When the lone army of Jinzhou marched east to Dengzhou, thousands of miles away in the Chengqian Palace of the Imperial City of Beijing, Tian Guifei, who was the most favored by the young emperor, was watching her cronies Yu Cui'er open the burden wrapped in white satin, and what came into view was a brocade box with carved flowers and birds.

"What's in the box?"

Tian Guifei gently removed the lid of the box suspiciously, and suddenly looked surprised, and said "puff", it turned out that there was a pair of embroidered shoes in the box. The embroidered shoes are not only exquisitely made, which makes people love it, but what is even more rare is that the upper and lower parts of the shoes exude a rich fragrance. Take a sniff and suddenly feel a ripple in your heart.

"Niangniang, these shoes are so fragrant! The slave is so big, I haven't seen these shoes before. Yu Cui'er had never seen embroidered shoes that emitted a scent, and her face was full of surprise.

Tian Guifei sniffed it, but shook her head slightly, and waved her hand at Yu Cui'er with a smile: "I thought it was a rare object!" It turned out that I sent a pair of embroidered shoes to the palace, do I still have no shoes to wear? If you look suitable, I'll reward you! "I asked someone to send it into the palace, but it turned out to be a pair of shoes, although the fragrance was delicious, but it made Tian Guifei really not interested.

"How dare a slave? Such a good embroidered shoe, wouldn't it break the slave's life! Niangniang, you see how good the style, how fine the craftsmanship, this material, embroidery, stitches...... Tut-tut, the slave has never seen it. Yu Cui'er held the box, walked to Tian Guifei's couch, and pointed out one by one. She didn't dare to take the shoes.

"Oh, I'll take a look."

Being pointed out by Yu Cui'er like this, Tian Guifei's interest rose slightly, and she reached out and took out an embroidered shoe, the jade-colored silk satin upper was embroidered with a colorful phoenix with gold silk, and a huge bead flower in her mouth, which was lifelike. The sandalwood sole is three inches high, and there is an orchid carved from red sandalwood hidden inside, and a small hole is opened under the sole, which happens to leak out. The wooden bottom at the heel of the shoe is placed in the agarwood powder, and a lotus-shaped hole is also carved. These shoes have no holes.

Tian Guifei seemed to think of something, and couldn't help laughing: "I heard my mother say when I was a child, this embroidered shoe is called Bu Bujiao, which is a famous product that has existed in ancient times, and I want to ask a famous craftsman to imitate it in Suzhou." ”

"If you can enter the purpose of the mother and the phoenix, it is naturally a treasure in the world." Yu Cui'er praised: "Niangniang changed the old system of crown clothes in the palace slightly, and the appearance was delicate and cute, and Wu Wanrong, the housekeeper of Kunning Palace, looked for slaves and maids to describe the appearance of clothes five times. There are also the lights in our Chengqian Palace, which were covered with gold niches before, and the style was quaint, but the lights were dim and tight, and I was depressed and panicked when I looked at it. According to the guidance of Niangniang, a peach-shaped hole was dug out around the lamp, and a light palace veil was stretched, the light was bright, and the room was bright, so it was much more convenient for us slaves to be errands at night. ”

Tian Guifei nodded slightly, and suddenly remembered to ask: "The pearl crown I changed, does the emperor still like it?" ”

"It's really time to fight! Why did you forget to return to your mother! Yu Cui'er raised her hand and slapped one of her ear scrapers, and said, "Long live the Lord is overjoyed!" On that day, the slave maid sent over, long live the lord said that the pearl crown was originally made of pearls and crow bluestone, the mother changed the pearl, embellished with beads, and then embedded with crow bluestone, so that in turn, the eyebrows are clear, wear on the head, you will feel brilliant, there is incomparable majesty. Long live the Lord tried it on at that time, and rewarded the slave and maid with five taels of silver. ”

"Well, then the emperor set up a bamboo frame on the royal road from the palace gate to the palace gate and planted wisteria, and the emperor didn't say anything?" Tian Guifei asked a little uneasy.

"Say it! Long live Lord also praised it. Said that Niang Niang is sensitive and ingenious, the scorching summer sun, wisteria flowers are luxuriant, there is no need to play any umbrella cover, the weather is cold and spread a layer of grass or something on it, and you are not afraid of any severe winter wind and snow. The flowers and plants on both sides of the path are protected by poplar trees made of low railings about a foot high, and no matter how lush the grass and trees are, they will not cover the road. Do the shoes fit if the mother tries them? Yu Cui'er knelt at the feet of Tian Guifei, took off the palace shoes on her feet, and replaced them with Bu Bujiao, "Hey! It seems to be made by measuring the mother's feet, and it is not bad. Niangniang got up and walked a few steps to see. ”

"Phew!" Tian Guifei smacked her with a smile and said, "You little hooves are talking nonsense again!" Which one is dead, dare to measure my feet? You must have revealed the size to others. ”

Yu Cui'er was full of grievances: "How dare the slave and maid chew their tongues!" That day, I saw a little palace maid measuring the footprints of the mother with her hands. ”

After putting on these shoes, Tian Guifei's little feet were covered by ten Hunan skirts with pale white pink trim, and she walked around, slightly revealing her toes, the soles were slightly higher, and she shook them step by step, curling Tingting, which was really beautiful.

Yu Cui'er couldn't help clapping her hands and said: "Chang'e in the moon is here, Chang'e in the moon is here!" ”

Tian Guifei whim, posing a figure, dancing and dancing, in an instant, the skirt fluttered, the clothes were windy, raised hands and feet, graceful, looking forward to the brilliance.

At this time, a cheer suddenly came from outside the palace, "Good month palace fairy!" When I turned around, it was Chongzhen who came.

"Your Majesty, you know how to coax your concubines." Tian Guifei sighed, stopped her dance steps, stepped forward to greet the holy driver, and then all the palace maids knelt down, and there was a delicate call in the Chengqian Palace.

Chongzhen pulled up Tian Guifei, Yucui'er made a look, and withdrew from the palace with everyone. Chongzhen looked at Tian Guifei's face was slightly red, slightly delicate. Wheezing, he asked pretending to scold: "Why don't you wait for me to come before jumping?" But don't you want me to see it? ”

Seeing that Chongzhen's face was full of smiles, Tian Guifei pulled Chongzhen to sit down, and said angrily: "The emperor always sneaks in like this, which scares people's hearts!" ”

"I see how powerful you dance?" Chongzhen took Tian Guifei in his arms and reached out to touch her chest, "But do you want to die?" ”

Tian Guifei snuggled tightly in his arms, buried her head and said with a blush: "In broad daylight, the emperor is not honest." ”

Chongzhen pulled up her pink face, kissed her neck, and said with a smile: "You are the one who provoked me to be dishonest." ”

"How did the concubine provoke the emperor, she took a few steps when she tried on shoes, but she showed it to the emperor." Tian Guifei snorted her mouth, and that appearance made Chongzhen's heart flutter.

"What kind of new shoes? Show me. Chongzhen lifted Tian Guifei's skirt, and saw that the delicate little feet were wearing a pair of brand-new shoes, plain shoes, plain socks, and the skin above the ankles was smooth and crystalline, white as snow, and gently pinched and said: "The clogs are like frost, not crow-headed socks......" put the leg on his lap, grabbed her foot condyle with one hand, took off her embroidered shoes with the other hand, held her little foot, stroked it lightly, and sighed: "Gao Qing Caifeng is a hook of incense, delicate and light Luo is three inches long, and it is full of green ants." Pretty shengsheng, small wine sac, lotus petals dew and laxative elixir, the crescent of the moon is bent on the cheeks, the cone puts the tuanluan in the palm of the hand, and the tip of the bamboo shoots breaks the bridge of the nose...... "Tian Guifei retracted her slender feet, blushed and said: "Where did the emperor hear the obscene words and evil songs, and the lotus cup drinking, although it has been a long time, it is full of frivolity after all." ”

"I heard it from the teahouse outside the front door, and it was written in an interesting way. You don't know that the foot binding of the road began from the five generations of Li Houzhu, and later the group began to follow the effect, and the circulation was very widespread, and someone actually wrote a book, what is it called "Xianglian Pinzao", which is subdivided into five styles, nine products and eighteen categories......"

"That sour scribe is really ruthless, and he has such idleness! I only know that Lu Dao wants a woman to wrap a three-inch golden lotus, like a crescent moon, and a lotus flower is born, but you can know that Lu Dao has a pair of small feet and a jar of tears? As soon as the footcloth was tightened, it hurt as if it were drilling...... The concubine wants to teach the palace maids who do not have bound their feet to avoid such pain of flesh and skin, is the emperor willing to agree? Tian Guifei said with tears in her eyes.

Chongzhen saw tears in her eyes, and hurriedly comforted her: "Okay, I agree to what you invite, not only is it inevitable that you don't bind your feet, but even if you bind your feet, you can let go, and in the future, you will not be allowed to bind your feet in the palace, how about it?" After speaking, he picked up the embroidered shoes on the ground and asked, "Where did these shoes come from?" ”

"I think it's Suzhou weaving, right?" Tian Guifei's voice was a little weak.

"Su embroidery is really fine."

Chongzhen did not doubt that the embroidered shoes were silver and white, spotless, as if they were carved with jade, and they were held in the palm of their hands to play a few times, but they saw that the white satin shoes were embroidered with a few words in thin silver wire: "Chen Zhou Yanru Gongxian", these six words are extremely small, embroidered on the upper of almost the same color, if you don't look at it so closely, you will never distinguish it.

Hum! Chongzhen snorted slightly in his heart, glanced at Tian Guifei, put it on her quietly, and said, "It's still early, play a song for me." ”

"It's rare for the emperor to be so leisurely." Tian Guifei felt empty in her heart, and she didn't dare to say anything to the emperor on these shoes, so she hurriedly called out: "Take the piano!" ”

"When people are happy, if they don't play music and poetry, how can they eliminate this eternal day?" Chongzhen's face suddenly appeared with joy, as if there was a great joy in his heart.

Tian Guifei glanced at him and asked knowingly, "What is the emperor's happy event?" ”

Chongzhen Ha Luha smiled: "Shaanxi has good news, Hong Chengchou has worked hard, lived up to my expectations, killed the bandit leader Wang Jiayin, and leveled the seventeen thieves of all sizes, Shaanxi Ke'an, this is not a big happy event, what is a big happy event?" ”

Tian Guifei hurriedly bent down and saluted, and said with a smile: "Emperor Hongfu, my Ming Dynasty has not had such a happy event for a day, so I want to celebrate my birthday." ”

Chongzhen said "um", nodded and said, "I have issued an order to Xuan Hong Chengchou to enter Beijing to see His Majesty, I blamed him last year, this time I must use some thoughts, so as not to make him have a knot." Well, I want to do the gift of suburban labor to welcome him in triumph. I also have to perform a puppet show in the palace for a few days to teach the whole capital to be happy. ”

"Then the concubine will play a song "Le Taiping"."

Tian Guifei sat in front of the Great Sage's Relic Piano, raised her fingers, and played it gurglingly, and suddenly the pearl and jade jumped, and the spring splashed, and it was a prosperous scene of flowers competing for beauty and flowers.

Chongzhen closed his eyes and listened quietly, hitting the knots with his hands, his face full of relief. In a trance, he felt that the world was already peaceful, and he, the emperor, could listen to this beautiful music by his side every day.