After being away from home for a month, Wanying really missed her mother and father, and cried in a low voice: "Daddy, Wanying wants to go home, mother, Wanying misses you......"

Crying and crying, snow fell in the sky. Everywhere is full of lights. Twilight was mixed with snow, and Wanying couldn't see the road under her feet clearly. The huge Ziwei Shrine has no place to go. With tears, looking at the gray sky, he stepped on the way back to Chu Lixuan, and went back little by little.

Back at Chu Lixuan, Qi Qiuli had already laid down to sleep, and a piece of sweet potato was placed on the table. Wanying didn't eat either, and slept with her clothes. For such a night, the two of them didn't say a word.

For several days, the two were in the same room, as if there was a transparent wall between them. Even if they occasionally look at each other, they pretend not to see.

On the eighth day of the lunar month, Laba porridge is made in the palace as usual. It was a dark day, and the kitchens everywhere were busy. Gonggong Cui of the imperial dining room came over in a hurry, and when he entered the door, he said: "You Northeast Office quickly pulled out a few people, and the imperial dining room was busy. ”

There are not enough people in the imperial dining room, and there are not enough people here, and the cook and a few apprentices are worrying left and right.

Qi Qiuli, who was washing vegetables, greeted her exquisitely: "Shi Wanying, who is in the same room with me, seems to be in charge of cleaning the garden, it has snowed recently, and there is no work!" ”

The cook hesitated for a moment, and thought: Since she entered the palace to be a palace maid, it is not difficult for her to wash rice and cook porridge. said to Qi Qiuli, "You go and call her over." ”

"Master, you see I'm washing the dishes, you let someone else go."

In this way, the sky was just getting bright, and Wanying and a few leisure palace maids stepped on the snow road and went to the imperial dining room to help cook.

The imperial dining room is one of the most rumored places in the entire Ziwei Shrine. The eunuchs and palace maids of each palace and each courtyard, in addition to serving soup and delivering medicine, also brought exclusive information from their own palaces and courtyards to meet here. Either they didn't intend to say it, or the masters deliberately arranged for it to be released, or they were framed at all......

Therefore, there must be a place where all kinds of true and false statements meet, and this is the imperial dining room. All the messages can always take root here and then sprout and blossom for the first time, and finally the respective people also return with the results they want, and then return to their own palace to continue to spread. The cycle goes on and on.

More than a dozen palace ladies got together in twos and threes, gossiping while working.

"Did you hear that? The emperor's newly sealed daughter washed the feet of Concubine Chun yesterday. ”

"It's only been sealed for a few days, and Concubine Chun dares to do it? Aren't you afraid that the emperor will be angry? ”

"It was the emperor who asked the girl to wash her feet."

Wanying picked the weeds in the black rice, and thought deeply: This girl is really out of place, and she can't stand the wind and frost of the harsh winter in just a few days.

"Did you hear me wrong? This is a newly sealed girl, I heard that the emperor almost turned the Ziwei Divine Palace upside down in order to find the girl who wrote poems in Mu Xuexuan, and it was only a few days before it faded. ”

"Your Majesty! The interest came, the mountains and the sea were overwhelming, and the interest was gone, and it was not left for a moment. ”

"Poor Cainu, the good days haven't started yet, they're over."

"Isn't it? In front of the girl, Concubine Chun was coquettish and foolish with the emperor. The emperor is also a man, where can he withstand the whispers and softness of Concubine Chun, so he asked the girl to wash the feet of Concubine Chun. ”

"It's still the Spring Concubine Niangniang who has the means."

"Let me tell you, it was the emperor himself who said that Concubine Chun's three-inch golden lotus is delicious."

Because it was the words in the men's and women's rooms, the voices of the two were extremely low, and only Wanying next to them could hear them.

"Concubine Chun knows the emperor's habits, so she can get it right, so that she can let the girl wash her feet."

"Poor Cainu, she is also the emperor's person."

Wanying couldn't listen to it, so she took a little rice in the small basket and picked up a quiet place. Who knows, there are still endless messages. Wan Ying sat on the bench in a daze, holding the basket, she felt that she was standing in several places where the torrents converged, each one menacing, each tired and entangled.

"Xiao Sula from the Tai Hospital said that Concubine Liu has not eaten water and rice in the past few days."

"It's been a few months of delay, and the imperial doctors of the left and right Tai hospitals hang with ginseng soup every day, so it's okay to come."

"I hope the concubine can survive until February, otherwise she will die a year ago, or in the first month, and the queen mother will be unlucky again."

"Concubine Liu has been fasting and reciting Buddha all her life, and in the end, she has to be careful even to die, and it is really not worth it to choose a day."

"It's really a world of difference to be compatriots in the same class."

"Can it be the same? Concubine Dong'an, that is the biological mother of the king of Dong'an County, and she is the concubine of the wife of the main room, and the concubine's mother is just a concubine. ”

"Yes, after all, he is a blessed man."

"I heard from the aunts who told the concubine before that the concubine was also a concubine. The mother was corrected later, and it is unknown why it was corrected. The other maid said mysteriously.

"Be quiet, be dead, be careful to be heard...... But is there such a thing? ”

"Is there any pretense?"

"If the concubine is also a bodhisattva, I'm afraid that I won't be able to stand up for my mother."

"In the past few days, the concubine has been in and out of Rongkang Palace day by day, and she is also afraid that she will not be able to take good care of the concubine if she is not below."

"In the end, it's a sister. The heart is always in one place. ”

"If the heart is in one place, why didn't you see your sister when the concubine was pampered? My sister is the second concubine of the dynasty, and my sister is just a noble person all her life until the death of the emperor, but I am afraid that I have never even seen the face of the emperor. ”

When the other Gong'e heard this, she suddenly opened her mouth and said yes again and again.

"According to this, the concubine seems to be more delicate and beautiful than the concubine." A Gong E came over and joined the torrent of messages, so said

"It's very true, so it's true, although the concubine is said to be unpretentious, but now that she thinks about it, she can't hide her vulgar quality." Several people nodded again and again.

"I'm afraid that as soon as my sister comes out, my sister will never come out."

"This is my sister, other people's favor is not easy to press, and my own sister is finally really pressed under me."

"If the concubine's grace of rain and dew is given to the concubine, then it will not be the concubine's mother."

"That's exactly what happened."

A few people, you and I said a word, and they talked happily, not minding whether Wanying who was not far away could hear it. Wanying wanted to hide, but she couldn't hide, so she simply lowered her head to pick up rice and followed them to talk nonsense.

"I heard that in this year's show girl, a pair of sisters were also selected in the Shuntian Master's Mansion."

"As soon as my sister entered the palace, she was crowned a nobleman, and my sister seems to be just an ordinary palace maid."

This sentence reached Wanying's ears, and Wanying herself pricked up her ears and listened to them from a distance.

"As soon as you look at the high and low position, you will know what your status is in the teacher's family. Shi Guiren's mother must be proud of the spring breeze, presumably the mother of Shi Gong Ren, I'm afraid ...... It's the same as our picking girls, and they can only be given to the mother of the noble teacher...... Wash – feet! Maybe. A palace lady said quite smugly.

Several palace ladies suppressed their voices and laughed, and Wanying grabbed a handful of rice and threw it in the basket. scolded in my heart: These things are really telling right and wrong, nonsense. was annoyed, and an elderly Gong E said, "What are you stunned here? I didn't finish my work for most of the day, but I pricked up my ears to listen to the excitement, right, go, go and buy rice. ”

"As a dead minion, pick light work, you pick up rice, do you let us wash rice. Go, get all this rice, hurry up. ”

Wanying couldn't, so she had to put her hand into the water to wash the rice, and the water in the wax moon was left overnight, like an ice peg. Wanying's hand retracted suddenly. Just now, that Gong E grabbed Wanying's hand and pressed it into the rice washing basin. Gong E retracted her hand herself, leaving Wanying's hand in the ice water, and with her wet hand, she pressed Wanying's arm tightly, and said, "Rub it vigorously and wash the rice one by one." ”

Wanying was so aggrieved that she wanted to shed tears, but she endured it and swallowed it hard. Seeing that Wanying did not resist, several palace ladies continued to talk idlely.

"A while ago, the eldest princess of Anyang seemed to have something to do with this noble person, it seems that this noble person is not small."

"Why is that sister just a palace maid, she has the face of the teacher, and the little master of the seventh or eighth grade is no problem."

"What I said just now, Bai will talk to you for a long time." The Gong E then said: "What is Shengyu and what is Liang? The mother of the noble teacher can make this kind of thing happen? ”

"It's still like a sister." The maid sighed.

"I don't know if this noble teacher, after he is like a fish in water, will give a piece of the pie to his own sister."

"Maybe if you're confused, if you're smart, I'd love to trample her under your feet for the rest of your life."

"It's the same root, so why be in a hurry. The bigger the family, the more cold the people. ”

"A mother may be fine, but I heard that these two young ladies seem to be concubines. The two aunts have been in the mansion for a long time, and this is something that everyone in the mansion knows. ”

"Hey—pity that Shigong man, ask for more blessings for yourself. The little sixth son in front of the emperor said that the new nobles are very popular with the emperor, and they sleep twice in a month, and the spring concubine Niangniang can't help but praise the nobles between the eyebrows of the nobles are very similar to themselves. ”

"Jin Feng is only afraid that it will be sooner or later, he is a noble person when he enters the palace, and he has been favored by the saints, this noble teacher is really a nobleman."

Wanying, who was washing the black rice, listened to their gossip without saying a word, and unconsciously lowered her head, and her lonely face was clearly reflected in the black water.

It's been a month since I entered the palace, and I haven't seen Wanyun yet. Since she moved into the Spring Festival Palace, it will be more difficult to meet in the future than to ascend to the sky. I don't know if she will think of the sisters who grew up with her since she was a child.

"It doesn't matter if she is really like a fish in water, I will still sincerely bless her." Wanying said to herself in her heart.