Six palaces without concubines in the Red Chamber

0039 In the future, everything is uncertain, hope to smile and ask Huahua if she doesn't say anything

Daiyu knows the hardships of Uncle Gongyi's residence best.Baochai was the first among all the sisters to make a decision, and the next one is to welcome the spring.Back then, she and Yingchun went to Gongyibo's mansion to visit Baochai, and saw with her own eyes how she dealt with those tricky and evil servants in every possible way.It would be fine if Uncle Gong Yi treated her well, after all, it is normal for the mistress of any family not to go through these things.However, Bo Gongyi and the old King Zhongyi conspired against each other and broke things, so he didn't work all day long, and didn't take his wife at all.

"You should also plan for yourself." Daiyu was still a girl in the room, there were some things she couldn't say, but Wanchun could speak out.Taking advantage of the absence of outsiders, he said to Baochai: "Your uncle is hopeless. He is a person whose name is not recorded. It is an extra favor to save his life. But I am thinking of you, what a great grade! Lost in a deep house, it makes me sad to think about it."

Baochai was smiling, but her eyes were vacantly looking ahead, not knowing what she was looking at.

Wan Chun pushed her: "Don't just smile, I know you are thin-skinned, but you should also think about the future."

The two got married, she came out of the cabinet half a year later than Baochai, and now she has the eldest son.Baochai spoke plainly, without any letter, how could she not make people worry about her.

"Sister-in-law, don't mention these things soon. I'm fine with it. Sister Lin is so young, so I'll make her ashamed after hearing about it."

Daiyu's face turned red, and she turned her body away from them: "Okay, why are you talking about me again?"

The three of them were talking, Lan Ling came in with a blue and white porcelain plate, on which were zongzi whose leaves had been peeled off.The glutinous rice is white, sweet and fragrant, and it makes people have a good appetite just like this on the kang table.Lanling took the chopsticks and wanted to serve her, Daiyu raised her hand to signal her to stop: "Go to the dining room and see what is the dish today."

The Empress Dowager had her own small dining room for lunch. She didn't like to eat the food from the internal and external dining rooms[1], and felt that although it was exquisite, it was tasteless, and it was monotonously boring.Daiyu also told her to enjoy the grace to eat the same food as Shoukang Palace.It doesn't take much trouble to just subtract some according to the grade.

After Lanling went out, Daiyu ate the rice dumplings slowly with chopsticks.The dumplings are steamed until they are soft, and when you pick them up with chopsticks, the sweet but not greasy glutinous aroma comes out together with the fresh aroma of the meat.She doesn't eat the meat inside, at most she can taste the meaty glutinous rice.No matter how delicious it is, I am not greedy for too much, but I put down my chopsticks after two or three mouthfuls.

After talking with Wanchun and Baochai for a while, Lanling came back and reported the name of the dish: "The cold dish is mixed with tremella and cucumber, and the hot dish is jade rabbit cabbage, shredded duck with pinched vegetables, fish tofu and a bowl of stewed chicken soup with sea cucumber. Congee. There are red bean porridge and duck meat porridge, and the rice is green rice and red rice. The dim sum is green jade bean cake and pea yellow, and there is a sweet bowl."

"Tell them to serve three sweet bowls." After ordering Lan Ling, she turned her head and smiled with the two of them: "Sisters, stay for dinner. Anyway, you are in Shoukang Palace, and no one criticizes you."

Wan Chun sighed and said, "You are right under the eyes of our ancestors. You are relaxed and don't know our sufferings. Our ancestors pass this level easily, and there is still Kunyi Palace to break through. I would like to stay, but I just want to eat It's too late to give her another reason to go out."

Seeing that it was getting late, Baochai got up with Wanchun, pressed Daiyu to prevent her from getting up, and said softly: "You are sick, don't send it away. I will come to see you when I am free. Take good care of yourself, outsiders say Just ignore them, don't pay attention to them."

"I'll take you to the gate of Linghua." Daiyu refused to follow her, and sent the two of them to the gate with reluctance in her words: "It's a deal, I'll come and see me during the process. I'll be happy only if you can talk with me .”

Baochai took her hand, looked her up and down, and said softly: "I know you have always been careful, and you like to think too much when you encounter things. It's just that sometimes you think too much, and you are the one who is sad. If you don't want to, you might as well Let go of it as soon as possible. After all, it's your life's business. When it's broken, it's broken. Don't stick to it."

"I know you're thinking of me. I've written down what Sister Bao and Sister Wan said." Taking advantage of no one around, Daiyu told them, "I'll go home by myself during the process. The inner court is so boring, I do not like."

How much meaning is said in this sentence.Knowing what she meant, Wanchun and Baochai didn't stay any longer, they left the Qiuhong Palace, went to Shoukang Palace to bid farewell to the Empress Dowager, and went to Kunyi Palace together.

Walking on the palace alley, Wan Chun always felt that something was wrong, but couldn't tell.Baochai frowned, apparently also aware of it.Baochai hesitated and said, "Where did those people outside Qiuhong Hall come from?"

Hearing this, Wan Chun took a breath.Baochai didn't see the emperor often, but she had dealings with him several times.Looking around, he said into Baochai's ear, "You mentioned it to me, and I realized that it looks like someone from the imperial court. There are also two big maids who serve Sister Lin, and they look very kind. Now I think about it." Get up, fell down and saw it once or twice in the Hall of Mental Cultivation."

It seems that in eight out of ten it was the emperor who had thought about Daiyu before doing everything possible to keep her in the palace.Otherwise, which sign is she on, and the emperor wants the emperor to assign the maid in front of the imperial court to serve?Even if there is no one to serve him, it would be reasonable to call Shoukang Palace to call someone over.

If it's just the empress dowager who likes her, it's fine.If the emperor really took a fancy to her, she might not be able to fly out of Sifang City[2] even if she had wings.

The two took a long breath, looked up and saw the bright sunlight cast down, casting a piece of fragmented and warm light and shadow, which made people dizzy.

Xi Shiyue followed the emperor and hid behind the big screen in the main hall of Qiuhong Hall, holding his breath and not daring to speak.The back is also bent deeper than usual, for fear of seeing the expression in the emperor's eyes.The pampered emperor, the world is his, when did he do such a secretive thing.What's even more embarrassing is that he didn't hear a good word from the girl he liked, and wanted to escape him with every word.For an emperor who is omnipotent, it is really a heavy blow.

He lowered his head and acted as if he was deaf and dumb. The emperor stood for a moment, guessing that the two of them had gone far, and strode out from behind the screen.Daiyu was standing at the entrance of Xinuang Pavilion, holding on to the Linghua Gate, and suddenly a long and tall figure fell in front of him, which made him startled.

He fixed his eyes on the emperor, his heart was still beating, he covered his heart and asked angrily, "Your Majesty, what are you doing?"

The emperor opened his mouth, feeling that he could not explain.Could it be possible to tell her that he stood in front of the Linghua gate and eavesdropped on their conversation, and when he saw that they were about to come out, he hid behind the screen.Come out now to scare her?The knife rest on the neck can't tell either.

"I..." I'm used to being an emperor, but it's hard to change my words.He paused for a moment before saying, "I'll bring you zongzi." He walked straight past her to the warm pavilion, and said in his mouth, "I just wrapped it fresh, and brought it here just after it was steamed, and it's still hot."

It was only when he came in that he remembered that the food box was in Xi Shiyue's hands.He stopped and called, "Bring in the food box."

"Your majesty, no..." She wanted to say that she had already eaten, so there was no need to waste so much trouble.Before the words came out, the emperor had already seen the blue and white porcelain plate on the Kang table.Inside was more than half of an uneaten fresh meat dumpling, which was already cold, and the smell was not as good as when it was just steamed.

The emperor stood still, his eyes fell on the plate, he felt suffocated, his heart was empty, and he didn't know where to start with this discomfort.Seeing him standing there, Daiyu seemed to have lost her soul, her heart was pounding, and she called softly after two or three steps: "Your Majesty?"

With this call out, he finally made a move.He raised his eyes and glanced at her, and that glance was very complicated, with loss and bewilderment written brightly.

"So you've already tasted..."

There are endless aftertaste in the words, mixed with countless emotions.Daiyu was taken aback for a moment, for some reason, she felt wronged in this sentence.Immediately, he felt that this was nonsense. The emperor who held the world in his hands stood aloft in the Jiuchongtian, and the soles of his shoes were spotlessly clean. He was wronged, so how could others live?

Xi Shiyue stood there with the food box in his hands, in a dilemma.No one knows the weight of this box of zongzi better than him, what a noble Long Live Lord, the first thing he said when he returned to the Hall of Mental Cultivation was to ask someone to make salted egg yolk meat dumplings.Feeling that the internal dining room has to be simple and complex, I specially asked my aunt in charge, Lanxi, to lead the maids to do it.The emperor was in charge of political affairs in the Ming Dynasty, and heard Lanxi reply that the zongzi was ready, so he put aside the political affairs and came to Qiuhong Palace to deliver the zongzi.I was afraid of the cold along the way, so I asked several times.

She didn't expect to hear Daiyu say that she was homesick when she entered Qiuhong Palace, and she didn't have any nostalgia for him, she even ate zongzi.Only Xi Shiyue can taste this sadness with the emperor, no one else knows.

Xi Shiyue said in his heart, it is better for the emperor to speak out at this time, the girls are soft-hearted, and winning sympathy is also a means.However, he also knew that the emperor was so proud that there was no limit, let alone in front of the girl he liked, he would not open his mouth to say that he was wronged and pitiful.

"Leave it alone..." The emperor twitched the corners of his mouth and smiled.As if nothing had happened just now, he was saying the most common words: "Xi Shiyue has worked so hard all the way, and I ask him to bring it back, for fear that his old bones will not be able to hold it. I originally wanted you to taste the craftsmanship of Yuqian. Now that you have eaten it, forget it. If you don’t like it, you can stay, and you can enjoy the court ladies and eunuchs.”

That's all, the emperor felt that he couldn't stay any longer.With her hands behind her back, before Daiyu could react, she stepped out of Qiuhong Hall.

"Your Majesty... Your Majesty, please slow down... It's hot..."

Xi Shiyue hurriedly put down the food box and chased him out.

It was noon, and the scorching sun made people's foreheads burn.The emperor didn't sit in the chariot, and walked all the way back to the Hall of Mental Cultivation under a big sun.After walking all the way, the clothes were all wet with sweat.But he seemed to be very happy, and felt that he had let out a bad breath.

In the end, I went to You Rixin, sitting on the bed and looking at the water lilies blooming beautifully in the sweet white glazed porcelain basin, I felt a little sad again.

He seemed to be in a daze, and muttered to the potted flower: "How can I not be good enough for her? She just doesn't like it..."

Talk to Hua, Hua will naturally not answer him.It was Li Shunxiang's reply that sounded outside the door: "Your Majesty, Princess Rongshou is ill..."

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Internal and external dining room[1]: The external dining room is the imperial dining room, located in the eastern part of the outer court. It is not allowed to enter the inner court, and the meals are brought into the inner court by the eunuch.The inner dining room is outside the door of the Hall of Mental Cultivation, and the cooks in the outer dining room are on duty in turn, and their main duty is only to heat the meals.

Sifang City[2]: Another name for the Forbidden City.