Chapter 7: The Feast
Sheng Changning woke up from her dream and looked at the cyan embroidered curtain above her head in a daze, and the breath of revival from this made her a little dazed.
In the dream, Shen Ziyu was as unruly as before, like a wild horse that had not yet taken off, and he had the freedom that people in the capital did not have.
She even thinks now that even if Shen Linzhi has eight bucket talents, he can't compare to Shen Zizhi's casual nature.
"Princess...... Are you up? Yuan'er's call came from outside, Sheng Changning turned over, and then saw that the morning light outside the window had already spread to the sky, and the daylight after dawn was already very large.
Sheng Changning watched silently, and suddenly felt that he was tired all over, if Mama Qing saw it, she would definitely start teaching her again.
But......
She is not the princess of Changning now, a princess who is not concerned, she doesn't need to visit the morning and evening ceremony, and it is not easy to sleep lazy?
Thinking about Sheng Changning, she turned back again, her eyes closed sleepily, but not long after she fell asleep, she was woken up again in a daze.
Yuan'er pulled her up, took out her dress and gestured on her, and then rummaged through the cabinets again, which made Sheng Changning a little confused, she leaned on the side of the bed, and asked with a sleeping voice: "What are you doing?" ”
Yuan'er immediately replied: "Back to the princess, Yuan'er is looking for last year's clothes and headdress for you, and the slave maid remembers it in this cage... Somehow I didn't find ......," her voice lowered.
Sheng Changning frowned subconsciously, and the last trace of sleepiness was gone.
"Where are you going?"
According to her current identity, where do she need any brocade clothes, and she specially wants to find a hairpin to wear it?
Yuan'er finally turned out a box, she listened to Sheng Changning's question, and then she realized that she didn't say anything to the princess, so she said: "Fangcai Yufu Palace sent someone to say that there was a banquet at noon today, to celebrate the sons of Zhongju, and invited the princess to go, but when the slave called the princess, you were still resting, so the father-in-law confessed two sentences and left first." ”
"Yufu Palace? Be...... Which mother? Sheng Changning hesitated for a moment, then asked again.
In her memory, her brother treated the princess wholeheartedly, and after the death of the crown princess, Emperor Ren's father pressured her many times, and those courtiers were stunned that they didn't even have a concubine into the East Palace, and they were all dismissed and driven away by the brother.
But after so many years, even if you don't doubt that your brother can endure the long nights in the palace, the crown princess can only give birth to peace and die, and it is taboo to have no children in the harem.
Hearing her words, Yuan'er was surprised when she stepped up, and she hesitated: "Princess...... How did you forget? It was Princess Anle's bedchamber, and... In addition to the concubine Yi, His Majesty has no other concubines in the palace......"
Yuan'er was suspicious, Sheng Changning got up quietly, put on the wooden skirt casually, and then she said slowly: "It's me who remembers, these days somehow, I can always remember when the emperor was still there......"
Sheng Changqing is now just twenty years old, and ten years ago he was just a child, but after Yuan'er was his brother ascended the throne, the palace servants were purged, and they were assigned to this attic.
Because of this, she made up the past, and it was not easy to leak the stuffing.
Thinking about it, life at that time was not very good after all, Sheng Changning said softly: "They all came to bully me with their own mothers and concubines......"
In the past, when she was still the princess of Changning, the emperor's favorite, those sisters never dared to break ground on her head, and they were respectful when they saw her on weekdays.
Occasionally, she saw Sheng Changqiong pushing a maid in a flying manner, and the dirty words in her mouth made her extremely uncomfortable.
Sheng Changning lightly reprimanded Sheng Changqiong, making people's faces pale before leaving. When she left, she glimpsed the unwillingness and resentment of her third sister, and also saw the maid behind Sheng Changqiong, with her head bowed, wearing coarse cloth clothes, looking pitiful.
But she didn't care anymore.
The people in the palace, which one is not fateful? If she had to help, wouldn't she have become a bodhisattva who saved suffering? She didn't want to.
Sheng Changning retracted his thoughts and calmly applied the past, "At that time, Sheng Changqiong always came to provoke me, I remember one time, it was still Princess Changning... Lifted the siege for me......"
Yuan'er's face eased, and she immediately soothed: "The princess may be in a nightmare, but now that she is ...... It's gone, but you still have a slave, and the slave will swear to follow the princess and protect the princess! ”
She's a silly girl.
Sheng Changning's face turned suddenly, and he curled his lips and chuckled.
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The Luming banquet held for the new imperial examination was arranged in Qinfeng Villa, which is the place where the royal family has always held banquets.
Sheng Changning came in the carriage arranged by Sheng Anle, and when he arrived with Yuan'er, there were already many guests in the garden.
The carriage was about to stop, and the maid who came to greet the guests had stepped forward and placed the horse in place, Yuan'er lifted the curtain for Sheng Anle, and the noise outside came into his ears one after another.
Sheng Changning was suddenly in a trance.
The respectful maidservant, the bustling crowd, and the splendid curtain at hand seem to have returned to ten years ago, she is still in a high position, and she is the most noble princess of Dachu.
"Princess, it's time to get out of the car......" Yuan'er whispered in her ear.
Sheng Changning was supported by her, got out of the carriage, the long skirt fell to the ground, Yuan'er carefully sorted it out for her, Sheng Changning subconsciously helped the beads on the side of the bun, and then raised his head and walked forward.
The maidservant girl leads the way for her, it is a small pavilion of Xuanxie, the pavilion is elegant, by the lake and willows, there are several pearl scale red carp in the lake, swim also happy.
Sheng Changning frowned and sat down, there were only her and Yuan'er in the small pavilion, and there was no one else.
It stands to reason that when the banquet is divided into men and women, she was attracted here by the maidservant, and it was also a scene of dressing and dressing, where is it so empty?
"Stop." Sheng Changning raised his head slightly, and asked the maid who was about to retreat, "Where are the other noble girls?" ”
The maid didn't panic for a while, and replied calmly, "If you go back to the princess, the slave doesn't know." ”
Yuan'er also felt that something was wrong, and she didn't want Sheng Changning to say more, so she blocked the way of the maidservant, and the fox and the tiger learned a lot.
"Presumptuous! Do you know what it is to deceive a princess? ”
The maid knelt down at this time, and still said: "The slave and maid really don't know, please ask the princess to condemn." ”
"You-" Yuan'er was really angry, this person said this, didn't he think that the princess couldn't punish her, and didn't take the princess in his eyes!
Sheng Changning watched it for a while, and called back Yuan'er lightly: "Yuan'er, that's it." ”
Yuan'er glared at the servant girl who was lying on the ground, and then let go angrily, and when the servant girl left, she couldn't help but ask: "Princess, this person ...... There must have been some conspiracy for this person to take us to a land where no one was, and how did you let her go so easily? ”
The red carp in the lake had already jumped to the surface of the water, and Sheng Changning twisted a piece of pastry on the table in his hand, and fed it little by little, making a continuous splash.