The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is in front of her in a blink of an eye, and early in the morning, Wanying got up early, freshened up, dressed neatly, and ate the palace maid's meal with Qi Qiuli that she usually disliked. Because I have to go home today, even the fried bean sprouts that I usually hate the most are delicious.

After eating, Qi Qiuli went to deliver the food box, Wanying leaned against the door, looked at the dark and oppressive sky on the roof with a leisurely complaint, and muttered back and forth in her heart: "Amitabha, don't snow." "The great mercy of Guanyin Bodhisattva, when Wanying arrives home, it will snow again when you are old."

Qiu Li heard it from afar, and said with a smile: "My senior teacher, the wind and snow are the errand of the Dragon Prince, and it is not under the control of the Buddha and the Bodhisattva, you are so indiscriminately burning incense and making a wish, are you not afraid that the Dragon Lord will be jealous, and it will snow immediately?" After saying this, he took Wanying into the house together.

Wanying pursed her lips and said, "I will make a wish full of gods and Buddhas, in case any Buddha and Bodhisattva see that I am sincere, they will help me!" ”

"If it's all so effective, then where will there be floods, droughts, etc., burn incense and worship a Buddha, sincerity is spiritual, right? Miss Shida? ”

Wanying knew that Qi Qiuli was teasing herself with kindness, she was not ashamed or annoyed, and she still said with a smug look: "Phew, the little hooves with long tongues, when did you cut your tongue, see how fast you are still talking." Qi Qiuli didn't fight back, but just took a few half-new clothes that Wanying didn't want to go out, and said in a chatter: "Good clothes, I haven't worn them a few times, and I don't know what crazy I smoked, so I actually said that the color of this dress is not the same as the spleen and stomach." Clothes are worn on the body, and they are not swallowed in the stomach as food, what is not suitable for the spleen and stomach, it is really hypocritical. ”

"Miss Ben is willing, after this day I will never wear these clothes again, and keep them for insects to eat."

"Good clothes, just give them for free, I see the workmanship of this material, at least one piece costs three or five taels of silver."

Wan Ying glanced at Qi Qiuli with her eyes, a wicked smile on her face, and spit bad water in her heart, "I have never seen the world, and the palace clothes are also divided into three, six, nine, etc., this is the best Hangzhou silk fabric, and the material alone is more than thirty taels, as well as the embroidery, beads, needlework, and one set of one hundred and eighty taels." Three or five taels of silver, you can't even buy a corner! ’

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but distinguish this skirt and said: "Miss Qi, take a good look at what kind of material this is, the serious Hangzhou silk of eight hundred is a pattern customized by my family in the Hangzhou Weaving Bureau, and it can't be bought outside." ”

Qi Qiuli was stunned and said: "They talk about you all day long, and you still give them such good palace clothes, it's really good to forget the pain of the scar." ”

"They say that I am because they have nothing to do, or because they don't know me, and if I am as knowledgeable as they are, it is not exactly what they say. I don't! They said I wasn't good, and I preferred to show them. ”

"Good, good...... Good miss, I'll send the palace clothes out. I'm afraid of your kindness, others will be donkeys' liver and lungs. ”

Wan Ying flew a white eye to Qi Qiuli coquettishly, turned around and sat in front of the desk, and suddenly Qi Qiuli shouted like a corpse: "It's down again." ”

Wanying hurriedly put down the scroll, and hurriedly opened the curtain and walked out of the house, sure enough, the dense snow, rolling in the cold wind, the ground was already white. He loosened the curtain and said angrily, "It's all your fault, Crow's Mouth." ”

"It's really the wicked who sued first, it's clear that you burned the wrong incense and worshiped the wrong Buddha, how can you blame me. Huangtian Bodhisattva, I can't wash it even if I jump into the Yellow River. After Qiu Li finished speaking, she threw away the curtain and went to the next room.

When I entered the house, I saw the palace maid Honghua and Baozhu roasting their hands around a small stove, and when they saw Qi Qiuli coming in, they hurriedly vacated a place and said, "This ghost is going down again, come and bake your hands." ”

"No, we'll leave today, I'll say goodbye to the two girls." Qi Qiuli said with those palace clothes.

When Honghua Baozhu heard this, he turned on the stove and came over, and said very emotionally: "We haven't been there for a few days, but I think you are a good person, but unfortunately your fate is not good, and you are also jealous of talent." ”

This sentence made Qi Qiuli a little tearful, and she endured the grief and indignation in her heart and said: "It can be regarded as a blessing in disguise, I can follow Miss Shi out of the palace." ”

"It's okay if you go out, it's useless to stay here." Safflower said.

"Who's to say it isn't? You look neat and tidy, if you don't burn your face, it is not uncommon to choose a nobleman. It's a pity that you yourself are too careless, and you have a good face ......" Baozhu said this, and her eyes flashed with tears.

The three palace maids who had just met stood together and looked at each other for a while, but Qi Qiuli wiped her tears and said crisply: "This is a few palace clothes from Miss Shi, I have worn it a few times, if you don't dislike it, just take it, and you can change it when you usually wash clothes." ”

"She won't give us anything she can't wear. Everyone has lived in a courtyard for almost a month, and they haven't taken a single face, and they don't even go to serve the concubine, and they don't know how she has great powers, and she is raised in the palace like half a master. Honghua said indignantly.

"Isn't it! Not only do we have to serve the concubine, but we also have to serve her in vain. What kind of master do you say she is, why did she come to our Rongshou Palace to be a waster. ”

"You too, she originally entered the palace to respond to the scene, her father is Shuntian Mansion Yin, the Beijing official of the third grade. It was a grievance to let her be a palace maid. Qi Qiuli explained.

"Phew! She dared to show this everywhere. Standing on the city gate tower and throwing a brick into the capital, nine of the ten people who smashed it were three products. threw another brick and smashed ten people, ten of whom were Jingguan'er. What is the third product, the deputy third product, and dare to talk in the Ziwei Divine Palace, he can't do it. Honghua said.

"Sister Honghua, look, this is the best Hangzhou silk, and it is very smooth in your hand." Baozhu said knowingly.

"Sure enough, it's made of silk, but it's hard to say whether it's the silk of Hangzhou, the world is so big, even our hometown has a silk workshop, who knows if this is the silk of Hangzhou."

"Sister Honghua, look, the little beads on this are pearls!"

"What's the big deal about pearls, they're so small, they're not worth a lot of money at all. Valuable people will not give it to us. ”

"Sister, you are really picky, this palace dress is slim and tailored, you see that the skirt is a few inches to the waist, even if you don't use a belt, it also looks like a slender waist willow pendulum, not like our palace dress, the top and bottom are wide, like a bucket, or tie a belt, the waist looks thicker than the forty or fifty-year-old grandmothers."

"How do you work with such a tight grip? I couldn't stretch out my hands, and I was bent over my waist in discomfort. We are palace maids who work, how can we work if we wear such a bewitching dress? It's not to seduce the gentlemen, and I'm not afraid of jokes when I make a slim waist willow pendulum. ”

"I'm not afraid of people's jokes, my sister doesn't want it, then I want both of them." Orbs are the best of the bunch.

Honghua was anxious when she heard this, and hurriedly snatched one from Qi Qiuli's hand, and said, "Who said I don't want it." This one is mine, and that one is yours. ”

Qi Qiuli saw that the two of them accepted the palace clothes, and their own affairs were finished, and she wanted to say goodbye to the two. I saw that the two of them were holding palace clothes and had begun to compare on their bodies.

Qi Qiuli was about to leave the house, and Honghua said embarrassedly: "You also tell Miss Shi, we won't send her, there is something wrong with her words before, so that she doesn't remember the villain." Don't care. ”

Qi Qiuli nodded, and suddenly had some admiration for Wanying in her heart.

Qi Qiuli walked out of the house, and she could still hear the two talking in the house.

"You just said so much that it's not good, why do you want to do it again in the end." Baozhu said.

"Fool, if people send some old things, we will be happy to the sky, isn't that rushing to make people look down on us? What's more, we usually always speak ill of her behind our backs, and we don't want other people's clothes coldly, which makes us seem to have no ambition. ”

Qi Qiuli smiled, didn't listen anymore, turned around and returned to the house, and saw that Wanying was still packing up the books, and complained: "Good miss, you haven't put these two books in the basket yet?" ”

"When it snows, I feel very upset, and I always feel unsteady when I sit here, and I don't have the heart to clean up."

Qi Qiuli took out a big red otter skin from Wanying's box and handed it to Wanying's hand.

"It's going to snow, and no one can stop it, but dress warmly, and the road will be less freezing, right? Fortunately, it was snowing, and if the luggage was carried away, I couldn't add more clothes. Turning around and busy with other things, he said: "All the luggage should be checked one by one, and when the eunuch comes over at noon, he will look at them one by one, put a seal, and then carry them away." ”

Seeing Qiu Li busy and busy, she was really relieved, put down the big and said: "What you said is right, if it weren't for the snow, I'm afraid the box would have been carried away a long time ago, like adding a piece of clothing, it can't, it can only be frozen." It's better to go down early. It's hard for you, and you have to worry about these jobs. If you don't take out this otter skin, I've forgotten that there is still this thing. ”

Qiu Li originally counted the number of boxes, listened to Wanying's words, her fingers did not move in the air for a long time, and then she said without turning her head: "I was originally the maid's life, I am willing to do this for you and the prince." Don't say anything like that again. If you talk too much, you are not happy, and I am not happy. ”

Wan Ying also stopped talking.

At noon, several eunuchs came over, checked the boxes one by one, checked the records when they entered the palace, confirmed that they were correct, and then pasted the seals and carried them away one by one.

As soon as the luggage left, a eunuch came over to spread the word that there was a will in the inner court, and the palace maid of Rongshou Palace was Wanying, and Qi Qiuli left the palace from Zhenshun Gate at the right time.

Finally waited for this moment, Wanying took the token to leave the palace, put on a big hat, looked back at this small and cramped room, closed the door and went out, when she walked out of the gate of Rongshou Palace, Wanying turned around and saw that the window on the west side of the main hall was open, and the concubine and Aunt Bitong were standing in front of the window, so far away, so far that Wanying couldn't see their faces clearly. Aunt Bitong waved her hand, and the meaning in her eyes poured out, and Wanying also waved her hand, bowing three times in the direction of the west window.

With tears streaming down his face, he kept crying in his heart: "I never saw myself from beginning to end, but I took care of myself silently." As a palace maid, she can be safe and sound in the treacherous harem under the protection of Rongshou Palace. Concubine Guigui and Aunt Bitong are really the wisest and the most loving to themselves. It seems that he is reluctant to get too close to himself, but in fact it is the best protection. ”

Thinking of this, I was grateful, and turned around and walked in the direction of Mianshou Bridge.