Chapter 5: Cining
With the homework that Bailing helped to do in advance, coupled with his daily upbringing, Sizhen entered Cining Palace without much anxiety.
Walking outside the door of the main hall, among the palace maids and eunuchs on duty, a girl in dark green clothes saw Sizhen, so she greeted Fuli and smiled: "Is it Zhen Gege?" Please wait outside, the Queen Mother has just had breakfast, the Queen Mother is asking for peace inside, and the slave maid will go in first to report. ”
Sizhen nodded, thanked her, and stood outside the temple gate, waiting for the summons.
It didn't take long for the green-clothed palace maid to come out, and at the same time, there was a middle-aged aunt who looked amiable and amiable.
Even if she has reached this age, she can still see that this aunt was a beauty when she was young, and her beauty is unassuming, and her beauty is warm, like spring breeze and rain, which is comfortable.
Sizhen couldn't help but have a good impression of her.
According to what Bailing said before, Sizhen searched for it, this should be the proud person next to the Queen Mother-Su Mala, who is the master of Cining Palace and the emperor's enlightenment teacher.
Sure enough, the aunt greeted her and said to Sizhen Fuli: "Slave Su Mo'er, please say hello to Zhen Gege." The Queen Mother is waiting inside, please go in with the slaves. ”
Although Aunt Su Mala is a palace maid, when she was still a girl in the queen mother, she was by her side, and the queen mother treated her differently, even the princes and princesses also had to respect her, and her status in the palace was far beyond ordinary people......
Thinking of what Bai Ling said, Sizhen turned sideways slightly, respectfully returned Su Mala's salute, and said softly: "There is Aunt Lao Su." ”
She lowered her eyebrows and followed Su Ma into the inner sanctum.
Seeing that Sizhen, who had recovered from illness, was a little weak, but there was quite a heroic spirit between her beautiful eyebrows, Su Mala nodded secretly.
There are not many Han girls like Zhen Gege who can wear the bottom of the flower pot and walk steadily, which shows that the king of Dingnan is dedicated to the Qing Dynasty and teaches his children to learn the etiquette of the Manchurians, and the rules in the house are very good.
Entering the hall, Sizhen saw that although the inner hall of Cining Palace was not very luxurious, it was also full of gold bricks, carved beams and painted buildings.
As the Gege of Dingnan Palace, she is basically the most noble girl in Guangxi, Sizhen's vision is naturally different, she swept her eyes slightly, and she knew that the Queen Mother's palace looked simple, but in fact, the furnishings inside had a lot of origins.
For example, the twelve flowers of the red sandalwood frame are rich and gilded, the flat bottle of the frozen green glazed amphora with a few golden chrysanthemums, and the incense burner of the crane's beak red gold, if there is no smell of ambergris...... All show that the Queen Mother is the most noble woman in this palace.
Walking to the hall, Sizhen knelt down to the queen mother who was sitting on the upper seat, wearing a bright yellow brocade with a five-clawed golden dragon pattern and a robe decorated with a pattern of longevity.
"The courtier Kong Sizhen respectfully invites the Empress Dowager Sheng'an, the Empress Dowager Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose Chitose."
The Queen Mother smiled when she saw Sizhen's right hand pressing her chest and folding it on her left hand when she knelt and put it on her forehead.
She smiled at a young woman on the right who was wearing a five-clawed golden dragon pattern, bright yellow brocade, stone blue and gold edge, and decorated with a court gown: "I didn't expect this child to be so proper to perform our full courtesy." ”
The young and beautiful woman laughed: "Look at what the queen mother said, didn't she go to the palace with King Dingnan last year?" You were rare at that time, and this one is rare! ”
Hearing the three words of King Dingnan, Sizhen, who was kneeling on the ground, couldn't help but have red eyes, and his body couldn't help but tremble.
The Queen Mother's face sank slightly, and she smiled and said: "This child is rare-looking, and he is also smart. She's all right, and you mention what you did in the past, making this kid sad in vain. ”
The queen Xu knew that she was a little reckless in what she had just spoken, and after Sizhen had saluted her and the other concubines present, she left her seat and helped Sizhen to get up with her own hands.
She said with a smile: "Since the queen mother accepted you as a righteous daughter, we are a family, no need to be so polite, hurry up, let us take a good look at you, you don't know, these days, the queen mother also nagged you in the morning, and she also nagged you in the evening, and the nagging palace and other sisters are going to be jealous!" ”
Hey, according to Bailing's vague statement, and what Mama Qin inquired about, the queen mother is not easy to get along with because of her noble birth and arrogance and luxury.
Sizhen raised his head and just happened to look at the queen.
She couldn't help but be amazed.
Although I have heard that the queen was born beautiful, there are few people in this palace who can compare, when the emperor got married last year, she also met when she entered the palace with her father, but at that time it was a distant worship in the main hall, and she never saw it clearly.
Now it seems that the queen is not only beautiful, but also the kind of beauty that captivates the country and the city mentioned in the book, even when she sees it, she feels that she can't take her eyes off.
Why does the emperor not like such a good-looking queen?
Sizhen thought of those very vague statements, and couldn't help but feel sorry for this beautiful queen mother.
For a while, I forgot a lot about my injuries.
The queen was used to seeing other people's amazement at her, and she didn't care.
She pulled Sizhen to the chair next to the Queen Mother and sat down, and said to the women next to her with a smile: "Look at it, does Sister Zhen look like the Queen Mother?" Looking at this palace, this pretty woman doesn't look like a righteous daughter, but like a daughter. ”
When the concubines below heard the queen say this, where would they refute it, they echoed it one by one.
The Queen Mother took Sizhen's hand, smacked the queen with a smile, and said kindly to Sizhen: "Don't pay attention to that splashing monkey, she is used to being like this, no big or small." ”
Knowing that the Queen Mother and the Queen are aunts and nephews, their affection is not as good as ordinary people, and it is really difficult to accept such words, Sizhen only smiled obediently and did not say anything.
The Queen Mother took Sizhen's hand and asked for warmth, and when she asked Sizhen's age, she heard that she was only twelve years old, so she smiled and said to the concubine on the left: "The mourning family thought she was thirteen or fourteen years old, but I didn't expect that she was as old as Bogol and Jianning." ”
Bogol is the eleventh son of Emperor Taizong and is born from the concubine. Jianning is the youngest daughter of Emperor Taizong, since the death of her biological mother, she has been raised in Cining Palace, and she is standing beside the Queen Mother at this time, hearing what the Queen Mother said, she glanced at Sizhen, pouted and said: "The Queen Mother has a new daughter, doesn't she hurt Jianning?" ”
The Queen Mother smiled and said to Jianning: "People who have already been engaged are still so stingy? Go, be jealous, and go with your imperial sister-in-law a bunch of sour, lest we fall for the teeth! ”
Hearing the queen mother talk about her own family affairs, Jian Ning blushed, ran to the queen's side, twisted her body and said coquettishly: "Queen's sister-in-law, look at the queen mother's ......"