Chapter XXXVIII

After entering the fifth round of selection, there will be a jury to determine one.

Princess Song was among the judges.

Mu Jue slipped over to find Xu Ruliang, and said embarrassedly: "The wine is freshly hot, but it's hot, I don't want to splash it on my body." ”

"Why are you pouring alcohol on you?" Xu Ruliang was stunned, but soon figured it out again, and smiled: "Isn't there a melon fruit?" "Grapes, green mangs, persimmons...... Either one can create a striking stain on light-colored clothing.

Mu Jue suddenly realized and slipped back.

Xu Ruliang wiped the sweat on his forehead, and secretly laughed at himself as if he had really been taken away, and the tricky tricks were simply handy.

Thinking about it, I hurriedly looked towards the seats in the first row, but I didn't see the person I was thinking about.

I couldn't help but feel a sense of loss, and I felt extravagant. People are still staying in the cold palace, and they won't move out until the wax moon, so how can they appear at today's banquet?

It's just a pity that such a person who loves to be lively can't witness today's excitement with his own eyes.

Xu Ruliang sincerely felt sorry for his only friend in his previous life.

Mu Jue jumped over again, pointed to the grape juice on his shirt proudly, and said as if he was invited: "Mother asked you to accompany me to change clothes." ”

Looking at the past, Princess Song was also looking at them.

Xu Ruliang said a few words to the palace maid beside him.

The palace maid went to pass the word by herself.

Princess Song nodded at them from afar.

Xu Ruliang and Mu Jue left the scene at this time, and were guided by the female officer to the changing place.

Although the clothes he wanted to wear were already on his body, Mu Jue still brought a burden with other replacement clothes - to hide people's eyes.

The palace maid took her baggage.

Mu Jue was suddenly angry: "Who moved my burden?" ”

The two palace maids looked at each other, frightened.

Xu Ruliang said: "What's the matter?" ”

"Someone has carried my baggage." Mu Jue glared angrily at the palace maid. She likes to take other people's things, but she never allows others to touch her things, so she always remembers her own things very clearly, "I used the knot you taught me last time, but this ...... What the hell is this mess! ”

The double flower knot is not easy to tie, and those who have not learned it will not be able to close it if they take it apart.

Xu Ruliang hurriedly said: "Let's see if there's anything missing." ”

Mu Jue checked it all over, and there was no less.

"That's good." Xu Ruliang was busy and calming people.

She was really afraid that Mu Jue would lose her temper.

But as the old saying goes, what you are afraid of, will come.

Mu Jue had to ask the palace maid to give her an explanation, where did she have the courage to move her things.

The palace maid was busy saying that she was wronged.

Xu Ruliang couldn't help frowning.

The eldest aunt leads the inner garden of the palace, mainly Huairou, and creates a limit on the period of conscription, and the palace maids can be released from the palace after completing their service years. However, if any moths are born during this period, they will be permanently deprived of the right to leave the palace.

In the past few years, there has been no such thing as palace maids exceeding the rules in the palace.

Xu Ruliang believed that the palace maid was innocent, and he had the intention of turning big things into small things, and ordered: "Think about it, who have been here." ”

Mu Jue dared to question the palace maid sharply, but if the other party's identity was more noble, she wouldn't dare.

The palace maid hurriedly recalled.

Although all women have the habit of bringing a change of clothes just in case, they generally do not make a fool of themselves. So there were very few people who came to change clothes, but I remember it very clearly.

"Only before the banquet began, the lacquer carving lady and the Ning girl came......" the palace maid said cautiously.

Mu Jue was angry for a while.

Xu Ruliang suddenly remembered that when Yan was sitting, Qi Diaoyan'er looked at her. said casually: "I am the county lord of Danyang, please bring my baggage too." ”

The palace maid hurriedly complied.

The burden has indeed been opened.

The palace maid knelt down and kowtowed, so nervous that she was about to cry.

Xu Ruliang felt that a big stone had fallen to the ground, and he laughed even more unkindly, and said that he would like to thank the poisonous woman - he wanted to sabotage her plan, but he accidentally handed her a handle, which saved her the need to think about another reason.

said to Mu Jue: "There is a debtor who is wronged, since they didn't tear it down, don't embarrass them." ”

Mu Jue couldn't be angry.

Xu Ruliang had no choice but to let the palace maid get up first, and take Mu Jue to the side to bite her ears.

Mu Jue couldn't help but clap his hands and applaud, "Let's go!" ”

"Wait a minute," Xu Ruliang rubbed his stomach, "Xu Ning often plays cricket and has a lot of strength. We'll have a hard time with her later, how can we do it if we don't have the strength? Why don't we get a bite to eat here first? ”

Mu Jue thinks about it, it makes sense.

Xu Ruliang untied the purse around his waist, handed it to the palace maid, and ordered him to buy some snacks and hot tea.

The palace maid had just received the favor, and she was grateful in her heart, so she immediately complied.

Shortly after, a snack and hot tea were served.

Mu Jue was full of worries and hurried back to find Xu Ning to seek revenge after eating, but without waiting for Xu Ruliang to finish speaking, "Be careful of scalding", she lifted the lid of the teacup and drank it, burning her tongue, and the pain made her face red and her ears red, and tears flowed.

Xu Ruliang was helpless, "I'll drink it later." "Take a small white cloth bag from your sleeve and take out a small silver spoon and stir the tea.

Mu Jue was amazed: "You still bring spoons and chopsticks!" ”

The big tongue speaks inarticulately, which makes people laugh.

Xu Ruliang said: "Is it good-looking?" ”

Half-finger-thin, one-finger-long spoon handle on the pen and a pair of lotus, the slender flower stem seems to be swaying with the wind, lifelike, ingenious.

Mu Jue's eyes were straight, how could he bother to ask Xu Ruliang why he carried chopsticks and spoons with him?

The head nodded like pounded garlic, "It's beautiful!" ”

The tongue is not good, and saliva splashes out.

Covering his mouth in embarrassment.

Xu Ruliang lowered his eyelids, but he didn't see it.

Mu Jue laughed casually twice, and said with a salivating face: "Danyang, good Danyang, give it to me." ”

I also want to "take it when I see it".

Xu Ruliang made a movement in his hand, and pushed the tea cup over with a smile, "It's cold, you can drink it." ”

"If you don't send me, I won't drink it."

Xu Ruliang was speechless, if in normal times, he really wanted to return the sentence "Love to drink or not." "But today...... smiled and said, "This set has been used for many years, and it will be new for you in the future." ”

Mu Jue was satisfied, drank tea and ate snacks, and suddenly yawned.

"Sleepy?"

"It's a bit ......"

"Then let's take a break here." Xu Ruliang instructed the palace maid beside him: "Send someone to communicate with Princess Song, and say that Miss Jue is tired, take a break here, and ask Princess Song not to worry." ”

The blue-clothed palace maid took the order.

Xu Ruliang accompanied Mu Jue to the side hall to rest.

When Mu Jue fell asleep, Xu Ruliang called the palace maid to guard, and he said that he wanted to go out for a walk and breathe.

In the palace, women are never allowed to act alone.

A Tsing Yi palace lady accompanies him.

Xu Ruliang said seemingly unintentionally: "During the Lantern Festival, the ladies told me that the florist had newly cultivated two Xifu begonias, which were planted in the imperial garden, which can produce lilac flowers and bloom until the beginning of May...... I think it's the peak of flowering, I have always liked begonias, Sister Gong'e took me to see it, okay? ”

The palace is divided into three parts: the former court, the middle palace and the inner garden, and the dressing is located in the west of the middle palace, and the imperial garden is located in the south of the inner garden.

From the changing place to the Imperial Garden, you have to cross a small half of the inner garden, not a short distance.

Gong E was embarrassed.

Seeing this, Xu Ruliang showed a look of loss, "My father lied to me and said that as long as I entered the palace, I could go to see Begonia." When I return home, I must ask my father why he lied to me! ”

It's worth it!

If you don't sell the face of the king of Pingyang, you don't sell the face of the queen.

Dare not to sell the face of the queen, do you want to leave the palace?

Gong E was frightened: "It's not that the slave doesn't want to accompany you, it's just that ......" In case he was stopped and interrogated by the patrol guards, this little ancestor turned his face and didn't recognize anyone......

Xu Ruliang hurriedly said: "It's okay, let's avoid the guards, go and go back quickly, no one will find out." ”

yes, you can avoid the guards!

Gong E has been in the palace for more than ten years, and the guards' whereabouts are still clear.

Courageously agreed.

The two of them cautiously avoided the patrol guards, and came to the Imperial Garden.

The royal garden is huge.

After looking for a while, I didn't find the two "legendary" begonias.

Xu Ruliang wiped his sweat and pointed to a quiet rockery: "Go over there and rest for a while." ”

Gong E wanted to go back quickly, but she also knew that since she came out, it would not be good enough to serve this little ancestor comfortably. simply gave up his life to accompany the gentleman, took a handkerchief and put it on the stone, and let Xu Ruliang sit.

Xu Ruliang raised his eyebrows and praised: "This veil is so beautiful, is it embroidered by Sister Gong'e?" ”

Gong E nodded shyly.

Xu Ruliang said again: "Sister Gong'e's embroidery is really good, I have a small handkerchief here, which I also embroidered myself, and I ask Sister Gong'e to help me take a look." ”

Then he took out a begonia handkerchief.

Gong E took it and looked at it, suddenly yawned, and slowly closed her eyelids.

Xu Ruliang hurriedly helped her and took a nap for her.

Put away the handkerchief, silently mourn that he has also fallen into the "lower three indiscriminate" and the like, and whispered his sins and lurked in the southeast corner.

There are a lot of pigeons in the southeast corner of the Royal Garden.

Homing pigeon.

These pigeons are also special, they can understand the "language", and they can fly away as long as they tell their destination to the rhythm of the flute.

In his previous life, Xu Ruliang learned the "flute language" from the old mother who fed these pigeons.

Facts have proved that there is indeed a miracle - in the sixth year of Qing'an, Mu Lianxuan personally drove to Liaodong, she controlled the government inside, encountered forced palaces, and was in danger. As a last resort, he used these carrier pigeons to send a message, and Mu Lianxuan really received it!

Xu Ruliang skillfully played the flute, caught a pigeon, and tied the letter pipe.

Act a qiēshun lì.

Sure enough, it is more advantageous to fight at home!

Xu Ruliang combed the feathers of the carrier pigeon in his hand, and said longingly and earnestly: "It's up to you." A gloomy male voice came from behind Leng Buding: "Pigeon thief!" ”