Chapter 31: Jin County
The sky has just dawned, the palace people have begun to sprinkle and sweep the court, and the bell tower of the Donghua Palace rings the morning bell.
"Your Majesty should get up." Wei Shan, the chief eunuch of the celebrant and the chief eunuch, arrived outside the dormitory of the concubine Hua of Yaohua Palace, and saw that the lights inside had not yet turned on, so he gave an order to Huanxi, who was standing outside the door and waiting.
Huanxi blessed a salute and said, "Father-in-law, last night Niangniang performed acupuncture for His Majesty, and Niangniang instructed that His Majesty needs to have a good rest today." β
Wei Shan glanced at the palace maid, he was the great eunuch beside the emperor, but unfortunately he really couldn't say anything in this matter. It's just that today's court discussion is about the drought in Jin County, and the inspector who went to Jin County will definitely arrive this morning.
He was hesitating, and he didn't know how to solve it, when he heard two copper runouts. Wei Shan was stunned for a moment, and thought that he had heard it wrong, he hurriedly walked towards the palace gate of Yaohua Palace, and sure enough, he saw four palace maids carrying lanterns in the corridor, and behind them were the phoenix bowls carried by the little eunuchs. The woman leaned lazily on the pinch, one hand on her forehead, and the other on a slender hookah stick, smoking one with the other.
Wei Shan's heart was shocked, and he rubbed his eyes to realize that he was not mistaken, and he hurriedly stepped forward.
"Mother's ......"
"Shut up!" As soon as Wei Shan's words came out, the person on the Feng Bowl interrupted him, "Your Majesty is still asleep, what is your name?" Follow. β
Wei Shan lowered his head and followed Feng Yu, and asked carefully, "Where is the queen going?" β
"Yaohua Palace."
Wei Shan almost stumbled, he glanced at the woman again, the queen usually lives in the palace, unless the New Year's banquet generally does not go out of the palace gate, and the daily wear is also a very ordinary muslin clothes, even silk is not worn, let alone wearing gold and silver jewelry.
But today, he was dressed in a rich and noble palace dress, with a nine phoenix hairpin, and even put on palace makeup......
Yaohua Palace, the queen is dressed like this, what are you going to do in Yaohua Palace at this point?
Before he could figure it out, Feng Yu had already arrived at the gate of Yaohua Palace. As soon as the eunuch at the gate of the palace wanted to report, he was covered by the eunuch beside the queen.
"Niangniang, ...... you" Wei Shan consciously lived in the deep palace for a long time, and these nobles could figure out their thoughts, but they didn't know what the queen was doing in Yaohua Palace at this point.
The queen walked forward, Feng Yi was indifferent and noble, her eyes forced to look at the past, and the palace maids and eunuchs in the courtyard only dared to kneel and silence, not to make one more sound.
Huanxi was stunned when she saw the queen, and only knelt down to salute after a while, she didn't hear the sound of "flat body", and all her eyes could see was the queen's embroidered phoenix feather skirt.
"The slave is guilty! The slave is guilty! Huanxi kowtowed anxiously, the voice was not small, but the queen did not stop it, she just looked at the dormitory with a smile, saw that the lights were lit inside, joy ran out of it, and saw the people in the courtyard kneeling on the ground, and the reprimand was also blocked in her throat, she hurriedly knelt down and saluted, and said: "The queen's mother Chitose Chitose Chitose." β
She was at the doorway when she heard the sound of someone in the inner sanctum turning over and sitting up.
Huanxi heard a sneer from the top of her head, and then the queen walked past her, and actually passed by Huanxi and entered the dormitory!
The courtyard was silent, the eunuchs and palace maids looked at each other, the queen entered the palace of Hua Guifei, and the emperor stayed in Hua Guifei's bedroom last night! The queen is jealous?
Wei Shan wiped the sweat from his forehead, and just as he wanted to follow, he heard a scolding from the dormitory.
"What is the queen doing!"
"Come to the palace and tell the emperor to get up." In the dormitory of the concubine, the queen was dressed in brocade clothes, standing in front of the bed uprightly, looking at the emperor and the concubine who were only wearing middle clothes on the bed.
The emperor was still sleepy, but he was looked at by the queen's cold eyes, and the scene under him was very strange, and he suddenly lost his sleepiness.
Hua Guifei sat up in her cloak and softly called "Emperor", and then looked at the queen, and before she could speak, she was gagged by the queen's "no courtesy".
"Queen!" The emperor was furious.
"Zhao Jie, the superintendent of Jin County, is back, Your Majesty, it is now two o'clock, the disaster situation in Jin County is tight, and His Majesty urgently needs to give a strategy for curing the disaster." The queen said to the outside, "Grandpa Wei, come in and change your Majesty's clothes!" β
Wei Shan came in with his clothes, and Huan Xile also stepped forward to serve Hua Guifei and dress. The Great Zhou Dynasty was scheduled to go to court at three o'clock, and the emperor was already late and didn't care too much.
After dressing and washing, a palace maid set up breakfast.
"Your Majesty, let's go again with some breakfast, the concubine asked people to make some mung bean porridge, it is hot in summer, and it is also excellent to use some." Hua Fei said.
"The concubines don't need to eat, but they are hungry for this meal." At this time, the queen interjected idly on the side, she held the cup, but drank not tea, but white water, "But the thousands of people in Jin County can't eat a meal, and it is difficult to drink even such white water." β
The emperor snorted coldly, flicked his sleeves and left, not glancing at the empress or at the breakfast on the table.
The queen got up, the cup in her hand slammed into the table with a "snap", she glanced at the fragments of the cup on the table, and said lightly: "I'm sorry, my hand is slipping." Concubine Hua has a good rest, there is still something to do in the palace, so let's go first. β
After she finished speaking, she took the pair of honor guards she brought over and left in a hurry, leaving a group of people in Yaohua Palace staring at each other.
Hua Guifei slapped the table and stared at the direction the queen left, her eyes filled with boundless anger.
"!" Joy and joy hurriedly kowtowed, "Niangniang is angry!" β
"Anger?" Concubine Hua gritted her teeth and said, "I can't even be angry?" Best wishes! Someday...... Someday! β
"!" Joy and joy kowtowed two more heads, "It's nothing to call the queen by her name, it's just a mother, the queen is weirdly tight, everything needs to be considered in the long run!" β
When the sun was rising, Qin Si replaced the hosta and asked her to rest in the car, sitting on the wheel by herself, waiting for the eunuchs to set off to catch the car, Chao'er forced herself to cry all night yesterday, and she was so tired that she fell asleep at night, and she didn't wake up yet.
The sun had just come out, and the fog was so thick in the straight mountain stream ahead that I couldn't see the road and the trees clearly.
"I went to the mountain plank road early in the morning to see it." Xing Zhaoyi rode over, dressed in a moon-white robe, his expression was cold as if he was covered with a cool mist in the valley, "Looking down from the plank road, there are twenty-two corpses. The road has been cleared. β
Qin Si was stunned for a moment, looking at the faint dark circles under Xing Zhaoyi's eyes, and didn't know what to say for a while.
"Those people who helped you, is it Swallow Tower?" Xing Zhaoyi looked at Qin Si coldly, "I really didn't see that you have such means. β
Qin Si looked at the indifference in this man's eyes, and the gratitude in her heart instantly dissipated, and she smiled: "I am an orphan girl, and I have not been in the WTO for a long time, so naturally I am not here to help me." She pointed to the carriage behind her, "Don't forget, there is also a quasi-princess of Beichuan here, the daughter-in-law of His Majesty the Emperor." Some people want to slap the face of the heavenly family, and they must have this ability. β
She saw Xing Zhaoyi's hand gripping the reins tighter, and she also saw the confusion on Xing Zhaoyi's face. After a long time, Xing Zhao Yi said: "King Beichuan has a special identity, even if he is a prince, his power is not great. As for Your Majesty, the daughter of a criminal minister, he doesn't have to be so concerned, this time it can be regarded as your luck. But don't worry......" He looked at Qin Si, stretched out his hand, stroked Qin Si's cheek, and withdrew his hand before Qin Si could react, "The next road, whether it is for the ministers or your fiancΓ©, I will protect your safety." With that, he rode his horse and disappeared into the vast white mist of the mountain stream.
Qin Si looked at Xing Zhaoyi's back in a daze, two lives as a human being, this is the first time he has encountered such a thing, this Xing Zhaoyi ...... Do you really like Qin Si?