The two of them hurried along, and finally returned to the door of the dining room at the hour of the hour.

Mu Lan saw that the two wooden doors were hidden, as if someone was talking inside.

Lianxin walked beside him in a trance, helping Mu Lan open the door, and didn't pay attention to the movement in the room at all.

When the two doors opened with a "squeak", I saw Min Sishan and Xia Hua, who were sitting at the table at this time, looking at them with anxious faces.

Mu Lan took three or two steps to bypass the lotus core, passed by, quietly used the crook of his arm to gently touch the elbow of the lotus core, and entered the door with a brocade box in his hand.

Lianxin will come to her senses at the moment, and enter the house quietly with Mu Lan.

After the brocade box was gently put away, Mu Lan greeted Min Sishan and Chunhua with a smile: "Aunt Min, Sister Chunhua, blame me for remembering the wrong way back, and I was late to bring the lotus core back, so I made you wait for a long time." ”

Min Sishan nodded at Mu Lan, quickly glanced at the magnolia flowers in the brocade box, and put them aside, and said anxiously: "Mu Lan, the magnolia flowers are late, you will make this dish tomorrow, remember to simmer the soup earlier." Plus, there's an eyebrow-burning errand here that has to wait for you to do it. ”

"Just now, the emperor and Gonggong Liang came to announce in person, asking you to bring the eight treasures cake you made yourself to the Qianqing Palace to face the saint. We see that the eight treasures cake you made at noon has not been moved, and we have already prepared it for you, and let Chunhua take you there in a while, without further ado, you should hurry up and send it now, so as not to cause extraneous branches. ”

Mu Lan was shocked in her heart, and suddenly remembered what she had said to Emperor Kangxi under the Qingfeng Pavilion in the Imperial Garden on the day she entered the palace draft two months ago.

At that time, for a plan in her heart, she promised Emperor Kangxi: "I am willing to offer food to the emperor and the queen for a thousand years, so as to show the auspicious combination of the dragon and the phoenix." ”

Thinking of this, I couldn't help but feel a burst of hairs standing on end, could it be that the emperor suddenly remembered this and announced that she went to the Qianqing Palace to ask for her guilt?

No, no, no, she is just an insignificant little palace maid like a mustard seed, how can she be worthy of being so mindful of Emperor Kangxi, who is full of opportunities?

However, how could the emperor suddenly remember to announce her audience?

Seeing that Mu Lan hadn't moved for a long time, Min Sishan hurriedly urged: "What are you thinking about if you don't move?" Don't hurry up and go to the face saint quickly! ”

Mu Lan had no choice but to say yes, took the rosewood food box handed over by Min Sishan, glanced at the brocade box containing magnolia flower pieces on the table, and hesitated slightly: "Min Sishan, does this box of magnolia flower pieces need to be kept separately?" ”

Min Sishan was slightly stunned and replied: "After the magnolia flower pieces are retrieved, they have always been locked in the chest of drawers in the dining room, and I will lock it myself in a while, and hand over the key to Lotus Core, and when you come back, just ask Lotus Core to get the key." ”

Mu Lan nodded, took a deep look at the lotus core, and then followed Chunhua and went to the Qianqing Palace step by step.

The two came to the Qianqing Gate, and there were guards to check the waist card, because Liang's father-in-law left a word, only Mu Lan entered the door alone.

Mu Lan carefully remembered the way she came along the way, and because she was thinking about the hard work of tomorrow's banquet and drink, she told Xia Hua to go back to the palace maid's house to rest without waiting for her, and turned around and quickened her pace and walked towards the front of the palace.

Since entering the palace, she walked through the spacious platform in front of the palace for the first time, and only saw a majestic Dan Majesty in the distance, welcoming the high platform Yonglu and the Qianqing Gate.

And left and right four down, in turn, there are copper turtles, copper cranes, sundials, Jialiang, and there are four tall and solemn gilded incense burners set up in front.

Mu Lan walked alone along the seemingly endless road, walking alone in such a vast and large red square, the corners of the moon-white skirt were blown fiercely and softly in the gusty autumn wind, and the wind flew gently all the way.

Entering the door of the inner hall, a eunuch in front of the palace led Mu Lan in the past, all the way to the outside of the Dongnuan Pavilion Palace, and went in to report to her, telling her to wait outside.

After a while, the inner supervisor came out of the door and beckoned to her, signaling that she could enter.

Mu Lan hurriedly adjusted her breathing, held the food box in her hand, and walked respectfully into the high threshold with her head down.

I only walked a few steps forward, only to hear the antique gauze silk shadow wall painted with the Qingming Shanghe map, and there was a string of girl's silver bell-like laughter.

In this laughter, there seems to be a bit of familiarity.

Walking in the middle, she couldn't help but laugh from her heart, so it was.

A few steps away, the lights were bright overhead.

Mu Lan knew that he had arrived in front of the palace, so he hurriedly knelt down with the food box in his hand, raised the red sandalwood food box in his hand high and said, "Long live, long live, long live." ”

Before Banzai could speak, a pair of hands had already reached over and took the food box.

followed by a pair of feet in front of him, not wearing the cloth shoes of the eunuch, but a pair of beautiful feet hidden under the splendid Luo skirt under the jingling of silver bells with a ring.

Mu Lan's face was hidden in the shadows, and the corners of her mouth couldn't help but curl.

She recognized this pair of small beautiful feet, in the Forbidden City, a pair of silver bells would be decorated on the upper of the shoe, and wear it out beautifully and swaggeringly through the market, except for Princess Jiuge Gwenxian, who else could there be?

Sure enough, the owner of the pair of beautiful feet held the food box in his hand, and couldn't help but say coquettishly in his mouth: "Oh, Mu Lan, you are really good waiting!" If you don't come again, this little master will starve to death! ”

After that, he walked back to Emperor Kangxi in a few steps, gently put down the food box, took out a piece of Bazhen cake, and presented it to Emperor Kangxi, and said with flying eyebrows: "Huang Ama, you taste it, this cake is delicious!" ”

Emperor Kangxi took the cake that Wen Xian sent to his mouth, his eyes were half loving and pity, and half couldn't help but smile: "It's not that you just had lunch, I see that you are not hungry, but hungry eyes!" ”

Wen Xian pursed his lips, took a piece of cake and put it in his mouth, and argued seriously while chewing: "Huang Ama, you don't know!" The cake made by this little palace maid is different from other people's! I deliberately kept my stomach unfed, and waited for her to bring this cake so that I could fill in the rest of my belly! ”

Emperor Kangxi smiled slightly, oh, and gently put the cake in his hand into his mouth and savored it.

After eating the cake in his hand, he saw Wen Xian's big black eyes, like a pair of eager chicks, ready to flutter towards him, he couldn't help but smile slightly, and agreed: "I feel this cake...... It's good."

Wen Xian saw that his favorite food was praised by his father, and his eyes were full of joy, and he couldn't help but say: "I'll just say, our father and daughter always have the same opinion, right, Huang Ama?!" ”

In a word, Emperor Kangxi couldn't help but think of Wen Xian, who had grown up in front of him, when he was a child, he climbed on his knees, stretched out a small meat hand like a lotus root, and raised a small piece of unknown cake to his mouth.

The two narrow and soft eyes, like a clear glow under a bright moon, sprinkled down on the round and jade cheeks in front of him, and said in a deep tone: "Well, what Xiao Wenxian said is also the heart of Huang Ama." ”

Mu Lan knelt on the ground, listening to the warm conversation between the father and daughter in front of her, and her heart also relaxed, thinking that it shouldn't be too long, and she could retreat quietly......

At this moment, a dissonant sound diametrically opposed to what she had hoped for, in the midst of the three of them, sounded like a silver bell.

"Huang Ama, don't you know this little palace maid?!"