The current time and space is late spring, and all kinds of flowers are in full bloom. Mengran is in a good mood and decides to go to the Imperial Garden to enjoy the flowers. It is really boring for her to stay in Feng Palace these days.
After dinner, the sky was slowly getting dark, and a crescent moon was looming behind the dark clouds. Mengran, who had changed into the palace maid's clothes, took Lian'er to the pavilion beside the lotus pond in the imperial garden and sat down, quietly.
Look at the roses and honeysuckle blooming by the pool. Looking at the flowers at night is really a helpless thing, because Mengran is the head of the Sixth Palace. Although she is not favored, she still has to deal with all kinds of matters every day, such as how many jewelry are in the harem.
, which concubine in the harem violated the palace rules, etc. These things were just symbolic questions to ask her for her opinion, and Concubine Rou was the one who dealt with them in the end. On the surface, Concubine Rou was showing humility to her, but in fact, she was doing it to the emperor.
You see, the emperor gave all the authority to Concubine Rou. Concubine Rou made people come to consult the queen first. When the emperor found out, he would only praise her for her virtuousness. She is really a smart woman.
"My Lady, look at how many purple roses are in bloom. Can I pick a few for you?" Lian'er also spent a long time in Feng Palace. When she came to the Imperial Garden a few days ago, the purple roses had not yet bloomed.
Now that it was open, she was extremely happy for a moment.
"Okay, you go pick a few and bring them back to Feng Palace." Mengran looked at a few beautiful purple roses blooming in the distance and smiled happily. Those roses looked even more mysterious and charming under the illumination of the palace lanterns.
Lian'er got the order and took a pleasant look at Mengran who was wearing the clothes of a palace maid, and sighed in her heart; even though the empress was wearing the clothes of a palace maid, she still couldn't hide her stunning appearance and pure temperament. She looked towards Mengran crazily.
After a smile, she happily carried the flower basket and took the gold scissors. The golden scissors were sent to the palace by someone from Bing Manling's father the day before yesterday.
Mengran really felt a little guilty about her predecessor's father, because she had taken over his daughter's body, which was not a good thing after all. And because of her guilt, Mengran didn't reply to the letters he sent in. The content of those letters
, mostly written about a father's love for his daughter. Mengran also knew through letters that she originally had two personal maids in Bingfu. Because she entered the palace, the emperor wanted to isolate the connection between her and her father, so he did not let those two
The maid entered the palace, but the emperor became a villain in vain, because even without the two maids, her father could still know what was going on in the palace.
Thinking of this smart-aleck emperor, Meng Ran chuckled. Suddenly, it began to drizzle. Lian'er hurriedly ran over and said, "My dear, please wait here for me. I will go back to the palace to get my umbrella first."
"No, I'll go back with you. It's not raining heavily anyway." Mengran stood up and prepared to walk out of the pavilion.
Lian'er came in to stop her and said anxiously: "No, Madam, you are weak and can't withstand the rain, so you should wait here as a slave!"
"Forget it, it's up to you!" Mengran looked at Lian'er's pleading eyes and stopped insisting. She understood that she couldn't change the inequality between master and servant. She could only follow the local customs, and it would be useless to talk more.
Lian'er smiled relaxedly after hearing this, wiped some rainwater from her face, put down the flower basket and ran to Feng Palace. Feng Palace was not far from the Imperial Garden, but it still took twenty minutes, and the round trip was about 10 minutes.
It's going to be forty minutes. Mengran looked at Lian'er's body walking farther and farther, and suddenly her nose became sore and she shed tears. Lian'er was the first girl she saw when she came to this world, and she was also the best to her.
Mengran, who had never felt family affection before, felt the warmth of family affection for the first time.
After a while, the rain started to fall harder and harder. A black figure in the distance quickly ran towards us. Mengran thought it was Lian'er at first, so she stood up and looked at it, but when the black figure came closer, she realized that it was not Lian'er.
Lian'er immediately became vigilant, picked up the golden scissors in the flower basket and hid them in her sleeves. Although this was a palace, she could not guarantee that no thieves would enter.
"Bold palace maid, how dare you secretly pick purple roses late at night!" The black shadow just entered the pavilion, took a look at the purple roses in the flower basket, and shouted at Mengran.
Through the faint light emitted by the lantern that Mengran had just brought in the pavilion, Mengran glanced at the man in eunuch clothes who was soaked like a drowned rat, and breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that he was not a thief, just a handsome man.
Little eunuch.
When the eunuch saw that the people in the pavilion were silent, he stopped wiping the rainwater from his face and looked at Mengran. When his eyes fell on Mengran's face, he was shocked.
Seeing the eunuch casting a scorching gaze at her, Mengran suddenly felt uncomfortable, frowned slightly, and said angrily to the eunuch: "You little father-in-law are too arrogant, aren't you? Purple roses can bloom, but I can't pick them?"
" Meng Ran, who was used to being respected by palace maids and eunuchs, felt a little depressed when being yelled at. She thought to herself, this father-in-law is too arrogant. He must be treated and taught to respect others!
"Did you know that this purple rose is a rare flower? What's more, the emperor likes it the most. According to the oral decree, only designated concubines in the harem can pick it. How can you, a little palace lady, be so bold to violate the imperial decree?" The eunuch heard this.
After coming back to his senses, he looked at Meng Ran again without any trace, and said indifferently. His tone was not as furious as before.
"Don't you know, father-in-law? Aren't we slaves all doing things for our master? My master wants me to pick flowers, how can I disobey him?" Meng Ran rolled her eyes at the handsome little eunuch and said indifferently.
The eunuch saw Mengran's arrogant and icy look, and was stunned again, and then said indifferently: "You are so arrogant, your master must not be a virtuous person, tell me, which concubine is your master?"
He didn't expect that he would meet such a cold and arrogant palace maid by pretending to be a eunuch in order to cover up others' eyes. He couldn't help but become curious about this bold and special palace maid.
Mengran sighed secretly after hearing this. She originally wanted to enlighten the eunuch, but she was self-defeating. Seeing the eunuch's beautiful sharp eyes, Mengran panicked for a moment. Then Mengran turned her head and looked at the hazy lotus pond. At this time, because of
Because it was raining and dark, the lotus pond was rendered mysterious. Mengran's mind was spinning rapidly. Now she had two choices. One was to directly tell him her identity, but the consequences of this would affect her reputation. After all,
The empress wears the attire of a palace maid and carries the phoenix gift. If word spreads, she will inevitably be punished. Secondly, she randomly accuses herself of a master, but when he tells the emperor that the master he falsely accused is punished by the emperor, it is very sorry for her, and it is really embarrassing.
Ji. Mengran really regrets her impulsiveness just now. She is really struggling in the harem.
Seeing that the person was silent, the handsome eunuch simply sat opposite her, looked at her unscrupulously with his beautiful sharp eyes, and said coldly but with a hint of ridicule: "It seems that you are not an ordinary palace maid.
She looks more like a concubine who has been neglected by the emperor." Her detached temperament is incompatible with the palace maid's dress, which shows that she is definitely not a little palace maid.
The concubine who was left out in the cold? Meng Ran had an idea, and a smile flashed across her icy face. She turned her head, looked directly at the handsome eunuch in front of her, and said indifferently: "Since you have seen through it, I don't have to hide it. I
She is a concubine who is not known by the emperor. She saw that the purple roses were very beautiful today, so she wanted to pick a few and put them in her bedroom. However, she did not know that the emperor had given her an order, so I asked my father-in-law to forgive me."
She said this humbly, but it was not true. Meng Ran said that she was a concubine. Even if she was not favored, this little eunuch should respect her. In addition, it was true that she said she did not know the emperor's oral instructions. If the eunuch in front of her was smart enough
He won't embarrass her.
Mengran took the opportunity to look at the eunuch. He had thick eyebrows and slightly raised red phoenix eyes. He was extremely majestic and heroic. His nose was high and full, his lips were thin, and his face was resolute. His facial features were combined and he was completely handsome. His figure was also very tall and tall, and his whole body was
He exuded an impressive majesty and cold temperament. Even though the eunuch clothes he wore were now soaked by the rain, his sense of masculine fortitude was still not diminished.
At this point, Mengran was suddenly startled. With such fortitude, he was definitely not a eunuch! Then who was he? An assassin who entered the palace to assassinate the emperor? As soon as this thought crept into Mengran's mind, she frowned slightly and became wary.
Standing up, the hand in his sleeve held the scissors tighter.
"What's your name? Which palace's concubine?" He was a little touched by the ice-cold woman across from him, and concealed his secret joy. He didn't expect that such a stunningly beautiful and refined person would be hidden in the harem.
people.
"This..." Meng Ran knew that he was not a eunuch, and was not sure of his identity, so she glanced at him, pretended to be casual and stood up, moved lightly towards the pavilion and said: "You are just a father-in-law, I
As a concubine, how can I allow you to be rude?" As soon as she finished speaking, Mengran took steps to run away from the pavilion.
At this critical moment, the fake eunuch saw what she was doing, stood up quickly, grabbed her thin wrist and said coldly: "You want to run away? Why bother? Tell me your name, and I will let you go." She didn't know yet.
How could you let her slip away like this?
Meng Ran was in a hurry, so she raised the golden scissors and stabbed the back of his hand and said: "You are a bold thief, you dare to disguise yourself as a eunuch, what's your intention, and dare to molest your concubine. This is extremely bold. Let me go quickly!"
Finally, the scissors also fell. Blood immediately flowed from the back of his hand.
The fake eunuch retracted his hand in pain, glanced at the wound that was not deep, glared at Meng Ran, and snatched the scissors from her hand: "Bold!" No one has ever dared to hurt him. Who is this woman?
She was smart enough to see that he was a eunuch pretending to be a eunuch. He became even more interested in her.
Seeing this, Meng Ran secretly lamented that she was not rational enough. There was no one around now, so it was impossible to move reinforcements. If the delay continued, Lian'er who had taken the umbrella would fall into the clutches of the devil when she came back, and the consequences would be disastrous. There is only one way now. That is -
-escape!
Thinking of this, Meng Ran took advantage of the fake eunuch to check the wound, picked up her skirt, rushed into the rain quickly, and ran wildly. The fake eunuch looked at the delicate figure disappearing in the dark night rain, and suddenly felt a sense of loss. He did not chase her,
Glancing at the golden scissors in his hand, a smile of determination suddenly appeared on his cold face.