Wishful Things

The carriage drove steadily all the way to the direction of the palace.

Approaching the palace gate, Xu Mingyi had just been helped out of the carriage by Ah Kui, when she heard a girl's joyful voice: "Auntie!"

Xu Mingyi turned his head to look, and saw a twelve or thirteen-year-old girl in a pink shirt approaching quickly with her maid.

"You slow down..."

Behind the girl was a woman and another girl in a light blue dress. The woman said helplessly, "Before you come, I will tell you to be more stable!"

The girl in the pink shirt lowered her head and stuck out her tongue, then smiled and saluted Cui Shi: "I have seen my aunt."

Another girl who was very similar in age and appearance also greeted Cui Shi, but her words and deeds were much calmer than the girl in pink shirt.

After saluting, she raised her head slightly, and saw Xu Mingyi standing beside Cui Shi, a look of surprise flashed in her eyes very quickly.

"Why don't you see your mother?" Cui asked the young woman with a smile.

This woman is Wen Shi, the wife of the eldest son of her natal Yong'anbo Mansion, who is also her younger brother and sister.

"Elder Sister knows it. Didn't my mother fall ill a few days ago... She hasn't recovered yet." Wen said in a low voice.

Cui sighed worriedly when she heard the words: "This is really..."

It's really an eye-opener.

I guessed it too, if it wasn't for being so sick that she couldn't walk, her 'mother' would definitely not miss this opportunity to show her face in front of people.

However, the estrangement between her and her stepmother has never involved Wen Shi. After all, her younger brother and sister have been tortured by that old woman over the years-on this point, the two have always resonated very much.

Wen Shi also sighed with sadness in his eyes.

"As you get older, it's inevitable that you will have problems of one kind or another. Watching your mother suffer every day makes everyone in the house uncomfortable..."

So it's better to die earlier, and you don't have to suffer this crime again.

"Yes." Cui nodded in understanding.

The sister-in-law and sister-in-law sighed, and handed the life-wife sign to the palace man, and the group was ushered into the palace gate.

However, Mrs. Wen seemed to have something else to say to Mrs. Cui, so she looked back at her two daughters, and said with a smile, "You sisters are talking, so don't hurry."

The Cui sisters looked at each other upon hearing this.

What do they want to say to Xu Mingyi?

However, my mother wanted to gossip with my aunt, so they had no choice but to follow behind obediently.

At first they just followed at a distance, and when they passed a long corridor in the garden, the Cui family sisters met a girl they knew well. After talking for a while and parting, when they looked up again, Cui and Wen were gone. .

I met a lot of people along the way, maybe I walked away talking to those wives——

To the surprise of the two sisters, Xu Mingyi was still standing there waiting for them.

When female relatives enter the inner palace, they are not allowed to bring maids and wives. The girl in the apricot white shirt and the brick-red gold thread embroidered horse-face skirt stood there alone, looking calm and not at all unhappy.

However, Cui Yunwei and Cui Yunqing, who realized that they had delayed speaking just now, still walked towards the girl anxiously.

"Cousin, we..."

Cui Yunwei bravely opened her mouth, and before she could go any further, Xu Mingyi smiled and said, "It's okay, let's go."

Since she is her own sister, she should take more care of her.

What's more, they are only twelve or thirteen years old.

Cui Yunwei and Cui Yunqing are twin sisters, but their temperaments are quite different. As the younger sister, Cui Yunqing is calmer and reserved than her elder sister.

In the previous life, Xu Mingyi couldn't even get close to the entire Yonganbo Mansion because of the stiff relationship with the Cui family.

But after the Xu family's accident, Uncle Yong'an and his son, who had official positions, also withdrew from the court.

This move may have chilled the court, felt injustice for the Xu family, or maybe it was because of the Xu family's affairs that he was embarrassed and excluded-in short, in any case, the Yong'anbo Mansion is not the enemy of the Xu family, but a real in-law.

Cousins ​​shouldn't be so unfamiliar. Besides, it is better to be kind to others than to be evil.

But between girls, breaking the unfamiliarity is actually very simple, and sometimes it only takes one or two sentences to do it——

"The two cousins' clothes and jewelry are very well chosen today. Cousin Qing's skirt is very white—"

Xu Mingyi walked and said, "The bead flower on Cousin Wei's head is pretty and lovely, and the style is also rare. I don't know if it was picked in Baohua Building?"

The sisters of the Cui family were all stunned when they heard it. After they realized it, Cui Yunqing smiled, and said in a low voice with a reddish face: "My cousin is so good... In terms of skin whiteness, I can't compare to my cousin."

"A few days ago, I got a few new boxes of ointment, how about sending them to Cousin Qing to try?"

Cui Yunqing hurriedly said: "No need, how can I accept my cousin's things."

Who doesn't know that the things used by Cousin Xu are rare and precious, if she takes them away, what will she give back...

"Cousin, the second sister doesn't want it, just give it to me!" Cui Yunwei said with a simple mind, smiling: "My cousin likes my pearl flower, so I can exchange this pearl flower with my cousin? There happens to be a couple in the family who haven't used it yet. It's - it was brought back from the south of the Yangtze River, and you can't buy it in Beijing."

Xu Mingyi smiled and nodded.

It's just that since she wanted to give something away, she would naturally give two copies.

The atmosphere between the three girls eased, and they walked forward talking and laughing, but stopped before a fork in the road ahead.

The female relatives entered the palace differently from the officials, they walked through the side entrance, this garden was huge, with many forked roads, and under the cover of dense vegetation, if you didn't keep up with a crossing, you couldn't see other people.

"Where's the little eunuch who led us earlier?" Cui Yunwei looked around.

"Xu Shi just went to lead the way for the other wives." Xu Mingyi said: "It's okay, let's not wander around, wait here, someone should come over."

It's just that the sky is already getting dark at this time, most of those who want to enter the palace for the banquet have already walked ahead of them.

I can only wait for the passing palace ladies and eunuchs to pass by, or Cui and the others realize that they have not followed and make people turn around to look for them.

"It's all our fault that we only focused on talking to Miss Feng's family just now..." Cui Yunqing was a little uneasy: "If this delays the time, what should we do?"

"It's still early, so it should be fine."

Just as Xu Mingyi finished speaking, he suddenly heard footsteps behind him.

Several people looked back.

A boy with a golden crown on his head came over accompanied by two eunuchs.

Xu Mingyi took the Cui family sisters aside, bowed low and saluted.

"The courtier has met His Royal Highness—"

The sisters of the Cui family tensed up when they heard this, and quickly lowered their heads a little lower.

But the boy asked in a small voice: "Girls... are you going to Jiaotai Palace?"

He had just faintly heard the conversation between Xu Mingyi and the others.

Xu Mingyi nodded in response, "Exactly", looking at the boy who was about ten years old and was too thin. On this summer evening with only a slight breeze, he still wore a cloak on top of his brocade robe— —

"I don't know if His Royal Highness can tell you how to go to Jiaotai Palace?"

The boy hurriedly told one of the eunuchs beside him, "Little Xiangzi, lead the girls."

The little eunuch agreed.

Xu Mingyi didn't refuse, Fushen thanked him, but didn't turn around in a hurry, and waited for the prince to go first.

The prince took another eunuch for a few steps, but suddenly stopped and turned around, looked at Xu Mingyi, and after a moment of hesitation, he opened his mouth——

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