Concubine Qing remained silent, and after a long time she revealed a smile with unknown meaning: "It seems that my cousin treats that Wu Meiren differently. It might as well go and see."
Hongzhu perked up: "That slave..."
The smile on Concubine Qing's face gradually deepened: "I'll see you when you say hello, don't do it deliberately."
She stood up, glanced at Hongzhu, and said something that was impossible to say: "I heard that there is a sister in the Chen family who is smart and quick-thinking. I have seen her before. Now she has become a talented person in the palace. It's great." p>
Hong Zhu quickly lowered her head, only to feel that her mother-in-law's eyes were cold and sharp.
Tingliyuan.
Lihua and Zhichun stood in front of the courtyard gate.
At a glance, I can see that the courtyard gate is covered with mottled and withered traces. There is a stone standing in front of the courtyard gate, covered with moss and weeds, and the word "Tingli Yuan" can be vaguely seen.
Before entering it, you can already see the first signs of deterioration.
Zhichun was taken aback, stared and asked the eunuch who was leading the way: "Father, are we going the wrong way?"
Why is the front door so dilapidated? It’s completely different from the palaces we passed along the way.
"That's exactly where it is." The eunuch who led the way said affirmatively, turned to look at Lihua with some sympathy, and made an invitation gesture: "Wu Meiren, please come inside." Go in first and lead the way.
Zhichun's heart froze, and when she was about to say something, Lihua stopped her and said thank you: "Thank you, father-in-law."
When Lihua received the decree, she noticed something was wrong. The eunuch had a weird look on his face when he announced the decree, and his tone changed slightly when he read "Tingliyuan".
There was also the look of Eunuch Zeng who was hesitant to speak. When he was moving things for her, he turned his back and couldn't help sighing.
Then there was a palace maid and two eunuchs assigned to her, who followed behind her as dejectedly as her dead mother, as if they had been drained of their energy and spirit, lazily.
The guiding eunuch took the lead, and the group continued walking in.
Zhichun's heart grew colder the more he looked at it. When he walked inside, his heart felt completely cold.
Entering the gate of Tingli Courtyard, there is a main road in the middle that winds to the center of the courtyard. The flowers and plants planted on both sides of the road are messy, as if they have not been pruned for a long time.
There are weeds growing directly on the side roads on both sides. It is obvious that no one walks around on weekdays, except for the main road in the middle.
Looking up at the center of the courtyard, a main palace is located. From a distance, it looks more majestic than ordinary palaces.
When you get closer and take a closer look, you can see that under the corridor of the main hall, the eaves are covered with traces of dust and decay, as if no one has lived there for a long time.
Looking next to the main hall, there are two side halls on each side. The roof of one of the wing houses next to one of the side halls has collapsed in half. It is like an open-top luxury car. The people living inside can't even use a knife when it rains, hails, or even knives.
Missed.
Except for the side hall of the main hall, the rest of the courtyard is very spacious. It is surrounded by weeds and sparsely planted trees. Some are dead, some are growing wildly, and some have malnourished fruits.
There is only one sentence that can describe the entire courtyard: it is so empty that it is so barren that the people have no way to live.
Lihua looked particularly at those trees as she passed by.
She recognized that most of those trees were pear trees that could bear fruit and bloom. They had both ornamental and practical value, but they were neglected and looked like a messy and dilapidated scene.
Lihua vaguely guessed that the name of this courtyard was Tingliyuan. Ting, Tingying, means the appearance of clear water. Maybe the fruits of this pear tree are sweet and delicious.
Along the way, Lihua felt mixed emotions. Tingliyuan was located in a no-care area on the edge of the harem and the imperial garden, and no high-ranking master had lived there for a long time. Naturally, no one paid attention to it, and it ended up like this over time.
She can live in such a spacious place. You can guess with your toes whose handiwork it was.
Who else could it be but that evildoer!
I chose a "good place" for her, which was really well-intentioned~
Lihua thinks that the monster is very strange. Since she doesn’t want to see her, she might as well not choose her to enter the palace so as not to be an eyesore.
But he didn't want to go to all the trouble to leave himself in this corner to become moldy.
It’s really annoying.
She knew that when she met this monster, something bad would happen!
However, Lihua thought about it. The original owner's entry into the palace had nothing to do with his performance, it was entirely because of Lord Wu.
She offended the evildoer so harshly and received this small punishment. It is considered light, and it should be the credit of Lord Wu.
Alas, who made her so blind that she offended people from the inside out?
It is quite ironic that the status of a beauty combined with the treatment of being sent to the frontier is quite ironic. Everyone in the Ming Dynasty knew that she was useless to the emperor.
Lihua thought wildly, and while her mood was complicated, she felt a lot more at ease and hid a little anger. Fortunately, she risked herself in the library thinking she was saving him. It was all a joke, haha.
Right now, Lihua just prays that the evildoer has been punished, that the past things are in the past and will not be pursued in the future, so that she can make a comeback.
She has already begun to think about how to attack the emperor again, whether she should start with the Queen Mother.
"Wu Meiren, here we are." The leading eunuch stopped and indicated that the side hall in front of him is here.
Lihua came back to her senses and looked up. Sure enough, the monster was very kind to her. The side hall with the convertible wing was her future residence, tsk tsk.
Zhichun screamed: "Father, how could..."
Before she finished speaking, Lihua stretched out her hand to hold her, smiled and said to the eunuch who led the way: "Thank you, father-in-law, for leading the way. I appreciate spring."
The eunuch who was leading the way was stunned. He originally wanted to lead the way for another troublesome and hot beauty, but he arrived late and had no choice but to lead this beauty.
He thought he would come back empty-handed this time. After all, this beauty was treated so miserably when she first entered the palace, so she would not be in a good mood. He did not expect to receive any reward.
Unexpectedly, this beauty is easy to talk to, there is no dissatisfaction on her face, and she also smiles beautifully.
When he received the reward, the eunuch who led the way secretly shook his head, and his heart became a little warmer. This beauty is so generous, and his smile was sincere.
So she reminded Lihua specifically: "Wu Meiren, there is also a Jieyu living in the east side hall of Tingliyuan. Maybe this place is far away from other halls, and the empresses in the palace rarely interact with her."
A subtle expression that the beauty is not easy to get along with.
Lihua's eyes flashed slightly, and she chatted with the eunuch who was leading the way for a few words, and then she learned that Jieyu's surname was Lu in the East Side Hall. It turned out that she didn't live here, but she was sent here because she bumped into the emperor and was demoted two levels in a row.
Lihua knew the news and rewarded her again.
The eunuch who led the way left with a smile on his face. After returning, several eunuchs who had led the way for another beauty came back to complain. Beauty Wu was so arrogant and had done so many things for her, as if it was a matter of course.
, each person received a few coins as a reward, I have never seen such a dignified person.
The eunuch who led the way was very happy, thinking secretly that Wu Meiren was generous and would be able to handle her errands in the future.
Let's go back to Lihua. After the eunuch who led the way left, a palace maid came out of the east side palace, with her nostrils pointing up to the sky, carrying a basin of foot-washing water, and came all the way to splash it on.
The palace maid then took the footbath, bowed in a posture that was almost invisible to the naked eye, and looked at Lihua with her nostrils raised to the sky: "Wu Meiren, right? Since you are here, why don't you go and pay homage to my wife!"
Now, the guiding eunuch: Alas, this beauty is useless in this place where birds don’t poop
In view of this beauty's generosity, the guiding eunuch came over to help her
One day, the eunuch who was leading the way came over to do something. He saw a group of people entering Tingli Courtyard from a distance. He wiped his eyes and asked the people next to him: Is that, is that Long Live Lord?
The person next to me also wiped my eyes: It seems, it seems...
Before the two of them could figure it out, a man came out of Tingli Courtyard and threatened with an expressionless face: Anyone who dares to reveal the whereabouts of the Long Live Lord will be thrown to the dogs!