Before Feng Junqing could finish his words, he heard the hoarse and wailing music of the waste sheng coming from the direction of the Hou Mansion.
She was too lazy to use the ecstasy to perform eighteen moves, so she blew a song on the gate of the Marquis Mansion with the help of the strong wind blowing from the deep courtyard of the house.
Song Chengming heard that it was clear that she was often in the Chunbo Corridor and loved to listen to the song "Song of the Nation's Subjugation" by Jin Tan.
"The East Wind Again Last Night in the Small Building" by Li Houzhu.
After she finished playing the song, she paid no attention to how miserable the puppets on the long street were and how the so-called formations collapsed. She stood on the double eaves of the palace gate, her belt catching the wind, and sang softly and desolately: "...When will the spring flowers and autumn moon come?
Okay, how much do you know about the past..."
The night wind swept by, and she floated down and sat in front of the concierge. As usual, she sang intermittently and sadly, "The east wind blew in the small building last night..."
Watching the fire upstairs, Marquis Nankang looked at her figure and couldn't help but fell into a trance.
She didn't sing well, but she often sat outside his study, and he could hear her singing sadly.
I thought it was because she was reminiscing about past events. After all, ten years of glory and half a lifetime of prosperity have vanished like smoke, leaving her with only a serious illness and lost power, eventually becoming a disabled person.
Now that I think about it, it turned out that she was practicing Qigong.
Only now did I know that she had sat down and sang in all the corridors around the outer study. It turned out that she was not singing to him. She was just testing which corridor outside the second door had the strongest wind without blowing her away.
singing?
But he thought that Xiaowan was singing to him because he married Shuluan...
Liu Ruhai did not think that Marquis Nankang was too negligent.
Who could have known that she was actually in a very good mood when she sang so sadly? Even Cao Xiwan sang this song in front of Liu Ruhai in the concierge. He was completely unaware of it at the time.
Could it be that he, Liu Ruhai, still underestimated Cao Xiwan?
He had never taken it lightly, but it was at this moment that he realized that when she sang a song in front of him, she was actually testing the wind in front of the concierge door.
However, Liu Ruhai muttered:
She is not a Jianghu person. She has been working as an errand in Jinyi Yamen for many years. Just practicing cultivation is not enough.
Can't save life.
Fortunately, Liu Ruhai looked up and saw the lanterns swaying on the bluestone path in the front hall and the blurred figures.
There was a lady in brocade clothes carrying a lantern and hurried towards the fire watch tower on the palace wall. He must have something to report to the Marquis of Nankang? And when he glanced around, he saw the moonlit clouds under the corridor, and the beauty holding the harp. It turned out to be Lu Xiuyun.
The figure holding Ruan Qin.
He secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
Fortunately, Cao Xiwan had been prepared in advance, otherwise she would not have been able to stay in the mansion if she had offended Marquis Nankang to death.
The drums were ringing at the fourth watch, and the sky was pitch black.
Cao Xiwan was in the small duty room, holding a cup and eating the health-preserving hot soup that Song's mother had simmered. Especially in spring, there was a large tin pot of boiling water hanging on the big blue tile charcoal basin, and blisters were rising from the mouth of the pot.
, two vegetarian minced meat cakes were grilled on the fire spit.
Grandma Song was so excited that she took her bamboo flute and looked at it carefully. Then she asked Mother Luo to ask for the phoenix, and they gathered together to compare. The two women whispered to each other.
She gnawed on the cake and felt that Granny Song and the others were willing to drag her back to the check-in room and talk to her, which meant they were not afraid of trouble in the first place.
Lord Marquis, I am going to kill her tonight.
"It's okay." Mother Luo put away her weeping fengxiao while comforting her, "My wife is pregnant. If the Marquis has a big event, he can kill you wherever he wants."
She gnawed on the cake and nodded vaguely.
"Where is Qin Baihu?" She looked around.
"In front of the Marquis." Luo Ma smiled, and Qin Meng asked her to place Qing Niang in the small duty room to rest. Naturally, she and Granny Song were also happy. After all, adversity is the time for friendship.
Outside study room.
Qin Meng took his turn. He looked at Yan Li and Yan Fengren.
He had never seen these two wealthy men in the yamen before. Now they were standing in the study and being scolded by the Marquis. In fact, they used twenty puppets to create a puppet formation, and the young lady didn't even break through.
The formation was defeated in one blow.
The Marquis roared, and after cursing bloody things, he looked at Qin Meng: "Let Luo Mofeng and the mute slave in the elephant room manage the puppets together. Tell her to add her as the little flag in brocade."
"Yes, Mr. Hou." Qin Meng accepted with his hands raised. The person under Mr. Hou who is good at using sound to control the enemy is Mother Luo.
As for how the imperial court could make puppets out of living people, he didn't ask.
Thinking about it, you all know what the Marquis would say. He must be a traitor who conspired to rebel. He was not punished to death and was used to make puppets.
Is there a problem?
After the Marquis of Nankang finished scolding him, he calmed down a little, and rewarded the two Yan brothers again. He promised that after one year, each of them would release a fat boy from one of the hundreds of households in the Yangtze River Estuary in the suburbs of Beijing, so that they could start their own business. The two brothers were overjoyed at the same time.
After they left with gratitude, Master Yan was also beaming with joy. The Marquis raised his eyes and glanced at him: "Arrange for your niece to marry Liu Qianhu's son."
"...Yes. Mr. Marquis." Master Yan was inevitably disappointed. His wife was pregnant, so wouldn't it be a great opportunity for his niece to come into the house as a concubine?
But Liu Qianhu's daughter is the sixth wife in the house, so a marriage with his family is of course a good thing.
Did the Marquis want to take Cao Xiwan as his concubine? When Yan Songmou retired, he cursed secretly, wondering if the Marquis was soft-hearted and changed his mind to keep Cao Xiwan. But according to his understanding of the Marquis, the Hou
Once you've made up your mind, it's hard to change it.
But Fanzi came in and reported: "Master Hou, my wife has sent Mother Chen who is here to see Master Hou."
"Oh? Let her in."
Qin Meng realized that the Marquis valued his wife very much.
The Marquis has yet to see Ms. Lu who came from the palace.
Mother Chen, who was still wearing a smoky gray coat, bowed deeply and presented a small sachet with both hands: "My wife said that Mr. Marquis puts his own body first. There are some green beads in this sachet."
Put it next to the Marquis, please keep it with you at all times. The Marquis is safe, but she and the child are safe."
"...Where did it come from?"
"Girl Qing Niang gave it to my wife."
Song Chengming raised his eyes and glanced at Mother Chen, and he knew in his heart that the confidant in front of his wife's house had a good relationship with Cao Xiwan. Most likely, she also heard about it, so she begged for Xiaowan's love in front of Shuluan.
But this Bizhu last son must be what the wife wants, otherwise this loyal servant will definitely not persuade him to take it out.
"There's no rush. Let my wife keep it and take care of herself. She and the child are fine, so what's wrong with me?" He paused, "I asked someone to test the box of medicine last time, and it found nothing.
What's the problem? I just don't know that I can't take it when I'm pregnant. I guess the person who delivered the medicine doesn't know either. Please tell your wife to relax and don't take these things to heart. There's no need to make yourself sad."
"Yes." Mother Chen wanted to find a way out for Cao Xiwan, so she begged Lou Shuluan, but when the words came, that was it.
After all, my wife didn't like Cao Xiwan, so she wanted to do this because she wanted to be kind. She turned around and paid Cao Xiwan a lot of money in exchange for half a blue pearl, otherwise she would always worry about the Marquis becoming poisonous.
"Old woman, please retire."
"Please come, Ms. Lu." Song Chengming sat alone for a while before giving instructions to the door.
Qin Meng in the room was naturally watching from the wall.
Lu Xiuyun came in with Ruan Qin in her arms. After Song Chengming was slightly startled, he also remembered that this girl who had gone out of the house seemed to be able to play Ruan Qin. She and Xiaowan had been friends since childhood, so of course he knew.
"Mother, do you have something to say?"
"Yes, Lord Marquis. Your Majesty, I ordered my servant to report to Lord Marquis that the Crown Princess is getting weaker and has a hidden illness that is difficult to recover from. I am afraid she will not be able to survive this winter."
"What?" Song Chengming was ecstatic and stood up suddenly.
"Yes, Mr. Marquis. The queen thinks that the East Palace is undecided. She thinks that a movement is worse than silence. And although the palace is good, it is still a little uneasy. The queen wants to recruit one or two people from the palace to serve in the palace."
"..." Song Chengming thought for a while, "Want Xiaowan?"
"My lord, I see that all the family members in front of my wife have daughters. My favorite is Xiao Wan. Now that she is no longer working in the yamen, my wife has long wanted her to join the palace as a female official."
Qin Meng stood aside. When he heard this, he slowly let out a long breath from the bottom of his heart.
Madam begged for mercy, but the Marquis had to be somewhat hesitant, not to mention that the safety of Empress Song was the future of the Marquis.
He only wondered that this moment was too coincidental.
Did Qing Niangzi expect this?
Small value room.
In the evening, Cao Xi drank the health-preserving hot soup given by Granny Song, ate the scones made by Mother Luo, and wiped her mouth.
She ate Mother Luo’s breakfast.
She also knew for certain that Lu Xiuyun would come.
But she didn't expect it to be such a coincidence, so she hurriedly asked her to enter the palace in the middle of the night. She thought about it, and watched with a cold eye. Xiuyun and Liu Xiaozi were getting intimate behind each other's back. It seemed like there was a conspiracy.
If something could happen to Song Liangdi, she would have to ask her confidant female officer to consult the famous doctor Liu Ru in private - if it weren't for the Crown Princess, she might not be able to do it.
"Oh, I told her a long time ago that we have to take the first step in this matter." She sighed, "It will be difficult to worry about it when the matter is about to happen."
The princess is seriously ill, so she may have her own favorite candidate for her step-concubine.
He did not want Song Liangdi to ascend the throne as the concubine of the East Palace.