CHAPTER XVIII
After King Rui's wedding, it came to the summer solar term, and the weather became more and more impermanent. When there is sun, it is so hot that people want to get into the ice box, but when there is no sun, it is a light rain for several days, and there is not even a trace of sunshine.
Empress Dowager Cui's leg was injured when she was young, and it was okay to hold it when it was cold in winter. But when it comes to this rainy weather, it is itchy and painful, and there is no trick. At this time, Empress Dowager Cui's temper also became irritable, and even Mama An, who had been waiting by her side for decades, did not dare to say much.
Lingxi was even more worried, the master was unhappy, and in the end, it was the slaves who suffered.
Others have seen her begging for rewards in front of Empress Dowager Cui on weekdays, but who sees her frightened when she waits on the sidelines?
Early one morning, the sun finally appeared on the sky after several days of rain. Empress Dowager Cui looked happy, and a smile that had rarely appeared on her face in the past few days.
When Mama An combed her hair, she asked, "The weather is good today, does the Queen Mother go to the Imperial Garden or take a walk in our palace?" ”
Empress Dowager Cui looked at the water mirror, lightly pressed a jade bead flower on her temples with her right hand, and said, "The rain has only stopped this morning, and the rain on the small stone road leading to the imperial garden in Yongshou Palace has not yet fallen, so let's go to the small garden in our palace." ”
"The Queen Mother feels sorry for the minions, which is a blessing for the minions." Mama An said with a smile, and took a pink Yueji that was newly picked in the morning and had a few raindrops and compared it to Empress Dowager Cui's bun to see where the hairpin was suitable.
Qian Weishi listened to the words of Empress Dowager Cui and Mama An, and went out to arrange the accompanying palace people without moving.
Empress Dowager Cui took the pink moon flower, compared it to the bun a few times and said, "The mourning family is old, and I can't afford this pink anymore." Wearing lake-green clothes and wearing such a flower again, won't you become an old goblin? ”
"The Queen Mother wears this flower, which is the blessing of flowers." Mama An replied cautiously, then turned around and asked the little palace maids waiting next to her, "Did you say that?" ”
At this time, in addition to Zhichun Zhixue, who was in charge of cleaning the face of the Empress Dowager Cui, and Zhixia Zhihua, who cleaned up the bed, the Lingxi who had just come in, followed by Zhiqiu who was holding a saucer.
Zhihua Zhixue is a third-class little palace maid, so she naturally doesn't dare to reply privately. Although the three of them are second-class palace maids, they are not as good as Lingxi in terms of favor, so they naturally dare not answer easily.
Lingxi turned around and took the tea cup on the saucer and respectfully put it on the right hand side of the Empress Dowager Cui, and said to the Empress Dowager Cui with a smile after blessing the blessing, "If you go back to the Empress Dowager's mother, it is clear that this flower does not set off your complexion, and the slave maid is humble in her opinion, your complexion is fair, and the tender yellow color is more against you." ”
Mama An glanced at Lingxi with satisfaction, and echoed, "No, after Ling'er said this, the slave maid also felt that the tender yellow color was more flattering to you." It was the slave who twitched her eyes and picked a pink one and came in. ”
Empress Dowager Cui is nearly sixty years old, and although she is well-maintained, her skin is not as white and tender as when she was young. Knowing that Lingxi was flattering, she still felt happy in her heart. Then he said to Lingxi, "Then let Ling'er go and pick a flower for the mourning family today." ”
Lingxi was blessed and ran out happily. After a while, he ran back happily, holding two camellias with tender yellow petals on his little hands.
Mama An's eyes lit up when she saw the camellia, and after looking at the spirit rhino twice, she said, "Ouch, this flower is really spiritual." As he spoke, he turned back to the Empress Dowager Cui and said, "The slave went to pick flowers in the morning, but I didn't see such pretty flowers." ”
Empress Dowager Cui gently pinched the tender yellow camellia with her hand, and her eyes were full of smiles, "Isn't it?" This flower is really pretty, why haven't the mourning family seen it in the garden? ”
Lingxi was blessed, and said, "Please also ask the Queen Mother to give sin, this camellia is a tribute to the courtiers outside the Queen Mother's birthday two years ago." Camellia has a total of 18 plants in three colors, red, yellow and pink, and they are carefully waited in Luomei Xuan on weekdays, so the Queen Mother has never seen it. ”
Empress Dowager Cui closed her eyes and thought for a while, and said, "Oh, that's the case. Saying that, Chong Ling raised his hand and said, "It's not a big deal, you can get up." ”
After Lingxi stood up straight, Empress Dowager Cui said again, "This flower is blooming happily, let's carry it to the Changle Palace." ”
Lingxi happily agreed.
The flowers in the garden are colorful, and the famous flowers in Luomei Xuan are countless. The reason why Lingxi chose Camellia was to transfer Chun'er to the front hall in the final analysis.
In a place like Luomeixuan, even if you want to leave the palace when you are old in the future, you will be embarrassed by the people in the palace. It's better to come to the front hall to get more rewards, so that you can plan for the days after leaving the palace.
In the middle of June, Chun'er was transferred to the Changle Palace to wait, although she was just a rough palace maid, but the monthly rules and rewards were more than those in Luomei Xuanzhong. The only inconvenience is that meeting Yao Buyun is not as convenient as before. Fortunately, both of them know what to do, but they didn't give birth to what is wrong.
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When there is rain, scolding the rain, when there is no rain, looking forward to the rain, the scorching sun has been hanging in the sky for more than ten days.
Empress Dowager Cui is so hot that she doesn't like to move, and every time she has lunch, she will take a nap in the Changle Palace.
At this time, the most painful thing is the spirit rhino.
Empress Dowager Cui felt light, and she would wake up when there was a little movement outside. What followed was tea waiting, and Lingxi didn't dare to let Empress Dowager Cui drink too much, otherwise she would not talk about dinner and affect her sleep at night.
So she could only think of ways to get some new things for Empress Dowager Cui, such as watermelon juice, peach juice, strawberry juice, and custard, which were often seen in her previous life, but they were extremely difficult to make in the Dashun Dynasty.
A few days passed, and the Empress Dowager Cui was a little expectant about the juice that Lingxi had made, just like a child, and when she woke up, she was worried that Lingxi would get her something new to eat.
When it was almost time for the moment, Zhidong, who was waiting for Empress Dowager Cui to take a nap, came out.
Zhixia hurriedly blessed Zhidong, and took Zhihua and a few third-class palace maids to go in with a golden basin and a cotton handkerchief embroidered with a few large peonies.
Lingxi saw it, and hurriedly informed Zhiye in the middle of the room to bring out the plum soup that had been frozen in the ice box.
When Zhixia came out with a group of little palace maids, Lingxi took Zhiqiu in.
Empress Dowager Cui had already packed up, and when she saw Lingxi coming in, she smiled and said, "Come on, come on, let's see what new things Ling'er has prepared today." ”
Lingxi Yifu with a smile on his face, said, "Back to the Queen Mother's words, the slave is clumsy, and she only cooked plum soup today." ”
As he spoke, he turned around and put the small white jade bowl on top of the saucer held by Zhiqiu on the low table in front of Empress Dowager Cui.
The small bowl of white jade contains light red juice, and there are a few pickled red petals floating on it, which looks very good.
Mama An shouted after seeing it, "Ling'er is thoughtful, the plum soup is packed with this white jade bowl, and then decorated with a few petals, looking at it is appetizing, and the tongue is full of relish." ”
"I don't know what benefits Ling'er has given you to praise her so much every day," Empress Dowager Cui picked up the white jade teaspoon that matched the white jade bowl, and said to Mama An with a smile, "It's that you have been by the side of the mourning family for decades, otherwise the mourning family would still think that this is your own granddaughter." ”
Mama An immediately laughed back, "The Queen Mother laughed, Ling'er, this girl is so smart, how can the old slave be so blessed to have such a granddaughter who has the heart of the Queen Mother." ”
Lingxi hurriedly said to Mama An, "Mama, you can torture the slave and maid, don't dislike ......"
Mama An didn't wait for Lingxi to say anything, she pointed a finger at Lingxi's forehead and said with a smile: "You are clever." ”
Lingxi immediately climbed up along Mama An's hand, hugged Mama An's arm and said, "Mama hurts Ling'er!" ”
The nine-year-old Lingxi was not big, and he rubbed it into Mama An's arms like a grandchild.
Empress Dowager Cui laughed when she saw it, pointed at Lingxi and said, "This little monkey hurts everyone." ”
Lingxi didn't dare to climb the arms of the Empress Dowager Cui to be coquettish, so she only looked at the Empress Dowager Cui with her big eyes full of smiles, pursed her lips and said, "The little monkey is the little monkey, as long as the Queen Mother is in pain, the slave will be a little monkey." ”
Empress Dowager Cui pinched the teaspoon lightly with her finger wearing an agate ring and said to Lingxi, "Little monkey, the mourning family will taste today's plum soup first, if it doesn't fit, you will go back to train the birds~"
Seeing that the Empress Dowager Cui was going to drink the soup, Lingxi straightened up and said to the Empress Dowager Cui, "The Empress Dowager, the plum that cooks the plum soup is the plum of the red plum knot in the Luomei Xuan, and the slave maid saw that the plum was ripe just right in the spring, so she pickled a small jar, and the petals in the soup were also the red plums pickled in last winter." ”
"Yo~" Empress Dowager Cui took the teaspoon and paused with a hint of interest, "The red plum knot in Luomei Xuan?" Why didn't the mourning family hear that the red plum would still bear fruit? ”
"The Queen Mother, there is only one plant, and it bears green plums." Lingxi replied.
The masters were cautious in their diet, and before cooking plum soup for Empress Dowager Cui, Lingxi asked the people in the imperial dining room to take a closer look, and inquired about what kind of plum this plum was, and whether it could be eaten or not.
"Oh oh......" Empress Dowager Cui nodded, reacted with a finger of the rhino, and said, "You little monkey, you forgot to drink plum soup when you messed up the mourning family." ”
"The Queen Mother drink it, the little monkey won't interrupt." Lingxi replied with a grin.
Plum soup is not a rare item in the Dashun Palace, and the craftsmanship of Lingxi is not superior. However, Empress Dowager Cui was happy, so she drank the plum soup cleanly, and then let Lingxi go down. Baidu sister-in-law| The Legend of Concubine Ying
After Lingxi left, Mama An shook the fan for the smiling Empress Dowager Cui and said, "Ling'er, this girl does have a heart. ”
Empress Dowager Cui nodded, "It's not easy at a young age." ”
Mama An said again, "That girl is afraid that the plum soup just brought out in the ice box will hurt her stomach, so she deliberately amused her......
Empress Dowager Cui patted Mama An's hand and said with emotion, "Alas~ There are countless princes and grandsons of the mourning family, and none of them can talk more in front of Feng'er after leaving the palace." Although the ninth princess is small, the pure concubine is cautious and cautious, and she doesn't dare to let that child recruit a little more right and wrong......"
"Queen Mother, right now Concubine Cui Guifei's dragon son is about to be born, you can raise it like King Yangrui." Mama Ann came up with an idea.
Empress Dowager Cui shook her head full of pearls and cui, and said, "Cui Guifei is not a person who saves people, if I raise ......."
Who knew that the Empress Dowager Cui's words were only halfway through, Qian Weishi ran in from outside in a panic, knelt at the feet of the Empress Dowager Cui, and said in a trembling voice, "Empress Dowager Qi, Concubine Cui is not good!" ”