Chapter 2 Independence of the World
The snow had stopped, and the sun was shining through the clouds, so it might be a little warm now, but it was still a place where there was no warmth for the Cold Moon Palace.
Outside the heavy mahogany gate of the Cold Moon Palace, the sound of the palace maids and eunuchs laughing and chattering came from outside.
Qing Shao was wearing a blue-gray shabby cotton coat, and walked to the well with a wooden basin, and felt a biting chill when her hand stretched out from her sleeve just now, and she put her hand on the rocker of the well, and her hand was red from the cold after a while.
"Sister, let's wash it when the weather is warm, now I'm going to freeze my hands on this day!" As soon as Xing'er came out of the house with the cold, she saw Qingshao by the well in the snow, and immediately ran over.
Qing Shao shook his head: "If you don't wash it now, after a while, Niangniang will have no clothes to change and wash, and now that the sun is in full bloom, it can be dried as soon as possible." ”
Xing'er pouted when she heard Qing Shao's words: "What, now she is not a mother, why is the tired sister Qing Shao suffering such a sin!" ”
Qing Shao's eyebrows furrowed slightly when she heard Xing'er's words, and there was disapproval in her eyes.
"Okay, it's Xing'er talking nonsense, sister, don't be angry!" Xing'er stretched out her hand and hugged Qing Shao's arm and smiled flatteringly, she knew that Qing Shao didn't want others to speak ill of her master.
Qing Shao smiled helplessly, and then urged Xing'er to hurry into the house, it's so cold outside, Xing'er shouldn't freeze when she is young.
Xing'er listened to Qing Shao's words the most, so even if she was a little reluctant, she turned back into the house step by step.
Qing Shao looked at Xing'er's back and sighed.
Xing'er, the palace maid, is different from other palace maids who commit crimes in the Cold Moon Palace, her aunt is the director of the Cold Moon Palace, Zhu Mama is old, and the idea of transferring Xing'er here has never made her suffer, plus she is young, so she is a little open-mouthed, but her heart is indeed very good, and Xing'er likes Qingshao the most, so she listens to Qingshao's words very much, and she gives Qingshao a total score of what delicious and easy to use.
Qing Shao can understand Mama Zhu's thoughts, she wants to let Xing'er stay in the palace for a long time, and when she is twenty-five years old, she will be released from the palace, even if she is older, it will be better to follow a bad master and be affected by something, and Xing'er is simple and easy to be deceived, Mama Zhu still keeps her by her side.
It's just that......
Qing Shao looked at the appearance in the palace, even if it was covered by the thick snow, he could still see the depression and decay.
The cold palace is the cold palace, even if it is called such a poetic name as the Cold Moon Palace, it still can't change anything, especially this declining and dilapidated scene......
The side hall on the south side of the Cold Moon Palace is the place where the supervisor Zhu Mama lives, and this is also the warmest place in the entire Cold Moon Palace, although the place is smaller, but the interior is complete, the four corners of the hall are lit with charcoal stoves, although the charcoal used is not as good as the silver silk charcoal used by the serious ladies in the harem, but it is much stronger than ordinary black charcoal, the window slightly reveals a little gap, the slight wind passes, and there is no smell in the hall.
"Auntie!" Apricot ran in quickly, and then felt the warm heat in the hall.
Mama Zhu, who was half-lying on the soft collapse by the window, sat up when she heard Xing'er's shout, and a smile appeared on her wrinkled face: "You kid, you always run around on such a cold day, be careful of the wind and cold!" ”
Mama Zhu picked up the teapot, poured a cup of hot tea and handed it to her niece.
"Warm up with a cup of hot tea!"
Apricot smiled, with a hint of silliness on her red apple-like face.
Xing'er will hold the hot teacup, with some distress on her face: "Auntie, you don't know how hard Sister Qingshao is, and she still goes to wash her master's clothes in such weather!" ”
Think about such a cold day, even if the well will not freeze, but how cold the water must be, and the hand will not get frostbite when you put your hand into it.
Mama Zhu sighed when she thought of the light-hearted woman, there was no way, she just blamed her for following the wrong master, which was also what she deserved.
That Yang promised to be a concubine but united with another favored nobleman to set up a bureau to frame Jiang Shufei, who almost single-handedly covered the sky in the harem, but in the end it was revealed that it was a false accusation, and was finally stripped of his title and reduced to a promise, and the Yang family was also convicted for this, and was later ordered to move into the Cold Moon Palace, which is like a cold palace, and the nobleman was directly killed.
This incident caused a sensation in the harem back then, and few palace people didn't know about it.
Although I don't know whether this matter was deliberately framed by Yang Yueshu or ...... In short, his wrist was not enough, and he finally failed.
So Mama Zhu has never sympathized with those concubines who fell out of favor and were guilty, because when they entered the whirlpool of the harem, they were already destined to face something.
Success is fate.
If you lose, don't complain.
However, for Qing Shao next to Yang Yueshu, Mama Zhu still likes it a little, but the woman looks more elegant than Yang Yueshu, and she has a kind of calmness that does not surprise in everything.
"You, you still learn from Qingshao, you're always babbling when you're so old." Mama Zhu looked at Xing'er who was eating pastries and said.
Xing'er pursed her lips, she just couldn't learn the appearance of Sister Qingshao.
Apricot puts the pastry down and peeks out through the crack in the window.
In the courtyard covered in silver, a woman in a blue-gray cotton dress stood there, her black hair hanging down her shoulders, looking extremely peaceful.
Legacy and independence.
That's the best adjective.
"Auntie, Sister Qingshao is getting better and better-looking, don't you say!" Xing'er leaned on the edge of the window and looked at Qingshao in the courtyard with appreciation.
Mama Zhu followed the eyes of her niece and saw a pitiful woman.
Qingshao......
Mama Zhu vaguely remembers that four years ago, Yang Yueshu had just been demoted from a concubine to a promise, of course, even if she retained the name of this promise, everyone knew that Yang Yueshu was destined to never turn over.
Mama Zhu remembered the first time she saw Qingshao, she was wearing a long green dress, her hair was scattered, and she looked like she was holding Yang Yueshu, as if this was not an ordinary palace, not a cold palace, but just moved to another ordinary palace, she was only thirteen years old but very calm.
Qing Shao, who was thirteen years old at the time, looked pure and beautiful, but he was too immature and didn't show anything. And now......
Mama Zhu looked at the people outside the window.
I don't know if this beauty has withered here since then.
Mama Zhu sighed and shook her head.
But where can you go if you're not here...... It's a cold palace, and few people can get out of here......
Now Mama Zhu just sighed that a person with a beautiful flower wanted to suffer in this cold palace, but she didn't expect that one day this person would be able to ascend to the supreme position above ten thousand people under that person......