34. The last lady of the tea palace
The palace people bowed their heads and retreated, and heard Zhao Zhen say: "Congguang, I want to invite you to participate in the Keju meeting in ten days." Before he heard Liu Congguang's answer, he had retreated to the door, not daring to slack off, turned around and crossed the two-foot-high threshold, and when he arrived at the bottom of the porch, he heard a male voice coming from the house, but he could no longer hear what was said.
Previously, everyone only knew that Mo Lan was a guilty person, and whether he was guilty or not still needed to be judged by the Gong Zhengju, and they didn't want to be too involved with her. Today, seeing that she is so able to comprehend the holy will, I admired her again, and rushed to ask her about serving in front of the palace. Mo Lan shirked and said: "I'm just the last palace maid in the tea ceremony, and the high-ranking palace people in the tea department are Bibi and I, which round will I serve before the emperor?" It's just that I live with my sisters, so I learned a thing or two. ”
Everyone thought she didn't want to talk, so they went to work in a boring way.
Zifei stepped forward, "You are so powerful, you can even guess what the official family wants to eat." ”
Moran smiled: "Where is this guessing, it's just human nature." If you're thirsty, drink some sour plum soup, you can't go wrong, that's what you said. ”
Zifei shouted, "When did I say that? ”
Mo Lan smiled and said, "Who prepared a big pot of sour plum soup after Lord Liu left the palace." Say, the sun is so big, you will definitely be thirsty when you come back. He also said that if you are thirsty or something, drinking sour plum soup is the most thirst-quenching! Tell me, did you say that? ”
Zifei strained her face, squinted at the sky, the sunset was westward, the sky was full of red clouds, she seemed to be talking to herself; "It's so hot, cook sour plum soup." He smiled at Moran and said, "Is what I said useful?" Ha ha. So saying, he slipped behind the eaves of the porch.
Today's dusk is extremely beautiful, the sunset is gradually setting, and the orange-red sunset is as delicate as a misty light smoke. The palace people walked in the open space in front of the hall in twos and threes, and the spring evening breeze mixed with the fragrance of flowers and trees in the woods rushed over, Mo Lan slowed down his steps and went to the residence, enjoying the tranquility of the moment.
As soon as she left the palace gate, she entered the palace street, and heard a eunuch coming behind her with a high-five, she knew that the official family was going to drive back to the palace, so she hurriedly retreated to the corner of the wall and stood quietly. After a while, she heard footsteps coming one after another, and when she walked up to her, she seemed to slow down her pace, and she became more and more nervous, and even her breathing slowed down by half a minute.
Zhao Zhen slowly paced forward and saw her at a glance. The setting sun stretched her shadow extremely long, hazy as if enveloped in a purple glow, and she couldn't even see her expression clearly.
He wanted to ask, did you teach people to cook the sour plum soup? Or to say a word, the sour plum soup tastes good. But he still held back, didn't say anything, and walked past her step by step.
After dinner, Zhao Zhen called Zhou Huaizheng into the palace, "Is there a palace maid sent to Renming Hall by the Fengcha Division?" ”
Zhou Huaizheng didn't know what was going on, and he didn't dare to say nonsense, so he only said: "A palace maid was sent to the division as an errand at the end of last year. ”
Zhao Zhen asked again: "But what happened?" ”
Zhou Huaizheng said: "It's not a big deal, one day I missed the time of the lock, and I didn't go back to my residence until the middle of the night, and I broke the rules, so I was sent to the division by the Shangzheng Bureau to be on duty." He cautiously speculated: "Does the official family want to transfer her back?" Zhao Zhen turned his back and stood by the window, looking at the bright moon from afar, his expression was dark. I only heard him say softly: "Shang Zhengju does things according to the law, and he can't lose the rules because of me." Go down. ”
Zhou Huaizheng thought about it and retreated.