After the rebellion was successful, I realized that this place was the Red Mansion

Chapter 78 Shi Xiangyun and Jia Yingchun Enter the Palace

Early in the morning, the maids and servants in Zilingzhou were busy preparing for Yingchun's entry into the palace. Grandmother Jia also sent a few maids and servants to help Yingchun with her dressing and washing.

Because she also wanted to follow the girl into the palace, Xiu Ju dressed up today and put on hairpins and earrings, but she saw that Si Qi was still the same as before, and her expression was a little dazed.

"What are you doing? The girl is entering the palace, but you are more nervous than her." Xiu Ju asked her with a smile.

Siqi sighed softly and asked her, "When the Imperial Concubine entered the palace, she brought a servant with her. Do you remember?"

"Is it Baoqin?"

"If you were to enter the palace and live there from now on, who would you take with you? You or me?"

Siqi looked at her.

Xiu Ju heard the hidden meaning in her words, "You don't want to enter the palace? This matter is not up to you. Even if you plead with the young lady, she will certainly agree to your request out of pity, but the old lady and the first lady will not agree... Just give up and stop thinking about it!"

Siqi could only sigh, "Now he has been punished and sent to an unknown place. No one can help themselves, and separation is always cruel..."

Xiu Ju couldn't understand the meaning of her words, and because she was busy dressing up, she ignored her.

At this time, laughter came from outside: "I'm here to see the Imperial Concubine!"

Xiu Ju recognized the voice as Second Madam Lian, and then she heard the voices of other girls, the Third Girl, the Fourth Girl, the Bao Girl, and several girls from the Shi and Wang families also came.

Zilingzhou has never been so lively!

Half an hour later, Jia Yingchun, who had finished dressing up, appeared in front of everyone. She was wearing an ochre-red satin front-opening bodice with a stand-up collar underneath, decorated with a group collar at the neckline. She wore a gold phoenix hairpin with beads and filigree on her head, and a pair of gold filigree earrings inlaid with gems given by her grandmother. She looked a little shy, but still looked dignified and outstanding.

Tanchun took her hand and said with a smile, "Our family is really going to have another imperial concubine!"

Everyone laughed. Yingchun didn't know what to say, so she just shook her head. Wang Xifeng hurriedly said, "Don't be timid, my dear girl. Now that you've entered the palace, you should show your courage. Although our family is now under punishment, we were once a noble family. You are also our daughter. How can you not become a noble concubine in the new dynasty?"

Yingchun hesitated for a moment before saying, "My elder sister spent ten years in the palace before becoming a concubine, let alone someone like me? The ancients said that when humiliated, one should not complain, but when flattered, one should be surprised. My entry into the palace is no different."

Everyone knew her temper, and it was difficult to persuade her now, so they came to Lady Jia with her.

Xiangyun was also waiting. The room was very lively. Except for Lin Daiyu who was sick again and couldn't come, and Miaoyu who was in the Rongcui Temple, everyone else came.

Everyone was happy for them, but also sad. They were talking about their parting, when suddenly a maid came and reported:
"Madam, Madam, the eunuchs from the palace are carrying the sedan chair outside the door!"

"grandmother!!"

As the departure was imminent, Shi Xiangyun's tears rolled down and she threw herself into the arms of Old Lady Shi.

Grandmother Jia was also wiping her tears and said to Yingchun, "Go and kowtow to your mother. We don't know when we will meet again."

Yingchun then kowtowed to Lady Jia first, and then to Lady Xing. Lady Xing's eyes were wet, and she held her hand tightly for a long time before letting go, and asked Yingchun to kowtow to Lady Wang as well.

Shi Xiangyun also kowtowed to Lady Jia and said goodbye.

After the ceremony, everyone escorted them to the outside of the Chuihua Gate. There were already four or five green sedan chairs coming from the palace, surrounded by more than twenty eunuchs and palace maids.

"Please ask the second daughter of the Jia family and the daughter of the Shi family to get into the sedan chair!" The eunuch in charge stepped forward to salute them, and then invited the two to get into the sedan chair.

Shi Xiangyun and Jia Yingchun bid farewell to their families in tears, got on the sedan chair and left Rongguo Mansion.

After seeing them off, Wang Xifeng returned home to rest.

Ping Er came in and said with a smile, "If Madam also comes to the palace in a sedan chair someday, your position as Imperial Concubine will be secure!"

Wang Xifeng heard this and cursed her, saying, "You little bitch, you keep talking about going to the palace. You should ask the second girl to plead with the emperor on your behalf and allow you to serve in the palace!"

Ping'er just smiled.

Originally, the Second Madam had never thought that she would enter the palace, but yesterday news came from the East Palace that Madam Rong suddenly changed her name to Qin. She was born charming and delicate, so people could not help but guess that Leng Zixing had said something nonsense again, making the emperor obsessed with her.

Madam Rong of the East Palace is beautiful and gentle, and Madam Lian of the West Palace is no less beautiful than her, so Ping'er teased her yesterday, saying that she might also enter the palace one day.

She was scolded by Wang Xifeng.

But today, when Ping'er saw the sedan chair in the palace, she mentioned it again.

...The sedan chair from the palace was traveling through the streets. Shi Xiangyun looked outside and saw that the capital had regained its former prosperity. The people seemed to have no resistance to the change of dynasties and accepted it happily.

"Even though ordinary people may not be rich, they can still live and work in peace. We, the daughters of marquisates, may look glamorous, but in the end..."

Shi Xiangyun sat in the sedan chair, feeling extremely confused and her heart beating wildly, but she finally arrived at the palace.

She saw the tall red palace gate, standing there like a mountain.

After entering the palace, I walked for a long time, passing through one door after another and walking through one corridor after another, before I arrived in front of a palace.

Shi Xiangyun was gradually attracted by the novel scenery in the palace. She looked at it with wide eyes. When the sedan chair stopped, she got off and continued to look inside the palace.

Although she was the daughter of a noble family, she had never entered the palace.

"girl!"

Cuilu, the personal maid who also entered the palace in a sedan chair, came to her side tremblingly. She was frightened by the strictness of the palace. She stood close to her and wanted to speak, but remembered the warnings of the old lady and the ladies, so she kept her mouth shut.

"Miss, follow me!" The palace maid led her, Yingchun and others into the Linjing Palace and into the enclosure on the east side.

Several people were waiting inside to be summoned by the emperor.

After a while, a eunuch came and said, "Your Majesty has ordered: Miss Yun, the second young lady has gone to the harem to chat with Yuanchun. She will be free to see you this afternoon!"

"what?"

Xiangyun was a little surprised. She quickly pulled Yingchun, who was also surprised, to her feet and said to the eunuch with a smile, "Take us there quickly!"

She had never met Concubine Xian De, but she was Yingchun's cousin and a relative of hers. It was better to enter the palace and see familiar people than to stay here.

"Sister Yun, please speak more quietly." Yingchun pulled her hand.

Xiangyun quickly shut up and followed the eunuch out. They went around to the back and went out from a corner gate. They were surrounded by palace walls and glazed tiles. They didn't know where they were, so they just followed him.

They arrived at another palace and the eunuch delivered the message inside.

“Second sister!!”

Upon hearing the news, Jia Yuanchun hurried out with tears in her eyes. When she saw Yingchun, she couldn't help but hug her in her arms and held her tightly.

"Empress..." Yingchun was a little at a loss. Even when the Empress came home to visit last time, she didn't lose her composure like this.

Jia Yuanchun let her go and looked at Shi Xiangyun again, smiling with tears in her eyes, "You are Xiangyun, the daughter of the Shi family, right? I held you in my arms when you were little, and now you have grown up."

Xiangyun felt a little embarrassed and was pulled into the hall by her.

"This humble girl greets the Queen."

The two were about to kneel down to pay their respects, but Jia Yuanchun quickly helped them up and said with a smile, "Don't kneel down to me anymore, and don't call me Consort Xian De anymore. There is only one Consort Xie in the new dynasty, and she's still in Jinling. Although Your Majesty has verbally appointed several concubines, he hasn't officially made them concubines. You don't have to kneel."

As she spoke, she sighed again, "It's a pity that I didn't get to meet the old lady and the madam. Otherwise, I wouldn't have to follow the rules of the imperial concubine in the past and not even be able to enjoy meeting my grandmother and mother."

"Empress!" Baoqin reminded her softly that this was not a good thing to say.

Jia Yuanchun stopped talking and pulled the two of them to sit down.

Shi Xiangyun pointed at Baoqin and said with a smile, "Why did she call me 'Niangniang' just now?"

Baoqin glanced at her and saw that it was indeed the young lady who had just entered the palace, pointing at someone like that.

Yuanchun smiled and said, "Your Majesty has allowed the old people in the palace to continue to call us by our former titles of concubine."

After saying that, he couldn't wait to ask Yingchun, "Second sister, is everything okay at home? Are the old lady and the mistress in good health?"

"Everything is fine, but things have been going on a lot lately, and the old lady hasn't been able to sleep well." Yingchun smiled and said, "I was also worried about my eldest sister in the palace. Now that I see her, I'm relieved!"

Upon hearing the news about her grandmother and mother, Jia Yuanchun couldn't help but burst into tears again.

(End of this chapter)