Chapter 168: Withered Peach Blossoms
Duanyue was scolded by everyone unexpectedly, she held her head and looked at Mrs. Yu and Lu Qingyi very aggrievedly, and pouted. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ο½iqugeγ info"Okay, I know I'm wrong. But I'm all like this, so don't scold me. She looked at the mandarin duck for help and winked at her.
Seeing that Duanyue was still dressed in wet clothes, Mandarin Yuan could only speak for her helplessly. "Mother, madam, let Xiaoyue change her clothes first, although it is summer, it may also catch a cold."
"Alasβ" Mrs. Yu sighed, waved her hand at Duanyue with a headache, and let her go down.
What a headache this kid is! As soon as Duanyue saw that Mrs. Yu was relieved, he changed his face that was still low and admitted his mistake just now, and a smile suddenly appeared. Like a wild horse on the loose, he ran back to his room.
However, after this incident, Mrs. Yu and Lu Qingyi did not let Duanyue leave the courtyard, as if under house arrest, for fear that this little spicy man would cause something wrong. The person who was angry with the moon had to sit on the stone bench in the courtyard every day, shaking the fan angrily.
Isn't this the same as when you were in Chang'an City!
She finally managed to go back to Chang'an, but before her butt was hot, she had to go to the palace again, and she was really tired enough.
"Jingyan, how about you go to the palace for me?" Duanyue lay on the table, looking helplessly at the busy Jingyan in the room.
After listening to the smoke, he just smiled but did not stop the work in his hand. "What nonsense is the county lord talking about, even if the slave wants to replace him, he doesn't have the appearance of the county lord, even if he wears these beautiful clothes, he is not the county lord."
She laughed softly as she spoke. Duanyue turned her face sideways and glanced at Jing Yan, but she didn't expect that this kid had already learned a smooth tone of oil not long after he came.
"I'd better go by myself." Duanyue sighed secretly, so she had to get up from her position, took off a set of newly made colorful butterfly pear pollen blue skirts from the hanger, turned her face and glanced at Jingyan, Jingyan came over with understanding, and helped Duanyue change into a three-layer dress on the side, which was hot and tight to make Duanyue roll her eyes.
Jing Yan's hands and feet were quick and helped Duanyue prepare her hair bun and makeup carefully, and she was like two people who were too timid to do it before. Duanyue looked at the bronze mirror, and felt that she was too strange with heavy makeup.
"Go and urge Madame to get her ready." Jingyan nodded respectfully, and immediately walked outside with his waist bowed.
Duanyue looked at herself in the mirror and felt that something was not very pleasing to the eye, and after thinking about it, she felt that the earrings did not match well. This lively and fresh dress, with a dark red coral earring, always feels weird. Duanyue didn't bother to wait for Jingyan to come back and choose a better one, so she opened the drawer on the dresser and looked for it.
As soon as Duan Yue opened the drawer, an object placed in the corner caught her eye. It was a long box, with a lid that I didn't know where to put it, and it was tucked into a drawer. Inside the box was a branch that had turned dark and brown, and it was vaguely visible that there were flowers and leaves growing on the branch, but they were all dried and shattered at the touch of a touch. She couldn't help pinching the wilted branch, thinking that it was still there!
This peach blossom branch is still given by Yan Xinghui at the beginning of the year, and it has been placed in a porcelain vase in front of the window, and you can see the pink flowers when you look up every day. But then after it withered, it was put away by the cuiguo, and Duanyue didn't let her throw it, but I didn't know where to put it, and I didn't expect to receive it here.
Jing Yan walked back quickly, and just happened to bump into Duanyue pinching the peach branch, slightly puzzled. "Oops! This thing is rotting like this, how dirty your hands are! The slave and maid threw it away for the county lord. β
"Nope." Duanyue shook her head, put the peach branch back in the box, and casually found a pearl earring and put it on. "It's in the drawer, don't lose it."
After listening to the smoke, he naturally didn't dare to throw this thing away. She nodded obediently and said to Duanyue. "Madame's side is ready, let the slave maid come and ask if you can go now. If the county lord is ready, go to the carriage at the door and wait. β
"Let's go, let's go." Duanyue rubbed her temples, swelling and painful.
She thought to herself, anyway, she was going to go in the end, so it was better to leave early and finish it early, and she could still see Qichun. Jingyan saw Duanyue so active for the first time, and she was a little flustered in a hurry, so she hurriedly helped Duanyue up and followed her out.
The harem dinner is the same as other palace banquets, just eat and watch singing and dancing. The palace is no better than the outside of the palace, and the lack of entertainment activities is like a red flower in winter, so I have to find a reason to hold a banquet if I have nothing to do, and everyone will be bored when they are lively.
Because it was a harem dinner, most of the people who came this time were ministers and women, and few men were seen. Duanyue stood in the middle of a group of warblers and swallows, only to feel that the fat powder between her nose was almost out of taste.
"You're the only one?" A gentle and pleasant voice sounded next to Duanyue's ears, and she immediately heard Qi Chun's voice, and immediately turned her head.
The spring that has become a pure beauty has long been different from what it used to be, and what she is wearing on her body is like the head of the palace. She painted beautiful makeup, so that Duanyue didn't recognize who it was at first glance.
"Sister Qichun!" Duanyue cheered happily, but Qichun immediately made a "shhh
She lowered her head slightly, hiding her smooth face in the shadows. "You still have to call me Chun Meiren in the palace. It's really not as good as the outside, and the slightest clue can be caught. β
Qichun showed a shallow smile to Duanyue, this smile made Duanyue find that this Qichun is still Qichun, although the clothes are bright, but the kindness and simple smile in the eyes are still the same.
"My sister-in-law talked to others, and I didn't want to play with those expensive ladies, so I went to the side by myself." Duanyue looked at Qichun and said in a low voice. "Are you still used to Chun Meiren when she first enters the palace?"
Obviously, Qi Chun felt very unaccustomed to hearing Duanyue call himself like this. She covered her face and couldn't help laughing, feeling very awkward. "Very good, the emperor gave me a big palace. I thought that Ninghou Mansion was already magnificent enough, but now it is even more magnificent. β
"Then ......" Duanyue raised the corners of her mouth, and her eyebrows trembled. Does the emperor have a happy mother? β
When Qi Chun heard this, his face immediately turned red. She pinched the handkerchief in her hand and shook her head. "No, I haven't seen him since the day of the draft."
Her eyes shone slightly, Duanyue thought that she had seen it wrong, she always felt that Qi Chun's eyes had a shallow look of emptiness, as if there was something to hide.