Chapter 3: The Jujube Tree Blossoms

"This is the backyard of the palace, no one lives on weekdays, it's night, I can only clean the room for you, this yard may need to be arranged for someone to clean you tomorrow, you will be on it for the time being." Zhao Yan said.

led Tang Xinyu to a secluded courtyard, the white high wall was covered with withered rattans, and the fallen leaves were all over the ground, only a ten-meter-high tree was located in the center, but it looked like there were some dead branches and leaves.

Zhao Yan took her through the courtyard and pushed open the door, although it was in a hurry, the place where she lived was spotlessly cleaned.

He then said, "There are no other maids in the palace except for the laundry woman, and there is no suitable person to serve you for the time being, tomorrow I will ask the Chitose Lord what he means, and then arrange it for you." ”

Tang Xinyu answered, "There is a housekeeper of Lao Zhao today, but I also entered the palace to serve the Chitose Lord, so I don't need to arrange another person to serve me, I can take care of myself." ”

Speaking of which, I don't go to serve people's errands, and if I count it, I'm just a maid.

"Miss Tang will rest early today, and someone will bring you a meal, and you will be left out of the door today, please don't mind." Zhao Yan said with a smile.

He thinks that this girl is more sensible than the average daughter, measured, and decent, and well-behaved, and she is well-behaved, and she likes an old man like him the most, like her granddaughter, but this girl doesn't seem to like to laugh, and her eyebrows are indifferent, calm and calm to the point that she should have in the eighteenth or nineteenth grade.

"Steward Zhao is serious."

The rumors outside this palace are the most unkind, but in her opinion, they are much better than her own family.

It's ridiculous to think about it, it is said that the palace is a place in dire straits, but it is the first place in more than ten years that she has been cared for except for the nurse.

"Then the slave will retire first, by the way, most people in the palace don't know about you yet, so don't go around, I will lead you to see the Chitose Lord."

Steward Zhao left the courtyard after instructing.

When Tang Xinyu entered the house, she found that the new clothes placed on the bed were probably arranged by Steward Zhao, and she saw that the clothes on her body were already soaked.

She opened her baggage, and there was nothing else except a few sets of plain white clothes, and her originally soft expression instantly returned to frost.

Their worthless things are still worried about them, it seems that whether it is for the nurse or to take back her own things, she has to go back to the Tang family!

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In the inner courtyard of the palace, Chu An walked to Ci'an Palace and saluted the people sitting on the phoenix chairs.

"The sons and daughters visit the queen mother and say hello to the queen mother."

"It's An'er, get up quickly, come to the mourning family."

The Queen Mother raised her hand and sat up straight from the graceful and luxurious phoenix chair.

"The queen mother, today I have found a woman to serve the emperor's uncle, and she has already moved into the palace." Chu An walked up to the Queen Mother and said.

“… Why is there only one girl? Didn't more than 60 people be selected? The Queen Mother said.

"It's a shame to say that it is the son's ministers who are not doing well, this matter has made the emperor's uncle unhappy, and many of the daughters sent by the ministers of the court are unpopular daughters in the family, and there are only a handful left, and in the end, under the instigation of the emperor's uncle, only one person was left." Chu An briefly recounted the ins and outs of the matter, with a complicated look in his eyes.

The Queen Mother sent him away after a few words of comfort.

The old lady who had been waiting on the side, Mama Qin, saw the worried appearance of the queen mother, poured tea and asked.

"What's wrong with the Queen Mother? In the past few days, His Majesty has come to ask for peace every day, and at the age of 9,000, he will retire to the court, so that His Majesty will be the master of the world alone, and the servants will become more and more sad when they see you. ”

"The child of the mourning family was born after three days and three nights of dystocia, and as soon as he frowned, the mourning family knew what he was thinking, and he gave orders to the nine princes three times and twice, in fact, he was testing the obedience of the nine princes."

The Queen Mother stretched out her hand, Mama Qin hurriedly helped her, and she got up and said slowly.

"The Nine Princes are powerful, they have been in the world for ten years, and they are worried that they will listen to slander and shake their hearts.

Walking to her couch, Mama Qin waited for her to sit down.

Then he said, "It's strange that the slave is too talkative, in that case, why didn't the Queen Mother remind Your Majesty?" What if Your Majesty and Chitose Ye are separated from each other? ”

"It's just a small fight, the Nine Emperor Uncles will take care of the mourning family, haven't you just come over like this in the past ten years, the mourning family will come quickly to the court, but the mourning family is a little interested in the concubines accepted by the Nine Princes, I don't know what arrangements he will make, and he will be summoned into the palace another day to take a look."

After all, there has never been a woman by his side.

"Yes, Queen Mother."

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On the second day, before dawn, Tang Xinyu got up, just because she recognized the bed, and changed to a strange environment, and it was extremely quiet, which was completely out of contrast with the sound of the crackling maid who slept next to the firewood room on weekdays, she couldn't sleep on the bed, so she had to get up and clean the yard.

Sweep the fallen leaves all over the ground to one place, hook the dead branches on the wall, and after doing this, the messy yard will take on a new look, and the sky is already bright, she can see that the courtyard is actually a jujube tree, she has never seen such a tall and big jujube tree, and for some reason, it has been a little withered.

She walked under the tree and circled around the trunk, not knowing if she could be saved.

It's just that after a few days like this, except for Steward Zhao, who glanced here twice in three days, she never even met the Chitose Master, as if there was no change in the palace suddenly with more people like her and less people in the palace.

The only change in her is that compared to this remote courtyard, Steward Zhao took her around the palace, and probably told her about the place where she could walk in the palace.

After a few days like this, Chu Jinye, who walked to the backyard, smelled a fragrance of flowers that had never been seen before, faintly sweet, as if there was nothing, and carefully traced the source of the taste and walked to the courtyard where Tang Xinyu was.

From the wooden window on the wall, he saw a plain white figure jumping under the tree, as if struggling to hook something.

He only later realized the existence of Tang Xinyu.

"Chitose, do you want to go in and have a look?" Steward Zhao asked on the side.

"Not necessarily." Chu Jinye refused.

I found that the jujube tree that was originally lifeless before is now full of vitality, and the unprecedented branches are full of yellow-green flowers, strings and strings, and the sweet fragrance in the air is the handiwork of this jujube tree.

"Ahh This was the cry of Tang Xinyu in the courtyard, and she fell to the ground, along with a hemp rope, on her shoulder.

The branches of the jujube tree were shaken, and tiny flowers rained down and fell around the woman.

The girl stares at the stamens, Chu Chu is moving; The plain white skirt under the breeze is flying, graceful, and there is a charming and charming beauty, she is not a beautiful scenery but comparable to a beautiful scenery.

Seeing a lot of scenes of slaughter, seeing a lot of wind and rain in the court, and traveling thousands of miles of mountains and rivers, his eyes were attracted by this scene for the first time.

"This jujube tree didn't bloom in the first two years, and this year I thought it wouldn't work, but I didn't expect it to bloom at this time, which is really incredible." Steward Zhao on the side sighed.

No wonder these days, this girl is messing around, asking him this and asking him that, often turning around under the tree, and seeing her climbing the ladder to prune the dead leaves, he was so frightened that he quickly called the men in the house to come over to help.

"Is that so?" Chu Jinye watched as the person who got up threw the hemp rope again, laboriously throwing it onto the trunk.

Steward Zhao replied, "Back to Master Chitose, you said you were going to cut it down last year." ”

"............" Chu Jinye didn't speak, but looked at the people in the courtyard who were jumping like rabbits, and didn't seem to succeed, so he angrily threw the hemp rope on the ground.

Seeing this, Steward Zhao asked. "This girl has been in the house for more than half a month, I don't know how to arrange it, is it left alone? Or send her home? ”

“…… Whose daughter is she? Chu Jinye spoke.

Steward Zhao: "The daughter of the Tang attendant of the Hanlin Academy, because Miss Tang became your concubine, it should be the classic of the Hanlin Yuan Tang now." ”

"Ask her tonight if she would like to go back, and if she wants, send her back, and give her ten thousand gold." After speaking, Chu Jinye glanced at the people in the courtyard and left.

"Yes."

Tang Xinyu in the courtyard always felt that someone was looking at her, and when she looked at the place where Chu Jinye was standing just now, there was nothing there, and she was a little annoyed.

It's been half a month, and she still can't sleep in the middle of the night, and now she is hallucinating.