Chapter 55: The Strange Arrival of the Harem
In the courtyard of Mrs. Xu, an old eunuch sat on one side, followed by several palace maids holding satin boxes of clothes in their hands.
I saw two girls coming in as soon as the curtain was opened, the eldest was fourteen or five years old, wearing pink clothes, pink blue clouds and beads in a peacock long skirt, skirt dancing to the ground, wearing a light white gauze dress, faintly revealing some gorgeous finch patterns on pink clothes, the skirt and cuffs are bordered with silver-white auspicious clouds of Shu brocade, yes, the face is delicate and pretty, the body is slender and well-proportioned, worthy of a beautiful word!
The small one is dressed simply, wearing a light white and white skirt, covered with a light-colored emerald cloud smoke scattered flower skirt, only outlining a faint pattern at the bottom of the skirt, the black hair is pulled into an oblique bun, only a silver wisp of hollow hosta pinned, hooking up a faint pearl cui, looking at it, only feel that the whole person looks soft and weak, endearing and pitiful, just because the figure is not high, and when he came in, he lowered his head, did not see the appearance clearly, only felt that the body had not yet grown up, about twelve or thirteen years old.
"These two are the granddaughters and granddaughters of the old lady, and they are really rare beauties, no wonder the queen praised the old lady for being blessed after seeing her in the palace, not only her own granddaughter is like a flower and jade, but even a granddaughter is so beautiful, I see, these are the two granddaughters of the old lady!"
Mo Xuetong followed behind Luo Mingzhu and stood on the side of the old lady Xu without saying a word, only looking at the old eunuch secretly, the eunuchs in the palace can see the rank from the robes, the general little eunuchs are a gray horizontal stripe, some powerful eunuchs can embroider two silver horizontal stripes on the sleeves, and the big eunuchs who follow the masters of each palace can rust three golden horizontal stripes on the cuffs.
The three horizontal stripes on the cuffs of this old eunuch came out of the queen's palace, and the big eunuch who came out of the queen's palace was the big eunuch who came out of other palaces, and there was no need to flatter a foreign woman, even if the granddaughter was a first-class lady with a fate, she couldn't put a score in front of the queen, what was the queen going to do?
"Thank you Gonggong Liu for the compliment," Mrs. Xu said with a smile, and happily stretched out her finger and pointed at Luo Mingzhu and Mo Xuetong respectively, "This is my granddaughter, and over there is my granddaughter." ”
Seeing the old lady's pointing, Gonggong Liu's eyes fell on the delicate and pitiful little one, stunned, looking at Mo Xuetong, who looked delicate and pitiful, but was clearly a little stunned and stood there in a daze, his eyes wandered for a while, and he looked her up and down again.
The granddaughter of the old lady looks like a clever one, standing on the side, she is also beautiful, standing there with a clever smile, although she glances at herself from time to time, but she also has a bit of a delicate and clever appearance, and she looks dignified and good when she stands there, such a woman is almost the same.
The one on the side has been bowing his head until now, standing beside the old lady in a daze, wringing his hands and not even daring to raise his head, although his body is delicate and pitiful, but Mu Cheng is like this, and he is a little childish, he doesn't look like a lady at all, how can it be......
Isn't it really wrong? At the moment, I have a new plan in my heart, and I no longer worry about time.
"Since the two young ladies are here, please accept the reward of the queen's mother, and the servants can also go to several young ladies in their house. Liu Gonggong smiled happily and motioned to the palace maid behind him to send two sets of ruby heads, two gauze brocades, and two soft gold carved peacock steps, inlaid with dazzling pearl gems, dazzling, clearly worth a lot of money, such a reward is not to say that it is given to two little girls who are not in time, even if it is given to the palace concubine who is being favored.
A trace of consternation flashed in the eyes of Mrs. Xu, who had been smiling, but politely asked the two of them to thank them, and the objects sent by the royal family were not only valuable, but also had face.
Mo Xuetong carefully followed behind Luo Mingzhu, bowed to the gift, and thanked the queen for the reward, she kept her head down, looking afraid of the image of a little girl who had never seen the world, and looked at her father-in-law Liu who was looking at her secretly shook his head, Niangniang is afraid that she will really be wrong, such a woman can't even compare with the little palace maid in the palace, how can she attract the attention of King Xuan, at most, His Royal Highness King Xuan, who was unscrupulous, was in a good mood at the time, and just took care of things.
What's the point!
Gonggong Liu was even wondering if it was this young lady of the Mo family who was defeated by the small family that provoked King Xuan's eyes, and deliberately tossed it out to embarrass her, thinking about the character of His Royal Highness, worthy of a moody statement, flamboyant and presumptuous behavior, there is no concern at all, this stunned look in front of him, he has not raised his head until now, I am afraid that it is very long, in the eyes of the handsome and demonic King Xuan, maybe it is very eye-catching.
Thinking like this, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that it was possible, and after glancing at Mo Xuetong who was kneeling down, she lost any interest, said goodbye to the old lady, and took people without going to several other houses, and hurriedly returned to the palace.
The queen doesn't know where she is, so she has to explain the situation first.
In the Fuguo Mansion, the old lady asked Luo Mingzhu and Mo Xuetong's people to take them away, and did not let them leave, while sending someone out to investigate, he asked carefully about the situation at the banquet that day, especially about what happened around the two of them.
But she couldn't ask anything, she only said that the flamboyant King Xuan helped Mo Xuetong, and actually found the person who wronged her for hitting someone, Mo Xuetong naturally didn't dare to mention that she had known this demonic King Xuan before, and only said that this was the first time she had seen it, and she wondered why he had helped herself.
"Grandmother, grandmother, why did the queen mother reward us with such a valuable thing?" Luo Mingzhu was born in a wealthy family, naturally knew that the step was unusual, and he felt that he was not outstanding that night, even if he played the piano in the end, he was pressed down by Mo Xuemin, and he didn't see any style at all, how could the queen specially let people reward her, especially the reward of Mo Xuemin, who was obviously very brilliant, was actually given to her cousin, even if Luo Mingzhu had always been rough, she felt wrong at this time.
"Hitomi, apart from the affairs of the two princes, you haven't met any other unusual people or things?" the old lady obviously thought of this, and asked with a frown.
Are there any other unusual people or things?Is there a matter of the queen and the eldest princess?Mo Xue Tong bit her lip and said euphemistically: "At the banquet that day, the queen was summoned, and later met the eldest princess and stopped and said, grandmother, is the eldest princess and her mother very good since childhood. ”
"Has Her Royal Highness the eldest princess seen you?" Although the old lady was smiling on her face, the hand hidden in her sleeve twitched unconsciously.
"Yes, the eldest princess also asked about her mother's life in Cloud City. Mo Xuetong keenly caught a trace of panic and consternation flashing in the old lady's eyes, and still smiled coquettishly.
"What did you say?" asked the old lady eagerly.
"It's nothing, I just said that my mother was fine in Cloud City, but she was not in good health, and she ...... later" Mo Xue's eyes and eyebrows were dyed with a thick sadness, biting her lip, and her clear eyes were suddenly foggy.
"It's okay, it's okay, it's okay now, if your mother is here, I don't want you to be so sad, don't think too much," the old lady reached out and hugged Mo Xuetong in her arms, gently stroked her face, and comforted her, "The eldest princess is a widow, and it should not be seen often in the future, if you meet on other occasions, you must also be polite and alienated." ”
Is this to keep her distance from the eldest princess?
"Grandmother, mother, why is the eldest princess a kind person. Raising her pale little face, Mo Xuetong wiped her tears with a handkerchief, and asked puzzledly.
"Royal people, royal affairs, too far away from us, I'm afraid that you will fall into it accidentally, after all, the queen will notice you, if the eldest princess pays attention to you again, it will not be your blessing." Mrs. Xu sighed deeply, her fingers caressed Mo Xue's long black hair, but her eyes did not fall on her, and the corners of her lips could not hide the bitterness.
Such an expression fell on Xu Lao Taijun, who has always made people pick up their thumbs when they talk about it, and dare to call them the women in the middle of the women, how can it not make people wonder, but the old lady will no longer talk about this topic, only say that some girls are interested, and the people who will inquire about the news will talk back, and the old lady will let them go back to the yard.
Mo Xuetong returned to the house and lay on the bed, tossing and turning and couldn't sleep, she always felt that the words of the old lady today were really weird, not at all like her grandmother's temper.
Turned over on the bed for a while, sat up violently, took Mo Ye and Mo Lan to the courtyard for a walk, the eyebrows were slightly sorrowful, and I always felt that I seemed to have forgotten something, my grandmother was weirdly nervous today, and let herself alienate and snub the eldest princess, the eldest princess is a widowed person is good, but her mother died early, and she is not a blessed person, and what can she avoid jealousy, besides, the eldest princess is just a princess, and she has no children and no daughters, how can she pull herself into the royal affairs......
What is the grandmother worried about, why don't you let yourself get close to the eldest princess, I can't figure it out!
Because there is something in my heart, I simply went to the corner path, I didn't see many people along the way, only saw two or three maids hurrying by, all of them politely bowed and retreated, the people in the house had already been told that Miss Table was coming, seeing her figure and bearing, she naturally knew that this was the granddaughter of the old lady's most beloved grandson, how dare she slack off.
Mo Xuetong has been growing up in Cloud City, and Luo Xia took her back to Beijing twice when she was a child, and both of them were when she was a child, so she was not familiar with the Fuguo Mansion, and she was full of worries, and the more she went, the more she went apathy.
"Miss, what kind of place is that? It really resembles Madame's garden, and the camphor tree at the door seems to be long. Mo Lan suddenly stopped, pointed to the high wall on the side and said in surprise.
Sure enough, a high wall blocked in front of him, the wide courtyard door was locked, and there was a camphor tree towering behind the door, exactly the same as in the old mansion in Yuncheng, this is the mother's residence?
I vaguely remember that when I was a child when I went to the Fuguo Mansion, I used to come here, but when did this place become deserted like this.
The lock at the door is yellowed and embroidered, although the outside of the door is clean, but the inside is overgrown with weeds, at a glance you know that no one has come in to clean it for a long time, there is a layer of soil falling in the corner of the wall, and a few crazy vines pass through it, making this garden more desolate and quiet, and there is no sound around.
The heartbeat is frenzied, and the fingers tremble slightly to caress a green vine in the corner of the wall!
She remembered that this was her mother's residence, or that it used to be her mother's residence, and her mother had lived here until she was ten years old, and then moved to another place, this is what her mother had told herself, and what did her mother say to her in her memory...... But it was too young at that time, or too careless, not only can't I remember it now, but I have forgotten even this old garden.
There must be something, the performance of the eldest princess, the performance of her grandmother, and the cause of death that her mother can't explain, all show that her mother has secrets that she doesn't know...... Or you can lift the fog on your mother's body.
"Moye, go in and open the door!" her mind buzzed as she heard her own cold voice.