6. And calmly
Wanwan was a little dumbfounded, is this the king of Nanyuan? How is it different from the legend? Or maybe she lives deep in the palace, and the news she gets is not the most accurate, some people beautify it, some people scandalize it, Yuwen's family occupies the richest feng shui treasure land in Daye, and it is a big trouble for the imperial court, and it is also the object of impeachment by other vassal kings. Since he can't catch the handle of supporting the army, and there is no evidence of his own side, then demonize him from other places. Therefore, sometimes rumors cannot be believed, hearing is false, and seeing is believing.
When the minister enters the palace, the name brand must be verified, and the person and the brand can only pass the curfew. The celebrant sent an old eunuch with Taoism to pick up people, and he had been in the palace for decades, and any feudal king commander could have recognized it with his eyes closed, so there would be no half-point difference. Wanwan was waiting on the side, the handle of the umbrella was raised high, the flying raindrops hit her shoulders, and just two steps away, a eunuch dressed in a towing sa came up to salute, as if he had been separated for many years, and was full of surprises of reunion.
"Lord Wang! I looked here from afar, and I thought it was you, and sure enough, it was! Oh, it's been seven years since Nancheng said goodbye, and the prince was still the son of the world, and our family knew that the prince would do something in the future. Last time, the monkey cubs went to the south to supervise the silk, saying that Nanyuan was more prosperous under the rule of the prince than when the old prince was there. It's a pity that these two legs are not good, and they were injured when they built a house last year, and they still can't go far...... It's the same when I see you today, I'm here to give you a salute, don't come unharmed. ”
Thanks to the patience of King Nanyuan, he was tall, and in order to accommodate Humpty Dumpty, he bent down slightly. Seeing that the other party was doing something for himself, he hurriedly helped him, "I can't afford it, I was young and reckless at that time, and I was grateful for the relevant photos." When the prime minister sees me in private, he doesn't have to be called a prince, just call me a good time. Over the years, I have not been summoned by the emperor, I have not had the opportunity to come to Beijing, and I have not been able to congratulate the prime minister in person on the joy of the housewarming, so I am really slow. ”
The eunuch smiled like a chrysanthemum, waved his hand and said: "Where is it, the person sent by the prince left without even drinking a glass of water and wine. I don't know if I have time this time, if the prince appreciates his face, he will sit down at home, and our family will prepare a feast and treat the prince well. ”
The king of Nanyuan looked like Feng Jiyue, and said softly: "Let's look at it then, I'm afraid I won't be idle." In the middle of the month, the emperor's will arrived, and it was only half a month from leaving to arriving in Beijing, and the departure was in a hurry, and before the preparations, the head hurriedly asked someone to prepare two southern specialties, and sent someone to your house back. You have an old disease in your leg, just right, that medicine has a miraculous effect on your leg injury. ”
The eunuch thanked him more than once: "Oh, this little injury is still sorry for me." Hurry up today, the prince will invite you into the palace first, and when you have time to go back, let's talk about it in detail. ”
Wanwan doesn't understand, she goes back and forth, and a few thousand taels of silver can be regarded as an explanation. She only knew that this king of Nanyuan was humble and so polite to those husbands who slipped their beards. I thought about what Xianbei people looked like, but I didn't expect her to take her turn to serve, just listening to his words, I thought that character is precious, but it didn't live up to her previous fears.
She led him to the Imperial Palace, and the light rain wet the green bricks on the ground, one by one, like the sea map hanging in the big brother's study. There are many eunuchs in the palace, and she can't recognize them all, even who is the one who knocked on the bamboo just now, she doesn't have a score in her heart, but she is very familiar with the path of the front and back courts, and she leads people into the middle and right doors, and she kindly mentions the usual tone of Wuqi: "You pay attention to your feet." Lord Wang, the road is slippery on a rainy day, and the bricks in the palace have been smoothed, and there is no staggering. ”
The words didn't come through his mind, and he secretly stuck out his tongue after he finished speaking. In fact, if she sends someone to her, she can slip back to Yude Palace, but at this time, she is too talkative, in case he acquiesces, she doesn't even know how to reply.
Afraid of something, she heard his leisurely voice: "The old thirty zhang wide and fifteen zhang deep, compared with the current one, it is really far behind." ”
Wanwan swallowed and did not answer. He paused for a moment, and probably felt that the little eunuch was ignorant, so he deliberately turned his head and asked her: "The lightning strike in the sixth year of Longhua split the palace into flames, and it is said that the craftsman completed the construction of the new hall within half a year?" ”
Wanwan was very nervous, she didn't dare to look at him, she lowered her eyes and stared at her toes, and her mouth answered, "It took six months and nine days, and the establishment is even grander than before, with eleven rooms wide and five rooms deep, a total of seventy-two pillars, and four thousand seven hundred and eighteen gold bricks...... The prince will know when he enters the palace. ”
In fact, it is taboo to answer too much and too comprehensively, he only asked her when it was built, she even introduced the bricks and pillars in the hall so carefully, and regretted it after the introduction, raised her eyes in a hurry, and looked at him worriedly.
But it was very strange, he was not angry, the corners of his mouth were still smiling, that kind of smile she had never seen before, and it was different from Xiao Shaojian's. Young Eunuch Xiao is eyebrows are full of spring, he is broad and elegant, the breeze and the moon reach the bottom of his eyes, and the golden aura is even clearer.
He slowly walked across the heavenly street and slowly let out a sigh: "Now that your celebrant is still in power, is Cao Zhangyin in power?" ”
Wanwan thought for a while and said no, "Cao Zhangyin doesn't care much, and many of the lords are made by Young Eunuch Xiao." Xiao Shaojian is a eunuch of Bingbi, and this year he is also the commander of Dongchang, and he must be the palm seal in the future. There was also a hint of pride in his tone that he couldn't perceive.
He nodded and fell silent, and walked forward with his hands in his hands, his waist straight and as tall as pine bamboo. Just looking at the figure, it is really a little similar to Xiao Duo, Wanwan lost her mind for a moment, maybe because of this unnecessary similarity, I feel that this person is not so strange.
She calmed down, walked briskly, was in a good mood, and was not too tired with an umbrella. The faint rain swept across her face, cold, she turned her head and rubbed on her shoulder, and suddenly a gust of wind blew, she didn't want the yellow umbrella to be too heavy, she couldn't catch it, the umbrella handle was deflected, and it knocked on his ear heavily. She was startled, and saw his shocked face, and the golden ring flashed in his eyes, which was a little terrifying.
"I, I, I ......," she stammered incoherently, "I didn't mean to...... Knock the prince, right? ”
His brows slowly gathered, and he carefully examined her eyes, "You are so reckless, I don't care here, I'm just afraid that the top will punish you." ”
Wanwan knew that no one dared to punish her, but she didn't want to attract attention, so she had to bow down halfway, "If you don't report me, this matter will be over." Lord Wang, I'm on an errand for the first time, clumsy, you have a lot, spare me! Yu Bi saw that his cheek was flushed near the base of his ear, and he stretched out his finger awkwardly and gestured, "Here...... Does it hurt? ”
In fact, it's a vain question to ask, since it's all red, how can it not hurt. It's a shame that people have self-cultivation, just like she built, she didn't denounce her, and she didn't make a noise. However, he raised a hand and touched it, and said with a dry brow: "Qi people are good at arching horses, this bump is nothing." But I've heard that some people are spreading the word that the Yuwen clan is a monster, with a bear face and hair all over it, like a yaksha. After speaking, he paused slightly, and his eyes turned slightly on her face, "According to you, are the rumors true?" ”
Wanwan's heart jumped again, "Who is this nonsense, how can the prince be like a yaksha......" I still remember her high-minded talk in the dormitory, and she was weak-hearted, and she couldn't hold back her blushing face.
He seemed to be very satisfied, the smile on the corner of his lips deepened, and he turned his face to look unattainable, and said abruptly: "It's a good life, it's not good to be in the hands of others." ”
"Yes, yes, yes." She nodded and bowed, with a sincere attitude, "Thank you for not caring about the prince, you are a good person, and you will be rewarded in the future." ”
Just as she was chattering to express her gratitude, someone behind her took her umbrella, and when she looked back, it was Young Eunuch Xiao. He didn't even look at her, and smiled at King Nanyuan: "I was so busy with the banquet before, I didn't care about answering the prince, and I ask for forgiveness." The people below were speechless, and they collided with the prince, and I turned around and reprimanded him fiercely. Now that the prince has arrived here, it is the same for me to come and serve. He handed her the umbrella he brought with him, and said lightly, "Go back, I'm busy today, put this matter aside for the time being, and I'll talk to you again tomorrow." ”
Wanwan was so frightened that her hair stood on end, she didn't dare to say more, took the umbrella and hugged it in her arms, and ran out of the middle and right door without looking back.
When he arrived outside the door, he was still panting, but his feet stopped, and he didn't care about the side eyes of the Jinyi guard, and grabbed one side of the door frame and looked in front of the Imperial Palace.
From here to the main hall of the banquet, the red and white figures gradually blurred in the twilight. From the side road, the white marble pillar covered half of the body, the lantern was lit under the front porch of the hall, and they walked into the warm light belt, two people so similar, standing side by side with the same height, if it weren't for the different faces, they looked like brothers.
Wanwan straightened up and thought about it, there was a piece of smoke in her head, ** burst, something was about to come out, and it was difficult to find a trace.
"Why are you still here?" Xiao You, who had been waiting for her for a long time, jumped out of the horns, "Let's go, go back quickly, I'm going to stab Lou Zi when it's too late." Saying that, she almost burst into tears, just now when she was wandering around the Imperial Palace, she met Young Eunuch Xiao, and when he saw her, he almost didn't swallow her alive. Under pressure, she confessed her master, not because she was unfaithful, but because in the face of the master who eats people and doesn't spit out bones in Dongchang, she was so frightened that she forgot her surname, and she naturally answered whatever she asked.
Xiao You dragged her, Wanwan was still stunned, "I seem to have seen this King of Nanyuan somewhere." ”
"I don't care if I see it, can I talk about it when I go back?" Xiao You half-squatted down, "I'm done this time, please remember me, burn some paper for me in Qingming next year, and it won't be in vain that I don't waste my heart for you." ”
Wanwan was pulled back to Yude Palace by her, and when she entered the door, she met Mama Li, Wuqi on the root of the wall had been kneeling for a long time, and when she saw her, she couldn't stop wailing: "Master, master, what am I talking about, I won't let you go, you don't listen to my advice." This time, Mama is going to send me to the celebrant to send me down, you save me, I will die if I go! ”
The folds on Mama Li'er's face were almost stretched out due to anger, she stared, holding a ring ruler in her hand, and came to Wuqi's ass for a moment, "You still dare to scream?" Your Royal Highness is your destiny to come back, if you are half a step later and report to Cining Palace, I will see how you are! Ansheng shut up for me, it's useless for you to ask for heaven. Good Your Highness, I was instigated by your son and no king's law, look at it, wearing the clothes of a eunuch, going to Xihuamen to sell stupidly, where are there still some rules of the emperor's family! I am disciplined here, I can't restrain you, it's my dereliction of duty, I will go to Cining Palace with Jing Tiao to confess the guilt, I should eat the whip, I will suffer. But before I go, I have to send you down, or I will leave you two scourges, and I don't know how much trouble will come in the future! ”
The ring ruler pointed to Xiao You, "Kneel down for me." The voice was so loud that Wanwan was also scared.
Xiao You knelt down with a plop, sobbing and looking at Wanwan, not even daring to come out.
Wanwan naturally couldn't let them take the blame for her, and whispered: "Mama spared them, don't blame them this time, it's my own idea......"
Before Wanwan finished speaking, Mama Li intercepted her words: "My master, don't you say it's your own idea when you got into trouble?" If you keep doing this, what will you do in the future? You are a pure and good person, what bad tricks do they come up with to bring you, you give them the top tank in a daze, what are they relying on? Just rely on your heart to feel sorry for the people in front of you, and you are reluctant to make them suffer! It's good right now, so that the minions don't look like minions, and they dare to make fun of such a big thing. What's ahead? Who is the person who entered the palace today? If it spreads, will His Highness's reputation still be taken care of? I can't take care of you, so I have to favor the Supervisor of Labor. In case the other person asks me about my sin, my old face will not be done, and they will just beat me. ”
Mama Li counted like a cannon, Wanwan lowered her head, and her nose was sour. If you want to ask her heart, these Jingqi Mama are invisible axe hands who kill people, they cut off her freedom, and also cut off her natural nature. But the ancestors ordered them to discipline the princes and princesses, and they have a lot of real power, even if she brings out her identity, sometimes she is helpless. But no matter what, she has to straighten out the discipline, even if it doesn't work, it's good to be deterred and deterred.
"The factory minister already knows about this, don't be busy, Mama, he will send it tomorrow." She sniffed, turned around and sat down in the circle chair, "Don't kneel for the two of you, come here for five or seven meals, and Xiao You will wait for me to change my clothes and wash my face." As he spoke, his voice gradually became shorter, and he muttered, "The master wears eunuch clothes and does not wait for change, does not ask the master to eat, does not ask the master to wash, and what rules do you say...... Dog's foot rules! ”
Mama Li was dumbfounded, and she couldn't come back to her senses for a long time.