Palace Wall Willow (1) It was an accident that I entered the palace. My
name is Jiang Yingliu. I am fourteen years old this year. I was born in a scholarly family. My grandfather was the Taifu of the court, and my grandmother was the great-aunt of the emperor, Princess Huayang Dachang.
His father and uncle were officials in the court, and his brothers were young and promising. It was really a big family that was flourishing and on the rise.
Such a family was bound to send a daughter to the palace, but I was never on the list of candidates.
It’s not that I’m not as beautiful as others, but that I’m so stupid.
Grandmother often said that I was like her, the youngest daughter, no scheming, do not understand the overtones. The
sisters were almost fighting with each other on the pretext of comparing poems, and I was still seriously considering that there was a word in my poem that was not used well.
“That’s all. When Little Willow is sixteen, find her a husband with a low family status who is willing to make progress.” My ancestor said so, and I felt quite satisfied, so I didn’t light up the skill of competing for favor at all.
Unexpectedly, on the eve of the draft, one of my two sisters had a rash on her face and the other fell into the lake. I was driven to the shelf by a duck. I arrived at the draft scene in a daze and was selected as a matter of course.
The emperor is not interested in me, but in my father and brother.
This big truth always sounds like something is wrong.
My home world is good, the position is also high, sealed the beauty, live in the Lanfen Pavilion of Yihua Palace. The head
of Yihua Palace is the Empress Shufei, who has three princesses.
Shu Fei is now twenty-five years old. She does not compete with the outside world. She can be called the number one invisible person in the three palaces and six courtyards.
Internally.. Inside is a cook.
Shu Fei loves to cook, and she is very good at cooking. She is very sorry that she can’t be a female official of Shangshi Bureau. She likes to eat well. I, on the
other hand, won her favor by virtue of my heartfelt praise for her craftsmanship and the practical action of entering the palace for half a month with a round face. On the first day of the
fourth month, when I had been in the palace for a month, I went to pay my respects to Concubine Shu. She cursed my good friend, the third princess, with great anger: “Li Jiale!”! You eat well for me! The third princess was only five years old, but she already had her own aesthetic standards. She vowed that she didn’t want to be as fat as a ball any more. She hid behind me and shouted, “Beauty sister, help!”! My mother is crazy! Shufei rubbed her hands with a sneer, “Li Jiale!”! One! Two! Sure enough, every child was afraid that his parents would call his full name one, two, three. The third princess lowered her head honestly and chewed the red dates in the porridge with tears in her eyes. She bit her tongue too hard and accidentally bit her tongue. She looked up and saw that the princess had a heart of stone and an expressionless face, so she had to continue eating with a bag of tears.
I was a little distressed sitting next to her and patting her on the back. Shu Fei said, “Xiao Liu, don’t pay any attention to her!”! Hurry to eat something. The empress is well today. Let’s go to Weiyang Palace to pay our respects.
“The empress has been ill, even absent from the draft, this is the first time I went to see her.”. Four years after
the emperor ascended the throne, there were already quite a few concubines in the palace. Concubine Chen was domineering and arrogant. The virtuous concubine was gentle and generous. The pure concubine did not like to talk. Wen Zhaoyi did not like to talk even more. Zheng Shuyi was the most favored. Several imperial daughters of Baolin were the most pitiful. Obviously, they were older than me and had been in the palace longer than me. They had to salute me and call me sister. Like me,
there are ten new people in the draft, some of whom have been promoted, and some of whom, like me, still don’t know whether the emperor is round or flat.
The empress is really beautiful, like a fairy daughter in the sky. She speaks gently and softly, but she coughs from time to time. I really feel pity for her.
In contrast, Chen Guifei, who found fault in the audience, was very discordant.
Shufei told me that Chen Guifei was a fool with a bad brain. She liked the emperor so much that she was blinded by lard. She was unfriendly to the emperor’s women and made countless enemies in the palace.
“Little Willow must not learn from her, like who is not good, like the emperor, this is not sick?”?
“I think Empress Shufei is really a person of great wisdom.”. After
Chen Guifei scolded Zheng Shuyi for being foxy and knocked on the six newlyweds who had been in bed, it was the turn of the five of us who had not been favored: “You came to the palace to serve the emperor!”! I’ve been in the palace for a month and I haven’t even seen the emperor. What’s the use of asking you?
！ Is it a shame?
？
！” I thought there was nothing to be ashamed of. There were many people in the world who had never seen the emperor, and no one was looking for death! However, around me, Zhao Baolin, He Liangren, Wen Yu-nu and Zhou Yu-nu all looked ashamed and wanted to shed tears, so I was very anxious! I can’t cry! Had no choice but to lower his head and dare not move, but Chen Guifei refused to let me go: “Jiang Meiren, you are the highest in the new palace, to set a good example!”! It’s so useless.
Don’t learn to be a gourd with a sawed mouth like some people in Yihua Palace! These two people told me not to learn from each other, is really a bad fate, if the generation of a man and a woman how good, that is absolutely a good couple Tiancheng ah! Empress Shufei and I kept silent tacitly. Empress Shufei said, “Well, Jiang Meiren is still young, and the future is long.”. As long as the
new sisters behave themselves, they will have the opportunity to serve the emperor.
“Concubine Chen glared at the empress and casually saluted and left first.”.
Back at the Yihua Palace, Empress Shufei collapsed on the recliner and scolded, “That fool Chen Cairong wants the emperor to sleep, so she goes to find the emperor!”! Why are you picking on us! Can I still sleep with her for the emperor?
！” Finished to see me a face of confusion, hurriedly reorganize the language: “Little Willow, you are a good boy, do not be silly.”.
Liking the emperor will not come to a good end, and the emperor will not like us. Look at
the empress, when she was in the East Palace, she loved the emperor so much. None of the three children were left behind. Didn’t the emperor do the same?
I was spoiled for a while at the beginning. Otherwise, where did Jiale come from? You’ve been here for a month. Have you seen the emperor come to see me?
You are kind-hearted and young, and you are not afraid to laugh. I treat you as half a daughter and half a sister before I say these words to you.
In the future, if you accept the favor, whether you fight for it or not, you must not like the emperor! I put my head on Shufei’s lap, just like acting like a spoiled child with my mother at home. I said I didn’t want to be spoiled. I wanted to stay in Yihua Palace with the empress and accompany the little princess to grow up. On the
second day of April, I played the swing with Jiale for a whole day without success. I made clay figurines and became a cat with a painted face. Both of them were punished by Shufei Empress to copy books. She also refused to make stewed pork ball in brown sauce for me with a straight face. Yesterday’s warmth was like a dream. Sad! On April 11, from today on, I was the only concubine in the palace who had never slept with me. Empress Shufei was afraid that I would be sad, so she specially cooked a table of good dishes for me. She tried her best to praise me, saying that I was the most likable girl she had ever seen. Don’t lose confidence because I was not liked by a scum man.
I ate contentedly, but my face tried to pretend to be unhappy, hoping that the empress would cook so much delicious food for me tomorrow.
On April 12, after paying her respects, the empress left me and the empress Shufei in the Weiyang Palace.
The empress is really beautiful, lotus face willow eyebrows, graceful and weak, when smiling there are two pear vortex, how can there be such a good-looking person ah! I was engrossed in it.
Shufei was as comfortable in the Weiyang Palace as she was in the Yihua Palace. She crossed her legs and leaned back in her chair. “We are all our own people. Speak casually.”.
“The empress flicked her skull and came back to comfort me, saying that I was young and good-looking, and that I would be favored sooner or later. Don’t be cranky, and don’t be instigated to do stupid things.”.
I just look at the beauty, a long time to come to my senses, desperately nodded: “Empress you really good-looking!”! Empress, don’t worry, I won’t! I’ll be good! The empress bent her eyes with a smile, touched my cheek and said, “No wonder Ah Rou likes you. It’s really attractive.”.
“Empress Shufei hugged me and said,” This little darling is mine. You’re not allowed to rob her. But Yaoyao, tell me, the emperor has made my little willow a beauty. Why didn’t he call her?
“The empress lowered her voice and asked me,” Little Willow, your two sisters are famous outside. Why did you end up in the palace?
“I said the reason, the empress sighed,” the reason is here, the emperor has long intended to accept a daughter of your family as a concubine, but your two famous daughters did not send, sent you this fourteen-year-old girl, the emperor is afraid that your family does not like the royal family! That’s why I left you hanging.
“As soon as Shu Fei heard this, she sneered,” Bah, a narrow-minded thing! ” I was a little afraid that the emperor would punish my grandfather for this. The empress comforted me and said, “It’s all right. Jiang Taifu has always been conscientious. The emperor won’t embarrass him for this kind of thing. He just knocks and knocks. It’s estimated that you will be summoned in a few days.”.
“Me:”.. Is there any way to avoid being summoned?
！” The empress laughed so hard that she pointed at Shu Fei and scolded, “What did you teach the little girl at random?” Shu Fei said, “I don’t mean to mess around. I just think she’s a little like you. I don’t want her to be like you.”.
“The empress stopped laughing and looked at me thoughtfully for a long time, which made me feel embarrassed. Then she said,” It’s not like.. But this temper, really. A cough, I suddenly very sad, she was the same as me?
But she’s nothing like me now.
She is so weak, eyebrows and eyes can not disperse the gloom, obviously always slightly smiling, I saw the heart but always feel unhappy, I want to do something to make the empress happy ah! On April 15, when the empress was feeling better, she asked Shufei and I to take the three princesses to her place for lunch. When we
arrived, we found that Wen Zhaoyi was particularly quiet.
Wen Zhaoyi was embroidering, but when she saw us coming in, she raised her eyelids and said to the princess, “I want to eat Lotus-Leaf-Shaped Pancake and make a sturgeon soup for Yaoyao.”.
Go to the kitchen to cook.
“Shu Fei.” Shu Fei said, “You can cook. Make a Kang screen for me. The emperor’s birthday is in two months. I don’t know what to send.”.
“Wen Zhaoyi looked disgusted and said,” Bah, he deserves what I do! But I have two pieces of broken embroidery here. I’ll ask someone to change them and give them to him later. Empress Shufei shrugged her shoulders and said, “It doesn’t matter. Just change it. The emperor won’t even look at what I send.”.
“The empress was worried.” Is it bad enough?
Don’t let anyone see it.
“Wen Zhaoyi was very proud:” The things I embroidered are ten times better than those others embroidered! It’s really cheap to give it to the emperor.
“Now I understand why the empress didn’t let anyone wait on her in the room. This kind of conversation is easy to hear.”. Em
press Shufei went to cook. The empress hugged the third princess and coaxed her to talk. Without saying hello to me, Wen Zhaoyi began to measure me: “Ah Rou is willing to cook for you, so I will make a new skirt for you. After eating the meal cooked by Ah Rou and wearing the skirt made by me, we will be our own people in the future.”. In this way,
I broke into the top management and became a member of the small circle of the top management, which is really gratifying.
When she saw that the empress was in better health, she was very happy, and the dishes she cooked were particularly delicious. Besides Lotus-Leaf-Shaped Pancake and sturgeon soup, she also made goose feet, duck, ham, stewed elbow, chicken marrow, bamboo shoots, Chinese yam in hot toffee, shrimp balls, and chicken skin soup. The third princess and I ate so much that we didn’t even have time to lift our heads. Wen Zhaoyi said vaguely as she ate, “Ah Rou, you can’t do anything else. The food is still delicious.”.
“The empress ate some of each dish. She only ate a small bowl of sturgeon soup and stopped eating. She sat on the edge and looked at us and laughed. She persuaded her to eat half a bowl of rice porridge.”. After dinner
, the empress led the three princesses around for two rounds of digestion, looking a little tired of the spirit, Shu Fei and Wen Zhaoyi helped the empress back to the bedroom, personally served her to rest, and very carefully asked the palace attendant when the empress slept every day?
When do you wake up? How many times do you wake up
at night? How much do you eat
every day? The more the
two men asked, the uglier their faces became.
Afraid of disturbing the empress to rest, Wen Zhaoyi went back to Yihua Palace with us. As soon as she sat down, Shufei sighed, “It’s better than before, but I eat less and sleep less. How can Yaoyao get better?” Wen Zhaoyi sighed, “Sister Yaoyao is sick in her heart.”.
“As soon as the conversation began, Wen Zhaoyi’s aunt, the head of the Minghua Palace, came and said with a sad face,” Empress, the emperor has sent an order for you to go to bed at night.
“Wen Zhaoyi changed her face in an instant:” The forehead I embroidered for Sister Yaoyao is still short of two crane legs! I wanted to embroider it tonight and take it to Weiyang Palace tomorrow! Why does the emperor want to be so annoying! “The aunt in charge of the Minghua Palace almost burst into tears:” Empress, just think about it in your heart, but don’t say it! It doesn’t matter if there are no outsiders here. You can bear it tonight, but don’t disobey the emperor, ancestors! Shu Fei was very sympathetic to coax for a long time, Wen Zhaoyi walked heavily, Shu Fei said to me that Wen Zhaoyi was a little pitiful, tomorrow to make a sugar steamed cheese for her. On the first day of
the month, I had been in the palace for two months, but I still didn’t go to bed. I had the highest position among the people who went to the palace together. But in the past two months, Yang Cairen and Song Baolin had been promoted to beauties. Yang Cairen also had a title. Now she should be called Qingmeiren. Her status was higher than mine. Every day when she went to Weiyang Palace to pay her respects, they always looked at me with pity.
I I’m probably slow by nature and I don’t feel anything.
I often went to Weiyang Palace with Shu Fei and Wen Zhaoyi to accompany the empress. None of the low-ranking concubines dared to embarrass me, and the high-ranking empresses could not see me. At that time, I became the second invisible person in the palace. I put on the Yuehua skirt that
Wen Zhaoyi made for me. It was very beautiful. I was so happy that I hugged her and said a lot of good words. Wen Zhaoyi was even happier and decided to make two more clothes for me.
The empress is still in good health, always coughing low every day, and the medicine has never stopped.
She called the gentle and generous virtuous imperial concubine assistant palace affairs, virtuous imperial concubine is very virtuous, the empress is also very respectful, when the imperial concubine Chen is always arrogant and domineering to find fault everywhere, virtuous imperial concubine will speak to stop, and then the situation will become two people fighting.
Chen Guifei was overbearing and unreasonable, but the virtuous imperial concubine knew how to speak, and often took her to the ditch in three or two sentences, and finally “you, you, you” shook her head for a long time and left.
At that time, every morning’s greeting turned into a lively teaching class. Every time I came back from the Weiyang Palace, the Empress Shufei asked me to record and review the golden sentences of the Empress Xianfei for a rainy day. Although
Chen Guifei was domineering, she did not contradict the empress face to face, but her actions were extremely disrespectful, and the empress did not take it to heart. When Em
press Shufei once complained, the empress spoke for her: “Ah Rou, she is not very good temper, but she is still young, you are the most open-minded, how can you be so idle..” Is this kind of thing worth getting angry with you and me?
“The empress said so, Shu Fei also not angry, holding the empress’s shoulder and patting her chest heroically:” Good! Yaoyao is not angry, nor am I! With the help of the empress, the third princess and I finally put up the swing. The empress also taught us to turn over the flower rope and fold it into a small animal with silk cloth. She also did tricks. A handkerchief shook in her hand and a wave of her sleeve turned it into a flower. The three princesses and
I like the empress very much.
Shufei and Wen Zhaoyi smiled a lot more when they saw the empress accompanied by us. They ate half a bowl more and praised us as good children. One made us crystal cakes and the other made us dolls.
I think such a day is so beautiful, except for some homesickness.
But the empress told me that my grandmother, Princess Huayang, would go to the palace to greet her on the morning of the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth month, and then I could come to the Weiyang Palace in advance to see her! Just when I was very happy, the emperor’s Chamberlain came to Yihua Palace to deliver a decree to let me go to bed on the second day of the second lunar month.
Shu Fei didn’t scold the emperor this time. She arranged everything for me, from clothes to makeup. She was as nervous as a mother who wanted to marry her daughter. She did not forget to comfort me and said, “Don’t be afraid, little willow. Don’t be nervous. This is a good thing. You have to go to bed when you come to the palace. Otherwise, the people in the palace will laugh at you after a long time.”.
“When I left the palace gate, I still clung to the sleeve of Empress Shufei and refused to let go. She was afraid that I would cry and kept coaxing me. Finally, she said,” Don’t be afraid. I’ll cook delicious food for you when I come back tomorrow. ” I walked back to Yongan Palace step by step, and when I looked back at the corner of the palace road, Shufei was still standing at the gate of the palace looking at me.
. Focus on not getting lost ~
