The carriage made a half circle around the inner city and stopped in front of the Shenwu Gate.
Huo Momo told the two of them that the women's relatives entered the palace through Shenwu Gate, and asked them to get off the car.
In front of the gate of the palace, there were many guards from the imperial army, Huo Momo personally went over to explain the reason, and then showed the sign in her hand, these imperial guards waved their hands to make way for them.
The deep palace gate is more than ten meters long, and every step you walk in will add a psychological burden, but you can see the blue sky outside from the door opening, so Yao Jinzhi and Miao Cuixiang can't help walking hurriedly.
Momo Huo didn't say anything, people who entered the palace for the first time would do this, and after walking here for a long time, they would get used to it.
When he finally came out of the doorway, he was suddenly enlightened.
The unique red walls and yellow tiles in the palace, as well as the lush trees and strange rocks, occasionally one or two court ladies and eunuchs pass by here, all wearing clothes unique to the palace, which makes Miao Cuixiang dare not to look at it. Look around.
Nanny Huo was by Yao Jinzhi's side, and whispered to her: "Madam, do you still remember what I told you before, look ahead, don't ignore your feet, don't look around, and don't lower your head, even if you want to look Be aware of the situation around you, but also slow, slow, and appear careless."
The two walked forward, Miao Cuixiang followed behind, and when she heard Huo Momo's words, she didn't dare to look around, and when she heard that she should not lower her head, she immediately raised her head again.
I heard that they were walking in the imperial garden, which is a garden that only emperors and concubines can enjoy. Yao Jinzhi and Miao Cuixiang tried their best not to look around, and palace maids and eunuchs passed by from time to time, afraid of losing face.
Going out from the palace gate at the east corner of the Royal Garden, and arriving at Dongyi Long Street, the atmosphere in the palace is even more intense. The heavy red walls seem to have no end in sight, and the bright yellow glazed tiles reflect fine golden light in the sun. .
There seemed to be a few people around in the distance, but when I got closer, I found that a court lady was kneeling, and another tall court lady was talking.
I can vaguely hear: "... Your majesty, you dare to offend... Your majesty said, let you kneel here for three hours to wake up..."
After finishing speaking, the tall court lady led the people away, leaving the thin court lady kneeling there with her head bowed, looking very pitiful.
Huo Momo smiled and said in a low voice: "The rules in the palace are strict, and they pay attention to beating people and not slapping people in the face, so usually punishing disobedient court ladies is punished by kneeling. If you kneel down in such a case, even if your legs don't cripple, it will take a few days for you to lose your leg." If you walk too many times, your legs will break down. What’s more, if you hit the board, the board in the palace is different from the outside, and a few boards can kill you.”
Miao Cuixiang already sympathized with this court lady in her heart, but when she saw Huo Momo smiling and saying these words, she was astonished as if seeing a monster. After thinking about it again, I saw that all the maids were smiling when they saw them, even if they didn't smile at the time, they would smile as soon as they saw them.
Miao Cuixiang felt shuddering, and just walked into the tall Jingren Palace.
Bai Zhu and Bai Zhi came out to welcome them.
"Trouble mother Huo."
"Where is it, the errands ordered by the empress, the old slave has to do it with his heart."
Bai Zhi led Mother Huo to drink tea and rest in the side room of the side hall, while Bai Shu led the two of them inside.
The huge courtyard is luxuriant with vegetation, and there is a small pool in one corner, and the rockery stands tall. The waterwheel drives the water to pour down from the rockery, and the fish in the water swim very happily.
Even the carved beams and painted buildings are not enough to describe the magnificence of the main hall of Jingren Palace. Everything fully interprets the wealth and power of the royal family. After going up several steps, I finally arrived at the front of the hall. Outside the door, there were court ladies who were pulling the curtains. Seeing them coming, they hurriedly pulled up the curtains.
Bai Shu turned sideways, serving Yao Jinzhi first, and then Miao Cuixiang.
"Your Majesty is waiting in Xinuang Pavilion."
The hall was very quiet, I didn't know how many doffing veils and screens I passed, and finally arrived at the Xinuang Pavilion, during which even Miao Cuixiang didn't dare to look around.
Looking up again, I saw a beautiful woman in a palace costume sitting on the kang by the window.
It was Yao Jinzhi who came back to his senses first, remembering what Nanny Huo said, and made a gesture of bowing down.
"Bai Shu, help the old man... get up and give me a seat."
As for Miao Cuixiang, no one cared about her, so she kowtowed firmly behind her mother-in-law before she heard her mother-in-law say: "Sister-in-law, get up quickly."
But Miao Cuixiang was stunned, knowing that your mother would not worship her, why didn't she think about me as a sister-in-law, but she didn't dare to say this at this time, instead she laughed and gave it to Pan'er.
Pan'er glanced at her with a smile, and also gave her a seat.
It's not that she tolerates others and treats one favorably than another, but she heard Huo Momo say that Miao Cuixiang is a shrewd philistine, and to put it bluntly, she is a little clever, so she is a bit bully and fearful. The rest of the Su family are not the root of trouble, but she is the only one who has such a It's a sign, so she specially asked Mother Huo to take care of her more, and she must pull out that root.
After all the tea, snacks and fruits were served, Pan'er looked at Yao Jinzhi and said, "Mother, how have you been these years?"
Hearing this sentence "Mother" and hearing her asking how he is, Yao Jinzhi was in a complicated mood for a while, full of emotions.
But this place is not the time for her to feel emotional, she said: "Okay, how about you, how are you?"
"Nature is good."
The hall fell into silence. To put it bluntly, today's event was just a play for others to watch.
Pan'er understood, and so did Yao Jinzhi to some extent.
The imperial concubine's natal family came to Beijing, so they naturally wanted to go to the palace to see her, but they all knew in private that all the affection between mother and daughter had followed when they were in Yangzhou, Yao Jinzhi said, "You don't owe me anything." 'All disappeared, but when we meet again, things are different.
Pan'er sighed a little, and diverted his attention to talk to Miao Cuixiang. I asked how Maodan and Tiedan were, how was the elder brother, and how was the father.
But when these words were always finished, seeing Yao Jinzhi still remained silent, Pan'er was a little less interested, and was about to say something that was actually intended to see off the guests by staying for lunch. At this time, the curtain at the corner outside the door rang a few times.
Cattail came in and said, "The second prince, third prince and fifth princess are here."
Only then did Pan'er remember that he had talked about this with Zong Cong yesterday, and asked whether the three children would also meet the Su family. Come and see me when I find time in school.
"This is Zongyue, this is Wanwan, and this is Zongqian."
The three children were thinking about what salute to do. According to their status, they could do it or not, but if they were older or younger, when they saw their grandmother, they would naturally kneel down and kowtow.
It was Zong Yue who took the lead, lifted the hem of his robe and planned to kneel down and kowtow, but was hugged by Yao Jinzhi.
"Don't kowtow, don't kowtow."
"That's right, Second Prince, please don't salute, we are all a family, so there is no need to be so particular about it." Miao Cuixiang said flatteringly.
Yao Jinzhi looked at Zong Yue, and then at Wan Rong, especially when he saw Wan Rong, his eyes were very complicated: "It really looks like your mother when she was young."
This made Pan'er feel complicated.
Yao Jinzhi took out three purses from his bosom: "Grandmother doesn't have anything good to give you, these are three longevity locks. Grandmother hopes that you are all well and will always be well."
The words are very plain, and there is nothing strange about holding things in their hands, but the three children still feel the wishes and expectations of the elders for the younger ones.
"Thank you grandma."
"No thanks, no thanks." Saying that, Yao Jinzhi stood up, and said to Pan'er: "It's getting late, we won't stay any longer, and I'll rest assured if I see your mother well today, if there is a chance another day Let's see you again, ma'am."
Pan'er didn't speak. Of course, she could see that Yao Jinzhi proposed to leave because she was a little awkward.
Do you want to keep them
Before Pan'er opened his mouth to stay, Yao Jinzhi had already taken Miao Cuixiang out.
Miao Cuixiang didn't seem to want to leave yet, but Yao Jinzhi looked past her and she froze, followed behind with her head drooping.
Pan'er sighed, and said to Cattail, who was a little at a loss: "Send the old lady out, and tell Mother Huo to serve her attentively. When she comes back with great achievements, I will definitely reward her."
"yes."
Zong Yue and the others also seemed to feel that the atmosphere between mother and grandmother was a bit weird, but they didn't dare to say anything at this time. After Yao Jinzhi and the others left, they told... and went back to their study and women's school.
Cattail came back after a while: "Madam, the old lady has already sent her away."
Pan'er nodded, said nothing, seemed to be lost in thought.
She leaned on the kang with a bit of disinterest, everything that happened just now was replaying in her mind, and some past events, after thinking about it for a long time, it was still a mess, so she stopped thinking about it and sat up to get off the kang .
Cattail hurried over to put on her shoes.
She went to the courtyard outside and asked someone to bring a small bag of fish food. Seeing that the fish saw someone approaching, they immediately rushed over and opened and closed their small mouths towards the water, feeling much better immediately.
"A bunch of greedy eaters, look at what you've eaten recently, if you eat any fatter, the pool won't be able to support you." As she spoke, she sprinkled fish food. Feeling uncomfortable standing up, wanting to squat down and looking ugly, Cattail hurriedly gestured for someone to move a chair over.
Sitting in front of the pond and watching the fish, the breeze is blowing, which makes people feel refreshed.
At this time, someone seemed to be coming to the palace gate, and a young eunuch guarding the gate stepped forward to talk to him, but Pan'er didn't take it seriously.
Not long after, the little eunuch hurried over and said: "Madam, the old lady fought with Madam Cheng Enhou in the imperial garden."
At first hearing the old lady, Pan'er was still a little unresponsive, but immediately understood that she was referring to Yao Jinzhi. Then Mrs. Cheng Enhou is the Second Mrs. Chen, how could these two fight
Pan'er didn't care about feeding the fish anymore, and hurried to the imperial garden with his people.
At this time, the imperial garden, the path next to the Wanchun Pavilion, was full of mess.
The luxuriant grass and flowers are swaying here and there, and the grass clippings and flowers are all over the ground, telling the intensity just now. Not far away, there were court ladies and eunuchs poking their heads, but they dared not approach.
Huo Momo looked serious, and ordered the eunuch who came forward first to disperse the court ladies and eunuchs who came to see the excitement, but she felt that her head was as big as a fight for the two people in front of her.
That's roughly how it went.
Yao Jinzhi was already in a complicated state of mind, so naturally he didn't speak on the way back, and the group rushed out of the palace gate.
She was used to rough work, and her steps were fast. If she was anxious to leave Mother Huo, she couldn't keep up with her. In the end, she took the lead, and the people behind kept chasing after her.
Yao Jinzhi doesn't know the way, but she remembers the general direction, and Mother Huo told her when she came here, don't panic if you get lost in the imperial garden, as long as you keep your eyes on one direction, you will always end up. To the north is Chengguang Gate, to the west is Qianqiu Pavilion, to the east is Wanchun Pavilion, and to the south is Kunning Gate.
However, ordinary people in Kunning Palace cannot enter, they have to go through the palace gate next to it.
So she kept in mind that going straight ahead was north, and she could reach Chengguangmen, and then she could leave the palace if Chengguangmen went outside.
Her sense of direction is also correct, but because there are many trees and rockeries in the imperial garden, many roads are not in a straight line. When they came, Huo Momo led them to the side, so it was not easy to meet the concubines who came to enjoy the scenery or enter. The wife of the palace, but she was in the front on the return journey, and she walked to the middle position after walking.
But it doesn't matter where you go, it's just that Madam Huo is from the palace, and the palace people are cautious in handling things, and because it is the first time for the Su family to enter the palace, they choose the route like this.
Later, when she saw that Yao Jinzhi was going in the right direction, she didn't stop her. Unexpectedly, by chance, she ran into Mrs. Cheng Enhou who came into the palace.
These days the Second Madam is living in a particularly depressed state, and she seems to be fine on the surface, but Chen Pingwu has never been to her Yunxia Courtyard since what happened that day.
Although at her age, she no longer pays attention to her husband's doting, but there are many aunts in the second room, and when the master doesn't even go to the wife's place on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar new year, someone will be tempted.
In fact, it was all a little bit of thinking, thinking that the wife would not be seen by the master, and now that they were not officially active, one of the aunts named Bai took the lead.
This Auntie Bai already knew a little bit of writing, and she could chat with Chen Pingwu about romance and other things on weekdays. Chen Pingwu was not in a good mood these days, but she could relieve the boredom.
The more times I go, it will naturally give people the attitude that Aunt Bai is very favored recently. This Aunt Bai is also young and a backdoor girl. She can control herself from being ostentatious so as not to cause trouble, but she can't control the servants around her. .
No, the girl next to Aunt Bai and the girl in Yunxia Courtyard quarreled over trivial matters in the big kitchen.
It wasn't a big deal at first, but the second lady was depressed and learned that Chen Pingwu often went to Aunt Bai's place recently, so she couldn't help but want to make an example of others, so she ordered people to go to Aunt Bai's yard and beat that girl up.
It looks like you hit a girl, but you are actually hitting Aunt Bai in the face.
When Chen Pingwu came again, Aunt Bai complained.