Section X
A few days after entering the palace, Su Qi was very curious about everything in the palace, and pulled Yimei to walk around like a bird that had just come out of the nest. They walked through the "Summer Lotus Pond" where the lake water turned into hard ice, passed through the "Green Bamboo Forest" where the ice was hung, saw the bleak and withered "Hundred Flower Pavilion", and finally came to the "Plum Garden" farthest away from the Imperial Tea Bureau. Yimei came to the door, and when she saw these three big characters, she didn't want to go in, urging Su Qi to go back quickly. But Su Qi didn't understand her thoughts, and forced her into the garden. Su Qi was impressed by the beautiful plum blossoms blooming in the garden, and walked in the plum forest leaning on the plums, going through the past as if the water of the pond was stirred. She didn't expect that there was an elegant place in this deep palace, and she was inevitably sad at first, and then she was relieved, she thought that maybe it was providence. God knew that she was going to die alone here, and he knew that she missed her parents so much, so he had the heart to arrange all this to comfort the pain in her heart.
"Sister, look, it's the first time I've seen a red plum when I've grown so big!" Su Qi lowered the branch with his hand, sniffed it closer, and said, "This red plum still has a faint fragrance!"
Su Qi handed the plum branch in his hand to Yimei, "Sister, come and smell it." ”
Sure enough, bursts of fragrance oozed into the heart and spleen. "Yimei has seldom, if not before, smelled plum blossoms so carefully.
"Huh. As soon as Su Qi's eyes rolled, Yi Mei knew that she had come up with some kind of ghost idea. Sure enough, she approached Yimei and secretly said, "Shall we fold a few branches and raise them in a bottle?"
"Okay!" Yimei is actually a naughty little girl.
The two of them didn't have a bad heart when they did bad things, they talked and laughed a little carried away, but they didn't think about it, but they startled others, and the other party shouted and blamed, "Who dares to make a loud noise here and come out for me?" His voice sounded like a young man, who should not be a few years older than Yimei. Even so, the majesty in his tone made Yimei and the others half frightened, and they hurriedly squatted down, and they didn't even dare to come out. After waiting for a while, Yi Mei saw that there was no movement, and she was about to leave with Su Qi, and the man sounded again, "Who the hell, do you want this prince to call someone?" Hearing that person claiming to be the prince, Yi Mei and Su Qi glanced at each other, feeling that a catastrophe was coming, and they were about to resign themselves to their fate, so they turned around and walked in the direction of the voice, but they heard another man's voice, "Forget it, ten brothers, maybe the new little palace maid doesn't know the rules yet." I heard him say this and said loudly: "It's okay, hurry up, don't mess around in the future." ”
Yimei and Su Qifei, who got his words, also rushed out of the "Plum Garden".
They didn't dare to stop running all the way back to the Imperial Tea Bureau, and the two of them looked at each other and were about to laugh about their adventures, when the aunt in charge of the Imperial Tea Bureau appeared in front of them, "Where did you run just now, don't you know what to study?" As soon as she finished speaking, the aunt in charge found the plum branches in their hands, and she asked with some horror: "Have you gone to the plum garden?"
Yimei was surprised by her reaction, but honestly admitted it.
"Do you know that you can't trespass in the palace? The plum garden is even more forbidden, and we people can't go in and out at will. In addition to being angry, my aunt was also a little more worried, she was worried that because of the ignorance of her subordinates, she would bring unwarranted disasters to herself. The other three girls who were admitted with Yimei and the others were gloating at this time, and Ziyun who was the leader of them added fuel to the fire, "If we are investigated, will we all be executed? I don't want to be killed like this!" As soon as she finished speaking, the other two people smartly pretended to be pitiful and walked behind her aunt. The aunt in charge sighed and said, "It seems that the Imperial Tea Bureau can't keep you, and this matter will be handed over to the law enforcement lady to deal with." After walking two steps, he turned around and called Yimei and Su Qi, "Come with me." ”
Seeing that he had just entered the palace and was about to be kicked out of the palace, Su Qi didn't know where he got the courage to say loudly: "The plum blossom garden is the plum blossom that the Ten Princes let us in, and he folded it for us!" Yimei was startled by her, and when she turned her head to look at her, she happened to meet her eyes asking for help, so she had to continue to make up a lie, "If Auntie doesn't believe it, you can ask His Royal Highness the Ten Princes in person." Although she said this, she prayed in her heart that she would never ask.
"Well, in that case, I won't pursue this matter for the time being. Unexpectedly, Su Qi was secretly happy in his heart to win the bet.
When Ziyun heard that they actually saw the Ten Princes, or the Plum Garden that the Ten Princes let them into, and also folded plum branches for them with their own hands, the jealousy in her heart was even greater. Because as far as she knows, among all the princes, the tenth prince Zihao and the thirteenth prince Ziluo are the most handsome. When I entered the palace, I didn't come to do anything about women's history at all, but I hope that one day I can become a princess or even an imperial concubine. I dreamed that the Ten Princes would let Yimei meet so easily, so I couldn't get used to them. Now seeing that the aunt in charge did not hold them accountable, Ziyun was willing to give up and instigated the other two people to ask: "Then because the two of them didn't come to class, and even we didn't learn new knowledge about tea, what should we do?"
Yi Mei saw their intentions clearly, so she pulled Su Qi to kneel down in front of her aunt in charge and said, "This matter is indeed our fault, please punish your aunt." ”
The aunt in charge looked at them helplessly and dissatisfied, and was silent for a while and said, "You go and wash all the tea sets for today, and you are not allowed to eat dinner." ”
Su Qi was very upset when she heard that she couldn't eat, and as soon as she wanted to defend herself, Yimei pulled the corner of her clothes.
"Let's all go to dinner!"
Ziyun snorted contemptuously when they passed by Yi Mei and Su Qi, and deliberately kicked the snow on their skirts, if it weren't for Yi Mei pulling Su Qi, who had a child's temper, would almost have gotten up and reason with them.
The tea sets at the Imperial Tea Bureau were not washed immediately after they were removed from the emperor's case, but they were washed together at the end of the day. If the emperor had met with the princes and ministers that day and gave tea, there would have been more tea sets, but on this day, the emperor not only met with the princes and ministers, but also gave tea. So when they came to the tea washing room, the teacups and tea sets in the basin were piled up like a hill. Su Qi, who kept complaining on the road just now, was even more angry, and Yimei rolled up her sleeves and brushed it quietly. Su Qi was embarrassed to be lazy, and he pouted and moved his hands.
After a while, the hill in the basin finally lowered a lot, but it was still not the end, Su Qi was a little discouraged, threw the cup in his hand into the water, and the splash fell on his face, "I don't want to wash it!" Yimei smiled and didn't stop the work in her hand and said, "Wash it quickly, you can rest after washing." ”
Su Qi suddenly looked at Yimei pitifully and a little embarrassed like a child, "Sister, I'm hungry." ”
Yimei reluctantly stopped, shook the water in her hand, wiped it on her body again, and then took out two steamed buns like a trick. Su Qi's eyes straightened when she saw the food, and she screamed in surprise, so that Yimei kept reminding her to be quiet. Su Qi didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, and gobbled up the steamed buns after taking them, completely ignoring the image of a lady. Yimei tore a small piece of steamed bread and put it in her mouth, where Su Qi was about to finish most of the steamed buns, and didn't forget to stuff it into her mouth while burping. Yimei knew that she was not enough, so she handed her the rest of the rest in her hand, Su Qi hesitated for a moment and finally took the steamed bun greedily, "Thank you, sister!"
"I tell you, in the future, we all have to be careful, and we must not be as reckless as we are today, otherwise we will lose our heads at any time. ”
Su Qi stuffed the last mouthful of steamed buns into his mouth and hurriedly agreed.
"Then let's move on. Yimei had already returned to the basin, picked up a cup, and raised it to Su Qi.
Su Qi wailed, "I won't go to the plum garden in the future." ”
They thought that if they didn't look for trouble, they wouldn't find them, but in a place like the palace, even if they hid from trouble, they would smell it and come to them step by step.