Clan House

A banquet, two rabbits, His Royal Highness the Prince's rabbit hunting won the hearts of the beauties and became a good story.

It wasn't until Song Jingxin was summoned to Kunning Palace by the empress that Song Jingxin realized that she had fallen into a trap.No wonder Jin Wang and his wife looked at him strangely when he came out of the hunting ground. The couple had already seen that the girl was wrong.But aside from Song Jingxin, who is as smart as Song Jingshi, he didn't guess the girl's identity at the time.If the brothers and sisters found out that it was a member of the Gu family, they would definitely shoot her to death with the first arrow.

In Kunning Palace, Empress Gu was leaning on the floor in a half-worn dress, chatting in a homely manner.After the accident with the crown princess, Song Jingxin hadn't seen the queen in private for a long time, and seeing her again now felt like a world away.The attitude of the other party is like a loving mother who really cares about her son, and she has no guilt at all for killing others.

The queen wears long armor, and the girl's white hand is sandwiched between her folded hands.The girl sat beside the queen with a dignified and reserved posture, with only half of her buttocks on her.Song Jingxin didn't look directly at the woman, knowing in her heart that she was Gu Lingxian, the queen's niece from her mother's family. "I didn't expect that girl Lingmiao to be a match for the prince." Queen Gu likes to draw out her voice when she speaks, which makes her more confident. close."

"I'm afraid the queen mother has some misunderstanding. My son doesn't even know who you're talking about?" It's not that Song Jingxin is pretending to be stupid, he has never heard of the name Ling Miao.

"Hey, of course you don't know the girl's boudoir name. I'm talking about this girl's fifth younger sister, Gu Lingmiao." The queen said slowly, while patting Gu Lingxian's hand. "When you were a child, our family lived in the East Palace. Mrs. Gu brought her sisters into the palace. It happened that you and Xiao were there. When you saw the fifth girl, you fell in love with her. You gave her sweets and hugged her to play with her." It's been an afternoon, don't you remember?"

"I don't remember, it's about the Year of the Monkey." Song Jingxin started to stick the hammer. "Mother, you don't know that Erchen loved to play with children when he was young. Even the emperor's uncle Erchen dared to play with children all afternoon, let alone a little girl. What do you think? The girl fits the eyes of the minister, and the minister there is more pleasing to the eyes of the King of Chu, so is it possible to marry him?"

"You child, you can only talk too much. Fortunately, the king of Chu is not here, otherwise you will be punished." The queen was not in a hurry, "The fifth girl is a good child, but it is a pity that she is born, and she can't marry a good family. Ben Gong just mentioned it casually, if you like it then accept her, if you don't like it then just accept her."

"When you were choosing your concubine before, Lingxian was still young, but now that a few years have passed, she is getting better and better." She pulled Gu Lingxian towards her. The little girl had no temper and let the queen tease her "Look at your younger sister, she is gentle and quiet at home, and knows the etiquette of poetry and books. She is old now, and it is boring to be bored at home all day. I asked her to come to the palace often. You are older. , more care and care.”

"I don't dare," the queen said euphemistically. Song Jingxin couldn't refuse in person, so she acted foolishly, "I live alone at home. If I get too close to Miss Gu, it will damage her reputation. Besides, my son I have let down the Crown Princess and swore to be filial piety for my deceased wife for three years, and my father also agreed. During this period, it is a sin to look at the woman more than once."

Seeing that Song Jingxin refused to eat, the queen finally got a little angry.She understood that the other party had a gap with her because of the matter of the crown princess. In the past, the crown prince had never contradicted Zhong Gong like this.Miss Gu at the side still held her breath, even though the prince looked contemptuously, she always looked directly at the other side's face. "Your Highness values ​​affection, and my servant admires it," Gu Lingxian said, "But His Highness must have someone serving him. I heard that His Highness's side concubine and chosen servants have also died, and only eunuchs serve her in daily life. If Your Highness does not want to To marry a concubine, it is better to let the fifth younger sister stay in the East Palace to serve His Highness, the fifth younger sister is talented and beautiful, so I think it will not be annoying to His Highness."

"What about you? Who do you want to marry?" Song Jingxin grinned, "I heard that Miss Gu was rejected by Xun Kuan from the Ministry of Rites. Is there such a thing?"

"Your Highness, you..." Gu Lingxian was extremely embarrassed, and was interrupted by the queen.

"Prince be careful, Lingxian is a pure and innocent girl, how can you speak rudely to her."

"Isn't there? I misremembered there." Song Jingxin said in a nonchalant tone, "I'm worried about marrying the daughter of the Gu family when Miss Gu pimps my younger sister. Isn't it good?"

"Gu Lingmiao was provoked by you yourself. Lingxian came out to deal with the aftermath for the sake of my sister's reputation, but you still bite back."

"I've provoked someone. It's unreasonable to marry me just because I hugged her when I was a child!"

"On Duanhe's birthday, you guys and widows were riding horses in the woods, and you shot and offered treasures to please her. When you returned, people saw it, and now it has spread all over the city." The queen said sharply, "Although Lingmiao's background is a bit low, But she is also an innocent girl of the Gu family. Now that she is attached to the crown prince, her reputation is ruined, and the crown prince is so irresponsible!"

Song Jingxin returned to the East Palace full of anger. He never thought that the girl on the hunting day would be from the Gu family. Now that he knew that he was being tricked, he was really furious.

In the past, he couldn't figure out why the Gu family wanted to harm the Crown Princess. He once thought that what Weiyu did was aimed at him, but now he realized that someone had taken a fancy to the position of the Crown Princess.The Gu family wanted Gu Lingxian to marry into the East Palace, and they seemed to have a plan in mind.As for Gu Lingmiao, it should be the same as Li Xuanshi back then, who was sent over according to his own preferences.Song Jingxin thought of the pair of beautiful sisters, and also thought of the deceased princess, and couldn't help feeling sad, and felt worthless for the princess' death again.

The crown prince is different from the prince next to him, he lives in the palace, even if he has to go to the Wenhua Palace for business during the day, he still has to go back to the palace to sleep at night.The empress did not force him to marry a wife, but persevered in harassing Jingren Palace and promoting Gu Lingmiao to the imperial concubine.Song Jingxin went to pay his respects to his mother and concubine several times, but he always ran into that girl.

The imperial concubine had a good impression of Gu Lingmiao, and he also felt that this girl could match Song Jingxin's temper.According to Song Jingxin's personality, it was really difficult to find a girl he could get along with.The imperial concubine wanted to make her son happy, so she didn't care that the girl was from the Gu family.Besides, Gu Lingmiao had a sassy personality, a bit like Song Jingshi, the imperial concubine liked her a little when she saw her.

Besides, Song Jingxin, before he knew his identity, he did have some appreciation for Gu Lingmiao.But after knowing Gu's intentions, he couldn't help but loathe this girl.Even if Gu Lingmiao hadn't done anything, in Song Jingshi's eyes, all those who coveted the position beside him were the murderers who killed the princess.

This day Song Jingxin entered the palace to greet her. After going out, she didn't go back to the East Palace but planned to leave the palace for a while.Gu Lingmiao bid farewell to the imperial concubine in a hurry, and followed the prince out: "Your Highness is going out of the palace?"

Song Jingxin naturally ignored her.

Gu Lingmiao was not discouraged, and continued to ask: "The courtier is going back to the manor, where is His Highness going, should I take the courtier's car?"

Song Jingxin was so annoyed, he wanted to dismiss her but stopped in his tracks: "I'm going out of the palace to have some fun, do you want to go with me, and take my car?"

"Okay, okay," Gu Lingmiao nodded happily, "Where is Your Highness going?"

Song Jingxin didn't answer, and walked towards the palace gate on his own.Gu Lingmiao has good physical strength, and she doesn't feel weak after following for a long time.

Song Jingxin noticed that Gu Lingmiao was a little noisy. The two of them rode in the same car along the way, only listening to the girl chattering about her love.Song Jingxin knew that he was a prince, even if he grew into a toad, he would be admired by many people, so he really had no intention of admiring the girl's affection.

"Your Highness doesn't know that my daughter was taken to the side of the head of the house since she was a child, and she was trained to serve His Highness." While speaking of bitter words, Gu Lingmiao's tone was always cheerful, "My daughter was not reconciled at first. Why should the courtiers get up before dawn to practice martial arts, horseback riding and archery in addition to being popular in poetry and calligraphy? Although riding and archery is fun, their hands will have calluses. The mother does not allow courtiers to have calluses on their hands. The court lady’s blisters were broken, and the dead skin was cut off. Every day before going to bed, I wiped a lot of things. Martial arts still need to be practiced, and the court lady’s hands are repeated between injury and maintenance.”

"But that day, I saw Your Highness in the hunting garden. His Highness was riding on a horse in black clothes. He was indifferent and didn't like to joke." Mentioning Song Jingxin, Gu Lingmiao's eyes lit up. "At that time, I felt that the old All these years of hard work are worth it, even if the Gu family sells the courtier's daughter cheaply, even if the courtier's daughter is just a concubine or even has no status, I still want to stay by His Highness's side all the time."

Song Jingxin was silent all the way while listening to Gu Lingmiao's confession.It wasn't until the carriage stopped that he raised his eyelids: "Wake up, stop dreaming."

"Huh?" After being interrupted suddenly, Gu Lingmiao was a little confused.

"It's all an illusion, I'm not worth it." Song Jingxin said.

"No, you deserve it!"

"not worth it!"

"you're worth it!"

"It's up to you, the place is here, just get out of the car."

Song Jingxin unilaterally stopped the unnecessary dispute. Gu Lingmiao didn't know why, so she obediently lifted the curtain of the car and faced the plaque of Wanhualou.

"Your Highness, you..." Gu Lingmiao looked at the familiar door, her eyes gradually filled with tears, "Even if His Highness doesn't like the courtier's daughter, there is no need to insult the courtier's daughter like this, the Gu family has already given the courtier's daughter to His Highness, you are You won't leave even if you kill the courtiers..."

"I said I'm not worth it, but you don't believe me," Song Jingxin proudly jumped off the carriage seeing her wronged.He tightened the carved fur, pulled out the fan and gestured twice, and asked, "How about it, do you want to continue to follow me, and go in to have some fun together?"

Seeing his attitude, Gu Lingmiao knew that she would be wrong, so she wiped away her tears with her sleeve. "Your Highness, there is no need to be like this. This Wanhualou is really nothing interesting." Gu Lingmiao took a step, approached Song Jingxin, leaned forward and hugged the man's arm, "My aunt [1] used to be the top brand of Wanhualou, I know all the tricks here, if Your Highness wants to have fun, just play with me."

Now it was Song Jingxin's turn to be surprised, she never expected Gu Lingmiao to have such an attitude.Song Jingxin froze for a moment, then suddenly pushed the girl away, and ran out in a panic.

Song Jingxin panicked and actually ran into the brothel.It was still early at this time, and the mother who was welcoming the guests was sitting in front of the hall cracking sunflower seeds, seeing Song Jingxin dressed like a rich man, she immediately threw away the sunflower seeds and came up to her with a smile on her face.

"Young Master, it's your first time here. You came early today. Sit down and drink a cup of tea." Mom was all smiles. What kind of girl do you like, I am going to remind you?"

Song Jingxin accompanied friends to visit a few famous prostitutes before, and they all lived in elegant small buildings, burning incense, cooking tea, reciting poems and listening to the piano, so elegant.This Wanhua Building is really tacky, and the mother who greeted the guests was dressed in incense and the south wind knew what I wanted, so that the prince wanted to run away immediately.But he thought of Gu Lingmiao outside, and he didn't want to be found out that he was strong on the outside but weak on the inside.

Although Song Jingxin had never visited a brothel, luckily she knew the rules.He rummaged through his pockets, only got out the whole gold stator, and gave it to the old bustard: "This is my first time here, and I don't know any girls from your side, so you can find some quiet and dignified ones to come down and meet her." Let's meet..."

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The defense is over, and I'm back again!

[1] Auntie is talking about Gu Lingmiao's biological mother

[2] Briefly talk about the seniority of the Gu family

The first generation: Old Gu Tou Gu Li, belonged to the same generation as Emperor Yingzong;

The second generation: Gu Li's son is Gu Minghui. After he became an official, Gu Li succeeded his father as the first assistant and minister of the Ministry of officials. Gu Li's daughter married Song Xu of Ruizong, who is now the queen mother;

The third generation: Gu Minghui's daughter married Emperor Xuanqing, who is now the queen, but the queen has no children; Gu Minghui's nephews are not up to the mark;

The fourth generation: the grandchildren are still studying at a young age, the granddaughter Gu Lingxian, who was initially rejected by Xun Kuan, now wants to marry Song Jingxin, the concubine granddaughter Gu Lingmiao