(10) Gift-giving
"Wei Chi Yanran," Concubine Shu, who was sitting in the first position on the right side of the queen's head, Yuan Wanyou, who had been half-leaning on the mahogany carved moire handband chair, said lightly to Concubine Zhuang: "This joke is not funny, can your situation when you were young compare with Rou Guiji?" Your Jiangnan courtyard can also be compared with the inner courtyard of the palace? ”
Wen Qingwan heard Concubine Shu's words, immediately breathed a sigh of relief, sat down slowly, and changed to Concubine Zhuang, who was facing obliquely, her face was red and white, let's talk back, Concubine Shu's position is higher than herself, and she doesn't have to offend people who shouldn't be offended for her own breath, don't talk back, being embarrassed in front of so many people, I don't know how to be ridiculed behind my back.
Thinking of this, Concubine Zhuang's eyes instantly turned red, her body was stunned, she was twisted with a handkerchief in her hand, and she opened her mouth aggrievedly: "Sister Shufei, is it my sister's, my sister only thinks that she was also unaccustomed to water and soil when she was young, and she can understand the mood of Sister Guiji, thinking about it with her heart, and saying it for fun, but she didn't think so thoroughly." ”
Concubine Zhuang's voice became hoarse, and she was wronged when she heard it. There are also words in the words, at first glance, it sounds like Concubine Zhuang is lying down and begging for mercy from Concubine Shu, and when you think about it, Concubine Zhuang is implying that her thoughts are simple and simple, and Concubine Shu's thoughts are scheming, and she will not let go when she catches people's mistakes.
All of a sudden, the hall that had just warmed up was quiet again, everyone was silent, and the low-ranking concubines were still silently remembering the response of Concubine Zhuang and Rou Guiji in their hearts, and learning the key points of this fighting method while the iron was hot.
Concubine Shu didn't care, leaned back in the chair again, and waved her hand casually: "Since I don't have this thought, that is, I have a lot of heart, you can speak clearly in the future, so as not to make people misunderstand for no reason and have a lot of things." Okay, don't cry, it's so hard to serve. ”
Concubine Zhuang choked, and the tears that were about to burst out of her eyes were forced back, and she never thought that she would pull down her face, and Concubine Shu would also stab herself twice.
Song Mier looked at it interestingly in the first place, Concubine Shu was afraid that she didn't know that her words had been misinterpreted again, Yuan Wanyou looked like she was indeed a straight person, but this Concubine Zhuang was a little white lotus, and she wanted to pretend to be something and set up something, and if she couldn't fight the enemy, she would use tears to win, but unfortunately there was no man in this palace, and no one ate her. When you say a sentence, you have to think about it a few times, and when others say a word, you have to interpret it into a few meanings, and you are not afraid that the whole cranky thoughts will hurt your heart and spleen. But looking at it, he is also a scheming person, and his heels have not yet stood firm, so he wants to step on people, and the first person in the palace is the most eye-catching concubine and Rou Guiji in addition to the queen, I really don't know whether to say that she is real, or praise her for her good vision.
Concubine Xian on the side seemed to be unbearable, raised her hand and patted the back of Concubine Zhuang's hand, and said slowly: "Your sister Yuan is such an anxious child, raised as a boy since childhood, don't worry if she doesn't speak well, she doesn't mean anything, just listen to it, don't worry about it." ”
"Sister Xie's mercy." Wei Chi Yanran opened her mouth softly, "It's also Yanran's fault, I lost my demeanor for a while, and I hope that my sisters will forgive me." After finishing speaking, he got up and made a blessing.
Yes, there is another forgiveness of sins, and both of them take the weak route of the little white flower. Where are so many people who are making a fuss about forgiveness, can you really think that you can't press her guilty, so busy trying to plead guilty. Song Mier looked at the words and turned to himself again, pressed the corner of his forehead with a headache, and remembered that his father had joked in the past that there was an official in the imperial history to ask for guilt, and now it seems that the emperor is really not easy to be, and it is not easy to attack guilty, and it will really hurt internally.
"There are not so many rules here in this palace, you should be in your own palace, how comfortable you come, don't ask for any guilt, please come and invite to go to the complicated place. The first time my sisters came to my palace for a small gathering today, it should have been a happy day, and we didn't like that. Song Mier was interested, "Qinghe, go, and bring me the things I have prepared for my sisters." ”
"Yes." Qinghe answered, retreated from the back of the side hall, the side hall of the Xuande Palace is connected to a small pantry, convenient for the concubines to add tea and pour water in time, from the pantry turned out and came to the open space of the courtyard of the second entrance of the Xuande Palace, if you want to enter Song Mier's living room, you have to walk through a corridor and a pool, and there is a long time of twists and turns, before you can enter the deepest part of the Xuande Palace, so the general concubine's visit is also in this side hall, and no one will rashly break into the queen's dormitory and collide with the queen. If you want to see the queen, wait in front of the palace gate and wait for the report, if the grade is higher or the queen treats her differently, you can cross the side hall and enter the side hall to wait.
But it is said that on the other side of the pantry in this side hall, there is also a small room, prepared with some ordinary clothes, jewelry, shoes, and even a large one, which was originally prepared for the concubines in case something went wrong when they visited, and now the yellow rosewood table in the center of the main hall of the small room has been moved to the side, and the objects that Song Mier ordered Qinghe to prepare for the concubines are neatly placed in the open space.
Qinghe led a few little palace maids to bring these objects to the side hall, it was when Concubine Xue was seriously asking Qian Guiji how to make incense, everyone was listening with relish, Qian Guiji also swept away the decline just now, and the whole person was full of energy again.
According to the order of everyone's seating, Qinghe presented these objects in turn. Concubine Shu got a hairband woven of ice silk about half a palm wide, ice silk is rare, only a few years out of a dozen silkworms can only spit this silk, wait until this ice silkworm spits silk, and teach ingenious women to carefully make this silk into a finished horse, this silk will also be thousands of miles to pay tribute to the royal front, on the way to ensure that it is not exposed to the rain, not moth-eaten and not burned, so although it is just a hairband, Concubine Shu's eyes still have a strong joy, what is even more rare, This ice silk hairband is also intertwined with gold leaf drawn filaments, between the flipping of the wrist, the golden brilliance flashed on the plain white hairband, and the original extremely plain hairband suddenly shone brightly, such an ingenious thought, coinciding with the concubine who does not like to insert hair accessories on weekdays, prefers to learn to learn from men's hairbands and high hair strands, holding the hairband and turning over and over again, and said several thanks to Song Mier.
Concubine Xian opened the silk cloth on her belongings, but it was a few scriptures recorded casually by Pei Yu when he was poisoned in the previous dynasty, Buddhist stories he heard along the way, and the content of his own conversations when he was debating with the monks of the local temple when he was poisoned. Pei Yu Jin was originally a calligraphy and painting master of the previous dynasty, and proficient in Buddhism, he had a word of gold when he was alive, and then he was hurt by love and came to his senses, and escaped into the empty door, there was no other handwriting of Pei Dajia in the world, and the virtuous concubine also heard that Pei Yujin had traveled alone when he was young, and he traveled while playing a game, that is, this trip to the body poison laid the groundwork for him to escape into the empty door in the future, so everyone in the world wants to get this number of self-poison travelogues, and figure out what Pei Yujin has experienced in the body poison. But it is said that these books disappeared after Pei Yujin's death, and he never thought that he would be able to see Pei Yujin's uncirculated heirloom with his own eyes today. Concubine Xian's hand began to tremble with excitement as the number of pages turned increased.
The concubines present have successively uncovered the silk cloth covered with the objects in front of them, Concubine Zhuang got a hairpin, Concubine Xue is a fan that can't be seen from the calendar, Rou Guiji is a piano in front of her, Qian Guiji is a few small boxes, I saw her open a box from time to time and sniff carefully, very happy, the concubines present regardless of the grade, all got things, look, it seems that they all want to get something, all of them can't put it down like a treasure, and they are flattered to Song Mier and thank them again and again.
Song Mier smiled and looked at the happy concubines below, and his heart was also very happy, and he thought about the women's party with joy.
Just thinking about being happy, there was a big eunuch with the faces of the concubines outside, leading a few young attendants, and holding a lot of things in their hands, before the concubines could reflect, Song Mier had already sat upright and beckoned the eunuch in, and the concubines knew that the eunuch born in this face was the most favored Yue Kang in front of the Queen Mother, so everyone silently wrote down this face again, reminding themselves that they would be polite when they saw it in the future.
When the palace was quiet, Yue Kangcai respectfully said to Song Mier that the queen mother lost a bet with the queen mother last time, so she went to her private treasury to find a lot of things that she was reluctant to use for the queen, and knew that today was the first time the queen recruited a concubine in the morning province, so he prepared a concubine gift, saying that it was a meeting gift for the queen.
When I came to a morning province, I took the gift and got it softly, and everyone was naturally happy, so they took it happily, but they didn't dare to check what the queen mother gave in front of the eunuch, so they had to look at the queen with a blank eye, wanting to see what the queen mother gave to the queen. However, what kind of bet did the queen and the queen mother make, but they didn't know anything, so they felt that they didn't even see the queen mother, and when they didn't say a word, the queen had already made a bet with the queen mother, and the queen mother also lost to open a private treasury for the queen.
But it is said that Song Mier lifted the silk cloth, and the jade plate was placed on a phoenix crown, and in the other two plates, there was a phoenix hairpin, several hairpins, a pair of ear beads on one side, and a pair of jade bracelets and a jade pendant on the other plate, a set of phoenix neck ornaments in the nine heavens, and the three plates were connected, as if it was half of the queen's ritual.