Although Song Jinning felt that her footsteps were very light when she walked, but she was so close, it was impossible for Li Chengxuan not to hear her footsteps.
And even if he didn't hear the footsteps, when Zhou Jing waited for the eunuch to see her, he bowed to her and called Empress Empress, couldn't he not have heard it
The only explanation is that Li Chengxuan knew she was here, but he still put on airs.
Or maybe he didn't bother to look at her at all.
It's okay, in fact, she doesn't really want to see him. Isn't it the first day of their wedding, the two of them still have to go to the Queen Mother Song to pay their respects together, so let's pretend to be with him for the time being.
He said: "Your Majesty, please go first."
She handed out the steps, but Li Chengxuan did go down the steps.
But he still didn't look at her.
Song Jinning didn't care, and walked forward three steps behind him.
After leaving the palace gate, I saw two sedan chairs waiting outside.
After a while outside the gate of Shoukang Palace, Gu Yu came over to help Song Jinning get off the chariot.
Although Song Jinning didn't have the slightest memory of the original owner's years, she wasn't panicked at all.
After all, it has been seven years since she left Beijing, so many people and things before that have changed.
And she knew that the King of Nanyang County had already told the Queen Mother Song in a letter that she would forget her past after the high fever was cured.
As soon as I entered the gate of the palace, I saw a person sitting on the Arhat bed with red sandalwood carved ganoderma lucidum and cranes on the front. It must be her aunt, the Empress Dowager Song.
Song Jinning knew that the Empress Dowager Song was already thirty-six years old this year, but she took good care of herself. Her face was as smooth and fair as a girl in her twenties.
Needless to say about her appearance, otherwise she would not have grown up as the late emperor's concubine.
A palace servant brought a bluegrass futon and put it on the ground. Song Jinning knelt down, bowed to the Queen Mother, and served tea.
It's good that she is a queen, but she is also a daughter-in-law, so some folk etiquette is still necessary.
After taking two sips of the tea that Song Jinning handed over, the Empress Dowager Song bent down slightly, stretched out her hand to pull Song Jinning up herself, and said with a smile, "Let the Ai family take a look."
Empress Dowager Song was still quite surprised.
It's not all because of Song Jinning's outstanding appearance, which is as delicate as a begonia flower. After all, Song Jinning was a beauty when she was very young, and it can be seen that her appearance will not be different when she grows up.
It was Song Jinning's bearing.
It is no exaggeration to say that this child was very arrogant and domineering when he was a child. His eyes seemed to be born on the top of his head. When he looked at people, his chin was raised and his eyes were squinted.
But since Song Jinning entered the palace just now, the Empress Dowager Song noticed that she was walking extremely upright. Greeting her now, the voice is neither arrogant nor impatient, mellow and gentle. The pleasing part is like the wind passing through the bead curtain.
It seems that what her brother said in the letter turned out to be true
Empress Dowager Song was overjoyed.
Everyone likes a good kid. They also hope that their children are excellent everywhere, and they can only envy others when they teach them.
What's more, Song Jinning is still the queen she personally selected. Of course, she hopes that Song Jinning will be well, so that others will say that she has good vision.
He happily pulled Song Jinning to sit beside her, and talked to her with a smile on his face.
It was nothing more than asking how their family has been in Yunnan these years, whether her brother is still in good health, and whether he still likes food as before.
Yes, although Song Jinning's father was a son of a family since he was a child, he was not a dandy, he was not fond of wine, and he was lustful, but he only liked eating alone.
The greatest wish in life is to taste all the delicacies in the world. It is also for this reason that there are many cooks with outstanding skills in the mansion.
That's why Song Jinning's mouth has also become tricky in the past few years.
Even this time when Song Jinning married far away from the capital, apart from all kinds of expensive dowry, Song Jinning's father also carefully selected eight cooks, intending to let them go to Beijing and enter the palace with Song Jinning.
At that time, Song Jinning was frightened.
Although it is normal for her to open up a small kitchen in the palace where she lives, but it is too exaggerated to cram eight cooks in at once, right
In the end, Song Jinning's father agreed to only let her bring three cooks to Beijing.
Song Jinning also revealed this to Queen Mother Song during the conversation.
There is an imperial cook in the palace, but she brings three cooks with her. If anyone knows about it, they will say that she is arrogant and extravagant. It's better to take advantage of the Empress Dowager Song and Li Chengxuan to pass this matter to Minglu.
Li Chengxuan's reaction to this matter was no response.
The Queen Mother Song is here, what else can she do to Song Jinning
And it's just three cooks. As long as Song Jinning and Empress Dowager Song are quiet in the future, not to mention three cooks, thirty or three hundred cooks, that's nothing.
However, the cooking skills of Mrs. Zhao that Song Jinning mentioned last night seemed to be really good. The bowl of chicken noodle soup is delicious in color, fragrance...
How could I get distracted and think about this
Li Chengxuan's heart trembled, and he quickly restrained himself.
The Empress Dowager Song was very interested in what Song Jinning said.
Because she knows how tricky her brother's mouth is, and how much he loves Song Jinning.
Therefore, the craftsmanship of these three carefully selected chefs must not be ordinary.
Although the chefs in the imperial dining room were all very skilled, the royal family paid attention to rank and style. Some dishes were indeed rich in ingredients, but the taste was not so interesting after all.
What's more, no matter how good the imperial meal is, you will get tired of eating it after so many years, so the Empress Dowager Song immediately smiled and said to Song Jinning that if her three cooks cook something delicious in the future, they can't forget her this aunt.
Song Jinning naturally responded with a smile.
While the two were talking, Cui Nong came in to report that the prince's son of Nanyang County was seeking an audience.
Song Jinning knew it was her elder brother Song Shao.
For her marriage this time, it was her eldest brother who sent her all the way from Yunnan to the capital.
The Empress Dowager Song hadn't seen her nephew Song Shao for seven years, and she was very concerned about her. He hurriedly said that Xuan Shizi would come in.
After a while, I saw a young man walking in from outside the hall.
Song Shao is twenty-three years old this year, with a well-proportioned appearance, and his brows are full of heroism.
After entering the hall, he first knelt down to salute the Queen Mother Song, then Li Chengxuan, and then Song Jinning.
Song Jinning felt a little uncomfortable.
Although she was not born, she has been with the Song family day and night for seven years, and she has long regarded them as her relatives in her heart.
Song Shao treated her very well, and she still liked this brother very much.
It's just that in the past the brothers and sisters laughed wantonly, but now when the elder brother sees her, he actually wants to pay respects and calls her Empress Empress.
After the Empress Dowager Song told him to get up, he first relayed his father's greetings to the Empress Dowager Song and Li Chengxuan, and then handed over a gift list with both hands.
Song Jinning knew that this was a gift carefully selected by her parents for Queen Mother Song and Li Chengxuan. Due to the large number of gifts, it is inconvenient to ask people to move directly to the palace right now to invite the Empress Dowager Song and Li Chengxuan to have a look.
So first present the gift list and let the two of them have a look. If you are interested in any gift, you can ask someone to move it.
At the same time, this gift list is also a voucher for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to check.
The Empress Dowager Song has been a favorite concubine and empress dowager all these years, is there anything good in the world that she has never seen? If the nearby imperial family and ministers presented the gift list, she would be too lazy to take a look at it. But this is a gift from her own brother. It is no exaggeration to say that even a leaf is more precious to her than a gold leaf from others.
She asked Cui Nong to take the gift list and hand it to her, opened it and read it happily.
The king of Nanyang County has his own fief, so he is naturally very well-off. Although the only jewel in the palm of his hand was married to be the queen of the mother and the world, he would still be worried as a father.
How about treating your daughter's mother-in-law and husband well? I just hope to make the two of them happy, so that I can treat Song Jinning better.
So this time the gift was very generous, and the wording in the chapter accompanying the gift list was also very humble.
The Empress Dowager Song was very happy to see it, and asked Cui Nong to show Li Chengxuan the list of gifts and chapters.
Although Li Chengxuan was sitting upright in the chair, his eyes were careless.
Song Jinning suspected that he actually didn't read the gift list and chapters carefully at all.
But it doesn't matter, she didn't expect Li Chengxuan to have any good feelings for their Song family at all, as long as everyone gets along on the surface, it's fine.
Li Chengxuan had already closed the gift list and Zhang Zou, and looked up at Song Shao.
If this is among the people, it is not respectful for a son-in-law to treat his elder brother-in-law. It's a pity that the uncle in front of him is the Ninth Five-Year Master, and the whole world can only look up to him in awe.
So he still sat upright in the chair without even bowing. He only said lightly: "The king of Nanyang County has a heart."
Just such a sentence, Song Shao had to respectfully thank you.
Song Jinning: ...
She felt a little stuffy.
The official level is finished, and the next step is the common language.
So the next link was that the Empress Dowager Song asked someone to sit down, and Song Shao thanked her for taking the seat, and respectfully answered her various questions.
It was okay at first, but Song Jinning became a little absent-minded after hearing it.
She was a very lazy person. According to her mother's words, the whole person is as if she has no bones. When she sits, she will never sit upright if she can tilt it, which is too laborious.
Today, because I came to pay respects to the Empress Dowager Song, I had to pretend to be a lady, and sat in the chair with my head held high and my back straight. But in fact, she has long felt that her back is sore.
Finally, when the Empress Dowager Song said that she was going to go down to change clothes, and walked out of the hall holding Cui Nong's hand, she immediately tilted her body and leaned lazily on the back of the chair.
Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Li Chengxuan looking at her, with a slight surprise in his eyes.