2. The days are long and the days are eternal
Kowtow, greetings, there are certain regulations, and then according to the grade on both sides, the Queen Mother has something to ask, just answer you, if there is no order, stay for a cup of tea, you can retire.
The Queen Mother can only speak to the queen and two concubines, one is Concubine Shao Guifei and the other is Concubine Zheng Hui. Wanwan doesn't know these three ladies deeply, and the people in the palace don't talk to each other, usually just a little, and forget about each other in the past. I only know that Queen Zhao and Shao Guifei are incompatible, the concubine gave birth to King Rong, and the queen has nothing to do, so the queen has nothing to do except for an empty shelf, and it is not as good as Shao Guifei in terms of benefits. As for the other Concubine Zheng Hui, her eyes are clever, and her appearance is not very outstanding, but she is good at welcoming and will come to things, and it is said that she is very popular in the palace.
The people who asked for peace were scattered, and the queen mother asked about the emperor's illness, and the queen whispered: "The spirit is good for a while, and the people are also cowardly, and they don't like to talk much." I ordered someone to set up a bed in the garden yesterday, taking advantage of the spring light, the weather is not cold, please go out to enjoy the flowers and bask in the sun, who knows that he is not willing. After that, he sighed, "How good is this, I'm in a hurry, and I can't help it." Thinking about it, the concubine walks diligently, I think I have to ask the concubine to spend some time and persuade the emperor. β
Wanwan couldn't help but raise her eyes to look at Shao Guifei, and saw that she moved her body uneasily, and her face turned red.
The women in the palace are best at this, they don't have to speak loudly, with a smile on their faces, it seems to be an ordinary family sentence, but it is enough to kill people.
Since the emperor got sick, the most taboo thing for the queen mother is for women to enter and leave the Qianqing Palace. According to her words, the Qianqing Palace is a place where dragons and tigers are entrenched, and women are full of yin and energy, often coming and going, which will suppress masculinity and even bring down the national fortune. The queen is the mother of the country, and it is just a matter of caring about the emperor's body by chance, what is the matter with the concubine? Dare not take the will of the Queen Mother seriously?
The queen mother didn't speak, the queen looked at Shao Guifei with a smile, Shao Guifei was a little anxious at first, but slowly calmed down, lowered her eyes and said: "Her Royal Highness the queen doesn't know where to start, if you want to say that you are worried about the emperor's illness, whoever is not worried in the palace will die!" The emperor used to love to eat the dim sum made in my small kitchen, and I did often have people make it and send it to the Qianqing door in person. But every time it was handed over to Cao Daban, he stopped, and he couldn't even see the emperor's face, let alone persuade him. Her Royal Highness the Queen said with a smile, so that the Queen Mother believed it, that was not a pit for me, but a pit for the Queen Mother. β
Shao Guifei is not good at stubble, and they are not good at each other, and it seems that they are not going to step down. Wanwan still said in a gentle tone: "I met Yannian in the garden two days ago, he was lying on the edge of the pool, watching the ducklings in the water. Recently, he worshipped his master, but Cheng Zi didn't see him, and he benefited a lot, and he didn't speak like a five-year-old child. I thought, why don't you let Yannian go to the emperor, others say ten words, but not Yannian to say a word, what does the queen mother mean? β
Everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Shao Guifei heard people praise her son, and naturally said in her heart that the queen was plucked back to her grandmother's house by Shao Guifei, and she was worried that she had no steps to go down, so she carried the child out, and temporarily relieved her sleepiness, and it was too peaceful in both times.
This eldest princess is not humming or hagging, and sometimes she is a little anxious. The queen stroked the bat auspicious cloud pattern knee on the horse's skirt, and turned her head to look at herβshe was wearing a parrot green cardigan, with a bun on her head, and a pair of small hairpins of golden frogs on her head. Good upbringing is the bone, personal character is the flesh, in addition to the stunning appearance, there is also a kind of preciousness that does not match her age and is soaked into the depths of the texture. It's just that she is too young in the end, and her face is still childish, but she doesn't have bad intentions, so her eyebrows and eyes are open.
The queen smiled softly: "The eldest princess is right, long live the love of King Rong, and no one's face is as big as him." Fu said to the Queen Mother: "I heard Mama say that the Queen Mother didn't sleep sweetly these two nights, we are here, and it didn't disturb the Queen Mother's tranquility." If the queen mother has no instructions, we will leave. While speaking, he saluted the Queen Mother, and saw that the Queen Mother bowed slightly, but withdrew from the warm pavilion of Cining Palace.
Wanwan came out with them, and wanted to ask the Queen Mother to show her to see the emperor, but she couldn't say it because of the temporary fork just now. Xiao You walked in the middle of the road with her, Cining Palace is not far from Qianqing Palace, and you can see it when you go out of Longzongmen, but now you don't have permission, you still don't dare to visit rashly.
In their generation, there were not many brothers and sisters, and in their childhood, they played very speculatively with each other. She and her second brother were born to the same mother, and after the death of Xu Guifei, she was recorded in the name of the Queen Mother, and she has been with her eldest brother since she was six years old. There are open and secret fights between the princes of the imperial family, but for her, a little sister who is not a threat, they are all loving. Now that her eldest brother is sick, she can't go to see him, only separated by two palace walls, which is no different from the entire Forbidden City.
Xiao You took her arm for a moment, "Your Highness, go back, Mother Zhang said to make us sugar cymbals and tea to eat." β
Wanwan hummed, and was about to go up to her shoulder, when the queen in front of her suddenly stopped, looked at her with a smile, and waved at her.
In fact, I have always been reluctant to be involved with those concubines, and the women in the palace are used to intrigue, and most of the time a look and an action are purposeful. Empress Zhao does not have the magnanimity of Empress Tuoba at the beginning, nor the kindness of Empress Kehedun, she is the kind of person who is not lacking in the world, mediocre, but she will be rewarded.
Wanwan understood it in her heart, but she had to appreciate her face, and took a step forward, "The queen's sister-in-law has something to explain?" β
She didn't come to meet her, and Queen Zhao was not surprised, she walked over and looked at her with a pleasant face, "How old is Her Royal Highness the eldest princess this year?" β
Wanwan didn't understand her intentions, but she still answered her seriously, "June will be fourteen." β
The queen let out a long sigh, "Fourteen years old, the same age as a flower." Now when I think of me, I can't help but feel that the years are unforgiving. As she spoke, she took her handβthe princess's hand, the most noble hand, with ten slender fingers, red plums and white snow, so delicate that the tendons under the flesh could be faintly seen.
But Wanwan called her such a nonsense, which is really not very useful. She was not used to other people's pretending to be intimate, so she quietly retracted her hand and said with a smile: "Sister-in-law is in full bloom, why is she melancholy?" You ask me what I do when I am old? Do you want to give me a birthday? β
The queen covered her lips and smiled, "Where is someone who has a birthday at the age of fourteen, wait for another two years, sister-in-law will arrange a feast for you, and we will be lively for three days." The conversation changed and said: "I think, I want to invite you to my palace to eat dim sum, can it be successful?" There are no outsiders, just our sisters and sons. Don't look at me as a queen, the people below are in awe, and I have to set an example myself, and I can't get close to them. If you want to say quite, it's still you and me. You are a golden branch and jade leaf, and you are an understanding person, in the future, our sister-in-law will move around more, and she will also take care of her in the palace. β
The sudden heart-digging nest made Wanwan feel very surprised. The queen has been married to the eldest brother for more than ten years, and when the eldest brother was the king, she often went to the palace to greet the queen mother, and she was not very enthusiastic when she saw her. Later, the eldest brother became the emperor, and Zhao Niangniang entered the middle palace, but she still had a mediocre friendship and rarely talked to her. I don't know where something went wrong today, and it's really inexplicable to be so affectionate.
But people have no malice, it's always hard to shake her face and say no, she said vaguely, "I'm just afraid of causing trouble to my sister-in-law......"
The queen's smile became warmer and warmer, "What is this, the little family still gathers often, and people like us are not close to people." With me in your eyes, it's too late for me to be happy, but I don't think you can do it? Then we can decide, and I will wait for the court in the future, waiting for Her Royal Highness the eldest princess. β
The queen sat on the chariot and went satisfied, Wanwan couldn't think about it, and returned to Yude Palace in a daze.
The palace people in Shangyi had been waiting for a long time, changed her into a spring robe, removed her jewelry, and untied her hair loosely behind her head. She took the book and sat under the window to read, but after reading two pages, she couldn't sit still, put the book upside down on the table, got up and went to feed the goldfish under the porch.
Mother Zhang came with a white jade tray, with sugar cymbals in the middle, and picked two begonias for decoration. Seeing her every day, it was almost the same: "Your Highness is okay going to Cining Palace today?" Did you encounter anything funny? β
Wuqi, the eunuch who was waiting next to him, sneered: "Something fun has happened, but I don't know if our master has gone to his heart." β
Wanwan and Xiao You stared wide-eyed, "Fun? No......"
Wuqi showed an unsurprising expression, "I just said, people have gone around in such a big circle, in fact, it doesn't work at all when they come to our master, and they have wasted so much effort." β
Xiao You took advantage of Mama Li's absence and kicked him on the calf: "Who stuck your mouth?" Is there something you can't say to yourself? β
Wuqi thought he was unlucky, and he gave way to the side and said, "You're a girl, why don't you even know this?" Asking for age, if you're not gossiping, you're going to talk about matchmaking. Who is Zhao Niangniang? He paused to look around, and said in a suppressed voice, "The master who has to lick a bite on the saline-alkali ground, how astringent!" I haven't seen a lot of intimacy with our master in the past, but now this three-inch tongue is not rotten, and I almost have to eat snacks, I'm afraid it will be ill-intentioned. β
Xiao You was stunned at this moment, the palace maid is not like a eunuch, she can go anywhere in the Forbidden City. They entered the palace when they were teenagers, and wherever they were assigned, they would be there for the rest of their lives. Except for a few who have the opportunity to follow the master, the rest have to guard one acre and three points of land, and they have no chance to see the world, let alone understand the speaking knowledge of women fighting cattle across the mountains.
However, some people say that this kind of thing is very happy for most girls. Xiao You slapped his face: "I was talking about it yesterday, but today good things will come to the door!" β
Zhang's mother asked carefully, and after listening to it, she didn't say anything for a long time, and handed the tray to Xiao Youcai and said, "Please eat snacks later?" Go to Kunning Palace? How did I hear that Hou'er is the day when Zhao Niangniang will meet, why do you invite outsiders to be present? β
Xiao You was confused, "But Zhao Niangniang said, 'Just our sisters and sons'......"
"Eighty percent is coaxing His Highness to go down and show others to each other!" Or Wuqi was clever and made a quick decision, "According to me, I can't go, who is our master?" It's not an ordinary girl, where can Baba be sent to Kunning Palace! If you want to see, you have to be a row of horses, and we have to pick and choose from our master. β
Wanwan was silent, people like her may not be taken seriously since she was a child, but when she is older, she will become fragrant and sweet. Especially in her generation, she is the only emperor, and slowly people from all walks of life will move, which is realized after her brain grows up. It's just that I didn't expect Zhao Niangniang to calculate it so quickly...... She suddenly tasted a little sad, this harem, many people can be her masters, looking at the life of gold and jade, in fact, it's just that.