Chapter Twenty-Nine: A Walk
The Empress Dowager Shengci is still the same place, and she doesn't even burrow rabbits into it.
As soon as the palace maid saw Xiaodong, she smiled after the accident, and hurriedly went in to pray, and after a while, the Empress Dowager Shengci came out.
She is still the same, she doesn't apply fat powder on her face, she doesn't wear any more jewelry on her head, she only wears two hairpins, and her complexion looks good - although this complexion is not very good, but Xiaodong saw the Empress Dowager Shengde first, and she already has the worst foundation, and she feels very good when she sees the Empress Dowager Shengci again.
The palace maid put down the mat, and Xiao Dong knelt down and kowtowed steadily. She's half a trained person now, and at least she'll never have a kowtow that turns into a ball rolling.
The Empress Dowager Shengci beckoned her to come to her and held her little fat hand. Xiao Dong's hands are thin and white and chubby, like a good white-flour steamed bun. Hu Shi said that her hands were born well: "The hand of the county lord is a hand that will be blessed for a lifetime." ”
Xiao Dong asked: "Is the Queen Mother all well?" ”
The Empress Dowager Shengci nodded: "Okay, it's just that it's still cold and I don't want to go out of the house." Instructed someone to take Hu Shi and Hongya to wait elsewhere, and asked someone to bring tea and fruit snacks or something to Xiaodong to eat, and asked her if she had eaten.
In fact, Xiao Dong felt that the Empress Dowager Shengci was not as serious, indifferent and old-fashioned as others said, she ...... It's like I just don't know how to get along with people.
That's actually the case in the palace, isn't it? There are many people who are not inherently taciturn, or who are dull. Either they are scared or they are scared. Xiao Dong looked at those palace maids and eunuchs one by one like wood carving clay sculptures, even if the sweat was dripping into his eyes, he couldn't raise his hand to wipe it.
When King An brought her here for the first time, the Empress Dowager Shengci didn't say a total of ten words, she looked very restrained, and the scene was cold. But Xiao Dong came by himself, although the Empress Dowager Shengci did not have a warm and smiling face, but I am afraid that Xiao Dong can see the inconsiderate and inconsiderate performance.
Maybe it's because she's a child that the Empress Dowager Shengci can let go a little.
Xiao Dong said: "I ate porridge when I came. She picked a piece of snack on her plate and broke it open, revealing a fragrant meat floss filling. She handed half of it to the Empress Dowager Shengci: "Niang Niang eat." ”
The Empress Dowager Shengci was a little stunned and slowly took the dim sum.
Xiao Dong took a big bite, she didn't taste what kind of meat it was, anyway, it was very fragrant, not greasy, not hard, just suitable for children.
The Empress Dowager Shengci saw that her cheeks were bulging when she ate, and the corners of her mouth were also stained with cake crumbs, so she wiped it for her and took a bite herself.
After eating meat floss snacks, eating jujube cakes, and eating two freshly cut melons, Xiaodong's stomach was bulging, and the palace people around the Queen Mother said with a smile: "Thanks to the blessing of the county lord, Niangniang's appetite has never been so good." But this time I ate so much, I still got up and walked around so as not to accumulate food. ”
Xiao Dong looked up at the Empress Dowager Shengci.
The Empress Dowager Shengci hesitated: "Then let's walk in the courtyard." ”
The sun had already risen, shining warmly on the body. Every flower branch against the wall spits out buds. Xiao Dong didn't know what kind of flower it was. If it had grown leaves and blossomed, she might have known it, but now it is so slippery that she can't see anything.
The Queen Mother took Xiao Dong's hand and walked slowly, at first it seemed to be a little stiff, but then she slowly relaxed. He also pointed to the flower branch and said, "That's Su Tong flower, the flower is fragrant, and the petals can be dried to make sachets and fill pillows." When the flowers bloom, I'll have someone make you two. ”
Xiao Dong nodded, looking at the flower branch curiously.
I don't see that it will bloom very fragrant flowers.
The Empress Dowager Shengci said softly: "After the first emperor went, the emperor came to ask me if I wanted to move, and I said that I was used to living and didn't want to move the place. ”
This is...... Well, chatting with her?
The Empress Dowager Shengci has never talked to anyone...... Uh, Xiao Dong couldn't laugh or cry a little.
Even if it's rare to relax and want to talk, it's impossible to talk with her no matter how old you are.
However, what the Empress Dowager Shengci needs should not be what she says.
It was enough for her to listen.
"After I gave birth to your father, my health has not been very good, and I moved here to recuperate. Changchun Palace is quiet, and the meaning of the word Changchun is also good. Later, I gradually got better, and I got used to living here. ”
Xiao Dong pondered for a while, she went to the Empress Dowager Shengde several times, and the Empress Dowager Shengde lived in Fengyi Palace - this should be where the queen lived, so the Empress Dowager Shengde did not move the palace.
Since she didn't move, of course the Empress Dowager Shengci was not easy to move. Getting used to living may be a reason. But the more important reason should be that the Empress Dowager Shengde does not move, so the Empress Dowager Shengci can only follow the non-move, right?
Xiao Dong had this question in his heart, and asked Zhao Lu after he went back.
Zhao Lu came back from school, drank several sips of pear tea with a tea bowl, put down the bowl and wiped his mouth and said, "Ah, I know this." The Queen Mother should live in Ciqing Palace. But at that time, it seemed that the Ciqing Palace had not been repaired for a long time, and the treasury had just finished the war, and after the state funeral, and the imperial tomb was repaired, there was no money to repair it immediately, and the Empress Dowager Shengde was sick again...... Later, I don't know what happened, so I never moved. ”
I don't know how, but that's a wonderful thing to say.
Zhao Lu and Xiao Dong are both children, of course, they don't know what's going on.
But don't everyone else know what's going on?
Why didn't the Empress Dowager Shotoku move? Is it just because Ciqing Palace is dilapidated and in disrepair?
No, it's certainly not like that.
It's just that Xiaodong knows too little, so he doesn't know.
But she didn't plan to go into detail about this matter, and asked Zhao Lu: "That Brother Qin also went to school, right?" Is he smart? ”
Zhao Lu touched his head, his face was a little strange: "Hmm...... OK. ”
What does it mean to be okay? Is it good, or is it not good?
If it's really good, with Zhao Lu's personality, don't pat your chest and boast about it.
There's definitely something wrong, and it's not too small.
Xiao Dong pondered, looking at Yao Jinfeng's appearance, eighty percent of them hadn't learned any rules. This Qin Lie, don't you haven't read a word before, right?
Shen Qiang anxiously came to ask Xiao Dong how Shen Fang was doing. Xiao Dong thought about it, and Hong Aya had already said: "Miss Fang is doing well, she lives by herself, she is with the fourth princess during the day, she looks more quiet, and she also asked us to ask Miss Qiang not to worry, don't be naughty and playful, next time I see her, I want to test your words." ”
Shen Qiang's face suddenly wrinkled: "How can she remember this." ”
While he was talking, Yao Jinfeng came.
Her face was flushed, and she didn't know if she had done any intense exercise, and when she saw Zhao Lu, she said, "Alu, let's go out and play?" They said I can't go out alone, I have to be with you. ”
Her habit is different from that of the capital, shouting everyone is Ah or something.
Zhao Lu was also amazed when he saw this Cousin Yao for the first time, but he soon became unimpressed by her personality. Such a lively temperament - it's like a fish freshly caught out of a pond, snapping and throwing and beating, too violent.
At this time, I have a bit of a headache when I hear this.
"It's going to have to wait until it's time for a vacation — and my father's permission has to go."
If he was the only one who went out, of course, he didn't have to ask King She'an for permission, but it was another matter to bring his sisters with him. Besides, going out with their sisters is definitely not the same as going out on their own, they have to take a carriage with their followers, and it is a very troublesome thing to be careful about this.
He is willing to bring his sister, Yao Jinfeng......
Zhao Lu vaguely felt in his heart that there would be trouble in taking her out.