The lotus courtyard of the second room faces the waterside of the West Garden. There are continuous dry lotuses in autumn.
When she passes by, she can see the second master sitting in the water pavilion, instructing the steward and the boys to pick up dead lotuses and put them in bottles in the pavilion.
If it weren't for the birth of a royal concubine soon, Heyuan would look as leisurely as Aunt Zhou's Baiyuan.
As expected of a biological mother and son.
Cao Xiwan and Suyun had just walked across the palindrome bridge in front of the Lotus Courtyard, turned to the back and entered the courtyard, when they heard the second wife asking sharply: "What is this -? You said -!"
The second wife and the fifth wife started arguing on the porch in the courtyard. She seemed to have a note from Fang Sheng'er in her hand.
"Don't think I don't know! You are the ones in the fifth room who are making trouble everywhere! I didn't argue with you in front of the old lady just now, but now I want to ask, you actually extended your hand into the old lady's room.
!Who do you want to poison to death?!"
Cao Xiwan was startled. She stood behind the corridor pillar and looked around, and saw the piece of paper in the second wife's hand. It was folded like a sheet of paper and was of light yellow color.
The second wife opened it and shook it in front of the fifth wife. Sure enough, the word "poisonous" was written on it.
The note appeared again.
The second wife, who was neatly groomed with hairpins and brocade coat, looked like she had just come out of the old lady’s room. She angrily scolded the fifth wife: “You are too cruel. We are all members of the same family. Don’t pretend that I haven’t heard about what you have done.
?!This note says it’s a talisman to ward off epidemics, and that it can be posted in every room to protect the whole family? Who would believe it!?”
The fifth wife had a livid face and kept arguing: "What are these words? What are these words?"
But last time the Fifth Master admitted that he wrote charms and put them in each room, it had already spread in the house.
The fifth wife was at a loss for words and could not refute.
The second wife is a kind-hearted person who has never quarreled in ten thousand years. When a quarrel breaks out, she trembles all over. She raises her hand to wipe her tears with a handkerchief. The more she thinks about it, the angrier she becomes: "The old lady scolded you once, and the Marquis scolded you once too."
, you should stop. As a result, you just now dared to throw this note into my saucer in the old lady’s room. What are you thinking?! Who do you want me to suspect?"
"not me."
"Who are you if not——!? Who else are you relying on? Tell me, who could it be!"
As soon as Cao Xiwan saw the note, he knew something was wrong.
After the fifth wife and the second wife quarreled some more, she watched from the corridor and gradually realized that it was not the fifth wife. But the fifth wife did have a guilty conscience.
Today, the fifth wife is only accompanied by the stupid Yu Yan, and the provocative and advantageous Yu Ci is not here. She thought.
When Su Yun saw this situation, she was extremely anxious. She wanted to go up and persuade the second wife to avoid losing her dignity, and she wanted to find someone to find out what was going on. Seeing that Su Yun was a little confused, Cao Xiwan quickly pulled Su Yun away.
, shook his head quietly: "Don't get involved. Let's go see Mrs. Jia Shu and find out."
"No, Xiaowan, you don't know-"
"What did you hear?" she asked. Just now in the Baiyuan, she felt that Suyun had something on her mind, but she had always been patient and asked others to talk about her concerns before she asked.
"It's in the fifth room. It's so abominable. I heard that the fifth wife's mother-in-law doesn't care about family ties." Su Yun was talking to her when a figure turned around in the back corridor next to her, and a tall and delicate woman with a ginger back and a white skirt came forward.
The girl is Bao Ling'er, the second wife's girl. She has been waiting in front of Lady Jia Shu these days.
She called them quietly and took them to Mrs. Jia Shu's room.
The east window is open on the corridor, and you can vaguely see the shadow of lotus in the west window of the room. There are dead branches standing in the vase. There are all kinds of music, chess, calligraphy and paintings on the four walls, and you can faintly hear the sound of sobbing.
Lady Jia Shu is crying.
Her wet nurse was also in tears, admonishing her beside her.
Cao Xiwan opened the curtain and went in, and heard the second lady Song Jia Shu crying: "Now this matter is so embarrassing and humiliating. If I had known, I wouldn't be the prince's concubine."
Cao Xiwan thought to himself, could he have guessed it right?
The Chief of the Tang Palace, Shi, came over earlier, probably not to discuss the six rites.
What happened to this marriage that made the second wife anxious? Everyone in the house knew that the second wife would even risk her life in order for Lady Jia Shu to become the crown prince.
Front hall.
Mr. Shi Ji, the head of the palace of the Tang Dynasty, was embarrassed and handed over to the Marquis: "This marriage in your palace, the Marquis sees it..."
The Marquis of Nankang sighed and returned the gift: "The family is in trouble, please come back to the prince. After I have discussed it with She Qin, I will go to the prince's house to apologize in person."
The second and fifth houses of the Hou Mansion have always been at odds with each other. The last time they almost got into trouble was because the sixth son and his nephew Yang Qinghe wanted to snatch the errands of the Nanhe Hundred Household Office.
What is it for this time? Cao Xiwan thought, of course it is for the marriage of Prince Qin’s wife.
The little girl brought hot water in. Song Jia Shu took the handkerchief Su Yun twisted and gently wiped the corners of his eyes.
"Fifth Aunt...she is the cousin of the Crown Princess, a niece of their Yang family, and she is as old as me."
I don’t know what’s going on. The fifth wife’s niece is also talking about getting married to the eldest son of Prince Qin.
Cao Xiwan was silent. This is the Prince of Qin who is talking about marriage at both ends. He has two feet to stand on, you bitch.
She had already thought that she was not optimistic about this marriage.
How could the Marquis of Nankang not know that this matter would not have become so serious without the secret glances from both sides of the Prince's Mansion? But Song Chengming and Cao Xiwan were different.
As soon as he heard that he was an in-law from Master Wu's family, he sent Ji Changshi away and called Supervisor Zhou to come over.
"What did the old lady say?"
"The old lady said that it's best to go to the palace and ask Liang Di. Regarding this matter about the Yang family, it is indispensable to say hello to Princess Yang. But the East Palace may not know." Manager Zhou lowered his eyebrows and whispered, "Listen to what the old lady said.
East Palace Tribunal."
Song Chengming held back his anger and slowly shook his head: "It's better not to alarm the East Palace. Please take it seriously and ask for it seriously. The second wife's face will be lost."
Manager Zhou looked at the expression on the Marquis's face and knew that the Marquis must make the second young lady the crown prince's concubine. He would never let the in-laws of the fifth master's family get the help of the Prince of Qin's Palace.
After all, Manager Zhou also knew that the marriage of the fifth master to the daughter of the Yang family was indeed arranged by the old marquis, who wanted the fifth concubine to inherit the title. Before his death, the old marquis loved the fifth master’s biological mother, Aunt Huan, the most.
.
If it weren't for the fact that Prince Chengming was filial to his aunt, and tried his best to find a way for his eldest granddaughter to enter the palace and be named Liangdi. The old marquis died again, and the old lady in the family made the decision. If not, the title might not be that of marquis.
Damn it.
"Where's Xiaowan?" Song Chengming sighed.
Supervisor Zhou was startled and looked at Shun Bao'er beside him. Shun Bao quickly said, "It should be at Lady Jia Shu's side."
In the outer study, the Marquis and the chief steward were discussing the matter of the East Palace, and the gossip spread unknowingly.
"The Marquis wants to send Miss Cao to the palace to become a female official."
"Where to go?"
"I heard it's the East Palace."
When Liu Ruhai passed by Chunbo Corridor, he couldn't help but frown after listening to it.
East Palace?
It is certain that Cao Xiwan likes Dong Gong. Otherwise, it would be impossible for Dong Gong to wear that hundred-bird feather coat.
Cao Xiwan thinks Dong Gong is very cute, only a little bit worse than Xiao Qiao.
Xiao Qiao is the cutest. Dong Gong is the second cutest.
The Crown Prince of Qin is very, very unlovable.
Bitch.
She cursed in her mind, wondering whether she should pretend to be a monster in the middle of the night and kill the prince.
But Baoling was trying to persuade her: "Second Miss, Miss Fan is still in the house, what should I do?"
Female official Fan from the Tang Palace came over from the old lady's side. She saw dry lotuses hanging by the pond and waterbirds flying around. Aunt Su, the housekeeper accompanying her, was particularly embarrassed, but did not dare to say a word. The female official passed by the lotus garden in front of the lotus courtyard.
Returning to the pavilion. She listened to the quarrels among the wives in the Hou Mansion and deliberately did not come in. She just sat in the bridge pavilion outside.
Instead, she sent someone to call Cao Xiwan and asked him to step back if she had something to say.
The wife of Su Cai's family was eager to ask Cao Xiwan to take her place. But she was worried because she didn't know if Miss Fan would tell Prince Tang something unpleasant to say after she returned, which would delay Lady Jia Shu's future as a royal concubine.
Aunt Su's wife winked, and a little girl quickly ran in: "Sister Cao, Miss Fan is asking Sister Cao to speak."