bayedsolid Chapter 125 Dual Identity
Chapter 125 Dual Identity
Ji Anni, Yizhen and Yunzhen were all waiting for news in the right courtyard.
The night wind was growing colder and the time was growing later. The small pavilion in Bo Xin Dang was no longer spacious enough for people to stay in, so they returned to their room.
Time passed slowly, and Huarong and Dier had not returned yet. Yizhen seemed a little sleepy, and could hardly open her eyes. Finally, she couldn't hold on any longer, so she said goodbye to Ji Anni and Yun Zhen and left.
Yizhen asked a young palace maid to carry a lantern and take her back to the concubine's palace.
After seeing Yizhen off, Ji Anni said to Yunzhen, "Yunzhen, if you are also sleepy, go back first. When Huarong and the others come back later, I will send someone to Xianke Pavilion to send you a message."
Yun Zhen said, "You are all palace maids here, and the night wind is cold and chilly. I would feel bad if I asked anyone to deliver the message."
At this time, three young palace maids brought the wine and food removed from the pavilion and asked Ji Anni if she wanted to send them back to the imperial kitchen.
Those were the dishes that Princess Tianning later asked the imperial kitchen to prepare, and some of them had hardly been touched.
Although Ji Anni didn't have much appetite, she didn't want to waste food, so she asked them to leave the wine and food behind.
This room was about 100 square meters, with six doors, but only a few tables and chairs were placed, making it look a bit empty. In front of him was a dark blue carved long table, and on the left and right were five high-backed hardwood chairs with arched armrests. Between every two wooden chairs, there was a small square table that was two inches lower than the armrest, used to place tea bowls.
The palace maids placed the remaining three dishes and the jade pot of wine on the small square table between Ji Anni and Yun Zhen.
Ji Anni waved at them and said, "Tear down the stone frame by the pond as well."
The palace maids all responded "yes" and retreated respectfully.
Yun Zhen quietly poured himself a glass of wine.
Seeing that he was about to drink it, Ji Anni hurriedly stopped him and said, "This wine is intoxicating, you'd better not drink it."
She and Tianning had both tasted the bitterness of this wine. Not only did it burn the throat, but it also made people drunk quickly.
But Yun Zhen still took a sip, as if to test the wine's properties, and sighed softly, "I thought Hua Rong would bring wine mixed with water, but I didn't expect it to be the strongest intestinal wine."
"Isn't she afraid that Tianning will get drunk?" Ji Anni remembered that Baogui Fei also guessed that Huarong would take the wine mixed with water, but the fact was that Baogui Fei and Yun Zhen both guessed wrong.
Yun Zhen said: "Maybe she just wanted to get the princess drunk. I thought she would give the princess wine mixed with water to appease her, so that she would drink and have a good time. But she took the strongest wine, which made the princess drunk with just one glass. As long as the princess is drunk, she can just send her back. The purpose is the same, but using strong wine is faster and more convenient than using fake wine, but it still seems a bit tough."
"Yun Zhen, what do you think of Hua Rong?" Ji Anni had wanted to ask this question for a long time. Ever since she heard Lai De's story about Hua Rong, she has paid close attention to this extraordinary palace maid. If Ji Anni would get angry and have a stomachache when she thought of the Queen Mother and Concubine An, then when she thought of Yan Niang and Hua Rong, Ji Anni would feel a chill coming from her back.
Yun Zhen drank the wine in the cup and said slowly: "Three years ago I could guess her, but now I can't guess her anymore. Just like today, didn't I guess the wine she took wrongly? Although she looks gentle and quiet, her temper is as sharp as a knife. I don't know why the Queen Mother arranged her to be by your side... Maybe the Queen Mother wants to use her as the fastest knife... Indeed, a sharp knife can achieve twice the result with half the effort if used well, but it will cut your hand if used badly. Hua Rong is not a person that is so easy to control, even the Queen Mother may not be able to control her..."
"What about Princess Tianning?" Ji Anni suddenly asked, "She is Huarong's savior, and Huarong also said that she would repay the princess for her kindness."
"Your Majesty, do you know Hua Rong's story?" Yun Zhen was slightly surprised.
"A young guard told me. He said everyone in the palace knew about it, but they just didn't dare to discuss it." Ji Anni sighed, "Tian Ning's arrogant and overbearing personality usually makes everyone hate her. I didn't expect that three years ago, it was because of her unreasonableness that she saved Hua Rongyue's life. Otherwise, the Xi family would have been executed."
"My Lady..." Yun Zhen's voice was a little deep. He shook his head gently and said, "There is something else going on here that you don't know."
"Is there any other inside story?" Ji Anni asked subconsciously.
A story is like a cube. Everyone can only see two or three sides, so you have to listen to different people talk about different sides to barely piece together a complete three-dimensional figure in your mind. Lai De is just a small guard after all, and his sources of information are all hearsay, so the stories he tells are only the most superficial phenomena.
Yun Zhen has been in the palace for ten years and holds the position of imperial teacher, so he must know more in-depth things than Lai De.
Yun Zhen asked, "My Lady, you should already know Hua Rong's true identity, right?"
Ji Anni nodded and said, "I see. I heard that she is the daughter of Grand Secretary Xi Jinde."
"Then does your Majesty know that she has another identity?"
"What other identity do you have?" Ji Anni could only shake her head.
Yun Zhen said, "She is still the daughter-in-law of General Zhenyuan, and the fiancée of Concubine Kang's elder brother, Major General Kang Xiaorong."
"What?" This relationship really shocked Ji Anni.
"The Kang family and the Xi family have been friends for generations. When the general was 40, he had a son. To congratulate him, Xi Jinde said that if his wife gave birth to a daughter in the future, he would marry the girl into the Kang family as a daughter-in-law, so the marriage between the two families was decided. A few years later, Mrs. Xi was indeed pregnant and gave birth to a pair of twin daughters. The two families agreed to marry the elder sister to Kang Xiaorong, and officially marry her when she turned 18. The name "Hua Rong Yue Mao" was given by the general. The general had been a soldier all his life and had not read much poetry and books. He said that he was a rough man and it was not good to name his daughter casually. Xi Jinde said that the daughter would marry into the Kang family as a daughter-in-law sooner or later, and told the general to name her whatever he wanted. But unfortunately, before Hua Rong turned 18, the Xi family was wiped out. Xi Jinde was the teacher who taught the princess poetry and books, and Kang Xiaorong was the teacher who taught the princess riding and shooting. The princess did not hesitate to offend the An family and forced the two sisters Hua Rong Yue Mao to stay. It is inevitable that it was not because of the feelings of these two people, but because of impulse and willfulness."
"But the princess seems to like Kang Xiaorong very much." At the hunting meeting, Ji Anni could see that Princess Tianning was interested in Kang Xiaorong.
Yun Zhen admitted, "The princess has always liked him since she was a child."
"Does she know about Kang Hyo-young and Hwa-ryong's engagement?"
"Maybe."
"If she knew that, why did she save her rival?"
"Maybe she just didn't want the person she loved to be sad. The princess was still young at the time, so she probably didn't see Huarong as a love rival, but simply didn't want to see Kang Xiaorong sad."