8. During the cherry blossom viewing party
Liu Run was right, the next day Defu Palace was really lively, everyone got up early in the morning, sprinkled and cleaned. It's not that I don't care about it usually, but today everyone seems to be extra motivated. The flowers in the Defu Palace are like brocades, the green willows are in rows, Ah Fu wiped a handful of sweat, the sun has risen, the coolness of the morning seems to be hot by the sun in an instant, everything looks bright and bright, Ah Fu and Xing'er hurriedly stuffed breakfast into their mouths when they took the time, Lu Ying was combing her hair, saw Ah Fu, and hurriedly said: "Ah Fu, come and take a hand." ”
"Oh!"
Ah Fu walked over, and Lu Ying motioned for her to unscrew the bottle of head oil.
Ah Fu couldn't help laughing: "Sister Luying is also busy and dizzy, why don't you open it first." ”
Lu Ying was holding her hair in one hand and a comb in the other, and she was too busy to reply.
Lu Ying is the best at combing her hair, not only in Defu Palace, but also in the entire palace There are not many people who can beat her, and her hair is combed quickly and well, and there are many styles.
"Come on, I'll help you comb one too."
"Ah, no need Sister Luying, it's too late."
"It's okay, it's too late, the guests have to finish breakfast before they come, and they can't enjoy the flowers when they come hungry."
She pressed Ah Fu on the stool, and her fingers deftly untied Ah Fu's hair tie.
"Well, the hair is good." Lu Ying said sincerely: "It's soft and dense, and it's pitch black, but it's a pity that it's shorter, otherwise, you don't need to wear a wig to comb it up." ”
Ah Fu smiled.
Lu Ying parted her hair with her fingers, tied it up neatly, and took a pair of emerald green silk ropes from her makeup and tied them to her.
"Yo, it's like a little ball on the face." Lu Ying twisted her face slightly: "You have to be extra careful today, busy is busy, but you can't make mistakes." One mistake ......"
Ah Fu nodded: "I know, Sister Luying." ”
"You're quite sensible...... Lu Ying thought for a while, "You follow me today." ”
"Huh?" Ah Fu was stunned, in the morning someone ordered them to stand in the garden today to serve, and the people in the tea room were too busy for them to help.
"Just follow me." Lu Ying nodded: "Just help me hold the box, save it." ”
Since Lu Ying has spoken, of course Ah Fu can't help but listen.
Jiang Xing'er was really called to fetch tea. Ah Fu silently calculated in his heart, there were already more than a dozen tables in the garden, this is a double number, which means that at least more than 30 people want to drink tea.
So it's probably not just the new beauties who came today, right?
Lu Ying handed a box to Ah Fu and whispered: "Don't make a sound, don't move, it's a bad thing to stand up." ”
Ah Fu was nervous.
Knowing the Queen Mother and seeing the Queen Mother are two different things.
Some people say that the highest status in the harem is the queen, and Ah Fu thinks that the queen is not the biggest.
The biggest is the Queen Mother.
The queen still has to please the emperor, but the queen mother is the emperor's mother. The queen may be deposed, but the queen mother will not.
It is clear which is more important at a glance.
The queen may not be able to become the queen mother, but the status of the queen mother is basically something that no one can shake.
Ring Ding Dong, the fragrance breeze slightly.
Ah Fu wanted to look up to see what the Queen Mother was like, but he still remembered Lu Ying's advice and didn't raise his head.
But although she hung her head and only looked at a small area in front of her, her eyes still swept over the people who passed in front of her.
Embroidered with the beautiful tangled branches of flowers, the skirt is like a puddle of water, swept by.
The faint fragrance is indescribably good.
Ah Fu knew that the Queen Mother wanted to use incense, it must be the best quality, and eighty percent would not be the ordinary flower fragrance he had smelled.
Is it sandalwood, or ambergris? Ah Fu didn't know much about this. She obediently followed Lu Ying through the vestibule. Those beauties have already arrived, standing by the pool among the flowers in twos and threes, the queen mother came, and they saluted together.
"It's all free of courtesy, the weather is good today, the flowers are delicate, and the people are pretty." The Queen Mother's voice sounded clear and peaceful, and those beauties said in unison: "Thank you, Queen Mother." ”
The so-called warbler should be like this.
Those beauties are dressed similarly, wearing the most fashionable narrow-sleeved robes and floral thin silk pleated skirts in the palace, with wavy micro-pleated curls on the edges of the thin silk, and the skirts are lightly swung when they walk, as if the layers of ripples rippled by the breeze on the water.
It's beautiful and has a lot of charm.
How much silk yarn do you have to use for such a skirt? One zhang is not enough at all, and three zhang may be reluctant, this is still the best quality tribute silk satin...... Ah Fu calculated in his heart, such a skirt is enough for his family to eat for a year, right? Maybe you can eat it for years.
Surely these girls wouldn't wear such extravagant clothes when they were at home, right? The skirt was newly made when it arrived at the palace.
Ah Fu was a little uneven, but wearing a beautiful dress and a beautiful life in front of people, Ah Fu knew that it was definitely not suitable for him.
When I think of this, that little grievance calms down.
The Queen Mother is right, it is indeed a charming and pleasing flower. Pink, cherry, goose yellow, apricot, autumn fragrance, jade, green onion, green lotus...... There are so many colors, each distinct, brilliant and gorgeous.
Ah Fu also saw Mrs. Liu, who was also standing aside. Mrs. Liu is the most powerful female official next to the Queen Mother, and on the other side is Mrs. Han. These two didn't care about the flowers and trees, Ah Fu remembered that Liu Run had mentioned a Mrs. Tu that day, but he didn't say anything.
The Queen Mother sat down in the middle, and suddenly remembered something, and turned her head sideways and said, "Why didn't this girl come here?" Didn't I ask her to come along? Isn't it possible that I've eaten a lot of sweet soup lately, and I forgot my words in my stomach? ”
Mrs. Han stood down and smiled and said, "Where will the third princess forget, but she has lost the temper of the queen mother, so she refuses to come." ”
"Tantrums?" The Queen Mother came to be interested.
"The third princess said that the queen mother didn't want to invite her to enjoy the flowers, but to invite the new beauties to bring her by the way, she didn't want to touch the light of others to appreciate the famous flowers, so she refused to come."
"Ouch, this child, she said she was sensible, but she made me petty." The Queen Mother smiled, not looking angry at all. Ah Fu could also hear that the third princess was just playing tricks with the Queen Mother. Sure enough, the Queen Mother said: "Okay, then Han Ju, you and Liu Ye go together, invite our third princess to enjoy the flowers, tell her that I specially invited her to come, not to stain the light of others." ”
Mrs. Han agreed and went with Mrs. Liu. The Queen Mother suddenly thought about it, and said, "How is Gu'er's child doing today?" ”
As soon as the two stewards' wives left, the others did not dare to answer so casually.
"The weather is so good, don't let him stay in the house, let him come too, don't enjoy the flowers, listen to the sound of the wind and birds, and smell the fragrance of the flowers."
Someone answered.
It didn't take long for the third princess to arrive, and Ah Fu had been famous for this princess for a long time, but it was the first time he had seen it in person. This princess does have the ability to be arrogant and pampered. That skin is good, Ah Fu thought of the phrase he had heard before, but he had never seen what such a real person looked like.
The skin of this third princess is absolutely flawless!
Probably only such a proud girl can raise such a delicate and delicate body. In contrast, her eyebrows are picturesque and her hair is like clouds, although she can also be called a compelling complexion, and those new palace beauties below her can beat her, but her skin is far behind. It's like a painter painting with a piece of high-grade jade plate paper and a piece of yellow straw paper, even if he paints exactly the same thing on it, the difference is worlds apart.
"Yo, three princesses, please move only after urging three and four, what a distinguished guest."
"Oh, Queen Mother, I thought you left me behind and were sad in Yulan Palace." The third princess gave a salute, squeezed to the queen mother and sat down, and rubbed the queen mother: "Look at you, the eye circles are still red, and the powder is not covered." I pondered, this time there are so many clever newcomers entering the palace, and the Queen Mother has someone to accompany her to talk and solve it, she must not be able to think of me......"
The Queen Mother was obviously very useful, smiling and twisting her cheeks.
The third princess turned her head to look at the beauty sitting on the table below: "This is the new beauty this time?" Sure enough, they are all outstanding talents. ”
Then someone came, although he hadn't seen it, but Ah Fu thought that it must be the person who the Queen Mother had just specially asked people to invite. Looking at the outfit, he is a prince and is still underage. Nonsense, if you are an adult, of course, you can't still live in the harem, unless he is the crown prince - and as far as Ah Fu knows, the emperor has not made a prince now, the queen has been dead for a few years, and there are only a few ladies in the harem now.
Ah Fu was stunned for a moment.
This is the first man she has seen since she entered the palace - not counting Liu Run.
The boy is not very old, about thirteen or fourteen years old, and he is about the same age as Ah Fu. There were two people behind him, one was dressed as a eunuch like Liu Run, and the other was wearing a round-necked straight-robed robe tied with a scholar's scarf, which would not be a eunuch anyway.
"Gu'er, the weather is good today, and it's not too hot, so I just want you to come over and have a lively time." The Queen Mother spoke, and her voice was full of kindness: "Yo, Xiao Wei Su is also here, just right, today is full of people." ”
The two teenagers saluted together, and their voices were clear: "Meet the Queen Mother." ”
The voice of the young man who had not yet changed his voice sounded really beautiful, and the Queen Mother smiled even more happily.
The third princess stood up and walked over, walked over to him with a smile, and said softly: "Yes, Brother Gu, the weather is fine today, it's not so hot." Come, sit here, let's sit together. ”
The third princess took the young prince's hand and entered the table affectionately.
The closer it is, the more clearly Ah Fu can see.
This young prince has a thin body, and his skin is white and a little lacking in blood, just like a piece of high-grade rice paper, which is not the healthy complexion that a teenager of this age should have. Wearing a cyan robe, his face is even more pale and blue. But his eyebrows and eyes are very good-looking, Ah Fu was almost stunned, and the eyebrows were like the eyebrows of a portrait, faint and elegant. The eyelashes are very long, and the eyes seem to be covered with a layer of mist, like a lake in the mountains on an autumn morning, and the water is crystal clear, but because of this layer of fog, it suddenly looks confused.
Ah Fu didn't dare to look at it again, his head hung down, and his eyes fell on the lacquer box he was holding.
Well, the pattern carved on the lacquer box is very delicate and luxurious, it is a bird, but it is not a phoenix, and of course it is not a peacock. Ah Fu thought for a while, she let herself think seriously, so that she no longer impulsively looked up to peek at the pale prince.
Ah, yes, it's Suzaku.
She was a little glad that she recognized the bird, and the show had already begun.