2. The palace gate turmoil
"County Lord, it's time to drink the medicine."
The maid was holding a small vermilion and gold tray in her hand, and bent down to say respectfully on the side.
Sima Yue looked at the bowl of freshly baked and steaming brown-red decoction on the tray with a bitter and vengeful expression.
Since beating her crossing, she has not realized the pampering habits of this original body at all, but has been bumpy in the carriage for so many days.
And because of the death of the original body in the heavy rain that day, she had a high fever, and as a result, she was stunned and burned into pneumonia.
But fortunately, King Jiangling still felt sorry for her daughter in his heart after all, so although he carried her to the carriage with a high fever that day, he finally sent a doctor with him, and he was a doctor with very good medical skills. Under his conditioning, her body recovered well.
It's just that Sima Yue wonders if her original body has offended this doctor in the past? Otherwise, why is the medicine so bitter every time?
Sima Yue didn't want to drink this bowl of medicine. During this time, her tongue was almost unconscious, and it was estimated that the nerves on her tongue were paralyzed by the bitter taste.
But Yingshi was holding the small tray in his hand, still bending down and bowing beside him and said respectfully: "Good medicine is good for disease." County Lord, let's drink the medicine while it's hot. โ
Sima Yue has been talking to a cadre of the entourage these days, and knows that this warbler is not the personal maid at the beginning of the original body, but the maid specially selected by King Jiangling this time to accompany her to Beijing.
Ying Shi is eighteen years old, cold face and few words, doing things neatly, with a cold aura.
Sima Yue felt that she had absolutely reason to suspect that this warbler was actually specially sent by King Jiangling to take care of her for him.
People were under the eaves and had to bow their heads, so she reached out and picked up the bowl of medicine in the tray.
Ying Shi saw that although Sima Yue had a sad look on her face, she still closed her eyes in the end and drank the bowl of medicine in one go.
She reached out and took the empty bowl from Sima Yue's hand, and handed over a small plate of candied fruit.
Sima Yue took a candied fruit and threw it in his mouth and held it.
It's just that no matter how sweet the candied fruit is, it can't suppress the bitter taste in the mouth at all. She felt for a moment that such a hard life was really enough.
And the warbler over there finally brought good news: "The doctor said that after drinking this medicine, the county lord's illness should be cured." โ
The implication is that she doesn't have to drink this bitter medicine anymore, does it?
When Sima Yue looked at the warbler, a light of hope rose in his eyes.
In her expectant gaze, Yingshi finally nodded as she wished: "Yes." โ
Sima Yue was overjoyed, and felt for a moment that the warbler in front of him, who had always been cold-faced, looked a lot cuter.
"It's late at night, so please rest early. If there are no accidents, we will arrive in the capital tomorrow afternoon. After Ying Shi finished saying this, he saluted Sima Yue, and then bowed and retreated.
You're going to the capital tomorrow? Then she will see another vote of people she doesn't know, and they are all high-ranking people.
When Sima Yue thought of this, he felt a little apprehensive in his heart. But when she thought about it, none of the people in the capital had ever seen her, and as long as she was careful, she wouldn't be seen to make any mistakes. And this original body is said to be a little mentally retarded, so even if she doesn't know any etiquette and does something wrong, she won't be suspected, right?
Fool, you can expect a fool not to do anything wrong. Sima Yue comforted himself like this, so he slowly fell asleep.
Ying Shi expected it to be good, and in the afternoon of the next day, Sima Yue and his party slowly entered the capital.
Although it was said that Sima Yue was going to be sent to the Beijing Royal Academy to polish his temperament, King Jiangling would not really be harsh on his daughter. In addition to sending a warbler to take care of Sima Yue, there are also two little maids, an older grandmother, and ten palace guards.
Naturally, these are all streamlined people. According to Princess Jiangling's meaning, I can't wait to bring all the subordinates in the entire Jiangling Palace to Sima Yue.
Because the next first thing is to enter the palace to meet the queen mother, the emperor and others, and it is impossible for all these people brought by Sima Yue to follow in. So Yingshi asked them all to go to the courtyard that King Jiangling had specially sent people to buy in the capital, and he accompanied Sima Yue into the palace.
Sima Yue didn't know what Yingshi had done before, but she felt that she was definitely not an ordinary person.
Along the way, but saw her sitting on the side of the carriage with her eyebrows lowered. If it weren't for the ups and downs of her chest, Sima Yue would have suspected that she was a statue.
As the wheels rolled, she heard someone in front of her shouting in a rough voice, "Who is in the carriage?" โ
I guess it should be the guards guarding the palace gate.
Yingshi lifted the curtain and got out of the car, Sima Yue heard her calm voice sound: "This is the car of the Duanhua County Lord, still don't get out of the way?" โ
The county lord of Duanhua is Sima Yue's title.
Sima Yue quietly opened the curtain of the car on the side, and when he saw the warbler, he showed something to the guard. The guard's previous arrogant attitude disappeared immediately, and he turned to salute respectfully to Yingshi and made a gesture of please: "County Lord, please go." โ
Yingshi put away the voucher in his hand and was about to turn around and get into the car, when he heard a shrill voice behind him: "Dare to ask if the car of the Duanhua County Lord is in front?" โ
Yingshi turned around, and Sima Yue also followed the prestige.
It was an internal prison. Thinking that he has been immersed in the palace for many years, โกโก face is smiling like a blooming chrysanthemum at this time.
Sima Yue noticed that this inner eunuch had actually been standing not far behind the guards earlier, but it was only when Yingshi showed his voucher that he proved that they were indeed from the Jiangling Palace, and he asked this question.
Although Yingshi said little, the people in the palace were not easy to offend. So she saluted the inner supervisor, and then asked respectfully: "Inside the carriage is the Duanhua County Lord, when I am her personal maid Yingying, I dare not ask who my father-in-law is?" โ
The inner eunuch hurriedly bent down to return the salute, then straightened up and smiled: "The girl is too polite." The old slave's surname is Li, and he is now serving in the Queen Mother's Palace. The queen mother knew that the county lord of Duanhua would arrive today, so she sent the old slave here early in the morning to wait for the county lord's car. It's these few people who don't have long eyes, and they dare to stop when they see the county lord's car, aren't they blind? Later, I will have to talk to the Queen Mother. โ
Man Daxia knows that the Queen Mother's most beloved son is actually her youngest son, King Jiangling. And because of the succession to the throne, King Gangneung left the fiefdom and has not returned to the capital once until now. Now that his only daughter, Lord Duanhua, is coming to Beijing, what does the Queen Mother look like?
When the guard who had stopped him heard this, he was immediately frightened, and he knelt down with a plop.
Sima Yue felt that this Li Neijian was really an old expert with a fox and a fake tiger. This guard had asked this question before, this is just his duty, but when he asked this Li Neijian to say it, it was as if the guard knew that it was the carriage of the Duanhua County Lord and deliberately blocked it. Besides, weren't you there at the time? If you really think that this guard deliberately blocked it, why didn't you come out and say a word at that time, and now you are in a hurry to come out and talk nonsense.
Sima Yue couldn't look down on a pseudo-villain like Li Neijian the most in her life, so she opened the curtain of the car in front of her and stepped out of the carriage by herself.
Yingshi hurriedly stepped forward and dutifully came to support her.
Li Neijian saw a bright and moving Shaohua girl get out of the carriage, and without thinking about it, he knew that the person in front of him was the main son of the Queen Mother who asked him to greet him today, the Duanhua County Lord.
So he hurriedly knelt down, and the guards around him also knelt down.
"I've seen the county lord."
"Get up." Sima Yue waved his hand, and looked at the person kneeling on the ground in front of him with some subtle feelings.
Although those little maids and guards will kneel down when they look at her along the way, it stands to reason that she should get used to it. But every time she saw someone kneeling down to her, she still felt uncomfortable.
Sure enough, this is not a natural rich life, it is different.
Since Sima Yue had spoken, Eunuch Li and the guards also stood up.
What Li Neijian thought in his heart was that he heard that this Duanhua County Lord was stubborn, and his courage was even more lawless. When she was in Jiangling, whenever she went out shopping, she would always bring a whip with her, and if she saw someone on the road who was not pleasing to her eyes, she didn't say a word, she just threw it over. I have to serve this little ancestor carefully, but don't mess with this little ancestor who is unhappy, and then he will directly throw it over with a whip and cover his face.
So he took two steps forward, and the wrinkles on his smiling face were so wrinkled that he could trap mosquitoes: "The county lord has worked hard all the way." Hurry up and follow the old slave to meet the Queen Mother, the Queen Mother has been waiting for you for a day. โ
Sima Yue didn't move, but asked Supervisor Li in confusion: "Gonggong Li, just now I kept seeing you standing behind that guard in the carriage." Why didn't you recognize me then? Instead, he let this guard stop me and didn't let me enter the palace. โ
She didn't dare to say that what Li Neijian said was too straightforward, after all, in the eyes of outsiders, she Sima Yue was a fool.
And as soon as she asked this, Supervisor Li's heart suddenly shook.
He began to wonder if this Duanhua County Lord was really a fool as the legend suggested? How do you look at the sentence she asked, it was obvious that the guard shouldn't stop her, but secretly he was actually accusing him.
Now it's okay, he really can't say anything about the guard. If he really said a sentence and a half to the Queen Mother, he would not be able to ask this little ancestor again. If the guard is going to be punished, he will definitely have to be punished himself.
Li Neijian glanced at Sima Yue cautiously, and saw her ignorant look, even if he had been in the palace for so many years, he thought that his ability to observe words and emotions was okay, but now he couldn't tell whether Sima Yue's ignorant appearance was really like this, or pretended.
In order to be safe, he had to carefully accompany the smiling face, and said with a somewhat flattering smile: "This guard is an elm head, and he has no eyesight at all, and he dares to stop the county lord's car, and he should be punished." But I still hope that the county lord will see that he is diligent and cautious, and the adults have a lot, so spare him this time. โ
This is a good calculation of Supervisor Li. If you don't punish this guard, you won't be able to punish him. He said this clearly to intercede for this guard, but in fact he was secretly excusing himself.
Sima Yue naturally knew this. However, her original intention was not to embarrass the guard by Li Neijian Huwei, and now that Li Neijian himself said this, she was happy to settle down, so she nodded happily and said, "Okay." โ
When Li Neijian heard this, he let go of his heart, and the smile on his face deepened.
He leaned sideways and made a gesture of invitation: "County Lord, please go with the old slave to meet the Queen Mother." โ