swear not to be concubine

Chapter 133

Seeing Li Yi leaving with an angry expression on his face, Mother Wei turned to Nie Qingniang and sighed, "Ma'am, what are you doing? I finally reconciled with the Duke a few days ago, but now again……"

"Nurse Wei," Nie Qingniang said in a calm voice at this time, "you know my temperament. Ever since I was a child, have I ever tried to please anyone against my will? If it wasn't for my A pair of sons and daughters, why should I put Li Yi in my eyes? Right now, that's enough. I don't need to put him in my eyes any more in the future."

Seeing that Madam Wei was about to open her mouth to say something again, Qingniang Nie hurriedly said, "There is no need to talk about this matter. Madam Wei, go and tell the small kitchen to make more good dishes for lunch today. Let Qin Xin and Lan Xin now went to call Yan'er and Xin'er over separately, and said that I missed them. Besides, I want to be quiet now, and you tell the maids not to come in to serve for the time being."

Nanny Wei agreed, turned around and backed out.

Here, Nie Qingniang walked to her black lacquered mother-of-pearl dressing case, and opened the bottom drawer.

There was the dowry list when she got married.

Back then, she also had a lot of red makeup, and she also sat in the big red wedding sedan chair thinking that she would be virtuous and virtuous in the future, and she would be a husband and a teacher for the rest of her life.But now thinking about the decades of being married to Li Yi, it just came like this.

In fact, she has no nostalgia for everything with Li Yi.Right now, the only thing she can't let go of is her own pair of children, especially Yan'er...

Nie Qingniang opened her dowry list and looked at them one by one.He also took out the booklets that recorded the personal experience he had gained over the years, and carefully looked at them one by one, and from time to time, he picked up a pen and wrote something next to it.

Then she grinded the ink herself, spread out the snow-white rice paper, and wrote a letter to her children with a calm face.

She was quite calm when she wrote the letter.It's just that after the letter was written, when she took out the pink soft satin shoes embroidered with magnolia embroidered branches that she had just made for Jian Yan these days, and the royal blue sachet embroidered with hibiscus butterflies she made for Li Xin, she suddenly felt He tightly clutched these two things to his chest, while the other hand tightly covered his mouth, crying silently.

She was crying so hard, her shoulders were trembling, and her tears rolled down, soaking her skirt and sleeves.

But when Jian Yan and Li Xin came over for lunch, she had already changed into a new dress and combed her hair again.

A double-breasted cloak with a garnet-red hazel pattern, and a moon-white horse-face skirt with flowers.On the sideburns is a large emerald-green phoenix inlaid with red gold silk and large pearls. Five thin and thin phoenix tails point upwards, and a long string of three-pronged tassels hangs down from the mouth of the phoenix.There is even a thin red gold chain hanging on the forehead, on which are several red, blue or green gemstones the size of lotus seeds.

It was rare for Nie Qingniang to dress up so delicately, so Jian Yan and Li Xin inevitably looked at her more.

Nie Qingniang allowed the two of them to look at her generously, even with a gentle smile on her face, she asked them gently: "Is your mother looking good today?"

Li Xin nodded and said with a smile: "Niang looks good when she is not dressed up normally, but now she is dressed up like this, she looks like a nine-day fairy descending to earth."

Nie Qingniang stretched out her chopsticks and took a shrimp ball from the bird's nest bowl to the bowl in front of him, then said with a smile: "You child, I don't know where you learned it recently, but you can only say these words to make your mother happy. .”

Jian Yan always felt something was wrong in her heart.

Nie Qingniang not only carefully selected her dress and jewelry today, but also had a light rouge on her cheeks, and lipstick on her lips.Compared with her usual plain dress, it is really, a bit weird.

Nie Qingniang knew that Jian Yan was a careful person, and she was afraid that she would see something, so she turned her head and nodded to Jian Yan with a smile: "Just now, Cai Niang has someone call your father over to discuss your affairs with him. Don't worry, Mother has already thought of a way, and she will never let you replace Wen'an County Lord and marry far away to the northwest. So mother is happy, so she dresses up a bit, you see how mother is dressed like this, okay?"

Jian Yan had a weird feeling in her heart all the time, but she didn't think of anything else.She just nodded, and said with a smile on her face: "Yes. Mom looks really good when dressed up like this."

In fact, I don't know what's going on.Although Nie Qingniang looks so weak, like a beauty lamp, and will be broken by the wind, but when she said that she would never let herself marry to the northwest instead of Wen'an County Lord, Jian Yan believed it. .

The boulder that had been pressing down on her heart fell to the ground, and the smile on Jian Yan's face began to brighten.

This day's lunch was different from other times.Even when she and Li Xin were not talking, Nie Qingniang would take the initiative to seduce the two of them to talk, so in the end, they chatted while eating.

In front of Li Xin was an osmanthus whitebait. Jian Yan liked to eat it very much, but it was a little far away, and she had to stretch her arms every time she wanted to pinch it.Jian Yan was a little impatient to pick it up, and she was too lazy to move her chopsticks after eating a little.

When Li Xin saw it, he held the plate of sweet-scented whitebait with both hands and put it in front of Jian Yan, and said with a smile: "Sister, this dish of sweet-scented whitebait is placed in front of you, so that you don't have to stretch your arms to come here caught."

Jian Yan also knew that Li Xin liked to eat fish, and it happened that there was a dish of wind fish in front of her, so she held the plate of wind fish in both hands and put it in front of Li Xin, and said with a smile: "Reciprocity, Xiner, here you go Eat this."

The siblings looked at each other and smiled, then lowered their heads and ate separately.

When Nie Qingniang saw it, her eye circles became a little hot.

But she still tried her best to hold back her tears, and on the contrary, there was a smile on her face, and she said softly: "You two brothers and sisters should always love each other like this in the future."

Li Xin immediately raised his head and said: "Mother, that's natural. I only have this sister who is a direct relative, and Guanbao will not teach anyone to bully her."

Jian Yan burst out laughing.

This Li Xin, who is less than 12 years old, speaks like a little adult.

But Nie Qingniang nodded, and said to Li Xin seriously: "Of course that is the case. You are your sister's support. So in the future, you can no longer be playful, and you must study hard and make progress, and get out of the exam. Then With your temperament, you can't be weak in the future. A man stands between heaven and earth, even if Mount Tai is on top, he should not change his face, and he has success in his heart."

"Mother, I understand." Li Xin dragged his voice and said something coquettishly.

Nie Qingniang turned to look at Jian Yan.

Jian Yan sat up straight, only thinking in her heart, what does she have to say to me?
But Nie Qingniang moved her lips for a while, but she still didn't say anything. At the end, she just said: "Yan'er, you will be well and happy all your life."

Jian Yan felt that what Nie Qingniang said was quite inexplicable.

She wanted to open her mouth to say a few words, but Nie Qingniang asked someone to take the pair of soft satin shoes she made for Jian Yan and the sachet she made for Li Xin, and handed them to their siblings respectively. She asked with a smile: "Mother made this, do you like it?"

Naturally I like it.

Jian Yan and Li Xin both thanked Nie Qingniang.Nie Qingniang looked at them with a gentle smile.

The three mothers continued talking and laughing while eating.After eating, the three of them sat on the kang again, talking and laughing for a while.

Nie Qingniang looked at Jian Yan and Li Xin's every move almost greedily, frowning and smiling, wishing to deeply engrave all their appearances into her mind, so that she would never forget them forever.

It was only later that the sun was slanting towards the west, and the sunlight came in through the cross-brocade fan, casting mottled shadows on the red sandalwood corseted waist table with glass patterns.

Nie Qingniang knew that she couldn't delay any longer.

If you delay any longer, I'm afraid it will be too late.

So she said to Jian Yan and Li Xin: "Mother has talked with you all afternoon, and she is a little tired. I want to take a rest. You can go back for now."

Jian Yan and Li Xin nodded and said goodbye to Nie Qingniang.

Nie Qingniang also got off the kang, and stood at the door with her hands on the door frame, watching their figures disappear at the courtyard door until they could no longer be seen, but she still stood there watching.

Nanny Wei said at the side: "Ma'am, it's windy, go back and sit inside."

Nie Qingniang nodded, and still took a deep look at the direction where the two brothers and sisters had just left. Then she turned around and came back, sat down on the wooden kang again, stretched out her hand to hold Wei Wei's hand, and looked up at her.

"Nurse Wei," she said softly, "I have such a bad temper. You have been taking care of me all these years. Thank you, Qingniang."

"Ma'am, what you said to this old slave is really annoying this old slave." Wei Mama hurriedly said, "Back then, thanks to Lord Hou, who rewarded this old slave with a meal, it was possible for the family of five to survive in such a famine year. They all survived, and the whole family of this old slave will be deeply impressed by it. Madam, if you are like this, this old slave will not be worthy of you."

After all, I will bow down and worship.

Nie Qingniang hurriedly stretched out her hand to support her: "I'm just passing it by, why does Wei Mama do this? Get up quickly."

After helping Nanny Wei to get up, she patted Nanny Wei's hand again, and then a smile appeared on her face, and she said softly: "I'm really tired, I want to take a rest. Wei Wei Mammy, go and tell the maids not to come in and disturb me for the time being, so that I can take a good rest."

Nanny Wei nodded, and said thoughtfully: "Mrs. Cai talked to the son and the girl for so long, she should be tired. Ma'am, you should rest first, and the old slave will come in when it's time for dinner." Call you."

After finishing speaking, she turned around and backed out, and closed the door very considerately.

After Nie Qingniang sat on the kang for a while, she took out all the letters she had written to Jian Yan and Li Xin from the drawer, and put them in a conspicuous place on the dressing table.Then she opened her rosewood jewelry box, picked out two pieces of raw gold from it, looked at it, and then swallowed it into her mouth.

After swallowing fiercely several times, he swallowed the two pieces of raw gold just now.Then she went to the bed by herself and lay down.

It's just that when I close my eyes, all the scenes in front of my eyes are the voices and smiles of Jian Yan and Li Xin.

Even though she was calm and peaceful when she was doing that series of movements just now, Nie Qingniang still couldn't help crying in a low voice after all.

How much she wanted to keep guarding her two children, watching them grow up, get married, and have their own children.But now, she had to do so.

Under the current situation, only when she died, Yan'er could keep the rules, and she was not allowed to marry within 27 months.The emperor valued filial piety the most. Under such circumstances, even if the queen dowager forced her, how could the emperor risk the world's displeasure by letting Jian Yan replace Wen'an county master and marry far away to the northwest?
My daughter, she was only thinking in her heart, Mother promised you that she would never let you suffer again.Even if you use your mother's life, your mother will stick to the promise she made to you.So for the rest of your life, you must be happy and happy, so that even if your mother dies, you can rest in peace.

(End of this chapter)