The sun was setting in the west, and the bright sky was like a candle that had lost its brilliance, and the sky was gradually fading with clouds as thick as the smoke emitted when the candle was finally extinguished. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoThe lights of the palaces were on, making up for the lost light in the sky, and the whole palace was as bright as day in an instant.

This was the busiest time for the harem people: the guards were busy preparing horses and carriages for the travel of their masters; The palace ladies were busy putting on makeup and dressing up for their masters; The attendants were busy arranging gifts, sedan chairs and other heavy and trivial things. They do everything in detail, painstakingly, and their purpose is only one: to ensure that the masters can appear in the most appropriate image at the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner, if under this premise and then pay a little attention to the details, can be a little limelight in front of everyone at the banquet, it is better to be icing on the cake.

In addition to the members of the royal family, the Mid-Autumn Festival dinner was attended by those court officials who had contributed to the construction of the country and their wives. Many of them, though outwardly appreciative of their gratitude for the Emperor's grace, regarded it as a supreme honor; But in reality it was seen as a hint of their political superiority, satisfying their vanity of being able to get close to the hub of power.

And for those princesses who have lived in the Yuyang Palace for a long time, who have reached the marriageable age but are still alone, this Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet is not only a banquet, it may also mean their upcoming marriage. The sweet fantasy of their future husband was their greatest pleasure in this lifeless court life. Excited, from dawn to evening on the fifteenth day, they kept changing their outfits like chameleons who are good at camouflage.

This year's Mid-Autumn Festival family banquet was held in the Yuan Xin Palace's Yao Garden, which made people feel a little nostalgic for the feast of flowers in the Haofang Garden of the Chu family. The wide gallop connecting the two palaces is full of luxurious carriages, and the palace lights are lit to signal departure.

The carriages converge like streams and lakes from all directions towards the gate of the Yuanxin Palace. There was a comical scene in the gallop between the two palaces: several thin ponies dragged a slightly smaller carriage at the pace of defeat and staggered past the princesses' carriages in the opposite direction.

The princesses in the luxurious carriage invariably chuckled mockingly when they heard the bell around their horses' necks, but when the ladies of the palace flatteringly echoed their master's lips and snickered, they lowered their eyes and made a solemn expression of silence, their eyes tilted nobly in their long, narrow sockets, and warned them with a dignified manner: Is the royal majesty something that you subordinates can offend?

The delicate carriage left the tide and headed for the warm lake surrounded by ferns. The heavy hot spring water steam up and permeate the flower-lined forest, creating a dreamlike feeling like a fairyland on earth.

The carriage walked on the misty cobblestone road, as if it were driving clouds in the heavenly palace. The mischievous autumn wind secretly pulled a few silver strands from the head of the driving prison out of his hat and floated on his cheeks, touching the tip of his nose rhythmically with the bumps of the car, and from time to time he pulled out his hand to wrap the hair hanging down behind his ears. The carriage entered the Zhanyin stream piled up with rocks, and he couldn't help but sneeze.

Zhan Yin Jian is the only way to pass from the West Gate to the warm water lake, here is made of large boulders, there is a wide stone road in the stream to communicate with each other, the builder intends to integrate the rhythm and the building, so that it has the effect of amplification, echo, etc., here is a man-made natural performance place, the performer is in it, the viewer only hears its sound and does not see its person, quite a little bit of interest in holding the pipa and half covering the face.

A small sneeze was loud like thunder. The thunder burst and woke up Lin Yueyuan, who was crazy about the hot spring maze, and she was secretly happy that she finally heard the human voice, so she ran along with the sneezing just now.

He calmly jumped off the car, waved his hand and decisively rejected the three little eunuchs who wanted to come up and help, and his solemn face was slightly angry, as if to reprimand them: I am not too old to walk, three rabbit cubs who do not have long eyes. He tried his best to make a straight face, but the wrinkles on his face deepened.

The three lowly little eunuchs bowed down and were replaced by a woman in her fifties who held his arm. When the old inner supervisor saw that it was her, he grinned sharply.

Her usual dress is more exquisite among the palace people, and today in order to be able to participate in the dinner, she is even more carefully dressed up, if it is not for the lowly servility formed by flattering in front of the masters for a long time, she really has some noble lady's style.

"Hey, the concubine is really compassionate, and I ask you to drive to pick it up in person." When she saw that it was actually the eunuch in charge of Gu Guifei's palace, she drove and said excitedly.

The old internal supervisor who is all over the world and this Aunt Qian have known each other for a long time, and he knows that this Aunt Qian is a character who is not easy to mess with, when she was still on duty in the palace of the concubine, she often relied on her mother's family to deceive her before the war. The concubine took care of her mother's face, and found a reason to raise the princess to transfer her

To the young Princess Tongxia.

Everyone in the palace knows that Princess Tongxia's biological mother is the White Fang clan, who was originally a prisoner of the frontier, and was sent into the palace as a palace slave by the border generals, and died of grievances under the oppression of various gossips in the palace in her early years. The emperor was for the sake of her royal blood, when she was ten years old

Only then did he reluctantly canonize her. After that, her emperor's father ruthlessly threw her in the deserted Shuangyan Water Pavilion for three whole years, and seemed to have forgotten her as a daughter. Gu Guifei has the responsibility of assisting the six palaces, and she also asks her to inquire every month to show her mother's motherly heart in the world.

Although she was rampant and domineering in the Shuangyan Water Pavilion where Princess Tongxia lived, no one dared to take care of her, but Princess Tongxia was an unfavored princess after all, and her living treatment was not as good as that of the concubine. She desperately flattered her, hoping to return to her original residence one day, with Princess Tongxia's repeated mistakes in front of the concubine, her hopes continued to be dashed, so she often vented her resentment on the palace maid with a twisted mentality, and sometimes even the princess couldn't escape her bad words.

The old eunuch smiled awkwardly, his cunning and shrewd eyes like a discerning judge, and refused to let go of the slightest change in her expression. He withdrew his arm and said respectfully and rigorously: "Aunt Qian, you have misunderstood, I am here to send Her Royal Highness the princess back." If the concubine is passed on, Princess Tongxia will not have to attend tonight's banquet. If you can't recite the Book of Filial Piety in a few days, then all the family banquets and princesses don't need to attend next month, and you can meditate on the past in Shuangyan Water Pavilion. ”

Aunt Qian's face changed greatly, and she bowed halfway and said, "Alas, I know." ”

The old eunuch immediately adjusted the following wording in response to her reaction just now, and said in the most tactful tone possible: "The concubine Niangniang also specially instructed, Aunt Qian, you are an old man in the palace, and you should also have more snacks, if Her Royal Highness the princess can't even say the whole sentence like this, I'm afraid it will ...... in the future" He glanced at the other party's flushed face, and stopped meaningfully.

"Yes, please rest assured that the concubine is not afraid to do her best." Aunt Qian made a loyal appearance, as if the concubine was standing in front of her, hurriedly showing her loyalty.

"Gotcha." After speaking, the old eunuch sighed and walked to the carriage with a smile; "Princess, please move, the slave has to hurry back to restore his life."

The four palace maids behind Aunt Qian, one went to lift the curtain, the other two helped the princess down from the car, and the last one followed behind the princess to tidy up the hem of her clothes.

The old eunuch bowed to the princess on one knee, bowed his head and said, "The slave takes his leave." ”

Princess Tongxia let out a light "um" and nodded.

Aunt Qian walked straight past her as if she hadn't seen her, neither saluting nor greeting, but just shouting affectionately at the carriage that turned around and left, "You go slowly." ”

Aunt Qian stood still with her back to everyone, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were good at observing words and expressions all felt the oppressive atmosphere around them, and pretended to be well-behaved and stood aside. Princess Tongxia was so frightened that her little face turned yellow, like a yellow leaf on a branch dying in the cold wind.

Suddenly, Aunt Qian turned around like a sharp sword piercing the enemy's chest, and her pale face looked like a lake frozen by the north wind. She sneered, shook her head coldly and said, "You seven go farther, slave maid, I have a few words to ask Her Royal Highness the princess alone." ”

The crowd dispersed into the distance. Aunt Qian folded her hands around her chest, and while circling around Princess Tongxia, she scanned her back and forth with a vicious and mocking gaze, revealing a disgusting look like seeing something dirty.

Princess Tongxia shrugged her shoulders and shrunk her head, her eyes were like leaky cups, and tears dripped coherently and silently on the moss beneath her feet. Gradually, her body twitched uncontrollably, like a patient who had suffered a stroke.

Aunt Qian felt that just torturing her like this was not enough to offset the hatred in her heart, so she opened her evil lips, a red tongue like a poisonous snake spitting red letters, and said in a strange manner: "Hmph, what did I tell you yesterday, Your Royal Highness the Princess, you are too angry." I don't understand that she is also a royal princess, you look at other princesses, the appearance is still secondary, if you devote yourself to being a man, I am afraid that the champion of the Jinluan Palace will also be examined. How did you change to you, the words are upside down, you adults are not embarrassed by me, who is more than half a hundred years old. However, you really have a bad fate, if you have a mother like Guifei Niangniang, Shufei Niangniang, Concubine De Niangniang or a few Zhaorong and Zhaoyi below, you will not be so unlucky. A lowly maid is a lowly maid, even if she flies on a branch, she can't become a phoenix. ”

The little princess's brown eyes looked through the tears in front of her, and she looked at the blurred lake in the distance, and she couldn't wait to go down and follow her biological mother.

"Who, who's where? Come out. Aunt Qian roared, and the palace maids and eunuchs who were hiding in the distance immediately surrounded the little princess and Aunt Qian when they heard the sound.