Chapter 8: Entering the Palace
Many years ago, in the Ziwei Palace.
The incense burner is smoky, the birds are chirping, the mist outside the window has not dispersed, the new leaves of the lotus pond are shrouded in the white gauze-like fog, and the three princes are surrounded by three or five palace people and stride from the library.
The Queen Mother sat on the main seat in front of the hall, holding Meng Meng's hand, "Girl, are you still pleasing to the eyes when you look at the little third child of the mourning family?" ”
Meng Meng covered her mouth and smiled, but her eyes stayed on Jiang Cailing, who was sitting on the small couch and was bored and playing with Gong Xuan. I saw that she suddenly raised her head, and when she saw that it was the Third Highness, she hurriedly jumped away and shouted at the door, "I brought you osmanthus cake." ”
When Meng Meng turned her gaze back, there was still a smile on her lips, but the Queen Mother frowned, and suddenly smiled again, "This girl's temperament is too flamboyant, and the mourning family thinks ...... Square peg. ”
Jiang Cailing only turned around and pretended to be obedient, and saluted the Queen Mother, "What the Queen Mother's aunt and grandmother say is right." After Cai Ling, can you learn to be gentle and virtuous? ”
Before she could say a word, her little hand had already pulled onto the corner of Shen Mu Chi Xue's cyan robe. The Queen Mother and Meng Meng looked at each other and smiled.
The past is a long time, and you can remember it clearly even in a dream.
When she woke up, she felt that the corners of her eyes were a little moist, so she grabbed the futon to wipe it, and when she opened her eyes, she saw that the fabric she was dragging in her hand was a snow-blue cloud brocade, as if she was still in a dream, she couldn't help but twist her eyebrows, as if she was babbling. "Aunt and grandmother of the Queen Mother, Ling'er knows that she is not qualified to marry your granddaughter-in-law, can't she marry if she doesn't marry?"
"Why dream and beg for help." Shen Muchi stood in front of the bed and looked at her condescendingly, the corners of his lips lifted lightly, "Marrying you or not has always been a matter for this king to be the master alone." ”
She immediately woke up, broke out in a cold sweat, and heard Manyun aggrieved, "The girl suddenly fainted, and the slave went to ask the doctor, and the doctor said that the girl's breath was smooth and fine, but the girl fainted for several hours and did not wake up, so the slave and the maid had the courage to tell the prince." ”
"Hmm." Shen Muchi raised his chin, and everyone behind him dispersed. He asked, "Where is the discomfort?" ”
"I'm not sick." She was just too tired, and she suddenly knew that someone was going to harm her, so she couldn't help but be nervous, so she fainted, and now she has no big problem sleeping soundly, "How are my parents, brother and sister-in-law?" ”
As soon as he woke up, he knew that it seemed that there was no problem in caring about others, and he frowned and said, "Arrived safely." I read the excerpt of the ministry yesterday, and your father has some insights on the governance of Shuzhong. ”
Jiang Cailing was relieved, knowing that this time was not her father's revenge, otherwise she would not have spared dozens of lives of the Jiang family and just attacked her.
Silent for a moment with each other, she looked at Shen Muchi carefully, she had no grievances with him, but she was just a little stubborn, and he was too cautious to be punished.
After thinking about it for a while, he still spoke, "Shen, oh, Third Highness, don't think I'm a burden. I used to like you very much, but those are all teenagers, everything has to compete with others, other girls like you and I will also follow the coaxing, in fact, I don't know much about you as a person, how can you have to be stubborn. So you can rest assured that you can boldly go out and go with Miss Biluo, if she is the princess of Qin and kills one or two girls in the capital, I don't think it's nothing. ”
"Are you brain-burned?" He raised his hand.
She thought she was going to be beaten, so she hurriedly dodged, but his slender fingers fell lightly on her forehead, and his voice was low and beautiful, "If this king wants to kill you, you should die a thousand times." Your father's side can also rest assured, but whoever the Queen Mother wants to protect must have no worries about his life. ”
If it weren't for Shen Muchi, who would have such a grudge against her inside and outside the mansion?
The third lady of Shangshu Mansion is weak by nature, and cockroaches are afraid, but the little county lord is arrogant, but she is just a childlike naughty. Her men were loyal, and even the slightest suspicion was too much to put on them.
She pondered this matter in the hospital for another day or two, but she still had no clue.
Manyun said that the guard who brought the shortbread was nowhere to be found, and she estimated that she had been killed, and she was even more panicked.
Although she used to travel with Heyue, who was as strong as an ox, as if she was afraid of being assassinated and robbed, she knew in her heart that no one would be bold enough to dare to go against the Prime Minister, and those were just pomp and circumstance, making a show to scare people.
But after the defeat of the Prime Minister's Mansion, she had no backer, Shen Muchi was right, her life was just a mustard for the powerful people. Now in this palace, only by being obedient can you save your life.
On the eighth day of October, one month after Jiang Cailing's new marriage was unsuccessful, King Qin and Xinhuanbi fell into the palace to meet the Queen Mother. Jiang Cailing was even mentioned in Yizhi, and the Queen Mother said that she was very worried about not seeing her for half a year, so she asked her to go with her.
Cai Ling has always felt that the Queen Mother is unreliable. Many years ago, he helped his son to marry the princess, and then took the princess's father with his husband, and after the death of his husband, he let his son snub the princess of the previous dynasty, but raised the son born by the princess under his knees, and loved him very much. Now that she can turn hostility into jade silk, she just ordered to pick Ling to go to the troubled waters. It must be so for the old and disrespectful. Cai Ling said silently.
Ziwei Palace personally arranged a gold-lacquered carriage to pick up, Cai Ling stood on the side of the stone lion in the palace and looked at the bead curtain on the car, in the past, he was clamoring to be in the same car with the three highnesses, and even dared to compete with the princess. Thinking of Jinghe's unconvinced pouting, the corners of her lips naturally rose.
When Shen Muchi and Bi Luo came out of the gate of the palace, everything was already complete.
Shen Muchi noticed Jiang Cailing standing aside, she has always liked bright colors, and today she only wore a lotus lotus skirt, the cloud brocade weave was fine but not embroidered, but her beautiful appearance was set off very well. In the past, she was anxious to compete with others for everything, he only knew that she was arrogant, and he had never looked at her appearance carefully, but now he knows that she is also a beauty.
Jiang Cailing turned her head sideways, only sweeping her gaze away from Shen Muchi and landing on Biluo, who was standing behind him.
Presumably she put a lot of effort into dressing up today, and the agate on the hairpin complemented her in a purple dress. She used to be extremely beautiful, but now she is even more rich and graceful.
Looking back at Shen Muchi, who was making eye contact with him, she felt that his gaze was much gentler today, and he should finally be able to take Biluo to see the emperor's grandmother, so he was kind and kind.
She smiled politely and removed from his handsome face, although he was wearing a moon-white robe, the white jade belt was light purple, matching the purple agate in his blue hair. She sincerely sighed that this is really a beautiful couple.
"Get in the car." After Shen Muchi helped Biluo into the car, he looked at Cai Ling, and saw her standing a few feet away from the car without moving, and said impatiently, "Do you want this king to help?" ”
"How dare you." Cai Ling smiled, "It's just that I've been trapped in your mansion for too long, and now I want to ride a horse." "She wants to be in the same car with this pair of beautiful people when her head is pumped, looking at them, you and me, Qingqing, me and me?
"You're going to ride a horse in the palace?" He raised his eyebrows.
She knew that even if the eight-thousand-mile light horse delivered the border war, she could only dismount at Chaoyangmen, and the royal families usually needed to dismount at Andemen to enter the palace.
She doesn't want to be in the same car with others, and she still wants to be in the same car with others? Although it is very likely that there will be no her, it will be embarrassing at that time.
"Leave me alone. I will go to Ziwei Palace on time. She held her stubborn head high, and at the end she said with great reluctance, "Okay? ”
There was a thin anger in his eyes, and he pulled her aside, others seemed to think it was a reproach and trouble, but the words were gentle, "When you get to the queen mother, you can be the same as before, you don't have to be too deferential, if you want it, you can agree, if you don't want it, you can refuse, don't need this king." ”
"What do you mean by that?" She was about to reach for his sleeve, but he turned and got into the carriage.
The scenery in the city is still the same, she wants to ride a horse and whip, but Shen Muchi only allows her to follow behind the carriage.
When she passed by Dongxi Building, she saw Song Shicong, the account room, and Lao Cai, who had been promoted to the shopkeeper, standing side by side at the window on the second floor and waving to her, she also replied with a chic gesture, even if she was detained now, she still couldn't lose her identity in front of her subordinates. After passing by the wooden cake shop, she also took a box of cakes from the shopkeeper's hand, and suddenly felt that someone in the carriage opened the curtain to look at it, and immediately threw the box of cakes back, "Ben Shao eats and drinks well in the palace, so you don't have to worry about it." ”
Later, there was a little delay at the door of Dusk Chixuan, it was originally the shopkeeper who wanted to buy a batch of goods and needed her to sign before she could go to Song Shicong to get the silver ticket, because Dusk Chixuan was doing a big deal, so everything passed through her hands more, and now I got the news that Jiang Shao was coming, and quickly sent four strong men to block outside, and the shopkeeper was not afraid of death, the palace had broken through several times without success, and now even if the king of heaven and Lao Tzu came, he was not vain, and he had to get Jiang Shao's signature today.
Shen Muchi left her with a group of guards and left first, she didn't dare to delay for too long, and after dealing with business, she rode towards the palace gate. When she dismounted at Ande Gate, there was no trace of them on the palace road.
Absolutely in his hands, he didn't even leave a girl to lead the way.
However, people who are accustomed to running in this palace seem to have a map in their minds, and they just walk through the alleys and alleys at will to come to the paradise-like imperial garden, where roses, phalaenopsis, begonias and chrysanthemums of all colors bloom just right...... Oh, those shy grasses are still there. She crouched down and touched the mimosa leaf, watching it slowly curl up, which she thought was extremely amusing. Passing through the imperial garden is the Ziwei Palace where the Queen Mother lives, maybe she arrived before they took the main road.
There seemed to be someone whispering behind the rockery, there was no one in the imperial garden at this time, and even the bird calls were much less than usual, she thought it was very strange, but she wanted to find out, after all, the haunting in the palace was not visible to everyone.
She crept closer, and came closer, hiding behind the big elm tree, and slowly poked her head out halfway.
The bright yellow clothes embroidered with dragon patterns appeared in the rockery, she shouted in her heart that it was not good, to escape, but her eyes were locked by the bright yellow, she saw the Ninety-Five Supreme kneeling on the ground, and the person in front of him did not kneel down or squat down to help, only stood with his head held high.
There is only one person in the palace who is so proud, and that is Xuan Jieyu of Cuiwei Palace, Shen Muchi's mother.
But I have always heard that Xuan Jieyu is not favored, and the emperor rarely goes to her bedroom even for half a year, where is this singing now?
I couldn't figure it out, and I remembered that I had to escape, and I stepped on a broken branch under my feet. Na Minghuang hurriedly grabbed Xuan Jieyu's hand and stood up, and seeing that she was not struggling, he leaned on Jieyu before he said sharply: "Who is it?" ”
Dead! It's hard to save the gods now! The emperor has always disliked the Jiang family, and now it is strange that she sees such a secret and does not get killed. She trembled and didn't know what to do.
Suddenly, she felt someone tap her on the shoulder, and her legs were even more frightened.
When I turned around, I saw that the person was the chief eunuch of the imperial palace, Grandpa Yue. Her father-in-law arched her hand in the same month, which was regarded as a greeting. Father-in-law Yue waved his hand to let her stay where she was, and then walked to the tree and said, "The slave has prepared the wine and food, and I have come to ask Your Majesty and Niangniang to move to Mingyue Pavilion." ”
"Hmm." The emperor replied, and after seeing that Gonggong Yue retreated, he said weakly, "I don't have the strength, so my concubine will help me go." ”
Cai Ling hid behind a tree, only to feel that her stomach was pouring out, so she quickly covered her mouth. Gonggong Yue said in a low voice: "You will come with the sprinkle family." ”
She has always liked Father-in-law Yue, likes his gentleness, likes him to honor and disgrace without being shocked, like an immortal, living in this deep palace without hurry. I heard that Shen Muchi also liked him, and on the way to Taixue when he was a child, he often held his hand.
"Cai Ling, thank you for Grandpa Yue's life-saving grace." She pretended to be calm, but her legs were still weak.
"Girl, do you remember how to go to Ziwei Palace?" Father-in-law Yue raised his eyebrows lightly.
"Yes." Cai Ling repented, "If you make a mistake for a while, you will not walk around the palace in the future, I haven't seen anything and heard nothing today." ”
"Hmm." Father-in-law Yue was kind and kind-eyed, "Then the Sprinkle family will not send it, and I have to go to the emperor to serve now." ”
"Grandpa Yue, you go slowly." She said deferentially.
Seeing that Father-in-law Yue was getting farther and farther away, she jumped up excitedly, and hurriedly ran on the nine-song corridor, thinking: Shen Muchi, Shen Muchi, I'm afraid that when you have never seen the love of your parents in your life, you actually let this girl see it, do you want me to tell you in detail?