Chapter XII
The carriage stops and goes. After entering the inner palace, he got out of the car and changed into a sedan chair. Tuhe came over and saluted, and then walked west with the accompanying guards. Songhe explained: "Tuhe, as a general, is generally not allowed to enter the inner palace. ”
Three sedan chairs carried them inside, with the queen in front, and Alain and Songhe walking side by side in the back. From a distance, the palace nestled in the trees reveals glazed tile roofs. If Alain thinks his princess's mansion is beautiful. Then the royal palace can only be described in terms of grandeur. What should the emperor who lives here look like?
The maids and eunuchs he met on the way would retreat to the side of the road and kneel down to salute, which made Alan particularly uncomfortable. After walking half a stick of incense, a hunched eunuch came and kowtowed to the queen, and the palace maid beside the queen went over and talked to him for a few words, and then the sedan chair changed direction.
Then Alan saw a palace maid come over and salute and explained: "Princess, county lord, the emperor has sent someone to say that the state affairs have been discussed, and now go to the queen mother's bedroom, let the queen's mother, princess, and county lord go directly to Fushou Palace." ”
Songhe nodded, and Alain nodded when he saw this.
When I came to a wide cobblestone intersection, I saw that a eunuch was already waiting here. Alan learned from the queen mother and Songhe to get off the sedan chair, and the waiting eunuch carried the sedan chair down.
"This is not far from the Queen Mother's Fushou Palace, according to the rules, you have to walk there, and even the emperor can't sit in a sedan chair." Songhe whispered. Alan looked at the big palace not far away, and the further he went, the more he felt that his eyes were swelling.
When you come to Fushou Palace, the first thing that catches people's eyes is two big red doors, there is a sign hanging on the top of the door, surrounded by gold edges, engraved with two eye-catching gold characters "Fushou", the red door is wide open, and the palace maids who watch the door
When he saw that someone was coming, he saluted and sent two little eunuchs in to report it. Alain followed the queen inside, and the white and smooth hall reflected the crystal pearl as clear as tears, and when you looked closely, the jewel was actually the decoration on the top of the lamps and incense burners on the left and right.
As soon as the eunuch entered, a few delicately dressed women came out, saluted the visitor, looked at Alan and said with a smile: "Presumably this is the princess, the queen mother has been looking forward to it since the morning, and now she is finally looking forward to the princess!" ”
Alain smiled embarrassedly, and felt that someone was pushing him to go to the hall, which made Alain a little dizzy.
As soon as he entered the house, Alain smelled a burst of fragrance, and before he could react, he heard a coquettish call: "But the princess is here?" Alain looked at the owner of the voice and saw that it was a woman, in her twenties. Dressed in a pink rose-scented tight-fitting robe with sleeves, a green smoke gauze loose flower skirt underneath, a big bow tied with gold silk soft tobacco around the waist, and a jasper hairpin with low sideburns, showing a slender figure. Songhe said in her ear: "This is the noble concubine Niangniang." ”
The concubine felt out of shape and said with a smile: "The concubine has been looking forward to the princess for a long time, so she forgot the etiquette." The concubine asked the queen mother to say goodbye, and the queen mother had a rugged mountain road and worked hard to run around. ”
"Greetings to the emperor and the queen mother." As if she hadn't heard, the queen bowed to the hall. Songhe took Alain to bow as well. I only heard a slightly old voice in the hall say lovingly: "This is the good granddaughter of the mourning family!" Fast! Jinxiu, quickly help her to the mourning house to take a look! ”
"Okay, okay, the Queen Mother, I'll go." The woman known as Jinxiu was full of smiles, twisted her waist and walked over. Alan saw that this was one of the maids who had just come out to greet him, and couldn't help but sigh that it was not a loss to the palace, and even the maids were so good-looking.
The Queen Mother took Alain's hand and motioned for her to come over and sit down, reached out and gently touched Alain's cheek, full of pity: "Good boy, grow up." The mourning family is your grandmother! ”