These harems compete for favor, Zhou Ying has heard of it.

Xu Guifei is a master of palace fighting on the left and right, and there are six princes in her hands, so she doesn't need to worry about it.

Time flies, and soon it's time to go on patrol. As for how the emperor told his ancestors and issued an edict to the world, Zhou Ying didn't know anything at the back of the team, so he just sat on the Zhu Lunhua canopy car and closed his eyes to recuperate. After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the bells and drums sounded in unison, and the convoy began to move forward slowly.

The convoy went out of the palace through the right gate of the noon gate.

Zhou Ying had never been out of the palace, so she couldn't help but be curious at this time, opened the corner of the inner curtain, and looked out through a thin layer of green gauze outer curtain. Except for the Imperial Forest Army, there were no ordinary people on the side of the road, and Xu banned the street for the sake of the emperor's safety.

There are many roadside stalls that have not had time to be put away, some selling fruits, smoked mutton, and fried quail...... All kinds of sweet and salty aromas are mixed together, but strangely not offensive, but mixed into a kind of intimate market atmosphere.

Bai Liu has not been in the palace for a long time, and her memory of the outside of the palace is still fresh, she rushed to the window crack and chirped, "This wonton is delicious, the skin is thin and the filling is thick, the most real." There is also the fried quail of the house, which is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside, full of salty and fragrant mouth. This hawthorn cake is still there, his hawthorn cake is authentic, it is as transparent as agar, sour and sweet, and the mouth is very smooth......"

was told by Bai Liu like this, Zhou Ying only felt full of relish.

Zhou Ying was about to take a piece of dim sum to eat and chat for comfort, but when she saw Su Liu sitting aside, her expression was stunned, and she couldn't help asking, "Su Zhi?" ”

Su Zhi came back to her senses, and saw that no one answered the white willow in the window, and she was talking lively, and the seventh princess looked at her with concern. Xu left the breathless palace, and the familiar atmosphere of the street touched her heart, and Su Zhi rarely said what was on her mind.

"I grew up in Sipaifang, my father worked as a coolie at the Tonghui River Wharf, my mother helped people wash clothes, I had an older brother above and a younger brother below, a family of five, barely making ends meet. When I was five years old, my dad was killed on the spot by a wooden barrel while unloading his cargo at the docks...... Since then, my mother has been receiving more and more work, often before dawn, she goes to the ancient well at Fangkou to fetch water, and washes it all day. Her hands have been white and wrinkled all year round, and in this way, the family is still getting poorer and poorer. Suzhi closed her eyes.

"It's good to be a family together." Although Su Zhi is now in the palace, there must have been another accident later, but Zhou Ying still comforted.

"Yes, if you are just poor, what is the hurdle that you can't get over when you are a family. But my family's luck is really bad, my brother and a group of children went to the mountain to pick bamboo shoots, subsidize the family, who wants to be okay with the other, only he stumbled and fell down the mountain, the person is still alive, but one leg is broken. In order to treat his legs, the foundation of the family has been hollowed out, and the money for medicine is still not enough. ”

"At this time, there was news in the palace that I wanted to choose a palace maid, although my family is poor, but I am not a businessman or a worker, and I am also a good citizen. If you enter the palace as a palace maid, you can get five taels of silver as a reward. My mother didn't sleep all night, and the next day she pulled my brother and knelt down and kowtowed to me without saying a word......"

Zhou Ying's face was unbearable, and she stepped forward to cover Su Zhi's hand.

Su Zhi raised his head, endured the tears in his eyes, and then said: "Later, I entered the palace, my brother's injury was healed, and the family still had some money to spare, and bought a few acres of land, and life gradually improved." My mother didn't have a blessed life, she worked too hard, and she went a few years ago. Now that my brother has married his sister-in-law, has a little nephew, and my brother has become a relative, I have to take one or two days off every year to go back, but I feel more and more like an outsider. ”

Zhou Ying shook Su Zhi's hand and tried to say, "If they are negligent to you, I will call the shots for you?" ”

Su Zhi shook his head and smiled, "They didn't do anything wrong, I have been away from home for many years, my parents are not there, my brothers have their own small families, and it is normal for me to have a strange relationship with my sister, who I can't see a few times a year." ”

Zhou Ying looked at Su Zhi suspiciously, "Then what do you mean?" ”

Su Zhicai said: "What I want to say is that in October next year, I will be twenty-five years old, and according to the palace rules, it will be time to release from the palace." I was lucky enough to serve the princess, and I have lived quite comfortably all these years, and I don't want to go back to see my brother and sister-in-law's face. Ask the princess for a favor and allow me to comb myself and stay in the palace. ”

Zhou Ying groaned: "Even if you have an estranged relationship with them, there is no need to spend your whole life in the palace. When you leave the palace and become a parent, and have your own small family, you won't care about others anymore. ”

When it comes to family affairs, Su Zhi didn't look ashamed, and said calmly: "With my age, the one who can marry out of the palace is either a widow and a successor, or the eldest is a lame man who can't please his daughter-in-law, and he will definitely be despised by his husband's family." In that case, why don't I stay in the palace, I still have some dignity. ”

Zhou Ying remembered that the ancient marriage was early, and she was already a leftover girl at the age of twenty-five, and she couldn't help but feel a little stuffy.

As soon as she looked up and saw that Su Zhi was still waiting, Zhou Ying had a headache, and she really couldn't accept that a young girl who was only twenty-five could only marry a man who was married for the second time or even had a serious illness. She couldn't think of any good ideas for a while, so she could only postpone the army for the time being and said: "This is not in a hurry in advance, there is still a year before you leave the palace." Don't worry, if you follow me, I won't let you be wronged. ”