That night, Zeng Rong didn't stay at Qin Chuxue's house for too long, put down his things, chatted a few words and left in a hurry, because the time had come.

After the Lantern Festival, Zeng Rong began to work in a hurry to get out early and return late every day, Liu Chunmiao sent her a roll of gold leaf thread on the twentieth day of the lunar month, this time, Zeng Rong was very careful, every day before dark must be finished, after the end of the work, the roll of gold leaf thread was brought back to the dormitory to be locked, and then brought back to the workshop in the morning.

The relationship with Green Lotus is still the same as before in the eyes of outsiders, and the two don't talk much, but every night Green Lotus comes to ask Zeng Rong for advice, Zeng Rong will still teach her wholeheartedly, and will lend her the books he has read, and sometimes give her some reading experience, and will give her annotations and revisions.

Dafen, Meiying and others have asked Zeng Rong more than once why they don't want to be friends with her but are willing to help her, Zeng Rong smiled faintly every time, saying that he didn't want to be friends because the other party's character was not what he liked and recognized, and helping others was a kind of cultivation of his own character.

These are two different things.

Of course, this help is not help without a bottom line, but on the premise that the other party does not hurt himself.

Unfortunately, few people can understand this.

But they understand one thing, Zeng Rong is easy to talk to, he is a good person, so everyone is willing to talk to her about anything, Zeng Rong will try his best to help if he can help, and he can only give some advice verbally if he can't help.

It may be that the queen and the imperial concubine both know that Zeng Rong has been busy with the queen mother's regular clothes during this time, so these two people have not come to her trouble recently, Qin Chuxue has come to the workshop once and told Zeng Rong that she is well, don't read it, Liu Chunmiao will come to see Zeng Rong's progress almost every afternoon before finishing work.

According to Lu He, Liu Chunmiao asked her if Zeng Rong had seen Qin Chuxue these days, and said nothing else.

On the day of February Erlong, because of the need to avoid needlework, all the needlewomen on this day are on holiday, busy bathing, turning over bedding, cleaning the house, etc.

After breakfast, when Zeng Rong was about to go to see Qin Chuxue, Liu Chunmiao came and gave Zeng Rong a token, asking her to go to Cining Palace to send something and send a batch of purse sachets to the Queen Mother.

Because Zeng Rong didn't know the way, Qin Chuxue specially ordered a little palace maid to send her over, and when she arrived at the gate of Cining Palace, the palace maid left.

Zeng Rong first showed the token to the eunuch at the gate of Cining Palace, and then indicated his intention, and after the eunuch at the gate went in to report, he took Zeng Rong into the courtyard and handed it to a palace maid.

The palace maid took the things and went in, and ordered Zeng Rong to wait in the courtyard.

Because there were many palace maids and eunuchs shuttling back and forth in the courtyard, Zeng Rong didn't dare to look up, only slightly raised his eyes and looked around.

This courtyard seems to be slightly smaller than that of Kunning Palace, but the queen mother obviously likes to raise flowers, and several flower beds in the yard are covered with straw, which should be some precious varieties that cannot be wintered.

Another point, the roof of Cining Palace is green, Kunning Palace is golden, as far as the house itself, it is not as majestic as Kunning Palace, but there should be a main hall and a side hall.

When she was secretly wondering which room Amei would be in, the palace maid came out and told Zeng Rong that the number was right, and she could go, and after speaking, she gave Zeng Rong a string of money, which was regarded as a reward.

"This sister, can you ask Sister Amei if she is on duty today, I am from the same place as her, can I meet her?" Zeng Rong returned the bounty to the other party.

"Ame? She seems to be on duty in the back, right? The palace maid returned the money to Zeng Rong, and she didn't seem to want to take this errand.

"With Sister Lao, it's rare to be able to get out for a day today." Zeng Rong took out a piece of broken silver from his purse and secretly sent it over, along with the string of money.

After receiving this piece of broken silver, the palace maid ordered Zeng Rong to wait outside the gate of the courtyard, saying that after a stick of incense, no one would come, so Zeng Rong would go back by himself.

Zeng Rong had no choice but to wait outside the gate, and the eunuch at the door learned that she was waiting for someone, so he ordered her to wait under the tree a few feet away.

After touching a stick of incense, Zeng Rong didn't see Amei's shadow, but he was unwilling to leave like this, and was struggling with whether to try his luck at the small gate of the back garden, when a bunch of people suddenly came in front of Wu Yang, Zeng Rong hurriedly lowered his head, bowed down, and remained motionless.

Still, a eunuch came and asked, "Who are you and why are you here?" ”

"Back to my father-in-law, the small one is from the embroidery workshop of the Shanggong Bureau, and he came to Cining Palace to send things, which is a small token." Zeng Rong hurriedly took out the token and handed it over.

"Since it's a delivery, why don't you leave after sending it?"

"Back to my father-in-law, the little one is waiting for a little sister here."

The eunuch listened and returned the token to Zeng Rong, turned around and trotted over, Zeng Rong didn't dare to look up, and vaguely felt that the sedan chair that I didn't know if it was Feng Yuan or something else stopped, presumably to get off the sedan chair and go in.

Suddenly, the eunuch turned around and stood in front of Zeng Rong, "The imperial concubine asked you to come over for questioning." ”

"Imperial concubine?" Zeng Rong raised his head, he was really obscure, how did he meet her?

Also, what did she ask herself? She shouldn't have seen herself, right?

Without waiting for Zeng Rong to figure out this question, she had already walked in front of the other party and knelt down directly: "The slave has seen the imperial concubine Niangniang, and I respectfully invite the concubine Jin'an." ”

"From the embroidery workshop of the Shang Gong Bureau? What is your name? ”

"Back to Niangniang, the slave's name is Zeng Rong."

"Zeng Rong?" The other party paused, "Raise your head and take a look at this palace." ”

Zeng Rong raised his head, and the eyes of the two collided, Zeng Rong quickly lowered his head again, and deliberately shivered.

This imperial concubine no longer seems to be young, and her facial features are not as delicate and beautiful as the queen, but she is better than her fair complexion, and there is another point, her voice is very good, delicate and soft, and the whole person looks like a weak willow supporting the wind, which is far from the vicious woman Zeng Rong imagined.

"I heard you're waiting for someone, do you know what day it is?"

Zeng Rong hurriedly raised his head when he heard this, and as soon as he touched the other party's gaze, he lowered his head again, "Hui Niangniang, today is the second dragon of February." ”

"Do you know it's the dragon that raises its head and hits it here?" The other shook his head.

Zeng Rong looked at the other party with a confused face when he heard this.

"Well, you are not very old, you must be a newcomer. The dragon raised its head is the day when the emperor and the queen go to the prayer hall to worship together, after the sacrifice, they will come to accompany the queen mother to have breakfast together, you are not suitable to stand in this kind of people, it is better to change places or come again on another day. ”

"Thank you for mentioning it, the slave will go back." Zeng Rong kowtowed to the other party, then got up and took two steps back, she couldn't leave in advance, she couldn't leave until the other party went in.

Who knew that as soon as the imperial concubine raised her foot, she suddenly put it down again and turned around slowly.