Chapter 44: Laba

On this day, there was peace in the palace.

Usually, only concubines above the third rank are eligible to follow the queen to meet in Renshou Palace. During the festival, those concubines below the third rank should also dress up with the grooming and go to Renshou Palace with the queen early in the morning to say goodbye.

Su Ruhui got up and prepared when the sky was twilight, and took Xiuwan to rush to work, and the Yunjin skirt that she had finished making arrived in front of Renshou Palace early, because the Queen Mother showed her mouth early, although the palace gate of Renshou Palace had not yet opened, she also beckoned her to enter from the corner gate and lead all the way to the front of Detai Palace.

Su Ruhua relied on the charcoal basin in the outer hall to bake away the chill on her body, and then relieved the fox fur and went in to greet the queen mother.

Today she wears a green six-panel skirt inside, but the outside is a purple deep coat, with a pearl buckle around her waist, a flounder rose at the corner of the skirt, bean green silk, a pair of purple embroidered shoes are slightly exposed when she moves, her hair is pulled into a double snail style, and she wears a pair of new silk flowers on it, with cinnabar in the center of her eyebrows, and a light rouge on her lips, which is very neat.

When I entered the inner hall, I saw that the Queen Mother was bustling around her, but it was Sleeve Xiang, Qi Yun, these aunts and grandmothers were making up for the Queen Mother with their hearts, and one of the girls who accompanied the Queen Mother arrived first, that is, the youngest Lord Danzhu, wearing a red and gold-rimmed dress and standing on an embroidered stool, choosing something from the Queen Mother's makeup box.

After Su Ruhui saw it, she couldn't help but say in her heart: This Danzhu county lord is worthy of the name Danzhu, but she is wearing a bright red color when she sees her twice.

In recent years, the popular attitude of the imperial capital boudoir is understatement, even if it is a little girl of five or six years old, she is also dressed up in elegance, only those slaves and subordinates will dress them in red and green for the sake of celebration.

Although Danzhu is very suitable for big red, in the eyes of Su Ruhui and others, he always feels that the country from Dongjiao is more rustic.

Su Ruhua stepped forward to salute the audience, and the Queen Mother was in a very good mood, so she made an exception and said, "Good boy, you came so early." ”

"The courtiers were afraid that they would come too early and disturb the queen mother, but they didn't expect the county lord to arrive first." Su Ruhui knew that the Queen Mother would definitely give herself enough face today, unless she was really angry, she pursed her lips and smiled, and then greeted Danzhu, so that Xiuwan behind her presented the skirt made for the Queen Mother.

As soon as the Queen Mother signaled, an aunt named Ge Xiang took it with a smile, and the Queen Mother said to Qi Yun: "Mama go and take a look, Wu Dehou's daughter is okay with needlework in addition to poetry?" ”

"The queen mother is embarrassed by the courtiers, how can the craftsmanship of the courtiers enter the eyes of Mama Qi?" Su Ruhui said shyly, "It's just a piece of the courtier's heart, and I hope the queen mother won't blame the courtiers for being clumsy." ”

Qi Yun pursed his lips and smiled: "What Miss Su said, Miss is still young, it would be good to be able to make a dress, the slave maid saw that although this stitch is not as neat and delicate as the Shangfu Bureau, it is very fine, and it is obviously with care." "Qi Yun is a female celebrity, where can I not see such a fine stitch, I am afraid that it is still Xiuwan's craftsmanship, but everyone knows that today is just going through the motions, Su Ruhua is going to take it back to Renshou Palace, so naturally it will not be exposed.

She picked up her clothes casually and showed them to the Queen Mother, but suddenly said lightly: "What is this?" With a shake of her hand, the skirt was brushed to the side of the tray, and a piece of material under the folded skirt suddenly revealed its true face-

A flash of light!

At this moment, the sky has not been completely bright, and dozens of palace lamps have been lit in the queen mother's bedroom, illuminating the hall brightly, but as soon as this material is revealed, it has dyed a faint layer of blue for the entire palace.

Spring Soul!

All the people thought of this at this moment, I am afraid that only the soul of spring can depict the freshness of this material!

After a long silence, the Queen Mother was still calm, and said lightly: "Ruhua, this is?" ”

"Back to the Queen Mother, this is the third uncle of the courtiers a few years ago in the Southern Wilderness by chance to bring it back, because there are not many, so the mother all gave it to the courtiers, the courtiers made a dress, and the others were brought into the palace, originally this time I wanted to take this to the Queen Mother to make clothes, but this material is excellent, the courtiers are clumsy, but I am afraid of ruining it, thinking that the Queen Mother said that Mama Qi's skills are extraordinary, so as not to insult this Shaoying Spring Soul!" Su Ruhui said respectfully.

"Shaoying Spring Soul?" The Queen Mother said angrily, "This name is good, is it the name of the Southern Wilderness?" ”

Su Ruhui pursed her lips and smiled: "It's not, its name is vulgar in the Southern Wilderness, and the third uncle of the courtier's daughter felt that it was not quite commensurate with the thing after meeting it, so he changed the name." ”

"The mourning family heard that Su Wanze was a playful person, and when he was young with your father, he didn't let Guan Xianghou worry a lot, but I didn't expect him to travel around and meet such a good thing." The Queen Mother showed an interested look, and instructed Ge Xiang to hold the material up to the front and take a closer look, and exclaimed, "It's really a good color!" But it seems to be dyed with woven cloud silk, right? Weaving cloud silk is a tribute, from Shuzhou, from the southern wilderness is quite close. ”

The Queen Mother seemed to say these words casually, but Su Ruhui almost exclaimed, secretly glad that she was dyed with woven cloud silk, not Su satin Hangzhou silk and Yunjin Lake silk.

"Needless to say, when Mama Qi saw this material, I was afraid that she couldn't even walk." The Queen Mother raised her hand, ten fingertips, dyed the impatiens juice, now in the moon, only in the palace conservatory there are impatiens, the Queen Mother is dyed early in the morning, the color is strong, reflected in the green Shaoying spring soul is more set off each other, Fang smiled, "Since this kid said that you won't insult this material, then it's up to you, whatever you do, just one piece, this kid put on a high hat for you, don't let her down!" ”

Qi Yun was really overjoyed, she was the first proud person beside the Queen Mother, she had always looked calm, and only something like Shaoying Spring Soul that hit her hobby could make her really happy, put away the material and said: "The Queen Mother can rest assured, the slave will never let Miss Su see the joke!" ”

"Mama Qi's craftsmanship has been praised by the Queen Mother herself, and I am afraid that I will not be able to laugh at it in my life." Su Ruhui said jokingly on the side.

Because of Qi Yun's joy, she helped Su Ruhui to speak more and more, and the Queen Mother couldn't help but smile and beckoned to Su Ruhui: "Your Mama Qi has got your benefits, I'm afraid I'm afraid I'll have to worry about urging the mourning family to love you in the future, good boy, come and take a look for the mourning family with Danzhu, what hairpin is good for today?" ”

This is looking at Qi Yun's face, to give Su Ruhua a decent one, the hairpin ring around the Queen Mother is not something that ordinary people can touch, let alone help the Queen Mother choose to wear it on festivals. In the past, this pride has always been Huo Qinglian's, and judging from today's point of view, the county lord of Danzhu is obviously also very popular with the queen mother.

As for Su Ruhui, it was the first time to receive this dignity, she was secretly grateful to Gan Tang in her heart, this biological mother was not favored, and she knew how to shelter the queen mother's grandson at a young age, and she really saw the people of Renshou Palace clearly. If it weren't for his idea, I'm afraid that even if the clothes were ready, if they were presented today, Qi Yun would scold himself in his heart for destroying the heavens, right?

"The Queen Mother Fengyi is natural, she looks good in anything." Su Ruhui smiled and flattered first, before approaching the county lord of Danzhu, "Was the county lord just picking a hairpin for the queen mother?" Do you think it's good? ”

"Sister Su, there are too many hairpins for the Queen Mother, Danzhu chooses to choose and choose, and her eyes are going to be spent." Dan Zhu said childishly, she took a hosta of crane rank sesame grass in her hand, the body of the flying crane hairpin is emerald, but the sesame grass is bright red as blood, but it is carved out of a ruby, and there are five or six hairpins in front of her, Su Ruhui looked at it, and the gold beads and jade in it are different.

Looking at the makeup box again, it is really splendid, it is difficult to choose, and there are so many jewelry of the Queen Mother? Seven or eight makeup boxes are still piled up next to them.

Even if these makeup boxes add up, they are just used for the Queen Mother's festival.

Su Ruhui knew that the county lord of Danzhu was now liked by the queen mother, and she didn't look at the makeup box, so she pointed to the undecided one in front of her and smiled: "What does the county lord think of this?" ”

The lord of Danzhu followed her fingers to look, but it was a glazed jade multi-treasure phoenix hairpin, this hairpin is shaped like a phoenix, the hairpin body is made of pure gold, but a pair of phoenix eyes are obsidian inlay, flexible and flexible, and the phoenix tail is made of agate, emerald, ruby, blue-eyed stone, jade, coral...... Accumulation, mixed with more finer glass beads in the middle, slightly moved, it will be brilliant, particularly eye-catching. Under the phoenix, jade is also carved into the shape of Ganoderma lucidum and fairy grass to set off.

"Queen Mother, what do you think of this hairpin?" Danzhu smiled on his face, and carefully held up the glazed jade treasure phoenix hairpin with both hands and handed it to the Queen Mother, who smiled and said: "It should be good for the two children to pick together, do you think the sleeve incense can be used for a while?" ”

The sleeve incense that was combing the queen mother's bun said with a smile: "What the slave and maid plan to comb for the queen mother today is Ling Xu's bun, and it just so happens that she wants a main hairpin to add brilliance, but the county lord and the young lady have picked a suitable one!" ”

In this way, when Huo Qinglian came in, Zhou Yi'er, and Huaizhen County Lord, what he saw was a picture of Yan Yan smiling, Huo Qinglian's eyes flashed, and then disappeared, and he walked forward quickly to salute, and said with a smile: "The Queen Mother was already combing her hair, but we were late, and we asked the Queen Mother to punish the crime!" ”

The Queen Mother has always treated Huo Qinglian differently from other girls, and smiled at the bronze mirror: "You came so early every day, it's nothing late today, anyway, the mourning family has to be cleaned up." ”

Then Zhou Yi'er behind Huo Qinglian and the county lord of Huaizhen asked for peace in unison, and the queen mother said a word of exemption, and these people saw Su Ruhui standing in front of the queen mother, and they were all surprised and annoyed when they saw Su Ruhui standing in front of the queen mother, and they were all in the same place as the county lord of Danzhu. The Queen Mother intends to order Su Ruhui to move out of Qiongtong Palace and live back in Lumingtai after the Laba Festival, which is something that is clear in the palace these days.

But these people never expected that Laba would see Su Ruhui so admired by the Queen Mother early in the morning, and they felt extremely uncomfortable.

Huo Qinglian was particularly annoyed, Su Ruhua didn't know that the place where she was standing was exactly where Huo Qinglian had been standing in the past few days, so Huo Qinglian settled down, and saw that the sleeve incense just happened to pick the last strand of broken hair for the Queen Mother, and the towering Ling Xuan bun was just formed, so he stepped forward and smiled: "What hairpin ring does the Queen Mother want to use today?" As he spoke, he went to get the makeup box.

But I heard Danzhu smile innocently: "Sister Lian'er, the Queen Mother is going to use that glazed jade multi-treasure phoenix hairpin today, it was picked out by Sister Su, do you look good?" As he spoke, he pointed to a separate hairpin on the dressing table.

In order not to take credit in front of the Queen Mother, the county lord of Danzhu pushed the selection of hairpins to Su Ruhui, but it was a different feeling when it fell into Huo Qinglian's ears, she smiled reluctantly: "Is it?" Ruhua's eyesight is naturally good. ”

Although the county lord Huaizhen in the back was indifferent by the Queen Mother, her identity was different, she was not as restrained as Zhou Yi'er, and replied with a smile: "Yesterday, I also told Conghan to call me earlier, I met Sister Lian'er outside just now, but I didn't expect Miss Su to come from the Chunsheng Palace so early, and we are not as attentive as Miss Su." ”

Su Ruhui heard that she was satirizing herself for flattering the queen mother, she sneered in her heart, but said lightly: "The courtiers were reckless earlier, and they collided with the county lord, although they were punished, but they didn't have the opportunity to apologize to the county lord in person, and now it happened that the ladies had not yet arrived, so I asked the queen mother to be a witness, and asked the county lord to spare the courtiers!" ”

Without waiting for Huaizhen to speak, Su Ruhui knelt down with a plop and respectfully bowed!

Out of the corner of Huaizhen's eyes, he saw that the Queen Mother's face was a little stiff, and the anger in his heart was really indescribable!