Chunman Palace

Chapter 73
The newcomer of Huazao Palace has been staying for a while, Xuan Yin hasn't called anyone to wait on him for a long time, these days he just stays with Mu Pingting and Concubine Lan, gradually, the palace people don't care about this upstart, often Privately withhold some silver taels.

"Fu promises, these are new spring clothes made in each palace, please put them away." Xiao Yingzi, who had been sent from the inner court, was holding a tray of lotus flowers carved in pear blossom wood, inside which were several batches of woven satin. clothing group.

Fulano reached out his hand to touch the fabric, tilted his head strangely and said, "The fabric used for this dress is much thicker and lighter than before."

Xiaoyingzi smiled foolishly, and said: "Hey, young master, you just came to Xuanming City and you don't know something. Before you entered the palace, you had to show your identity first. The clothes you made were made of mosuo makeup and brocade. Now these Although the clothes made of the material are not as exquisite as before, they are better in keeping warm and close to the body, and the lining is all good stuff!"

Concubine Fu Lan nodded half-understood, and said: "Oh, that's it, so there is such a rule in the Central Plains."

Just when she was about to pick up the spring clothes, she heard a stern voice from outside the house scolding: "You have the guts to deceive the master here!"

The person who spoke was Lingqiao, and she followed Lin Qingyu to Huazao Palace to meet the wife and agreed, and when she heard Xiaoyingzi's nonsense, she couldn't vomit quickly.

Xiao Yingzi greeted Lin Qingyu first, and then smiled apologetically: "This is really a disgrace to the servant, the servant is according to the order of the empress to give the spring clothes according to the position of the palace, how dare you lie to the master."

Lin Qingyu looked at those spring clothes, frowned and said: "The spring clothes made by each palace at least have a piece of Song brocade, but these woven silk and satin clothes are much inferior to those worn by palace maids, how dare you bring them?" of?"

Xiaoyingzi quibbled: "My lord doesn't know that, although the material is poor, but in the cold spring, the lining is a good thing to keep warm."

"Really?" Lin Qingyu picked up one, with a little force on his fingers, he tore open a hole, and said, "This is the good material you said? You're embezzlement of the master's things, and you're talking nonsense shamelessly."

Fu promised to look at Lin Qingyu with admiration, her eyes shining brightly.

Xiaoyingzi immediately knelt down when he heard the words, and said in a panic: "Now that New Year's Eve is approaching, the palace expenses are very high, so the young master with a low status is a little sloppy with the materials, and the slaves can't help it."

Lingqiao raised her brows upside down, and said in a low voice: "That's your business, what are you doing to the master? You can't think of a way to dispatch it yourself, so you are detaining the master's things, you are looking for death!" She rolled her eyes and said slowly: "Guess, if you tell the empress about this, can you still stay in the inner court with peace of mind!"

Xiaoyingzi immediately knelt down and kowtowed: "My lord, spare my life! My lord, spare my life! This slave knows his mistake!"

Lin Qingyu didn't bother to look at it, and said flatly: "You should promise to beg for mercy to Fu, not me."

Xiaoyingzi shook her head again and said, "Fu promised to spare this slave! I was overwhelmed by lard for a while, and I dare not have another time!"

Fu waved her hand and said, "Forget it, anyway, I have too many clothes to wear, so take these back."

"Xie Fu promised! Xie Fu promised to spare the servant!" Xiaoyingzi grinned in relief, and was about to step back with her spring clothes.

Lin Qingyu called out: "Wait a minute, you go and change into better clothes. As for these defective products, they are all shredded and are not allowed to be used again."

"Yes, yes." Xiaoyingzi replied in a low voice, and retreated angrily.

Fu promised to smile at people lightly, and said, "Thank you sister today."

Lingqiao reminded Ban: "Our little master is a noble person."

"Understood, I understand." Fu nodded repeatedly, and then saluted Lin Qingyu: "Concubine pays respects to Qing nobleman."

"Little sister, get up quickly." Lin Qingyu helped him up, looked inside, and asked doubtfully, "Why is there no one serving in my sister's palace?"

Fu agreed: "There are only two maids in my palace, one is cleaning the palace gate, and the other is going to boil water and make tea."

Although Huazao Palace was closed for a period of time because of the matter of Concubine Ji, people in the palace were panicked, but it is not so that the palace people dare not come here to serve.

Lin Qingyu doubted: "There are so few people serving? This is not acceptable. At least one or two more calls will make sense."

Fu promised to casually say: "Originally, the empress sent four people to teach me the rules and wait on me, but after the first two taught me, my heart palpitations every night, so I begged the empress to transfer them to another place."

Lingqiao was startled suddenly, and said: "Why do people have heart palpitations every night? This Huazao Palace is not..."

Lin Qingyu felt chills in her heart, although she set up a trick for the concubine, but the theory of ghosts and gods was illusory, she was not sure, but it was such a coincidence, maybe it was because of the cowardice of the two maids.

"I'm just busy talking, I haven't invited the noble sister in for tea yet, please come in quickly, sister."

Fu's promise pulled her back from her thoughts, she nodded with a smile, and followed the people to sit down on the stone pine round chair in the back room. The cold wind blew into her neck, and she was surprised to see that the window was open.

"It's cold and windy in the twelfth lunar month, why does my sister keep the windows open?"

"I don't open the window here, the room always feels stuffy and really uncomfortable." Fu agreed to get up, closed the window, and said, "My sister is here, so I'll close it."

Lin Qingyu lowered her gaze and landed on the charcoal pots burning in the house. There were only black charcoal burning inside, and the smell was unpleasant. No wonder Fu promised that the room was stuffy.

"Sister, these charcoals are also sent from the inner court?"

Fu nodded in agreement, and said, "Yes, the charcoal that was sent before was warmed up, but it's getting colder recently, so it would be better to burn three or four charcoal pots, but the taste would be bad if you burn too much."

Lin Qingyu was silent for a moment, then said to Ling Qiao, "Take all the charcoal and pour it out, go to my palace to get silver charcoal and replace it with Fu promised."

Fu promised that his expression changed, and he said in surprise, "It's fine for me to use these charcoals, why is my sister like this?"

Lin Qingyu smiled and said in a soft voice: "Sister, I don't know. The charcoal used by the masters in the palace is basically silver charcoal and red radish charcoal. This black charcoal smells strong and poisonous. If you burn pots of it It will definitely choke people to death, and it cannot be used to heat the house!" She paused, and said, "If you use black charcoal for heating, how can the house not be stuffy?"

Fu agreed dumbfoundedly: "So... then the inner court cheated again and exchanged it privately?"

Lin Qingyu smiled lightly, stretched out her hand and patted the back of the person's hand to comfort her: "I heard that my sister is from Loulan, and these people bully my sister without knowing the rules in the palace, and they bully me wantonly. Do justice to you."

Fu promised that her eyes were red instantly, and a few tears fell down with a "snap", her bright red lips moved slightly, and her crying gradually began, "Why did you bully me! Woo...why did you bully me!"

"My good sister, don't be sad, my sister will help you." Lin Qingyu leaned forward with some regret, and wiped away tears with a handkerchief.

The woman in front of her has narrow and long eyelashes, round eyebrows, and pupils that look strange like opals, like dark gemstones in the misty yellow sand, but they catch people's attention from all sides. Her skin is as delicate as silk, a healthy wheat color, Very mature style.

But her behavior was childish and cute like a child.

Lin Qingyu asked: "How old is my sister now?"

Fu promised to gradually get tired of crying, stopped crying, sobbed and said: "Ten, fifteen."

15 years old?She actually entered the palace at such an age, but her appearance was so mature that it was hard for her to imagine that there was only a young woman in front of her.

"Thank you sister for today's matter...! I just entered the palace, and only my sister will treat me except the empress." Fu promised to wipe away her tears with a handkerchief, and said discouragedly: "I haven't seen the emperor now, and I don't know What kind of person is he, if I see him, I will definitely tell the emperor all the eunuchs who bullied me!"

Lin Qingyu said calmly: "There are many people who worship the high and step down in this palace. If my sister is favored in the future, these people will change their faces again. At that time, they will do whatever you want them to do."

"I hope so!" Fu promised with a smile, then raised her head innocently and said, "Is sister here today for something?"

Lin Qingyu lowered her eyes and said with a smile: "I heard that Loulan's dance is peculiar and beautiful, and I yearn for it in my heart, but I have never seen it before, and now I live in the harem, and I can't help it. I want to ask my sister if she can dance in Loulan. It’s the best thing to have a chance to watch.”

"Yes! I will learn it since I was a child." Fu promised to be quite excited, and said with a smile: "My sister wants to see it, so my sister will dance for you."

After finishing speaking, Fu agreed and got up and stood still, scanning the well-lit position with her eyes, and raised her hands to dance.

Fluttering in floral clothes, Fu promised to raise her hands and swim like a spirit snake, her green and snow-white fingers lowered like a blooming orchid, her steps were agile and steady, and her figure was graceful and light.Standing upright at the feet, like a butterfly falling among the flowers, she raised her sleeves and gathered them calmly and appropriately, and danced around her body for a while, fluttering the gauze as thin as a fish's tail, shimmering, and the accessories around her body swayed gently, making crisp sounds, and her neck Soft as a thin willow, like a breeze blowing from side to side, the waist is graceful and charming.As soon as the dance was over, Lin Qingyu took a panoramic view in a daze, still unsatisfied.

This dance is a bit more agile and charming than "Liuguang Dance". Although Liuguang Dance has the same charm as this object, its movements are not as smooth and natural as this object, and it seems a bit deliberate.I don't know if Concubine Min did it intentionally when composing the dance music, but as far as Fu promised this dance, it is as bright as a firefly candle, unbearably bright and bright compared to the bright moon, which is much eclipsed.

Lin Qingyu was already startled. There were people outside the world, and there was a sky beyond the sky. She only danced to the "Liuguang Dance" like a frog in a well. Only when Fu promised to call out sweetly: "Sister Qing." She was relieved .

"Sister Qing, what do you think of my younger sister's dancing?" She shrank her hands behind her back a little shyly, and said, "You don't mind if I call you that?"

Lin Qingyu laughed and said: "Of course I don't mind, my sister's dance is really rare in the world. I was just reminiscing about my sister's dance, and I was really fascinated by watching it."

Fu promised with a smile on her cheeks, and said, "Sister Qing said it so embarrassingly to me!"

At this time, Lingqiao and Mo'er came back with some baskets of silver charcoal.

Lin Qingyu ordered: "Go help Fu and promise to replace the silver charcoal, it will be strangely cold."

Fu agreed with some embarrassment: "I have asked my sister to help me a lot, how can I ask my sister's palace servants to help me." She called out: "Bao Sang, is the tea ready? Bring that plate of dim sum too. "

After a while, a court lady came in with something. She first took out a silver plate from the tray, which contained some pastries, and poured out light orange tea from a carved silver pot.

Fu promised to introduce: "This is snow lotus tea. Drink a cup of it hot and feel comfortable. This dessert is soufflé, crispy and delicious. Sister, try it."

Lin Qingyu took a sip of the tea, the taste was clear and sweet, with a faint and moist aroma, and it was even sweeter in her throat; she picked up the pastry and took a bite, the crispy sweetness made her index finger move, and she couldn't help praising: "Sure enough, it tastes good, and it doesn't have a special flavor."

Fu promised Huanxi and said, "I brought some dried snow lotus from Loulan. If my sister likes it, she can take some back to make tea. I drink this snow lotus tea often. It can not only dispel cold and dehumidify, but also strengthen the body. Our people there I drink this all the time, and rarely get sick."

"Then thank you sister." After she finished speaking, she sighed leisurely.

Fu promised to move her eyes, and asked with concern: "What's wrong with sister? Why are you so sad?"

Lin Qingyu forced a smile, and said sadly: "My sister's dance just now is really beautiful. I just thought that my sister will accompany the emperor in the future. The emperor will like my sister's dance. At that time, my sister's dance can only be danced by the emperor. I will never see such a youthful appearance again."

Fu promised to think about it for a while, and then said: "This...then how about showing my sister a few more dances today? I'm just afraid that my sister will get bored after watching it enough."

Lin Qingyu's eyes curled up with a smile, and she raised her lips and said, "So, it couldn't be better! My sister is so beautiful, and her dance is even more deeply in my heart. How can I get bored?"

"Okay, then I'll jump."

After speaking, Fu promised to get up and dance again.

At night, there was a slight noise in the Yaohua Pavilion, and the figures in the gauze tent were graceful, slim and ethereal, and the figures were slender and graceful, slowly moving the dancing steps. The light is rippling, with a frown and a smile full of charm.

And her dancing posture faintly reveals the charm of Fu's promised dance today.

Mo'er came forward with her fragrant tea in her hand, and said, "Young master has practiced for almost three hours, why don't you take a rest and practice tomorrow?"

The figure stopped, panting slightly, walked out from behind the gauze curtain, and leaned back on the chair half-lying, sweat dripping from Lin Qingyu's forehead into his neck.

Mo'er put the tea on the table, and said: "The hot water is ready, my mistress goes in and soaks it, it's also good to relax your muscles and bones."

Lin Qingyu gasped and said, "I'll practice for another half an hour. The steps of this Loulan dance are very strange. If I don't practice hard, I will almost forget it after tonight."

"Don't worry, little master. Lingqiao and I have already recorded the dance that Fu promised, but there is still a part missing in the latter part." After speaking, Mo'er took out a booklet for someone.

Lin Qingyu flipped through it, and said with a smile, "That's right, it's much easier to disassemble this Dance of Loulan and let the three of us record the front, middle and back sections separately."

Mo'er praised: "Young master is smart, so naturally you can get twice the result with half the effort."

"I just hope that this dance can win the favor of the emperor." Lin Qingyu closed the book, put his hand on Mo'er's, and said, "Go take a bath first."

(End of this chapter)