When Chen Pingwu returned to Linbixuan, he was still thinking about the woman he had just met.
This Linbixuan is his study room, which was named because it faces a pool of lake water and green willows are planted all over the lake.
The house is three rooms wide, all of which are connected, and are only separated by several Duobao Pavilions. The most eye-catching thing is the book case in the room, which is much wider than the usual book case. There are pen holders, brushes, wash paperweights and other things on it. Beside the book case are several large blue and white vats, with many scrolls inserted in the vats.
Everyone knows that the second master of the Chen family failed in the imperial examination and did not make any progress in the officialdom, but Chen Ping's martial heart was not in it. What he admired more was the celebrities in the Wei and Jin Dynasties, who devoted himself to landscape calligraphy and painting, handsome and unrestrained, Indulging in mountains and rivers, only using literary talent to appeal to romance, how can one seek fame through knowledge.
To put it bluntly, Chen Pingwu was somewhat disdainful of common affairs.
However, he does have some talent in calligraphy and painting, known as Jiuheng Layman, his calligraphy and painting are hard to find in the market.
Chen Pingwu sat quietly in the study for a while, then suddenly stood up and rummaged in the bookcase behind him for a while, before he found a painting.
Spread it out, there is a woman in the painting.
Although she doesn't have the appearance of an alluring city, she has the demeanor of willows and flowers.
If Pan'er is there, you will definitely find that although her appearance is somewhat different from the woman in the painting, her eyebrows and eyes are very similar. They all have eyebrows like distant blacks, eyes full of autumn water, and I feel pity when I look at them.
"Liuer..."
Dazed for a moment, Chen Pingwu suddenly called out to Chen Cai, and soon a man in Tsing Yi walked in from the door.
"Master, what's the matter?"
"Look at that woman just now..."
Chen Cai is the son of the Chen family. He has followed Chen Pingwu for many years, so he naturally understands the master's thoughts. Just now Chen Pingwu's strange attitude also fell into his eyes, so he couldn't help but look at the woman more.
When he came back, seeing the master locked himself in the study, he was thinking in his heart that the master might be 'touching the scene' again, or else this would have happened.
"Master, that woman does look a bit like Aunt Wang, but Aunt Wang is gone."
Chen Pingwu murmured 'Yuan'er'.
Chen Cai was shocked immediately, and only then did he know what the master was thinking.
His smile was a bit dry, and he said: "What happened back then was indeed heartbreaking, but this woman is from Yangzhou, and Yangzhou is far away from the capital city, she is a skinny horse found by the elder uncle, it can't be such a coincidence. "
There is another sentence that Chen Cai didn't say. In the situation back then, everyone knew that the tenth girl must be gone, but he knew Chen Pingwu's heart knot, so naturally he dared not say it clearly.
Chen Pingwu was in a daze for a long time, and slowly sighed: "Maybe I think too much."
He waved his hand and let Chen Cai go down.
On the other side, shortly after Pan'er returned to the guest house, Li Rong's family came to find her.
She invited Li Rong's family to sit down, and Qing Dai served tea.
Li Rong's family is sitting on a chair with a big appearance. She is wearing autumn-scented bijia, combing a smooth bun, wearing an old silver comb inlaid with agate on her hair, and wearing gilt earrings on her earlobes. She has a round face, but she has a pair of triangular eyes, and the eyes flash frequently when talking, which is not easy to provoke.
In fact, it's not easy to mess with, if it wasn't for Pan'er being a person of two worlds, I'm afraid she would have been tortured by her long ago. This old lady is also tricky, she usually asks Pan'er to learn the rules, she learns them over and over again, if any movement is not in place, she finds the thin willow stick to beat her.
Let you hurt, and there will be no scars on your body.
Not only that, Li Rong's family's swearing is also extremely unpleasant, and they talk and talk like little hoofs. They rarely scolded Pan'er, but most of them scolded Cattails and Qingdai. In fact, they just killed chickens for monkeys to see, and wanted to hold Pan'er for the second wife to use.
Pan'er knew in her heart that if she took silver taels to deal with it, this old man would definitely change his face, but for fear of accidents, she still endured it.
Right now, she just came back from Yunxia Courtyard, when she turned around, Li Rong's family came over, looking like they were coming to beat her again.
Sure enough, Li Rong's family talked a lot after that, besides beating the plates, they did not forget to apply eye drops to Dafang and Zhao Xiyue.
It was said that Zhao Xiyue looked down on her because of Pan'er's humble background, and said that Zhao Xiyue was from the Zhao family in Henan, so the Zhao family naturally looked down on Pan'er's background. But it doesn't matter, as long as Pan'er relies on the Crown Princess and contributes more to the Crown Princess in the future, he will naturally be able to trample this person under his feet.
Sometimes Pan'er couldn't help wondering whether the princess was not born to the second wife, and why the methods were so different even though she was a mother and daughter.
In her previous life, she had fought with the Crown Princess for a lifetime, and she had seen the methods of the Crown Princess. If it were the Second Lady, let alone the Crown Princess, she would have been dead long ago.
After thinking about it again, it's not that this method is useless, it's because she has lived an extra life and seen many monsters and monsters. Like in her previous life, she was firmly controlled by these people.
Everyone was relieved to deal with leaving Li Rong's family.
Aunt Qing sighed, "It's hard for you, too."
As soon as the words fell, Pei Yongchang came.
Pei Yongchang and Pan'er live in a small courtyard adjacent to each other, so he naturally knows how the second wife handles Pan'er these days.
As usual, they sat down to serve tea, this time Pan'er changed his previous attitude, but talked about seeing Zhao Xiyue today, and mentioned what Li Rong's family said.
Then he said: "My family thinks that the heat is about the same, you can tell the second wife to accept me as a righteous sister, and carry me into the East Palace as a concubine like Miss Zhao, so that the eldest lady and Miss Zhao will not be too complacent. It is really scary to be the second lady killed them."
Pei Yongchang was taken aback, he didn't expect Pan'er to say that.
Thinking about it again, I felt that everything made sense.
Thinking about Pan'er always sending girls out to play, and thinking about the situation of the Chen family these days, his eyes were full of wonder.
It is of course beneficial to be able to be a righteous sister.
First of all, he had passed the Ming Road in the East Palace, and later when people mentioned Pan'er's identity, they would say that he was the adopted sister of the second son-in-law of the Chen family.
Regardless of this small difference, one must know that even the high-ranking officials of the shepherd's side may not be able to win the prince's ears. If one day Pan'er is favored, the prince will not be able to praise the Chen family, so he will naturally praise her family.
Next, Pan'er will not be restricted by the second wife.
Pei Yongchang was not out of ideas when he said that Pan'er would be sent in as a maid.
The servant girl is at the mercy of others, and is used by others. From now on, she will be under the eyes of the princess every day. If she wants to be really favored, it depends on the princess's face and how she can be used by him. But being a concubine is different, at least the Crown Princess will not overdo it on the surface.
Moreover, it's not that Pei Yongchang has never seen how the second wife manipulated the dishes these days, and he also has hidden worries in his heart, fearing that he will make wedding clothes for her.
It is not a fool to be a salt merchant and make such a big business. Pei Yongchang still made up his mind, agreed immediately, and left in a hurry.
Naturally, he would not bring up this matter right now, but instead used some servants of Yunxia Courtyard to fan the flames in the ears of the second lady.
Originally, Pei Yongchang, as the second wife's son-in-law, had to deal with the people in Yunxia Courtyard. Usually, everyone had received Pei Yongchang's benefits, so it was naturally convenient to operate at this time.
Especially Liu's mother. In order to gain a sense of presence in front of the second room these years, Pei Yongchang has given Liu's family a lot of money, and now a large amount of money is stuffed into her hands, and Liu's mother dare not refuse.
In addition, the third and fourth wives were fighting with the eldest lady recently, and there was a lot of turmoil. The old lady also stepped in and reprimanded the third and fourth wives.
Considering that the family will still be run by the eldest lady, the third and fourth wives don't want to offend the eldest lady, and they all want to cause trouble. They often say in front of the servants that the second wife is using them to fight the eldest lady.
After several parties instigated Pei Yongchang to show up again, the second lady wanted to lose but not lose. Pei Yongchang is her son-in-law, even if she gave the skinny horse a high status, she just wanted to disgust the eldest lady, so she immediately agreed.
For this reason, he also did a lot of things to praise Pan'er, such as giving clothes and jewelry, saying that Zhao Xiyue should take care of Pan'er's younger sister, after all, Pan'er is younger than Zhao Xiyue.
The eldest lady and Zhao Xiyue had always been proud and arrogant, but the second lady made her very angry. Her Zhao family's direct daughter was treated like a skinny horse, who could bear it.
It was so disturbing until April 12th, when two small sedan chairs were brought into the East Palace.
Today, there is a joy in the East Palace. Although they just brought two concubines in, they all know that these two are from the concubine's family, so the East Palace still gave some face.
The princess gave orders, and the maids and eunuchs came in and out, cleaned up the yard, cleaned the house, and finally hung red lanterns in the yard, and tied some red silk, as a sign of joy.
It was time to light up the lanterns, and hexagonal glazed palace lanterns were hung in the corridors and corridors of the East Palace.
Against the backdrop of the royal family's wealth and honor, the red lanterns in the small courtyard were naturally too shabby.
In the Jide hall where the princess lived, there was silence at this moment.
After eating, the princess went to copy Buddhist scriptures.
When the princess is copying the scriptures, she is most afraid of being disturbed by others, so the maids and eunuchs are extra cautious when entering and leaving, and move lightly, for fear of annoying the master.
I also know that the master is in a bad mood today.
"Has your Highness returned?"
In front of the book case, stood a young woman in peach and plum years. She was wearing a silk phoenix and peony makeup skirt in the color of a concubine in Xiang, eight snow-blue Xiang skirts, a Chaoyang bun on her head, and red gold and red treasures with seven phoenix tassels. Fengchai.
She has an oval face, phoenix eyes, a straight nose, and slightly thin lips. She is just standing, but she is very dignified, and no one dares to despise her.
Standing not far behind her, Nanny Chen replied after a moment of silence: "I heard from Fu Chun that the crown prince has something to do ahead, and I'm afraid he won't be going to the small courtyard tonight."
This small courtyard does not refer to a certain place, but the fourth entrance of the East Palace of the five courtyards. All the concubines of the prince live there. There are eight small courtyards in total. There are only people living in the four small courtyards.
There will be five seats in the future, who knows that a newcomer has joined today.
Enter the newcomer!
This is undoubtedly digging flesh out of the princess's heart.
Chen Momo looked at the Crown Princess' eyes and couldn't help feeling a little distressed. Thinking about what the old lady said when she entered the palace a few days ago, even if Chen Momo knew that the old lady was doing it for the benefit of the princess, she couldn't help feeling a little chilled.
Which woman is willing to give up her husband to another woman, but who calls the crown princess the crown princess? Those who want to be mothers in the world in the future are destined to look at the newcomer with a smile.
Even with blood dripping from his heart.
The concubine's hand tightened, and the last stroke of the word "hence the name of bliss" was broken.
With a faint smile on her face, she persuaded Nanny Chen instead: "Nurse, you don't have to worry about me, I understand in my heart, grandma and her old man are right, who is not to be lifted, and I can have two more helpers, better than…”
It's better than the empress ordering her to carry someone into the East Palace.
Back then, when the princess first married the prince, she had to be stronger for a while.
The crown prince doesn't pay much attention to female sex, besides the crown princess, there are only two court ladies who have served him for many years and were originally bedside ladies. If the crown prince didn't mention it, the crown princess wouldn't mention it either. Until the crown prince married into the East Palace and had nothing to do for a year, the empress couldn't bear it anymore.
Just happened to be drafted, so Donggong rewarded one person, and even rewarded two at once.
One year passed, except for Xu Liangyuan who gave birth to the crown prince's eldest daughter, there was still nothing else in the East Palace. The empress chose the daughter of Hu Bingcheng, the chief soldier of Datong, to be the crown prince's concubine.
Later, the crown prince gave birth to the second daughter of the crown prince, and Hu Liangdi gave birth to the third daughter of the crown prince. Up to now, there was still no son born in the East Palace. Empress Fu was even more anxious now. .
Seeing that Hu Liangdi was pregnant again, the situation of the princess became more and more difficult, so she could only take the initiative to help the prince take a concubine. To put it bluntly, the form is intolerable, but it is clear and clear, after all, the crown princess is raised by Nanny Chen, so naturally she loves her dearly.
Knowing that what the Crown Princess said was insincere, Nanny Chen wiped away her tears, but she didn't know how to persuade the Crown Princess, so she could only say so.
fair enough
The crown princess's hand tightened more and more, and finally lost her sense of normalcy, so she dropped the pen.
Fu Chun came in with two court ladies, first helped the princess to sit on the kang, and then helped her wash her hands.
One was kneeling to hold the basin, and the other was holding the water to help the princess wash. After washing, Fu Chun took the handkerchief from the maid beside her and wiped the water for the princess.
He took the balm again, dug out a ball, rubbed it evenly in the palm of his hand, and warmed it up, and carefully applied it on every finger crevice of the princess.
After coming down like this, when everyone had retreated, Fu Chun brought another cup of tea, and the princess took a long breath and drank half a cup of tea.
"Let Xiao Luzi go to the front and ask, after all, there are newcomers in the East Palace today, and I, the princess, must always be magnanimous."