Chapter 36: General Ziling
On this day, the weather was hot and humid, so I asked Xia Zhi to go to the small kitchen to boil a pot of rock sugar white fungus lotus seed soup, and only waited for me to take a nap before eating.
The two new second-class palace maids are generous on the summer solstice and have very good cooking skills; I let Xia Zhi manage the small kitchen, and let Liqiu manage the palace maids below to do needlework. In this way, the spring equinox and Gu Yu can also free up time to take care of my personal affairs.
Today's nap time is extraordinarily long, and when I woke up, I was told that the emperor announced that I would go to Yanying Hall to accompany me.
I changed into a moon-white bandeau top, a tulle dress, a lake-colored plain dress, and a pink drawstring. Still combed in a single snail bun, but changed to a pink peony and inserted it in the sideburns. Due to the hot and humid weather, I didn't take a walk, but took the oil wall car, and asked Xia Zhi to put the boiled rock sugar white fungus lotus seed soup in the food box, and I took the car to Yanying Palace.
I'm afraid it's going to rain on this day, and it's really depressing and uncomfortable, and I just hope that it will rain heavily! If I can go to the island to escape the heat, it will be great.
I frowned, thinking that fortunately I didn't love fat powder, otherwise I wouldn't know how uncomfortable it would be on my face at this time! Not to mention that only the favored concubines in the palace could afford to use pearl powder to even out their faces, and those who were not favored were all made of lead powder! Although that thing had a good makeup effect, it had been used for many years, and it would have given birth to even more people. So those palace maids, in their twentieth years, look older than their thirty-year-old concubines.
The car is not very spacey, and it is more suffocating than the outside, so I have to keep shaking the fan, hoping to relieve the feeling of suffocation.
Fortunately, the car soon arrived outside the Yanying Palace, but when it arrived, it heard a muffled thunder in the distance.
"The old slave greets the mother!" Jiang Shouquan saw me get out of the car and hurriedly came over to salute.
"Father-in-law doesn't have to be polite, it's such a hot day, and my father-in-law has worked hard. "I politely greeted him, if it was a previous life, I wouldn't be too lazy to talk nonsense with a eunuch. It's just that now it's not what it used to be, and I've finally understood something.
He smiled flatteredly and said: "Niangniang has promoted the slave, the slave does things for the emperor, where can I dare to call it hard?" After that, he helped me to the palace, stood outside the door, and reminded in a low voice: "General Gao is discussing with the emperor inside! Niangniang is afraid that she will have to wait for a while." ”
I nodded and said, "It's okay, it's important to be on national affairs." "I can't help but slander in my heart, what state affairs have not been talked about all night! Such a clingy man, no wonder those concubines in the harem are jealous and hateful to him, and they want to be entrapped.
"It's hard for Niangniang to hold the food box in her hand, so let the slave take it?" Jiang Shouquan said, taking the food box in my hand and holding it in his hand.
I fanned and said, "It's just boiled rock sugar white fungus lotus seed soup, on such a hot day, it's best to eat this to relieve the heat." ”
Jiang Shouquan immediately followed my words: "Isn't it! It's still thoughtful, the emperor is discussing and criticizing in it, he must be hungry, and the mother will serve this soup later, the emperor will definitely like it!"
I secretly laughed in my heart that he was really a person who would come to trouble, and said: "I also know that the emperor doesn't like sweets, so I didn't put more rock candy, and I don't know how the emperor eats." ”
Jiang Shouquan hurriedly smiled: "Niangniang really has a heart, the emperor really doesn't like to eat overly sweet and greasy food, but this is a piece of Niangniang's heart, not to mention that she cares about getting by, presumably the emperor will like it." ”
I didn't say a word, fanned my fan gently, only to hear the door of the temple "creak" open, and out of it came a man wearing a vermilion Koyara court robe and a grass gold belt around his waist. It is the general Ziling, but he has never worn a military uniform today, but is wearing a court uniform, which is less rigid and more handsome.
I covered half of my face with a fan, and only my eyes were exposed, and I looked at him with a smile instead of a smile. I thought very badly in my heart, I don't know how the emperor stabbed his sword into the body of this young general?
"Xia Guan has seen Jieyu Niangniang...... "He has knelt down on one knee to me, and I am still too empty."
There is only one place on his body that can enter, if the emperor is ...... Isn't that ...... I was thinking wildly, and suddenly I felt a chill, and I closed my eyes and shook my head violently, trying to get that ridiculous thought out of my mind!
Caught off guard, the peony on my sideburns fell to the ground due to my excessive force.
Only then did I come back to my senses and looked blankly at General Ziling, whose face was purple.
Why is he so angry......? Did he guess what I was thinking? Does this mean that he really has a leg with the emperor?
I closed my eyes again, and Jiang Shouquan beside me reminded me in a low voice: "Niangniang, General Gao is still kneeling!"
Gao Ziling is the emperor's favorite minister! I must not offend him!
Coughing lightly, I said softly: "General, please get up quickly, the general is working hard for national affairs...... The palace really didn't dare to accept such a big gift from the general. "Sweep the field for the emperor, and roll on the dragon bed for the emperor, hum, can you not work hard!
Oops, how could I think about this again!
He probably endured and endured it again and again before his complexion returned to calm, and then picked up the peony himself, stood up and said, "Niangniang's flower has fallen." ”
"Thanks," I said, reaching out to catch the flower.
He handed me the flower, but instead of letting go, he pinched my fingertips under the cover of the flower.
I was shocked, there were Jiang Shouquan and a few other inner prisoners here, although those inner prisoners did not look at us, but Jiang Shouquan was standing next to me!
My face changed dramatically, and I looked up to see that his gaze was looking straight at me, and I couldn't care about offending him anymore, so I pulled my finger out of the flower fiercely.
The peony shattered in our hands, half in our hands, and half fell to the ground.
"Hmph, it's a pity that it's such a delicate flower!" I don't know when, the emperor stood at the door of the palace and said in a deep voice.
My heart almost stopped, when the hell was he standing there? No one knows! What the hell is he...... What exactly do you see?
Ziling had already turned to him and knelt down, and said, "Weichen has damaged Niangniang's flower, and I hope the emperor will forgive him." ”
The emperor said coldly: "It's just a flower, how can it be worthy of Aiqing's great achievements? Aiqing retreated!" He turned to me again, and said in a deep voice: "Her flower, I will compensate her for you!"
Ziling immediately retreated, the emperor turned around and entered the hall, Jiang Shouquan glanced at me, and followed in with a food box. My mind went blank, and I only knew what was waiting for me.
The muffled thunder came from far and near, the sun disappeared, and the dark clouds lingered. Soon, a rainstorm is coming.