Chapter 11: Women Disguise as Men

"Huiruo, the boat you and the palace maids are on has been requisitioned by me, you can go and play elsewhere!"

Song Renzong Zhao Zhen waited until Princess Fukang Zhao Huiruo came to him, he did not beat around the bush, but said straight to the point.

After listening to Song Renzong's opening remarks, Zhao Huiruo, as the eldest daughter, did not reply directly, but was stunned and fell into deep thought.

Although Zhao Huiruo is young, she is quite smart, and after letting the palace maids dock the boat, she got off the boat and went to the shore, and saw Chen Maoze, who served as the deputy chief of the inner attendant, not wearing the official clothes of the inner attendant, but wearing a casual clothes, and felt a little strange.

When Zhao Huiruo walked in front of her father Zhao Zhen, and saw that his father, who was the emperor of the Great Song Dynasty, was wearing civilian clothes like Chen Maoze in the palace, and even the ten inner guards around her were all outside, so she couldn't help but secretly feel suspicious.

Now, after Zhao Huiruo met her father, the first thing she heard was to requisition the small wooden boat that she and the palace maids were playing on the Jinshui River, which made her feel that something was wrong.

You must know that if Zhao Huiruo was born in the emperor's family, even if she is a woman, she is more intelligent than ordinary children.

After thinking about it for a while, she immediately guessed her father Zhao Zhen's thoughts, that is, nine times out of ten, she requisitioned this small wooden boat and left the palace from Jinshuimen.

The thought of going out of the palace to play among the people made Zhao Huiruo yearn for it, she spent almost all of her time in the palace since she was a child, and rarely had the opportunity to leave the palace.

Even when he left the palace, he followed his father Zhao Zhen, as well as Empress Cao and the concubines, out of the palace to participate in some major celebrations, as well as the weddings and funerals of the ministers stationed in Beijing.

Even if it is added together, Zhao Huiruo has not been out of the palace more than ten times, which is very resentful for a young girl who is twenty-eight years old and longs for freedom.

Even the daughter of a big family in the Song Dynasty did not leave the cabinet to marry before she left the court, and she did not go out of the door, which inevitably made Ouyang Xiu sigh for a hundred years at that time: The courtyard is a little deep!

After thinking about it for a long time, Zhao Huiruo finally mustered up the courage, straightened up his slightly bulging chest, and made a request with confidence: "Daddy, you can requisition this boat, but you have to agree to my request." ”

Song Renzong Zhao Zhen is particularly fond of his eldest daughter Zhao Huiruo on weekdays, although he can't see each other a few times in a month, in his opinion at this time, as long as Zhao Huiruo agrees to let him get on the boat, let alone a request, it is eight or ten requests, he will not hesitate to agree.

"Huiruo, what kind of request do you want your father to agree to, even if you mention it, your father will all depend on you." Zhao Zhen didn't even think about it, so he agreed.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Huiruo said straight to the point: "Daddy, this request of mine is very simple, that is, Daddy has to take me with him when he goes out of the palace to play." I've been stuffy in the palace for a long time, and I want to go out with my father to breathe. ”

After listening to Zhao Huiruo's request, Song Renzong Zhao Zhen began to regret it a little, mainly because he had doubts, if he took Zhao Huiruo out of the palace today, he would definitely be informed by Empress Cao afterwards.

Although Zhao Huiruo, as a princess, was born to Miao Guifei, because Queen Cao has no children and no daughters under her knees, Zhao Huiruo and Queen Cao have the same temper, and in addition, Queen Cao and Miao Guifei get along very harmoniously and like sisters.

In addition, Zhao Huiruo is smart and well-behaved, and is lovable, and is regarded as her own by Queen Cao.

It is precisely because of the bronze mother-daughter relationship between Princess Zhao Huiruo and Empress Cao that Zhao Zhen of Song Renzong is naturally unwilling to take Zhao Huiruo with him when he leaves the palace, as if he is being monitored by Empress Cao.

After making the request, Zhao Huiruo saw that her father Zhao Zhen had not spoken for a long time, and immediately guessed that Zhao Zhen had concerns, so she immediately decided to help Zhao Zhen dispel her worries.

"Daddy, don't worry, I won't tell anyone about you taking me out of the palace today, especially Niangniang (Queen Cao), let alone my sister (Miao Guifei). If Daddy doesn't believe him, the child is willing to swear to God now. Zhao Huiruo first swore to Zhao Zhen to pack the ticket, and then made a gesture of "swear to the sky".

The reason why Zhao Zhen's nickname after his death was called Song Renzong, it sounds good, is because he has a benevolent heart, and to put it mildly, it is that he has a weak and compromising side by nature.

No, Zhao Zhen felt that his eldest daughter had said everything to this point, and if he didn't take him out of the palace with him, it would seem that he was too ruthless and not merciful enough to be a father.

"Okay, Huiruo, Daddy believes in you, don't swear to the sky, today, take you out of the palace with me." Zhao Zhen hurriedly stopped Zhao Huiruo, who was about to swear to the sky, and nodded hurriedly in agreement.

Subsequently, Zhao Huiruo broke up all the palace maids who were playing with him on the small boat of the Jinshui River, and when there was no one around, he called Zhao Zhen and Zhang Maoze, as well as the other nine internal guards, to wait for the wooden boat, and slowly sailed towards the Jinshui Gate not far away.

Due to the urgency of the situation, Zhao Hui didn't have time to return to the dormitory where she lived to change clothes, so she simply put on the casual clothes of a slightly short Ouchi guard who was originally going to travel with Zhao Zhen.

Thanks to the fact that she came to the Jinshui River to play with a few palace maids today, she didn't dress up, and after the woman dressed as a man, she was a little more heroic, which can definitely be described by the idiom "sassy and heroic".

In order not to reveal his true identity, Zhao Zhen waited for the Golden Water Gate of the Imperial Palace, and asked Zhao Huiruo, who was disguised as a man, to take the token he gave and let the guards of the forbidden army guarding the Golden Water Gate let him go.

The centurion of the forbidden army guard, who was responsible for guarding the Jinshui Gate of the Imperial Palace, saw that Zhao Huiruo, who was disguised as a man, showed a token with the words "Ru I am here" written on it, although he saw that everyone on the boat was wearing civilian clothes, he did not dare to intercept him, not only opened the Golden Water Gate to let him go, but also, under his leadership, more than 100 guards of the forbidden army bowed down to see him off.

After leaving the palace, they first crossed the bridge along the Jinshui River, and finally anchored at the shore dock under the White Tiger Bridge.

Zhao Zhen ordered three Ouchi guards to stay on the boat to guard, and took Zhang Maoze, Zhao Huiruo, and the other six Ouchi guards to disembark the boat and walk slowly south from the northernmost end of Wengwazi North Street.

At this time, it is the middle of the day, the sky has long been completely bright, in this bright spring March day, the breeze is breezy, extremely cool, and it coincides with the meeting of Wengwazi North Street in this market, there are many shops and vendors on both sides of the street, selling all kinds of things, so that Zhao Huiruo, who has not been out of the palace for a long time, is dazzled.

However, Zhao Zhen saw Zhao Huiruo who was looking left and right behind him, so he urged, because he did not go out of the palace this time to visit the market, but to go to Xia Zhizai's mansion, wanting to see with his own eyes whether the two stone lions that had invaded the street could be removed before noon today.