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"I know~~~~I know~~!" Bell rubbed the back of her head, nodded with a wrinkled expression, but soon she was a little uneasy, glanced at Qinglian, and then leaned over a little timidly and asked in a low voice: "But~~~ But Auntie, we~~~ Are we really okay with the way we look?
"You don't have to worry~~!" Qinglian glanced at the bell and said, "The master knows about this, and this time the master let him come out to play!"
"Ah~~~!" Bell didn't expect to hear this, she knew that the princess was going to secretly come out to play, or on the way back, she didn't think that His Majesty knew about it, and even His Majesty authorized it.
"Your Majesty really loves your master!" said the bell with emotion.
"Have you ever seen the imperial concubine~~!" At this time, Qinglian couldn't help but say with emotion, "At that time, the master was favored! It's a pity~~!
This is not the first time that Bell has heard others mention the imperial concubine, she even clearly remembers that not long ago, His Majesty came to the princess here, she still remembers it vividly, at that time she still felt that His Majesty was really good to the eldest princess, but now she heard Qinglian say this, and she became more and more curious in the face of the imperial concubine who was no longer there.
The bell was in a very bad situation at home before she entered the palace, otherwise she would not have sold it to the palace as a palace maid, at least in the palace she could still have something to eat. However, because the family was too poor when she was a child, this kind of thing did not appear in the memory of the bell at all, and now she has a feeling that her eyes are not enough when she looks at the dazzling goods on the street.
"How much is this small basket~~!" Fei Ling asked, standing at a stall selling bamboo weaving, speaking with a hint of San'in accent, pointing to a small basket that could be carried behind him.
"The girl wants this~~!" The stall was set up by an old man in his fifties, he glanced at the small basket selected by Fei Ling and said: "It's this hour, I'm going to close the stall and go home soon, even if you have twenty-five dollars for this basket!"
"Twenty-five Wenna~~!" Fei Ling looked very surprised when he heard this, "In our hometown, such a basket can be bought for ten yuan at most!"
"The little girl is from out of town!" the old man said to Fei Ling with a smile, "You are the price from other places, not the price of our capital, in this capital, no matter what it is, it is more expensive than other places!"
"Why?" Fei Ling asked as if he didn't understand.
"Because this is the capital!" The old man looked at Fei Ling with a blank look, and there was really no business on his stall, so he simply began to explain to her, "This is the capital, and the cost is much more expensive than other places, not to mention anything else, the old man and my family live outside the city, and I pick these things into the city every day to sell, and the entrance fee alone costs ten cents. Old man, I bring my own dry food when I go out every day, but if I don't prepare one day, just to fill my stomach, I don't have a dozen or twenty dollars, how can I earn these money back! It's not that I have to add it to these things! So ah~~! Girl, it's not expensive to buy you twenty-five dollars at all~!"
Fei Ling bit his lip and hesitated for a long time after hearing this, then stretched out two fingers and said: "Twenty Wen~~! I will pay up to twenty Wen! I don't want more!"
The old man laughed when he heard this, "Cheng~~! Anyway, it's this hour, if you can sell one, it's twenty wen!"
After the old man finished speaking, he picked up the basket, and touched it back and forth with his big rough hands, saying that there was no burr on the bamboo basket he made, and Fei Ling seemed to be very reluctant to count out twenty yuan from his purse, handed it to the old man, and then carried the basket and continued to shop!
The bell on the side was already dumbfounded, she really didn't expect her master to bargain, whether it was the action or the tone just now, it was like a girl from an ordinary family.
However, when the bell saw Feiling carrying the basket on his body, he hurriedly stepped forward: "Gong~~~No~~~~ Sister, your health is not good, I still have to carry this basket!"
Fei Ling smiled and handed the basket to the bell, not only did she really want to carry this basket, but she also had to put other things in this basket later, she didn't want to carry such a heavy thing on her back.
"Okay~~!We still have to move faster, otherwise wait a minute, this market is going to disperse!" Fei Ling looked at the time now, it is not early, we still have to hurry up!
Then Fei Ling picked a teapot for making tea at a distance from what she had just bought, and she also learned about the prices in the capital when she was bargaining. Fei Ling walked around the market, and then asked a lot of things he wanted to know about the opportunity to buy things, and when it was almost dark, the market was all scattered, and then the three of them took the things they bought back and slowly walked to the palace gate.
At this time, it has not been long before the curfew, the footsteps of passers-by on the street are also in a hurry, and the businesses on both sides of the road have also closed their shop doors, the three of them are women, and the amount of exercise is not very large, especially Feiling has not suffered much, this meeting is already a little tired and unable to walk.
"The princess wants to let the slave and maid call someone over!" Of course, Qinglian could see that the master was tired now, so she posted it and whispered to Fei Ling.
"No~~!" Fei Ling shook his head and said, "Anyway, it's not far from the palace gate here, let's walk slowly!"
Although Fei Ling can't see anything on the surface of what happened today, but there is still no way to calm down in her heart, she really didn't expect that the mother concubine actually let people contact her, although the mother concubine did not come forward in person, but her care and love for herself, she can clearly feel that in fact, she doesn't want to leave the palace, but when she thinks of her identity, and the responsibility she is now carrying, as well as her father, she really has no way to open her mouth and say that she followed the other party. Now she just wants to use this way to exhaust herself, so that she can forget what happened today.
However, the speed of the three of them is too slow, and when it comes to curfew, they are still two streets away from the city gate, and at this time, the guards responsible for patrolling the capital at night have begun to set off, they can say that they saw the three people walking slowly on the street at the first time, although the other party is a woman at a glance, but at this time, it is relatively close to the palace, so they don't dare to have any carelessness, everyone holds the mending knife in their hands and immediately surrounds the three of Feiling!
"Ah~~~!I can't walk~~!" Fei Ling saw this scene, and simply leaned his body on Qinglian's body and didn't leave.
However, when Fei Ling leaned on Qinglian's body, he took out a token from his arms and shook it at the guards.
The little leader of the team stepped forward and took the token from Fei Ling's hand and looked at it, the pattern on the token made him tremble, and the token almost fell from his hand.
"This~~~!this~~~!" the little boss felt that his tongue was not easy to use at this time.
At this moment, there was a rush of running from behind them, and the guards hurriedly turned their heads to look over, only to see a group of people wearing internal guard clothes, and they were also carrying a soft sedan chair, and were hurrying towards here.
Although the little leader was just a small person, he could clearly see that the leader of the team of internal guards was Lu Chuan, the second-in-command of the internal guards, and before they could get closer, the leading Lu Chuan waved at those guards and signaled them to get out of the way, the little leader hurriedly asked his subordinates to get out of the way, and as soon as Lu Chuan approached Feiling, he hurriedly knelt down.
"The subordinates don't know that the eldest princess hasn't returned to the palace yet, it's a dereliction of duty~! Please also ask the eldest princess to punish her!" Lu Chuan knelt in front of Feiling and said tremblingly, just now he received the news that when the eldest princess was still outside the palace, he was really scared to death, he was an internal guard, and he knew too many things than outside, of course he knew how much His Majesty loved his daughter, in case something happened to the eldest prince, he was afraid that his head would move.
"It's okay~~!" Fei Ling waved his hand indifferently and said, it was his own problem today that caused him to not return to the palace until now, so he can't blame others for this matter.
"But you're still smart, you know that carrying a soft sedan chair over, this princess is about to die of exhaustion!" Fei Ling said and asked Qinglian and Bell to help her make a soft sedan chair.
As soon as Fei Ling sat down, the soft sedan chair was lifted directly and walked towards the palace, and Lu Chuan looked at the small group of people and said, "Don't say things that shouldn't be said, don't say anything about this!"
"Yes~~!Yes~~!" The squad leader nodded hurriedly and said, "The little ones didn't bring eyes and ears when they went out today!"
"Hmm~~!" Lu Chuan was very satisfied with this answer, he stretched out his hand and patted the little boss and said, "Very good, Lord Ben remembers you!"
After saying this, Lu Chuan hurriedly went to chase Feiling's soft sedan chair, and the little leader excitedly touched his shoulder that was patted by Lu Chuan, and stood there for a long time without moving, and when he came back to his senses, he directly called all the people he had accepted, and after giving an order, he took his subordinates to continue his patrol work.
The soft sedan chair was carried all the way from a small corner gate on the outermost part of the palace to the entrance of the inner palace, and Lu Chuan stood next to the soft sedan chair and asked this Feiling in a low voice: "Eldest princess, Your Majesty is still waiting for the eldest princess to ~~~~!"
As a result, before Lu Chuan finished speaking, he was directly interrupted by Fei Ling, "No, Lord Lu went to his father to say something, and said that Princess Ben was too tired today, and wanted to go back to sleep well, and wait until tomorrow when he was rested to see his father, by the way, I also bothered Lord Lu to give a message, telling my father that Princess Ben brought him a gift back, and he will send it over tomorrow!"
After saying this, Fei Ling waved his hand directly, and let people carry him into the inner palace, Lu Chuan thought for a while, turned around and planned to go back to His Majesty.
At this time, an internal guard beside him couldn't help but step forward and say, "My lord, Your Majesty is still waiting for the eldest princess, if we pass like this, Your Majesty will definitely be unhappy, right?"
"You know what a fart!" Lu Chuan glared at his subordinates and said: "How can Lao Tzu be a shrewd person, why did he find such a stupid subordinate as you? Is that the eldest princess knowing! In this palace, the eldest princess can really get His Majesty's favor, and the eldest princess is alone, otherwise the eldest princess would not dare to talk like that just now! It's okay to use your own brains more!"
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"What's the matter? That girl said she was tired and wanted to go back to rest?" Duanmu Shuxuan put down the red pen in his hand to correct the folds and folds.
"Yes~!When Xia Guan went to pick up the eldest princess, he saw that the eldest princess should have walked for a long time, and she didn't look tired!" Although Lu Chuan said that it was okay just now, he was still cautious at this time, and His Majesty's dragon heart must be unpredictable!
"Hehe~~~!Sure enough, she has the same temperament as her mother! Then forget it, let her rest well! Wait until tomorrow I will see what gifts she brought back to me!" After hearing this, Duanmu Shuxuan did not get angry, but said such a sentence with a smile!
Hearing His Majesty's words, he was not angry at all, Lu Chuan completely put his heart back into his stomach, and he began to think about it in his heart, the eldest princess's mother is a deceased imperial concubine, everyone knows this, and His Majesty's preference for the eldest princess is also in front of him, it can be said that if the eldest princess is not a daughter, I am afraid that those people in the court in front of him would have said it a long time ago.
I was the same as everyone else before, only if the eldest princess was particularly clever and able to please His Majesty, His Majesty would like her very much, but what I heard just now was that Lu Chuan understood, it turned out that the deceased imperial concubine was very unusual in His Majesty's heart, so even if she had passed away, His Majesty still loved the eldest princess very much.