After living two lives, she was lucky enough to be able to visit the royal palace. Shen Qing actively entered the palace with a sightseeing mentality. Along the way, she looked around at the solemn and majestic palace. She originally thought that she was just going to see the great Zhou Sheng.
It was time to go back home. Unexpectedly, after the carriage entered the east gate, as soon as we got out of the carriage, an old woman in her late fifties suddenly appeared.
The old nanny was dressed in a dark brown palace uniform. Her facial expression came up and she spoke, "I have met General Mo Yu. I have been ordered by the queen to teach the general's wife the rules and etiquette in the palace."
Shen Qing has a black hair, what kind of court etiquette should she learn from a tourist...
The old nanny looked unkind, and Shen Qing guessed that the Queen must have known about the conflict with Zhao Suxue yesterday. She really shouldn't have let Nadu go out with him. With him here, he would look like an identity sign at any stop.
Xia Houzhan looked at them indifferently, obviously unwilling to pay attention to these people, and said coldly: "She can just follow me, the general, and there is no need to learn from those who are not good at it."
The old mama bowed her body and showed no intention of flinching, "General, this is the rule of the palace. New women entering the palace must know the proper etiquette in the palace. The general's wife comes from the common people. If there is any disrespect for the etiquette,
It would be bad if the masters blamed the place."
The old mama refused to give up, and Shen Qing could clearly feel the general's impatience. Not to mention that she was from the common people, and the general was from Jingchu. No one wanted to abide by their heavy red tape, but she was happy to go out, and there was no reason to do it just now.
When he entered the palace, he had a dispute with the people sent by the queen.
"Forget it, I'll go." Just spend some time learning the social etiquette of this era.
Xia Houzhan turned to look at her. He was about to say that she didn't need to go at all, when he heard the old woman say: "The general's wife is indeed a sensible person. Please follow me here. General Mo Yu, please go first."
Go to Delong Hall, Your Majesty has been waiting for you for a long time."
Shen Qing was obedient and prepared to follow, but the General had no intention of letting go, "Don't worry, I'll meet you again later."
After bidding farewell to the general, Shen Qing followed the old nanny into the palace with nine twists and turns. This place seemed like a maze, with high red walls everywhere. The old nanny walked slowly, Shen Qing
Occasionally, I would fall into a trance and fall a short distance away.
The old nanny spoke indifferently from the front, "Madam General, the palace is not a rural market outside, you can't stop and walk like this!"
Shen Qing shrugged and continued to follow with a meaningless expression. After turning around a palace wall, the old nanny stopped in front of a palace courtyard, turned around and said to her: "You stand here and wait, I will go and get the study."
Books and utensils for the rules and etiquette of the palace."
Shen Qing was a little depressed. Books and utensils? It sounded like a very professional course.
After the old mama calmly walked away, Shen Qing stood alone on the palace road with empty lanes in front and back. To be honest, she really didn't dare to walk around. The last time she walked around the Yangcheng Palace, she almost got into trouble.
Upper body, she learned a little better this time.
When he was bored waiting, he suddenly heard a crashing sound, as if some beads fell to the ground. Shen Qing couldn't bear the curiosity in his heart, and followed the sound to find it. After turning around two palace walls, he saw a wide
The courtyard, said to be a courtyard, doesn't seem to be quite the case, because there is actually a palace lake in the place where the palace wall is towering...
Without the cover of the palace wall, the sun shines in, and the early winter breeze is slowly blowing on the lake. It is surrounded by dense flowers, plants and trees, rocks and rockeries, and there are many budding plum blossoms on the shore of the lake, bursting with fragrance.
Could this place be the legendary Imperial Garden?
Shen Qing stood and looked at it, and was about to turn back when he suddenly saw a figure leaning over the pavilion in the Imperial Garden to pick up something. An old man with gray hair, Shen Qing hurried over to help.
Black and white chess pieces fell all over the pavilion. Shen Qing immediately knew what the sound was. The old man was wearing a black robe to protect him from the wind, and he reacted indifferently when he saw someone coming.
"Old man, let me help you pick it up." Shen Qing squatted on the ground as he spoke, holding the chess basin to help him pick up the chess pieces one by one.
The old man sat aside and looked at the little girl who helped him pick up the chess pieces with curiosity, "Old man?"
Shen Qing raised his head and realized that he had forgotten to find out the other person's identity just now. He smiled awkwardly and said, "I'm sorry, I just entered the palace today. Well...how should I call you?"
He was wearing a black robe, and I don’t know what he was wearing underneath. I couldn’t tell his identity. Gardener? Father-in-law? He shouldn’t be the Great Zhou Sage. How could the emperor be sitting here alone? And just now the old nanny was there.
She said that the Holy Emperor was waiting for the general in Delong Hall, so she looked at the old man sitting leisurely with a confused look on her face, waiting for his answer.
The old man chuckled, as if he had not been so happy for a long time, "Just call me old man, it sounds pretty smooth."
"Oh," Shen Qing responded, lowering his head and continuing to pick up the chess pieces, "Old man, why are you playing chess here alone?"
The old man stretched out his hand to cover his wrist, "I'm old and useless. No one wants to play chess with me anymore. I wasn't paying attention just now and fell asleep on the chessboard, so I dropped all these pieces."
From where Shen Qing was squatting, he could just see the old man holding his slightly trembling hand. Listening to his words and the symptoms, this old man should have mild Alzheimer's disease... Shen Qing felt something in his heart.
, the decline of body functions is unstoppable.
"How about I play chess with you?"
"Oh?" The old man became more interested, "Can you play chess?"
"...No," Shen Qing actually knew a little bit, but thinking about the old man's condition, she suddenly had other ideas in her mind, "How about I teach you something else to pass the time?"
"What?"
Shen Qing picked up the chess pieces and stood up with a smile, "Play the game!"
"Hitting the horse?" The old man was a little surprised.
"Yes," although she didn't know how to cure the disease, she knew that playing mahjong could prevent and treat the disease. Shen Qing said and sat down next to him, "playing mahjong is much more interesting than playing chess, and
If there are four people at a table, you won’t be so bored playing chess with yourself, right?”
"How to fight this horse crane?" the old man asked her out loud. He knew that this was a fun folk show, but he had never played it before, and he immediately became interested.
Shen Qing smiled slightly and began to introduce him to the gameplay of Ma Diao, from Wan, Pancake, Tiao, Zi, Feng tiles, to the cards, to the gameplay and then to the algorithm for counting, explaining it to him step by step in an easy-to-understand manner.
After listening to the meeting, the old man nodded and said, "It sounds quite interesting. Well, you can play with me here."
Shen Qing was about to agree, but suddenly remembered that she was here to learn court etiquette. After walking away for such a while, the old nanny must have been looking for her everywhere, "But..."
"No buts," the old man took her arm, not intending to let her go. He raised his hand and said in a voice that was a bit too high and solemn, "Here comes." As soon as he finished speaking, beside the palace wall door behind him,
Suddenly, a white-faced man wearing eunuch palace clothes hurried out and said, "I'm here!"
"Immediately find a horse for me to hoist over."
The eunuch looked at her in surprise and said, "Yes, I will do it now!"
Shen Qing was stunned for a moment, and her heart began to pound. He was from the Great Zhou Sage?! Orz, she, a tourist, was lucky enough to play horse-drawing with the emperor...