The night is already deep.
A lamp lights up in the embroidery workshop.
The lights smudged the window paper into orange, looking in through the window papers, it was obviously already time to eat, but the maids all gathered here, even though they were so hungry, one of them left. nothing.
He stuck the needle on his finger again, and with a sigh of auspicious ouch, put the bleeding finger in his mouth, looked back at the door, and asked inarticulately, "Sister Yingluo hasn't come back yet?"
Linglong, who was beside her, was doing embroidery work without raising her head and said, "Could it be that she won't be able to come back..."
"What did you say!" Jixiang said angrily, "Bah, bah, bah, give me three hoots!"
Linglong pouted, and was too lazy to do such a vulgar gesture. Ji Xiang saw this, and his heart became even more angry. Just as he was about to talk to her, a palace maid who was closest to the door suddenly shouted, "Come here, there are people outside!"
Jixiang was stunned, and immediately left Linglong and ran out.
There was a gust of wind beside her, and someone ran faster than her.
"Zhang, Mammy Zhang?" Jixiang stared at the other person's back in a stunned manner.
Like an old man whose only son is going to the imperial examinations, Mammy Zhang almost rushed out of the gate, and then looked at the eunuch outside, hoping to hear some good news from his mouth, at least not bad news!
"Congratulations, Mammy Zhang." There were three palace maids who came, and the leader was higher in rank than Mama Zhang, but at the moment they were polite to her and said with a smile, "Wei of your embroidery workshop. Yingluo was in the limelight at the birthday banquet, these are the things that the Empress gave her."
As soon as she waved, the two maids behind her came over with trays.
In one tray were two silks of satin, and in the other a pair of hairpins.
The things made in the palace are naturally the best in the world, not to mention the things bestowed by the queen, which are first-class workmanship and first-class materials.
The two hostas, everyone can't judge whether they are good or bad, they only know that the color is very decent, and there is a faint layer of smoke and cloud on the top. Lantian sun warms jade and smokes.
The two silks and satins are different. Everyone has been working in the embroidery workshop for more than half a year. Naturally, they recognize the quality of the material, and one of them is amazed: "This material is really good, wearing it on a person is like wearing a spring water. , often wearing it not only nourishes the skin, but also nourishes the person.”
"What do you know, this is a tribute from Jiangnan Weaving." Another palace maid who was more knowledgeable said enviously, "It's all for the masters to make clothes, and the life of Yingluo is really good..."
Mammy Zhang took the lead palace maid to the side to talk, and then took out some money from her sleeve and forcibly stuffed it into the other party. After returning home, the maids who looked at him eagerly announced, "It's all right, you can go back to eat."
At this time, how can people have the heart to eat!
Jixiang was the first to rush over: "Mammy, good mama, tell me quickly, what did Sister Yingluo do at the birthday banquet?"
"Yeah, mammy, just tell us." Linglong also came over and said calmly, "What did Yingluo do, the Empress did not punish her, but even gave her a reward?"
Mammy Zhang was in a very good mood, and smiled at the two of them: "I can't tell you about this, why don't you wait for her to come back and tell you in person."
Linglong was silent for a moment and asked, "Where is she now?"
"Received the reward." Mother Zhang said, "Of course I'm going to kowtow to the Empress and thank you!"
Outside Changchun Palace.
Mingyu held a hexagonal palace lantern in her hand, and the orange light illuminated the thin figure kneeling on the ground in front of her, pulling her shadow extremely long.
"Niangniang." Wei Yingluo put her forehead on the back of her hand, "This servant is here to plead guilty."
"Oh?" Empress Fucha has removed her heavy dress and put on the simple white clothes she often wears on weekdays. She arrives at the end of the month, just like Chang'e returning in the middle of the month, with a graceful appearance and a beautiful smile." Not to thank you, but to apologize?"
"Yes." Wei Yingluo confessed without concealment, "The embroidery workshop was thieves a few days ago, and the peacock feathers were stolen by the thieves. As a last resort, the slaves chose deer tail wool instead. In order to fool around the hall, they made up a rhetoric."
"Since you've been fooled, why do you have to confess to this palace?" Queen Fucha asked with a smile.
Wei Yingluo thought to herself: Because I don't believe it.
Things went too smoothly, as smoothly as Queen Fucha intended to cooperate with her.
After thinking about this, Wei Yingluo broke into a cold sweat on her back, and she no longer dared to take chances, and came to Queen Fucha to plead guilty without saying a word.
"The queen is kind and considerate to her servants. Not only did she not expose me in public, but she also rewarded me with gifts. I'm in a panic. How could someone who has made a big mistake like me have the face to accept your gifts." Wei Yingluo kowtowed, "I'm still Wang Niangniang takes back the reward and punishes me."
"How can you take back what you have been rewarded, who do you think of this palace?" Empress Fucha chuckled, "Besides, the matter is over, today is the future of this palace, and I don't want any unpleasantness. something happened, you know?"
Wei Yingluo kowtowed again: "The maid is merciful, and the slaves will keep it in my heart."
"But..." Queen Fucha dragged her tone, "There is one thing that this palace finds very strange..."
"Niangniang, please tell me." Wei Yingluo hurriedly said, "The slaves know that they can't stop talking."
"Mingyu said that when you were waiting outside the hall, you were delaying the time until you came in at the end." Queen Fucha asked, "What exactly were you waiting for?"
Wei Yingluo rolled her eyes and was thinking about what answer to give, when Queen Fucha had already given the answer first.
"You are waiting for the emperor." Queen Fucha asked, "is that right?"
Wei Yingluo was taken aback, she raised her head in a conditioned reflex, and met a pair of wise eyes.
How could a person with such a pair of eyes be a fuel-efficient lamp, or a Lord who can easily deceive the past!
In the blink of an eye, Wei Yingluo has made a decision.
"Yes!" Wei Yingluo gritted her teeth and told the whole thing, "The Empress is deeply favored, and the slaves want to take advantage of the emperor's east wind to make the Empress happy. In this way, the slaves will enter the hall to report again, and the Empress will not will be furious."
Empress Fucha's face suddenly sank: "You are so bold! Even the emperor dares to use it!"
"Please forgive the empress!" Wei Yingluo kowtowed again and again, with a look of resignation that she completely surrendered her life to the other party. "If you want to commit the crime, please also punish one of the slaves and servants, and don't implicate the innocent people in the embroidery workshop!"
"Punishment is of course punishable, let me think about it..." Empress Fucha fell silent.
It wasn't until Wei Yingluo's breathing became heavier that she snorted and said, "I will punish you to remake this palace's uniforms and use all deer tail shorts, remember?"
Wei Yingluo raised her head abruptly, like a pardoned death row prisoner. She was stunned for a long time before she showed ecstasy, and she slammed her forehead on the ground with a thud: "Yes! Thank you, Niangniang!"
"Okay, it's getting late, you can go back." Empress Fucha looked at her tenderly, "In the future, after embroidering the uniform, you can bring it to Changchun Palace in person, and..."
She turned to Mingyu who was beside her and said, "There is a theft in the palace for no reason, and Wu Shulai is duty-bound to ask him to investigate the matter thoroughly!"
Mingyu hurriedly responded.
"Okay, this palace is tired." Queen Fucha nodded, "You can send her off."
The hexagonal palace lantern leads the way ahead, illuminating the way out of Changchun Palace.
"Sister Mingyu, just send it here." Wei Yingluo didn't dare to let Mingyu accompany her on such a trip, from Changchun Palace to Embroidery Workshop, a back and forth, even if the pace is fast, it takes half an hour." I'll walk the rest of the way by myself."
Mingyu didn't want to waste time on this little palace maid, and immediately said, "Okay, then I'll go back first."
After speaking, he immediately turned around and walked towards the Changchun Palace.
Wei Yingluo has been watching her from behind, not so much to see her, but to stare at the Changchun Palace in the distance.
It was already dark, but Changchun Palace was as bright as day. What illuminated Changchun Palace were the palace lanterns hung on the walls by the maids, the night pearls offered in the sea market, or the one-person-high one at the birthday banquet today. Coral tree
That is the palace of Queen Fucha, and it is the residence of the most distinguished woman in the harem.
In the past, she could only watch from a distance, but from today, it is no longer so out of reach.
"Fu Cha Fu Heng..." Wei Yingluo murmured in a voice that only she could hear, "Wait for me, I'm coming for you..."
The Changchun Palace in the distance was as bright as day, but the surroundings of Wei Yingluo were pitch black.
The night engulfed her body and her expression, turning her into a black silhouette, so out of place with the brightly lit Changchun Palace in the distance...