Chapter 56: Cocoon Transformation
Zhao Qingyu gently lifted the corner of the veil of his hat and looked at me with a smile.
I smiled at her sincerely, she was a little surprised, but quickly returned to normal, and bowed to me slightly: "Princess makeup, it's been good lately."
I politely replied, "Everything is as before, thank you for your concern."
After a few greetings, they departed.
The cold autumn is cold, and the flowers are withering, but it is a good season to enjoy chrysanthemums.
As soon as I entered the side hall, I saw that the palace people were methodically carrying the chrysanthemums to be appreciated tonight.
When Xiao Huangmen led me and Duo into Qingle Palace, we met Yu Gui and Sheng Yunjiang on the corridor.
The two of them, one on the left and one on the right, did not stand together, and were far away. Yu Gui looked preoccupied and frowned.
She walked with her head down and didn't see me. I held back, made a gesture to stop Sheng Yunjiang's greetings and the messenger of the inner servant, hid behind the moving flower Gong'e, walked towards Yu Gui lightly, and jumped in front of her.
"Return!!"
I roared, she was startled, leaned back, and was about to fall, I subconsciously reached out to pull her, but I didn't hold on, and fell with her on the smooth white marble floor. All of a sudden, my head was buzzing.
Seeing this, Sheng Yunjiang immediately ordered the attendant next to him: "What are you doing in a daze, don't help the princess and the county lord to get up."
Without waiting for a few little yellow doors to come and help, Yu Gui and I got up on our own, patted the dust on our bodies, and were still elated.
Duobu quickly ran over, pulled me to check, and after confirming that I was okay, he straightened my skirt for me with a cold face, and said, "How can you be so reckless." Before entering the palace, he repeatedly emphasized that he should walk steadily and speak softly, and he still couldn't remember it after saying it ten times. ”
I nunu mouth, no argument.
I laughed and said, "It's okay, I'm having fun with Yu Gui." It didn't hurt to fall. ”
Duobu didn't speak, and I stuck out my tongue in embarrassment.
I turned my head and made a grimace, she was rare to be serious once, she didn't make a grimace to salute me, bowed her head and was silent, and she was powerless.
I wondered if she had lost something or somehow, so unlike her.
She is not happy or angry like this, and she looks quiet, I am really a little unaccustomed to it. Just wanted to ask her what she was frustrated about, but she immediately came back to life full of blood and started giggling. Yanran smiled at the flowers, and jumped over to hold my hand with light steps, with a spring breeze on her face: "Let's go to enjoy the flowers, the new chrysanthemums in the Imperial Garden were only transported in from Qionglin Garden today, there are many flowers, the varieties are precious, and I heard that the bloom is particularly beautiful."
"What's so beautiful about chrysanthemums, there are only two colors of yellow and white, which is not unusual."
"That's because you don't know it."
Sheng Yunjiang moved and paced, I wanted to say hello to her, but I couldn't help but say, instead of leading me forward, I had to hurriedly bow my head and signal to her.
The Imperial Garden has long been covered with all kinds of chrysanthemums, what rouge and snow, cinnabar red frost, jade feathers, and shy women's flowers, I can't even name them. I only feel that the purple and red are confusing, and the eyes are confused, only the golden chrysanthemum in the southeast flower bed is still familiar.
I used to think that there were only two kinds of chrysanthemums, yellow and white, but now I realize that I am so lonely. There are many varieties of chrysanthemums, which I have never seen or heard of. I only know a few of these flowers. Green clouds, ink lotus, handsome flags. This is still when the flowers touched the potted plants sent from the palace before, and I didn't know until I was pulled to see them.
Yu Gui abducted me with her hand, I looked back at her, she pointed to a pot of flowers and said in surprise: "Look, there are green peonies here!"
I looked around in confusion: "Where are the peonies?" Aren't they all chrysanthemums! ”
"There, you look to your right."
I followed the direction of her finger and saw a pot of flowers with a novel shape and a different color. Emerald green as jade, crystal clear. The petals are light green, curling upwards.
"This flower is very fragrant, you can smell it."
I leaned my nose down and sniffed at the potted flowers, and sure enough, the fragrance lingered. I was about to get up, but suddenly someone grabbed me by the shoulder, as if to push me down. I didn't have time to turn back, and I didn't know who it was, so I reflexively shook off the man's hand and dodged away.
The man could not stand still, so he threw himself straight towards the flower bed.
She fell on the flower stand and smashed the pot of precious green peonies, the fragments of the ceramic flower pot scratched her right hand, and the blood stained the red and green chrysanthemums, which should have turned my face white.
She wears a hood.
I exclaimed, "Who are you?"
She subconsciously pressed her veil and kept her head down, I couldn't see her look clearly, and I couldn't tell who she was. I tried to reach out and pull her up, but she slapped my hand away and quickly got up and slipped away. People were so focused on the cherry blossoms that they didn't notice the movement. Yu Gui rushed to me and hurriedly asked me what had happened, and I shook my head and said I didn't know.
At the banquet, I didn't see Wen Er, nor did I see Changji, I don't know if they went out to enjoy the flowers alone, anyway, they didn't appear at the banquet.
Yun Kang was still unable to attend, only An Kang sat beside Da Shen obediently, learning from his mother and the ladies and princesses.
Tao Guifei looks particularly beautiful today. The makeup looks carefully retouched. painted the peach blossom makeup that is popular at the moment, ordered the crescent moon flower that only three or five girls ordered, and the lip grease was also painted pink and tender, which is a happy event for people. As for what happy events she can have, whether she wants to marry a daughter or conceive a second child, I am not interested.
When enjoying the flowers, you can listen to the latest news in the palace.
Nandi has newly accepted beauties, gods like fairies, like sable cicadas. Zhang Meiren, who had just been proud for a few days, met her opponent in chess, and she was full of energy to fight to the death with the new concubine, but she lost after a few days. It is said that when he poisoned his opponent, he was denounced by his own personal palace maid...... Now he has fallen out of favor and lives in a cold palace.
Tao Guifei has always been at odds with Zhang Meiren, and now she is so happy because of this. But I think she was happy a little early, and after a Zhang beauty left, there will naturally be a Li beauty Wang Cairen, and she still has a newcomer who can't be dealt with.
Thinking about it this way, Tao Guifei is also strange and pitiful, and she has been fighting for it all her life.
When I tilted my head and said to Yu Gui, she solemnly warned me not to underestimate Tao Guifei's methods, over the years, none of the concubines she had cleaned up had a good end. The bright and dark, the yin is ruthless, the blood is not stained, I don't know how many kills, she is by no means good at stubble.
I was silent and kept silent.
This harem has always been a slaughterhouse made of rouge and gouache.
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The chime rang, and the dancing girl stepped on the red silk to appear, and I held my cheek on the table, looking at these beauties in a daze. Alas, they are all women, why can people have such a good appearance and a good position. Long eyebrows, red lips and bright teeth, waist like a willow in the wind, the bun is better than shining under the lights.
While admiring the beauty, I have to be distracted to sigh about this fate in life.
The fate in the world is really unreasonable, sudden, unexpected, often shocking you at a loss!
When I saw the new beauty dance, I opened my mouth and couldn't close it for a long time, and my teeth were about to fall out.
Listen to Sheng!! How could it be her, how did she get into the palace?
I was dumbfounded and amazed.
Zhao Qingyu suddenly stretched out his hand and grabbed me, and asked me if I knew that person, I didn't know how to talk about it, so I had to shake my head and say that I was not familiar.
She looked at Tingsheng with disdain, and I said, "You seem to have an opinion about this new concubine." Could it be that you know her? ”
She smiled, took a bite of the osmanthus cake, and said in a strange manner: "Where do I dare to have an opinion on her." She is His Majesty's new favorite, like a jewel, I naturally know her. ”
I smiled and asked no more.
The music played, Zhu Xian sighed three times, and the water sleeves of the servants were thrown away. The dance turned back to the red sleeves, the song was sorrowful, the hall was full of lights, and the seats were beautiful.
I couldn't help but search for Meng Jie's figure, wanting to see how he reacted. He leaned to the left, sitting at the bottom of Baili Yuan, expressionless, calm, as if he didn't know Tingsheng, still talking and laughing with everyone, and staggering.
Zhao Qingyu took a sip and pouted in the direction of Meng Jie, his tone was very dissatisfied: "You can really pretend, if your father hadn't found out early and sent this fox into the palace, you wouldn't have to run to the Drunken Life Hall every day." It's shameless, shameless. ”
From Zhao Qingyu's words, I seem to understand something.
This Meng Baimian is not very old, but he has a lot of romantic debts. On weekdays, he looks like a tall man, and everyone looks down on him, hum, I underestimate you, it turns out that you are also a person who can give anything for power.
Listen to the sheng red clothes fresh, like butterflies swaying, dancing on the golden felt embroidered with phoenixes flying, fine dance steps, bells ringing at the ankles, slow moving like light clouds, and whirlwind speeding.
She didn't wear heavy makeup, just a light makeup, but she was not as beautiful as people in the world, like a cold lotus.
Nandi squinted at Tingsheng, fascinated and smiling. Tao Guifei sat on the left side of the Southern Emperor, not angry or angry, dignified manners, quite the style of the lord of the harem.
What a familiar scene, back then, the drunken life hall, the girl who gave me a glimpse of Tingsheng, turned out to be Ming Shuyi of the Southern Emperor.
After a dance, I listened to the sheng and Tingting Fu salute, and when I saw me, I was not surprised.
She shouldn't have remembered me a long time ago.
"The concubine visits Your Majesty, Your Majesty's Eucharist is safe"
"The concubine's dancing is wonderful, wonderful. Come, sit down beside me. ”
Listening to Sheng, he was not cowardly, sat down gracefully, and his red lips opened lightly: "Thank you, Your Majesty."
……
The banquet lasted for half an hour, and I ate half an hour's snack, drank a pot of daisy tea, and lasted until I hiccuped.
Nandi suddenly spoke, solemn and majestic.
"Let them all leave!"
The music stopped abruptly, and the sound of needles falling in the hall all looked up at the present.
Nandi stroked his long beard, looked around, and found Yu Gui's figure behind, and was kind.
Wu said with a smile: "I had the intention to make the little county lord of King Yong's Mansion the crown prince and concubine, but the two of them were still young at that time, and the timing was not right. Now that the two of them should be of marriage age, it's time to marry them. Zhong Qian, what do you think? ”
The hall suddenly became lively, bowing his head and ears, and the discussion continued.
King Yong and his wife smiled, and hurriedly thanked him. The two of them were not very surprised, as if they had known about it for a long time.
Yu Gui hadn't come to his senses yet, and he was dragged forward by Princess Yong. Baili frowned, not too reluctant, but he still bowed down to the Southern Emperor with Yu Gui.
King Yong kowtowed, and his joy was undisguised: "Thank you, Lord Longen." The marriage of the Son of Heaven is a blessing for the ministers, and it is a supreme glory. ”
Nandi is still polite and official. I wasn't too interested in listening to it, so I just went to see Yu Gui and Baili Yuan.
It is natural for Yu Gui to be happy, but it can be a hundred miles away...... Forget it, don't mention it. With a turn of her eyes, she happened to see the smile on Tao Guifei's face gradually receding, no longer the good color she used to be, and the Tao Fu'er beside her was even more in a trance, and her eyes turned red.
This play is really tiring to watch.
It was still early, the beauty of Nandi was in her arms, and she had no intention of circling, and after a few words ended the banquet, she wanted to lead his Ming Shuyi to take a walk to enjoy the flowers.
I'm distracted and just want to get out of here.
There is a small Taishan stone rockery next to the Taiye Pool, and there are clusters of orchids blooming under the mountain, which is fragrant and elegant. Yu Gui was so excited that he ran over to pick flowers, and I was about to chase her, but I felt that there was someone behind me, and I turned around sharply and it was Sheng Yunjiang.