wedding dress

Chapter 162
Waking up early, Xiaodong tidied up her clothes, Qin Lie looked at her attire and asked, "Want to enter the palace?"

"Ah."

Hongjing held a round mirror to illuminate Xiaodong's bun on the back, Qin Lie came over to take the mirror, Xiaodong turned to look at him.

"Do you want me to accompany you?"

"No need. The empress dowager's jade body is against the agreement. It's not convenient to see you even if you go."

"Then I'll take you to the gate of the palace." Qin Lie glanced at the gate and quickly kissed her on the lips.

Xiaodong was startled, and hurriedly glanced at the door, Hongjing had already gone out with a water basin.

Fortunately no one saw it.

She flicked the handkerchief in her hand and smacked Qin Lie's forehead: "Go."

Qin Lie hugged her waist with a smile, Xiaodong glared at him.

"Can you go home at noon? I'll pick you up."

"Well, I will probably come out after lunch today, so don't pick me up."

Qin Lie sent her all the way to Yanxi Gate, watching Xiaodong's car enter the palace gate.

Xiaodong walks through the long palace road, the other side of the wall is the Zuoye Court, listening to the women's talking and laughing on the other side of the wall, he is very different from usual.

"The princess forgot, didn't you choose the best girls last month? I think the rookies have already entered the palace, so they will be placed there."

Xiaodong nodded, but she forgot about it.

Now they can still laugh, after spending a year and a half in the palace, they will gradually change into another look.Don't dare to say, don't laugh when you laugh, follow the rules, and be taciturn.

The Empress Dowager Shengci was in much better spirits than last time, and she even walked around the courtyard of Changchun Palace.Cai Gu smiled and said, "The Princess is really early, is there any breakfast?"

Xiaodong smiled and shook his head: "No, I came here for free."

Empress Dowager Shengci pointed at her and smiled: "You are married, you are an adult, and you still have a childish temper."

Xiaodong smiled and helped the Empress Dowager Shengci to go forward: "The food here is better than my mother's. What can I eat today?"

Cai Gu said at the side: "Coincidentally, I went to the small kitchen to see it just now. There are peach meat rolls, as well as emerald crisps and rock sugar glutinous rice and hawthorn porridge. The princess likes them all."

Xiaodong accompanied the Empress Dowager Shengci to have breakfast, perhaps because she walked a few more steps in the morning, or maybe it was because of the appetite of someone accompanying her, the Empress Dowager Shengci actually drank more than half a bowl of porridge, and even ate more than half a piece of cake.

"Your mother-in-law and the others have gone back to their hometown?"

"Well, I left yesterday. The canal is always safer and more reliable. After sending them away, the house was empty all of a sudden. I'm used to being accompanied by people who are lively and lively. I really feel lonely when it's empty."

The Empress Dowager Shengci patted the back of her hand: "It will be fine in a few days. If you are going to be bored, come into the palace and stay with me."

Caigu served tea: "There are few people in the princess's house now, and when the little daughter and son are born in the future, it will not be boring at all. I'm afraid I will be too busy to complain."

The Empress Dowager Shengci also joked: "Exactly. Give birth to a naughty boy, so that you won't have time to sleep. I promise you won't be lonely."

Xiaodong blushed from being teased, and hastily changed the topic: "I came in from Yanxi Gate today, and I heard that the area around Zuoyeting seems to have raised little birds. It's so lively."

The Empress Dowager Shengci was a little puzzled, and Cai Gu hurriedly said: "Your Majesty, I didn't pay attention to it these few days. There are new maids who have come in over there. They are all young girls. I'm afraid they haven't learned the palace rules well, so let the princess hear about it."

"Really? How many people?"

"The servant didn't inquire carefully, so there must be three or five hundred?"

Empress Dowager Shengci nodded: "I have been ill for a few days, so I didn't pay attention to this. By the way, Caigu, when did you enter the palace?"

Cai Gu was startled for a moment, and thought for a while: "The servant girl entered the palace in the spring of Yongqing's 11th year."

"Ah," the Empress Dowager Shengci nodded slightly: "It's been more than ten years. I still remember that I entered the palace in the 28th year of Xianyuan... Although it has been decades, I still remember it very clearly. It was a cold day. When we entered the palace, we stripped off our cotton-padded clothes and gave them jackets, which couldn’t keep out the cold wind at all, and there was no charcoal basin in the house, so the little girls in the room were shivering from the cold.”

Maybe when people get old, they like to recall the past.

"How old was the empress dowager at that time?"

"Twelve. Yes, I have just been twelve. I have never left home since I was a child. When I first entered the palace, I was not used to it everywhere. I was afraid and dared not tell others... I did not suffer less when I was learning the palace rules. Eight people are divided into a class, and in that class, there is one student who does not study well, and the other seven people will be punished together."

Cai Gu said: "That's right, we were the same at that time. We didn't have anything to eat after being punished, and we were so hungry that we couldn't sleep in the middle of the night."

The Empress Dowager Shengci smiled: "The palace rules have always been the same. Over the past few hundred years, the harem has changed, but the rules of the harem have not changed much."

Xiaodong didn't interrupt, and listened quietly.

"Afterwards, I stayed in the Yeting Palace all the time, and the work was not too tiring. After a year, two years... I think this is the way to go on in this life. The girls who entered the palace together also got the favor , There were also those who committed mistakes and were beaten to death. At first I was very scared, but after a lot of experience and seeing a lot, I am no longer afraid—it is useless to be afraid.”

At that time, the Empress Dowager Shengci never imagined that she would become the empress dowager of a country, right?When you are starving, you must only think about having a steamed bun and be content.

No one can tell the fate of a person. She was the queen's favorite concubine back then, but now she is only imprisoned in the cold palace.And the one who used to be a little court lady in Ye Ting is now the empress dowager.

Caigu's face was also a bit sad, I don't know if she remembered something from the past.

What the Empress Dowager Shengci experienced, she must have experienced the same.

The palace people came in to report that the empress had brought all the people in the harem to pay their respects.

The Empress Dowager Shengci shook her head: "Let them go back, I'm not energetic, I don't want to see people."

Xiaodong stood behind the curtain and looked out, then asked softly, "Who is that person in yellow clothes?"

That person was following Concubine Ming, and happened to turn his face slightly.

Ah, it turned out to be Zhang Jieyu, but now she has to be called Concubine Zhang Shu.

She looks a little richer than before, and her figure is not as slender as before. Her demeanor is completely different from before giving birth to the prince. Women in the harem can only be confident and rely on a son.

But Caigu misunderstood what Xiaodong meant, thinking that she was asking about the woman in light yellow palace attire standing at the back, and said softly, "That's the newly favored Ji Meiren."

"Oh."

She is indeed a beauty.

There were quite a few unfamiliar faces among those women, they stood at the back, and their clothes were not so luxurious or flamboyant.But they have youth, which is more precious than all the expensive clothes and cosmetics. Their cheeks are rosy, their eyes are bright, their bodies are slim, and their voices are like orioles.The women in front have a lot of qualifications and positions, and they used to have youth, but the years passed, and they traded their youth for the present.The women in the back are youthful and beautiful, and they are full of ambitions. Looking at those seniors and opponents who have faded, they cover up their ambitions with respect and meekness.

It is true that the waves behind the Yangtze River push forward the waves ahead, and a new generation replaces the old ones.

Xiaodong had read a lot of Gongdou's novels and TV shows in her last life.These seemingly intimate scenes are actually just another battlefield without gunpowder.The strife and struggle in the harem are more tragic than the previous dynasty.The men in the court are fighting for power and profit.Dividing food on the same piece of cake, although there is more or less, can always achieve a balance.But it is impossible for everyone in the harem to be happy.There is only one emperor, and there can only be one heir to the emperor.If you get it, I can't get it. I have to fight for it with all my strength, step on others, climb up by myself, open swords and dark arrows, you will die.

Xiaodong looked at them from a distance, thankful that he was not one of them.

What would happen to her now if she had become a member of this huge harem instead of transmigrating to become the princess?Do you serve a master diligently like Caigu, or do you rely on your beauty and scheming to fight your way out like those beautiful women?

She doesn't know either.

No one can say without being in that situation.

Not long after the queen and the others left, another palace official came to report, and the third and fourth princes came to pay their respects.

The third prince Xiaodong just met, but the fourth prince hadn't seen him for some time.He was much taller than before, wearing brocade robes and boots, with a pink face, delicate eyebrows and well-mannered manners.In another ten or eight years, when he grows up, Shen Jing's title as the number one talented man and handsome man will be lost.

The two brothers saluted and greeted them, and Xiaodong saluted the two of them again. The fourth prince cupped his hands and bowed: "Sister Xiaodong."

Children pretending to be adults are the cutest.

After saluting, he ran over and took Xiaodong's hand: "Sister Xiaodong doesn't come here often recently, and I can't see you all the time."

Xiaodong smiled and said: "The fourth prince is also going to school, even if I come, I still won't be able to meet you."

The fourth prince tilted his head and asked curiously: "What kind of person is Xiaodong's husband-in-law?"

this……

"Didn't you see it on the Empress Dowager's birthday?"

"It was a mess that day, there were so many people, I didn't talk, I just looked tall."

"he is……"

What kind of person is he?
Xiaodong couldn't sum it up all of a sudden.

He also reads, but his knowledge is not very good.He practiced martial arts, but that five-rank ranger was donated.He was a rough boy, but he was determined...

But for Xiaodong, the most important thing is that he is a good lover and husband.

"A nice guy."

The fourth prince pouted slightly, and his words sounded quite sour: "How good is it?"

His expression and tone reminded Xiaodong of Zhao Lulai.Probably as a brother, he always dislikes a man who marries his own sister.Although the fourth prince is still young, he already has this awareness.

From an outsider's point of view, Qin Lie is not that good, with bad looks, bad knowledge, and no family background...

Xiaodong smiled, pointed to the boots on the third prince's feet and asked, "Look, are your third brother's boots better, or yours?"

The third prince's boots are naturally more elegant than the fourth prince's. The fourth prince nodded and said, "Brother's boots are better than mine."

"Then I'll wear it for you, do you want it?"

The fourth prince shook his head: "No way... my brother's boots are big, but my feet are small."

"Yes, whether these boots are suitable or not, the person who wears them knows best, which is similar to the principle of getting married."

The best may not be for him.

Such as silence.

If she married him, Xiaodong would definitely not have the time to complain about her loneliness.She had to be a good daughter-in-law, a good grand-daughter-in-law, and a good housemate—just memorizing the names and sorting out the relationship between the relatives and friends of the Shen family was enough work.Even Shen Fang said that her family's relatives sometimes don't recognize her completely.

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Just got heavy. .It has been changed.

Twisting~~ Pharyngitis is too annoying, I hope it will get better soon.

(End of this chapter)