Chapter 250: Daughter's Heart
Chunlai walked in, saw the almost all opened suitcases and hairpin rings, was stunned, and swallowed the words of persuasion when they came to his mouth and swallowed: Since Mrs. Xiang was placed under house arrest, the little prince born by Concubine Meng died, and Meng Boheng exposed the series of things that designed his half-brother Meng Si'an, the young queen has been frowning almost all day long, and she has not shown a look other than gloom for a long, long time.
"It's rare that the queen is happy today, so let her go!" Chunlai thought so, so he picked up a short shirt with wide sleeves embroidered with light foundation embroidered over the shoulders and begonias and auspicious cloud butterflies, and said with a smile: "Niangniang, the slave maid thinks you look good in this dress!"
Unexpectedly, Queen Meng took the short shirt and stroked it on her body a few times, but she didn't mean to change it behind the screen, but took her clothes and became depressed, and said self-deprecatingly: "This palace is really stupid to stay in this Wangchun Palace for a long time, and when I heard that someone who didn't come often came, I couldn't wait to dress up...... It's not Kang Zhaolai, a foreign man, who has to hang up the curtain when he turns around, isn't it a joke that this teacher moves the crowd?"
Chunlai hurriedly said: "Although it is not the princess of the county, but it is sent by the princess of the county! If you don't clean up properly at that time, look at the haggard appearance, and let Sheng Xi see it and tell the princess of the county, how can the princess of the county not feel distressed? The princess of the county is pregnant now, but she can't worry about it!"
"Niangniang, you have always been the best with the princess of the county, how can you bear not to dress up and dress up at this time?"
The queen knew that she was just giving herself a reason to dress up, so she just shook her head: "You put all these things away, and just keep two regular clothes that have just been washed." This house is not full of my people, so that when they see me dressed for no reason, they may become suspicious. β
In the evening, the queen finally wore a crimson dark embroidered dogwood pattern narrow sleeve shirt, tied a beaded queen mother and daughter flower belt, tied a light pink pleated skirt, and embroidered a snowflake brocade hydrangea pattern on the skirt, revealing a little bit of liveliness and coquettishness that a girl of this age should have in the solemnity of the silk dress.
When she was dressing, Queen Meng was preoccupied, and she didn't ask for anything, so Chunlai took it upon herself to comb her with a hanging hair, and obliquely inserted a pair of silver-gilded rods inlaid with emerald carved double-sided bat tassel hairpins.
Although the queen has never served Emperor Xuanjing, it is not suitable for the hairstyle of the maiden in the house.
However, after Chunlai got it right, Queen Meng stared at herself in the mirror for a while, but didn't say anything, only silently took the crimson lipstick handed by Chunlai and sipped it.
Although the people in the mirror are not as enchanting and gorgeous as the Shu sisters, nor are they as delicate and delicate as Sheng Weiqiao, they can also be called cloud sideburns.
It's just that...... The queen's eyes darkened, she sighed silently, turned her head away, and no longer looked at herself.
"Queen Niangniang, the princess's handwriting and tokens are in it, please take a look!" Gongsun Xi didn't know the queen's mood on this day, under the leadership of Meng Guiyu, after mixing into the Wangchun Palace, he entered the inner hall, saluted Queen Meng through the curtain, and took out the small package that Sheng Weiqiao handed him when he was in the north of Xinjiang before, presented it with both hands, and said dryly, "Where the mother is tired, the princess of the county is unforgettable!"
Empress Meng asked Chunlai to come out to pick up the package, and when the bead curtain opened and closed, she hurriedly looked at Gongsun Xi.
This person is much thinner than when I saw him last year, he bowed his head very well, and he could not see his expression, only his hand holding the package, fair and slender, and full of masculinity in his thinness.
Somehow, a wave of anger suddenly rose in the queen's heart: Farewell to the years, you ...... You won't even look up at me?
In the end, is this person abiding by the rules, or is he simply indifferent to what the person behind the curtain looks like and how he is doing?
She had a faint grievance and self-deprecation in her heart, obviously this person didn't know anything, and obviously this person had no obligation to care about her...... Why bother with her thousands of twists and turns?
After thinking about it, I didn't even find out when Chunlai handed the package to me.
Fortunately, there is a bead curtain to block it, and Gongsun Xi outside should not have noticed it.
After settling down, the queen stretched out her hand to open the package, and when she saw the hairpin, she sighed: "This is when Kang Zhao entered the palace last year, I specially picked it out from my dressing table and gave it to her." I heard that she left Yizhou in a hurry and brought almost nothing, and I thought that this hairpin was either not taken to the western Xinjiang, or most of it was going to be destroyed in the war. Who knew that she would take it all the way to Northern Xinjiang. β
If you change to an eight-sided exquisite, you will definitely have to pick up a few words at this time, such as "The queen mother and the princess of the county have a deep relationship, and the princess of the county has no day or forgets the queen".
But Gongsun Xi has always been silent, and he felt that the queen had a good relationship with Sheng Weiqiao, and her temperament was not that harsh, but she was silent at the moment.
Chunlai in the curtain gritted his teeth angrily, and thought hatefully: "This wood!
But when I thought of the gap between the two, I sighed secretly, and said, "This is not a good thing, the falling flowers are intentionally ruthless, so I simply called the mother to die, in this cold and deserted palace, I don't feel too tormented." β
In the past, when Queen Meng only entered the palace, everyone pitied the widow of the young queen, and the middle palace was still cold.
But at that time, the queen herself was very happy, she did what she wanted to do but couldn't do when she was in Zhenghou's mansion in the past, and even planted flowers and grass in front of the palace with her own hands.
These days, everyone has become accustomed to no longer mentioning the words "the queen is pitiful", but the queen has begun to be depressed.
From the point of view of spring, instead of letting the queen be haggard day by day in the depression, it is better to simply despair, and maybe there is also the freedom to dress up in Wangchun Palace before Xingxing.
"I know what Kang Zhao said. She peeked at the queen and bit her lip, then lowered her eyes, opened the letter without saying a word, and only heard the rustle of paper in the palace for a while, and after a while, the queen raised her head and said softly, "It's just the side hall where Concubine Mo lives, I haven't been there." In this way, I will find an excuse to go around there tomorrow, take a good look at the terrain and the palace people who are waiting, and then I will tell you...... It's good to let the sixth brother bring you over tomorrow, he is very free to come and go at this time, if you follow him and don't do anything attention-grabbing, you won't be interrogated. β
Hearing this, Gongsun Xi pondered for a moment and said, "Niangniang, it has been several days since the news that Concubine Mo was critically ill. I'm afraid that there are many dreams at night, can I spend the night in the palace, and as soon as I get the news tomorrow, I can be ready to act?"
When Empress Meng heard this, she frowned and said, "Do you want to spend the night in the palace......?" Whether I'm a woman or a spring come, where do you live?"
"Just find a place to deal with it for a night. Gongsun Xi said indifferently, "I was blessed by my mother in the past, and I worked as a guard in Wangchun Palace for a period of time, and I am quite familiar with Wangchun Palace and the palace near the left, so I can find a corner where no one is around." β
"How can this be done?" the queen immediately objected, "it is said that summer is almost in the middle of the day, and after all, there is still some speculation. In the middle of the night, you just go out with your bare hands to find a corner to stay overnight, what if you freeze tomorrow?"
Gongsun Xi said: "Niangniang, don't worry, this is impossible." I came all the way from the northern Xinjiang, and I didn't sleep in the open once or twice, but isn't it still good now?"
It's okay if he doesn't say that, when he says this, the queen suddenly feels distressed, and can't help but rush: "Actually, you don't have to fight so hard at all, my sixth brother will never let Concubine Mo affect Mizhen at this time, even if you don't come, he will definitely have to think about it!"
After the words came out, the queen and Gongsun Xi were stunned for a moment, was the queen annoyed that she would care too much about what she said, so that Gongsun Xi could hear her thoughts?
Gongsun Xi thought: "Didn't the people in the Wuyi camp in Chang'an tell me that Meng Guiyu and the queen were suspected of forming an alliance, and it is said that this pair of cousins should be in a group, why does it sound that the queen has the intention of demolishing Meng Guiyu's platform now? Could it be that there was something unknown about this cousin before, so the queen wants to use my hand to beat Meng Guiyu?"
He felt that it was just a small thing.
Originally, I planned to clean up Meng Guiyu on this trip, and use practical actions to tell this Chongxin Marquis that he should have the loyalty and attitude to do things under Rong Sleeping Crane, and it would be okay to send the queen a favor at this time.
So he said confidently: "Niangniang, please rest assured, you will definitely do a good job when you turn around!"
"......" Empress Meng looked at the figure outside the curtain inexplicably, wondering why he would answer such words?
was hesitating to ask if he wanted to ask, Gongsun Xi had already offered to retire: "It's dark at night, don't disturb the mother's placement!"
"You wait!" Seeing that he was leaving, Empress Meng hurriedly shouted, turned her head and whispered to Chun, "You go and take out the newly obtained gilt hollow silver aromatherapy ball from this palace, and take another silver frost charcoal!"
Gongsun Xi heard that he wanted to warm himself, and was quite speechless, although he grew up in the south, but Tortoiseshell Island is isolated overseas, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter, it is very cold at night. Over the years that I have grown up with Rong Sleeping Crane, I have long been accustomed to hunger and cold, and in Chang'an this season, staying up all night is just a trivial matter.
"Mother, you don't have to be so troublesome. He sighed and said, "And the fragrance smells, and it is easy to leave traces after it gets wet." β
"This scent ball of mine is new and has never been used. Empress Meng hurriedly said, "The silver frost charcoal is tasteless, and it won't cause you any trouble." β
He said, "You must be hungry when you come so late, right? Wait and ask Chunlai to get a bowl of rock sugar bird's nest, and you can eat before leaving!"
Most of the women Gongsun Xi came into contact with were standard tortoiseshell island girls like Gongsun Yingjiang, Yi Shan, and Yi Liu, who seemed to be beautiful and naΓ―ve, but in fact, they didn't know how unpredictable they were.
After arriving at the Sheng Mansion, although he had also seen normal women, and the big maids such as Jinli had a good impression of him, and they were thinking about marrying him in their hearts, but because Sheng Lanci and the Feng family were very strict in this kind of thing, Sheng Weiqiao was a person who had to serve everything, and as a big girl, she didn't have much time to go to Gongsun Xi. What's more, Jinli and the others all bought into the house and grew up with their aunt teaching the rules, even if they have love for Gongsun Xi, they don't dare to show it too obviously.
Those vague hints, where can Gongsun Xi, who is dedicated to assisting Rong Sleeping Crane to do a great career, see it?
The women he pays attention to, such as Sheng Weiqiao, are pampered and willful, and they have to be coaxed by sleeping cranes everywhere.
So like Queen Meng, he really hasn't received it, he feels very awkward at the moment, after repeatedly saying that he doesn't need anything, seeing that the queen insisted, he was a little impatient, so he got up, planning to leave forcibly, I don't believe that the queen can catch up with him?
As a result, her feet only moved, and Queen Meng, who noticed it, was anxious, and she was angry: "You dare to go!! if you go, don't expect !!anything from me."
"......" Gongsun Xi finally sensed the queen's abnormality, looked at the curtain in great surprise, and said tentatively, "Niangniang?"
Chunlai inside happened to take out the gilt hollow silver aromatherapy ball and silver frost charcoal, and was stunned when he saw this, and then said to the queen: "Fortunately, Niangniang planned to smoke a few peonies in the court two days ago, so that they can bloom early." Otherwise, there is no need to burn charcoal fire in our hall to keep warm, and the slave maid is afraid that he will not be able to get this silver frost charcoal for a while. β
Queen Meng's face was red, and she didn't answer Gongsun Xi, she only took the aromatherapy ball and charcoal, and said in a low voice: "This palace is here to load, you can go to the small kitchen to have some snacks." β
Chunlai hesitated and said in a low voice, "Yes!"
After she left, the queen and Gongsun Xi were left in the palace.