Chapter 15: Punished
It's been almost seven or eight days since I went to the Temple of the Gods, and the whole person has been depressed, too lazy to do anything, too lazy to say anything, and hung a sign on the palace gate outside the palace, and turned away all the people who came to see me, and only when Huangfu Chen came, he barely put on a smiling face. He doesn't come often, and he has come two or three times Since Chu Mo said those words, he always felt that he smiled at me and was good to me, but he was cold with a hint of murder, and it was all fake.
I slept until noon, and I asked Sang Ma to find a set of pale green palace clothes for me, combed the ingots hairpin, and did not wear a lot of hair accessories, so I pasted a green palace flower, and swept a little rouge on my face at will, and the whole person looked more energetic. Coincidentally, as soon as I mentioned my spirit, I heard Sang Ma say that Ziqing was here, and this was the first time I heard him come to Yilan Hall after my wedding.
"Concubine An's mother is blessed." called the palace maid to pass him in, and as soon as he came in, he saluted me in a proper manner, which made people a little uncomfortable.
"Excuse me, Ziqing, don't call me Concubine An, or call me Jiu'er, I don't want to look so raw." Hearing me say this, his dull eyes suddenly had a hint of luster, and a smile gradually appeared on his expressionless face, and he grinned and gave me a sweet smile and said yes loudly.
"Why haven't you lost so much weight in a few days?" He looked at me with a look of tenderness and concern, just like the look I had seen when I first woke up.
"I don't have much appetite, so I'm naturally a little emaciated. But you, why didn't you come to see me? And I have been separated a lot. ”
"What nonsense is Jiu'er talking again, it's not good to eat, I've had a lot of homework in the past few days, and my father doesn't know what's wrong, he locked me and my brother in the imperial study all day long, and I have to test us every morning and dusk, I came to see you when I was free." Seeing that I was a little complaining, he quickly explained, "That day, there was a slave who didn't know what he said in the ear of the imperial brother, he actually secretly ran out for half an hour, and was later found to have copied the Analects a hundred times, and his hands were almost calloused. He was also grounded for half a month. ”
What the? Has Qi Hao been fined? Grounded?
I was a little puzzled and whispered to him, "What day did you run out?" ”
Ziqing pondered for a while, "Well, it's the day after your wedding ceremony, I wanted to see you, but I haven't been free." It was him, who sneaked away without saying a word. Did you see Brother Huang that day? ”
It turned out to be that day, and I said, "See, he's gone to greet the queen." ”
"That's the punishment, he has already asked for peace before the morning class, no wonder his father said he was lazy." Ziqing laughed, he smiled so beautifully, it was very heartwarming.
The day after the wedding, wasn't it the day I went to see the queen, he hurried to me because he was afraid that his queen mother would embarrass me, so he relieved me of the siege, and hurried back, but he didn't have time to talk to me. was punished by the emperor and did not open his mouth to explain. Qi Hao, when did this kid become so careful.
"Oh, laziness is indeed punishable. No wonder I haven't seen him come to see me these days. Some of them echoed with a weak heart, and there was a trace of guilt for Qi Hao in their hearts.
"Don't think about it, have you eaten? What are you going to do today. He handed me a cup of jasmine tea, which he had brewed on the tea table as he had just spoken, with the fragrance of jasmine and the mellow smell of tea surrounding the tip of my nose.
I took the teacup and took a few sips, "Don't be hungry, come with me for a walk, I'm getting moldy all day here." He said yes, but only after lunch.
I watched his side face shrouded in boiling smoke, a little hazy, and then said, "This tea table is rewarded by the emperor, if you like to give it to you." ”
He looked up at me, put down the tea set in his hand, shook his head, lowered his head and began to fiddle with the tea leaves. Seeing that he refused, I didn't want to say anything, so I carefully sipped the teacup, and the two of them were relatively speechless.
There was only the sound of two people breathing in the hall, and the silence was finally broken by a voice, and I was proud of the voice, "Master, can you pass the meal now?" "And when it was quiet, neither of us spoke just now, and I thought I had done something wrong again.
After lunch, Ziqing took me out of the Yilan Palace, saying that he would take me to visit the imperial garden, because Sang Ma was busy telling the palace maids in the lower hall my preferences, so he took Bai Zhi out with me, Ziqing also brought two minions behind him, now I am a concubine, he is a prince, although the age is the same but the identity is different, so we have to avoid suspicion.
It's already early autumn, and the royal garden has stopped competing for flowers, and the whole garden is shrouded in a sea of golden chrysanthemums, which are yellow and yellow, and the unique fragrance of chrysanthemums in the air has dissipated.
He tugged me by the sleeve and walked around the path, saying he wanted to take me to a good place. But he didn't let me stay in the Imperial Garden, just crossed the whole garden, a little puzzled, but he didn't ask, he didn't say that naturally he had a reason.
At last we stopped at the gate of a splendid palace, and just now we thought that we would continue to grow old like this, and he said to me, "This is my mother's bedchamber." ”
The palace is not worse than the queen's Shuyi Palace, the vermilion palace wall is golden glazed tiles, the palace gate sits on the marble delicately carved stone lions, the gilded doorknob on the palace door, and the three big characters of the Grace Hall on the plaque are sprinkled with gold powder, and they are shining.
Unlike most of the plaques in the harem, if you look closely, you will see four big characters in the lower right corner, "Huangfu Chenzi". Such a gorgeous and extravagant palace, the emperor's personal book palace plaque, compared with the queen's palace, is as good as the queen's palace.
What kind of woman should be to be so favored by the emperor? Greetings, have I seen it?
"Your mother's palace is so beautiful, and she is also beautiful."
Hearing me ask, his body trembled, his steps staggered a little, and his voice was slightly choked and said, "I haven't seen it, she was infected not long after I was born, and I heard the nurse say that it was a difficult birth, and I killed her, no wonder my father has always disliked me." ”
Yes, he said, he said that he had lost his mother and didn't want to lose me again, but I actually forgot, I was so stupid to mention his sad things, it's really not as good as a child.
"Yes... I'm sorry, I didn't mean to, Ziqing. I took his hand, which was skinny, dry and cold to the touch, and made people feel sad for no reason.
I only felt that the hand holding him was held in turn, and I heard his calm voice, "I'm fine, Jiu'er, there is a large lotus pond at the back of the queen mother's palace, I'll take you there." I nodded and walked in with him.