After returning from the outside, Wei Luo has been a little absent-minded.
She asked Jin Lu and Bai Lan to prepare hot water, and took a bath for half an hour behind the twelve rosewood curved screens with flower and bird patterns.
There was no movement behind the screen for a long time, Jin Lu and Bai Lan thought she was asleep and looked at each other, so they had no choice but to go in to find her. After entering, I saw her lying on the edge of the bathtub, her two white arms were exposed, staring a little ahead. Where is it that he fell asleep, he was clearly in a daze!
Jin Lu stepped forward and called softly: "Miss, have you finished washing?"
She suddenly came back to her senses, turned her head to look, her palm-sized face was full of confusion, her eyes were looking bright, and the two rows of thick eyelashes fluttered like a butterfly-tailed butterfly fluttering its wings. She had been soaking for too long, the water was no longer hot, and it was only now that she felt cold and shivered suddenly. She quickly came back to her senses, turned around to cover her body, "After washing, bring my clothes here, I want to get dressed."
Jin Lu felt that something was wrong with her, but as for what was wrong, she couldn't tell for a while, so she just nodded and said, "Yes."
Wei Luo stood up from the tub. A teenage girl, her body hadn't fully grown yet, she looked a little slender at first glance, but she was already in her infancy. If it grows up a bit, it will definitely become exquisite. She put on a peach-pink light tunic with a short tulle skirt under it. Her wet hair hung behind her and wet a large piece of light tunic on her back. Ying grasped the willow waist.
Jin Lu followed closely, holding up her wet black hair, holding it so full that she could barely hold it with both hands, "Maidservant, help the young lady clean her hair first... If you wear it like this, you will catch a cold in a while."
Wei Luo was preoccupied with something, and neither nodded nor refuted. She sat in front of the rosewood five-panel vanity mirror, resting her cheeks and continuing to lose her mind.
What Zhao Jie said in the carriage just now kept echoing in her mind. He said he liked her, but she always felt a little weird.
When did it start? She knew him when she was six years old and called him big brother. She had always been an ignorant and innocent little girl in front of him. He liked her? Doesn't he have some special hobbies
It's not impossible if you think about it, otherwise why did he always treat her so well? When she was only six or seven years old, he gave her a blood jade, a kitten, and promised her to go to Longshou Village. She had made such a big mess in Longshou Village, and he didn't even ask anything afterwards, and he was willing to help her settle everything.
Thinking of this, Wei Luo was startled, sat up straight suddenly, and knocked off the pod silver comb on the dressing table.
The silver comb fell heavily to the ground with a knocking sound.
Does Zhao Jie like little girls
Jin Lu was startled by her, and knelt down to pick up the grate. Seeing that she was always in a daze, she couldn't help but asked with concern: "What's wrong, miss, she's restless after coming back from outside, did she encounter any troubles?" gone?"
She pursed her lips, her heart was in a mess, and she didn't want to answer Jin Lu's question.
However, after thinking about it, I feel that this is not the case. Zhao Jie seems to be like this only to her, he is very indifferent to other little girls.
On Zhao Liuli's seventh birthday, there were so many little girls present, but he didn't talk to any of them, he even looked a little impatient, and seemed very difficult to get along with. Even the courageous Liang Yurong was afraid of him in private. But that time when he was behind Xinyan Tower, he asked her gently if she had been scratched by a cat, and he wanted to give her a kitten.
He was only good to her, he was like this when he was a child, and he was like this when he grew up.
When he came back from Binzhou, he put a turquoise squirrel waist on her in front of the court lady; and at Jinghe Villa in Changxun Mountain, he took off her shoes and applied medicine to her sprained ankle; On the hillside of Thousand Buddha Temple, he personally led the horse for her... Wei Luo had always been puzzled, wondering why he was only nice to her alone, but now she finally understood what was going on.
After Jin Lu combed her hair, she couldn't help sighing when she saw that she was in a daze again. What did the girl meet today? The whole person is not quite right.
Wei Luo didn't spend too much time dwelling on this matter, because she had more important matters.
She never forgot the day she met Zhao Jue and Xiang Xuan in Yuhelou. A woman like Liang Yuna cannot be made a concubine, let alone enter the gate of the Pingyuanhou Mansion. If I remember the time correctly, the adultery between Xiang Xuan and Zhao Jue will soon be exposed, and not long after, Xiang Xuan will hook up with Liang Yu at the Pingyuan Hou birthday banquet, taking the opportunity to stage a drama of "drunken sex" In order to threaten Liang Yu to be responsible for her.
There is still one month before Pingyuan Hou's birthday.
Before that, there was still Zhao Liuli's gift ceremony that she needed to worry about.
Empress Chen attached great importance to Zhao Liuli's gift ceremony, after all, it was a top priority and must not be sloppy. The Ji ceremony was set in Qingxi Palace, and the scene was extremely grand. That day not only invited a few court wives, but also invited many noble daughters to attend Princess Tianji's coming-of-age ceremony.
In the past few days, Wei Luo often went in and out of Qingxi Palace, and followed Madam Qiu to familiarize herself with what the praisers were going to do. Fortunately, it was not difficult, she was only responsible for saving Zhao Liuli's hairpin and hairpin. Wei Luo was clever and learned quickly. After going there two or three times, she was able to memorize all the procedures by heart. Empress Chen praised her greatly and felt relieved.
This day, the twelfth day of the fourth lunar month, was Zhao Liuli's Jiji ceremony.
Before entering the palace, Wei Luo made a special trip to Pingyuan Marquis Mansion in advance, got into the same carriage with Liang Yurong, and headed to the palace together.
The carriage rolled forward.
Liang Yurong was wearing a lilac-colored satin blouse, a white skirt and a pair of gold-encrusted jade lantern earrings on her round ears. She was leaning on a royal blue satin satin pillow, sitting opposite Wei Luo, and deliberately said sourly: "You have been reluctant to see me these few times, and I still treat you as if you don't want to see me. Why, I came to my house today to find Me, what's the matter?"
After hearing this, Wei Luo felt amused.
The first few times it was because she didn't want her to meet her eldest brother, so she put on a reluctant face. She didn't expect that she, who was narrow-minded, would bear a grudge because of it.
Wei Luo took a look at her, picked up the white porcelain pot on the small table with red lacquer and mother-of-pearl, poured a cup of Emei Xueya, and brought it to her, "Why don't you tell me why I don't want to see you anymore? I don't want you to drink tea or not?" You give up your seat?"
She said no, and couldn't come up with a reason for a long time, so she simply didn't bother with this question, and asked her curiously: "Princess Tianji Jiji today, as a praiser, why didn't you enter the palace earlier, why did you still come to me?"
Wei Luo didn't beat around the bush, and said straight to the point, "Uncle Liang will celebrate his birthday next month, and I always want to prepare a gift. After thinking about it for a long time, I didn't know what to give, so I came to ask you directly. Do you know what he likes?"
It turned out that it was because of this, Liang Yurong suddenly realized, her big eyes rolled around, she couldn't think of anything good for a while, finally stopped on the pot of tea in front of her, clapped her hands and said: "I'll give you some tea, my dad I like drinking tea the most. Your tea tastes good, if you give it to him, he must be very happy."
She is picky, seemingly casual, but her vision is not bad at all.
This Emei Xueya is the best tea, produced in Gaofeng, and was canonized as the tribute tea of Daliang by Emperor Chongzhen. There is not much in total for a year, most of them stay in the royal family, and very few are distributed to the ministers below. At the beginning of this year, the British government only got three catties of tea, the British government kept half a catty, and the rest was distributed to each house. Wei Kun knew that Wei Luo liked to drink this kind of tea, so he generously gave it all to her, which made Wei Zheng very dissatisfied.
Wei Luo has only drank this tea a few times, and now there is still half a catty left. If Wei Luo was given to Marquis Pingyuan, then she would be reluctant to part with it.
However, since she was the one who opened the mouth first, no matter how heartbroken she is, she can only reluctantly give up.
After the conversation started, Wei Luo asked again: "I heard that you also invited Prince Rui's residence? Is it true?"
Liang Yurong thought for a while before she nodded, "My father wrote the invitation, I haven't read it. But I heard that he told my mother twice, and it seems that he mentioned the name of Prince Rui's Mansion."
That's right.
Both Zhao Jue and Xiang Wu would be there that day, and Xiang Xuan would naturally be there too.
Wei Luo felt that it was necessary to remind her, so that Liang Yu would not make the same mistakes and offend such a restless woman.
She called Liang Yurong to her, and whispered in her ear: "A few days ago, I accompanied Liuli to the street, and I met two people..."
On the one hand, she said, and on the other hand, she described to her the situation in the private room that day. Of course, she spoke in a more euphemistic manner, only saying that the two of them were tricky, and did not mention the conversations she heard in the next room. Even so, Liang Yurong still heard some tricks, her eyes widened immediately, and she said in disbelief: "I've seen that Mr. Zhao, he looks like a man, I didn't expect that he would be like this in private..."
Nowadays, there are many examples of two sisters serving a man together, but there are very few of them, and they are put on the bright side. Their business is too nasty, behind the back of their main wife, hooking up with their sister-in-law outside, and it's still in a restaurant where people come and go... It's unbearable no matter how you think about it.
Liang Yurong showed disdain, obviously disdainful of such obscene things.
Wei Luo nodded in agreement, and told her, "I'm telling you this because I want you to beware of Xiang Xuan... Since she can hook up with her brother-in-law, maybe she will hook up with other men. When Uncle Liang's birthday party is held , you have to keep an eye on your brother, don't be fooled by her tricks." In the end, to prevent Liang Yurong from thinking too much, she sat back and explained: "I'm not afraid of ten thousand, just in case."
Liang Yurong nodded with concern, "Don't worry, I will watch over my brother and prevent him from getting in touch with Xiang Xuan."
While the two were talking, they had reached the gate of the palace, and the carriage drove into the gate of the palace and stopped at the gate of Qingxi Palace.
At this time, many people had come to Qingxi Palace, and they all gathered in the front hall of Zhaoyang Palace.
There are mostly young girls in the hall, surrounded by clouds and clusters of flowers, all of them are beautifully dressed. As soon as Wei Luo and Liang Yurong entered, the three of them stood out the most.
They are Gao Danyang and Gao Qingyang, and the other is Li Xiang.
Gao Danyang and Gao Qingyang are Empress Chen's nieces and daughters, and their father is the Duke of Zhenguo, so there are naturally many people around them. The two of them are equally beautiful. Today they are respectively wearing water ripples and sprouts light green gowns and multicolored golden makeup flower sleeves respectively. They have bright eyes and white teeth, and dignified demeanor. Standing in the crowd, they are quite conspicuous, like stars arching the moon generally.
On the other side, Li Xiang was wearing an apricot-colored embroidered gold peony-pattern skirt, a gold twisted silk lantern hairpin on his head, and two pairs of jade leaf and golden cicada hairpins on each side. She is the daughter of Princess Gao Yang, so she naturally disdains to do this kind of stalking, and just looks on with a displeased expression. Qin Jinshu, the fifth young lady of Anlinghou's mansion, saw that her complexion was not good, and quickly praised her for looking good today, so her complexion improved.
Besides them, Wei Luo also saw Xiang Wu and Xiang Xuan standing in front of the silver screen. At this time, the two have not yet broken up, but their relationship is like that of ordinary sisters, and they seem to be quite close.
Wei Luo and Liang Yurong walked in one after the other. Li Xiang was the first to see her, and he was naturally dissatisfied, so he purposely scolded her: "Why are you here too? I didn't hear that the empress invited you, maybe you came here uninvited ?”
The fact that Wei Luo was the patron of Princess Tianji was never made public, so not many people knew about it.
It is normal that her name is not on the invitation, because she was originally attending the ceremony, and she sent it to Zhao Liuli.
Wei Luo looked at her, but before she could speak, Nanny Qiu, who was dressed in soft satin and autumn-scented, came out of the warm pavilion, came to her and bowed her knees, and said politely, "Miss Si is here, and the Empress invites you to the back room." The palace is getting ready, the princess's ceremony is about to begin."
Li Xiang's face froze, and then sank down.
Wei Luo nodded, didn't even look at her, just explained to Liang Yurong, then turned around and followed Aunt Qiu into the back of Zhaoyang Hall.
Bypassing the floor cover of the numerous birds, and passing through a corridor through the mountains, you arrive at the apse. The apse was much more lively than the front, and the palace people were busy preparing the clothes and hair pins that Zhao Liuli would wear in a while. Everything was meticulous and perfect, and no flaws could be tolerated. In addition to the palace people, Empress Chen and Zhao Liuli's aunt, Mrs. Zhen Guogong, were also present. When they saw Wei Luo approaching, they called her to him and said a few words.
Seeing that she kept everything in mind, Empress Chen was not without relief and said: "My good boy, you have worked hard these days."
Not long after, a lady in red clothes handed Wei Luo a suit of clothes, bowed her knees and said politely: "The empress of the imperial palace has explained that this dress is custom-made for Miss Fourth, please change it."
Wei Luo took it over. It was a cherry-colored silk-colored double nest Yunyan palace dress, with meticulous stitching, gold thread embroidery on the collar and sleeves, solemn and gorgeous. She walked behind the eight ivory screens carved with landscape patterns as she said, and put the palace clothes on the prototype incense table with three curved legs. Suddenly, when she heard light footsteps, she froze suddenly, and was about to turn around, when a pair of bony hands came out from behind and pressed her hands.
The tall body is attached, it is clearly a man!
Wei Luo opened her eyes wide in astonishment, and was about to call out, but the man covered her mouth one step faster than she did, leaned over, and whispered a low hiss next to her ear, a bit like the tone of a frightened animal. : "Don't move, I only want to say a few words to you.