Chapter 15: Departure
The entire Cining Palace changed from its usual quiet and orderly, and there was laughter and laughter of young girls everywhere, and even the show girls ran past Aunt Yu'an with a smile and were not blamed for the lesson. The palace maids and eunuchs were busy carrying large and small cages, and the big girls around the masters who went to Chengde with their ancestors were holding small books and checking their luggage one by one, and there was a busy and joyful scene everywhere.
Meili walked silently behind Xiaozhuang, quietly and diligently supporting the ancestor, Su Ying didn't enter the palace for a while, Xiaozhuang was talking to her with concern, plus a large group of princesses Gege, aunts and grandmothers, and beautiful female eunuchs, she didn't get close to her.
The carriages were all parked outside the Longzong Gate, and the excitement of the long journey made everyone elated and laughed. Even Jingxian, who is usually yin and yang, is full of spring breeze and talks and jokes with the people around her very kindly.
The emperor ordered the spring hunt to also go to the Mulan paddock, and by the way, moved to Chengde to escape the summer. Although this trip had the meaning of a military parade before the war, and the purpose of stopping at the Rehe Palace to relieve the heat was to increase the supervision and deterrence of the Mongolian situation, in the eyes of the inner girls, it was far from the tension on the eve of the war, but an exciting long-distance trip.
Yonghyuk is responsible for everything on the way to the Empress Dowager, with tedious chores, and in recent times, he has often lost his temper behind his back when preparing for departure, because Ziyu has vigorously helped, and everything has been handled very properly, which has won the praise of the emperor and the ancestors.
Meili only carried a small burden casually, and someone wanted to help her take it, but she politely refused. When Yonghyuk wore the soft armor of the white flag and walked over against the vast procession of women with flowers to greet the ancestor, Miri was proud. A lot of training has made him much more calm and confident than before, and his childishness has been lightly erased, but the youthful vigor makes him look extraordinarily strong and calm. The brilliance that belongs to him seems to be polished out at once, dazzling and terrifying.
Hyo-jo lovingly asked him to get up, and Yonghyuk supported her and walked forward with a smile. The girls talked to him and asked him where to rest and where to camp along the way. Several girls also deliberately pushed Yindi, whispering and laughing. Gindi blushed and smiled and went to beat her nearest coaxing girl.
Miri slowed down, such Yonghyuk...... Let her not dare to come closer. He was so good, and among the girls who followed behind the old ancestor, so many of them stared at him with loving and shy eyes. She knew that look very well, because she had seen people with it before. Yonghyuk in the eyes of everyone is not the one who came to talk to her in the air, not the one who took her hand a little nervously in the night, and the one who was still trembling slightly when he hugged her into his arms...... She glanced at him who was separated from her by countless gorgeous and slender backs, and the sourness of gains and losses sprouted out of her heart again, and for a time, his simple and straightforward jerky love words once healed her.
After the ancestor boarded her wide and gorgeous carriage, the girls also walked to their own carriage, Meili held the eunuch's hand, and just wanted to step up, but her arm was unexpectedly pulled by someone, she was startled, and looked up to see Yonghyuk's smiling face.
"Why did you bring such a little baggage?" He stared at the small luggage on her arm, and all the way through, the young ladies were carrying large bags and small boxes of snacks ready to be eaten on the way.
Before she could speak, he pushed her waist into the carriage, and he jumped lightly and followed. The carriage was not large, and he was slender, and she was very close to him. There are so many people coming and going outside, and Meili is a little shy.
"You...... You go out. She feigned composure, trying not to blush.
"I'm tired, hide for a while." He smiled, leaning on her shoulder with a bit of coquettishness, but the weight of his body was not really exerted on her.
Meili sighed with a smile, she was pretending to be so mature and steady just now, but now her original form was revealed. I really don't know how the girl who looked at him with eyes that were about to burst out of the water just now would feel when she saw this childlike appearance? But...... This is Yonghyuk she is familiar with.
"I'll buy you some when I'm out of town in a moment." He chuckled and wrapped his arm around her waist.
"Look at you, sweat again." She wiped him with a handkerchief, he was young and afraid of heat, and he was sweating at every turn.
"It's hot, this soft armor is not airtight." He complained.
She untied the small bag she carried with her, which was full of large, dignified handkerchiefs, and picked up a piece of it and stuffed it into the cuff for him, he was always like a child, and she was almost used to nagging and instructing. "Bring it back to me when it's dirty." As Fu Jin told her, if Yonghyuk sweats profusely and is blown by the wind, he will have a rash all over his body.
Yonghyuk looked at her with some shock as the thick stack of handkerchiefs in her baggage, the ...... she carried with her Is it a handkerchief to wipe his sweat?
He smelled a smell of herbs, "What smell?" He took a handkerchief, and that's what it came from.
"It should be as Fu Jin said that you are prone to rashes, and it will be good to bathe with wormwood. I've boiled all these veils in wormwood water......" She was hard pressed into his arms, her face suddenly feverish, and her words were cut off.
"Meili ......," he whispered in her ear.
"Where's the Yonghyuk people?" An unceremonious, indifferent voice outside the carriage whispered.
The eunuch couldn't answer.
"The old ancestor is about to set off, but he is gone!" Jing Xuan snorted.
"Here it is!" Yonghyuk hurriedly responded, reluctantly let go of Miri, and jumped out of the carriage.
Meili covered her hot cheeks and breathed heavily.
"Something to do!" Jing Xuan scolded. "Still here at this time?! The battle has already begun! ”
"Yes!" Yonghyuk knows that he is wrong, and he does not defend himself.
"Why don't you go soon?" Jing Xuan snorted impatiently, "Where's Ruiying?!" ”
"Brother Jingxuan?" Another young man in soft armor with a yellow flag ran over with a panicked look on his face and asked tremblingly.
"You two! Let's go and open the way for our ancestors! I'll go to Shilipo first, procrastinating! ”
Meili silently listened to him reprimand his subordinates, and that tone ...... The familiarity made her helpless.