Chapter 15 Prince Zhu Biao
In the blink of an eye, it was Chinese New Year's Eve, and someone came to the palace early in the morning to announce the decree, ordering me to enter the palace with Father Xu Da and celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve with the emperor and empress.
So I spent the whole day in tension, literally fidgeting. Finally, when night fell, the tight strings tightened.
Outside, the wind was cold, and the moon occasionally showed a few glimmers and then disappeared. The big red lanterns at home had been hung up last night, and the rows of red and beautiful were winding through the courtyards. It's like a flaming red flower that blooms all at once.
Xu Qi is dressing up for me, and this time he is going to face the saint, so he is particular about dressing up. A phoenix golden hairpin pulls the green silk into a high-haired peony head, and pins it to a jewel flower butterfly-shaped golden hairpin.
A headband made of a small strip of white fox fur, with a sapphire hanging gently down from the forehead, with a hint of coldness. I wore this ruby drop-shaped earring on my ear, which I particularly liked, and it was bent near the hairpin. The whole body hammers out of the two cockroaches, one cockroach moves downstream, and the other cockroach climbs forward sideways, the two echo each other, full of interest.
The slightly heavy smudgie makeup has covered up the tiredness of the past few days. Wearing a purple and red moonlight dress, a white fur jacket, and a long cloak, I looked at myself in the mirror, this is like the image of a nobleman! Out of the house. A whole family was already waiting there, and when they saw me come out, they all gathered around me.
My mother took my hand and looked at my outfit and couldn't help but feel relieved and said: "Be careful in everything, there are many etiquette rules in the palace, but don't lose your manners." ”
"I know, mother!" Since the emperor's decree to give marriage, the Ministry of Rites has sent someone to teach me etiquette, although I don't learn very carefully, but basically master the seven, seven, eight, eight.
"Sister, you can't spend Chinese New Year's Eve with your sister, sister has to take care of herself, don't be too bound by etiquette!" Miaoyun said with some concern.
I once complained to Miaoyun that I hated court life and too much red tape, and she was inevitably worried when she entered the palace for the first time today.
"Eldest sister, come back early!" Jin'er looked unhappy, she said yesterday that she would set off firecrackers together, who would have thought that she would be summoned to the palace today.
The first time I sat in a sedan chair was in a drunken state, and now the second time I sat in a sedan chair, I found that the sedan chair was so upside down, and my internal organs were about to be twisted together. Circle you a fork, watching TV and thinking that sitting in a sedan chair is a majestic thing, until now I know that this is * naked torture. My little arms and legs, which lack exercise, are estimated to be in pain again tomorrow.
Looking out from the sedan chair, I saw the majestic Ming Palace Gate in front of me, we came from Chang'an Street, so we walked the left gate of Chang'an. Walk in from the left gate for a long time to go around to the noon gate, enter the noon gate, there are five stone bridges again, called "inner five dragon bridges."
After crossing the inner five bridges to the Fengtian Palace, this Fengtian Hall is one of the three main halls, covered with glazed gold tiles, double eaves heavy ridges, carved beams and painted buildings, the doors and windows of vermilion lacquer and gold carving, shining in the sun.
It was the Emperor's office, and we couldn't go there easily. Turned to the back of the Fengtian Palace, it is like a pavilion, the eaves are on all sides, the gold dome is seeped, and the top of the hall is also decorated with a huge gold ball. There is a middle left gate in the east and a middle and right door in the west. On Chinese New Year's Eve, the emperor will first receive visits from cabinet ministers and court deacons.
Daddy Xu Da inevitably greeted his colleagues when he met them, and I saluted them one by one, in short, everything is going smoothly so far. Dad had something to discuss with the ministers, so he asked the people in the palace to press the line for me first.
I was placed in the Luomei Pavilion of the *Rouyi Palace, which was closer to the Queen. Everything in the palace is so luxurious, I look here, touch there, and calculate in my heart that if in the 21st century, if I take a random thing here and sell it, it will be enough for me to squander it for a lifetime!
Pick up a jade coral, the blue body is transparent, it is really a treasure among the treasures! After visiting this place, I started to salivate over other places.
casually found a palace maid and asked, "This sister, when does the dinner start?" ”
"It's still early, the girl can rest for a while." A palace maid who seemed to be in charge saluted me slightly, and while she spoke, the palace maids had already served all kinds of desserts. The plates were all exquisitely made, and I took a piece of peach kernel crisp, which tasted good.
After eating and drinking, he looked around, and then smiled and beckoned the nearest palace maid: "Can you take me around?" ”
The palace maid knelt down at once: "The girl has tormented the slave maid, please come with me."
I don't know where I went, I saw a lake in front of me, the lake seemed to be frozen, there were a few plum trees by the lake, and the faint light of the candle flame was printed in the distance, which seemed more and more enchanting.
I stood by the guardrail, and the smell of plum came to my face, and I couldn't help but close my eyes and imagine myself bathing in the plum forest. Suddenly, a melodious flute sounded, I don't know what kind of track it was blowing, but the plum blossoms, the lake, the promenade, and the flute in front of me reflected each other, and they actually depicted a dream-like picture.
I reached out to break off a plum branch, but I couldn't reach it after trying for a long time, and suddenly a big hand reached out from behind my back, broke off the plum branch and handed it to me.
Then a voice as warm as jade sounded in his ears: "In the old days, the bright moon will take care of me a few times." The plum side plays the flute, evoking the jade people, regardless of the cold and climbing. ”
I looked back and saw a man, about twenty-two or three years old, with star-like eyes, with a gentle smile, red lips and white teeth, the corners of his mouth raised, his posture elegant, with a jade belt pinned to his waist, and a sapphire on his forehead.
I don't feel a little stunned, such watery eyes, such moving sounds, like fairy music from the sky. My heart was pounding wildly.
As soon as I stepped back, my back hit the verandah, and I frowned slightly in pain, only to hear him say, "Be careful." ”
Then a slender arm stopped in mid-air, and I lowered my eyebrows in embarrassment, but he smiled softly: "Are you okay?" ”
"I'm fine, you...... This song "Dark Fragrance", why don't you chant? "I don't have anything to say.
"In such a scene, the girl doesn't feel that only the first few sentences are the best?" The man smiled softly, turned and leaned back on the verandah, looking at me.
I fiddled with the plum branch in my hand, but I didn't know what to say, I was embarrassed, and I lost my opinion in front of such a gentle and elegant handsome guy for the first time.
Thinking about it, I have been assigned to marry Zhu Di, so the more handsome the guy, the more you need to stay away, so as not to be sad and sad.
"It seems that it has been out for a long time, I'm afraid that the sisters in the palace should be worried, I should go! Good bye! "I got up and wanted to run.
"Girl, please stay, I haven't asked the girl's name yet!" That man didn't give up on blocking my way!
"I ......" I was about to go back to him, when I saw a eunuch running and said: "Your Royal Highness the Prince, the Queen Mother is looking for you now!" ”
After hearing this, the man frowned, and said helplessly: "Girl, I still have something to do, we'll talk about it another day." ”
I watched his hastily departed back fade into the night, and a sense of loss seemed to swell in my heart. Wait, what did the eunuch call him? Prince? Prince Zhu Biao? It seems that my odds of winning the lottery are getting better and better! Just walk casually, you can meet the prince.
Is he the crown prince Zhu Biao? This is the only prince in history who died without waiting to be the emperor, should he be so cruel? So gentle and elegant, so handsome, so distressing......