Chapter 376 Show Your Face
In Feng'an Palace, Empress Dowager Jin deliberately looked at Su Shi more often, so that she could have a word with those influential people, and then called Su Linrou to come closer.
"I happened to meet you yesterday afternoon, and then I saw that there were more bonsai in the back garden. I heard from the eunuch who took care of the garden that you also love banyan. You have raised it for several years in your boudoir, and this time it was easy to get one. You moved it out of the East Palace on purpose?" The Empress Dowager looked kindly, and asked questions in a calm manner.
Su Linrou was overjoyed and rushed to show off in front of her ancestor. "My concubine also felt that the tree had a good meaning, so I asked someone to ask for it. Later, I heard that my ancestor had a bonsai in the backyard that he took care of himself. It happened to be the same plant as my concubine. So I was bold enough to get your blessing, Put it closer to your pot."
Given the opportunity, naturally the closer the better.
"Go to see it every day?"
A little embarrassed, Su Linrou shook his head. She has no profit and can't get up early, counting the days and going to see if she can meet someone. "It's not that the sun never sets. It only passes once in three or two days." This matter can't be hidden, so I have to answer honestly.
"When the concubine passed by, she also took Baolin from the palace and the two concubines around together. Seeing that the sun was good, she moved the bonsai under the sun to dry." In this way, it showed her virtuousness. He never took strict precautions against the people in the palace, and tried his best to suppress them.
Let the sun shine? Sitting below are a few people who know flowers and plants with stunned expressions. The past few days have been extremely hot, and the sun is extremely hot. Although banyan trees are rare and uncommon, there are many similarities that can be referred to when growing flowers and serving grass. Is that tree exceptionally drought tolerant or what?
Mu Xiyao's heart skipped a beat, and she looked behind Wan Jingwen. The two concubines that the Queen Mother rewarded bowed their hands respectfully, with joy on their faces.
Yo, the most unresponsive Mrs. Su actually used her brain. It's a pity that the luck is bad, and there are snakes and scorpions behind him.
Hearing her reply, the Empress Dowager paused a little while fiddled with the prayer beads in her hand. Looking at her again, she is still kind and loving. "Di Liang praised this tree for auspiciousness before, so she must know that the banyan tree has a lot to do with Buddhism."
"This is natural. It is said that the banyan tree is one of the "three flowers and four trees" in Buddhism. It measures merit and benefits future generations..." After a long series of words, it was actually very clear. The people below were in a fog, and could only listen.
This homework is done enough. Mu Xiyao was amused to see Su Linrou in high spirits, drinking tea in silence.
"The Baolin in your palace is also with you, but which one is it?" Seeing the Queen Mother smiling and nodding her head, Su Linrou was overjoyed, and pointed to Wan Jingwen who was wearing a plain dress with only silk flowers on her hairpin.
"Your Highness, there are two in Baolin, and the one in the concubine's palace is the Wan family." Looking at the slightly embarrassed Zhang family from the corner of the eye, Su Linrou frowned. So what if he took refuge in the Mu family, but she was a member of the Yong'an Palace who showed her face in front of the Queen Mother.
It's really interesting that the villain succeeds. Mu Xiyao twirled a candied date and fed it to her mouth, seeing Zhang's uneasiness in her eyes. After all, he is not a saint, and he is afraid of being compared by others. Forget it, take this opportunity to tell her to take a look, after all, it is more appropriate to attach to her than Nasu's. Buying people's hearts is naturally the best combination of grace and power.
"Wan's? The one who served the crown prince last year?"
The person who was so proud just now did not expect Wan Jingwen to be famous with her ancestors. Remembering her like this, could it be that she also remembers herself... Su Linrou was startled suddenly.
"Slave servant pays respects to the ancestors." The woman who stood up and stood in the center with restraint, her eyelids were always lowered, and she didn't dare to raise her head until she had the chance to speak to the person above her.
It's a good rule. Forgive her the ceremony, Empress Dowager Jin caught a glimpse of Mrs. Su rushing to bring the teacup from the corner of her eye. It turned out that it was Concubine Shu who gave her a cold look, and she dodged away with a guilty conscience.
It's so lively... Mu Xiyao moved imperceptibly and changed her posture, looking at the women in the room with different expressions, she just felt like she was in the harem. The days have been too peaceful these days, and today's appearance will show the true colors of the harem.
Calling someone to come forward, the queen mother naturally has something to ask. "Do you also believe in Buddhism? If you don't believe it, it may be very boring to go there with your concubine Liang." The back garden is not very beautiful, and ordinary concubines like to go to the imperial garden in front.
Standing in the middle, Mrs. Wan looked ordinary and dressed plainly, as if being questioned by her ancestor alone for the first time, she was a little uneasy. "I have never believed in Buddhism. I just flipped through a few collections when I was at home, and looked at them by the way. I felt that I could still read them, so I wrote down some principles."
The return is quite satisfactory, no exaggeration, nor self-deprecating. It is very in line with her status as a daughter of an ordinary family.
The queen mother looked at her for a moment, then suddenly asked a question. "That's right. After reading the collection, Emperor Liang mentioned 'three flowers and four trees' just now. Looking at Ai's bonsai, do you think it's good?"
really! No matter how sincerely you worship the Buddha, it is also the experience of this harem. The Empress Dowager's eyes are as bright as a torch, so how could Su Shi be able to fool her. Wan Jingwen's heartbeat was a little anxious, so she quickly calmed down, so as not to miss the answer later when she was excited.
But if you want to say this, you can't directly overturn Su Linrou's previous remarks. She is no more than Prince Baolin, if she dares to offend Empress Liang openly, even if she manages to show her face through Su Shi, she will be charged with disrespect for dignity.
Quickly making up her mind, Su Linrou tried her best to pretend to be calm and calm. "The queen mother's ancestors took care of them personally, watering, fertilizing and sheltering are very meticulous. The bonsai looks energetic and looks like a good omen. The slaves think it's very good." After replying, Wan Jingwen immediately lowered her head, respectful Jing Chu stood there.
But it was precisely this appearance that seemed to be extremely afraid of being questioned, and in the eyes of insiders, it became a cover-up. And the only ones present who could see through her intentions were the Empress Dowager Jin, and Mu Liangdi who was sitting and eating melon seeds.
The play was well acted, penetrating three points.
"What are you doing hiding, Ai's answer is not honest?"
coming! Wan Jingwen feigned panic and raised her head, just right to look like she had been exposed. Zhang An knelt down, bowed his head and did not dare to speak. "The servant did not intend to deceive the ancestors of the queen mother. The servant is afraid that the servant will misremember the collection and be punished by the ancestors. I also ask the queen mother to forgive the crime of deceiving the servant." After speaking, even the body trembled slightly.
The situation in the hall changed drastically in a blink of an eye, and everyone didn't even think about it, they saw the Empress Dowager put her legs down from the kang, staring sharply at the cowering people below. "Do you remember correctly, there is an Ai family who will make decisions for you. But it doesn't matter."
Knocking another melon seed, Mu Xiyao just caught the moment when Concubine Shu stared coldly at Helian Minmin, and felt that this matter was getting more and more troublesome. I'm afraid the Crown Princess hates the Wan family to the bone. She was already treated coldly by Concubine Shu, but now because of Su Linrou's restless behavior in the palace, causing trouble, it became the crime of her ineffective discipline.
Looking around, Mu Yaonv began to worry. Mother-in-law and daughter-in-law are at odds, and the back house is unstable. The big boss is a prince...how about going back and blowing the pillow, so that the East Palace will also stop?
It really made them have no sense to continue to make trouble, everyone is a grasshopper on the same line. Mu Xiyao doesn't like to see her getting burned.
The most troublesome woman in the prince's house is to dislike Zong Zhenglin's backyard at the moment.
Wan Baolin still knelt on the ground, with his forehead resting on the back of his hands, hesitatingly telling the truth. "I have read the collection, and it seems that it is not 'three flowers and four trees', but 'five trees and six flowers'."
Five trees and six flowers... Suddenly there was no sound in the room. The Empress Dowager did not dare to be presumptuous in front of her, and everyone looked at Su Liangdi frequently. This guy was still in high spirits just now, and Xuanxuan was very proud. It turns out that the name is not worthy of the name, playing a swollen face to pretend to be fat?
Empress Dowager Jin's eyes fell on Wan Jingwen's humbly bent back, she pondered for a long time, Fang Ci and Kai'en spared her the crime of deceiving her in the first place. As for Su Baolin whose expression changed drastically, he was so ashamed that he wanted to dig into the ground, but the Queen Mother never took a look at him.
She has met too many people who are eager to please. It is clear at a glance whether there is sincerity or not after the trial. This kind of duplicity clings to the villain and ruins the status of Prince Liang Di.
The eyes fell on the same Prince Liangdi, but she was sitting quietly, a leisurely person, and the Empress Dowager Jin's eyes sank.
"Mu girl."
She was secretly teasing Su Linrou for being Mr. Dongguo, but unexpectedly, she was called by the Queen Mother suddenly. Mu Xiyao cheered up when she heard the words, and sat upright, with a smile gradually appearing on her face.
This fire, burned to her so quickly?
Because of her status as Liangdi, she was able to get the grace to sit and answer. Just like in the past, this woman's eyes were clear, and she was cheerful when she opened her mouth. "Old ancestor, Lady Liang is here."
Yes, the moment this woman made a sound, the stagnation in the palace dissipated invisible.
Being interrupted by her like this, the stern look on the Queen Mother's face when she asked the question just now naturally subsided. "Who doesn't know you're here, you're the only one in the prince's mansion." Pointing at her and cursing with a smile, everyone below is a ghost, so why don't you rush to join in the fun.
Mrs. Mu, she really has an exquisite mind. No wonder the prince favors her. With a smile on her face, the Queen Mother already had countless thoughts in her heart.
Thinking about it, she is also a sensible person, if she opened her mouth, would Mrs. Mu be openly contradicting her. After all, he still couldn't let go of the frailty of Zongzheng Lin's son, so he smiled and called her to him.
Holding her hand to call someone to sit down, such intimacy and amiability immediately showed that the treatment of Su Shi just now was only mediocre.
Su Linrou took the opportunity to give her the seat as an excuse, and retreated to her place in embarrassment, not even noticing that the princess on the side was staring sharply at him, but was staring at Wan Shi who was still in the middle.
What a bitch! How dare you bully her! She chanted words in front of Wan Shi many times. But I never expected that this woman had ulterior motives, she clearly had the ability to discover her negligence, and she even concealed it without reporting it, until today she became a blockbuster in Feng'an Palace!
And now she is extremely embarrassing and has become everyone's laughing stock, but on the contrary, it shows that the woman has poetry and books in her stomach, and she has strong knowledge and knowledge.
Su Linrou was so angry that she had nowhere to vent her anger, and the queen mother had already pulled Mu Xiyao to talk about it.
"I remember when you first entered the palace to pay your respects, you were still a concubine in the prince's residence. In the blink of an eye, you are now a good concubine in the prince's residence." Patting the back of her hand seemed to be quite emotional. "This woman, after all, she has to think more about men."
Yes, cliché. Mu Xiyao suddenly became enlightened, and she knew what was happening.
Cypriots can't do it now. Emperor Yuan Cheng is in charge, and the Empress Dowager will not intervene rashly. What's left, isn't it just to tell her to share the rain and dew, to be more sensible and to be favored?
It's just this candidate... Glancing at Wanbaolin who was standing upright, Mu Liangdi had a gentle smile, and instantly had an idea.