Chapter 20: Greetings to the Emperor
I'm still a relatively sensible person, so when someone compliments me on my resourcefulness and talent, I deliberately appear extremely modest, and when someone asks me to compete or something, I can let me go, and I can show weakness and refuse one by one.
It's just Yin Yingying, she doesn't know the battle of the harem, as long as someone calls Bi, she is desperately performing, and she actually overwhelmed the crowdfunding and showed some headlines.
Fu Jinyue and I glanced at each other and sighed, thinking that Fu Jinyue, like me, felt that this Yin Yingying would not live in the harem in the future.
Suddenly, a concubine wearing a pale pink dress and a floral vest stood up and said to Fu Jinyue with a smile: "Queen Mother, almost all the concubines have shown their talents, although you and Concubine Jiang have danced together in the peach blossom forest, but I always feel that as a queen, she should be more gorgeous than us, I wonder if the queen also has a show to help the fun?" Can you give your sisters a look? ”
If there are people present who dare to call me and Yin Yingying, it is because there are many concubines of equal grade in the cold palace, and there are even concubines who are older than us, but Queen Jinyue is still a queen after all, and Xuanyuan Yi is present, if someone dares to provoke her, it will seem that she does not know how to raise it.
Obviously, this woman is a person who doesn't know how to lift, but Fu Jinyue and I are quite grateful to her.
The two of us were waiting for an opportunity to complete our predetermined plan, and we originally planned to do it when the emperor was about to leave.
It's good that someone has created an opportunity for us, and Fu Jinyue and I don't need to be too deliberate, of course, we have to be grateful for her adult beauty.
I watched Fu Jinyue stand up with a smile, walked to my side and smiled at me.
I gave her a slight look so she could make arrangements.
"It's really a joke for my sisters, except for being able to dance a few steps, there is really nothing to compare with everyone."
Fu Jinyue was ashamed at first, and after being embarrassed for a while, she turned to Concubine Wu and said, "Concubine Niangniang, although my daughter-in-law can't perform for you today, today is your birthday, and my daughter-in-law has prepared a special gift." ”
"Oh?" Concubine Wu was quite surprised, her eyes showed surprise, and she asked curiously, "What did the queen mother prepare for the palace?" ”
Her birthday banquet has long been reduced to a place where the concubines of the major cold palaces compete for beauty, and Concubine Wu naturally guessed such a result, but when she heard that there were still people here who really thought about her, she was naturally happy.
This can be seen from her staring at Fu Jinyue tightly, she is looking forward to what Fu Jinyue has prepared for her.
Fu Jinyue agreed with a smile, beckoned to the little mandarin duck, and whispered in her ear.
After that, the little mandarin duck left, and it didn't take long for a large number of palace maids and female officials in the cold palace to walk into the backyard with a big red Kong Ming lantern.
They knelt on the ground one after another, congratulating the concubine Niangniang on her happiness as the East China Sea, and after meeting the emperor, Fu Jinyue took a Kong Ming lantern from the little mandarin duck's hand.
"Concubine Niangniang, this is a very popular gadget among the people, it is said that you can write some words on it, and then put it in the sky, you can talk to some people you want to see but can't see anymore."
Fu Jinyue picked up a pen and motioned for Concubine Wu to write.
Concubine Wu was still full of excitement at first, but when she saw Xuanyuan Yi, the smile on her face gradually became lonely, but after a while, she shook her head in frustration.
"The queen bothered, but the bright light should not be released in the palace......"
Although Kong Ming lanterns are popular among the people, these things are rarely seen in the palace.
Because it is ignited and released into the sky, if it falls into an unsuitable place, it will cause a fire.
The palace is so big, there are taboos in many things, and some people may secretly put one or two Kong Ming lanterns in the palace, but that is only secret, in case something happens, they will still be held accountable.
We can all see that Concubine Wu really wants to let go, or rather, she really has something to say to some people who can't be seen.
This is something that Fu Jinyue and I have long expected, but this is the most important step, but it still depends on Xuanyuan Yi's choice.
Right now, we all have our eyes on Xuanyuan Yi, because as long as he agrees, these Kong Ming lanterns can be put into the sky.
Xuanyuan Yi probably guessed some hidden secrets, and his inquiring gaze shifted from Fu Jinyue's body to mine.
Caught off guard, he suddenly asked me: "Concubine Jiang, you have always been resourceful, I want my mother to play with a Kong Ming lantern, but I am worried that there are too many buildings in the palace, can you think of a way for me to get the best of both worlds?" ”
This is pulling hatred for me, I swept my eyes, and I saw countless cold arrows shot at me by many eyes, if it is said that eyes can kill, I have been pulled out by these cold palace concubines Ling Chi and executed eight hundred times.
But I knew that Xuanyuan Yi would ask this question, but he was actually testing me.
He may have guessed something, but he didn't know what Fu Jinyue and I wanted to do. Once I am involved, as long as I dare to let him go, I will be responsible for the consequences afterwards.
Fu Jinyue frowned tightly, and looked at me fixedly, the meaning in her eyes was that she hoped that I would solve this matter quickly.
I stood up slowly, thinking that our plan was already imperative, and that if I held back now, it would be a failure.
Therefore, I smiled and said: "The emperor does not have to worry too much, as long as the internal affairs of the palace are kept watch in every obscure corner of the palace for one night, and then notify the palaces just in case, and then the bright lights can be put in the sky." ”
Xuanyuan Yi looked at me quietly for a long time, his eyes were full of anger, and he was already sure that I had a conspiracy.
Just when Fu Jinyue and I were taking a deep breath and waiting for the verdict to be announced, he stared at me intently, moved his chin and said to the auspiciousness beside him: "Go, do what Concubine Jiang said." ”
He was wary of me, and he was worried that if he didn't do what I told him, he would produce a bigger moth, so he chose to trust me, and he trusted me when he had a choice.
Then, Xuanyuan Yi looked at Concubine Wu: "The mother's birthday is once a year, it's just a few Kong Ming lanterns, and there is no big mess." ”
Concubine Wu is obviously not a person who is easy to fool, and she saw that Xuanyuan Yi's words and deeds just now may have a reason, so she glared at me.
Maybe she believed in Xuanyuan Yi too much, or maybe she didn't watch out for Fu Jinyue, after all, in this whole matter, if Xuanyuan Yi hadn't come to ask me, it would have nothing to do with me.
Or it can be said that Concubine Wu is too superstitious, and she really wants to say a word or two to someone in the sky, so she ignores the danger, and takes Kong Ming from Fu Jinyue's hand and writes a few words.
Everyone didn't pay special attention to what Concubine Wu wrote, after all, this was what she said in her heart, and exploring the psychology of Concubine Wu could be regarded as a big disrespectful move.
Therefore, the concubines were obviously curious, but they didn't dare to snoop blatantly.
Only the emperor and the queen were already standing beside Concubine Wu, so they could easily see what she wrote.
After a while, hundreds of Kong Ming lanterns went up to the sky, and Fuhua Temple was instantly bright, and the scene was extremely magnificent.
Just when everyone was happily pointing at the Kong Ming lantern and being amazed, for some reason, the Kong Ming lantern lit by Concubine Wu suddenly caught fire, but in the blink of an eye, it burned to the ground.
"What, what's going on?" Concubine Wu was superstitious after all, and when she saw that her Kong Ming lantern was lit, she nervously grabbed Xuanyuan Yi and Fu Jinyue.
Fu Jinyue hurriedly comforted: "It's okay, it's okay, it's just that the wind is strong tonight, and the flames are blown on the lamp." ”
Xuanyuan Yi's eyes had already glared at me when the Kong Ming lantern was on fire, but I just didn't see it, and still looked up at the other Kong Ming lanterns.
At this time, I don't know who in the crowd shouted: "Look, those Kong Ming lanterns are also on fire, what's going on?" It's all burned! ”
Everyone looked up one after another, and indeed saw that all the Kong Ming lanterns were burned in one time.
In my ears, there were many human voices.
Some of them said it was providence, and some said it was ominous, but I heard Fu Jinyue comforting Concubine Wu and saying that this was the person that the concubine missed, and received the concubine's letter.
"Oh, behold, there are words in the sky!"
Everyone was aroused by the voice again, and they all looked up in the direction of those Kong Ming lanterns again, only to see a few words faintly burning in the sky, but after a while, a complete sentence was presented - love concubine, take care of the queen mother.
"What is this? Why are there words in the sky? ”
"How did that come about?"
"It's the first emperor, it's the first emperor who is talking to the concubine."
The crowd was suddenly in chaos, and the gossip was immortal.
I finally met Xuanyuanyi's look of surprise and smiled at him, but didn't say a word.
"The Emperor...... O Emperor......"
Outside the door of Fuhua Temple, a string of old voices suddenly came.
I saw a seventy or eighty-year-old lady, holding the Kong Ming lantern in the sky, while stumbling into the backyard.
She looked like she was trying to hold someone in the sky, but she couldn't catch anything, and she cried incessantly and chased all the way.
Stumbled, the old lady fell to the ground, even though Xuanyuan Yi and I had rushed forward, but still didn't help the old lady, I could only watch her head hit the ground, and the blood flowed endlessly.
"Ah, the Imperial Concubine?" A concubine of the cold palace saw the imperial concubine, and hurriedly came over to help when Xuanyuan Yi and I helped the imperial concubine.
Among the many concubines present, there were basically no people who had seen this imperial concubine, but there were many people who had heard of this imperial concubine.
As soon as she heard a concubine call her the imperial concubine, some superstitious concubines and palace maids knelt down one after another, bowed to the Kong Ming lantern in the sky, and kept shouting to send off the emperor.
Some concubines who wanted to believe but couldn't believe it asked each other whether it was true or false, and some concubines all came to support the old lady.