Chapter 35
◎Two chapters in one◎
A new maid of the first rank was appointed to the Wu Taifei's courtyard. Her name was Shunfang. Huiyin had heard a lot of gossip that Shunfang was bought from outside. The maids who came in with her were only allowed to serve in the room at most, but she was a first-rank maid. Everyone was wondering who was behind her.
In Huiyin's opinion, Shunfang's embroidery work is no better than others and can only be considered barely acceptable. Her qualifications are only slightly higher than that of Nanny Fan's granddaughter, but it happens to be her.
It is easy to tell that all the people employed by the Huaiyin Palace have backstage supporters who are desperately trying to show who has the strongest backstage support.
"My little princess, the dowager queen said that when you go to pay your respects in the future, you should bring the prince with you." Nanny Fan came to deliver the message.
Huiyin smiled and said, "Okay, I understand."
Madam Fan didn't expect Huiyin to agree so readily. She thought she wouldn't agree. Huiyin asked the maid to give Madam Fan some money as a reward, invited her to have a cup of tea, and gave her a new makeup box.
"I'll have someone send it to mom later. I heard that your eldest granddaughter is going to get married soon, so this can be considered as a gift to her as a gift." Huiyin said with a smile.
Nanny Fan quickly thanked her, "Thank you, little princess, for your concern."
"Well, you go down first. I'm afraid you've been here for too long and the old concubine will blame you." Huiyin said considerately.
Madam Fan had not revealed any secrets to Huiyin, but she always gave her rewards. She also knew that the little princess could handle many things on her own and didn't need her to do anything. But the more this happened, the more Madam Fan felt that she had taken advantage of her and that she had to find a chance to repay her.
It's not that Nanny Fan is a good person and has a conscience. She was able to become the head nanny beside Concubine Wu, but it was not because of her so-called conscience. She even stepped on others and framed people before, but she knew the current affairs.
It was obvious who would own this palace in the future. The mistress offered her an olive branch. If she didn't take it, she would be completely useless once Mrs. Wu left in the future. If she can help the little princess even a little bit, she will also have a position in the palace in the future.
As soon as Nanny Fan left, Nanny became anxious: "Your Highness, are you really going to take the prince to pay his respects? The weather is getting colder today, and children cannot stand the cold."
Huiyin smiled and said, "Mom, what are you talking about? Of course I wouldn't. I said I knew, but I didn't say I would definitely take the child over. What a joke. She is tormenting me because it's the so-called grandmother-in-law disciplining her grandson's daughter-in-law. Even though I have a thousand grievances, outsiders think that I should have become a grandmother after being a daughter-in-law for many years. But as an elder tormenting a baby, I will never agree. If she dares to say that the child must be held in front of her in the wind even when he is asleep, then I will write a letter to Li Cheng immediately."
"Aunt, how dare you call the young prince by his real name?" Mother Nan was shocked.
Huiyin snorted coldly.
Of course, Concubine Wu was eager to meet more of her great-grandson, but braving the wind and rain or going so early in the morning was not something she considered at all.
Therefore, she was a little angry when she saw Huiyin coming over alone: "Why don't you bring Jing'er over? Didn't I ask someone to bring him to me?"
Huiyin said slowly, "Grandma, you know, Jing'er is only three months old. He is still too young to be exposed to the wind, and now he hasn't woken up. I thought you would be sympathetic, so I didn't bring him over."
"You..." Concubine Wu knew that she had been fooled by Huiyin.
"You have disobeyed your elders time and again. Get down on your knees."
Huiyin looked at her in disbelief, and saw Concubine Wu pointing at her. Originally, Huiyin just thought that this person was confused, and she didn't care about the matter of blocking Xunrou. After all, Xunrou was Concubine Wu's family, and it was normal for her to want a piece of the pie. But she never thought that this person was so confused that he didn't care about his dignity and asked her to kneel down.
But she wouldn't really do it to her right away, otherwise what was reasonable would become unreasonable.
Therefore, Huiyin was puzzled and asked, "Grandmother, what are you talking about? Just because you wanted to look after the child, I ignored him until he was only a hundred days old. I traveled a long way to bring him here to serve you. Now you want me to hold him in your arms because I said I was afraid the child would catch a cold. I was just following the orders of the young prince, who told me to take good care of the child. Why are you humiliating me for this?"
Nanny Fan was also afraid that things would get tense, so she hurried over to mediate: "Tai Fei, you are not feeling well. I will help you go inside to rest."
"No, just make her kneel down in front of me. Look at this: there is no such thing as a grandson's wife and mother-in-law arguing with each other..." No one here has ever disobeyed Concubine Wu.
Huiyin thought to herself, if I kneel down today, I will write my name upside down in the future. She screamed, "Oh my God, grandma is trying to kill me."
She stood up and rushed towards the pillar. Of course, she would not rashly kill herself, because as soon as she rushed forward, she was pulled by the servants. She still struggled to crash into the pillar, and she struggled so hard that she fainted. Before she fainted, she gave Qiu Feng a look.
Why is she looking at Qiufeng? Because Qiufeng used to cry very well. When she was in Jizhou, her mother would take Qiufeng with her every time she went to a funeral.
Qiu Feng's voice was clear, and he started crying again in an instant: "My girl, you traveled thousands of miles from Jizhou to marry me, and you gave birth to the prince after risking your life. You never thought that they would force you to death? My God, please look at our little princess. Dou E is not as wronged as she is. Little princess, please come back and see the little princess..."
Mother Nan passed the sedan chair with everyone else.
Concubine Wu was terrified. She felt that Huiyin had repeatedly disobeyed her, which made her feel embarrassed, and she wanted to punish this grandson's wife. As long as she knelt down, no matter whether she was wrong or not, she was wrong.
I didn't expect Zheng to have such a fierce temper. He actually straightened his penis and even shouted loudly.
Concubine Wu was anxious and angry, and said to Nanny Fan, "Tell that girl to stop howling. What nonsense is she talking about? Someone will slap her in the face later."
Nanny Fan was speechless to Concubine Wu. You made a mess yourself, and you have no way to clean it up, and you want me to offend people. You thought that since her family members were not around, you could control her easily and make her kneel down, but you didn't expect her to be so ruthless.
Although most of the people in this mansion are Concubine Wu's people, and some of them even whispered bad things about Huiyin in front of Concubine Wu, Huiyin is not a good person. Her vision does not mean that she can endure humiliation. So she pretended to be sick and spread the news.
She even lay in bed and couldn't get up.
This matter soon spread to the residence of the Prince of Wei, and Concubine Wei asked Concubine Wu to come over to talk. In fact, there were many things going on in Concubine Wei's residence, including the quarrels between wives and concubines, the Prince of Wei's favoritism to Concubine Xu, and the lack of a crown prince. But she was very smart and almost never mentioned the troubles at home to Concubine Wu. Concubine Wu always felt that she had to take the initiative in front of outsiders, so she said to Concubine Wei: "She is not as good as Zhen. Sister, I really envy you that your wife is so sensible and obedient. The one in my family is always looking for death. It is obvious that she is disobeying me, but it is my fault."
"Good sister, don't be angry. If you don't mind, I will talk to her for you." Seeing that Concubine Wu was aggrieved, Concubine Wei was also comforted.
Concubine Wu said, "If I don't tell these things, I don't know what kind of rumors will spread outside in the future."
The two concubines talked, and at lunch time, Princess Wei came with Yin Lifang to serve. Yin Lifang made a pair of knee pads for each of the two concubines. and a pine and cypress embroidered on the top, both of which had very good meanings.
"This embroidery is so beautiful." Concubine Wu couldn't help but feel extremely envious.
Why are other people's daughters-in-law so good? She really has a miserable life.
Yin Lifang didn't care. She was just killing time by doing these embroidery works. She even thought that Concubine Wu was really confused. Zheng had Li Cheng's only son, and now she was forced to kneel down or even die. Everyone would not say anything because of her age and status, but who wouldn't grumble in private?
In fact, Concubine Wu thought that people condemned Huiyin, but Huiyin didn't care at all. She went to visit him every morning and evening as if nothing had happened. However, Concubine Wu didn't dare to let her bring the children to see him again. Later, Huiyin was also invited to the Prince of Wei's mansion to appreciate chrysanthemums.
When Concubine Wei saw Huiyin and Concubine Wu standing in a clear line, she said to Huiyin, "Hurry up and support your grandmother."
Huiyin just smiled and said to Concubine Wei: "Thanks to you, we are able to appreciate such chrysanthemums after returning from Xuzhou."
When Concubine Wei saw her talking like this, she just pretended not to hear it, and couldn't help but feel that Zheng was a bit rebellious. Huiyin also did it on purpose. In her opinion, Concubine Wu was a fool and her words were also foolish, but Concubine Wei always tried to stir up trouble. If it weren't for Concubine Wei's letter, she wouldn't have come to Jianye with her children. It can be seen that this person is a snake in the heart, so it is better to stay away from her.
Because even if she explained the reason clearly, Concubine Wu would not listen to her.
Concubine Wu said she was worshiping Buddha, but she always liked to talk with Concubine Wei and often came over. Huiyin later stopped pretending and did not go to Prince Wei's palace for almost half a month.
But ever since Huiyin made trouble last time, Concubine Wu didn't dare to go too far again and just spoke in a weird tone.
Just like now when Huiyin came to pay her respects, she held up a headband and said, "Look, this was given to me by Concubine Yin Ci. They are truly filial."
"Yes, the Wei Palace is always a place where mothers-in-law are kind and daughters-in-law are filial. They love their grandchildren even more. Last time, on Old Madam Huo's birthday, Concubine Wei did not allow the princess to bring the eldest princess back to her parents' home, saying that she was afraid of scaring her. But we have you in our palace, and you are in charge of the palace. We just need to be filial to you." Huiyin smiled.
Concubine Wu understood the hidden meaning of Huiyin's words. What this granddaughter-in-law meant was that you let your three-month-old grandson come from such a long distance, but have you ever loved your own great-grandson?
How can the younger generation be filial to their elders if they do not respect them?
But Concubine Wu was very dissatisfied with Huiyin's actions, and she had people write letter after letter to Li Cheng in Xuzhou, wishing that Li Cheng would come to Jianye and slap Huiyin a few times.
However, Huiyin never wrote a letter to Li Cheng. The only letter she wrote was to her parents in Jizhou, which she wanted to send via Jiang Bibo's caravan.
She knew very well that the letters to her parents would definitely be read by Li Cheng first. It was not that Li Cheng liked to peek, but that their marriage was a political one. If she leaked something in the middle, it would be bad for the entire Xuzhou and Jiangnan. If she wrote directly to Li Cheng, then both her and Concubine Wu's letters would be sent to him, and they would only be punished with fifty lashes each. In the end, because of Concubine Wu's rank, Li Cheng might even blame himself for not being tolerant enough.
But she could still establish a good reputation by writing to her family and telling them about these things.
As expected, Li Cheng had someone intercept Huiyin's letter and read it in his hand. The letter started with greetings to Jizhou's parents-in-law, and then began to complain, saying that the child vomited milk as soon as he arrived in Jianye, and Concubine Wu never came to visit him once, and was afraid that others would gossip, so she gave him a pair of bracelets. She also said that Concubine Wu wanted to snatch the child away, and asked her to hold the child to pay respects in the morning of autumn, but she refused because the wind was too strong. Then the Concubine thought she was disobedient, and forced her to kneel and kowtow in front of all the servants. She couldn't bear the humiliation and wanted to kill herself, but when she was close to the pillar, she thought that God gave her life, and she couldn't die in vain, so she scared Concubine Wu.
Li Cheng smiled when he saw this. This was Huiyin, she would not let anyone bully her. He looked down and saw Huiyin saying that she had few friends in Jianye. Most of the servants and servants in the house were from Concubine Wu, and they would often bully her. At the end, she said that she wanted to go back to Jizhou, and that she was just complaining a little, so Madam Zheng should not take it seriously.
For a moment, Li Cheng felt that he was not a human being. How were his wife and children treated in the back house? Concubine Wu said throughout the article that Huiyin was disrespectful, but she did not write down in detail where she was disrespectful.
Poor Huiyin! He should have gone to save his wife and children as soon as possible.
Concubine Wu knew nothing about Huiyin's arrangement. Yin Liyi happened to bring back Governor Xie from Jianye, and Governor Xie's poisonous wound had healed a lot. The King of Wei did not blame him for losing the battle, but Qingzhou was taken away again, and soldiers were killed, so Xie Jiuyi was not considered for the time being.
Huiyin also asked someone to prepare generous gifts and went to visit the Xie family. This time when she went there, she happened to meet Yin Cifei who was also there, and the three of them talked together.
Actually, the sisters Yin Lifang and Yin Liyi don't look much alike, and their personalities are completely different. Yin Liyi was the first one she met. She was very pretty, but she acted straightforwardly, or rashly, without thinking ahead, and didn't seem to avoid suspicion. Yin Lifang was much smarter, she was very generous. Huiyin had met Xu Cifei a few times, and she felt that she was too artificial.
Just like now, Yin Lifang took the initiative to find a topic: "How is the young master? Our Jing'er saw your prince last time and has been clamoring to go see him."
"I'm fine now, but I don't know why I always smell the smell of charcoal smoke. I don't know if you can smell it." Huiyin chattered idly. In fact, she knew why she was like that. She had to visit her parents every morning and evening and take care of the children. To be honest, she was a little too tired. When people are too tired, they are prone to olfactory hallucinations.
In fact, Concubine Wu cannot be considered a rival, but the direction of this life is different from the previous one. Inexplicably, Huiyin has to start thinking about her future again, and she may be a little anxious.
Yin Lifang could relate to the situation. She said, "I felt the same way for a while, but that was when I was pregnant with my son. I was not feeling well, so for about a month I could smell the smell of burning grass. Then I gradually calmed down and things got better."
She was not seductive, nor did she show off her relationship with Li Cheng like Yin Liyi did. She also spoke very appropriately, and she could make people feel good about her with just a few words.
Huiyin smiled and said yes.
I also heard Yin Liyi say that she was going to Qingzhou on horseback, but before she arrived, Xie Jiuyi had already rushed to Jianye. Fortunately, the couple got together, otherwise they would have almost missed each other.
Speaking of which, Yin Liyi had some unpleasantness with Huiyin before. But this time when she saw Huiyin coming to her house with supplements, she had already forgotten the unpleasantness in the past. Now she has also gained the reputation of a virtuous wife, so what's wrong with that?
Huiyin said a few words and prepared to leave, and Yin Lifang did the same.
"I'm in a hurry to go back because my children at home are too young. You can stay a little longer and chat with Mrs. Xie." Huiyin replied, seeming to get along very well with Yin Lifang.
Yin Lifang said honestly, "No, the Concubine Dowager wants to listen to an opera today, and the Princess asked me to go back early to serve her."
So Huiyin didn't say anything more.
After they all left, Yin Liyi said to her maid Qiaozhen, "Have you noticed that my sister and Zheng get along quite well? You see, I think Zheng is sometimes too unkind, and maybe we should go together with her."
"Well, Empress Yin seems to have always been like this." Qiaozhen was embarrassed to explain. At the beginning, everyone seemed to like their own young lady because she was pretty, cute, free-spirited, and a kind-hearted person, but in the end, everyone liked the older girl more without exception.
Yin Liyi was not angry. She rested her chin on her hand and looked at Qiaozhen: "I was always worried before, but now I don't worry about anything."
Qiaozhen advised: "You should rest more. You had a miscarriage last time and you didn't take good care of yourself after the confinement period and you ran over again. You..."
"Okay, I'll listen to you, okay?" Yin Liyi also felt that her health was not as good as before.
Lu Xiao was also in confinement. She was pregnant, but she accidentally fell and lost the baby. Lu Xiao was very sad. She lay in bed, always afraid of the cold, and even put on her socks. Grape brought her a cup of hot tea: "Crown Princess, please drink some hot tea. Doctor Yu said that your pregnancy is not stable. If you take good care of yourself, you will definitely have another child with the favor of the Crown Prince."
The prince was indeed very kind to her, and even ignored Concubine Zheng Liangdi.
Just as she was thinking about it, she heard that Zheng Liangdi was coming over. Grape said unhappily, "You are recovering from your illness now, why is she here?"
"Don't say that. When she was favored before, she didn't reduce her contact with me." Lu Xiao still did not offend Zheng Deyin.
Deyin came in and saw that Lu Xiao's face was pale, her lips were colorless, and she felt a little guilty. Li Heng told her that he was friendly to the Lu family for the sake of the great cause, and even this time when Lu Xiao had a miscarriage, Deyin also helped. Because Li Heng wanted to leave the child to her and didn't want Lu Xiao to give birth to a son, this was also for the good of the country.
Therefore, Deyin said a lot here: "I will only manage the Eastern Palace for a few days on your behalf. When you are well, I will return the management power to you."
Lu Xiao smiled weakly and said, "Dear Lady Zheng, you have always been very good at managing the household. I probably can't do it. You should still manage it."
Deyin felt so guilty. She thought that when she had children in the future, she would definitely treat her child well.
This time, without the Zheng family, the prince is still destined to succeed, and he took back Qingzhou just like in the previous life. This shows that history will never change, Li Cheng will die sooner or later, and she will also take Huiyin from Jiangnan in this life, which can be regarded as her compensation.
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She was tired from jumping rope yesterday, and her back and waist ached today. Huiyin supported her waist, went back to lie on the couch, and picked up a book to read. Today, Concubine Wu went to the Prince of Wei's mansion, so she was able to have some free time. Otherwise, she would be very tired from visiting her parents every morning and evening. She was actually a lazy person, especially when serving others, she was the most impatient.
Moreover, if Li Cheng saw her letter, he would take her back immediately, and she would not have to deal with this old woman.
Of course Concubine Wu went to talk to Concubine Wei again, still talking about the three axes, but Concubine Wei herself was lonely, and she could not understand the troubles in Prince Wei's mansion more than she could listen to gossip in other people's homes.
Furthermore, she could see that Zheng was particularly opinionated, stubborn and unruly, unlike Concubine Wu who was easily influenced by others.
The two of them chirped for the whole afternoon, and when it was time for lunch, they heard that Li Cheng had come from Xuzhou. He had just met with the King of Wei and came to pay his respects to the concubines. The concubine of Wei was delighted, "It seems that your grandson has made a name for himself."
Concubine Wu looked calm and said, "What do you mean by helping me? My grandson has always been filial and must have come to visit me."
The two of them finally waited for Li Cheng to come over and were very excited.
Li Cheng would not start a fight in the Prince of Wei's mansion. He greeted her as if nothing had happened: "Greetings to my grandmother and the Queen Mother of Wei."
"You are not in Xuzhou, how come you have time to come here?" Concubine Wei asked pretendingly.
Li Cheng said: "Now that the imperial court has withdrawn its troops from Qingzhou, I need to report some military information about Qingzhou and Xuzhou to my uncle, the Prince of Wei."
Concubine Wei laughed and said, "We don't understand what's going on outside. We just need to have dinner, so you can stay and eat with us. We haven't seen you for a long time."
"Yes." Li Cheng patiently accompanied them for dinner and told a few jokes from time to time. The two concubines laughed so hard that they couldn't stop.
This made Concubine Wu feel that her grandson was supporting her. It would be best if she could take in a few more concubines and lock up Zheng in the remote place in the north room and never pamper her for the rest of her life. This was the result of her going against herself.
The more Mrs. Wu thought about it, the happier she became, and a hint of happiness showed on her face.
Li Cheng glanced at her lightly, but felt uncomfortable in his heart. Seeing his grandmother in such a happy mood, she must have often taken pleasure in tormenting Huiyin. In Jianye, in the Prince of Wei's mansion must be on the grandmother's side, even the usually friendly Concubine Wei must be on the side of Concubine Wei. No wonder Huiyin felt isolated.
Huiyin was really miserable, luckily he came, Li Cheng thought of this and took a big bite of the sheep's head skewer.
Seeing that he had a fierce expression, Concubine Wu took the initiative to have someone pour wine for her grandson: "You should drink some wine too." Drinking some wine would make people bolder, just to see how stubborn Zheng was.
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