The noble ladies who went to the palace to add makeup did not include Princess Xing'an.
It is said that there was a decree from the palace the day before yesterday to let Princess Xing'an cultivate her heart and mind at home so that she does not have to attend Princess Longqing's wedding. The owner of Xing'an County is angry, angry and ashamed, and has been lying in the room for the past two days, pretending to be sick!
After getting off the bus at Donghua Gate, Yong Ruo, who was wearing the official crown of the wife of the county king, followed Dowager Shen and others on foot to the Queen's Kunde Palace.
She was holding a long box in her hand, which contained two scrolls of ancient paintings, which were a makeup gift for Princess Longqing from the Hengjun Palace.
Even the girls and eunuchs of the palaces of the princes and princesses are not eligible to enter the palace unless they are ordered. They can only wait outside the gate of the palace.
In the imperial palace, the younger daughters-in-law and Yong Ruo, who are concubines and concubines, are the ones who serve the concubines and concubines. Therefore, Yong Ruo could only hold the box containing ancient paintings in his own hands. Fortunately, the box is very light, which is really easy for her.
The next generation of the current emperor has only one seedling, Princess Longqing. Therefore, the princess has been raised in the Queen's Kunde Palace since she was born, and today's ceremony of adding makeup was also carried out in the Kunde Palace.
There are servants to guide you along the way. Concubine Shen casually asked the servant a few words, such as: Is so-and-so already here? The empress has been very busy these days, right? some type of.
The servant answered one by one with a smile, and led Yong Ruo and his party to the Kunde Palace slowly.
Because it is a big day, many people enter the palace to add makeup.
After arriving at the Kunde Palace, there was no need to inform them again. After the servants called their names, the female officer who greeted the guests at the door directly led them in.
Feng Liao's sister-in-law, Princess Pingjun, has a big belly and has brought the side concubines and wives of Prince Pingjun.
Hearing that the maid reported the name of Concubine Shen, she immediately got up to greet her.
After Yongruo paid homage with Concubine Shen, he heard a very kind voice saying: "Get up, everyone! Give me your seat!"
The so-called bestowing a seat was naturally only given to Concubine Shen.
In this kind of occasion where the elders of the royal family and the noble ladies gathered in the palace, even a junior daughter-in-law like Princess Ying is not qualified to sit in the main hall of Kunde Palace, and there is no room for concubines such as Yongruo. Princess Pingjun was able to get a seat because she had a big belly.
After Concubine Shen sat down, it was Princess Ying who, on behalf of Prince Ying's residence, added makeup and presents to Princess Longqing.
There were three makeup gifts in total: one was from Prince Ying's residence, one was from the elder Concubine Shen, and the other was from the cousin-in-law of Princess Ying.
After Prince Ying's mansion, it was Yong Ruo's turn to step forward.
Holding the long box containing ancient paintings in her hand, she stepped forward and knelt down: "I am the wife of Hengjun Wang, Yongshi, and on behalf of the Hengjun Wangfu, I present Chu Daoyuan's "Butterflies into Pairs of Peonies" and enlightened Daoshanren "Autumn Night." "Mountain Dwelling Picture", add makeup to the princess, congratulate the princess on her wedding, and wish the princess and her son-in-law a happy marriage for a hundred years and a happy family!"
All the ladies around let out a burst of exclamation: "It turned out to be the authentic work of those two!"
"The authentic works of these two are precious treasures that are priceless and hard to come by. The king of Heng County actually took out two works at a time to add makeup to the princess. It's really brother and sister love!"
Empress Wei also laughed and said, "Liao'er's gift is exactly what he likes. I have thanked Prince Heng on behalf of the princess! Get up!"
The female officer serving in the palace took the box from Yong Ruo. Yong Ruo got up and stepped back, standing behind Concubine Shen to be the background board.
In the hall, ladies from various palaces, princess palaces and even princess palaces kept coming in to congratulate Princess Longqing with makeup.
In Yongruo's mind, there was a constant yelling loudly: How many units of a certain level of sterilization drug are on so-and-so's body!
Yong Ruo tried his best to read all those people without any trace, and kept them in his mind.
She planned to find a chance to absorb the medicinal power of these people when she attended the palace banquet later.
Although Lulu's scanning range is only three meters, she had stepped forward to offer a gift just now, and now she is standing near the door. Therefore, Lulu almost already knows which people in the temple have sterilization pills and which ones don't. up.
After listening to her, Yong Ruo discovered some very interesting patterns.
Those who accompanied the eldest princess and eldest princess into the palace were mostly their juniors.
There are very few sterilization drugs in these people's bodies.
But in the various palaces, there are many more people wearing sterilization drugs, and the distribution of sterilization drugs on their bodies is all nest by nest.
In several palaces, most of the concubines, concubines, and wives do not have sterilization drugs in their bodies, except for a few unlucky ghosts.
In other palaces, it was just the opposite. Except for one or two people whose bodies were clean, the others were all unlucky ghosts with sterilization drugs on their bodies.
Another rule is: in the same palace, most of the sterilizing drugs used by those unlucky ghosts are of the same kind, and there are at most two or three.
She hasn't found any other cases of the mansion with various types of sterilization drugs like the Prince of England's mansion.
For example: In the Prince's Mansion of Pingjun, except for Princess Pingjun, all the concubines and wives have sterilization drugs in their bodies, and it is the same sterilization drug.
It can basically be concluded that the person who drugged the concubines and wives of Pingjun Wang should be the same person.
According to common sense, Princess Pingjun is the most suspected in this case, because she is the biggest beneficiary.
But Yong Ruo couldn't connect this person with this matter even after looking around. How can the gentle and virtuous Princess Pingjun do such a sinister and vicious thing? Then she is too good at pretending!
This point made Yong Ruo feel a little unusual.
Why did the Prince's Mansion become such a case
Something to do with family style? Or is someone secretly creating such a situation
For example: Consciously provide information in this regard to those concubines, side concubines, and wives who have conflicts of interest, and even provide channels to buy sterilization drugs to lure criminals
There is also a rather strange point: the emperor is extinct, and the bodies of the empress and concubines in the palace should be full of sterilization drugs!
Except for the two older concubines, none of the other empresses had sterilization drugs in their bodies.
It seems... the secret of the emperor's extinction should be in him.
It's a pity that I haven't had the chance to see His Majesty the Emperor so far, and I can't determine the reason...
When Yongruo was thinking about these things, a court lady came out from the back door of the main hall and whispered a few words to a female official standing beside the queen.
The female officer walked up to the queen again and whispered a few words. The queen looked in Yong Ruo's direction, nodded to the female official, and then went to meet the lady who presented the gift again.
The female official led the palace maid to Yong Ruo's side, and said in a low voice, "Madam Yong, Princess Longqing wants to see you, the empress has given permission, please go with Bailu."
The palace maid congratulated Yong Ruofu: "My servant, Bailu, is the personal servant of Princess Longqing. Madam, please come with this servant."
Although the actions of these few people have tried to be as inconspicuous as possible.
But every move around the empress is the common concern of everyone in the hall, so many people naturally noticed this scene.
After hearing their conversation, the people around Yongruo showed some subtle or obvious expressions of envy on their faces. Not to mention anything else, after being invited by the princess to talk, you can at least sit down and have a cup of tea, right
Even Princess Ying couldn't help turning her head to look at Yong Ruo, with envy in her eyes.
Yongruo then greeted Princess Ying: "... If the princess asks, please report it on behalf of the concubine."
Concubine Ying smiled all over her face, and said in a low voice: "Go ahead! If Concubine Mother asks, I will report."
Yong Ruo followed the maid named Bai Lu, walked around behind the crowd, and went out the back door to the middle courtyard.
Princess Longqing lives in the east wing of the middle courtyard.
When he was about to enter the door, Yong Ruo bumped into several young girls and daughters-in-law.
They were coming out of the East Wing, laughing and laughing. Looking at the costumes, they are the princesses and county masters of various palaces.
One of the bright-looking young daughter-in-laws, who was dressed in the clothes of the princess, said half-sourly and half-jokingly: "Mrs. Yong, come in quickly! The princess is waiting for you! Once you come, we will be superfluous." , is avoiding it!"
Yong Ruo laughed and said, "The Princess is just joking."
According to Zhu Ying's description, she vaguely guessed who the princess in front of her was. But there is no certainty, and there is no need to make mistakes, so as not to make mistakes.
Another person who also wore the costume of the princess comforted Yongruo and said, "Don't pay attention to this savage! She will make up a few sentences when she catches someone. Although it is annoying, it is just a few jokes, don't take it seriously. Get along After a long time, you will know."
"Thank you Princess for your advice!"
After Yongruo entered the east wing, he saw a well-behaved girl of sixteen or seventeen years old, dressed in princess costumes, sitting on the central seat, and knew that this was Princess Longqing.
Princess Longqing's cheeks were flushed, her lips were slightly pouted, and she looked angry, angry, happy and ashamed.
Seeing Yong Ruo coming in, she said without waiting for Yong Ruo to salute, "If you come to tease me again, I will really be annoyed!"
Yongruo suddenly realized: it turned out that the group of county masters and county masters were invited out not because they wanted to avoid him when he came, but because they joked too much, which made Princess Longqing feel a little uncomfortable.
Yongruo congratulated Princess Longqing: "I am the wife of Heng County King Yong, and I pay my respects to the princess! Please rest assured, the princess, I never make fun of people."
Princess Longqing breathed a sigh of relief, stood up, and said to Yongruo, "Let's talk on the kang over there!"
Princess Longqing invited Yong Ruo to the kang and sat opposite Yong Ruo.
Taking advantage of the time when the court ladies were serving tea and snacks, Princess Longqing sized up Yongruo carefully, and said with a smile: "You are indeed as beautiful as Brother Liao said, and you look very kind. No wonder Brother Liao is like that." like you!"
"The prince also said to my concubine: the princess is a very easy-going person! When I saw her today, what I said was true."
Princess Longqing put her elbows on the kang table, leaned forward slightly, and asked with great interest, "What else did Brother Liao say about me?"
"It is also said that the princess likes painting very much. Therefore, the prince specially picked two ancient paintings to add makeup to the princess..."
Yong Ruo mentioned the names and authors of the two ancient paintings, and said, "My lord said: "The Picture of Butterflies Forming Pairs of Peonies" is his favorite and the meaning is auspicious, so he specially picked it out to celebrate the princess's wedding. ; that "Dwelling in the Mountains in Autumn" was the one he promised the princess in the early years, and would leave her to add makeup."
Princess Longqing's eyes became brighter and she said in surprise, "Brother Liao really gave me those two paintings?"
"Of course it is true! At this time, the two paintings have been handed over to the ladies of Kunde Palace. After the previous ceremony is over, they may be delivered to the princess."
"Why wait for the ceremony to end?" Princess Longqing said excitedly, "I want to watch it now!"
She beckoned to the palace maid named Bailu, and said, "Go ahead and bring in the two ancient paintings sent by the Prince Heng's Mansion!"
Egret smiled and went.
Princess Longqing waited restlessly, the expression on her face was both excited and moved.
"When Brother Liao was still living in the palace, once, he and I accompanied Father to look at paintings. Father asked us to choose one of those paintings and said he would give it to us.
"Among those paintings, there are two by Wudao Mountain Man, one is "Dwelling in the Mountains in Autumn", and the other is "The Flower and Moon on the Spring River". I like these two paintings very much. I don't know which one to choose. width.
"Brother Liao said: Give me both paintings. But the emperor firmly forbade, and also did not allow Brother Liao to give me his own painting, saying that it would not encourage my greed.
"Brother Liao asked me to choose one at random, and he picked another one. He also whispered to me: When I get married in the future, he will give me another one as a gift for makeup, so that the emperor will be happy." I have nothing to say.
"Nearly ten years have passed since this incident. I wanted to remind him a while ago but couldn't open my mouth. I didn't expect him to still remember... Brother Liao treated me so well!"
Yong Ruo nodded, and said in agreement: "My lord has always treated people very well!"
Princess Longqing also nodded, and then looked at Yongruo with a serious face: "Since you know, you should treat Brother Liao well! It's not in vain that he likes you so much!"
Yong Ruo also said with a serious face: "Princess, don't worry, I will do my best to treat the prince well."
The two talked a few more words, and Bai Lu took the two paintings back.
Princess Longqing took Yong Ruo to wash her hands together, and looked at the two ancient paintings together, with an obsessed look on her face.
After a while, she asked someone to put away the two paintings and asked Yong Ruo, "Can you draw?"
Yong Ruo regretfully said: "No!"
If you can, you can exchange painting experience with Princess Longqing at this time, and the communication between the two will be smoother and hit each other better.
Princess Longqing also showed a very regretful expression, and asked Yongruo: "Then do you want to learn?"
Yong Ruo said: "I never thought about learning it before. But after meeting the princess today, I suddenly want to learn a little bit."
Princess Longqing laughed: "You speak honestly. If you really want to learn, I can teach you!"
"Then there is Princess Lao! It's just that if the concubine's qualifications are blunt and can't be cultivated, the princess should not be too angry!"
Princess Longqing waved her hand grandly: "It's okay! My father once said: There are thousands of kinds of people and talents in the world. When you meet someone who is more talented than us, don't be jealous, because we also have strengths." There is no need to be proud when you meet someone whose talent is not as good as ours, because the other party will also have his own advantages!"
Yong Ruo couldn't help praising these words: "The emperor's words are extremely incisive!"
Princess Longqing said proudly: "This is natural!"
She took Yong Ruo to the study and taught Yong Ruo how to draw.
Let's start with the basic paint, paper and other utensils, and then teach Yong Ruo the basic brushwork, composition and so on.
Princess Longqing taught with enthusiasm, and Yong Ruo also studied very seriously.
This is not only to please the princess, but also to add some new skills.
There are no cameras in this era, and the only thing that can leave images is painting. Learning how to draw is also very good.
Maybe in the future, she can draw a few portraits of Feng Liao
Time flies when there is something to do.
The maid came to report: The previous ceremony is over, and the palace banquet is about to begin.
Princess Longqing waved her hand without raising her head: "After you go and tell your mother, tell me that I left Mrs. Yong to eat at home!"
She is a girl to be married. Among the noble ladies in the palace, only she does not have to attend today's palace banquet.
Yong Ruo was very happy to be left by Princess Longqing for dinner.
Although her original plan was to take advantage of the palace banquet to walk around, toast, and absorb sterilization drugs to increase points. But there is no need to worry about this matter, there will be opportunities in the future.
At noon that day, Yong Ruo stayed in Princess Longqing's room and ate small stoves with the princess, eating comfortably and comfortably.
When the palace banquet was over and the noble ladies left the palace one after another, Yong Ruo bid farewell to the reluctant Princess Longqing, took the painting supplies presented by the princess, and went out of the palace and returned home under the envious eyes of the crowd.
Feng Liao was busy until the evening before coming back.
As soon as he came back, he asked Yong Ruo: "I heard: The princess looks at you very differently today, and she left you to eat in the house, and even taught you how to draw?"
Yong Ruoxiao: "Isn't that thanks to the lord? The princess likes the two ancient paintings that the lord gave me very much."
"The two paintings of mine are just what they like, and Mier will naturally like them."
He sighed, took Yong Ruo into his arms, and stroked her loose hair with his fingers: "I'm relieved that you and Mi'er get along well! In this way, you can have a companion in the future, Life is not too lonely; if I am not around when something happens, you can also have a sincere helper, so that you will not have nowhere to ask for help... "
Leaning in his arms, Yong Ruo said in an extremely soft tone: "The princess specially told me today that I must treat you well, so that it is not in vain that you like me so much."
"Oh?" Feng Liao looked down at her profile, "Then what did you say?"
"I said: I will definitely do my best to treat the prince well..."
She lowered her eyes slightly, tilted her head and kissed him deeply on the lips. The warm and gentle touch has a kind of intimacy and fascination that penetrates the soul...