Chapter 34: Enter the palace
Chapter 34 Entering the Palace
The carriage drove smoothly all the way to the direction of the palace.
approached outside the palace gate, Xu Mingyi was helped by Akui to get out of the carriage, and he heard a girl’s delighted voice: "Auntie!"
Xu Mingyi turned his head to look, only to see a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in a pink shirt with a maid approaching quickly.
"You slow down..."
Behind the girl was a woman and another girl in a light green dress. The woman whispered helplessly: "Before you come, I will tell you to be more stable!"
The girl in the pink shirt lowered her head and stuck her tongue out, and then smiled and saluted Cui again: "I have seen my aunt."
Another girl who was very similar in appearance and age also met with Cui, but her manners and demeanor were much calmer than those in pink shirts.
After saluting, she raised her head slightly, and she could see Xu Mingyi standing beside Cui's, an unexpected color flashed through her eyes very quickly.
"Why don't you see your mother?" Cui asked the young woman with a smile.
This woman is the current wife of her natal Yongan Bofu, Wen Shi, and her younger siblings.
"The eldest sister knows that, didn't her mother have been ill some time ago... Now she has not recovered." Wen said in a low voice.
The Cui family sighed worriedly after hearing the words: "This is really..."
It's really an eye-opener.
Guessed, if it weren’t for being too sick to walk, her ‘mother’ could definitely not miss this opportunity to show her face in front of others.
However, the estrangement between her and her stepmother has never been implicated in Wen's. After all, her younger siblings have not been less affected by the old woman over the years-here, the two have always resonated extremely well.
Wen Shi also sighed with sad eyes.
"When I get old, it is inevitable that I will have such problems. Every day I watch my mother suffer, and the whole house feels uncomfortable..."
So it’s better to die earlier, and you don’t have to suffer this crime again.
"Yes." Cui nodded in understanding.
Sighing, the two aunts and sisters handed the sign of "Ming Fu" to the palace man, and the group was led into the palace gate.
Ran, Wen seemed to have other things to say to Cui, looked back at his two daughters, and smiled and said, “You sisters, don’t have to go in a hurry.”
The Cui sisters looked at each other after hearing the words.
What do they have to say to Xu Mingyi?
However, my mother wanted to talk gossip with my aunt, so they had to follow obediently.
At first, they just followed closely, and then when they passed a long corridor in the garden, the Cui sisters met a girl they knew each other. After talking for a while and separated, when they raised their eyes, they disappeared. .
I saw a lot of people along the way, and Xu Yi talked to those ladies and walked away——
What surprised the two sisters was that Xu Mingyi was still standing there waiting for them.
Female family members can’t bring maids into the inner palace. The girl in apricot white shirt and brick-red and gold-embroidered horse-faced skirt stood alone, looking not irritable, and not a bit displeased.
However, Cui Yunwei and Cui Yunqing, who realized that they had only delayed their speech, walked towards the girl in anxious manner.
"Cousin, we..."
Cui Yunwei spoke with courage, and before she could go any further, she saw Xu Mingyi smile and said, "It's okay, let's go."
As her own sister, she deserves more care.
Not to mention that they are only twelve or thirteen years old.
Cui Yunwei and Cui Yunqing are twin sisters, but their temperaments are quite different. As a younger sister, Cui Yunqing is more calm and restrained than her sister.
In the last life, Xu Mingyi had a stiff relationship with the Cui family, and he couldn't even get close to the whole Yongan Bofu.
After the accident happened to the Xu family, Uncle Yongan and his son, who had official positions, also withdrew from the court.
This move may be cold to the court and feel unfair for the Xu family, or it may be because of the Xu family’s affairs being embarrassed and squeezed out. In short, in any case, Yongan Bofu is not the enemy of the Xu family, but the real relatives.
Cousins shouldn’t be so unfamiliar. Besides, it is better to be kind to others than to be evil.
And among girls, it’s very simple to break the unfamiliarity, sometimes even only a sentence or two can be done——
"The two cousins have chosen very well today's clothes and jewelry, and the skirts of the Qing cousin are extremely white——"
Xu Mingyi said as he walked: "The bead flower on Cousin Wei's head is also beautiful and lovely, and the style is also rare. I wonder if it was picked in Baohua Building?"
The sisters of the Cui family were stunned. After the reaction came, Cui Yunqing smiled, and said in a low red face: "The cousin praised it... As far as she is white, she can't compare to her cousin."
"I got a few new boxes of grease a few days ago, can I send it to my cousin Qing to try it later?"
Cui Yunqing hurriedly said: "No need, how can I take things from my cousin."
Who doesn’t know that all the things used by cousin Xu are rare and precious. If she accepts it, what will she get...
"Cousin, second sister, don't want it, then give it to me!" Cui Yunwei was simple-minded and said with a smile: "Cousin likes my bead flower, so I can just exchange it with my cousin? There is just a couple in the family who haven't used it before. Yes-it was brought back from Jiangnan, it is not available in Beijing."
Xu Mingyi smiled and nodded.
It’s just that since she wants to give something, she will naturally give double copies.
The atmosphere between the three girls eased, and they walked forward talking and laughing, but stopped in front of a fork in the road ahead.
The female families entering the palace are different from the officials. They walk through the side entrance. This is a huge garden, with many fork roads, and under the cover of dense vegetation. If you fail to keep up with an intersection, you can't even look at other people.
"Where is the little **** who led us earlier?" Cui Yunwei looked around.
"Xu just led the way for other ladies." Xu Mingyi said: "It's okay, let's not walk around, wait here, there should be someone else coming."
It's just that the sky is getting dark at this time, and most of those who are going to enter the palace to have a banquet have already walked in front of them.
Can only wait for the passing court ladies and eunuchs to pass by, or Cui and others find that people have not followed, making people look back.
"It's all our fault for just talking to Feng's girl..." Cui Yunqing was a little uneasy: "If the time is delayed because of this, what can be done."
"It's still early, so we should not do anything."
Xu Mingyi's voice just fell, and suddenly he heard footsteps behind him.
A few people looked back.
I saw a boy with a golden crown on his head, accompanied by two eunuchs, walking over.
Xu Mingyi took the Cui sisters to the side and bowed in a short bow.
"The courtier has seen His Royal Highness——"
Sisters of the Cui family's face tightened when she heard the words, and she quickly lowered her head a bit.
But the boy asked in a small voice: "A few girls... but are you going to Jiaotai Hall?"
He just faintly heard the conversation between Xu Mingyi and several people.
Xu Mingyi nodded and responded with "Yes." He looked at the boy who was about a decade old and was too thin. On a summer evening when there was only a cool breeze, he still added a cloak to the brocade robe— —
"I don't know if your Royal Highness can tell me how to go to Jiaotai Hall?"
The boy hurriedly told one of the eunuchs beside him: "Xiao Xiangzi, lead the way for the girls."
The little **** responded.
Xu Mingyi did not decline either, Fushen thanked him, and did not turn around in a hurry, waiting for the prince to go first.
The prince took another **** for a few steps, but then suddenly stopped and turned his head, looking at Xu Mingyi, after he had stopped talking for a while, he still spoke——
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(End of this chapter)