However, these rich and prosperous have long been strange to Aunt Su Mala, since she followed the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang into this purple gold imperial city, she has experienced countless scenes of draft girls, and the noise and loneliness of the palace have been seen more, and her heart has become more and more indifferent and peaceful.

From a distance, I saw the long colored sedan chair lined up outside the Shunzhen Gate. Su Malagu approached, glanced at the lengthy sedan array, frowned slightly, and happened to have a small eunuch next to her, Su Malagu hurriedly opened her mouth to call.

"Say hello to Aunt Su Ma." The little eunuch hurriedly ran over and kowtowed to Aunt Su Mala.

"Excuse me, what about the father-in-law who is in charge of registering the ranking list here? Do you recognize which? Su Malagu asked.

"Go back to Aunt Su Ma, the slave recognizes it, aunt is here, please." As he spoke, the little eunuch walked respectfully in front of Su Malagu and introduced Su Malagu into an ear room in the side hall of the Tiyuan Palace.

The person in charge of justice looked down at the name post, and when he raised his eyes, he saw that it was Aunt Su Mala who was there in person, and hurriedly got down from his seat to greet Aunt Su Mala.

"Auntie came here today, but what are the instructions from the ancestor?" The father-in-law of the steward asked with a cautious smile.

Su Malagu said: "The old ancestor didn't have any instructions, he just asked me to find someone and show me your roster." "

The housekeeper's father-in-law hurriedly held the roster of all the show girls in both hands and presented it in front of Aunt Su Mala.

Su Malagu took the gap in the roster, and the father-in-law poured tea for Su Malagu and put it on the small table.

The show girl who has been passed in began with a cinnabar pen to draw a circle, followed by the name of the show girl who has not yet been summoned, Su Malagu flipped through the pages carefully, and finally stopped on the third page, pointed to a name, and said to the father-in-law: "The father-in-law of labor has personally gone on a trip, and this show girl has come here to see me." "

The housekeeper's father-in-law, Nuo Nuo, went out in a loud voice, and Su Malagu sat on the bamboo bench and continued to look through the roster of the beautiful girls. After a while, the father-in-law turned back and brought a woman in, Su Malagu stood up and looked the woman up and down, then turned back to ask the father-in-law, "Is it her?" Make no mistake about it. "

The father-in-law promised repeatedly: "It will never be wrong, who doesn't know that your words are the golden words of the ancestors, how dare the slave go on a business trip, and the slave still wants to keep his head." "

Aunt Su Mala smiled indifferently when she heard this, took out a silver ingot from her purse and handed it to her father-in-law and said: "There is Father-in-law Lao, this is the message of the Queen Mother, and it will be passed on in a while, you can just hand this up, and I will take it away at this moment." "

The steward's father-in-law even claimed that it was, and only took the Empress Dowager's dictation from Su Malagu's hand, and carefully put it away. repeatedly pushed and said that he didn't want the silver taels, but Su Malagu didn't push him, and put the silver on the table and ignored it.

turned to look at Huai Sleeve with a smile and asked, "You are the youngest daughter of General Ge Jitai of Northern Xinjiang?" "

Huai Sleeve had already asked from the father-in-law's mouth, and the person who passed her was the personal maid beside the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang, who was equivalent to Aunt Su Mala, who was half of the emperor's nurse.

Huai Sleeve saw the question, Ying Ying bowed down: "The daughter of Zhenguo General Ge Jitai, Huai Sleeve has seen Aunt Su Ma. "

Aunt Su Mala hurriedly picked up her sleeves and said, "What a child of Hui Ruolanxin." Let's go, the ancestors are still waiting. After speaking, he walked out of the cross-courtyard side gate of the Tiyuan Hall with his sleeves, and along the Yongxiang behind, he crossed the Longzong Gate and entered the main hall of Cining Palace.

Huai Sleeve followed closely behind Su Malagu, passed through the verandah foyer, and had long been unable to distinguish the way he came, and walked a straight bluestone brick road.

Along the way, all the palace maids and eunuchs who met came, all rushed over to salute Aunt Su Mala, she heard her grandmother say when she was a child, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang had this aunt by her side, and when she saw her for the first time today, she felt that her bearing was different from that of ordinary palace people, elegant and delicate, calm and introverted.

Although Su Malagu has such a noble status among the palace people, she is very plain in her dress, only wearing a light gray silk brocade palace dress, a simple second head, a silver hosta in the middle, and black and white eyelashes, which are particularly bright and clear.

Huai Sleeve liked Aunt Su Mala for the first time, and her loving eyebrows and eyes always smiled, which made people unconsciously want to get close.

After the bluestone road, further east, the palace maids and eunuchs gradually decreased, and the pine and cypress poked out of the branches from the high wall, reflecting the courtyard in a particularly quiet and tranquil place. Walking outside a palace gate, Su Malagu turned around and smiled at Huai Sleeve and said, "We're here." "

Huai sleeve raised his head, facing the plaque above the lintel and looked carefully, on the vertical plaque at the head of the door, written in Manchu and Chinese languages, the big characters of Doujin: Cining Palace.

Huai cuffs silently read again, and looked around at the vermilion, riveting golden copper nail gate, before entering the courtyard, first smelled the smell of sandalwood coming from inside.

Su Malagu entered the Cining Palace with her sleeves, bypassed the main hall to the apse, and the apse was divided into the east and west with the hall, and the east and west with the hall each had three small hugging houses, and finally each was divided into the east and west warm pavilions.

Aunt Su Mala first placed her sleeves in a wing room in the west and called a little palace maid to serve tea.

"You rest here first, and I'll go and have a look." With that, he lifted the soft curtain and walked out.

The little palace maid quickly brought tea and put it on the kang table, and after blessing the body, she withdrew, leaving only her sleeves alone in the house.

He sat on a wooden chair beside the coffee table with his sleeves bowed, looking out the window.

When I came in just now, I walked all the way with flowers and greenery.

Let Huai Sleeve actually have the illusion, thinking that in the Jiangnan garden, the dark fragrance floats, the grass drips green, which makes people immediately feel clean and relaxed, and the smell of sandalwood is mixed with the smell of sandalwood, which makes Huai Sleeve think of the second sister's Buddha Hall at once, and there is a sense of intimacy in my heart.

Aunt Su Mala went for a while before coming back, and said: "The Queen Mother is going to eat, it has been passed down, I have returned to the Queen Mother, you can rest here at noon." "

After Aunt Su Mala finished speaking, she was about to turn around and leave, but after a little hesitation, she turned her head again, and said to her sleeve with a smile: "If you feel unaccustomed to being alone at this time, follow me to the back hall first." "

Huai Sleeve was happy to hear this, she was unfamiliar with the people in the palace when she first came to the palace, and naturally she didn't like to be alone, so she followed Su Mala Aunt to the back hall, and rested for a while in Su Mala's quiet room after lunch.

Aunt Su Mala went to take care of other things, and did not come back until half a day later, and said when she entered the door: "The Queen Mother just woke up from a nap at noon, and she is drinking tea at the moment, you can go with me to see the Queen Mother." With that, he went out of the second gate with his sleeves and went to the East Warm Pavilion of the apse.

Huai Sleeve cautiously followed behind Su Malagu, although he was curious about the surrounding scenery, he didn't dare to look around, his eyes only fell on the green bricks in front of him, and he started and landed calmly and cautiously.

Su Malagu walked in front of her sleeves, and could only hear the sound of the swaying skirt behind her, but she couldn't hear the crisp sound of the bottom of the flower pot, so she knew that this must have been a strict study of palace rules and etiquette before entering the palace, and couldn't help but turn around and smile approvingly at her sleeves.