Chonghua Hall –

"Sister Liang is out?"

Xue Hainiang was slightly surprised, although she did not have doubts about what Su Ming said, but she looked sideways at the sky, and now it was almost time.

Su Ming covered her lips and smiled lightly, but there was real joy between her eyebrows, "Recently, the Queen Mother has paid special attention to the little master of my family, not long before the sea girl stepped into this Chonghua Palace, the eunuch next to the Queen Mother just called the little master away, I guess, I guess I asked the little master to go to the Chongming Hall to copy the scriptures together." ”

Up and down the six courtyards of this palace, Rao is a little older, and Xiao Guifei, who served on the side before the saint became the emperor, is afraid that Liang Bairou's innate elegance and grace will be missing. It just so happened that this point met the eyes of the Queen Mother.

"Then please ask Su Ming to greet Sister Liang for me, will she be free at night in three days?" Xue Hainiang did not bluntly say that she invited Liang Bairou to leave the palace together, after all, pretending to be an accompanying palace maid who purchased the palace to go out of the palace, strictly speaking, it would violate the palace rules.

Su Ming sighed, as if she was a little regretful, she frowned slightly, and said softly: "Three days later, I'm just afraid it won't work." Three days later, it is the annual Lantern Festival in Beijing, the Queen Mother said, the Lantern Festival is the best day to worship the Buddha, and the scriptures copied in the Chongming Hall today are used for the worship of the Buddha three days later. ”

Xue Hainiang bowed her head slightly, but she couldn't talk about whether she was lost or not, and she asked to leave after chatting with Su Ming for a few words.

In the past three days, Xue Hainiang did not need to go to the Heart Nourishing Palace to take a shift, so in addition to eating and sleeping in the past three days, time passed a little faster than usual.

Looking at the sky outside, it was already three o'clock in the time to make an appointment with the palace people who went out to purchase.

One turned around, turned over, closed the notebook, sat down directly to the coffee table, made a cup of fragrant tea for himself, took a few sips, and got up to freshen up.

After a quarter of an hour, Xue Hainiang had already changed into the service of an ordinary palace maid in the pantry, a peach-pink shirt, a pear-white pleated skirt, and a few fragmentary pear petals embroidered with silk thread. Sanqian Qingsi is tied into a bun, her makeup is elegant, she hangs her head down, and she is so low-key that she seems to be inconspicuous if thrown into the crowd.

Palace people are always not allowed to go through the main gate, only through the side door. The order of the Southern Dynasty is strict, there are four gates in the north, south, east and west, the south gate is entered and exited by people of direct royal blood, the north gate is entered and exited by many ministers of the court, and the west gate is remote and narrow, only for the palace people and palace maids who go out to do business. The east gate is made up of the little lord who enters the palace draft every three years, as well as the concubine's maiden family.

Rao is Concubine Xiao Guifei is powerful and extremely honorable, but she has never entered or exited from the south gate in a serious manner.

At the west gate, the palace man who went out to purchase was already carrying a horse in front of the bushes, looking around with an anxious expression, and when he saw Xue Hainiang's figure, he hurriedly stepped forward to greet him: "I can be regarded as waiting for you, I was about to make an appointment with you for three minutes, but then I thought that today's Lantern Festival, the west gate closed earlier, so I came out in advance, but I didn't inform you in advance, but it was also my negligence." ”

Xue Hainiang said, "In this case, let's go quickly." With that, he stuffed a gold leaf into the arms of the palace man who purchased it.

He first twisted his eyebrows, and hurriedly stuffed the gold leaf back, with a slightly disgusted expression, "What are you doing, although you and I don't have a deep friendship, it is not a tricky thing to take you out of the palace, and it is not as good as running errands for you outside the palace on weekdays." I know that you are on an errand in front of the emperor, and there must be a lot of rewards on weekdays, but you have to be careful. After that, he looked behind Xue Hainiang for a while, and said with a sigh: "No, when you asked me three days ago, didn't you say that it was two people? Why is it that you are the only one today?"

Xue Hainiang was stunned, and said with a smile: "She can't come for some things, I didn't plan to come, but I thought that the lantern festival outside was really lively, and I told you in the morning, so I came." ”

The two of them didn't delay any longer, and the people from the purchasing palace carried the horses, and Xue Hainiang followed closely behind and went to the west gate.

Because the palace people who were ordered to go out to purchase on weekdays were messy due to the large number of purchases and messy items, they also brought palace people to help. Therefore, the guards of the West Gate also turned a blind eye to this, and as long as the person who came had a token to leave the palace, he would be allowed to let him go.

The reason why the annual lantern festival in Beijing is held is grand and grand, is also integrated into the meaning of sacrifice and prayer, the people in the market will hand-copy the scriptures a few days in advance to worship the gods, or personally paste the lanterns with bright paper, watch the lanterns slowly rise, pray for blessings.

At the beginning of the lanterns, the bustling market, and the interlacing of streets and alleys, you can see many passers-by holding long lanterns and gathering by the river.

"Okay, I'm going to go to the herb shop to buy some medicinal herbs later, if you have nowhere to go, come with me, if you have nowhere to go, we'll meet at the post station ten miles in front of the West Gate later. ”

Xue Hainiang glanced around, and the ever-bright lights that could be seen everywhere reflected her dark gray pupils, which made her eyes more and more exciting.

It is so rare to go out of the palace, and it is to catch up with such a rare lantern festival, she doesn't want to miss it. It was in order to shake his head lightly at the palace man, "Let's meet at the post station ten miles in front of the West Gate at three o'clock." ”

When she was a child, she loved the bustling and noisy lantern street, and now that she is older, her deep-seated love will not change easily.

Although Xue Hainiang's appearance is not first-class, she is also a rare beauty. The eyebrows and eyes are picturesque, the nose and lips are beautiful, and the facial features are clear and exquisite. Although the palace maid service is the most inconspicuous palace dress in the palace, it is also gorgeous in color and lustre, with exquisite patterns, plus her slender figure and natural temperament, which attracts many people's attention when she walks among the crowd.

"Girl, do you have company tonight? Why don't you go with my son?"

A gentle male voice came, Xue Hainiang raised her eyes, but it was a handsome and dignified man holding a feather fan and scratching his head.

The corners of Xue Hainiang's mouth twitched slightly.

"I'm sorry Childe. The little girl came out to see the disease on purpose, if the epidemic on her body accidentally passed on the child......"

Although the use of epidemic as a pretext is really outrageous. But the boy who scratched his head and gestured did change his handsome and chic posture, secretly quenched himself, and then withdrew.

It turns out that the use of epidemic disease as a pretext is outrageous, but it is very effective.

"Mother, mother, when I grow up, I want to marry such a beautiful sister as a daughter-in-law. ”

A childish child's voice came into his ears, and Xue Hainiang looked sideways.

The mother who was holding the pigtailed boy was so frightened that she hurriedly covered his mouth, and did not forget to smile apologetically at Xue Hainiang, "If you offend the girl, I will make amends to the girl for him." She quietly glanced at Xue Hainiang a few times, and then quickly left.