122 Waiwai Princess
"Khan asks what he wants, Mulan doesn't need Shang Shulang.
I wish to travel thousands of miles and send my son back to his hometown......"
The sound of reading faintly came from the Wenhua Hall not far away, the bright sunlight shone obliquely through the flower window, and the palace maid who had just returned from the Department of Internal Affairs held the materials in her hand and happily pushed the door in.
In front of the makeup mirror in the hall sat a tall back. The palace maid on the side was holding her bun, and while holding it, she smiled and said: "Your Highness, look, this is the fallen horse bun that is fashionable in Beijing these days, it is really gentle and virtuous, and it is very beautiful and lovely." β
The palace maid who came in with the fabric also laughed when she heard this, stepped forward, and showed her the fabric in her hand.
"Your Highness, look, isn't this a coincidence? The lake silk from the new tribute in the palace is the softest. The slave maid also picked the most refreshing water green for you, and when you wear it in summer, won't it complement your hair bun? β
As she spoke, she smiled and looked up at the mirror and asked the man, "Your Highness, take a look, do you still like it?" β
The palace maid's expression was vaguely cautious, although she was smiling, she could see her gaze through the mirror.
Zhao Yu knew what she was worried about.
She is too tall, and the soft dress is very incongruous on her body, and it will outline her arms that are not slender enough, and even faintly visible muscular lines. She was cold by nature, she didn't like to talk or laugh, her appearance was bland, and her eyebrows were so sharp that she looked cold and hard, and it didn't match the fallen bun she pulled up.
But these palace maids still have to rack their brains to wrap these around her.
Because her father knew that she liked to practice martial arts since she was a child, he made a special trip to pick a good family for her who had been a general for generations, and she was about to get married.
That concubine has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, grew up in the Fuzhou army, and his favorite is the supple woman of the Jiangnan water town, not like her.
The palace maids didn't dare to persuade them, but they all knew that if His Royal Highness didn't suffer now, he would have to endure endless hardships after marriage.
Women, how can they be their original appearance? Isn't it just according to the husband's vision and preferences, carving himself into another pair of skins and bones.
Zhao Yu looked at the nondescript appearance in the mirror and did not say anything.
She didn't understand why she couldn't do what she liked herself, but she had to entrust herself to a man who did this, for the sake of gold and jade.
She also didn't understand what kind of woman he liked and what it mattered to her.
She didn't speak, the palace maid only thought that she was not satisfied with this dress, coaxed her to decorate two magnolia hairpins to her hair door, and said with a smile: "Good-looking, Your Highness." β
Zhao Yu has never been embarrassed.
"Hmm." She answered and stood up.
"Let's go." She said. "Go and say hello to the queen."
ββ
She didn't grow up under Dou Qingyi's knees since she was a child, but she was precocious since she was a child, and she remembered that she had inherited a lot of kindness from Dou Qingyi over the years.
She can be raised by her biological mother's side, which is the holy decree of Dou Qingyi's invitation. And in order to let her mother and daughter live safely, she has asked her mother and concubine for positions one after another over the years, and changed the palace, so that no one in the palace dares to despise them.
When she was of the right age, Dou Qingyi also sent her to the Wenhua Palace, where she studied and practiced martial arts, no different from those princes and disciples.
After her mother went, she saw not her father the most, but Dou Qingyi.
Even neither of them is a talkative person.
When she arrived at Fengluan Palace on this day, Su Yunshuang, the Qing concubine who had just entered the palace from the Su family, was also there. Dou Qingyi sat on it, she was eating tea fruit on the side, and kept talking about which concubine in which palace was the most snobbish, and who had a quarrel with her by the Taiye Pool.
Seeing Zhao Yu coming in, Su Yunshuang looked her up and down.
She saluted the two of them, and as soon as Dou Qingyi asked her to get up, Su Yunshuang put the fruit in her hand aside and said, "Which one is dressing you up?" Replaced her earlier. β
Zhao Yu raised his eyes slightly in confusion, and the palace maid next to him had already hurriedly knelt down and confessed.
"This fallen horse bun is vulgar outside the palace, there have been ten people on the street, and eight of them have pulled this bun, no matter how good it looks, where can you see it?" Su Yunshuang showed no mercy. "She's tall and wears more fresh makeup, which is better than being nondescript."
The palace maid who was kneeling on the ground hurriedly spoke, saying that the prospective horse liked such a woman the most, and she dressed up His Royal Highness.
Su Yunshuang sneered twice.
"A woman who is not beautiful enough has to use something refreshing and refined as an excuse. If you can hold down those gold and precious stones, who will not look good in them? She said, looking at Zhao Yu.
"Besides, you are a princess, groveling to please him what to do."
She spoke mercilessly, and her eyes looked at her unabashedly.
But Zhao Yu didn't feel uncomfortable at all.
Xu is that she speaks too bluntly and frankly, and her expression is also naΓ―ve and ignorant of the world
, so much so that it is annoying.
What's more, she was indeed born brightly, and she is indeed a handy connoisseur in fat powder jewelry.
"First of all, please sit down with Princess Huaning." Next to her, Dou Qingyi interrupted her lightly and said to the palace maid next to her.
The palace maid hurriedly stepped forward and helped Zhao Yu to sit down on the side.
Next to her, Su Yunshuang was still chattering with Zhao Yu.
If you want to please others, you need to please yourself first, it is rare to say something from the heart and lungs.
Zhao Yu lives in the palace, and has heard some of them these days.
It seems that this lady is a lively character, but she is very domineering, and everywhere she goes in the palace, there is a rain of swords and swords.
Now that he has entered the palace, it is normal for Bo Rong to be favored by all the grass and trees, and all the women of the same age are enemies. It seems that she has not been able to speak for many days, and she is so suffocated that she finally met her, a princess who does not have to compete for favor, and the queen on the high platform who has never been favored.
After a while, when Su Yunshuang said that he was tired, Dou Qingyi on the seat spoke.
"I heard that Huaning is about to leave soon." Dou Qingyi said. "Fuzhou is far away, and it is a major event in your life, so the palace played the emperor and added a dowry to you on behalf of your mother."
As she spoke, she raised her hand and took a box from Songyan next to her.
"The gold, silver, pearls and jade next to it are all trivial matters, these, this palace wants to hand them over to you personally."
Zhao Yu stood up, and there was already a palace maid holding the box in both hands and handing it to her.
The box was very light, and when I opened it, it was a box of books that were so quaint that they were even a little torn.
There are those who talk about the road shipping in Fuzhou, those who talk about the structure of ships, and those who talk about the tides and climate at sea, and there are many kinds of them.
Zhao Yu was a little surprised for a moment, and looked up at Dou Qingyi.
saw Dou Qingyi smile faintly at her and nodded.
"You want to live in Fuzhou for a long time, have nothing to do, and look at the world outside the house." She said. "The sky is vast and the sea is vast, and there will always be a day when they will be useful."
Zhao Yu's eyes were a little hot.
Over the years, the one who knows her preferences best is still Queen Dou.
Compared with her mother and queen, she is more like her teacher, respects her, and under the cover of layers of palaces, she waters and cultivates the pines and cypresses that grow in her pot.
She nodded heavily at Dou Qingyi.
On the side, Su Yunshuang couldn't quite understand the deep meaning of their words, but when she heard them say this, she immediately raised her hand and added five large boxes of dowries full of gold and silver to Zhao Yu.
"Whether it's a princess or not, this is the confidence given to you by Concubine Su." Su Yunshuang said. "You can wear whatever you want in the future, with our support, who else do you need to please?"
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After this day, Zhao Yu never saw Dou Qingyi and Su Yunshuang again.
They died, and the palace people said that they died in the competition for favor, one died violently, and the other died of illness in the deep palace.
And Zhao Yu, holding the book given to her by Dou Qingyi, marked by the circle of words, led the warship into the choppy sea.
The changing wind and clouds on the sea, the four different tides, and the fluttering ships all turned from words into entities and appeared in front of her eyes.
And the "confidence" that Su Yunshuang gave her became an indestructible warship in the waves, a deck hit by the sea, a compass that stood still in the wind and waves, and the flag flying high on the top of the ship when she waved forward.
She fulfilled their wishes, and she didn't have to please anyone else.
It wasn't until many years later that Zhao Yu put on her armor again.
The bright red cloak fluttered behind her, and the day before she went to the post, she entered the palace to bid farewell to Zhao Pu, and went to the temple directly east of the palace.
Crossing a row of ancestral tablets, she stopped in front of her mother, Dou Qingyi and Su Yunshuang, saluted deeply, and saluted three incense sticks.
The last time, when she was dressed in armor, she didn't let them see it.
And this time, they have become the silent pictures of ladies on the yellowed scrolls after the tablet.
She held back her tears and bowed her head deeply in front of them after saluting the incense.
If it weren't for the fact that she couldn't make a voice now, she actually had a lot to say to them.
Such as Zhao Pu, this kid lived up to expectations and did something that no one had done for thousands of years. Such as Zhao Jin, he has been thinking about his mother for so many years, and has avenged her grievances that she has no way to express when she is dying.
Also such as...... Herself.
She knelt in front of the ranks, unable to sob.
She wanted to tell them what she wanted to wear, and this time, she put it on.
Never have to be replaced. οΌοΌοΌ.