Chapter 1: The Beaded Hairpin
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As far as I am concerned, that man cannot be regarded as the husband of so many women in the harem, we call him Your Majesty, and he calls us the position.
Even the middle palace lady, he celebrated the whole country to marry his daughter-in-law who had married a daughter-in-law with red makeup, and he also called her the queen. Maybe what Mama said is right, the men of the emperor's family are not allowed to have affection.
I originally planned to go to Concubine Jia for tea this afternoon, but when I had lunch, Concubine Jia's side talked back to a little palace maid who was familiar with me, saying that the temple fair in the capital was these days, and she wanted to eat the sugar gourd in Qiaotou. This is the code words of these harem women, the temple fair is the entrance of the long street, and the sugar gourd at the head of the bridge is where Li Jingheng is going to pass.
Although I haven't seen Li Jingheng for a long time, I am not very interested in him. In addition to his better skin, the man has a good figure, but he is not bad, and his temper is not very good, and he will punish me at every turn.
But Li Jingheng is really good, I have seen Li Jingheng's Yulin Army, and I have also seen Li Jingheng's literati, Li Jingheng is warmer than the Yulin Lang, and much more heroic than the scholars and students.
Since I decided not to go with them to the Wangfu Stone, I asked the little palace maid to return to Concubine Jia's good intentions.
In the afternoon, the sun was very big, Buyue and Yunzhi cut the peaches that had been soaked in the well water for me, I wanted to use my hands directly, but Buyue had already taken the silver fork. I inserted a piece for her, and Buyue was about to bow down, but when I saw that she was on her knees, I reached out to stop her.
I don't like them kneeling on me, I'm not dead, I can't stand kneeling like this all day.
Buyue still said to me: "Niangniang eats, Buyue doesn't need it." ”
I put the peach in my mouth, and it was cold and sweet.
Buyue is three years younger than me, and has been with me for as long as I can remember, but I can't remember anything from the past. It's weird that I don't remember anything before that day, Mama said that my name is Yu Xiaoqi, she is her adopted daughter, and she came to the palace to choose a female official, if it weren't for Li Jingheng who took a fancy to me, I guess I'm serving a certain lady now. I'm not sure if what Mama said is true, but no one else told me about my background, so I had to believe it. After I became a virtuous mother, Buyue served me with the cloud branches that Li Jingheng had dialed over.
A few days ago, I said that I wanted to find a few drama books to read, and now I got my wish, Yun Zhi told me early in the morning that she asked for a play book about immortals from Liu Meiren.
Originally, I had forgotten about it, but fortunately, Yunzhi saw that I was bored and asked me before I remembered, and hurriedly asked her to fetch it.
Liu Meiren has a lot of drama books, and it is also interesting, last time I passed by her, went in to ask for pastries to satisfy my hunger, and happened to meet Shen Liangren to borrow books to read. Good guys, there are cabinets full of wild books, some talk about the people who were oppressed by the government and were forced to rebel on the mountain, some about the white-clothed martial arts master who saved the girl who encountered the road bandits in the post house, and many about the gods in the sky. After that time, I sent people to ask Liu Meiren for a script from time to time
This drama is about a male god who made a mistake and was punished, but fell in love with the little palace maid who was dressed by the lake. It took me a long time to read it in one sitting, and when I looked up again, it was already waning.
Buyue was standing behind me dozing off, and when Yun Zhi saw that I had finished reading, he asked, "Niangniang, do you want to drink some small dragon balls?" Concubine Fang sent someone to send some, and it just so happened that this tea was also cold, so I will re-brew it for you? ”
After an afternoon of wonderful stories with twists and turns, I forgot to drink something, so much so that now my throat is very dry. I nodded, and when Yunzhi turned to leave, he woke up Buyue, who had almost fallen asleep.
I asked Buyue, "Do you believe that immortals will fall in love with mortals?" ”
Buyue looked at me sleepily and said confusedly, "It shouldn't be." ”
Yun Zhi made tea, prepared some pastries and brought them together, I left a cup of tea, and asked her to take the rest to the small triangle pavilion, and go over to tell Buyue the play book for a while.
When I got up, I straightened out some of the wrinkled clothes that were sitting on, silk this thing, look at this fresh and good-looking, but very delicate, I think it is not as good as the cotton sateen on Yun Zhi Buyue. I heard that at the beginning of spring, Jiangnan paid tribute to a batch of top-quality satin to make summer clothes for the palaces, and I think it is almost ready.
"Xie Yi'an." It's Li Jingheng's voice, he always doesn't call me by my name or my position, just calls me Xie Yi'an, although I'm not very interested in it, but I also think it's weird.
I turned my head to look for him, and sure enough, it was him, and now he was wearing a scarlet robe with dark dragon patterns, and a jade crown on his head, like a handsome boy recorded in a scroll, and if there was another horse, it would be all work. The scene of the young man in fresh clothes and angry horses should have been played by him.
Sometimes I also think that if he wasn't the emperor, and I was just the daughter of an ordinary family, I would have been so sincere to him that the sea was rotten. But he is not an ordinary person, we are not an ordinary family, let alone a husband and wife, the queen is his wife.
I looked at him and made eye contact with him, and his eyes were so dark, like a big hole with no end, bottomless. I shuddered, and then looked away.
I wanted to ask Yunzhi or Buyue to make him a cup of tea, but when I looked around, I found that there was no one, and they didn't know where they had gone. Li Jingheng walked to the rattan chair opposite me and sat down, and said lazily to me: "I don't know who you learned the rules from, and I won't salute when I see me." Take care of your sins. He looked at me with a smile.
"Concubine Yu Xiaoqi has seen Your Majesty." I knew I was doing an excellent job of not confronting the powerful forces, and I got up to make a big salute to him after speaking, but his vicious words floated from above my head: "Your name is Xie Yi'an." In just five words, he gritted his teeth, and I was tired and panicked for him.
"Concubine Xie Yi'an has seen Your Majesty." I think I'm as good as gossip and I salute as I gossip.
It turned out that the man was crazy and didn't care about anything, and when I looked up again, I saw him just drink half of the tea I had just drunk. That's Jia Niangniang's little dragon group for me! And how can you drink tea like this? And you're still drinking after I've drunk it?
I was angry and stammered, "Your Majesty...... Your Majesty, this is my ...... Tea. I almost whispered the word "tea" at the end, because I noticed that he was glaring at me. It's vicious, like ...... It's like a fathead fish that has been robbed of bait, no, it was robbed and then snatched back.
Being glared at by the emperor is definitely not a good thing! "Please, please."
Li Jingheng has always been on the Three Treasures Hall for nothing, and there must be something wrong with coming to me, looking at his unhurried and impatient appearance, he will definitely not leave for a while.
I have always been obedient, and when I saw that he had finished drinking tea, I didn't open my mouth, I should be thirsty, and I thought that I would go to the small triangular pavilion to get the rest of the tea and pastries. "What are you going for?" Li Jingheng asked me.
"I'll get you tea." I replied.
When we first met, the conversation between us was that he asked me questions and I answered him.
When I first entered the palace as a little female official, it coincided with Li Jingheng's first time to choose a concubine and the wedding of the emperor and queen. Do you think a man who has just had a big day, and is surrounded by all kinds of seductive and charming women, would wander around with a stinky face? I don't think a normal man would be!
That day, I was ordered to go to the imperial garden to add flowers to the vase in the Queen Mother's palace, but he was also there, and he caught me and insisted that I was Xie Yi'an. At that time, there was no one to serve around him, and I was a drunken and shameless disciple, so I immediately reprimanded: "What Xie Yi'an? I don't know, the slave still has something to do, please take care of yourself! ”
Unexpectedly, he blocked my way, blocked me in a dead corner behind the rockery and asked me, "You really don't know me?" "I was so close to him at that time, his big face was magnified in front of me, and the tip of his nose almost touched mine. I wanted to run away but couldn't, maybe from that moment on, I was doomed to be trapped. I seemed to be stupid and replied to him: "Are you sick?" ”
Obviously, Li Jingheng has never been scolded by anyone for being sick, and I took advantage of the moment when he was scolded stupid by me to push away this shameless guy with all my might.
This man is really strong, I still remember the feeling at that time.
Pushed him away, I wanted to leave this fateful place quickly, I am a yellow flower girl, although it is not a flower and a moon that is overwhelming the country and the city, but I can't tolerate this dead scoundrel so light!
I didn't expect this disciple to be the current emperor.
After running two steps, I heard the guy behind me shouting at the two eunuchs in the distance who seemed to be looking for something: "Catch her quickly!" ”
When the two eunuchs heard this, they immediately ran towards me, and their bodies also took the posture of a hen protecting their chicks to catch me, and the two eunuchs were one left and one right, and I saw the gap between the two of them, but someone grabbed me by the collar. I was carried like a grandmother carrying my little civet cat, I was ashamed and annoyed, and turned my head to scold, but when I turned my head, I saw Li Jingheng staring at me with a winning smile on the corner of his mouth.
"Your Majesty, you are here, let the minions find it easy, the banquet in the main hall has begun, you see?" One of the round eunuchs said.
Oh, now that I think of that time, I can cry stupidly by myself again, and when I heard that the disciple was His Majesty, I was angry and asked him: "You are the emperor?" ”
I'll never forget the way those two eunuchs looked at me, and who hasn't been ugly. Later, when I was having tea with Concubine Jia, I told her about it, and I laughed at the beautiful woman who was like a flower, and then I saw that I was going to pounce on her and beat her.
"What a daze."
When I came to my senses, the disciple was now looking at me suspiciously. I put the snack on the small table on the side, and in order to hide the embarrassment of staring at him just now, I sneered and said, "You came to look for me, is there something?" ”
Li Jingheng took a piece of puff pastry cheese from the milky white enamel plate, he didn't seem to be in a hurry to talk to me, and after taking a bite of the puff pastry, he began to chew slowly.
I had to wait patiently for him, I really don't understand this man's eccentric temperament, I learned to be dignified and elegant like the queen's mother, but he murdered me and asked me if I was not tired. Once he quarreled with me, I couldn't fight him, and in a fit of rage, he bit him on the arm, but he just snorted, and no longer quarreled with me, but seemed to be in a good mood. If you want me to say, this man is a psychopath.
I stared at him for a long time before he swallowed the big mouthful of cheese, and said slowly: "I ordered someone to beat a few beaded hairpins, and there are concubines and above, I will send yours." With that, out of nowhere, he pulled out a golden hairpin decorated with white beads the size of a mung bean, and two leaves made of jasper.
Since he is here to give gifts, he is also a guest. I happily took the hairpin and looked at it carefully, the dozen or so small white beads were round and smooth, beautiful and tight, I had never seen this kind of stone. I asked him, "What is this beautiful white bead?" ”
Hearing this, he laughed, I didn't understand what was funny about my question, I thought he would answer it when he laughed enough, I didn't want him to laugh all the time, and after laughing, he asked me to rub his stomach while shouting about his stomachache. I stepped forward and rubbed him twice, both obeying and venting my anger. He was in pain and screamed "Oops".
"What's ridiculous!" I'm angry.
He said, "What a beautiful bead, it's a pearl!" In the palace, you dare to rub your stomach like this! ”
I always felt so close to him that I often forgot that he was the emperor. Being reminded by him so implicitly, I quickly restrained my expression and changed the subject: "Pearl? What is a pearl? ”
Li Jingheng pointed to the things called "pearls" on the bead hairpin and said: "This is the pearl of the pearl mussel, these are the tribute of the South China Sea this year, and the best color and quality are selected to make this hydrangea bead flower." ”
It turned out to be seafood, and I asked, "Can I eat it?" ”
He glanced at me: "What other interests do you have besides eating, this thing is for people to see, where is it for you to make snacks to eat?" ”
Cut, I think this pearl is useless, just like Li Jingheng, except for being good-looking, it is useless, what kind of gift is really given by anyone. As a seafood, it's really useless.
Li Jingheng probably saw that I was very disdainful, and said: "But I have seen the seaside fisherman's wife use it to grind it into fine powder and apply it to her face, saying that it can be beautified." ”
When he said this, I felt that this hairpin was not very suitable for me, but it was quite suitable for Concubine Jia's beauty-loving lady. I asked again: "What bead flowers do you give to Concubine Jia?" ”
"Magnolia." Li Jingheng said.
It's done, he really doesn't know how to give gifts.