[Red Chamber] Aunt Xue doesn't want to be a widow

Somewhere in Jinling

"Princess, it's just a full moon banquet for a merchant girl. Why do you condescend to go there?" Mama Hu, who had been following Princess Zhongshun, looked at her princess holding the invitation from Xue's family for a long time, and asked very puzzled.

Since arriving in Jinling, various families have invited them one after another, but none of their concubines has agreed. Their identities don't need to pretend to be false.

The concubine's health has reached the end of her strength, and even the imperial physician in the palace has nothing to do. They just say that it's just dawdling, and it's good fortune to pass this autumn.

The concubine also accidentally heard what the doctor Wang said to the prince, and then she insisted on going back to Jinling to have a look regardless of her prince's objection.

Princess Zhongshun was born in Taifu's Mansion, but she grew up in Jinling's maternal grandfather's parents since she was a child. She has an unusual affection for Jinling. This time, she knows that she doesn't have many days left, so she insists on coming back here. What's wrong with Prince Zhongshun? I can rest assured, but I can't follow my wife because of the busy affairs in the court.

Let’s talk about their concubine, who married Prince Zhongshun when she was 17 years old, and gave birth to a son. The husband and wife are deeply in love. Although the prince also has a concubine, he treats the concubine with great love. Who would have thought that the concubine is young? He suffered from this strange disease at a young age, and now he doesn't have much life expectancy. The little son is just seven years old, so what should he do without the protection of his mother and concubine in the future.

"My concubine just wants to visit Xue's garden. When I was young, my grandparents took me there. There are several magnolias in their house that bloom the most beautiful." At this time, Princess Zhongshun said lightly, A pair of light brown eyes looked out of the window, as if recalling some good years.

Her mother passed away since she was a child, and her father married Shan Guogong's second daughter as his stepmother. As her father's mentor, her grandfather took her to her side and raised her based on her past affection, just because she was afraid that she would be wronged by her new wife.

But her grandfather and grandmother treated her very well. She learned piano, chess, calligraphy and painting when she was young, and she was also a famous lady in Jinling. Her life in those years was lively and colorful. She wandered in Jinling, and her grandfather took her out to see a lot. Among all kinds of people, the one that impressed her the most was the magnolia tree in Xue's mansion.

That memory is like an extremely distant memory, and every time she thinks about it, she can feel the lingering fragrance of happiness in the old days.

Later, when I was 13 years old, my father sent someone to take her back to Duzhong. She was not used to living at home, and the father and daughter were estranged. The stepmother sneered at her on the surface, but she didn’t have any sincerity. Looking at her younger brother and sister Cheng Huan, she only felt that she was She is an outsider, she has been lost before, but she also knows that she can't go back to Jinling again.

The next time she entered the palace, she was chosen by the then empress and the current empress dowager, and was given a marriage to Prince Zhongshun. After marriage, she thanked her luck more than once, because Prince Zhongshun treated her really well. After giving birth to a child, life can be considered extremely complete.

Who knew that her body would gradually weaken year after year, to the point where she is now.

In her whole life, she had no mother since she was born, but thanks to her grandfather's love, she spent a wonderful childhood in Jinling; her married life was warm and happy, the only shortcoming was her own body.

Recently, I learned that her health is getting worse and worse. Every time my father comes to news, he asks me to choose my step-sister Min Ying to also enter the palace to serve the prince. Take care of your son for yourself.

Heh, not to mention that she already knew that her step-sister was thinking about the young, handsome and powerful lord, just talk about her relationship with her step-mother and step-sister, how could she trust her darling to such a person?

This mother and daughter really have a habit of picking up off-the-shelf, not only snatching all the love from their father, but now they even miss their husband and children?

This time, you want your stepsister to come into the house to take care of you?She held her breath for a while, and knowing the real condition of her body, she just wanted to go back to Jinling to be quiet.

Mother Hu looked at the princess and didn't know what to think about. She hurried to put the big clothes on her, and her heart was very distressed. Not to mention that she is now envied by women in Beijing, but fate has treated this gentle woman since she was a child. It's really unfair.

"Mother and concubine!" When the master and servant were full of thoughts, a boy's voice interrupted these complex emotions.

"Yi'er is here, come to Concubine Mother." Min Yin watched her son come over to clean up her emotions just now, and looked at her son tenderly.

When the loyal prince's son Qi Yi came in, he saw his mother's face paler, and hurried to close the window himself. Although it was early spring in Jinling and the air was damp and cold after all, his mother liked to open the window and look at the garden outside.

"Mother, if you don't care about your body like this again, Yi'er will really get angry." This time he followed his mother to relax, but his father repeatedly asked him to take good care of his mother. He himself is a precocious child. I also know that my mother's current condition is very bad, so I can only take care of her as best I can.

Min Yin smiled and straightened her son's clothes, "Understood, the mother and concubine are just greedy for the scenery in the yard. It's okay to open the window for a while. How are you? Are you used to it?"

The atmosphere between mother and child is very warm, but Hu's mother is sad looking at it. For such a good person as her own princess, although the son is a little cold on the surface, he is also a caring and good child.

She also knew that the Taifu's mansion was a little anxious to force her own princess recently, so she forced the princess here. After thinking about it, she hated it in her heart. Her princess is the noble daughter of the Taifu's mansion. Such an eccentric father.

This man has a new wife, how many of them can still think about his original wife, no matter how good the relationship was, isn't his master a good example, he and his wife used to respect each other like a husband and wife, but in the end the wife Dead, didn't he not take the princess seriously, and blindly favor the new wife and the second young lady?

If this is really what they want, it is not certain whether the eldest son will be able to get good care. The second young lady is 7 years younger than the young lady. For someone like that?

Qi Yi talked with his mother for a while, and saw the invitation card on the table: "Someone invited mother to the banquet again? These people are real."

Since he was a child, he has been used to seeing others flatter and please him and his father, and he is very clear about the current situation.

"Well, in two days it will be the full moon banquet for the eldest daughter of the Xue family. The concubine mother plans to go to their home. When the time comes, will you go with the concubine mother?" Min Yin knew that her son had been very assertive since he was a child. Sometimes he only asked for his opinion in an inquiring tone.

Qi Yi was a little surprised, he didn't expect his mother to actually go to Xue's house: "The Xue's house of the money banker in the inner government?"

He knew that there were four major families in Jinling, but these people were really nothing in front of their royal relatives. How could my mother have any contact with such a family?

"Yes, the magnolia flowers in his home are the best. My concubine went there once when she was a child, and now she really wants to see it again." Min Yin told the story, with the gentlest smile on her face, Every time she sees her son's serious appearance, she finds it very cute, but she doesn't know how long she can be with him.

I really can't bear to part with such a good child, but she can no longer protect her from wind and rain.

But she also figured it out, since Yi'er doesn't have such a good grandparent's family as her own, and he is the eldest son of the palace, then she can only choose a good stepmother for him.

And this person is absolutely impossible to be a woman like Min Ying, don't you know what kind of temperament she is?Only the father still couldn't see clearly, wishful thinking that there was really something like sisterly love between them.

But she won't refuse now, otherwise if the mother and daughter know that they don't have that idea, they may not use any tricks.

Qi Yi saw the indelible sadness in his mother's eyes, and said something else there: "The son will go to enjoy the flowers with the mother and concubine that day, and the mother and concubine will take good care of her body these two days. It’s comfortable, it’s not good to miss that flower.”

Min Yin nodded, and asked someone to post back to Xue's family.

Xue Qingxian was a little surprised when he received the post from Prince Zhongshun's residence. Didn't it say that Princess Zhongshun didn't attend these banquets? Why did he accept his own invitation?

You must know that he had someone send the post out of respect. After all, it is well known that Princess Zhongshun lives in Jinling now.

Now that someone is coming suddenly, he still has to tell his family to prepare well, and it would be bad not to neglect it when the time comes.

When I went back at night, I told Wang Zimeng about this matter, so that she could be mentally prepared. As the mistress of the family, she would definitely be unable to avoid this princess, but she didn't have to bother to curry favor. It is said that this princess is not a warm person, as long as she does not lose her etiquette at that time, it will be fine.

"Prince Zhongshun?" Wang Zimeng recalled the origin of this person, it seems that there is no description in the Red Chamber Book, but there seems to be a story about that Prince Zhongshun?

Looking through the memory of the original body, this Prince Zhongshun is the current brother, and he seems to be a powerful figure, it seems that he still has to be careful.

"Oh, you should pay more attention to the reception. It is said that the princess is not in very good health now, so don't make any mistakes. I will also ask Uncle Yong to keep an eye on it." Xue Qingxian remembered this, and talked with the prince. I raised my mouth, and I really need to pay more attention then.

Wang Zimeng nodded, thinking that she would be busy when Baochai was full moon, but this was nothing, she believed that she could still handle it.

The couple fell asleep and had nothing to say all night...