Chapter 117: Like a Harmless Cabbage
Xu Miaoyan followed her gaze and saw the flying eaves of the Fang Mansion. At the end of the nine-curve corridor, behind the hanging flower door was a beautiful world.
This flower hall is located at the best view point in Fang Mansion. Two crabapple trees are planted in front of the bluestone steps. The light crimson petals brush against the cloud-patterned screen inlaid with dragon patterns, and fall on the double-sided embroidered screen in front of the moon-shaped door.
The Yuhua stone road surface shimmers in the twilight, winding its way to the hexagonal Chenxiang Pavilion. The gilded bird-scare bells hanging from the eaves tremble in the evening breeze, and a lazy, adorable golden auspicious beast lies in the courtyard.
She immediately felt ashamed of herself: "I was wrong, your place is indeed better than Lu Mansion."
The Lu mansion is now in a very dilapidated state. There is no money to repair it, and no one cares about the weeds in the yard.
"Don't worry, I have no intention of competing with you for Lu Changqing," Fang Qianxue gently weighed the tea lid, "Now it is the Lu family that is competing with me for the two children."
"I don't agree with this either," Xu Miaoyan said, "Since you and Lu Lang have already separated, you shouldn't have any further contact. Why do you want to bring the child back?"
She had always felt that Lu Changqing didn't love her deeply enough. If the two children came back, they would take away Lu Changqing's love. Xu Miaoyan naturally didn't want that.
Fang Qianxue smiled softly: "I didn't expect that we have the same idea on this matter. Go back and persuade Lu Changqing and Old Lady Lu not to have any ideas about my two children. Otherwise, I am not someone who can be bullied easily."
As the two were talking, they heard the sound of a gong outside the door.
At the same time, a little maid hurried over to report: "Sir! The old lady of the Lu family brought a woman and several maids to take the young lady and the young master away!"
Fang Qianxue turned her head and glanced at Xu Miaoyan. She read surprise in her eyes and knew that this matter had nothing to do with her.
"Tell the guards to stop the person and not let him in!"
"I tried to stop her, but the old woman was holding a gong and beating it outside the door, gathering a group of onlookers. They were talking nonsense and ruining your reputation!" The little maid glanced at Xu Miaoyan again, hesitating whether to say anything.
"What else?" Fang Qianxue saw what she was thinking, "Go ahead."
The little maid then said, "Also... there is a girl coming to the side door, claiming to be Yang, the concubine of the King of Beining, and she wants to see you."
"Yang?" Fang Qianxue frowned, unable to remember this person at all.
"It's Yang Yunwan, the concubine of Prime Minister Yang's residence," Xu Miaoyan said, "I heard that on the day of the Queen Mother's birthday banquet, His Majesty gave her to the King of Beining as a concubine."
She had heard about this from the Queen, who said that the Yang family had arranged a concubine's daughter to be by the side of the Prince of Beining.
"So that's how it is." Fang Qianxue frowned slightly, "Why does she want to see me?"
She had gone to the back hill of the Imperial Garden early that day, so she had no idea about this. She was not angry that Xiao Mingzhe had a concubine, but she was angry that he said nothing, causing the concubine to come to her house and put her in this passive situation now.
"Miss Yang said...she wanted to meet the future princess." said the maid.
Fang Qianxue was speechless.
"You have something to do in your house today, so I won't bother you," Xu Miaoyan stood up and said goodbye, explaining, "I left through the side door. I didn't want Chen to see me here."
"Well," Fang Qianxue thought for a moment and called a little maid over, "Xiaoju, send Miss Xu out through the side door."
"Yes." The little maid made a "please" gesture to Xu Miaoyan, "Miss Xu, please."
Xu Miaoyan led Hydrangea to the side door and saw Yang Yunwan, wearing a plain white shirt and green skirt, standing respectfully at the gatehouse waiting, like a harmless little cabbage.
"The person His Majesty rewarded is indeed extraordinary. She is so charming just standing there," Xu Miaoyan praised, with a smile on her face. "It seems Fang Qianxue's future life will not be easy."
So what if she is Fengnu? She is a woman after all, and she cannot avoid the jealousy in the harem.
Xu Miaoyan suddenly felt that she was not so pitiful. It seemed that suffering a little grievance was no big deal. At least her husband did not take a concubine.
Even Fengnu has to share her husband with others. How rare it is for her to have Lu Changqing's exclusive favor!
"That's right, isn't that what the female official in charge of the seal is like?" Xiuqiu gloated, "That Miss Yang, I think she is not an easy person to deal with. Look, Madam, she is not only beautiful, but her demeanor and behavior are as if they were measured with a ruler. Where in the world is there such a perfect person?"
Xu Miaoyan had already walked out the door, and she looked back at Yang, and couldn't help but take a breath, and found that it was indeed the case.
"Let's go. This is all Fang Qianxue's fate." She used to think that a lady from a noble family like Fang Qianxue had already suppressed her nature. But after meeting this Yang today, she found that she had no true nature at all and was so well-behaved that she was like a tool.
In the flower hall, Fang Qianxue drank a cup of tea silently, looking at the table with her fingers.
"Sir, Old Lady Lu is still beating the gong at the main gate, and Yang is still waiting at the side door. Do you want to ask someone to drive them away?" Cui Shuang asked.
"No, Yang is the Empress's sister after all, it's not a good idea to chase her away," Fang Qianxue said, "Send someone to invite her in. As for Old Lady Lu, just stop her and don't let her in."
"Yes." Cui Shuang hurried out.
Fang Qianxue asked the maid to change the tea and bring up a variety of snacks. She also prepared a red envelope and stuffed some silver coins into it.
Since she is Xiao Mingzhe's concubine, she must give her a gift.
"Your servant greets the princess!" Yang Yunwan came in from outside, knelt down hurriedly, and kowtowed twice in a proper manner, "Your servant knows that my coming here is presumptuous, and the princess doesn't want to see me, but there is really no other way, please show me a way out."
"Don't be so quick to call me 'Princess'. Tell me why you are dead." Fang Qianxue looked her up and down and found that she was the little palace maid who helped Xiao Mingzhe wipe the tea stains on the Queen Mother's birthday.
Her skin is as white as snow, her eyebrows are as dark as distant mountains, her eyes are as bright as autumn water and seem to contain morning dew, and the slightly raised curve at the end of her eyes is like a meticulously drawn painting. She is truly a beautiful woman who has been meticulously carved.
But the beauty's hair was tied into a maid's bun, she wore no jewelry, and the clothes she wore were very simple, a white shirt and a green skirt made of linen. Fang Qianxue even felt that this outfit might not be as good as when she was a girl in the Yang family.
"I know that the prince will move to the Fang Mansion after his wedding," Yang Yunwan looked at Fang Qianxue miserably, "the prince and Xuelang have been packing their things these past few days. They have packed more than a dozen boxes with clothes and other things. They have even taken the guards and gatekeepers with them, but not me. The princess also knows that I am staying in the Beining Palace under the orders of my father and sister. If I am of no use to them, I will die!"
She has always been calm, but these days she couldn't help but panic.
She could be unfavored, and even in order not to dislike King Beining, she had been working as a maid since she entered the King Beining's Mansion. She stayed in her own room on weekdays and had no sense of existence. Even if she occasionally saw the prince coming from afar, she would turn around and leave. She survived in the King Beining's Mansion by relying on her "tenacity".
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