A Lady’s Tranquility

Chapter 003 Homecoming

What a big breath.

　　It's just that Shen Jie calculated his age, and after two months and the crowning ceremony, it was indeed time to talk about marriage.

　　He smiled and said, “Does Hou Ye know what you think?”

　　”Know.”

　　Yan Linjian was at his waist, he turned his wrist, and flicked his riding whip casually.

　　The Nine-fold Imperial Palace is just ahead.

　　He first took off his sword before saying: “My father said that Jiang's house has a family of poems and books, and Mr.
Jiang is now the servant of the Ministry of Household, who is in charge of a real job.
It can be considered that he has meritorious service from the dragon, and he is a friend of her husband.
She is the daughter of the Jiang family, and I can barely be regarded as a family.

　　”Your kid usually ignores those dicks in the capital, and the ladies and ladies flatter you, and you don't pay any attention to it either.
This king still treats you when you are young and don't know about your children's affairs, so you have a pure heart and few desires.
Can't see it!”

　　Shen Jie thought about it carefully and slowly came back to it.

　　”And after I got drunk last night, I didn't act like Meng Lang, but when I woke up this morning, I unintentionally touched her shoulder, so you rushed to tell me the identity of her daughter's family and said that you would marry him in the future.
Yan Lin, is this too protective?”

　　As the so-called “friend's wife cannot be bullied”, Yan Lin's previous remarks, in addition to reminding Shen Jie that Jiang Xuening is a girl's family, should keep some distance from her in the future, but also clearly encircled Jiang Xuening into his territory, Putting his seal on it, fortunately, before other people have any ideas, they will never be coveted by others.

　　The young man's small thoughts were revealed by others, and his handsome face was reddish, but his voice was louder than before, as if he could cover up something like this: “What's wrong with the guard, I'm willing!”

　　Just so domineering.

　　Shen Jie couldn't help laughing.

　　The two stopped in front of the Meridian Gate.

　　Yan Lin handed in his sword, and together with Shen Jie, walked right through Huiji Gate to Wenhua Hall.

　　The current sage, Shen Jie's elder brother Shen Lang, was enthroned four years ago.

　　Any dynasty, the year of the emperor's replacement, is extremely dangerous.

　　The year Shen Lang ascended the throne was no exception.

　　The first emperor was confused by his illness, so he imprisoned Shen Lang in the palace, and somehow fainted and wanted to send him to the fief, all his officials were in disarray.
Fortunately, Xie Wei entered the capital, and he was really born out of nowhere.
He first stabilized Shen Lang's power in the capital and then invited a famous doctor to cure the late emperor's illness.
Only then did the late emperor set a will, and it was passed down to the third prince Shen.
Lang.

　　Xie Wei, whose courtesy name is Ju'an, was born in the Xie family, a prominent family in Jinling.

　　It's just that by the time of this dynasty, the Xie family was almost in decline.

　　At the age of twenty, he passed the jinshi and also entered the Hanlin Academy.
Not long after, a funeral report came from Jinling, saying that Xie's mother had passed away at home.
Xie Wei then Ding You went back to Jinling to be filial to his mother for three years.

　　Three years later, when he was twenty-three years old, he secretly returned to Beijing, just in time for it.

　　One day, he turned the tide and helped Shen Lang successfully ascend to the throne, and together with the monk Yuanji, he became the most trusted person of the new emperor.

　　No real job in the body, but he was named the prince's young teacher.

　　There is no prince in the palace for a long time, and there is no need to teach the prince, but to teach the emperor.

　　Recently, autumn has turned cooler, and Shen Lang gradually felt unwell in the dragon's body.

　　No one knows exactly what it was talking about.

　　But starting last month, Shen Lang issued a decree to invite some clan children to the palace to listen to the sutra feast with him, including several of his brothers, including Shen Jie.

　　When Yan Lin and Shen Jie arrived in front of Wenhua Hall, the Japanese talk had already started for a while.

　　The eunuch chief Huang De, who was guarding the door, hurriedly leaned over when he saw the two of them coming, and said in a low voice, “His Royal Highness and the little Marquis came so late today, they have been talking for two minutes, you two When you go in, you must be seen by the young master!”

　　I was happy when I drank last night, how can I still remember listening to the Japanese lecture today?

　Shen Jie and Yan Lin looked at each other and felt a headache.

　　This gentleman, Xie Wei, has always been lenient and strict, and his humanity “has the legacy of the ancient sages”, but he doesn't rub the sand in his eyes.

　　King Yanping, who was very popular with the sage last time, didn't dare to make a sound after a while, and just slipped in quietly from the door of the palace.
He recited the “Credits Theory” he talked about yesterday.

　　King Yanping is young and playful, how can he memorize it?

　　Standing there hesitating for a long time, he blushed.

　　Xie Wei was not angry, but Wen Sheng asked him to go back and sit down, saying that yesterday maybe because he was too complicated to remember and took the blame on himself.

　　When King Yanping sat down, he was really ashamed.

　　When I returned to my mansion that day, I read it at night with the lights on, and the next day I went back to the Wenhua Palace not only to memorize “The Conflict's Theory”, but also “Ten Thoughts of Remonstrance on Taizong”, which made people look at it with admiration.

　　Since then it has worked hard.

　　No matter how embarrassed King Yanping was, he was only fourteen years old, and he could argue that he was a child and ignorant.

　　But Yanlin and Shen Jie were not too young, and they wanted shame.

　　Looking at the door of Wenhua Hall at this moment, listening to the faint sound of lectures coming from inside, I felt my scalp numb and a little scared for a while.

　　It was Huang De who was clever, thought for a while, and came up with an idea: “Master Young Master always has an attack on the spot, once the time has passed, he will not be held accountable, and he will never reconcile old accounts with anyone.
Shangyi Bureau brought it up today.
For a piece of guqin, the sage sent the Master Young Master.
There will be two tea breaks in a while, and it is necessary to try the piano.
Master Young Master loves the piano, it is better for His Royal Highness and Xiaohou Ye to wait for a while, and wait until the Young Master plays the piano before entering.
Perfunctory past.”

　　Shen Jieyan felt rescued, and hurriedly bowed to him: “Thank you, father-in-law!”

　　After speaking, I quietly went to the side hall and waited without mentioning it.

　　*

　　Jiang Xuening also didn't know what the situation would be when Yan Lin and Shen Jie went to the palace to listen to the scripture feast.

　　After the two of them left, she quickly embarked on the road back to the palace.

　　When she was young, she walked almost all over the streets and alleys in Beijing.
When I just came out of the inn, I still felt a little unfamiliar, and it didn't quite match the direction.
Fortunately, within two steps, the old memory gradually recovered, and soon found its way back to Jiang's residence.

　　People come and go on the street.

　　The hawkers shouted with smiles on their faces.

　　There are young children holding up their faces and chasing people…

　　All the mortal fire and fire came to her face, stained Jiang Xuening's brows, her originally tense body slowly relaxed, and then she finally felt that the rebirth was real, and it was no longer the face of Shen Jie and Yan Shi.
The kind of chaotic dream.

　　Now she is not the queen.

　　There is no need to always live in the Kunning Palace surrounded by four high walls.

　　Jiang Xuening walked on this street, like a fish returning to the water, and even his steps became brisk.

　　Jiang Mansion is in Huaishu Hutong, and you don't have to go too far, and you will see the vermilion gate after a while.

　　To be honest, she doesn't have very deep feelings for Jiang Mansion.

　　After all, she only returned to the capital at the age of fourteen.
Before that, she grew up on a farm in Tongzhou and was raised by her father Jiang Boyu's concubine Wanniang.

　　In the words of her own mother, she was abandoned.

　　Jiang Xuening's life experience is a little said.

　　She was originally from her father's first wife, Meng Shi, but when Meng Shi was pregnant with her, she was having trouble with Wan Niang.

　　Wan Niang is a thin horse from Yangzhou, who was given to her father and later carried as a concubine.

　　According to Wan Niang, it was the Meng family who made a mistake and sent her to Zhuangzi.

　　Wan Niang is not a good match.

　　Seeing that her fate was already decided when she was sent to the Tongzhou Grange, she simply did not do the other and kept going, and took advantage of the chaos of labor and turmoil on the same night as Meng's, and replaced her daughter with Meng's daughter.

　　Since then, Wan Niang's daughter has transformed herself into a young lady of Jiang's house, dressed in brocade and jade, learning etiquette and righteousness, and called Jiang Xuehui;

　　Meng's daughter went to the farm with Wanniang, and she was unaware of the rules of everyone's girls.

　　This unfortunate Meng's daughter is naturally Jiang Xuening.

　　Fortunately, Wan Niang treated her very well, taught her to read and read, and taught her to play with makeup, and she did not treat her harshly.

　　Jiang Xuening thinks about it now, Wan Niang's calculation is very deep.

　　Because Wan Niang was seriously ill four years ago, she went to Beijing to repair a book, revealing the truth that the civet cat changed the prince.

　　This time, the Jiang Mansion exploded.

　　After the verification, someone came to Beijing.

　　But Wan Niang didn't bother to talk nonsense with them, she said “It's too late to regret” and she died, leaving a mess.

　　Meng Shi hated Wan Niang very much, but Wan Niang didn't treat her daughter harshly in the end, and she even left the words “it's too late to regret”, proving that she has a heart of repentance.

　　She couldn't care less about a dead person.

　　He couldn't even turn his anger on Jiang Xuehui.

　　The Jiang mansion is also a respectable family.
It is not good to make a big splash when such a scandal happened.
Although the eldest girl was born to Wanniang, she was raised on the lap of the Meng family since she was a child.
She was dignified and virtuous.
It had nothing to do with what happened back then.
If she regained her status as a prostitute, she would be ridiculed, and marriage would be difficult.

　　Therefore, the mansion summed up and chose a compromise method.

　　That is to pretend that Jiang Xuening was ordered by the master when she was young and that there was a disaster before the age of fourteen, and she had to avoid prosperity to survive, so she was sent to the village to be raised as a child of an ordinary family.

　　Now that fourteen has passed, he will naturally be taken back to the mansion.

　　In this way, the Jiang residence has two young ladies.

　　When Jiang Xuening just returned to Jiang's house, he was still cautious.
Meng Shi asked to learn what he wanted to learn and worked hard to be a lady.
But Jiang Shilang's kind father's heart, especially pity for this daughter who suffered a lot, and a bit of guilt, so he is somewhat doting.

　　As time went on, Jiang Xuening's temperament became pampered.

　　Even Jiang Xuehui bullied her.

　　Later, when I met Yan Lin, no one could control it.

　When the story of women disguised as men was first revealed, Mrs.
Meng was so angry that she scolded her that she was raised by that little slut Wanniang.

　　Jiang Boyu finally felt a bit out of line.

　　But she couldn't stand her being taken out to play by Yan Lin.
The young Yanlin went to the Jiang Mansion for a visit, and after talking with Jiang's Uncle, the mansion acquiesced to this kind of behavior.

　　If Jiang Xuening disguised herself as a man, she would be called “Master Biao”, and she would cover up and down together.
There is really such a number one person in Quan Dang Jiang's house.

　　So now that she came back, the concierge was so shocked that his eyelids were lifted, he quickly buried his head, and called out, “Master Biao is back”.

　　The price of land in the capital is very expensive.
Although Jiang Bayou occupies a real shortage of a minister of the household, he is only a third-rank official, and his family is wealthy and does not dare to be too public.

　　Jiang Xuening still remembered that he should be living in the west wing at this time.

　　Next door is Jiang Xuehui.

　　When she first came back in her last life, she saw Jiang Xuehui.
She was both inferior and jealous.
After she was pampered, she would always use her identity as a concubine to hold her down and acquiesced to her subordinates.

　　She robbed Jiang Xuehui of the opportunity to study with the palace.

　　She even robbed Jiang Xuehui's marriage——

　　The person Shen Jie originally liked was actually Jiang Xuenhui, but he only had a handkerchief as a token, and he didn't know which young lady of the Jiang family was, so Jiang Xuening found an opportunity.

　　Jiang Xuehui later married a Jinshi from the first division and left Beijing with him.

　　When the woman was ordered to worship in the palace inside and outside New Year's Day, Jiang Xuening had seen her again, but she was far away.

　　I just heard she was doing well.

　　Now she has to face this “sister” who seems to have taken away her life, Jiang Xuening is somewhat complicated.
After she wants to go back to her room, she thinks about how she will treat Jiang Xuehui in the future.

　　But just as she walked under the porch, she heard a choking voice.

　　Obviously a grandma.

　　”The big girl is really ridiculous.
There are many people in our room, but there are few people in your room.
Why should we take more for this example?

　　”Don't you know who you are?

　　”Don't say it's you, even if the second girl comes, I'm not afraid! I, I went to take the second girl back to the mansion back then, she obeyed me, and she didn't dare to go west when I told her to go east!”

　　”you!”

　　Under the porch stood a woman who was wearing a sky-blue embroidered tangle of lotus patterns.
She had an oval face and willow-leaf eyebrows.
Although her facial features were not as charming and stunning as Jiang Xuening's, there was a dignified air between her eyebrows and eyes.

　　At this moment, a little anger surfaced.

　　This is Jiang Xuehui.

　　Behind her was a little girl in a suit of armor.
The friend who was three steps away in front of her was a woman in gold and silver.
The mole under her lips was a bit mean.
His eyes were mocking indifferently.

　　When Jiang Xuening came over, she happened to be standing behind her, and she didn't see it.

　　Hearing her saying “obey what you say”, she raised her eyebrows suddenly—

　　How could she not know who she is obeying?

　　That woman belonged to Wang Xing's family who was serving in Jiang Xuening's room.
She used to serve by Meng's side, but she did pick it up from Zhuangzi and took care of her along the way.

　　Later, Jiang Xuening asked Meng Shi for this person.

　　From then on, Wang Xing's family treated her like her reborn parents, wishing she could kneel down and lick it.

　　What is this virtue behind the scenes?

　　Wang Xing's family couldn't see Jiang Xuening, but Jiang Xuehui, who was facing her, could see clearly.

　　At this moment, my heart was really cold.

　　This younger sister in the house is a well-known demon king of chaos, and she is arguing over this juncture.

　　The girl standing behind her was all weak, trembling, and shouted at Jiang Xuening: “Second, second girl…”

　　Wang Xing's body froze for a moment, but when he turned around, the previous domineering and irony had disappeared, and the smile on his face was full of enthusiasm and flattery, and he was very pleasantly surprised: “Oh my second girl, you are back.
The old slave stewed black chicken soup at home and prepared your favorite pineapple cake!”

　　When she spoke, she also diligently reached out to Jiang Xuening, as if trying to help her.

　　On that wrist was a sapphire bracelet.

　　The jade is clear and the color is lustrous.

　　At first glance, it is a good Hetian Qingyu.

　　Jiang Xuening lowered her eyes, and her pupils suddenly shrank…

　　This bracelet…

　　In the previous life, Wanniang held her hand before she came.
Although she knew at the time that Wanniang was not her own mother, she was the wicked person who took her away.
After all, she had been with her for so many years, and she didn't know the benefits, and she did not treat Wanniang.
hate.

　　So she thought Wan Niang had something to say to her.

　　Who would have thought that when Wanniang put the bracelet in her hand, she said to her sadly: “Ningning, my aunt is begging you for something, if you go back to the house and see the eldest girl, help me give this to her.
…”

　　Jiang Xuening only felt that a basin of cold water was poured down on the head.

　　Maybe her jealousy of Jiang Xuehui started at that time.

　　When Wanniang left, she returned to Jiang's house, but she abandoned the bracelet in the box, preferring to rot rather than give it to Jiang Xuehui.

　　Later, when she encounters a lot of things, thinks of Wan Niang, and all kinds of things in the old days, when she tries to find this bracelet again, she will never find it again.

　　Unexpectedly, it was here in Wang Xing's house.

　　Jiang Xue looked at Wang Xing's family quietly, and the expression on her face was suddenly unpredictable.

　　Wang Xing's family is still laughing: “Looking at you, you must be tired, the old slave will wait for you to return to the house…”

　　However, as soon as she raised her eyes, she touched Jiang Xuening's eyes, and for some reason, a chill appeared on her back.

　　Jiang Xuening didn't look at Jiang Xuehui next to her, she just pulled the corner of her lips lightly and looked at Wang Xing's family: “Why didn't you know before, you are so talented that you can even do the trick of changing your face?”