Chapter 8: Work towards the East Palace
"You look a lot like someone I know." Jun Yu pursed her lips and smiled, making up a reason to fool the past.
But this girl didn't know that the "old man" that Junyu was talking about was actually herself. The first friend I met when I entered the palace in my previous life was her Gu Nanhua. The two ate and lived together during their training at the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and although they were divided into two places, they always corresponded. Junyu doesn't know what happened to Nanhua after Meng Langfang's rebellion, but it won't end well. Seeing Nanhua so innocent again, Junyu's heart warmed, and he hadn't been so happy for a long time.
"Really?" Nanhua tilted her head and smiled, she looked at Junyu's outfit and frowned, as if she had a doubt, but it dissipated after a while, and she just introduced herself with a smile. "My surname is Gu, and my name is Nanhua."
"My name is Junyu, Song Junyu." Junyu replied politely, and then the two did not speak again, but walked on the palace road of Yongchang with their own hearts, and followed Mama into the Internal Affairs Mansion.
Every day, I get up before dawn, and I first learn the etiquette of the palace by the discipline mother, and then I have to clean the house and yard before I can eat breakfast. After eating, you have to continue to learn needlework and embroidery, sort out the relationship between the various departments in the palace and the tedious affairs, which makes the palace maids who have just entered the palace have a headache every day. If you make a slight mistake, you will be punished by the disciplining mother, and you will be claustrophobic and fasting, or you will be expelled from the cold palace, and everyone will be in danger.
But Junyu is a character who has experienced it once, and he is easy to deal with these characters who have been in the palace for three years, even if he disciplines Mama to test her with the most tricky questions, Junyu can answer it, and he has only been in the palace for seven days, and he seems to have become Mama's favorite student in her eyes.
"Junyu, you don't have to read these books, send this list to the celebrant of ceremonies. I have taught you the directions of the various palaces in your palace, do you still remember? The discipline grandmother handed Junyu a booklet with the words "List of Palace Maids" written on it.
Junyu nodded, put the booklet away, and after resigning from the discipline, Mama walked out quickly, not daring to delay.
Coming out of the Internal Affairs Mansion, it took the time of two incense sticks to pass through the small half of the outer courtyard to reach the celebrant at the other end, and Junyu's quick steps also took two sticks of incense. At this time, the celebrant was in a hurry, because the emperor had just come down to the court to prepare breakfast and day arrangements, Junyu didn't dare to make any more trouble for them, so he had to put down the booklet and return the same way.
She walked on the palace road, and saw a number of people wearing official uniforms and hats walking scattered in the distance, because these ministers wanted to leave the palace from here. At the end were Meng Langbian and two unnamed officials. I saw that the three of them did not go out of the palace gate with the large army, but turned a corner and stood under the corridor and chatted.
Jun Yu saw Meng Lang as if he was seeing a prey, and his injured shoulder still had a faint pain. She regretted that she had lost her strength that day and did not penetrate this person with a sword, and she hated it so much.
She looked around and saw that no one noticed her, so she lowered her head and looked for a place to hide, listening carefully.
"The emperor is so embarrassed in the court today! The flood in Chongzhou is naturally unsuitable for blocking because of negligence, and Hou Ye was even reprimanded on the spot. In my opinion, the emperor is indeed much worse than before. ”
Meng Langbian smiled and shook his head. "Since we are courtiers, we should naturally give advice to the emperor and advise all our thoughts and thoughts. Even if the emperor disagrees, he will think for a moment. The flooding should be cleared at the same time, and I will think more carefully when I return home. ”
Hearing him say this, the two officials praised again and again that "Lord Hou is loyal to the country", and they couldn't wait to worship the five bodies, so they dispersed. Junyu hid in the corner and listened to it only feeling disgusting, so like a hypocrite.
Seeing that the two of them left, Meng Langfang changed his humble and submissive appearance just now, and Xu Xiachu hurriedly came and bowed to him. "Master Hou, there is news from Jiangling, saying that there is no clue yet, and the subordinates feel that they can't find anything if they check it again, do you want the people from the Hou Mansion to start investigating?"
"No need, there is no impermeable wall in the world." Meng Lang seemed to think of something and said to Xu Xiachu. "You can find an opportunity to take the tea from Jiangling to the East Palace, which will be of great use."
After that, the two went out of the palace gate together. Junyu was still hiding in the shadows and his mind was beating, not because of his bold assassination, but because of the "tea" mentioned by Meng Langbian later. Gangneung is not a place where tea is abundant, so what can be taken out as a gift. And the vagueness of the sentence "great usefulness" makes people scary to hear. All she could think of was doing something in it!
Junyu thought about this and went back to the Internal Affairs Office without giving up, and the back of Nanhua's embroidery for a day was about to break. Seeing Junyu coming back in a daze, she thought she was being bullied, so she immediately stood up and asked, "What's wrong?" What's wrong? ”
"It's okay, I'm tired from being too far away." Junyu shook his head, how could he tell the truth.
She didn't close her eyes all night, completely carried away by it. Although the previous crown prince Murong Qi lived well until he ascended the throne, this life did not follow the trajectory of history. Could the assassination under his impulse earlier be like a snowball that changed the development of things and made Meng Langbian act in advance?
Thinking of this, Junyu's temples suddenly jumped. She held the quilt and had only one thought in her heart, to go to the East Palace to serve as soon as possible, so that she would be able to protect Murong Qi's side and not give Meng Langbian any chance.
Coincidentally, early in the morning of the second day, the discipline mother called out this group of new palace maids, saying that they were going to be distributed to the new concubines. Seeing the opportunity in his hand, Junyu walked up to Mama and pleaded softly: "My good Mama, I don't want to go to Niangniang, and I don't want to go anywhere else, I just ask you to divide me to the East Palace, even if I am a palace maid." ”
"East Palace?" Mama looked up at her in surprise, her eyes were complicated. "Do you dare to go there if you know what kind of place the East Palace is? I think you think too much of yourself, and you will fall very hard in the future! ”
"As long as Mama lets me go to the East Palace, I will do my best to have any needs you have in the future." Junyu said extremely sincerely, and the anxiety in her words made it difficult for her to discipline her grandmother.
She pondered for a moment before she sighed and said, "Okay." ”
"The East Palace is the prince's dormitory, and its status is extraordinary, and I can't send you there with a word. However, it is the Double Ninth Festival in autumn, and the flowers in the East Palace need to be replaced, so I will let you go to the flower room first to send flowers to the East Palace on an errand day, and then it depends on your creation. ”
"Thank you, Mama!" Junyu knew that this was the best she could do to discipline her grandmother, so she stopped pleading anymore, and already had her own plan in her heart.