Chapter 5: The Imperial Front
This night, Wei Xiyan slept very unsteadily. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
I had a lot of dreams in a trance, but the content was not very clear, and I just felt dazzled. At last she simply opened her eyes, observed the time, and when it was almost time, she got up and walked out of the room.
As soon as she opened the door, she saw Birou curled up in the porch.
Wei Xiyan quietly looked at Birou's sleeping face. This girl has been with her for some time, and she is decent in dealing with people on weekdays, and she can see that she has no crooked eyes, and she is very honest and well-behaved. I heard that there are many brothers and sisters in her family, and as the eldest sister, she had to enter this palace and rely on her meager monthly income to share all the things in the family for her parents.
Pinching her fingers, her age is still a few years older than Wei Xiyan, and she is past the age to be married, but unfortunately this is still a handsome face, I am afraid that she will entrust this life to this palace.
Thinking of this, Wei Xiyan couldn't help but sigh, but she didn't want to wake her up.
Birou opened her eyes and found out who was standing in front of her, she was startled and said, "The slave accidentally disturbed the mother, and I hope the mother will punish her." ”
"I couldn't sleep myself, and I woke you up." Wei Xiyan looked at her sleepy eyes and felt a little apologetic.
"Where is Niangniang, please forgive the slave maid......" Birou was even more panicked when she heard this. He could only lie on the ground, motionless.
Raising his eyes, he saw a faint white fish belly in the distant sky, turned his head to Birou and said, "It's cold in the corridor, come to my house and sleep in the future night." ”
"But, mother, this is not in place." Birou was a little surprised.
Wei Xiyan didn't want to say more, so he could only say: "This is an order, you just do it, you will go to the Taiji Hall later, you can pack up, and go with me to make some light pastries and send them to the emperor in a while." ”
"Yes, sis!"
"The royal maid Zhang pays a visit to the emperor." Wei Xiyan stood at the door of the Taiji Palace, and after a while, the attendant Zhao Gonggong came out and bent down and said, "Niangniang, please." ”
She walked to the dragon couch, and the man lying on it was much thinner than the last time she saw him, and his old color was fully revealed. But perhaps because of the weight loss, his silhouette has become clearer, and it looks a lot more pleasing to the eye.
......The man opened his eyes and stretched out his hand, his voice hoarse.
Sitting on the couch and holding the man's hand, Wei Xiyan replied quietly: "Your Majesty." ”
The emperor narrowed his eyes, as if he was about to struggle to sit up, and she hurriedly put the cushion behind him and helped him sit upright. After looking at himself for a long time, the emperor pulled the corners of his mouth, as if he was laughing.
"The aqua green clothes suit you very well," he said, looking into the distance, as if in deep thought, "I remember the first time I saw you, you were dressed so elegantly, standing in front of the main hall, neither humble nor arrogant, and the words you spoke were not like ordinary country women, so that I had to think that you had other plans." ”
"Break the concubine!" Wei Xiyan was shocked when he heard this, and hurriedly knelt on the ground.
"Get up, I can't make a joke."
She clenched her teeth and knelt sideways, silently.
"Good incense, what did you bring?" After the atmosphere was so weirdly deadlocked, the emperor suddenly said.
Wei Xiyan still lowered her head, "Back to the emperor, the concubine heard that the emperor has a bad appetite recently, so she made some light pastries, hoping to help the emperor improve his appetite." ”
"So, I have a heart...... Come, bring it to me to taste. ”
Getting up, she put the plates of pastries she had brought in front of the emperor.
"You did it?" After tasting a few bites, the emperor was a little surprised.
"These are all things that the concubine got up this morning to do." Wei Xiyan stood respectfully aside.
"It looks exquisite, and it tastes even more fragrant, and the maid is good at craftsmanship." The emperor appreciated.
"The emperor has won the award, and the craftsmanship of the concubine is less than one-thousandth of the imperial kitchen, but the emperor has lost his appetite recently, so he feels that the concubine is appetizing." Wei Xiyan lowered his eyes and said.
"Haha," the emperor smiled loudly, "I feel better than half of my body when I talk to you!" ”
"The emperor is the true dragon emperor, and he will recover his health in the near future." She continued with the emperor's words, causing the man to laugh again and again.
After serving the emperor and falling asleep, Wei Xiyan hammered his somewhat sour arm, and was led by Birou on the shortcut back to the palace.
"Where is that?" Suddenly smelling the fragrance of flowers, she looked around, saw a small pavilion with flowers faintly visible on her right hand, and asked Birou beside her.
Birou followed Wei Xiyan's gaze, looked at it, and then replied: "Hui Niangniang, that is Tingcui Garden, which was built by the emperor for the once favored Ban Zhaoyi. ”
"Oh, let's go over and have a look." She thought about it, she hadn't left the Changle Palace where she lived since she entered the palace, and she should be distracted today.
"Absolutely never!" Bi Rou's face changed after hearing this: "Not long after the emperor finished repairing Ban Zhaoyi's listening to the Cui Garden, Ban Zhaoyi was stabbed to death because of the witch Gu incident, and no one wanted to go to that place for a long time, for fear of provoking Zhaoyi's bad luck, let's not go." ”
After listening to Birou's words, Wei Xiyan's heart was a little disdainful, which such thing as bad luck is not artificial?
After thinking about it, he looked at Tingcui Garden, although it was far away, but most of the time he could see that the scenery was really extraordinary.
After thinking for a while, she asked Birou, "Are you scared?"
"Back to Niangniang, the slave maid has been in this palace for some years, and she should see everything, the slave and maid are naturally not afraid, but you ...... Niangniang."
"I'm not afraid," Wei Xiyan sneered in his heart, and his voice was also raised, "Survival in this palace, bad luck is something you want to hide, you wait outside, I will enjoy it for a while and leave." As she spoke, she ignored Birou's objections and raised her feet and walked in the direction of Tingcui Garden. Birou had no choice but to keep up.
"It's beautiful." She couldn't help but sigh as she approached. Apricot blossoms are like rain pear blossom clouds, five-colored pebble paths are paved with falling flowers, on both sides of the path is a trough that only allows one foot to pass, along the road curved, the bottom of the trough has begun to appear moss, from time to time there are golden fish swimming by...... Walking along the path to the end, I found that there was a crescent-shaped pond in front of me, and the large area was full of green lotus leaves.
"The little lotus has only shown its sharp horns, and it has already stood on the dragonfly." I suddenly thought of this poem that I often used to use as a child, and I couldn't help but laugh out loud.
"The girl is so Yaxing." An elegant male voice suddenly came from behind him. Wei Xiyan turned around, only to find that a man in a moon-white shirt appeared in the pavilion behind him at some point.
"The Mo master is like jade, and the son is unparalleled in the world." This sentence flashed through her mind in an instant.
Chen Feng is also very good-looking, but it is the kind of indifferent and alienated good-looking, and he does not smile all the year round, which always makes people have an inexplicable sense of oppression. The man in front of him is different, he feels warm as jade, humble and modest, like a green bamboo, such as cutting, such as grinding.
After looking at each other for a moment, Wei Xiyan coughed lightly, covered his slightly blushing face with his sleeve, and asked him, "Who are you?" ”
The man smiled lightly: "This should be asking the girl." ”
"I .....," she hesitated, not knowing how to answer.
"That's it, now you and I, since we don't want to tell each other our identities, we haven't seen each other today. It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, and please ask the girl to leave quickly. He said with a grin.
She nodded, and turned to leave.
"Wait," he shouted suddenly, Wei Xiyan turned back in surprise, and he said unhurriedly, "Although the girl is plain, she does not lose this spring color, but she is even better than this spring color." ”
Hearing this, her face turned even redder, and she ran out of Tingcuiyuan without looking back.
Birou, who was waiting at the entrance of the garden, saw her appearance, thought that something had happened, and hurriedly asked, "What frightened Niangniang?" ”
Wei Xiyan adjusted her breathing and said calmly to Birou: "It's nothing, the scenery inside is good." ”
Birou saw her expression and was stunned, not knowing how to answer.
"By the way," Wei Xiyan hesitated for a moment and asked Birou: "Generally, who in this palace can enter and exit freely?" ”
"Hui Niangniang, it's hard to say, in addition to a few people in the palace, there are also some princes' accompaniments and attendants who can also move freely in some areas." Birou thought carefully and replied.
Nodding, her heart finally hung in the air.
The man in the garden looked at the path where the woman in the aqua green suit left, but he was still a little stunned, frowned, and said to himself: "Did I say something wrong?" After thinking about it, he shook his head again, "Recently, how can the words spoken in general with the ninth brother become more and more frivolous.....