Queen's Road in the Red House

When Dai Yufang returned to Beijing, the emperor rewarded Lin Ruhai with the posthumous title, and the Supreme Emperor also agreed.Therefore, the empress dowager rewarded Daiyu with a pair of heads and twenty bolts of tribute satin.

At that time, the Jia family heard it and felt honored.

Things are small, but the dignity rewarded by the heavenly family is big.

But this time, when the Queen's order to summon Daiyu to the palace was announced, the Rongguo Mansion naturally paid more attention to it.

The Jiaoyin nun in the palace had come out a day earlier to teach Daiyu how to salute, how to respond, how to thank her, and where to retire.

The nanny was patient, careful, and very kind. Jia Min was worried about her daughter. When she invited this nanny to ask, the nanny only smiled and said: "Young lady, if you are smart, you will understand. The empress in the palace is the most kind. It will embarrass the girl."

On the night before entering the palace, when Daiyu was memorizing the rules of the palace, the queen in the palace was also talking about her.

Jing Su, a confidant in the palace behind her, was combing Empress Yang's hair, and the Empress smiled and said, "The child Cheng'er is here again today, so please tell me to take care of the girl from the Lin family tomorrow."

Listening to what the queen meant, Jing Su couldn't help but pause: "Your Majesty thinks..."

Empress Yang's smile deepened: "We watched him grow up, why did Cheng'er pay attention to the daughter's house next door?"

She started talking, and turned around to talk without even combing her hair: "Jingsu, you have to go to Beijing last year for the son of Changyuan Houfu to report on his work. At that time, their husband and wife also brought Cheng'er's cousins ​​with them." The cousins ​​are all delicate and lovely girls, but Cheng'er doesn't have the slightest thought, and Mrs. Shizi, who has been in the door several times, is not interested."

The current head of the Changyuan Hou Mansion, Master Zhong Hou, is Xin Hongcheng's grandfather, and the eldest son Zhong Zhen is his uncle.

When Zhong Zhen went to Beijing to report on his work, he even brought his four-bedroom daughters of the right age to visit relatives in name, but the meaning of getting married was Sima Zhao's heart.

At that time, when the emperor was not enthroned and Xin Hongcheng was just a son of the royal family, the Zhong family had this intention.

Originally wanted to engage in childhood sweethearts, cousins, but except for the first time, Xin Hongcheng basically disappeared without a trace.So Zhong Changyuanhou's mansion took it as usual to visit relatives, without pointing out the meaning.

But now, Xin Hongcheng has changed from the son of the royal family to the son of the first prince, and it is estimated that Changyuan Hou's mansion will be in a hurry.

The queen smiled and said, "My mother's cousins ​​don't care, but they come to look for me again and again for this girl from the Lin family. Isn't it strange?"

Jing Su hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, we can't say this. His Royal Highness is a ceremonial person, and Miss Lin is a lady of everyone. The two have never met before, so there is nothing strange about it. It is nothing more than Master Lin. Loyal minister, the emperor treats Miss Lin kindly, that's why Fourth Highness asked you to treat Miss Lin kindly."

Empress Yang waved her hand: "Okay, what are you afraid of? It's just that we shut the door and talk on our own. Could it be that I will go out and say that if Cheng'er's reputation is ruined, wouldn't it be a waste of money for them!"

After a pause, he continued: "But Cheng'er is fifteen years old. At this age, his elder brothers already have court ladies around him, but he doesn't. It's not easy for the emperor to be a father, so he asked me to pick a few." The excellent maids sent them, but Cheng'er didn't know whether she didn't understand or was just pretending to be stupid, so she returned them all, saying that there was no shortage of people, and a bunch of maids standing in the room would delay her study."

After all, Empress Yang is not her own mother, so it is not easy to say directly: The purpose is to delay your study!Don't just study at this age!

Seeing that he doesn't accept it, that's all.

Jing Su persuaded: "Your Majesty the Fourth Highness is early wisdom. Thinking about it, now is the age to study hard, and it is good not to be distracted. Didn't the Emperor also mention to the Empress that he wants to pick up the princes and concubines as soon as possible?"

Empress Yang was full of worries: "It's good to love reading, but I can see that he is reading with his companion all day long, that is, the boy from the Fan family. This kid, Cheng'er, doesn't have any eccentricities."

Jing Su: ... "My Lady!"

She was so tired, Queen Yang has been in the royal family for more than ten years, how come she hasn't learned to be cautious?

Empress Yang spread her hands: "Oh, I just don't say anything."

Empress Yang was persuaded by her maid, temporarily put away all kinds of wild ideas, but the next day, when she saw Daiyu with her own eyes, her thoughts began to fly again.

After Daiyu performed the salute, she asked the maid next to her to help her up, brought her to look at her, her eyes were full of smiles and undisguised praise: "What a beautiful little girl."

After looking at it for a while, he praised: "It looks like the jade girl sitting down by Guanyin."

So the idea flew to Xin Hongcheng who had met a little girl by chance, so he never forgot this route.

On the contrary, when Daiyu saw Empress Yang, she couldn't help thinking of what her ancestors said to her before entering the palace yesterday: Empresses are not to be favored, they must be generous and decent in front of her, and don't dress too much, alas, you will understand when you see her.

Daiyu half understood and half understood at the time, but she did understand after seeing Queen Yang.

Because of the appearance of the queen.

Empress Yang was born with a tall physique, even if she was sitting, she could be seen to be about the same height as an ordinary man.The figure is quite strong, not plump, but reliable and strong at first glance.

Compared with the first few young concubines who are like tender willow branches, Empress Yang is like a strong and reliable poplar tree.

In addition, Empress Yang has an ordinary face, the most common woman in her thirties, and she will never be found among the crowd.So whoever Ren wanted to flatter the empress would not be able to boast of her beauty, but could only say one thing, the empress was born with a real majesty, and she could sit in the palace just by looking at her, looking like a prosperous country and a peaceful people.

So it's not surprising that women who live outside the palace know that the queen is not favored.

It is really a specialization in the arts, and the empress does not look like someone who can win favors.

It is said that when the emperor was still King Xun, when he married the second concubine, as soon as he lifted the other party's hijab, his face fell down.

He claimed to be romantic and handsome, and his late wife, Zhong Shi, was also a rare beauty. No one in Beijing would boast that Xun Wang and his wife were a couple, but the stepmother that his father pointed out to him turned out to be such a woman.

Although it is said to marry a wife and a virtuous person, it should not be too virtuous, and there is no element of appearance.

Therefore, when Xun Wang came to the throne, even though he named his successor Yang as the queen, he still called the noble concubine and Ming concubine to assist the sixth palace. If it hadn't happened this time, the queen would still be just a show.

Let's gossip far away, just say that Daiyu was a little nervous when she saw Queen Yang.

No wonder the ancestors only asked her to dress decently, not to be overbearing, and all the accessories were generous and hearty—presumably because they were afraid that with Empress Yang's situation and appearance, she would not like the delicate and beautiful girl born.

In fact, Jia Min was too worried. If she was young, she felt a little sad when she saw the beauty Empress Yang. She would think about it, if she was born like this, would her husband change his mind.

But now that she has been married to the emperor for nearly ten years, Empress Yang has already found out the direction of her life and doesn't care about it anymore.

It's better to rely on the son, relying on a husband with the temperament of the emperor, it will be cool to have good looks sooner or later.

Therefore, she was particularly concerned and kind to the girl's family that Xin Hongcheng had mentioned to her repeatedly.

After giving the table gift prepared earlier, and asking Daiyu how to write, Empress Yang said to Jingsu: "Isn't there the Four Treasures of the Study from Huizhou Jinshang before? Give this child two sets."

The concubines sitting next to her are all unswerving queens.

At this time, I came here to talk for fun. Seeing that the queen liked Miss Lin, she naturally gave a gift to those who pulled out hairpins, and those who pulled out bracelets.

Then they all quit.

Seeing that there were no outsiders, Empress Yang took Daiyu's hand and sighed: "It stands to reason that you are in the period of filial piety and it is not easy to move around, but the emperor values ​​your family and pities you for losing the protection of your parents, so he wants to let you enter the palace." A trip is also meant to make others not look down on you."

Jing Su couldn't help poking the queen lightly from behind, why do you say everything.Tianjia's work is to overwhelm people with power, and there is no need for explanation.It may not be a good thing for you to tell Miss Lin so much.

Daiyu breathed a sigh of relief: in just a few short sentences, she could see that Empress Yang was a very honest person, and she was not difficult to get along with.

Only then did Empress Yang come to her senses, and said with a smile: "I like you when I see you, so it's inevitable that I said a few more words. You can stay in the palace for two days with peace of mind. When I return to the emperor, you will take care of yourself after receiving the holy grace." send you home."

The emperor's original intention was to tell the queen to take a look at this daughter of the Lin family. If she is a good girl, she will reward the marriage clan with a good marriage in the future. If the quality is mediocre, then it will be ignored. Just give some material rewards.

Empress Yang had seen Daiyu with her own eyes, so she naturally went to answer the emperor.

Stay for two days?Daiyu was startled, she thought she would be able to leave the palace that day.

It was still Jing Su who said from the side: "Girl enters the palace once, it's okay to stay for two days. The empress likes her daughter's house, and often keeps girls from the clan's family to play in Fengyi Palace."

Jingsu knew in her heart that with Empress Yang's attitude, she valued Daiyu and regarded her directly as a girl in the first rank of her clan.

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"The queen mother stayed with Miss Lin?" Xin Hongcheng was a little surprised: "She really likes Miss Lin?"

The reason why he went to tell Empress Yang about this over and over again was because she was afraid that, with Empress Yang's straightforward character, she would not like the meticulous and thoughtful sister Lin.

Knowing that Daiyu entered the palace today, he also remembered it.It's just that he went to school for a day, and it wasn't until evening that he was able to send someone to Fengyi Palace to inquire about the situation. Unexpectedly, Jing Su, the queen's personal maid, came in person.

Xin Hongcheng was also a little surprised.

Jingsu lowered her brows and looked pleasing to the eye: "Yes, my empress likes Miss Lin very much."

Xin Hongcheng smiled: "That would be great."

As a man, I can't protect Miss Lin many times. If the queen likes it, it will be her amulet.

This smile fell into Jing Su's eyes, and she couldn't help but whisper in her heart.

Although she persuaded the queen not to mess with the mandarin ducks.But I still have this matter in my heart, and now I see His Royal Highness smiling so sincerely, I start to think about it.

When I returned to Empress Yang, after thinking about it, I still said everything Xin Hongcheng had said and done.

Empress Yang immediately put on a secret smile: "Let's talk about it! Cheng'er treats the girls of the Lin family differently! Where do you think they met? It was the girls of the Lin family who went to Beijing twice, and the wind blew up." Lianzi, Cheng'er fell in love at first sight? Or did someone make things difficult for her on the road and asked Cheng'er to save the beauty for the hero?"

Jing Su is speechless: ... Your Majesty, please read less scripts!

Empress Yang was imagining their first meeting, while Xin Hongcheng was planning their first meeting.

"It's Sister Lin from the book." The tone was full of interest.

Fan Yunyi next to him: "Yes."

Xin Hongcheng: "Although it's just a simple um, I know that you definitely want to meet."

Fan Yunyi was silent for a while.

Knowing that he has entered the world of the Red Mansion, who would not want to see the protagonists?But he shook his head honestly: "It's against the rules."

The princes all lived in the Wende Palace together, and they only visited the queen once in three days, and the rest of the princes were even worse, paying their aunt's greetings once in three days, and returning to pay their biological mother's greetings on seven days.

Therefore, the prince rarely has the opportunity to stroll around in the harem.

Not to mention creating a chance encounter.

Xin Hongcheng rubbed his ink with his chin for a while, then sent the eunuch beside him: "Go and fetch the third princess."

Emperor Xuanhe's sons and daughters were very lucky. At first, he kept giving birth to a son, and the four princes were born consecutively.In the past few years, I have given birth to a daughter again.

The third princess is only five years old this year. Because her biological mother was not favored, even though she gave birth to an imperial daughter, she was only named Bai Noble, not even a title.

In the past when she was in the palace, she was such an unknown concubine, for the sake of her daughter's life, she often took her daughter to pay her respects to the princess, and she often met Xin Hongcheng, so Xin Hongcheng was quite familiar with this younger sister.

The third princess was white and tender, and when she saw him, she swayed and said, "Fourth brother."

Xin Hongcheng took out a white jade rabbit tied with a string of red strings: "I got this thing a while ago, and I gave it to you to play with."

A string of ten little jade rabbits is exquisite in jade quality, and what is rare is that ten rabbits have ten shapes, all of which are cute and lifelike.

Bai Guiren's mother and daughter are not favored, and things are ordered according to the rules. The third princess smiled when she got such a beautiful jade rabbit, and the nanny who followed quickly thanked her.

Xin Hongcheng asked casually: "Have you gone to pay your respects to the queen mother today?"

The third princess nodded: "Go, yes, fourth brother, there is a good-looking sister who came to the queen mother today."

Xin Hongcheng smiled: "Really? I don't believe it."

The third princess blushed anxiously: "Really! Fourth brother, the queen mother said that she would take her beautiful sister to the pavilion to see peonies! Also, she said that she would ask the painter from the Ruyi Pavilion to paint!"

Xin Hongcheng: You are such a good sister. Before I started asking, you were all bald.

After the third princess was taken away by the nanny, Fan Yunyi came out from behind the curtain, his expression a little bit broken: "You don't want to secretly go to see Miss Lin, do you... You, you can't do this, in case the second prince finds out ..."

Xin Hongcheng gently wiped the corners of his clothes that were crumpled by the third princess, and stood up: "Being a prince in the Tian family, you have to be cautious in your words and deeds all your life, don't let your tongue slip, and think about the seriousness of everything you do. I can’t even tell the truth in my sleep. I’m going to live like this for the rest of my life, why don’t I be a little curious now?”

"She is Miss Gonghou, and I am the prince of the Tian family. If I don't see you this time, I won't have another chance in the future."

Fan Yunyi frowned tightly: "You can't just think about yourself, you have to think about the reputation of your daughter's family here."

Xin Hongcheng nodded: "Don't worry about that. Do you think I'm going to rush in and stare at Miss Lin? I just want to see with my own eyes what kind of character Sister Lin is in Mr. Cao's works, don't tell me If I startle others, I won't startle her."

Just take a look from afar.

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The second day was sunny and sunny.

Fan Yunyi, who was standing next to the old painter Zhang, was racing in his heart: I was actually persuaded by him, I was kicked out of my head by a donkey.

There are countless painters in the Ruyi Pavilion, and because the Empress brought Daiyu, a young lady who has not left the court today, she specially selected a painter who is over sixty years old.

"The peonies outside the Dinghan Pavilion are the best. It's also close to Fengyi Palace, so there won't be any concubines coming and going. You little girls are lively, so just go down and look at the flowers."

Daiyu saluted: "Thank you, Empress Dowager."

Empress Yang treated her really well, and she didn't bring any concubines and princesses here -- otherwise, regardless of her status, Daiyu would have to pay her respects one by one.

Empress Yang smiled, her round face was full of kindness.

Yesterday Jing Su came back to answer, and when talking about Xin Hongcheng's demeanor, Empress Yang became more determined in her mind.Cheng'er must have taken a fancy to such a pretty little girl.

"Painter Zhang, stop shaking."

Xin Hongcheng's voice came from the side, soft but firm.However, Master Zhang shook his hand again when he heard the words, and almost broke the painting.

Fan Yunyi looked helplessly at the old painter shaking like Parkinson.

There is no way, Ruyi Pavilion is a fringe occupation in the palace. Except for occasional summons, you can't see the masters in the palace at all, but now the fourth prince himself pretends to be a little eunuch with a painting tool, standing behind him, he Can you not shake it?

Letting the prince serve him is a crime of beheading, okay?

Fan Yunyi lowered his head and put on a serious face. How could he be persuaded by Xin Hongcheng to agree to this bad idea of ​​two people pretending to be eunuchs and following behind the painter to see Miss Lin!

Because of Empress Yang's request, she wanted to make a painting of peonies. The painting required pavilions, peonies, and figures, so painter Zhang chose a distance that was not too far, just enough to see the whole panorama, and opened her eyes carefully. His presbyopia can also distinguish people's faces.

Xin Hongcheng stood behind him with his head bowed so as not to be recognized by Empress Yang, but his eyes fell on the girl in front of him.

At first Daiyu sat with Queen Yang in the pavilion for a while, and then came down to admire the peonies.

She saw that a Jade Tower was in full bloom, so she walked over.

Peonies have always been rich, noble and delicate. Among the colorful flowers, this white Yulou Diancui is extraordinarily elegant and outstanding.

Xin Hongcheng watched Lin Daiyu walking towards him step by step with a fan with a white jade handle in his hand. For some reason, he felt that every step was stepping on his heart, and his heartbeat suddenly accelerated.

His eyes fell on Daiyu, who was surrounded by a sea of ​​peonies, and it was difficult to move.

I saw that she lowered her head slightly to look at the Jade Tower Diancui, her skin on the side face was radiant and smooth, white as creamy fat, plain like snow, her bright red lips smiled slightly, like a lotus smoky, soft and soft.

The countless peonies in full bloom outside the Dinghan Pavilion are not as good as this elegant side face without makeup.

A beauty is like a flower separated from the clouds, that's about it.

Xin Hongcheng thought in a daze.

There was a painter Zhang between Fan Yunyi and him, and he couldn't even pull his sleeves.

I can only feel anxious: what are you doing!Bow your head down!How can the eunuchs in the palace look directly at the master, you can't pretend to be like that.

Soon Daiyu also noticed a staring gaze. She looked back and saw that it was a young eunuch with an exceptionally handsome face. He is so poor that he is willing to let his son enter the palace as an eunuch.

After the surprise, there was more compassion.

These days, Zhou Huangwei was by her side, talking mostly about the difficulties of the poor in the market: "Miss Lin, people in the world work hard for nothing but a few taels of silver. If you don't have to worry about food and clothing, you are already a great blessing. You can relax your heart, there are really many things, it is not worth your self-suffering."

Zhou Xuanwei's words are just theoretical knowledge, Daiyu was born here, and she rarely comes into contact with the poor.However, seeing such a handsome little eunuch today, I understood Zhou Huangwei's words more deeply.

Alas, what kind of human suffering.

How did Xin Hongcheng know that Daiyu had already labeled him as "poor and pitiful" in his heart, and even had a new understanding of life because of him, and felt that he should cherish the present life.

It was only when she saw her pair of autumn water cut pupils looking over, that she realized that she had lost her composure, and lowered her eyebrows hastily.

Seeing this, Daiyu felt even more pitiful.

"Yu'er, if you like it, pick it up and go back to play."

Empress Yang saw her stop at the peony in front of painter Zhang, and thought she liked this Jade Tower Diancui very much.

Daiyu couldn't bear to see the little inner eunuch's low-browed, pleasing eyes anymore, she didn't even think about admiring the flowers, and went straight back to the pavilion.

A court lady had already handed over mint herbal tea.

Empress Yang pressed her forehead with a handkerchief: "I'm afraid of the heat, so I'll use all the midsummer things in this season. But you, looking a little weak, don't use these cold melons and fruits."

Daiyu said quickly, "Since your mother is hot, please move back to the palace."

The queen smiled: "Go after playing for a while, it's also boring to hold back in the palace every day."

Unexpectedly, not long after, the eunuch's high-pitched voice came: "The emperor is here."

The queen was startled, and quickly got up with Daiyu, ready to meet her.

As for painter Zhang, not to mention the old painter himself shaking like a sieve, even Xin Hongcheng and Fan Yunyi couldn't help trembling!

Why is the emperor here? !

"Don't panic! Stay steady, you can win." Xin Hongcheng whispered: "Just keep your head down and don't move."

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