Volume 1 Floating Life Chapter 5 Vicious Dogs
Jing Tan grew to fourteen years old, and the number of times she left the palace could be counted by hand, and the novelties outside the palace were all brought in by Ah Heng, she could only look at these things and fantasize about what it looked like outside the palace, and everywhere her eyes went, there was only the boxy sky and the red piercing palace wall, she was ignorant when she was young, she had climbed over the palace wall several times, disguised herself a few times, and never successfully walked out of that door. Under the multiple comforts of the people around her, she hasn't climbed over the wall for a long time.
"Hiss~" Jingtan gasped and said to Ah Heng, who was applying medicine to her, "It hurts~"
Ah Heng complained: "The princess knows that it hurts and goes to that dangerous place!" Although he said this, he still lightened his hand to apply the medicine, and then asked her about the reason for her injury, Jing Tan smiled, knowing that he was worried about himself, and did not refute him, and told him about today's events, but omitted the silk handkerchief.
"Father, the queen and the concubine are afraid that they will make a big fuss if they know it, I will hide it from them in advance if I scratch my face, you tell the people below, don't let them say anything."
Ah Heng looked at her puzzled: "Didn't the princess just take this opportunity to rest for two days, why didn't she ......?"
Jing Tan's eyes drifted away, and he said vaguely: "I suddenly became interested in Buddhism......
Seeing that he still wanted to say something, Jing Tan changed the topic: "I didn't see the palace people there raising dogs when I went to Meiyuan before, and today I am afraid that the dog came from the cold palace." ”
Ah Heng pondered for a while and said, "The cold palace has never been able to enter or leave, so where did the dog run out of?" He seemed to think of something, and said: "When Chen Cairen was demoted to the cold palace, His Majesty was kind and brought a little black dog that had been raised for a long time. ”
"Second brother's biological mother?" The second brother Li Yu is humble, but the mother concubine Chen is arrogant, I heard that when Chen was still a concubine, he actually assassinated his father in a bed, and his father remembered that she gave birth to a princess and a prince for the Celestial Empire, and the princess died early before she could die, so she was only reduced to a talented person and relegated to the cold palace.
Jing Tan lowered her head and thought for a while, and she didn't see that the food bureau was concerned about the meals in the cold palace, but today I saw that the dog was in good spirits, and the food should be good...... But after thinking about it, maybe she ran out accidentally, that person was the biological mother of the second brother after all, and she didn't want to think too much.
In the evening, the female official Hongyu next to Concubine Mei came to Qifeng Pavilion to send the gorgeous clothes of the spring banquet in the next month, and the scratched face was still noticed by Hongyu, and went back to report to Concubine Mei, and the concubine hurriedly came over, Jingtan only deduced that she was interested in going to Meiyuan to fold plums, but she accidentally fell, and the concubine did not notice that there were no plum blossoms in her house, but she was annoyed that she was not careful when she walked, and she was forbidden to enter Meiyuan in the future, and punished the palace people around her for a month.
In the evening, he sent away his mother, Jing Tanping retreated from everyone, and only then did he dare to take out the silk handkerchief, lie in front of the desk and take a closer look, there is no embroidery on the handkerchief, although the material is not high-quality, but the texture is soft, close to the nose can also come a faint sandalwood, smell it and feel comfortable...... It's just that the stains on her blood are not clean.
"Ying'er, bring me a basin of water." Jing Tan shouted outside the house, and the door answered, and immediately a beautiful woman came in with a carved copper basin, and her figure was no different from Jing Tan.
"Does the princess want to wash the veil, just give it to the slave maid." Ying'er saw that she put a handkerchief in the basin and wanted to take it, but she stopped her, and wondered in her heart what was so special about this handkerchief that made the princess so careful.
Jingtan washed the veil and wanted to smoke it with incense, but thinking that Mr. only had sandalwood on him, he definitely didn't like to dye other incense, so he had to give up and hang it at the head of the bed.
Before going to bed, Ying'er waited for her to freshen up.
"Huh!" Ying'er looked at her loose bun in surprise, and after looking for a long time, she said: "Why is the princess's white jade Chaoyang pearl hairpin gone!" ”
Jing Tan touched the top of her head, thinking back to today, she was afraid that she had fallen into the plum garden, and she suddenly felt a little annoyed with the vicious dog in her heart. Originally, a hairpin was nothing, but this hairpin was specially made for her by her father, and the tribute to the south of the beads on it was not much, and she thought that she would wear it out at the spring banquet, if she lost it, wouldn't it be in vain for her father's mind......
"I think I fell into the school...... Jingtan replied casually, the mother didn't let her go to Meiyuan again, she must not let people follow, it seems that she will have to go by herself tomorrow.
The next day was the day of rest, Jing Tan got up early in the morning, put on a casual dress and pulled Ah Heng to run to Meiyuan, thinking that if the vicious dog was still there, maybe he could help him block it.
"Didn't Niangniang not let the princess go to Meiyuan?" Ah Heng followed him and muttered.
"Besides, Aunt Hongyu came yesterday, and you don't know how to hide my face!" Jing Tan was indignant.
"It's good for Niangniang to know as soon as possible, if Niangniang finds out later, the penalty will be more than a month......"
"Okay, I don't give you enough feelings on weekdays, do I?" As he spoke, he reached out and pinched him.
As they spoke, they arrived at the Plum Garden and began to search for the hairpin.
After a long time, Ah Heng complained: "Are you sure the princess fell here?" ”
Jing Tan lay on the hillside and said with great difficulty: "Look here first, if you are not here, you will go to the palace gate to find it." ”
Suddenly, a dark shadow flashed behind the hillside, Jing Tan turned his head violently, and said secretly: It is the narrow road of the enemy!
I saw that the big black dog was staring at them viciously yesterday, but what relieved Jing Tan was that it had no intention of chasing her and biting, because it had something in its mouth. Ah Heng had the courage to take a closer look, wasn't it the white jade Chaoyang they had been looking for for a long time to save pearls!
So Jing Tan stared at it and slowly climbed down the hill, and the black dog seemed to know her intentions, so he spread his legs and ran.
"You come back to me!" Jing Tan chased after it and roared, but that didn't affect the black dog's pace in the slightest.
"Princess, wait!" Ah Heng suddenly grabbed her.
Jing Tan looked up suspiciously, and there were two big words on the door plaque - Cold Palace, but I didn't expect the vicious dog to run away with them to the Cold Palace. There is no one standing guard in this big day, and I wonder where I have gone.
"The princess goes, this place is gloomy, go back and tell Niangniang at this time, Niangniang will definitely send someone to find it!" Ah Heng pulled her and was about to go back, but she dragged her.
"The concubine is not in good health, so don't bother her with these things." As he spoke, he pushed the door open.
A cold wind rushed in her face, Jing Tan shivered, and not long after walking inside, she saw an old Taishi chair in the courtyard, and a beauty sat on it, with her eyes closed, as if she was asleep, wearing a half-worn Dai color skirt, covered with the same color sleeve shirt, and raised a pu fan, as if basking in the sun, in fact, there are four high walls here, narrow and cramped, and there is not much sun that can shine here, and what attracts Jing Tan's attention is the black dog lying at the feet of this beauty, looking at them viciously.
"The slave has seen Chen Niangniang." Ah Heng beside him bowed down and said goodbye.
Jing Tan said secretly: It turns out that this is the second brother's mother, the legendary Chen Cairen. Hurriedly followed.
The beauty opened her eyes slowly, was slightly surprised, and said: "No one has called me Niangniang for a long time, are you new to the palace?" ”
Her voice was tactful, even better than Lan Qing's voice, and Jing Tan couldn't help but be curious about her.
"The slave lost his master's things the day before yesterday, and while the master didn't notice it, he came to look for it this morning, but he didn't expect to be taken by the mother's pet......" Jing Tan thought that her identity was inconvenient, so it was better to take the identity of a maid, and it would be more convenient to act.
Chen lowered his head, and sure enough, he took a hairpin in his mouth, reached out and took it out of its mouth, and smiled apologetically: "Chang'er is not sensible, but it makes you embarrassed." ”
Jing Tan was shocked, "This dog, it's called Chang'er??" ”