Jiuzhu has seen children cry and old people cry, but she has never seen anyone cry like this... beautiful and beautiful
She wanted to go forward to comfort her, but the other party cried so loudly that she couldn't help standing on the steps outside the pavilion and listened for a while longer.
Liu Cairen thought that Jiuzhu would come forward to comfort him, but after waiting for a long time, the other party did not move. The atmosphere gradually became embarrassing, she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, as if she had just discovered Jiuzhu, and pretended to smile firmly: "Ms. Ming."
Jiu Zhu looked at the woman, guessing that she was a low-ranking concubine in the palace, blessed her, and walked into the pavilion with her skirt up: "The sky is cold, please take care of your body."
"I'm just a talented person who is not favored in the palace. I dare not let Miss Ming be regarded as a noble person." Liu Cairen stood up, "Miss Ming, please take a seat."
She noticed the embroidered red plum cloak on Ming Jiuzhu's body, which looked familiar.
Aware of Liu Cairen's gaze, Jiuzhu touched the embroidery on the cloak, and couldn't wait to ask, "Is the embroidery on it very beautiful?"
"It's very beautiful." Liu Cairen nodded, feeling faintly that the other party was showing off the cloak on purpose.
"You have a good eye, and I also think she's beautiful." Jiuzhu smiled and said, "It was given to me by the imperial concubine."
Liu Cairen: "..."
"Niangniang said that this cloak is warm but not heavy, good-looking and not frivolous, so it was specially given to me." After finally finding someone who can show off, Jiuzhu suddenly became interested: "Niangniang is always so gentle, courtiers and daughters are all I don't know how to repay her love for her."
"Although the winter wind is cold, as a woman in the harem, I have many things that I can't do. I don't want to disturb the girl, it makes the girl laugh." Hearing the word "gentle", Liu Cairen felt strong physical and mental discomfort.
In front of a poor woman who just cried, bragging about how good the concubine is, is this something a human can do
No wonder Concubine Su's blue eyes turned out to be a raccoon dog.
After Liu Cairen said this intriguing sentence, she stopped talking, and she was waiting for Jiuzhu to ask questions.
"Oh." Jiuzhu remembered the teachings of the masters. If you meet someone who is sad and crying, don't ask for the reason, it is a kind of tenderness.
Liu Cairen looked at Jiuzhu, and Jiuzhu looked at Liu Cairen. After a brief silence, Liu Cairen saw that Jiuzhu had no intention of continuing to ask questions, so she said bravely, "Do you know, girl, who is the empress who is most loved by His Majesty in the harem?"
"Concubine Su Gui." Jiuzhu said as a matter of course: "Concubine is so beautiful, kind-hearted, and has a nice voice. Your Majesty must like her the most."
Liu Cairen was silent again. Will the Ming family teach their daughters? Why are they so unappealing
"Yeah, Your Majesty has only favored Concubine Su for many years." Liu Cairen smiled bitterly: "Since His Majesty ascended the throne, there has never been a new person in the palace, and those of us who are old people who have been hiding in the residence are even less able to enter His Majesty's eyes."
"Miss Ming may not know that in such a large harem, the unfavored and childless concubines are even more humble than the grass on the ground."
"You mean..." Jiuzhu lowered her voice and asked in shock, "Your Majesty won't give you money?"
His Majesty doesn't look like someone who is stingy and stingy towards the empress.
"No, no, the girl misunderstood." How dare Liu Cairen say that the saint is not: "Your Majesty is benevolent, you are very generous to your concubines and concubines, and the province in the palace will send cloth and silver taels every month."
Liu Cairen did not lie, and no one dared to deduct the expenses of the concubines and concubines in the harem.
"Do you know, madam, how many days has the imperial concubine asked the empress to copy the scriptures?"
Jiuzhu nodded: "It seems that it is less than ten days? In fact, according to the great gift, at least seven, seven, forty-nine days must be copied before it is solemn. If it is a hard practice, it is normal to copy for nine, nine, eighty-one days. But the ladies are not cultivation. You don't have to be so particular about it."
Seeing that Liu Cairen stopped talking, Jiuzhu looked at her puzzled: "Why did Cairen stop talking?"
Liu Cairen had nothing to say. She didn't expect Ming Jiuzhu to be more ruthless than Concubine Su at a young age.
Seventy-seven forty-ninth
Ninety-nine eighty-one
Is this copying scriptures, or filial piety
"No, it's nothing." Liu Cairen stood up: "I suddenly remembered that today's scriptures have not been copied, and I feel a little uneasy."
She was afraid that if she continued to chat, she would really have to copy the scriptures for eighty-one days.
"That's true. When copying the scriptures, the most fearful of dishonesty." Jiuzhu agreed: "Copying scriptures is to accumulate virtue and fortune for oneself. The concubine has a good heart and not only provides brush and ink for the goddesses, but also carefully prepares for the goddesses. Meditation room, the ladies must be very grateful to the imperial concubine, right?"
"Haha." Liu Cairen laughed and gritted his teeth: "Of course I am grateful."
She covered her chest, which was a little short of breath, and took two deep breaths: "Thank you Miss Ming for chatting with me, I should go back."
As soon as the voice fell, I felt a little black in front of my eyes, and the soles of my feet staggered.
"Is Cairen okay?" Jiuzhu stretched out her hand to hold Liu Cairen's arm: "I'll take you back."
"No, thank you Miss Ming." Liu Cairen took two steps back as if struck by lightning, wishing to jump out of the pavilion immediately and stay away from Jiuzhu: "Farewell."
Jiuzhu looked at Liu Cairen who was stepping away in a hurry, and said with emotion: "The sincerity of the empress in the palace when she copied the scriptures is really moving."
Even she, who grew up in a Taoist temple, can't compare to their sincerity, she is really ashamed, ashamed.
After witnessing all the passing, Liu Zhongbao saluted King Chen with a smile: "Your Highness, this old slave will go to the harem to announce your majesty's oral decree and retire first."
King Chen raised his hand to signal Liu Zhongbao to take care of himself. He folded a leaf and walked behind Jiuzhu, ready to use the leaf to scare Jiuzhu.
"Ha!" Jiuzhu suddenly turned around, and the big cloak gently bumped against King Chen's calf. It didn't hurt, but it was a little itchy.
"Sure enough, His Highness." Jiu Zhu laughed softly.
Looking down at his calf, King Chen threw the leaves aside: "When did you find me?"
"I heard footsteps." Jiuzhu smiled proudly: "His Royal Highness's footsteps are different from other people's, and the minister and daughter can hear it right away."
King Chen was slightly startled: "What's the difference in the sound of footsteps?"
"It's just different." Jiuzhu thought for a while: "I don't know how to describe it, but I can hear it anyway."
"With such smart ears, are you a dog?"
"Your Highness is so smart, how do you know that I belong to a dog?" Jiuzhu took out two mints in her purse, and gave one to King Chen.
Smelling the mint smell from the candy cubes, Chen Wang remembered that he loved candy when he was young, but when he was thirteen years old, he gave up his hobby because of a severe toothache. Unexpectedly, after many years, there are still people who share candy with him like a child.
"His Royal Highness... don't you like it?" Seeing that the candy was still in King Chen's palm, Jiuzhu had candy in her mouth, her cheeks bulging, and her voice was vague: "It's mint flavored."
Eight years ago, when His Highness rescued her from the river, he gave her mints. She still remembered that the young lady beside His Highness said that it was His Highness's favorite candy.
"I haven't eaten candy for a long time." King Chen returned the candy to Jiuzhu: "Keep it for yourself."
"Oh." Jiu Zhu lowered her head and looked at the mint candy that King Chen returned to her. She sucked the sweetness of the candy in her mouth for a while, as if the dragonfly on her bag had become weak.
"But it's okay to taste it occasionally." King Chen took the candy back and put it in his mouth.
"How is it?" Jiuzhu raised her head and looked at him with bright eyes.
"It's not bad." Watching the little girl raised her head to look at her appearance, King Chen's heart moved slightly: "It's very similar to the kind of candy I ate when I was a child."
Jiuzhu smiled happily.
"What are you laughing at?" King Chen poked the dragonfly hairpin on Jiuzhu's hair bag, and the dragonfly's wings fluttered, very energetic.
Jiuzhu unfastened the small purse containing the sugar from her waist: "Your Highness, I will give you all these."
King Chen wanted to tell her that what he ate as a child did not mean that he would still like it when he grew up. But thinking of telling the truth by himself, the other party may show a puppy's eyes like aggrieved, and still reach out and take the purse.
It's not that he is soft-hearted, it's just that he doesn't want to coax children.
"Why did you come here alone and didn't ask the palace maid to follow you?" King Chen looked around, only to find the two palace maids standing outside the pavilion, frowning: "In the future, in the palace, the servants must follow you unswervingly. ."
Although Jiuzhu was puzzled, she still nodded.
He tied the candy purse around his waist, King Chen looked at the embroidery on it, pulled the cloak to his chest in disgust, covered the purse, and said with a half-smile, "There are some women in the harem who like to wrestle when they walk, and there are palace maids. Here, I can help you."
"The empresses in the palace are all very thin." Jiuzhu waved her small arm, she could lift them up with her bare hands.
Seeing that her pure white wrist was exposed, King Chen grabbed her sleeve and stroked it down: "It's windy, and your hands are frozen."
"His Royal Highness, is it about to snow?" Jiuzhu retracted her sleeves: "It's snowing in the capital, isn't it beautiful?"
In winter in Lingzhou, it rarely snows. Even if it snows, it is only a thin layer, and it has melted before you can appreciate it.
King Chen raised his head and glanced at the sky, but couldn't see anything, so he could only vaguely answer: "Should be... soon?"
It snows every winter in Beijing, so what to expect
The cold wind whistled, and seeing that the young lady was sleeping soundly, the maid of the Sun residence blew out the candles in the room and withdrew lightly. I don't know what's going on recently, but the lady always needs a candle in the room to fall asleep.
The bedroom was dark, Sun Caiyao pushed open the door and found Ming Jiuzhu sitting under the candlestick with an indifferent expression.
"It was you who, together with the Su Clan, destroyed all my plans?!" King Qi pushed in, "Why did you do this?"
The candles flickered, Ming Jiuzhu got up and closed the doors and windows, her eyes were darker than the night: "Did the prince harm His Royal Highness Chen?"
"what?"
"I ask you, who killed King Chen?!" She walked to the incense burner and lit the incense with a torch: "Is it you, or the concubine Ning, or... the king Huai who has been demoted to a commoner?"
King Qi seemed to have heard something absurd: "You don't know King Chen at all. What does his life and death have to do with you?"
"His Royal Highness." Ming Jiuzhu stared at the lingering smoke above the incense burner: "You said, if I and you were poisoned in this room at the same time, which prince would the emperor suspect?"
"King An, King Jing?"
"You want to kill this king?"
"what!"
Sun Caiyao woke up from the dream, rushed to the window, and pushed open the window with shaking hands.
Crystal snowflakes fell on her trembling face, turned into mist, mixed with cold sweat, and dripped to the ground.
"It's snowing." Jiuzhu opened the window and saw the whiteness in the yard. She happily put on her shoes and socks, turned over the window, jumped onto the thick snow, and stepped on a pair of deep footprints.
Carefully pulling out her legs, she bent over to pick up a mass of snow, looking and looking at it infrequently.
His Royal Highness King Chen is really amazing. Yesterday he said it was going to snow, but today it will fall.
"I forgot to ask Your Highness if you like the koi lotus picture I drew for him." Jiuzhu sighed to herself. Yesterday, she was patronizing to give His Highness mints, but she forgot about it.
I heard from my father that the Ministry of Rites is off today, so His Highness... should be at home too