The Virtuous Concubine of the Qing Dynasty

Chapter 119

Bai Sang stood there without moving for a long time, looking at Jiao Rong's back, she felt a little unbelievable, and after a long time, she answered softly: "Yes."

In the next few days, Jiaorong seemed to be different from usual.Please An and other matters have become more active, and they also pay attention to their own clothes. This is unbelievable to Bai Sang. After all, what Jiaorong hates the most is those rouge and vulgar fans. This is why Bai Sang is a personal maid. It is the clearest.

And behind these changes, a more subtle change is that Jiao Rong has talked less and less in the past few days, and has become more emotionless, like a puppet with a perfect performance in front of people.Occasionally, Jiao Rong would go to the Palace of Compassion and Ning to pay her respects to the Empress Dowager, and help her old man squeeze her shoulders and beat her legs. It will only please the owner's feeding products.

On this day, Jiao Rong was learning Chinese characters from Concubine Yi. She had worked so hard in the past few days that her hands would shake when she picked up a pen, but now she can write some Chinese characters steadily and neatly.

Concubine Yi was also very pleased with this, she looked at Jiao Rong who was becoming more and more elegant by the table, and said softly: "I said before that you are the smartest, and such a trivial matter as learning characters is not difficult. yours."

After writing the last word on the paper, Jiaorong slowly put the pen on Bijia, then looked at Concubine Yi, thinking about something, and said lightly: "Sister, do you have wine in your palace?" what?"

Hearing this, Concubine Yi was stunned for a moment, then moved her eyelashes slightly, and responded: "There is wine. When I first entered the palace, the people in the imperial dining room presented several altars of good wine to my palace for collection. It's just that I don't know how to drink alcohol, and I don't know if the wine is good."

Jiaorong looked at Concubine Yi with deep eyes, and she begged in a deep voice: "If possible, I would like to ask my sister for some wine."

Hearing this, Concubine Yi looked at Jiaorong in puzzlement, and said with concern: "If you want it, I will ask someone to send it to your palace, but it's so good, why do you want to drink? But what happened? ?”

"Sister, don't worry, I just remembered that many years ago today, my Ermo and I were separated on the west seashore in the heavy rain. Since then, Ama and I have searched for several years, but there is no trace of Ermo. Thinking about it today, my sister misses her very much. , so I wanted to use wine to express my thoughts." When Jiaorong said these words, her eyes seemed to be covered with a hazy mist and became blurred.

(Note: Emo means mother in Manchu.)
"It's so." Concubine Yi frowned slightly, her expression became a little distressed, "I will send you all the wine in the palace in a while, but don't drink too much, be careful of hurting your body. "

After the words fell, Concubine Yi lowered her eyes slightly, and said softly: "I didn't expect such a thing to happen in your family. I will ask people in the family to help find your mother outside the city. If there is any news, I will let you know." The palace will tell you as soon as possible."

"Thank you, sister." Jiaorong's face was always heavy, and when she left the main hall, there was a sense of darkness in her back.

I don't know if the sky tonight also followed her mood. After the sun set, the sky in the Forbidden City turned into a dark gray.It's mid-October now, and it's very cold, and I don't know if there will be a downpour tonight.

At night, it was pitch black, and Jiaorong called the other maidservants away, leaving only Baisang alone.She asked Bai Sang to bring the wine brought by Concubine Yi, wearing only thin clothes, and was about to leave the palace.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's going to rain depending on the weather. We're so late, where are we going?" Bai Sang followed behind Jiaorong slightly worriedly, her voice very soft.

But Jiaorong didn't answer her, just walked slowly, if it wasn't for her graceful figure, she was still straight when walking, considering the temperament of Jiaorong at the moment, she would be like a walking dead.

After walking for an unknown amount of time, Bai Sang held the wine and felt his wrists ache, Jiaorong finally stopped.Bai Sang raised her head without knowing why, looked around, and found that this was the northwest corner of the palace.

On weekdays, the emperor would often come to the northwest turret to admire the moon on the night of the full moon. The golden glazed tiles here are very charming under the moonlight, and the reflection on the quiet lake is like a delicate picture in front of you. It is so beautiful. People are amazed.

It's a pity that tonight is cloudy and there is no moon, so we can't see this beautiful scenery.

Before Bai Sang could react, Jiaorong walked towards the turret step by step, slowly walked up the stairs, and went up to the platform where she had to look up.Looking down from the tower here, you can see a large clear lake, reflecting the lights upstairs, which is extremely bright.

Not long after, Jiao Rong and Bai Sang sat down on the balcony and opened a jar of wine.Bai Sang looked at the jar of wine, immediately frowned, and exclaimed: "My lord, this servant forgot to take the wine glass, what should I do?"

Regarding this, Jiaorong's expression did not change at all, she silently picked up the jar of wine, and said softly, "It's okay."

After saying that, Jiao Rong directly raised her head and drank the jar of wine directly to her mouth.The potency of the aged wine made Jiao Rong frowned and closed her eyes, and the tendons on her neck were also protruding, but she didn't put down the wine jar immediately, but took a solid gulp before putting it down earthen jar.

The crystal clear wine dripped down the red lips, stayed on the neck, collarbone, and flowed into an even more unknown place along the collar.

"It's really good wine. It seems that Concubine Yi still has some status in the eyes of the people in the imperial dining room." When Jiaorong said this, she no longer cared about her etiquette as a concubine in the harem, and directly buttoned her robe He untied it, casually took it off from his body, and threw it aside, leaving only the blue silk single dress on his body.

"My lord, it's really cold at night, you'd better put some clothes on, or you'll get sick!" Bai Sang's eyes widened a little, and she knelt beside Jiaorong, wanting to help her with the clothes, I also feel that this is a bit over the line.

"It's okay, after drinking wine, you will feel warmer." Jiaorong bent one leg, picked up the jar of wine again, and put it on her knees, her eyebrows and eyes were full of wine, but at this time, she did not become more charming, on the contrary Full of heroism.

Then, Jiaorong drank a few more sips of wine, looked at Bai Sang in front of her, and said slowly in a hoarse voice: "My Emo is a dancer in a restaurant outside the Forbidden City. She was once a famous beauty among the people. At that time , Ama met Emo by chance, fell in love with her, and insisted on marrying her back home regardless of her identity."

"At that time Mafa was very opposed and told Ama that if he liked it, he would take Ermo as a concubine, but Ama refused in every possible way and only wanted to take Emo as his wife. In the end Mafa failed to persuade Ama , I had to let Er Mo in." Jiaorong said, looking up at the sky slowly, her eyes full of confusion.

(End of this chapter)