Chapter 12 This kneeling is like a thousand arrows piercing the heart!
Luo Changan spread the blanket and quilt cover on the dragon bed. The white fox fur was mixed with a touch of gray wool. It looked pure and soft. It was a bit abrupt in the cold dragon bed, like a lost and plucked animal lying on an iceberg.
White fox with tusks removed.
After making the bed, Luo Changan put the changed sheets and duvet covers in the basket, intending to send them to the laundry pavilion for cleaning. The laundry pavilion is under the corridor not far from the dragon's dormitory. This place is only responsible for the cleaning of the emperor.
The clothes in the laundry pavilion are all rough, and they are different from the laundry pavilions elsewhere. They also have a high status in the laundry pavilion, while the laundry pavilion in the cold palace has the lowest status.
As soon as he walked into the yard, he saw Xiao Tao coming over eating snacks. Xiao Tao's monthly money was basically spent on buying snacks. The masters' sachets contained precious spices, and the maids' sachets contained precious spices.
They were fallen petals from the garden, but Xiaotao's sachet was even more different. It contained jelly beans and peanuts, jujubes, and walnut kernels.
Luo Changan doesn't use sachets. She used to use them when she was the rich lady. At that time, her father would bring the best spices from the south and give them to Luo Changan. After her father died, she no longer uses sachets.
Firstly, it offends the situation, and secondly, it is inconsistent with one’s identity.
She always does things befitting her status, and a slave should behave like a slave. It is important to recognize the reality. Even if she sews a sachet with inferior fabrics and fills it with flowers in the garden and lets others trample on it, it will not change that she is a slave.
fact.
The upper-class people feel sad about the spring and autumn and look at the falling flowers, which is a mood; the lower-class people pretend to be sophisticated and look at the falling flowers, which is desolate.
Luo Changan, the only ornament she wants to wear is the phoenix crown. Now this phoenix crown lies quietly in the East Palace. Although the emperor has countless concubines, the queen has not yet been established, and the heirs are empty.
This is an opportunity for Luo Changan. Even if it is slim, it is an opportunity.
"Sister Chang'an, are you going to the laundry room?" Xiao Tao ran nearby and swallowed the food in her mouth.
Luo Changan tilted his chin a little, "Yes."
"Let's go together. Aunt Mei just asked me to bring back some of the Emperor's coats that I sent to be washed the day before yesterday."
"Okay. Let's go together."
The two of them arrived at the laundry pavilion. Luo Changan handed the sheets and quilts to the female officer in charge of the laundry pavilion. Xiao Tao was waiting at the door to pick up the clothes. After waiting for about half a cup of tea, Xiao Tao came out.
"Sister Chang'an, you've been waiting for a long time." Xiao Tao held a clothes basket in one hand and held a cup of black powder in the other.
"I didn't wait long. What's in my hand is dark." Luo Changan looked at the contents of the cup in confusion.
"This is the black sesame powder my mother bought when she was on vacation a few days ago. Mix it with warm water. It's sweet, fragrant and delicious. I'll make a cup for sister Chang'an when I get back."
Ordinary palace maids have half a day's vacation every month, while high-ranking female officials like Aunt Mei have two days' vacation every month. They can take vacations after arranging things properly, handing over things clearly, and getting approval from their superiors.
"Well, okay." Luo Changan rubbed his hands that were red from the cold, "Let's go back. It's going to snow again, and it's going to be very cold. Walk slowly down the steps in a while. Don't slip. There was a mother-in-law just now."
I poured laundry water on the steps."
Since Luo Changan was stabbed in the abdomen by Murong Jue last year, he has suffered from waist and abdominal pain and coldness.
"Yeah, it's okay. I'll be careful." Xiao Tao carried a basket of clothes and walked out. She walked a little recklessly and couldn't help but keep staring at the black sesame powder in her hand.
Children have no resistance to delicious food and cannot endure it. They want to eat the black sesame paste in their mouths right away.
Luo Changan explained in a funny yet worried tone, "Watch the road, Xiaotao, the ground is slippery, be careful if you fall."
Just as he was talking, he heard Xiao Tao's sound, and the sole of his foot slipped. He fell down and gnawed on the mud. He fell down the steps with a plop, and was in a very embarrassed state.
"Xiao Tao!" Luo Changan was startled and shouted in fear.
Luo Changan and Xiao Tao were originally on the steps, and there were more than a dozen steps on the flat road below, so the basket of clothes went out of control like a parabola, spilling all over the floor, including the cup of black sesame powder.
go out.
It happened that a group of people passed by below, and the graceful and graceful person among them was immediately covered with black sesame powder, and his pretty face was instantly darkened, making it difficult to recognize his face.
"Oh, who's desperate?" The woman exclaimed in pain, "My face!"
The slaves hurriedly mixed her up, hurriedly patted the black powder on her clothes, and worried: "That dog slave doesn't have eyes to walk, and he actually hit the embroidered beauty. What kind of powder is this? I'm afraid he is jealous of the beauty's beauty and deliberately disfigures her!"
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Liu Xiu was horrified, "My beauty's face hurts so much. This must be poisonous powder. Someone, please press this slave down and give me a hard beating!"
Luo Chang'an had finished thinking about it. Xiao Tao's reckless temper would cause something to happen sooner or later, and he was worried to death.
Xiao Tao hurriedly got up and knelt there huddled, trembling like a quail. She was so frightened that she couldn't speak. She stammered: "Xiu...Xiu. Beauty... have mercy on me!"
"Beauty Xiu, are you okay?" There was another woman who looked like a mistress next to her, checking Liu Xiu's situation. This person was the wife of Murong Jue, a second-grade official. Song Panyan was from the East Wing Hall today.
The imperial concubine held a plum blossom appreciation banquet, and she went into the palace to keep her appointment. On the way, she met the embroidered beauty who had been favored recently, and they went to the East Wing Hall together.
Liu Xiujiao complained: "Panyan, I'm afraid my face is disfigured. It turns out that beauty is so lucky. How can I withstand such a sudden disaster? If the emperor knew that I had disfigured my appearance, he would definitely feel very sad. The emperor praised my eyebrows."
A small mole is particularly delicate."
The moment Luo Changan heard the word "Panyan", he had already seen Song Panyan. This is really a narrow road for enemies. It was this woman who took away her fiancé and single-handedly contributed to her tragic death. If Song Panyan had any compassion,
How could she encourage Murong Jue to destroy her whole family?
If Murong Jue was greedy for power, then Song Panyan was cruel and vicious.
Luo Changan suppressed the discomfort in her heart caused by hearing, "The emperor complimented the small mole between my eyebrows for being particularly cute." This damn sour taste made her cover her heart.
Several guards strode towards Xiao Tao and were about to hold Xiao Tao down and punch her.
Xiaotao cried in fear. She was still a baby and didn't understand what happened. Her parents were doting on her, but she was frightened now. "No, don't hit this slave, don't hit..."
"The beauty keeps her subordinates." Luo Changan quickly walked down the steps, stood in front of Xiao Tao, blocked Xiao Tao behind him, and then knelt in front of Liu Xiu and Song Panyan.
This kneeling was like a thousand arrows piercing her heart. Then she bent down and kowtowed, with a cold look in her eyes. One day, she must be in a high position and teach Song Panyan to kneel at her feet and repent!