Mingqing walked into the inner room, saw Lu Yuan sitting in front of the dresser and removed the heavy jewelry, leaving only a white hosta carved magnolia pattern, accosting her to help her straighten her forehead, pretending to ask casually: "Master, how can you take off your makeup this time?" This morning, Concubine Shun was taken away by those people aggressively, why is it okay now? ”

Lu Yuan glanced at her in the mirror and said lightly: "It's just a misunderstanding, and the misunderstanding was solved, so the emperor let Sister Shun come back and rewarded her with a treasure." ”

Mingqing's face changed slightly, and she said curtly: "Concubine Shun is fine." ”

Lu Yuan turned her head, looked into her eyes, and asked, "Do you want her to have something?" ”

Ming Qing was startled, the hair comb in his hand almost fell to the ground, and he hurriedly said: "How can this be, the master is joking with the slave." ”

Lu Yuan said: "Mingqing, how do I usually treat you?" ”

Mingqing's face turned pale, and he bowed his head and said, "The master has a gentle temperament, and he naturally treats slaves and maids very well. ”

Lu Yuan sighed slowly: "You and Chunhua were both pointed out by the Queen Mother's aunt to serve me, I never give you the master's money, and usually treat each other as sisters." But you, Mingqing, how do you do it? He actually did something outside the inside and out! ”

Ming Qing was taken aback, and forced a smile: "The master said this, the slave doesn't understand." ”

Lu Yuan's voice was calm and cold: "On that day, you went to the concubine to report the matter of the Seven Evil Talismans in Qinfangzhai, right?" ”

Ming Qing stammered and argued: "The slave didn't..."

"That day in Qinfangzhai, when Sister Shun talked about this matter, only you and Yingqin were present."

Mingqing hurriedly knelt down and said, "The master also said that I and Yingqin were present, but do you know that Yingqin didn't tell you?" ”

Lu Yuan smiled slightly and said, "Yingqin was brought from home by Sister Shun when she entered the palace, and she was carried with her since she was a child, and she was extremely loyal. ”

Ming Qing panicked and said: "Even if it's not Yingqin, Concubine Shun Niangniang put the charm in the inner room, but everyone who goes to the inner room is suspicious, how can the master only identify the slave?" ”

Lu Yuan sighed and said, "That night, you said that you were going to go to An Promise to send flowers there and go out, but it was not Bixiu Palace that you went straight to, but Chunhe Palace. ”

A frightened expression appeared on Ming Qing's face, and she trembled, "You sent someone to follow me?" You've been suspicious of me for a long time? ”

Lu Yuan looked at her straight and said slowly: "Sister Shun bumped into the conversation between the queen and the concubine, and happened to hear that you had taken refuge in the concubine, and I still didn't believe it, so my sister deliberately said that the birth charm was the seven evil charms to test you, and I didn't want you to report it in a hurry." Now that things have turned around, I don't know if the queen and the concubine will reward you or punish you? ”

Ming Qing sat paralyzed on the ground and muttered, "This is all planned by you, and I fell for your plan." ”

Lu Yuan leaned forward, looked at her and said, "Mingqing, I believe you have something unspeakable, you can tell me, and I will help you." ”

Ming Qing suddenly burst into tears, choked up and told the story of the private meeting with the guards in Qiongyuan that day, and was broken by the good concubine, and finally cried: "The slave and maid betrayed the master in a daze, and she was willing to be punished and let the master deal with it." ”

Lu Yuan listened, thought for a while, and said, "The guard Gao Long you just mentioned is your childhood sweetheart?" Is he good to you? ”

Ming Qingdao: "We were neighbors when we were children, we grew up together, and we had feelings for each other, and then I entered the palace as a maidservant because of my family's poverty, and he entered the palace as a guard in order to meet me. ”

Lu Yuan's voice gradually softened: "Why didn't you tell me early, even if you don't have this childhood sweetheart, you are nineteen years old this year, I will find you a good family to marry as a wife." ”

Ming Qing raised her head suddenly, tears on her face: "Really? Aren't you going to let me serve for the rest of my life? ”

Lu Yuan smiled and said: "You and Chunhua are like my sisters, I have long planned to find a good family for each of you." Now that Chunhua is two years younger than you, I will marry you first, and then plan for her. ”

Ming Qing was almost stunned when he heard this: "You want to marry me?" ”

Lu Yuan nodded and smiled: "What, I married you to your brother Gao Long, don't you want to?" ”

Ming Qing said suspiciously: "I took refuge in the good concubine, don't you blame me?" ”

Lu Yuan said gently: "I took refuge in the concubine because you were held by someone, and you couldn't help it, not out of your intention, how could I blame you." ”

Ming Qing cried with joy, kowtowed: "The master repays his grievances with virtue, and the slave is grateful." ”

Lu Yuan pulled her up and said with a smile: "You are the queen mother pointed it out to me, I have to return to the queen mother, tomorrow morning I will go to Ci'an Palace to ask the queen mother to give you and the high guards a marriage, you just wait to be the bride." ”

Mingqing's face turned red, and she said shyly: "The slave and maid are all up to the master." ”

Early the next morning, Lu Yuan took Mingqing to Ci'an Palace, and the Empress Dowager Xiaochun was drinking tea just after breakfast, and beckoned her to sit beside her with a smile.

Lu Yuan told the Empress Dowager that Mingqing was old, and she wanted to marry her, so she concealed Mingqing's informant.

The Queen Mother thought for a while and said with a smile: "The mourning family saw that Mingqing was calm and proper, and originally wanted to point her out to you to serve you for a long time, but I didn't want you to marry her off." ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "She and Gao Weiwei are in love, how can I bear to destroy this good marriage, I would rather demolish ten temples than destroy one marriage, I can be regarded as making a merit." ”

The Queen Mother smiled and said: "Since you are willing, the mourning family has nothing to say, she is your person now, you can make your own decisions." ”

Lu Yuan said with a smile: "Aunt Xie is complete." Yuanyuan, this is to ask Mingqing to come in and kowtow to your old man to thank you. ”

Mingqing heard the call, hurriedly walked in, knelt down in front of the Queen Mother, and the Queen Mother said with a pleasant face: "Yuanyuan is willing to fulfill you and let you marry your sweetheart, and the mourning family will depend on her, and you will have to think more about her kindness in the future." ”

Ming Qing said earnestly: "The master's kindness and slave maid will never forget, if the master needs a slave and maid in the future, the slave and maid are willing to go to the soup and the fire, and never say a word." ”

The Queen Mother nodded with satisfaction: "In this case, the mourning family will be the master to give you marriage." Mingqing was grateful, and her eyes were full of tears.

On the day of the wedding, the Jingxi Palace was brightly lit, up to Shun Concubine An's promise, down to the Jingxi Palace and other palace people who had made good friends with Mingqing to send each other off.

Mingqing got up early in the morning, Chunhua and Comb Yue and others were busy helping her change clothes and freshen up, she was wearing a long skirt of water shadow red densely woven gold thread acacia flowers, and her hair was combed high in the middle of the lotus flower with a joint bead lotus mandarin duck full of pond Jiao Jiao distracted, and a blooming lotus flower on each side hung down the pearl coral tassel and tourmaline pendant horn twisted into two strands, so a makeup, bright and delicate. The corners of her mouth were slightly raised, and the corners of her eyes were filled with tears, as if in a dream.

Lu Yuan gently took her hand and carried her to a table of eight treasures in the side hall, the table was full of dowries, silk and satin, and brocade boxes, all the way to the bottom of the table, Lu Yuan pointed out to her one by one, which ones were prepared by herself, which ones were rewarded by the Queen Mother, and which ones were given by Shun Concubine An and others.

Ming Qing's tears finally rolled down, Lu Yuan hurriedly took out a shark handkerchief and gently wiped it for her, and said with a smile: "Today is your big day, don't cry, the bride won't look good if you cry." I have prepared these things for you, just to let you buy a house after leaving the palace, have a husband and children, and live a good life. ”

Ming Qing nodded tearfully, and there were a thousand words for a while, but she couldn't say a word, Lu Yuan said: "Hurry up and get on the sedan chair, don't miss the good time." ”

Ming Qing reluctantly said goodbye to everyone and boarded the sedan chair and went out of the palace.

Chunhua stood on the steps and looked at it from a distance, her eyes were slightly red, and Lu Yuan joked to her: "Are you envious of Mingqing, if you endure it for another year or two, I will also find you a good husband, is it good to marry someone in a beautiful way?" ”

Chunhua blushed to the base of her neck, and said softly: "The master is not shy, and he makes fun of me." Then he turned and ran into the temple.

Lu Yuan smiled silently, and looked at the red luan sedan chair from afar and slowly walked away. Concubine Shun walked up to her and said, "Mingqing betrayed you, but you repaid your grievances with virtue and married her so beautifully, it is a great blessing for her to meet a master like you." ”

Lu Yuan said softly: "She has been in the palace for many years, a slave and a maid, first serving the Queen Mother, and then serving me with all her heart for more than two years, how can I bear to beat the mandarin duck and let her die of old age in the palace alone." The beauty of adulthood, the difficulty of helping others, I am also accumulating virtue for myself. ”

Concubine Shun said quietly: "I wish to win the heart of one person, the white head is not separated, what Mingqing can get, but it is a luxury for us, and the women in the palace are very pitiful." ”

Lu Yuan also said: "The disciple of Liyuan is white-haired and new, and the Jiaofang eunuch is old. If there is an afterlife, I only wish to be born in the family of ordinary people, marry a wishful husband, teach a husband and children, and grow old. ”

The two looked at each other and smiled, and entered the temple hand in hand.