Chapter 30: The New Year's Gift
As the New Year approached, please be in a hurry. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoIn Cining Palace, eunuchs and palace maids everywhere have become ubiquitous. When the Queen Mother saw us, she seemed to have some sense of dismissal, and soon let us come back.
On the way back, I had just walked a few steps when I heard Lin Yu behind me call out to me: "Sister Wen." I stopped, turned back to her, and asked, "What's the matter?"
Lin promised to take a few quick steps and followed. Then he said to me, "Sister Wen, if it's okay, let's go to the Imperial Garden for a walk?"
I didn't really want to have a deep friendship with her, and I wanted to find a reason to reject her. At this time, Concubine Jing came over from the side, saw that I was a little hesitant and embarrassed, and said, "Noble Wen, you have to practice that song carefully." Let's play again as an ensemble. "I saluted naturally, and said yes. Concubine Jing left satisfied. Lin Yucheng stood there a little embarrassed, his face flushed.
Concubine Jing's behavior is tantamount to slapping her in the face. But she couldn't say anything, and even said to me with a smile: "Since the noble man has something to do, the concubine won't bother." When there is nothing to do in the future, I will bother the nobles again. "But having said that, I could see the gloom in her eyes. She's not reconciled. It's just that she covered it up very well, although she blushed, she was still smiling, and when people saw it, she thought she had encountered some happy event, and she couldn't see what grievances she had just suffered.
When I returned to the palace, I naturally had to follow Concubine Jing's instructions, and familiarize myself with the ensemble's music again. The flute sounded melodious, but my heart was full of thoughts. The New Year's Festival is coming, and the palace is going to have a palace banquet according to the old practice. Since the palace banquet has been held, the women of all families and clans who have the title of destiny will come to the banquet if there is no accident. Some even brought their daughters with them. When you come to the palace for a banquet, you naturally want to give a New Year's gift.
And we, the concubines in the palace, also want to give New Year's gifts. This New Year's gift is not a fixed gift, but also a performance such as dancing and music at the banquet. In this palace, I really can't come out with any decent gifts, but I don't want to be in the limelight to dance and music. It's really giving me a bit of a headache.
In the afternoon, I was worried when there was a commotion outside the door. It turns out that Qingyun is here, and I often play with Jing Concubine Niangniang these days, naturally, several girls are also familiar with each other, and they are not so restrained after meeting. When Qingyun came today, it was Concubine Jing who sent her to pass on to me, saying that they would go to Merlin to practice ensemble together in the afternoon. I naturally responded and asked Qingyun to bring the words back.
After lunch, I went as promised. Rong Yan and Si Kite accompanied me to Merlin, and Nian Yang didn't follow me as usual, her reason was that I wanted to embroider some tricks at home, and it would be good to have Aunt Rong with me.
This was laughed at by me and Si Kite. The embroidery of Nian Yang is really good, better than the average palace maid embroiderer, and will use some special stitches, the embroidered patterns are lifelike, which makes people love it at a glance. It's just that she also has the biggest problem with embroidery, that is...... It's too slow! Ordinary people can embroider a pattern in one day, but it takes her five or even seven days to embroider. Si Kite and I have been sighing, maybe it's because she embroiders too slowly, so the embroidery work can be so good!
Last time, Nian Yang was to embroider a few table cushions and chair cushions, which has been dragged to the present and there is still a chair cushion that has not yet been embroidered, this time because the New Year is approaching, Aunt Rong saw her embroidery work, and because several girls and eunuchs in the palace like the little things she embroidered, so they dragged Nian Yang to embroider some small tips for rewarding people in the New Year's Festival. Let a few people discuss and choose the patterns they like, and give them to Nian Yang to embroider them with this dexterous little hand.
Rong Yan saw that she frowned a little every day, as if she was looking at the embroidery work in her hand with bitterness and hatred, and finally opened her mouth, saying that if Sister Nianyang doesn't have to worry, let you take a few days off and work well. Exempted from her daily duty, replaced by Rong Yan and Si Kite, Nian Yang became a full-time embroiderer in Xianfu Palace.
Rong Yan and Si Yuan accompanied me to Merlin, and saw Concubine Jing waiting in Merlin. Today is not in the pavilion, but on the path outside the pavilion, Qingyun accompanied her, and when she saw her, she was reaching out to fold a plum blossom.
When I saw Concubine Jing Niangniang, I first saluted in a proper manner: "Concubine Jing Niangniang is blessed." Then he asked, "Why did the mother break this flower? ”
Concubine Jing looked at me with deep meaning: "Have you ever heard a sentence? If I don't break it today, if the flowering period has passed in the coming day, I can only look at this empty branch if I want to fold. ”
When I heard this, I thought to myself, and I said, "It's just that this flower, if it is broken, will hurt...... Are they willing to be broken?" After finishing speaking, he suddenly realized what he had said, and hurriedly covered it up: "However, the flowers that were broken off by the mother will definitely feel honored." Being able to exude fragrance in the mother's palace is what they mean. ”
Concubine Jing looked at me with a smile, as if to mention something, and also said to me as if warning: "In this palace, there is nothing unwilling or unwilling. Indeed, it is an honor for me to fold it. This is the grace I have given it, and I can't bear it. ”
After that, he turned around and walked towards the steps, and said as he walked, "I found a noble person to come today, because I have something to tell you." The New Year is approaching, and there are many affairs. This time is not as good as the last canonization ceremony, this time it was not able to escape the leisure. The Queen Mother asked me to help me take care of some things, so I naturally have to do my best. ”
"It's just that the New Year is approaching. According to the custom, it is necessary to give a New Year's gift. I was thinking of doing a dance, but I've been busy lately, but I don't have time to practice anymore. Suddenly I remembered the tune you played to me last time, melodious and very pleasant. I thought that since you and I have been playing together for many days, why don't we play a song together and give a gift together?" Concubine Jing said, and rubbed her forehead with her slender fingers, as if she was helpless to talk to me.
I was a little stunned. Unexpectedly, that day and night, the tune that was played in Xianfu Palace was so sought after by Concubine Jing.
That night, I thought of my mother, and I couldn't sleep thinking about it. So he took the flute and went out into the courtyard, and the tune followed the thoughts, and the thoughts flew with the tune. On the second day, I copied the music of the previous day and gave it to Concubine Jing Niangniang, who had played it as an ensemble.
Seeing that I hadn't answered for a long time, Concubine Jing asked again, "What's the matter?