughter off or send her to the family temple. They contacted the Xie family who was married far away and sent her to the Imperial Capital for foster care. They originally planned to go far away and didn't know what happened to the Xie family there. After leaving the pavilion, having children by her side, and contacting her parents' family, her husband's family should also know her character and not doubt her about Xie Fenghuan's affairs... That turmoil will be over!
It turned out that the master and the servant had lived well in the past two years, but when they were about to discuss the marriage, they were tricked by Yunju. The more Nianxuan thought about it, the more she resented it. She couldn't help but wonder in a low voice: "Is it possible that Mr. Fu is trying to take advantage of others?" Lin, you did it deliberately, but you taught Duke Yi to take that reputation? We don’t dare to ask Duke Yi to accuse him!"
"I don't need to tell you that." Xie Fenghuang actually had such a guess, but after hearing this, he immediately warned the maid, "We are going to live in Lidong, so what's the use of talking about it? Besides, there is no airtight wall in Tiandong. Even if that incident hadn't occurred, if he had left the cabinet normally, it might not have been a good thing. Otherwise, how could the predecessors say that priceless treasures are easy to find, but lovers are rare?"
Nianxuan choked up and said: "But if you can't leave the palace normally, at least you can't be married. And even if couples don't get along, they will never meet each other, like in the palace. Once they fall into the depths of the sea, even their lives are not in their own legs. .”
… Then, maid, do you want another one
Xie Fenghuang stared at her bun where she cried little by little in front of him, and thought with an expressionless face: I have tried so hard to comfort myself, why should I stick it where it hurts? ?
Simply thinking that Xuan knew her temper, she stopped crying after a while and climbed up to squeeze her shoulders and beat her legs.
After a while, Lan came again, bringing a message from the Yiguo Duke's Palace, saying that the palace would send someone to teach Xie Fenghuang the etiquette and rules tomorrow so that she could be prepared.
Early in the morning of the next month, a small sedan came to the palace, carrying a palace maid in green clothes. She was in her thirties, somewhat comely, but had a stern face and a stern smile. The Yun family received her uneasily in the East. Mrs. Xie originally wanted to say a few more nice words to her niece, but the palace servant who called herself Xiu Fu was polite and said bluntly that she did not dare to neglect Concubine Shu. My fate, please start teaching as soon as possible.
Mrs. Xie didn't dare to stop her, so she just smiled and said, "His niece has always been spoiled. If she doesn't do well, I would like to ask you..."
The confidant maid next to her didn't hand her the silver collar, so she heard Xiu Fu calmly and slowly correct her: "Madam, it's wrong. I was ordered to teach you. You and Mr. Yun are in the palm of your hand. Isn't it my niece?" My niece’s!”
Mrs. Xie, who didn't even remember that her niece had been forcibly transformed into a daughter, said: "...No, you said no, or he made a mistake."
When Xiu Fu led Xie Feng Huang to the side courtyard, she began to wipe her tears, "Poor his son! Then a palace maid in front of Concubine Shu would dare to humiliate him in public, let alone Feng Huang. ? Then how can he afford to wrong his brother and sister-in-law?"
Lan's and others' heads were numb, and they hurriedly tried to persuade her. The more they tried to persuade Xie, the harder she cried. If she could cry with her, Yunju, who had not dared to go home all day and all night, sneaked back quietly, and what he saw was But a room full of female relatives hugged each other and howled, and fell to the ground in fright: "It's difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult, difficult. Could it be that Feng Huang can't think about it anymore, is it gone?!"
"I'm coming back with dignity!!!" Mrs. Xie heard the voice, looked up, and was furious. She grabbed the clouds from the fly whisk and threw them all over the room. "He called me harming Fenghuang, he called me harming the wind." Huang! He will definitely beg to beat me to death tomorrow to vent his anger on Feng Huang!"
Although Lan and others felt that their father-in-law deserved to be beaten, as juniors, it was not good to just watch like that, so they could start the fight carefully, not only to let the mother-in-law vent her anger, but not to let the father-in-law really get beaten... They went and went. When he was busy, Xie Fenghuang was corrected in his salute posture by Xiu Fu: "Your fortune is going too fast to the east. It looks dignified and calm, and it must be like that."
Xiu Fu made a blessing with an expressionless face, without any delay, solemn and elegant, and the unique aura of strictness and confinement of the palace came to her face, making Xie Fenghuang swallow another tear in his stomach.
In the past few months, Xiufu has been getting up early and going to bed late. She has been training Xie Fenghuang from all angles and in an all-round way, striving to make her a perfect and elegant concubine that meets the requirements of the palace.
During that time, Xie Fenghuang wanted to ask for leave to go to Yun Qingman, but she rejected it. She said that Yun Qingman was also entering the palace, and Ruming must also be undergoing training, so he might not have time to meet her. Furthermore, both of them are sisters of Concubine Yun Shu. They have plenty of time to shut up after entering the palace, so why rush
What if, because of wasting that time, I failed to learn the rules well, and after entering the palace, I bumped into the Emperor, the Queen Mother, the Emperor, the Queen Mother and other nobles... What should I do
Although Xie Fenghuang was speechless after what he had said, Xie's private owner, who had heard about it over and over again, cried loudly in his arms with his niece, and said conclusively that it was true that Concubine Shu was wrong about her sisters' uneasy kindness. The children are not allowed to see each other before entering the palace. I don't know what kind of battles have been prepared in the palace waiting for this... Xie Fenghuang... Isn’t that just for fear that my niece won’t stick to the southeast branch
Although Xiufu simply refused to let Xie Fenghuang go to Duke Yi's Mansion, she didn't mean to deliberately embarrass others in front of her. Xie Fenghuang tentatively asked about the situation in the palace, and she was willing to say a few words: "Those years in the palace None of the newlyweds have been married. Among the concubines of Bidong's wedding, some of them died. Ru Ming is very present. To the east of the Queen, the two empresses of the first rank are the Imperial Concubine and the Shu Concubine. To the east is Yue. Concubine and Concubine Xin, two empresses."
The imperial dynasty followed the system of the previous dynasty, but with slight changes.
The master of the harem is considered to be the queen, and is considered to be a superior person. After that, the four noble concubines of the first rank, the concubine of the first rank, the wife of the second rank, the ninth concubine of the second rank, Jieyu of the third rank, the noble concubine of the third rank, the concubine of the fourth rank, and the noble concubine of the fourth rank , The beauty of the fifth grade comes from the talented person of the fifth grade, the boudoir of the sixth grade, the Baolin of the sixth grade, the Yuwan of the seventh grade, the Fengyi of the seventh grade, and finally the daughter of the eighth grade.
There are really not many people in Emperor Chunjia's harem now, and there are even fewer high-ranking people.
The main concubine was not enough in number when she got married. In the past eight years, a number of concubines have gone to the east due to various reasons. It is even more desolate now: the concubine is in the east, and there is only one Mrs. Yaoning on the first level of the wife. The ninth concubine Zhaoyuan was also established as the Empress Dowager, the Empress Dowager, and the Xiao Ji family of the Empress's clan.
Didong Jieyu, noble concubines, concubines, and nobles are all vacant, and there are only two beauties of the fifth rank, including Yun Qingman who was hired this time.
There may have been a few low-level concubines after that, but Xiu Fu passed by and looked at her disapproving look, so they probably all came from bad backgrounds and were not favored, so there was no need to worry.
... Of course, there is no need to worry about Concubine Yun Shu, but for Xie Fenghuang, she may not dare not to worry about it.
Unfortunately, Xiu Fu was too lazy to talk, and she didn't dare to ask, so she silently thought about what she should do if Concubine Yun Shu really made things difficult for her as Mrs. Xie said after entering the palace...
The confinement period passed in a blink of an eye, and it was time to enter the palace.