Chapter 1: Entering the Palace
The early autumn morning was slightly cool, Su Ruhui only wore a snow-white shirt, sitting in a daze in the Babao Green Luo tent.
The tent was filled with the scent of orchids, from the dried orchid grass stuffed in the pillow. This is the bedroom of an ordinary aristocratic girl in Dayong, with gold-filled feet next to the ebony bed, a dresser by the window, a few porcelain and jade antiques in the Duobao Pavilion on the wall, and a wardrobe full of Lingluo silk and satin costumes is behind the bed.
Four stacks of screens are placed in the corners, separating the changing areas.
Enter through a small door next to the bedroom, but it is a study that is rarely set up by ordinary aristocratic girls.
This is because today's queen was a famous talented woman in the imperial capital before entering the palace, and today, Su Ruhui is going to be called into the palace to accompany the queen.
This time into the palace is nominally because Princess Le'an died, there are princes in the palace but no princess, in order to comfort the queen mother and the queen, so from the daughters of officials above the third grade, a few people were specially summoned to enter the palace to accompany them. In fact, everyone knows that this is the palace to see each other and train daughters-in-law for the princes in advance.
Su Ruhui's father, Su Wanhai, the general of the official residence auxiliary country, is the second grade, and has the title of Marquis of Wude, three sons and one daughter under his knees, Su Ruhui, who is eight years old, inherits the dignified and delicate spirit of his mother, and the demeanor of everyone he has cultivated since childhood, and the internal supervisor in charge of the selection nodded with satisfaction at that time: "Miss Su is blessed at a glance, and the two mothers like this such a dignified and atmospheric girl." β
After receiving the Su family's silver, the internal supervisor specially mentioned: "The queen said that the young lady who is knowledgeable and courteous is easy to get along with." So Su Ruhui immediately added a study next door, and the Su family specially invited Xue Zi, the most famous female historian in the imperial capital, to teach her, and she must make Su Ruhui as clean as possible in the fastest time.
From the will to today, but in just two months, even if Xue Ziyan is rich and five cars and eight buckets, he can't train Su Ruhui to become a talented woman in such a short time, but she is just grinding her guns in battle, so Su Ruhui has no bottom in her heart at the moment, and she doesn't know what the upcoming escort life will be like?
Not long after she was in a daze, there was a noise outside, and two green-clothed maids walked in under the leadership of a girl in pink.
When the tent was opened, the girl in pink sighed and said in surprise: "Miss, you won't sleep all night, will you?" β
"No, I just got up." Su Ruhui glanced at her, a little surprised, "Sister Hongluan, why are you here?" When he looked at it again, his personal maid Qingque was following behind.
Hongluan pursed her lips and smiled: "Miss is going to enter the palace today, and Mrs. is afraid that Qingque is young and doesn't know how to dress up for Miss, so let me take a look." β
This Hongluan is the maid next to Su Ruhui's mother, Mrs. An, and has always been clever and capable. Hearing this, Su Ruhui nodded, signaling that she was ready.
Hongluan stepped back sideways, and said to Qingque behind him with a smile: "As usual, first clean your face, Qingye, you go and prepare the bucket for bathing, remember to put more lilac petals." She specifically stated, "I heard that the queen likes cloves." β
Su Ruhui nodded listlessly, she herself likes bluegrass more. However, she also knew that since she wanted to enter the palace, she could not come according to her own preferences, but would have to follow the likes of the nobles in the palace.
After bathing, the skin was slightly crimson, Hongluan personally came in with the clothes plate, Qingque then dried Su Ruhua with a cotton towel, and a snow-white profane clothes put on Su Ruhua's shoulder.
Hongluan handed the clothes tray to Qingye behind him and dressed Su Ruhui, Su Ruhui couldn't help but wonder: "What kind of material is this?" It's weird and it's soft. β
"It is the weaving cloud silk given by the palace, and it is said that hundreds of weavers work day and night, and it takes ten days to become a foot." Hongluan smiled and said, "There are no ordinary concubines in the palace, or at the Lantern Festival banquet last year, the second prince won the prince of Ningguo in a martial arts competition, and His Majesty rewarded a few horses, and they have been hidden in the library and are reluctant to move." As early as two months ago, Madame ordered people to take them all out and cut them according to the lady's size. β
The woven cloud silk is as light as nothing, smooth as water, and not as cold as ordinary silk. Su Ruhui put on the middle coat that was also woven with cloud silk, and felt that the clothes she had changed just now were extremely heavy and depressed.
After putting on her middle clothes, Su Ruhui was pushed to the dressing table, and Qingque, who was in charge of her jewelry, took out a dazzling brocade box: "Sister Hongluan, please see, what is Miss going to use today?" β
Although Su Ruhui is only eight years old, the brocade box is already impressive, this is because Su Mansion has only one daughter for her, and the Su family has the emperor's heart, and the things that have been rewarded three times and twice, the concubine is not qualified to use it anyway, so Mrs. An allocated all of them to her daughter.
Hongluan swept it at the beginning, most of these things were sent by her personally, naturally she was clear, and immediately shook her head: "I don't need so much, firstly, the young lady is still young, and secondly, I entered the palace to accompany the queen mother and queen, and the dress is too fancy, which will inevitably make people look down." β
Qingque was a little disappointed: "I heard that Miss Huo Qi, who was also announced to be in the palace to accompany Master Huo's family, will wear moon incense beads to enter the palace." "The moon incense pearl is an extremely precious pearl, the size of such a carved thumb, the legend is as pure as the moon, in the dark can emit a faint soft light, and there is also a strange fragrance.
Miss Huo Qi's mother is the county lord of Kangyue, this moon-incense bead was originally the thing at the bottom of the box when the county lord got married, and the county lord of Kangyue passed away early, so the jewelry should have been passed on to Miss Huo Qi early.
"Master Huo is an official residence, his daughter is still a concubine in the palace, our Su family doesn't have so much help in the palace, and we can't compare with her." Hongluan said softly, "After the young lady enters the palace, you must also remember to be patient, the palace is not as good as at home." β
Su Ruhui nodded: "I'll take care of it." β
Hongluan smiled with satisfaction, and in Qingque's disappointed eyes, he took a pair of emerald green beads from the brocade box, as well as a pair of green jade earrings, and signaled that Qingque didn't need it.
According to Su Ruhua's age, Hongluan combed her double buns, with a green bead embedded in the heart of the bun, and her forehead hair was all dipped in lilac water with a comb and put into the bun, leaving only a little fetal hair at the corner of her forehead. Then Hongluan rejected Su Ruhua's suggestion to paint applique yellow, but asked Qingye to go to the study to fetch an unused purple hao, dip it in cinnabar, and nodded five points in the center of Su Ru's eyebrows, and a void red plum immediately appeared.
Su Ruhua's appearance was originally dignified and delicate, and such a simple hairstyle brought out her white melon seed face more and more, as well as her smart eyes, which only felt refreshing and pleasant. The cinnabar red plum that replaces the yellow flower is lifelike, and it adds a layer of beauty to Su Ruhua's painting in the midst of arbitrariness.
Although Qingque wanted Su Ruhui to wear more luxurious jewelry, so as not to be suppressed by Miss Huo Qi, she couldn't help but admire the current dress that made Su Ruhui look radiant.
The next step is to choose the outerwear.
The three huge suitcases were all opened, a set of splendid clothes was taken out, and when even Hongluan was embarrassed, Mrs. An, who had stopped dressing, finally arrived in person.
"Wear this set, the moon-white embroidered flying crane skirt, covered with a dark green chrysanthemum coat, and a belt, just use the one with the same color dark green wrapped in gold." Mrs. An glanced at her daughter's hairstyle a few times, and immediately made a decision, "A pair of emerald green beads on the head, seeing that the queen is okay, the queen mother likes to be gorgeous, open the box and take out a beautiful peony circle, and then put a gold lock on it." β
Seeing Su Ruhua's outfit stopped, Mrs. An looked at it with satisfaction, and suddenly her eyes changed: "What about the jade pendant that pressed the skirt?" β
After a while, he finally found a piece of black jade carved into a wishful shape from the box, and Hongluan quickly tied it for Su Ruhua. Mrs. An and the three maids looked up and down for a long time to confirm that there was nothing wrong, and the news came from outside the door that the palace sedan chair was waiting outside the palace.
When you enter the palace to accompany you, you naturally can't bring a maid. The clothes and jewelry that Su Ruhui wanted to bring into the palace had already been prepared by Mrs. An and sent to the sedan chair. Therefore, at this moment, Mrs. An just quietly stuffed a stack of silver tickets to her daughter, hurriedly told a few words, and watched her daughter board and leave.
The sedan chair walked extremely smoothly, and Su Ruhui sat upright on the chariot, with a grandmother sitting on her left and right. Seeing Su Ruhui at a young age but posing as an adult, the grandmother on the left couldn't help but smile and said kindly: "If Miss Su gets up too early, you can sleep for a while, enter the palace gate left and right, and then there is a long way to Changle Palace, and we will wake you up at that time." β
Su Ruhui said obediently: "Thank you Mama, I'm not sleepy at the moment." β
said that he was not sleepy, but I don't know if the speed of the sedan chair was too slow, or the road was too long, in short, Su Ruhui still accidentally fell asleep. When she was half awake and half asleep, she seemed to hear two grandmothers whispering:
"This Miss Su is good-looking."
"It's not as good as the one in the Huo family, the one who was born is the same as Concubine Huo."
"Oh? That's really Peugeot, but it's just a royal ......."
When she was woken up, she saw that she was crooked in the arms of her grandmother on the left, Su Ruhua was excited, rubbed her eyes and quickly got up, and was about to make amends to her grandmother, but she heard the grandmother on the right say lightly: "Miss Su, there is still a maximum of one moment, and you will arrive at the Changle Palace, you can just straighten out your appearance, and then think about what you will say later." β
Compared to the mama on the left, this mama is obviously much harsher. Su Ruhui thanked her carefully, took out the small target lens that had been prepared long ago from her arms, and found that she was nothing except for the messy fetal hair and some sleep marks on one cheek, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief.
But when I thought that I was about to see the Queen Mother and the Queen, I suddenly became nervous.
The Empress Dowager, who is known as Jiayi, and Empress Zhou, who was born in a scholarly family, are not ordinary women in the deep palace.
When he succeeded to the throne today, he was only three years old, and the lord Shaoguo was suspicious, and when the Beirong invaded the territory, it was all thanks to the Empress Dowager Jiayi who listened to the government, and reused the Taifu Wuluo, the hussar general Zhou Zinan and Su Wanhai and other veterans to quickly pacify the northern Xinjiang, and successively adopted the Taishi Huo De Cambodian proposal to appease the subjects and the people, so that the situation could be stabilized.
The most commendable thing for a courtier is that although the Queen Mother was born in the Zhang family of the Dayong family, she never looked at the Zhang family differently and promoted it when she hung the curtain. There were even several times when his subordinates asked the father of the Queen Mother to be the Duke of the Kingdom, but they were all sternly rejected by the Queen Mother.
Moreover, as soon as she turned sixteen today, the Queen Mother returned all the government and government, and she did not love power at all.
Therefore, the first thing he did after the pro-government was to honor the Queen Mother Jiayi to show her virtue, and at the same time named his grandfather Zhang Hong as the Duke of Jingguo, and named his uncle and the only brother of the Queen Mother as Mu Ningbo, serving the Queen Mother, which is also extremely filial.
And the queen Zhou, who was also born in everyone, moved the imperial capital with a talent name at the age of twelve, and it is said that she is talented and beautiful, and she was sighed by her father, but she was not a man. In harmony with Kinjo Qinse, he had two sons, and the eldest son was made the crown prince when he was born. And the prince is ten years old, smart and resolute, and is always praised by Hongru who goes to the study.
While pondering, the sedan chair suddenly stopped, and the two grandmothers immediately got up and got off, one left and one right stretched out their hands to support Su Ruwao, and at the same time, there was a sharp and delicate passage from the inner prison outside: "The daughter of Wu Dehou and the auxiliary general Su Wanhai is hereββ"