Destroyed outside, gold and jade inside

Chapter 194
After Shen Siniang left, Dan Xin spoke again, "I heard that the Empress Dowager invited an eighteenth-year-old lady from the Yu clan into the palace."

"Have you inquired about the little lady?" Shen Xiniang asked.

Dan Xin nodded again and again, "The lady has explained, so as soon as I heard the news, I asked people to inquire, saying that this eighteenth lady of Yu has a gentle and quiet personality, versatile, and is the most outstanding young lady in the Yu family. Nothing."

Shen Xinniang nodded, and silently took a sip of her tea.

But Dan Xin was a little worried and said: "The Empress Dowager has suddenly invited Miss Yu Shiba into the palace, what's the point? Do you want to push that little lady into our palace to be the princess?"

Shen Xinniang nodded slowly.

"Bah, I'm thinking of something good! Why should she? Does she push whoever she wants to come in?" Dan's heart skipped a beat, seeing that the lady was not in a hurry, she was a little anxious, "Lady, I heard that the little lady just came in." Both beautiful and beautiful, if the empress dowager has her heart, will the prince...will he..."

Dan Xin bit her lip, why did the lady not care at all?

"Beautiful in talent and appearance, it's just a mouthful. The Yu family is not very powerful. If she chooses someone from the Yu family, appearance and talent are not the most important things." is the most important."

Dan Xin nodded, "Is the lady already successful?"

After she finished asking, she felt that she was asking a stupid question. Isn't a lady always successful?The lady pinched her fingers and calculated, and there was nothing unexpected.

Shen Xinniang shook her head, and said in a leisurely manner: "Not yet, let's see and talk. The Yu family will definitely have another move."

After Fang Yanzuo asked to support Shen Xinniang's son, she was taken away by the Yu family on the grounds of family affairs.Fang Yan said again that he was nearly [-] years old, but there was no mistress in the palace, and the princess had no choice but to stand.

The Empress Dowager Yu has also been prepared. If Fang Yan does not marry, she feels that she still has a chance to keep watch.But since he can't wait, she will never let him marry someone else as he pleases.She seemed to be waiting for Fang Yan to speak like this. Not long after Fang Yan wrote the letter, the queen mother held a banquet in the palace, and invited young ladies of the right age to have a banquet in the palace.

The intention is to choose a suitable princess for Fang Yan, and it also shows that as the eldest sister-in-law, she is concerned about Fang Yan's marriage.Although she didn't clearly express her intentions, the queen mother acted accordingly shortly after Fang Yan submitted the book, and the purpose is not difficult to guess.

As if to annoy Shen Xiniang, even Shen Xiniang was allowed to enter the palace to attend the banquet.

"Is the lady really going?" Dan Xin frowned for Shen Xiniang.

"Why don't you go, haven't you always been curious about Yu Shibaniang?" Shen Xinniang looked at the person in the mirror and said softly.

"But entering the palace today, the Empress Dowager will definitely praise the Eighteenth Lady Yu, and then... the lady will not be wronged." Dan Xin said worriedly.

Jin Xiang also nodded repeatedly, "Sister Dan Xin is right."

"Jin Xiang has changed a lot when he came back this time, isn't he in a hurry to refute Dan Xin?" Shen Xinniang asked.

Jin Xiang blushed, "Lady, was the servant girl so ignorant before? The servant girl thinks that she has always been on top of reasoning!"

"Whoever she wants to praise, she will praise. The grievances are never given by others, but by herself." Shen Xinniang said slowly.

Jin Xiang thought it made sense when she heard it, and nodded quickly, "My lady is right, she has entered the palace several times, but never went smoothly, but she never let the queen mother take advantage of it!"

"Where are you from? Don't you? " Dan Xin stared at her.

Jin Xiang stuck out her tongue, "It's already said that I stand on the principle of words!"

No matter how worried the two maidservants are, Shen Xinniang will never change the decision she makes.Even though she knew that Mrs. Yu invited her into the palace without good intentions, she still went there willingly. Otherwise, how could she make Mrs. Yu feel at ease.

The banquet was held in the imperial garden, where roses and roses of various colors were blooming, and butterflies of various colors were busy flying among the flowers, and the scent of flowers was overflowing.The girls among the flowers seem to be as beautiful as the flowers and butterflies. They are beautiful and fragrant.

There is that clumsy butterfly, I really can't tell the beauty of flowers or the beauty of people, but it flutters on the shoulders of the girls, thinking what a beautiful flower it is.

It caused the girls to chuckle, joke and compliment each other.

"The Empress Dowager has arrived—" a loud voice sang.

Everyone quickly squatted down to salute.

"If today is a good day, the flowers in the imperial garden are also blooming well. The Ai family enjoys the beauty of the garden alone. I really feel that it is a gift from God. It is better to have fun alone than to enjoy the garden together. I invite all the noble daughters of the aristocratic families to enjoy the garden together." Zhongmei can live up to the good times. You don't have to be polite, let's be flat." The queen mother said with a smile.

Everyone stood up, but they saw that the queen mother did not come alone, and there was a young girl standing beside the queen mother.

The cardamom-year-old woman, after careful dressing, gorgeous clothes, carefully painted black eyebrows, and fair cheeks, stood beside the empress dowager, making her look even more distinguished and noble.

"That's Yu Shiba, right?" Dan Xin asked in a low voice in Shen Xiniang's ear.

"That's needless to say!" Jin Xiang snorted, "But that's it, what kind of talent and beauty are both outstanding, it's not enough to be seen by the lady's side!"

Dan Xin nodded again and again, "I can't even compare to a lady's little finger!"

"What, she doesn't deserve to be compared with a lady, okay?" Jin Xiang argued.

Shen Xinniang raised her hand and patted the heads of the two of them, "It doesn't matter how she is, whether things succeed or not, it's not about her in the first place."

When the two heard the words, they had no choice but to shut up.

The Empress Dowager glanced across the crowd, and introduced with a light smile, "This is my natal younger sister, aged eighteen, who seldom goes out on weekdays, and many young ladies probably don't recognize her. Although Zhuo Ying doesn't like to talk, but But she plays the qin very well, I heard that the noble girls in Beijing also love to learn the qin, why don't you ask Zhuo Ying to play the qin with the young ladies, let's have fun too!"

When the empress dowager said this, it was obvious that she wanted to praise Yu Shibaniang.

All the noble ladies greeted me again and again.The maids carried the Guqin on the piano stand.

Yu Zhuoying greeted the empress dowager, "Zhuoying has made a fool of herself!"

After finishing speaking, she stepped up to the back of the piano stand, sat down slowly, raised a pair of bare hands, outlined the slender fingertips, and the sound of the piano swayed. She tried the piano for a while, and then plucked the strings methodically.

Dan Xin couldn't understand the rhythm, but seeing the others were fascinated by the sound, he was a little nervous, "Miss, does she play well?"

Shen Xinniang lowered her eyes, "I don't know."

"Huh? The lady doesn't understand rhythm?" Dan Xin became even more nervous.

"I only listened to Master playing the piano, and the sound of Master's piano is straight to the hearts of the people. She is proficient in technique, but her feelings are not deep enough. Master said that the real piano skills are accumulated over the years, just like his piano, what he plays is not the rhythm. , but the state of mind. She is so young, so naturally she cannot be compared with Master, there is no comparison, how can we talk about whether it is good or not?" Shen Xinniang said slowly.

"The lady also went up to play the piano, so it would be great to compare her!" Seeing that the lady didn't understand, Dan Xin smiled happily.

Shen Xinniang's tone was soft, "Why should I compare with her? Why should I play the piano for these people?"

Dan Xin was taken aback when he heard the words.

On the other hand, Jin Xiang stared wide-eyed and said infatuatedly, "Young lady looks so proud! She's so domineering!"

At the end of the song, everyone applauded and praised Yu Zhuoying's extraordinary piano skills.

Knowing that it was the Empress Dowager's intention to praise her, everyone had no intention of stepping forward to challenge her.

The queen mother chuckled lightly and said, "It's good to learn from each other. It doesn't matter if they are more skilled than Zhuo Ying or not as good as Zhuo Ying. The purpose is to ask each other for advice and learn from each other."

"Hmph, that sounds nice. If you really want to ask someone to compete with her, don't come up and say that she is your natal sister!" The voice of the little lady at the side came from behind a bush of rose vines.

Shen Xinniang and the others looked sideways, only to see the little lady in a goose yellow skirt and a flowered wide-sleeved blouse flicking her sleeves and said.

"That is, when it comes to piano art, I don't believe there are people in the capital who can compare with my lady! But my lady, don't let the people of the empress dowager hear this! This is the palace!" The maid beside the little lady whispered.

"So what if I hear it? She can do it, but others can't say it?" The little lady was disdainful.

Shen Xinniang suddenly said, "That's right."

Jin Xiang and Dan Xin were taken aback when they heard the words, they just overheard someone else's conversation by accident, why did the lady answer the conversation?
There was a silence on the side of the rose vine, the little lady suddenly stepped over, frowned and looked at Shen Xinniang curiously, "Are you eavesdropping on me?"

"What do you mean by eavesdropping?" Shen Xiniang asked back, "I've been standing here all this time, it's just that the little lady didn't pay attention to what she said."

"I'm not afraid of you eavesdropping, so what if you hear it? I'll just say it, so what?" The little lady looked proud.

"It's nothing to say, it's the ability to do it." Shen Xinniang said.

Hearing the words, the little lady looked her up and down again, "What do you mean by that?"

"Didn't the little lady disdain the piano skills of the eighteenth mother of the Yu family? What's the skill to stand here and talk, it's the skill to go up and learn from each other." Shen Xinniang said slowly.

When the little lady heard this, her complexion became a little stiff.

The maid next to her quickly grabbed her, "Lady, let's go, don't be provoked by others!"

But the little lady shook off the servant girl's hand, "Is it because you are upset when you talk like this? Why provoke me if you have the ability? Why don't you just go by yourself?"

Shen Xinniang shook her head slowly, "I'm not upset."

"Don't even dare to be angry." The little lady smiled, "Which family are you the wife of? Why are you so unfamiliar?"

Shen Xinniang gave her a strange look, "Could it be that the little lady doesn't know why the Empress Dowager is hosting today?"

"Isn't it just to flatter Yu Shiba?" The little lady snorted softly, "I really can't find my husband's family, and I can only get married with such flattery from the Queen Mother!"

Shen Xinniang shook her head, "Maybe the prince will come later!"

The little lady was taken aback when she heard the words, "My lord? My lord Qi?"

Shen Xinniang nodded, "That's right, isn't the empress dowager's promotion of the young lady of the Yu family just for the position of princess in Prince Qi's mansion?"

"You, how do you know?" The little lady's eyes widened.

"I thought everyone who came here knew about it?" Shen Xinniang said slowly.

"You... Which family's wife are you?" The little lady looked around, her puzzlement deepened, "Most of the people at the banquet today are young ladies who are not married. Are you dressing up as a woman? You? "

(End of this chapter)