Chapter 13: The Bedchamber
"Sang Ma, help me remove these things and change my clothes, I'm tired and want to rest." Xi Niang heard the emperor's order, it was not good to stay here any longer, so she retreated, and Aunt Ye also wanted to go to the palace to talk back, leaving Sang Ma to serve me.
"Princess, ah, no, mother, are you sad?" Sang Ma saw that my face was sleepy, and thought that I was uncomfortable.
Let her help me take off my shirt, put down my hair ornaments, put on a white satin coat, and straighten the waist-length green silk. "What's sad, not sad, by the way, is Angelica outside? Ask her to help me go to the imperial dining room to pass some food, I haven't eaten for a day, I'm so hungry. ”
After a while, Bai Zhi brought a lotus seed bird's nest soup and a small plate of milk and snowflake cream from the imperial dining room.
The bird's nest soup is smooth and delicious, and the milk cake melts in your mouth, and the milky aroma and sweetness of coconut pine diffuse on the taste buds. This light snack finally fills my stomach after a hungry day. Sang Ma brought water for me to bathe and wash. When he was about to come out of the bath, Sang Ma took out a red belly pocket and fur pants, and said that a father-in-law sent it as a reward from the queen's mother.
Belly pockets? Empress? Knowing that Huang Fuchen would not sleep with me tonight, he also sent someone to send Baba, it seems that he is also a jealous person.
The emperor is obviously by her side, and he wants to warn me, don't want to fight with her, the meaning of sending this thing means that even if I wear such a delicate belly pocket, it will be for nothing? Can't seduce the emperor to come here?
It's ridiculous, I'm an eight-year-old doll, what's there to fight about. That's it, since she sent it, how can I brush off her good intentions, let Sang Ma put on it for me, and then tiptoe onto the dragon bed, the dragon bed that thousands of girls dream of, is just a bed for rest for me, not as comfortable as I am in my own palace.
I don't know how long I slept, but I felt that my bones were numb from sleep, and when I turned over, I remembered that I was sleeping in the Hall of Virtue, and I immediately woke up and prepared to get up, which is good, as soon as I opened my eyes, I saw the emperor's face close at hand, and I was so scared that I almost screamed loudly.
"The Emperor...... Emperor...... Good morning. ”
"How did you sleep?" He looked at me with interest, and a smile crossed his lips, but my heart was a little creepy.
Secretly wrapped the quilt tightly around his body, "It's good, it's good." "I wonder why the emperor didn't call me when he came to Sangma, how long did he watch me sleep? Then my drooling or something should have been seen by him, thinking of this, I had to laugh awkwardly a few times, "Hehe, hehe." ”
When he saw me retreating, he put the quilt on me again, very gently, "Then why are you frowning, but you are flattening and wrinkling again, what kind of nightmare did you have?" The voice was magnetic and gentle, which made me dazed for a moment, but when I thought of myself being eight years old, it was like a basin of cold water falling from the sky.
He is like this, which makes me even more uneasy, seeing that the candles in the entire hall have been extinguished, and the sky outside should have begun to brighten up, so the emperor should not do anything to me. Thinking about it like this, my heart settled down a little, "I didn't dream, maybe the light was shaking my eyes, so I frowned." ”
He didn't say anything, but told me that if I was sleepy and continued to fall asleep, he would come back to see me in the morning, and told me not to forget to say hello to the queen when I woke up. There is not a trace of domineering and unkindness when I first met him a few days ago.
After seeing him leave, I naturally didn't dare to sleep in the lazy bed, so I quickly asked Sang Ma to change my clothes, wash, dress up a little, and go to the queen's palace.
The emperor has already gone to the early court, and the queen must have gotten up early to wait for me, but she can't go wrong on the first day.
I have no time to enjoy the scenery along the way, and I am still a little restless when I sit on the Luan car.
It may be that the temperature is low in the early morning, and my body is a little cold, Sang Ma took my hand and covered it carefully, my heart is more and more dependent on this little girl, and I gradually no longer guard against her.
In the past few days since I woke up, I haven't seen the queen, nor have I seen other concubines, presumably it was Huangfu Chen's will, otherwise I, a princess of Liangzhou, is about to marry their husband, and I have to come and see it more or less.
Shuyi Hall solemn atmosphere, symbolizing the queen's virtuous and virtuous virtue, the red palace wall surrounds the most noble woman in the harem, the golden plaque shines in the morning sun, the palace is full of acacia trees, tall and straight, a large red peony is cultivated under the tree, the peony is the king of flowers, the queen is the lord of the harem, so that in addition to the queen's palace, no one else dares to plant this peony flower.
On the top of the main hall, the queen was sitting in a precarious position, dressed in an orange palace dress, with exquisite makeup, a smile on her face, combing a graceful and luxurious hairpin, and a golden step swaying on her temples.
When she saw me coming to say goodbye, she hurriedly said, "Flat, my sister is polite." "If it weren't for last night's belly pocket incident, I would really be a virtuous queen, and I would be kind to the new concubines.
The queen ordered a seat, and although I was short, I sat on the high chair with no difficulty, and when I saw her face with surprise, I had to smile in return. I'm just a child in body, not in mind.
As soon as I sat down, she began to discipline, which was nothing more than to harmonize the harem, open branches and leaves for the royal family, and add children and grandchildren, which made people drowsy. Later, I was introduced to the palace sisters, Concubine Xia, Concubine Xiang, Concubine Jing, Concubine Xian and Han Meiren, and I learned that Huangfu Chen's wife was only seven when I counted me, and I thought it was really as the book said that there were 3,000 beauties in the harem.
A child's voice rang out from outside the temple door beside him, "Mother, mother." "Seeing the person who came clearly, my heart also jumped, it turned out that Concubine Qi Hao was actually the queen's mother, so it's no wonder that this child is arrogant all day long.
"Hao'er, did you come to say hello to the queen mother so early?" After all, she is a mother, and when she saw her child, the queen showed a sincere smile.
"Yes, the son asks the queen mother to say goodbye. Blessed is the queen mother. Qi Hao knelt on the ground and saluted, and without waiting for the queen to speak, he stood up again. He walked to the seat closest to the queen and sat down.
The prince is a royal dragon descendant, the most respected in the world, the blood of the emperor and queen, and even more noble, so the prince is only second to the emperor and queen in status, so naturally there is no need to salute us concubines.
Qi Hao looked at me with a lot of emotions in his eyes, and I didn't know what his purpose was when he came here now.
Then the palace maids served morning tea, it was a horse made of milk, I don't like this, I always feel that the smell of milk is heavy. Holding the cup, I felt that it was difficult to swallow, but the queen rewarded it, and I had to drink it, and when I made a choice, I heard Qi Hao open his mouth and say, "Concubine An, let's change, can I exchange my pomelo tea for yours?" With that, he sent for his teacup.
Seeing this, the queen was a little displeased, "If Hao'er likes to drink, the queen mother can send someone to bring you a cup, how can you change it with Concubine An." But how can the queen remember that you don't like this? ”
"Seeing the sweetness you drink, I want to taste it, and Concubine Duan's cup is not drunk, it is too hot just now, the temperature of the cup should be just right, the queen mother, the change has been changed, or just that." With that, he drank all the milk tea.
It turned out that he didn't like this as much as I did, and he bothered to help me out of trouble, remembering that he had caused me to complain because of his absurd behavior a few days ago, and avoided him afterwards, but he felt that he was cautious.
I drank morning tea, listened to the queen's chatter, and listened to the other concubines chatting, either this rouge is easy to use, or that reward, or silk, clothing, anyway, they are all women's long and short west, I can't talk to them, so I retreated, ready to go back to the palace to make up for sleep.
Qi Hao saw that I was leaving, and asked the queen to go back and read and withdraw with me. When he left the palace gate, he didn't speak to me, so he hurriedly turned around and left, and let me choke in my throat with a word of thanks.