Chapter 3: Embarrassment
Different from other noble mansions in Chang'an, the Hussar General's Mansion was divided into two mansions, the east and the west, Gu Mingyue took the maidservant out of the side gate of the West Mansion, and walked step by step on the covered bridge to the East Mansion across the city. She raised her head and looked at the Dongfu Mansion not far away, which was obviously a stone's throw away, but the tall and gorgeous pavilions of the Dongfu were very different from the Xifu, and the dragon pattern tiles that could be seen in the distance also made people know at a glance that this was a royal mansion. This is also the difference between the East Mansion and the West Mansion, this mansion can not actually be regarded as the Hussar General's Mansion, it is the Mansion of the Eldest Princess of Xuanyang.
Gu Mingyue walked to the door of the Dongfu Mansion, looked up at the gilded eldest princess's mansion plaque for a while, then straightened her dress, and ordered the maid to go to the court, until the maidservant girl in the mansion came to guide her, she smiled and thanked: "It's hard work, but the eldest lady has gone to see the history of the teaching girl?" It doesn't hurt me to wait. ”
The maidservant of Dongfu said: "No, the eldest lady said that she was unwell, so she sent the news into the palace, and she will not see the female history today." ”
This surprised Gu Mingyue: "Don't you see the history of teaching women?" "This is not like what Gu Mingzhu can do, in order to be able to meet the mind of the queen of heaven at the Qujiang banquet, and not to make a mistake in the rules of behavior, Gu Mingzhu tried his best to pester his father with a lot of relationships, so he invited Princess Luyang's teaching daughter Shi from the palace to come to the palace and teach her the etiquette rules in the palace. In the past, Gu Mingzhu was most concerned about learning the palace rules with the history of teaching women, and she was also the most boastful to outsiders that she could get the guidance of teaching and introducing women in the palace, and she was proud of winning, but how could she find a reason to push it for no reason today?
She followed the maidservant in confusion, walked all the way down the winding corridor, through the hall, turned the rockery garden, and went straight to the sparkling hibiscus pond in the middle of the house.
The servant girl who took the lead stopped her steps, and another servant girl with a light blue short tunic skirt came up in the distance, and greeted Gu Mingyue with a slight smile: "The second lady is here." ”
Gu Mingyue saw the visitor, and the smile on her face was even more gentle and kind: "You have to come to welcome me." ”
It was Gu Mingzhu's personal maid Abi who came, she said with a smile: "Why do the second lady have to come over, the lady is resting in the flower pavilion, and the maid will go in and spread the word." ”
Gu Mingyue's watery apricot eyes looked at the hexagonal pavilion on the blue wave pool, there were light incense yarn curtains hanging in the pavilion, which were gently fluttering with the pool wind, and it was vaguely visible that there was a Hu bed in the pavilion, and someone was lying on the Hu bed to take a nap, needless to say, it was naturally the eldest lady Gu Mingzhu.
She was a little confused, obviously the eldest sister Gu Mingzhu was safe and sound, and she also saw her calm expression in the Xifu just now, how could she suddenly push the teaching of the palace to teach the history of women, but she took a break here, looking at ease, you must know that the day after tomorrow is the Qujiang banquet of the queen of heaven, that is, she and Gu Mingyu are very attentive and quietly practice palace etiquette in the courtyard, but Gu Mingzhu is ......
Across the covered bridge, she heard Abi enter the flower pavilion to report to Gu Mingzhu, Gu Mingzhu heard that she was coming, but she just responded lightly, and asked her to come over without any other words, as if she was not surprised that she was uninvited.
"Big sister." Gu Mingyue bowed softly and saluted Gu Mingzhu respectfully.
Gu Mingzhu sat up lazily on the Hu bed and looked at Gu Mingyue: "You are here to intercede for Yu Niang, right?" ”
Gu Mingyue was even more stunned, raised her head to look at Gu Mingzhu, and nodded after a while: "Yes, please let the eldest sister spare her." She didn't wait for Gu Mingzhu to speak, so she went straight to the end: "Ayu doesn't know what to do, she offended the eldest sister by talking nonsense, A-Niang has already punished her for going back to the room and grounding, just now I also went to see her, I think she already knows that she is wrong." ”
Gu Mingzhu's lustrous and transparent eyes looked at Gu Mingyu without saying a word, and looked at it for a while, until she saw Gu Mingyu's delicate face slowly showing an uncomfortable look, and then said lightly: "This is strange, I didn't say that I wanted to blame her, nor did I want to embarrass her, why is Yueniang so anxious to come to the door to compensate for her?" ”
She took some fish food in the crystal plate and sprinkled it in the pond next to the flower pavilion, attracting many koi to scramble for fish food, watching the fish swim around, and said: "Could it be that Yueniang wants others to feel that I want to embarrass Yuniang?" She raised her eyebrows slightly, looking at Gu Mingyue with a little ridicule and scrutiny in her eyes.
Gu Mingyue's face turned red instantly, and she shook her head again and again: "No, I'm just afraid that my eldest sister will be annoyed because of Yu Niang's words, so I thought about accompanying her for her, after all, she is her own sister, so she can't be angry about a trivial matter." ”
Gu Mingzhu didn't look at her, just smiled lightly: "That's it, then thank you for your kindness, but I didn't care about it in the first place, you should stay with Yu Niang to comfort her, you don't have to come to make amends to me for Yu Niang, I'm afraid that she may not accept your affection." She said, smiled again, waved her hand, and asked Abi to send Gu Mingyue out, looking like she didn't care at all.
Gu Mingyue's face was red for a while, she didn't know what to do, she was a kind person since she was a child, she had never encountered such embarrassment when getting along with people, she couldn't advance or retreat for a while, so she had to endure her grievances and tears and curtsy to Gu Mingzhu: "Then, then I'll retreat first." "Follow Abi out of the Flower Pavilion.
Watching Gu Mingyue's slender figure slowly walk away, Xiao Kui, the personal maid, said softly: "Lady, the second lady has always been soft-natured, and I think I really came to make amends for the third lady." ”
Gu Mingzhu raised her eyebrows, looked at Gu Mingyue who had walked away, and her voice was clear: "She is indeed here to make amends, and by the way, she also came to see me." After saying this, she didn't speak again, she was just feeding the koi fish with great interest, and she didn't care about the trouble in the Xifu before, and Gu Mingyue, who had just come over.
Xiaokui didn't understand a little, although her own lady didn't have a good face in Xifu in the past, she could still say a few words to the general's wife Luo and the second lady Gu Mingyue, I don't know why she is so cold now, is it really because of the matter of the third lady? But looking at it, it doesn't look like it, she really can't understand what the lady means.
In the past, although the lady's temperament was arrogant, but it was still good for them to serve them closely, and she didn't hide anything from them, and she could see it at a glance, but these days I don't know why, the lady seems to have changed her personality, and she can't see what she is thinking when she acts and speaks, and even she and Abi don't understand what the lady is thinking.
She pressed her thoughts and said softly: "Lady, the dresses and jewelry sent by the Xifu are all excellent, but let people put them away and wear them to the apricot garden for a banquet the day after tomorrow?" ”
She has seen that those dresses are all prepared according to Gu Mingzhu's preferences in the past, they are all the best Shu brocade materials, and the style is also the most fashionable, and she can't find the slightest mistake.
Gu Mingzhu shook his head: "Let people put it in the warehouse, you don't have to take it out." ”