Chapter Seventy-Eight: The Empress Pleases
"Mandarin duck, do you have anything to say. Qing Xihuan looked at the panicked mandarin duck.
"Yes, Miss!" the mandarin duck pulled Qing Xihuan to the bedside, wiped away her tears, and looked at Qing Xihuan with a frightened expression.
Say. ”
"Today's eldest lady is not all because she saw the slave in the master's room, it has been a day, she didn't want to get rid of the slave, she wanted to quietly end the slave because ......"
The mandarin duck paused, and approached Qing Xihuan's ear.
"When the slave passed by the eldest lady's room, he heard the eldest lady and the eldest lady laughing, and stopped to listen for a while, only to know that the eldest lady was summoned by the queen today!"
"Oh, what is the queen summoning her? Qing Wan is still young, I think she came for her marriage, can the queen have a prince?"
Qing Xihuan asked.
"Yes, today's four highnesses are the queen's own mother, listening to the words of the eldest lady, it seems that the queen is ready to call the eldest lady to be the fourth imperial concubine!"
"So what?" asked Qing Xihuan, puzzled.
"But the slave maid has an extra ear, and hears the eldest lady talking about your name with the eldest lady, and saying that your good life is over, and you want to kill two birds with one stone, and the rest of the slave and maid have not heard anything. The mandarin duck hung his head.
"That's not true, they don't usually do the same in front of me, don't you think it's strange. Qing Xihuan sat on the chair and asked the mandarin duck to pour tea.
"Miss, you might as well think about it again, even Miss, you know that the eldest lady is used to ignoring such a speech on weekdays, and there are a hundred times more difficult words than this, but the eldest lady has never thought that the slave maid will be passed to your ears to get rid of the slave maid, and today ......"
The mandarin duck was sweating profusely, and handed the teacup to Qing Xihuan tremblingly, and said in horror, "Today, I want to get rid of the slaves and maids quietly, so let's see, what they said and what they plotted." Miss......"
Qing Xihuan was woken up by Mandarin Duck's words, that's right. It's not a day and a half since the eldest lady and herself are not on good terms, and today's appearance is indeed abnormal, extremely abnormal.
Qing Xihuan drank tea, and said to the mandarin duck unhurriedly, "Don't make a noise, just pretend not to know and don't hear." I wouldn't know about it, you know. ”
The mandarin duck knelt at the feet of Qing Xihuan and said solemnly, "Miss, don't worry, the mandarin duck will follow Miss wholeheartedly, and Miss will do what she tells to do...... For the eldest lady to rest assured, so just now the mandarin duck didn't show what he heard, he just thought that he wanted to get rid of the slave because of the master's business. ”
Qing Xihuan spat out hot air and drank some tea.
Unexpectedly, as long as there are women in the harem or the house, the open and secret battles will not be broken. Born in the Grand Palace when she was a child, Yan Guihui insisted on pulling herself to the battlefield, and at that time she was still puzzled, what did Yan Guihui bring her here for, is there a grudge. I still remember that Yan Guihui pulled one end of a branch of a broken begonia, and the other end was called Shi Jinyu to pull, so she was dragged and said, "The war will not be terrible, if you survive in the harem, your ladies will secretly kill your little bit, you know a fart." ”
Now I understand, but I am helpless, and I can't break free if I understand it.
"Miss, what should we do. The mandarin duck was worried and scared, maybe the master was not at home, and the eldest lady would quietly kill herself.
Qing Xi Huan frowned, he is now thin and weak, and he has no soldiers, and he can't even protect himself, let alone mandarin ducks.
"Actually, there is a good place to go......" The mandarin duck blinked and lowered his head again.
"Where?" asked Qing Xihuan over tea.
"The palace, miss, the prince's mansion. Mandarin duck said.
Just when Qing Xihuan was about to sternly refuse, there was a knock on the outer door.
The knock on the door made the mandarin duck frightened, and shouted timidly outside the door, "Who." ”
The person outside the door coughed lightly twice, and said softly to the two people in the room, "Little sister, it's the eldest sister." ”
The mandarin duck's face turned pale, shaking Qing Xihuan's trouser legs in a daze, and he lowered his voice to say something, but he was so frightened that he couldn't speak.
Qing Xihuan put the teacup away, patted the mandarin duck's shoulder gently, and calmly asked the door, "Is there anything wrong with the eldest sister late at night?"
Qing Wanruo stood outside the question and heard the answer, took two steps forward, and the shadow was also reflected on the door.
"Oh, that's the case, today the eldest sister was fortunate to be summoned into the palace by the queen's mother, the queen's mother asked the concubine to copy a small seal, and asked her to send it tonight, and said that the little sister and the prince did not see each other after they got married, so the eldest sister took the little sister with her. ”
Qing Wanruo's voice was delicate and soft, and she had no power to attack, so she just stood outside the door and waited for Qing Xihuan to go together.
Qing Xi knew that it was the queen who invited him to go, but if it was too rude to shirk, he thought for a moment, looked at the mandarin duck and shook his head in panic, but reluctantly agreed.
"Eldest sister wait for me, I'll come. With that, he got up and pulled up the mandarin duck.
"Come with me. ”
The mandarin duck nodded heavily, walked outside the door, glanced at Qing Xihuan uneasily, and after getting Qing Xihuan's nod, he opened the door.
"Let's go, eldest sister. Qing Xihuan put on a smile after going out. looked at Qing Wanruo.
Qing is like wearing an emerald green today, with a delicate bun in her hair, but with a very simple hairpin, the hairpin is so simple that it is like a maid wearing. Fresh and elegant, he smiled at Qingxi, "Little sister." ”
looked at the mandarin duck behind Qing Xihuan again, and said softly: "Little sister, do you want to take the mandarin duck with you? ”
The mandarin duck was startled, and looked up at Qing Xihuan in panic.
Qing Xihuan looked at the mandarin duck and chuckled, turned around and looked at Qing Wanruo and said, "Just ask the mandarin duck to wait for us outside the palace, and we also have a companion in the middle of the night." ”
After frowning slightly, Qing Wanruo said politely, "It's okay." ”
After that, he gently took Qing Xihuan's hand.
Women are sensitive, and if this person's hand is uncomfortable to hold, this person is by no means someone who can be close to her.
Qing Xihuan couldn't let go of it, after all, Qing Wanruo was invited, and if he withdrew his hand, it wouldn't be to refute Qing Wanruo's face.
The two got into the carriage, and the mandarin duck sat on the outside of the sedan chair, and the three of them staggered towards the Grand Palace.
The carriage was very fast, but Qing Xihuan felt extremely slow, and held hands with Qing Wanruo all the way, and his palms were sweaty, still unnatural, and he also felt Qing Wanruo's unnaturalness, and he just hoped to get to the Grand Palace as soon as possible, so that he could end his pretend posture as soon as possible.
The carriage stopped, and finally arrived at the Grand Palace. The mandarin duck got out of the sedan car first, helped Qing Xihuan get out of the carriage, and then went to help Qing Wanruo get out of the car.
I saw that at the gate of the Grand Palace, Su Yu beside the queen had already greeted her early.
"The two girls are here, and the queen and all the ladies are waiting for the two of them in the Yufeng Palace. Su Yu lowered her head and smiled, looking at Qing Xihuan.
"There's Miss Lao. Qing Wanru saluted modestly, and introduced to Qing Xihuan beside him, "This is the girl next to the queen's mother-Su Yu." ”
"There's Miss Lao. Qing Xihuan also bowed to Su Yu.
"Come in with me, two girls. Su Yu didn't say much, and led the two into the palace. The door of the palace was closed behind him, and the mandarin duck waited outside the palace worriedly, looking at the Qing Xihuan who was gradually moving away in the crack of the door, his eyelids jumped, and he always felt that there was more than one luck.