Early in the morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, they first went to check if there was any problem with the Spring Festival Lian hanging by Zhang. The white silk with blue borders and red stripes is written in Manchu script, which at first glance looks like doing white things. Sang Zhi secretly thought to himself, the customs of the Manchurians are really different. Around Chinese New Year's Eve, although the rules in the palace are tight, they are greatly rewarded to the palace ladies. They are also happy, so those who do things together in twos and threes will inevitably talk a few more words excitedly.

The imperial concubine of Chengqian Palace went to greet the queen early in the morning. Chinese New Year's Eve is the only day of the year when the empress and concubines in the palace are reunited, and the emperor and the empress dowager, empress, and concubines have breakfast together in the Taihe Hall, because it is not an official Chinese New Year's Eve feast, so the breakfast pattern is only ten to twenty products. The Chinese New Year's Eve reunion dinner is to be held in Shenzheng, in fact, the tablecloth dishes are set at 12 o'clock at noon. The dinner was held in the Qianqing Palace, and it was said that one hundred and eight dishes would be served, indicating good luck and good luck in the coming year. After the family banquet, it was time for the Qing court nobles to watch the Manchu traditional festival program "Mangshi", which is a dance.

At this time, the gongs and drums are noisy, and the excitement is extraordinary, and it has reached the unitary time.

In the end, Sang Zhi was infected by the festive atmosphere, and his heart was much happier. The palace maids are basically not old, most of them are thirteen or fourteen-year-old girls, they should be carefree and innocent girls, but in this palace, they all lose their nature early. Only when you relax a little at this time of the New Year can you have a lively girlish appearance.

Seeing that night was coming, the palace was still brightly lit and in full swing. Chinese New Year's Eve may be the only day of the year when curfew is relaxed, and everyone is looking forward to the coming year, and the whole palace becomes warm. Sang Zhi didn't expect that she would receive a lot of gifts at once, she was stunned, and suddenly felt embarrassed. This Chinese New Year's Eve, she only prepared two gifts in total, one for Surer and the other for Green Ying, and no one else was in her budget. Thinking about it, she had no choice but to temporarily hold on to the Buddha's feet, and gave everyone a copper coin with a red rope, which was called "money strings", and wished the palace maids a lot of money. The palace maids had never heard of it, and they were all very fresh for a while, and they were very grateful to Sang Zhi as a good thing. Sang Zhi felt embarrassed and became more and more embarrassed.

Tong'er said, "Mulberry Branch, let's go see the Mang-style dance!" You can also see many dignitaries! The emperor, the queen mother, the queen and the imperial concubine are all there, but they can't be seen in the past. ”

The nine-fold eighteen-style reckless dance was in full swing, and Sang Zhi listened to the lively sound, and had no intention of going to the onlookers, "We can't get in again, it's so cold outside, it's better to stay in Chuxiu Palace." ”

Tong'er didn't do it, "What's the point of staying here!" She saw that Sang Zhi really had no intention of leaving, so she invited other little palace maids to sneak away. I didn't expect the Mang-style dance to be so attractive to them, and in the blink of an eye, Chu Xiu Palace was left with Sang Zhi alone. Sang Zhi couldn't cry or laugh, and it was also cold to stay in Chuxiu Palace, where there was not enough charcoal, okay! As a last resort, she got up and stomped her feet to warm up. However, Chuxiu Palace is too big, she always feels lonely by herself, and the weather is cold, so it is better to go out for a walk, and enjoy the scenery.

There was still a faint sound of singing and dancing music in his ears, and the mulberry branch walked aimlessly, unconsciously heading in the direction of Yongshou Palace. Chuxiu Palace is only separated from Yongshou Palace by a Yikun Palace, next to it is the Kunning Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Qianqing Palace in the middle of the entire Forbidden City, but Sang Zhi and others do not spend much time in Chuxiu Palace on weekdays, and they have to get up and rush to Chengqian Palace before dawn every day, and come back to sleep at night. Moreover, these palaces on the central axis of the Forbidden City are generally strictly forbidden for palace people to enter and exit lightly, and Sang Zhi and her three palaces are extremely unfamiliar with them, and they only know that only the people in the palace of the emperor and queen can enter and exit.

The night was getting deeper and darker, the winter wind was cold, and although the mulberry branch was sweating a little when she walked around, the biting cold wind blew it, making her very uncomfortable with the hot and cold. It was already three o'clock, and the sound of dance and music was gradually weakening. Sang Zhi remembered that there would be a curfew at that time. She hurriedly moved back, and before she reached Longfu Gate, she suddenly saw Luan driving in front of her, and bluffed Sangzhi hurriedly hid-

Then he secretly regretted it. When a normal palace maid sees Luan Jia, she only needs to bow her head and kneel down and wait for Luan to drive over. But she was good herself, her first thought was to hide! She didn't have the consciousness to kneel down immediately, and she hid behind the stone lion next to the Longfu Gate without relieving herself for a while. It's a shame that at night, she can't see it clearly, and she herself is slender, otherwise it would be light to be found to treat her for a big disrespectful crime, and I'm afraid that she will be killed on the spot as an assassin with bad intentions.

Seeing that Luan was getting closer and closer, Sang Zhi secretly scolded himself in his heart for being confused, and it would be good to kneel down directly! She held her breath and stared, not knowing whether this Luan Jia was from Yongshou Palace or Kunning Palace. Just thinking about it, Luan stopped at Longfu Gate.

Sang Zhi's heart suddenly rose to his throat, "You won't be so unlucky!" "It's the queen who doesn't die? If it was from the Yongshou Palace, she would have escaped the catastrophe after it passed. If it can be replaced by Kunning Palace, it will stop at Longfu Gate and enter Kunning Palace from this gate. Sang Zhi has the heart to cry to death, unless the people around the queen are blind, how can she not find herself! She was worried, but she still knelt silently on the side of the stone lion, quietly moved her position out, pretending not to hide, and did not dare to raise her head.

Sure enough, Yu Guang caught a glimpse of Luan driving just stopped, and Cai Wanyun saw a figure kneeling at the base of the wall, and stepped forward with a sharp look and asked, "Who?!" Which house? ”

"Back to my aunt, slave and maid...... Chengqian Palace. ”

Cai Wanyun frowned, "Chengqian Palace, what are you doing in Longfu Gate?" ”

"Back to my aunt," Sang Zhi broke out in a cold sweat, "It's late at night, I can't see the road clearly, and the slave maid is in the wrong direction." ”

That's right, the Forbidden City is so big that it's common to get lost. In particular, the Chengqian Palace is almost facing the Kunning Palace, and the Jinghe Gate opposite the Longfu Gate is the place where the emperor often goes to the Chengqian Palace. It's just that Jinghemen and Longfu Gate are one left and one right, and Chengqian Palace and Yikun Palace are separated by the three most majestic palaces in the Forbidden City - Kunning Palace, Jiaotai Palace and Qianqing Palace.

"Lost?" Cai Wanyun's voice was cold, "Raise your head." ”

Sang Zhi swallowed, so he had to look at her hard.

Cai Wanyun looked at it, "It turned out to be you." His eyes were full of disdain.

Sang Zhi bit his lip, "I've seen my aunt." ”

Cai Wanyun snorted coldly, and turned to the queen in Luanjiali, "Queen Qiyu, I have seen this little palace maid, I was very confused when I was in Xinzhiku, and later I was assigned to Chengqian Palace. The crime of disturbing Feng Jia is unforgivable, and the slave and maid will punish her well. ”

Sang Zhi's heart trembled, and he complained bitterly. The palace people of Yongshou Palace and Kunning Palace have always looked at each other at the same time as Chengqian Palace, and now they fell into the hands of Cai Wanyun, and they were afraid that they would have to lose their skin if they didn't die.

She was in a frightened heart, cold sweat, suddenly saw the queen lady who was blocked in the luan car stretched out her hand, beckoned the little palace maid next to her, whispered something, and listened to the little palace maid, "Auntie, the queen maiden said, those who don't know are not guilty, besides, tonight is Chinese New Year's Eve, it is not appropriate to do anything." ”

Cai Wanyun was stunned and moved her lips, but she didn't dare to refute, "Yes." Then he said loudly, "Welcome the queen back to the palace!" ”

Sang Zhi knelt on the ground, not daring to make the slightest movement, and saw Cai Wanyun helping the queen mother into Longfu Gate. From her point of view, she only saw the hem of the costume, and in front of her was a bunch of palace people with flower pot bottom flag shoes stepping on it unhurriedly.

When all the people had already entered, Sang Zhi breathed a sigh of relief. His back was already soaked in cold sweat.

She tried to stand up, but found that her legs were weak. Too nervous.

Sang Zhi thought to himself, he couldn't run this way anymore in the future. Located on both sides of the last three palaces symmetrically built east and west six palaces do not deal with each other, the Yongshou Palace of the west six palaces dislikes the Chengqian Palace of the east six palaces, that is, the Kunning Palace is also lukewarm to the Chengqian Palace, although it is obvious that the Chengqian Palace under the favor is the target of the public, but the East Sixth Palace is quite favored by the emperor because of the geographical location next to the Chengqian Palace, and the West Sixth Palace is because of the discord with the Chengqian Palace, so that the emperor almost never comes here. As a result, the six houses of the east and west are becoming fire and water, but they can't be seen on the surface.

She touched the gift hidden in her sleeve, and her heart was full of mixed feelings. I'm afraid I won't be able to give this New Year's gift. It would be nice if I could leave it to Su Le as a souvenir - Sang Zhi had just been frightened, and he had already made up his mind that he would try not to come to the West Sixth Palace in the future. She suffered a lot in the West Sixth Palace, and almost died here, and she couldn't put herself in such a dangerous situation again because she coveted an unknown Sule.

She was standing at Longfu Gate, slowly feeling and just about to leave, when suddenly the voice of the palace maid came from behind her, "Mulberry Branch, the queen mother summons!" ”