Chapter 10: A Drink and a Peck
Mo Lanyi's delicate face was bright, looking at the tender yellow wood fragrance blooming in the flourishing flowers and trees on both sides, and the huge and white peonies with flowers like the mouth of a bowl, and her face was full of joyful smiles. Smelling the rich magnolia aroma blowing from time to time in the warm breeze, I took a deep breath of the refreshing floral fragrance.
was about to ask Zangjiao to look at the red and gorgeous crape myrtle flowers climbing on the tree, but when he saw Zangjiao's expression, he hurriedly pulled Zangjiao's sleeve gently: "Sister, what's wrong?" Why do you look a little sad? ”
Zang Jiao patted her hand lightly, and barely showed a faint smile: "I'm fine, I just think of my parents and younger brothers at home, and from then on, the palace is deep, and it will be difficult to see each other in the future, so I can't help but feel a little melancholy." ”
Hearing her say this, Mo Lanyi gradually smiled, and a trace of sadness appeared between her eyebrows. "But, when my sister said this, I also missed Daddy and Auntie a little. I don't know when Daddy will know if I'm a talented person. Are those officials still bullying Daddy? ”
"Sister Mo, Sister Jin doesn't have to be sad, Sister Mei said that if the concubine in the palace is promoted to the concubine, she can summon her relatives at home. Now that we've all been promoted, I'm afraid we'll have to... and he will go to bed. As long as you are loved by the saints, you will always be promoted to the position of concubine in the future. Won't you be able to see your loved ones at home? ”
Lin Yuzhen didn't know when she listened to their words, took Mei Caiping's hand and jumped forward to comfort the two, and there was still a snow-white jasmine branch with a small bud in her hand, and a burst of fragrance came to her nose.
Jin Zangjiao looked at her little face crimson, and a few small beads of sweat on the tip of her nose were very cute. couldn't help laughing, took out a silk handkerchief from his arms and wiped it with her, and pointed at the tip of her small nose: "The little girl is not ashamed, the youngest here is you, but you are in a hurry to sleep?" ”
Lin Yuzhen looked left and right a few times, and when she saw that there was no one else, she mysteriously stretched out her head to them and whispered: "I heard that the waiter sleeps in the same bed with the saint, which is nothing, I often sleep with A-Niang when I am at home." It's just that the saint is a man, and it's a little unaccustomed to it."
Before she finished speaking, Mei Caiping next to her couldn't help laughing, and Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi couldn't help crying and laughing when they looked at Lin Yuzhen, who was still handsome. "Alright, let's go quickly. These words are not ashamed, just go back and talk about them. Mei Caiping urged Lin Yuzhen to smile as she walked.
Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi fell behind, looked at her, shook their heads and smiled at Mo Lanyi: "Sister Lin is still young, and she always speaks like this. I'm a little worried about her temperament, and I don't know if it's a blessing or a curse. ”
"Sister Yuzhen is delicate by nature, and she will be liked by the saint when she thinks about it. It's just that if you are like this in front of others, I'm afraid that something is wrong, and you will suffer a loss on the Guanlian Platform that day, and you and I will have to mention it in the future. Mo Lanyi thought of Cao Caidie's incident, and she was a little depressed.
Zang Jiao took her hand and said: "The Cao family is a Beijing official at home, and he has a domineering temperament. Fortunately, I didn't get promoted this time, so I think it will be much more convergent in the future. That's it, as long as she doesn't provoke us, forget it, and we won't mess with her. ”
Unconsciously, I walked to the place where the Chunxi Palace was lowered, and the palace people served on the shoulders, and they gathered all the way for more than ten times through the Wind Lotus Garden to Biying Lake.
The Wind Lotus Garden is the largest garden in the palace except for the Imperial Garden, and there is a warm spring underground, planting all kinds of exotic flowers and plants from tribute. Even in winter, flowers and trees are flourishing. The warm spring cultivates a kind of excellent lotus flower from Fanguo, and at this time when the flowers are blooming, the huge lotus leaves in the clear water float flat on the surface of the water, and it is said that it can carry the weight of young children.
The lotus flower is also different from the ordinary lotus flower, and the flowers bloom white on the first day. The next day it gradually closes, and in the evening it blooms, and the flowers turn deep red. The aroma is intense and beautiful. At this time, it is almost unitary, and a piece of jade jade plate is red and white, delicate and moving.
The warm smoke breeze gently blows the petals of the jade lotus, and also blows the clothes of the woman sitting alone in the sun-reflecting pavilion by the pool. The wide crepe gown was embroidered with small snow-white jasmine buds, and the breeze blew the clothes slightly undulating, and the people in the robe were so slender that they seemed to sway with the wind.
She sat lazily on the round pier of the blue and white porcelain table in the pavilion, her thin and pale wrists still delicate, with two delicate hibiscus jade bracelets. Under the two light eyebrows, a pair of willow-shaped eyes looked at the red-winged dragonfly flying on the petals on the water with a bit of dazedness.
Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi sat side by side on their shoulders, and saw the woman in the pavilion from a distance. A group of more than ten people, plus the palace people who followed before and after, walked on the five-colored pebble road of the Wind Lotus Garden, and the woman did not move, and did not even turn her head. The two green-clothed Shang Palaces beside her also stood beside her like clay carvings and wood sculptures.
Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi glanced at each other in surprise, and Mo Lanyi couldn't help but ask the palace people around her, "Who is the beauty in that pavilion?" "Back to Mo Cairen, that is Fang Wanyi of Zhiting Palace, Fang Niangniang has always been happy and quiet, and does not like to be disturbed by others, so the nobles don't have to go to see the ceremony. However, if you change to another lady, you must go. ”
The reply was the Lanxi Zhonggong Order, who was in charge of the Xixing Pavilion, and had been in the palace for five years. The figure is slightly plump, a slightly chubby round face, and two dimples appear at the corners of the mouth when he smiles, and he is extremely docile and kind when he serves Zangjiao and others on weekdays.
It turned out that this was Fang Wanyi in the Zhiting Palace where she was going, Zangjiao thought silently. In the past many days of entering the palace, the two virtuous ladies today, plus Song Zhaoyi and Shen Xiurong who had seen them during the re-election, although everyone had a good demeanor, they were also fresh and laughing.
This Fang Wanyi is like dead wood, and the movements of these many people are ignored as if no one is there, and she will move to her palace to live in the future, and she doesn't know how to relate to this kind of temperament.
Suddenly, I remembered Zhao Jing's eyes that looked at me as if they were smiling, and my heart couldn't help jumping slightly. The sage sent himself to Zhiting Palace, and he didn't know what he thought, could it be that he blamed himself for talking about the Son of Heaven? But why didn't he punish him, but instead added a title to himself......
Thinking about it all the way, nothing happened to the side, and he arrived at Biying Lake safely. It was almost dusk, and a few dark clouds were reflected in the blue shadow lake. They all got off their shoulders and went to their lodgings. Mei Caiping and Wu Huili thought they were very tired, so they left in a hurry.
Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi held hands and wanted to walk towards Xixing Pavilion, when they suddenly heard Lin Yuzhen's thick hatred and mockery behind them: "What did Cao Baolin do when he walked so fast, could it be that he was hungry and anxious, and he couldn't go back for dinner in a hurry." ”
When Zangjiao and Mo Lanyi looked back, they saw Lin Yuzhen's immature face full of strange smiles, and coldly called Cao Caidie, who lowered her head and walked towards Heyunxuan. Cao Caidie saw Lin Yuzhen calling herself, so she had to turn around and barely squeeze out an ugly smile: "Lin Cairen said that he was laughing, but seeing that the sky is dark, go back early." ”
Lin Yuzhen had a sneer on the corner of her mouth, raised her chin and walked in front of her step by step, although she was petite, she was full of pride. Looking at Cao Caidie, who was bowing her head and pursing her lips in front of her, she sneered: "I don't know who said a few days ago that I will salute Cao Baolin in a few days." How this salute is done, Cao Baolin might as well show us. ”
Cao Caidie looked at Gu Hanyi and the others who stopped on both sides, her face turned red and white, her expression changed for a moment, and she smiled forcefully: "Lin Cairen is inevitably a little too much, but he was only promoted today, so he is going to bully people?" ”
Jin Zangjiao frowned slightly, stepped forward and took Lin Yuzhen's hand to persuade her: "My sister let her go, why bother to cause some right and wrong." You and I have just been promoted, and it must not be good to teach people to pass it on to the lady concubine. ”
"What's so bad about that?" Today, it is the saint himself who has named me a talented person, can't I still do it? I didn't embarrass her, but I just made her salute according to the rules. is to sue the lady concubine, which is also justified. Lin Yuzhen had a small face, her eyes still staring at Cao Caidie.
Duanmu Ying glanced at Yan Qiaoyue, as if she wanted to speak. Yan Qiaoyue chuckled: "It's really tiring to stand for a day, Sister Gu, Sister Duanmu is still not leaving?" It is not possible to wait for Lin Cairen to stay here. He shook the cloak and turned away.
Watching Duanmu Ying, Yan Qiaoyue and the others walk away, Cao Caidie's eyes showed a trace of hatred. Gu Hanyi Tingting stepped forward and said to Lin Yuzhen: "Why does Lin Cairen want to be unhappy with Cao Baolin, although she is lower than you, they are all sisters who have entered the palace together, why are they aggressive." ”
Zangjiao saw that Gu Hanyi's eyes were clear, but she didn't seem to be partial. smiled and said to Gu Hanyi: "Gu Cairen is reasonable, but this Cao Baolin blamed Sister Lin's low family background in Guanliantai a few days ago, so he forced her to salute herself, and slapped Lin Cairen. At that time, everyone was in Baolin's position, I don't know if this is Lin Cairen's fault or Cao Baolin's fault. ”
Gu Hanyi froze, looked at Lin Yuzhen and said, "There is such a thing, I don't even know." If this is the case, it is naturally Cao Baolin's fault, and it is not too much to make amends today. That being the case, Sister Cao should apologize to Lin Cairen for her good life. ”
Cao Caidie's face was flushed, and her eyes were full of tears. Hatred whispered: "My father is a sixth-rank cavalry lieutenant in Beijing, and her father is only a seventh-rank petty official. Even if I said what can she do, you are only a beginner today, and you have never been so arrogant even in bed. I just don't apologize, what can you do with me? ”
"Who gave you the courage to talk about my father, now that he is in the palace, your six-grade captain father can still manage it in the palace." Lin Yuzhen's still childish face was cold and approaching Cao Caidie, Zangjiao saw that the momentum was not right, and hurriedly stepped forward to persuade her to go back, but who expected Lin Yuzhen to raise her white and tender little hands and snap! With a bang, he slapped Cao Caidie in the face quickly and quickly.