Chapter 36 Treading the snow and looking for plums

His Royal Highness the Prince's smile, with warmth, made people look at it, and they couldn't help but raise the corners of their mouths slightly.

"Your Highness eats it too." I took a piece of pastry and handed it to him.

He took it very naturally, and took a bite without hesitation.

At this time, Grandpa Sun also came with a few little eunuchs, and those little eunuchs carried a large bath bucket inlaid with gold trim and entered the dormitory.

I glanced into the bucket and saw that the water was steaming hot, so I took out the herbs and sprinkled them all into the hot water.

After the hot water soaked out of the "medicinal color", I motioned for the prince to soak in the water.

"Does Miss Ji want to serve His Highness personally, or?" Grandpa Sun looked at me.

I immediately shook my head: "Serve you." ”

After saying that, he hurriedly bowed down to His Royal Highness the Prince, and hurried out of the dormitory.

Now, the palace people in the entire Anqian Palace should have mistaken me for the woman of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

When I returned to my house, the palace maid had prepared breakfast for me, a bowl of porridge, and ten refreshing side dishes, which was also extremely luxurious.

I had breakfast, and I was going to see His Highness's situation, but I saw Aunt Xin holding something and walking into my room.

"Aunt Xin, what is this?" I looked into her hand.

Aunt Xin immediately put the things in her hand on the table in front of me.

Then he replied: "Miss Ji, this is a hand stove, Your Highness heard that it will snow in a few days, so I specially asked the slave maid to prepare it and send it to the girl." ”

"Hand stove?" I looked over to the table, a small stove made of brass and beautifully carved the size of a palm, which must have been filled with charcoal fire or something, and wrapped in a brocade cover, which I felt extremely warm in my hand.

"His Royal Highness's thoughts about the girl are really very detailed." Aunt Xin looked at the hand stove and said with a smile.

I held the stove, but I felt more and more uneasy in my heart, the better he was to me, the more I felt inexplicably indebted to him.

It seems that it is better to leave the palace quickly.

"Aunt Xin, today, Yongxin Palace, didn't you send someone to invite me?" I asked Aunt Xin.

Aunt Xin shook her head, saying that it was last night's banquet, and it was set up in Huaguang Hall for two or three hours, presumably that Concubine Yong was tired, so she didn't let anyone come to invite me today.

"Oh, how many show girls did the emperor choose this time?" I'm curious.

"Forty-two, it seems." Aunt Xin thought for a while and said.

"What?" I looked at Aunt Xin in amazement: "There are forty-two selected?" ”

I was surprised by this number.

"Well, that's right, the emperor's harem is naturally full of beauty, and there are always many concubines." Aunt Xin said it very calmly, as if she thought it was extremely normal.

"Then how many concubines are there in the harem?" I asked again.

Aunt Xin thought about it for a while and said to me: "Excluding those palace maids who were pampered, and those who entered the cold palace, there are no names, a total of seventy-nine, plus a total of one hundred and twenty-one selected this time. ”

I opened my mouth, I didn't dare to imagine that there were so many concubines, no wonder Concubine Yong said that Jun Niang was like flowing water.

However, didn't Elder Gao say before that the current emperor was originally a virtuous person? How can you be so good a woman?

"In short, there are many masters in the palace, so His Royal Highness the Crown Prince will let the slaves and maids go out with Miss Ji, so if they meet, they can also mention some girls." She also told me about the reason why His Royal Highness the Crown Prince asked her to follow me.

I nodded again and again, so many masters, you really should be careful.

After chatting with Aunt Xin for a while, Grandpa Sun came over to invite me, saying that His Royal Highness had washed up and asked me to come over.

I held the stove in my hand and walked towards the prince's dormitory, only to see that His Royal Highness the prince had already put on a light blue robe, the sleeves of the robe were embroidered with delicate bamboo leaf patterns, the waist was tied with a jade belt, and the long black hair like ink was tied up, making the edges and corners of his face more distinct.

"You've been here for a few days, and I haven't taken you to the courtyard behind the palace, so I'll take you to the garden today." He flicked his sleeves and stood up and walked towards me.

I saw that he looked good, and it was good to go out and walk around while the sun was not strong, so I agreed.

Originally, I thought that the courtyard behind this was just a courtyard, but when I bypassed this corridor and entered the arch entrance of the backyard, I was dumbfounded, because this courtyard is very large, very deep, green bricks and green grass, pavilions and water pavilions, and behind the pavilions and water pavilions is a large area of woods, and I can't see the end at a glance.

"Your Highness, what kind of trees are those?" I looked at the large field of trees in the distance and asked him curiously.

"It's a red plum, and in a few days, when it snows, it will bloom, right?" He looked at the large piece of Merlin, the corners of his mouth slightly raised, revealing a warm smile.

"Red Plum?" I couldn't help but laugh when I heard it.

Because, when I was a child, I used to make jokes, one year when it was snowing, I was noisy and asked Master to buy me sugar gourds to eat, and at that time Master took us around and around, and we couldn't buy it without any money.

So, Master lied to me and told me that the "red plum" that bloomed in the suburbs was a hawthorn tree, and that it would produce fruit soon after flowering, and that he would make me a sugar gourd to eat when the time came.

I believed it and asked my sister to take me to the suburbs every day.

When the master saw this, he couldn't bear it, so he worked as a short-term worker, carried rice for the rice shop, did rough work, and had money in hand except for three meals, so he immediately bought me a sugar gourd.

"Xiyan, do you like red plums too?" His Royal Highness the Prince, seeing that I was looking at the red plum for a long time, pulled me towards the plum forest.

"I like it, Hongmei is not afraid of the cold and is proudly independent." After I finished speaking, I looked at His Royal Highness the Crown Prince: "Your Highness, do you like these flowers and trees?" I remember, in the courtyard outside your palace, there are many hawthorn trees? ”

"Well, in my dream, there is a girl who likes it." He slowed his steps, and motioned for his grandfather to wait for us at the entrance of the courtyard.

Grandpa Sun and the others could only stop and stand in the distance and wait.

And when I heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince say, "In my dream, there is a girl who likes it", and my heart immediately trembled.

In my mind, the scene in the dream of His Royal Highness the Crown Prince also came to mind, the girl in red, there should also be a "Yan" in her name, otherwise, His Royal Highness would not have called her "Yan'er".

People are similar, but can the things they like to eat be the same?

"Your Highness, take a break." I heard His Royal Highness the Crown Prince gasping slightly, and hurriedly spoke to persuade him.

But he didn't stop, and dragged me through two teas, and then he came to Merlin.

This yard was originally called "treading the snow to find plums", I heard that my mother loved plum blossoms during her lifetime, she and her father met when they enjoyed the plum blossoms, at that time, my father was only the king of Cao, at that time, there were not so many women around him. His Royal Highness the Crown Prince looked at this piece of Merlin and said faintly.