Xiaoyun took Song Qingyan back from several banquets and always talked about this.
She has also met the girl from the Yu family. She is not only gentle in nature, but also a good hand in the housekeeper. Even though Empress Dowager Jiang pointed it out to Prince Rui Xiao Ci, she is still a good match.
It's no longer a shame.
Xiaoyun mentioned this matter to Song Qinghuan several times, but she didn't mean anything else. She just thought it was too pitiful for a girl to die at such an early age.
Song Qingyan didn't say a word at the scene, but said to Song Qinghuan in private: "I heard that the girl from the Yu family did not really die of a sudden illness."
As soon as the news of the death of a girl from the Yu family spread, the Yu family was in mourning. Although the eldest girl was not married yet, the Yu family also placed a coffin for her in Hongfa Temple and asked the monks to chant sutras for her salvation.
There were rumors that the coffin placed in Hongfa Temple was empty and that the girl from the Yu family was not in it at all.
Later, rumors popped up from nowhere that the girl from the Yu family was dissatisfied with her marriage to Prince Rui, so she eloped with a young teacher in the family while her family was not paying attention.
It’s not clear whether these words were true or false, but Song Qingyan told Song Qinghuan everything she heard.
Song Qinghuan frowned when he heard this. Although he didn't know whether it was true or not, there was no storm without fire. He only felt that if the person was really dead and someone was behind such an arrangement, the Yu family would be furious. But look at the Yu family these days.
There wasn't much movement, I guess there was more or less a shadow.
However, these rumors were suppressed again within a few days, and no further rumors were heard.
Princess Rouzhen ran out of the palace to show off, but she also said: "The Yu family is just doing it on their own. The Queen Mother promotes them, but she still doesn't know what is good or bad. Just wait and see, these days will come later."
Song Qinghuan endured it again and again, and then asked: "Are the rumors outside true?"
Princess Rouzhen had gotten along with her a lot, and she knew that she was not a troublemaker, so she said, "Is it possible that there is someone who really had a deep hatred for the girl from the Yu family and would not let her go even after she died?"
After a pause, she smiled contemptuously: "The Queen Mother wanted to stuff someone into the arms of Uncle Nine Emperors, but she never thought of causing trouble for herself. She didn't look good for the past few days."
Princess Rouzhen often went to Yipinju to eat and drink. This time she ate two pastries, ordered one of them and said, "It's too sweet. I can ask the chef to use less honey next time."
Then he added: "The pearl ointment you gave me last time is very useful. I gave a bottle to the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother also agreed. Do you have any new things?"
Song Qinghuan glanced at her sideways and refused bluntly: "No."
"You eat my food, drink my food, and use my food, but you have never paid any money. I have always kept accounts, and now you are using my things openly as favors."
"Forget it for now, remember to have money to pay the bill next time you come back."
"Hey." The smile on Princess Rouzhen's face faded: "You are no longer interesting. How much can I eat from you? Really."
Song Qinghuan ignored her, snorted softly, but then talked about Xiao Ci's two children.
He added: "The little princess once came to me because Prince Rui wanted to marry a girl from the Yu family and ran away from home. She is so young, but she is much more sensitive than ordinary girls, which is pitiful."
Princess Rouzhen didn't think carefully about what she meant by her words. She just took it as a poor child and thought about it for a while before saying: "Don't say such words again in the future. The Taihu Empress raised them by her side, not without deep meaning."
After saying this, she never mentioned the matter again.
Two days later, Song Qinghuan received another letter from Liaodong, which was placed on the dressing table, neither conspicuous nor invisible.
Song Qinghuan could not help but feel his heart pounding when he saw the letter. This time it was still from Xiao Ci, but compared with the leaves, weeds, and fruits in the past, this time it was stained with ink.
On the white paper, a sunrise picture was randomly blurred out with ink. The morning sun rose over the mountains, bringing a glimmer of dawn to the entire sky.
Although it is rendered in ink, the artistic conception of the time can still be seen.
Song Qing happily caressed the ink on his head, feeling a little yearning for it.
Kyoto is at the foot of the Emperor. There are many people and many houses. Unless you go to the outskirts of the city, you will never see this scene again.
She looked at the painting with a few random strokes and blurred it, and then randomly inserted it into a medical book.
I thought about the recent events in the city, so I took a mouse with a dog, spread out paper and rubbed the ink, and the hair of the mouse was stained with ink. I planned to write a few strokes to inform him, but before I started writing, I put it down again.
He can send a reply to himself every five days, and he can't hide his plans to come to Kyoto.
Crossing her legs and leaning on the pillow, Song Qinghuan couldn't help but take out the painting and look at it. After a while, an idea suddenly came to her mind and she sat up suddenly.
I feel more and more that what happened to the girl from the Yu family is fishy.
I have a bold guess in my heart, could it be that Xiao Ci arranged all this by himself?
No matter how good the girl from the Yu family is, she was given to him by Empress Dowager Jiang, which is equivalent to the eyeliner she keeps around her openly.
Song Qinghuan was shocked by this idea, but the more he thought about it, the more he felt afraid of it.
No matter what, the Yu family is a family of officials, and they pay more attention to the distinction between men and women. They put a young gentleman in the house and pay more attention to it. How come this gentleman and the girl from the Yu family are allowed to get together?
Moreover, he was able to elope and leave without saying a word and hiding it from everyone.
Naturally, the marriage couldn't happen, but the Yu family caused the incident, and Queen Mother Jiang had to cover up the scandal no matter how upset she was.
The more Song Qinghuan thought about it, the more terrifying he felt. What he thought was extremely possible just now, now he was no longer sure.
If it was really Xiao Ci who planned it, then he was too scary. He almost missed everything. He not only tore off the eyeliner in the future, but also took it off cleanly, and let Empress Dowager Jiang swallow it by herself.
Get this bitter water.
Song Qinghuan sat for a while, took a deep breath, lay down again, and murmured to himself: "Tsk, tsk, tsk, it's better to offend a man-eating tiger than a cat pretending to be sick."
Song Qinghuan thought about these things once, but he didn't dare to say them and kept them in his heart.
The closer to May, the more lively the Qibei Houfu becomes.
The mansion has been going through nearly a month, and everything that needs to be repaired is almost done. The masters have added a lot of items to their rooms. Even the servants of the first mansion have bought two more sets of summer shirts this year.
Because Song Qinghuan was getting engaged, she bought even more clothes, including several boxes and boxes of clothes and jewelry.
They just had to wait for the Dragon Boat Festival to pass on the fifth day of the fifth month, and then the Wei family would come to the Song family to propose marriage on the tenth day of the fifth month.
Everything that needs to be prepared is ready, but who would have known that on the day of ****, the Wei family sent an urgent report saying that the engagement could not be completed at once.
