The carriage drove into the palace gate, Qi Yue sat motionless.
Mrs. Chen raised her hand to open the curtain, and the scenery outside was suddenly visible.
Qi Yue grinned, Chen also smiled slightly, and neither of them spoke.
Qi Yue then officially started to visit the palace.
The scenery is no different from the palaces of later generations, but it is more refined and lively. What you can see is a well-proportioned group of buildings, with Kowloon glazed screen walls and white marble and green brick floors. They are clean, dignified and solemn. Most of the people coming and going are wearing different colors.
eunuch.
"We are taking the road I told you, and that is Kunning Palace over there." Mrs. Chen said, pointing to a courtyard.
Qi Yue said oh and looked at it seriously.
"However, you can see the Kunning Palace if you want," said Chen.
Qi Yue took a breath of cold air.
Although she really wanted to see the living queen, she didn't want to see anyone.
"The Queen does not live here." Mrs. Chen said, "She is being raised in Xiyuan with the Queen Mother."
The secret of the palace? Chen just told it so casually?
Qi Yue couldn't help but look around.
The eunuch who drove the carriage was as deaf as the earth and mute.
Crossing a corridor, the car stopped.
Two soft sedans were brought over there.
"Oh, madam, you are here." A chubby eunuch wearing a red python suit smiled and took it.
Mrs. Chen had already got out of the car and looked at him slightly startled.
"You don't recognize me, slave?" the eunuch said with a smile.
"Are you Huang Chuan?" asked Chen.
"Miss, you still remember me, Xiaochuanzi." The eunuch said, his eyes were red, and he raised his hand to wipe his tears, "In total, I haven't seen you for thirty years..."
Yes, decades have passed in the blink of an eye. Mrs. Chen sighed slightly.
"You were thin and small back then, but now you have gained weight." She smiled again.
"You are getting old, you are getting fat when you get old." Huang Chuan smiled and stretched out his hand.
Mrs. Chen put her hand on his and walked towards the sedan.
"My body has gained weight, so this lady is blessed too, right?" Mrs. Chen said with a smile.
The status of the eunuchs can be seen from their clothes, khaki, green, purple, red...
"Thanks to Miss, I am now helping out in the Department of Ceremonies." Huang Chuan said with a smile.
Si Li Jian is the chief supervisor of the eunuchs.
Mrs. Chen smiled slightly.
"What kind of luck do I have? You owe it to yourself." She said and got on the sedan chair.
Here Qi Yue was also served by a young eunuch on the sedan chair at the back.
From beginning to end, the eunuch who was very familiar with Mrs. Chen didn't even look at her, let alone ask anything.
"Miss, you have finally come here, so Xiaochuanzi will guide you." Huang Chuan said, "Just like we did before."
Mrs. Chen looked at him and smiled.
After changing into a sedan chair and walking through a palace gate, the scenery changed again. Compared to the solemnity in front of it, this side seemed softer.
There are more people here, and more of the people coming and going are palace maids.
A beauty walked out of a palace, wearing an off-white cardigan and an off-white tube top with embroidery on her upper body. She was twenty-six or seven years old and had a beautiful appearance. Following her were four maids in palace clothes.
"Your Majesty, where are we going?" a palace maid asked.
The beauty let out a bored sigh.
"The house is too stuffy. Let's go to Bibo Lake and raise some new koi," she said.
The palace maid smiled and looked at the palace behind her.
"It just so happens that the snacks sent by Beauty Sun can be fed to the fish." She said in a low voice.
The beauty empress glanced at her with a half-smile.
"I'm afraid of eating the fish to death." She laughed.
The palace maid also laughed, and the two of them walked along the road and suddenly stopped.
"Who is over there?" asked the beauty empress, looking at the two soft sedans walking on the left and squinting her eyes.
The palace maids also looked around.
"I don't recognize him, he's actually accompanied by Manager Huang," she said in surprise.
"Is she a foreigner?" Another palace maid guessed, "Going to see the Queen Mother?"
"This direction is not towards the Queen Mother." The beauty said, looking at the sedan.
The sedan turned a corner and got closer to here. Because the sun was not shining, there was no cover on the sedan, so everyone could clearly see the people on the sedan.
"Which foreign woman can be accompanied by Manager Huang when she enters the palace?" The beauty queen couldn't help but murmured, and the most important thing is that both women are very beautiful.
It doesn't matter that the one in front is older and more beautiful, after all, he is accompanied by Manager Huang. Look at the one in the back...
The beauty's eyes fell on the soft sedan behind.
Looking beautiful...
Everyone stopped and watched the two sedans passing by.
"Your Majesty, are you still going to Bibo Pond?" The palace maid asked cautiously when she saw that the beautiful Empress was not moving.
The presence of a woman in the harem, especially a beautiful woman with an unusual status, is a big deal.
"I'm not going. Go and find out which palace has someone visiting today?" she said in a low voice.
The maids understood and dispersed.
Unfortunately, after asking around, I didn't get the answer I wanted.
"I've asked everything, even the Queen Mother, but no one has come," the palace maid said in a low voice.
The beauty queen was leaning on the Arhat's bed, becoming more and more curious.
"It's just that the queen has fallen. The family members have not been allowed to come for a long time." She said, analyzing the people in the palace one by one, "...where is Concubine Dong?"
"No." The palace maid shook her head, "Empress Dong is at the Queen Mother's place, playing cards with the Queen."
The beauty empress snorted and thought of something else.
"You're not going to see the emperor, are you?" She started working suddenly and said with a surprised look on her face.
"No way." The palace maid hurriedly said, "The emperor is in the previous court. He has been very busy recently. He has not returned to the inner palace for several days, so he has been resting in the Qinzheng Hall."
The beautiful lady then slowly leaned back.
"That's weird, aren't these two people here to meet someone?" she said, a little funny.
She guessed right, these two people really weren't here to meet anyone.
"The palace where Empress Taizu Xiaoci lives does not look so luxurious." Qi Yue looked around and said.
At this time, she had already followed Chen to see the palace one by one.
"At that time, Empress Taizu Xiaoci was still the empress." Mrs. Chen said, gently brushing the door with her hand and walking forward along the pillars.
"Did you live here at that time?" Qi Yue asked curiously.
At this time, there were only two of them in the huge palace. Manager Huang stopped and left after they entered, and the little eunuchs carrying the sedan did not come in either.
"Yes, the Queen and the Emperor both live here." Chen said, stopping in front of a window, "This is it."
Qi Yue hurriedly came over to take a look. The windows were closed tightly and nothing could be seen. However, it was similar to the feeling of visiting the emperor's residence in modern times.
Qi Yue couldn't help but laugh because of this feeling.
"Don't all emperors live alone?" she asked.
Mrs. Chen smiled slightly.
"But this emperor is different." She smiled, "Officials from the previous dynasty even wrote a letter about this, but what do you think the emperor said?"
"How to say?" Qi Yue asked.
"What the hell are you doing?" Chen said.
Qi Yue was stunned for a moment, but of course she reacted quickly and couldn't help laughing.
"Really?" she asked.
Mrs. Chen nodded and smiled herself.
She walked forward again.
"Here, I live here," she said, pointing to a small penthouse.
Qi Yue hurriedly followed her, thinking that living in the palace would be enough, but she didn't expect that she would live with the emperor and queen. Even the princes and princesses couldn't do this.
"I was only four years old at that time," she said. Looking through the window lattice, she seemed to be able to see a little child crossing the high threshold, followed by a little eunuch and a little palace maid who were carefully protecting her.
"Your Majesty, Your Majesty..." the soft childish voice shouted, throwing herself at the amiable woman in the room, and then being held in her arms. At that time, this embrace was the most desired and warmest one after losing her mother...
Chen's eye circles were red.
But she didn't expect that this was the reason why she lost everything.
"Let's go." She suddenly lost interest and turned around and said.
Qi Yue looked away from the window lattice and said oh.
It's always sentimental to see things and miss old people, she understands.
Mrs. Chen and her walked out the door, and the young eunuchs hurriedly took them over.
"Madam, Mr. Huang said this is your favorite Xue Jin Dan. You love to cry and moisten your throat." A little eunuch in purple said, respectfully holding up a small porcelain vase.
Mrs. Chen was amused again.
"This is Xiaochuanzi." She said, took one and poured it into her hand and ate it, then handed it to Qi Yue, "You can try it too."
Qi Yue reached out and took it.
"Madam, do you want to go somewhere else?" the young eunuch asked.
Mrs. Chen got on the sedan chair and shook her head.
"No, I'm going back right now," she said.
When the little eunuch heard the sound, he said nothing and made a gesture. Everyone hurriedly lifted the sedan and walked out along the original road.
Qi Yue once again watched the scenery along the way, eating sugar pills in his mouth, feeling pretty good.
From a distance, I saw a group of people approaching. They were also sedans, but they were bright yellow sedans with crowns on them.
Everyone's footsteps couldn't help but stop.
"Is it the emperor?" asked Chen.
Qi Yue was startled from behind, swallowed the sugar pill in one gulp, and hurriedly smoothed it away with her hands due to choking.
Sure enough, are you really going to see the living emperor? Three kowtows and nine bows...
The little eunuchs didn't reply. In fact, there was no need to reply. That kind of regulation could only be used by the emperor.
They stopped and put down the sedan. Although they were still some distance away, they were ready to meet the driver.
Mrs. Chen also came down, her expression seemed a little complicated.
Qi Yue couldn't sit still anymore, stood up and walked to Chen's side.
The emperor's sedan chair is getting closer and closer.
Everyone around them lowered their gazes, and Qi Yue did not dare to look at him unscrupulously. He only glanced carefully through Chen's shoulder and saw seven or eight red-clothed eunuchs crowding around. On the sedan chair carried by four purple-clothed eunuchs, a man wearing a
The man in the bright yellow robe sat crookedly, his head on his hands, and his face was blocked by the hanging crown, but it could be seen from this posture alone that he must be leisurely and at ease.
This kind of leisurely and comfortable atmosphere seems a bit inappropriate.
The sedan chair was getting closer and closer, the little eunuchs all knelt down, Mrs. Chen was also ready to kneel down and Qi Yue didn't dare to look anymore, but at this moment, the emperor's sedan chair turned around and disappeared into a corridor.
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Everyone was stunned, and they didn't come back to their senses for a long time.*** (To be continued)