Chapter 003: Green Clothes
After my father left, a thin father-in-law bowed in and reported:
"Chao Meiren, Concubine Yuan has set up a tea banquet in the Chang'an Palace, please go over and discuss the matter of the Holy Birthday."
"Got it. You go back to the concubine, and I will go after a few words with the princess. Chao Meiren said gently, took Xuan'er's hand, and entered the main hall.
Although Li Xuan'er is the eldest princess, she is the youngest daughter here in Chao Meiren, and when she was saluting in the morning, she quietly wiped away her tears.
Seeing that her daughter is really old, I see her eyes rolling at this time, and I don't know what to think.
Tea party? Tea Banquet ......
In her previous life, on the day of her marriage, A-Niang fell into the Taiye Canal inexplicably, the water in the canal was not deep, but there was a lot of silt in it, and A-Niang suffered a lot, and finally she was rescued.
Ah Niang was already weak, and since that time she fell into the water, she has been sick in bed intermittently for a year to be married, which will make her depressed heart and die after her father leaves.
But at that time, she was a princess who didn't care about foreign affairs, and Ah Niang said that she had fallen into the drain by stumbling, so she didn't think much about it.
"Auntie, why does the father-in-law who passed the message just now look a little blind?"
Li Xuan'er felt in a trance that the eunuch just now was very similar to Zhao Heyi, one of the five princes who surrounded the imperial brother and overrode him.
But that was after the imperial brother ascended the throne.
Although the disaster of eunuchs in the Celestial Empire can't solve the problem by killing a few fathers-in-law, the problem is that after his father ascended the throne, he killed a group of eunuchs, but why was it still the eunuchs who made the decision for him when the throne was inherited?
Li Xuan'er never figured it out.
"You say Zhao Heyi? He is the cousin of the Yuan Concubine clan, the family can't live anymore, since the palace, he entered the palace to join the Yuan Concubine, he rarely comes out to pass the word, so strange that you don't know. ”
It turned out that he was really Zhao Heyi, and he was actually Concubine Yuan's person......
Coming out of the Mingyi Palace, Li Xuan'er walked on the road, slowly sorting out her thoughts:
refused to marry, and he could be regarded as fulfilling Zheng Hao, and when he married the Lu family, not only did he not have to fall into that heart-wrenching pain, but the balance between the scholars would make the court temporarily calm.
She also has time to pay attention to her good brother who doesn't learn and doesn't know how to do it.
In her previous life, her brother, who was two years older than her, took over the Celestial Empire from her father, and it didn't take long for him to start spending time drinking, playing and having fun, not thinking about the government, and the imperial power soon fell back into the hands of the eunuchs.
When the building was about to collapse, Brother wanted to stand up on his own, but he was already powerless.
"That Zhao Heyi said just now that there is a tea banquet in Chang'an Palace, and we will also go to join in the fun."
Li Xuan'er said with a smile while asking the maid to change her clothes.
Mu Lan was waiting to comb the princess's hair, and she asked suspiciously: "Princess, you have always disliked walking around with other concubines in the palace, why are you ...... now?"
"Princess, didn't you say that pretending to be deaf and dumb and ignoring it is the way to survive in the harem?" Mu Xiang also asked.
The princess has always followed the rules, and it is not the matter of the mother's room, so she resolutely does not care. Today she fell from the tree, got up and rushed to the main hall to refuse marriage, which is already incredible, and now she is actively taking care of the affairs of the concubine.
"I'm in a good mood today, and besides, I'm just passing by and looking, and I don't say anything, what can I do?"
After changing into a cyan skirt, Li Xuan'er hung a yellow gauze curtain on her arm, and she walked out of the Chenghuan Palace.
Now it is especially midsummer, the heat is in full swing, but walking in the promenade by the Taiye Pond, the wind blowing on the lake is a little cool.
Sure enough, they were just passing by, and Li Xuan'er did not enter the Chang'an Palace, but walked towards the Taiye Pond diversion canal not far away.
Facing the Chang'an Palace, there is a stone arch bridge on the canal, and the opposite side of the bridge is the Ice Palace, my father often cools off in the Ice Palace in summer, so the concubines also love to drill here.
Li Xuan'er looked left and right, there were one-person-high flower walls on both sides of the canal, the north bank was hibiscus, and the south bank was spring flowers, just blocking the shore, which was both beautiful and safe.
Then A-Niang, why did she work so hard to squeeze to the edge of the canal to "lose your footing"?
"Let's go over there and sit down."
Li Xuan'er raised her hand and pointed, okay, behind the flowers, such a hidden stone bench was actually seen by her. Mu Lan hurried over, put the handkerchief on the stone bench, and let the princess sit.
"You two sit too."
Mu Lan and Mu Xiang hurriedly waved their hands: "The maid is not tired, how can we sit with the princess?" ”
"Then you two just squat, don't get in the way of me watching the scenery."
When the two maidservants saw that the princess was serious, they quickly squatted down, and wondered in their hearts:
Isn't this just the usual scenery in the palace? Princess ...... Today Hey? Someone came, still a man and a woman. Could it be that the princess is here to catch the adulterer?
After a closer look, they both knew each other, it was Zhao Heyi, who I had just met, and the palace maid Luluo in the palace of Concubine Yuan.
In the Celestial Empire, the father-in-law can marry a wife, and the food in the palace is even more semi-public, even if the father-in-law Zhao has just arrived, it is sparse and ordinary to find a palace maid to accompany him.
Looking at the princess again, she had a serious face, she had already squatted down, made a silent movement, pointed at Zhao Gonggong, and stared at them intently.
Mu Xiang's eyes were sharp, and she leaned into the princess's ear and whispered:
"It's weird...... The pothos is not the color of the Chang'an Palace. ”
The princess also noticed.
The palace maid costumes in each hall of the harem have the same style, but the color is different, it looks colorful, and it is easy to distinguish where the palace people are.
The color of each hall is selected for each season, and it is not allowed to be changed at will, in order to facilitate the management of the palace guards.
The Chang'an Hall is peach, which is very conspicuous, but the pothos is now wearing azure...... The princess, Mu Xiang and Mu Lan, the three of them set their eyes on the princess's skirt at the same time:
Princess Wanshou's favorite thing to wear is cyan, and the Ministry of Internal Affairs will not let the palace maids make clothes in the colors that concubines and princesses like.
Li Xuan'er had a fire in her heart!
Zhao Heyi commanded the pothos to squeeze through the flower wall, and made a "squat" gesture.
The pothos was a little reluctant, and was pushed by Zhao Heyi. She had no choice but to squeeze over and crouch down cautiously against the inside of the flower wall.
Not to mention from the perspective of the princess, even if you look at it from the road from the Chang'an Palace, you will never see a person hidden behind the flower wall.
The only place where she can be seen is the stone arch bridge over the canal.
Xuan'er had already determined at this time: In her previous life, her mother would fall into the ditch, but it was to save the palace maid who was wearing a cyan skirt and pretending to be herself.
She really wants to slap herself twice, how slow is this, so that she doesn't even know that the person who loves her the most is killed.
It's really a life for nothing.
Xuan'er was thinking wildly, Zhao Heyi brushed the crowded flower wall, saw that there was no trace of it, and turned around and walked towards the Chang'an Palace.
"Let's go around the bridge in the Immortal Palace."
As soon as the princess said this, Mu Lan and the two understood it, followed the princess, bent on the waist, and left the flowers.
The bridge of the Xianju Hall is not far away, if you stand on the bridge and look at it, the two stone arch bridges, two by two, contrast with each other.
It's just that now there are flowers and trees on both sides, and after spring and summer, it is the time of the year when the branches and leaves are the most luxuriant, layered, densely turned, and separated by the width of the Taiye Canal, and there are no human figures on both sides.
The princess stood in the shadow of the trees on the other side of the bridge, and looked out of the hibiscus flowers, and the pothos in the blue dress was curled up and crouched behind the flower wall.
Li Xuan'er didn't want to stop her, she wanted to see the results later.
I only heard Mu Xiang say nervously:
"Princess, someone from Chang'an Hall has come out."