Family Has a Concubine

The weather in June is getting hotter and hotter, but today it rained heavily, making the whole Zhuangzi more refreshing and pleasant.

Ye Lingjiao was standing in the room, looking out.

I saw a garden full of flowers and branches, peonies are rushing up, thick branches and leaves, wrist-sized pollen is bright and colorful, raindrops are hanging on it, and the humid wind blows, it is swaying, Windy and charming.

Ye Tangcai was standing among the flowers, wearing a plain white plum blossom jacket and a streamlined skirt woven with water shadows and red begonia flowers. Her eyes were gorgeous, and she turned around slightly, and the surrounding peonies were instantly eclipsed by her.

"Look at her, how can there be such a person in the world? Hua is so mad!" Ye Lingjiao smiled and said to Qiuju behind her, then stood up and walked out. "Sister Tang, you've been alive and kicking since it rained, be careful not to fall."

"I see that you are the one who is alive and kicking, you are restless!" The translucent lotus flower fan in Ye Tangcai's hand lightly tapped her head.

"It hurts!" Ye Lingjiao glared at her: "You are all well, let's go back quickly! June 25th is grandma's birthday banquet, let's go back quickly."

"I see that you are just anxious about your cousin's affairs! If you go back and torture her, she will not be happy with the birthday party." Ye Tangcai gave her a helpless look, "It really is true that you have a husband and a son-in-law and forget your mother. "

Ye Lingjiao smiled, feeling very embarrassed.

"Girl, it's time for us to go back. Today is June 20th, and we have to prepare a birthday gift when we go back. Also, we have to work for a long time to go to the princess mansion to thank you." Qiu Ju said.

No matter how beautiful Zhuangzi's scenery is, staying here for more than a month will get tired of him. And after all, it's someone else's place, so you have to look at other people's eyes before doing anything. Qiuju still likes Qiongmingxuan, her own place, and can occasionally go to the street to play.

Ye Tangcai nodded: "Let's say goodbye to Zhuangtou and Mrs. Zhuangtou!"

The two went to see Mrs. Zhuangtou, thanked them for taking care of them during this time, and Zhuangtou let them have lunch before packing up and leaving.

While Ye Tangcai was recuperating here, Qinger also came.

At that time Ye Lingjiao stayed behind, and the Jing'an Marquis also left behind a large and comfortable carriage with a red wheel and canopy, just in case they needed it.

Ye Tangcai took Qiuju and Huiran, Ye Lingjiao took Apei into the carriage, and Qinger drove. Zhuangtou was enthusiastic and said he would give them a ride.

So, at a quarter to three in the afternoon, he set off for Beijing.

After walking for more than half an hour, the carriage finally entered the city gate and headed all the way to the north of the city. After about two quarters of an hour, it entered Changsheng Street and turned a corner, which was the west corner gate of Dingguobo Mansion.

The carriage stopped outside the corner gate, Ye Tangcai and the others got out of the carriage, said goodbye to Ye Lingjiao and the others, and entered the mansion.

Returning to Xikuayuan, when passing by Lanzhuju, I looked in and saw that the gate was closed and there was no one there. Ye Tang guessed that Chu Yunpan was out on errands again.

Several people walked into Qiongmingxuan. Ye Tangcai lay on the familiar Arhat bed and stretched: "Well, it's still comfortable here!"

Hui Ran came in with a teapot in her mouth: "This is the throne for a girl to read her storybook. It doesn't taste like sitting elsewhere."

"Yes." Ye Tangcai laughed, looked at the white porcelain plum blossom teapot in her hand, and said, "Is there any tea?"

"Yes." Hui Ran nodded, and then leisurely began to pour water for her.

Ye Tangcai was surprised, none of them lived here, and there was still tea in the house, even if there was, it must have been more than a month ago. But Huiran would not make such a low-level mistake, pouring such water to her.

With the injection of tea, the small white porcelain cup was filled instantly, and then the fragrance of jasmine wafted out.

"Girl." Huiran handed it to her.

Ye Tang straightened her waist, took the cup, warmed it with her hands, and watched it soak for about two or three hours.

"Xiang'er probably made it!" Hui Ran said with a smile, "That girl is pretty good."

Ye Tangcai nodded, "I will reward her later."

"Girl, Sister Luye is here." Qiuju called from outside.

Ye Tangcai straightened up, and after a while, Luye walked in, and turned to the Xici room, she saw Ye Tangcai leaning on the Arhat couch, and said: "The third grandma is finally back."

"Yes." Ye Tangcai nodded, "I'll change my clothes, and I'll go to greet my mother in a while."

"No need." Luye said, "My wife took the eldest girl, the second girl and others to Mingdao Mountain to pay homage to the old moon. Even the two aunts, the second master has gone, at least he won't be back until tomorrow afternoon."

Ye Tangcai and Huiran were a little speechless, it made sense for Mr. Qin to bring Chu Miaoshu and Chu Miaohua, so why did Chu Congke join in the fun? He has a fiancée who is about to get married!

"Sister, sit down and have a cup of tea." Ye Tangcai said with a smile.

"Thanks to the third grandma, I will go outside to buy silk thread later. The third grandma fell and injured in the suburbs more than a month ago. Now that the third grandma is back, let me take a look." Luye said.

"I have a lot of silk threads in my room. See if it's suitable or not, so you don't have to go outside." Ye Tangcai smiled faintly. Soft, often do errands.

"Really?" Luye was very happy.

Huiran had already walked into the house and took out a large handful of silk threads, Luye picked out some suitable ones, thanked them again and again before leaving.

"Girl, when are you going to thank Her Royal Highness?" Qiu Ju walked in.

"Just tomorrow morning! While it's still early, Qiuju, you go and send greetings." Come back and visit immediately, which shows sincerity. Ye Tangcai said, "Hui Ran, take a look in the east chamber. I seem to have a pair of porcelain vases with pastel peony patterns, and the dried peony flowers I dried on the Zhuangzi. These two things are suitable for the occasion."

After thinking about it, "Tomorrow, when I leave the princess mansion, I should go back to my mother's house to have a look and say hello to my grandmother and mother. Let's also prepare gifts."

Qiuju and Huiran agreed, and left the room. After a while, Huiran brought in a pair of porcelain vases, and Ye Tangcai looked very satisfied.

When it was getting dark, Qiuju came back and brought some delicious food from Chenguilou. Ye Tangcai washed up and went to bed after eating.

Early the next morning, Ye Tangcai tidied up, got into the family's carriage, and headed towards the Princess Mansion.

Arriving at the corner gate of the Princess Mansion, Ye Tangcai handed over the greeting card, and was led in by the servant.

After arriving at the Chuihua Gate, another beautiful maid wearing a red vine pattern bijia and a golden plum blossom hairpin stepped forward: "Grandma Chu, please go this way."

"Okay, thank you sister." Ye Tangcai nodded with a smile.

The servant girl glanced at Ye Tangcai quietly, and only sighed that this Third Mistress Chu was really beautiful.

Ye Tangcai followed the servant girl and walked through the hanging flower gate.

Follow the cobblestone path. Surrounded by pavilions, lush flowers and trees, jagged rocks, winding corridors like dragons, elegant and exquisite pavilions with carved lattice windows.

The servant girl led Ye Tangcai to an elegant flower hall, served tea and snacks, and then said: "The princess is receiving guests, servant girl is going to report now." After finishing speaking, she left.

"It looks like the princess won't see us." Qiuju whispered.

"Well, as long as we understand it." Ye Tangcai nodded. The subtext of the maid just now is obvious, the princess has no time to spare.

They also have this kind of situation in the Jing'an Hou Mansion. It used to be said that when a certain relative or friend came to visit, many of them were of relatively low status and came to get close, but they had to let them get close. Wen's was too lazy to deal with it, so He would say he was busy, and then let Nanny Cai go out to say hello, and those people would go back after asking Nanny Cai to say hello on their behalf.

Now they came to thank the princess for her help, and the princess would send some nanny or maid over if she was too lazy to see her.

But it was said that the servant girl left the small flower hall, followed the outline all the way, and finally walked into an exquisite courtyard.

Go through the courtyard and into the main house.

In the east room, there is a long red sandalwood couch with folded branches and plum blossom carvings, covered with a beautiful cushion of bird's mouth and auspicious flowers, and two noble ladies are sitting on it with a red sandalwood table with drum legs.

The noble lady on the left is around thirty years old, wearing a plain crape myrtle cross-collar top, honey powder inlaid silver silk Wanfu su satin skirt, a flying fairy bun on her hair, and eight claws facing the sun and five phoenixes hanging on the pearl hairpin. With a slightly round face, a pair of almond eyes that are soft and noble, and with a beautiful appearance, she is none other than Princess Xinyang.

And the woman on the right is about twenty-five or sixteen, not as beautiful as Princess Xinyang, with upper-middle appearance and straight eyebrows. The hair is combed in a peony bun, and the fluffy bun is lit with red gold and emerald inlaid broken small flowers. The gourd double happiness is covered with golden bezels, making her look a bit more noble than ordinary.

The servant girl came in and bowed to the two of them: "Greetings Princess, Greetings Crown Princess, Grandma Chu who delivered the post yesterday is here."

"Oh." Princess Xinyang responded dispensably.

"What Grandma Chu?" The woman on the right was the Crown Princess, and she looked curiously at Princess Xinyang.

"More than a month ago, there were human traffickers in our capital, and several aristocratic women were abducted." Princess Xinyang sighed slightly, "Fortunately, Chengfu Yin got the news in time and chased them back. The third grandma Chu also Among them, she accidentally fell down the hillside and failed to follow Chengfu Yin back. Later, her husband went out to look for someone, and finally found him, but he broke his ribs and was seriously injured. Moved, and it happened that Zhuangzi from Bengong was nearby, so he took her to knock on the door. Zhuangtou from Bengong saw them and quickly arranged them in the guest room. Zhuangtou went back and forth to Bengong the next day, Bengong listened, Let her rest there to recover from her injuries. Now that she has recovered and returned to Beijing, come and thank me."

"Third Sister is really kind." The Crown Princess laughed.

"What's the matter? It's a human life. If you can help it, you will naturally help it." Princess Xinyang said. "They all said that they fell on an outing, but they didn't dare to hide it from me. The trafficker is really abominable, we can't tell the outside, otherwise it will damage her reputation. We are all women, and reputation is more important than fate."

"It's natural." The princess said.

"Yesterday, the Zhuangtou sent her back to Beijing, and came back to answer the call. The old Zhuangtou was really dishonest, and actually said that Mistress Chu looked like a fairy. I am not ashamed, so I kicked him out!" Princess Xinyang snorted softly, obviously feeling that her Zhuangtou was too frivolous. "Yazhu, you said I'm busy and don't have time, just ask Nanny Qi to meet her."

Ya Zhu was about to turn around, but the Crown Princess called out: "Wait." Then she turned to Princess Xinyang and smiled, "We're not busy, she wants to thank you, let's see each other!"

Princess Xinyang frowned, obviously she didn't want to see her.

The Crown Princess knows what Princess Xinyang is thinking. They are the royal family and nobles. I don't know how many people want to cling to them. If they can't see them, they will disappear.

"Okay, Yazhu, you go and invite her." Princess Xinyang didn't bother to push, and rubbed her temples. Smiling to the princess, "You are much more valuable than me, even if you really want to post it, it will be you!"

"Sister Sanhuang is laughing at me again." The princess concubine said, but her eyes were colored. Prince, who doesn't want to cling to, the most honorable person besides the present! And she is his crown princess, the most honorable woman besides the empress dowager. Even the princesses felt short when they saw her.

Ya Zhu saluted, then turned and went out.

In the flower hall, Ye Tangcai was drinking tea. It was plum blossom tea dried in the winter. It was fragrant and pleasant. It was delicious with plum blossom red bean sweet cake.

At this time Yazhu came in: "Grandma Chu, please follow this servant to this way."

Ye Tangcai and Qiuju Huiran were both taken aback. According to the usual practice, shouldn't they be dismissed by the nanny or the maidservant? Why do you really want to see me?

She couldn't allow her to think about it now, Qiuju and Huiran each held a bottle and followed Ye Tangcai's footsteps to go out.

Going along the cobblestone path, we walked for about a quarter of an hour, and finally came to the main house and courtyard where the princess lived.

Looking up, I can only see a whitewashed wall, with several couplets and repair houses inside, and Xiangfei's green bamboos are luxuriant. Entering the back-shaped corridor, you can see two gorgeous gate towers with hanging flowers when you look up, and three large main rooms above, with cornices and glazed tiles.

"Grandma Chu, please." Yazhu had already stood in front of the main room, lifting the brocade plywood curtain of the Spirit Beast Chengxiang Embroidery.

Ye Tangcai and Huiran stepped forward, got in, waited until Ya Zhu came in, and then followed Ya Zhu.

Yazhu stopped under the bead curtain in the east room, and Ye Tangcai also stopped, not daring to take another step.

Then Yazhu walked in, and greeted the people inside: "Princess, Empress, the third grandma Chu has arrived."

Princess Xinyang and the Crown Princess were holding teacups, and they all had a meal, and then put down the teacups one after another.

Princess Xinyang smiled: "Please come in!"

"Grandma Chu, please come in."

The two people in the seat saw the bead curtain being raised, and a beautiful young girl slowly approaching. For a moment, it seemed that the whole room was lit up.

With her steps, the dark red twisted flower skirt draws a romantic and charming arc, the jasper pace is hanging from the waist, and the golden-red Huasheng tassels on the head are lightly swaying, trapped in the dark head, which looks special gorgeous and noble.

The young girl has already stepped forward, giving a slight blessing, and her voice is soft and crisp: "I am Mrs. Ye, I pay my respects to Your Royal Highness, and to my concubine and concubine."

Princess Xinyang and the Crown Princess were startled by Ye Tangcai's temperament, and the Crown Princess said, "Get up!"

Only then did Ye Tangcai stand up straight and raise her head slightly.

Both Princess Xinyang and the Crown Princess gasped, they were shocked.

The girl in front of her lowered her eyes slightly, but she couldn't hide her magnificent beauty, her brows were dizzy, she was as pretty as peaches and plums pressing on the branches, and as charming as delicate flowers reflecting autumn water, all the good colors in the world were on her.

"Sure enough, she looks like a fairy." Princess Xinyang laughed helplessly, "No wonder she was praised."

The concubine looked Ye Tangcai up and down, a complicated light flashed in her eyes, and said with a smile: "Miss Chu's husband's house, which Chu family is it?"

"My husband's house is Ding Guobo's Mansion." Ye Tangcai said.

The princess thought for a while, and then suddenly came back to her senses. Oh, it turned out to be the famous broken house! I think back then the scenery was infinite, no one would please anyone, no one would please anyone. Back then, even His Highness the Crown Prince flattered him, but... now he has become like a street rat.

Thinking about it, her eyes fell on Ye Tangcai again, looking from head to toe, she was really pretty. Even Shangguan Yun, known as the number one beauty in the capital, was three points inferior in front of her.

"How's your stay in Zhuangzi? The peonies are blooming well there, right?" Seeing the awkward atmosphere, Princess Xinyang quickly brought up the topic.

Ye Tangcai quickly praised Zhuangzi's scenery, and how delicate and beautiful the peonies in the courtyard were. Then send the peony pastel porcelain vase and dried peony flowers that I prepared.

The crown princess held the dried peony flower in her hand, and said with a smile: "This flower has been sun-dried really well, it is intact and dry, and almost all the fragrance has been preserved. I don't know how to do it?"

Ye Tangcai said: "Go back to your mother, pick the flowers first, don't get them wet, wipe them carefully with a brocade cloth, steam them for a quarter of an hour, and then take them out to dry, three days is enough. In fact, if they are well dried, they are lucky."

The princess sighed slightly: "I like dried flowers the most. But none of the maids below are good at using them, and the ones bought outside are always unsatisfactory. With the secret method of the third grandma, I will be able to dry out dried flowers that suit my wishes." .”

Ye Tangcai only thinks that people in the royal family are really official. The method of drying flowers is not a secret method, but a general method, and the flowers she dried are better than ordinary dried flowers, but they are not particularly good. Many miles away from her better tan, Cai Mama has a better tan than her.

Thinking of this, Ye Tangcai quickly said: "I am afraid, I learned how to sunbathe flowers from my mother's nanny, compared to Nanny Cai, my skill is not half as good as hers."

The princess laughed, "Don't be modest."

"Thank you for the famille rose bottle and dried peony flowers today, I like it very much." Princess Xinyang smiled slightly: "It's getting late, you just recovered, go back and have a good rest. Ya Zhu, go to the pharmacy to get one Come out with wild ginseng."

Yazhu agreed, backed out, and came back after a while, holding a long jade box, the same one given by Zhuangzi last time, and held it in front of Ye Tangcai.

"Thank you Princess for your reward, thank you Crown Princess, I will leave first." Ye Tangcai walked out with her things in her hands.

The three masters and servants followed behind Ya Zhu, went out, got into the carriage, and then breathed a sigh of relief.

"I saw the princess and the princess!" Qiuju's starry eyes flashed. "I thought it would be so powerful... I didn't want to, but it was so gentle and kind, so noble and extraordinary."

"What's the matter, we're not all alone." Hui Ran smiled, "Girls and wives are not noble and extraordinary in the eyes of those rural people, but we are just human, we just need to dress better."

Ye Tangcai always felt uncomfortable when thinking of the Crown Princess, maybe because she is the Crown Princess! But the third master is working with Liang Wang, a hostile relationship!

At this moment, the carriage had already started, and Ye Tangcai knocked on the wall of the carriage: "Qing'er, let's go back to my mother's house right now! I have to report to my mother and grandmother that they are safe."