Chapter 5 The Ninefold Palace Que is Deep in the Depths
The twilight was rising, and the cool breeze at night blew the maple leaves down in the wind, and after sending Ziyu away, Changge stayed in the winter and the two in the summer.
"How long have you been following me?" Changge asked, leaning back in his chair.
"It's been three years and five months." The two replied.
Changge nodded and smiled, got up and took their hands and said, "Tomorrow we will enter the palace, and we will rely on each other from now on." The hearts of the people in the palace are sinister, and if we can't work together, there will only be one result. ”
After hearing this, the two of them hurriedly knelt down and said: "Miss, don't worry, the truth in this, the slave and maid can be saved, the slave and the maid are not the kind of people who have no conscience, no matter when, the young lady will always be the only master of the slaves and maids." ”
"That's good, it's a long road, and you're the only one with me." Changge looked at Yi Dong on the side and sighed.
The night was silent, and Changge tossed and turned, and only took a nap when it was almost dawn, and got up the next morning to prepare energetically.
On the third day of November, the welcome people in the palace were already ready at the gate of the town mansion.
"The hour has come, please drive into the palace." The celebrant eunuch shouted in front of the sedan chair.
Changge said goodbye to everyone with tears in his eyes and drove into the palace. The sound of ceremonial music and firecrackers in the ears was loud, and the sound of congratulations and compliments was endless, and Changge sat in the sedan chair, only feeling an inexplicable anxiety in his heart.
The sedan chair entered the imperial city, stopped when it reached the Deyang Gate, and Changge took the hand of the palace maid and walked in through the side door.
Changge looked up. I saw that the sky was blue, lined with some thin clouds, such a scene seemed to have been seen somewhere, the palace maid called softly, interrupting Changge's thoughts, and Changge stopped thinking about it.
A new palace concubine like Changge has a low status and can only live in the fourteen palaces in the northwest. About a cup of tea, the little palace maid who led the way for Changge stopped at the gate of Zhaochun Palace.
"The mother has arrived."
After Changge motioned for Banxia to give her the reward, she walked into the Zhaochun Palace, which is a smaller palace located in the Fourteen Palaces in the Northwest, with about a dozen palace rooms, small and small, and also chic and exquisite. In addition to some rare and exotic grasses, there are also a few crisp bamboos, which makes this place more secluded than other beautiful palaces. The long song is so quiet, and after reading it, I am extremely satisfied.
After entering the main hall, Xiyu Hall, Changge sat down on the upper seat, and two palace maids held tea. Chen Yuqin, the eunuch in charge of Zhaochun Palace, kowtowed to Changge and asked for peace: "Slave Chen Yuqin knocked to see Gu Baolin, and I wish Gu Baolin a long and healthy life." ”
"What about the palace maid?" Changge asked
"Back to Baolin," Chen Yuqin kowtowed, "According to the rules of the palace, the palace maid in charge will be your dowry." ”
Changge nodded and didn't speak, observing him carefully. Chen Yuqin is only about thirty, with a Chinese face, slightly dark skin, and two eyes that are quite bright, at this time he is quietly looking at the ground, very steady, and Changge feels good when he sees it.
At this time, he led five other eunuchs and ten palace maids on duty to kowtow to Changge. Changge tasted the new lotus after the rain, and didn't speak, just looked at them quietly.
The others did not have Chen Yuqin's composure, and they were a little flustered for a moment, Changge knew that silence often had a very powerful deterrent to people, but it had to be grasped well in order to have an effect.
Seeing that it was almost over, Changge smiled and asked them to get up and said, "From now on, you are my Gu Changge's people, and you have to follow my rules for what you should say and do." As long as you are loyal to me, I will treat you well, of course......" Changge's voice suddenly cooled down, "If I find out that my person is in Cao Ying's heart in Han, your head will naturally move." ”
The minions standing at the bottom all looked pale when they heard this: "The minions are only loyal to Baolin in this life, and they will not do anything that is ashamed of Baolin." ”
Changge smiled and nodded, and Yi Dong immediately took out the prepared silver and rewarded it, and the palace maids and eunuchs all nodded their heads and thanked them again and again.
Although it temporarily shocked them at this moment, he didn't know if they would betray him in the future, Changge understood that from now on, he must be more careful.
"Is there anyone else in the palace?" Changge turned his head and asked Chen Yuqin.
Chen Yuqin replied: "Originally, there was another Wu Cairen, but he accidentally died in the water the year before last, and now only Baolin lives in the palace. ”
I nodded: "Got it, let's all go down." ”
When everyone left, Banxia stuck out his tongue and said, "Miss, your posture just now is so scary, I almost can't recognize it." ”
Yi Dong said: "It's still the young lady who has a way, so she can stop these people like this." ”
"Two sharp-toothed little Nizi" Changge said with a smile, "I can't help it, the hearts of people in this palace are the most difficult to grasp, this is just after entering the palace, I don't know how many ways there will be in the future?" ”
After a few people talked and laughed, Changge was a little tired, so he went to the dormitory to take a nap.
Just after noon, Changge got up with some lazy sleepiness, and he didn't make up, just lazily lying on the pear blossom wood carved Liuyun chaise longue and reading a book. After a while, I only heard a report from outside the door that Lu Yushu came to see her, Changge was happy in her heart, knowing that Lu Yuzhen had come to see her.
As soon as she walked out of the door of the dormitory, Lu Yuzhen walked in with a smile and said, "I haven't seen you for a few days, and my sister is becoming more and more marked." ”
Changge smiled: "Sister, don't make fun of me, I'm still looking for a day to visit my sister." ”
"Am I not here?" Yuzhen smiled: "But you are quite leisurely." ”
Changge pretended to be angry: "I'm just an idler with nothing to do, if my sister doesn't dislike it and often come to see me." ”
Yuzhen sat down with Changge and said in a low voice: "My sister and I are also like each other at first sight, and now we have a companion after we enter the palace together." ”
Changge looked into her eyes and said, "What my sister said is very true, although my sister has known each other for a short time, she has a sense of reunion after a long absence, I think this is also a kind of fate." Besides, as long as our sisters are of the same heart, we will definitely survive this long time in the palace. ”
Yuzhen looked at Changge and sighed lightly for a moment: "Well, my sister will definitely treat my sister sincerely." The two of them held hands together, and they knew each other's minds.
At this time, Chen Yuqin came in and asked, "See Baolin, Yushu, dinner is ready, do you want to use it now or later?" ”
"For now, tell them to add another pair of dishes and chopsticks, and I will eat with Sister Lu today." Long song said
Yuzhen scratched her nose and said, "I still rubbed you to eat a meal, and I must go to Xiangming Palace another day to try my craftsmanship." ”
"That's nature, when it snows in a few days, let's sweep the snow and make tea together, okay?" Changge blinked his eyes and said with a smile.
Yuzhen nodded and said happily: "It's all up to you, it's all up to you, when the time comes, let's sing poems under the snow, wouldn't it be more seconds?" ”
Changge tasted a goose paw duck and said, "Sister, try it, I think it's good." ”
Yuzhen also tasted it according to her words, and said that she would take some back later, and the two ate some tofu skin buns, accompanied by some sago jade dew porridge, and after eating, the two sat under the lamp and chatted about family life.
"This cinnabar in my sister's eyebrows is very beautiful, but have you had it since you were a child?" Yuzhen stroked her cheeks half surprised, half hesitant.
Changge touched the cinnabar in the center of his eyebrows, this cinnabar mole was originally a scar that fell after he woke up three years ago, but fortunately, the Gu couple visited famous doctors, and the scar on the forehead only left a little, which looked like a cinnabar mole. Changge replied: "This is the scar I accidentally fell when I was playing on the rockery at home three years ago, fortunately God has mercy, and now it doesn't look so scary." ”
Yuzhen seemed to breathe a sigh of relief when she heard this: "How come, this cinnabar seems to be more and more unique in my sister, cold and beautiful." ”
Changge was a little embarrassed, so he had to divert the topic; "I'm going to visit the queen tomorrow, why don't I go with my sister then?"
"That's natural, even if you don't speak, I'm going to tell you." Yuzhen nodded and said after hearing this. "By the way, does my sister know the current Han Guifei Dugu Mengyao?"
Changge shook his head: "I only know that she has a noble status and is quite favored by the emperor, and the rest is no longer known." ”
"Alas" Yuzhen sighed: "My sister doesn't know, although there are not many beauties in this harem, but there are many secrets hidden between each of them that we don't know." Originally, the first emperor meant that Concubine Han was the queen, but for some reason, our emperor insisted on marrying Leng Hanzhi, the daughter of the left minister. ”
"Xu is the emperor's deep love for the queen, and I don't know." Changge said
Yuzhen shook her head, with a little inexplicability on her face: "The emperor is just a face-saving person for the queen, at that time, it was rumored in the harem that Concubine Han would not be favored by the emperor, but no one expected that she would sit on the only concubine position in the harem in just three years, and the emperor connived at her a lot, that is, she killed the concubines with a lower rank than her, and the emperor just laughed it off." ”
Changge was silent, and the young and promising emperor seemed to be more complicated, and said for a moment: "Why is the emperor doing this? ”
"Who knows, our emperor has been a person with ideas since he was a child. When he was still a prince, he didn't even have a concubine, just because he was young and promising, even the emperor couldn't take him. It wasn't until he sat on the throne that so many people were accepted, and the relationship between this concubine and the queen was also delicate, and it was also thanks to the queen's gentle atmosphere that she never cared about her, so this is now. Yuzhen said
Changge nodded noncommittally, the corners of his mouth curled slightly, if he was really gentle and kind, I am afraid that he would not be able to live today, sure enough, every woman in this harem is stupid
The night was getting deeper, and after sending Yuzhen away, Changge was alone with the lanterns in a daze.
"Miss, how much can you believe Lu Yushu's words?" Banxia asked when he saw that Yidong had closed the door.
Changge shook his head, "I don't think she's lying to me, it's just that sometimes there is always a weird feeling between her words that I can't tell." ”
"Why is that?" Yi Dong was a little puzzled
"I don't know, maybe I'm overthinking." Changge cupped his cheeks and said casually: "But today I know something I have never heard before. ”
Banxia added a cup of tea to Changge, and said a little worriedly: "Although Lu Yushu is commensurate with Miss Sister at this time, the most unpredictable thing in this harem is the human heart, Miss should be vigilant." ”
"That's natural, but I'm not interested in this imperial favor, just be safe." Changge took a long breath and looked at the two of them.
When Yi Dong heard this, he seemed to be about to say something, but when he saw Changge's thoughtful expression, he had to keep silent.
At this time, a light rain began to fall outside the window, reflecting those bamboos, and there was a sense of desolation when the rain hit and the flowers fell all over the sky.
Changge was bored in his heart, blew out the candles, and fell into a deep sleep.