Snow Festival Banquet (2)
At the end of the day, the noisy beating had just stopped, and the hurried steps of the servants and maids in the Guogong Mansion and the sound of busy work in the courtyards followed one after another. In winter, the sky is always brighter and the night has not faded.
The maids in the Yumu Pavilion went in and out of the house again and again.
Fu Bao cleaned up the breakfast he had just used and began to work hard to put the snacks to be eaten in the carriage into the food box, and Yinhuan put the jewelry sent last night on the dresser on the side, and used the silver comb to comb Feng Nanyin's hair. Comb and pull, but in a moment a delicate style came out.
Today's silver ring is a hanging bun for Feng Nanyin's comb, although it is a palace banquet, it is still only sporadically dotted with a few pearl hairpins, fortunately, the hollow orchid is more conspicuous, otherwise it is too plain.
After packing up, Feng Nanyin and the others went out to the main hall to meet with others, and Yinhuan and Fubao followed.
Dressed in a light blue palace dress, the corners of the skirt are embroidered with fine cherry blossom petals, and the outside is draped with a snow white silver fox coat, which makes Feng Nanyin very eye-catching.
In the main hall, a group of people gathered.
Feng Nanyin had just arrived and was seen by Feng Nanfeng in the third room before anyone could report it, and stepped forward quickly: "How did Ayin come so early, why didn't he sleep for more hours?" Grandmother said that you are weak and need to rest more, so that people will not make noise. ”
Feng Nanyin gently blessed the salute: "Ask Fifth Brother An, the palace banquet must not be delayed." ”
Feng Nanfeng hurriedly helped Feng Nanyin up: "How can you and I have those rules, the sixth sister is more polite." Looking at Feng Nanyin's pale face, he said: "It's cold outside, go into the house quickly, you have been recuperating these days since you came back, and the family hasn't taken a good look at you." ”
Feng Nanyin nodded, and followed Feng Nanfeng in.
As soon as he entered the hall, Feng Nanfeng shouted: "Grandfather, grandmother will see who the grandson will bring here." ”
The third lady was just about to open her mouth to reprimand him for being unruly, but in a blink of an eye, she saw the person behind him, and said with a sigh: "Isn't this a sound girl." ”
Just as he was about to speak, he heard a cough from the old lady, and the words came to his lips and he held back.
Feng Nanyin stood up and saluted the elders in a proper manner: "Say hello to your grandfather and grandmother, hello to your father and mother, hello to your second uncle and second aunt, hello to your third uncle and third aunt, hello to your brothers." ”
The old lady said lightly: "The sound girl is here, since everyone is together, let's go, don't delay the time." ”
"Yes."
The group got into the prepared carriage and drove towards the palace.
In the carriage, Fu Bao complained: "What is the old lady, I have never been like this before. ”
Seeing that Feng Nanyin's face did not change and his face was calm, Yinhuan touched Fu Bao with his elbow and motioned for her to stop talking.
Fu Bao is not stupid, seeing this, he immediately changed his words: "The girl eats less breakfast, I have prepared some snacks, do you want to eat a little to cushion the stomach, there are many rules for the palace banquet, I am afraid that I will not be able to eat a few bites of food, I am afraid that I will be hungry." ”
Feng Nanyin opened the curtain and looked outside: "No need, I don't have much appetite now." ”
Seeing that Feng Nanyin couldn't lift his spirits, the two didn't talk more. Feng Nanyin didn't say a word until the Xuanwu Gate, and kept staring outside.
Officials and family members are usually not allowed to bring slaves and horses into the palace, but usually very young or very old are allowed to bring a maid to serve them closely. There is also a special case, that is, the imperial relatives like Feng Nanyin can choose for themselves.
The Feng family carriage was divided into two groups, the men went to the front court, and the women entered the harem.
As soon as the carriage arrived at the door, I saw the lady in charge next to the Queen Mother waiting there.
The old lady of the Feng family got out of the carriage with the support of the maid, and greeted her with a smile: "I'm tired of Grandma Sun waiting here, I don't know if the Queen Mother has come to Feng in good health recently?" ”
"Mrs. Lao is worried, everything is fine, the Queen Mother is worried about you, and you specially asked the old slave to prepare a chariot and wait here."
"Xie Niangniang." Mrs. Feng led everyone to bow in the direction of Fu'an Palace.
Feng Nanyin followed at the end, sneaking out of the team while people were not paying attention, Fu Bao and Yinhuan let her break up early in the morning, and now she was wandering alone in this palace.
She has lived in the palace since she was a child, and she is very familiar with everything here, such as the lily crisp in the queen's palace is the most delicious, the osmanthus nectar in the palace of Concubine Ping is the sweetest, and the incense in the palace of Ning Guiren is the best.
I don't know why, because that place is close to the cold palace and Xinzheku, so no one takes care of it and few people go anywhere, but looking at the entire Dingdu City, only the plum blossoms there bloom the most and the most colorful.
Feng Nanyin walked lightly, and the snow that had fallen last night was still piled up on the road, making a squeaky sound when she walked. The towering red walls on both sides were covered with thick snow, and the already majestic road added a bit of desolation and misery.
The closer they got, the clearer the screams from the cold palace and the Xin's Curry became.
Feng Nanyin concentrated on moving forward and didn't care at all.
When you get closer, you can see a red plum tree coming out of the wall.
"Who said that since ancient times, only red apricots have come out of the wall, and this red plum can't come out now." Feng Nanyin said with a smile.
There was no one here, and she didn't have to pretend anymore, so she jumped into the palace wall and went to the courtyard.
Perhaps the wind was blowing, and the snow in the corner of the wall was much higher than in the side of the wall.
Feng Nanyin always looked awkward, but why was the wind blowing in front of him and there was little snow under the trunk?
The distance between the two places is no more than an inch away.
Feng Nanyin casually broke off a branch from the tree, poked the deepest part of the snow with a branch, and found that it could not be inserted into it, as if there was something hard blocking it, so she swept the snow on it out of curiosity.
A corner of blue clothes appeared in front of her, and Feng Nanyin swept away the snow above with her bare hands, regardless of the cold ice and snow.
As she expected, it was the palace maid in the queen's palace.
There is such an unwritten rule in the harem of Daqi, although the palace maids in each noble palace wear the same clothes, but the colors of the clothes in each palace are different, and the color shades are also processed in order to distinguish them, so they are extremely easy to identify.
Just like the blue clothes are the second-class palace maids in the queen's palace.
It took a lot of effort for Feng Nanyin to pull the person out and wipe his face clean with a handkerchief.
Feng Nanyin almost exclaimed: "Lianyi." ”
Lianyi can be regarded as an old man in the queen's palace, she was originally a palace maid in the palace, and later Feng Nanyin looked at her when she was young and mentioned it to the queen, so she went to the queen's palace on an errand. She is very popular with the queen because she does things quickly and does not procrastinate, and she has been promoted all the way to the current second-class palace maid who is in charge of all the sundries in the queen's palace.
But now, how can he be killed, and he is still in this ruined palace that no one cares about.
If anyone else saw this scene at this moment, I am afraid that they would not go crazy, and a boudoir woman who had not yet reached the end of the year was fiddling with a corpse with a calm expression at the moment.
Feng Nanyin checked Lianyi and tried to find the cause of death, but unfortunately it was frozen for too long and she couldn't tell when she died, but fortunately, there was still a deep red mark on her neck, and she thought she should have been strangled.
If there is a clue, it is good, Feng Nanyin stood up straight, clapped her hands, tidied up her dress, and saw that it was almost time to go back, dragged Lianyi's body under the plum tree, and found a straw mat to cover it and went out over the wall.
When the time comes, it's time to meet the cows, horses, snakes, and gods.
After Feng Nanyin left, the door of the palace creaked open, and through the gap, only the ink-colored robe at the corner of the clothes could be seen, and the dark lines of auspicious clouds were printed on it.
When Feng Nanyin returned, the children of all families had already arrived, and they were all gathered in the queen's palace.
Yinhuan stood in front of the palace gate and paced back and forth anxiously, and when he saw Feng Nanyin's figure, he immediately greeted him.
"Where the princess has gone, let the slave and maid wait."
"Wandering around, it's been a long time."
Fu Bao walked through the crowd and whispered to Feng Nanyin's ear, "The queen mother called you over." ”
Feng Nanyin nodded, "Got it." Yinhuan, you go to your mother's side, if she asks, she will say that I am going to the queen's palace, Fubao, you go to find the eldest lady of the Nangong family and tell her to wait for me in the old place. ”
"Yes." Fu Bao and Yinhuan said in unison.
When Feng Nanyin came to the queen's palace, the queen was eating tea and chatting with Yuan Qingge in the palace, and when she saw Feng Nanyin coming, she immediately beckoned her to sit down.
"Nanyin, hurry, I'll send you."
"Ayin asked the emperor's aunt An." Although she was delighted, Feng Nanyin still obediently asked for the salute first.
"An, An, okay, now there is no one else to our own family, I don't care about those false."
The current queen is the daughter of the Yuan family, and now the prime minister Zuo is the brother and sister of the same mother. Because she is the only daughter in the family, she has been pampered since she was a child, and later when the first emperor chose a concubine for Emperor Yan Chen, who was still the fourth prince at the time, Yuan Ben did not agree to marry his daughter, thinking that the royal family was a big quagmire and did not want his daughter to risk herself, even if he Yuan was down, he would not use his daughter's second half of his life to change the future of the family, and in the end, Xun Zeyan repeatedly promised that he would not let the daughter of the Yuan family suffer half a grievance and the two were already happy with each other, which led to this marriage.
Even after Xun Zeyan ascended the throne, for a long time, there was still only one queen in the harem, if it wasn't for the fact that she was forced to be helpless in the end, the emperor and the queen in this life would be a couple for a lifetime. Even so, there are only two concubines and one noble person in the harem now, and they have never changed.
The story of the two is even compiled, and it is praised by others.
The queen took the hands of the two, "One of you is a niece, the other is a niece, the palms and backs of your hands are full of meat, among these juniors, this palace likes the two of you the most, and you also have the heart of this palace." ”
Hearing this, Feng Nanyin and Yuan Qingge glanced at each other, the two of them knew the meaning of the queen's words, and that was what neither of them wanted to hear.
Feng Nanyin suddenly spoke: "Ayin also likes the imperial aunt the most, for fear that the palace maids around you will not serve you well." Saying that, he glanced around, "Why didn't you see Lianyi's girl, why didn't she wait by your side, I knew that the girl was going to be slacking off when I left." ”
"No, she's not in my palace now."
"Why not? Could it be that she did something wrong? Feng Nanyin asked.
"A few days ago, the palaces came to ask for peace, and Concubine Shu saw her and asked her to leave."
"Lady? Who is that? ”
Yuan Qingge replied: "The sister of the right prime minister Zhong Huyuan is fond of sleeping. ”
"When did she enter the palace, why haven't I heard of her?"
The queen said in a flat voice: "It's only been half a year since you left." ”
Feng Nanyin calculated: "That Lianyi is now in her palace?" ”
The queen nodded, "What are you going to do?" ”
"The imperial aunt doesn't have to be nervous, I don't do anything, just ask. There are still some hours to leave the palace banquet, you are resting, and we will retire first. Feng Nanyin pulled Yuan Qingge out and saluted.
Yuan Qingge was dragged by her all the way, and finally got out of the door before throwing off his hand, "Ayin, what are you doing?" ”