Chapter 55: Ebony Bronze Ornaments
Tan Yuan walked into the back room, handed a handwritten letter to Shi Zun, and said in a low voice: "There is news from the palace!" ā
Shi Zun took the handwritten book, looked at it, looked happy, handed the handwritten book to Tan Yuan, stood up and said, "Xiaoxiang did a good job, you can arrange this matter." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć info" "Yes......" Tan Yuan nodded silently and withdrew.
Early in the morning of the third day of the Lunar New Year, Liu Guifei ordered someone to pack her bags early and prepare to go to Wolong Mountain.
"Mother, everything has been packed, shall we leave now?" Xiao Xiang asked on the side.
"Have all the minions sent by His Majesty arrived?" Liu Guifei was still sitting in front of the mirror, constantly fiddling with her hairpin.
"Back to Niangniang, they have been waiting outside the Huilan Palace for a long time."
"So what are you waiting for? Let's go early, this hellish place really can't stay for a moment! Liu Guifei said, stood up, and Xiaoxiang hurriedly went up to help.
"Niangniang is so beautiful today." Xiao Xiang secretly glanced at Liu Guifei.
"Just your little mouth is sweet! You mean Hongu isn't pretty on weekdays? Liu Guifei said deliberately.
Xiao Xiang was in a hurry, and hurriedly replied: "The slave maid doesn't mean this, as the saying goes, people are in good spirits when they are happy, and Niangniang is more beautiful today than in the past, because Niangniang can go out of the palace to play today." ā
"Oops! If this were the slaves and maids in the Huilan Palace, they would be as well-behaved as you, and the palace would not feel so boring! Liu Guifei gently knocked on Xiaoxiang's head.
Xiao Xiang touched her head a little embarrassed, and said with a smile: "The slave maid is serving by the mother's side, in order to talk about the mother's daily life and mood!" ā
"That's good! You stay by the side of this palace, and when the time comes, this palace will definitely let His Majesty give you a wishful husband! Let you out of the palace and marry a good man! ā
"Slaves and maids don't go out of the palace to get married! The slave is willing to wait by the mother's side all the time! Xiaoxiang's words made Liu Guifei very happy.
Liu Guifei walked out of Huilan Palace with a few maidservants, and more than a dozen guards were already waiting at the door.
"Wen Cang, the deputy commander of the subordinate guards, see the concubine Niangniang." One of the deputy commanders of the guards saw that Liu Guifei was out of Huilan Palace, and hurriedly knelt down and saluted.
"Get up." Liu Guifei looked high, and raised her hand slightly to signal Wen Cang to get up.
"Xie Niangniang!" Wen Cang stood up and stood in a line with the other guards.
Liu Guifei looked at the guard commander named Wen Cang, about thirty years old, with a tiger's back and a beard, and asked: "This palace is just to go to Wolong to burn a few incense sticks and ask for a wish, what are you doing here?" ā
Liu Guifei looked at the dozen or so people behind Wen Cang, all of them were tall and big.
Wen Cang looked ahead, did not look directly at Concubine Liu, and replied loudly: "Hui Niangniang, this is what Your Majesty meant!" The subordinates were also ordered by His Majesty to come to protect Niangniang and return safely. ā
Liu Guifei pursed her lips and said, "It's really uncomfortable to be followed by a group of you stinky men!" This palace tells you that when you arrive at Wolong Mountain, you are not allowed to get too close to this palace without the order of this palace! Don't affect the mood of the main palace! Did you hear it all? ā
"Your Majesty ordered, where the subordinates are duty, they must protect the mother, but the mother doesn't have to worry! The subordinates will definitely not affect the mother's Yaxing! ā
"That's the best!" Liu Guifei said, ready to turn around, and asked again: "Your name is Wen Cang, right?" ā
"It's a subordinate!"
Liu Guifei looked at Wen Cang, suddenly laughed, pointed at Wen Cang and said, "You must not be born to your father's mother, look at what name your father and mother gave you to marry?" It's mosquitoes and flies! Hahahaha......"
Liu Guifei suddenly teased Wen Cang's name, then turned around and smiled at Xiao Xiang as she walked.
Wen Cang's face was expressionless and he didn't say anything.
Liu Guifei and Xiaoxiang sat in the carriage, followed by Wen Cang with more than a dozen guards, and went out of Yecheng together and went to the direction of Wolong Mountain.
The heavy snow of the previous year has not completely melted, and if you stand on the tower of Yecheng at this time, it is still white at a glance.
Xiaoxiang opened the curtain of the carriage, looked outside, and said to Liu Guifei: "Niangniang, look! We're out of Yecheng! It's still nice to see the snow outside! A large expanse of white! ā
Liu Guifei also stretched out her head to look outside, then returned to the carriage and said: "This palace has been in the palace for a few years, except for going back to her mother's house a few times, she has never left Yecheng, let alone seen what is going on outside Yecheng." Now it seems that the outside world is really much better than the palace. ā
"That's for sure, otherwise how could the slave persuade the maid to go to Wolong Mountain to stay for a few days?"
"You ask that fly, how long will it take to get to Wolong Mountain?"
Xiaoxiang didn't react for a while, and asked, "Niangniang, who are you talking about?" ā
Liu Guifei glanced at Xiaoxiang and pointed outside.
Xiao Xiang Mao Se paused: "Oh~ The slave understands." So Xiao Xiang opened the curtain and shouted at the front of the convoy: "Commander Wen! ā
When Wen Cang heard someone calling him, he immediately turned his horse's head, rode to Liu Guifei's carriage, and asked, "Girl, call your subordinates, don't you have any instructions?" ā
"My mother asked you, how long will it take to get to Wolong Mountain?"
Wen Cang looked at the road and replied, "It will take about two hours." ā
"What? Two hours? How did it take so long? Isn't Yecheng dozens of miles away from Wolong Mountain? ā
Wen Cang replied calmly: "The girl doesn't know, there are indeed only dozens of miles to Wolong Mountain, but it just snowed heavily a few days ago, and now the snow is melting, the road is very muddy, and the carriage can't move forward quickly. ā
"You!" Xiao Xiang was choked by Wen Cang's words and refuted speechlessly, retracted her head back into the carriage angrily, lowered the curtain, and said to Liu Guifei: "Niangniang, look at this person, how do you speak?" ā
Liu Guifei didn't care, played with a string of jade beads hanging around her neck, and said: "Look at his five big and three rough rough man, do you still expect him to say anything gentle and intimate to you?" ā
Xiao Xiang muttered: "The slave doesn't want this person to say anything gentle and intimate, it's disgusting to think about it!" ā
Liu Guifei laughed "poof", touched Xiaoxiang's face and said: "Oh, look at this little face, you still don't understand the things of men and women, when you understand, you won't say that, hahahaha......"
Xiao Xiang blushed a little, buried her head and whispered: "Slaves don't understand this, slaves and maids just need to understand Niangniang's thoughts." ā
Liu Guifei saw Xiaoxiang's blushing face and smiled even more happily.
Wen Cang led the people all the way to the west, and the carriage kept swaying in the mud, and walked for nearly two hours before arriving at the foot of Wolong Mountain.
The carriage stopped suddenly, Xiao Xiang had just opened the curtain, Wen Cang had already dismounted, saluted to Liu Guifei's carriage and said, "Qiyu Guifei Niangniang, Wolong Mountain has arrived." ā
Xiaoxiang saw that Liu Guifei was still napping, so she gently shook Liu Guifei and whispered, "Niangniang, we are here!" ā
Liu Guifei slowly opened her eyes and asked, "Have you arrived?" ā
Xiaoxiang nodded and said, "If you don't get it again, our bones are going to fall apart, come on, Niangniang, I'll help you get out of the car." ā
After Xiao Xiang finished speaking, she opened the curtain and jumped out of the carriage first, and the eunuch who was driving the carriage hurriedly brought a wooden ladder from behind the carriage and placed it next to the carriage.
Liu Guifei stepped out of the carriage with the support of Xiao Xiang, stretched her waist, closed her eyes and took a deep breath, and said slowly after a while: "The air in this mountain is not much better than in the palace, and the mood in this palace seems to be a little better immediately." ā
Liu Guifei opened her eyes and walked forward, and Xiaoxiang hurriedly helped her aside.
"Who owns these carriages and horses? Came before us. Liu Guifei asked, pointing to a dozen horses and a few carriages not far away.
Xiao Xiang looked in the direction pointed by Liu Guifei, looked at it for a long time, shook her head and said, "The slave doesn't know, maybe it's a rich family nearby or something." ā
Liu Guifei walked forward, stood more than ten steps away from the carriage and stopped, looking at the carriage carefully, it was a sturdy ebony shelf, and the pendants on the carriage were not ordinary knots, all copper ornaments.
"It seems that these people who came today are not ordinary rich people, let's go, let's go up the mountain and see what big people are coming." Liu Guifei said, walking towards the stone path leading to the mountain.
"How does Niangniang know that this is not an ordinary rich family?" Xiao Xiang asked while helping Liu Guifei.
"Didn't you see that the carriage was made of ebony shelves, and even the pendants were bronze? How can the average person afford such a thing? ā
"I see! It's still a mother's heart! Xiao Xiang flattered on the side.
Liu Guifei and Xiao Xiang walked in front, and several guards under Wen Cang carried several large boxes of Liu Guifei in pairs, which were all luggage she brought from the palace.