After a while, she asked Mama Zhang to send a message to the courtyards, saying that the prince was a servant all the way, and there would be no banquet tonight, so that everyone in the house would have dinner in their respective courtyards.

Yusheng Garden

"Princess, I heard that the county lord looked bad after coming out of the old princess, and then the prince came out with a face like the bottom of a pot!" Concubine Zhang is instructing the people to rearrange their inner rooms, choose their own bedclothes, and plan to serve them well when the king of Zhennan comes tonight, and mention the matter of this marriage contract by the way. Hearing the news at first glance, Zhang's was even more happy, and he was more confident in the marriage contract.

Only the common people and the women of the lower families in the Dayan Kingdom will get married at the age of fifteen and immediately after the ceremony, and most of the women in the family are fifteen years old and after the ceremony to start discussing marriage, the process of the three books and six ceremonies of the Eight Classics of the Eight Classics has to go down, how to do it It will take a year or two, plus the wealthy family in order to show the gold of their own women, they usually stay for an extra year or two, so most of the women in the family are eighteen or nineteen years old before getting married. Now Nan Lingmei is sixteen years old, although many people came to the door last year and asked for marriage, but most of them are the eldest son of the family, or the second son of the second room, and most of the Zhang family is not eye-catching.

"Princess, the princess has a word over there, there are still a lot of official affairs to be handled when I just returned to Beijing, and the prince is eating and sleeping in the main courtyard today." Zhu'an, who was sent by the Zhang family to invite the king of Zhennan to come to the courtyard for dinner, brought the little maid in the prince's courtyard to come back and forth.

"What?!" Zhang Shi was shocked, and suddenly looked like a deflated ball, "Okay, this concubine knows, Zhuyu, you invite the eldest lady to come over for dinner!" ”

Here Nan Lingmo returned to his courtyard in contemplation, his mind was in a mess, and when he arrived in the courtyard, he entered the inner courtyard without saying a word, and he didn't even bother to eat, so he just lay down and fell asleep.

Yiqing Garden

King Zhennan came out of Rong Jintang and went into the study of the main courtyard for an hour, and even the dinner was used in the study, and he also ordered that no one should disturb him. After dinner, Nan Shen went directly out of the study and went to Yiqing Garden.

This Yiqing Garden is the main garden behind the main courtyard, and the main courtyard becomes a "work" word, which is the residence of the prince and princess. The name was originally "Hehe Garden", which was taken by Mrs. Jiang, which means that you will be happy and happy for a hundred years. The king of Zhennan and the princess had a good relationship, so they built a separate corridor in the main courtyard and Yiqing Garden, leading directly to Yiqing Garden.

After the death of the princess Jiang, the garden was closed and no longer inhabited, and the king of Zhennan ordered that everything in the garden should still be kept as the princess was, and no one was allowed to touch it. Usually, it is the old man who waits for Yiqing Garden to take care of everything in the garden.

King Zhennan walked into the room, looked at the portrait of the Jiang family, and muttered, "Qingrou, I'm back to see you." Mo'er has also grown up, and you used to say that you didn't want Mo'er to marry into the royal family, but now you can't help us...... Qingrou, if Mo'er, who exchanged half of the military power, doesn't enter the palace, will you blame me for only caring about Mo'er and ignoring Xiao'er? ”

Three days later, at two o'clock (half past one in the afternoon), the grandmother in the palace of the Queen Mother came to pass the decree, saying that the Queen Mother heard that the Lord of Ren'an County had returned from filial piety and had not met for a long time.

Nanling Mo returned to the house from Zhennan Wang and told her that the Queen Mother would summon her, so she prepared the clothes to enter the palace. Mei Xi quickly pulled her a Ling Xuan bun with her hands and feet, and used a gilded emerald double butterfly hairpin and a jade hosta hairpin in the county lord's regulations, and warm jade hosta flower earrings in the earrings; Dressed in a primrose-colored vertical water pattern eight-treasure standing water skirt, with a light blue waist seal with a black jade pendant, and a satin embroidered rabbit fur of the same color, it looks solemn and pretty. Nanling Mo also specially painted the birthmark with a special rouge to make it heavier, and the light red birthmark became crimson, and the entire left side of the face looked quite terrifying when you looked closely.

Since it is entering the palace, this soft whip naturally cannot be carried into the palace. Before leaving, Nanling Mo took 5 quenched gold needles and pinned them into the left sleeve, and 5 empty needles into the right sleeve. took Mei Qian and hurriedly went out to the palace.

On the carriage, Mei Qian was nervous, this was the first time she was going to enter the palace, she had never seen this world, and her nervous hands and feet had been trembling all the way. Nan Lingmo's hands and feet also trembled slightly, but it was not because of nervousness. In her previous life, as Li Yunqing, as the first female teacher, she had to enter the palace every day, and after becoming the queen, she lived in the palace. It's just that she thought that she would see the Queen Mother in a while, and maybe Yun Tianfeng, so she couldn't control her resentment......

The palace of Zhennan is not far from the queen, and it will take two quarters of an hour to arrive in a carriage. Along the way, Nanling Mo repeated the rules of the palace to Mei Qian in a low voice, and repeatedly explained that she must be cautious in her words and deeds, and she must not run around and look around, Mei Qian nodded again and again, afraid that she would lose her head if she was not careful.

Soon arrived at the gate of the palace - Yongde Gate, the female dependents of the princes and princes of the imperial relatives entered the palace door, and the female dependents of the ministers entered the palace through the Qing'an // gate.

After entering the palace and checking the waist card, there was a warm sedan waiting next to it. Mama Chen, who was beside the Queen Mother, said with a smile: "County Lord, the weather is cold, the Queen Mother specially ordered someone to prepare a warm sedan chair to wait for you here and take you to Shoukang Palace." ”

"Thank you for the grace of the Queen Mother." Nanling Mo replied with a smile, giving Mei Qian a color, Mei Qian hurriedly took out a purse and stuffed it to Mama Chen and said with a smile: "The weather is cold, our county lord asks Mama to make some wine to warm up." Mama Chen gently weighed the weight of the purse, and said with a smile: "The county lord, please please, the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine are waiting for you in Shoukang Palace." ”

Riding the warm sedan car, I soon arrived at Shoukang Palace. When the people heard that the Lord of Ringan had arrived, they immediately went in to report it. After a while, Nanling Mo entered Shoukang Palace, and Mei Qian went to the place where the minions gathered.

Nan Lingmo walked into the palace, knelt down and saluted: "Ren'an knocks to see the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother is blessed with Jin'an." Ren'an knocked on the imperial concubine Niangniang, and the mother was auspicious. ”

"Good boy, get up." The Queen Mother hurriedly said, "Ren'an, come forward and let the mourning family see, the mourning family hasn't seen you for several years." ”

Nan Lingmo lowered her head and stepped forward, stopped a foot away from the Queen Mother, raised her head slightly, and her eyes drooped.

"Why did the Lord of Ren'an County still wear a mask when he met the Queen Mother, this is a great disrespect to the Queen Mother." Imperial Concubine Xie Wanru spoke up.

Nan Lingmo heard this familiar voice, the roots of her teeth itched with hatred, and her finger joints were pinched white, and she was stunned for a while: "The Queen Mother, the Imperial Concubine Niangniang, Ren'an's appearance is ugly, if you take off the mask, you are worried about scaring the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine." ”

"Ren'an, the mourning family remembers that you have a birthmark on your face, haven't you seen it for so many years, and the birthmark has become bigger?"

"Back to the Queen Mother, yes, Ren'an's birthmark is getting bigger and deeper as she gets older, and most of the left half of her face is a birthmark. Please also forgive the Queen Mother and the Imperial Concubine. ”

"Oh, I don't know how big the birthmark of Lord Ren'an is, why don't you take it off and show it to the palace and the queen mother?" Xie Wanru gloated, thinking, 'If this Lord of Ren'an is really ugly, the emperor will definitely not ask her to enter the palace again!' So I wanted to see it even more.

"Back to the imperial concubine Niangniang, Ren'an has already said that Ren'an's appearance is ugly, the birthmark is as terrifying as a spider's web, Ren'an is afraid of colliding with the queen mother's phoenix body, Ren'an really can't take off the mask, and please forgive Niangniang."

"Isn't it just a birthmark, how scary it can be. Lord Ren'an, why do you want to resign? Is it trying to resist the decree? Xie Wanru suddenly said sternly. Xie Wanru didn't believe in the terrifying birthmark of Lord Ren'an in her heart. After all, although the other half of the face of the county lord of Ren'an is not the sixth palace of the glamorous crown, it is also dignified and magnificent, with bright eyes and bright teeth.

"Who is resisting and disobeying?!" A male voice sounded, accompanied by the eunuch's report, and Emperor Yun Tianfeng entered Shoukang Palace. And they immediately greeted the emperor.

"Son, greetings to the queen mother," the emperor saluted, "rise up, all of you!" ”

"Who was going to resist and disobey just now?" Yun Tian walked up to the Queen Mother and sat down, Feng continued what he had just said and asked.

"Back to the emperor, the concubine saw that the county lord of Ren'an was wearing a mask to meet the queen mother, and she didn't comply with the rules, so she asked her to take off her mask, but the county lord of Ren'an just didn't want to, and shi......rked it in every possible way," Xie Wanru bent down and replied.

"Oh, Lord Ren'an, is there such a thing?" Yun Tianfeng asked in a deep voice.

Nanling Mo, at this time, it should be said that Li Yunqing heard the emperor's voice, and he trembled with anger, and he wanted to rush up and kill Yun Tianfeng, but he told himself rationally and desperately that he had to be calm, so he trembled even more, and in the eyes of others, it looked like it was because of Tianwei.

Yun Tianfeng saw that she was trembling, thinking that she was frightened, so he softened his voice and said slowly: "Ren'an, if you have anything unspeakable, just say it, I will be the master for you." ”

Nanling Mo came back to his senses, settled down, bowed his head and said the previous words again, and the emperor said: "It's okay, I forgive you for your innocence, you will take off your mask and let the queen mother see it." ”

"Yes, Ren'an obeys." Nan Lingmo lowered his head and said. So he stretched out his hand to untie his mask, raised his head and lowered his eyes slightly to the queen mother, the emperor and the imperial concubine to see his face.

I saw that one-third of the left half of the face was covered with crimson cobweb birthmarks, which spread from the left side of the brow to the left side of the cheek, and everyone gasped when they saw it. After a while, the Queen Mother looked at Nan Lingmo who was full of tears and said: "Alas, Ren'an, it's really difficult for you, you will wear a mask in the future!" ”

The Emperor also came to his senses and said, "Yes, Ren'an, you can wear a mask in the future." He glanced at the Queen Mother again: "Queen Mother, there is still something to do in the previous dynasty, so I will go back to the palace first." The Queen Mother nodded, and the Emperor left Shoukang Palace.

The Queen Mother glanced at Xie Wanru and said, "Imperial Concubine, there are many chores in the harem, you should go back first, and the mourning family will talk to Ren'an." ”

"Yes, the concubine retired." After Xie Wanru heard this, she had no choice but to get up and leave.

"Ren'an, I have wronged you just now. I heard that you will be in time for the 10th day of the next month, so the mourning family will give you some gifts to celebrate your birthday! "After the Queen Mother finished speaking, a palace maid stepped forward with a box, and Nanling Mo saw that it was a pair of wind and blood stone jade bracelets." Ren'an, thank you Queen Mother," Nan Lingmo saluted again and thanked him.

At the second moment of Shen Zheng, the Queen Mother bluntly said that she was tired, Nanling Mo took the opportunity to leave, and left the palace in a hurry with Mei Qian and returned to the palace.