Chapter Twenty-Seven: The Palace Farce
This is the first snow in Nanchu this year, and the sky is sprinkled as if you forgot to close the valve. A thick white blanket had accumulated on the ground. The entire palace is covered in silver, and looking at the competition from a distance, it gives people a sense of holiness and innocence.
Two young maids dressed in crimson cotton clothes, one holding an umbrella and a hexagonal food box in her hand, and the other half-squatting, gave the seventh princess Chu Leyan who was kneeling on the steps, holding the soup woman to cover.
In the Roufu Palace, from time to time, there will be a gentle but warm and angry reprimand.
"Who the hell are you talking about, who is that woman?"
"Mother, my sons really don't know." Chu Leyan covered his mouth and yawned, and immediately stretched his exposed little hand back to the soup woman under the cloak.
"Why don't you know, some people say that they saw the maidservants in your palace go to fetch the dress that the eldest princess is used to wearing." The concubine has always been convinced of her daughter's ability to open her eyes and tell nonsense.
"Who is it, who saw it? You let her come to confront the palace, which dog sees the maid of the palace, the palace gouges out her eyeballs! "Dare to say this, because she is usually rampant in this palace, and she is sure that no one in this palace dares to identify her in person.
"Okay, even if it's not from your palace, why did the eldest princess summon you alone?" The concubine Niangniang really had a headache, and felt that if she continued like this, she would be angry first.
"Auntie, I miss this palace, I just summoned this palace to say something considerate, you are making a fuss every day."
It's okay if you don't admit it, anyway, now that Sister Xia and Aunt Xia have gone back to the deep mountains and old forests, who else can cure her!? The small abacus was clear, and suddenly I felt that I was full of confidence, and my kneeling posture was much straighter.
"If you have a hard mouth, just kneel and think about it, when you think clearly, when you are willing to say it." After that, she went to the bed in the inner room to rest, and she was really tired after shouting for a long time, anyway, she looked like she was in place.
The queen of the province openly and secretly sarcastically ridiculed her goddaughter several times, and asked her to discipline Xiao Qi well, and by the way, she asked the true identity of the woman who pretended to be the eldest princess on the day of the banquet.
If the emperor opens her mouth about this, she can prevaricate if she is coquettish. But since the mother of a country in the harem has opened her mouth, and she is the biological mother of the prince, she doesn't do anything to show her obedience, then the current emperor is in good health, and she does not have to worry too much about her grace, but a hundred years later, the crown prince will succeed to the throne, who can guarantee that the queen mother will not settle accounts with her when the time comes.
That's why she made a big move today, and everyone knew about it.
As soon as the side of the Roufu Palace stopped, a palace man took advantage of the fact that someone was not paying attention to throw a piece of paper at the eunuch outside the palace, and the eunuch who picked up the piece of paper hurriedly ran towards the outside of the palace.
In the palace of the four princes, the chief manager reported the situation with the news that had just arrived.
"How long have you been on your knees?" Chu Zexi looked at the news that came to the newspaper and said that Chu Leyan refused to admit it, but his opinion of this imperial sister had changed a little in his heart. In the end, it's the person she wants to protect.,The temperament is really soft on the outside and tough on the inside.,Oh,No.,He's a sister who says it's just right.。
"It's been two hours" Mr. Yang has been in the house for more than ten years, and he is honest.
"How many times has the concubine asked me?"
"I said it was once in half an hour, and I asked it four times."
"She's tough, and her mother is really ruthless, so cold weather makes her so frozen!" Chief Manager Yang's lips moved after hearing this, and after all, the person who reported it did not say anything about the luxurious battle that the Seventh Princess had activated when she was punished.
The subordinate does not chew the root of the master's tongue, and Fang Bao Taiping is the experience he has summed up over the years.
But Chu Zexi couldn't sit still, he thought that Xia Qingyi would be sad when she came back and found that Xiao Qi, who was good friends with her, because she was punished and injured, he couldn't stay out of the matter.
I don't know when this woman became more and more important in his mind, even if she told herself that she just wanted her to treat her differently for herself to get rid of the pain of the poisonous Gu, but the throbbing in his heart when facing her could not be deceived, thinking of this, he immediately spoke.
"Ghost Shara listens to the order, today, choose two teams of Jingwei to enter the palace, and be sure to rescue the seven princesses."
Before he could finish speaking, an old man hurriedly strode from the inner room
"Never, Fourth Prince."
Chu Zexi, who was originally a little annoyed that his order was interrupted at will, gradually subsided a lot of anger after seeing the person coming.
"The four princes are cautious, the ghost is your hard work for many years, if it is easily exposed to people, then if you want to become powerful in the future, your help will be restrained, besides, the noble concubine is the biological mother of the seventh princess. Tiger poison does not eat children, not to mention that the style of Roufu Palace has always been undisciplined and spoiled. ”
Chu Zexi raised his eyes and looked at the bitter old man in front of him, the other party's eyes were clear, and it didn't seem to be a deliberate fabrication of words to persuade him, and he no longer frowned at the moment, but asked for advice very modestly.
"Then Uncle Xu has another way to solve today's dilemma, the seventh princess is young, this freezing in the snow is not a solution?"
The old man stroked his white beard, and an idea came to life in his eyes. Then leaned over to Chu Zexi and said a few words, causing the other party to laugh.
"Okay, okay, that's it."
Chu Leyan suddenly sneezed, something was wrong, was someone nagging her and cursing her? She moved her numb leg and staggered, but she frightened the two maidservants who were injured and screamed in unison.
"Are you alright? Princess? ”
"Princess, how do you pull it?"
The two of them held Chu Leyan in fear for a while, for fear that she would bump into it or catch a cold. Although she has been kneeling for so long today, she has done enough preparations: she has prepared four sets of cloaks alone, and she deliberately put on a winter jacket made of snow wolf skin in Beiliang Country a year ago, and she did not delay the snacks and tea.
As soon as the hearts of the two palace maids here were put down, they heard the sound of dolls coming from far and near.
"Mother concubine, you can't punish the imperial sister like this, what can she do wrong?"
A seven- or eight-year-old doll wearing a navy blue python robe stepped on the thick snow, and the umbrella didn't care about it, so he ran from outside the hall angrily, followed by a group of little eunuchs with umbrellas and carrying sedan chairs, his face was pale with fright, and he didn't dare to stop slipping and immediately got up and followed.
The boy ran past Chu Leyan and was wrapped up in a panda like a human being, but he didn't pay attention to the strangeness in it, and went straight to the inner hall to plead. When the concubine heard this, she hurriedly greeted her, and when she saw that it was her young son like a demon king of the world, her temples had begun to ache faintly.
How did this child know?
Chu Zeyan was about to sleep in his hall, and someone directly shot the news to his bedside in the form of a dart. He was so frightened that he was so clever that he lost his sleepiness.
At first, he thought it was an eyeless prank, and he lost his temper, but then he was not at ease, so he went to Qionghua Palace to find Chu Leyan, and when he heard the maid say that he really had to be called by his mother to reprimand and it had been several hours, he panicked at the moment.
didn't care about anything else, he trotted over directly, although there were many royal heirs, but even if he was old, he knew that his fellow sister was the bloodline in this palace that was really the same as him.
"Mother, please spare the imperial sister, no matter how big a mistake she makes, she won't kneel for so long on such a cold day" The boy held his mother's hand back and forth, extremely coquettish and flattering.
"Don't get involved in this matter, your imperial sister has done something wrong, she should bear it herself, be good, go back quickly, be obedient."
The concubine still thinks that she can use good words to coax the past and mix it up with her precious son, but she underestimates the child's paranoid rebellious psychology.
"His Royal Highness doesn't go back, if you want to go back, you want to go back with Huang Ge Ge, it's so late, so cold, what should the royal sister do if she is sick, no matter what, the mother begs you, just spare the imperial sister."
Seeing that good words and persuasion did not work, the concubine was ruthless and commanded.
"Come on, invite the eighth prince back to his palace, without the permission of the palace, he is not allowed to go out of the palace for half a step." As soon as the words fell, I saw a group of palace maids and eunuchs surrounding the boy, and they were about to forcibly imprison the little boy.
Who would have thought, the boy jerked out a dagger from his sleeve and screamed against his throat.
"You all get out of the way, whoever dares to step forward, His Royal Highness will stab himself first, see how you wait for the dog slave to explain to His Royal Highness's father, you all get out of the way of His Highness."
The boy was small, but there was a resolute look in his eyes, and for a moment no one dared to take another step, he retreated to the outside of the hall, and did not forget to use his residual vision to guard against the palace maids who might rush forward at any time. Muttered in his mouth.
"Don't come, stand back, stand back!"
The concubine Niangniang also wanted to take advantage of his inattention and let people take advantage of his inattention to take down his nonsense rebel, so she gave her eyes to the little eunuch who had always been alert around her.
But as soon as the eunuch took a step forward, he was discovered by his son, and the villain glared angrily at the little eunuch who wanted to charge, and the strength in his hand was out of control, and a bloody cut was directly drawn. At the moment, the heart is flowing. Everyone was shocked into a cold sweat, and no one dared to step forward to provoke.
Chu Zeyan was actually grinning in pain, and he kept gasping, but as soon as he thought of Chu Leyan in the snow, his small body had infinite strength, it was his own imperial sister, and he only relied on him to protect it.
Slowly, Chu Zeyan had already retreated outside the hall, he turned around and ran to the bottom of the steps, kneeling side by side with Chu Leyan, a pair of small hands did not forget to hold the dagger against his throat.
"Mother, if you don't forgive the imperial sister, the ministers will kneel with the imperial sister until you forgive."
After speaking, he raised his stubborn little face, and looked fearlessly at the concubine in the distance who was so frightened that her legs were weak and she had to rely on someone to support her to stand on her feet.
The party watching the play on the side didn't expect his imperial brother to have such courage at all, so he licked his lips and decided to tell himself the truth about this stupid brother.
"The imperial sister is actually not cold, you see, the imperial sister has a soup woman and pastries, do you want one?"
Chu Zeyan was still immersed in the atmosphere of resistance with one enemy and one hundred and never giving in, and turned his head to look at the imperial sister wrapped in zongzi, the soup women under the cloak, and the empty food boxes.
"Sister Huang, are you 。。。。。。?" Chu Leyan was dumbfounded!
"The queen has arrived!" Suddenly, there was a sharp noise
The queen mother dressed in a red phoenix Asahi palace costume made a dramatic appearance, and the royal greetings began in the style of a model.
"Sister, what's going on, so late, such a big movement, how can the children kneel in the snow, how can I explain to the emperor when this precious body is frozen?"
"Let my sister laugh, it's my sister who is incompetent, and I can't discipline my children, and my sister doesn't want to do it on such a cold day, but they are used to being arrogant and indulgent, if they don't have a hard time, they don't repent." As the concubine spoke, her eyes turned red, and she really looked like her godson had no way to do it.
"My sister is anxious, oh, why is this eighth prince still injured, hurry up and announce the imperial doctor." The queen immediately played the appearance of a loving mother who loved the emperor's heir with her usual superb acting skills. The concubine on the side sighed lightly, tonight's farce can finally end.