Chapter 97 Entering the Palace to Celebrate the Birthday II
Fine mist curled up from the copper furnace. The Queen Mother sat cross-legged on the soft cushion with her eyes closed, twisting a string of Buddhist biographies in her hand. She heard the eunuch loudly calling for an audience with His Highness Princess Jinyue.
With his help, he stood up and sat on the soft couch in the main seat.
"Anqing greets the Imperial Grandmother!" "Jinyue pays her respects to the Queen Mother. The Queen Mother is a thousand years old!"
His Royal Highness the Third Prince kneeled down on his knees to salute, and I quickly followed suit by raising my skirt and kneeling down. The Queen Mother smiled and raised her hands kindly: "Good children, please get up."
The Queen Mother liked the Third Highness very much, and held his hand to greet him. The Third Highness greeted him one after another, and the Queen Mother smiled with satisfaction. The grandparents and grandchildren were enjoying themselves. I, an outsider, seemed a bit redundant, and the Queen Mother never looked at me from the beginning to the end.
Of course, he was not in the mood to talk to me, so he looked for an opportunity and asked Aunt Rong to give her a birthday gift before leaving.
Aunt Rong helped me put on my cloak and looked at me worriedly. I hesitated to speak. I just pretended not to see it and looked up at the sky. It was about eight or nine o'clock in the morning. The dinner was scheduled for You hour, leaving most of the day.
There was not much point in staying in the palace, so I decided to go back to the palace first and wait until evening before entering the palace.
As soon as I got on the carriage, a palace maid in palace attire hurried over, blessed me, and breathed heavily: "My slave Zhilan has seen the princess!"
"No gift." I opened the corner of the curtain and found that the palace lady was very unfamiliar, so I asked: "Which palace are you from? What do you want to see me for?"
Zhilan lowered her head and replied respectfully: "This slave is the palace maid of the Kunning Palace. When the Queen Mother learned that the princess was entering the palace, she sent her slave to wait outside the Cining Palace. She said that she would wait for you after paying homage to the Queen Mother.
Please come and sit in Kunning Palace, the Queen misses the princess very much."
I learned from Aunt Rong that ten years ago, she, the Empress, and her mother were the three most famous beauties in Kyoto, and they had a very good relationship in private. However, after her mother married her father, she was constantly on the frontier battlefield.
The Queen was appointed as the Crown Princess because she came from a powerful family. When the Crown Prince ascended the throne and became the Emperor, she naturally became the Queen. However, Aunt Rong became a slave because of the accident in the Su family. The three of them were on different paths.
Far.
Later, after my parents died in the battlefield, the queen, remembering the love she had for her in the past, proposed to take me into the Kunning Palace to educate me personally. At that time, Aunt Rong had escaped from slavery and became my nanny. She understood and reasoned with me.
She repeatedly emphasized that my mother did not want me to get involved in the palace, so the queen had to let me out of the palace and begged the emperor to make me a princess, so that I would have a decent status in the future and not be looked down upon when we got married.
She is just a close friend, and to be able to do this is considered to be the most benevolent thing. If we really want to argue, I owe her a lot, so I asked Aunt Rong to carry me out of the carriage and told Zhilan: "I also
I miss the Queen very much, please lead the way."
"Princess, please come with your servants." Zhi Lan was blessed and led us out of Cining Palace, through a bluestone path in the imperial garden, and after exiting an arched moon gate, we saw "Kunning"
Three gilded characters "Palace" appeared in front of me. It has red walls, green tiles, carved beams and painted buildings. Compared with Cining Palace, it is more majestic and graceful. It is indeed the residence of the mother of a country.
Just such a comparison in style, but I found that this dynasty is not the same as the Han Dynasty, but more like the Forbidden City in Beijing during the heyday of the Qing Dynasty... I shook my head and chuckled, thinking that these did not make much sense, and took the lead to cross the threshold.