In the following days, Ji Ling began to seriously prepare for the trip to the Old Summer Palace in August.
After all, this trip will take several months.
The queen made it clear that this was the first time the emperor had visited the Old Summer Palace in person since it was given a gift from the prince and expanded into a royal garden, so it was of great importance.
People from the Ministry of Internal Affairs have been running non-stop on both sides.
And this time I went to the Old Summer Palace in the name of "escape from the summer heat".
After hearing this, Ji Ling couldn't help but want to go to the Old Summer Palace on August 27th to "escape the summer heat"?
You know, in the Forbidden City, charcoal is burned for heating in early October.
In fact, as of August 27th, summer has come to an end.
But... maybe this is because it was naturally different in the first year after it was built.
Ji Ling remembered that Yongzheng in history was very fond of the Old Summer Palace.
After the Old Summer Palace was built in the third year of Yongzheng's reign, Emperor Yongzheng spent most of his time in the Old Summer Palace every year, and even went back to the Forbidden City only in winter.
Just like his father, Emperor Kangxi, after the Changchun Garden was built, Emperor Kangxi stayed there most of the year. Only during the coldest winter would he return to the Forbidden City for a symbolic month.
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If you think about it carefully, you can easily understand Yin's love for the Old Summer Palace. It is said that the design of the Old Summer Palace simulates the elegant scenery of Jiangnan everywhere, integrating poetic and artistic conception into the scenery.
Listening to the spring rain in the small building and sailing into the "Jiangnan", it should be a very beautiful picture like an ink painting!
The Fourth Master's aesthetics tend to be elegant, timeless, and steady, so the quiet and grand style of the Old Summer Palace is naturally to his liking.
Perhaps compared with rights, freedom and indifference are another secret desire deep in his heart.
Thinking of August 27th, Ji Ling felt a sense of anticipation that she was about to embark on a long journey, and she also felt an inexplicable excitement. She walked around in the room, directing Qixi and Bixue to clean up for three or four days.
Only then did I realize... there are so many things!
Not to mention anything else, there were four boxes full of jewelry decorations that Yin rewarded her with.
It's a box! A serious box! Not a small box.
Silver, pearls, coral, jade beads, emeralds, emeralds...the pearls are shining with five colors.
As soon as she opened the lid of the box, Ji Ling was scared when she looked at it. She ordered Qixi to collect her little nobleman. With so many good things, she was really afraid that she might accidentally prick someone's eyes.
And this only refers to headwear, not counting other earrings, bracelets, etc.
Ji Ling bent over and clasped her hands behind her back, looking at each box as usual. She seemed to be suffering from a selective disorder as she looked at each box. She wanted to make a choice, but everything looked good.
Hair accessories of this color can match her light green robe, and the color transitions from light to dark in a natural way. The crabapple red hairpin, if she is wearing pink, can just be used to press it on her head, making her look stable and not frivolous...
She was a beauty blogger in her previous life and is very sensitive to colors.
Because he is a noble person, it is naturally impossible to use patterns such as phoenix and peony. Ji Ling doesn't like those either.
If the jewelry is too gorgeous, the makeup should also be more grand, otherwise people will not be able to hold the jewelry down and will feel top-heavy.
What she has now is not too luxurious to look old-fashioned, not too simple to look shabby, it is just right.
Among them, Ji Ling's favorite is a silver-plated hairpin given by Yin last month, in the shape of a delicate light green lotus in bud.
The best thing is: the petals of the lotus are inlaid with emerald beads, tourmalines, etc., and gems are inlaid on them one by one, creating the shape of lotus flowers rolling with dewdrops after the rain. It is fresh and lively and looks charming at the same time.
Under the lotus, some light golden ruffles were carefully added to cover up the seams when combing the hair.
In the past month, whenever Ji Ling wore blue or green clothes, she would choose this hairpin. No matter what style Qixi gave her, as long as she put this hairpin in her hair, she would instantly
The whole hairstyle has a soul.
Ji Ling asked Qixi to put away this facial hairpin properly, and then started to look at the other ones. As a result, in the afternoon, eunuchs came from Kunning Palace and went to the East and West Twelve Palaces to inform all the mistresses that it was really about five days before departure.
, there will also be special personnel from the Ministry of Internal Affairs who will pack the luggage of each palace into separate boxes, seal, supervise, transport, and deliver it to the Old Summer Palace and to your residence.
The concubines only need to leave the Forbidden City empty-handed.
It looks a lot like a modern moving company... Ji Ling thought.
The fact that the Ministry of Internal Affairs came to move luggage was only known to everyone after Kunning Palace informed everyone.
This method has advantages and disadvantages.
The good thing is that everyone is relaxed. After all, they are all the emperor's concubines. When they go out, the carriage behind is full of slaves holding big and small boxes. Tsk tsk...
It's not like going to the royal palace to escape the summer heat, it's more like escaping!
But the disadvantage of this is that the amount of luggage everyone brings is clearly visible.
If someone brings too much, it will inevitably attract attention.
Ji Ling thought this way, and finally reluctantly gave up and used a simple, crude and direct screening method to select the one she liked best among the jewelry in a color series.
This way, you can match any color of clothes.
Besides, if we really get to the Old Summer Palace, won’t there be other jewelry and clothes in the future?
Tidying up is really a physical and mental job.
Although Ji Ling was in charge of Qixi and Bixue, when he was in a hurry, he still had to roll up his sleeves and take action himself.
She poured a lot of her cosmetics and skin care products into various cleanly washed small sealed porcelain cups, porcelain bottles, and porcelain jars.
Those eye-catching modern packaging bottles will be treated separately.
There are also various makeup brushes...
Ji Ling sorted the brushes into brocade bags of various colors, tied the mouth, and put them away in a small box with red sandalwood and gilt silver edges.
It’s a rosewood box!
As a result, she finished moving it enthusiastically, and her arms were so sore.
In the evening, Yin came to see her. As soon as he entered the courtyard gate, he saw her trotting quickly to greet her. After standing still, shaking her hands and smiling, she knelt down to greet him.
Fourth Master was full of confidence and thought that Lingling was overjoyed and excited when she saw him coming, so he didn't think much about it.
Um……
He was quite moved.
At the beginning of the You hour, the heat of summer is slightly dissipated, and it is the dusk above the willow branches above the moon.
He held her hand, led her into the house, and pulled her to sit down. The servants served tea. Yin was in a good mood and talked leisurely. Ji Ling just smiled and listened to him carefully.
explain.
Finally, in the evening, when the servants were serving the dinner table, and when the two of them sat down, Yin realized that something was wrong.
Ji Ling's hand holding the chopsticks kept shaking, so much that the vermicelli on the tips of the chopsticks spilled juice all over the table.
"What's wrong with your master?" He looked sharply, put down his chopsticks, raised his head and frowned at Qixi and asked.
Qixi was preparing the meal. When she heard the emperor's question, she quickly put down her serving chopsticks and carefully told the whole story from beginning to end.
Ji Ling saw that Fourth Master raised his hand to hold his forehead slightly and turned his head, as if he was suppressing laughter?
