Xiaowu was originally a first-class palace maid in Jingren Palace, in the words of the queen, Xiaowu and Guiyuan were all close to her, Xiaowu's Yulu was the highest among the palace maids, but she served thoughtfully, did things safely, and had a strict mouth, never liked to talk about people's rights and wrongs, knew the rules and was neither humble nor arrogant, in Jingren Palace, in addition to Guiyuan, the queen relied on her the most.

There is a small fog, and the big and small things in Jingren Palace are quite organized. Those palace maids and eunuchs were also willing to listen to Xiao Wu's words.

Knowing that Du Zhiyan moved to Wanru Hall and entered the new hall, there were many trivial matters, and the queen specially rewarded Xiaowu to serve.

After Xiaowu came to Wanru Palace, she consciously watched the night in Wanru Palace, served tea, and saw that the lights in Du Zhiyan's room were dimmed, and she was also the first one to add lamp oil, if Du Zhiyan took a bath, she always went to the flower room first to ask for a basket of fresh flower petals to sprinkle in the bath water, and when Du Zhiyan took a bath, if she could not serve in person, she would take the first step to make tea and prepare refreshments. At night, Du only fell asleep, Xiaowu, as a new slave, could have gone to rest, she had to go to the small kitchen to inspect again, and the lights of the entire Wanru Hall would also be checked again.

There was a time when Shi Jing came to Wanru Hall in the rain, and the weather was warm and cold at first, and without waiting for Du Zhiyan's instructions, Xiaowu had already gone to the kitchen to boil ginger tea.

This kind of delicate service cannot be done without a few years of experience.

So even Shi Jing praised her in front of Du Zhiyan: "The queen is really generous, and she has allocated such a capable person as Xiaowu to you, I think Xiaowu's style is like Zhao Mama of Yongfu Palace, and she is very considerate." ”

Therefore, the palace maids and eunuchs of Wanru Hall are also willing to respect Xiaowu's sister, and they are usually willing to listen to her assignment.

Du Zhiyan looked at the light in the mist, more and more felt that her light brown hair color was different, usually I rarely pay attention to this mist, now it seems that the light tea color between her hair and eyebrows is a little more cold beauty, like sick and weak, but not very similar.

Xiao Wu served Du Zhiyan jujube tea, and replied: "The slave maid entered the palace at the age of eleven, and I heard my mother say that I was sick when I was four years old, and I had a high fever for two days and two nights. ”

"Xiaowu, you entered the palace at the age of eleven?"

"Yes, according to the rules of the palace, the palace maids and eunuchs who come in to serve are generally seven or eight years old, and they begin to learn the rules at the age of seven or eight, and they can serve their masters for a year and a half. Just because the slave's family background is okay, and she has been a little decent since she was a child, just because my mother thinks that no matter how big the rules of the world are, they can't be in the palace, and she thinks that it is excellent for women to learn more rules, so let the slave and maid enter the palace. ”

"And then you're waiting by the Queen's side?"

"The slave maid went to the Internal Affairs Mansion, and it happened that Jingren Palace was picking someone to serve, and the queen said that the other slaves and maids were small, looking at the chickens, and couldn't bear to start. Jingren Palace has a lot of affairs, and the slaves and maids are taller and stronger, so the queen chooses the slaves and maids. Since then, he has been serving in Jingren Palace, and now he has been assigned to Wanru Palace, and he will work for a few more years, and when he can leave the palace, the slave and maid will go out of the palace. ”

When Xiaowu answered the question, he stood respectfully.

After answering Du Zhiyan's words, she took the tea on the table again: "This tea has been for a while, I'm afraid it's cold, so the slave and maid will change a cup for the master." ”

This is the life of the eye.

What master doesn't like it?

Changle Palace.

After Mangkhut finished delivering the snacks, he saw that Tian Lingyue was accompanying Meng Yuzhu to pick out the jewelry sent in by the Internal Affairs Office, so he consciously stepped aside.

"I saw you asking people to send things to Wanru Palace?" Meng Yuzhu fiddled with the pearls in her hand, the pearls were shining, each one was the size of an eyeball, and the box, at least six, was worth a lot. She is a concubine, and the position of a concubine is often sent with jewelry and fabrics, and Meng Yuzhu's box has long been unable to fit it.

"Back to the concubine Niangniang, I asked Mangosteen to send a box of snacks to the nectarine."

"Bring snacks to that little hoof? That dead little hoof, who has been in Changle Palace for many years, has eaten two more bowls of rice, and has not seen a single heart, what is the use of you sending her something, she trampled on things in vain. ”

"Have you ever heard of the divisive scheme?"

Of course, Meng Yuzhu, who was born in Nanfu, knew it.

The divisive plan in the play, she played it handy. But for the stupid slave of nectarine, and the uncontrollable Du Zhiyan, she is not very sure in her heart: "Even if the separation succeeds, even if Du Zhiyan doesn't like the slave of nectarine, what good will it do to us?" ”

"The discord plan is useless, but the serial plan and the sound of the east and west, some people may not be able to parry." Tian Lingyue picked out a pearl hairpin inlaid with yellow treasure from the box and handed it to Meng Yuzhu, and said a few words to Meng Yuzhu in her ear, Meng Yuzhu listened, her face suddenly became happy, and immediately inserted the pearl hairpin inlaid with yellow treasure into Tian Lingyue's sideburns, and stroked her hand and said: "This palace really didn't see the wrong person, among these show girls who entered the palace, you have a strategy." You can rest assured, you will arrange the things in the palace, and the things outside the palace will be arranged by the palace. ”

Because Meng Yuzhu was happy, she also left Tian Lingyue to eat together.

At the dinner table, Meng Yuzhu personally sandwiched a big chicken leg for Tian Lingyue: "You should eat more, you have lost weight these days." ”

Tian Lingyue was flattered.

Meng Yuzhu took another bowl of tomato beef soup and handed it to Tian Lingyue: "This beef soup is very soft and rotten, this palace has always loved to drink it, you can also taste it." ”

After Tian Lingyue drank the beef soup, Meng Yuzhu asked her, "Just set to act on the Shangyuan Festival?" Is it accurate? Will she really leave the palace with the emperor that day? ”

"Really. When the slave copied the scriptures for the queen mother and sent it over, she happened to meet the emperor and the queen mother talking, speaking of the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor said that day he was going to go outside the palace to see the people of the capital, micro-service private visit, the queen mother asked the emperor who accompanied the service, if the queen is inconvenient, it is the same with Wei Guiren. ”

"The Queen Mother is thinking about the two daughters of the Wei family." Meng Yuzhu snorted: "What did the emperor say?" ”

"The emperor said, the imperial doctor said that the two mothers of Jingren Palace have been conditioning their bodies recently, and there are many people in the city on the Shangyuan Festival, so they are afraid of colliding with the mothers, so they decided to take Du Changzai there."

Meng Yuzhu put down her chopsticks: "The Queen Mother is approved?" ”

"The Queen Mother has always favored the emperor, and the Queen Mother is probably accurate to what the emperor wants to do. The emperor told the queen mother that Du Changyu opened a small kitchen in the palace, coming and going in the wind and rain every day, and his body was tough, so he could be taken out, and the queen mother was not allowed. ”

The news that the emperor was going to take Du Zhiyan out of the palace spread widely.

When the emperor was greeted in the Jingren Palace, the queen said that she would buy things in the palace during the Shangyuan Festival, and she should also ask the Internal Affairs Office to prepare some lanterns like the people, and then put a few boats in the lake.

The concubines gossiped.

Zhao promised: "The queen mother is really considerate, speaking of which, the people of the Shangyuan Festival are very lively, and the harem should be even more lively." ”

Bao Guiren: "I like to take a boat to visit the lake the most, and when the time comes, I will sit on the boat and watch the fireworks, which will naturally have a special taste." ”

Meng Yuzhu unhurriedly stroked the pearl-inlaid gold hairpin between her hair, and wanted to laugh a little when she saw the concubines looking forward to the Shangyuan Festival: "The queen's intentions are excellent, but if the emperor is not there, who will our sisters show these to?" ”

"The emperor is not there? On the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor wants to stay in the palace to incense the ancestors, and the palace has never heard of which year the emperor did not celebrate the Shangyuan Festival in the palace. The queen said she didn't believe it, and the key was that she didn't receive a letter that the emperor was going on a business trip. In previous years, on the Yuan Festival, we had to go to the temple to kowtow to the ancestors, even if the year had passed, from this day on, we had to work hard for the well-being of the people, these old rules, the emperor has always abided.

Zhao promised to agree with the queen's words: "Last year, I stood in front of the sacrifice during the sacrifice, and the emperor also rewarded me with a bowl of dumplings." ”

Bao Guiren: "The year before last, I was sick and couldn't participate in the Shangyuan Festival, the queen took pity and gave me two exquisite fruits and two lanterns, and the emperor also sent a doctor to check my pulse." ”

Zhao promised to be a nobleman, but he was not considered to be in the palace and was not very favored, so the news also lagged behind.

Meng Yuzhu has always looked down on those people: "It seems that you are really not favored, and you don't even know the emperor's whereabouts." How can you please the emperor? ”

"Who knows my whereabouts?" The emperor came with his hands tied, Gao Rang didn't have time to pick up the bead curtain, the emperor raised his feet into the hall, the bead curtain swayed, the swaying bead curtain was bright and dark, and Jingren Palace was also alternately light and dark, the concubines wore red and green, and the beads were full of hairpins, and they were in a trance for a while, as if they had come to the fairy palace.

The queen hurriedly stood up to greet her.

The emperor sat in the queen's seat and asked the queen to sit down.

In front of the concubines, the emperor was next to the queen, and the queen could even hear his breathing, his breathing was the fragrance of avocado, the queen was a little distracted, reached out and took a yellow orange from the plate and peeled it: "This is a new orange sent by the Internal Affairs Office today, it is small, with thin skin, and it is called a sugar orange, and the concubine peels one for the emperor." ”

The emperor nodded.

The queen happily peeled the orange and put it into her mouth with her hand: "Sure enough, this sugar orange is very sweet." What does the emperor think? ”

emperor

Meng Yuzhu secretly sighed that the queen was mentally retarded.

Such a mentally retarded queen can sit firmly in the middle palace.

The emperor didn't blame, and even cared for the queen: "If you like to eat, I'll let the Internal Affairs Office send it another day." Scatter these sugar oranges and eat them all. ”

The next concubines, especially Zhao promised Bao Guiren and others, looking forward to the emperor every day but couldn't, and now the emperor is intimate with the queen, and there are sugar oranges to eat, and they are all overjoyed: "The emperor and the queen are so good to our sisters." ”

Meng Yuzhu pinched a sugar orange, and was a little apprehensive in her heart.

The emperor asked Meng Yuzhu: "What the concubine said just now, it seems that she knows my whereabouts?" ”

The orange in Tian Lingyue's hand fell to the ground, and the emperor was rude, Tian Lingyue quickly knelt down, and Meng Yuzhu also knelt down: "Concubine. It means that the emperor is busy with the sacrifice of the Shangyuan Festival."

"I'm afraid of what?"

"I'm afraid." Meng Yuzhu lay on the ground: "It's the concubine who is speculating nonsense, please forgive the emperor." ”

The emperor personally peeled a sand sugar orange and handed it to the queen, raised his eyebrows, and threw up his robe: "The activities of the Shangyuan Festival, although the queen arranges it, I will spend the Shangyuan Festival in the palace." ”

The queen was naturally happy: "The concubine must make more lanterns, I heard that this year's rabbit lantern is beautiful, the concubine. Congratulations to the Emperor. ”

Zhao promised: "The emperor really celebrates the Yuan Festival with our sisters, then I still want to stand in front, in case the emperor rewards me with dumplings." ”

Bao Guiren: "The emperor just rewarded you with sugar oranges, and you want to eat dumplings, you are really greedy." ”

Only Meng Yuzhu and Tian Lingyue knelt on the ground, and the emperor didn't say anything to let the two get up.

Everyone sat and ate another round of oranges, and seeing that the basket was empty, the queen remembered that Meng Yuzhu was still kneeling on the ground, so she straightened her robe and said: "The concubine and Tian promised to get up, you can eat more oranges in the future, and you can't talk nonsense, you see, it almost made the emperor angry." ”

Only Wei Guiren sat quietly in the back row, holding her newly made piano in her arms and still tuning.

Although she wondered in her heart, she didn't show it.

In the conversation between the emperor and the Queen Mother that day, in addition to Tian agreeing to be present, she went to deliver soup to the Queen Mother, and she was also there.

The emperor wanted to take Du only out of the palace, and Wei Guiren also heard it with his own ears. And after the emperor left, she stayed for a while, and the queen mother also took her hand to comfort her, saying that there are still many opportunities to get along with the emperor in the future. Besides, the city is crowded and carried in the Shangyuan Festival, and the people are boiling, and there is nothing to see, and there are fireworks and lanterns in the palace.

Wei Guiren was obedient like a cat at that time.

Now the emperor said that the Shangyuan Festival will be spent in the palace?

Change is too fast.

Wei Guiren secretly glanced at Du Zhiyan's expression.

She thought that Du Zhiyan would be disappointed and sad, but she didn't expect Du Zhiyan to be so happy as the New Year, not only talking and laughing with Shi Jing, but also showing off three or five oranges, eating all the yellow on her hands, how could she be sad.

Wei Guiren secretly sighed that Du only said that he had a good attitude, is this woman really so spoiled and humiliated? The emperor originally wanted to go out of the palace with her to enjoy the lanterns, but now he won't ask her out, she shouldn't have this expression.

Du Zhiyan is like a mirror in his heart.

Before coming to Jingren Palace, the emperor went to Wanru Hall first, saying that he wanted to drink Wanru Palace's corn and egg flower rock sugar porridge.

After drinking the corn and egg flower rock sugar porridge, Du only persuaded him: "The emperor's dragon body is important, although the palace is lively, but in the noise, there is a hidden danger, and the safety of the people of Chen is all on the emperor, so the festival activities of the Shangyuan Festival, the emperor can't go for safety." ”

"You're going to be able to go?"

"Concubines. The concubine didn't want to go either. ”

"Hehe, woman." The emperor put down the porridge bowl and pulled Du Zhiyan and put it on his lap: "Obviously I want to go, but I don't want to, I talk and spit out, when I can't hear it." ”

Du only said

Your Majesty, you are really a wise and martial emperor.

The concubines were in a panic in the palace, and they couldn't wait to go out of the palace to have fun.

The emperor also clearly saw Du Zhiyan's thoughts: "Today, Aunt Guan in the Queen Mother's palace came to spread the word, saying that the Queen Mother was infected with a cold, and on the night of the Shangyuan Festival, I had to sacrifice in the palace, and I had to go to Cining Palace to visit the Queen Mother, and I had to discuss with the three auxiliary ministers, I am afraid that I will not be able to go with you to enjoy the lanterns outside the palace." ”