Chapter 320: Repaying a Favor

Zhu Huaizhen listened to the opera for half a month, quietly and without any disturbance.

Tu Mi discovered that her prince, in addition to listening to "Peach Blossom Fan" and "The Injustice of Dou E", also listened to "The Palace of Eternal Youth" recently.

Orioles chirp at dawn in the jade trees of Jinling, flowers bloom early in the Qinhuai waterside pavilions. Who knew the ice would melt so easily? I watched him build his red mansion, I watched him entertain guests, and I watched his mansion collapse. Here, amidst the mossy, blue tiles, I once slept in a dreamlike state; I've witnessed fifty years of rise and fall. No one in Wuyi Lane is surnamed Wang, ghosts cry at Mochou Lake, and owls roost on Phoenix Terrace. Dreams of the ruined mountains are the most real, the old land hard to lose. I don't believe this map is changing manuscripts. I'll compose a lament for Jiangnan, and sing it until I grow old.

"Peach Blossom Fan" was her prince's favorite, and she could understand that.

The sun and moon hang in the sky at dawn and dusk, and spirits wield the power of life and death. Heaven and earth, supposed to distinguish between the clear and the turbid, yet how could they have confused Dao Zhi and Yan Yuan? Those who do good suffer poverty and a shorter life, while those who commit evil enjoy wealth and longevity. Heaven and earth, seemingly coveting the strong and bullying the weak, yet they also seem to go along with the tide. Earth, if you can't distinguish between good and evil, what are you called Earth? Heaven, you misjudge the wise and the foolish, unworthy of being Heaven! Alas, all I can do is shed tears.

"The Injustice of Dou E" is an opera that her prince often listens to, and she can understand it.

Please ask, ask, the flower calyx is delicate, I'm afraid, afraid, afraid, it's not as better as the flowers in the east of the building, yes, yes, yes, yes, that plum branch once occupied the first spring, and why should I be entangled by green willows, please, please, please, please be sincere to my old friend, so as not to be blamed for my lack of love, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, I bid farewell to the past, your kindness is as high as the sky, I pay my deep affection from the beginning, please, please, please, you can see the old things by yourself, tears are thrown away.

The only thing she didn't know was what her prince was going to do with the "Changsheng Palace".

"Tu Mi, Emperor Xuan of Yan has a beloved concubine. She can be said to be favored or unfavored." Zhu Huaizhen held up his rosy cheeks, smiling like a flower, his eyes moving.

"Your Highness, what do you want to express?" Tu Mi joked.

"This beloved concubine is three years older than Emperor Xuan of Yan. She has been married before and was the concubine of the late crown prince." Zhu Huaizhen said slowly.

"Your Highness is talking about Concubine Wu Huifei," Tu Mi said with a smile.

Back then, Emperor Xuan of Yan took Concubine Wu Hui into the palace, and she was widely criticized in the court, saying that she was a beauty who brought disaster.

Emperor Xuan of Yan asked Princess Pingyang to help speak in his favor. Princess Pingyang only said one sentence: this is not the former crown prince's concubine, this is the former crown prince's concubine's biological sister.

Then, Emperor Xuan of Yan favored Concubine Wu Huifei for a period of time, but because Concubine Wu Huifei had difficulty in having children, the matter was put on hold.

"Tu Mi, send a box of hairpins to Concubine Wu Huifei, saying that she needs to repay her kindness." Zhu Huaizhen smiled sweetly, her grape eyes clear and bright.

If it weren't for Princess Pingyang's help, Concubine Wu Hui would have been branded as a beauty who brings disaster and would have had no way out.

At that time, Wu Huifei was in the emperor's bedchamber, and Princess Pingyang immediately rewarded her with a golden hairpin with a beautiful face and a cloud-like hairpin.

So, Tu Mi picked out some golden hairpins, including the golden hairpin with butterfly flowers, pomegranates, ruyi, tortoise shell and silk, the golden hairpin with red gold filigree and rubies, the golden hairpin with bat pattern and trembling branches inlaid with glass beads, the golden hairpin with nine-turn red gold double phoenixes inlaid with jade and seven treasures, the golden hairpin with gold filigree inlaid with rubies and double phoenixes inlaid with kingfisher feathers, the golden hairpin with gold pattern and silk inlaid with five treasures and oriental pearls and peacock with spread tails, the golden hairpin with rose quartz and crabapple with long wings and jade phoenix, the crystal hairpin with burnt blue peony, the golden hairpin with four butterflies inlaid with red, blue and green sapphires and beads, the golden hairpin with emerald and red gold phoenix beads, and so on.

After receiving the golden hairpin, Concubine Wu Huifei pleaded for the old lady and Madam Chen, saying that the Duke Dingguo's family had been loyal for generations and had made great contributions to Southern Yan, and that their family should not be wiped out because of the crime of one Duke Dingguo.

After hearing this, Emperor Xuan of Yan was extremely kind and spared the old lady and Madam Chen.