Chapter 19: Waiting
Calmly, holding the jasper amphora pheasant bottle in his hand, he came to the cold palace.
She was originally painting, but Ruan Meiling came over with this bottle and said that she should send this thing to the cold palace and hand it over to Concubine Guan.
Ruan Meiling said very movingly, saying that the reason why Zhang Sishe asked her to send it was to see that she had just come, so that she could walk around more and be familiar with the path in the palace, so as not to go wrong, collide with the girls, and cause death.
It's normal to send a bottle, but Ruan Meiling's words added later moved her calm heart.
There must be a demon when things go wrong, and it is a very common thing, but if you have to fall into this long list of explanations, it seems to be a snake, and some of them are redundant.
So on the way to the cold palace, I calmly walked and slowly looked at the bottle in my hand.
The jasper bottle is clear and free of impurities, the water head is full, round and oily, and the carving of the bottle is meticulous into the painting, and it is from the hands of famous artists at a glance.
How could such a first-class treasure be sent to the concubine who was too angry in the cold palace?
Calm down and sighed in my heart.
She didn't want to find trouble, and it seemed that trouble would come to her door automatically.
The cold palace is indeed very deserted, and compared to the prosperity in front, it is a pool of lifeless backwater.
Dense towering trees shade the path leading to the palace gate.
Under the locust tree at the entrance of the palace, there was a plain-dressed boy who was touching his tears, and an elderly grandmother beside him was caressing his shoulders and comforting him softly.
The boy obviously didn't listen to her, he cried more and more, and the expression on his face became more and more vicious, although it was vicious, it was not terrible, and his face was still so good-looking.
This son is a beautiful man, a beautiful man who is similar in age to Pei Shaofen.
Calm couldn't help but look at him a few more times.
A man of this age should not have cried like a child.
Could he be a fool?
If that's the case, it's a pity that he has a good skin.
Thinking calmly and regretfully.
"This king wants to avenge the little boy and kill that little slut!" The young man suddenly roared. The body is uplifted.
The old woman beside him hurriedly dragged him, but instead of holding him, she shook herself and fell to the ground, and couldn't help but sigh.
The young man stopped, ran back, and helped the old woman up.
But the old lady hugged him and cried bitterly.
The young man hugged the old woman, and his body trembled violently.
Calm can't see his expression, but you can imagine his mood.
She had seen the cause of the matter.
There was a little gray rabbit lying under the ancient acacia, with blood oozing from the corners of his mouth, convulsions all over his body, and he looked dying.
This young man is afraid that it is because of this that he lost his temper.
The two men who were holding their heads and crying did not pay attention to the calmness that approached.
Calmly squatted down, put the Tianji bottle aside, reached out and touched the belly of the little gray rabbit, and suddenly understood in his heart that he was stepped on by someone to cause the injury to be like this.
It's no wonder that this young man is so angry, even a rabbit can be footed, there is no doubt that he is a slut!
Calmly took out a pill from his sleeve, pried open the mouth of the little gray rabbit, fed it down, and just reached out to touch its head.
But I heard an exclamation behind me: "Who are you and what do you want to do?" β
"The slave is calm, I have seen the Nine Princes." Calmly stand up and salute.
The young man came over, pushed her, picked up the little gray rabbit, glanced at her, and walked towards the cold palace.
The old lady had regained her calm expression and stepped forward to ask, "What's the matter?" β
"Mama Zhou, I am the palace maid who was newly transferred to the Si Shi Si Si to calm down, and on the order of Zhang Si She, I sent this jasper amphora chicken bottle to the concubine Niangniang."
Calmly picked up the bottle on the ground and replied with a smile.
Mama Zhou rubbed her dizzy old eyes, glanced at the bottle, and snorted, with a sarcastic smile: "Such a good thing, when will it be our master's turn to give it to our master?" β
Calmly grinning and speechless.
"Come in with me." Mama Zhou said coldly with her hands.
Calmly responded, and followed her into the cold palace.
On the steps of the courtyard sat a row of gray-haired women.
With a distracted face and distracted eyes, seeing someone walk in, Fang raised his chaotic eyes, glanced at this side, and found that it had nothing to do with him, so he lowered his head and continued to doze off.
"Please come over here." Mama Zhou took her around the main hall in front and walked towards the side hall in the back.
Walk through a round arch and enter the East Cross Courtyard.
It's surprisingly neat and beautiful.
The delicate bamboo fence, the scattered flower beds, and the colorful flowers in the flower beds are blooming one after another, and the people who look at them are relaxed and happy, and it is like a paradise.
"Master, someone is coming." Mama Zhou shouted into the flower garden.
A plain woman came out of the flower garden with sweat on her face and a smile as calm as water.
She is beautiful, and there is no word to describe her beauty.
Although the corners of her eyes are already wrinkled, and her face is not painted with any rouge gouache, this cannot stop her beauty, and she cannot see the sadness of the twilight of the beauty on her face, only the more tranquil beauty that has precipitated with the years.
Calm and stunned.
"Who is it?" Concubine Guan asked with a smile.
Mama Zhou pushed to calm down, and only then did she come back to her senses and give a salute to explain her intentions.
"Zhou Li, invite the lady into the house to greet her, pour tea, I'll wash my hands and come later." Concubine Guan commanded.
Mama Zhou promised to let calm down into the house.
Although the house was like a snow cave and did not have any extravagant decorations, it was spotlessly clean and orderly, and even the curtains on the bed were put into the shape of butterflies.
Sitting down calmly, looking at this unpretentious room, a deep pain slowly rose in my heart. She remembered Pei Shaofen's words: "In this place, kindness is useless, this is a place where people are good and people are bullied, and horses are good and ridden!" β
Concubine Guan looks really kind, that's why she was locked up in the cold palace and hasn't seen the light of day for twenty years?
"Leng girl, drink tea." Concubine Guan walked in and greeted her with a smile.
Her smile was bright, like a cool breeze in summer, which made her calm heart feel refreshed.
"It's really a sin to let Miss Leng run in person on a hot day, a little meaning is not a tribute, and I hope the girl will accept it with a smile." Concubine Guan held a few pieces of broken silver in her hand and shoved them into her calm hand.
Calm and about to excuse himself, his eyes flashed, and he only said thank you and put the silver away.
"Let Miss Leng laugh, Rui'er is naΓ―ve, like a seven-year-old playchild, if there is anything that offends the girl, return the girl Haihan." Concubine Guan sat down and said with a smile.
Calm down The young son he met outside just now is called Xia Zhi, and he is the youngest son of the first emperor.
When the first emperor died, he was only seven years old.
Because he and his mother Guan Taifei Niangniang deliberately collided with the Yin Spirit of the First Emperor, the Yin Spirit of the First Emperor was frightened and could not ascend to the Western Bliss as soon as possible. was ordered by Empress Dowager Liu, the mother of today's son, to be sent to the cold palace and never be pardoned.
Xia Zhi was too frightened, and since then he has become crazy and stupid, and the Empress Dowager Liu has sent the imperial doctor to diagnose many times, all of which are crazy and stupid.
She was not at ease, and tried it herself a few times before believing it.
Since then, they have been left in the cold palace for thirteen years.
These things, calmly all heard from the old palace maids.
"Niangniang's words are serious, the ninth prince has no place to offend the slave maid. If the mother is fine, the slave and maid will leave. "Stand up calmly, give a salute, and want to leave.
"I'll send you out." Concubine Guan also stood up and said with a smile.
calmly and hurriedly excused herself, but Concubine Guan had to send it.
Calmly excused himself, so he had to walk out the door with her.
As soon as I walked to the door, I saw Concubine Guan sigh quietly, holding her forehead and slumping to the ground.
"Master!" Mama Zhou, who was walking behind them, stepped forward, knelt on the ground, picked her up, and shouted loudly.
"She, what's wrong?" Calm also squatted down and asked.
"It's okay, the master has always had dizziness, just go to bed and lie down for a while." Mama Zhou picked up Concubine Guan and carried her inside.
Xia Zhi suddenly came out of nowhere, pulled his calm sleeve, and begged in a hoarse voice: "Save my mother, please save my mother!" β
Calm was suddenly pulled by this, bluffed, involuntarily took a step back, and stared at him stunned.
"Go find Jiang Ming, Jiang Ming can save my mother's illness." And then he said.
"Zhi'er, don't embarrass the cold girl, come back quickly. The master has something to say to you. Mama Zhou shouted inside the house.
"Find Jiang Ming, go find Jiang Ming to save my mother, please." In a hurry, he begged to calm down and ran towards the house.
After walking for a long time, he calmly said "oh", slowly walked down the steps, and walked out of the cold palace.
Concubine Guan sat up from the bed and frowned.
"Master, she's not the person we're looking for, and she doesn't want to help us." Mama Zhou said disappointedly.
Concubine Guan had both disappointment and hope in her eyes, and sighed softly: "It's been thirteen years, and finally a person surnamed Leng has walked here. Do you still remember that when the first emperor was there, Qin Tianjian Zhou Xu once gave our mother and son a hexagram, which said that our mother and son had a bad fate, and it was not until we met someone with a cold surname that we would shine and be brilliant for the second time? β
"Master, maybe cold is not in this girl's nature, and she is not the person we are waiting for. You'd better have a good rest. Mama Zhou said desperately.
She had been waiting for twenty years, and she was already desperate, even if the hexagram was right, she no longer had the strength to wait.
She really couldn't bear to shatter her master's dream.
The first emperor has a tiger general surnamed Leng Ming Dynasty, who is upright and righteous, Liu Hou and Shoufu tampered with the edict of the first emperor, and when he succeeded to the throne, he was the only one who raised objections, but it is a pity that he was difficult to defeat the wolves alone, and was demoted and demoted to the border.
There is no doubt that the person surnamed Leng mentioned by Zhou Xu must be this person, but unfortunately this person has died of illness ten years ago. And this Leng Dynasty has only one daughter.
After the death of Leng Chao, I don't know where to go, although Mama Zhou also sent people to look around, but there was no news.
Over the years, Mama Zhou has also given up.
She has never dared to tell her master about this, for fear that once the master loses hope, he will no longer even have the courage to live.
"Mama, this king may have made a mistake." Xia Solstice suddenly opened his mouth coldly.
Mama Zhou's heart was shocked, her lips trembled, and she couldn't speak: "Lord Wang, for many years, I have never heard you say such a thing." β