Li Huang

"Yi Zhaorong is a favorite concubine, how can we compare?" I lowered my eyes, and my eyelashes covered my eyes a little dim: "If it is in the folks, Zhaorong is the emperor's concubine, have you ever seen a favored wife and concubine and dare not see her husband? Talking?"

Xiao Rong nodded and blurted out: "The emperor has so many wives and concubines."

I couldn't help but laugh, and a little bit of gloom disappeared in my heart, and showed her the embroidered part: "Look, OK?"

Xiao Rong was naturally happy to see that I embroidered her in a dense and good way. She pulled my sleeves and said, "Good Xie Niang, you can help me embroider them."

I nodded: "Tell me everything you want to embroider."

Xiao Rong suddenly became embarrassed and hesitated for a moment. "If there was a poem on it, it would be so unique."

I smiled and said, "When I was an embroiderer, I embroidered a few clothes with verses, so let’s embroider them for you."

Xiao Rong was so happy that her cheeks were red, and her eyes were bright and she looked at me: "You are so kind, Mother Xie. I told you everything that day, none of them I said."

"The emperor took Yi Zhaorong's hand and sat on the couch. I kept kneeling on the ground and didn't dare to lift my head. The emperor sat down and told me to get up, and then said to Yi Zhaorong:'I think you are a maid. Ah. "Yi Zhaorong just smiled and didn't speak." Xiao Rong stroked her chest: "You know, we can't go to the Sixth House of Things."

"It's hard for you, I must be terrified." I looked at Xiao Rong with apologetic eyes.

Xiao Rong's face wore a lingering fear: "I was dumbfounded at the time, and the clothes of the maidservant can be seen at a glance."

"What then?" I also became nervous. Although Xiao Rong was standing here intact, it was inevitable that I also became nervous.

"The emperor didn't ask any more. He picked up the handkerchief and frowned while looking at it." Xiao Rong looked at me with doubts in her eyes: "We dare not speak. I quietly watched Yi Zhaorong. She was also very nervous. The sleeves are tight."

I was shocked. Shen Xiyao knew my stitches. He took away Li Changzai's skirt before to get a clearer picture of my current characteristics. Then, would he see that I embroidered the veil?

Suddenly, I felt cold on my back. It turned out that I was in a cold sweat before I knew it.

"The emperor asked Yi Zhaorong. He heard Zhaorong chanting a poem when he came in. What is it?" Xiao Rong tilted her head and thought: "Zhaorong said it again. The emperor praised a good poem and stopped. He also said that when he looked at the veil, it shouldn't be'how much like duckweed in this body', but'being floating and sinking and raining to beat Ping'." Xiao Rong thought for a long time before she said these two poems, but it was embarrassing for her.

I was shocked again, Shen Xiyao, he has probably seen it.

"Then the emperor laughed, very gentle, and his eyes were bright when he looked at Yi Zhaorong. He said that the veil was embroidered by Zhaorong, and whether it was embroidered by Zhaorong." Xiao Rong grabbed the skirt in my hand and looked carefully. I embroidered on it, as if to confirm whether Shen Xiyao's evaluation of me is true.

"What did Zhaorong say?" I have calmed down. Although I am very worried about the future, my future is not up to me at this time.

"Zhao Rong asked the emperor if she remembered the embroiderer who was punished during the death of the emperor. The emperor gave grace to arrange for the dressing bureau. This veil was sent by the embroiderer as a sign of gratitude."

Xiao Rong looked at me and asked, "Xie Niang, were you really being punished before Fan die? What wrong did you make? Didn't you mean that you were the maid next to Niang Niang who was sent in because her face was destroyed? "

What am i doing wrong? Looking at Xiao Rong, I felt everything blurred for a while. Yeah, what did I do wrong? The mistakes I made are shocking to say; the mistakes I made are unbearable by nature; the mistakes I made are not enough to offset by death. But what is wrong with me?

"I used to embroider a dress for the empress dowager, and it was bad when I presented it. It was very unlucky and I was punished. I met Zhaorong by chance when I died. She found out that I was framed and felt my grievances. I begged the emperor to send me to the Garment Bureau. She didn't want me to mention it, so I didn't say it. As for the reasons to tell Zhiqiu, it was only made up for the convenience of sending me in. "My tone was as if the autumn wind fell down. Can Ye, there is endless sadness.

"I understand." Xiao Rong is so simple that she no longer doubts, or my past is meaningless to her. I am the same as her now, but just a maidservant.

"Then the emperor looked at me and said that you embroidered it?" Xiao Rong continued: "I kowtow, so scared that I can't even speak."

"And then?" I can imagine that Xiao Rong must have been shocked a lot during this trip to Changchun Palace, and there will be many surprises, enough for her to remember in the future. Maybe, when she gets older, matures, and sees more, she will have different opinions on the day.

"I said that the embroiderer had a severe cold, and I was afraid that I would not be able to do it. I was grateful for Zhaorong’s kindness so I made this veil and asked me to send it to me, and count her little heart." Xiao Rong thought her words helped I am a little complacent, I can only smile back, but faintly worry about how Shen Xiyao feels when he hears it.

Does he feel that I am no different from other women? Well, he must know that I would not say such flattering words. Thinking of this, the corners of my mouth could not help but froze in an instant. Do I think he still loves me? He shouldn't even think about whether I would say such a thing.

I just felt endless ridicule coming from all directions, my heart tightened, feeling sad for myself, and despising myself. It seems that since I learned that Shen Xiyao was not the culprit in killing his father, my feelings for him have slowly changed.

"The emperor seemed to be taken aback for a while, I quietly raised my head, and the emperor was staring at me, his eyes were as cold as ice, and I felt as if there was a knife on my neck, so I was so scared that I didn't dare to gasp." "You don't know. Although the emperor is very handsome, but there is no emotion in his eyes, you will feel like you have fallen into the ice cellar when you look at someone."

I don't speak, Shen Xiyao's eyes have too much emotion. I didn't dare to think about those eyes. It had looked at me with all kinds of emotions, and it made my heart palpitations every time. For Shen Xiyao's eyes, I think there are not many concubines in this harem who know better than me.

"The majesty of the emperor, we definitely can't bear it." I said lightly.

"I almost cried at the time. It's better for Yi Zhaorong. She handed the emperor a cup of tea, and asked Huier if she had dinner ready, so she invited the emperor to go to the lobby for dinner." Xiao Rong sighed. The emperor stopped looking at me and left with Yi Zhaorong. When he came to the door, I heard, "I see that the embroidery craftsmanship of that veil is very good, and he can be a master of embroidery. I won't mention it before, but now if it is true It's a pity to go there because of illness. Zhaorong will take care of him when he is free. "Yi Zhaorong repeatedly said yes, and immediately told Hui'er to find the emperor to treat you. If the emperor has the emperor, the emperor will naturally come." Xiao Rong Looking at me, there was a little bit of envy in his eyes: "Xie Niang, you are so lucky."

I smiled slightly on my lips, but my heart was bitter. Whether my life is good or not, I am afraid only I know.

"Thank you, Xiao Rong, if it were not for you, I would really have died here." I shook her hand: "In the future, as long as I can do it, you say I will do it."

Xiao Rong "pushed" and laughed: "Forget it, your embroidery is a good job of the emperor's grace, what does it have to do with me." She looked at me with bright eyes: "If you want to repay me, help me embroider the skirt. Okay." After she finished her reverie, she said, "The emperor praises you for your good craftsmanship. If I can have a dress that you embroidered, I can show off to others when I go out of the palace."

I nodded looking at her young and unsatisfied face.

"I will embroider a dress for you." My smile was bright, but my tone was solemn: "But you must remember, don't talk to anyone."

In the days that followed, I was very anxious, for fear that Yi Zhaorong would come to ask anything, and that Shen Xiyao would suddenly deal with me under a will. However, until the spring of March when the iris was growing, Yi Zhaorong had not set foot in the dressing bureau, and there were fewer Hui'er. Day by day is nothing more than washing and washing. Although it is hard, my mood is slowly getting better as the warm weather gradually clears up.

Shen Xiyao already has a pleasant, considerate, elegant and dignified, and there is no strong foreign relatives to put him under pressure. She is the best candidate for the concubine, plus she also has attainments in poetry, and can be opposed to Shen Xiyao's poems. , Is a gentle interpretive flower.

And when I relax and take medicine on time every day, the wind and cold gradually improve. Only after this time, the body is worse than before, and it is easy to get tired and sick. Therefore, before the full arrival of spring, he suffered two wind chills.

Before I knew it, the flowers in the yard were all blooming, and there was even a magnolia blooming on the wall, a big flower that looked like a white dove. I often looked up at the flower between laundry, white as jade. Behind the petals is a blue sky, which makes people feel refreshed. I can't help but think of the white magnolia that Xihe left in my hair in Huangjiacun. At this time, his wind and cold should be healed. The warmer the weather, the more difficult it is to commit, and the more at ease I feel.

In the past few days, the work has suddenly increased a lot, and it's all new clothes. Everyone washes carefully and is exhausted. Although Xiao Rong and I are next to each other, they are too busy to speak. The day before, Zhiqiu found out that she had secretly washed a few pieces for her and fined her the meal that night. Fortunately, Li secretly hid a few dry cakes for us last night, so that we won't be too hungry to lose energy today.

The weather was particularly good. I woke up early in the morning and walked into the yard. I was still worried about when to wash it again today. I suddenly found that the clothes in the basin were not sharp. Everyone couldn’t help but cheer and smile on their faces. Go to your place and wash up.

"Great, I don't have many clothes today." Xiao Rong smiled at me: "Xie Niang, I really hurt you yesterday."

"What are you talking about." I made an angry expression: "You helped me like that before, and I wash a few pieces for you."

Xiao Rong smiled brightly like the sun: "There are not many clothes today. We can take a rest after washing early." She thought of something like: "Ahhh, we will be taking a rest tomorrow."

I said "Um": "What's the matter?"

"Huh?" Xiao Rong seemed surprised: "Don't you know? Tomorrow is Empress Li's birthday."

"I know." I don't think so. The relationship between Li Fei's birthday and us is nothing more than that Shen Xiyao wants to celebrate her birthday, and the palaces cut new clothes for us to wash it, which is not as good as usual.

"Xie Niang, will you accompany me to see tomorrow?" Xiao Rong begged.

"How can we go in that kind of place?" I was taken aback by her words, and hurriedly dispelled her unreasonable thoughts.

"In the Royal Garden." Xiao Rong said with a smile: "I've heard about it. The emperor said that the spring flowers are vying for beauty, so he hosted a banquet in Wuling Spring." Xiao Rong thought for a while and said: "We are wearing new palace clothes. The coat bureau is the same as the other parts except for the material, and the colors and styles are the same, so it will not be conspicuous."

"Absolutely not!" I said harshly, trying to stop her from thinking, and then coldly said: "Never go! You think you don't need to punch your eyes, but once discovered, the death penalty is light." I said with care and persuasion. Said: "Xiao Rong, such a place, such an occasion, is not something we can go to."

Xiao Rong pouted and rubbed a piece of clothing in her hands, as if she had suffered a great grievance and stopped talking to me.

I sighed and ignored her, and concentrated on washing.

"Xie Niang," Xiao Rong asked me pitifully, "Can't you go?"