There was a cool breeze blowing in the Heyun Pavilion, and the sun was shining outside, shining on the green glazed tiles, sparking streaks of golden light.
It's only April, but the weather in Jinju is getting hotter, and the sun makes people's eyes dizzy.
But all of this has nothing to do with Heyun Pavilion.
Heyun Pavilion is built in the back garden of the Wangfu. The garden is lush with flowers and trees, and it is facing the water. A breeze blows in, which means a burst of coolness. Birds are chirping on the branches, what a good place for birds and flowers.
Yaoniang only sat halfway on the chair, with her eyelids lowered, she didn't know what she was thinking.
And while she was thinking about her own thoughts, there was a person opposite her looking at her.
Cuizhu's Lao Ziniang worked as an errand on the Zhuangzi where Jin Wangfei married, and she herself married a Zhuangzi on the Zhuangzi. It's a pity that her life was not good, and the man died as soon as she was pregnant. There is no one in her husband's family, and there are brothers and sisters-in-law in her mother's house, so she can't just stay at her mother's house to eat, so she entrusted her relationship to enter the palace and wanted to do the job of this nanny.
Cuizhu's aunt is a mother in charge under the concubine's subordinates. There are no less than ten such mothers in charge around Concubine Jin, each performing their own duties. But since the higher level wants to accomplish something, the lower level will inevitably know some things, and Cuizhu knows things that others don't know.
It was for this reason that she wanted to do this job at all costs.
When Cuizhu wanted to come, she actually wanted to work in the palace for a long time. But her mother is the concubine of Jin Wangfei, and she knows her own personality of the princess well, so she doesn't want to let her daughter come into the mansion to climb this high branch, so as not to harm the whole family. Therefore, as long as it is the dowry of the Xu family, if there is a good-colored girl like Cuizhu in the family, they will generally not send their daughters to the princess.
For this matter, Cuizhu complained to her parents more than once, thinking that if they hadn't stopped her, she would not have married such a person, and ended up becoming a widow.
This time, Cui Zhu thought about it when the boss made a fuss, and desperately gave up her three-month-old daughter to come.
This is her only way out.
But Cuizhu also knew that this time there would be at most two people left, and the person opposite was the enemy.
From the time that person walked in, Cuizhu knew that this person must have the same purpose as hers, otherwise she would not be able to find something from the nanny, so she had to find someone like this.
This kind of person looks like he is here to embarrass the masters!
Cuizhu bit the bright red lower lip, couldn't help but clenched the cuffs of her clothes, her phoenix eyes looking over there were full of jealousy.
For today, she purposely put on all the clothes she had at the bottom of the suitcase, her hair was freshly washed, and she specially put on a pomade with sweet-scented osmanthus fragrance. Nobile.
Cuizhu loves beauty since she was a child, and also likes to mess with herself. After giving birth to her daughter, she deliberately avoided talking, so her figure has long since recovered. From Cuizhu's own eyes, she is definitely more beautiful now than she was before she was married, because only married women know that no matter how good-looking those young girls are, they can't compare to her. tricky woman.
but she—
Cuizhu once again looked at the person sitting across from her red eyes with jealousy, wishing she could scratch her face to relieve her anger!
Yaoniang always felt that someone was staring at her, and when she raised her head, she saw the annoyed and jealous eyes on the other side. Although the other side quickly lowered her eyes, she still looked straight.
She has palpitations.
Because of the other person's eyes. If this kind of look is not full of hatred and resentment, who would look at people like this.
Yaoniang smiled wryly in her heart, she suffered many hardships in her previous life, when she first entered the palace, she was not thinking about it at all, she only cared about her own sorrow and self-pity, and only knew how to miss her son who had to be left behind. It was another time when she was almost beaten to death, and she finally cheered up and worked hard to save her life. Therefore, many things that happened when she first entered the palace are not clear in Yaoniang's memory, and she can't remember whether Cuizhu saw herself like this in her previous life.
At the same time, she couldn't help but wonder why Cui Zhu showed such eyes.
After all, she has just entered the palace, and the nanny serving the little princess has not made up her mind at all. She and Cuizhu are not rivals, so why should she be so jealous of herself.
Could it be that Cuizhu also had a new life
Immediately, Yaoniang felt that she was thinking too much, because Cuizhu was still in good condition when she died in her previous life, and she was being her majestic nanny beside the little princess.
That emerald bamboo is not reborn, so why is it so
There is only one explanation, that is, Cuizhu knows something. Or maybe she has long been the default candidate, which is why she is so hostile to her. But none of this makes sense, after all, even if Cuizhu is the default, but she is not, why should the other party be so hostile to him
Yaoniang is not a very smart person, so she will stop thinking about it after a while if she can't figure it out, but this incident has left a shadow in her heart.
Someone outside the door suddenly cleared his throat.
Immediately, the people who were sitting stood up, and looked at the girl standing outside the door with some trepidation.
This girl was not very old, about twelve or thirteen years old, looked at everyone with a stern white face, turned her head and left again.
Just when everyone was uneasy, a few elderly women walked in from outside.
They are well-dressed, solemn and dignified, and have an extraordinary demeanor. At a glance, they are the mothers in charge of the mansion.
The leader is wearing a glossy bun and has a long face, which looks extremely serious. He was wearing a dark red silk shirt, with a stone-blue bijia on the outside, and a turquoise horse-face skirt underneath. There is only an old silver hairpin on the head, and a pair of opal earrings on the ears. And those eyes are like the pair of opals, radiant and piercing, and they are not easy to get along with at first glance.
Yaoniang knows this person, she is Li's mother who is beside the princess, she is in charge of many affairs in the mansion, she can be regarded as one of the right-hand assistants around the princess.
But Yaoniang has also seen this person greet people with a smile, that is when she just got favor in front of King Jin, the concubine gave her face, and even the servants around the concubine gave her face very much.
Although Yaoniang has only stayed in the palace for more than a year, she has seen many servants in the palace turn their faces like flipping through books. One moment he greeted people with a smile, but the next moment he was full of disdain. In the same way, as long as they are powerful, they are the masters in their eyes. If he loses his power, he is not even as good as a dog.
Yaoniang met her in the mansion more than once, and she was respectfully called Mrs. Yao in front of her, and turned her head and said that she was a servant of Hu Meizi.
She was angry, sad, but also depressed.
Fortunately, she will never have to face all this again in her life. Yao Niang had already thought about it before entering the mansion, the reason why she would die in her previous life was just to obstruct other people's eyes. As long as she is not designed by Cui Zhu, she can safely be her nanny next to the little princess, and she no longer has to interfere with the affairs of King Jin's backyard.
She doesn't have to work for too long, it can be done in one or two years, and she only needs to save enough money to support Xiaobao, and then she will leave here.
Thinking of this, Yaoniang calmed down and accepted the scrutiny of the women above.
"Is everyone in good health? Is there enough milk? Being an servant in the mansion is different from others, and the servant is the little master, so nothing can go wrong."
A few fast-talking little women hurriedly replied, Mama Li frowned unobtrusively, but she didn't show any impatience, she just ignored them and asked a little girl beside her: Are you here?"
The little girl said crisply: "If you want to go back to mother, please come and wait outside."
Not long after, an old man over fifty years old came in, followed by a boy carrying a medicine box.
"This is the doctor from the good medical center of our palace, and I will give you a pulse."
So they went to the doctor one by one, and stretched out their wrists for him to diagnose the pulse. In fact, one person seemed to be diagnosed with a hidden disease and was taken away by his servants. When the little woman was taken away, she still screamed that she was wronged, saying that she had always been healthy, and she would never dare to lie.
Because of this, everyone can't help being a little shocked. It's just choosing a nanny, how can it be so complicated? But Yaoniang knew that the complexity was yet to come.
Mother Li glanced at a few people and ordered: "Take them to the back to have a look."
"yes."
The women bowed their heads and answered, then led Yaoniang and others into the dark room.
This kind of experience has also happened in her previous life, because it is too unforgettable, so Yaoniang remembers it very clearly.
It was the first time that she was naked in front of outsiders, and was flipped through, so besides the humiliation, she still remembers it vividly.
The mother-in-law who was in charge of checking her was very careful. She not only checked for acne, but even sniffed her armpits, and asked her to lie on a table covered with cloth to check the unspeakable place.
The mother-in-law was probably also afraid that Yao Niang would feel conflicted, so while checking, she said: "The little princess is the only daughter of the prince, and also the granddaughter of the current sage, a born son of a dragon and a phoenix. This is definitely different in Jinzhou. , I can only look for a pacifier outside. But the selection of this pacifier must be extremely careful. If there is anything wrong with the little princess, it will be his head... "
Yaoniang bit her lip, closed her eyes, and didn't speak. I felt that the other party weighed my chest, and heard the other party say: "You look like a man with a lot of milk. Well, everything is good, come down."
She hurriedly turned down from the table, lowered her head and put on her clothes.
When I went out, I saw that everyone had different faces, obviously they had the same experience.
Just as everyone was waiting for the follow-up, Mother Li didn't speak, but went out. Several other women are still in the flower hall.
This doesn't seem to be surprising, but Yaoniang couldn't help but pay attention.
Mother Li went out and walked to the left.
If she left Heyun Pavilion, she should go straight out, how did she get there
Where is that place
Yaoniang racked her brains to think, suddenly her heart tightened.
Oh, she remembered what that place was.
This Heyun Pavilion is an ordinary place to entertain guests. Once, when the palace held a banquet for the feudal officials, the princess also entertained the female relatives of the officials' families in the back house.
At that time, Yaoniang was already close to King Jin, and with her status, she couldn't come to such a place, but that day when she was admiring flowers in the garden, she went astray and came here near Heyun Pavilion.
This Heyun Pavilion occupies quite a large area, facing the water on one side and the greenhouse on the other side. At that time, she was greedy for the peony flowers that were in full bloom, and went astray. While looking at the flowers, she suddenly heard a voice, and she couldn't help looking for it. It happened that the position she was standing at that time happened to be able to see the situation in Heyun Pavilion from the outside.
She tried her best to think about the place she saw at the beginning, but it wasn't exactly this flower hall.
Look at the gilded three-legged smoker in the corner, because it was too conspicuous, she saw it at the first glance when she looked inside. At that time, there were only a few gorgeous ladies sitting in this flower hall, Yaoniang was always timid, she was afraid that people would misunderstand what she wanted to peep, so she left in a hurry.
But because the impression was so deep, she still remembers it fresh.
Yaoniang subconsciously looked at an inconspicuous flower window on the side, the flower window was in vermilion as a whole, with various beautiful patterns hollowed out on it, and behind it were large lush branches and leaves. At first glance, there seems to be no abnormality, but if you look closely, you can see that the lush branches and leaves seem to tremble faintly.
There are people behind.
who is it? Who is watching there
Yaoniang didn't dare to look any more, she turned her head as if nothing had happened, but the corners of her eyes were still staring at that place.
The luxuriant branches and leaves trembled a few times suddenly, and there was only time to see a corner of the clothes with intricate patterns passing by, and there was no other movement.
But in Yaoniang's eyes, it felt like she was struck by lightning.