Chapter 191 This is the first time she has heard Li Yunqing talk about this
Compared with the formal Qi Prince's Mansion, Qi Wang's Villa is actually much larger.
Hua Jin walked, but Li Yunqing didn't see her. Instead, she saw Tian Xiang standing on a white jade stone bridge, staring blankly at a house with a red roof in the distance.
"What are you looking at?"
She lifted up her golden-red pomegranate skirt, walked onto the bridge, and looked at Tian Xiang's profile in confusion.
Tianxiang raised his chin, gesturing towards the red pomegranate house in front of him.
"Well, look, my dear, that's where I grew up."
Hua Jin followed Tian Xiang's gaze and looked over. The red-roofed house in front of her looked very elegant and spacious. She didn't know why and said:
"The environment here is good. This red house should be the largest house in the courtyard."
"The environment is good, but I live with you, and there are a large number of sisters like Hongxiu. We have to practice a lot of music, chess, calligraphy, painting, singing, dancing and jumping every day."
Tian Xiang's expression showed a rare sadness. She pointed to the red room in front,
"Besides these, my queen, do you know what else we must practice every day? And how to serve others with sex."
As she spoke, her eyes couldn't help but moisten,
"The methods and techniques of pleasing a man, pondering a man's thoughts, and how to consolidate a man's favor are almost engraved in our bones, but..."
Tian Xiang turned her head and looked at Hua Jin. It was obvious that she had something to say that she wanted to say.
"However, I was once born into an innocent family. My father was once an official of Tianjing Kingdom. I was also a virtuous and gentle official lady."
The officialdom of Tianjing Kingdom is in chaos, but Tianxiang's father is a rare honest official. But for some unknown reason, he was involved in a certain case. As a result, Tianxiang's father, who did nothing, became...
He was pushed to the market entrance and beheaded in public display.
All the female relatives of Tianxiang's family worked as official prostitutes.
The rest of her family all died one after another while working as prostitutes, or were bought by brothels, or lived in unknown nooks and crannies.
Tianxiang was the only one who was spotted by the red-picking envoy of Prince Qi's Mansion. Finally, she was bought into Prince Qi's Mansion at a young age and was trained as a gift.
There are many little girls like Tian Xiang, and the place where they travel, sleep, eat and live is in this red building in Qiwang Courtyard.
"You know, we don't just learn skills and methods, we also need to serve the only man who can enter here, and that is King Qi."
Tianxiang cried and couldn't help laughing again,
"We must use all possible means to make King Qi comfortable and get him out without breaking our body... Otherwise, what awaits us will be torture that is worse than death."
"But my dear, do you know how old we were at that time?"
Precisely because she was born into an innocent family, Tian Xiang retained a sense of shame in her heart. She knew what she was doing was wrong, but she was unable to escape from such a fate.
Her power is really too small.
And she also knew clearly that her beauty had no advantage among those girls, so she could only rely on her own brains and work hard to perform well and stay in this red building.
"Only by trying every possible means to stay here, I will not have to serve all kinds of men. And once I walk out of the red building, I will be the lowest concubine in Prince Qi's palace. She can be stayed at any time at any gathering in Prince Qi's palace.
The kind you put into bed with your guests."
Girls like them can still get the protection of Prince Qi's Mansion. After all, Prince Qi's Mansion has spent a lot of effort to train them in order to give them as gifts to some dignitary in the future.
But those lowly concubines are actually no different from the prostitutes in brothels outside.
Therefore, at a young age, Tian Xiang must try his best to stay in the Red Mansion.
With red eyes, she looked at Hua Jin,
"My dear, I actually know that I am a scheming and unscrupulous person. I climbed to this position by relying on some shady means. But I have been through this since I was a child. These means
and calculations have been engraved into my bones. They are all my past and cannot be washed away even if I want to."
Listening to Tian Xiang's cry, Hua Jin asked doubtfully:
"Why do you despise yourself so much? I have never thought that there is anything to be despised about a person who works hard to survive and uses shabby means to survive."
She took a few steps forward, turned over Tian Xiang's body, and faced the red building not far away.
"Everyone who strives to survive should be worthy of respect, because protecting one's own life safety is a person's most basic right. It is the same for this concubine."
In order to survive well in this world, she chose to hug Li Yunqing's lap.
So is this another form of compromise and betrayal of oneself?
It's just that her experience seemed more glamorous than Tian Xiang's, and the men she met were more prestigious than King Qi.
Looking at Tian Xiang's crying face, Hua Jin comforted him:
"Now that you have the ability, you have gained this ability through your own efforts. No matter what the process is, if the result is satisfactory to you, then that's good."
As she spoke, she flicked her fingers, and there was a crisp "pop" sound. Smoke suddenly appeared from the red building in front of her, and someone yelled hastily,
"The Red Mansion is leaking, the Red Building is leaking."
Tian Xiang was startled and looked at Hua Jin, who had a vague and mysterious smile on his face.
Her red lips parted slightly,
"Look, sometimes obstacles are easy to solve. When you are strong enough, all the obstacles that once caused you pain can be wiped out with the snap of your fingers. It's that simple."
Hua Jin said lightly and turned around to leave. In the golden autumn colors, the patterns embroidered with gold thread on her red pomegranate skirt shone with colorful light.
In Tian Xiang's eyes, it was like a goddess descending to earth, making her unable to help but want to follow and worship her.
The fire in the Red Mansion was still burning, and in an instant, the notorious Red Mansion was burned to ashes.
But no one was hurt in the other courtyard. Even others hurriedly carried buckets to put out the fire without pouring a few buckets of water. The fire in the Red Building was extinguished by itself, and it did not burn to other places.
Everyone was at a loss as to how strange the fire came and went out.
Hua Jin, on the other hand, walked back to her room leisurely and took a look, and saw that the man she was looking for was sitting under the round window, flipping through books in his hands.
"I've been looking for you everywhere."
Hua Jin walked over and wanted to sit opposite Li Yunqing.
However, her wrist was suddenly pulled by Li Yunqing, and she fell onto Li Yunqing's lap.
What Hua Jin was going to say suddenly got stuck, and she couldn't remember what she was going to say.
After all, why did she become like this?
Hua Jin's cheeks turned red unconsciously. Sitting on Li Yunqing's lap, she couldn't help but want to lean into his arms.
Suddenly, three words popped into Hua Jin's mind, "love brain."
She was startled, quickly put away her thoughts, and looked at Li Yunqing with complicated eyes.
Li Yunqing raised his eyebrows and looked over, with a trace of doubt in his narrow eyes.
"What's wrong?"
"No, I just want to ask you, what are your plans for the matter in Hushan County?"
Hua Jin would not admit that she had just a little bit of charming thoughts towards Li Yunqing.
But Li Yunqing's hand touched her lower back irregularly. He curled his lips slightly and his voice became lower and lower.
"There are no people in Hushan County, so what can Duke Sun do? If he can, he can go to Guqi Prefecture, or go to Linghe County. Even if I don't send troops, people will ask me to send troops to rescue."
Although Linghe County is not the fiefdom of the eldest princess, most of the eldest princess's properties are in Linghe County.
Aren't the princes and nobles of Tianjing Kingdom always wary of Li Yunqing? At that time, Li Yunqing will want to see whether they are wary of him going to the hinterland of Tianjing Kingdom, or whether they are begging him to go to the hinterland of Tianjing Kingdom.
Looking at the sneer on Li Yunqing's face, Hua Jin suddenly remembered that when she saw Li Yunqing for the first time, he was cold, seriously injured, and was chased by Jin Yiwei.
At that time, Hua Jin felt nothing and even planned to kill Li Yunqing and steal his Cicada Wing Knife.
Thinking of her mood at that time, Hua Jin couldn't help but raise her hand, gently caressed Li Yunqing's cheek with her fingertips, and asked with a frown:
"Your heart seems to be full of hatred? Because those princes and nobles didn't say a fair word for Prince Li's house?"
"How can you not hate it?"
Li Yunqing lowered his eyes, raised his hand to hold Hua Jin's hand, and put her soft little hand on his cheek. Although there was a slight smile on his face, his eyes were sharp and cold, with deep hatred.
Such hatred has never been shown by Li Yunqing before.
Or maybe Hua Jin didn't care much about Li Yunqing before, so she didn't feel Li Yunqing's emotions personally.
But now she feels it.
Just as he was about to speak, Li Yunqing spoke again and said softly:
"There are hundreds of people in Prince Li's palace, all of whom were executed on unfounded charges. My father never had any objections, but he was wary of the old emperor all his life. His claim to the throne was not justifiable, so he treated my father
The king has already had murderous intentions."
This story starts from the previous generations.
When the Tianjing Kingdom was founded, it was not the current emperor who conquered the world, but the people of Li Yunqing's ancestors who conquered the world.
Ancient people had clans, and Li Yunqing's ancestors and the ancestors of the current old emperor were both from the same clan.
However, after several generations of people from Li Yunqing's lineage became emperors, their numbers gradually withered away. By the time Li Yunqing's father's generation came, only the old King Li was left.
Decades ago, King Lao Li was the crown prince for several years.
However, the old emperor used intrigues to get him down, and he directly changed from the crown prince to the old emperor's adopted son.
Since he is the step-son, it is much more legitimate for the old emperor to ascend the throne.
"Back then, my grandfather passed away suddenly. Now His Majesty has promised the clan that for the sake of the stability of the Tianjing Kingdom, he is willing to accept the young prince as his adoptive step-son. When he becomes the emperor, the prince will still be the prince and nothing will change.
."
Li Yunqing put her head next to Hua Jin's ear and whispered these royal secrets.
"The clan bullied my father at a young age and agreed to let the current emperor ascend the throne. Little did he know that this emperor turned his back and was ruthless. After putting on the dragon robe, he changed my father from the prince to the king. From then on, he held the
I regard myself as an orthodox member of the royal family."
"So this throne was stolen from your lineage?"
Hua Jin was quite surprised. This was the first time she heard Li Yunqing talk about this. It was even more complicated and exciting than the storyteller.
Li Yunqing snorted and answered Hua Jin.
So Hua Jin thought for a while and said with excitement:
"Li Yunqing, so what are you talking about, King Qi and King Ruan, in fact, they were not princes from the beginning, but because their father took the throne of your family, so they became princes one by one. That's it.
?"
"snort."
Li Yunqing snorted again, hugged Hua Jin tightly, played with her fingers, closed his eyes and said:
"I don't care what happens to them. When the old emperor killed my whole family, none of them spoke. Now Sun Guogong is torturing in Hushan County, so what? The people of Hushan County were driven to the north by them a long time ago.
Most of it?"
The remaining half of the people also moved to Beidi and Guqi Prefecture on their own during the reign of Sun Guogong Huo Huo.
How much of an open space could be destroyed by Sun Guogong?
To put it bluntly, the only ones Sun Guogong could grab were the princes and nobles who could not and could not escape.
He said coldly, then tilted his head and kissed Hua Jin's cheek,
"My king's concubine is the most powerful. She took good care of the people of Tianjing Kingdom who fled, so that my king is not so tied up."
If Hushan County was crowded with innocent people today, for the sake of these people, Li Yunqing would risk the disapproval of the world and send troops to quell the scourge of Sun Guogong.
But Hushan County was empty, and the prince was staring at Li Yunqing like a wolf. He could save himself the trouble and just watch the show in Guqi Prefecture.
After understanding Li Yunqing's thoughts, Hua Jin also had a direction in her heart. She nodded and thought of an unrelated thing.
"What do you think happened to your ancestors? They kept giving birth, and the number of boys they gave birth to was getting fewer and fewer. When it came to your father's generation, there was only one child? There were no two princesses?"
As she spoke, she lowered her eyes and glanced at Li Yunqing's waist very vaguely.
Is it an inherited problem? Can't have children, oligospermia or something?
Li Yunqing was keenly aware of Hua Jin's gaze. He raised his hand and patted Hua Jin's forehead, feeling a little angry.
"What are you thinking about? Why don't you give it a try and see if I can do it?"
Hua Jin quickly shrank her neck,
"I don't think so. I don't think so. Master, please continue. I'm listening."
Seeing her cowardly look, Li Yunqing sneered with contempt,
"That's because all of my lineage are infatuated. Since my ancestors, no one has taken concubines."
So it's not that they are incompetent, it's that they are dedicated.
If a man has only one woman in his life, he will naturally have fewer children.
Seeing the hateful expression on Li Yunqing's face, Hua Jin couldn't help but laugh. She moved Li Yunqing's face away, got up and walked out.
"Okay, now that I know about it, I will know what to do when someone from Prince Ruan's Mansion comes to visit."
When Princess Ruan and Mrs. Yu came to visit, Hua Jin only served tea and said nothing.
She was sitting in the main hall of the villa, looking at Princess Ruan and Mrs. Yu, as if they were just relatives who came to chat with her.
The jewelry on Princess Ruan's head was missing a lot, and many of the gold, silver and jade articles that used to jingle when she walked were missing.
The atmosphere in the hall was dull. Princess Ruan's face was haggard. She sat in the lower seat, looked at Hua Jin in the first seat, and took the initiative to say:
"Why don't you see King Qi's concubine here?"
"Yesterday, there was a flood in the other courtyard and a building was burned down. The damage was too great. The concubine of the King of Qi went to deal with the matter."
Hua Jin's expression was quite kind, and after speaking, she leisurely picked up the tea cup and took a sip of tea.
Such a leisurely attitude made Princess Ruan and Mrs. Yu quite dissatisfied.
Princess Ruan was the first to lose her temper. She said anxiously:
"Then when will Prince Qi's concubine plan to return to Prince Qi's Mansion? Now that the master of the house is gone, not only Prince Qi's Mansion is in chaos, but also the capital of Guqi Prefecture is in chaos."
"Is the capital also in chaos? No."
Hua Jin looked at Princess Ruan with a half-smile,
"This is too exaggerated. How could the capital be in chaos? King Qi's army is not just a decoration."
She seemed to have seen through Princess Ruan's little thoughts. If the matter was not made more serious, Hua Jin would not take it to heart at all, and Tianxiang would not be able to return to Prince Qi's palace.
Now everyone in Prince Ruan's Mansion lives in Prince Qi's Mansion. It doesn't matter what they want. The only box of gold tickets left was spent by Prince Ruan in one day.
To put it bluntly, Princess Ruan has to figure out everything for food and drink by herself. Those damn servants even had trouble with her last time.
Princess Ruan was so angry that she fainted.
As a last resort, Mrs. Yu took the initiative and pawned most of Princess Ruan's jewelry to collect a month's worth of silver for them.
If Tianxiang never returns to Prince Qi's Mansion, Princess Ruan will have to keep pawning her jewelry, but how many jewelry can she have to pawn? There are not many left.