9. Find trouble

Sure enough, it was just past noon, and the living registration of the Shang Sleep Bureau arrived.

Zhao Yanrong originally wanted to take a nap, but after thinking about it, she asked the eunuch who came to deliver the booklet in.

The person who sent the booklet was the new young eunuch of the Shang Sleep Bureau, surnamed Qin, with fair skin and a handsome appearance, and he looked like he was only twenty-five or sixteen years old.

Young Eunuch Qin didn't seem to be very talkative, so he just presented the booklet and stood aside, hanging his head without saying a word.

It's good for Lao Cheng to be serious, but Zhao Yanrong feels a pity when he looks at a taciturn and old-fashioned person like him.

I flipped through the recent login, and sure enough, I saw that each page was covered with a small private seal, with a small seal engraved with the word "Zhuang", and a small "ripple" in the lower right corner. This is Concubine Zhuang's private seal, that's right. Finally, the emperor still has a brain, and he didn't hand over the booklet to the small-bellied chicken intestines and didn't have a deep Concubine Rong.

I want to hand over the phoenix seal to Concubine Rong for the time being, but it is just a superficial scenery. The inconsequential chores were thrown to Concubine Rong, and the key thing was that it was firmly grasped in the hands of his own people who had followed him for many years.

Think about it this way, a small phoenix seal has a fart in someone's hand.

"Young Eunuch Qin is hard." Zhao Yanrong threw the roster back into the vermilion lacquer gold moire plate, and raised her eyes to look at the young man in front of her with a respectful expression, but she didn't seem to have much humility and flattery. Although he can't be regarded as a whole person, he should have a better future in the future.

Zhao Yanrong likes to look at beauties, and Young Eunuch Qin is a beauty who makes people feel comfortable when they look at it, so her attitude towards him is a little more gentle.

"The palace has just recovered, and I don't have the time to take care of this, so let Concubine Zhuang take care of it."

Young Eunuch Qin bent his waist and bowed, "Niangniang, whether this booklet will bother or not is all in Niangniang's thoughts." What the emperor means is that Zhuang Guifei Niangniang's trivial palace affairs are very complicated, and she only hands over some light ones in advance, and when she is full of spirit in the future, she will slowly move them over to Niangniang. ”

In a thought? This man can speak. Zhao Yanrong touched the tip of her chin with the tip of her fingers, and looked at Young Eunuch Qin's eyes with a little more smile.

"Is this really what the emperor meant?"

"Yes, the slaves and maids don't dare to falsely convey the holy will, it is indeed the emperor himself who said it."

Zhao Yanrong waved her hand and asked Mulan to show Young Eunuch Qin a seat.

Young Eunuch Qin was not pretentious, and after thanking the seat, he sat in front of the queen generously, but his head was still slightly drooping, and he didn't look at people with a straight face.

"How long has it been since Young Eunuch Qin entered the palace? How did Hongu remember that it wasn't you who sent the living note before? ”

"Back to Niangniang, the slave maid was originally on an errand in King Kang's mansion, and she has only been in the palace for a year. The slave maid was just transferred to the Shang Sleep Bureau a month ago, and her status was lowly before, so she had never seen her mother. "Young Eunuch Qin's voice is not very clear, a little low, but it is also very good. The palace that entered from King Kang's mansion, that is to say, this Qin Shaojian is the emperor's person. After keeping a low profile for so long, it was finally used.

Zhao Yanrong tapped her fingertips lightly on the table before she nodded with a smile and said, "Then let's do it." In the future, you don't have to bring it every day, just ...... Take it and use it on the day of the order every month. After speaking, he picked up the teacup.

Young Eunuch Qin immediately got up and agreed, and then took the living note and exited the Zhaoyang Hall in an orderly manner.

Not long after Mulan sent people out, she returned to the palace to serve Zhao Yanrong for a nap.

Zhao Yanrong waved her hand and said, "Forget it, it's not so sleepy, let's go and sit in the courtyard." ”

As soon as I walked outside, I heard the whispered laughter of a few palace maids from the warm breeze.

"That father-in-law just now is so good-looking."

"yes, I've never seen anyone look like that, and I don't look like a father-in-law at all."

"I don't know if he has any food against him."

"No, I can't take your turn to be a girl......"

The palace maid's laughter vaguely floated through the leaves and flowers, Mulan's face changed color, and even though she was about to pass, she was stopped by Zhao Yanrong.

"It's just talking, don't bother." Zhao Yanrong's long skirt dragged to the ground and walked forward unhurriedly.

"How can it be so good to talk behind your back, it's too unruly." Mulan said indignantly.

"They didn't say anything." Zhao Yanrong bypassed the weeping flower corridor and saw several palace maids in light green palace clothes panicking, wanting to hide but couldn't dodge, trembling in both strands, and kneeling down. Mulan helped Zhao Yanrong to slowly pass by their side like this, without saying a word.

The young palace maids held their breath one by one and pressed their heads to their chests, for fear that the queen would stop in front of them.

It wasn't until they were far away that they quietly raised their heads, gasped together, and tried to get up, but found that their legs had become soft noodles, and they couldn't find half of their strength back.

Bai Lu, who was walking behind them, glanced back, and then whispered, "Sister Mulan, you don't need to say anything, they are all scared and crying." ”

As soon as Mulan turned around, she saw several people supporting each other, standing up with weak legs and soft waists, and when she saw Mulan looking back at them, her body stiffened, her hands loosened, and she knelt in place again.

"It's really ......" Mulan shook her head, and she didn't have the heart to reprimand.

"I cried with fear, I really cried this time." Bai Lu touched Mulan's waist with her elbow and smiled at her.

"That's all there is to it." Mulan glanced at her, "You go and see where they are serving, and there is no housekeeper to watch?" One by one, they gathered together to talk under the blue sky and the sun. ”

"Don't talk about it, you let them all be moldy in the yard of the gourd nest?" Zhao Yanrong sat down on the cleanly swept stone bench, and Bai Lu hurriedly screamed.

"Niangniang, this stool is too cold, the slave maid brought a small cushion......"

"No, it's good to be cool, it's cool to make your mind clearer." Zhao Yanrong pushed back the small mat with splendid Wanfu branches on Bai Lu's hand.

"You're just right, how can you get cold?" Mulan took the cushion over, and only helped her sit down when she put it on, "This body and bones are yours, and you are the one who suffers and suffers." I beg you not to think about yourself for the sake of the slaves. Madame is still in the palace, and you are willing to make her afraid? ”

Although Pei Shi was frightened and didn't care about her very much, Zhao Yanrong had a headache when she thought of Pei's cowardice and always loved to cry.

She can't see a woman drop the golden beans when she has nothing to do, or for a man whose heart is not on her.

The original Zhao Yanrong spoke to her father wholeheartedly, looking down on her aunt and stepmother from the bottom of her heart, estranged from her, and cold to her. But she is not the simple-minded woman who is easy to be fooled, as long as you think carefully about the attitude of those people towards her, her words to her, the guidance of her actions, her background, and the stakes involved in her, you can understand which of these people is true to her and which is false to her.

In the end, she was just an outsider who borrowed this body.

Lookers-on see most of the game.

Pei's marriage into the Zhao family for eight years is to take good care of her sister's orphans, this kind of noble feelings, Zhao Yanrong boils down to one word: stupid.

Isn't that stupid?

The daughter of the dignified marquis's mansion could have had a better and more compatible marriage, but for the sake of her sister's children, she married someone as a continuation. The original brother-in-law became a husband and was ridden on the head by a concubine, and he didn't dare to go back to his parents' house to complain, blinding her to such a youthful beauty.

Zhao Yanrong rolled up her sleeves and said to Mulan, "Go, please come over." ”

Pei Shi brought an embroidery shed over, and Mulan beside him was holding a basket with five-colored silk threads and embroidery needles.

After seeing the ceremony, Pei sat next to Zhao Yanrong, doing needlework and chatting with her.

Zhao Yanrong asked people to bring tea, leaned on the stone table, and watched Pei's embroidery.

The green leaves the size of a child's palm are born on the locust branches, cutting the warm sunlight into countless irregular fragments, like pieces of crystal sprinkled on people's bodies and faces. Pei, who had already washed off the lead powder on his face, lowered his head and focused on embroidering stitches and threads.

Her appearance is four or five points similar to Zhao Yanrong's biological mother, beautiful, but not imposing enough, just like a warm jade, not exposed, not aggressive, only by holding it in the palm of her hand and tasting it carefully, can you experience the temperature inside.

The sun shone on her face, reflecting her still delicate skin, and dissipated a lot of the old-fashioned spirit she deliberately dressed.

Speaking of which, Pei is only twenty-five years old this year, and if he stays in modern times, it is the time when he is young and full of vitality. Pei's appearance, such an age, and such a family background, if he were in this life, he should be like being held by the stars. Here she is a woman who has been married for eight years.

She also tried her best to hide her youth and beauty, and let herself become old and decadent, but the twenty-five-year-old girl was already in the twilight.

Pei's head was combed in a simple bun, and he pinned two golden cordyceps hairpins, and only pressed two begonia flowers red gold and silver to press the temples, which was very simple. When she entered the palace in the morning, she wore a lot of makeup, and her head and face were heavy and complicated, and she changed her makeup after returning from the front hall. It's just that she didn't expect the jewelry she brought to be so simple, I'm afraid she didn't expect that she would stay in the palace at that time.

Zhao Yanrong blinked and said to Pei Shi: "Mother, I remember seeing you have a particularly beautiful hairpin before, flowers surrounded by tourmaline stones, and a butterfly carved in white jade next to it, and the wings can still move." Why don't you wear the hairpin? ”

Pei's hand paused, and a touch of embarrassment and sadness flashed on his face.

"I remember what my mother used to wear two years ago, as if it was a dowry from my grandmother?"

"That...... the corners of Pei's mouth curled slightly, barely squeezing out some laugh lines, "Some time ago, your sister gave her a congratulatory gift on her birthday." ”

It was my grandmother's makeup, so valuable hairpins, the value is unknown, if Pei wants to keep it for her daughter as a dowry, she believes it, if she says that she will give this hairpin to Duan's daughter as a birthday gift, she Zhao Yanrong does not believe it.

Presumably, it was the Duan family who made some bad move, and he insisted on getting the hairpin from the Pei family.

Zhao Yanrong's eyes narrowed slightly and said, "That's what my grandmother left to you, how do I remember when you said that this hairpin should be left to Wanrong's sister as a dowry?" ”

Pei Shi hung his head and said softly: "Wanrong is only six years old, where is the need to prepare a dowry?" ”

"That's also my grandmother's thing, how can I give it to Duan's daughter?" Zhao Yanrong's face that was still smiling just now suddenly wiped off, gloomy.

"Qingrong is also Niangniang's sister, isn't it the same for whom?" Pei's words became lower and lower, "It was your father who opened his mouth and pointed out that he wanted the hairpin to Qingrong, I, what can I say." ”

Since Pei Shi can say such a thing, it means that she is also extremely dissatisfied with this matter.

It doesn't matter whether the hairpin is expensive or not, it is her dowry, it was prepared for her by her mother, but her husband forced her to give such a precious thing to the concubine of the concubine without saying a word, even if Pei's temperament is gentle and soft, he will feel very unhappy.

"It was my mother's dowry, and only my mother could decide what to do with it. Father said that, and you gave it? Zhao Yanrong raised her eyebrows slightly, "If my grandmother is alive, she will definitely be sad and sad." ”

Pei Shi raised his head, and his eyes were red: "What if you don't give it?" Your father just pulled out the hairpin and took it out...... I ......"

Zhao Yanrong looked at her for a long time, and saw Pei Shi hang his head in shame and shame, before he sighed softly: "Mother, Ming'er, I will let people take Wanrong into the palace, and the two of you will live in Zhaoyang Hall for a few more days." ”

"How does this work?" Pei Shi hurriedly got up and shook his hand repeatedly, "It's not appropriate for the courtiers to stay in the palace today, and then take Wanrong in and live, I'm afraid that people outside will gossip." ”

"I'm not afraid of this palace, what are you afraid of, mother?" Zhao Yanrong said with a smile, "There is gossip, and it is my father and the emperor who have to worry about it, and it has nothing to do with us." ”