Wear It with Space

Shen Ling was dreaming again. The dream is a memory of the ten-year-old Zheng Shuwan.

For the original Zheng Shuwan, that memory is just like the female red master embroidering peony flowers on the veil, and the bright colors will not fade with the passage of time.

The sultry weather for half a month finally started pouring heavy rain in the afternoon that day, and a series of water splashes bloomed on the bluestone paved road, and the cool wind continued to blow, eliminating the last trace of heat remaining in the air.

Zheng Shuwan and the little maid Caier were walking on the way back to the room when the big soy raindrops fell. Cai'er was still holding a few poems that she had just brought from the study. The study is not far from the Jiangxuezhai where Zheng Shuwan lives. Zheng Shuwan is unwilling to be accompanied by so many maids, so she only brought Cai'er a little maid, and it is more convenient to enter and leave the study.

Although they were sultry and hot when they came out, they did not expect the heavy rain to come soon, so they did not carry rain gear.

Zheng Shuwan glanced at the Nanxue Pavilion hidden in the flowers and trees not far away. It was the closest building to here, so she asked the little maid Cai'er to hide the book under her dress and walked over quickly with her.

Nanxue Pavilion is a square stone pavilion with a small and simple structure. There are many flowers and trees planted around it. It is a good place for people to rest and view the scenery.

Zheng Shuwan didn’t care to appreciate the rain scene in front of her, and took the books from Cai’er. Fortunately, they ran fast and the books were protected under the skirts. It was just that she was soaked for a few moments and she was relieved. .

Just after she was relieved, the little maid next to Cai'er whispered: "Look at the princess, it's a rare thing. Mother Qu would be so polite to the servants in the house, and she took the initiative to lead the way. But the one behind her Lady, why do you look so strange?"

Zheng Shuwan followed what she pointed out, and she saw Mama Qu covertly leading a servant woman on the path leading to the end of the garden. The rain is heavy, and Nanxue Pavilion is full of flowers and trees. If it weren't for Cai'er's sharp eyes, Zheng Shuwan would really not notice these two people.

Mother Qu is her mother's confidant, relying on her mother to reuse her, she has always walked sideways in this palace, and I have seen her so cautious. If something goes wrong, there must be a demon. Zheng Shuwan's eyes couldn't help but fall on the servant woman behind her.

The servant woman was not much older than her mother. She was twenty-seven or eighteen years old. She was tall and fair-faced. She was wearing a loose dark chestnut dress, holding the umbrella in her hand, and following Mama Qu step by step.

The two of them moved further and further, Zheng Shuwan watched the servant woman disappear into the lush flowers and trees, and suddenly noticed something wrong. The servant woman did not have a woman's unique posture. Although she deliberately slowed down, she did not care about her body at all. The deep chestnut dress of her, letting the corners of the skirt soak in the rain, looked indifferent. He was bald and didn't wear any jewellery.

And her posture of raising an umbrella is indescribably weird. None of the women Zheng Shuwan has ever seen holds an umbrella like that. She has only seen this gesture of raising an umbrella from her father.

It was not a servant woman at all, but a man dressed as a woman. Zheng Shuwan thought about it carefully, yes, although the lady's face was fair, but her chin was a little blue, it was obviously a beard that had not been completely cleaned.

Zheng Shuwan turned her head and told the little maid: "Cai'er, the rose flowers over there are blooming well, please go and pinch one for me."

Cai'er naturally did not want to take the rain to pick flowers, but she did not dare to express her dissatisfaction. She only said: "The princess, the rain is so heavy, those rose flowers have been soaked in the rain, the color will not look good, and the fragrance is early After being washed away by the rain, what's the use of picking it?"

Zheng Shu gave her a sideways glance: "If you want to go, go, there is so much talk."

Cai'er reluctantly stepped down the stone steps in front of the pavilion, carefully carried her skirt, and quickly went to pick the nearest rose flower.

Zheng Shuwan watched her movements thoughtfully. The skirt she wore on Cai'er was rewarded to her during the Dragon Boat Festival this year. The material was nothing more than an ordinary light green crepe, and the embroidery on it was also an ordinary pattern embroidered in the sewing room of the mansion. .

There is no lack of long dresses that are more exquisite than this Cai'er. Zheng Shuwan never treats the maids around him harshly, and always rewards them with one or two 70% new dresses during the big festival. So this crepe dress is not so precious to Cai'er, but she is holding the corners of the skirt, as if she is afraid that the dress will be wet by the rain on the ground.

"Princess, I picked your favorite apricot and yellow sweet, you see it hasn't fully developed yet, there is still a light fragrance in it!" Cai'er picked the flowers back, fearing that Zheng Shuwan would be dissatisfied, said repeatedly.

Zheng Shuwan’s thoughts were interrupted by her. She absently took the rose flower from her hand, sniffed it gently under her nose, and suddenly thought of something, she stood up abruptly and told her: "Wait for the rain to stop. You should go to the nearest Yanyu Pavilion immediately. Whoever asks in the future, you must say that you went to Yanyu Pavilion to shelter from the rain with me during this period. I will go back. You will wait for me in Yanyu Pavilion, be careful not to let People saw that you came out of Nanxue Pavilion."

After giving instructions to Cai'er, Zheng Shuwan plunged into the sky full of water curtains woven with countless rain silks. Mother Qu and the "lady" chose the path in the garden, mostly to go to the only building in the garden-Tianxiang Tower.

Zheng Shuwan pushed away the countless flowers and trees that slapped her face all the way, ignoring the rain from her face, just wanted to reach the end of the trail as soon as possible. Mother Qu was so careful to lead a man to Tianxiang Tower, she must have a plot, but she didn't know what she was plotting, would it be detrimental to the mother and concubine?

Zheng Shuwan thought as she walked, and when she passed through a large cluster of green daylilies, a corner of the eaves of Tianxianglou finally appeared in front of Zheng Shuwan.

Mother Qu stood inside the white painted door at the entrance of Tianxiang Tower, alertly paying attention to every move around her.

Fortunately, Zheng Shuwan did not expect to go to the main entrance. Last year, when he was enjoying the snow in Tianxianglou with his father, the father took her from a side door of Tianxianglou into the building, saying that this side door was originally built when Tianxianglou was built. The craftsmen kept it here for convenience, but few people knew about it later.

Unexpectedly, it is useful today.

Zheng Shuwan carefully walked around to the side door. Fortunately, the rain was so loud that all noises disappeared into the sound of the rain. Zheng Shuwan wore the most inconspicuous lake green dress. She was clever, taking advantage of Mother Qu for a moment. Without notice, people have come to the side door.

The side door is set to the east, and the dark wood surface is carved with the pattern of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea. People who don’t know just think this is a decorative partition, but never expect that this is a side door that can be pushed open. Zheng Shuwan stretched out her hand and pushed gently, and under the cover of the sound of rain, she slipped into it quietly.

The first floor of Tianxiang Building is a bright and two dark pattern. There is a nanmu screen in the spacious hall, and there are sparse nanmu furniture around, and there is no figure of the servant woman.

But soon, Zheng Shuwan heard the low voices of two people from the Dongshou room.

She didn't hear a word of the content of the words, but the voice inside was very familiar to her, and it was her mother's concubine.

Soon the voice inside was replaced by a very strange voice. Zheng Shuwan instinctively sensed something was wrong, so he boldly walked a few steps to the east. There was Korean paper pasted on the partition in the east, and she gently After tearing a small seam, I just saw a dark maroon long skirt thrown in the ground, covered with a dress embroidered with tangled flowers.

Further up, on the bed of mahogany inlaid with snails and marbles, her mother-in-law Liu was huddling with a strange man.

Shen Ling woke up suddenly.

Youping, who was watching the night outside, heard the movement and hurriedly walked over and said: "The princess has a nightmare again."

Shen Ling said, that scene left the original body too deep, which caused her to wear it for so many days, almost every day she could dream of the scene of the year.

She closed her eyes slightly, and the follow-up about that memory emerged automatically.

Zheng Shuwan used a lot of effort to restrain herself from making a sound, and hurriedly left Tianxianglou and returned to the Yanyu Pavilion where she had an appointment with Cai'er. The two did not return to Jiangxuezhai until the rain stopped.

The big maid Shuangyan saw her princess come back wet, she glared at Cai'er first, and while berating her, she stepped forward to take off Zheng Shuwan's soaked clothes, but just got close to the lake-green gauze with her hands, Zheng Shuwan's face was calm. With a "pop" she knocked off the right hand that she had stretched out, and said coldly: "Go down."

Shuangyan's body trembled and her expression changed. Since she was given to the princess by the princess, the princess had never shown her face like she is now. She suppressed the incomprehension and grievance in her heart and turned to another big maid Youlan. Winking a wink, he quietly retreated.

Seeing that Shuangyan, who was most favored by the young lady, was slapped in the face, Youlan was a little bit happy and a little nervous. Although she was only one year younger than Shuangyan, because Shuangyan was the queen's most important mother, Qu's mother My daughter, has always been a bit decent in this yard, but she is just an ordinary family-born child in the palace, and the mother is not in charge of anything, so she has to lower her head in everything.

She turned her mind, but her face pretended to be calm, ready to serve Zheng Shuwan to change into her wet clothes. Zheng Shuwan was very cooperative this time and didn't sink his face anymore. In fact, Zheng Shuwan also knew that she was wrong. It was Mother Qu who helped Wangfeng, and her concubine was the one who did the wrong thing. What happened to Guan Shuangyan?

"Miss, Madam has started to preach dinner." Shuangyan walked in and replied cautiously. In the past, the lady passed by before the application, but today she did not get up until it got dark.

"What time is it?" Zheng Shuwan asked impatiently with a sense of irritability in her heart.

"There is only half an hour left before Xu Xu." The answer was Youlan standing next to Zheng Shuwan.

Zheng Shuwan reluctantly suppressed the irritability in her heart, and stretched her hand to Youlan: "Help me up." Turning her head and telling Shuangyan: "I think you are too lazy to move these few days, just stay in the yard and rest!"

Zheng Shuwan stepped into her mother's yard with a complicated mood. Mother Qu personally opened the bamboo curtain of Concubine Xiang's upper room with a smile, "This rain is really cool, I think the lady had a good night's sleep."

Zheng Shuwan knew that she was calmly accusing herself of snooze and missed the time to ask her mother for peace. If she left it as usual, Mama Qu pointed out that her etiquette was improper, and Zheng Shuwan would only be humbly taught. But when Zheng Shuwan thought of the scene where Mama Qu was standing at the door of Tianxiang Building this afternoon watching the two men who had affair inside, she felt disgust in her heart, and the fire in her heart immediately ignited.

Just as Zheng Shuwan was about to say something, there was a soft voice from the princess Liu's: "Is it because Sister Wan is here? This child is getting sleepy now."

Zheng Shuwan walked in and saw a beautiful and dignified young woman standing up under the green screen window, her mother-in-law Liu. Liu's came with a warm smile, and his right hand beckoned Zheng Shuwan to pass. Zheng Shuwan walked forward slowly, still snuggling into her arms.

"I made your favorite hibiscus chicken slices today. You have been talking about it for several days. But you can't eat too much. The meaty things are not easy to digest. Remember to let Shuangyan make you a bowl of Pu'er drink after returning to the room."

Liu Shi glanced at Youlan who was following Zheng Shuwan: "Speaking of Shuangyan, why didn't she come with you today?"

Zheng Shuwan glanced at Mother Qu: "Shuangyan has worked hard to sew a pair of satin shoes for me these days, so I left her and let her take a break."

Liu did not say anything, the smile on Mother Qu's face deepened, and it would be good for the princess to be sympathetic to her daughter.

The Liu family only had the daughter of Zheng Shuwan, and Zheng Shuwan's father, Zheng Xiankai, was also busy with the official affairs of the vassal kingdom and often did not go back to the inner house, so only Liu and Zheng Shuwan ate at the dinner table.

The maids brought four dishes and one soup, and sure enough, there was a slice of hibiscus chicken. Liu took public chopsticks and kept picking dishes for Zheng Shuwan: "Today's dried tofu is well done. The vegetarian dishes are also very delicious. Sister Wan uses more."

Zheng Shuwan was a little absent-minded to eat that meal, but she would never have thought that this was the last meal she and her mother had eaten.

The next day, before dawn, there was a funeral in the palace.

Zheng Shuwan was still lying on the bed, and Shuangyan called her with red eyes, "The princess, the princess is gone."

Zheng Shuwan couldn't believe it at all. It was clear that the mother and concubine were fine the night before, how could the mother and concubine disappear as soon as she woke up.

She wanted to know the truth about the death of her mother and concubine, but soon everyone around Liu was sold off by her father. The Shuangyan next to her was sold in a few days.

Zheng Shuwan didn't dare to yell any more, she suspected that the death of her mother and concubine was mostly related to the incident she encountered, and perhaps the father and king knew about it.

In the second year after Liu's death, Zheng Shuwan's father became seriously ill. Zheng Shuwan dared to ask him the truth about the death of his mother and concubine when he was in danger.

At this time, Zheng Shuwan learned that the father and the queen did not know about the concubine's private meeting. The concubine died of poisoning, but the poisoner was never found. Therefore, Zheng Xiankai sent all the people around Liu's family. Sell.

After Zheng Xiankai's death, the eldest son of the concubine Zhu family inherited the title of King Jin.

The Zhu clan had a good relationship with the Liu clan, so although Zheng Shuwan lost his mother, concubine and father, but because of the Zhu clan's care, life was still the same. It's just that there are always a few mysteries in her heart. Who is the person who dated the mother concubine that day, and who will be the person who poisoned the mother concubine?

In order to find out the truth, she secretly sent someone to find Mama Qu who was sold out. When she was fourteen years old, the person who sent out finally found Mama Qu. When Ms. Qu saw her, she was very regretful, and she knew Liu would die suddenly after dating that person. She damnly stopped Liu at the beginning.

Zheng Shuwan asked about the person's origin and the entanglement of the Liu family, and he knew the ins and outs of the matter in his heart. The person who poisoned it should be Xia Houyan who had a private meeting with the Liu family that day.

Mother Qu said that this person had a narrow mind, and she must have hated the Liu family for not keeping his promise and waiting for him to come back. Instead, she married Zheng Xiankai by the order of her parents, so she designed this poisonous Liu family.

Because the Liu family was in a private meeting with him, he was sure that the Liu family had died, and Mother Qu did not dare to tell the truth, which damaged Liu’s reputation.

After Zheng Shuwan learned the truth, he made an oath that he must pay the same price for the rest of his life.

Mother Qu persuaded her that when Xia Houyan passed through the domain of the Jin Dynasty four years ago, she was already in the fourth rank, and now she is afraid that she is already in a high position. They have no titles in the Jin Dynasty and they are kings of the opposite sex. They just send a letter to the emperor. I am afraid that this matter will probably not be resolved. Moreover, once this matter is made public, the reputation of the Liu family and the palace will be damaged first.

Zheng Shuwan refused to listen to the advice and wanted to avenge her mother and concubine, but Shen Ling walked over before taking any action.

The system gave her the same task as Zheng Shuwan's wish, let Xia Houyan get his due punishment.