Chapter 16: Appointments
The next day, the list of people who left the palace came down. In addition to the lilacs and vines around Jiang Xian, there are also the two big palace maids who serve by Bai Su's side, the two big palace maids who serve by the side of the imperial concubine, and some low-grade palace maids and female officials.
Like in the previous life, Bai Jie and the lover around Jiang Xian were promoted to seventh-grade official women, and Bai Su was promoted to willow leaves and willow eyebrows.
According to the meaning of the Empress Dowager, since the lilacs and they are all going to leave the palace, they will not delay the work of this meeting, and the palace maids and female officials who have been promoted to the rank will begin to perform their own duties, and the palace maids and female officials who have left the palace will rest earlier, and they should say goodbye, and they will finish the work quickly where they want to go, and they will all go out of the palace on September 22.
Jiang Xian remembered that in her previous life, when Lilac and Tengluo left the palace, she not only rewarded them with clothes and jewelry that did not violate taboos, but also rewarded them with three hundred taels of silver each. This life is naturally the same, and when Lilac and Tengluo have handed over the matter in their hands clearly, Jiang Xian took twenty silver and asked Baijie to invite Lilac and them to have a meal, and then rewarded something.
Lilac and Vine looked a little dazed when they came in to thank you.
Jiang Xian didn't remember if the two of them also showed such expressions in their previous lives, thinking that these two people had served her for almost ten years, she couldn't help but feel relieved gently: "If you just go out of the palace and encounter any difficulties, just go to the Zhenguo Mansion to send a letter, and I will ask the prince to take care of you." ”
The prince is Jiang Lu.
The two of them were busy kowtowing, and when they got up, they were already teary-eyed, which made Jiang Xian sad for a long time.
It was Bai Su who made an appointment with Cao Xuan to meet at the gate of Cining Palace.
Jiang Xian saw that she was wearing a half-new rose and purple gold plain gown, but she wore the Nanzhu earrings that the Empress Dowager rewarded during the Spring Festival, reflecting a face as delicate as a hibiscus, she couldn't help but smile.
Bai Su was so red with a smile from her that she hurriedly dropped the sentence "I'm leaving", and walked out of the Dongnuan Pavilion quickly.
Cao Xuan was already waiting at the gate of Cining Palace.
He couldn't figure out what Bai Su asked him to do.
Bai Su's eyes lit up when he saw Cao Xuan.
No wonder Cao Xuan is known as "the most beautiful man in Beijing".
He stood casually under the big locust tree in front of the gate of Cining Palace, the dappled light and shadow fell on his face through the leaves, his skin was like snow, and his eyebrows were eternal.
Bai Su understood Jiang Xian's thoughts for the first time - seeing such a face and such a gentle smile, as for what he thought, who would have the heart to guess?
She stepped forward with a toothless smile and blessed Cao Xuanfu, but when she looked up, she found that there was still a man standing under the big locust tree.
He was dressed in the clothes of the guards of the forbidden palace, his figure was slender and straight, his skin was fair and ruddy, his facial features were tough, and his two thick eyebrows lined with a high nose bridge, with a kind of heroic handsomeness.
If Cao Xuan is a peach blossom, this man is a tree. Although the tree is not as eye-catching as the flower, it is more durable than the flower.
Bai Su couldn't help but glance at the man again.
The man sensed his gaze, and instead of avoiding it, he smiled at her.
The smile was bright and bright, like the sun, as if it could dissipate a haze, making people's hearts clear when they looked at it.
Only happy people have such a smile.
This man must have been from a very good background, his parents were loving at home, his brothers were harmonious, he had a smooth journey when he grew up, and he had not encountered any shady things and suffered any severe setbacks.
Bai Su thought, looked at Cao Xuan in confusion, and said, "Who is this?"
Cao Xuan said with a smile: "This is Li Qian, the eldest son of Li Changqing, the general soldier of Fujian, don't look at his young age, he has passed the hospital examination last year, and he has performed the crown ceremony in advance, and the word Zongquan." Now he works as a guard in the Praetorian Guard. ”
Bai Su was very surprised.
She didn't expect Li Qian to stand in front of her like this.
And what surprised her even more was that she didn't expect Li Qian to be famous. It stands to reason that a family like the Li family, which has made a name for itself in the military, will not be able to follow a career at all, let alone study. This Li Qian not only read, but also read very well, but in the end, he joined the Praetorian Guard by using his strengths and avoiding his weaknesses, as if Li Qian was only studying to judge civility.
Li Changqing wants his son to be a general who "can hit Hu on the horse and cursive the army when he gets off the horse"?
Then he really has infinite high hopes for his eldest son.
I just don't know if this eldest son of his has this ability!
Bai Su muttered in his heart, but his face was not obvious, and he said hello to Li Qian with a smile.
Li Qian probably knew who she was, and was more curious about her, except for looking at her carefully at first glance, he didn't look at her anymore after bowing to her, and after giving her a salute, he took a few steps back and stood behind Cao Xuan.
Bai Su's plans were all disrupted.
She can't ask Cao Xuan in front of Li Qian, right?
"I didn't expect to meet Guard Li here. Bai Su said politely, "I don't know where Guard Li is working on an errand now, are you still used to living there?"
Li Qian didn't expect Bai Su to talk to him, he glanced at Cao Xuan quite unexpectedly, a few ambiguous and unknown flashes flashed in his eyes, and he bowed slightly and smiled: "I just entered the palace, and I don't understand anything." The Queen Mother asked me to stay in Kunning Palace as an errand for the time being. ”
There was something wrong with Cining Palace and Kunning Palace, Bai Su thought that Li Qian would be the Empress Dowager Cao's person in the future, and felt a little pity inexplicably, so he perfunctorily entertained two sentences, and talked to Cao Xuan: "A few days ago, the Empress Dowager gave a box of red bean cakes, saying that you brought it from outside the palace for the Empress Dowager to taste. The county lord thought it was delicious, so he asked me to ask where the red bean cake came from. ”
No way?
Announcing him into the palace, that's what he asked?
However, when did he bring red bean cakes to the palace, why did he not have any impression at all!
Cao Xuan was stunned, and he was afraid that Jiang Xian would not dare to talk nonsense casually if he went to buy cakes according to the place, so he had to say vaguely: "I have sent red bean cakes into the palace several times, and I don't know which time the Queen Mother rewarded me?"
"Then thank you Cheng Engong. Bai Su smiled and resigned from Cao Xuan.
Cao Xuan was very excited, and pulled Li Qian and whispered: "Do you see, that is the eldest lady of the Bai family in the Beiding Hou Mansion, Qinghui Xiangjun, who is beautiful, right? There are many more prominent than Qinghui Township's Junmen, but none of them are more beautiful than her. There are a few who are more beautiful than her, but none of them are from a better background than her. There are very few such women, and my aunt has also put a lot of thought into it for you, but she didn't just push a woman to you. ”
It was precisely because of this that he heard that Bai Su wanted to see him, so he brought Li Qian over.
Li Qian smiled, did not speak, with a little bit of the man's shame when he saw a marriageable woman, and said: "Thank you Queen Mother and Cheng Engong, but after all, this marriage event is 'the words of the marriage concubine, the life of the parents'......"
The implication is that it's better not to meddle.
Cao Xuan laughed, thinking that Li Qian was quite funny.
Li Qian seemed a little embarrassed, obviously diverted the question, and said, "Cheng'en Gong, did the Queen Mother pick a family affair for you?"
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