The world is heavy and late

Chapter 43 The Lantern Festival
I haven't seen His Highness the Crown Prince these few days, Gu Weiyun felt a little lost, but Xia Qing was not in a hurry.

After all, the crown prince is a matter for the future, and there is still time. What she is anxious about is another matter, why the emperor has not moved yet.

Xia Qing was thinking wildly in her heart, whether she had guessed wrong, or maybe the emperor just wanted to make Concubine Shu and Cui Jieyu look bad, after all, one of them is recuperating from illness and the other is grounded.

When Xia Qing realized that her thoughts were wandering again, she sighed in her heart, why did she always tend to be in a daze? !

Xia Qing angrily threw out the wild thoughts that filled her head, and then thought of the garden path next to Huaqing Palace, and in what direction did that place go.

In fact, Xia Qing wanted to go for a walk, but people would still pay attention to that place now, so it might not be so safe to go rashly.

Xia Qing thought for a long time, and wanted to see who else in the palace would know the news besides Xu Zhong. After all, he couldn't just go to Xu Zhong now, and um, women had to solve the problem by themselves! .

When Xia Qing noticed that her thoughts were wandering again, she quickly pulled her back. After thinking about it, she felt that someone would still know.

So today when I arrived at the courtyard here, I directly pulled Gu Weiyun and went to the comfort center.

As soon as they saw Eunuch Xiang, the three of them first met each other.

Then Xia Qing took out the purse from his sleeve. The purse was not small, and it was filled with caramel. It was packed by Ji Ling for the two of them that day, and it was not given away. Take it out.

She handed it to Mr. Xiang and said, "It's the caramel from Si Shansi, and the craftsmanship is very good."

After a pause, he said, "It's also good to eat after drinking the medicine."

Xiang Qing knew that this thing could probably be taken out of the palace, that is, there was a formal way.

After thinking about it, I already took other people's money, and I didn't care about this bag of candy, so I took it and said, "Thank you Miss Xia Qing."

Xia Qing said: "You're welcome, I'm here to ask you a question."

Eunuch Xiang smiled and said, "Miss, please, if the servant knows, he must know everything."

Xia Qing said: "Although I have been in the palace for nearly a year, I have been in a daze for the past few days and I don't know how the road in the palace will go. Miss Gu doesn't like to wander around, so she doesn't know much."

Eunuch Xiang thought about the recent gossip, and he understood what Miss Xia was asking. He couldn't help but sigh that Miss Xia's news was really fast and wide, but he didn't know whether it was Master Xu or Miss Xia herself.

He thought for a while and said: "Huaqing Palace is a good place. It is extremely warm in winter. The late emperor liked to go there to keep out the cold. It is very close to the racecourse and the prince's bedroom, and not far from the plum garden. It's also the season for plum blossoms."

Both Xia Qing and Gu Weiyun were thoughtful, so the three of them fell silent.

Gu Weiyun waited for a while to see that Xia Qing was still wandering, so he smiled and said to Eunuch Xiang: "I don't know what happened to Eunuch Xiang, is there still enough money?"

Immediately said to the father-in-law: "Miss Laogu is worried, she is already much better, and there is still a lot of money left, thinking about returning to the girl together in the future."

Then the two chatted on other topics for a while, and when Xia Qing finally shook off the thoughts in her mind, she saw that the two had been chatting for a while.

Seeing that it was getting late, Xia Qing took Gu Weiyun to leave, and sent them to the door with her father-in-law.

Looking at the backs of the two going away, Eunuch Xiang thought that he still didn't understand a lot of what Gu Weiyun said today. He had been begging for food on the street since he was a child, and he had learned ten percent of being alert and careful, but he had never studied. , I don't know any words.

But he could still sense that Miss Gu was not made to be a slave at all, and Miss Xia Qing beside her was also very smart, and she seemed to be more sophisticated than Miss Gu, so she suppressed her thoughts to her father-in-law.

I have met too many people, including the humblest and the noblest.However, he was not in a hurry, he looked at the purse in his hand, after all, these two also intended to meet each other.

Gu Weiyun also thought to himself, this eunuch Xiang looks calmer than the servants he usually sees.

Xia Qing knew it a long time ago, so she didn't think too much about it, but asked Gu Weiyun directly: "Where do you think you will go?"

Gu Weiyun said: "I don't think I'm very good at going to Plum Garden."

Xia Qing smiled and said, "Heroes see the same thing."

They knew that Eunuch Xiang meant that the emperor had gone to the Plum Garden.

But Xia Qing thought that the emperor used to go to the martial arts field whenever he was free, and the seal will be opened on the [-]th tomorrow, will the emperor often go to the plum garden in this last, slightly leisure time?

Gu Weiyun thought about that time, she only felt that the emperor was very heroic, and he didn't seem like someone who likes to go to the plum garden often.

Because he likes it, the things he likes are more sensitive to him.

On the second day, the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, this is also an important festival in Dajin, the Lantern Festival.

Xia Qing didn't know why, but since she woke up in the morning, she missed Eunuch Xu a little bit. It seemed like they hadn't seen each other for half a month, but they were passionately in love.

Xia Qing buried her face in the pillow, a little unhappy, why did she always avoid Eunuch Xu in the palace.

Today is the fifteenth day, which is a day off for the maids. There are only some daily needs to be done, and the rest can be free to pass the time.

Many court ladies took family leave to visit their relatives, but neither Gu Weiyun nor Xia Qing had relatives in the capital, so Xia Qing returned to the bed after getting up early, and Gu Weiyun was practicing calligraphy on the stone table in the yard outside the house.

In fact, Xia Qing hadn't practiced calligraphy for a long time, but today she really didn't want to move at all, and was always sleepy.

She thought about what Eunuch Xu was doing now, and most likely he was still busy, because the emperor would be busy when the seal was opened, and these people in front of the imperial court would definitely be busy as well.

Then did he think about her, and would he be distracted occasionally? After all, Xia Qing liked someone for the first time, and he still liked to think wildly.Thinking about it, she felt empty in her heart.

Xu Zhong was indeed thinking about her. He looked at the box in front of him and thought about how to give it to her, whether she liked it or not.

It is a very cute clay doll, with two hair buns pinched with beads on the head, a round face, eyes as beautiful as Xia Qing's own, two cheeks painted red, one mouth cracked to laugh, Wearing red clothes.

In fact, this is a pair, and there is a boy next to him. When Xu Zhong saw it, he couldn't move his eyes. He stood by the stall and watched for a long time. Finally, amidst the inquiry of the vendor owner Qi Qi Ai Ai bought it.

But he changed the box and only took the girl's one back, and he put the boy's one at home.

Yes, at home, Xu Zhong’s monthly salary these days and some rewards from His Majesty are enough for him to buy a house, not too big. It’s next to Xu Ji’s house, in Xishi, where there are no high-ranking officials, nor It can be regarded as a refugee area in the capital, more like an ordinary market, very lively.

When Xu Zhong saw this girl, he would think that when the two clay sculptures stood together, it was obviously a very festive scene of a boy celebrating the Spring Festival, but he somehow felt a little envious, a little sour, and a little disappointed.

(End of this chapter)