In the Changchun Palace, the eldest princess of Yongning has just returned to the palace.

Her demeanor was a little abnormal, her face seemed heavy, and she frowned slightly, but her steps were a little brisk.

The two personal palace maids beside her were much more natural, and they couldn't help but smile.

When he returned to the apse, there were no outsiders, and one of the palace maids blinked his eyes and said, "Your Highness, if you want to say that our queen is a mother, it is really good for you." Not only was he not moved by the incident outside the palace today, but he also gave you the palace forbidden phoenix card of Kunning Palace. The slave maid thought about it, maybe this is the first time in our Ming Dynasty. ”

Princess Yongning did not answer immediately, but walked to the upper left of the palace and sat down, while another palace maid with a small round face said: "Yes, Your Highness, with this phoenix card, you just want to go to the princess's mansion to live, and no one can stop you." ”

Who knew that it was okay not to mention the Princess's Mansion, as soon as the Princess's Mansion was mentioned, Princess Yongning's face sank, and her tone was a little stiff: "Don't mention that place." ”

The palace maid knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she hurriedly stopped talking. The palace maid before immediately helped her take over the conversation, and chuckled: "What Your Highness said is that this place is nothing good...... If you want to say whose mansion is the most beautiful among our Shenjing, the slave maid thinks that it must be the white jade building of the high school. ”

At the mention of "High School Cheng", Princess Yongning's eyes suddenly moved a lot, but her lips moved slightly, as if she wanted to ask something, but in the end, she forcibly held back her words.

The palace maid pursed her lips and smiled, pretending to talk to herself, and said: "I heard that the white jade building is the new main building after the expansion of the Xinzhai Courtyard, but this building is different from all the buildings we have seen, it is a style left by Gu Daqin 108,000 miles away.

This white jade building, in fact, is not only a building, it is a 'chain building', the building is three or four floors high, the left and right things extend everywhere, I heard that there are hundreds of large and small rooms, if the high school is willing, I am afraid that it will not be able to live two or three thousand people here. ”

Princess Yongning finally couldn't help but interject this time and asked, "But he doesn't seem to live there, how can he build such a big house?" ”

"Then who knows, the left and right high schools are rich in the world, and they may not be able to build for fun." The palace maid smiled and said, "The slave maid heard that there are several particularly peculiar structures in the white jade building, and there is no one who has seen it who is not amazed." ”

"Really?" Princess Yongning asked, "Where are they?" ”

"From the outside to the inside, one is that the garden courtyard is different from the usual, and the other is the hall of the main building, which is also called the 'dance hall', which can accommodate hundreds of dancers to dance together......"

"Really?" Hearing this, Princess Yongning's smile stiffened slightly.

The palace maid didn't seem to feel anything, and continued: "Naturally, the lords and nobles who have been there have said so, but this place is a little unworthy of the name. The slave maid listened to the father-in-law under King Lu say that although Gao Gao Cheng has such a big dance hall, there is no house at all, and almost all the family members living in the Baiyu Building are men, only there are more than a dozen maids selected from Xinzheng's hometown in his main building. ”

Princess Yongning's face suddenly brightened, and she smiled slightly: "That's it, the first emperor and the imperial brother both praised him as a righteous man and a gentleman, this dance hall or something, I think it was built by those craftsmen from Daqin on their own initiative." ”

The palace maid grinned and said mysteriously: "This slave doesn't know, but the slave and maid have heard about it...... There is a long corridor leading from the dance hall to the north room where the high school Cheng lived, and this corridor is beautifully decorated and splendid, but the most important thing is that there are a number of statues that are said to be from the Great Qin, and these statues are amazing......"

Princess Yongning smiled: "What can the statue do? ”

The palace maid glanced around, carefully lowered her voice, and said, "Isn't it amazing?" The slave and maid heard about the statues...... No clothes on! ”

"Ahh Princess Yongning was taken aback, her face was almost frightened: "How is it possible? If this is known by the science and technology officials, it is not allowed to participate in him, is it immoral? ”

The palace maid shook her head and said, "This slave doesn't know either...... In fact, the slave maid is also hearsay, anyway, there are more rumors about Bai Yulou, true and false, and the slave and maid can't tell which ones are true and which ones are false. ”

Princess Yongning breathed a sigh of relief: "That's okay, I'm afraid this rumor is false, how could he ...... How so. ”

The palace maid said: "In short, although the white jade building is not as majestic as our Forbidden City, if you talk about the uniqueness of its architecture, it can be said to be the best in Shenjing." Your Highness, you now have the palace forbidden phoenix card of Kunning Palace, and you are old acquaintances with high school Cheng, if you have the opportunity, you must go to Baiyulou to have a look. It would be better if the slaves and maids could get their hands on His Highness's light and see it. ”

Princess Yongning smiled and shook her head: "You are so beautiful, what reason does this palace have to go to his other courtyard?" As he spoke, he remembered his widowhood, and his heart was gloomy for a while, but he unconsciously smiled and bowed his head silently.

The palace maid didn't think so, shook her head and said, "Your Highness, it's not that the slave is too talkative, but it's wrong for you to think so." ”

Princess Yongning was a little surprised, raised her head slightly, frowned and asked, "What do you mean by this?" ”

The palace maid said: "The queen just summoned you to Kunning Palace, although the slave doesn't know what she said to you, but she gave you the intention of the Kunning Palace forbidden phoenix card, can't Your Highness see it?" ”

Princess Yongning shook her head and said: "The queen is not used to seeing some officials looking for trouble, and she feels that the palace is stuffy in the Changchun Palace all day long, she looks pitiful, so she gave the palace a phoenix card, so that the palace can take advantage of the good season of spring recently, find an opportunity to go out of the palace and relax." ”

The palace maid smiled and said, "Your Highness, do you really think this is the original intention of the queen mother?" Or is this really what the queen meant? ”

Princess Yongning shook her head: "This palace doesn't want to think about it. ”

This is a bit interesting, it's not that I can't figure it out, it's not that I'm too lazy to think about it, but I don't want to think about it.

But the palace maid said: "Your Royal Highness really wants to live up to the queen or ...... A bit of kindness? ”

Princess Yongning was silent for a moment, and sighed lightly: "No, I just, I just don't want to be strong." ”

This answer may have been a bit unexpected by the palace maid, and she was silent for a moment, and then glanced at the little round-faced palace maid beside her who had said the wrong thing before.

The little round-faced palace maid hesitated for a moment, and said cautiously: "Your Highness, it's just a green step, isn't it?" ”

Princess Yongning still shook her head, and her tone was more resolute: "If I go to Baiyulou, he will be the master, and it is impossible not to accompany him, but I ...... He is an ominous person who causes trouble for him every time he sees him. I, I don't want to annoy people anymore. ”

It was difficult to say this seriously, and the two palace maids looked at each other, both of them were a little helpless, and they suddenly fell silent.

There was silence in the hall, and a pin drop could be heard.

After a long time, Princess Yongning stood up expressionlessly and said, "Let's go to the Buddha Hall." He turned around and wanted to leave.

The two palace maids had no choice but to follow her. However, before he took three steps, a eunuch suddenly played outside: "Your Royal Highness the eldest princess, the celebrant sent someone to ask for a meeting, I wonder if Your Highness has ever been free?" ”

Princess Yongning was a little surprised, because although the celebrant was the head of the eunuchs, its authority itself was basically not related to that of a widowed princess, so it was relatively rare for the celebrant to send someone to see her.

She hesitated, then turned and walked back to her seat, sat down, and said, "Let the celebrant come in." ”

Outside answered, and not long after that, a eunuch dressed in a flying fish suit came in, saw Princess Yongning, first made a big salute, and then took out a letter, presented it with both hands, and said in his mouth: "The palm print ancestor ordered the slave and maid to send a letter to His Royal Highness, please check it." ”

Huang Mengyu?

Princess Yongning was stunned for a moment, and then motioned to the palace maid beside her who had just said a lot to answer the letter.

The palace maid stepped forward to take the letter, and subconsciously looked down, but there was no word on the envelope of the letter, and it turned out to be a white face, and she couldn't help but be stunned.

But she didn't stay stunned for long, and after a little startle, she came back to her senses and sent the letter to Princess Yongning.

Princess Yongning took the letter, and was a little surprised to see that there was no word on the envelope, but she didn't think much about it, and she didn't open the letter immediately, but turned to ask the eunuch: "Do you have any other messages for you to convey from the yellow palm print?" ”

The eunuch bowed down and said, "The old ancestor of the palm seal said, 'It's okay'." ”

"Okay?" Princess Yongning was a little puzzled, but still nodded: "Got it, you can go." ”

The eunuch returned the salute and bowed away.

Princess Yongning opened the envelope, took out the letter, and found that the words inside were densely written on a whole page in the standard pavilion style, but she only read less than a line, so she stuffed the letter back into the envelope, got up and walked towards the warm pavilion, and two personal palace maids followed.

Walking to the door of the warm pavilion, Princess Yongning ordered, "You wait here." Then he went into the warm pavilion by himself.

The two palace maids glanced at each other, both a little puzzled, but they still stood obediently outside and waited for each other.

After a long while, Princess Yongning came out of the warm pavilion and asked, "I don't remember this palace, are you two now a pawn or a priest?" ”

The palace maids of the Ming Dynasty are also called female officials, and their system is almost copied from the female official system of the Tang Dynasty, and the canonical and Sizheng are the positions of female officials in the palace, and they also have corresponding grades.

Among them, the canon and the priest are all assistants below the palace head, and the things that are in charge of the precepts, corrections, and punishments are usually the cronies of the master of a certain palace. The owner of a certain palace is the "master of a palace", for example, Princess Yongning lives in Changchun Palace, she is the owner of Changchun Palace, which is what it means.

Generally speaking, each palace has one person and five products. There are two people in the division, and there are six products. Two people, seven products. There are also four female histories. The rest are ordinary palace maids.

The two palace maids were very surprised when they heard this question, because in a palace, there are only five female officials with the word "Zheng", except for Gong Zheng, who is usually sent by the queen, and the four people who are under Si Zheng and Dian Zheng are generally cronies of the "palace master", there is no reason why His Royal Highness will not remember clearly.

But the two palace maids still replied: "Your Highness, both slaves and maids are pawns. The two divisions are Sister Zhou and Sister Chen, who have been receiving and training newcomers in the front hall. ”

Princess Yongning nodded, and said lightly: "The two of them did a good job, the queen said last time that she wanted to take them there, and the palace agreed, and when they go to Kunning Palace, you can pick up the product at that time." ”

The two palace maids were busy thanking each other, but they were afraid that they would behave too snobbishly, so they congratulated "Sister Zhou and Sister Chen on their ascension" by the way.

Princess Yongning ignored this stubble, and just said to the palace maid who had introduced Bai Yulou before: "Wei Min, you seem to know something about Bai Yulou, let's accompany the palace tomorrow." ”

The palace maid named Wei Min was stunned for a moment, and then said happily: "Your Highness has figured it out?" ”

Princess Yongning smiled slightly, but shook her head, and said without sadness or joy: "It's not that the palace can't figure it out, it's that the high school is invited, and the palace is ...... There are some things that are troublesome for him to do, and he refuses because of inconvenience. ”

The palace maid Wei Min grinned: "It's all the same, it's all the same, as long as His Highness is happy." ”

Princess Yongning glanced at her and chuckled, but did not speak.

Nothing happened that night.

Early the next morning, before dawn, the lights were already lit up in the Changchun Palace.

Princess Yongning was wearing an ordinary skirt without golden cloud and phoenix patterns, looked carefully in front of the mirror, and looked up and down carefully before saying, "Okay, let's go." ”

She is still surrounded by the two palace maids from yesterday, Wei Min's dress is similar to her, but she has combed the hairstyle common to ordinary maids from large families to distinguish her, and the palace maid with a small round face is still dressed in palace clothes.

At this time, Wei Min said with some concern: "Your Highness, it's not close to leave the palace from Changchun Palace, you don't have a phoenix today......"

Princess Yongning said lightly: "If you can walk, the palace will naturally be able to walk, and as long as you walk out of the palace, there should be arrangements for high school Cheng." ”

Wei Min thought about it for a while, and said: "Then Your Highness be careful, if you are tired, tell the slave maid, it is still early, and I am not busy for a while." ”

Princess Yongning nodded, and the two quietly walked out of Changchun Palace and headed north towards Xuanwu Gate. The harem is in the north of the palace, so it is closer to the Xuanwu Gate to the north. Moreover, the Ming people believed that the noon gate in the south was the most positive, and it was not suitable for women to enter and exit, so except for the place where the queen could walk once except when the emperor married and canonized the queen, there was no woman in the world who could walk.

The little round-faced palace maid seemed to be a little uneasy, and said: "Your Highness might as well walk slowly, but don't sweat too much and spend makeup." ”

Princess Yongning smiled dumbly and asked, "Have you made this mistake?" But without waiting for her to answer, he said, "Okay, okay, this palace remembers." ”

So the second daughter went out, and walked really slowly along the way, not far, but it took nearly half an hour to arrive.

When I arrived at the Xuanwu Gate, naturally there were palace guards who came forward to inquire. Princess Yongning took out the palace forbidden phoenix card of Kunning Palace, claiming that she had gone out of the palace to buy jewelry at the behest of the queen's mother.

Who knew that the guard looked suspicious and asked, "You two female officials are not afraid of losing silver or jewelry when they go out to buy?" ”

Princess Yongning was stunned, she didn't think about this stubble, in fact, even if she went out of the palace to buy other things, including rouge gouache and other things, she would not let the palace maids out of the palace, and most of them were responsible for the corresponding eunuchs. Even if there is a palace maid out of the palace, there will be eunuchs with them, and if the value of the purchased goods is relatively high, there will even be soldiers.

Princess Yongning, two "female officials" who have changed into folk costumes, said that it is really inappropriate to go out to buy jewelry.

Fortunately, an officer came down from the castle tower at this time and asked, "What's the commotion?" ”

The guard said his doubts, and the officer glanced at Princess Yongning, and said to the guard: "This is Si Zhen in front of the queen's mother, before you come to exchange values, there is already a net army waiting for them outside, let them go." ”

Si Zhen is also the position of a female official, and she is the sixth product, holding the treasure goods, and it is in line with the princess's speech.

Since Shangfeng said that there was no problem, the guards naturally wouldn't ask more, so they immediately asked people to open the side door and invite Princess Yongning and the two out of the palace.

Out of the palace gate, Wei Min was surprised and said, "Your Highness, isn't that the military master not looking at it with a bad look?" ”

Princess Yongning glanced back at the city tower, shook her head and said, "I see that his eyes are very good." ”

Then as soon as the two crossed the bridge, they saw an ordinary "Jinghua-style" carriage parked in front of them, and an ordinary-dressed handlebar nodded forward and asked, "I wonder if there is an aunt with the surname of China among the two?" ”

Princess Yongning said: "This ...... I am. ”

The handlebar hurriedly kowtowed: "The little master's surname is Gao, and he was ordered to pick you up." ”

Princess Yongning didn't say anything, Wei Min glanced at the ordinary carriage, and said disappointedly: "Your master arranged such a broken car?" ”

The handlebar hurriedly explained: "This aunt is angry, this place is still in the imperial city, and it is inconvenient for my master to mobilize the people...... You can rest assured, out of Di'anmen, there will be a good car transfer. ”

Wei Min's face was a little pale, Princess Yongning didn't mind this, and only said: "Okay, okay, two 'little palace maids', what do you pay attention to in front of high school Cheng?" Let's go, don't keep high school waiting. ”

The handlebar asked them to get into the car, took care of the car door, lowered the curtain, and drove in a proper manner.

And Wei Min in the car whispered to Princess Yongning: "Your Highness, do you have that sachet with you?" ”

I don't know what kind of sachet she was talking about, Princess Yongning's face turned red when she heard it, and she whispered: "Take it, you haven't opened it yet." ”

Wei Min hurriedly said: "Naturally, I can't open it now, although that thing is good, but the time limit is less than a day, I have to wait to see the high school ...... It's best to open it when you're alone. ”

Princess Yongning nodded, hesitated for a while, and then couldn't help asking, "Will it really have that effect?" ”

Wei Min immediately patted his chest and said, "Is that okay?" I heard that Concubine Wang Gong relied on this thing that day, which attracted the emperor to her blessing. ”

Princess Yongning was taken aback: "It's not that this thing will only make ...... It felt ......."

"Yes, naturally, it just makes people feel that the woman in front of them is particularly beautiful." Wei Min explained: "But Concubine Wang Gong was only a person at the time, and the emperor thought she was beautiful, so he naturally wanted to be lucky." But between you and the high school Cheng...... Why doesn't he know how to be in a sense of proportion? Your Highness, rest assured, Gao Gao Cheng will only think that you are beautiful, and he will not dare to force you or anything. ”

Princess Yongning was a little relieved, but she still hesitated, quietly touched her waist, and hesitated: "Why don't you take it back, I'll ......"

"Oh, my Royal Highness the princess, it is rare for you and Gao Gaocheng to meet each other, the slave maid heard yesterday that the war in Yunnan is going well...... High school is not sure when you will return to Liaodong, do you really not want to leave a better impression on him? ”

Princess Yongning hesitated for a moment, and finally didn't say anything more.

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