Queen's Road in the Red House

Seeing that Daiyu was shy, Empress Yang couldn't help laughing and said, "Most of our men in the northwest have been on the battlefield. The girls in the boudoir are most afraid of it, that is, they agreed to get married, but the husband went to the battlefield again, missing arms and legs. of."

Jing Su hurriedly changed the topic, and helped Daiyu: "Madam, there are only two boxes of this ointment for removing blood stasis left. The slaves will go to the imperial hospital to deliver medicine, let the imperial physicians prepare some."

Empress Yang asked someone to bring the remaining two boxes and stuffed them to Daiyu: "This is the secret recipe of our Yang family. I brought it into the palace. In fact, using it to reduce swelling and blood stasis is like killing a chicken with a sledgehammer." , Apply this ointment, and the long and deep cuts can be restored." Empress Yang put her hands wider than a person's.

Daiyu expresses her reservations about the veracity of this statement: Everyone is completely cut off, how can they return to their original state?

Empress Yang smiled and said, "You keep it for emergencies. What if you get bumped on weekdays? Girls should not leave scars."

Ms. Zou explained to Daiyu that the precious medicinal materials needed in the flavors are all special products in the northwest, and there are very few in Beijing.

The queen nodded as she listened: "Exactly. Last month, the emperor wanted me to take out a lot of medicinal materials to make some, and give two boxes to the princes. This is impossible!"

When the emperor mentioned it to Queen Yang that day, he was blocked immediately.

Empress Yang plausibly said that firstly, the concubine and others sent things from her mother's house, but she never shared a portion for Xin Hongcheng, and secondly, it was related to medicine and food, so she dared not touch her hands. Once it was delivered, which prince would use it in the future There is a bad thing, isn't she an inescapable crime.

The emperor was speechless: He originally wanted to mention something to the queen, so that she could show her virtuousness, keep pace with him, and treat the princes equally.

But after being blocked by Queen Yang with a few words, she gave up.That's right, Empress Yang wasn't very careful. If someone had tampered with the medicine, it would be hard for her and Xin Hongcheng to tell.

Zhou Huangwei followed Jing Su to the Imperial Hospital, and Empress Yang asked her to come and watch the imperial physician dispensing the medicine, saying that don't call the Tai Hospital's screwdriver short of weight, or exchange the inferior product for her good product.

Zhou Xuanwei moved a bench obediently, and together with the maids in the Queen's Palace, stared wide-eyed at the imperial doctors dispensing medicine.

At noon, I happened to meet Fan Yunyi coming over.

"It's also an ointment for reducing swelling and blood stasis? How many beatings do you have to suffer a day?" Zhou Huangwei couldn't help asking.

Fan Yunyi answered meticulously: "Actually, I didn't get many beatings when I was reading and writing at noon. The main reason was that when I was practicing archery in the afternoon, the Supreme Emperor was more strict. I thought that the masters used to teach me all about putting on airs, so I couldn't go to the battlefield, so I invited two An old general came to teach us, and sometimes we have to suffer some injuries during training."

The Taishanghuang has the ability to mount a horse and kill people among thousands of troops, so he can't appreciate the riding and shooting that teaches the master to coax the princes.

So two old generals who had also retired and had nothing to do were brought in to train their grandchildren in the same way they trained recruits back then.Except for the sixth prince who was mentally incompetent and the third prince who had asthma when he moved, the other princes all lived a miserable life of being beaten in the morning and falling off their horses in the afternoon.

Zhou Huangwei felt concerned when she heard this: "Okay. But the ointment of the empress is very precious, so it's overkill. If you only use it for minor injuries on the flesh, I will give you a simple version."

Fan Yunyi nodded, and quietly watched her consider the prescription and choose the medicinal materials.

Zhou Xuanwei had been busy for a long time, and when she saw that he was still waiting, she waved her away: "You don't want to eat? Come on, I won't be able to make a paste for a while, and I'll give it to you when you come over at noon tomorrow."

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After Zhou Huangwei returned to Fengyi Palace in the evening, she shared the matter with Daiyu, and sighed: "It's really hard work to be a prince." Thinking of what Fan Yunyi said when he parted, Zhou Huangwei said: "Girl, why don't you return to the Fourth Highness?" Write the letter, and comfort him, don't worry, I will hand it to Mr. Fan when I go to the Imperial Hospital for medicine tomorrow, and it will never fall into the hands of others."

I almost patted my chest to express that the belief is in people, and we will live and die together.

Daiyu picked up a few boxes of ointment on the table, this is the simple version that Zhou Huangwei made for them.Daiyu took off a plain silver inlaid emerald plum blossom from her temples, printed it on the soft white paste, and it turned out to be a distinct five-petal plum blossom.

"Actually, we have never met face to face, and we haven't said a word. He wrote to me because he has a lot of things to explain in the palace, and I need to be prepared in advance. And I don't have anything to tell him in advance. of."

Daiyu's eyes are as clear as the moonlight outside the window, he is the prince, the future is limitless, he can fight for it by himself.But she is doomed to be tied to him, and even all her daily activities are just to be his concubine, so there is nothing to say: "This letter, it doesn't matter if you don't write it."

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When Daiyu left the palace this time, in addition to the objects rewarded by the empress, she also took away a dozen or so scripts lent to her by the empress dowager.

Daiyu was shocked on the spot when she first saw the Empress Dowager's room full of story books.

The empress dowager still had a calm and peaceful smile, as if what was placed here was not a room full of idle books collected from all over the world, but the female lessons that concubines should read.

"The palace is usually lonely, and I always have to find something to do by myself." The queen mother held a copy of "Jade Avalokitesvara" casually: "The most rare thing for a woman in the palace is a safe and sound death in her life, so many times she can't dig into the horns, she can only watch it." Open two words. If you are not willing, just read the scriptures, see the idiotic men and women in the world, tossing and tossing to the end is nothing more than seeking a stable life for the rest of your life, which is considered Dzogchen."

"Other concubines read Buddhist scriptures to meditate, and I read scriptures, they are all the same."

The empress dowager's eyes are like Wang Qingxi, as if decades of palace life have not stained her with the slightest gloomyness, she can still have such clear and even slightly narrow and lively eyes: "Your child, the strengths and weaknesses lie in this intelligence. Yes. You, me, and the queen are all the same, and we have never been able to choose whether to enter the palace or not."

The Empress Dowager handed the selected words to Daiyu one by one: "However, whether you live well or not, I can still fight for it."

Daiyu was sitting in the carriage, playing with the hibiscus hairpin that the queen mother gave her.

This is what she, Zhou Ling and Zhen Ran selected together in the Empress Dowager's Palace that day. It was only a prototype that day, and pink tourmaline slices were used to form layers of flowers the size of a bowl.Now it is inlaid with a few crystal clear glass beads, just like hibiscus weeping dew.

I heard that Zhen Ran has returned to Jiangnan.

Daiyu put away the hibiscus hairpin and picked up the stove.

Even if no one told her, she could probably guess that Zhen Ran was supposed to be the candidate for the concubine, just like Zhou Ling, but something went wrong and there was a temporary change.

I heard that her father had just been promoted to a higher level last month, and he was released from Beijing to deal with foreign countries in the sea area of ​​Zhejiang with the King of Nan'an County.

When the Empress Dowager mentioned her, she only said leisurely: "The peach blossom hairpin of the girl from the Zhou family has already been given to her, but the ingenious deer head hairpin of the girl from the Zhen family is still kept here in this palace."

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Daiyu was thinking about the Zhen family when suddenly the carriage stopped and she shook slightly.

Zhou Huangwei helped her up, and said to herself: "Isn't this just out of the imperial city? There should be few people walking around at this hour, so why would they stop?"

They went out of the palace through the Xihua Gate, where women were ordered to enter the palace, not the Donghua Gate, where officials entered to play their affairs. Today is not the day when they are ordered to enter the palace on the [-]th day of the Lunar New Year, so the outside of the Xihua Gate should be very clear.

Zhou Huangwei patted Daiyu's hand: "Sit still, I'll go outside and have a look."

Before Daiyu could speak, she walked out with her back bent.

When the curtain moved again, the person who entered in the morning light was replaced.

The visitor wore a light blue brocade robe embroidered with green bamboo, with thin white fox fur on the cuffs, and a rosin-colored jasper-inlaid belt around his waist.The state of mind is clear, and the pine is light like the wind.

Daiyu was alarmed: "Why did you come out of the palace?"

Xin Hongcheng smiled brightly: "I want to see you." Seeing that Daiyu's eyes were particularly clear from surprise, and in the slightly dark carriage, they looked more and more like two shining stars, Xin Hongcheng lowered his voice and explained: "Don't be afraid, I just want to talk to you. After all, the marriage contract is fixed, but we haven't even spoken face to face once. "

Daiyu frowned, hearing what he said, her first reaction was: "You sneaked away from the study room to leave the palace, how much punishment will you have to suffer?"

Xin Hongcheng was taken aback, and couldn't help laughing: "Today happens to be a day off every tenth day, and the accompanying readers have already left the palace from Donghua Gate. I came out with Fan Yunyi's waist card, and now he is still in the literature. It's okay for De Gongnei to watch for me."

But when it comes to this matter, Xin Hongcheng is a little depressed.

Because there is only Fan Yunyi in Jian'anbo Mansion, he doesn't live in the palace like his companions.Xin Hongcheng told him two days in advance: "At that time, I will borrow your badge and clothes to go out of the palace. You must change into something better!"

I don't know if Fan Yunyi is pretending to be a fool or a straight man looking at it, but the next day he entered the palace wearing a full set of green clothes, even the belt was inlaid with green jasper.

If it weren't for the fact that he only had the prince's regular clothes and couldn't wear them in the palace, Xin Hongcheng would actually refuse to see his fiancée in green in his heart, and he always felt that it was unlucky.

Xin Hongcheng looked at Daiyu, thinking that she would persuade him to go back, so as not to be found out and suffer disaster.But Daiyu bit her lip, straightened her back, looked at him and said, "Then we can talk face to face now, what do you want to say to me?"

Xin Hongcheng couldn't help laughing. Sure enough, no matter how much etiquette he learned, it was still difficult to polish off the sharp and angular nature of people.

Daiyu may follow the rules very standard, but after all, she will not be a girl who talks about rules to persuade others.

She asked this way, which proves that she also wants to see herself and understand herself, and she doesn't want to marry blindly and cover her head to a strange man, even if he is a prince born directly, even if it is a good marriage contract that everyone envies.

Xin Hongcheng sat down at a distance not too far away, just enough to see Daiyu's subtle expressions clearly, but not so close that people would feel defensive.

In order to avoid embarrassment, Xin Hongcheng decided to start with someone they both knew: "Grandma Ge used to serve Concubine Wen. She was a man of good manners and had a tough temper. Originally, the empress mother sent her to Rongguo Mansion to accompany you because she was afraid of that mansion." Someone wronged you in the palace, and Madam Ge can calm down the situation with her strong wrist. But now that she has become your foster nun, I am afraid that she will use this force on you and force you to learn the rules of the palace every day. "

Daiyu saw his sincere and gentle eyes, as warm as a small pomegranate pastel white porcelain hand stove in his hands.

Although her heart was warm, she still said lightly: "Nurse Ge is very good, besides, I'm not an ignorant urchin, I can learn all the rules in the palace, and I don't need her to force me."

Xin Hongcheng said in his heart: Compared to what he saw in Ding Hanting that day, the well-behaved lady who followed his mother's side, this slightly arrogant little girl in front of him is more like the younger sister Lin he imagined.

For some reason, Xin Hongcheng only felt soft-hearted, and he softened his tone without even realizing it: "That's good, in fact, you don't have to work so hard. A woman's dignity after marriage is basically earned by a man. Promising, the wife is praised for being quiet and calm, and the talkative is also praised for being smart, no one dares to show face to face. If a man is confused and incompetent, it is his wife who has Yongxu, and Derby Ban Zhao will still be ignored."

He wanted to tell Daiyu that he would always earn her face so that no one would bully her.

But Daiyu snorted lightly when she heard his words: "Your Majesty the Fourth Highness has read so many sage books, how come you don't understand the principle of 'If you want to win the respect of others, you must first have the virtue of convincing others'? There is also a husband in the capital. Prosperous, but she is greedy and mean, so that everyone dislikes Mrs. Gaoming. It is too general to say that any woman depends on her husband to get married. "

Xin Hongcheng immediately went back to make up for it: "How can they compare with you, you are the person whom both the queen mother and the queen mother have praised, and you are already better than the world. I advise you not to work too hard, just because I am afraid that you will keep improving— —At least give others some room for improvement.”

Daiyu is an ancient person with strong roots, and she is instilled in her ears every day that she is virtuous and virtuous, and her husband is the sky. Even though she is proud by nature, these words have put a bridle on her.

Just now she got angry and rejected Xin Hongcheng, thinking that even if he wasn't angry on the spot, she might be a little unhappy.

Who would have thought that Xin Hongcheng would actually change the subject, admit his mistake, and look at him with a pair of wonderful eyes in surprise and suspicion.

Xin Hongcheng is very natural: he is an ancient man who has changed his core. He has seen a lot of getting along with his parents in his previous life. Yes, if she is wrong, then you are wrong.

Therefore, it is very easy to admit mistakes, and by the way, I will give you a high hat.

Daiyu looked at him for a while, then turned her head to the side, looking at the golden cloud pattern on the curtain.

The carriage walked slowly, and the sound of rolling wheels filled the moment of silence.

When Xin Hongcheng spoke again, he took a bit of seriousness: "My sister-in-law is a cheerful girl who grew up in northern Xinjiang. I heard that the eldest princess met me once, so I hurried to the palace to move the teacher and invite the nanny to be a rescuer." I don't know whether it was because he was afraid that his niece would suffer or that the Zhou family would lose face, so he bravely stood up and prepared to stop the eldest princess, but was defeated on the spot by the shameless face, and has been walking around the eldest princess since that day.

"Even though the second sister-in-law and the third sister-in-law are all girls who grew up in the middle of the capital, but to be honest, they all have limited family status." He didn't need to say any more, and Daiyu would definitely understand.

These sisters-in-law are inferior to her in foundation, have more things to learn than Daiyu, and have less time than her.After entering the palace, the concubines of the emperors are lucky to say that they are new officials who have been in the palace for half a year, but the group of concubines of the Supreme Emperor all have piercing eyes as if Sun Wukong had entered the alchemy furnace. Zhou Ling and others must have entered the palace. Gong Shao had to receive some life education.

At that time, if Daiyu is too outstanding, she will also arouse her sister-in-law's hatred.He just told Daiyu cryptically, you can learn to be perfect and be prepared for any danger, but in the future, if you really do it, you don't have to be stronger than others.

Only then did Daiyu lower her head slightly, her neck bent into a beautiful white arc, like a willow branch in spring: "I understand."

Xin Hongcheng smiled brightly, like a ray of warm sunshine in the cold autumn day: "I knew you must understand. You are so smart, I have thought of it, how could you not think of it."

People love to hear even if they know it sounds good.

Daiyu saw that he was unexpectedly easy to talk, and suddenly said seriously and straightforwardly: "Everyone in the palace said that you have a big temper and you are under strict control. My father also told me that people with ability are also people with temper. " Needless to say the second half of the sentence, I directly expressed with my eyes: If this is the case, you don't want to come before me to be sweet first and then bitter, you can directly show your true nature.

Xin Hongcheng saw that she was talking to him seriously, so he also became serious: "Yes, I have a bad temper. Since the time of the palace, no matter the eunuchs or maids around me have made mistakes, they are all tolerant. Immediately send out, and even those who are not wrong but speak sloppyly and do things that are not in line with my intentions will be expelled."

"That's because I don't have time to waste time with them on trivial matters, and I don't need to have a reputation for being lenient to them. If you do well, you will be rewarded, and if you don't do well, you will be punished. Compared with Confucianism, I am more I like the methodical approach of the Legalists."

Fortunately, Xin Hongcheng still remembered that this was talking to his future wife, not Yuqianlu explaining to him, so he finally laughed and said: "Mr. Lin once said that those who are capable have a temper, and I should praise me for that. It's just that this temper is not inward with the outside world, and those who have no ability are soft on the outside and hard on the inside, and will only bully their own family."

As soon as the words fell, Zhou Huangwei's voice came in from outside: "Where is this car going? Don't take this road when returning to Rongguo Mansion." She really knows the roads in the capital.

The person next to him didn't know what to say, but Zhou Xuanwei didn't say anything more.

Daiyu immediately looked at Xin Hongcheng again.

Xin Hongcheng smiled and said, "You live in a deep mansion all the year round. No matter how good the cook in Rongguo Mansion is, they all eat Xu. I'm afraid they won't be able to eat well in the palace for the past two days-now the queen mother is free of all sweets and snacks. The best dim sum shop in central Beijing, and the dried fruit shop are all on the same street. I have ordered someone to order it a long time ago. It doesn’t take much time for you. Let’s stop along the street and everything will be ready. Take it back to honor Shi Taijun and her old man. That's fine too."

Now the conversation has changed from you and me to us.

Perhaps there is really a white head in the world that is as new as before, and it is as old as before.

At this time, Daiyu was able to say something familiar: "You have ordered it all? But do you know my taste?"

Xin Hongcheng said in his heart: The doctor next to you is my good ally. I don't even know your preferences. I'm afraid I know better than you remember what you need to avoid.

But now is not the time to talk about it in detail, so I just laughed: "Everything is ordered, and the carriage is big enough to hold it. If you like it, just tell me, and I will ask someone to send it to you again." .”

Sure enough, after a while, Daiyu heard a brisk and flattering voice from a young man outside: "A master ordered a total of twelve candied fruits and twelve sweet and salty snacks from Mixiangju, all of which were well-prepared for you. Don't worry, girl, as long as your carriage doesn't overturn on the road, it won't be broken at all. If you miss a corner, you can just take it back and throw it on my face."

Zhou Xuanwei's laughter came in: "Okay, I will remember."

Going further back, I took another five sets of dried fruit from Yipin Pavilion. This time, Zhou Xuanwei's voice was not smiling, but distressed: "What, five taels of silver for a box, why don't you grab it?" The girls in Rongguo Mansion only get two taels of silver a month.

Laughter came: "My lady, not to mention that the bill has already been paid and you don't need to pay for it, just say that our Yipin Pavilion has fifteen kinds of dried fruits in a box, and all of them are shipped from all corners of the country. Treasures, the freshest goods in the capital are all in our store, and they are all picked out one by one, all of which have to be the same size! To tell you the truth, even if it is a tribute to the princess in the palace, our fruits are also You can take it!"

Zhou Huangwei was still very distressed, and muttered: "The princess can't stand at the door of your house to testify."

Inside the carriage, Xin Hongcheng smiled, and said to Daiyu in a low voice: "I really bought fruit from their family for the third younger sister. Mrs. Bai Gui has a kind personality, and now she is raising her sixth younger brother, treating her as well as her own daughter. Don't worry. .”

Daiyu thought of the sixth prince who raised his face and said he was hungry, and felt sour in his heart, and felt comforted to hear that he had a good mother to take care of him.

The hustle and bustle outside the carriage faded away, and Xin Hongcheng lifted the curtain on his side to take a look: "We are almost on the street of Ningrong Second Mansion, and the carriage from Jian'anbo Mansion is already here waiting to take me back to the palace."

Daiyu suddenly raised two white and slender fingers: "Twice, once playing the role of eunuch and the other time playing the role of courtier."

Her eyes flickered with misery, like the surface of water blown by a breeze: "That's right, it's finally getting better."

Xin Hongcheng patted his green clothes and smiled wryly: "Speaking of which, you have never seen me in the clothes of a prince—you have probably seen all my ineffective appearances."

Daiyu nodded to him: "Go back quickly, the Supreme Emperor is not angry and majestic, I'd be scared if I saw him."

Just as Xin Hongcheng bent down to get up, he suddenly sat down again, feeling a little wronged: "There is one more important thing——I have been young for two months, and you haven't replied to a single letter."

He sent no fewer than seven or eight letters to Daiyu. At first he was calm, but during this period of time, he asked Fan Yunyi every day whether he had delivered it or not.

Jian Anbo was close to swearing, so when he took off his clothes today, Dou E said with a gloomy face like June Feixue: "Go and ask Miss Lin yourself, my innocence depends entirely on her!"

The carriage stopped, and Zhou Huangwei stuck her head in, and began to see off the guests without hesitation: "Your Highness, this is the corner where you can't easily notice, please hurry up!"

Xin Hongcheng chose the next best thing: "Okay, okay, if you don't reply, you won't reply. Then you can smile, I have never seen you smile at me before."

Zhou Xuanwei immediately withdrew her head: It feels like my head is so redundant inside.

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