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The cold wind gusts, the snow is flying, on the high platform of the imperial city, a woman in red clothes is thin, her long hair is not tied, and the red yarn on her wrist moves with the wind, transforming the magnificent colors in the air.

The common people outside the city besieged the city, pointing and pointing, and in addition to praise and regret, there was also regret in their words.

"Mother, is she dancing?" A three- or four-year-old girl in the crowd asked in a glutinous voice, stretching out her hand and tugging at the corner of the woman's clothes with coarse cloth hairpins in front of her. The woman's face was pale, and her eyes were welling up with tears, as if she had not heard the child's inquiry at all. The little girl pouted and muttered, "I will be so beautiful to her in the future......" The words did not fall, only to hear everyone exclaim at the same time, and the woman on the high platform jumped forward, like a butterfly with wings to draw the last beautiful shadow of life.

The woman in cloth covered the little girl's eyes with her hands, turned around and picked her up, "Jin'er, let's go home." The short sentence was intermittent, mixed with choking and sobbing, the little girl didn't understand, turned her head to look, except for the gushing out of the imperial city guards and the black crowd, she couldn't see anything.

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Liu Meiren's illness dragged on for several months, but did not improve, but had a tendency to worsen. She has always had a bad temper, so she is often embarrassed by others, and many palace people choose to take refuge in other masters, but I am still guarding here. Liu Meiren is the second lady of the Liu family, she went to the palace in a year, and was promoted to a beauty by the waiter in two months, but then she got a cold, and she didn't see it for a long time, the emperor slowly became indifferent, since ancient times, the emperor was so affectionate, she seemed to accept her fate, and stayed in Rongxiangyuan and no longer went out.

These are all things that Mu Han said to me, I have only been in the palace for three months, many things are still hazy, and there are no other trivial things every day except for the decoction of the beauty, so I often study the tea art for recreation.

"Su Jin." Mu Han walked in with a smile, the pink palace dress with silver trim was slightly trendy, I looked up and asked her, "It's raining outside?" ”

She nodded, and took out a plate of refined snacks from the food box, "This is the rose ice cream that the emperor gave to Concubine Li, and there is such a small plate left for me, now bring one for you to taste." ”

"Concubine Li is very favored now, right?" I helped her straighten her messy hair, and her delicate little face was a little tired. Mu Han's appearance is also top-class in the palace, and she may become a jealous concubine in the harem when she will be, she has always been unwilling to be in a low position.

"But no, I've been very proud lately, calling for wind and rain, and my temper is getting more and more arrogant, and I made tea three times yesterday that didn't suit her liking, and scolded me for being a fool! Isn't it just an extra piece of meat in my stomach, I ......" Speaking of this, I hurriedly covered her mouth, and a wrong word in the palace would be fatal.

"Concubine Li has the habit of drinking tea every afternoon, do you know what kind of taste she has?"

Mu Han thought for a moment and said, "I don't like strong tea, but I don't like weak tea, I prefer sweet taste." ”

"I'll make tea with you later, lest she find fault with you again."

"Don't you have to take care of Yoo Beauty?" She asked.

I glanced into the hall, and Liu Meiren might have slept again. "No, besides, there is still little green in Rongxiang Garden."

When I arrived at Yiju Palace, it was as lifeless as Rongxiangyuan. Concubine Li should be lively because she is pregnant with a dragon species, how can it be so cold, the palace people are doing their own thing, and they don't dare to say a word. Only the daisies and dahlias in the palace are blooming brightly, this time it is the height of summer, and the skilled craftsmen in the Yiju palace are also very powerful, so that this untimely flower blooms so well, I was about to ask, Mu Han put his index finger to his lips and signaled me not to make a sound.

Passing by the Youxiang Trail, she sighed when she arrived at the back kitchen, "Concubine Li has been sleeping unsteadily these days, but whenever there is a little sound during the lunch break, she will make people feel panicked." She rolled up her cuffs, a gold and silver bracelet carved with jasmine was very eye-catching, it seemed that she was also a confidant of Concubine Li, otherwise how could there be a bracelet given by the emperor.

"Is there dew over here?" I asked

"Well, the dew is always available, and the lady likes to make tea with the dew from the daisy." As she spoke, she took a small jade pot and brought it over.

I looked around left and right, faintly smelled the faint fragrance of roses from the front hall, some people said that when the emperor first saw Li Concubine, she said that when she smiled lightly, people were as light as chrysanthemums and as dazzling as Li Ju on weekdays, so this palace was named Yiju Palace, and Li Concubine also ordered the palace to be full of daisies Dali Daisy, but maybe no one knew that she might not like it, just because the husband of the Ninety-Five Emperor liked it.

I opened the rose gel that I had brought with me, and the scent was refreshing.

Half an hour passed, and Mu Han entered the main hall with tea, and since I was not from Yiju Palace, I could only wait outside. After a while, Mu Han called me into the temple, and it seemed that everything was progressing in the direction of the plan.

In the hall, layers of bead curtains, dreamy and chic, but too cumbersome, but only to increase vulgarity.

On the chaise longue in front of him, there was a lazy beauty, her phoenix eyes were lightly raised, her lips were red without dots, and she was wearing a moon-blue Su embroidered Wangxian skirt covered with a layer of hazy snow tulle, and a rose-colored ribbon was tied around her waist.

I felt her gaze stop on my cheek, "What's up with your left face?" ”

"Back to my mother's words, I was accidentally burned by fire when I was young."

"Oh, I heard from Mu Han that you made the tea today?" Concubine Li raised her chin and asked.

"The slave is not talented, I dare not offer ugliness, I recently heard that Niangniang is not in good health, and she used to be old sisters with our beauties, so I do my best for the beauty, and I wish Niangniang a speedy recovery."

This series of high-sounding reasons makes people inevitably tired when they listen to it, but to be a subordinate, the most important thing is a forbearance, waiting for the day when they are shocked.

Concubine Li hooked up a sneering arc: "It's hard for your master to have a heart, you get up first and tell the palace how this tea is made?" ”

I got up according to my words, "This tea is the best Jingting green snow, and the water is soaked in the nectar of the rose condensation and the mountain spring to concoct, the water is boiled three times and steamed three times, and the water droplets can omit the sweetness in the nectar to retain the astringency of the rose, brew it with this water, and wait for the tea leaves to be stretched into the mountain spring to be sweet but not greasy, hot but not hot, cold but not astringent." ”

Mu Han raised his eyes and glanced at me, then lowered his head again. Concubine Li put down the teacup and asked with interest: "People can't look good, how old are you this year?" What's the name? ”

"Hui Niangniang, the slave maid is seventeen this year, and her name is Su Jin."

"Su Jin? This palace remembers that not long ago, Liu Meiren Palace received a girl named Ugly. She said.

"Hui Niangniang, it is the slave maid. The slave maid was originally called Ah Chou, but later Master Liu changed her name. ”

"I heard, you used to be from Liufu? It was only later that he was kicked out of Liufu. ”

I didn't expect her to investigate so many things, it seems that it is not simple.

"Yes, the slave's mother is from Liufu, but the slave is not from Liufu."

She nodded as if she didn't understand, and said, "Your mother took you to marry into Liufu?" And why were you kicked out? ”

I was thinking about her intention to ask in my heart, and it happened that at this time, a eunuch came in to report that Concubine Lian had come to visit.

"That's it, you go back, if the palace calls you in the future, you can come. It's better to stay in the Yiju Palace than in that place that is similar to the Cold Palace. Li Concubine played with the four butterflies in her hand.

I looked up and knelt down again. "Xie Niangniang appreciates."

She yawned and handed me the silver step: "This palace rewards you, step down." ”

When I retreated to the door, I heard a small voice: "Isn't Niangniang afraid that it is Liu Meiren who makes the fraud?" ”

Concubine Li smiled: "What is there to be afraid of a dying person? I don't think Su Jin, this girl, wants to be pointed out to the cold palace, so she just came here to find a way out. ”

I'm going to leave calmly.

Who is taking advantage of whom, who is being used by whom, and the resentful girl in this harem is the most difficult to see.

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