When I first heard about this place, I was told by Mama Jiang Ji this morning. Hao Ming complained in his heart at the time, but he didn't expect that there was really a place in the palace to Shufangzhai, but it was not a place to live, but a place for the concubines in the palace to watch the play. After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he renovated the second place of Qianxi where he once lived and changed it into Chonghua Palace, and the head office was rebuilt into a place to listen to operas.

Shufangzhai is a slightly narrow palace, and the queen mother and concubines have not yet arrived, and the show girls have come to this palace under the leadership of Jiang Ji, the head of Xianruo Pavilion.

Shufangzhai is an I-shaped hall, there are two halls before and after, and there is a hall in the middle to connect. The front hall is five rooms wide, three rooms deep, and the yellow glazed tile is on the top of the mountain. In the middle of the courtyard in front of the main hall is a wide stage, there is a floor on the stage, the four corners of the yellow glazed tile heavy eaves gather the spire, the style is elegant, it is very new, it seems that it can still smell the faint smell of lacquer, there are already eunuchs on the stage who are busy arranging the scene.

This is the largest stage in addition to Changyin Pavilion, and Changyin Pavilion is not used except for major festivals, so the most used on weekdays is the Shufangzhai stage. The one who sings the opera is naturally the eunuch in the palace, playing elementary school dramas, and the eunuch's voice is already soft, and the voice is like a woman, so it is very appropriate to sing the opera. After all, the inner palace is not allowed to enter by foreign men.

Outside the main hall, under the Soviet-style painted corridor, neatly, one by one, there are general style mahogany backrest rose chairs, and one color is covered with autumn-colored python satin cushions. And the queen mother, concubines and concubines, naturally sat in the main hall and the bright room, and took a look, it was really cleaned up, and the upper middle was a rosewood mud gold cloud dragon pattern throne, and there were eight armchairs on the left and right sides of the throne, and a few small chairs were set between the chairs, and seasonal melons and fruits and delicate snacks had been placed on the table. This kind of treatment is what they don't have in the palace.

Suo Xue Luo's voice sounded delicately in Ming's ears: "Where is Sister Nalan looking! We, the show girls who have not been sealed by the Holy Decree, can only sit under the porch outside, and no matter how much we look, we are not allowed to enter!"

Hao Ming'e frowned, "If Sister Suo Yuluo didn't look inside, how would she know that I looked inside?!"

Suo Xue Luo choked suddenly.

Seeing such a glamorous beauty, a few smiles couldn't help but float on Ming's face, and this kind of smile was regarded as ridicule by Suo Xue Luo, her coquettish face gradually turned purple, and then she sneered, she glanced at Ming's clothes, and said with disdain: "My sister's clothes are not bad, but the color and pattern are too small! I remember that my sister has a very bright dress, why didn't she wear it today?"

Hearing this, before Hao Ming could remember what to say, Geng Yingyue snorted, "Why didn't Sister Nalan wear that, Sister Suo Yuluo didn't know?"

Suo Yuluo smiled with a hook of lips, "It's Sister Geng who lives in the same room as Sister Nalan, and it's not me, how can I know?"

Seeing this, Hao Ming hurriedly smiled at Geng Yingyue soothingly, and said lightly to Suo Yuluo: "That dress has not been washed and dried yet, so naturally it can't be put on." As he spoke, he looked at Suo Xue Luo's clothes today: a fiery red pipa placket flag dress with a color of pomegranate flowers, hanging down without a trace of wrinkles, slightly revealing a touch of the toe of the shoes embellished with huge round southern pearls, and the clothes were embroidered with dark purple embroidery thread into pieces of gold and rich peonies, standing in the afternoon sun, only making people feel shining and dazzling.

Hao Ming smiled a little more, and praised it: "Sister Suo Yuluo's clothes, I'm afraid they are not much better than the ladies in the palace." ”

Suo Yuluo smiled proudly and said, "Sister Nalan's mouth is so sweet, but my sister hasn't seen the ladies in the palace, how can she be so convincing?"

Hao Ming covered his lips and smiled, although this Suo Yu Luo clan was arrogant, but he was not stupid!

Suo Xue Luo snorted lightly, "My sister has seven exquisite skills, if I don't have more tricks, I'm afraid it will be even more out of reach." ”

Yu Ming squinted her eyes secretly, she thought it was just an arrogant and arrogant character, but she didn't expect it to be a little difficult! It seems that she really can't underestimate the women in the palace in the future.

Seeing that Yu Ming was speechless, Suo Xue Luo asked with a smile, "Why doesn't my sister speak?" ”

Hao Ming said with a smile: "My sister has iron teeth and copper teeth, and my sister can only admit defeat and remain silent." ”

"Really?" said Suo, smiling meaningfully, "I hope so......"

After a while, I could only hear the shrill voice of the eunuch outside piercing the sky: "The Queen Mother has arrived! The Queen Mother has arrived! The Concubine Xian Niangniang and the Hui Concubine have arrived-"

Before the voice fell, all the show girls standing under the corridor of the main hall of Shufangzhai had already squatted down and knelt down. The queen mother and her people, the show girls have already seen it on the day of the palace election, and the queen mother who followed the queen mother half a step later was a dignified woman wearing a red embroidered colorful danfeng chaoyang placket flag dress, and wearing such a color, such a pattern of clothes, there is no doubt that only the queen of the middle palace. The queen is now about six months pregnant, her body is heavy, and she is supported by the two palace maids on the left and right, and she follows closely behind the queen mother. Bo Ming swept the high flowerpot shoes worn under the queen's feet, and only sighed in his belly. Even if you are not afraid of falling, walking with such a high sole is not good for the child in your belly. But after thinking about it, the queen must take a sedan chair when she goes out, and she only walks a few steps, so she naturally has to wear the bottom of a flower pot to set off her tall and dignified.

Behind the queen are two gorgeously dressed and delicate palace concubines, who are in their twenties, the one on the left looks dignified, the face has a faint self-esteem, and the eyebrows are a little like the queen mother, it can be seen that this is the queen mother's niece concubine Wulanara. The one on the right, wearing a delicate concubine red peach blossom entwined flag dress, a melon seed face is very delicate, her face is so white that she is a little sickly, and her figure is also extremely slender and graceful.

And behind the second concubine, there was also a large group of concubines of Yingying Yanyan, the older ones were only in their twenties, and the younger ones were only sixteen or seventeen years old. In terms of appearance, they do have their own characteristics, but in terms of the most attractive men's love, there is indeed no one who can compare to the beautiful Hui Concubine Niangniang.

"The Queen Mother is blessed with Jin'an, the Queen Mother is Jin'an!" A group of show girls who were kneeling on the ground brushed and invited An. The queen mother was not sluggish for half a minute, and she didn't even look at the show girls who knelt on the ground, and she was directly helped into the hall by Mama Jiang Ji. However, the queen paused slightly, with a dignified and decent smile on her face, and bowed her head slightly.

When the queen mother, the queen, and the concubines all entered the palace and took their seats, I saw a eunuch next to the queen mother walk out, shook the dust in his hand, and said loudly: "The queen mother's decree, all the show girls and little masters are seated." ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Empress Dowager. ”

After kneeling for a quarter of an hour, when I got up this time, I inevitably felt a little weak under my feet. But for a moment when his legs and feet were weak, Suo Xue Luo had already quickly sat down on a rose-backed rose chair closest to the entrance of the hall, and raised his eyebrows proudly at Ming.

Hao Ming only felt speechless and choked, what is there to fight about this thing? He didn't bother to pay attention to her, and together with Geng Yingyue, he chose a central position, and sat down with Suo Yuluo Clan, where there were many empty seats for show girls.