Chapter 163: Camellia (I)
Queen Fang has been in charge of the harem for more than 20 years, and has always shown everyone with a restrained and solemn posture, not to mention the camellia feast, even the concubines are in Qushui Liuyu to set up a meeting, she just rewards a few boxes of things.
Even the selection of concubines for the second prince was first looked at in the Pingyang Palace, and finally three people were determined, and then they were brought to the Fengyi Hall to see each other.
As soon as the words of appreciating the camellia came out, Queen Fang's abnormality caused an uproar in the palace.
The top ordered, the people below ran and broke their legs, and the steward of the six divisions held the camellia of pink or purple, or double or curved petals, and asked Fengyi Hall to come eight hundred times a day, Queen Fang didn't have this time to examine, so she let Xingzhao and Jiang Mingying take a look, and only explained, "Some little ladies have white complexions, and the camellia of any color is good-looking, and some little ladies have not so fair skin, so they have to choose the color of the pattern." ”
Not only to enjoy the flowers, but also to enjoy the hairpins
People have high and low, flowers have high and low, it can't be that every camellia is agate tea, Baozhu tea, a twist of red and other famous products, right?
There can be five or six little ladies who come, there must be expensive camellias, and there must be those who are not so noble, how should this be divided?
In the mid-autumn afternoon, it was dark, and in a few moments the rain fell like a curtain.
Huan Yi came out of the haze of smoke, shook his sleeves and entered the Rosewood Pavilion, and his eyes were glued to the pots of camellia in the middle hall, and he was surprised: "Good looking is good-looking, why is there no bowl like Nanshan tea?" The flowers are clustered together, big and big, and they are very beautiful. The taste is refined, too.
Xingzhao is holding a booklet to choose a flower pot. Raise your eyes and see Huanyi coming in. greeted her with a smile, and first turned his head to Jiang Mingying to discuss: "The pink ones use white porcelain markings, the white and yellow ones use wooden fences, and the white ones with red spots use dendrobium, aunt, do you think so?" ”
Jiang Mingying greeted Huan Yi with a smile, and then took the booklet and walked out.
Xingzhao turned his head and replied to Huanyi with a smile: "How can the big one go to the sideburns hairpin?" He beckoned her to drink tea again: "It's raining suddenly outside, and I'm not afraid of getting wet." ”
Huan Yi glanced at the camellia with white petals and red spots, and the quality of these camellias was quite good. But this banana calyx white jewel is the most precious, and he didn't hold it when he smiled, "It didn't rain when I came out, and the rain that fell when I walked to the covered bridge was in the verandah all the way, and I couldn't get drenched on my body."
After a pause, I went through it in my heart, lowered my voice, and asked softly: "Why did the queen suddenly remember to invite the little lady to enjoy the flowers?" It's been many years, and this is the first time. For no reason"
Where is there no reason, it is obviously targeted
Xingzhao blinked. It's hard for her to say that Queen Fang is trying to show her wife to Xingjingxiang, so she made such a big formation!
Civil officials are greedy for ink and accept bribes, and military attaches have private food and salary, but the queen uses her authority to look at the little lady for her nephew
This is the first time Xingzhao has seen him, and the admiration of the other queen's affection is once again so deep that it is beyond measure.
"Maybe you want to take the opportunity to have some fun?" Xingzhao said haha, "Dingjing City is so big, the little lady doesn't go out of the door, and then she goes out of the pavilion and marries, and it's too late to get to know each other, so it's better to hand over a few handkerchiefs since childhood." ”
Look at Mrs. Li, just thinking about the love of handkerchiefs, and she is still holding grievances for Mrs. He.
"Handkerchief of Little Ladies"
Huan Yi silently repeated his previous words, and Xingzhao smiled: "There are three little girls in the imperial city, and these people come and go, and the queen is afraid that we will be lonely." ”
Huan Yi tilted his head, thought about it, and was noncommittal to Xingzhao's words, but his heart was relieved.
The people in the palace are shrewd, where the grass falls, they can tell where the wind is blowing today, and they are biting their ears up and down to guess, saying that Queen Fang is going to be a concubine for the sixth prince Zhou Shen, Concubine Shu disagreed, sat down and calmly analyzed the sixth child, "Can you tell me if you marry a daughter-in-law?" How many years have I had a relationship with the queen, and how much did the princess and the queen have a relationship? When the two princes looked at each other, even the princess went to Fengyi Hall to take a look. If the queen wants to show you, can you not tell Chonghua Palace? ”
In front of Concubine Shu, the sixth child was angry, but he stuffed her with a red agate pomegranate flower-style ornament behind her and asked her to come and explore.
If you are really worried about the sixth child, can Xingzhao say it to her?
After retiring after success, Huan Yi accepted the ornaments with peace of mind, and after handing the letter to the six princes, he waited for the tea feast on the eighth day of October with peace of mind.
A rain came and poured down, and it rained at night for several days, but in the morning it was clear, and when it was early in the morning, the fog could not disperse, and it was misty and clumped together, and it was as thick as cheese that could not be dissolved.
On the right day, Xingzhao got up early in the morning, used two pieces of jade crisp, drank a big bowl of cheese, and asked for a bowl of vegetarian three fresh silver noodles to eat. Huang's mother smiled when she saw it, and followed behind Xingzhao's ass with a bowl of braised bamboo sun, mashed yam, and cucumber pieces, and persuaded directly: "It's okay to eat a few bites of egg custard!" Mrs. Min went to the front, and Mrs. Hou secretly stuffed beef slices into the mouth of the lady of the Min family in the letter! ”
Most of the banquets in the palace are not full, so Xingzhao uses more than usual, and he can only lift his spirits after a while.
Queen Fang was worried that the little lady would not be able to grow up without meat for three years, so she relented and quietly asked her to add some eggs to the meal.
Xingzhao couldn't get over this hurdle in his heart.
In the end, Huang's mother followed her like an old hen, and when she was trying on clothes, she was embarrassed, and put on her skirt with a red face, dodging left and right to avoid Huang's mother, and walked out quickly.
Huang's mother is always bad to go out with the egg custard, looking at the back of the little lady with the door frame, and snorted lightly, the words are obviously happy, but she still has to cover up with three points of regret: "The girl has grown up"
Despite the hardships, despite the hardships, they are slowly growing up after all.
The little palace people who followed behind covered their mouths and laughed, Huang's mother looked back and glared back, but she didn't hold back, and smiled halfway: "It's cheap, you little girl!" Take it and eat it! ”
The road from the Rosewood Pavilion to the main hall is not long, all the way through, but it is very pleasing to the eye.
There is a bluestone fence room on the verandah side, which is planted with green and quiet bushes, and pressed with small stones, and the corridor is covered with a curtain of clouds and blue colors, or embroidered with a double pedicle hibiscus, or reflects today's embroidered a few bowls of large Nanshan tea, or three strokes and two strokes embroidered a few waves of water lines, there is no use to block the wind, just look good.
The heart moved with the scene, Xingzhao couldn't stop laughing as soon as he entered the main hall, Queen Fang looked at it twice, and her expression also relaxed, and she instructed a few more words, "The little lady of the Luo family is two years older than you, and she is very delicate, you have to pay attention." ", "The eldest daughter of the Yi County family is a little big, if she is laughed at by others, you have to help solve the siege", "They are all gold and jade palm beads, who is declining, our master has no face, the eight-sided exquisite sound is not good, but long-sleeved and good dancing has always been a good word".
The lady of the Luo family is the eldest daughter of the new Luo Ge Lao, the Luo family is a serious and famous family, the poetry and books are heirlooms, and the roots are deeply rooted in Sichuan and Shu Rong City. Luo Ge Lao entered the center of the pavilion, and the Luo family's descendants moved into Beijing, which was very similar to the situation of the Fang family.
Today, most of the young ladies invited by Empress Fang are from the Wenchen family, or they are the royal relatives of the clan, and there are no veteran nobles and no generals.
After the eighth birthday of July, Queen Fang changed the way of entertaining and teaching, and became unreasonable and directly stayed for homework, Queen Fang threw a list to Xingzhao to ponder, Xingzhao honestly inquired about the background of the little ladies of each family, and replied to Queen Fang the next day, "The noble family and the He family are deeply involved, if the elder brother wants to set up his own door, this congratulations is not the other." Thinking of the old love, reading is the old love of Lin'an Hou, looking at Yang Mingbo is also regarded as the son of Lin'an Hou, and then looking at it, he has been cutting this relationship for a lifetime, his brother's life is complicated, both the blood of the Fang family and the relatives of the He family, backed by the family of military generals, if you marry a little lady from the martial family, the future may be the icing on the cake, but it may also be in vain to provoke the suspicion of the Qinggui family of celebrities.
The more time passes, the more she feels that it is most important to teach her children and grandchildren well.
My brother is so easy to spell out a bloody road, and he can't let an unreliable woman break it.
The curtain moved slightly, it was the wind that passed through the hall, and the strong and continuous camellia could be faintly seen through the cracks, Xingzhao buried his head and blew away the foam on the yellow-brown tea soup, looked at himself in the water in a trance with blurred eyebrows, puffed out his cheeks and blew gently.
Immediately, the face became fragmented.
Whether it's her, or Queen Fang, they just think that Xingjing is better with such a woman, who has asked Xingjing, does he like such a woman?
The tea foam slowly gathered back again, Xingzhao smiled, is life and death honor and disgrace important, or beauty love is important, the answer is different in everyone's heart.
Before Xingzhao's seat was hot, someone came with him, Jiang Mingying greeted him out, and it was Fang Qi's wife and Mrs. Luo and the little lady of the Luo family who came in with the curtain.
The face is snow-white, the eyebrows are deep and the lips are red, and the small appearance has not yet grown, but I can already see the appearance of the beauty embryo, but the corners of the lips are pursed to death, and the eyebrows are high, which looks a little arrogant.
Looking at Mrs. Luo again, Zhuang Qing's soft satin cotton coat and dark blue skirt are dressed up generously, and her expression is respectful and there is a sense of proportion between her actions.
Luo Niangzi should be arrogant, with a good background, a good mother, and the eldest daughter, such a woman has arrogant capital, and this kind of arrogance makes people take it for granted. (To be continued......)