On this day, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a batch of fresh kidney beans from the south to pay tribute, and the dining room knew that the concubines loved to eat them, so they made several boxes of osmanthus kidney bean rolls and prepared to send them to the palaces.

Min Sishan sent other palace maids to deliver the concubines, deliberately left two exquisite food boxes, left Xia Qing and Mu Lan behind, and instructed: "Xia Qing, you go and send the Queen Mother there." ”

Xia Qing hurriedly said yes, stepped forward to take the food box in her aunt's hand, and said with a slight smile: "Aunt Min, I heard from the grandmothers that the Queen Mother just suffered from some wind and cold two days ago, and she has had some cough in the past two days. I deliberately boiled a cup of Sydney Sichuan shell soup, do you want to bring it with you? ”

Min Sishan nodded with satisfaction, and said with a slight smile: "It's your heart that is the most detailed, hurry up and take it!" ”

turned around and took another food box, handed it to Mu Lan and said, "Mu Lan, you go and send it to the queen." ”

Mu Lan nodded yes, took the food box, and walked out of the dining room with Xia Qing back and forth, walking up to the long corridor leading to the harem one after the other.

Since entering the dining room, Mu Lan always felt that Xia Qing, the right-hand woman beside Min Sishan, had always been imminent towards her.

The people in the palace are very good at looking at their eyes, so Mu Lan didn't feel strange about Xia Qing's enthusiastic and cold attitude in front of Min Sishan.

Since everyone is so accustomed to flattering and bullying, let them be. Maybe he has always been neither humble nor arrogant to others, and he is also very strange in the eyes of others.

The days ahead are so long, who can't tell who will be friends or enemies in the future, so on the premise of not understanding the other party's humanity, it is not necessarily a bad choice to cherish the broom.

Xia Qing walked forward without looking back when she left the outer room, and Mu Lan didn't bother to pay attention to a cold face like her, so she just followed silently all the way behind her.

The sound of the embroidered shoes stepping on the fallen leaves makes a small and broken sound, which makes the corridor without people seem so empty, and it also seems that the distance between the hearts of two people is so long.

Walking to the depths of the corridor, Xia Qing slowly stopped, turned around, and suddenly looked at Mu Lan with a meaningful smile.

Seeing Xia Qing blocking in front of her, Mu Lan smiled as if she was hiding a knife, took a step back and stood firmly, and said with a smile: "Why didn't my sister leave?" ”

Xia Qing's eyes grew cold, he smiled provocatively, and said leisurely: "Okay, don't pretend to be a good person." ”

Mu Lan put away her smile and said calmly: "If my sister has something to say, I don't understand what you mean." ”

Xia Qing's chin was raised slightly, he snorted lightly in his nose, and said angrily: "You are a clear and exquisite person, what are you pretending to be confused in front of me?" Who doesn't know that you are a first-class palace maid appointed by the emperor, and you came to our meal Sihu fake tiger Wei. On weekdays, I will give you three points in front of Si Shan, but you don't know how to restrain your cheeks, and you just want to climb up, right! ”

Mu Lan looked at Xia Qing and said calmly: "Sister Xia Qing, as far as the matter is concerned, you see that Mu Lan has seen the wrong person. But I don't bother to explain. Please get out of the way, I'm still in a hurry to deliver snacks to the queen's mother. ”

Seeing that Xia Qing was still humming angrily in place, Mu Lan frowned, stepped forward and said coldly: "If you think that sending snacks to the queen mother can give you more dividends than sending them to the queen mother, then exchange food boxes with me." Otherwise, don't stand in front of me and get in my way. Because in my opinion, it is the same to whoever it is given, there is no difference! ”

Xia Qing took a step back stupidly, and said faintly to Mu Lan who passed by with bright eyes: "You have the guts." But I tell you, the road ahead is not so easy, you have to do it yourself. ”

Mu Lan walked straight over, and said without replying: "This sentence, it's better to leave it to yourself!" ”

Out of the long corridor, through a piece of green gables, is the current Empress Yiren's residence, Kunning Palace.

After the eunuch passed the message, a palace maid came to answer after a while.

At this time, it happened to be more than halfway through, and most of the palace concubines ate dim sum snacks between morning and evening meals at this time.

I heard that Empress Yiren has just woken up from her lunch break and can enter the shrine.

Mu Lan lowered her head and held the food box, and respectfully followed the palace maid into the door.

The front foot stepped over the high threshold, and a strong sandalwood fragrance came to the face.

I heard that the queen loves sandalwood alone, and it seems that it is not groundless.

When Mu Lan entered the door, she saw that Empress Yiren was sitting upright drinking tea, and hurriedly lowered her head to bow and bowed: "The slave respectfully invites the queen's mother Jin An." ”

The queen took a sip of fragrant tea, glanced at Mu Lan, and said lightly: "Flatten." ”

As soon as she raised her hand slightly, the palace maid hosta took a step forward, took the food box in Mu Lan's hand, and gently placed it on the table.

Mu Lan stepped aside and stood with her head bowed until Empress Yiren's eyes went up and down, and finally stopped on her face and asked.

"You are the show girl that the emperor transferred to the Shangshi Bureau before, right?"

"If you go back to the queen's mother, it is the slave." Mu Lan said respectfully.

"What kind of snack is this for today?"

"Back to the queen's mother, the Ministry of Internal Affairs sent a batch of fresh kidney beans today. The slaves and maids hurriedly made some osmanthus kidney bean rolls, and the aunt in charge asked me to bring you a taste while it was hot. ”

"Oh?" The queen seemed to like this snack very much, and a pair of narrow phoenix eyes smiled lightly: "This kidney bean roll really hasn't eaten for a few days." ”

Mu Lan was blessed, and when she saw the hosta nodding at her, she lowered her head and gently opened the food box, carefully took out a plate of delicate osmanthus kidney bean rolls, and gently placed it in front of the queen.

This batch of big red kidney beans is Lingnan Xingong, the bean quality is fresh, the entrance is soft and glutinous, sprinkled with some osmanthus flowers, the entrance is sweet and fragrant, and the harem is favored, and no one loves it.

At this time, the queen swept away her previous tiredness, and happily took a kidney bean roll from the plate, and was about to take a sip in her mouth, but she was suddenly frightened, and threw the kidney bean roll on the ground with an "ah" sound.

Mu Lan was taken aback when she saw this, and secretly screamed in her heart, and quickly glanced at the food plate.

It turned out that it was the kidney bean roll in the middle of the plate, and someone put a white and round jasmine flower at some point.

It must be this little jasmine.

Mu Lan didn't dare to ask more, so she quickly knelt down and pleaded guilty first.

Sure enough, as soon as Mu Lan knelt down, the maid hosta took a few steps up, slapped Mu Lan the head, and said angrily: "Bastard, are you guilty?!" ”

Mu Lan stabilized her thoughts, touched her head to the ground and said: "The slave maid has just entered the palace for a few days, and she didn't know the dietary taboos of the queen's mother, but I think it must be something wrong that frightened the queen's mother, and the slave and maid willingly asked the queen mother to punish her." ”

The hosta raised her eyebrows, her eyes were like frost, and she said: "Didn't the aunt in charge of your dining room tell you that the favorite flower in the queen's mother's heart is the jasmine in this plate?" ”

"Two years ago, Bang Yu Gege married Saibei and his relatives, and the queen thought about it for a long time, and the most unseen thing was this jasmine. Therefore, all year round, the house is full of sandalwood, just to force the pain in the heart. ”

"The usual kidney bean rolls have always been clean, why did I put such a jasmine flower today, didn't I just want to remind my mother's past sadness, so that my mother's illness would not heal?! What the hell is going on, you can tell me clearly now! ”

Mu Lan leaned down deeply, kowtowed, and said, "The queen mother, it's all the blame for the slave maid's carelessness, and the slave maid is willing to ask the queen mother to punish her." ”

The hosta didn't want to listen to Mu Lan's explanation, so hateful it should be beaten!

The other hand was about to slash down in anger, but was stopped by the queen mother out of thin air.

"Hosta."

The hosta was extremely reluctant to put her hand away.

"That's it. Thinking that she first entered the palace, the palace did not care about her. ”

The hosta said indignantly: "Queen, how can you easily expose it!" This is someone deliberately targeting you and trying to embarrass you on purpose! ”

After that, he stretched out his hand and pointed at Mu Lan, who was kneeling on the ground, and said, "You forgave her today, and he will definitely dare to commit it one day!" ”

Mu Lan straightened up, looked at Empress Yiren, and said with an honest face: "Queen Mother, it's really a slave and a maid. The slave and maid liked jasmine, and when they saw a pot in the dining room, they took care of it. Unexpectedly, at noon today, jasmine blossomed several times. The slave thought that this must be a good omen, so she took it upon herself to pick the best blooming flowers, washed them and put them on a plate, hoping to get a good omen for the queen. There was no one to instruct this matter, and they all blamed the slave and maid for making an assertion, and asked the queen to cure the crime of the slave and maid, which had nothing to do with others, and no one in the catering department knew about it. ”

Empress Yiren sighed and said, "This palace remembers that you have just entered the palace, and I will not pursue it further." Next time, if anyone dares to offend this palace, this palace will never be merciful again. ”

After finishing speaking, his eyes seemed to penetrate Mu Lan in front of him and said, "You are the same." Don't think that if you look like my Bang Yu, you dare to save more and more. She is her, you are you. Hongu will never mistake an ally, nor will he hesitate to kill an additional enemy. Remember who you are, and don't let me see you make mistakes again. ”

Mu Lan leaned down deeply and said, "Slave and maid thank the queen for not killing her kindness, and swear to the sky that she will never do it again in this life!" ”

Empress Yiren listened to this, and said with a faint smile: "The palace is lacking." You go to the gate of Shenwu when you first enter the palace and kneel for an hour. ”

Mu Lan kowtowed in thanksgiving, and bent all the way out of the main hall.

With a layer of dense sweat oozing from his back, he repeatedly thought about the cause and effect of the whole thing, and before he knew it, he was about to walk to the Martial God Gate.

At this time, the gate of the Shenwu Gate was closed, and no one came and went except for the guards standing on both sides. A row of jackdaws flew by, as if singing and harmonizing with the long road, more scattered than anyone else.

Mu Lan looked up at the dark clouds rolling in the sky, frowned slightly, lowered his head to the side of the Shenwu Gate, and knelt down silently to receive the punishment.

And as far as the eye could see, a figure suddenly flashed, like a hosta beside the queen, quickly hiding behind a dragon claw locust tree.