Zhao Xixing wasn't sure whether to put his feet down first, or to say who was presumptuous first, but the woman quickly lowered her head and bowed down in a proper manner.

"Jieyu Yang has seen His Royal Highness the Crown Prince."

Zhao Xixing felt even more embarrassed. Concubines? How could his Lao Tzu's woman appear in the East Palace? Still alone in the storage cabinet, cold like a sparrow popping up?

Zhao Xixing's mind was flying, and noisy footsteps and voices came from outside the verandah door, heading towards the woman: "Yang Jieyu, the second batch of gifts has arrived, please take a look." ”

"According to the excerpt presented by the Lu family, the second batch is a total of eighty-eight pieces, eh, put it there first! A few of you, go and help Jieyu take inventory! Immediately, it was the voice of the attendant, coming from inside the East Palace.

Seeing that there were more and more people, Zhao Xixing looked at his swollen feet, and a spirit: "Retreat to this hall!! ”

The people on both sides heard that it was the voice of the East Palace, although they were surprised how the dignified saint could appear here, but after all, no one dared to ask more, and before they even stepped in, they were scattered, and the woman also had to retreat, and was stopped by Zhao Xixing.

"Jieyu stays." Zhao Xixing took advantage of this vacancy, and quickly put on his shoes, standing far away from the woman, like a beast avoiding a flood.

After all, she is the emperor's concubine, even if her position is not high, he can't retire her like a palace person, and if he seals his mouth or something, he has to tear off the skin of the saint.

"The concubine didn't see anything, Your Highness doesn't have to worry." The woman took the initiative to say, lowered her head, and chuckled to herself, "Why is it that every time I meet His Highness, it is an unusual scene......

Zhao Xixing's eyebrows furrowed, and he suddenly remembered the Jieyu who bumped into him climbing a tree: "...... Jieyu who came out the back door? ”

Yang Yan's eyes dimmed slightly, but he still nodded, and Zhao Xixing's face was cold: "How could the concubine appear in the East Palace?" ”

"The lord of the Liu family in Tanzhou entered Beijing, hired the Lu family of Anyi, and also brought gifts to the saint, the queen, and His Royal Highness from the south of the Yangtze River, all of which are first-class good things in the south. These batches were all dedicated to the East Palace by Lord Liu. It's just that the queen was afraid that the servants of the Liu family had never entered the palace and were clumsy, so she ordered the concubines to come to the East Palace to help count, hand over, and keep an eye. Yang Yan explained.

Zhao Xixing sneered: "Heh, there is such a shortage of minions in the palace? ”

Yang Yan bit his lower lip, and his tone was bitter: "The queen's order, how dare you disobey." ”

Zhao Xixing thought of the last time the Lu family came to visit Liu Hui, and the Yang family was ordered to go out of the back door, suddenly. From some shady rumors, Queen Liu Hui is really obvious in public and private.

Liu Ren entered Beijing and hired Lu's family, Liu Hui specially let Yang Yan know, came to handle the gift, and specially let her meet Liu Ren again, Xiao Lang was strange, and specially let her take a look at a pair of beautiful people, and congratulate the palace.

The concubine was called a palace maid, and the identity of stepping on it was light, and the temptation and warning in some aspects were the swords piercing the tip of the heart.

Zhao Xixing sighed, the matter of the harem, all dynasties and dynasties have not been innocent, but Liu Hui's approach is not unreasonable, long pain is better than short pain, and it will not hurt if it is broken.

"You are already my father's imperial concubine, and serving the Son of Heaven wholeheartedly is the right path in the future." Zhao Xixing thought of the secret agent's report, and those rumors that were beautiful just by listening to them, and persuaded him more.

Yang Yan smiled self-deprecatingly, serving the Son of Heaven? Since she entered the palace last year, she has never seen Zhao Yin since she first accepted the grace and promotion, and even the face of the Son of Heaven is blurred.

Zhao Xixing was inconvenient to say more, turned around and left, and Yu Guang saw the gift that had just been dropped by the palace people, more than a dozen official suitcases, and said coldly: "Since Liu Ren is going to marry the Lu family, he should think about how to cultivate his family in the future and benefit the people, instead of spending his mind on gifts!" Carry them all back! Let Liu Ren be used as a resource for Jiangnan Water Conservancy! ”

Yang Yan hurriedly wanted to order the palace people to carry it, but he heard the man say: "Wait, what's that red one?" ”

Yang Yan followed Zhao Xixing's gaze, and there was an official suitcase that had been opened and was ready to be counted, and inside was a palm-sized carved Xiaoxi, dozens of different shades of red, and a bunch of them looked good.

"Rouge, it should be a good thing from the south of the Yangtze River brought by Lord Liu, dedicated to the relatives of the East Palace." Yang Yan explained, but Zhao Xixing's next moment was so shocked that she didn't dare to move for a while.

Because the man in the robe actually bent down, his slender fingertips opened one by one, looked, smelled, picked, and carefully selected.

This is a saint, except for the only good family, he can't even remember the face of the palace maid next to him, and he also made a joke that he thought the woman's eyebrows were painted with soot, but now he is picking rouge with interest?

"Eh, come here, help the main hall pick, which one is better?" Zhao Xixing turned his head and greeted Yang Yan, with some worry between his eyebrows, and his hands were full of rouge.

Yang Yan gasped and confirmed again: "Your Highness, you are...... Do you want to give it to a good family? ”

Zhao Xixing touched his nose and turned cold again: "Why do you talk so much?" You are from Jiangnan, and you know the goods naturally! The main hall looks at all these reds! ”

Yang Yan held back his amusement, helped according to his words, and chose a prize after a while: "Your Royal Highness wants this, Yangzhou fat powder, the most prestigious, this kind of Wanjin red should be the latest model of Dai Chunlin's incense powder shop, and it is fashionable in the boudoir of the Western Zhou Dynasty." (Note 1)

Zhao Xixing looked left and right, and really didn't feel any different from others, but about women, he chose to believe in women, so he took it and put it in his purse, and ordered someone to return the rest of the gift.

Yang Yan looked at the blue-faced and fanged saint who was rumored outside, so patient and solemn to pick the rouge, and was relieved after choosing, as if he had thought of the beautiful face, and his eyes were full of smiles in advance.

Lang Yan is unique, the East Palace, this moment, it is especially good to see the thrilling.

Yang Yan's gaze was reluctant to look away for a moment, she had such a smile before.

……

"Rou'er, look, the latest rouge of Dai Chunlin's incense powder shop, I see that other girls are sought after, so I will bring it to you, but I don't know if you like this color."

The young man carefully took out the rouge from his arms, and the carved flower of ten gold became the most luxurious and rich decoration in his white wardrobe.

She looked at the red color of the pork liver and was dumbfounded, but after that, no matter how other girls laughed, she was also happy every day.

Later, the rouge of Dai Chunlin's incense powder shop was sent into the imperial palace by him in boxes, and the young man in white was in the clouds, covered with golden wisps.

……

Yang Yan looked at the overlapping palace walls, so high and so far away, lining her as small as an ant, and also lining her like a canon.

Sure enough, from the day she stepped into the imperial palace, she was alive and dead.

In mid-March, Shen Gui came out of the spirit. The Shen Mansion has set up a mourning hall, with white flags like tents, but the corners and alleys are terrifyingly deserted.

No one dares to come to mourn, the big crime of treason, if it is stained, it is a wrongful life, not to mention that now the limelight is tight, the border war has been defeated, and the people are still scolding the Shen family, who can distinguish between black and white loyalty and traitor.

On the evening of this day, it is the last day of the spirit, and tomorrow morning, Shen Gui's coffin will be moved out of the Shen Mansion and buried.

Even in early spring, the evening breeze blew cold, and the crying was deliberately suppressed, together with the white flags blown by the wind, whimpering and trembling, people could not breathe.

Cheng Yingyu wore a hat and put down the veil, she couldn't recognize her if she didn't identify her carefully, she was standing at the door of the mourning hall at the moment, and there was Shen Yu next to her, all anxiously looking at the mouth of the alley.

exegesis

1. Dai Chunlin incense powder shop: Dai Chunlin incense powder shop was opened in the Ming Chongzhen period, 1628-1644 AD. "Yangzhou Painting Boat Record" records: "The spices in the world are as good as Yangzhou, and Dai Chunlin is the best." (Source: Sogou Encyclopedia)