Queen of flowers - Chapter 69

The Dustless hall was Feng Liao’s courtyard in the King’s Mansion.

In the main room, Feng Liao was lying on a soft couch with his eyes closed, and Yong Ruo sat on a stool in front of the couch. She silently gave him a head massage, hoping to ease his emotions.

“Ruo Ruo, if I tell you I’m not a filial son, would you look down on me?” After Feng Liao’s emotions gradually calmed down, he suddenly asked Yong Ruo.

When questioning, he closed his eyes and did not look at Yong Ruo at all. Only his slightly tight limbs leaked the nervousness in his heart.

She said very readily, “No! I’m not actually a filial daughter … If I look down on you, I look down on myself!”

 Feng Liao’s eyes widened, and he looked at Yong Ruo with surprise: “You … how are you … not filial?” His tone was full of expectations.

ong Ruo laughed in her heart but sighed slightly, “My mother’s words, most of the time I will listen, but I will not listen to everything she says. Sometimes, I feign compliance; sometimes, I cut first and then play; sometimes, I will convince her to listen to me … “

(Cut first and play later: act first and report afterward)

Feng Liao got up from the couch and sat up. He moved in front of her and asked with great interest, “What?”

Yong Ruo mentioned a few examples of her “unfilial piety”. For example, on the night of the Lantern Festival, she went to sell flowers first. For another example, her mother said that her family was in a difficult situation and told her to be patient. She promised her that she wouldn’t do anything dangerous, but when she thought that someone would come to steal things, she directly buried the bamboo array.

“About Wu Er’s death, I have a clear conscience, and I am not guilty in the law. But his death, after all, has something to do with me … Wang Ye, do you think I am a poisonous woman?” Yong Ruo looked at Feng Liao and softly asked.

“No!” Feng Liao categorically stated his thought and then raised his hand to comfort her, “Wu Er death, isn’t your fault! Don’t think about it anymore …”

Yong Ruo sighed, and smiled slightly at Feng Liao, “Okay! I won’t think about it in the future.”

Feng Liao squeezed her hand, and sighed, he felt that they were both of the “same fallen people*.”

(From Bai Juyi’s “Pipa Line”: They are the same fallen people. Translation: Those with similar unfortunate encounters, are most sympathetic.)

Sitting relatively silently with Yong Ruo for a while, Feng Liao suddenly asked her, “Do you know what princess mother said to me before you entered the main house of Shou’an today?” His expression was slightly blank and slightly ironic.

“What did she say?” Yong Ruo held his arms softly.

“Mother said that you are from the outside, so you don’t understand the rules of Wangfu. She was afraid that you would not serve me well. She wanted to pick one or two ‘proper people’ from the girls beside her and make her a beauty to serve me and teach you … “

Feng Liao sneered, “The girls around her are so annoying when I look at them! Who wants them to serve me? It is not that mother does not know this, but she just refuses to give up. She insists on stuffing me with people I do not like again and again! “

Yong Ruo said, “Why don’t you like the girls next to Taifei?”

The few people she saw in Shou’an’s before were very pretty. Did Feng Liao not like to see beautiful women?

“I don’t know!” Feng Liao threw the words to Yong Ruo very simply, “I just feel annoyed! Everyone says ‘Mother and Child Connect by Hearts,’ but I think that my heart and the princess mother’s heart must be opposite! “

Yong Ruo was amused by his saying, “Why do you say so?”

“Whatever my mother likes, I find it boring; my mother doesn’t like it, but It looks very pleasing to me. The girl, the food, the clothes and so many other things …”

 He complained, “We don’t just like different things, she likes to keep me in control everywhere! I want to eat an extra crab. She denies and says that I am weak. I want to see the lanterns during the Lantern Festival, and my mother refuses, saying that there are so many people at the Lantern Festival.

Feng Liao began to state the various “disharmonies” between him and his mother.

For example, the Princess mother would not let him go to see the lanterns, so he sneaked out.  As a result, he didn’t have enough fun and had to return. Most of the people around him were beaten and killed by the Princess mother for “dereliction of duty” and “scratching the master,” and were also kicked out. Feng Liao could not do anything about it, and his heart was extremely dull and angry.

The half who survived, and the new half who came after this, learned the lesson and controlled him like he was a prisoner in jail. When he climbed to the tree to pick a flower, someone went to the Princess mother to report it, causing him to be punished by Taifei.

Another example, he got closer to a little girl and made a few jokes. As a result, within a few days, Princess mother insisted that the girl was a fox, uneasy, and disregarding his enthusiasm. She sent the girl out to match with someone who was a coward who liked to hit his wife.

Having said that, Feng Liao spit out madly, “How did mother know about my jokes with that little girl? Are the people around me not only jailers but spies?

“… Just a joke made her “restless,” no wonder those girls either have a dead face pretending to be dignified or have a smirk pretending to be a virtuous lady. They think that they can be loved by Princess mother and climb up to the high branches ? They don’t pee on their own virtues! Looking at them, I feel disgusted!”

   “And the little girl, she was only 13 years old! My mother had assigned her to such a person … It was really cruel! When I found that girl, she begged me to save her from the man. After beating him, I forced him to write a divorce, and taking all her dowry, I let that girl marry someone  else…… “

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