Chapter 62 Come to show off?
"Miss Second, are you really going to go to the palace to serve the queen mother?" Cui'e, who followed Duan Yunfang to the inner room to pack her luggage, asked in a low voice. Duan Yunfang raised her head and stopped packing her luggage, looking at her, "What? Is there anything wrong?"
Cui'e thought for a while, then carefully said to Duan Yunfang, "Miss can enter the palace to serve the empress dowager, so I am naturally happy for the lady. This shows that the empress dowager still has the weight of the lady in her heart, but..." Cui'e paused when she said this, "The relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager is not very good at the moment. If the lady enters the palace to serve the empress dowager this time, I wonder what she thinks?" After that, she raised her head and looked at Duan Yunfang.
Duan Yunfang was stunned when he heard Cui E's words. Yes, the relationship between the emperor and the empress dowager is not very good now. If he went to the empress dowager, would it arouse suspicion from the emperor? Then wouldn't all the efforts he had made before be wasted? But this opportunity is rare, if he refused. First, the empress dowager would definitely feel that she had made her lose face. Second, he would probably not be able to continue safely in the prime minister's house in the future. Thinking of these things, Duan Yunfang couldn't help but feel a little headache.
"Cui'e, why didn't the Empress Dowager let the eldest lady go this time? Instead, he asked me, the person who has never been favored by her?" Duan Yunfang asked with some confusion. In terms of closeness, of course, Duan Yunyun had to be much more intimate with the Empress Dowager, right? But why did he give up on her this time?
Cui'e thought about it for a while, then said carefully, "Maybe the Empress Dowager felt that the eldest lady had already made her unhappy when the incident last time, but the Second Miss was very pleased by the Emperor and Jingren Palace by herself. I guess the Empress Dowager asked the Second Miss to enter the palace this time to serve, and the other one probably wanted the Second Miss to repair the relationship between the Empress Dowager and the Emperor!"
Duan Yunfang's eyes lit up when he heard Cui'e's analysis. It was true that the authorities were confused by the bystanders. After Cui'e said this, she understood the empress dowager's thoughts a little. Thinking of her pretty face turned bright red, then she looked at Cui'e, "What are you still standing there? Hurry up, pack your luggage!"
"Miss, have you really decided to go to the palace to serve the empress dowager?" Cui'e asked with blinking eyes.
Duan Yunfang nodded, "Even if I am a lady from the Prime Minister's House, I can't refuse it, right? Besides, filial piety is the first priority. I think it is reasonable whether it is in the emperor or Jingren Palace!"
Cui'e also felt that this was the reason. After understanding this, she nodded, "It's still the lady who is smart. I can't understand these things!"
"You, stop talking about this! If the lady becomes rich in the future, you will definitely be able to do it!" Duan Yunfang finished speaking, and then cleaned up with Cui'e. The clothes she picked were all simple and elegant. This was Duan Yunfang's scheming. She was going to serve this time, so how could she wear the radiant style that aroused the Queen Mother's dissatisfaction?
"Aunt, I've packed it up!" With a cup of tea, Duan Yunfang walked out of the inner room, and Cui'e behind her carried a small bag. Zhu Xi stood up from the chair and smiled and said to the second lady, "The Empress Dowager is still waiting for me to serve me, and ask me to atone for my sins. I will take the second lady into the palace now..."
"You are polite if you are aunt. Yun Fang will rely on his aunt's care when he enters the palace." The second wife hurriedly asked Zhu Xi for a moment, then looked at Duan Yunfang with kindness. "Yun Fang, entering the palace is not as good as the prime minister's mansion. You must be careful in your words and actions. If you encounter something you don't understand, please ask Aunt Zhu Xi if you know?"
"Yunfang is sacrificing..." Duan Yunfang felt a little dismissed in her heart that the second wife was pretending to be in front of Zhuxi at this moment. It was because of the sudden appearance of the second wife that she could have performed better, but was snatched away by the second wife. From the second wife's mouth, she seemed to be a lady who had never seen the world! If it weren't for her mother, Duan Yunfang really wanted to call her mother a pig brain. Since becoming the second wife, her brain became more and more dull day by day.
"Okay, it's getting late. Then I will take the second lady into the palace..." Zhuxi said and said blessed her to the second lady, "I'll take my leave..."
"Auntie walks slowly..." The second wife knew that she could not say too much to her daughter. But she had always known that her daughter had some tricks, so she didn't say anything. She gave a few words of advice and watched Zhuxi take Duan Yunfang away from the courtyard.
"Madam, I'm afraid I'm going to have great luck in the future..." Mingyue, the maid next to the second lady, said as if she was pleased. However, the second lady glared at her fiercely, "What are you talking about? The daughter I gave birth to is born rich and noble, but it actually depends on luck?"
"Yes, it's me who made a mistake. Please punish me!" Mingyue's face turned pale when she heard this, and she quickly lowered her head and admitted her mistake.
"Okay, okay, I don't seem to have greeted my wife yet. Let me go..." Since the second wife was promoted from the position of a flat wife, the second wife has become more and more proud. Every day, I am eager to compare everything with the eldest wife. But who is the eldest wife? Her parents' family is an academician of the Hanlin Academy, and her status alone is not many higher than the second wife's family. Everything the eldest wife uses is fine, and the aunts in the prime minister's mansion are just average high-quality products. How can they compare with the eldest wife? Besides, the prime minister has always loved the eldest wife. If it weren't for more than ten years ago, the second wife would have broken the friendship between the prime minister and the eldest wife. How could the second wife be proud of her here?
Mingyue knew about the second wife's previous background and what she had done. She watched the second wife running to the second wife to show off, and bit her lips and followed her with a chance. Did she really go to the eldest wife? I begged her to protect her family's safety? It doesn't matter if she dies, but she can't let her family suffer as well.
"Madam, the second lady is here..." When he arrived at the eldest lady's courtyard, the second-class maid outside the door saw that the second lady was coming, and a trace of disdain flashed in his eyes. However, he still walked in and said. When the eldest lady heard the maid's words, she squirted coldly from her nose. "She can't wait to come over and show off!" As she said that, the maid around her blocked all the embroidery frames with a screen, she said to the maid, "Let her come in. If I don't see her today, I'm afraid she won't sleep well tonight..." She said sneered.
Jinzhan lowered his head and smiled a few times, then said to the eldest lady, "Haha... The second lady is complacent but doesn't know if our eldest lady doesn't want it! I wonder if the second lady knew this favor or the lady and the eldest lady asked her for it, would her face be colorful..." After that, the eldest lady also laughed. She looked at Jinzhan with her eyes, "You girl, your mouth is so powerful..."
"It's not that the wife is trained!" Jinzhan hurriedly praised the eldest wife every day.
Not long after, the second wife was attracted by the second-class maid. Jinzhan took a step forward and said, "I would like to pay my respects to the second wife..."
"Get up quickly..." The second lady hurriedly smiled and helped her. The eldest lady raised her head and looked at the second lady's jade head, and almost couldn't help laughing. Looking at the second lady, "Sister, you are so concerned about dressing today! How many years older than Xu in your daily life..."
The second wife's face froze when she smiled, and then she looked at the eldest wife, "What did sister say? No matter how weak her sister is, she is not as good as her sister!"
"My sister is too awarded. Today, my sister wears her jade head and face. If we go out together, those who don't know will think that her sister is my elder..." The eldest lady said with a sneer in her words, "My sister is not old enough to wear jade, why is she so anxious to use it? My sister's jade head and face are old, and only the elders usually wear it." She raised her hand and touched the gem on her head. "Sister, it's not that my sister said you. You can't look at the preciousness of this jewelry, but also depends on whether you can wear it..."
"Thank you for your advice. I'm teaching today!" The second lady bit her teeth angrily. After the doctor said this, she remembered why Aunt Zhuxi looked at her walking in just now, with a strange expression. It turned out that she had misunderstood. She thought about it and was even more angry. She couldn't help but glared at Mingyue beside her. Mingyue couldn't help but shivered. She couldn't help but feel frustrated. She chose jade head and face but the lady herself asked. Originally, she recommended using pearl inlay.
But the second wife felt frivolous and cheap, not as steady and generous as jade, and insisted on her to wear it. Now that the eldest wife said this, she blamed her for coming. Mingyue couldn't help but complain about herself, feeling that life was getting worse and worse with the second wife. When she was an aunt, she was polite and gentle to herself in order to leave a good reputation. But now when she became the second wife, all of them were gone. There was only irritability and dissatisfaction...
"Look at my memory, my sister has been here for a while, but I actually forgot to let you sit down!" As the eldest lady said to Jinzhan, "Why don't you go and pour tea for the second lady..."
"Yes..." Jinzhan nodded and walked over.
"Why are you here with my time now?" The eldest lady looked at the second lady sitting down, her eyes looking at the jade head on her head, and the mockery at the corner of her mouth became more and more obvious. The second lady was upset, but now she couldn't take down everything she was wearing on her head. She carried it and sat there.
Chapter completed!