Madam Hou

Chapter 47

On the second day, the sky had cleared and it was not snowing, but the weather with melting snow was colder than the weather with snow.

Yinniang was wearing a silver-red and half-worn coat, and a bright red cloak embroidered with peonies, wrapping herself tightly, only a pair of sparkling eyes were exposed from the hood of the cloak.Today Pingniang is wearing a stone blue pine flower silk paddy field jacket, which is also wrapped in a white fox fur cloak with a big red feather gauze.The two took the carriage together and went to Mao'er Alley.

When we arrived at Yu Momo's house, it was Mama Jiang who opened the door.Seeing that it was Yinniang and Pingniang, Jiang's mother quickly welcomed her in.Inside the house, Yu Momo and Mrs. Jiang were sitting in the front hall, lighting a fire to roast chestnuts to eat.

Seeing Pingniang and Yinniang coming, Mrs. Jiang quickly signaled them to come over: "It's Pingniang and Miss Chen, come here quickly, there are roasted chestnuts to eat." Then she put two stools beside her and pulled them up. Pingniang and Yinniang sat down, and distributed the roasted chestnuts on the plate next to them to them.

So when I saw the two of them, I was neither surprised nor said anything. I kept flipping the chestnuts in the grill on the stove with the tongs in my hands, and after the roasting was over, I put the roasted chestnuts on the plate beside inside.

In the winter, it is also a kind of fun for a group of people to bake food around the stove.Yinniang and Pingniang thought it was fun, so they also took the tongs and roasted raw chestnuts.Counting the five mothers of Jiang, they ate all the five catties of chestnuts they bought.After eating the chestnuts, Mother Jiang brought some hot tea to digest.

After drinking tea, Yu Momo put the teacup into the inner room, Yin Niang hurriedly followed in, and then closed the door.

Yu Momo rummaged through the bedside cabinet, and finally found a kit, threw the kit on the table, sat down on the stool next to him, and said: "The things your sister asked me to check, I wrote it all in, take it back."

Yinniang picked up the kit, squeezed it, and knew that there was a note in it, and the kit was sealed all around, so Yinniang put it on her body and put it away, then bowed down sincerely , Said: "Thank you, what kindness to my sister, Yinniang will repay her in the future?"

Yu Momo waved his hand and said, "Come on, I'll be thankful that I don't bother me with these things in the future. It's an old bone, and I'll let you toss and fiddle with it." Then, he took it out from the side drawer. A book comes and is thrown on the table.

There was no name on the book, so Yin Niang picked it up and doubled it, and saw that it was written on the characteristics and effects of some flowers and medicinal materials, etc., and the content in it was written casually, and it seemed that the person who wrote it could find and take notes at any time .

Yu Momo said: "This is what I sorted out when I was serving. Take it back and make a copy for your sister. If you have any questions about this in the future, you can find the answer yourself and don't bother me."

Yinniang thanked Yu Momo again.

When Yinniang and Pingniang came out from Yu Momo's house and returned to Yangjiaoer Hutong, the carriage from Yongning Hou Mansion who came to pick Yinniang back had already arrived. In the hall, Lin Fengqi didn't know what she was talking to Mrs. Chen, but she said Have a smile on your face.

Seeing that it was getting late, Mrs. Chen asked Qinghua Qingteng to pack up her things and prepare to go back with Lin Fengqi.Mrs. Chen called Qinghua Qingteng to her, told her to take good care of the young lady, then took Yiniang's hand and told her to listen to her fiancé, and then took the hand of the prospective son-in-law to ask him to take care of her daughter, and then Reluctantly letting Yinniang get into the carriage.

Halfway through the carriage, Lin Fengqi, who was originally riding a horse, suddenly abandoned his horse and got into the carriage.Originally, Qinghua and Qingteng were riding in a carriage with Yinniang. When they saw Lin Fengqi coming in, they went out knowingly and knowingly, and went to another carriage, leaving space for the young unmarried couple.

After Qinghua and Qingteng went out, Yinniang looked at Lin Fengqi and asked him strangely, "What are you doing here?"

"I just came in to talk to you."

"What?"

"That's right..." He paused for a while, then cleared his throat, and continued: "That's right, I want you not to worry too much about the outside things, whether your sister is favored or not, whether my mother likes you or not, I I will definitely marry you in the future, and besides... I like you." After he finished speaking, his face turned red all of a sudden, and then he turned his head away a little uncomfortably.

Yin Niang was also a little stunned, and after she realized it, her face turned red all of a sudden.

The atmosphere quieted down for a while, both of them were a little embarrassed, and didn't know what words to use to break the embarrassing silence.Lin Shizi couldn't hold back at first, and was about to stand up, saying: "I, I'm going out first." He was about to get out of the carriage.

Yin Niang didn't want him to leave, so her body reflexively pulled him back, and when he turned around, she didn't know what to say, and she blurted out in a low voice: "I I like you too."

Lin Fengqi almost thought he heard it wrong, and asked again: "What did you say?"

But Yin Niang didn't want to say any more, she let go, pretending to be impatient and said: "I didn't say anything, why don't you go, hurry up and go."

Lin Fengqi was unwilling to leave, and sat back in the carriage again, unable to bear the smile on his face, looked at Yinniang and said, "I heard what you said just now, you said you like me too."

Yin Niang said angrily: "You still ask after hearing that." As she spoke, her cheeks were puffed up with anger, and red again, like a ripe apple.Lin Fengqi pinched Yinniang's cheek, laughed loudly and said, "Yinniang, you are so cute."

The carriage drove all the way back to Yongning Hou Mansion, and Lin Shizi's laughter came out from the carriage from time to time.The escort servant outside couldn't help being curious, and didn't know what the Second Miss Chen had done to make the Shizi so happy.And Qinghua and Qingteng, who were sitting in the other carriage, showed gratified smiles. Mrs. Lin Hou is already dissatisfied with her young lady. Only with the love of the eldest son, the young lady's life will not be too bad.After all, it is the Shizi who wants to live with his young lady. As long as the Shizi likes it and is protected by the Shizi, Mrs. Linhou's embarrassment is nothing.

When the carriage was approaching Yongninghou's mansion, Yinniang asked Lin Fengqi again: "Is there someone in the palace?" It's too detrimental for them to turn their eyes black on something related to the previous dynasty.

Lin Fengqi naturally had his own eyeliner in the palace, he was just curious what Yinniang was doing with this question, so he asked her, "What are you going to do?"

Yinniang thought, after all, she came from a small family. As far as her current ability is concerned, she has no orders to enter the palace often, and it is difficult to bribe people in the palace to do things for her. If she wants to contact Yanniang in the future, there are many things She was afraid that she would still have to rely on Lin Fengqi, so Yinniang told her about Yanniang's suspicion that someone had tampered with her during childbirth, deliberately creating the illusion of a difficult delivery.It also said that Yan Niang suspected that the soup and medicine she was drinking now had been added. She couldn't find out what was added by herself, so someone sent some medicine residues out for Yu Momo to check for her. Now she has to check Yu Momo out. As a result, he was sent back to the palace.

Lin Fengqi asked: "Who sent the medicine dregs for you back then?"

Yanniang said: "The voice sounds like a servant, I don't recognize him, he asked me to go to Tianxiang Tower to find a second-in-law surnamed Huang, but I don't trust them very much."

Lin Fengqi nodded and said, "Understood, I will send someone to help you."

in the palace.

It was getting late, and palms were already waiting everywhere in the palace.The light shone on the body of the palace lady walking on the road, reflecting two long shadows.Painted pottery and colored porcelain carried octagonal palace lanterns and walked on the narrow road in the direction of Fengyi Palace.Suddenly, a maid in blue court lady's attire came towards her. The maid hurriedly ran into Cai Tao's body, but she just saluted in a hurry and was ready to leave.

Caici grabbed the maid and scolded: "Hey, why are you like this? You want to leave when you bump into someone? You don't look like a decent palace lady in the clothes you wear. Where did you get the guts? Tell me, where are you from?" Waiter, I have to tell your aunt in charge to let her teach you the rules."

Cai Tao looked at the extra kit in her hand, quickly put her in her pocket, and then persuaded Cai Ci: "Forget it, you are not injured, let's go back quickly, lest the empress look for it." The maid said: "It's none of your business, you should go quickly."

Caici wanted to say something, but Caitao dragged her away.

After returning to the side hall of Fengyi Palace, the painted pottery entered the inner room, and after dismissing all the maids serving in the room, he closed the door, then took out the kit from his clothes, and handed it to Niang Niang: "Your Majesty, this is Just now a little palace maid bumped into me on purpose and stuffed it into my hand."

Yanniang took a look at the brochure bag, brought it over, and asked Caitao to take scissors to cut it open, took out a note from inside, and there was only one sentence in it: Cotton seeds: women who eat too much, hurt Yin consumes qi, and the palace is cold and infertile.

Yanniang stuffed the note back into the kit bag and handed it to Caitao: "Present this to the empress."

Cai Tao said yes, and then went out with a kit in his arms.

After Caitao left, Yanniang sat on the bed a little restlessly.Just at this moment, the little princess who was sleeping in the cradle just woke up. Yanniang stood up, picked up the little princess, and coaxed her while walking with the baby in her arms, saying, "What's wrong with our little Fuqing, we just woke up and cried. But where is it uncomfortable?"

The little princess' nanny came in from the outside, gave a blessing to Yanniang, and said: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid the little princess is hungry, please let the servants feed the little princess first."

Yanniang nodded, and gave the little princess to the nanny, the rules in the palace are like this, the newly born princes and princesses are all fed by the nanny, and after giving birth, the concubines have to recuperate their bodies as soon as possible so that they can serve the emperor.Although Yan Niang has plenty of milk, it is not easy to violate the palace rules.

After the little princess had breastfeeding, she really stopped crying, and lay obediently in Yanniang's arms, occasionally spit a few bubbles.After the nurse finished feeding, she gave a blessing and went out.The nanny knew that the concubine Chen actually didn't like her feeding the little princess when she and the little princess were too far away. The nanny would rather take care of the little princess by herself than let the nanny take care of her.

After the little princess had nursed, Yanniang walked around the house a few times with her in her arms, and then Caitao came back.

Yan Niang asked: "What did the empress say?"

Caitao said: "After reading the letter, the empress burned the letter directly, and then asked me to go back to the empress, so that the empress should not think too much, and take care of her body so that she can serve the emperor quickly. If you want any medicinal materials, just ask the empress to get it. The empress The empress also said that when the empress is confinement, let the empress move to Lanhe Palace, let people set up a small kitchen in Lanhe Palace, so that the empress can recuperate her body as soon as possible."

Yan Niang nodded lightly, and finally breathed a sigh of relief.

(End of this chapter)