Around noon, on the busy Xuanwumen Street, there was a two-story teahouse with an elegant appearance but no customers. It had been watched by a group of guards early on.
As time goes by, carriages or sedans continue to gather here from all directions. Young girls in colorful clothes wearing curtains and hats, or openly showing their true colors, get out of the carriages and sedans, or bring maids, or
Just go upstairs by yourself.
After a while, bursts of chatter and laughter came from the second floor. Although there were many passers-by on the street watching the fun, they could see the bamboo curtains hanging down on the second floor and the guards in front of the building.
They left after just a few glances. Therefore, when the last carriage arrived and two girls dressed similarly but with different temperaments got out of the carriage and then went upstairs one after another, they did not attract much attention.
But when they went upstairs, the girls who had been chirping suddenly became quiet. Zhu Ying, who was talking to someone, raised her eyebrows and stood up in annoyance and asked: "What are you doing here? I didn't
Please!"
"If I don't come, God knows if you will sell the second sister?" Princess Yongping smiled, and Princess Deyang behind her quickly persuaded in a low voice: "Third sister, Yingying just asked me out of kindness to relax...
…”
"At this time, your father is willing to go out of the palace to relax alone. But if the queen mother and queen mother find out later, you will have to say something, and even your mother and concubine will have to be scolded. I will send you here together.
If I have to be scolded later, I can share it with one more person." Princess Yongping said as she strode forward and sat down directly opposite Zhu Ying.
As soon as she and Princess Deyang appeared, the girls from other families had already stood up to greet them. However, after Princess Yongping made a sarcastic comment, Zhu Ying sat down angrily. Now she saw that this annoying rival was actually
After the guest sat down, she slapped the table angrily and said, "Okay, no matter how high or low you are today, she is an uninvited guest. You all need to sit down too. Why are you so polite?"
"Today we are all the guests invited by Yingying. We only talk about friendship, regardless of superiority or inferiority!" Princess Deyang was always shy, so she quickly smoothed things over, "Third sister was also worried about me, so she sent me here. After a while, I realized
The father-in-law will come to pick her up and take her to Yuehua Building."
As soon as the three words "Yuehualou" came out, everyone suddenly realized. It turned out that the princess's Yuehualou literary party was about to start again! When other people thought that Princess Yongping would leave soon, they naturally breathed a sigh of relief, but Zhu Ying
But he raised his eyebrows in a disgraceful manner and asked: "It seems that there is more than a month between this time and the last time, right? When did your eight-part essay conference become so inactive?"
Faced with this tit-for-tat question, Princess Yongping didn't even move her eyebrows: "The article naturally needs to be filled with emotion and carefully crafted. Furthermore, last time Xu Fengyang was ridiculed by your family Zhang Shou to shame, and the literary anthology family in Beijing was in chaos.
After a while, if I invite you to judge again, it will inevitably lead to a loss of standards, so I stopped for a month, and that’s it.”
Zhu Ying, who originally wanted to be sarcastic, heard the words "your Zhang Shou", and immediately felt as comfortable as drinking a glass of ice water in the summer. She was too lazy to argue with Princess Yongping anymore. On the side, she had already decided on a lifelong event.
Liu Qing immediately raised a new topic, and with Princess Deyang's hard-working but somewhat clumsy help, the other girls naturally gathered around.
Needless to say, they can't afford to offend anyone on either side. In this case, they can't afford to offend but can afford to hide!
Seeing the girls on the other side smiling and exchanging interesting stories about their daily lives, from the cook, Rouge, Nv Hong to her brothers and sisters at home, Princess Yongping, who was not used to this kind of atmosphere, finally couldn't help but stand up and came to the bamboo hanging room.
She looked outside the curtained window and asked without looking back: "You have been going to banquets for no reason these days. What kind of medicine are you selling in the gourd?"
"What do you care about me?" Zhu Ying came up behind Princess Yongping angrily and said in a bad tone, "I haven't asked you yet! What happened before couldn't have been such a coincidence, did you do it?"
Even though Zhu Ying didn't point it out clearly, Princess Yongping's expression suddenly changed. She turned around quickly and saw Liu Qing and Princess Deyang talking about something interesting. A group of girls were laughing so hard that they didn't care about them at all.
He glared at Zhu Ying angrily and said, "Do you have any brains? How dare you say such a thing?"
"Since you dare to do it, what can't I say? You made your own decision and almost hurt others, do you know that?"
Seeing Zhu Ying's aggressive behavior, Princess Yongping naturally responded tit-for-tat: "How did I know you were so bold? If the Lu family and the Liu family hadn't come out and admitted that they arranged the meeting, do you think you could get away? Besides, if it weren't for Lu San
The fat one is the bold one. The second brother can at most lose his temper in the street, and then the elder brother will bump into him and run away, so it won’t be such a big deal!"
"Hey, one big brother and the other are called brothers, which sounds pretty nice!"
The two people's voices were unknowingly lowered. When you glared at me, it was fierce and murderous, as if the argument would turn into a scuffle at the next moment. However, after all, this is not the time when they were children.
They stared at each other for a while, and then Princess Yongping looked away angrily, then said sternly: "I'm warning you, don't be too self-righteous!"
"There's no need for you to be nagging." Zhu Ying smiled and said nonchalantly, "I still know my own weight, so as soon as Lu Sanpang's incident came out, I hurried to the palace and told the emperor. That's what's going on here right now.
, I also said hello to the emperor, and the emperor said, if it can really happen, it’s because I have a good vision, so let me go ahead and do it!”
Princess Yongping couldn't believe her ears. Her father actually allowed Zhu Ying to act so nonsense! Even herself, the direct daughter of her father, had to abide by a lot of messy red tape. Why should Zhu Ying, the Duke of Zhao,
Where can you ignore all kinds of rules and do whatever you want?
Seeing Princess Yongping's face full of dissatisfaction, Zhu Ying sneered again: "I dare to tell the emperor this, what about you?"
Princess Yongping was immediately shocked and angry. When her father heard about Zhu Ying's matchmaking, he naturally regarded it as a show of excitement and laughed it off. How could he reveal his plans? Don't look at it.
The father dotes on his mother and concubine the most, and he also loves her as his daughter the most. If he knew that she was plotting against her two brothers secretly, he would never tolerate her!
Seeing that Princess Yongping was speechless, Zhu Ying said proudly: "So, if you follow the idea I told you before, it's just to play with your two brothers. At worst, they will fight and cause a big fuss.
, the queen is so angry that she is a double-dealer, but you are fanning the flames now, and once the queen mother or the emperor finds out... Haha, you still have the nerve to say that I am self-righteous? "
Princess Yongping couldn't help biting her silver teeth, but she could only swallow her anger and say: "I didn't expect that one of them would be so calculating and the other would be so impulsive... I just passed the news to my eldest brother...
…”
"Okay, I'm too lazy to talk about the past!" Zhu Ying interrupted Princess Yongping angrily, and then she expelled the guests with a polite order, "Aren't you going to Yuehua Tower? You're going to be a guest.
Your talented and noble lady, I am here to be my unreasonable and overbearing young lady, and we will not interfere with each other! As long as you don’t scheme against Ashou and my family, I don’t care what you do!”
Although she had known that Zhu Ying had a hard-spoken and soft-hearted temper, and had never complained to the Queen Mother or the Emperor because of a quarrel with her or other disagreements, at this time Zhu Ying spoke so harshly, Princess Yongping couldn't help but secretly
Annoyed. But she knew that it was useless even if she refused to admit that the incident was related to her. The person who knew her best was indeed the nemesis in front of her.
She immediately turned around with a sullen face, but just as she was about to leave, she suddenly heard Zhu Ying's surprised and delighted voice from behind: "Ah Shou!"
Princess Yongping was slightly startled. When she turned around, she saw that Zhu Ying had already opened a large gap in the bamboo curtain, and she was leaning out and waving to the downstairs through the gap with a smile. She thought that if she left now
, she was afraid that she would bump into Zhang Shou head-on as soon as she went out, so she simply stopped, turned around and came behind Zhu Ying.
Looking down from a high position, she saw Zhang Shou riding on a horse, raising his head and greeting Zhu Ying with a smile. It was obviously a very simple dark gray clothes, but when he wore it, it highlighted his upright figure even more.
He raised his hands to cover his eyes because he wanted to block the strong midday sun, but the sincere smile still overflowed from his eyebrows, eyes, and corners of his mouth.
"Yingying, what a coincidence? Are you inviting people to a party here?"
Even though Princess Yongping always believed that those who passed the five tests and killed six generals were the pillars of the country, although Zhang Shou seemed to have been promoted repeatedly, his foundation was unstable and he might not be able to go very far in the future.
Those who said that Zhang Shou and Zhu Yinglang were talented women were even more scornful, but at this moment, seeing the two of them talking like no one else, she still felt uncomfortable.
Even though she has never been a person who loves color more than talent, she has to admit that Zhang Shou, apart from his Pan An appearance, has another talent and learning that is different from others. And he is such a talented young man with a big chest.
, but turned out to be just like those frivolous teenagers who only love a piece of skin, Zhu Ying who likes embroidered pillows and a bag of straw.
Although she had never admired any man, there were quite a lot of Guijie's children who tried their best to be courteous to her. Whether they were sincere or not, she still felt she could tell. Zhu Ying was born to be favored by her father and brother, the empress dowager and the emperor in the palace.
Holding it in the palm of her hand, she is so lucky to be able to meet such a perfect husband now...
Although she didn’t know how envious and jealous Princess Yongping was behind her back, even if she knew, Zhu Ying would say nonchalantly, “I’m just luckier than you, so what!” At this moment, she smiled and held on to the railing and said to Zhang Shou
: "Yes, I made an appointment with a group of sisters to have tea here. The Yangzhou tea here is famous! Where are you from?"
At a glance, Zhang Shou saw the pair of watching eyes behind the gap in the bamboo curtain next to him. He immediately said as if nothing had happened: "I just took Zhang Chen, Lu Sanlang, and your second brother, seven or eight of them, to visit Tingyu Xiaoxiao."