The Emperor's Favorite: Miss Jinghong II

Chapter 35 Phoenix Reminisces Sheng Xiao [2]

He also disdains being used as a bargaining chip to refer to a marriage, and is pointed at by others.

It was my willful choice to stay with the Queen Mother.

My residence was arranged in the east wing of the Great Buddha Hall in the Compassionate Ning Palace.

In front of the gate of Compassion Palace, there is a long and narrow square from east to west. The two ends are Yongkang Left Gate and Yongkang Right Gate, and the south side is Changxin Gate.The Cining Gate is located on the north side of the square, and there is a high platform and corridor inside to communicate with the main hall of the Cining Palace.

The east and west sides of the courtyard are verandahs, which connect to the Cining Gate in the south and reach the east and west ear rooms of the back bedroom hall (that is, the Great Buddha Hall) in the north.

There is a door in the middle of the east and west verandahs in the front yard. The east is called Huiyin Left Gate, and the west is called Huiyin Right Gate.The main hall, the Cining Palace, is in the middle, with front and rear corridors, and yellow glazed tiles with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain.

There are 7 rooms wide, of which 5 rooms each have 4 doors with double intersections and 4 bowls of water chestnut.Between the two tips is a brick sill wall, with four double-crossing and four-bowl Linghua windows on each.There is a platform in front of the hall, three steps on the front, and one step on the left and right. There are four gilt bronze incense burners on the stage.There are card walls on the east and west mountains, each with a vertical flower door, which can lead to the backyard.

And my residence was arranged in the east wing of the Great Buddha Hall of the Compassionate Ning Palace. The sudden favor really surprised me, and I was involved in this palace before I could prepare in time.

The next day my sister brought Lishang to see me, and Lishang was already crying. According to the rules in the palace, I should only be a maid beside the Empress Dowager, but the level is different.

Naturally, the maids in the mansion cannot be brought along.My sister also had a sad expression on her face. She probably didn't expect that I would be left behind by the Queen Mother.

Telling me not to cause trouble in the palace was to prepare me to enter the palace as a show girl, but when the truth came, it was inevitable that I would feel sad.

"Sister, don't be sad, you can see my sister when you pay respects to the ancestors every day." I comforted, feeling extremely uncomfortable.

My sister just looked at me and cried, "The palace is not like a mansion, and you don't remember the past, remember to be cautious in your words and deeds." I was hugged tightly by my sister, and her clothes were wet with tears .

After my sister left, she was alone, sitting in front of the window and looking at a few viburnum flowers, which were as big as a plate and as white as jade.The cymes are at the ends of the branches. It is said that Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty ordered the digging of the Grand Canal just to enjoy the Qionghua in Yangzhou.

When Ouyang Xiu was the prefect here, he once praised Qionghua as a unparalleled flower in the world, and wrote "Unparalleled Pavilion" in Qionghua Temple.

Emperor Renzong of the Northern Song Dynasty once moved Qionghua to the imperial garden in Bianjing, but it withered the next year, so he had to send it back to Yangzhou.

Emperor Xiaozong of the Southern Song Dynasty moved it to Lin'an again, but immediately withered away, so he had to move it to Yangzhou again.

Yuan soldiers broke through Yangzhou, and Qionghua died completely.

Yangzhou people have a soft spot for Qionghua.Although the original is no longer there, Yangzhou people regard a flower called Jubaxian as Qionghua, and carefully cultivate and care for it as a city flower.

Today, the white and jade-like clusters of flowers along the shore of the lake are Yangzhou Qionghua, which is "unmatched in the world" - Jubaxianhua.

I looked at the "Fu of Qionghua" in my hand: "Jasmine is as beautiful as Li, and roses are as smiling as mortals, but narcissus can be as quiet as it, and Jiangmei is as elegant as it." My eyes are blurred.

"What are you thinking about?" His eyes were covered by a large viburnum flower, and when he looked up, Wan Chengyun was standing outside the window with a smile on his face.

"Today I heard that the second young lady of the Ye family has entered the palace. I'm still wondering, and I heard that she was left behind by the ancestors, tsk tsk." Wan Chengyun suddenly put flowers in my hair, "Well, It’s a bit of a waste of money.”

I hurriedly took the flowers down, and waited for him with an angry expression on my face, "You will make me happy." I didn't look at him, and turned my eyes to the book on the sapphire case.

"What are you looking at, isn't my son good-looking?" Wan Chengyun snatched my book and pretended to look.

(End of this chapter)