The second madam sighed repeatedly, and Mother Liu couldn't say that the screwdriver she spoke of was a lowly one, all of whom had imperial titles and were the prince's serious concubine.
It's just that the dispute over the back house, either the east wind overwhelms the west wind, or the west wind overwhelms the east wind. The prince is a man of rules and respects his first wife, but he can't stand the royal family's preference for heirs.
The girl has been married into the East Palace for five years, and she only gave birth to one daughter, and she has never given birth to another one. In the past few years, people have entered the East Palace one after another, especially after Hu Liangdi gave birth to a daughter, and now she is pregnant again, if the other party gives birth to a concubine's eldest son this time, the status of the crown princess will be in jeopardy.
The second wife is worried about her daughter's situation, and she has been preoccupied recently. It is also because she is not thorough enough that she accidentally leaked the news. The eldest lady has always been a smiling Bodhisattva, so she turned around and told the old lady about it, the old lady knew it, and the other two rooms naturally knew it too.
Now the other three households are looking for daughters of the right age among their natal relatives to visit their home every day under the guise of helping the crown princess's worries. He said he was a guest, but he didn't want to show the old lady a pick, but he wanted to share a cup from the noble princess of the second room.
For the Chen family, this is the family's honor and disgrace, but for the second wife, sharing her daughter's favor is drinking her blood and digging her flesh.
Even if she wants to find someone to take care of her daughter, she will find someone who is easy to handle. How could she choose the niece who is around the corner from her sister-in-law's house? Isn't this shooting herself in the foot? But those sisters-in-law of hers said it well, when father and son fight in battle, brothers fight tigers, so sisters can help each other.
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These hooligans, pointing at who can't see their dirty thoughts!
But the old lady's ambiguous attitude couldn't be stopped, so the second lady could only go to the doctor in a hurry and send a letter to her son-in-law Pei Yongchang to let him find a good job in the south of the Yangtze River, so that he can come to Beijing.
"Since the eldest son-in-law specially found it from Jiangnan, it must be good. Now the lady doesn't have any suitable ones. Could it be that she really chooses from the maids at home? Those little hooves are not bad if they are placed outside, but if they enter It’s really not obvious when you’re in the palace.”
You must know that all the beautiful women in this world are gathered in the palace, if you really want to choose someone to go in to be the crown prince's favorite, you have to choose someone who can be justified.
"Call someone in and I'll take a closer look."
Soon, Hou Zaibaoxia's pan'er was led by the maid to the second lady.
Looking through the curtain just now, the second wife only thought that this girl was good-looking, but now she looked carefully, she seemed to understand why the son-in-law chose such a person to send.
Leaving aside her appearance, what attracts the most attention is this woman's slender and frail posture. The gentleness and cowardice can be seen between her brows, but she also has an extraordinarily graceful and coquettish style, which makes people feel pity and wish to put the best things in the world all together. Give it to her.
The second lady frowned unconsciously, recalling some bad memories.
In her memory, there used to be such a person who was hypocritical and made her hate it.
While the second lady was observing Pan'er, Pan'er was also peeking at her.
Her current emotions are very strange and very complicated. She has not forgotten who was the culprit for the rough half of her previous life, that is, the second Mrs. Chen and the mother and daughter of the Crown Princess.
But she remembered that before she fell asleep, Leng Gong reported the news that the concubine Chen Shi had died.
There are too many grievances and grievances between her and the Chen family, and the timeline has been dragged on for too long. If there was hatred in the past, with the tempering of time, and their fate is not good, those hatreds have long been blown away, leaving behind Just complicated. But she still has a kind of understanding, even if she does it all over again, the entanglement in this past life is still inextricable.
All these emotions were hidden under Pan'er's half-drowned eyelids, and the second lady looked at Pan'er again, and the frown became tighter the more she looked at Pan'er.
Mother Liu, who had been watching her expression, screamed in her heart, and was about to say something to ease the atmosphere, when the second lady suddenly spoke.
"Have someone lead her down."
Pan'er properly showed a trace of sincerity and fear, and let the little girl lead her down.
When walking back, Pan'er was still thinking about this question.
Could it be that she lived her whole life again just to experience what she had experienced again
Maybe one day in the future, she will be able to sit on the position of Queen Mother, but when she first entered the palace, her life was not easy, and it could even be said that she was struggling. It took a lot of hard work and luck to get to the end. I really don't want to do it all over again.
But Pan'er is not an ignorant girl, she knows very well that given her current situation, she has no choice at all.
There is no need to think about running, she is a weak girl, I am afraid that if she runs out with her front foot, her back foot will be sold into the Goulan cottage by a kidnapper. Not to mention going home, firstly, she was bought by Pei Yongchang, and secondly, even if she went home, she could only be sold by her family again.
Of course, she could also pretend to be ugly on purpose to make the second wife hate her, but Pan'er did not forget that if the Chen family's affairs fail, there are only two endings for her, either with Pei Yongchang, or being given to someone else by Pei Yongchang.
Compared with the crown prince who looks like a dragon and looks like a phoenix, she naturally wouldn't choose someone else.
After all, that man also doted on her for most of her life. If it wasn't because her heart had already been wiped out during the long and difficult court career, she would actually be happy with the only man.
Pan'er recalled the disgusted look on the second wife's face just now, and it seemed that the second wife didn't like her.
It's just why she was settled in the first place, and what happened in the middle
Pan'er remembered that in her previous life, she was sent to the palace in a hurry. At that time, she was full of apprehension, worried about the future, and weeping for the unknown future.
But Pan'er, who has experienced it all her life, knows that things are not that simple.
After all, the Chen family is a family of officials and eunuchs, how could it be hasty to do such a big family matter like helping the crown princess
Who to send and not to send, seems to be picking individuals, but in fact it involves a lot of ties. The Chen family is more than Erfang's family, and the second master Chen is not considered top-notch in the Chen family, but it happens that Erfang has a golden and precious princess.
So it is impossible for the second wife to decide this matter alone.
But Pan'er also knew that there was no need to rush this matter. She had just arrived, and with such an embarrassing status, she found that the only way to go was to wait quietly and plan carefully. No matter what, she would not let herself fall into such a difficult situation in her previous life.
Thinking about it this way, Pan'er finally calmed down and planned to take advantage of the limited time to take good care of her body.
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All these are just Pan'er's internal entanglements. As for the two little girls, Cattail and Qingdai, they only found that the girl suddenly changed her attitude.
They usually eat no more than Niao, and always put down their chopsticks after two mouthfuls. Ask her what she wants to eat, but she has no appetite. These days, her appetite has increased, which finally made them feel relieved.
But the master said that if the girls are not good, they will not be good either.
Cattails and Qingdai were just bought by Pei Yongchang to serve Pan'er. Before they were bought, the two were hungry every day. For them, the current life is like falling into a nest of blessings. Naturally, they want to be good for Pan'er. He will look down on Pan'er's low status.
But they won't look down on it, and it doesn't mean that others are the same.
This is the case of a big family, no matter what the inside is like, the master above is extremely kind on the surface, for fear of ruining his dignity, but the people below are ghosts and ghosts, and there are not a few people who push the high and trample the low.
Pei Yongchang is the son-in-law of the second room, but he brought an unknown woman into the guest house. At the beginning, some people guessed that it might be the fourth uncle's concubine, but seeing that the fourth uncle never lived in the same room with that woman, this guess naturally couldn't stand.
Later, there were rumors that the woman was a Yangzhou skinny horse bought by the fourth son-in-law and planned to give it to someone for business.
All this is just spread in a small area. For the guest house where Pei Yongchang lived, the servants who served would inevitably have contempt and negligence, but for the entire Chen family, it was nothing but wind and water without a trace.
On the contrary, the eldest lady, the third lady, and the fourth lady went to the old lady's yard more diligently.
Cattail came in angrily, carrying a food box.
Qing Dai hurriedly went up to meet her, and pulled her outside before she walked into the doffing veil.
"What's wrong with you?"
"The girl just wanted to eat a bowl of shredded chicken porridge, so they pushed back and forth, and said that the menu was set in the kitchen long ago, and that the kitchen was busy preparing meals for each room, so they didn't care about it, and they deliberately made things difficult for me to come and see them! "
While looking inside, Qing Dai whispered: "Okay, please keep your voice down, we're living here, and the girl's future is uncertain, so be careful if she hears it, it won't make her angry."
Cattail fluttered its lower lip in displeasure, but didn't say anything. People have to bow their heads under the eaves, and they come from such a poor background, so they can't understand this truth.
After she sorted out her emotions, she went in with Qing Dai.
Pan'er was sitting on the big kang under the window, looking out of the window quietly lost in thought.
She was wearing a half-new lotus-colored beanie, a moon-white pleated skirt, her crow's hair was only pulled up in a casual way, and a gilt hairpin was inserted.
Hearing the movement, she looked over, and seeing Qing Dai holding a food box in her hand, she took the initiative to get off the kang.
Qingdai opened the food box and took out the lunch.
Three dishes and one soup, the simplest meal.
Pan'er didn't see the shredded chicken porridge he wanted to eat, so Pan'er almost understood why Cattail's expression was wrong.
It's not that Pan'er is hypocritical and insists on eating the bowl of shredded chicken porridge, but that she was raised by the 'family' who have extremely strict requirements on the meals of the girls.
What is a skinny horse
Even though it is suspected of insulting women, the word "thin" hits the point.
Nowadays women consider thinness to be beautiful, but this trend is even worse in Jiangnan. The first condition for a thin horse is that a woman has a thin body and a slender waist, and it is best not to have a full grip. In addition, there are other requirements, which will not be mentioned here.
But it is also said that thinness is beautiful, and this thinness naturally has a price to pay, so people who raise thin horses strictly control their diet since childhood, so as to maintain the body of a "daughter".
Like the previous life, Empress Dowager Yi'an never had a few full meals in her whole life. In order to maintain the flexibility of her body, she had to practice for half an hour every day. This situation continued until the first emperor Long Yubintian.
But it was too late by then. Empress Dowager Yi’an’s stomach was extremely hungry due to years of eating less, and she also suffered from severe stomach problems.
Although Pan'er was not as serious as Empress Dowager Yi'an at this time, she had been starving for so many years, and it was difficult to improve for a while, so she could only eat soft porridge to recuperate slowly.
Seeing that the plate did not move their chopsticks, Cattail and Qingdai couldn't hide it, they looked at each other, stumbled and explained the reason.
Pan'er didn't say anything, and ate quietly.
She didn't touch the round-grained rice in the bowl, only picked out a few chopsticks to eat the vegetarian dishes, then put down the chopsticks wearily.
I knew it would be like this, and the cattails were so anxious before. Let her see how little she eats every day, even she can't stand it, how can the girl's health be good
But what can they do as a girl, they can only look at the faces of those people!
I didn't take this matter to heart at all, there are always people who praise the high and depress the low, so it is impossible to care about it. It can be seen that Cattail's round face is as angry as a steamed stuffed bun. She has not seen such a happy and angry girl for many years, so she can't help but feel a little bit joking.
"It's just a little bit of food, why bother with them."
"But they are so bullying!"
"Then go to Master Pei and tell him about it."