The Queen Mother said slowly: "Mu Lan, the three bottles of magnolia ointment you made for the mourning family, the mourning family accepted them all." After the mourners try it, if it is indeed curative, it will naturally be rewarded. However, there are rewards and punishments for everything, so that people can know the proportions and understand the rules. ”

Mu Lan lowered her eyes, leaned over and bowed, "Slave and maid thank the Queen Mother for her grace." ”

The Queen Mother smiled slightly, and said to the attendants on the side: "Someone is coming." ”

"Huh!" Liang Jiugong brushed the dust in his hand and stepped forward to respond.

The Queen Mother thought for a moment and said slowly: "Today's chrysanthemum feast, the filial piety of the catering department is commendable, and a piece of Poria cake, a rose cake, and a jar of chrysanthemum wine are given to encourage." ”

"Huh." Liang Jiugong bowed, turned around and glanced at the little eunuch next to him, and the little eunuch immediately understood, and immediately went downstairs lightly to do an errand.

The Queen Mother looked at the little palace maid in front of her with a supple face, and then said: "Mu Lan, the mourning family remembers you with sincerity today, and will no longer punish you." However, in the palace, the master is the master, and the slave is the slave. Under no circumstances can a minion make a claim on his own, you understand? ”

Mu Lan bowed her head and said respectfully: "Yes, the slave understands." ”

Only then did the Queen Mother turn sideways to Princess Wen Xian and said, "Wen Xian, although this little palace maid is now your person, the mourning family still has to punish her." The mourning family now punishes her to copy the Heart Sutra a hundred times, and if she is less than a hundred times, she is not allowed to take half a step out of your Jingyang Palace. Do you understand? ”

Princess Wen Xian wondered at this time, and the corners of her mouth had quietly curved into a small boat: "Grandmother Huang, don't worry, the granddaughter will be severely punished." After Mu Lan finished copying the Heart Sutra a hundred times, her granddaughter must personally take it to Cining Palace and ask the imperial grandmother to check it! ”

The Queen Mother looked at Wen Xian's narrow phoenix eyes, narrowed slightly with a smile, and suddenly remembered something: "This little palace maid, can she read and write?" ”

Before Wen Xian could answer, Emperor Kangxi raised the corners of his lips slightly on the side and said: "She is not only literate and written, but also loves to study ink!" ”

The whole catering department went up and down, and there was no one who was not smiling and beaming.

Today, at the Queen Mother's chrysanthemum banquet, in the secret competition of the entire Shanggong Bureau, everyone saw the fact that the catering department was the best in the first place.

Among the four divisions, the Queen Mother gave them a meal alone and rewarded them with pastries and sake that only the concubines could eat at the banquet.

Over the years, the Second Division of the Shanggong Bureau has been fighting openly and secretly, and the fight has been inextricable.

At this time, the palace maids of the catering department, everyone felt that they had never been so proud.

Even walking on the palace road, I felt that today's identity was always a little different than usual, and I couldn't help but hold my head high.

You must know that Poria cake and rose cake, as well as chrysanthemum wine, but the two divisions of gluttony and brewing have been preparing for a long time, and they each gave elaborate gifts at the Queen Mother's chrysanthemum banquet.

Now, this gift has been transferred to the catering department, and Min Sishan has ordered people to divide it into small portions and let everyone taste it as much as possible. I don't know if Zheng Sijiao will be so angry that he will stand up after hearing the news?

It's just that Min Sishan is really a humble and deep person. Such a big happy event, why can't you see her smiling?

Every palace maid who passed by Mu Lan couldn't help but smile brightly at her.

Mu Lan is also everyone who welcomes the past with a smile like a spring breeze, but there always seems to be something in his heart, which is not enough for outsiders to be faintly stunned.

As soon as the chrysanthemum banquet ended, the palace maid beside the princess came over and chatted with Mu Lan enthusiastically.

From their mouths, Mu Lan figured out the ins and outs of the whole thing, and understood why the queen mother and the emperor kept saying that they regarded her as the person who treated her as Princess Wenxian.

It turned out that the princess had been thinking about herself and wanted to go to her side, and today she just took the opportunity to bet with the emperor and ask the emperor for permission to get her wish.

At dinner, after a day of fumigation by the fire, the palace ladies were eager to go back to rest after eating early.

Mu Lan ate this meal very slowly, and the palace maids around her were all slowly scattered, only Lianxin was by her side, whispering to her with her cheeks.

"Mu Lan, who did you say that box of magnolia flowers could have been stolen?"

Mu Lan swallowed the rice in her mouth, and said lightly: "I don't know either." However, this person, or the person behind it, must have planned for me to disappear from their sight from this day onwards. It's just that the other party must not have thought that I not only lived well until now, but also received a reward from the Queen Mother. ”

Lianxin couldn't help but pause, let out a long breath from his chest, and said after relieving his mind: "Mu Lan, it's a shame that you are alert. If you hadn't returned to the dining room from the Qianqing Palace at night and insisted on checking the box of magnolia flowers again, I am afraid that we would have been more and more auspicious today, and I am afraid that we would not even be happy if we were bent on death......"

Mu Lan's eyes were dark, and he sneered: "That person is afraid that he will not show his face, he has already laid a net of heaven and earth, just waiting for me to make a mistake and fall into this trap, and from then on, everyone will be happy, and there will be no return." ”

Hearing this, Lianxin silently gritted his teeth and said, "It's not!" However, if you weren't much more attentive than ordinary people, every time you passed by the magnolia tree, you would quietly pick a piece and hide it privately, no matter how much we boiled up a few times, we wouldn't be able to make a box of magnolia paste! Who the hell is so vicious? Mu Lan, after you entered the palace, did you offend anyone? ”

Mu Lan put down the chopsticks in his hand and said leisurely: "Perhaps, it is really God who is helping." When I saw the magnolia flowers in full bloom, I remembered that in the late autumn of previous years, I would always make a box or two of flower paste for my mother. ”

As soon as I thought of this, my palms itched, and every time I passed under the magnolia tree, I couldn't help but secretly pick up a piece and hide it in my sleeve cage and bring it back secretly. I didn't expect it to add up so much, and one day I would use it to save my life......"

"You know, it's only been more than two months since I entered the palace. Ever since I joined the Catering Division, we've been together all the time. You should know who I am, I am a person who is easily unwilling to form grudges with others, and even more so a person who is easily unwilling to bend his waist for others. ”

Lian Xin nodded thoughtfully and said, "Yes, the time you entered the palace is not half as long as mine." People are good, how can they easily make enemies with others. After getting along for so long, I naturally know you, so I admire you more than others. ”

"It's just, Mu Lan, I feel sorry for you from the bottom of my heart. Even a person as good as you was calculated and almost lost his life. When you go to Her Royal Highness the Princess, you will call me alone in the days to come, how can you live well here. Mu Lan...... I'm a little scared. ”

Mu Lan's eyes were bright, and she looked at Lianxin's face seriously, as if she wanted to illuminate the road behind her for the weak partner in front of her.

"Lianxin, don't be afraid. You entered the palace earlier than me, so you should have noticed it. In this harem tumbling, perhaps the only thing that is not lacking around us is the endless right and wrong. How many people came in alive and well, and finally got carried out somehow......"

"In this Forbidden City, how many people have become unrecognizable, living like puppets, and becoming uneven aware of themselves after being crushed several times."

"Lotus Core ......"

Listening to Mu Lan's words, Lianxin seemed to see a scene in front of her, the picture that she had seen and heard with her own eyes, her two hands were unconsciously clasped tightly, and they were clenched into a pair of show fists.

This pair of show fists, under the call in front of him, slowly relaxed. A pair of pure eyes also raised, looking at the eldest sister-like Mu Lan in front of her with great trust, quietly waiting to listen, she wanted to be alone, and said something to herself.