Sweet Beauty Chapter 50: Daydreaming

The tea banquet in the Shu Palace was over, but different ripples were set off in the various prefectures.

Huayu Rong and Huayu He sat on the carriage together to return to the Mansion of Chengen Gongfu. Huayu looked at Huayu Rong with a cold face, and knew that her cousin must have been disgraced and did not gain the upper hand, or because of the Shu Palace. The person that Chengyi County Master Bai and so on turned out to be closer to the people of Xiang's family and didn't flatter her, holding her and feeling unhappy in his heart, he sincerely apologized to Hua Yurong: "Third sister, In the previous incident, the younger sister spoke out without permission, wronged the third sister, and asked the third sister to forgive the inadequacy of the younger sister."

Hua Yurong glanced at her and said with a sneer: "Didn't you do a good job today? You both refuted Xiang Yiwei's girl and resolved Chengyi County's accusation. Your grandfather will praise you for your good work when you go back.”

Hua Yuhe smiled bitterly and said, "Third sister, you know, I have never sought success, but I have always sought faultlessness. I just don't want to offend Chengyi County Master and Shu Wangfu. There. After all, it is the palace of the King of Shu, and if it gets bigger, I am afraid that we will suffer, and my grandfather will punish me when I come back.”

Huayurong has a proud temperament, and Huayuhe knows her character well, so she always retreats in front of Huayurong and speaks out about her difficulties and concerns, instead of covering up and secretly doing some sneaky plots. Let Huayu Rong be too lazy to care about her because of her pride and high sense of superiority.

However, Hua Yurong was really unhappy this time, snorted coldly, and sarcastically said: "You are a person with all aspects and exquisiteness, but it's a pity that even so, what's the use? Look at the style of the Shu Palace, I'm afraid that no matter how much effort you put into it, it will be in vain. ."

Hua Yuhe's face turned pale, her hands on her knees tightened, and she lowered her eyes and said in a low voice, "My sister doesn't dare to be delusional, but at least she hopes to live in peace."

Hua Yurong stared at her coldly for a while, then hummed softly again, but stopped making a sound. Hua Yuhe knew that the matter had been exposed in front of Hua Yurong.

The two returned to Washington, got off the carriage and went back to their own yard. Not long after, the old lady next to Mrs. Hua went to their yard, let them take a good rest first, and then go to the old lady later. dinner together in the yard. And when the mama left, she also summoned the eldest maid who served them to go to the old lady's courtyard to answer.

The Shou'an Hall of Mrs. Hua, the lady of the country.

At this time, Mrs. Cheng'en, Mrs. Hua, and Mrs. Hua, Mrs. Hua, both sat in the back hall. The two patiently listened to the grandmaids who accompanied the two granddaughters. Once again, his face was solemn.

At this time, when His Majesty said that he would choose a couple of feudal princes to marry, the royal palace of Shu has always kept a low profile, and the prince's concubine suddenly entertained several ladies, which made the Hua family, who was bound to win the queen's position in the future, have no choice but to Pay attention to this.

The Hua family is the descendant of the family. Originally, the Hua family certainly hoped that the child with the blood of the Hua family would sit in that position. Unfortunately, the daughter of Mrs. Hua and Mrs. Hua was not able to keep the third child. A broken body can no longer be pregnant.

Few of the daughters of the Hua family who were later sent to the palace were favored by the emperor, and none of them were pregnant. You can send people to the palace, but you can't control whether the emperor goes to sleep or not....

Fortunately, although Empress Hua has no sons, and Her Majesty has no other sons, it is better to adopt a prince than a son from another concubine to take that position.

The current royal family originally belonged to the line of Nanping Wang, a vassal king with different surnames in the previous dynasty. In the late period of the previous dynasty, the emperor was dull, the officials were corrupt, and there were natural disasters in various places.

The emperor at the end of the previous dynasty listened to the slander and summoned the old king of Nanping and the prince of the prince of Nanping to Beijing, and poisoned them on the way back, forcing the second son of the prince of Nanping to have a dissent, and then he really took advantage of the chaos to rebel against the previous dynasty.

Princess Zhuang, the original wife of Emperor Jing Yuan of the present Majesty (posthumously named Empress Yi Deren after the establishment of the new dynasty), died of illness a few years before the establishment of the new dynasty. The family of military generals in the north has been commanding the troops in the north, and the two sides cooperated before and after the attack and finally wiped out the former dynasty.

So the Hua family plays a pivotal role in destroying the previous dynasty and unifying the country, or at least reducing the wars of the new dynasty for more than ten or twenty years.

Emperor Jing Yuan originally had two sons, but one son died in battle before the establishment of the new dynasty and the other died of illness. After the establishment of the new dynasty, other concubines and concubines became pregnant and gave birth to children, but they were able to give birth and grow up smoothly. There are only two princesses, Princess Chang'an and Princess Changrong.

There may even be rumors that the remnants of the previous dynasty were secretly rumored that it was because Emperor Jing Yuan killed too much, which led to the inheritance without heirs...

Emperor Jing Yuan had no children, and his mother, the Empress Dowager Zhuang (also the aunt of Empress Yuan Zhuang and the aunt of Princess Xia, the successor of the King of Shu), begged the emperor, and successively selected the children of King Kang, King of Shu and King of Min from the three younger brothers of Emperor Jing Yuan. A child was raised by his side, namely Jiang Jue, the fifth son of the King of Kang, Jiang Yu, the third son of the King of Shu, and Jiang Lian, the second son of the King of Fujian.

Only the three younger brothers of Emperor Jing Yuan are actually only King Kang and Emperor Jing Yuan who are siblings of the same mother. >

In the beginning, Emperor Jing Yuan was still young, and Concubine Xiang Gui gave out Princess Changrong again. Other concubines also occasionally became pregnant. Everyone regarded Empress Dowager Zhuang raising these children as ordinary grandchildren. That's all, but when Emperor Jing Yuan was getting old, the concubines and concubines in the palace had not been seen for many years, and everyone's eyes on those princes were different.

Among them, Jiang Jue, the fifth son of King Kang, is the direct grandson of Empress Dowager Zhuang. She has the most honorable status, and has a well-behaved and lovable personality. In the palace, not only the Empress Dowager is loved by the emperor, but also Empress Hehua and other concubines. The great Confucian who taught him They also praised him for his good knowledge, and he was good at calligraphy and painting at a young age.

It's just that the Great Zhou Kingdom has just established its dynasty, and the surrounding situation is still somewhat unstable, so the court is still heavily armed, but Jiang Jue's shortcomings are that he is fond of literature and dislikes martial arts, and he has no martial arts skills at all, and he is not interested in marching and fighting.

The King of Shu and the King of Min are not the sons and daughters of Empress Dowager Zhuang. They are descended from a concubine and a concubine of the old Nanping King respectively. It's just that the mother of the King of Fujian died early and was raised by Empress Dowager Zhuang, so relatively speaking, the concubine raised by the concubine. The great King of Shu should be the Queen Mother Zhuang who is the least close vassal king today.

Everyone initially guessed that Empress Dowager Zhuang asked Jiang Yu to keep them together. First, it was to balance the power of several vassal kings and confuse everyone's attention. Second, it was probably because Jiang Yu's mother, Princess Xia, was born of his own sister.

Jiang Yu and Jiang Jue have opposite personalities. Since childhood, they have a bad temper, hate people and ghosts, are arrogant and unreasonable, like martial arts but not literature, and then often disappear for a period of time inexplicably, but Empress Dowager Zhuang probably sees it for the sake of her niece He also hurt him very much, and he was very indulgent, and everyone turned a blind eye.

Jiang Lian, the second son of the King of Fujian, has a personality that is roughly between the two.

In this way, when everyone saw that the emperor intended to choose one of the three princes to inherit, everyone naturally thought that Jiang Jue was the most certain, and Jiang Yu was the least likely.

But while Jiang Jue and Jiang Lian are still studying and practicing martial arts steadily in Beijing and occasionally getting in touch with Jingzhong Xungui, Jiang Yu has gone to the army for training in the past few years. When he returned to Shu, he secretly went to the North to quell the chaos and disaster relief. The means of pacifying the bandits were ruthless and fast. A few months later, the name of the God of War was vaguely spread, and the people of the North even praised him in various ways...

Then at the beginning of the year, His Majesty sent Jiang Yu to Xining to lead the army against the Yuezhi Kingdom in the Western Regions...

These ordinary civil servants may not be able to see the clues, but the Hua family was born as a military general, how could they not know the importance of military power and popular sentiment, the Hua family had already prepared their daughter Hua Yurong and Jiang Jue to marry They all hesitated...

Let's talk about the old lady Hua after listening to the reply of the two maids of Huayu Ronghuayuhe, she waved her hand to let the two back down, she turned her head and said with a little worry to the contemplative grandpa Chengen Gonghua: " Grandpa, what do you mean by Prince Shu's Mansion? I think we tended to marry Prince Kang's Mansion. Are they showing affection to the Xiang family, or are they hinting at us? But, I don't know what your Majesty is. It means..."

The emperor was very patient, and he was not in a hurry to establish a reserve at all. He just said a sentence or a half vaguely, which made the following courtiers ponder and break their hearts.

Because they were all princes, it was difficult for the ministers to speak freely.

Otherwise, please establish a prince, what is your intention? Who said His Majesty can't give birth! It's really heartbreaking!

But the emperor can wait, but Chengen Gongfu can't wait, because their family has only one granddaughter, and she is almost seventeen, and it is impossible to delay it any longer. But getting married before the establishment of the reserve can only be said to be a gamble.

But a prostitute, even if the Hua family has more status and has more influence in the Northern Army, the vassal king himself does not allow it, and she is not worthy of the vassal prince, and it does not make sense to clean it up...

Mr. Hua pondered for a while before saying: "You should talk to Sister Rong first, then take her to the palace to see the empress, and let her live in the palace for a while. Her temperament , it should be a good grind."

After thinking for a while, he said, "Bring Sister He with you."

In the past, I thought about marrying her to Jiang Jue. The two were childhood sweethearts, and they could see that Jiang Jue really liked Sister Rong and was willing to tolerate her temperament. That's all.

But Jiang Yu, I used to think that he had a bad personality and was only a scoundrel, but now he feels that he is thoughtful and ruthless, and he is not a master who can be easily taken over. Sister Rong doesn't like him. With her temperament, marrying It's not good for him to be afraid...

Lao Hua nodded when she heard the words, hesitated and then said: "Master Guo, Sister Rong's temperament is really incompatible with the third son of the king of Shu, and she has been a childhood sweetheart with the fifth son of the king of Kang, since childhood. The relationship is very good, if you change it rashly, with King Kang... this matter is still undecided, after all, the fifth son is the grandson of the empress dowager, this matter..."

Seeing that Mrs. Hua was silent, she continued to probe, "I see that the girl in the Ling family is smart and cute, and I see the meaning of Azhu and Ling Guogong, and they also have the meaning of promising his sister to the Shu Palace, you See...?"

Azhu is the boudoir name of Mrs. Zhou's wife, Mrs. Hua, and Mrs. Hua is Zhou's aunt. Because Zhou's mother died young, Mrs. Hua has always had much pity for Zhou and love for Ling Xueni.

Old Master Hua nodded slowly and said: "This matter is not urgent. I am watching the Shu Palace to act. I am afraid that I have already known it. You enter the palace, and then talk to the empress. She has the most contact with the queen mother, and you should know more. The clues..."

Mrs. Hua promised not to mention it.

Ling Guogong's mansion.

Ling Xueni mentioned by Mrs. Hua was full of grievances when she returned home from the Shu Palace at this time.

She is exquisite and lovable, and has a cute and lovely temperament. She has always been very popular at home and abroad. Everyone likes her either because of her family background, the empress or her temperament, and she is the number one The second time to "condescend" and talk to the daughter of a small official, she was ignored, fell into a trap, and was humiliated!

And, and that's still in the Shu Palace! Thinking that not only those ladies might be laughing at her secretly, but also that people in the Shu Palace might look down on her because of this, she felt embarrassed, angry and wronged...

The lady of the country, the Zhou family, has only one son and one daughter, so she naturally cares very much about her daughter Ling Xueni. Hearing the maid report back that the young lady lost her temper in the room after returning from the Shu Palace, and seemed to cry, so she hurried over to see her.

Speaking of these days, the Zhou family is also worried. Because she learned from her daughter that her son and her cousin, Wei Jia, had become husband and wife, she discussed with her son. Wei Jia has a distinguished status, which is not normal. Casually bullied the woman who wanted him, and asked him to quickly implement the matter of Weijia's identity, so that he could marry her.

But Ling Xiu'an had no intention of marrying Rong Weijia at all, so he said directly with a sullen face, Second Master Bai has already refused to recognize Weijia as a daughter, and this is no longer possible.

The Zhou family is dissatisfied, the Bai family is so ignorant of praise?

Isn't it the fact that the Prince of Shu's Mansion invited a girl from the Bai family to a banquet, did he really think he could marry into the Prince's Mansion of Shu? ! It really took a stone as an ingot, whimsical and daydreaming! I'm afraid that the concubine's family may not be able to see it!

Zhou's face darkened and said dissatisfied: "Can't you think of a way to put pressure on the Bai family? Go directly to Mrs. Bai. If they refuse to recognize Weijia, they will reveal the background of the second child of the Bai family! Look at Mrs. Bai. How dare you and Mrs. Bai!"

"Thanks to them, the Bai family still claims to be a well-known scholarly family of the previous dynasty for over a hundred years, and has been deeply favored by the previous dynasty for more than a hundred years, and Weijia is the niece of the second child of the Bai family, so ruthless and innocent Yes!"

Ling Xiu'an's brain throbbed when she heard these words from her mother.

Her mother really thought that with the support of the Empress and the military power of the Ling family, the Ling family would be able to act arbitrarily? What else is there to say about the favor of the former dynasty, since it is said to be the former dynasty, how can you say this casually!

What's more, the military power of their family, as well as the military power of the Hua family, has become weaker and weaker under the deliberate suppression and reduction of His Majesty in the past few decades. Time and again!

He said helplessly: "Mother, the identity of the second master Bai was revealed, it was just an old event more than ten years before the establishment of the new dynasty. It can be said that the Bai family did not intend to deceive His Majesty, but if Weijia's identity was revealed, Our family is hiding the descendants of the royal family of the previous dynasty, deceiving the king, and the crime of genocide!"

When Zhou shi heard this, he became hoarse, although his face was full of dissatisfaction and disdain. Put pressure on, or think of other ways to give Weijia a reasonable and unsuspecting identity...

Ling Xiu An was very annoyed. Since he already has an interest in Bai Jingshu, the fifth young lady of the Bai family, in this situation, Wei Jia can no longer recognize the name of the second master Bai, otherwise it would be impossible for him to marry Bai Jingshu. It's up!

What's more, he thought about the matter between him and Rong Weijia that day, and he felt strange, and he had already decided that it was Rong Weijia who took medicine and deliberately lost himself in him in order to marry him...

So how could he possibly marry her? ! And her identity....

But Ling Xiu'an has always been filial. He knew that his mother regarded Rong Weijia as her own daughter. compelled nagging.

So Zhou Shi really broke her heart these days, especially when she went to visit Weijia, seeing Weijia's well-behaved and hopeful appearance, and thinking of her aunt's kindness to her back then, she felt all kinds of bitterness and pain.

But she said that when Mrs. Zhou arrived at her daughter's room, Ling Xueni turned red when she saw her mother and threw herself into her arms.

Finally said: "Mother, my daughter just saw that she and Sister Weijia look a bit similar, so I gave her some face and talked to her. But she is only the daughter of a fifth-rank petty official, so she dares to Being so rude makes my daughter the laughing stock of everyone, this tone, my daughter can't swallow, if she can't teach her, she will let her walk in various houses in the future! Also, there is the Prince of Shu's house..."

Speaking of this, I feel so sad...

Ling Xueni didn't know the connection between Bai Jingshu and Rong Weijia, and there was something about making Rong Weijia pretend to be the daughter of the Bai family.

The Zhou family was even more furious when she heard the baby daughter's words. This Bai family is simply out of line! First of all, she refused to recognize Weijia, but now a little white girl dares to smear her daughter's face and make her humiliated in the Shu Palace!

Ms. Zhou pressed down her anger, coaxed her daughter, and said coldly: "Ni'er, don't worry, my mother heard that the girl from the Bai family doesn't like the old lady Bai, and my mother will decide this matter for you!"

Let her meet the old lady of the Bai family and see what the Bai family has to say!