Chapter 21 Ruyi
The palace in front of you is still carved and painted, golden and brilliant, all of which show the graceful style of the heavenly family.
evoked a playful smile, raised his feet, climbed the stairs, and in the hall of nourishing the heart, on the ground paved with white marble, the uninhibited demeanor of the man in red was reflected.
"The seventh brother has been in a remote place in southern Xinjiang for ten years, it is really hard for the seventh brother, before his father died, he told me to take good care of the seventh brother, so he simply transferred the seventh brother back to Beijing, and our two brothers can get together." There was a bright laugh from above, and the sound echoed in the empty hall, but there was no trace of tenderness, all alienation.
Tuoba Yue looked up at the person who spoke to him, his evil eyes smiled, he leaned over and saluted, and then said with a smile: "Brother Huang, don't deceive your younger brother, my father left me in southern Xinjiang for ten years and didn't ask, how could he think of me when he was dying." If it is said that the royal brother cares about sibling affection, the younger brother really believes it. ”
Tuoba Chen's eyes deepened, and his sharp eyes looked at Tuoba Yue inquiringly, seeing Tuoba Yue's smile open, his heart was half settled, but he was suspicious by nature, how could he easily let go of the mustard.
The ten fingers dyed with red cardamom, stroking Tuoba Chen's palm, Lan Ruo's coquettish voice sounded in the hall: "Your Majesty, I really miss the Seventh Prince, I just entered Beijing, and the carriage and horses are tired, so I summoned the Seven Princes into the palace, how can you be such a brother." ”
Frowning slightly, Tuoba Yue looked at Lan Ruo, a disgust rose in his heart, that cold figure broke into his heart again, for some reason, since he returned to Beijing, that figure lingered in his heart.
"My brother is in southern Xinjiang all the year round, is this His Majesty's favorite concubine?" Tuoba Yue asked as if puzzled.
Lan Ruo's coquettish smile froze on her face in an instant, the corners of her lips trembled, and the palace people on the side forced themselves to hold back their smiles calmly, this Seventh Prince, I don't know if he has really stayed in such a cramped corner of Southern Xinjiang for a long time, and he doesn't even know the queen's phoenix crown palace clothes.
Tuoba Chen's face was also a little unbearable, and after glancing around, the palace people on both sides were silent, and lowered their heads to make a deaf look. For fear that the emperor would be displeased and cause trouble.
I wanted to be angry, but in the end, Lan Ruo interrupted the embarrassing situation with a smile and said, "The seventh brother is in Southern Xinjiang all the year round, and it is normal not to know this palace. ”
In front of the emperor, the person who claims to be the palace is the queen of Fenglin Yang Palace, Tuoba Yue seems to have suddenly realized: "Please forgive the queen, the younger brother is clumsy, and he didn't see the queen's mother's motherly posture, and he smiled." ”
A summons, and finally broke up unhappily in a scene like Tuoba Yue's "ignorance of current affairs".
In the Weiyang Palace, Lan Ruo slammed the exquisite carved celadon glazed vase on the ground, and the crisp sound echoed in the hall, Qiao'er glanced at the palace people serving on the side, and the little palace maid withdrew with a white face.
Qiao'er walked to Lan Ruo's side lightly, and persuaded in a low voice: "Why is Niangniang so angry, the Seven Princes are far away in Southern Xinjiang, they are unrestrained, and they look like a person without a city, today Niangniang also saw it, and even dared to help His Majesty's face, such a character is better than a deep and steady temperament, isn't it?" ”
The hatred in her beautiful eyes gradually subsided, and she looked at the fragments on the ground, the fine porcelain vase, which was now worthless, scattered on the ground, for people to trample.
But the knot in my heart was always difficult to dissipate, I took the hot tea handed over by Qiao'er, took a sip, the warm touch flowed from the tip of my tongue through my body, and my spirit seemed to be ironed.
"As far as you know how to comfort this palace, I just can't be angry at what the man said today, it is clear that he is ridiculing the identity of this palace is not worthy of it, he also grew up in the palace since he was a child, and he only left Beijing at the age of seven, and he can't see the identity of this palace at all, he is simply pretending to be confused." Lan Ruo said viciously.
"Maybe these seven princes have grievances in their hearts, after all, every sentence today is dissatisfaction with the former emperor, and when the time comes, our majesty will reward him as an idle prince, and if he has no real power in his hands, he will not be so arrogant." Qiao'er put a pair of skillful hands on Lan Ruo's shoulders, kneading them carefully.
"Speaking of Your Majesty, I rewarded the concubines today, have you heard that Your Majesty is staying in whose palace today?" Rubbing the corners of her sour eyes, Lan Ruo looked at the somewhat drowsy sky outside, this spring day is getting late, and the warm evening breeze is also a little annoying, which makes people unable to calm down, and is irritable for no reason.
"The slave maid went to the Internal Affairs Mansion to investigate, and His Majesty went to Xu Zhaoyi's Bingquan Palace today." Qiao'er replied.
"This Xu Qing'er is the daughter of Xu Shangshu, Your Majesty should go to her palace." Lan Ruo nodded, but when she said this, her heart was still sour, and the curvature of her lips seemed mean.
Outside the palace, at this time, there was a group of palace maids, who were brought into the palace gate by the inner attendants. One by one, they hung their heads and walked quickly, and from time to time there were eunuchs urging them: "You can hurry up, the little master and the masters have moved into the new palace, waiting for you to serve, this rule has already been handed over to you by the grandmother, from now on in the palace, you have to be careful, offend the nobles, your cheap life does not matter, don't affect the masters on your heads, do you know?" ”
A few times in a row, yes.
In the Hehuan Palace, He Xi looked at the woman kneeling under him, and said with a cold expression: "What about the ugly child? ”
The show girl draft, once she is named a concubine, will receive the attendants of the little masters from outside the palace and enter the palace to serve, but the person who is kneeling under the head now is not ugly at all.
"Back to the little master's words, the master said, ugly looks terrifying, and it is inconvenient to serve the little master in the palace, so he called Ruyi to replace him, and Chouer has already told the slave maid all the preferences of the young lady, and please rest assured that the little master." Ruyi's answer is methodical and leaky.
The master in Ruyi's mouth is He Qing, where did he do such a master, it must be the meaning of the above, but it is unknown whether this matter is Tuoba Yue's meaning or Xiao Nai's meaning.
But fortunately, there is Liang Bo outside the palace to take care of her, and she is not too worried about the ugly child.
The moist eyes looked around the hall, only to see that the furnishings in the hall were simple and old, and even a little dust fell on the cups, and it really responded to Zhao Ruxue's words, and it was really a bleak palace.
His gaze returned to the woman in front of him, and he said lightly: "Since it was arranged by my father, you can stay with me from now on." ”
Raising her eyes in surprise, He Xi was shocked, this woman, with bright eyes and bright teeth, is a little darker, but it is also a healthy wheat color, laughing, her eyes are bent into a string moon, and people are also a little happy.
Sending a palace maid with such a posture into the palace, it seems that the purpose of that person is not very simple.
There was a commotion outside the palace, and the palace ladies gathered in front of the dilapidated door of the palace to whisper, stretching out their plain white handstrokes from time to time, looking excited.
"What is this doing?" He Xi also followed the gaze of those people, got up from the ground Ruyi, supported He Xi and said: "Back to the little master, I heard that Your Majesty is going to Xu Zhaoyi of the Ice Spring Palace today, and the sedan chair will pass by the path in front, so they are curious and come over to take a look." ”
Ruyi pouted his side face, and the smile on the corner of his mouth did not decrease, but his voice did cool down: "You have just entered the palace, and you know a lot of things." ”
Ruyi smiled, there was no trace of fear, and said without humility or arrogance: "In order to serve the little master, the slave maid is naturally more well-informed, especially His Majesty's whereabouts, even if the slave maid uses a little trick to inquire and is known by other maids, it will not hurt." ”
He Xi's face sank in the end, he stroked Ruyi's hand, and scolded: "You are very thoughtful, it seems that this Hehuan Palace, in the future, will listen to you?" ”
These words were extremely serious, and Ruyi's complacent face suddenly faded to snow.
Hurriedly knelt down, and defended repeatedly: "The slave doesn't dare, the slave just ...... It's just ......" lips snorted weakly for a long time, but after all, he couldn't find a suitable reason, he was ordered by the young lady to come to He Xi to serve, his own young lady was regarded as the pearl of the palm by the Seven Princes, and the person in front of him was just a chess piece, and he still had a careless attitude.
I thought it was an easy temperament, but I knew that the person in front of me was far from what I imagined.
The woman in front of her, although she was still wearing the pink clothes of the show girl when she was in Chuxiu Palace, and her black hair was simply held behind her head with two plain silver hairpins, but at this time, her body and bearing seemed to have been in the top position for a long time, graceful and majestic, and Ruyi felt that her breath was a little sluggish.
"Since you are sent by that person, you naturally have to understand who is the master, if there is a next time, I will not spare you, you say, is it easy to replace your chess piece, or am I easy to replace?" The voice was not loud, only the two of them could hear it clearly, He Xixiu's eyebrows slightly raised a soft arc, and her cherry lips opened lightly, and she breathed like an orchid. But Ruyi is like falling into an ice cave.
The people who had just gathered at the gate of the palace noticed the movement here, and some people timidly looked back, only to see two people standing and kneeling in front of the temple gate of carved rosewood.
Thinking that He Xi wanted to establish rules, he paced over with a weak heart, knelt behind Ruyi, and after a moment of effort, he knelt in front of the door.
He Xi also wanted to take this opportunity to knock on everyone, but she didn't want to wait for her to speak, and a noisy voice came in from outside the palace gate.
"My sister is really majestic, look at the people in this courtyard, but because this Hehuan Hall is not very happy, it angers others?" It's Zhao Ruxue.
At this time, Zhao Ruxue had already changed out of the palace dress of the show girl, and put on a moon-white brocade cloud satin, which was embroidered with colorful butterflies with different colors and shades of overlapping yarn. Slightly walking, lifelike, as if in a flower, surrounded by a hundred butterflies.
He Xi remembered that today in Chuxiu Palace, the grandmother said that Zhao Ruxue was good at dancing, and He Xi knew in his heart that this Zhao Ruxue was afraid that he also took a fancy to that trail.
"My sister is just a subordinate in the palace, but it makes Sister Zhao smile." He Xi Yingying bowed, and the etiquette was thorough, but Zhao Ruxue couldn't find any mistakes.
Seeing that He Xi had no intention of arguing with herself, as if this punch was on the cotton, Zhao Ruxue was a little depressed, and wanted to find a reason to punish He Xi, but the maid Lu Zhu next to her gently pulled her shirt and said in a suppressed voice: "Little master, the time is almost up, don't miss a big thing because of an inferior person." ”
Zhao Ruxue suddenly came back to her senses, she didn't know what to think of, her face was a little shy, He Xi's eyes flashed slightly, and she said with a smile: "Looking at my sister's expression, it seems that there is still something to deal with in the palace?" If that's the case, the younger sister won't keep the older sister. ”
Zhao Ruxue's mind was not on He Xi at all now, she was only thinking about the handsome figure like jade, and left the Hehuan Hall with the green beads quickly, and walked straight to the path.
Without Zhao Ruxue's noise in her ears, the whole courtyard was a lot quieter, the palace people were kneeling on the ground and listening to the training silently, He Xi looked around, took the look on everyone's face into his eyes, and said for a while: "I don't care which palace you served in before, or what kind of rules Mama handed over, but in this Hehuan Palace, you should know the truth of prudence in words and deeds, if you accidentally offend the nobles, I will definitely send you out, can you write it down?" ”
"The slave/minion has written it down!" Everyone said yes in unison.