Chapter 43: The Queen Mother
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The carriage of the Hou Mansion stopped outside the inner palace city, Shao Ding personally helped Songyan to get out of the carriage, entered the palace gate, and his own chamberlain took them to the Changle Palace where the queen mother lived.
Songyan followed behind Shao Ding, seeing that the red wall in the palace city was deep, and the maids who came and went to the palace avoided the side of the road when they saw them, and bowed respectfully, and walked in the long alley, the most clearly distinguishable thing was his slightly rapid breathing. Song Yan hurriedly slowed down his breathing, left all the miscellaneous matters in the Hou Mansion behind, and concentrated on preparing to meet the Queen Mother of the world.
When he arrived at Changle Palace, a middle-aged waiter wearing apricot yellow clothes and a soft face greeted him, his eyes narrowed with a smile, and he saluted Shao Ding and Songyan, "Are you two okay?" ”
Song Yan saw that he was different from the people who looked at him openly or secretly along the way, and when he saw Yan Furong's face, he didn't show a surprised look, so he felt that he was really a person in the palace of the queen mother of a country, and he was afraid that he had seen as many beauties as Jiang Carp, so he could be so calm.
Shao Ding said politely, "Li Daban is worried, Shao Ding and his wife are fine." ”
He took out a jade cicada from his sleeve, handed it to this Li Neishi, and said frankly, "I know that the big friend loves these gadgets, this jade cicada is an antiquity of the previous dynasty, and the big friend can play with it." ”
Li Neishou was stunned, took it with some emotion, and thanked Shao Ding for the reward with a slight choked voice, "These little habits of slaves and maids, Hou Ye still puts them in his heart......"
In the end, he is the Huangmen Ling in charge of affairs in the Empress Dowager's palace, and when he said that, he took Shao Ding and Songyan to the depths of Changle Palace as usual, and said, "Today to the Temple of Heaven, the Taimiao sacrifices to the ancestors of heaven and earth, and when the dawn dawns, His Majesty and the Queen Mother will bring the harem Niangniang and His Royal Highness to visit Niangniang, and the throne will be raised in the main hall, and now it is being put away. ”
Shao Ding nodded and asked, "Do you still have a soothing incense to rest at night?" ”
Li Neishou choked up and said in a low voice, "I don't order it anymore, and it's useless to light it......"
Shao Ding fell silent, pursed his lips tightly, Song Yan was embarrassed to see him on the side, although he didn't know what the two were talking about, he said, "I don't know where the pomegranate trees are planted in the Changle Palace?" ”
Shao Ding remembered the old story of the eldest princess of Yuyang and the queen mother that he had told Songyan that day, so he glanced at Songyan. Songyan took advantage of his glance and showed a soothing smile.
Li Neishou laughed on the side and said, "Madame also knows about those poor things? It was planted behind the Duanning Palace. ”
After talking about the old things about the pomegranate tree, the three of them arrived in front of the Duanning Palace, and the attendant guarding the door of the hall saluted the three and said, "...... Niangniang asked Dingyuan Marquis and his wife to go in directly if they arrived. ”
Songyan followed the two into the door.
The Duanning Hall is five places, Li Neishou led straight to the warm pavilion in the east, the room seemed to be burning with some kind of faint fragrance, smoked pine smoke a little uncomfortable, to the warm pavilion, there were seven or eight inner maids standing with their hands down. She quickly glanced at the Luohan bed near the window, and saw a palace woman who looked to be only in her thirties, dressed in regular clothes, not tall, holding a jade chess piece in her hand, tapping lightly on the Nanmu flower table on the side, and then knelt down with Shao Ding to salute and say hello. A cold female voice above her head said, "Get up, Ping'an, and sit down with Gorou and Mrs. Dingyuan Hou." ”
Songyan was uneasy when he heard this, and when he stood up, he saw an older female official wearing lake green clothes standing beside him, took the embroidery pier from the hand of another little palace maid and put it behind him, and smiled softly at himself. Songyan hurriedly smiled back, and after sitting down, she guessed that she must be safe.
Li Neishou also added a chair to Shao Ding on the side, and the Queen Mother greeted Song Yan, "Mrs. Dingyuan is better, right?" ”
The Queen Mother's tone was much softer than expected, and Songyan sat up straight and replied respectfully, "It's no big deal." ”
The Queen Mother nodded and said, "You can come out and walk around more in the future." ”
The two of them opened their eyes and said nonsense, and their tones were very polite.
After the interview with Songyan, the Queen Mother was surprised and a little satisfied when she saw that she was submissive, so she asked Shao Ding, "Why don't you bring Ying'er?" ”
Songyan lowered his eyes and listened to Shao Ding's reply, "Today's sacrifice at home delayed his studies, so I didn't bring him into the palace." ”
The Queen Mother said distressedly, "This study is not a one-day success, Ying'er is only five years old now, you urge him too much." ”
Shao Ding said, "I don't ask him how to achieve his studies, but he is childish all day long, which makes people anxious." ”
Ping'an took the little palace maid to serve tea, and Songyan saw that it was Jin Junmei who gave him, and his eyes looked into Shao Ding's teacup on the side, and saw that it was Mao Jian. Shao Ding took it and just took a sip, when the Queen Mother asked again, "Have you learned boxing?" ”
Shao Ding nodded and said, "Not yet, Cui Hongying takes him and practices some basic skills every day." ”
The Queen Mother relieved her mind and hurriedly said, "That's right, his body is still weak, don't be in a hurry." ”
The two of them actually gossiped seriously, and waited until Songyan sat down and drank a cup of tea, and the Queen Mother remembered her and said, "Mrs. Dingyuan is sitting in the room?" Let Ping An take you around the courtyard. ”
Shao Ding heard the Queen Mother ask, and also turned his head to look at Songyan and asked, "Are you tired?" If you want to go, go for it. ”
Although Song Yan knew that the Queen Mother probably had something to say to the Hou Ye, it was inconvenient for her to hear it, and when she heard Shao Ding say this, she couldn't help but show a smile on her face, and replied to the Queen Mother, "Although the concubine doesn't feel bored, she really wants to see the scenery in the Changle Palace, so she bothers Aunt Ping'an." ”
The Queen Mother nodded, and Ping'an smiled and went out with Songyan.
Ping'an asked Songyan outside the hall, "Where do you want to go?" Take a look at the view of the palace, or move to the pavilion and try the refreshments in the kitchenette of Changle Palace? ”
Although the scenery in the Changle Palace is very pleasant, in the final analysis, it is built according to the system, and there is no big difference from other palaces. But Songyan was full of curiosity and said, "Auntie, if you have time, take me around the palace." ”
Ping An smiled indifferently and nodded, Songyan saw that she was kind, so he boldly asked, "I don't know where Master Hou lived when he was a child?" ”
Ping'an showed a different look on his face, glanced at Songyan, raised his smile again, and said, "I live in the Sanxi Hall in the west, I'll take you to see it." ”
The two looked at each other and smiled, and went towards Sanxi Hall.
Although Shao Ding moved out, Sanxi Hall was not sealed, and there were still people cleaning it from time to time. Ping'an took Songyan to wander around in Sanxi Hall, and also told her some things about Shao Ding's childhood, time passed quickly, and the two walked back to Duanning Hall with a smile. Songyan saw that there were many more palace people standing under the eaves outside the hall than when they came, guessing that someone might be there again, and Ping'an whispered on the side, "I'm afraid it's the queen mother and Princess Qinghe who are here." ”
Songyan was stunned, and Ping'an on the side had already greeted several of them, and explained Songyan's identity.
Because just outside the Duanning Hall where the Queen Mother was, the people in the courtyard did not speak, but only bent their knees to salute Songyan, because of the large number of people, the clothes and skirts rubbed against each other, and there was a murmuring sound like a stream. Song Yan hurriedly asked them to get up, and when he saw that some of these palace people couldn't help but turn their heads and ears, knowing that they were talking about themselves, they were smiling bitterly, and Ping'an on the side frowned, and whispered to the Changle Palace attendants on the side, "Are you blind?" Take these whispers out without any rules and hand them over to the grandmother of Chuxiu Palace. ”
The palace people hurriedly knelt on the ground and begged, and Songyan saw that they had arrived at this time, but they even knelt down and begged for mercy quietly, without making a sound, as if they were alarming the people in the room, although they were standing, they felt creepy from the bottom of their hearts. Maybe I don't feel short when I kneel in the crowd on weekdays, but now I stand and look down at the kneeling people in front of me, but I realize how humble these people are.
When she looked at the peace, she did not feel that she was kind.