Chapter 17: Greetings

Zhang Erzhen's first night in the palace was very unpeaceful, and he began to toss before dawn, worshipping the hall and thanking the emperor for his grace, and holding one hundred and eighty hearts and ears to listen to the words of the bigwigs, and after falling asleep unconsciously, he felt hot at night, and even was dug up by Mingyue and Jin Qiu.

"When did the prince leave?" Zhang Erzhen gathered the red satin silk shirt, and saw that there was no trace of Zhu Youjiao's troubles.

Mingyue was busy preparing clothes, and a string of little palace maids followed up by Jin Qiu, bringing hot water and a handkerchief and a copper basin one by one, and Jin Qiu replied while waiting for Zhang Erzhen to put on his shoes: "The prince will go to the court at two o'clock, and I will go to ask for peace this morning, we don't dare to be late." ”

Zhang Erzhen yawned on the wide pink placket, her eyes were full of mist, she looked at the outside that was not very bright, and muttered: "I have to officially say hello on the second day of marriage, and I won't be able to sleep in the future." Let Jin Qiu tie a thin belt of cherry red thick brocade, sit down with her head drooped in front of the wide and delicate dresser, and let the nurse make up. The nurse pulled out a bun very neatly, leaving a wisp of green silk on each cheek, revealing the girl's full forehead, and persuaded: "Now is not the time to sleep, the princess is ready for everything, girl, you need to be cautious when you enter the palace, and it is not good to show your dissatisfaction on your face." ”

Zhang Erzhen woke up half sleepily, looked at them through the mirror and said: "Nurse, you are wrong, you can't say that you are showing your mouth outside, you have to call me a side concubine." Several girls who came from Zhang's house nodded reluctantly, the nurse looked at the girl with no different color on her face, and she didn't dare to show her grief at the moment, the side concubine, she silently remembered.

Mingyue finished cleaning up the bed, dragged a snow-white Xipa and asked, "Nanny, what is this for?"

The nurse naturally knew that last night was peaceful, and the girl was still too young to toss, but she was also worried at the moment. Zhang Erzhen put a jade bracelet on her wrist, stood up and grabbed the handkerchief, drew a few rouges with a pen in one hand, and threw them into the box on the side.

The nurse frowned, "Can this work?"

"I can't cut off my fingers. Zhang Erzhen put a big golden hairpin in her hair again, shaking her heavy head and preparing to say goodbye to the crown princess Wan Xian'er.

"Concubine Zhen is here. ”

After walking for a while to Qingyun Pavilion, the little palace maid waiting outside the door opened the curtain smartly, and Zhang Erzhen held Mingyue's hand like the ladies she had seen in her previous life, and went in with a handkerchief. There were already a few beauties sitting in the hall, and Wan Xian'er was sitting in a red palace dress at the top.

Zhang Erzhen spoke: "Say hello to the crown princess." Squatting slightly, the eyes of the master girl in the room hit Concubine Zhen like a spotlight, Wan Xian'er's eyes were particularly warm, she looked at her from head to toe, and said with a smile: "Sister Zhen should rest for a while, she came so early, sit down quickly." With a warm smile and poisonous eyes, Zhang Erzhen greeted him straightly, sat unceremoniously on the chair on the right, held his forehead with one hand, and glanced at the first three women: two Chenghui and one Zhaoxun. Zhu Youzhu is eighteen years old, and only these three people have been waiting, Zhang Erzhen carefully looked at the woman in the pottery green shirt diagonally opposite, and only felt that her eyebrows and eyes were a little familiar.

Wan Xian'er won the true biography of Wan Guifei, she was still cowering in Renshou Palace yesterday, but she looked at it at this time, but she was quite stylish, her nails were covered with bright Feng Dan, her right hand stroked the bright red, and after a while, she said: "Sister Qin must have slept late last night, and she hasn't come here yet, Sister Zhen, are you right? We still have to go to Kunning Palace to ask for peace, and we can't delay it, but if Sister Qin is missing, it won't be beautiful." ”

Wang Xiangqin is one year older than Wan Xian'er, Zhang Erzhen slandered, if she was twenty years old, she would also be called a sister by Wan Xian'er, a little girl. Zhang Erzhen adjusted her sitting posture, she didn't sleep very comfortably last night, and replied slowly: "But Sister Qin is the queen's niece, and it is inevitable that the shelf will be bigger." As the saying goes, people respect the rich, and dogs bite it, there is no way to do it. Wan Xian'er is Wan Rong's distant cousin, and Zhang Erzhen thinks that there is no need to flatter her.

Not to mention how surprised the other three beauties were, Wan Xian'er had already raised her brows and was dissatisfied: "What does Sister Zhen mean by this, even if she is capable, she can only be a side concubine." I advised my sister to be more aware of the times, so as not to stick to others with a hot face and be pierced with thorns. ”

Wang Xiangqin outside the door happened to hear the words of the two, and after coming in, he first saluted Wan Xian'er, and received a few beauties' gifts, and looked at Zhang Erzhen with great satisfaction, and his dissatisfaction with her snatching her bed yesterday weakened slightly, Zhang Erzhen only didn't see it, so she took a sip of tea, then got up and followed the princess and Concubine Qin out, and went to Kunning Palace in a soft sedan chair.

The fathers-in-law who carried the sedan chair in the palace were really powerful, Zhang Erzhen leaned on it and yawned comfortably, not feeling the slightest shaking. She squinted her eyes and was a little irritable, and after a long time, the sedan chair slowly landed, Zhang Erzhen opened her eyes suddenly, clear and clear without the slightest tiredness, to see those palace elve-like bigwigs, you must cheer up 120,000 points.

In view of the saint's partial preference for Wan Guifei, Wan Rong'er doesn't need to come to Kunning Palace to ask for peace at all, she can't come to Kunning Palace for about five fingers, but recently Wan Rong'er has frequently appeared in Kunning Palace, which makes the queen hate and disgust. Therefore, when Zhang Erzhen and his entourage entered the main hall of Kunning Palace, they saw Queen Wang and Wan Guifei sitting on the left and right. And when they had done so, they were given a seat. Comrade Zhang Erzhen, who was still the most boring and unobtrusive, became the object of concern of the two bigwigs today - just because the prince rested in Ningyun Pavilion yesterday.

"If the palace remembers well, Concubine Zhen is only fifteen years old this year, right?" Wan Guifei leaned back comfortably, carefully looking at Zhang Erzhen, who was sitting in a regular manner. The eyes of the noble palace maids in the room greeted her, and Zhang Erzhen replied in the eyes of everyone who were complaining or smiling: "The concubine is fourteen years old. ”

"That'...... How can you dominate the prince and not allow him to go elsewhere?!" Wan Guifei slapped on the table with a "snap", her eyes seemed to have been quenched with poison, Queen Wang and Yigan's daughter-in-law looked at Zhang Erzhen like a good show, thinking that she should tremble and kowtow to apologize, but who knew that this new side concubine replied unhurriedly: "The concubine also urged the prince to go elsewhere, but how could the prince listen to the concubine, the concubine was frightened and did not dare to go to the prince." "The voice is thin, but the volume is not small.

Wan Guifei sneered: "What do you mean by the prince? Is it that the prince ignores the situation regardless of his wife and concubine, and is confused and doesn't know?"

Queen Wang looked at Wang Xiangqin lovingly, and then turned to Wan Xian'er, with a bitter heart: "You are the crown prince and concubine, they only entered the palace yesterday, naturally there are many things that they don't understand, if they have any mistakes, you should also educate carefully, why do you want the concubine to support you at every turn, what can you do in the future?"

Wan Xian'er regained her timidity, trembling slightly and replied: "The concubine is a coward, so it really shouldn't cause the queen mother and the concubine to worry about the concubine." But...... , but Sister Qin is just that, Sister Zhen is really the prince's sweetheart, a concubine...... , concubines...... I'm afraid of angering the prince......"

Wang Xiangqin's eyes were like copper bells, and she asked in surprise: "What did my sister say, she ......" pointed at Zhang Erzhen with one hand and said in disbelief: "You said she is the prince's favorite?"

Queen Wang was also slightly puzzled, and Concubine Wan said with a smile: "Concubine Zhen is so capable, the prince who bluffed you in just one night treats you like a jewel, and she is really good." ”

Zhang Erzhen smiled brightly and shyly, and her face gradually became slender: "The concubine is ashamed, and the concubine is afraid." "Zhang Erzhen's only reliance in this deep palace is Zhu Youji's love, she wants to pull this banner high, Zhu Youzhen calculates that I come, I naturally want to share the same hatred with him, and pull the secret contempt and conspiracy to the table, so that the war will not be like the old lady's footcloth, smelly and long. Thinking of this, Zhang Erzhen actually laughed out loud, and the Chinese teacher in her previous life often said this to describe her composition.

Everyone saw Concubine Zhen smiling happily, and they were all kinds of unhappy in their hearts, especially Wang Xiangqin, who held the handkerchief tightly and tried to control herself from stepping forward to tear Zhang Erzhen's face. Since she knew that the girl of Zhangfu had the same status as her, she went to inquire about who this person was, and the reply was "beautiful fairy, beautiful appearance," she only thought it was an embroidered pillow, but she didn't think it was a pig and a tiger. She glanced at Wan Xian'er gloomily, and said hatefully: This is also used to pretending to be stupid, but in fact it is very shrewd!

Wan Xian'er looked forward to Ai Ai again: "Sister Zhen doesn't know, Shi Chenghui who is serving in the palace was brought by His Royal Highness the Prince, I looked at my sister yesterday and understood that Shi Chenghui and my sister are like four or five points." ”

Zhang Erzhen suddenly thought of the familiar beauty in the morning, it turned out that it was attributed here, and secretly thought that this Zhu Youzhu was really "deeply rooted" for her, and even found a substitute, but at the moment she smiled shyly, and said with joy and surprise: "What my sister said is true? The concubine is really scared." ”

Everyone saw that this side concubine was turning over and over these few words, and it was like a fist hanging on the cotton, and they were very resentful, but the coming days are long, and it is always difficult to see blood to seal the throat, and the best thing in the palace is to cut meat with a blunt knife. Queen Wang waved her hand a little irritably and signaled everyone to go back, you can end today's greetings, Wan Guifei also felt bored, stared at Zhang Erzhen fiercely, and went out first with the help of the palace maid, Zhang Erzhen, who was squatting slightly, only saw the flamboyant red sandalwood flowers floating on Wan Guifei's skirt, and mourned for Wan Guifei for a minute in her heart, Queen Wang seemed to be used to Wan Guifei's temperament, and she held the hand of the palace maid very plainly and left.

Wan Xian'er glanced at her two younger sisters, one on the left and one on the right, and sneered: "Let's go back too." ”

Wang Xiangqin was angry, turned her head and went out first, Wan Xian'er then went out, Zhang Erzhen asked with a smile: "Crown Princess, what are you going to do with Shi Chenghui?"

Wan Xian'er shook her handkerchief and smiled charmingly: "Look at what my sister said, they are all sisters who serve His Royal Highness the Prince, how dare I deal with it, especially you, sister, I naturally don't dare." ”

Zhang Erzhen took two steps closer to Wan Xian'er and whispered: "The prince said it yesterday, and now I'm here, Shi Chenghui...... Naturally, it is not very useful. Wan Xian'er stared at Zhang Erzhen's head, and stomped her feet hatefully and scolded: "What can I endure, I really think I am amazing!"

Mingyue was worried: "Girl, isn't it good for you to be afraid like this?"

Zhang Erzhen raised her eyebrows, "What am I doing to be low and small, rest assured, which one will be favored in the future, it will not be these two." ”

Mingyue didn't understand, Zhang Erzhen smiled and said: "The days in the palace are all women who are embarrassed women, why should I love them with me, I don't have to worry about myself." ”