darknovel Chapter 73 Leave
Chapter 73 Leave
Not long after Fang Ziyue left, the palace draft list came down.
Fang Ziyue's name was not on it, but the name of Ling Yuexiang, a lame little maid who had just left Lingqiu's courtyard two days ago to show off her power and prestige, was mentioned on it.
"how so?!"
Ling Yuexiang, who was so pale with anxiety, threw herself into her mother's arms, and said impatiently: "Mother, could it be that my father wants me to enter the palace and have a relationship with him? Otherwise, who sent my portrait up?!"
Ling Yuexiang lives freely in Xiangfu, so she doesn't want to go to a place like the palace that cannibalize people.
How many young women who were in their prime turned into a pile of dead bones early after entering, even if they survived, they would still be living in a cage without any freedom.
Ling Yuexiang didn't want to be trapped in that kind of cold place.
The second lady comforted her after hearing the words: "Don't talk nonsense, this matter has nothing to do with your father. I heard that people in the capital passed on your beautiful appearance, and the people in the palace heard about it, so they managed to get your portrait."
Speaking of this, the second wife couldn't help complaining about her daughter: "I told you to wear a veil when you go out, and don't show your face before marriage. You're good, I'm afraid others don't know what you look like?"
In fact, Ling Yuexiang's appearance can only be regarded as on the upper side, compared to Lingqiu and Fang Ziyue, it can only be said to be mediocre.
She has such a good reputation in the capital, so it is natural that Lingqiu has done her part for her good sister.
Ling Yuexiang and the second wife in the front yard cried miserably in front of Prime Minister Right, while Lingqiu in the back yard ordered the old and young servants to pack up their things.
"Miss, Xiao Cheng has already arranged a team outside the capital, and he will take you back to Jiangnan as soon as you show up."
The old servant is Ling Qiu's housekeeper who stayed in the south of the Yangtze River to manage the business a few years ago, and he has a good job in managing affairs.
Originally, Ling Qiu asked Xiao Cheng to pick her up and leave alone, but the old man was worried, so he found someone to stuff himself and his adopted son into a cage.
He also asked Xiaocui to pass a note to her, writing: "Miss, help me!"
Lingqiu bought him back dumbfounded, and the old housekeeper kept rambling about his dissatisfaction with the few taels of silver he lost.
"I'm a bad old man, that black-hearted thing actually wants your money?! Shameless bastard, are you crazy?!"
The old butler manages the business under Ling Qiu's name, earns a lot, but is also very stingy.
According to him, he should be the eldest lady who gave her a bad old man by the way when she bought his adopted son.
Lingqiu persuaded several times, "Uncle Cheng, you are always expensive, so don't belittle yourself."
Uncle Cheng was her mother's former servant. Later, when Ling Qiuniang passed away, Uncle Cheng was tortured with a cane by the second room for a reason and almost died.
It was Lingqiu who tried to save people, and took advantage of the epidemic to send more than a dozen people out of the prime minister's residence.
The old housekeeper was grateful for her kindness, and has been doing his best to manage the restaurant, cloth shop and other businesses for Lingqiu.
Lingqiu's family business in Jiangnan is enough for her to spend wantonly, but she doesn't care much about money and other things.
The only thing I care about is to spend a lot of money to buy Maxima, cold fronts, and countless books of war.
These are what the little princess likes, since she likes them, Lingqiu will find a way to find them.
"Hurry up, we'll be leaving in two days."
Ling Qiu put down the teacup in his hand.
She didn't have much to pack, just two changes of clothes, a box of herbs and a few books.What was left was the big and small gifts that Fang Ziyue gave her, which were piled up in a bundle and heavy to pick up.
Palm-sized wood carvings, exquisite white jade hairpins, precious jadeite bracelets, medical books that can be read by the blind...
Going through each item in detail, Ling Qiu suddenly realized that she had received so many gifts from the little princess over the years.
Every festival, the little princess who came over the wall would secretly put gifts by her window.
Sometimes it is hung on a red plum branch that is just in bloom. When she gets up early and opens the window, the beautiful bag will fall on the table along the plum branch.
With a table of fine snow and plum fragrance.
Sometimes she would secretly open the window, hook her slender fingers like a cat's claw, and hang the bracelet on the bonsai inside the window.
According to the servant girl, the emerald green bonsai was bent under the weight of the jade bracelet, and the heavy jadeite was more beautiful than the green bonsai.
Or, relying on the fact that she couldn't see, he quietly came in through the window, and sat by the window to watch her unscrupulously.
Sometimes it takes an hour to watch, and sometimes it takes half a day to watch.
Lingqiu studied and slept late the night before, and couldn't wake up the next day, so anxious that the little princess who sneaked in scratched his ears and cheeks.
I want to call people up to eat, but I am afraid that I will be exposed.
I had no choice but to go out to catch her poor little maids to wake her up, then forcefully squeeze the maids away, and pretend to be a servant to wipe her face.
Before leaving, she imitated the maid's voice and said in surprise: "Miss, there is a book by your window?! Could it be sent by the little princess next door?!"
Every time Lingqiu heard it, she suppressed her smile and cooperated with her pretending to be pleasantly surprised.
That idiot doesn't look like that at all.The complacency in his tone didn't know to be taken away.
But... At that time, she was indeed pleasantly surprised.
Since she became blind, many people left her side, stopped and walked, and everyone said she was a nice person, but it was a pity that she couldn't see.
Only the little princess loves the house and Wu, and loves everything about her.
Ling Qiu carefully put away those small presents, and used boxes to pack them several layers inside and out.
She knew that Ling Yuexiang didn't want to enter the palace, and she also knew that her right-hand father didn't believe that women were capable of doing great things, so he would never use the method of internal cooperation and external cooperation to seize power.
In addition, he is partial to the second wife, as long as Ling Yuexiang and the second wife sell miserably, the person who enters the palace will naturally become her.
When the time comes to give some money to the mothers and eunuchs working in the palace, who will know who the girl from the Ling family who is sent in is?
Today's upper body is weak, no matter whether it is true or not, he will not call beautiful maids to bed.
Therefore, Prime Minister Right can safely let his unsatisfactory eldest daughter enter the palace instead of the youngest daughter.
But the eldest daughter refused, so she fled the capital overnight.The road encounters a robber who dies without a whole body.
Even if the Right Prime Minister died and failed to usurp the throne and was punished by the nine clans, how could the emperor treat her as a "dead person"?
It's just that this plan will probably worry the little princess for a while.
Lingqiu knew that Fang Ziyue's affection for her was deeply rooted, she had been asking herself for a deadline, and now was the best time.
Taking off the ribbon embroidered with orchid grass, a blurry image appeared in front of Lingqiu's eyes.
Over the years, she has given herself acupuncture and medicine, and the residual poison in her body has gradually been cleaned up, and her eyes are clear day after day.
Lingqiu took up a pen and wrote down her plan in detail from beginning to end, and then sent someone to the border town.
From the capital to the south of the Yangtze River, the road is not easy.But the news from the capital city can be sent all the way to the border town through Feige, Lingqiu is afraid that if his news is delivered late, something will happen to the little princess in a hurry.
If that's the case, she will regret it for the rest of her life.
The crying in the front yard had stopped, and the little servant quickly ran in and told her: "Miss, that shrew is here again!"
The little servant is the adopted son of the old housekeeper. He is innocent and cheerful, and speaks frankly.
Ling Qiu could always be amused by what he said.
What he said was right, her younger sister was indeed aggressive, vicious and thoughtless.
Every time she left with a prestige and complacency, she suffered all kinds of disadvantages behind her back, but she never thought that it was her sister-in-law who was teaching her a lesson.
Covering his own eyes and ears, sooner or later he will be exterminated together with the Ling family.
"Hey, blind man, you will enter the palace for me tomorrow. It is much better for you as a blind man to enter the palace without worrying about food and clothing. It is much better than being in a remote courtyard. You should thank me for winning such a good thing for you, right?"
Lingyuexiang sat proudly on the luxurious chair brought by the servant, and nodded her toes contemptuously: "It doesn't need much, you just need to come here and give me a couple of kowtows."
The little servant standing behind Ling Qiu lowered his head, his eyes were filled with anger, he wished he could go up and cut that shrew's neck!
A concubine, still delusional to ask the eldest lady to kowtow to her?Don't be afraid of losing your life!
Pooh!Shameless shrew!
The old butler and the young servant scolded from the bottom of their hearts.
On the other hand, Lingqiu poured tea in a leisurely manner, with closed eyes facing the plum blossoms in the courtyard, as if she couldn't hear a dog barking.
This defiant appearance made Lingyue Xiang's face ugly, she stood up and walked up quickly, grabbing Lingqiu's arm.
There is a pond in the side courtyard. The snow in the early spring has just melted, and the water in the pond is still cold.
Ling Yuexiang pulled Ling Qiu and was about to push it into the pool.
Ling Qiu didn't struggle, but said indifferently: "The doctor said that I can't bear the cold, and I don't know if I go down today, who does my sister want to enter the palace for you tomorrow?"
With a low voice, he said in a calm voice, "It's comfortable for me to throw myself into the pool with my whole body sick, but I don't know if the water in the deep palace is warmer than this pool?"
"Are you threatening me?!" Ling Yuexiang let go of her hand suddenly, and ruthlessly pushed her to the ground.
Ling Qiuyue's white robe was stained with dust and became messy.But that neither arrogant nor impetuous, shallow expression made her not look embarrassed at all.
Ling Yuexiang hated her appearance the most.
A ghostly look that doesn't pay attention to anything and doesn't care about anything
Why is she the moon in the sky?Ling Yuexiang wanted to trample her into the mud!
The little servant wanted to go forward, but was held back by the old housekeeper.
For the eldest lady, the more they go up to help them, the more helpful they may be.
Lingqiu propped herself up and stood up, brushing the dust off her clothes angrily.
"If you insist on understanding it like this, there is no other way. I have nothing, and life and death are meaningless. I just don't know what you think about it." Ling Qiu suddenly smiled.
She glanced at Ling Yuexiang who raised her hand to hit her, lightly, but Ling Yuexiang couldn't drop her raised hand.
"Tomorrow, I will enter the palace, and my left and right are His Majesty's people. I don't know if you can bear the crime of beating and scolding His Majesty's people at will."
Ling Yuexiang and the second wife can spend a lot of money to buy off those eunuchs and let them deal with Lingqiu casually.
But if Ling Qiu is fearless and tells the truth with all his might, the Right Prime Minister will also be implicated.
Everyone in Lingyue Xiangxiang trembled, she never expected that the life-threatening talisman of entering the palace would become Lingqiu's life-saving token now?
"Miss, forget it." The servant beside the second lady hurried forward to dissuade Ling Yuexiang.
If something happened, wouldn't it be those servants who were unlucky?
"Forget what?!" Ling Yuexiang waved her hand and slapped the servant's nose and mouth to bleed.
Let her watch Ling Qiu walk out of this courtyard safe and sound, she is not reconciled!
But no matter how much she beat and scolded the servants around her, Ling Qiu didn't even give her a look.
Ling Yuexiang was annoyed in her heart, and she didn't attack lightly or severely. In the end, a woman who had been with the second lady for a long time stopped her.
"Miss, don't make trouble."
That woman has a lot of power in her hands, she is the second lady's favorite subordinate, and she is also the person sent to watch Ling Yuexiang not to cause trouble.
No matter how arrogant and domineering Ling Yuexiang was, she didn't dare to be really dissatisfied with this woman and make a move.
In the end, she could only curse Ling Qiu, and left angrily.
After she left, Ling Qiu rubbed his right wrist.When she was pushed down before, she subconsciously supported it with her hands, but now her wrists are tingling unbearably.
Lingqiu sighed, and couldn't help but think that fortunately the little princess went to the border town.
Otherwise, if she finds out, she will be very angry again.
Not only would he secretly punish Ling Yuexiang, but he would also press her down and give her admonition.
Although he didn't know how to beat and scold her, the kind of gentle worry was even more unbearable.
"Miss, let's go tonight!" The old butler shook his beard and cursed Ling Yuexiang angrily.
A concubine's daughter always wants to climb on top of her concubine's daughter to make a fortune, what a big ambition!
Lingqiu pressed her right wrist, and the tingling pain immediately made her gasp: "Let's go."
She didn't expect the draft to be so urgent, the roster that was released the day before yesterday will enter the palace tomorrow.
But it doesn't matter, after tonight, there will be no more prostitutes in the Right Prime Minister's Mansion.The entanglements in this house have nothing to do with her.