Chapter 4: Yonghyuk
Under the wide pergola, flowers were full of people, and Meili followed the eunuch with her head down, knowing that even if she didn't have to look at her, everyone was watching her. Isn't it uncomfortable? Not nervous? It's all fake...... Everything she had to face next, she smiled lightly, and it should be her punishment.
"Meili, why did you come?" Hyo-joon waved her away from bowing, and pointed to the chair beside her and motioned for her to sit down.
"Yo, you've really been released?" A voice said very presumptuously, indifferent and mean, without the slightest concern about the presence of the Empress Dowager.
Because she expected to encounter such embarrassment, Meili was calm, and she couldn't help but look up at the person who was talking, also because she wasn't sure that it was really Jingxian.
"Well, it's out." Miri smiled.
"Didn't you say that the land in your house was coming back? Why are you dressed up poorer instead? Could it be that in the past two years, the master has been absent, and the property has been coaxed away by the unconscionable minions? Jingxian said and sneered a few times.
"That's it! Don't be crazy! Xiaozhuang, who had a cold face, couldn't help but whisper to stop her, frowned and held back his anger for a while. The ladies present also greeted and laughed with each other as if they hadn't heard Jingxian's words.
Jing Xian ...... Meili didn't want to mess with her, and lowered her eyes to meet her defiant gaze. Back then, everyone knew about the things in the Taihe Palace, and the arrogant Jingxian was hit hard, but she didn't expect it to become so harsh. In the past, she was at least well-behaved and likable in front of her ancestors. The old ancestor endured her in every way, and he also felt that she was innocent and unfortunate back then, and he felt that he owed her.
"The weather is just right today," Xiaozhuang reluctantly smiled and talked to several noble ladies nearby, distracting the embarrassment just now. "Look at it, it's only been a few days, and I feel like those children have grown into young men again! How the years go by! In a blink of an eye, the children are older, and we are all old. ”
How fast do the years pass? Her two-year ...... It's like a lifetime.
"The old ancestor is not old at all!" A woman who Meili didn't know smiled and said, "The slave maid has been out of Beijing with my master for nine years, and when I come back, I will see that my ancestor is still the same as it was back then!" ”
Xiaozhuang laughed when she said, "You, you are still as amused as you were by my side back then." I heard from the emperor that your son also came back with him, and he never saw him. ”
Meili looked at the woman carefully, she had heard of her, it should be the show girl Yingru who entered the palace with Aunt Yu'an to serve the ancestor, because the ancestor liked her, he pointed her to a good family, and later her husband also became the governor of Chahar, and she also became a good order. Uncle Hai used to warn her about her aunt that it was important to please her ancestors.
"They're here!" When Mrs. Yingru saw that the ancestor took the initiative to mention her son, she was grateful and surprised, and hurriedly ordered her personal maid: "Go and call Yonghyuk!" ”
Several Fujin and girls present were obviously interested in the upcoming appearance of Young Master Yonghe, and they all took their eyes away from Meili.
Look at the stance...... Meili lowered her head, this Chahar Governor has been promoted when he returns to Beijing, and his wife is so good at the ancestors, and she is in the limelight.
The maid came with a young man in his twenties, and Meili drank tea silently without looking closely. The voices of approval around her did not arouse her interest, as long as the ancestor said that he was good, even if he lacked arms and legs, he would be said to be a rare talent.
“…… yes, yes. The emperor's arrangement is quite in line with the heart of the palace. In the past, Ziyu boy was the commander of the guards, which made me feel free to worry, and he changed Yonghyuk, which is very good! ”
Hearing Ziyu's name, Meili raised her eyes and looked at Yonghyuk who was standing at the bottom, looking clean, handsome and a little childish. Ziyu has now become the emperor's confidant, so he naturally has another great use. It is really appropriate to give the job of guarding the imperial city to a young man with roots and vines like Yonghyuk.
"You see, the arrows have begun." Hyo-zhuang looked excitedly into the field not far away, and the men all stood in front of the drawn line to examine their bows and arrows and targets, and the drums became rhythmic all at once.
"Go too! also give me a first decision, the ancestors are rewarded! Xiaozhuang said to the girls with a smile on his face, and the girls were also eager to try. Yonghyuk, tell the eunuchs, Su Ying's bow should be extraordinarily light, she is weak, and it is not fun to be injured! ”
"Thank you for the grace of your ancestors." The delicate voice is soft and lively, and the person is also pretty and beautiful. Meili looked at it and was amazed, no wonder the old ancestor was particularly worried about her, she ...... It's so beautiful and delicate.
"Girl, you go too!" Hyo-joo patted her on the shoulder, and Meili Fushen agreed.
The girls' targets were very large, and the distance was closer than the men's, and when they saw that the girls had come out of the pergola, the emperor was not in a hurry for the abbot men to compete, and they all looked at this side from a distance and laughed.
Meili's target was at the very edge away from the man's field, and next to her was Jingxian, Meili didn't want to talk to her, so she took the bow held by the little eunuch and tried it. In the past, she was busy running around Jing Xuan, but she didn't even have a good competition, it turned out that each person had six arrows.
"Virtue! She's delicate! Jingxian snorted coldly.
Meili originally thought she was scolding her, but when she looked back, she found that Jingxian was staring at Su Ying, who was arranged in the middle, with a look of disdain. Su Ying was frowning, her delicate little face was even more pitiful, and she was carefully wearing gloves for fear of scratching her delicate little hands.
Jingxian scolded again, and drew her bow with an arrow, and a few cheers came from afar among the men.
Su Ying put on gloves, the posture of drawing the bow and releasing the arrow was beautiful and pretty, heroic and sultry, such a weak girl could shoot an arrow to the heart, even the emperor applauded for her, the men's applause rang out, and Jingxian's expression was even more disdainful.
"Sure enough, it's the daughter of Yandu, and the spitting is fragrant."
Meili smiled, and also pulled out her bow, and with a few more efforts, there was a "snap", and the light bow specially prepared for the girls was actually broken by her. Meili was startled, there was a sharp pain behind her ear, she couldn't help but reach out to touch it, there was a bloodshot in the tide, but it was a twitch when the bowstring broke.
"Yikes!" The girls all stopped, and they all looked at her, with different expressions, "She broke the bow!" ”
"How can you be so energetic? Is the food in the cold palace good? I don't know who is directly mean, and it also caused a few dark laughs.
Miri smiled apologetically, forgetting that her strength was no longer the same as before, so she accidentally broke the bow. As soon as she entered the Hall of Tranquility, she couldn't lift a small half bucket of water despite all her might, and later she could carry several full buckets in a row.
"Are you alright?" Yonghyuk, who was just about to walk to the man's field, came over with his bow on his back and looked at the wound on her neck worriedly.
"It's okay, it's okay." Meili didn't expect him to come over and ask, a little embarrassed.
The little eunuch hurriedly handed over a new bow, and Meili had palpitations, and she didn't dare to pull it.
"Use mine!" Yonghyuk smiled and took his bow and handed it over, but it was not good for Miri not to take it, so she could only smile awkwardly and take the strong bow.
This time she was not afraid of breaking, she took the arrow, "No, no!" Yonghyuk, who was watching from the sidelines, shouted, and was embarrassed to correct it, so he scratched his ears twice in a hurry, and made Meili smile like a child.
"You don't grab the feathers."
…… Don't grab the feathers......
Jing Xuan had said this to her a long time ago, and his tone full of impatience seemed to ring in her ears. As soon as the hand was released, the arrow flew out aimlessly, grazing diagonally over the target edge and falling onto the grass behind it.
"Alas......" Yonghyuk sighed regretfully, "You're in too much of a hurry, just be on point." ”
"Thank you." She gave him back the bow, spoke to the little eunuch, and left the test room under the pretense that she was going to apply medicine to the wound.
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