On this day, Xie Zhen calculated the time for Old Lady Xie to return to the house as usual, and went to Old Lady Xie's courtyard in advance to wait.

It was not only Old Lady Xie and Yan Huai who came back, but there was also a eunuch who accompanied him this time.

As soon as Xie Zhen saw this eunuch, he thought of the cup of poisoned wine that he asked Yan Ming to give him in that life, which was sent by Yan Ming's father-in-law by Yan Ming's side.

Naturally, it won't be Gonggong Gao who came today, but Xie Zhen still didn't feel very comfortable in his heart, because although this eunuch today was not Gonggong Gao, Xie Zhen still knew him.

She remembered that he was a eunuch next to Empress Dong, surnamed Shan, and he was also the master of Grandpa Gao—now Grandpa Gao must still be just an inconspicuous little eunuch.

But why did the eunuchs beside Empress Dong appear here? Xie Hao couldn't help but guess Empress Dong's intentions in her heart.

Father-in-law Shan really came at the behest of Empress Dong, saying that the plum scene in the imperial garden was very good, and the queen wanted to hold a plum blossom banquet on the third day of the first day of November, and invited all the young ladies to enjoy the flowers together.

Flowers? Which one is this singing? Xie Hao didn't understand a little, in that life, as the daughter-in-law of Empress Dong, she didn't see how much Empress Dong loved flowers, let alone summoned a group of noble girls to gather in the imperial garden, how could she change sex in this life?

No matter what Empress Dong's purpose was, Xie Zhen didn't want to go. She then privately asked Old Lady Xie if she could not go.

Old lady Xie encouraged her to go, and said, "You didn't have any friends in Shangjing, it's rare to have such a party, and it's not bad to go out and get together with your peers to talk." ”

Xie Zhen wanted to reply that she had friends, and Ye Xunhuan, the famous catcher of the six doors, was her friend. But thinking that Old Lady Xie might not like her and Xunhuan to be acquainted, he had to keep these words in his stomach.

Old lady Xie wanted her to go, and she had no choice but to go, but she didn't take this matter too seriously, thinking that there was still half a month before the third day of November, so she didn't care even more.

Mrs. Xie didn't know where she learned the news, and the next day, after coming to the house to arrange a thing, she came straight to her yard to look for her, and brought a tailor to cut her a few new clothes.

Xie Zhen was a little inexplicable, could it be that she was going to cut New Year's clothes?

Mrs. Xie said angrily: "Why don't you tell your aunt about such a big thing?" Now that you have left home and live here in Shangjing, the eldest aunt really feels sorry for you and treats you as my daughter, but you want to be polite to me, isn't it a shame? ”

Xie Zhen didn't know where she had provoked her aunt, so she only said uneasily: "Auntie, which thing are you referring to?" ”

Mrs. Xie said: "Look at you, you still want to hide it from your aunt." You say, did you receive the queen's will to enter the palace for the plum blossom banquet on the third day of the first day of November? ”

Yes! It turned out to be this one thing......

Xie Hao pressed the corner of her forehead with a little headache and said, "Auntie, it's not that I have the intention to hide it from you, it's really that I forgot." ”

"Forgot?" Mrs. Xie said angrily: "How can you forget such a big thing?" When you go to the palace, do you want to cut new clothes? Do you want to get new jewelry? ”

It doesn't have to be so grand, right? Xie Hao held her hand and said, "Auntie, I'm just going to a banquet, where do I need to be so particular?" ”

"You kid!" Mrs. Xie snorted, and saw that the tailor had already measured the size for Xie Zhen, so she sent the person out first, and said in Xie Zhen's ear: "Silly child, do you think that the queen really wants you to enjoy the flowers when she holds this plum blossom banquet?" Now that the princes are getting older, some of the princes have reached the age of marriage, the queen must be in order to choose a concubine for the princes from between you, this banquet, you see, when the time comes, other people's young ladies must be dressed up brightly, if you dress up so plainly, I am afraid that you will suffer.

Xie Zhen suddenly chuckled in her heart, yes, why didn't she think of it? Empress Dong must have held this banquet with this in mind at this time! No, she must find a way to make the ladies in the palace look down on her!

Seeing Xie Hao's contemplative expression, Mrs. Xie was very satisfied, thinking that she had finally taken this matter seriously. If she knew that Xie Hao was thinking about how to lose the election at this time, she was afraid that she would vomit blood in anger.

Mrs. Xie said again: "But you don't need to be too nervous, one of the noble girls invited this time is your sister-in-law's sister-in-law, this time I know from your sister Ying, I have already asked your sister Ying to tell her sister-in-law, you will be in one place at that time, you just need to follow her." ”

Sister Ying's sister-in-law? Xie Hao blinked, she knew that her eldest sister Xie Ying was married to Yu Qian, the son of the court's servant, but Yu Qian had many younger sisters, which sister Yu was the eldest aunt talking about now?

She then asked, "Auntie, how long is that Sister Yu's house?" ”

Mrs. Xie said: "Your brother-in-law's family has many sisters, and now only the youngest sister is left who has not left the cabinet, and her name is Jiuniang." ”

Jiuniang? Yu Jiuniang?

Xie Zhen remembered.

Although she had no contact with the sisters of the Yu family in her life, she heard that there was a sister of the Yu family who seemed to be the ninth in the family, so she was casually named Yu Jiuniang by the waiter of the Ministry of Rites.

seems to be a pungent character, and in that life, she often heard the news of Yu Jiuniang's troubles, such as once kicking a county lord into the pool......

Xie Zhen didn't think about the things in that life, but she couldn't help but feel embarrassed when she thought about it, did the eldest aunt really rest assured that Yu Jiuniang would take her?

……

Soon it was the third day of November.

Xie Hao was pulled up from the bed by Nan'er and Zhu Hibiscus early in the morning, and the two maids, no matter what Xie Zhen said, resolutely wanted to change Xie Zhen into newly cut clothes - because before Mrs. Xie left that day, she told them very strictly about the importance of today's plum blossom banquet, so that the two maids took today's plum blossom banquet as if it was a blind date banquet for their own young lady.

Mrs. Xie also came to put makeup on her personally.

The more Xie Zhen looked at herself in the mirror, the more she felt bad in her heart.

The makeup that Mrs. Xie put on her with her heart is really excellent, not thick, a little light, very durable, and it is the kind that looks good.

Oops...... It's hard not to get the attention of the girls like this......

Mrs. Xie also looked at her and nodded again and again with great satisfaction.

Xie Zhen is wearing a newly cut skirt today, with a pink auspicious cloud pattern jacket, and a circle of white flannel at the upright neckline, which makes her face more and more delicate, and her skin is as white as snow that can be blown and broken. Under the light blue flower horse face skirt, it looks fresh and lovely.

It is simply unreasonable for such a girl to be elected as the imperial concubine!

The more Mrs. Xie looked at it, the happier she became, and she hurriedly told Xie Zhen some precautions for entering the palace.

I heard Yunlai say outside the house: "Aunt Ying and Grandma Ying have arrived." ”

Mrs. Xie asked Xie Ying to say to Yu Jiuniang, today Xie Ying and Yu Jiuniang came to pick up Xie Zhen together, and then Xie Ying sent her to the palace.

When Mrs. Xie heard this, she hurriedly urged: "It's here, Zhen'er, are you ready?" Do you know what to say after meeting the queen and all the ladies? Ah! After talking about it for so long, why did I forget to wear a hairpin for you? What about the new hairpins that day? Where did you put it? ”

As she spoke, she rummaged in the box anxiously, and asked Zhu Hibiscus and Nan'er to look for it together.

As the so-called mistake in the busyness, the makeup box was knocked to the ground.

At this time, Mrs. Xie was even more anxious, "Really, today is such an important day, why did I make so many mistakes?" ”

Xie Zhen hurriedly comforted her and said, "It's not in the way, auntie, you can be relieved, I think I'm already very good like this." ”

"How's that going to work?" Mrs. Xie was anxious to pull off the golden hairpin on her head and put it on Xie Zhen.

Xie Zhen hurriedly stopped it, and the straight road couldn't help it.

Mrs. Xie thought about it, the golden hairpin she wore was worn by an elderly person, and it was too old-fashioned to wear it for Xie Zhen. But is it just like that?

At this time, Zhu Jin ran over with a slender box and said, "There you have it!" ”

As soon as Xie Zhen saw the box, she silently shouted in her heart that it was bad, it turned out that this was the pearl hairpin that Yan Mingtuo Xunhuan brought to her that day, and then she took it and threw it under the bed, but she didn't expect to be found by Zhu Jin at this juncture.

Mrs. Xie hurriedly took over the box, opened it and took a look, and immediately took out the bead hairpin very happily, put it on Xie Zhen without saying anything, and said excitedly: "This hairpin is really exquisite, you are very playful and lively when you wear it." ”

Zhu Jin, who knew the origin of this hairpin, only felt honored, and said: "Of course, this hairpin is ......."

Xie Hao quietly raised her foot and stepped on her foot.

Zhu Jin suddenly gasped.

Xie Hao glanced back at her with a smile, her eyes full of warning.

Zhu Jin finally knew that Xie Zhen didn't want her to tell Mrs. Xie the origin of the hairpin, so she had to endure the pain with a bitter face and stop making a sound.

Mrs. Xie didn't hear Zhu Jin's words, and her ******** was all on Xie Zhen now.

Xie Zhen subconsciously reached out and touched the bead hairpin on the bun.

She is 10,000 unwilling to wear it, and if she meets Yan Ming today and teaches him to see it, wouldn't it be a misunderstanding?

But of course she couldn't pull out the bead hairpin in front of her aunt at this time, otherwise the aunt would have to worry about her.

Xie Zhen decided to endure it for the time being, and wait until she entered the palace.

Mrs. Xie pulled Xie Zhen to look left and right, and finally couldn't find the slightest pickiness, so she walked out with Xie Zhen.

Yu Jiuniang is really a person with a direct and refreshing personality, she was already impatient to wait, but after seeing that she was a delicate and delicate little girl, she immediately liked it very much, and that little anger was immediately thrown out of the clouds, but she stepped forward and took Xie Hao's hand very affectionately, and said, "Are you Sister Zhen?" I look so good, I'm Yu Jiuniang, you can follow me today! ”

Xie Hao nodded very obediently, gave her a blessing, and said softly: "Then there is Sister Laoyu." ”

She also has a very nice voice. Yu Jiuniang was in a good mood, and immediately patted her chest at Mrs. Xie and Xie Ying, saying that she would take good care of Sister Zhen, so that they didn't have to worry, and said: "There is no need for sister-in-law to send us into the palace, we will go by ourselves." Rest assured by my grandmother and sister-in-law, I am measured. ”

Xie Ying smiled: "I'll send you here, I don't have anything to do." ”

Yu Jiuniang said very resolutely: "Let's go by ourselves, sister-in-law rarely comes back on weekdays, so it's better to stay and talk to my aunt!" After Master Ji sends us to the palace, won't it be right for you to pick up your sister-in-law and go back to your house? ”

Xie Ying saw her resolute attitude, and thought that she had indeed not talked well with her mother for some days, so she smiled and agreed, and only told them to be careful in everything.

Xie Zhen then followed Yu Jiuniang into the carriage.

The carriage creaked towards the palace.

Yu Jiuniang liked Xie Zhen very much, so she found many topics along the way to lead her to speak, and Xie Zhen answered them one by one with a smile.

Although the two of them met for the first time, they got along very well.

Xie Zhen also likes a cheerful person like Yu Jiuniang in her heart, because getting along with such a person is very simple and easy, and she doesn't have to worry about what to say or not to say.

At the same time, she also noticed that along the way, Yu Jiuniang frequently turned her eyes to the pearl hairpin on her head.

She smiled slightly, simply reached out and pulled the pearl hairpin off, handed it into Yu Jiuniang's palm, and said, "See you today." There is no meeting gift for my sister, so I will give this pearl hairpin to my sister, and it should be regarded as a little bit of my sister's heart. ”

Although Yu Jiuniang liked this pearl hairpin, she was not too embarrassed to accept it, and only smiled: "Since you call me sister, then this meeting gift should have been given to you by me!" Your pearl hairpin is precious, so you should put it away! ”

As she spoke, she wanted to put the bead hairpin on Xie Zhen again.

Xie Zhen grabbed her hand and said, "The pearl hairpin is valuable, the friendship is priceless, no matter how valuable the pearl hairpin is, can it still compare to the friendship between you and me?" ”

She straightened her face again and said, "Could it be that Sister Yu doesn't want to make me a friend?" ”

Yu Jiuniang couldn't help but reach out and pinch her face, and said, "How is this possible?" To tell you the truth, I am the youngest child in the family, and I have always wished that I could have a sister too, and today I can teach it to do so. ”

She laughed, no longer polite, inserted the butterfly's winged hairpin into her bun, and fumbled to pluck a few pink silk flowers from her bun.

"Come!" She smiled and motioned for Xie Zhen to bow her head.

Xie Zhen knew that she was going to put the silk flowers on her, so she didn't shirk and obediently lowered her head.

Yu Jiuniang gently pinned the silk flower in her hair, and said with a smile: "My silk flower is not as valuable as your pearl hairpin, don't dislike it." ”

Xie Zhen pursed her lips and smiled, "How come?" In fact, when I saw my sister, I thought the silk flower she was wearing was very beautiful. ”

Yu Jiuniang couldn't help but be even happier when she heard her say she liked it, and said straightly: "It's good if you like it." ”

She then took off the silver bracelet she was wearing on her left hand and put it on Xie Zhen.

Xie Zhen was about to refuse, but she grabbed her hand firmly.

Yu Jiuniang said: "If you don't want to, I don't recognize you as a sister." ”

Xie Hao had no choice but to compromise and thanked her with a smile.

Yu Jiuniang cherished her even more because of her well-behaved.

The two talked intimately, and it was not until the coachman and master Ji whispered outside the car that they suddenly realized that they had unknowingly arrived in front of the palace gate.

If she thinks well, the noble ladies who come to the banquet today should all enter through the Ruyi Gate.

Xie Zhen, who had relived the first life and entered the palace again, took a deep breath, got up and opened the curtain.

She looked up, and sure enough, she saw the word "Ruyi" flying on the palace gate.

Wishful thinking, may I be satisfied.

(To be continued.) )