Chapter 44: Variety

Chapter 44: Variety

Xiao Shu has the highest status among several people, and she has a good relationship with Yao Xi. After asking her for a long time, seeing that she just cried but didn't answer, she frowned even more.

She simply stopped asking, and took out the letter from under Yao Xi's arm.

It becomes clear after reading it.

Obviously, this letter was not addressed to Yao Xi, but to Yao Xi's father, Prince Taifu Yao Qingyu.

After Yao Taifu read it, he forwarded the letter to Yao Xi.

But there was no word other than that, and nothing was said about the purpose of the letter.

"This mask is a character..."

Xiao Shu murmured softly after reading the letter.

In fact, she wanted to act forcefully, and was impatient to hear people cry, so she said to Yao Xi, "Don't cry, don't you think it's not embarrassing enough?"

Yao Xi's crying became softer.

Only then did Xiao Shu ask: "A few days ago, you said that you don't want this marriage. Now that Zhang Zhe has taken the initiative to write a letter to withdraw the marriage, you don't need to spend any more time to make trouble, isn't it good?"

Yao Xi lowered her head, no one could see her expression clearly.

But the crying that had just subsided was faintly suppressed, and gradually became uncontrollable.

Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi glanced at each other, they both knew that it was not appropriate to talk about this kind of thing in public, and guessing Yao Xi's thoughts, they said, "Go in and talk about it."

After speaking, the two helped Yao Xi up and went to her room.

Leave everyone looking at each other in blank dismay.

Fang Miao's expression was strange, the compass pointer in her hand shook slightly as she looked at the backs of the three people, she couldn't help muttering: "It's strange that I'm not happy when my wish is fulfilled..."

Jiang Xuening curled her lips mockingly.

What Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi could guess, she could naturally guess too, but she was not very happy.

The protagonists were gone, and she didn't want to stay in the hall, so she used the excuse of tidying up the room, and walked out of the hall to her own room.

Fang Miao pondered for a while, and followed her.

Jiang Xuening looked back at her.

Fang Miao smiled sheepishly, as if she was a little embarrassed, but followed Jiang Xuening without stopping, and said: "At that time, Miss Yao Xi almost listened to You Yue's words and wanted to tarnish that Zhang Zhe's reputation. Second Miss Jiang even had a fit , Now that the matter of divorce has come out, Miss Jiang Er doesn't seem to care at all. Then what, I'm rather stupid, why is Yao Xi crying, and what are they going to talk about?"

From the first day she entered the palace, Fang Miao had identified Jiang Xuening as a person with "fortune". Jiang Xuening couldn't find out whether it was true or not.

It's just that since he entered the palace, he still has to stay for half a year, so naturally he can't be the same as before and have no friends at all.

Fang Miao is a godlike person with a way of life of her own, but she was one of the few people who escaped unscathed in her last life.

After Jiang Xuening thought about it, she smiled and said, "Why do you think Taifu Yao sent the letter?"

Fang Miao said, "Isn't it just for Yao Xi to see?"

Jiang Xuening said: "That was originally a letter to Mrs. Yao, and it came from a man. It would be inappropriate to forward it to Miss Boudoir, right? Besides, if you just want her to know about Zhang Zhe's resignation, you can just re-enter the letter." It’s enough to write a letter to inform, why bother to send a letter from someone?”

Fang Miao blinked, stunned.

She couldn't help stretching out her hand and scratching her head: "What does Miss Jiang Er mean?"

Jiang Xuening lowered her eyes, the smile on her lips gradually faded, and said flatly: "This letter should have been delivered to Taifu Yao not long ago, and Taifu Yao has not had time to reply in the future. Zhang Zhe came from a poor family, but he can get Taifu Yao to agree to this marriage. Knowing that Taifu Yao should think highly of Zhang Zhe's character. Yao Xi wants to retire, but Taifu Yao obviously doesn't have to. Those who are on the sidelines can see from this letter that Zhang Zhe's character is precious, Yao Xi is not stupid, how can he not see it? Come out? Before Taifu Yao replied, he forwarded the letter to his daughter, presumably to let her think about it."

Fang Miao was dumbfounded when she heard this, and it took her a while to recover: "Second Miss, it's not because of her that Yao Xi was crying... She changed her mind after reading this letter, and now she wants to marry Zhang Zhe again, right? ?!"

Jiang Xuening has arrived at the door of her room.

She stopped in her footsteps, looked down at the shadow in the gap between the two doors, and said, "Who knows?"

After finishing speaking, she opened the door and walked in, without caring about Fang Miao's expression outside, she closed the door casually.

Fang Miao stood outside her door, but she didn't mind. Thinking back to Jiang Xuening's words just now, she became very curious about what Yao Xi, Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi were talking about at this moment.

Then he turned around and wanted to go back to his room.

Just two steps away, she suddenly let out an "ah", looked back at Jiang Xuening's two closed doors, and couldn't help muttering: "Did they say that the letter was written by Zhang Zhe just now? "

Why doesn't she remember at all?

Just saw the writing on it.

Could it be that I have a bad memory, just now I was calculating Feng Shui, and I lost my mind and didn't hear the key?

Fang Miao scratched her head again, but couldn't figure out why, she simply put the doubts behind her, and walked towards her room again.

On this day, You Yue was the last one to come to Yang Zhi Zhai.

It is said that there was some delay in the mansion, and he narrowly entered the palace before the key was released.

At this time, Yao Xi had finished speaking with Xiao Shu and Chen Shuyi, and her mood had settled down. Except for some red eye circles, there was no abnormality.

You Yue had previously offered advice to Yao Xi about retiring Zhang Zhe. Although Jiang Xuening put her in the fish tank because of this, her relationship with Yao Xi was naturally drawn closer.

When she came at night, it was because she usually wanted to sit next to Yao Xi and talk.

But I didn't expect Yao Xi to be like a different person. Although she still talked to her, her attitude was much colder than the last time she entered the palace. , standing for a while, neither sitting nor smiling, not to mention shaking his face, so he had to clamp his tail and sit beside him in embarrassment.

That night, Princess Shen Zhiyi of Leyang sent people to reward many things, and Su Shangyi from the Shangyi Bureau personally came to explain to them that they would start reading together tomorrow.

According to the rules in the palace, the prince has to get up before dawn to study.

But the Holy Majesty thought that the eldest princess was from a girl's family, and she was even accompanied by the pampered ladies of various families, so she relaxed a lot, and only asked Maozheng to go to school in Fengchen Hall every day and listen to the gentlemen's lectures.

A total of five gentlemen were invited.

There are two classes a day, mostly in the morning.

In the afternoon, the eldest princess and her companions are left to study or play by themselves.

With the exception of Xie Wei, the other gentlemen were only responsible for teaching one course, and he had to teach two at the same time, and because he would go to Wenyuan Pavilion to give lectures on scripture feasts from time to time, one of them had to be put in the afternoon.

If the time cannot be adjusted up in the future, he will adjust it by himself.

When Su Shangyi left, she only said: "A gentleman's six arts, rites and music are the number of imperial books, only 'sheyu' is the only thing you don't need to learn, other gentlemen can teach you, and you also need to learn literature and painting. Master Xie teaches 'qin' And 'text', you need to pay extra attention. The pens and inks and books to be used have been prepared in the palace and placed on the desk in Fengchen Hall, but Qin needs everyone to accompany the readers to bring them by themselves. Tomorrow, the gentlemen will come to the palace one by one , first let me tell you what to learn and how to learn. The eldest princess will also come. I also hope that all of you will stay with the eldest princess in the days to come, devote yourself to learning, respect the teacher, and live up to the grace of the Holy Majesty .”

Everyone remembered them one by one.

After Su Shangyi left, she couldn't help guessing excitedly what she would learn tomorrow, and what the gentlemen were like, looking very much looking forward to it.

However, Jiang Xuening couldn't be happy.

Whenever I think of going to school, thinking of Xie Wei, thinking of learning the piano, I feel a dull pain in my ten fingers, wishing I could go out of the palace right now.

But the next morning, I still had to get up on time.

After washing up, she came out of the room with Qin in her arms, joined everyone, and went to Fengchen Hall together.

Everyone knows that the qin is taught by Xie Weijiao. During the time when they left the palace and returned home, everyone spent a lot of effort on selecting the qin. The qin they brought was either made by a well-known qin master, or it was an old guqin. , and carefully put on the piano bag.

The same goes for Jiang Xuening's.

Unexpectedly, when going out from Yangzhizhai, Xiao Shu's eyes fell on her qin, and she said: "Ms. Jiang's qin pouch looks familiar."

Jiang Xuening was startled, and lowered her eyes to look at the dark blue piano bag: This is the "Jiaoan" that Yan Lin took her to Youhuang Hall to buy, the piano bag was not changed, and it was Lu Xian who played the piano The piano bag in which it was delivered to them.

She didn't know how Xiao Shu felt familiar.

At the moment, he only said: "It's just an ordinary piano bag, you can see it everywhere."

"It's really not something you can see anywhere. I heard that a piece of guqin called 'Jiao'an' came to Youhuang Pavilion some time ago, so I sent someone to buy it. But the owner of the piano pavilion said that the piano is for Prince Yan is looking for it, and he will not sell it to others. I regretted it for a long time, but I didn't expect that I would meet Miss Jiang Er today." Xiao Shu wore a deep purple palace dress today, looking dignified and noble, straight Suppressing everyone else, he only looked at Jiang Xuening and laughed, "It seems that the Qin is not for Shizi Yan himself, but for Miss Jiang."

Everyone's eyes immediately fell on Jiang Xuening's piano.

Chen Shuyi, Fang Miao, Zhou Baoying and others were just curious.

You Yue easily remembered the scene of being slapped in the face at the Double Ninth Banquet that day, her complexion was not very good, and the look she looked at Jiang Xuening concealed a bit of contempt.

Yao Rongrong stood behind the crowd and looked at them silently.

After the Double Ninth Festival banquet in the uncle's mansion in Qingyuan, the news that Yan Lin, the son of Yongyi Hou, had a close relationship with the second daughter of the Jiang family spread in Beijing, and anyone with a little bit of information would know about it. Moreover, Yanlin will be holding the coronation ceremony next month, and there are only a few days left, so everyone guessed that Yan and Jiang's family must have secretly arranged a marriage, so they didn't criticize the relationship between the young couple.

There were not many people chatting their tongues outside.

One is that the two families didn't say anything, and no outsiders could get their turn; the other is that the Yongyi Hou's mansion is powerful, and others don't dare to speak too much.

But now Xiao Shu actually said it so unabashedly.

Jiang Xuening thought to herself that the reason she had conflicts with Xiao Shu in her previous life was because of the position of queen, and no one would give in, so she fought to the death, but no one ended well; and in this life, she didn't want to be a queen, let alone marry Shen Jie, there is no conflict of interest between the two of them, and with the pride of Xiao Shu's aristocratic family and the wisdom of not losing to a man, it should not be provocative to provoke any disputes.

In other words, logically, Xiao Shu would not target her.

So now that she doesn't know whether she is intentional or unintentional, Jiang Xuening can only pretend that she is unintentional, so she doesn't get angry, just smiles as usual: "Although 'Jiao'an' is good, it is among the famous pianos in the world. I'm afraid it's just one of the lowest ranks. Although Miss Xiao missed this one, she must be able to easily find a better one, right?"

Xiao Shu laughed, but she didn't answer the words, let alone explain anything, she just asked the maid who was holding the piano to follow her footsteps, and continued to go in the direction of Fengchen Palace.

Everyone's eyes could not help but fall on her piano.

But no one can recognize the origin of that qin, and can only guess from the Hetian jade pendant hanging on the qin bag that the qin is not ordinary.

A group of eight people walked along the palace wall and walked up the palace road.

At the moment the sky is not fully brightened.

The palace lanterns lit on both sides radiate light at the place where the heavy dark blue sky meets the dark red palace wall. Jiang Xuening has walked this kind of road countless times in her previous life, and she is so familiar that she can't go wrong even if she closes her eyes. So absentmindedly at the end.

Yao Xiben was walking in the front, but for some reason, she turned her head while walking.

Seeing that Jiang Xuening was at the end, she slowed down.

After a while, he naturally came to Jiang Xuening's side.

Jiang Xuening only noticed her at this time, and quietly frowned in the dim light, only thinking about going to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, so she asked: "Miss Yao, what's the matter?"

Yao Xi watched her, very seriously.

After a while, he laughed in a lowered voice: "It's just that I'm suddenly curious about Miss Jiang. If Miss Jiang didn't persuade me a few days ago, I'm afraid I've made a big mistake and ruined my reputation." Don't say it, I still miss a good marriage. Now that I think about it, I really feel that I should be grateful. But I also have some doubts in my heart. Miss Jiang Er said, telling me to wait without doing anything. At that time, I didn't understand I didn't know what Miss Jiang Er meant until I saw the letter of resignation sent by my father yesterday. If I didn't know that the second girl and Yan Shizi were a couple, I'm afraid I would really feel that you and Zhang Zhe have a very close relationship. But the second girl, it seems that she really knows Mr. Zhang very well?"

Jiang Xuening looked down at the road, but didn't answer.

A bit of resentment grew in Yao Xi's heart.

Just thinking of the letter from yesterday and what Xiao Shu and the others said to her, it was rare to feel a bit of sweet shyness.

A slight blush appeared on her cheeks, and there was some rare hesitation and apprehension in her voice, and she said to Jiang Xuening: "Now I know why my father appreciates him. Although he wrote a letter to his father to retire, he was actually afraid of his future. The official career is not going well, and I am afraid that I will suffer after marrying him. But isn’t the most important thing for my daughter’s family is to find a lover? After I saw the letter, I thought, if I can really marry him, I will definitely be married to him in the future. I will be angry. And my father will still help me, so it may not be where I am sent. I want to write to my father to tell my father that I have changed my mind, what does Miss Jiang think?"

"..."

The east side has already turned white, and there is a thick fog floating in the Forbidden City. The Fengchen Palace in front only protrudes a corner of the high-pecked eaves in the fog, but Jiang Xuening sees a strange loss.

For a moment, malice surged.

A certain voice yelled frantically in her mind: Be a bad person, Ningning, be a bad person. Don't care what others think, go grab it! Go grab Zhang Zhe! That was given to you by God!

But she can't.

There seemed to be eyes looking at her through the mist, reminding her that she had promised to be a good person in the future.

Eventually these voices all died down.

Jiang Xuening blinked, only to feel that she had fallen into this mist, looked at Yao Xi, and then heard her calm voice without any flaws: "Ms. If you can achieve marriage with Mr. Zhang, your father must be very pleased."