Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Palace Man

Xiaodong got up early and packed up her clothes, Qin Lie looked at her dressed-up clothes, and asked, "Want to enter the palace?" ”

"Hmm."

Hongjing took a round mirror to shine the back bun for Xiao Dong, Qin Lie came over and took the mirror, Xiao Dong turned his head to look at him.

"Do you want me to accompany you?"

"No need. The Queen Mother's body is not harmonious, and it is inconvenient for you to see you even if you go. ”

"Then I'll send you to the palace gate." Qin Lie glanced at the door and quickly kissed her on the lips.

Xiao Dong was startled, and hurriedly glanced at the door, where Hongjing had already gone out with a basin of water.

Thankfully, no one saw it.

She shook the handkerchief in her hand and twitched it on Qin Lie's forehead: "Go." ”

Qin Lie smiled and hugged her waist, and Xiao Dong glared at him.

"Can I go home at noon? I'll pick you up. ”

"Well, I'm going to have lunch and come out again today, so you don't have to pick me up."

Qin Lie sent her all the way to Yanxi Gate, and watched Xiao Dong's car enter the palace gate.

Xiao Dong walked through the long palace road, and on the other side of the wall was Zuo Ye Ting, listening to the sound of women talking and laughing on the other side of the wall, giggling and laughing.

"The county lord forgot, didn't he pick up draft girls last month, I think the rookie girls have already entered the palace, so they will be placed over there."

Xiao Dong nodded, she forgot about this.

Now they can still laugh, and after a year and a half in the palace, they will slowly become a different appearance. Don't dare to say it, can't laugh at it, follow the rules, and be taciturn.

The Empress Dowager Shengci's spirit was much better than the last time, and she also walked around the courtyard of Changchun Palace. Cai Gu smiled and said, "The county lord came so early, is it available for breakfast?" ”

Xiao Dong smiled and shook his head: "No, I came to eat white food on purpose." ”

The Empress Dowager Shengci pointed at her and smiled: "You, you have become a parent, you are an adult, and you have a child's temper." ”

Xiao Dong smiled and helped the Empress Dowager Shengci to walk forward: "Niangniang's food here is better than my family's, what is there to eat today?" ”

Cai Gu said on the side: "Coincidentally, I went to the small kitchen just now to see that there are peach meat rolls, as well as jade crisp and rock sugar glutinous rice hawthorn porridge, all of which are liked by the county lord." ”

Xiaodong accompanied the Empress Dowager Shengci to have breakfast, maybe she walked a few more steps in the morning, or maybe someone accompanied her appetite, the Empress Dowager Shengci actually drank most of the bowl of porridge and ate most of the cake.

"Your mother-in-law and they went back to their hometown?"

"Well, I left yesterday. When you take the canal, the waterway is always safer and more steady. After sending them away, the house was empty all of a sudden, and I was usually used to having someone as a companion for the lively and lively scene, but at first glance, I really felt lonely. ”

The Empress Dowager Sheng Ci patted the back of her hand: "It will be fine in a few days." If you are bored, come into the palace and accompany me. ”

Cai Gu came up with tea: "There are few people in the county lord's family now, and when he gives birth to a little daughter in the future, he will not be bored at all, and he is afraid that he will be so busy that he will be miserable." ”

The Empress Dowager Shengci also quipped: "Exactly." Give birth to a naughty boy, so that you don't have time to sleep, and you are guaranteed not to be lonely. ”

Xiao Dong's face turned red from being ridiculed, and he hurriedly diverted the topic: "I came in from Yanxi Gate today, and I listened to the area of Zuo Yeting as if there were little birds, and the chatter was so lively." ”

The Empress Dowager Shengci was a little puzzled, and Aunt Cai hurriedly said: "Niangniang hasn't paid attention to it these days, there are new palace maids who have come in there, all of them are little girls, and I am afraid that the palace rules have not been learned well, so I let the county lord hear it." ”

"Really? How many people are there? ”

"The slave didn't inquire in detail, there are always three or five hundred, right?"

The Empress Dowager Shengci nodded: "I've been sick for a few days, but I didn't pay attention to this." By the way, Caigu, what year did you enter the palace? ”

Cai Gu was slightly stunned and thought for a while: "The slave maid entered the palace in the spring of the eleventh year of Yongqing. ”

"Ah," the Empress Dowager Shengci nodded slightly: "It's been more than ten years." I still remember that I entered the palace in the twenty-eighth year of Xianyuan...... Although decades have passed, I still remember very clearly that it was a very cold day, and when we entered the palace, we stripped off all the cotton clothes on our bodies and gave us a jacket, which could not block the cold wind at all, and there was no charcoal basin in the house, and the little girls in the room were shivering with cold. ”

Probably when people get older, they like to remember the past.

"How old was the Queen Mother at that time?"

"Twelve. Yes, just twelve, I haven't left home since I was a child, and when I first entered the palace, I wasn't used to it everywhere, and I was afraid and didn't dare to talk to anyone...... When I learned the palace rules, I didn't suffer less, and at that time, every eight people were divided into a class, and one of those people in that class was not good at learning, and the other seven people were punished together. ”

Cai Gu said, "Exactly, we were too." I didn't have anything to eat after being punished, and I couldn't sleep in the middle of the night. ”

The Empress Dowager Shengci smiled: "The palace rules have always been old-fashioned, and the rules of the harem have not changed much in the past few hundred years. ”

Xiao Dong didn't interject and listened quietly.

"Since then, I have been staying in the palace, and the work is not too tiring. A year, two years...... I feel like that's all I have to do with my life. Some of the girls who entered the palace together were favored, and some were killed by mistakes. At first, I was very scared, but then I experienced a lot and saw a lot, and I was not afraid—it was useless to be afraid. ”

The Empress Dowager Shengci never imagined that she would become the Empress Dowager of a country at that time, right? When you are hungry, you must only think about having a steamed bun and be content.

No one can say for sure, she was the queen's favorite concubine back then, but now she is just imprisoned in the cold palace. And she used to be a little palace maid in the court, but now she is the queen mother.

Aunt Cai's face was also a little stunned, I don't know if she remembered what the past was.

What the Empress Dowager Shengci has experienced, she must have also experienced it.

The palace people came in to say that the queen had led the harem people to come and say goodbye.

The Empress Dowager shook her head: "Let them go back, I don't have much energy and don't want to see people." ”

Xiao Dong stood behind the curtain and glanced out, and asked softly, "Who is the one in the yellow clothes?" ”

The man followed behind Concubine Ming, and just turned his face slightly.

Ah, it turned out to be Zhang Jieyu, and now she has to be called Zhang Shufei.

She looks richer than before, her figure is not as slender as before, her demeanor is completely different from before giving birth to the prince, and the women of the harem have the confidence and reliance when they have a son.

Cai Gu misunderstood what Xiao Dong meant, thinking that she was asking a woman in a pale yellow palace dress who was standing at the back, and said softly: "That's the newly favored Ji Meiren." ”

"Oh."

Sure enough, it's a beauty.

There were many unfamiliar faces among the women, and they stood far back, and their clothes were not so flashy. But they are better than youth, which is more precious than all the precious clothes and decorations, and their cheeks are ruddy, their eyes are bright, their posture is slender, and their voice is like that of a yellow warbler. The women in front of them have seniority and position, and they also used to have youth, but as the years passed, they exchanged their youth for the present. The women in the back have youth and beauty, they are full of ambition, looking at the seniors and rivals who have already faded, and covering up their ambition with courtesy and meekness.

It is really the back waves of the Yangtze River pushing the front waves, and a generation of new people replacing the old.

Xiao Dong has watched a lot of palace fights and TV in his last life. These seemingly intimate scenes are actually just another battlefield without gunsmoke. The fighting in the harem was even more tragic than in the previous dynasty. The men in the court are fighting for power and profit. Dividing the food on the same piece of bread, although there are more or less, but it can always achieve a balance. But it is impossible for everyone in the harem to be happy. There is only one emperor, and there can only be one heir to the emperor. If you get it, I won't get it, you have to fight for it with all your might, step on others, climb up by yourself, open swords and hidden arrows, you live and die.

Xiao Dong looked at them from afar, glad that he was not one of them.

What would happen to her now if she hadn't crossed over to become the county lord, but had become a member of this huge harem? Is it like Cai Gu, who serves a master diligently, or is it like those beautiful women, who rely on beauty and scheming to fight their way out?

She didn't know either.

If you don't get into that situation, no one can say.

Not long after the queen and the others left, another palace person came to report, and the third prince and the fourth prince came to ask for peace.

The third prince Xiaodong has just met, but the fourth prince hasn't seen him for a few days. He was much taller than before, wearing a brocade robe and small boots, with a pink face, delicate eyebrows, and a moderate demeanor. In about another ten or eight years, when he grows up, Shen Jing's title of the first talented and beautiful man will not be kept.

The two brothers saluted and said goodbye, Xiao Dong greeted the two of them again, and the four princes bowed their hands: "Sister Xiao Dong." ”

Children look the cutest when they pretend to be adults.

He saluted, then ran over and took Xiao Dong's hand: "Sister Xiao Dong hasn't come often lately, and I always can't see you." ”

Xiao Dong smiled and said, "The fourth prince also went to school, even if I came, I wouldn't be able to meet you." ”

The fourth prince tilted his head and asked curiously, "What kind of person is Sister Xiaodong's husband?" ”

This one......

"Didn't you see it on the Queen Mother's birthday?"

"It was a mess that day, there were so many people, I didn't speak, I just looked tall."

"He's ......"

What kind of person is he?

Xiao Dong couldn't summarize it all of a sudden.

He also reads, but his learning is not very good. He practiced martial arts, but the five-rank ranger was donated. He was a rough boy and a resolute man......

But for Xiaodong, the most important thing is that he is a good lover and a good husband.

"He's a very nice guy."

The mouth of the fourth prince pursed slightly, and his words sounded quite sour: "How good?" ”

His demeanor and tone made Xiao Dong think of Zhao Lulai all of a sudden. Probably brothers, always don't wait to see a man who marries his sister. Although the fourth prince is still young, he already has this awareness.

From an outsider's point of view, Qin Lie is not so good, his appearance is not good, his knowledge is not good, and he has no family......

Xiao Dong smiled, pointed to the boots on the feet of the third prince and asked, "Look, is your third brother's boots good, or yours?" ”

The boots of the third prince are naturally more elaborate than those of the fourth prince, and the fourth prince nodded and said, "My brother's is better than mine." ”

"Do you want to wear it for you?"

The fourth prince shook his head: "No...... My brother's boots are big, my feet are small. ”

"That's right, whether these boots are suitable or not, the person who wears them knows best, and it's almost the same as getting married."

The best is not necessarily the right for him.

For example, Shen Jing.

If he marries him, Xiao Dong will definitely not complain about his lonely idleness. She has to be a good daughter-in-law, a good granddaughter-in-law, and a virtuous helper - just those relatives and friends of the Shen family remember their names one by one and sort out the relationship, which is hard enough. Even Shen Fang said that her relatives sometimes couldn't even recognize her.

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I just weighed ...... It has been changed.

Twist~~ Pharyngitis is so annoying, I hope it will get better soon.