August 15, Mid-Autumn Festival.

On this day, the music in the Xiangge Pavilion was turned upside down, of course, not because of the festival. There will be any year in mid-autumn, but the good thing of promotion is not something that can be encountered every year.

Shainin's rank has been upgraded to one level, and now she is already a beauty of the fifth grade.

But Shainin himself always felt not so happy.

In the past, whether it was a green lotus or a green plum, or someone who came and went, most of the time she was called "Xie Cairen". She was used to it, and almost thought that she was a talented person with the surname Xie Mingning, but with the emperor's decree, her name was changed.

Will others call her "Xie Meiren" in the future?

Being called by other people's beauties, I feel a little too embarrassed, and I can't bear to listen to it.

She knew in her heart that this was just a grade title, just like the talents of the past, and it was not equivalent to the meaning of "beauty". But it sounds awkward.

When she was called a talent, she also thought that she was not talented. Now that she is going to be called a beauty, she wants to cover her face and tell everyone that she is not beautiful.

It's a good thing to be promoted, the grade is higher, and the year is longer. On the surface, that's all there is to it.

But everyone knows that the benefits are not the only ones.

At the suggestion, the low-grade talented women who lived in the back garden came to congratulate one after another.

Liu Cairen sent a jade bracelet to congratulate.

Shainin's face was not good-looking when he saw the gift.

She had seen Liu Cairen's jade bracelet a long time ago, it was when she first entered the palace, and everyone had not passed the last pass of the emperor's personal election, and of course there was no respective title. Liu Cairen was still known as Liu Yuhua at that time.

She cherished this jade bracelet very much, saying that it was because she was going to enter the palace, and her grandmother specially took it out from the bottom of the box to give it to her, saying that it was something that had been passed down for several generations, and it could only be passed on to her daughter-in-law, and she would not give her a daughter-in-law. But Liu Yuhua is different, she can enter the palace, and she may become the most promising person in the Liu family.

But now Liu Cairen gave this bracelet as a gift to congratulate her on her promotion.

I don't know what she thought when she put this bracelet in the gift box, but Xie Ning felt that this bracelet was too hot.

She really didn't want to take it.

But she couldn't return the bracelet to Liu Cairen.

"Master, what should I do with this?"

Qinghe has always been careful, and she soon found that her master was not used to being called a beauty, and most of them were still not used to it. So she was very smart and didn't change the title of beauty now.

"Put it away."

"Yes."

Looking at the master's expression, she doesn't want to see this bracelet again in the future.

The next gift surprised Shainin again.

This is also an ornament, a jewel-encrusted silk gold step.

Who sent this?

Xie Ning picked up the sticker pressed under the gift box and gently opened it.

"Zhao Ling and Wang silently congratulate."

Both names were unfamiliar, and she probably hadn't heard of them before.

Today, many people came to congratulate them, and some of them were not sent by the person who gave the gift, or who came but did not enter the door.

Qinghe must know these things better than Shainin.

Qinghe explained in a low voice: "The two people who came were from the Teaching Workshop Division, and they sent things and left. The slave didn't want to take it. It's just that there were so many people and messy at that time, so I didn't have time to say more. ”

It's messy enough during the day.

"Do you remember what the giver looked like?"

"Remember, a man and a woman. The woman's face was still a little wounded, and she didn't cover it tightly with powder. ”

Shainin knew who it was.

In fact, she didn't help much in the events that day, it was all Xiao Ye's father-in-law selling favors.

As a result, people still want to give her gifts.

Liu Cairen has always wanted to be favored, and he has been working with people everywhere, even if he still has some savings in his hand, there is nothing left now. If she had anything better, she wouldn't have given her this bracelet as a gift.

As for the gifts given by these two people, Xie Ning felt that it was even more disturbing to accept them, especially when she knew that these two people should belong to the lowly family, and she didn't know how difficult her life was, and she didn't know what the origin of this step was. For Shainin, this is just the icing on the cake, dispensable. But for them, it may be a long-awaited possessions.

Accepting these made Xie Ning very uneasy in his heart.

And these two gifts, she still knows a little. In addition, behind those gifts, is there also a sad secret?

After all, today is her good day, and it is also the annual Mid-Autumn Festival, Xie Ning put aside all these chaotic thoughts, and discussed with Qinghe how to spend the festival at night.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called the Reunion Festival, and there are poets who write like this, and they think of their relatives every festival.

Once a month, the moon becomes bright and complete, but man cannot be like the moon.

It has been three years since he entered the palace, and Shainin has never seen his relatives again.

Not only her, but everyone else in this palace is the same. Like Qinghe, she entered the palace much earlier than Xie Ning, and after a long time, she couldn't see her relatives, and she didn't even know the news of her hometown.

The so-called reunion festival may indeed be a festival of reunion for people outside the palace walls.

But to the people inside the palace walls, the word reunion sounds really ironic.

Whether it's reunion or irony, life still has to go on. One day, one year, one life.

Today's festival, and catch up with Xie Ning Jinfeng, a courtyard of people waiting gathered, led by Qinghe, to Xie Ning salute and congratulate, Xie Ning wore a brightly colored clothes, smiled and got up, and then all of them were rewarded.

This time it is naturally a great joy for all. There is no reunion, and there is some silver money to comfort me.

Shainin didn't go to other people's invitations in the evening, and he didn't plan to invite others.

Although she was promoted to the first level at the festival according to the old practice, it didn't seem to be so abrupt, but this time she was only promoted to the title, which was wrong.

From the New Year, to the current mid-autumn, she is not the only one who has been favored for most of the year, those who have no rank are looking forward to being sealed, and those who have grades are all stretching their necks and looking forward to being promoted again. Talented people want to be promoted to beauty, Jieyu wants to be promoted to concubine, concubines ...... Maybe I hope to go further.

After all, there is no queen in the harem, who doesn't expect to be the golden carp that jumped over the dragon gate?

However, this time, only Xie Ning was promoted alone.

Doesn't this mean that she has the best in the emperor's heart? She is the only one who rides the dust, and the harem sisters are all together.

What is the target of the public, and what is the meaning of not suffering from the few but suffering from inequality?

The last thing Xie Ning wants now is to be in the limelight, what he needs most is to keep a low profile, and it is best for everyone to quickly take their eyes off the Lingering Fragrance Pavilion.

Qinghe got some news from other sources, saying that because of the floods this summer, the emperor had even canceled the autumn hunt, and of course there was no longer a big reward in the harem.

These Shainin understand. But either it won't be sealed, what's the matter with a single seal? Xie Ning was really afraid of being eaten alive.

Because of the bad mood, or maybe it was really boring to spend the reunion festival alone, Xie Ning only ate half a piece of moon cake, didn't move a few bites of the dish, and went to bed early to rest.

The next day, the Yingxiang Pavilion is still full of people, early in the morning Zhou Gonggong Zhou Yuchen came, the meaning of the words is that the Lingxiang Pavilion is a remote place, and the palace has not been repaired for several years. There are many better palaces in the back garden, the place is large, and the palace is more elegant, if Xie Meiren is interested, you can choose one of them to move to live.

Zhou Yuchen is the deputy general manager of Houyuan, and he finally caught a favored seedling, so he was naturally unwilling to let go and let her run. If the emperor intends to change places for Xie Meiren to live, then of course Zhou Yuchen will not dare to say anything. But if Xie Meiren is not satisfied with his current residence, it is that he is not attentive to Zhou Yuchen.

"Thank you Gonggong Zhou for thinking about it, but I'm used to living here, and I'm afraid I won't be able to sleep if I change places."

Zhou Yuchen can no longer observe and look at this Xie Meiren without scruples as before. However, he could still tell whether Xie Meiren's words were true or false.

It seems that she really doesn't want to move, and she is not waiting for someone to come and ask Maolu again.

Out of the Lingering Fragrance Pavilion, Zhou Yuchen pinched the purse in his sleeve.

It was in the purse as it had been when he first came to preach the good news.

Xie Meiren is really a wonderful person.

That time, he didn't take a fancy to this small amount of money, and after he came out, he directly rewarded it to the little eunuch.

This time it was still so much, but Zhou Yuchen carefully put the purse into his sleeve.