3. Enter the palace
Lin Mu'er nodded, and didn't say much to her, turned to Mother Xie and said, "Mother Xie will accompany me into the palace in a while." ”
"Yes, miss." Mother Xie took the court clothes on the hanger, and quickly helped Lin Mu'er put them on. Lin Mu'er frowned slightly, this court dress is cumbersome compared to the wedding dress: three layers inside and outside, wide robe with large sleeves, silver edge and gold thread Yunxia phoenix pattern, after wearing, Lin Mu'er stiffly held back a thin sweat.
"Miss, bear with me, it's going to be hot in the house, just go out. This is the first time to enter the palace to face the saint, and there can be no mistakes. Seeing Lin Mu'er's discomfort, Mother Xie opened her mouth to persuade her.
Lin Mu'er nodded and exhaled softly, she still knew this truth. Not only the court clothes, but even the headgear on the head is cumbersome, just the two sides of the bun are inserted with six amber hairpins, and Mother Xie took a double phoenix bead step and inserted it in the bun, and then she was satisfied with her hand.
Lin Mu'er looked at herself surrounded by pearls and greenery in the mirror, and couldn't laugh or cry a little: "This is too much, right?" ”
"No more, no less." Mother Xie helped the step shake and said: "The nobles in the palace are not full of pearls, even if they are the ladies who enter the palace to face the saint, they all have to dress up, besides, the young lady is newly married and enters the palace for the first time, but it can't be shabby, which makes people look down on it." ”
Lin Mu'er turned her neck helplessly, the weight on this head is not light! That's it, that's it, if you dress up too petty, you are afraid of losing the royal face and displeasing the emperor. If you want to live a good life as a widow, you have to rely on the emperor to support you!
After cleaning up, Mother Xie helped Lin Mu'er out of the palace. Outside the palace, a wide and prosperous carriage is waiting, the body is painted with gold and silver, so it is not magnificent.
"Princess, the slave has said goodbye to you." A chubby, short old man smiled and blessed.
Lin Mu'er nodded and looked at Mother Xie, Mother Xie said in a low voice: "This is the big housekeeper Fu Ye in the mansion, since the prince was crowned the prince, with the prince's mansion, Fu Ye has been taking care of the palace." ”
Lin Mu'er knew it in her heart, looked at Fu Ye and said with a smile: "There is Lao Fu Ye, when I come back from the palace, I will ask Fu Ye about the affairs of the palace." ”
"Don't you dare, the princess has tormented the old slave, and the old slave should tell the princess." said that he didn't dare, but Fu Ye's face did not show the slightest panic, and he was still smiling.
"Miss, it's not early, it's not good to miss the hour." Xie's mother reminded.
Lin Mu'er looked at the bright sky and nodded, but he didn't dare to ask the emperor to wait for him.
"Congratulations to the princess." Fu Ye bowed his waist, still smiling.
Lin Mu'er took Xie's mother's hand and entered the carriage, this carriage is really unique, spacious and comfortable, not to mention, there is a small table in the middle, there are all kinds of snacks and tea on the table, on the corner of the carriage, a small incense burner has a trace of aroma overflowing, Lin Mu'er took a deep breath: "Well, it's lotus fragrance." ”
"No, it smells good." Mother Xie also sniffed carefully.
"Mother Xie, tell me about the rules of the palace again." Lin Mu'er said lightly. It seems random, but Lin Mu'er's heart is uneasy, she is not even sure who she is, how can she know what etiquette is to enter the palace and face the saint! Today, I pulled Xie's mother to accompany me, and when I came, the few maids I married were too young, only Xie's mother was older and more stable, so she wouldn't mess up in the palace; Second, I just want to get some face saint etiquette from Mother Xie's mouth, the daughter of this Hou Mansion is married to the princess, how can I ask Mama Xi to teach etiquette, this Mother Xie is the mother in charge of the affairs next to her, so she has to serve beside her, so she should know a little bit.
Mother Xie didn't doubt him, she just thought about whether her own young lady was nervous, after all, she was only a sixteen-year-old girl's family, and she would have to go to face the saint alone, and it was inevitable to be afraid. simply, I just said everything I knew.
Lin Mu'er sat upright, and didn't dare to lean on it at will, for fear that his clothes would be wrinkled, and the loss of honor in front of the palace was not a joke.
When she arrived at the gate of the palace, after Mother Xie finished speaking, Lin Mu'er rubbed her brain, and finally felt a little bottom in her heart. It was already dawn, and when I got out of the carriage, there was already a small sedan waiting for me. Seeing Lin Mu'er get out of the carriage, a thin little eunuch next to the sedan chair greeted him with a smile on his face: "Little Songzi has asked the princess to say goodbye." ”
Lin Mu'er was stunned, and Mother Xie hurriedly took over: "Who is this father-in-law?" ”
"The slave is the godson of the general manager of Chengda, and now that the princess has entered the palace, my godfather specially asked me to wait here." The little eunuch looked flattering, but his words showed that he was different from other little eunuchs.
"It turned out to be the godson of Cheng's father-in-law, and he worked hard." Lin Mu'er smiled lightly and nodded towards Mother Xie. Mother Xie took out a thick purse from her sleeve pocket and stuffed it into the little eunuch's hand: "There is Father-in-law Lao." ”
"Hey, hey. The slave thanked the princess for the reward. The little eunuch's eyes swept away, his fingers inadvertently pinched the purse, the smile on his face deepened, and he made a gesture of invitation with his body sideways: "Princess Niangniang, please get on the sedan chair." ”
Mother Xie lifted the sedan curtain, Lin Mu'er sat in, in the end, it was something in the palace, looking at the sedan chair was not big, but it was quite spacious, Lin Mu'er rubbed her forehead with her eyes closed, and sorted out her thoughts, in the end, it was royal, the rules were extremely cumbersome, dozens of pairs of eyes stared, and they didn't dare to make any mistakes.
"Princess Niangniang, it stands to reason that today you should go to the emperor's imperial study to face Saint Thanksgiving, and then go to Niangniang's Shoukang Palace to thank you. But today is the day of the routine report of the Ministry of Industry, and after a while, the adults of the Ministry of Industry will go to the imperial study to wait, so many adults are here, I am afraid that you will be inconvenienced. So the emperor meant to let you go directly to Shoukang Palace, and the emperor would go over when he went down. "All the way, the little eunuch said all the way.
"Okay." Lin Mu'er responded, he didn't say much, he said a lot, and he would make a lot of mistakes, although he was just a little eunuch, but after all, he was the godson of the chief eunuch next to the emperor, so it was always right to be cautious.
After a while, the sedan chair stopped, "Princess Niangniang, Shoukang Palace has arrived." Xiao Songzi smiled and stretched out his hand to lift the sedan curtain.
Mother Xie walked over and hugged Lin Mu'er, and Lin Mu'er nodded lightly towards Xiao Songzi: "There is Father-in-law Lao." ”
"Where, where, it is a blessing for a slave to be able to serve the princess and mother once." Xiao Songzi smeared honey on his mouth and said flatteringly, "The slave won't bother the mother, the godfather is still waiting for me to reply." ”
Lin Mu'er nodded, and Mother Xie said with a smile: "Father-in-law is good to go." ”
Xiao Songzi made a gesture, turned around and walked towards the front hall with a shaking head.
By this time the sky was completely bright, and the sun was shining through the clouds. The door of Shoukang Palace was wide open, but there was no eunuch palace maid at the door, Lin Mu'er straightened her clothes, and said to Xie's mother: "Mom, find a palace maid to pass it on." ”
Mother Xie nodded, walked forward, and for a long time, she saw a big palace maid in pale pink palace clothes walking in the distance. Seeing Mother Xie looking at the gate of the palace, she immediately ran over and said with a smile: "This mother is looking at Miansheng, but is it the mother of the Jin Palace?" ”
Mother Xie hurriedly saluted: "The slave maid is the mother of Princess Jin, and today our princess has come to thank the emperor and the queen." ”
The palace maid nodded, walked up to Lin Mu'er with a smile and saluted: "The slave Aji has seen Princess Jin." ”
Lin Mu'er also gave a smile on her face: "It turned out to be Aunt Ji, please get up quickly." "It turns out that this is Aunt Ji! Lin Mu'er secretly wondered: Mother Xie just mentioned this Aunt Ji in the car, she is a maid who has grown up with the queen since she was a child, has been serving the queen, has not married, and has won the trust of the queen, and sometimes, she can even influence the queen's thoughts, and her status in the palace is self-evident.
Aji led Lin Mu'er and the others to the middle hall of Shoukang Palace, and said with a smile as he walked: "I know that Princess Jin is coming, Niangniang got up early in the morning to prepare, just now the palace concubines came to ask Niangniang to say goodbye, and they didn't check for a while, but there was no one left at the gate of this palace, so Princess Jin waited for a long time." ”
"No, I've just arrived, and it's just that Queen Lao is working hard." Lin Mu'er said a little embarrassed.
Aji was not polite either, and changed the topic and said: "Today, because the emperor is coming, all the palace ladies are here, and for a while, Princess Jin doesn't have to be nervous, the queen will mention you." ”
Lin Mu'er "sighed" in her heart, first the emperor was not summoned in the study, but instead summoned in the queen's palace, the reason is reasonable, and the queen's palace gate did not even have a gatekeeper, and she was not afraid that the emperor would suddenly come and no one would pass it on, and he would lose his manners; Moreover, although there are all kinds of affairs in this palace, which one does not have a few pairs of eyes staring at, how can no one pass on such a major event as Princess Jin entering the palace to thank her? How could it be that there was no one to answer at the palace gate? At this time, all the palace ladies are also here, it stands to reason that she is a serious princess, the emperor gave marriage, on the jade plate genealogy, after marriage, you only need to give the emperor and queen thanks, the other concubines in the palace, although they are also nobles, but how can they not afford this kind of gift! Could it be that because he is a widow, he treats him differently? Although she speculated, Lin Mu'er still said with a smile on her face: "Thank you Queen Mother, Mu'er entered the palace for the first time, and she didn't understand many rules, and I hope my aunt will mention more." ”
Aji said with a smile: "Princess Jin said with a smile, with the queen mother here, you can rest assured." ”
This Aji's every word is inseparable from the queen, Lin Mu'er felt a little uncomfortable, as if she was mentioning herself, and as if she was warning herself, Lin Mu'er couldn't figure out what Aji meant for a while, so she had to stop talking and concentrate on walking. Fortunately, the main hall of Shoukang Palace, Minghui Palace, has arrived, and this will not be silent or embarrassing.
"Princess Jin, wait a minute, let me go in and report it." Arriving at the gate of the Minghui Palace, Aji stood and said to Lin Mu'er with a smile. The two little maids guarding the door saluted Lin Mu'er.
Lin Mu'er nodded slightly, stood still, and said with a smile: "There is Aunt Laoji"!
After Aji bowed slightly, he entered the Minghui Palace, Lin Mu'er exhaled lightly, loosened his neck, and listened carefully to the movements in the hall.