The Concubine in the Palace_The Feast of Masks [Complete] (30)

But he was still rational after all. He nodded to Yao Niang again and then stepped onto the stairs with a relatively slow pace.

Yao Niang had something on her mind. Even if she was a little confused, she didn't have time to think about it and hurried into the house.

In the western room, the little princess on the couch was still sleeping. Yao Niang exhaled hurriedly and went behind the screen.

There was a washbasin rack behind the screen. There was water in the basin. She didn't care that the water was cold, so she immersed her face in the basin at once.

Yao Niang has been good-looking since she was a child and is famous in her neighborhood.

The Su family has one son and two daughters. When Yao Niang was young, she was not treated as well as her eldest brother Su Yucheng, but she was not much worse, because Yao Niang had earned enough face for her mother Wu since she was a child.

Whenever she went out to visit relatives, every family said that Yao Niang was born well and really grew up. On weekdays, the neighbors envied Wu for giving birth to such a beautiful daughter.

Yao Niang's menstrual period came early, on the eleventh day. Since her menstrual period, Yao Niang has undergone earth-shaking changes. Her small chest is getting taller and taller, her small buttocks are getting more and more perky, and her cute little face is getting more and more beautiful. Gradually, people outside have begun to look at her differently.

Yao Niang has heard the aunt in the same alley tell her mother more than once that her mother will have endless blessings in the future just because of this daughter, and the future good life of the Su family depends on her.

It would be fine if it happened once or twice, but everyone said it, and there were inevitably some people who liked to say sour things, so gradually the taste of it changed.

What kind of family is the Su family? To put it nicely, they are a 52-story library, and they have a scholar in the family, but in fact, they are so poor that they have nothing but four walls, and they have a poor and sour smell.

The daughter of such a family is destined not to marry into any good family. The rich and powerful despise the Su family for being shabby, and the poor and powerless want to marry Yao Niang, but let alone Su Xiucai, even Wu Shi would not agree.

After all, Yao Niang has been said to have a good fate since she was a child, and she will become the wife of a high-ranking official in the future.

Especially since her daughter was born beautiful, Wu knew that it was like a night-shining pearl among the rocks, and she would not let the pearl be covered in dust. Of course, all this is just the Su family's own inner calculations, and outsiders don't know.

In this situation, what else can outsiders mean by saying this?

Isn't it obvious that Yao Niang will marry into a rich family as a concubine in the future, and then turn around and come back to subsidize her family!

Su Xiucai cares most about his face and status, otherwise the Su family would not be said to be poor and sour. This poor and sour refers not only to poverty, but also to sourness, which is above false nobleness and false civility. Under the guidance of this idea, the Su family is more or less noble, and therefore Wu cannot accept the outsiders' saying that her daughter is going to be a concubine.

What's more, a mother is reluctant to let her daughter be a concubine.

For this matter, Wu cried more than once.

At that time, Yao Niang was still young and didn't understand these things. She only knew that people outside always talked about her family because of her appearance, and looked at her with those flickering and ambiguous eyes. Gradually, she went out less and less, and began to pay more attention to her dressing. Ordinary girls of her age can't avoid putting on makeup and flowers, but she never likes to do these.

And Yao Niang is even more determined from the bottom of her heart. Even if she doesn't get married, she won't be a concubine as others say.

Unfortunately, too many things happened later, forcing her to take a path she didn't want to take in order to survive.

Only after she really became a concubine did Yao Niang know what a concubine is. A concubine is just a toy.

It's not that she hasn't heard how people in the mansion talk about her. She has heard both good and bad things.

The good ones are nothing more than some flattering words, and the bad ones make her depressed and unable to let go. And the bad ones include saying that she is a foxy and coquettish hoof, so coquettish that no man can get by, and she is so hungry.

At that time, Yao Niang fought with Concubine Hu to please the Princess of Jin. She was not used to using any means, so she could only find the source from the root, that is, to keep the Prince of Jin in her room.

In order to achieve this goal, she used all her tricks, and Concubine Hu did not resist, so this rumor began to spread slowly in the mansion.

Naturally, it reached her ears.

At that time, she was ashamed and annoyed, and she almost hated Concubine Hu to death in her heart. Although she later learned that this was a means used by Concubine Hu to disgust her, she still remembered it firmly in her heart, and she remembered it for two lifetimes.

In her previous life, Yao Niang never wanted to admit such dirty words, but she would get annoyed whenever she thought of it, but now she can't lie to herself anymore.

Because this is not the first time, but this time it is more obvious, and she was actually reacted to by the Prince of Jin.

She is really as people say...

Yao Niang raised her head only after she was extremely depressed and her head turned white. She picked up the towel on the washbasin rack and wiped her face roughly, panting heavily.

It was not until this moment that the feeling of shame in her heart finally faded.

She didn't want to think about why King Jin looked at her like that. In short, she would never go down the old path in this life.

She didn't believe that she was the little princess's wet nurse, and he could still force her. What's more, Yao Niang also knew King Jin's character, and he was not a person who would force a woman.

On the other side, Fu Cheng went up to the second floor and saw that it was quiet inside. After a slight hesitation, he went in.

He imagined that he might see any kind of scene, but he didn't expect to see His Highness's trousers legs lifted up on his knees, his feet soaked in the basin, with a thoughtful look on his face.

I don’t know what I’m thinking.

basin? Soak your feet?

Could it be that he was overthinking it just now?

But if he was overthinking, why would Nurse Su look like that?

Fucheng had an illusion that he couldn't react. He was thinking about his own thoughts when he suddenly heard King Jin ask: "Is An Rong awake?"

Fucheng didn't know what he meant, so he subconsciously replied: "The little princess is fine, she slept soundly."

King Jin narrowed his narrow eyes slightly. This nanny was so bold, she dared to lie to him!

Chapter 23

On this day, Yao Niang and Yu Yan were on night duty again.

Just before Nanny Qian and Nanny Wang arrived, Yu Yan suddenly told Niang Yao to go back and rest for a day. She didn't have to come on duty at night and would come tomorrow during the day.

Yaoniang looked at her in surprise: "What happened? Why didn't Aunt Mu let me stay on night watch?"

Yu Yan, who was cleaning up the bed, said without raising her head: "How can I always let you stay up all night alone? Recently, the little princess has not made many late nights. She always makes you stay up alone, but it doesn't work."

"Can……"

Yuyan patted the soft pillow on the bed and placed it on the head of the bed. She straightened up and looked at her helplessly: "I'm not telling you, you are too honest. Those two didn't say anything, so you didn't say anything either. The two of them work as errands during the day, serving the little princess, and there are many helpers beside them. You stay up all day and night, and you have to worry about rubbing the little princess's belly during the day. It's not like that. ! So I discussed it with Nanny and asked you to take turns with Nanny Wang and Nanny Qian. Next, you will be on duty during the day and they will be on duty at night. "

"Actually, I don't have much. I quite like to be on duty at night..."

Yuyan turned around and looked at her with a smile, obviously not believing her words.

Yes, who wants to stay up late and not be able to sleep through the night?

Yao Niang's face was stunned, and Yu Yan sat down on the edge of the bed and said to her: "Actually, it's not just because of you. A while ago, the little princess made a night noise, which made everyone fall on their backs. There is no other way, so we can only endure it together. Now. If you are still the only one on duty at night, Yucui and I will have to separate one person to accompany you. It seems that there is only one little master in this yard, but in fact there are many things that one person can't handle, and it takes a lot of work. Grandma is in charge. Grandma is old and has long since stopped doing things. How can she be so tired? So this rotation is the most appropriate. The three of you will be on duty at night, so Yucui and I can take a break. ”

With everything said like this, Yao Niang naturally couldn't say anything else.

Can she say that she really doesn't want to be on duty during the day?

In the past few days, King Jin came to the small courtyard very frequently. Even though Yao Niang mostly slept in the room during the day, she still heard people below say that King Jin was here more than once.

Inexplicably, she felt guilty.

She recalled that day when she was so anxious that she ran away in a hurry on the pretext that the little princess was crying. Fucheng was down there at the time. Did Prince Jin know that she was actually lying to him?

Yao Niang thought about whether King Jin planned to punish her, but this theory made no sense at all. As the biggest person in the entire Jin Palace, Prince Jin could punish her for her deception, or even drive her out. It really didn't take that much trouble.

Thinking about the look in King Jin's eyes that day, Yao Niang always wondered if he had any intentions towards her.

But then I thought about it again, as the king of Jin, how could he miss the widow of a dead man?

It's not that Yao Niang was devaluing herself, but that the wives and concubines in King Jin's backyard were all beautiful and fragrant, and all of them far surpassed her in terms of appearance and character.

After much deliberation, she couldn't figure out the regulations. Yao Niang could only imitate the ostrich and not think about anything. She would know what to do when the time comes.

Now that the matter was settled, Yao Niang switched to working as an errand during the day. Not to mention, although there are more things to do during the day, it is indeed more demanding than working at night.

easy

too much.

On Yao Niang's first day on duty, King Jin did not show up.

She decidedly felt that she was overthinking.

But he didn't come on the first day, but King Jin came on the second day.

The little princess just went to bed. This was the time when she should go to sleep. Yao Niang could tell she was sleepy just by rubbing her eyes with her white and tender hands a few times. He held her in his arms, walked back and forth to coax her, but in just a blink of an eye, the little princess fell asleep.

Yucui was praising her for her ability to coax the child to sleep, but it took a long time for Nanny Qian and Nanny Wang to do it, when she suddenly heard a voice saying hello in the yard. Seeing the movement, it seemed that King Jin was coming, so the two of them rushed out to greet him.