Chapter 35: After a Country
The atmosphere in Fengyi Palace has been very dull in the past two days, and almost everyone has been cautious and frightened. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info Except for Princess Ning Guo, who knew that she was going to be married to the Blue Moon Kingdom, she came to Queen Zhao's side and cried twice, and the rest of the time, it was always quiet, no, it should be said that it was an eerie silence. The palace people came and went cautiously, not daring to make a sound, for fear of annoying the queen, and now the queen is angry, and no one dares to touch her moldy head.
The winter night always comes earlier, but just after the Shen time, the sky quickly darkened, and all the palaces were lit with octagonal palace lights, and faint sparks ignited from the night, illuminating the entire Fengyi Palace. The floor in the Fengyi Palace is paved with white jade, in winter, the palace people burn the earth dragon, and then spread a thick layer of velvet blanket on the white jade floor of the queen's bedroom, as soon as people arrive in the house, even if they only wear a single coat, they will not feel the slightest cold, warm and mellow everywhere, as comfortable as spring in April.
Empress Zhao is now in a warm dormitory, but her heart is as cold as an ice cellar, thinking that back then, she married Murong Sheng, who had just been crowned the crown prince, that is, the current emperor. At that time, what a beautiful scenery he was, and how proud he was, fluttering for marrying into the royal family, and complacent about the supreme honor he brought to the family. I thought that in the future, I would be happy after becoming the most noble woman in the world under one person and above ten thousand.
For so many years, seeing the emperor's concubines give birth to little princes one by one, and he tried his best to only get two daughters, and finally adopted the six princes, as long as she is well educated, she will become a great weapon in the future, but now, she wants to personally send her favorite little daughter to the sedan chair that goes to the Blue Moon Country, and the queen feels like a knife every time she thinks of it.
On that day, she groveled to the emperor, begging him not to send the little princess, after all, she was her own daughter, but the emperor's attitude was insistent and resolute, it was a golden mouth, the emperor told the queen with his actions, he had made up his mind and could not be changed.
Oh, yes! A little princess can be exchanged for five years of peace, the country is stable, and it will last for generations, but what did she do wrong with my loveliest little daughter? To endure all this innocently? Why isn't it someone else's daughter, but my Empress Zhao's daughter? Empress Zhao stood up violently, swept away everything on the dresser, the comb rouge gold and silver pearls fell to the ground, because of the thick blanket on the ground, it didn't make much noise, only a few slight sounds and everything returned to calm. However, at this moment, Empress Zhao's heart could not be calm, she summoned Qingmian, and said coldly: "Qingmian, take the cloak, this palace wants to go out for a walk." ”
Qingmian looked worriedly at Lan Jin, who was standing beside the queen, Lan Jin shook his head at her gently, Qingmian bit his lip, and wanted to persuade the queen to roll in his throat a few times, but finally swallowed.
Qingmian brought a thick cloak with a big red gold silk embroidered phoenix snow white fox fur piping, and saw that Lan Jin was helping the master to wear the clothes and accessories to go out, and also came forward to help, the two of them had neat hands and feet, dexterity and properness, and after a while, the queen mother was dressed neatly and could go out dignifiedly, and the two followed on the side.
Said to go out, in fact, such a snowy day, can not go far, the green cotton blue brocade two people bowed their heads and followed the queen all the way slowly walking, to the plum garden, only to smell a burst of elegant fragrance in the air drifted out, people involuntarily walked over, it was the plum blossoms in the garden opened, hollow carved all kinds of plum blossom patterns on the courtyard wall, stretched out a branch of red plum blossoms.
Empress Zhao walked over, stretched out her right hand in her sleeve, and used her fingertips to pluck away the snow piled up on the blooming plum petals.
Empress Zhao broke off this red plum, called Lan Jin to step forward, and inserted it into her hair bun with her own hands, Lan Jin hurriedly knelt down to thank her, there was no soft cushion in the field, she knelt on the mud covered with snow, the snow was melted by her body temperature, soaking her pants below her knees, but Queen Zhao just looked at the dark sky, and forgot to tell her to get up.
After a long time, Empress Zhao turned around, lifted Lan Jin's chin with her cold hand, and asked, "Lan Jin, do you like this red plum?" ”
Lan Jin pulled out a smile and replied respectfully: "Given by the mother, I naturally like it." ”
Queen Zhao said "um", and then said: "If you like red, don't call it Blue Brocade, from today on, you will be called Red Brocade, and the palace will give you to Princess Anguo, and you will marry Blue Moon Country with the princess in the future." Got it? Red brocade. ”
Hongjin didn't dare to hesitate for a moment, and immediately kowtowed to thank her: "Queen Xie values it, the slave and maid must serve Princess Anguo well, do her best for the princess, and die." ”
The queen said with satisfaction: "Hongjin, I know that you still have parents and a young brother at home, you can rest assured, your family will be able to live a life without food and clothing from now on." Go back early today to rest, and come early tomorrow morning to listen to me. ”
Hongjin kowtowed again to thank her, Queen Zhao stretched out her right hand, Qingmian stepped forward and respectfully supported her, and returned to Fengyi Palace the same way she came.
Hongjin saw that Queen Zhao had gone far, and only then did she get up with difficulty, because she had been kneeling for a long time, her knees lost sensation, she was numb for a while, and fell crooked on the snow, at this time, a pair of hands reached out to help her up, Hongjin looked up, and saw a gentle man smiling at her, and suddenly lost her mind, but soon she came back to her senses, and wanted to kneel down to say goodbye, but the man looked at Wen Ya, but in fact, his arms were very strong, and he actually supported her, so that she couldn't kneel.
Seeing that the two were too close to each other, Hongjin Yuan was a woman who had grown up in the deep palace since she was a child, and had never been in contact with a man so closely, even if she knew that it was impossible for this man to be with her, she couldn't help but be shy in her heart, her face turned red, and she said softly: "Slave Hongjin, please be safe for the fourth prince!" ”
The man laughed, like a spring breeze, and he greeted him cordially: "What's wrong with you, your clothes are wet, so you will catch a cold, why don't you go to the plum garden to change your clothes." Such a gentle fourth prince, Hongjin was led by him into the plum garden like fascinated, and kept saying in his heart, no, no, but his warm hand grabbed her hand and held it tightly, this warmth, she was reluctant, she knew that it was not right, but she finally went in with this person with a pair of warm hands.
On this day, the snow finally stopped, and the palace of Nuoda became a white world, and the red brocade waited in front of the queen's bedroom as usual, waiting for the master to wake up and summon him to go in to wash his face and change his clothes.
On this day, the queen put on her court clothes, but she did not immediately go to meet the palace concubines who came to ask for peace, but spent everyone away, leaving only Hongjin alone, and said for a long time. About an hour later, Hongjin respectfully withdrew, Qingmian and Luluo saw Hongjin come out to summon someone to go in to serve, the two of them glanced at Hongjin, and hurried away. Empress Zhao sat quietly in the spacious dormitory, waiting for the palace people to wait for her to go to the front hall of Fengyi Palace to meet the concubines of the palace.
Hongjin held a rosewood box that Empress Zhao had just given her, which was full of gold, silver and jade, as well as 10,000 taels of silver tickets. Her mind kept echoing the words of Empress Zhao and her: "Hongjin, if you go to the Blue Moon Country with Princess Ningguo to serve well, your younger brother in your family will be able to read and write this year, and in the future, this palace will guarantee your younger brother an official position, and your family will no longer have to endure hardships and suffering, and you will be able to glorify your ancestors at that time." There is only one small condition in this palace, this palace knows, you have some kung fu foundation, be sure to protect the princess, if the princess has half a mistake, your little brother is afraid that he will suffer and suffer, if the princess can not live, you will have no value of existence, and your family will also fall to the ground, and there will be no corpse. Of course, as long as the princess is well, your family will be safe and sound. Hongjin, can you hear the words of this palace clearly?! ”
Hongjin hugged the box in his hand tightly, and remembered that he was in the plum garden with the four princes last night, and suddenly, the queen's face resurfaced, and Hongjin's brain couldn't stop for a moment, only feeling a splitting headache. She bit her lower lip vigorously with her teeth, her eyes revealed a hint of firmness, and her feet kept walking towards the Xianglan Hall of Princess Ningguo.